skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but IIRC Baldurs was developed mostly by BioWare, Black Isle/Interplay were publishers.
I would go so far as to say that ads for prescription drugs should be prohibited, as they are not sold directly to the market they are targeting.
After my 2017 mbp developed several concurrent issues (screen, keyboard, speakers) I switched back to running Ubuntu on a lenovo x model. I'm satisfied, honestly, and won't be returning to Apple until they veer off this almost comical form-over-function course they're on (and that frankly seems unlikely)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalkey_Atmospheric_Railway

"The journey to Dalkey could be completed in just over 3 minutes with the speed being limited by the need to brake for curves on the"

That's faster than the train gets there today.
All the voting power rests with Page, Brin and Schmidt. The CEO just have to convince those three people.
UpTown Spot [video]
I'm fascinated by old stories. Stories are the oldest medium, and they've proven to be surprisingly good stores of information. Erik the Red was real, and he navigated to lands across the ocean just like the old stories said he did.

I think the writer sells short the comparison of Homer to the bible. It goes a lot deeper than "the one book everyone knows."

Homer is often thought to be describing events during the bronze dark age, the period between the collapse of middle eastern bronze age empires and the rise of iron age empires (like the greek one).

This is what the bible is too, to a large extent. The exodus, judges, King David, prophets, heros... Stories about the legendary dark age written by decendants during the early iron age.

As civilization (and population) re-grew these stories formed a cultural core. Judeans got swept into the aramean, babylonian, persian and later hellenic empires. The library of knowledge grew enourmously. But, the old stories still remained at the heart of the cultural.

Something similar happenned in greece. Greeks civilisation grew. greek scholarship got advanced, and worldly. They later created a world empire, existed under the roman empire. Still the stories remained, a stable foundation for more culture to graft onto.

In both cases, we have stories from the bronze age, that somehow remained important enough for 100 generations to remain at the heart of cultures today. Stories of desert nomads and aegean pirates on the margins of civilisation.
Numerai is a much superior data prediction tool imo... don't know what all the fuzz is abt with augur.
It's a really shitty job by Google PR people. Who in their right mind would close product in response to a security vulnerability? It was bound to grow out of proportions.

Headlines like "500 000 people at risk! The bug was so serious that Google shuts down their social network!" just write themselves.
A practical guide to making sure the marketing of your next company is on point
del.ico.us
> You are benefiting from your gender by being in tech

Extreme BS. I succeed in tech because I'm a very good developer. I've also had VCs treat me very poorly. It's not a gender thing, a lot of them are just assholes.
Improving AI language understanding by combining multiple word representations
The contrast between what Xerox was doing at PARC versus what they sold to the public was astounding. While they were inventing the future at PARC, the system they were selling was the 820, a me-too Z80 CP/M system that was released just as the world was going to 16-bit systems.
Consumers don’t want ads and don’t want to pay up for TV
That seem to be excellent advice. It touches on one of my pet peeves when reading articles. Why is it so hard for authors to provide examples? Many times they describe elaborate algorithms but do not describe how they would operate on real data so you have to try and decipher that. If you hadn't added the three examples to illustrate your point, I wouldn't have understood it. But since you added them I understood it perfectly!
Lately, i use shopify and private label the stuff from China.

I sell exclusively through Facebook ads.

Around 20K per month revenue with 70% margin.

This is in UK only. I've no idea how to move product to the US and sell there.

I've not found any company which can take my products from UK and store it in a wharehouse in the US then dispatch them to address i specify.

Lemme know if you know about any such company.
I’ve drastically reduced my wandering into HN comments precisely because of this.

Someone posts a Show HN about something they’ve worked on, and the top comment is usually something that is mildly related but completely tangential to the actual posting.

It should be easy enough to ignore, but it has been happening so often I’ve started having a visceral negative reaction that makes me not want to even open the comments anymore.

Which is disappointing because the HN comments are usually a treasure trove of information.
> It's a slam dunk net positive compared to not engaging at all.

I appreciate your passion here but I'm going to resist my urge to offer overly definitive statements in the other direction for the sake of further argument. But no, it is not a slam dunk IMHO.
look at that, XMPP is the future! /sarcasm
Of out 5 countries described as "communist", the US government flattened N. Korea, invaded Vietnam, embargoed Cuba and developed China into one of the biggest world economies and a techno-dictatorship.

Clearly the US government has the power to decide the destiny of less powerful countries.

Compared to that, setting up trade agreements with China to ensure human rights, worker safety, environment protection and so on is pretty doable.
Show HN: CLI tool to manage mongo database collection indexes through json files
Most western states have a concept of freedom of religious expression up to a point. Sometimes that means Christians can ignore employment or child protection laws, and sometimes it means Sikhs can take extra risks to ride a motorbike.

Sure, if they crash they're more likely to get a head injury that the public purse has to pay for. But that theoretical amount is probably tiny compared to all the dumb stuff everyone else in the country is doing that contributes towards healthcare costs.

Laws and state support are both about finding the impossible balance between control, freedom, responsibility and cost.
Robinhood locked me out of my own account because I was "traveling too long"; demanded I show them proof of US residence (my verified Chase Bank account and US passport aren't good enough). I'm not surprised their hurting the little guy.
It’s the government’s responsibility yes but the government isn’t the only effective measure against false ads. The market works too so why not have both? Isn’t it even more necessary to have other resorts when the government isn’t elected and does not work? There of course is reason to think Google will do better because people are literally crying for an alternative. It’s a no brainer for anyone who wants to compete in China.
Nokia N900 with Maemo 5! Physical keyboard. Camera with a shutter slide (I'm still not comfortable with my phone having 2 cameras exposed at all times). Highly customizable... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900
On the off chance you (or someone else) didnt come across it: Cities Skylines is worth the price. (though i didnt stick with it through the expansion packs)

https://www.paradoxplaza.com/cities-skylines/CSCS00GSK-MASTE...
Robinhood locked me out of my own account because I was "traveling too long"; demanded I show them proof of US residence (my verified Chase Bank account and US passport aren't good enough). I'm not surprised they're hurting the little guy.
> For me it's the best thing to come out of Microsoft in a long time.

Agreed, I think it's an amazing feature. Have been a full time linux user for 20 years, my new laptop is BIOS locked ( ugh ) so I _cant_ install linux ( didnt know that before buying it ) , but it's actually not an issue because of WSL, it's exactly what I always wanted in Windows.
> So, all of us who are in our 30s now? The time is now.

This is true for exercising regardless, TBH. The more you build up now, the less trouble you have maintaining it later.
Browsers that did not have to reload the page when you hit the back button.

Webpages designed to use the least bandwidth, load fast and be accessible.

Companies that had older staff who had enough experience to not make the same mistakes over and over again.
As a programmer, one of the coolest places I've been is the living computer museum in Seattle. I'm reading "idea man" right now. This guy was quite the force. It's a big loss!!
I never liked Mac touchpads and hate even worse when Windows PCs copy them. Having left and right-click buttons is 1000x more ergonomic.
The internet loves lifting. Cool, but the kind of legs you get from walking a lot are fine too.
Alphabet has different share classes, and Page, Brin and Schmidt can outvote the rest of the shareholders. That has been motivated by the need to avoid this kind of thing.

Also, fiduciary duty doesn't mean that the CEO has a duty to bring in the profits. It means that he shouldn't dip in the till.
Where's the "don't allocate 8 gigabytes and crash the system" feature?

(Yeah Slack, I'm looking at you.)
Interesting idea, an alternativeto.net style site for consumer products with crowd maintained lists. I'm sure you could affiliate link to a lot of the products to help finance the effort.
> many of the top-level comments are people just listing off things that may be tangentially related.

That's half the reason I come to HN :-)

> The article is about Myanmar

Is it? I read it as an article about the role of social networks in spreading information about groups of people via channels that collect diverse viewers. Essentially what happens when you gather random people on the street and shout something polarising. The specific case of it this time is Myanmar and FB, but I'd like to understand more about it as a general phenomenon.

The link was interesting because it shows an example of news reporting leading to that situation and links to interesting papers in references.
WSL gives you an Ubuntu shell in Windows without virtualization. It's really the best.
Are you using Slack, Uber, Docker etc.? Because if yes, then you're not the most ethical either, as these have investors from Saudi Arabia to the CIA. China is easy to pick on, (and am not saying it shouldn't be picked on), because it is a competitor to the U.S, however if it is such an ethical concern for you, there are earlier partnerships you should be concerned about.
Tell that to the religious monks who during the Dark Ages help preserve and spread knowledge during the Dark Ages
I haven't dived into lisp, but if you're telling me it'll make my code shorter, I'm sure I'll love it.
Being interested in passive income is a new trend, over the past 10 years. Nothing wrong with it, but everyone I know with spare money and a little ambition is trying to flip houses or buy rental properties. Or sell things for Amazon. Or run a delivery chain for Amazon.
What is the data source for all of these? I'm particularly curious about a number of the "claimed" entries.
From my personal experience with scrum in an enterprise environment, I agree with you completely.
What's the Use of a Horse's Tail?
> Agreed, it is getting increasingly harder for me to understand why intelligent people can read stuff like this and not see it for what it is.

It's technobabble. Most people don't have intimate familiarity with medical protocols, but well-read people probably have come across articles recently that talk about, say, the impact of telemeres on aging or the importance of the gut microbiome. Name-drop that, and people will nod their heads and assume that the science all checks out.
Youtube frequently boots popular creators- is this not an established fact or do names need to be named?
I don't get Google. The cost of switching to competitor's products are near-zero, Google's public image is its most valuable asset. Is the Chinese search market - and other evil products - really worth the risk?

I have switched to DDGG 3 weeks ago and I am seriously testing Firefox.
I do ~12,000 steps/day and HIIT 3x/week but I have trouble incorporating weight lifting primarily because I can do the other two without needing a gym, which is very difficult (single dad, 2 kids, sole caretaker, 2 businesses). Any suggestions?
My Opa is struggling right now- mid 80s, thinking is getting very fuzzy, and he isn't exercising the parts (back) he needs to. It's causing his body to break down. The cartilage and disks in his ribcage and spine are collapsing, forcing him to hunch deeply (accelerating the degeneration) and crushing his lungs. If he had kept his back strong, it would have kept the stress off his tissues for decades. He would still be losing his sight, smell, and taste (horrible, for a chef), but maybe he would be less fuzzy.

My Opa is also the most hardcore motherfucker I've ever met. It's not that he didn't exercise. He still heaves around 80 lb bags of sand, he's building a goddamn cottage almost by himself, he's still almost immune to pain. He's the toughest man I know, and even on the days he has trouble with fairly basic spatial tasks he can multiply three digit numbers in his head faster than I can write them down. His short term memory is still better than mine. He's still smarter than me. He's so stubborn he keeps falling off ladders every week because despite how much he has lost he just refuses. to. give. up.

I can't understate how fucking scary it all is. The man is unstoppable when he puts his mind to something. Time has not worn down his will even a tiny bit. He breaks bones more often now, but he shakes it off, does the PT, and it's like it never happened. But even that isn't enough when age decides to take you. If your spine wilts, all the exercise and work in the world will not save you. When you can't sleep more than two hours at a time, what do you do? You can't force yourself to sleep. You just slowly go nuts, a little more each day.

Aging is the real process of senescence, not just of getting older. Dementia, weakness, and frailty all seem increasingly like symptoms of a larger bodily/immune system degeneration. The inability to exercise, the constant pain, the constant sleep deprivation- those things could give dementia to a young man too. You can stave off the bodily decay until you start aging, but not after. Some lucky few, the Jeanne Calments[1], seem to be basically immune to senescence. They follow the path you'd expect, of a body slowly wearing out. The rest of us eventually hit a point where our bodies suddenly start to break down, and things like exercise just no longer produce the same changes they used to. The systems that handle growth, repair, immune responses- they just stop.

I'm sorry if this is bleak, but it hurts to see him like this. I just spent a couple months helping him put up siding. He wants to finish that cottage so much. I hope it's not his swan song.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment
He also has an impressive collection, including the white Strat that Hendrix used at Woodstock.

https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitaraficionado/divine-life-mu...
Indeed, and for "compatibility" it doesn't really say anything about the quality of the software for that system. Signal, for example, doesn't have a native iOS app and it shows.
I want to second LÖVE [1] as an easy way to build games! Some user "adn" has documented almost the whole process using the framework to build his own game (which he released on Steam) on Github [2], so it's fantastic starting point..

I hope this year I'll have some time to participate!

[1] https://love2d.org/

[2] https://github.com/adnzzzzZ/blog/issues/30
Lately it's been fashionable to downplay the idea of "passion" (try Googling "don't follow your passion"), but I think it's critical to having any chance of success at tackling a big problem.

Several years ago I took up jazz drumming and purchased a DVD by the jazz drummer John Riley. Amidst all the technical lessons that comprise 99% of the disc he inserted a brief, 1 minute long sidebar on the idea of being "gifted" at drumming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ist7xECbDh0

Of course it applies to anything, not simply playing the drums.

It caused me to think differently about what kinds of things I'm willing to spend my time on, simply because doing that thing was most rewarding.
I also use it every day and have very few issues ( one problem where it became corrupted and I had to reinstall ).

It's not a production machine no one is using it that way, its perfectly fine for development.
It's easy to pin evil on Facebook because of the company's arrogance. It's arrogance that ultimately negative impacts the value of the firm.

They look at growth as the only metric that matters and as a result have a vacuum in governance and practice. They appear to not fundamentally now respect the userbase, and have not appeared to seriously consider the conduct of partners on the platform in the past.

Anyone of the age of the Facebook leadership should have always understood how online forums work. Anyone who used Slashdot in the old days understood moderation, trolls, etc.
Wire comes with a short-fall by virtue of the fact they store a lot of metadata about you.[1]

Obviously your threat model informs this.

[1]: https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/862394778331361281
How to Do Web Scraping with Ruby
TEZOS: ANATOMY OF a STARTUP CATASTROPHE
These ones perhaps?
https://conversations.im/
https://conversejs.org/
https://dino.im/
And one could argue they're not following that rule; I don't think the touch bar is particularly attractive, and on the iphone it has (had?) a bulge for the camera and an indentation in the screen, both of which aren't "good design" IMO. They're compromises to support certain features (face ID / front facing camera array AND a big screen, good camera)
Wow terrific thank you.
No mention of Semaphor by SpiderOak?
Yes it does? https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS
That's not an accurate summary of Damore's motives, or the reasons for firing him.

What is then?
Physically Based Rendering 3rd edition 2018
Indeed it does. Track one when you open a new tab. https://webamp.org/
Physicists here. I would be careful about calling it "first principles" (you can look up that the meaning of that term within today's physics literature, it's typically called "ab initio", and usually refers to quantum mechanical treatment without a bunch of high level approximations). To a physicist, a first-principles calculation of light-matter interaction would in practice mean starting from a second-quantized form of the electromagnetic field + the lattice of the bulk or surface material + itinerant electrons.

What PBR people are doing is to imagine the matter at small scale looks like a patchwork of many small walls (perfect reflectance or ballistic transport), and assume that light and matter behave and interact the same way in a macroscopic setting, which is further simplified to Snell's law, neglecting all classical wave-like characteristics. Beyond that, obviously, all quantum mechanical effects are neglected (which aren't that exotic, for daily-life examples, think laser pointers or solar panels or crystals).

That is a far cry from an ab initio calculation and is, at best, a very incomplete toy model or cartoon description of light and matter interaction which might barely be enough to deceive human eye for most everyday objects.
Google Moderator. It was a reddit-like service that allowed you to crowdsource popular opinions. We used it to pinpoint UX issues in the early days of our startup.
I'd like a power and / or activity indicator, especially my previous mac (2013 or 14 Retina) had Issues in that it just wouldn't start up with no indication whatsoever that it was on, starting up, or there was a problem.

I mean just show an error on the screen. It's not the end of the world.
Amazon was still profitable after the first couple of years even with those limits, and people were racing to get online — decidedly not just geeks.

It wouldn’t have converted the catalog business overnight but Sears was really well positioned, especially with local stores to handle returns and service. If they’d invested then, they’d have been prepared as broadband started to appear (for timing, I went from 56k dialup to 10Mb cable in 1998).
4-phase approach for taking over large, messy IT systems
There are many people in the world who lack tact, but yet have good ideas at times. It would be to your benefit to learn to get useful things from such people. (I believe that group includes everybody at some point in their lives)
How is the math? I've heard it's not exactly easy.
Restyling apps at scale
I actually enjoyed Google Wave.
Last I checked (which was a year or more ago), 64-bit GC for LuaJIT is an experimental and buggy feature. Do people actually use it in production? Since which version of LuaJIT?
You can do both! I always remap my caps lock to act as escape when tapped and control when held. I wrote a blog post on how to do it: https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/remap-caps-lock-to-escape-and-...
I just watched the first video. That was so good!
Donald Daters, a dating app for Trump supporters, leaked its users’ data
I believe video calls on Signal are?
Show HN: One year into making a god sim game
So where is your pull request to fix the bug I described? Why wasn't it accepted?
I've only been at it a year but I find this to be nearly impossible. 95% of my income this past year was writing software. Whenever someone saw me as a "software consultant" they thought "well why don't we pay him to implement it too?" But I also made more than double what I made when I was full-time.

I really would like to know how to not immediately be slotted as someone who is just a coding mercenary.
> "You're a Christian? Didn't know anyone who believed in that stuff would be in engineering..."

Religion is a funny one in Silicon Valley because it's outright religious discrimination of Judeo-Christian traditions, while embracing Islam. It makes no rational sense at all for anyone with even the most superficial understanding of religion or history.

With race I can see the logic of "well, people that looked like your ancestors were really good at empire-building a while ago, so we're going to favour everyone else instead of you to try to make up for that" and gender "well, women in the workplace is a relatively new phenomena and they're 50% of the population, so we're going to favour them in order to hasten their representation in the workplace and make up for recent transgressions". But the religious one is truly baffling.
MongoDB Now Released Under the Server Side Public License – MongoDB
Thank you very much. I find this very insightful and eyeopening. What are resources that I can pay attention to in order to be "conscious of their unfair game"?
Will wholeheartedly appreciate it. Thank you once again.
It Will Take Millions of Years for Mammals to Recover from Us
That's always the question, isn't it? Even if you could choose your job to fit the chosen task, what is worth your time and evergy at the expense of anything else?
While some will disagree to an extent, I partially judge languages & tools on their amount of usage.

A robust community for a "bad" tool will see improvements made, and solutions for problems quickly disseminated.

Lisp is just not used enough for it to be the best language or the most useful tool.
I really miss Muxtape.
Cities in the sky: re-evaluating yona friedman (2016)
YONA FRIEDMAN: SPACE-CHAIN STRUCTURES
I've had to replace my Macbook Pro USB-C charger twice in a year, and I'm fairly certain my magnetic USB-C adapter are to blame. The first problem appeared some time after I got the adapter, but at some point I just stopped using it, because the magnet are too weak, and because it have to be oriented a certain way.
A few weeks ago I used it again, forget the laptop in the charger overnight, and it was dead the next morning.

I think the adapter was from the brand Baseus.
Not GP but variable scope in JS is very different to e.g. C, C#, Java etc. Superficially it appears similar, but the syntax is a faux amis.