skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Different artificial sweeteners seem to affect people very differently. I quite like Coke, but Coke Zero is one of the more vile things I've ever drunk. Yet I also know people who claim they cannot tell the difference between Coke and Coke Zero. Pepsi Max on the other hand I have no trouble drinking.
2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGZzNZnYIHo
Astronomers Unveil Growing Black Holes in Colliding Galaxies
I recently started using https://www.emailthis.me/

It's like Pocket but the articles are cleaned and stored in your email inbox instead. I was a big fan of RSS feeds but recently stopped using any RSS services at all since the signal to noise ratio was generally too high.
yes!

I would love to, but not all node versions and not all streams support async iteration yet! Also theres is a lot of utility to some of the stream types in bluestream. Concurrency for one thing. I've been working on an async iterator version of this but haven't yet started using it in production yet.

https://github.com/reconbot/streaming-iterables
Lots of kids realize the limitations of their teachers' intellects at some point. Once you realize how dumb your teacher is, it's a short step to realizing how dishonest she is. As long as smart kids can still be civil in class, it isn't usually a problem. They just make their peace with the fact that while their fellows learn in school, they have to find somewhere else to do that. After all, a judicious combination of wikipedia and reddit is bound to be more enlightening than a public school class.
Agreed in principle, but not in practice.

I've yet to join a company that had a marketing department on top of things enough to pinpoint what the hypothetical majority of users who never had issues actually want.

(I'm sure there are some out there; but I've yet to find one that will hire me. And for clarity, I usually join companies as part of the marketing team. After a few weeks of getting a feel of what end-users actually want, fixing the existing product niggles turns out for one reason or another - maybe it's just the type of companies I work with - to be the or one of the lowest hanging fruits from an ROI standpoint.)
I think it's important to remember that the Snowden leaks occurred shortly before the "Big Data" craze went into full swing. Even Snowden said at the time that their was more data than could be effectively analyzed.

While I agree with what you're saying, it makes sense that we'd be getting this information only just now - after there has been enough time for 1) data scientists and the like to become prevalent/cheap enough for government contracting and 2) enough time to build working applications on top of all that data.
Setting who wants to do this aside in order to avoid the constant 'X is worse than Y' arguments.

I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that in a near future we will have cameras that can do much more than identification on a massive scale. It may be easy to track things like how stressed, healthy, sober etc. people are without their consent or without them even noticing. And this would be precise, not speculative like the current online tracking.

Would you live comfortably in this world? Would you build this?
We bring high quality freelancers to perform and teach for seniors at assisted living facilities. Hack: my cofounder is a professional opera singer so she does the first gig at every client.
Can they tell if I'm a women's man, no time to talk?
If it's to Peter Thiel's benefit and his benefit alone to do something, he will assuredly do it. What's best for other people, society, the environment, etc., doesn't ever factor into his calculus.
> Yep. We need government, because without government nobody would save us from the abuses of copyright law, enforced by the government!

That's an entirely different issue from what I was commenting on.

> And let's not forget, there is no competition - because the ISP has a legal monopoly, also enforced by the government.

You're forgetting that ISPs are natural monopolies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly:

>> "A natural monopoly is a monopoly in an industry in which high infrastructural costs and other barriers to entry relative to the size of the market give the largest supplier in an industry, often the first supplier in a market, an overwhelming advantage over potential competitors. This frequently occurs in industries where capital costs predominate, creating economies of scale that are large in relation to the size of the market; examples include public utilities such as water services and electricity.[1] Natural monopolies were discussed as a potential source of market failure by John Stuart Mill, who advocated government regulation to make them serve the public good."

> Yep, government regulation sounds great. /s

You're right, it does sound great; especially when you remove the blinders of misunderstanding. Admittedly, it's not entirely without it's own problems, but those problems are best solved without re-introducing the problems that regulation successfully mitigates.
I definitely agree! I more refer to the fact that we have not yet hit the turning point of clear product/market fit after two years.
That all sounds widely inaccurate from my experience. It's just pass-through income, it was even addressed in the recent tax overhaul. Additionally, a requirement for rentals (or check at least) is whether it's being rented at the current market rate.
Exactly.

We're looking at paying for Slack and mattermost seems to offer most of what Slack does and is something that would be pretty easy to run. It's slick. Well documented and installs nicely in a container.

Has anyone here used Mattermost?

https://mattermost.com/
Now I'm reminiscing about driving with printed out MapQuest directions on the passenger seat. Now I use my phone to make sure I'm taking the fastest route even when I know the way.
We (http://draftss.com) are a company providing graphic design & landing page UI/UX on a monthly subscription.
Our core as a design company lays in what we do best. Design. Using the skill-set of designers that we have on board, we created a product for founders to get constructive UI/UX feedback for their landing page. (http://draftss.com/feedback.html)

The depth of the feedback comprises of everything from logo, font, color, size, call to action, images, and every other component on the website. With feedback we also provide constructive steps that founders can take to make their product better. All of this being completely free.

The non-scalability part:
The time taken to evaluate a website is proportional to the quality of feedback we deliver. If the time invested is less, the feedback looses value. To keep it up to the mark where the feedback is valuable, a proper evaluation & time investment is necessary. This may account to almost 5-7% of a designers time for each feedback everyday. When the number of feedback requests shoots up, there are only limited feedbacks that can be provided everyday.

How we benefit from it:
In this complete process, we learn alot about generic errors, optimal UI/UX, trends, ideas and lot more. We learn about the little innovative things that founders do which stands out on their website. Other things we gain are; network, prospects & karma.

Although the product is still in the beta, but we have already provided 100+ feedback to founders for their landing page UI/UX. Considering the amount of insight that we gain, we can write a complete ebook over it. It may turn out to be the next not-scalable-thing we do for scaling.
That's clever!

What do metrics show for UX for that workflow?
(Bonus: What tool for capturing play data?)
The whataboutism is strong with this one. Is there a service that lets you associate your own tags with HN accounts? could be useful. Or abused. But useful.
> Do you think people can't think for themselves?

No, of course they can't. Is it not generally the case that most people do not know anything about the basic facts of how their country is governed? And roughly the history of the place? Isn't it the case that most people don't bother with following politics most of the time?
Perhaps there could be a subway system (complete with elevators) under, at least, the inner portion of OP's imaginary city?
It’s certainly a creative answer to the Halting Problem!
All wonderful questions, and maybe some of the tech needs to be refined. But I can already cryptographically sign transactions on my hardware Bitcoin wallet.

Embedding displays into cards isn't impossible, BofA does it for OTPs already. A combination could ensure that users know the vote they're casting by confirming it on a secure hardware token.

With that done, you could upload that vote to a blockchain based system that's auditable, but anonymized.

But I can't give you a good answer to "what if someone steals the phone and card". One solution is to have remote election officers that verify your identity via the camera in real-time as you cast the vote. They could look at your face, or even read your fingerprint off the camera (I know that's possible because my country lets banks do that).

You'd only be able to cast the vote through devices with good enough cameras and under good enough lightening and you may have to wait a little while, but it'll be secure and you won't have to travel — especially if you're registered in a distant state or district.

It's better than nothing.
I don’t want one, but at least it’s something new!
Ask HN: What are some of your favourite technical blogs?
Pretty sure Netlify's CDN is Akamai.
So top tier for sure.
It's exactly this.

I'm a member of this group.

I was told growing up by first-generation college graduates that any degree was better than no degree. I had persistent doubts, but was told by those same parents year after year before and during college that "You may not want it now, but you won't regret having it in the future."

So not knowing better and not being told any better by the university I attended, I got a history degree and tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt. When I graduated in 2012, I was reluctant to leave the town that I grew up in (where there were no jobs, being essentially only a university town) and could only find service sector work. The same baby boomers that told me to put myself in debt to secure a degree now told me that any job was better than no job at all.

I eventually was able to get a job at a call center after being a temp (twice) at the same corporation. Yet within a year, I hit a hard income cap. In this job that I had worked so hard to secure, I could only pay off my debt over more than a decade throwing all my disposible income at it. And the job was soul-crushing. All my coworkers were warm-bodies that life had shat upon; my bosses were all sociopathic and incompetent PMPs that could barely open Outlook and constantly took the credit for any and all off-paper work that I did. For some reason, I started drinking heavily.

I was fortunate enough to be able to support my wife while she learned how to code and through fate, diligence, and diversity metrics, she was able to secure an IT job. She convinced me to quit soon afterwards and try to follow in her footsteps, but with apparently less favorable odds. Who wants to hire an unemployed self-taught 30-year-old white male with an unstable work history in an entry-level role?

And now, if looking down the barrel of economic obsolescence wasn't enough, I have to deal with baby-boomers, who by their own admission waltzed with ease into careers, constantly looking down on me for not gladly and immediately selling what remains of my youth to pernicious corporations whose five-year plans inevitably include either automating my position or shuttering because of the brick & mortar apocalypse.

Yes, it's a very perplexing hole, this lack of participation.

Our pipedream at this point is for me to be a stay-at-home dad and develop FOSS software when I'm not caregiving or doing home economy, with the eventual goal of buying a farm somewhere where we can both be doing what we really want (i.e. living as ethically as we possibly can in a dystopian hellscape far, far away from the gods of the Marketplace). I don't think this feeling is in the minority.
I dislike the current debt-based economy in general myself.
Thanks for posting! This track. Amazing ;)

The Bad Plus - These Are The Vistas - Silence Is the Question

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHDubUIYBzY
+1 I am a small developer with a niche audience (firefighter training, simsushare.com) that has a cross-platform app. Most of my audience is Windows and iOS, but I do need Mac as well.

I don't really need Apple to help with marketing the app, so paying 30% on the Mac App store is way too much for me. On iOS, it is necessary because there is no alternative. Also, my simulation tool has an enterprise subscription, which means Apple can say yes or no and meddle with my business model. Too many restrictions!

Now Apple is saying I have to get my app notarized for Mojave. I don't quite understand why I have to do that in addition to the $99/year I pay for the Mac code sign. Bottom line is that I'm not making a killing by any means and Apple is hurting me by adding all the technical restrictions and financial constraints.
I know the anxiety you're referring to. I eventually started aggressively pruning my to-read list every once in a while, deleting articles that looked appealing when I came across them and impulsively hit "read later" but on more sober inspection no longer seemed worth the effort. No more anxiety, and this way what I end up reading tends to be worth it.
Kebotix is using AI and robotics to brainstorm–and then test–novel compounds
The accelerometer in a smart phone might be sufficient to identify gait parameters which map to stress, relaxation etc. Why bother with cameras?
There was a science fiction book who talked about putting a rock in your shoe to change your gait and avoid detection.

What was it ?
Most of the cities the Romans founded were based on a grid system and were logically laid out. Even Paris as we mostly know it today was built in the 1850’s during the reign of Napoleon III.
Why is it so expensive to connect to hotel's backends? Is that their fees?
FYI your first URL is broken
How do you define proactive? I didn't get any notifications. I would've appreciated an SMS or even a courtesy call. As somebody who has to manage dozens of email accounts, it's possible that I missed it.

Stripe Atlas does not help you dissolve a company, it's an extra few hundred dollars in fees and more if you hire ppl.

In total, my mistake is going to cost me around 1000 USD, vs 100k. It was wrong for me to assume that Stripe Atlas would explain these potential pitfalls, all of which were not made clear when I signed up.

I think just for future cases, it would be great to explain these hidden costs like on this site:

https://flagtheory.com/stripe-atlas/

Had I been made aware of that site, I wouldn't have done it. The cost and legal exposure to the Land of Lawsuits was a stupid decision.

If you are not American, don't use Stripe Atlas like flagtheory writes on his website....if Patrick didn't promote it I wouldn't have joined Atlas in the first place so obviously he's doing a good job, but really wish that the hidden costs and risks are made clearer to non-Americans.

that is all. I don't hold a grudge against patrick or stripe, in the end, I did not do my own due diligence, and just blindly trusted what was advertised. it's my fault that I'm in this situation and I apologize if I have used strong languages, waking up to fact that you owe 100k in taxes, in an unfamiliar land, can cause panic.
Yep, good riddance. Can imagine it spooks the press to be held accountable.
He does certainly give that impression, nothing I've ever read about him has given me another.
I knew I read something like this
I'm somewhat amused by the way the mention of Microsoft's planned "multiscreen device", as well as the entire article linked to there, makes no mention of the Nintendo DS. It doesn't blend the screens together or have a folding screen, but it certainly has shown that consumers don't consider that a must-have (at least for more specialized devices). I'd argue that a phone with twice as much screen space via folding would have the potential to be successful even with a noticeable bezel -- or even a visible hinge -- between the screens.
> That assumes the engineers can prioritize the tasks

It doesn't. If the product manager is prioritizing things, he or she invariably gets backlash from the engineers when they put forward that they're swamped and can't deliver unless they deal with X, Y, Z first.

> and can't just get the list of frequent issues from support

Which are then, all too often in my experience, ignored or downplayed by whoever prioritizes tasks over at engineering.

When the engineers have skin in the support game, they pay extra attention to what may or may not lighten their "not very fun" workload.
Google is adding android support for foldable screens
I guess his involvement may have made that look like a conflict of interest? AnandTech already has a reputation Apple favoritism (deserved or not, I can't say).
VSCode extensions are sandboxed and can only call routines from the provided extension API.
> Blackbox-security.com, the site selling IronChat and IronPhone, quoted Snowden as saying: "I use PGP to say hi and hello, i use IronChat (OTR) to have a serious conversation," according to Web archives. It wasn’t immediately known if the endorsement was authentic.

This strikes me as... very inauthentic. I think anyone with even a basic understanding of crypto would do things the other way around.
See also, also, this interesting but sometimes long-winded essay / review / examination of Seeing Like a State, and similar literature[0]. It's part of a series that goes through subjects like rationalism, narcissism, and tribal knowledge. Fair warning, it's almost the length of a novel!

https://samzdat.com/2017/05/22/man-as-a-rationalist-animal/
Even if it gets built, I can count on thousands of my countrymen to install it improperly, lose the documents, mail the cheques late, accidentally lose equipment, and fail to plug it in.

Don’t worry, systems like this are incredibly fragile. You could spray paint the cameras and force the government into an attrition war (I can spray paint them faster than you can replace them, and paint is cheap).
Little Brother, Cory Doctorow.
Of course then you just train a network to map between pebbled and unpebbled gaits and run that on any failed matches. So...
Zulip founder here.

It's definitely possible to run a Zulip server with essentially no downtime. E.g. the main zulipchat.com service has had approximately 10 user-facing outages with a median duration of 5-10 minutes over the last 5 years (there was one while we still only had a few hundred users that lasted overnight), most of them in the middle of the night. Happy to talk more about this for anyone curious; there are some fun stories (like migrating from MySQL to Postgres as our primary database technology with <30 minutes of downtime early in its development).

We don't have a public uptime SLA for zulipchat.com uptime yet, but we're happy to make them for individual customers (and I suppose we should add one).

If you're self-hosting, our commercial support offerings will help you setup your servers in a way that achieves your uptime goals; because Zulip is so stable, usually folks just go with a hot spare (our enterprise customers generally only report downtime related to server upgrades, which is usually avoidable).
I live in Oregon, and we do have mail-in ballots. Can confirm that it's great.
block ads via DNS:
https://gist.github.com/peteryates/b44b70d19ccd52f62d66cdd4b...
Do you plan on continuing to use Paid? Or will you migrate away to Stripe's invoicing?

EDIT: My apologies for the misunderstanding! I didn't realize that you've already built that functionality from your top comment.
Agreed, it's a bit ridiculous. Twenty years is probably too much (especially for a long term relationship) although I do know men who do that.

I went 9 years my junior and it has mostly been a good thing. Especially where starting a family is concerned it has made it so we're not rushed on that decision and can get our finances in order first.
It’s not an argument in favor, but a defense to an argument against. The reasoning goes that a lot of other things would be better served by being moved an hour earlier, even if school wouldn’t.

That said, even for K12 students, I’d say it’s a give and take. Waking up and going out in the dark each morning does sound bad for mood and potentially for circadian rhythms. But school gets out at 3PM, and on the shortest days of the year, the sun sets around 5PM. That leaves only 2 hours to potentially spend outdoors in the sun, at best; after-school activities can easily consume much or all of that time, not to mention homework. Or even if you spend all day indoors, the earlier the sun sets, the sooner your body starts producing more melatonin and making you feel tired; robust artificial lighting can help, but then it’s harder when you are ready to start winding down for the day. And then there’s seasonal affective disorder (Google it). In all these cases, going from 2 to 3 hours of sunlight after school would be a big help.
The first 2 are lights near the roundabout (where streets cross, or at pedestrian crossings), not in at the roundabout.
I think it's even more fashionable when there's criticism of any other country to respond with "whatabout the US".

No matter it's many faults the US is still a democracy with checks and balances.
A more specific slack channel (and I assume mattermost channel) is a thread that you can add people to any time and they will immediately have history. Or put in the inverse, a Zulip thread that is too general is a channel with information overload and becomes useless. Does the nesting have intrinsic value over simply more top level channels?
Actually Double Star did this first back in ... 1954? I loved that book when I first read it.
The patients that respond to the placebo are the bane of pharma companies developing a new drug. More than one drug trial has failed because the placebo arm has responded. It is so bad that in some trials they will run a pre-trial where everyone gets the placebo and the responders are excluded before the main trial starts.

It would be interesting to see what else COMT levels are correlated with especial religious and social beliefs.
I wonder how long it will be before Apple releases a laptop with an A-X chip.

They’re already shipping their custom T2 chips in their laptops. The compiler toolchain can build great binaries for their A chips. They’ve swapped CPU architecture before and the modern Mach binary format can hold versions of the executable built for different architectures.

They will probably need a Rosetta equivalent to emulate x86 for all the applications that are slow to switch. That might be tricky because of the huge surface area of the x86 instruction set. But I think it will only be a matter of time. It might also explain why they have kept the MacBook and MacBook Air product lines - they might want one of them to stay with intel’s cpus and the other to switch to their A* chips going forward. Or maybe they’ll just wait another generation or two and switch CPUs across their whole line in one go.
This is an interesting documentary on this subject.

Nobody Speak: Trials of the free press
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6333064/
Idunno, the PVR-based products were pretty awful, drivers were full of system crashing bugs which could be triggered by reasonable shaders (On two separate occasions, I accidentally wrote shaders which would crash iOS and cause it to restart). I haven't touched their recent products, but I suspect they have been working on this stuff for a long time, because I think it'd be pretty hard to put up with that crap for any longer.
Yes. Teachers unions would never agree to have to start later in the day.