skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, give me a bonus at the end of the year and a raise the next year if you think i have done a good job. Have a chat with me in a one to one meeting if you believe i have something i can improve on.

I never want something that feels like the smiley face sticker and sad face stickers that school teachers use to "motivate" kids. We are grownups and we can have a talk if there is something the can improve. If not, let me get on with my day and my work.
Nice work.

Though I didn't know the right sidebar was interactive until I read the comments here that said they hated it, then I went back to figure out why. Maybe a "Click me!" above the demo on the right, pointing down at the sidebar. Dunno.

Once I clicked around in it, I thought it was a great demo of your product no matter how one might feel about the product itself. Anyone that's used Slack before can immediately visualize if this would fit in with their Slack team or not instead of having to derive your product from marketese about increasing team synergy over real-time communications or something.
When not to use microservices
LoL, PainInTheAss-as-Service.
100 European Startups to Watch in 2019
Technicalities like that get lost in the noise when the political poo flinging over who's gonna pay and where it'll be located starts. An idea can't just be correct. It needs to be correct and marketable to people who don't really care.
Neat! I've been debating adding a similar starter kit for https://boardgame.io/, but opted not to because:

1. React / Angular / Vue starter kits already exist to bring up the general web stack, which is where most of the boring boilerplate lies.

2. Removing parts of boilerplate that you don't need is work, so you need to provide a default that works for most people, which is hard.

The approach I follow is to distribute a CodeSandbox link with a working example that people can download / modify if they want to start from a template: https://codesandbox.io/s/rn2pp207o
They call them business coaches and they plague business meetups and chambers of commerce.

For the most part they are sales people who are good at telling others what to do, but you always feel possibly not that good or they would be running some business themselves.

There are even business coach franchises.
Actually handly is just here to allow a single import on every serverless handler. I haven't worked much on the readme yet, but the idea is to gather all the "mandatory" middy middlewares as well as some middlewares I find necessary into a single dependancy.
you 're grossly overstating the amount of traffic that facebook brings to news sites. It's about 10%.
It freaked me out how much of a difference Adderall made when I started taking it. My productivity and general feeling of self worth have definitely improved since I started taking it seven or eight years ago. I also worry about the long-term effects, but probably not as much as my concern for how I would function if it were ever taken off of the market.
Baas as a Service. Truly FOSS-style acronym (one could say it's Unix-like (not to be confused with Unox-like (Unox is the worst)).
Anyone who runs a website with user-submitted content has this problem. If you allow users to post content in any language, how can you effectively moderate their postings if you don't understand the language they are posting in? There are thousands of minority languages in the world, it is infeasible (even for a company as big as Facebook) to retain staff with language skills in all of them.

The other option is to ban the use of minority languages. Only major languages are allowed. But, from a human rights perspective, that is an affront to diversity and freedom, and is contributing to the endangered state of many of these languages. But, if you allow minority languages, you run the risk that people are advocating or organising human rights violations in that minority language (slave trading, advocating for genocide, etc), and the platform can't stop it because it can't understand it. So, it is a tradeoff, which threat to human rights do you prevent, because you can't feasibly prevent both.
You could probably pack an array of several smaller diameter dynamos within the housing of the base. Only issue is the belt/chain drive down the shaft so if one jams the others can still work.
My family, my kids, my skills and the countless opportunities to apply them.

70+ years without major wars in Europe. The people that sacrificed their lives to make that happen.

My first stock option plan, which allowed me to live debt-free (excluding mortgage).

My health.
Of course they were going to find a scapegoat for all this mess.
google+ still breathing.
How is Facebook correctly pointing out that Soros funded a smear campaign against them a dog whistle? Is it not possible to criticize money in politics if they’re anyone other than WASPs like the Kochs?
Rule 0: use Autotools - https://autotools.io/index.html
That's unfortunately not true. Everything the boilerplate provides is both necessary to get a nice developing experience and not provided by default by serverless.
Why is it weird for a person to dislike the actions of a company run by other people?

Or are you surprised that Jews are not a homogenous group that all think the same?
I'm not looking to fight with you. In a nutshell, a girl being married off at age 16 may have been trained from age 4 for her future role as wife and mom.

Some wives and moms are excellent cooks, on par with professional chefs. Most people would probably prefer "mom's home cooking" to McDonald's. And it seems a bit insulting for you to act like I moved the goal posts by saying professional chef. Most full time homemakers I have known did a lot of cooking and were very good at it, on par with a professional chef.

In fact, one of the mom's I knew growing up had been to cooking school. If she hadn't been a woman, she likely would have been running a restaurant rather than cooking gourmet meals for family and friends.

I was a homemaker who homeschooled my 2e sons. I know a lot about gifted education, special needs education, accommodating various things. But that somehow doesn't really count in the eyes of most people.

I have been told right here on HN that college education is wasted on homemakers. I needed my college education to do right by my kids and make sure they had some hope of a future.

I mean, I really don't want to fight with you, but you are basically digging your grave deeper by telling me I am wrong to compare a mom's cooking to a professional chef and you were intending to compare it to a job at McDonald's.

Women also do things like patch up kids who are injured, take care of them while sick etc. In fact, I am getting well when the world tells me it cannot be done and that is largely through leveraging the domains of knowledge that are the purview of homemakers.

So when you say that we should rightly devalue women's work in comparison to medicine, my feeling is there is no means to bridge the vast distance between your mental models of life, the universe and everything and mine.

And if you and the rest of HN will excuse me, I think I have had enough of arguing this topic.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving if you are American and insert whatever appropriate greeting suffices if you are not.
Code may be a string, but tools that treat it as such are universally abhorred, like the C preprocessor or eval in interpreted languages.
Thanks for sharing Killed by Google. I started it after the Inbox by Google announcement. My goal was to create a statement of criticism against churn of consumer products by Google. I think there is also a statement about closed systems that are controlled by a single player/entity, and I wanted to do it in a tongue-in-cheek form.

I’m also a developer, and I understand the product lifecycle. There are still some things wrong with the list that have been pointed out, but this is an open source project. I’m going to be editing and pruning over this weekend.

I hope everyone is having a great Thanksgiving, and everyone outside the US is heading into a restful weekend.

Edit: Looks like we got removed from the top listings. If you'd like to contribute or make a suggestion, feel free to create an issue in the Github repo. Thank you all!
How would someone begin to work on something like this?
having a corgi that flies around the house at rocket dog speed, the switch to USB-C without Magsafe is currently my biggest concern. I can't slow the dog down, but I can put my faith in the Belkin solution.
Also Fabric. Sure they are killing the brand but they have been busy merging Crashlytics and Firebase crashes into one product for a very long time.

Fabric even has a nice roadmap page where they explain where this is going.

Also both products have different advantages :

- Fabric is way more mature

- The base approach of Firebase is 100% better than what Fabric does : it runs on a separate process so it can catch crashes that are totally silent for Fabric, like crash at startup or native layer crash.

So while I would not have liked to still have 2 competitors, it is good to see these merged.
This. People would rather have "rush hour" be from 3-8pm rather than pay for enough spare capacity that peak demand only saturates the system from 5-6.

If a four lane highway is saturated for 3hr you'd need twelve lanes to cut that time to 1hr. That's a lot of money.
> Maybe a "Click me!" above the demo on the right, pointing down at the sidebar. Dunno.

That's a really nice suggestion, thanks. I thought the pulsating orange dot would do the trick.

Really glad you liked the overall experience. Ta!
I have an immense dislike for the whole PR industry, and to a certain extent it astounds me that it's even legal.

PR boils down to manipulation of public opinion that can't be traced back to the source easily.

They are also used for things that would be too dirty / illegal to touch for a company itself, like fake reviews and fake online comments propagating a certain view.

I have long thought that there should be a public registry where you have to announce when and for what purpose you have hired a PR firm.
Could you explain why Y > X and not the other way round?
and remember, don’t be not evil.
Having an intelligent person give you a impartial voice is often valuable as well, we get caught up our own bubbles. 'That person' is hard to find though.
sctb is a bit newer (since about a year or so?).
I absolutely agree, and it falls in the same category as marketing. If a person is a marketer they are devoting their lives to manipulating the minds of others and that's just terrible.
Treating symptoms instead of the cause
So why did you pick Warren Buffett for comparison? I did look it up, and do not see what point you were trying to make.
I ditched my MacBook Pro for a Lenovo X1 I’m super happy with it.
If Facebook was so correct, why did they hire a PR firm to launder that claim?

I'll repeat something I posted in my other comment: Do you believe that George Soros is also actively behind a campaign to destroy Tesla [0]? Reveal has received money through Soros's Open Society Foundations [1].

[0] https://www.revealnews.org/article/inside-teslas-factory-a-m...

https://www.revealnews.org/article/tesla-left-injuries-off-t...

[1] https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/why-dont-we-hear-about-soros...
Retreat of Smaller Lenders Adds to Pressure on Housing
Well I think we're past being constructive, but don't you find it at all arrogant to demand people invest time researching your comments? There are thousands of comments made here every day. We're not peer reviewing articles here - comments should stand on their own.
He created Open Society Foundation and fundementally shaped its vision and direction, so yes, absolutely.
Would be interesting to see the actual cost differential in this vs permanent magnets.

They don't go into details about the cost of fabricating the HTS, but gadolinium is less than half the cost (in oxide form) of neodymium according to the article, and it uses 1/1000th the amount.
Also interesting to think about what it says about the business you're running if you need to engage in the PR tactics that are usually favoured by sinister political campaigns.

One would think that a business whose noble mission is to connect the world wouldn't be in need of such marketing.
Ask HN: Does the windows format command securely wipe a drive?
I have an external hard drive (not an SSD) that I want to wipe. Windows 10 has a format command with the option to specify the number of passes over the hard drive. If I set the number of passes to 3, will that result in a secure wipe of the drive? I don't want to physically destroy the drive, so am looking for a software-only solution for securely wiping the drive.
I see a lot of people talking about how the site sells stuff well, but nothing about how well it gets you what you want.

Ignore for the moment the counterfeit issues, because those are not a "site" problem.

I still routinely fail to get what I search for. And then find it i. The "also bought" of whatever they do send me. Shipping times either lie more often than not, or are "true" after a seemingly arbitrary number of days between now and when it ships.

Anything that is deeply categorized (prime day. Prime now, Restaurants, etc) loses your filtering all the time. This past prime day I had to search through their pages of deals by hand because their search just failed.

This might well sell a lot of stuff...but like a news article that 8s broken up into multiple pages to seve me more ads, it is not good at what I want. Other forces (network effect) keep me there.
After reading the referenced papers explaining the academic rationale, Gitless gets a big "meh" from me.

A quick tl;dr of the referenced paper "Purposes, Concepts, Misfits, and a Redesign of Git" (https://spderosso.github.io/oopsla16.pdf):

> The changes made to Git’s concept model are:

> 1. The redefinition of “tracked” and “untracked,” and the
elimination of “assume unchanged” and the “staging
area.”

> 2. The redefinition of the concept of “branch,” and the elimination of “stash.”

> 3. The creation of the notion of a “current branch,” and the redefinition of “head.

I would agree that most of the delta from git represents an incremental improvement in usability; staging, stashing, and complex ignore rules are all things that are more likely to get in the way of novice to intermediate git users than help them. That being said, I'd classify those usability issues as minor in the overall picture. Most of them are trivial to smooth out either via git aliases or shell aliases - for example, I've had `ignore`, `show-ignored`, and `unignore` aliases for so long that seeing `git update-index --assume-unchanged foo` on the Gitless site made me realize I'd forgotten that that's what my `ignore` alias is actually doing under the hood.

By far the most complex & difficult aspect of using git (and source control in general) is merge conflict resolution. I'm not convinced Gitless offers much benefit in this aspect and in fact I suspect it may actually make things worse. Complex conflict resolution is when the ability to distinguish between staged and unstaged changes is most useful and sometimes even crucial. Furthermore, while Gitless offering capability to 'pause' a conflict resolution by switching to another branch is neat, I would say it's very rare that I need to ever do so in the middle of a conflict resolution. Difficult resolutions require full concentration - if I find myself needing to switch to another branch in the middle of one, the context switch usually renders me unable to pick up where I left off and I wind up starting over to make sure I'm working from a clean slate.

On the whole, I could see Gitless being valuable in academic environments to facilitate desparately-needed use of source control among researchers/postgrads/scientists. But I would steer clear of it in a software development career as I think it would stunt user's abilities to truly master a core tool of their profession in the long run.
Here here, you are both doing a tough job really well.
It appears as https://nest.pijul.com/pijul_org/pijul is currently being hugged to death?
He's right. Black Friday has been changing. Price aggregators and price tracking websites show us what deals aren't actually deals. Online retailers making the whole week or month a big sale have changed things.

Now if we can get the completely made up "Cyber Monday" to die first, I'd be ok with that.
I should probably try this. I wonder how it will compare with what I'm doing:

I simply use the browser's (Firefox) save page feature (ctl-s). Then every now and then, I convert the folder with these pages to a squashfs image (which de-duplicates all the CSS, JS, image files that are saved multiple times). I then use shell tools to search (ls grep locate etc.). This doesn't save the URL, but I also maintain a private "bookmarks" Git repository for more interesting bits where each bookmarked resource gets its own file (in a descriptive hierarchy), along with thoughts and notes.

What works well is that I am somewhat selective, complete trash doesn't end up being archived, it's pretty space efficient. It's also simple to wade through (in the shell), each saving action is just a file and folder pair. Also often I use the reader mode Firefox feature, and then save that (i.e. I save what I saw, not what was delivered). What doesn't work so well is that saving the page is often a bit of a hassle, often Firefox reports save errors then I just ctl-s again to see if the previous attempt succeeded, if not, hit the reload icon in the download task list which apparently forces it. Also, that it saves embedded videos, haven't figured out yet how to disable that, so periodically I remove videos again. Also, when saving multiple pages from the same site, links to other pages don't go to the local mirror. (In cases where it's important, I use wget -m -k.)
Yes... oops.

I thought those numbers seemed high.
My recommendation is to start with the CPU emulation. The CPU in the Gameboy has decent documentation and there are plenty of implementations to look at if you're stumped. (One I like particular is the core in Higan, a multisystem emulator written in C++.)
The Wall Street journal is calling for adults within facebook to make a stand? Talk to the shareholders. They have the only real power. Get them to "stand up" by either demanding new leadership or dropping the stock.
Please watch the video rather than just reading the article (there's much more material in the documentary).

Actually, the video made me cry a little bit.

After watching the video, I found https://www.deepakg.com/the-canal-in-ikeas-amsterdam-photo which gives the location and the name of the houseboat. (If you want to see it in Google Street View, a better search is probably Brouwersgracht 56.)
The Concept of Holonomy [video]
Code is Data, Data is Code (2013)
Do you mean insurance against security breaches? If yes, I don’t know how this would work in practice. Please elaborate your question!
the evidence suggests that at least one of them is a bully who abuses the authoritarian power and lack of accountability.

Unfortunately this seems accurate. I didn't want to believe it until experience forced me to reevaluate the situation. (Skimming over my comment history might confirm this for the curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=iplusplus In particular, note the very first comment on the account, and how that interaction went.)

"Bully" is far too blunt, though. The issue is that no one is allowed to disagree with any decision. And some of those decisions are swift, harsh, and last months or sometimes years. There is no appeal process other than to say you were mistaken and that you've learned your lesson. To do otherwise is to earn yourself a permaban across all of your accounts, as Dan demonstrated on me.
I'd wager that most of the people who managed to die in this fire were doing things that seem inexplicably superficial in their final moments.
I see PR as being much, much worse.

I also dislike marketing. It is manipulation that mostly works on a subconscious level, circumventing your rational thought.

But with marketing, at least it's obvious who the source is, and you can make a conscious effort to avoid it.

With PR, where pushing highly biased news articles on various news outlets is common, it's much harder.
When people talk about the robots taking over, sometihng like this is what i m afraid of. An AI personal assistant will soon become my boss, or rather, my master. I just hope it's not evil.
I really like this idea, but I'm not sure I'd pay $25/month for it unless I'm really sure I like it. Maybe make the first month cost $5 or $10?
Woah, TIL. Thank you!
and thanks to your article, I now know about Hexo. That's cool. Thanks for that!
>the story here is that Facebook hired people to say something true about George Soros

Well no that’s not really the story.

The story is really that FB hired a PR agency to dig up dirt to personally attack a FB critic, and tried to hide the truth that they were behind the PR campaign targeting an individual. Further, Zuckerburg publicly denied it.

The story is about FB coming clean, that they did hire a political consulting firm to discredit a FB critic, and acknowledge FB later falsely claimed they didn’t do what they in fact did.

Is it not scary to you a Company like FB would, under shield on anonymity, hire a PR firm to publicly discredit someone? And you don’t take any issue with the idea FB (Zuckerburg) later falsely denied FB hired the Firm to target and discredit an individual?

If it wasn’t a big deal FB wouldn’t have hired a firm to target an individual to discredit them, and hide behind the cloak of anonymity. They wouldn’t have subsequently publicly denied their behavior. And they wouldn’t have come clean on Thanksgiving eve in attempt to sweep the story under the rug (it’s never an accident when companies publish bad news before a long weekend and it’s telling).
Because he did no such thing. Freedom From Facebook was actually funded by some other lefty with deep pockets. Definers saying a thing doesn’t make it true.

Edit: looks like some Soros money was sloshing around in there, but the primary funding was from elsewhere.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/freedom-from-facebook-open-marke...
It's not free software, so what's the point of being disappointed that an organization, whose sole purpose is getting the world to favor free software over closed source, is going to be against it? It's like being disappointed that businesses look to make money, or homeless shelters look to help the homeless. It's their purpose.

> given iOS is one of the hardest targets from a security perspective with a comprehensive guide on techniques used [1] and offers an excellent overall user experience.

Cool, but none of that matters for the purpose of the FSF. That's not the reason for their existence.
I know HN is kind of a safe space for engineers to express their (sometimes arrogant or poorly informed) opinions about other people's fields.

But this seems over-the-top. Who are these "ridiculous" people in New York, whose grasp of the situation around why this particular font ever came to be used in NY signage is so laughably feeble and inferior to the commenter's own?

There may be no mystery worth solving, but neither is there a clearly identifiable moment when a shopkeeper selected the font for the first time. In high-profile design, in contrast, historical moments like that are often traceable—they do have an author.
I’d like to personally call out u/dang, HN’s omnipresent moderator. Keep up the amazing work!
Because nytimes doesn't want to be mirrored. A mirror would be a kind of arms race between nytimes and the mirror.
Having experienced my fair share of HR-induced job search frustration in the past, this is incredibly inspirational and validating.
Soros is also laundering his attacks...

Perhaps I’m being naive but I see two Jewish business leaders fighting a proxy war — and yet one is called antisemitic and one is not. And I suspect it’s because people are only attacking the side they disagree with politically.