skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you figure out what items have a lot of sales?
I agree and observe the same. I honesty do it because I want to show you can build a business without venture capital funding, and do it as an indie (and in my case solo) maker with a strong disregard for hip tech stacks and frameworks.

I sell a book but that’s less than 5% of my income. 95% is business.
Last week someone dumped one of their scripts onto my private git server instance and created issues with attempted XSS. Purely due to chance, I was using the mobile browser to inspect these which didn't have a script blocker installed.

It has one installed now.

You might think "nobody will do this to me" but the internet is filled to the brim with skids who have nothing better to do than scan your router for any open ports (or in a recent case, attempt to scan your IPv6 /64 subnet, though I'm questioning the sanity of that move).

If they find anything they will blindly shove their shit into your IoT hardware. Maybe it'll work. Maybe it doesn't. They don't care, they've already spammed the next host.

Do not underestimate the probability of someone wanting to ram their script up into your IoT or router.
The Future of Online Education: Udacity Nanodegrees
Byte was the magazine that had things I dreamed about and pointers to learn about new things. I started reading it in the 80's and lost track sometime in the 90's. It with Antic, Dr. Dobbs Journal, and Creative Computing defined what was computing to me in my jr high and high school years. I don't really think any website has given me the same feelings as those magazines.

It is interesting to compare Byte's 1985 Computer Conferencing issues with what we have now: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1985-12

[edit: page 181 has an ad that is a real piece of history]
I’ve been a fan of half-life based ratings/reviews because they allow improvement by increasing the weight of recent input - this feels somewhat similar.
Qualitatively - no. Quantatively - maybe, but I fail to see where do you draw the line.
Simply isn't where the big money flows are

Is it really about the money? Or is it about the abundant supply? There's plenty of money in Hollywood- and also plenty of penniless actors, because everybody dreams of being a movie star. Game companies get to abuse new college grads because everybody dreams of working on their favorite games.
This is definitely the conventional wisdom I see here and on Reddit, but I disagree.

Banking has changed, perhaps permanently. It is less profitable and by many measures less risky than before.

And I disagree with throwing people in prison for losing money and hurting the economy. I want people to go to prison because they have committed crimes. The government could certainly have been more aggressive about charging individuals, but if you look at the cases they actually brought they were against low level people and they had a lot of trouble showing any of them actually broke laws. Most of the actually harmful decisions by high level bankers were not clearly illegal.
It has to be a balance. Throughout history, different levels of governments have stepped in to correct an injustice. The Civil Rights Act was one example; California not enforcing certain immigration rules is another example, in the other direction.

It doesn't matter whether the decision is coming from a democratic government above or a democratic government below; what matters is doing the right thing.
Nice to see a practical way to address this important topic
I will read it , thanks
I'm bullish on Aurora's potential in the robotaxi space. The cofounders are powerhouse in the self driving world. Sterling Anderson was the director of Autopilot for Tesla. Drew Bagnell was head of autonomy at Uber, and Chris Urmson was program manager for Google's self driving car project (now Waymo). One thing they all have in common is that they left their previous employers due to C-suite bullshit tripping them up.

I started to suspect Waymo was making poor executive decisions back in 2015, and the suspicion was confirmed by an email from that time, revealed in the Waymo v. Uber lawsuit, from Urmson to Larry Page and Sergey Brin in which he wrote "Over the last six months we have stopped playing to win and instead are now playing to minimize downside"

Aurora has managed to secure an integrated partnership with VW, another promising one with Hyundai, and one with startup Byton (which may or may not turn out to be another Faraday Future, we'll have to see). These are the sorts of arrangements Waymo should have secured years ago, but the executives felt they could hold out for a better deal, and now Waymo doesn't have a straighforward answer when you ask them "Who's going to mass produce your Robotaxis?"

The common perception is that to make a successful Robotaxi operation the Autonomous OS is the secret sauce, the hardest ingredient to get a hold of. While developing an autonomous OS is still an unsolved (or barely solved problem), and mass vehicle production is a well understood problem, mass producing cars is still harder than developing an autonomous OS.

Going forward, it's the legacy carmakers who have the strongest competitive moat. I mean, there are at least a half dozen Autonomous Operating systems being developed that are showing good progress, but in vehicle mass production Tesla is the only successful new entrant in a century, and they're still tiny and unprofitable. Aurora respects this, and I believe they will do well because of it.

Also, if you've got talent and passion in this field and want to get shit done, and work with the best, Aurora is the place to be. Talent is super important.
They have rather similar compilation/linking needs. At least for the purposes of this article, it’s not so egregious to speak of them in the same breath.
If you haven't already asked over at http://www.tivocommunity.com/ in the Help Center forum, I would.
It always baffles me to see how the rest of the world seems oblivious to modern heat pumps. They come in a variety of medium (air-air, air-water, geothermal-water). Seeing how heating a house is the biggest energy expenditure it should be a no-brained to heat homes with heat pumps.

To give a concrete example, In Northern Sweden, above the Arctic line, a modern geothermal heat pump an warm a 200 m2 (~2000 sq feet) house for a year, including warm water, for 15000kWh. Using gas, the need would be 4x higher. Even if you use electricy made from coal, you’re still coming out ahead.
Hey, thanks for sharing!

I see that this runs on Bubble. What do you think of Bubble? Although I write code for a living, I'm very interested in alternative approaches to software development.

In many ways, I feel like modern development is much harder to learn and is less intuitive than it was 20 years ago using something like VB6.
Most of papers made of paper are absolutely not available for verification. Ditto for research articles behind paywall or just cited as paper sources. You could invent dozens of such credible sources with no chances for anybody to ever check.

I can understand "we could not verify this so we are deleting this article", but not "we speedy deleted this article without checking anything". The latter has no excuses except for obvious commercial spam.
The coin is far from worthless - the way Steem's blockchain is structured (DPOS) makes liquid steem constantly disappear from the market, since a vast majority of users that actually generate a significant amount of steem invest in their account - freezing their Steem in the process (effectively removing the coins from the market).

Also, I don't think I need to mention the fact that Steem is not a coin for trading (even though it has 3 sec transactions and literally 0 transaction fees thanks, again, to DPOS), so the big initial inflation that will slow down by a big margin every year is potentially good for the coin.
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Thanks, very interesting!
Probably easier for Canada and the US and the Nordic countries to protect these reintroduced species than some of the more desperate and developing areas of the world. Russia, well I'm not sure. They'd probably benefit the most from the reintroduction of these species but I'm not familiar enough with Russian attitudes towards this sort of project.

It would be amazing to be able to see the megafauna in the wild though, along with protecting the wildlife we currently have.
In my case, nothing is wrong with the rest of the US, but I happen to have created a life here in California. My friends and job are here. Sure, the sunshine is nice, but that's not the thing keeping me here. And the tax rate in Reno policy in very appealing (and they have mountains! near Tahoe!), but am I going to abandon my community for those reasons alone? Nope.
Breach Insider is a one person bootstrapped company: https://breachinsider.com

Been live for a few months now and enjoyed finding the balance between sales and producing new features.
I always recommend this list.

https://www.reddit.com/r/piano/comments/5k9jci/what_are_some...

Although, Minuet to Gymnopedie is a big 'jump'
DaftCloud – the unofficial SoundCloud app for macOS
This is a must have, mostly because it serves as the best documentation / user guide for PyMC - a fantastic stats package that can be a little tricky to get started with.

Support great work like this and buy the book!
Digit/letter recognition is near perfect with the latest algorithms and techniques, but organizing the output from scanning a document is still pretty hard.
what did you expect? when the only topic is money, the mindset will trend towards greed.
I love how patio11's job description at Stripe seems to be 'write good and useful posts for the blog', period.
ATM-Like Bitcoin Currency Exchangers in Low Income Areas
It's worth noting an abnormal amount of high level persons in the military industrial complex are Knights of Malta, particularly the CIA heads. Just an fyi.
There are four other US metro systems larger than the Bay's and smaller than NYC's... and they all suffer from the same problems. :)
Unfortunately Pieter died a while back (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Hintjens), so he's already dug as far down as he's going to go. The disconnectedness has been his writing style for a while, and while it can be a little annoying, he's been good about tying it all back together though I'd too like more clarity on the language differences.

Which part of the gender theories didn't you agree with?
The only people who know about SB-827 are housing policy wonks and homeowners associations. If the people who it really affects—like Millennials—knew what was happening, it would have a much better chance.
It's way more than that. It bundles a lot of jars --- building those from source, recursively, is a big task.

(I tried building Bazel and its dependencies completely from source for Guix.)
As a disconnected aside, I'm a bit sad my first exposure to Jerry Pournelle was when he was a guest on This Week in Tech podcasts. By the time I picked them up, he certainly was long in years and I felt he rambled more than made coherent points. In prime, he would have been great to hear from every few weeks on technology news.
If you're running your electric heating from a natural gas-fuelled power station, which has an efficiency somewhere along the lines of 40% (if you're lucky), then using a heat pump with a COP of 2 means you are heating your home with 80% efficiency. Modern gas central heating systems can be >90% efficient.

Alternatively, if you go by the relative price of electricity compared to natural gas, typically electricity has three times the price for the same amount of energy. In that case, you would need a heat pump with a COP of >2.7 to make heating cheaper than using a gas burner.

Such heat pumps do exist now. The benefit is that if/when the electricity grid transitions to renewables, you are sorted.
Within the appellations that I prefer most, I've observed a reasonably strong correlation between price and my preferences.

That's often true up to a point. There are fixed overheads with any retail product so if you spend $8 on a bottle of wine you're really getting $2 worth of wine and $6 worth of logistics, retail margin, etc. If you spend $12 on a bottle of wine you're getting $6 worth of wine, and the same $6 worth of logistics, margin, etc. A 50% increase in price but a 300% increase in 'product cost'. However, at the top end of retail wine the difference in product cost between a $200 bottle and a $300 bottle is effectively zero, so price is less useful as a guide.
Beyond the Phoenix Project (audiobook)
Thanks. Had forgotten about that site.
I don’t see this helping at all. The big companies will just get consent and then it’s business as normal. Sites that can’t comply due to lack of resources will just block EU access. Really this is just a bullet point for the big guys and stifling for the small guys.
From our external perspective, they never happen. The time they use to happen in doesn't exist.
I think this is different. Malta the EU country doesn’t seem to have much in common with that Rome-based sovereign order of Malta organisation, other than the name of course.
Being not sure what you'd do after is a pretty important part of your plan
I'd like to see a bit more analysis past the Erdös number. What could other (measurable) notability indicators be. Number of publications, length of scientific career, number of citations, number of people they taught, ...?

Her analysis here seems very shallow and already operating from the preconceived mindset that this must be misogyny. I'm not saying it's not, but the argument is weak.
I just saw some 2700K bulbs in Poundland (£1~=$1.38), at a selection of power levels. Not sure what the brightest was, might have been 60W equivalent?

I deliberately got a dimmer model because I wanted something to encourage my mum to sleep more; due to Alzheimer’s she has no idea what the time of day is any more, and has developed a fear of the dark and only sleeps with the light on.
> I am not sure if the subscriber base is technically illiterate or users that hold a given coin have a strong incentive to dismiss any criticism.

As with basically every cryptocurrency (or technology, for that matter) related sub on reddit, the answer is both.
That's pretty disingenuous as it seems impossible to "make money off Europeans" without having any data about them.
Agreed. If I can use a single pass to ride, it should count. I don't care if it's operated by a separate company or is overground vs underground.
A simple robo-carpenter can make you some flat-pack furniture
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Volvo Launches a VC Fund to Keep Up with the Future
My favorite video about observing black holes: https://youtu.be/iphcyNWFD10

Enjoy :)
Show HN: Web Scraping in Google Sheets
TAMs are technical account managers. You get them with the enterprise support that you should be buying if your livelihood depends on AWS.
Plunge is probably what was meant.
IMHO there needs to be at least two hours of overlap for remote teams in different time zones to be feasible. This can work if one of the teams adjusts their schedule to fit, but otherwise it leaves the remote team out in the cold.
Lower case "b" - so bits. 1,411,200bps = 176,400Bps ~~ 172KBps
I wasn't that far off.
The Future of Sales Email Is Conversations
I think any big Java app is a mess for distributions. They usually include a ton of jars, since they just get them "for free" when using Maven/Gradle/Ivy.

Building the jars should be trivial in theory (especially for Maven), but the different between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice :)
unless you can frame the narrative as the 'world vs us'. it works for musk fans.
Man, this might be a dream, but it's one I'd love to see come to some form of fruition.

As someone who's learned programming through self-study, the broad swath of tooling out there can be a bit of a barrier to picking up new languages and concepts, especially when the concepts related to building and delivering software are occluded by some of the opinionated decisions all the different tool sets make about how building projects should work.

Learning a new language and new concepts already takes a good deal of time, which may be a valuable resource if you're not in any official program of study and making use of free moments. This is only exacerbated by the frequent need to learn a whole new tooling ecosystem along with any new language you decide to pick up. A sort of rosetta stone of package management and build tooling would be a godsend.
With the web approaching its 29th birthday, how democratic is it?
I meant the gateways (ipfs.io and ipfs.infura.io) with CDNs, because they certainly exhibit most of the charactaristics of a CDN.
>biology is weird and noisy and a hard but valuable row to hoe.

I think this is definitely the general feeling among genomicists. We've all learned hard lessons about the difficulty of finding the ground truth.

A running gag among my colleagues and I are pointing out the seemingly endless stream of CS people who claim that "biology is just software" and how they want to use "machine-learning" or "big-data" to "disrupt" medicine. While I'm sure the their heart is in the right place, move fast and break things doesn't really work well when your subject is living beings.
My favorite part is that they don't seem to understand the concept of hash collisions at all! ("ONE collision, nah that's nothing" [1]) and when JP Aumasson explains a possible attack the response is basically "Who would do such a thing?" [2]

[1] https://twitter.com/c___f___b/status/967511451442302976

[2] https://twitter.com/c___f___b/status/966315009071607809
That's correct but I'm looking it from a completely different angle. Many projects starting with a responsive web app to support desktop and mobile users at once. When the integration isn't great they will use a shell like Electron or PhoneGap so far from a web-based background. The reasons for this are clear:

- Same technology
- Reuse all or many code
- Frontend people are easier to hire and cheaper
The amazing thing about Byte was the amount of cash it generated in ad sales. Ad spaces cost hundreds or thousands of dollars depending on size, and the magazine was packed full of them. In the 80s it was a real cash cow, generating millions a year after printing and distribution costs. Ad revenue only declined when the Internet began to take over in the 90s.

The other amazing thing is how expensive computers were in real terms. You can add a zero to early 1980s prices to get a rough RPI equivalent. Business systems advertised for >$10k on paper cost serious money - and usually offered an 8-bit CPU running at a few MHz, and 64K of RAM for those willing to stretch their budget.
Second this - I worked remote for 3 years, and it's a unique skill set. I don't think I could do it again, until I have kids at least - the loneliness and "you're never working, or done working" thing gets weird. I'd need to know someone has already worked through all of that.
http://blog.practicingitpm.com produces a weekly summary of useful PM content - subscribe by RSS

https://opensource.guide/ is full of tips on how to run OSS projects

Managing remote teams is almost a separate discipline unto itself, there's some useful tools and tips here: https://blog.toggl.com/managing-remote-teams/
I recommend David MacKay's Intro to Info Theory class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCiZc0n6COY

There is a free book for it at:
http://www.inference.org.uk/mackay/itila/

Daphne Koller's 3 coursara classes on Probabilistic Graphical Models are also really good.
Of course you can learn a lot on the internet, but it can take more time than you think. I'm not saying this apps are bad. But I just think sometime learning with a true person in front of you is more efficient. For exemple the fear of doing something wrong can add some pressure so you will have more motivation and learn faster.
Also finding images you’re in but may have been taken by someone not on your friends list (think events). Eventually probably recommending friends from these images.
I think most here have already seen it, but I find that Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle talk[1] is one of the best I've seen.

I re-watch it every so often to help prevent my thinking from falling into a rut. When developing software as a career, it's so easy to just fall into a pattern where you use the same tools and techniques over and over again.

Watching this talk this talk inspires me to investigate alternate approaches to developing and delivering software. It's easy to think of software development as something that always need to involve code, and nothing but code. But watching this talk inspires me to go and try things like Node Red and Unreal Blueprints. In both cases, code is usually still involved, but they both offer a visual way of connecting components. I find it helpful to be able to visualize software this way so I can immediate understand how data flows through the application.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII
You might like https://please.build/.

Also, I think the pants folks are considering a Rust rewrite.
I would think so too. Everybody recommends finding a teacher (and a good one at that), but that's not possible for many people. Most people don't have access to good teacher, money to pay one, or enough time for scheduled lessons. Should they give up playing altogether? Even video courses are not good enough because they don't critique your technique or offer suggestions on how to improve playing at your level.

All the apps I've seen are terribly non-musical. They take small part of music (ear training, sight reading, repetition of phrases) and make you train in isolation. I would like to see an app that teaches music in context of music. Show me a concept in isolation (for example minor triad, or ii-V-I progression, or triplets), then play me some actual music examples, then allow me to exercise what I learned with some accompaniment and correct my mistakes. Such app AFAIK doesn't exist.
And? What is the significance and why is it worth noting?
You don't see any room between a major religion with a huge range of followers and an ideology with a single, toxic goal? I'm an atheist and I wouldn't describe christianity as child abuse — maybe some of the most virulent forms, etc. but describing the entire spectrum that way is simply dishonest.
In my experience looking for remote positions (in the last few months) it needs to be part of the conversation. It is related because most companies are not going to be open to a new hire going remote unless they have already considered it for the position.

For example: at one company I talked with the dev lead/manager was 100% remote, so I assumed it was at least a possibility and didn't directly address being remote until I got to the last round of interviews. Ultimately they passed because "we have no doubt of your ability but we want people in the (open) office regularly."

Mentioning it at the beginning would have saved us both time.
I don't think Bazel is the right tool for that niche. I don't think Bazel shines in any context other than a monorepo.
Rank, reviews, guessing, other tricks
Could you elaborate on how this is a restriction on freedom of speech? How is an 'information site' affected? Take HN for example, when I signed up they didn't even ask my name. They probably log IP addresses and would be entitled to, for the purposes of analyzing malicious use.
You should also check out Anvil (https://anvil.works). It's even more like VB than Bubble is: you build the UI with drag-and-drop, then write your code in a Python IDE. (Everything is Python, client-side as well as server - no HTML or JS required.)

This probably makes it less accessible for non-programmers than Bubble, but it does make it more powerful in the hands of someone who can code, and makes it useful for bigger/more complex projects.