skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And no doubt the mob will punish you for it. Still, thanks for showing some courage and integrity, it's rare in these times.

Yep, started getting red itchy patches on my palms from resting them on the laptop so I moved to a stationary setup.

I used to eat meat and processed crap, until I stopped I had issues with wheat. Now that I'm on a vegan organic diet I have no issues. Could be that eating meat and poison messed up my intestines to the point where wheat became a problem.

The only weird thing with my hearing that I know of is that I'm missing a band of frequencies entirely. I don't have a good explanation for that one. I have better directional hearing than most, but difficulties following conversations in noisy environments.

The thing is, I'm pretty sure the sensitivity isn't the actual problem. As long as I keep myself out of harms way; I feel better than I ever did before, and it keeps improving.

The problem is that we've built a society on top of technology that's harmful to humans, despite all sorts of warnings along the way.
Read up on code formatting/styling

Style your Python as well as your SQL

Cleanup field/variable naming

(i.e. for db fields I usually name fields: tablename_fieldname cuts a lot of ambiguity)

Check your application file structure, everything in one directory works whan starting out but as you increase your skills/apps/libraries you will want to organize your project directories more logically. Looking at some FOSS apps and how they organize things can help.

Anything you feel weird about - research look at other examples, stack overflow results usually gives you a variety of examples you can usually spot better methods from bad ones.

Help out others a little on forums, get shot down for your crazy methods, figure out why (done this a couple times, stings but it helped, some pros only respond to people posting bad answers)

And as other said, write, write, write, the more you write the more you will get a sense you are spinning your wheels on something or some part could be done better.
Also, filenames composed solely of 0x2E bytes and with length zero, one, or two have a special meaning and can't actually be used to name files.
Yeah.

Imagine your favourite burger place packing a credit-card sized piece of plastic in the middle of the bun.

You can remove it. It's fairly trivial. You know it's there, it's too big to swallow, you pull it out, chuck it in the bin, and get on your way.

That's what advertising in Windows feels like.

It's just not polite.
I would highly highly recommend ETL as service, after adopting it recently. It substantially changes your relationship with your data sources in a really positive way. And frankly, ETL for common data sources is code that you just don't need to write.

I would say that you should pilot with a few ETL vendors. We currently use Fivetran, they're fine but we've had enough burps that I cannot cold recommend them over other vendors. I cannot for the life of me remember the details, but I think we went with them over Stitch for pricing reasons.
The robot uprising will begin and I predict the battle turns at 12am Jan 1st, UTC, as the 32 bit system clocks overflow in many of the small micros controlling subsystems.
Would be great to get ProcDump itself on GitHub as well!
>If my (hypothetical, future) daughter wanted to buy a bottle of perfume, I wouldn't forbid her from doing so, I'd talk to her about marketing and beauty standards and so on.

Some (most?) of us wear perfume because we like to be enveloped by a pleasant scent - it's for ourselves as much as it's to "impress" others.
Amazon is reportedly in the stages of naming Crystal City, VA as its 2nd HQ
Wish you could only pick 2
And now they are not. Just kidding, but I'm sure they don't like the leaks
Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?
For me it's so unresponsive that I'm at a loss for words how google put this into production. I have a modern, new computer and modern, urban internet good enough for streaming 1080p on Twitch without interruption, but I can't delete or archive an email anymore without waiting 4-6 seconds for it to complete the action.

What has your experience been like with it?

edit: Guess I'm not alone. I can only hope someone working at Google sees this post or cares. Maybe too much to hope for.
> But you do not need to study physics for 25 years in order to understand how the world works.

True, that. But to each their own, and so everyone has a different requirement as to the depth of such knowledge to be considered an understanding. A squirrel knows enough about "how the world works" in order to survive - more, perhaps, than we humans do (because we couldn't survive in those conditions). Likewise, a blacksmith may have more firsthand knowledge about the properties of iron and its alloys than a highly-trained theoretical physicist...
Seeing as they made their name an adjective in Japan “I feel Coke”, I believe it.
Goes to show just how broken the web is lately. I quit web dev after 20 years in the industry because it was frustrating me so much. I pretty much exclusively deal with hardware now and love that if I solder everything right, and put everything where it's supposed to, it works, and anything wrong with it is usually my fault or a broken component.

Worked perfectly on Firefox Developer Edition / Windows 10. Was smooth and I didn't notice a single issue, FWIW.
Nobody is denying them care. Their choices are being strictly expanded here, not restricted. You think they would be better off if they did not have the option of these tickets?
I really appreciate the amount of data and what felt like an objective view on both sides of the issue, some folks greatly benefited whereas it was problematic for others.

Ultimately it landed in needing more data, immense respect for that type of data driven journalism.

Really love the visuals added as well!
It is mentioned that Spot instances can be reclaimed without notice but there is a 2 min grace period. If your application checkpoints then that’s not much an issue.
I know. Sorry for my messy terminology. (Not sure whether the points I'm making here are useful or just wasting your time, I'll try to explain just to clarify what I meant.)

I didn't mean calling the individual functions implementing macros (apparently called "macro functions"), but something like macroexpand-all (I didn't realize that this is apparently not portable). What I am thinking of is something like:

(defmacro foo (expr var &environment env)
(let ((expr* (macroexpand-all expr env))
(var* (macroexpand-all var env)))
(derive-by expr* var*)))

where derive-by is a code walker that understands core CL, and does derivation as part of the walk (perhaps implemented with the help of one of the code walker libraries).

expr* (same for var* ) is not an AST in the sense of e.g. a tree of CLOS objects where each one determines a syntactical construct even when standing by itself; only together with env and a walker that understands the "core" CL syntax correctly, it could, "I guess", be considered an AST--sure, maybe let's avoid confusion and call it proto-AST instead.

(let* ((protoAST (cons expr* env))
;; could do:
(AST (protoAST->AST protoAST)))
..)

where protoAST->AST is a code walker that converts expr* to a tree of objects from a CLOS hierarchy representing each kind of node unambiguously without the need for env. protoAST and AST hold the same information content, which is why I said "could be said to be the same".
Not an affiliate code. After the "dp" (detail product) is Amazon's product code. You can delete the rest of the URL except for dp/thecode and it will still go to the same product page.
Yes sluggish, even on google fiber.
We should hurry up with developing power over fiber, now that the new hollow core fibers have been developed that have essentially no transmission losses. Is one of the few power transmission technologies that should be entirely unaffected by solar storms.
Am I the only one who has tape over my laptop camera? (Specifically a peppa pig sticker)
You recognize that given this bus ticket opportunity, the homeless will actually converge on rich coastal cities, right? This problem is actually worse for the rich people that live in places like LA and SF.
Who's society? Your society? Judging by your activity here, you seem to negiate pretty much everything. Sorry you didn't witness a UFO like I did. It was a pretty cool experience. If I produced a video, you would call it fake. If it was proved real you would call it some new form of ball lightning. If it was proved to be real footage of a UFO, you would cast doubt on that too and tell me not to believe my lying eyes.

BTW, I'd happily take a lie detector test if I was ever presented with one. And don't forget, I'm not the only witness.

Oh and there is that footage from trained fighter pilots. Which gives me all the validation I'll ever need to my own experience prior. I'm happily validated.
What an incredible strawman.
Not OP, but in their defense -- we know a minimum wage is effective at increasing wages. I'm very open to the idea of UBIs but it's largely untested. You don't mention it, but I think the most effective way of shifting power is with strong labor unions.
The Copyleft Bust Up
Just a little nit: while article says they lived in SF and !had homes! survey linked says they were just SF residents prior to becoming homeless (though it mentions that 49% of them were living in SF at least 10 years, but don't forget that ~65% of SF residents are renters).

Residency usually just based on any bill with city address within last 30 days.

I can easy imagine case when someone moved to SF with hope that things will work out in big city, spent savings on few months of rent and with nowhere else to go and no established income ended up on the streets. While it's a sad situation it fits that previous SF residency narrative and in the same time not exactly part of some native san franciscans ending up on streets due to yet another gentrification cycle everybody so keen to bring up whenever homeless origin is being mentioned.
> wary of anyone claiming strong physics knowledge

Well, that depends. Faraday was a great physicist (his claims, whatever they may have been, notwithstanding).
I like the idea but directories are web 1.0
Plenty of previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18305366 — you’re not alone
Can Andrea Rossi's Infinite-Energy Black Box Power the World? (2012)
Here's a good overview of some aspects: https://www.quranite.com/makkah-is-the-centre-of-a-cult/
We used them for a single data source at GitLab (Zendesk). Worked pretty well! But we quickly hit a road block where what you could get via the UI wasn't all the tables available. We wound up forking it and adding to the tap. Basically all of our extractors and loaders are going to follow the Singer spec for taps and targets - it's a pretty nice model.

Internally, we're using a tool called Meltano which is aimed at solving just your problem. Most of our data warehouse is coming from external business ops tools (Salesforce, Zuora, Zendesk, Marketo, etc.) and we're using dbt for transformations w/ Looker as the BI layer. Definitely check our primary analytics repo [0] as all of our code is out in the open. Feel free to ping me if you have more questions - tmurphy at gitlab.

[0] https://gitlab.com/meltano/analytics/
Dig is like in "idea digging" or "vinyl crate digging".
People are the mechanism. Wear a mask.
Blogging.
If you troll HN like this again we will ban you.
Apparently it's mentioned in one line as part of a background explanation to justify why the Theseus crew had to enter Big Ben themselves.

The conditional was pure formality. We'd tried playing the odds, sacrificing drone after drone in the hope that one of them would get lucky; survival rates tailed exponentially to zero with distance from base camp. We'd tried shielding the fiberop to reduce aperture leakage; the resulting tethers were stiff and unwieldy, wrapped in so many layers of ferroceramic that we were virtually waving the bots around on the end of a stick. We'd tried cutting the tethers entirely, sending the machines out to explore on their own, squinting against the radiant blizzard and storing their findings for later download; none had returned. We'd tried everything.

Seems like a very small detail to harp upon.
Pouring gigawatts of laser light through fiber sounds pretty hard, especially if you want to have electricity for the end consumer, not light.
Another brown guy checking in. My aunt and uncle practiced medicine in Murphy, NC for many years and only ever had a problem when the feds thought Eric Rudolph might be hiding in their backyard.
How I Learned to Code
If by "almost always" you mean never, then you're right.

Let me put it way: if you wanted to create a terrific blockbuster novel, would you start by scanning in some obscure, cheap title from the discount bin and then editing it, until you had your masterpiece?

These projects are abandoned for a reason. They need to be refactored/modified to go anywhere. If you think it makes more sense to refactor a simple/failed project than rewrite it from scratch, then you're not in the "savvy buyer" category I was talking about.
Ok, I think I'm getting the specifics of this situation. So, we are talking about internal reports, not something that could actually get in the external customer's hands.
Well, there are things such as Airy beams - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airy_beam - I am not sure they fit a helix or disk that well.
The original discussion was about the bill draft as it stands - not what it might be in the future - so why would you say it isn't "moving the goalposts" to make an argument out of speculation on the future?
Yup, noticeably much much slower than the old interface, while seemingly also not changing functionality or layout at all. What was the point?
This is not my experience of the tech industry?

I'm not sure I've had any job in the last twenty years where I met all the listed requirements.

My impression is that employers want some skill that it's sometimes possible to puzzle together from (but is rarely directly stated in any reasonable way) on the requirements list, then they want you to pass a poorly done faux IQ test.

Then there's a bunch of social stuff, which I don't really understand well enough to treat as anything but random noise. I mean, I can see that it's there and that it's not random, but I can't really see how to change it to my advantage.

Hiring is hard, and nobody, as far as I can tell, is any good at it. But being too specific about what skills they want is not a problem I've personally seen. (Not in the last 20 years in silicon valley, anyhow)
Question: Easy API Management with Subscription Charges
A while back, I read a post here about someone looking for API management software with the ability to charge a subscriber’s credit card. Does anybody know what does this (preferably for free by running on our own servers since we are a startup). I’ve tried a few and like API umbrella but I don’t see a way to accept & process payments. Please help
Eep, MS buying Canonical. With GitHub, I can't even sweepingly dismiss the idea.
I do this job and I'd say it's only enjoyable for now because I have complete freedom and I'm still learning. Splitting up the parts:
Design architecture
Wire up pipelines (once architecture is decided, this tends to declarative, connected is choosing schemas).
Data science

I'd definitely not want to be stuck doing stage 2 forever, would prefer 3. I think you're saying that you enjoyed a job which was some 1 and some 2. I'm sure there's someone out there who wants to wire up pipelines with no engineering and no analysis all day but I'd imagine it's a rare breed.

Edit: I think the important distinction is team/company size. Doing a bit of everything as a 1 man team is challenging, if you have a team where devops/engineering/reports/tools have been chosen/built/standardized by specialist and you really are just wiring pipelines up, I think that would be tough. On the other hand being in a small team condemns you to always be doing the same fractions of work because there's noone to hand off to.
Don't forget, these are the same automakers that faked their diesel results for years - poisoning (their own) cities with noxious fumes. Its fair to say that the environment is not high on their agenda.

Instead, its simply that ICE cars offer higher barriers to entry, and higher revenue. Higher barriers to entry since the engines and fuel systems are incredibly complex, and higher revenue since they need more repairs and spare parts.

EVs by contrast are much simpler, and will encourage the commodification of vehicle transport - look at what is happening in China with 'Low Speed Electric Vehicles'.

Its kind of a shame that countries like Poland havn't launched their own low-cost EV companies, to take over the low-end of the European market. But its unsurprising as Europe, even the East, is indeed very bureaucratic and unaccommodating to startups. The continent would help itself massively if all countries adopted English as an official second language.
To say that they're not being denied care is objectively wrong. Don't be disingenuous.

The city that they reside in is effectively denying them care. The tickets are an excuse to push them out of the city so that they don't actually have to give them proper care. If they weren't being denied care for whatever reasons, then there wouldn't be a reason to bus them out to other cities, now would there?

This is EXACTLY what happened when Nevada gave discharged patients from a mental health hospital one-way bus tickets out of town. They were given bus tickets and advised to seek health care elsewhere and were sued because of this program. So let's not ignore the fact that this actually occurs.
This is old news. Electromagnetic waves have all kind of effects on cells. There is also a ton of very old literature out there (also, quite a bunch from China).
Stuff like this and older: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3729999

In fact, a former friend had some good ideas regarding this and I wrote a patent for a start-up but then he pussied out.
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Your comment is too short, information-free and only implicitly makes a point; it doesn't argue why this title would be sensationalized by the EFF.

The article proposes that while "recently, developers of major browsers have started building tracking protections into their own products (...) Google Chrome, the largest browser in the world, has no built-in tracker blocker, nor has the company indicated any plans to build one.

"Alphabet has a vested interest in helping track people and serve them ads, even when that puts the company at odds with its users. And that may explain why Chrome lacks real tracking protections."

These two main points, regardless of whether you agree with them, are reflected in the title.
Although you’ll certainly not make enough money to live off of, there’s always content ads as another passive revenue stream. If you make high-quality content (learn-to-code videos, for instance), and it gets popular, YouTube et al. might be sending you monthly cuts of ad dollars.
That doesn't make any business sense for Microsoft. They might do a server fork of RHEL for their cloud offerings (as Amazon has done, very poorly, for AWS), but desktop? That'd be nuts. It would just lend an air of respectability to an OS that still has no traction on the desktop.
I mostly was noting that they were using a recognised authenticated AES mode instead of a custom alternative which you rightly identify as almost certainly being broken crypto :P
Genetic Variation in TMEM106B in chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Nah, most amish communities are surrounded by normal folks and have pretty good cell coverage. A better control group would be communities around radio telescopes where cell towers can't be built for fear of interference with research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Q...
Talking is easy, executing is hard. Executing requires discipline which so many people seem to lack.

One of the reasons I love making people write down their idea (myself included) before talking about it is that writing forces a small initial execution step. Even a step this small can often filter the useless ideas away.
You can do the exact same with a few lines of bash and the gdb package which includes gcore, a standard utility that saves core files from running programs.
Is it? I mean, practicing medicine on other people is illegal in the US, as I understand it; and you can't obtain certain drugs. But I think everything else the doctor does, you can do to yourself without fear of legal penalty?
That's extremely insightful: a manager position in FAANG occurs through promotion or networking in. Would love to hear all stories of networking, people within or external to the FAANG organizations.. (getting hired vs. helping hire)
Technological/intellectual masturbation?
No more dst. No more timezones. What happens when we colonize Mars? We need to switch to star dates.
Things You Should Say No to to Be the Person You Want to Be in Life and Business
I found this an interesting read, and it certainly makes a good point. Echo chambers are definitely going to have a greater net throughput of information compared to a network in which members aren't keen to share with one another due to perceived differences. So overall, members of an echo chamber can end up more informed than if they hadn't been.
However, I think it's important to note that modern discourse isn't critical solely of echo chambers, but also of their effects when false information is introduced into one. The same trust that allows more informed members also facilitates misinformation.

That being said, it's probably more effective to use that lack of verification to police misinformation within the echo chamber than to introduce members that could offer contradictory - but also potentially false - information. It would just require some added diligence from members of the echo chamber.
This is another good read along those lines: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8421289
> As mentioned in above article / video cremation isn't a very good option either as it ejects over 5,000 lbs of mercury into the atmosphere yearly.

That's pretty much irrelevant. Half of the mercury in the atmosphere is released naturally. The other half is mostly coal plants. Then there's some industrial processes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element)#Releases_in_...
ProcDump is a Linux reimagining of the classic ProcDump tool

"reimagining"? Why the obfuscatory marketingspeak? "Linux version of the ProcDump..." would've been far clearer and more familiar.

I wasn't aware Sysinternals had its own tool of similar function with the same name --- the ProcDump I know of was written by a few crackers 2 decades ago and very useful for unpacking: "ProcDump version 1.6 (C) G-RoM, Lorian & Stone in 1998, 1999, 2000"
seemed like a fair and balanced article to me.
This is rewarding but it's only 15h a week and the hourly rate is low

So, come up with another 25 hours per week of some kind of paid work, whether programming related or not.

You could also see about trying to make money via (for example) bug bounties since you are scraping by and have free time.

I'm not a programmer, but I am currently cobbling together things that work for me.
Vulnhub has hundreds of virtual machine images you can download and practice with, such as metasploitable. Hack the box is great. If you want to read a blog post describing how to get admin or root on a box, google boxname walkthrough with vulnhub or hack the box in the search as well. Ippsecs's 90+ youtube videos are excellent. Check out metasploit minute videos. I also heard pentestlabs is good. Good luck!