skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also in the UK and have a peace lilly growing very successfully under my stairs, which gets very little light.
Retired after 8 years as a Staff SWE at Google. Do I really need a why for retired?
It's a good idea to improve your web developer skills, but I think the problem lies within your entrepreneur skills. I'd highly recommend the book Disciplined Entrepreneurship to you. It consists of 24 steps that is focused on product conceptualization, which I think you'll pretty much appreciate it.
How do you search for sansevierras o your website? :)
> Ah right... when you can't attack the ideas, attack the author.

This feels unintentionally ironic considering the article starts with "They're clearly written by amateurs, unbelievably ad-hoc, mired in gotchas, tricky to compile, and solve a problem that nobody but Google really has"
Show HN: StrongDM – 1-click access to any database or server in any environment
> there is no reason why we cannot implement a thorough type-system like qi

The SBCL compiler actually has a type inference engine built in to it.
https://abcl.org
A cautionary tale for sure.

My thought is that something new would need to not replicate the UX of existing social software, but would need to think of better alternatives. Competing with existing giants on their own terms, but with a different business model, is a hard sell, probably too hard.
Automation and philosophy
Orion has also done a pad abort test, for what it's worth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j68mszdhTmY
You don't need node to compile WASM or deliver it to the browser, either.

The only reason this "needs" NPM is because it's become convention that all javascript projects need NPM and some related toolchain regardless of their complexity.
Even if the design is well-tested, there may be a new process issue in the rocket's construction that is undiagnosed.

Maybe there is a new person on the assembly line that doesn't know not to pinch o-rings when assembling fuel tubing? Maybe a swaging tool has worn out to the point that it is causing leaks? Maybe the vendor who supplies body panel rivets got a bad batch of aluminum? There are so may possible situations that it is not worth risking launches or lives over until a root cause has been found.
Make a good faith attempt to convince yourself that residential schools were an utter failure (e.g. go read up about them in the book of your choice). I am just afraid that I may attempt to do the work myself and be met with someone who has already made up their mind in bad faith and I'd be wasting my time.

If you did make an effort and did indeed find positive effects of residential schools, I'd be more willing to discuss the merits you found.
How Can RTC Transform and Strengthen Education?
Even that could potentially be a breaking change, like if the folder was expected to be there by some application.
I attempt to mediate using headspace, but if I don't feel in the mood for that, I go for a walk around the city. However, if I am feeling rather lazy, I sit at my desk eating and watching YouTube videos.

I am joining a new company on Monday and they have a gym so I think I might start lighting some weights and become a beef cake.

I guess it depends on my mood.
A periodic reminder
I think the parent referred to fiddling with OMEMO fingerprints, that a) is automated in "good clients" (Conversations) b) can't be easy and paranoid-secure at the same time.

I also run XMPP server for friends and family and actually all of them are very happy with it. With Conversations this entire experience looks like any other modern messenger.

Network effects are of course a problem in any decentralized environments but looking at how quickly companies drop their solutions (Google?) or abuse the data you give them (Facebook?) I don't see any other reasonable option. Today Signal is nice and kind, tomorrow they are bought by Facebook and start "fiddling" with the app...
This is all summed up in one word: friction.

What the big platforms have done is eliminate friction at all the critical parts, to make it easy for users to onboard, easy to share, easy to grow within the platform, and of course hard to leave.

I've been thinking about a low cost but not free platform too. If it ever happens, it will have to be AT LEAST as frictionless and enticing as the existing platforms. The table stakes are very high. Since cost in of itself is a source of friction, that means the rest of the platform needs to be even MORE frictionless.
Space tourism: Virgin Galactic ‘weeks’ away from first test flights in space
Sandsifter
Wasn't dust originally blamed for this behaviour in earlier models? I seem to remember Apple redesigning the butterfly mechanism around the issue.
Presumbly there may have one time been some type of malware that executed through thumbnails with embedded data or some other type of convoluted nonsense that the scanners had to protect against. I think I'd rather take the risk of that though over the accumulated production loss of watching explorer hang for 5 seconds everytime I open a large folder
Also in French!
Sort of. Java interop is an extra win for Clojure, but I really meant just the Clojure libraries. Every time I need one, it seems much more feature-complete than CL alternative.

To take an example: in a project I'm working on, we're using Ring[0] at the backend + bunch of middleware, including Liberator[1]. Take a look at e.g. Liberator docs[2] and tell me, where's a CL library for just that, with so much thought that went into it? Or, in a CL project we had to implement CORS handling ourselves, whereas in Clojure we get it for free. Etc. This kind of story seems to repeat every time I need a library. In Common Lisp, you have to hope that Edi Weitz, Shinmera or Fukamachi wrote something, and that you won't have to patch much to make it work for you. In Clojure, everything I've seen so far[3] makes me expect to find solid and feature-complete libraries whenever I need something.

Now to be clear, I still love working in Common Lisp. It's just that my experience with Clojure made me jealous.

--

[0] - https://github.com/ring-clojure/ring

[1] - https://github.com/clojure-liberator/liberator

[2] - http://clojure-liberator.github.io/liberator/

[3] - I've been writing Clojure for only couple of months, so this may be colored by first impressions.
Jamming the Signal: Better Living Through Subliminal Messages
How do you pay for your living expenses ? Do you work remotely ?
Thanks for explaining. Does "SRE-SWE" pay better because it's a more demanding job (pager duty to deal with network outages)?
Advanced attacks on Microsoft Active Directory: detection and mitigation
It also had significant periods of the ascent where there simply no abort mode possible.
Many CL implementations have a type inferencer (usually so that the compiler can optimize code without the developer having to specify types everywhere). What sets SBCL (and CMUCL and Scieneer CL) apart is that it does limited forms of compile time type checking:

http://www.sbcl.org/manual/index.html#Handling-of-Types
Thanks for mentioning GitLab, Community Advocate here.

WIP is really used, and we even have documentation about it https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/work_...
For Hugo in particular, Forestry[0] is really nice. If you're already using Netlify for deployment, they also have a CMS[1] that works well with most Static Site Generators.

[0] https://forestry.io/

[1] https://www.netlifycms.org/
I'm not following news about space, and was just going from what I read. he article did not provide any context or sources for these claims. Now that HN has filled in thw gaps, it does sound like Russia might have a problem with their tech. But imo BBC should have quoted either other articles or experts on the matter when making statements like this
Moved back to Atlanta after five years at YouTube in SF to be close to family and afford a house.

Discovered that Square has an office here, saving me from a descent back into Corporate IT. Haven't looked back. We're hiring :-)
@bachbach: As you guessed (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18191949) your account does appear to be banned as of today, your comments are autodead, and vouching for them does not vivify them. As none of your comments seem offensive, and since you don't seem to have been flooding the submissions, it doesn't make sense to me. You should write to 'hn@ycombinator.com' and ask what's up.
Alternate Computer Universes: Jef Raskin's Macintosh
Have been a loyal TechLoaf reader for the past few months. Thank you for making this, it's consistently one of the things I look forward to most each week.
Never heard of it.

There are three patents: https://patents.google.com/?assignee=Fisk+Communications+Inc
light bulbs are hard to jevon, since an LED on all day still uses less energy than an incadescent that you turn off when you don't need it.

compute is EASY to jevon =)
While they have a front row seat to the demise of the great reef. Doesn't give me hope for humans.
I see. Yup, this could positively solve the problem with many parasites. I don't know if oyster's herpes or other oyster virus would be distroyed by that (probably). Looks like a good firewall.

In the end the reef will host all parasites yet present in the area, so they should expect events of mass mortality here and there and deal with this fact in their plans.

If restaurants serve oysters imported from different countries of the world and there are viruses or parasites able to survive some months out of the water (I don't remind of any currently, but some of those can be hard to kill), oysterculture in New Jersey and Rhode Island could face another 1950's and 1990's disasters. I'm speculating of course, but better safe than sorry.

https://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2017/08/11/new-jers...
It should be possible to work that number quite a bit lower.

Insurance companies are (literally) in the business of pricing the riskiness of drivers, so they tend to understand which ones are the riskiest. If there is a group that is clearly riskier than the total average but is allowed to drive, there's good reason to think about making that group the point of comparison.
Can your students tell the difference between fact and fiction?
Walmart will now allow shoppers to access PayPal cash in stores
I don't know enough about answer set programming to give much of an answer. Sorry.
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It's not like people design interoperability protocols and THEN found villages http://www.lvbagses.com/
That's true. My performance claims are biased toward offline-capable editors, where the last consistent state between sites may be thousands or millions of edits ago. For online-only editors the set of edits between now and the most recent consistent state may be much smaller.
Ask HN: Service that connects to other API's
Hi All,

I am trying to find a service that has a load of pre-built API integrations e.g. Google Analytics, Salesforce, HubSpot etc and you can access them by an API rather having to build an integration for everything third party.

Does anyone know of anything like this?

Thanks
if the SafeNetwork ever gets released we could easily have things like that. with monetisation being built in it will be fairly frictionless for poeple to pay or for an app or service to take a micropayment any time you use it.

so if getting more users means getting more money, then the focus could be just on making the best service possible instead of focusing on ads and tracking to keep things running
A version controlled repo for a physical habitat. You're building the B&B from Cory Doctorow's Walkaway :)
For some reason ITA (now at Google) had people who advocated moving from SBCL to CCL for their application(s).
I agree with your interpretation of the tape audio, but the 'ballistic trajectory' statements from Roscosmos/NASA tell us that it was not rocket-powered. Indications are that the anomaly happened at booster sep, which is a few seconds after LES jettison.

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/soyuz_launch.html
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18190075 and marked it off-topic.
They have such a mealy texture, I can't stand them.
For anyone who found the above too long, basically she means that deep reading often wastes too much time and you don’t know ahead of time what to read. She didn’t mention that you can check other shorter sources before you commit to reading, like reading this comment before hers.
For some reason, "sort by price" is broken in most major online stores. Either it produces less results, or it returns results that are not actually sorted by price (!).
The rocket doesn't need one. The spaceship does. But considering that the whole thing gets redesigned every two months I wouldn't worry too much. It's still years from flying, so plenty of time to change stuff.
Thanks. After reading up on it more, I agree. But Since BBC did not offer any follow up links, context, quotes or other sources for their claims, it sounded like unfounded accusations (to my uninformed ears)
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Context-centric cultures and call-out cultures
The reentry forces could definitely exceed 1g and usually do from orbital velocity. You're moving sideways however fast the rocket left you going, and you have fallen at 1g acceleration for some amount of time before hitting thicker parts of the atmosphere. Your velocity is now way higher than terminal velocity for that altitude and you experience acceleration (deceleration).
Yeah, oncall bonus.
'Dr. Doom' Nouriel Roubini Takes on Crypto at US Congress Hearing Today
I have some worse news for the author - they overpaid by nearly 17¢ per oz, not 2¢.

The top is a two pack of 32oz bottles for a total of 64oz, coming in at just over 15¢ per oz.

This does nothing, of course, to discount the author's claims; if anything it makes it worse. Why isn't the quantity and per-object measure displayed clearly? Why do we have to rely on often subjective readings of item titles to figure out what they really are?
I agree, but I'm currently stuck with a phone that is unrootable (Zenfone 3 Max ZC520TL) so I'm sort of stuck.

I figure at the very least, moving my email off Google is a good first step.

Tutanota is cool but I like having IMAP option which is not available with them. FairMail is a great idea and I'm following development closely for it, but right now it just doesn't accomplish what I need.
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I had pretty substantial amount of savings when I quit. I expect my annual expenses for the next few years to be $15-20k, so I can either pay that with returns from my investments or drawing down from my savings.

It's not enough to live the rest of my life on, especially if I want to start a family, but I'm set for the next few years.
China's Alipay says stolen Apple IDs behind thefts of users' money
For anyone with pets at home, please be aware that lilies are toxic to dogs and cats. Keep them away from your pets!

http://www.vetstreet.com/care/ten-household-plants-that-are-...
Was that a deliberate pun? :)
I agree that cutting the stream was the best thing to do in this situation. But if you want to troll people about lacking reading comprehension, try fixing your grammar and punctuation first?
The Wealth of Nations was not the status quo, though. The neoclassical model of economics was much more committed to a model in which the individual maximizes some utility function. The neoclassical model certainly built on Adam Smith, but by no means the same as, and one of the differences was that neoclassical economics tried to find ways to ignore or abstract away anything to do with human psychology.
Oh, no way. The information conveyed through human language is an abysmal drip compared to the actual number of letters used to spell it out.

Even without knowing anything semantic, compression algorithms can squeeze text down to much fewer bits. And both of our minds together have a shared dictionary of concepts and thoughts gzip doesn't have access to. The actual number of bits conveyed is rather low.
My initial reaction is that this would just exacerbate the problem of frivolous lawsuits. On further reflection, I think that was my reaction mostly as a result of the marketing. It seems like there is a lot of potential for this to be used to help those who are being taken advantage of as a result of not knowing their rights as the article states.
This wacky-looking font can help you remember what you read
What a metaphor. Thanks for making me imagine space Ladas.
Thanks for the recommendation! I'll check it out.
Hmm, didn't immediately notice that this doesn't have a camera. I can see why they went that route, but this may nto be for me after all.
Ask HN: What do you think Wikileaks will drop, RE: AMZN?
They keep releasing coded maps showing data centers, and are hinting that it's related to Amazon somehow. And apparently they're going to release a new batch of leaks this week.
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I think the marketing for this app is poor. It should be focusing on knowing your rights and how to assert them, not "sue anyone".
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In eBay and in Walmart it works fine. Amazon is definitely the worst from what I have seen. And with Amazon I am pretty confident that this is no accident but exactly as planned.
Microsoft doesn’t consider the OS to be the “user’s system”. They clearly see it as something they rent to the user a little bit each day. If the user wants to keep the system for a little longer, he/she has to make a special request to Microsoft that they hold off for a bit before retaking control of the OS.
Linux also destroy intel e1000 nics for a while. And up until ext3 it lied about synchronous writes. Linux has been far from safe for storing your data.
You have T and NIL, and you can deftype a "boolean" for yourself as a choice between T and NIL. The so-called "generalized booleans" are a design choice, and not bad choice IMO.
I am developping my SSG. For the moment, it is

for file in *.md ; do
echo " converting $file"
pandoc $file -f markdown -t html5 \
-H templates/header-prod.html \
-B templates/nav.html \
-A templates/footer-prod.html \
--template=./default.html5 \
-o ../out/${file%.md}.html \
-s --data-dir=./ \
--highlight-style pygments \
--variable=file:${file%.md}.html
done
scp -r ../out/* me@cloud:/var/www/html

Someday, I will improve it for a smarter generation of index.html. For the moment, my struggle is style.css.
We've already done ground testing, launch abort tests, etc on the commercial crew vehicles plus a reference class of space vehicle first launches. So there's no cause to fall back on the Laplacian prior.
Nice project. There are a lot of cool modifications of Instax cameras out there, including those which add large format lenses for full shutter and aperture control. What's special about this project is the manual feed. I haven't seen it anywhere else. Presumably it allows a pack of film to be inserted and used just like the automatic feeder.

I've toyed with the idea of putting the individual sheets into a sheet film holder for use in a Mamiya 23 camera. But it requires working in the dark and then repacking each sheet of film and running them through the camera to process with the rollers. For the same effort, I could be shooting regular film. Theirs is a much better solution.
I wish that we didn't keep getting headlines containing phrases like "scientists say this" "according to scientists" and so on. I mean, how much does it hurt to be specific? Sometimes it just turns out to be a single grad student or something like that. The article doesn't even say who they are but even "A group of 40 scientists signed a statement saying.." would be an improvement.
Defender is probably the least offensive AV in existence, sadly.

Frankly I think the entire concept of AV is bankrupt as it always causes many more problems than it is worth. Both false positives and false negatives are common. You shouldn't be afraid of running without Defender because, like all AV, it isn't very good at catching real threats anyway. If you really want to feel safe there are much better ways of doing that, like running untrusted programs in sandboxes or VMs, or using Software Restriction Policies to whitelist what can and cannot run. I haven't played with it at all, but there's even Controlled Folder Access to limit FS rights by application, which isn't a terrible idea given the era of crypto-ransomware.
Thanks! I much prefer this to having a job. I hope I can find a way to make it work forever.
But they don't have to know the math they're being tested on, that's the thing. And for vocabulary, they just need to know a few key words, like 'root'. They don't need to know how to find roots of quadratics, because it can be gamed with a calculator.

That's what I'm talking about; they don't need to actually know how to do the stuff that's on the ACT, because it's multiple choice and there's tons of tricks you can use instead. That's why it's "gaming" -- you don't need to know the subject.
That's one of the best quotes ever.
Does the author have a timeline for when they'll open source it?

https://github.com/codeplea/f5bot
Ask HN: Could we have a better world, if political leadership was younger
Do you believe the generation gap and older generation dominating the world political leadership has part in the most of the problems?
It's confusing, but "idle" is a priority class as well as a state: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/procthread/...

The idle task (when there's nothing to run) doesn't have a priority at all, it just gets run when nothing else is available. the "idle" priority is an actual priority, for when there's no higher-priority task to run. The ZPT is prioritized below "idle", so super-duper-low priority.
The about page says:

If I reach $500/month in donations, I will open-source F5Bot.
yes, but:
- use LTE instead of line
- encrypt the hell out of it
- just create pairs only

-> just got the most secure 2 peer communication device.

Probably you can fit it on a usb stick with a slot for a SIM.

Actually not a bad idea for a startup. Who's in? :)
I do doubt those scenarios. The other capsules have all flown very well over the years and this one's safety system worked perfectly well.
There are several problems with apples in general, especially in the US, besides the specifics of the red delicious.

For example, most of the apples we buy are 10-12 months old [0], and stored in facilities where they use toxic gases to keep them "fresh".

[0]: https://www.foodrenegade.com/your-apples-year-old/
Read the headers from the request to your service.
Pull browser information from navigator (in a browser try: console.log(navigator)).

Should be most of the info.
The current deadline for their return is the on-orbit lifespan of their return capsule. It's possible that grounding "crewed" flights doesn't mean grounding all flights. An uncrewed capsule could be sent up (they dock autonomously), and the missions of the on-station crews could be extended. Something similar has been done in the past due to a suspected fault in the on-orbit capsule.
Do you have a recommended guide for setting an XMPP server that supports end-to-end encryption?
I'm very glad to see this. I'd also like to see a new Lisp book, with an animal on the cover:

http://www.andrewlangman.com/articles/the-missing-lisp-book....
In your experience do they drive differently than any other car on the road? If a vehicle around you was powered by Waymo with no markings stating as much would you know (ignoring the fact of an empty driver's seat)?
What a difficult and horrible story. Facing things like this is yet another thing making it harder for women in academia.
It's not even a bug
Some background on the Causal Tree (CT) that gritzko is referring to: http://archagon.net/blog/2018/03/24/data-laced-with-history.
I first saw all these same claims 15 years ago.
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