skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And the RISC-v privileged specification has existed for years

It is a draft which has not been finalized and contains a disclaimer that it might be modified in a non-backwards compatible way prior to final release.
Very interesting how "pride" returns the colors of the rainbow in order: https://picular.co/pride

It might be ordering the results by hue.
Lobste.rs is basically Hacker News without intransparent moderating based on whims, liberofascist social justice warriors, stalinists and feminazis. I like browsing it, but it doesn't have as much activity as Hacker News.
And tech nerds do dumb stuff all the time too like wanting to nerotically "finish" a timeline of tweets. I think it makes tons of sense that Twitter wants to show its best content to more people than whoever happens to be on the timeline at the exact moment it's posted. It's frustrating sometimes, but you can use TweetDeck and get a firehose anytime you'd like.
Oh no, we might have to use one of the thousands of other chat apps with identical or superior functionality but inferior marketing teams.
Relaxing? I'm pretty sure it was meant to be eerie and sinister.
Love lobsters. :) I run and manage a tool similar to Lobsters (not open source).

https://www.hellobox.co

Originally started as "Build your own HN-clone".
To be fair cease and desist orders can generally be thrown directly in the trash.

I can't even count the number of them I have received. They look scary but basically will not be followed up with. You might as well just respond with "fuck off"
Bowler: A tool for refactoring Python code safely and efficiently
Neither quarks nor gluons (in general) are colorless.

One should object, however, that the site returns colors for 'hadron' and 'meson' :).
You can look into passive investing with index funds. You can look into buying and holding stock and earning premium through selling premium, high delta options, see wheel strategy.

You can trade options like me. I've posted a few more comments with details about my strategy.
Life is so weird and fascinating.
Well one failure was at 19th and Mission where left turns are illegal, another was at 13th and Folsom which I think is a protected turn, another was on 11th street where the drivers decided to make an illegal u-turn.
Although some contradiction with the 7 habits of successful people (work on important but not urgent things).

That said, I don't disagree with Buffett, but I do struggle with it :-)
Second-quarter US GDP growth revised up to 4.2 percent on software, trade
Yea, I agree unions can solve this problem. Unfortunately, a lot of these workers are independent contractors which weakens a union's efficacy.

In any case, the solution here is not to shame/vilify the company. You need to apply real economic/legal pressure.
Excel Add-In Adds +100 New Features to Your Excel
I am aware of how the US helium reserve works. Something like that can only practically be done by a government which doesn't care much about costs. And it has a significant leakage rate, so helium is more like a perishable commodity than something that can be stored indefinitely. Ultimately we can't really conserve helium, but we can avoid wasting it on frivolous things.
Great! Now redo this in Python and GoLang :)
No offense, but I expected more orange: https://picular.co/trump
Author here - thanks, would be really grateful for any feedbacks on the docs. The tutorial there is aimed at beginners who have never done any concurrency programming before, and it would be helpful if anything that is not thoroughly explained is pointed out.
The fat cells never die unless you get liposuction, they just shrink. Your body is primed to regain that weight if your diet or activity level changes.
I really feel both sides of this. On the one hand, I like customizing things, and I love to see users getting involved in platforms they love. On the other, I see how responsibly providing APIs is a big long-term burden that can prevent internal innovation.

I was talking a while back with some Mozilla people about the move from their legacy API [1] to WebExtensions [2]. It was a giant pain, but their old API exposed way too much surface area in ways that were too closely tied to the original implementation. The way I heard there were significant ongoing costs in trying to maintain the old API and support popular extensions while trying to improve the underlying tech and the user experience. So I get why Slack is very reluctant to expose API surface area, especially for the UI.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Add-ons/Leg...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
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I see your point - I think a lot of things today boil down to: a substantial number of people, and in this case science too, has agreed that one action is "good" for the planet. However, not everyone agrees - some people feel that all actions should be seen equally.

What I'm trying to say is that many would agree We Work are trying to do something good for the planet here. Another group of people don't see it that way.

Me personally - I would say in this instance the company should have liberty to exercise their own preference (incl Mexican restaurants). If it is ridiculous to their employees, they will quit. I believe in this case they have a substantial number of employees who don't mind or understand their reasoning.

Either way, I don't find it a human rights violation or anything.
This is out of date, as Joel now lives in Boulder, CO.
Speed is a feature. USB 2.0 storage is only ever so slightly cheaper but will cost hours of your life. I don't bother buying USB 2.0 storage anymore. I observed typical speeds of 25-35MB/sec depending on the motherboard.

Some of my older thumb drives clock in at 4MB/sec. My Internet connection both download and upload is faster than that.
The OP is using "earned" in the colloquial sense to refer to revenue. Earning before interest and tax (EBIT) were a loss of $35 million in 2016 and a loss of $21 million in 2017
To be fair, he's countering articles that do focus on those exact things (and "Eight Megs and Constantly Swapping" suggests these attacks have a long pedigree).

To take his example of Word, I don't think it really affects users negatively that there are tons of features they don't use. If all you want to do is use it like Wordpad, nothing's stopping you, and many users do just that. But if you want to start automating features with VBA, doing extremely complex mail merges, building a bibliography, or all sorts of other great features, they're there for you. And any reasonably-designed software should be designed so that you don't have to know the whole thing inside and out to work on one feature.

When I think of software I use often, quite of a lot of it is very complex, fully-featured software, and I'm sure there are many features I never use (e.g., IntelliJ, Chrome, Office, JDownloader). In this respect I really don't believe in the "Unix philosophy," at least for GUI programs.
You haven't told us how the Archimboldo paintings made you feel. Like you were made out of vegetables?
I lost 120lbs and for a long time I was in almost the same situation, but I can say I "fixed this problem".

I realized I didn't have a hormonal or even psychiatric issue: I was an addict.

Addicted to sugar, fat, salt in extreme quantities. I would always go from a bowl to a box of cereal.

So I quit it all. Cold turkey. It could "fit my macros", but I took no sugar, no junk food, no snacks.

Only food. Real food.

And I realized it's really hard to become fat on rice, chicken and vegetables. You"d need an insane appetite.

And, after some time, I slowly regained control.

I stopped counting calories, and now I'm happy to say I'm able to eat half a Snickers bar and not crave anything else.

And I'm fit! Happy eating, keeping a bit of muscle and a low body fat =)
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You seemed to have a very specific domain so I looked it up -- I think you're right, there's an inherently higher barrier to entry in your case. If you eventually do do a hack day, post it to HN, I'd give it a try! (I'm a very very beginner music maker and my own domain is graphics, not audio... but I do do fiddly low-level math in C++...)
wow that's neat! sampling between PWM cycles is a cool idea.

I'd guess the issue is that the required parameters are not well controlled in the fabrication of most LEDs. Possibly LEDs not used as indicators, with a tighter wavelength output... most likely this would remove any cost advantage however.

Fascinating stuff!
lol, wouldn't it be funny?
Congrats.

> dimensional cellular automata in witch all possible rules are encoded into one byte as described here

Small typo here - should be "which" instead of "witch"
>Driving at the speed limit is not slow.

Yes it is, as evidenced by the fact that the vast majority goes ~5mph over and are constantly overtaking you.
I was only able to get through about 30 seconds before cringing, but does it eventually include someone who spends 10 minutes eating an apple dipped in dorito chips?

It's always the person who has a $500 microphone set up too, so you get to not only hear them chew, but you can even hear the inner workings of their esophagus swallowing every bite.
It binds to localhost by default (now, didn't used to which caused all the issues in the past).

https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/configuration-opti...
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> Today, even in apps not designed primarily for touch use (e.g. Slack), we’ve buried the menu behind a randomly placed inscrutable hamburger icon.

Windows 95 buried everything under the Start menu, which was hardly a paragon of usability. There was a "Documents" menu that was pretty useless, a "Programs" menu that required several small click targets to launch anything (and regularly overflowed with applications), a "Run" button that popped up a completely inscrutable dialog box, and a "Shut Down" button that made users decide whether to restart normally or to restart in DOS mode.

I think you're giving the '90s too much of a pass. Modern mobile OS's in particular are much more usable than anything back then.
“Microsoft had already released all this fancy new tech with NT 3.1.”

Are you serious? Did you ever see Finder 4.3 on a MacII? Finder 6?
Oh, I see. You think that when I said that companies need to say openly and explicitly that they're cool with minorities, that this was a complete description of everything the company should do and say about the issue of unjust discrimination. Of course, I didn't say that. You read that in. It wasn't a complete description, just something I thought companies should also be doing. But that's fine, let me be clear now: In addition to minority outreach and accommodation, there ought to exist a clear anti-discrimination policy saying that no one should be discriminated against for their race or gender.

There. All better?
What happened when I quit Instagram
if you pay extra to get hooked up to the other ISP, will they come the extra 1/2 mile? around here they won't if it's somebody else's territory...
I have found it somewhat useful to write all the things I want to do somewhere that I trust, and select a few of them to work on right now that I am either most interested in, or feel will give me the greatest benefit in the future. I give myself permission to shuffle those projects as necessary, by try to limit them to just a couple at a time so they don't become unmanageable.

I have huge lists of ideas for projects (everything from designing my own index cards, to a ridiculous idea for demonstrating the curvature of the earth), lists of books that I want to read, lists of lists of books that I might find interesting, lists of music to listen to, and smaller lists of things like places to go, things to see, and skills to learn.

By keeping track of the things outside my head, it seems to declutter my everyday thoughts and I can focus on doing meaningful work on the few things I choose to work on right now. Obviously projects and reading are two things that are important to me, so I try to do a bit of each every day when possible. It doesn't always work, but it works better than when I had no such system.
Apparently the colors come from the images in Google Images search results.

In the bottom right of each color is a button that reveals the image where the color is sourced from.
That's unfortunate, as I think you're reading into it to see an attitude that is not there. In fact that response makes me more interested in using it.

The author starts by identifying the use of the wrong type. They then immediately blame it on their own documentation in the very next sentence.
Never heard of that, thanks.
Me too. Thank god I’m retired.
LEDs were pennies but the biggest problem was some LEDs were super sensitive and some had no reaction at all -- so even with a bunch of LEDs you might just get all non-responsive sensors. Ultimately we wanted to detect the brightness of light reliably and a photo-sensor was reliable.
Given it's a raspberry pi, you could easily implement the 1 kHz bandpass filter in software, by sampling at a higher frequency and then implementing a discrete-time filter. Just about any microcontroller with an ADC could do that, actually (edit: actually, the raspberry pi doesn't have an ADC - I guess the author is doing that with a discrete ADC?).
no no no, Alex Jones is basically the national enquirer, and CNN basically gave up and went full Alex Jones after 2016. And now millennials who just started watching the news are actually believing that ICE is killing babies. Can we just talk honestly about it?
I think there would probably be value in curated "playlists" done by actual people.
I really loved reading this article. Although I had to turn off my twitter brain to get there.

Here is the money quote for me:

"Were his readers not reading well enough, or did he not
write it well enough? Disagreement is mostly blamed on
miscommunication. The burden of clarity is now entirely
on the author, which makes for dull and repetitive arguments
— and a demand that certain people come to represent,
unambiguously, certain arguments. One’s cards must all
be laid on the table, faceup, and one’s position must
be unified. But the rise of misreading doesn’t give permission
not to mean what you say."
Ask HN: What are good resources for teaching a blind student Python?
A blind student is joining my graduate program and has expressed an interest in learning Python. The student is completely new to coding. I know Python well and I would like to work with him but have little idea how to be useful.

What Python resources out there are accessible to a blind person? Previously I've recommended [Code Academy][1] to beginners but I have no idea if that platform works with a screen reader.

Are there any special Python libraries or tools I should be aware of that would help me help the student?

[1]: https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-python
Agree. Was about to post the same.

The name was always going to be an issue when the extension got traction and publicity (via HN etc).

And the issues with script injection will always be an issue. But that is not a Legal department decision. They simply will be told to write the C&D letter.

And this letter was the most polite and flexible I have seen. Usually, other companies' C&Ds are totally inflexible, technically inept and unrealistic overdramatic.

Yes, Slack the company (and not the legal department's responsibility) can handle this in different ways. They can reach out and suggest alternatives, they can hire the creator to implement some of the features, they can extend the APIs for more legal interactions, etc. Or they cut him off and "Teflon shoulder" it to their forums as they seem to have done.

Slack's legal department has done their job, and as I can see in the best possible matter once they got told to do so. Up to the company what they do next. If anything.
>> I would do something before it's too late
>> apparently that was to little, to late

You can't take that all on yourself. The way people reach out is a factor in suicide but it's absolutely not the only one. I hope you find out what happened to your friend and that it was nothing too final, but please don't make the mistake of carrying that burden. It would be as big a mistake for you to do that as it would've been for your friend to feel like death was the only way to deal with their problems.
As stated:

> If it takes a lot of money to create what your customers want

I assume that covers what you are talking about...
React is most useful if you have really complex state that you're trying to manage and reason about. It's probably overused because people who don't need it are just doing whatever's trendy without understanding trade-offs, but it's a godsend for UIs that need hundreds of components, persistent state, etc. IMO people often add Redux to it before a project really needs it.

There's no need to mix markup and logic, a good pattern is to have dumb components that just translate state into markup, and keep your logic elsewhere.

Modern javascript (and typescript) is a joy to program in and has greatly improved my productivity. Having to compile it with babel is a small price to pay.
Just thought I would let you know your site is broken. It can't load Vue Analytics.
I've used LEDs as light detectors in a pinch when I wanted to measure the rotational speed of something and didn't have any other sensors handy. Neat trick.
“The whole idea that one organism would voluntarily ingest and be regulated by the fecal by-products of another,” she says, “makes us wonder what is going on.”

You and me both.

Past the squick factor though, it really is an amazing example of how many forms life can take.
1.V2EX[1]

[1] www.v2ex.com
The Machines Can Do the Work: Testing, CI, Automating the Contributor Experience
Show HN: A tool that scores location's health
Ya, they're not designed as detectors so there's no control over the parameters that determine how good they are as detectors. Interestingly, one of the reasons I was looking at light sensors was because our pyroelectric sensors were erratically sensitive to incandescent light. We wanted a reliable way to detect bright light and mitigate the effects in software and were hoping to use an existing component on the board as a sensor (our products were extremely cost sensitive due to the volume, so adding a $0.12 sensor was actually a huge deal).
I've considered building a "coding buddies" site. Something that's been lacking about the whole Codecademy/Hacker Rank/etc sites is the lack of intrinsic motivation. An actual person with whom you can work could potentially provide that.
From something I wrote in January 2016 (just one concern of many):
"Reasons Not to Use Slack for Free Software Development"
https://pdfernhout.net/reasons-not-to-use-slack-for-free-sof...
"Slack requires signing up and agreeing with a long Terms of Service (TOS); the TOS can be changed at any time, and historically such TOS have changed for the worse over time for other services once a lot of users adopt the service and become locked in by inertia and interlocking usages with other groups."
What drives the response time, internal capacitance or something?
Apple was into Pascal through the Apple II, Lisa and early Mac.
It's complicated - if I hyper-focus and never succeed, I will just end up an extremely, extremely boring person. So there are definitely cons to that strategy.
how's this any different than someone self-hosting a FTP server and allowing anonymous users?
I was specific. If I don't do business in the EU, it doesn't matter. I don't really care where my customers are but if they pay in the US, GDPR is not relevant to me.

I get that everyone is super excited about GDPR, but sorry to say most websites can safely ignore it.
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>The other examples listed are not exactly good hills to die on if you want to be perceived as a serious thinker rather than a knee jerk bigot.
Here's another view: A disturbing proportion of the left have been brainwashed into thinking that their president is a russian spy. Once you understand that, it starts to make more sense.
I was responsible for getting several development teams on Slack.

You see, nowadays few people outside of us hardcore geeks will want to use IRC (my first option). And there are things that "modern" chat clients do better. For instance, our monitoring system can post messages to slack with links to images to allow us to display graphs inline, links to runbooks, and even buttons to take actions. IRC won't do that.

Second option was Matrix with its (rather cool) open protocol, but the immaturity of clients and lack of integrations was a problem. Almost everything supports Slack, but good luck finding Matrix support. For our own systems this is manageable, but not all are under our control. Also, we would have to host and manage the infrastructure ourselves.

XMPP would be great on the integration front (surprisingly, Slack still wins), but once again it's something we would have to manage.

There were other options. Rocket.Chat, Hipchat, Mattermost, you name it. Each one with their own drawbacks.

So when asked by my manager what should we use, I could just answer "use slack" immediately, no ifs or buts, and most people would be happy with it.Assuming you have nothing against the company, the biggest technical con is the memory hungry client. The other issues are way harder to justify – big companies rarely care about proprietary protocols as long as they have a vendor to yell at.
Code, like other forms of stylistic expression, is not anonymous
The Emperor’s Old Clothes (Hoare 1981) [pdf]
Buses and trucks are a bit bigger and less vulnerable than bikes, and their speed difference with cars isn't remotely as big as that between cars and bikes. It's really not a comparable situation.

Bikes taking up the place of a car, would really slow car traffic down to a crawl. There's a good reason they get separate lanes.
> Evan is the founder of Gadget Flow, the number one platform to discover the best products on the market.

Are they bigger than the Product Hunt?
I doubt so.
wow... you turned down an interview at a place you liked because of their tools?

you certainly have stronger feelings about it than I do :)
Long-term thinking feels like a lost art nowadays...
It's mostly a flight to jobs in cities. A counterpoint is blue metro areas in red states (e.g. Texas, Kansas City, North Carolina)
Watcher/Dashboard to Keep Track of Pull Requests on GitHub for Code Reviews
E.P.A. To Reconsider Obama-Era Curbs on Mercury Emissions by Power Plants
Huh, that's very interesting, all those things in Part A happen to me often (pretty much every day!) except being overly active (I'm very silent and calm). I guess I had misconceptions about what ADHD even is... I should see a doctor soon it seems like. Thank you very much!
Oberon is well worth studying. If you're on macOS, you can get it via the App Store (it's free).

As far as github mirrors, I'm not sure there is one. But this looks interesting: https://github.com/Spirit-of-Oberon/ProjectOberon2013

But you may just want to get the original code and read through the books at http://www.projectoberon.com/
You lost me at bazel, even though I use k8s and github.
Footnote 17 mentions a proposed approach of "extending logic to include contexts", but doesn't name any names. Anyone have a reference I can follow?
It sounds like Bernie is employing Trumpian twitter tactics to further his agenda - playing to the lowest common denominator, pushing an "us vs them" narrative, etc. I would just hope everyone who has been critical of Trump for these techniques is equally critical of Sanders.