skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm imagining that doors on "swimming pool changing cubicles" are flimsy enough to kick outwards.
Hah, I have some colleagues I wish would spend all day in one of these things!
Yes, and when you express them as bytestreams, you end up with framing and marshalling and serialization. People start sending JSON. Then they want to put everything in one process because the performance is so low.
The real comparison should be with Rick Moranis: https://consequenceofsound.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/rick-...
I had the same sort of idea. I built this when Notational Velocity broke when upgrading to the latest macOS:
https://github.com/JesseAldridge/toothbrush
It's a single python file for grepping a directory of text files as I type. I have a global keyboard shortcut cmd+J that gives focus to my terminal and I then launch the script by running `t`. Then I can just start typing to search a career's worth of notes.

Would be cool if you could share your setup on GitHub.
Always an anti-imperialist and pacifist; but neither exactly unusual views on the left of centre.

That he met with Hamas is no different to his meetings with Adams and others of Sinn Fein years before. Both seem consistent with seeking peace. I could easily classify it as naive and unlikely to achieve much outside of government.

Then again, considering both Major era Tories and Blair era Labour including Mo Mowlam met Sinn Fein regularly and that ultimately led to the Good Friday Agreement, who knows if those meetings helped any.

No peace will come to Palestine without all parties reaching agreement and some resolution of Israel's illegal occupation and settlements. That has to start with someone meeting Hamas and Israel - though I doubt he could make a difference. I'm not sure I call the stop the war coalition a tiny fringe audience though.

Blunkett was far out on the loony left with Derek Hatton's Militant Liverpool. That Blunkett managed to reinvent himself as a right-wing Tory the moment he got a ministry perhaps shows that he didn't mellow through the years as go so far left as to reappear on the right. He's remained well to the right since leaving politics. I don't see anything disingenuous about the comparison or that his views are somewhat different now to then.
It can't even fab 10nm chips for its own business.
Right. From the article "My personal life has been revolving around three major creative activities, of equal importance: programming in Lisp, playing Jazz music, and practicing Aikido." This is someone who extrapolated their own life to a universal.

Next!
Ever heard of this taxi driver in Israel who got hit by a rape accusation, but was able to show the camera records to prove that it was a false complaint and the girl only got upset because the taxi driver told her to stop smoking in the car? Ever heard of so many false accusations from women, that are only used to fire a coworker, a CEO, a boss? Ever heard of couch promotions, where the girl shows her [redacted], only to claim a #metoo later in her career? Ever heard that a man who calls the police against a woman has 50% chances (in France), 70% chances (in USA) and 85% chances (in Israel) that the police takes HIM to custody? Ever heard that accusations are weaponized nowadays?

Really, “it’s hard to think of who else might worry about litigation when considering a romantic overture” ??? Pretty much every man, whether or not they actually did anything.

You have no idea what kind of terror men live under nowadays. Several times I had to convince male victims of false accusations not to throw a mass murder. That’s the level of injustice that you’re generating against men. It’s as-ton-ish-ing that some people are still ignorant of that. Even most women I meet are aware that the #metoo campaign was disastrous in terms of fairness, justice and legitimacy. And I’m starting to meet many men who never want to work with women.

Talk about a success.
As everyone else is trying to re-solve this problem in a better way... Here's my 2p's worth:

Employ a monkey to lock/unlock both doors for you. Use something like a banana for lock and an orange for unlock, keep baskets of both fruits in the bathroom. To stock the baskets get the maids to do it when they change towels.
Neither of which is very effective. Aikido is not a very efficient form of martial arts, even though it looks good. Jazz is not a popular form of music even though it sounds good. Lisp is not a popular language even though it writes good.
The system has values that aren’t very fulfilling (wealth, power, consumerism). I think a lot of people feel like you do.

No advice really. It’s totally true. You are on the one hand a dynamic individual with much to offer the world. Yet at the same time you are one of six billion, floating on a spec of dust in one corner of an infinite universe. Somewhere in the middle is the fulfillment your looking for. ;)
I haven't spent much time looking at this part of the project as my phone isn't supported but it does look really neat. On my next phone upgrade I will probably investigate.
Mycroft is not fully available as source code. Core parts of the functionality are provided only by remote servers run by Mycroft with closed source software.

I cannot tell if Almond is fully OSS.
It's adversity that makes things special and memorable. Scarcity and inconvenience once did that for music listening. Now it's very easy to hear music when you want to, so it's not particularly special; it's plentiful and cheap to the point of near-worthlessness.
Setting up HA LBs isn't hard though. Two load balanced IPS in your DNS hitting each external load balancer IP, LBs have keepalived configured with two floating VIPs each. I learnt that on the fly when having to build an HA service without the economic resources usually associated with doing so. ( Databases and routers/firewalls were a whole different beast though)
I don't know about that particular issue, but we already know WhatsApp can now replace end-to-end encryption with their own encryption key, so they can decrypt convos at will.

Many on HN defended this move as a "not a big deal" and not a "real backdoor". But they'll regret it soon, when they'll learn Facebook very much intended it to be an insidious backdoor:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/whatsapp-...

We also know that both of its founders left because they had a conflict with the Facebook leadership about crippling end-to-end encryption. So if Facebook hasn't gotten rid of end-to-end encryption yet, it will very soon. You should be moving to Signal, Riot, or maybe even Wire ASAP.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/whatsapp-fou...
"building something that solves a practical problem affecting a lot of people at a fair price" sounds like an excellent goal! Reminds me of this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_zKjSIPd6U And... reality tends to hit pretty hard in late 20s, in my experience! Just hang in there and try to keep doing things that feel fulfilling and productive.
No, it isn't. It's quite well known that both party MP's and admin tried to make both his leadership and campaign difficult.

They chose to "refuse to run the more extreme ads" that were well within the bounds of moderate Labour policy of relatively recent years. With a manifesto that resonated pretty well with voters on most issues as it turned out yet didn't include several of Corbyn's actual well known fringe views such as unliatera disarmament as that went against agreed party policy. The manifesto is what counts.

Thus he's being treated as some dangerous extremist whose views can't even be let out in public during an election campaign. Views that, as put forward in the manifesto, are not actually that extreme. It's miles away from Foot's longest suicide note manifesto for example.
What if you added a rule that if 2 nodes lose communication then after some period T the lowest ID node kills itself? And you add a delay of 2T to all client/server communication to give that a chance to happen.

Then in the example, client writes to V1, V1 waits T time to communicate with V2, it doesn't manage to so it returns failure to the client and kills itself. Then the client writes + reads to V2 instead.

Does this break availability because returning an error that you can't act on a client request counts as ignoring it in this informal definition?
I don't think 'Luddite' is the right term here - the Luddites were specifically a group who protested against the impacts of mechanisation on the labour market. They didn't hate technology in general.

'Technophobe', maybe?
Your comment about iOS gaming implies that it is an inferior platform relative to Android in terms of gaming. In reality despite Apples myopic attitude towards desktop gaming their mobile gaming platform is better than androids by a significant margin.

Consider the following:
1) Per user revenue in iOS out paces per user revenue in Android by so much that many titles make more on iOS than they do on Android despite Android having ~70% of the market

2) Apples hardware & os provide superior performance relative to even premium Android phones despite Apples compulsion towards thinner. (This is largely due to vulkans infancy compared to the relative maturity of metal)

3) fragmentation

4) walled garden is actually a plus for developers who worry about apk sharing

5) Apples store does business in China making Apple a one stop shop for the world whereas android requires at least one separate partner just for China.

Note: Please pardon any grammar, spelling, & formatting errors due to this response originating from a mobile device
I take all my notes with Sublime Text 3. After having bought it and VS Code being more suitable for my programming needs I just use it as a snappy notes taking application. I can close it and everything I leave will be restored as is in a snap when I come back. Not sure if there's a way to sync this but if there is, that would defeat any other "note taking app" for me.

Eventually I want to try using Microsoft Whiteboard but I'm waiting to buy the Surface Pen before I try it out.
Ante is super cool! I think the following passage neatly encapsulates the power of (thoughtful) compile-time extensiblity:

> "Ante provides several different methods of memory management, including manual management. Don’t want to bother with any of it? Simply 'import GC' to use a garbage collector."
I hate being spied on. I don't even use music streaming services. Maybe if I could manage it all anonymously, I suppose.

But damn, the possibility that I could say "Play that song that goes like this [hums a few bars]" would be very cool. Or "Play that song with [some lyrics]." Or "I liked that, but wasn't there an older version?"
I agree with @happertiger you can not give up. Pet yourself a little today, but go about kicking ass tommorow.

Employers want to see a portfolio. Invest in building one (and indirectly, your skills), give yourself experience, showcase your work to your friends, network, build stuff for cheap. It'll pay off.
Think about if the same codebase were in JS, it would definitely be slower. But like others are saying, streaming is one of the main features of wasm.
It could be he just doesn't like this particular tech
Hit the Ground Running with Distributed Tracing Core Concepts
There was an unabridged audio of both Dirk Gently and Long Dark Teatime. Both read by Douglas and each 6 CDs.

A quick skim of Amazon doesn't find them so you might have to hunt eBay etc.
The concept of social impact bonds is not used often enough, but not new [1].

I first read about them about a decade ago, tried to get some politicians and civil servants engaged but alas.

And then in 2017 my firm, regular profit-seeking listed insurer, suddenly participated in one... I was amazed.

We give a subset of insured the option of a different treatment with regards to working while dealing with cancer (we insure the employer), a university takes care of the experiment and experimental power, other business partners deliver interventions and the banks have structered a SIB. All in motion right now. I got together with my colleague: his biggest take away: structuring a deal like this takes two to three years. He pulled it of partially because we had investments in the business partners and hence a better relation to start with.

If they can make that time to market go down, the amount of possibilities are endless. Most entrepreneurs don't have the time navigating literally 4+ different tables (banks, corporations, university, government agencies) all with agendas at the same time.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_impact_bond
Monitoring Microservices: Divide and Conquer
Actually, the idea that the nature is in balance seems to be discredited. It is basically either no more than a myth [1], poorly defined [2], or untrue in the traditional conceptualizations [3].

[1] https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8853.html

[2] http://www.wcbbf.org/pdf/balanceofnature/8.pdf

[3] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/096366250506302...
Alternative: If you're on Firefox, this addon automatically adds "Facebook" to the referer so you can bypass the FT and WSJ paywalls

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/read-ft-wsj/
Ask HN: Why is Google not making a language that runs on low memory devices?
I just used a low cost smartphone in India and honestly it was the worst I have ever used. I was wondering why is Google not making a language for low end mobiles that consume very less memory? We had glorious computer apps running in 512mb of RAM. Now all apps need a gig of memory to run without problems. Is this because of VM on Android? Is dart lang memory sensitive?
QNX itself had a hope of becoming mainstream as the core of Blackberry 10 OS. Unfortunately, Blackberry has moved over to Android these days.
I don't think that's a very fair argument. GP is paying for internet access. GP is accessing information, published on the public WWW, which is what GP paid to do. GP has the right to decide what information they want to download from the public network.

Why is GP under any ethical obligation to consume ads? Were you shaming people in the 90s who muted their TVs when commercials came on? Why is it GP's responsibility to make someone's business model work?

Why are you conflating movie piracy with ad blocking? It's completely different, from a legal and ethical standpoint. And GP didn't even mention piracy.

Yes, journalism is in trouble. Yes, it's an important industry that fills an invaluable role in society. But print media has been beholden to advertising so long, that it doesn't even know how to sell its product anymore. And that's not GP's fault.
I had/have an i3 2.5GHz (M380) laptop, IIRC from around 2011, which I had tried to upgrade recently with a top of the line SSD, Windows 10 and 8 GB RAM to extend its life. While Windows 10 was definitely better than I'd anticipated, overall it's still painfully slow browsing the web (except for HN of course).

So I broke down and got a new laptop with an i7 8650U, and it is disturbing how much faster it is, considering the base frequency seems to be significantly lower (1.9). I am wondering whether there is some now-ubiquitous function, perhaps relating to encryption that is accelerated on newer processors. Single threaded benchmarks only indicate it should be 2x as fast, but there is far more of a difference than that. Without identifying what the improvement is, I have the nagging doubt I should've identified a software problem on my old computer. I did try Linux on it, and that was not stunningly fast either.

So I would be happy with my new PC, except that I'm wary I'm being flim-flammed with software that makes old hardware run like crap, and the performance is an illusion. But hey, maybe the hardware has improved in 7 years. I remember when that was an eternity.
> He can stick his submarine where it hurts.

Classy... Seems a bit unneccesary
Can you elaborate? What languages would fall in either category (I’m assuming python would be hacking and haskell would be protective)? Does static vs dynamic typing play a role?
The problem with classes is that an object's available methods can change over time. E.g. a file object should not have a write method after having been closed. Ongoing research is trying to fix this problem (see Scribble, mailbox types for unordered interaction), but until then I'd say it's probably best to stick with dynamic messaging.
Bhagvad Gita (as it is) - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Not just a spiritual book, more like the guiding principles that anyone, starting something new, could use.

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation - Jon Gertner

Bell Labs, the RnD wing of AT&T-was the best laboratory for new ideas in the world. The book tells a story about the life and work of a small group of brilliant people - Mervin Kelly, Bill Shockley, Claude Shannon, John Pierce, and Bill Baker.

Peak - Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
You must have heard this a 1000 times - "you can do this", the book is about - "yes, and this is how"

The master algorithm - Pedro Domingos
Book details out the philosophies of various schools of thought in AI - deep learning, bayesian, genetic, reasoning - in a very simple language.

What technology wants - Kevin Kelly
Technology is a living organism and there are patterns to the technology evolution, not unlike the organic evolution.
What is wrong with org-mode? It is plain text file. I see no major differences compared to markdown.
As used in pretty much every swimming pool I've ever been to.
OP, I am like you, but so far I wasn't able to find anything better than Evernote, so I learned to live with the 2 device limit...I just use the web version on the 3rd device.

In evernote, I can add new note very quickly via shortcut, search very quickly by tags or keywords, and also a lot of information fits on one screen. It's a unique mix of those conveniences which keeps me using Evernote.

Also, on Windows, what a lot of other apps lacks is that there isn't a native windows app. Then some things like hiding to system tray don't work, or the whole application looks just like a webpage.
Question to HN community: How much would you really like to see a company that purposely doesn't focus on any of the "smart technology" BS, but just on delivering pure, faithful audio. In other words, a "dumb" speaker company.

Because, I think speaker is one of the few industries where you can still add layers of smartness to an existing "dumb" speaker box simply by just connecting it to such a device.

With the gradual shift in strategies of companies like Bose and Sonos, to focus more on smart technologies, I think there is a void created which audio companies were originally known for - good, faithful audio without the buzz words.

As a personal disclosure, I'm interested in this because building loudspeakers is my passion and I would be more than delighted to get my feet wet.
More about Last Mile, https://thelastmile.org

”Because of his background in venture capital, he was invited to speak to a group of men about business and entrepreneurship. He was so impressed by the men’s level of business knowledge and desire to learn, he began to nurture the idea of creating a Technology Accelerator inside the prison ... Since its inception The Last Mile has generated a groundswell of support for criminal justice across America. Never before have we experienced such a cooperative, non-partisan effort to curb the problem of mass incarceration.

Imagine if we could break the cycle of incarceration and instead of spending tax dollars for prison, we could spend these tax dollars on higher education, and provide educational opportunities for youth in underserved communities.This would enable them to choose a different path than one of crime. With education and career training opportunities we could break the generational cycle of incarceration. There’s plenty of proof that the impact of one man’s incarceration is felt by families and communities for decades.”
Thats interesting idea. We will definitely think that through
This reminds me of one of the concepts from Zen in the Art of Archery - by focusing too much on wanting to hit the target, you're not using your full attention on perfectly performing the actions that would actually allow you to hit the target.
Is this a propaganda piece pushed by entrenched alcohol industry interests?
Suggesting that most developers who use postgres should be familiar with its source code is madness.

Expand this to everything a sysadmin has to manage it just doesn't scale.
Everything will have changed long before then: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda–Milky_Way_collisio...
Thanks for the song, I like it. Family, travel, music, food, film make me happy. Becoming a better designer, developer, copywriter, marketer too.

I think what I'm really experiencing is finding out how much mental illness there is in the world and how much chaos there is as a result of it for every other living thing. How does that make any sense if 'God loves us and wants to be free'? I went through a major dive into Buddhism but it really is a religion too, cult-like at times. There is truth in all of it but freedom is beyond all ideologies and -isms, is it not?
Have a look at this page for alternatives https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Search_engines
Pelias is the product from Mapzen (rip)
Has nobody ever been swimming?
I listened to Sirius XM’s U2 channel today and it was so much better than an algorithmic run through their library.
Given you find the technical side “easy”, the other side you may need to develop is people skills. You may need practice in dealing with people. Especially self confidence.

If you doubt yourself and you’re the expert on yourself, shouldn’t others also doubt you?
That's quite interesting. My experience has been the exact opposite. I tend to be far more likely to listen to my Discover Weekly than any other playlist, and I totally love listening to those songs both as their own thing as well as when I'm working. It's just a lot more satisfying to find new songs/artists/albums every week than not. It's just like radio, in a sense, except it's curated using an algorithm and closer to my taste than a lot of traditional radio. The algorithmic part doesn't bother me: I don't really care if the being at the other end of the radio is an algorithm or a person.

Mind you, this is my experience with Spotify: one of the reasons I'm nearly religious in my choice of streaming services. I tried Apple Music for nearly a year when it launched but found little to like there.
I've found myself doing this as well. I really appreciate the way Sublime Text persists unsaved files without having to give it any thought. I've kept a "scratch.txt" doc open with various notes and hints forever.
Most potential fab customers don't want or need 10 nm.
> Somewhere in the middle is the fulfillment your looking for. ;)

Funny you say that, I'm actually very much into this train of thought right now. I see the unity in the duality. The Tao instead of yin-yang. The balance of feminine and masculine in each of us. Ancient and modern. Eastern and Western. Red and blue. Capitalism and socialism. APOLLO AND DIONYSUS!

One thing I am looking for is more people on this train of thought. Where could I meet them?
Its an issue. But if all the code is open and audited, there should be a way to ensure only aggregates are used, and the reports are anonymous. There would also be a related issue of bot accounts who would try to sabotage the statistics for fun, but should also be reasonably solvable.