skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I write lyrics, it's only ever because something frustrates me. And I love serious lyrics in general... but I'm also really grateful for people who just see the good in the world and sing about it, like Bob Ross, but for music. That's just not me though.

> If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

-- C. S. Lewis

> Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book does not shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us happy, as you put it? Good God, we'd be just as happy if we had no books at all; books that make us happy we could, in a pinch, also write ourselves. [..] A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. That is what I believe.

-- Franz Kafka

> You don't write those books because you hope those things will happen. You write those books because you think they might happen.. but you'd rather they didn't.

-- Margaret Atwood

Such are the thoughts with which I console myself, but still, this is the kind of person I make my stuff, which is solely "against", for:

> To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacriﬁce, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magniﬁcently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an inﬁnite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in deﬁance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

-- Howard Zinn
The album Lateralus by Tool goes a step further for me. It strikes a balance between depressed and optimistic unlike any other.
I think I remember that same article, or a similar one from around the time frame. It also suggested some radical improvements. Once a car is based on a "skateboard" design, the front window can extend a lot further down allowing for some amazing views.

It didn't seem to think about the danger of removing a crumple zone, but it was definitely eye-catching.
Hello HN!

This is the initial attempt at reclaiming one of the most important parts of the JavaScript ecosystem, the npm package registry.

Initially, it just serves as a proxy with a long-term cache.

But further down the line, we're planning to add additional features such as federation of registries (and hopefully fully decentralized registry even further down the line), signed packages and other features.

Please let me know what you think, if something is unclear from the website and so on. Otherwise you can find the main repository on GitHub here: https://github.com/open-services/open-registry

I think what needs to most attention right now, is the Governance protocol, which you can see here: https://docs.open-registry.dev/governance/

Basically, the project should be setup to be free from commercial entities and be able to survive long-term. Please give any feedback you have about that documentation as it would help a lot.
I'm the third person in favor for sharing the playlist! :D
Depends on whether your customers are buying on desktop or mobile. It is a big advantage for mobile conversions to support payment solutions like Apple and Google pay.

https://www.commerce7.com/blog/how-digital-wallets-increase-...
A Propositional Logic Approach to Raymond Smullyan's Knights and Knaves Puzzles
What exactly are you claiming?

The company said "do some work for us for free" and the applicant accepted. A compensation claim would go nowhere.

This is more in the state Department of Labor's jurisdiction but they won't do anything about it either.
What motive could a Washington Post journalist possibly have for trashing podcasts?

^_^
I own (and love) my Model X.

It’s big - but not Escalade-big. It’s more accurately described as a large crossover (CUX? XUV?) than a true SUV. Confusingly Tesla refers to the smaller Model Y as a Crossover even though it’s closer to an MPV (Ford C-Max) than a Crossover like a Honda Pilot. I think they’re justifying it by the fact you can get it in a 7-seat config.
It is nonsense but it made me laugh :) I see potential in nonsense memes!
is there software that can do multi track recording on everyone's computer / phone and later combine the high quality local recordings after the fact? Because it's hard to guarantee enough bandwidth for real time high quality centralized recording.
It's a few bits over many signatures then fed into a lattice reduction algorithm.
The interview begins at yellow marker, ~4:00. Maybe it's just me, and I guess it's really just a personal 'pet peeve', but is it off-putting to anyone else how he constantly saying "gives ME ...", "I have four motors", "so I can...", etc...

Perhaps I've been driving people crazy all these years, but "we" usually sounds so much better (even if it is just you) and a lot less ... lousy and self-centered. Maybe he really is the guy -- it just rubs me a little wrong, especially when I suspect it really is we -- as in, the team.
I think how X works with this (and a lot of other stuff) can be very fairly criticized. Despite the implementation drawbacks, though, I use this ability heavily and in practice it gives me no trouble. Plus, I'm unaware of any other solution to this use case.

It doesn't scale well if you're talking about dozens of simultaneous desktops, yes, but I rarely have more than three at a time. It's fine for that.
The book was probably Liu Cixin's _The Dark Forest_.

If you want to read it, start with _The Three-Body Problem_, the first in the series.
What kinds of tools?
Having slept in quite cold temperatures in cars during longer trips quite a lot of times, just having the car idle over-night has always been enough to keep the cabin warm enough to not even need a blanket. Not talking about luxury cars with huge engines either.
It also uses very little fuel. After 8 hours, you can see that the fuel gauge has moved, but only very slightly. I'm pretty sure a ICE car with a full tank can idle for several days before running out of fuel.
In Zurich you can make 800 CHF - 1000 CHF per day as a contractor.

Senior full time employees usually earn 120-130k CHF. Taxes are lower than anywhere in the US on top of this.

Ping me at iwan@gulenko.ch if you want to work in Switzerland and hold a EU-28 citizenship. (Otherwise work visa is impossible.) I run a local recruitment consultancy.
I remember using "edit and continue" in Visual C++ 6, seems that this feature still exists in newer versions[1], but I don't know what limitations it has.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/edit-...
I feel like Twitter is a terrible medium to take temperature of anything.

The medium is the message and Twitter only serves to push a very inane sort of message / response.
Agreed. For example Pokemon GO uses it - which is why there was a large influx of new users, prompting the following guidelines page: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2016/12/30/tips-pokemon-go/
I also highly doubt that the Apple Pay button shows up on places where it isn't supported.
> And it can't be very fast at processing images.

Why not?
but in the open source software industry, where most people are volunteering, it makes sense to try to be more efficient and not have 100 Linux distributions and 5 BSD flavors

or at least, it makes sense to me

but I guess contributors are free to spend their time however they please
Ironically, I was only mildly interested in this before I read your comment and learned that it's in Scheme. Now I'm eager to check it out, haha.
The risk of falsely predicting that someone is going to shoplift, based on models that are driven by correlation, is not a problem?

How is it not about policing thought?

If you present physical attributes/symptoms of someone who is thinking about shoplifting (nervousness, anxiety, fidgetiness, etc., as mentioned in the article), the models can classify you are "about to shoplift".

That's pretty close to thought policing if you ask me.
If you want slimed down qemu on x86 only we already have temu.
Hard pass.
The Pmarca Blog Archives as eBook(Select Posts from 2007-2009)
unwind uses libunbound, so it's basically just a different front-end. See https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/sbin/unwind/

OpenBSD also still includes Unbound (/usr/sbin/unbound) as the standard local recursive resolver, and NSD (/usr/sbin/nsd) as the standard authoritative server.
Very cool to see you on hacker news!

I've asked you a few questions on Instagram and you've always taken the time to answer my questions. I appreciated it.

I also have enjoyed following your journey, from one world traveler to another.
Ask HN: Free Speech Web Hosting
Wanting to find a host that protects freedom of speech, allows artistic nudity, and offers good customer service. Hopefully a server that has pings < 100ms to United States if their hosting is "offshore." I'm currently using Netlify and Github to host my sites, but they don't allow any nudity, and I can't resell hosting. Those static sites have fast load times, but I'm trying to get into web-hosting and want to work with clients that have "objectionable material."

Namecheap and many other shared hosts prohibit all kinds of nudity; whether it's art or porn doesn't matter to them. Ideally, a host would allow any legal sexual content, so that there isn't a review process to fight if my artwork is flagged as pornographic.

Appreciate any ideas. Something fast that respects freedom and is hopefully less than $50/year.
Direct links:

.PDF (for printing): http://bit.ly/pmarcablogebookpdf

.EPUB (for Nook, iBooks, Kobo etc.): http://bit.ly/pmarcablogebookepub

.MOBI (for Kindle): http://bit.ly/pmarcablogebookmobi
Regardless of what was signed, I doubt that the company would own the copyright if the developer wasn't paid anything for it (and didn't even receive feedback). A valid contract requires that each party receive something of value.[1] And the company can't claim it was a "work for hire" because it wasn't paid for.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consideration_under_American_l...
You need an api key if you show Google Maps in your app. The api key allows your app, running on the users device, to get the map tiles. Is it possible to do that without the users device having access to the key? No. Does that require user login? No. Does ‘OAuth style negotiation’ have anything to do with that? No. Is it security? No. Can you change how Google Maps works? No.
I'm surprised that they are doing this since it's such a small problem.
Been there, done that. Spent considerably more than 50 hours on it too. Not because I broke the rules but because they made it a point to specifically emphasize that I should take my time rather than submit something half-assed. -- I will not be so naive in the future.

Now I specifically ask how many other candidates for the same spot are in the stage of the take-home exercise. If it's more than half a dozen, forget it.

It depends on a number of further factors: Anything up to 48 hours I might do for free. For anything more, I would push pretty hard on them paying for my time to make sure they have skin in the game. A number of reputable companies do this now.
Wirecard? Together with 3V they released pay2d as debit card here in The Netherlands, after which 3V was discontinued. Unfortunately they added ridiculous fees (which their competitor Neteller doesn't have). So I went with them instead.
(P.S. why every OS thread in HN always turns into discussion about Apple?)
Hyrum's law and all.

But I don't think that's what he was saying so much as your clients shouldn't depend on the server code, only the api definition. Which is true and possible in general.
China’s Pig Pandemic
> single commit hash

sounds like you have a deploy & release issue, not a developing or publishing one. Octopus Deploy was the first system I saw that make a distinction between them, and it eliminated a swathe of issues by simply saying "a release is a set of versioned packages"

wow octopus deploy got expensive
I typically read both the NYT and the WSJ, and they very often agree on news stories. When I subscribed to the WSJ, I was expecting to be blown away at how the NYT was sticking me in some sort of liberal media bubble. But it turns out, they both pick the same topics and both relay the same facts.

Even the opinion columns are the same -- "I support the position of the political party to which I am aligned, no matter what. NO MATTER WHAT."
Some random advice from the Internet, for what it's worth:

If you want to see how/if a candidate handles errors, logging, adding tests, etc. you should explicitly ask the candidate to handle errors, and add appropriate logging and tests.

Otherwise, you're mainly testing whether a candidate can read your mind.

The problem is, the appropriate level of error handling, etc. depends on context and if part of that context is in your head only, your test is sampling a lot of random noise.
On the one hand, cruft hanging around sucks. On the other hand, leaving stuff alone if you can is safer.

Meanwhile dist-upgrade on my vanilla, boring Ubuntu MATE box rendered it unbootable just yesterday.
that anyone who votes no clearly doesn’t care about their neighborhood

It's exactly this kind of assertion, combined with followup attacks which is degrading public discourse in 2019.

I reported the posts and countered them both with citations of ordinances and recorded questions about the process at city council hearings but because she has a large following and more ‘influence’ in the Nextdoor sphere I was labeled a liar and crazy person that doesn’t care about his neighborhood.

Fits the general pattern to a T. Might makes right. I have the most followers, therefore I am right. I have control of the forum, therefore I am right. How is it the general population doesn't have a basic grasp of epistemology? In 2019, it seems like fully half of the population thinks might makes right is intellectually worthy!

What if you wrote up a pamphlet and started talking to people in person?
Show HN: A Starter Kit for Technical Blogs in Gatsby
Does anyone know how easy this is to integrate into React? I'm not seeing React support for this new version in their docs.
There was a twitter chain posted here about a year back where someone described how convoluted getting a Tesla off the factory floor is. All of the systems along the way have to be installed and flashed in a particular order to ensure nothing goes belly up.
How about growing up brown in the UK, but also being able to immigrate to California?

> Born in England to Indian parents who later moved to Santa Barbara, Calif., [Pico Iyer] attended graduate school at Oxford and Harvard and then went to work for Time magazine.

We're getting off course here, but I do think there's a certain level of privilege when one snowbird's in a foreign country and doesn't bother learning the local language.

Immigrant workers in SE Asia would probably love to learn the local language if they weren't occupied working 16 hour shifts or sleeping.
I get it, some jobs are more desirable than others, and there has to be some reason for people to take the less glamorous job, but that barrier could just be skill. I support hard work when it comes to training. Hey, you want to make video games, well it's a really competitive field and you better train your ass off in order to be the best at what you do. I think generally, leveraging passion in order to get people to work really hard is good. They get fulfillment out of it, and everyone else gets a great product.

But that's not what this is. This is investors and executives who found a money pump and are pumping as hard as they possibly can without any regards for the health and wellbeing of the human machine they're putting pressure on. At some point, you have to give people the time to live their lives outside of work or the world is going to become a worse place. They become stressed and depressed, and it affects their families and friends, and and then has a ripple effect on society.
I wouldn't say that Python and C++ are the end all languages for ML. They do have a critical mass but I still think projects like OPs can still help us figure out what's a good interface for ML and learnings from smaller projects can inform the design and interface of larger projects (e.g: Keras API helped inform the new TF API).

Also I'm suspicious that Tensorflow will be the Deep Learning library we'll use 5-10 years down the line so it's always nice to see smaller projects that try to do something different.
The professionals will likely take the time and effort to discover and exploit the holes in the AI.
How long would you expect someone to need to write code that makes a few HTTP requests (or read files or whatever other data source is specified), some kind of parsing or decoding (probably JSON) to get the URLs for more requests, and spawns a couple of threads?

Nothing about that sounds tricky or time-intensive to me in any language I've used very often. An hour sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

I'm curious where you're coming from here. What part of this would you expect to spend so much more than an hour on?
Yeah, that is always a danger. From a purist standpoint, I'd argue that any behavior not defined explicitly in the API contract is subject to change at any time, and clients relying on it are by definition buggy. But I recognize that that often doesn't matter when the client code is owned by a team under a director with more clout than yours, a valuable customer, etc.

One possible solution would be to bump the major version (assuming semver) of the API contract, and support multiple versions of the API simultaneously. Of course, that has its own challenges and costs.
There are definitely people who feel like this, but I'm with your parent poster -- I do not want to have an uncomfortable conversation with you about why you're not giving me an offer. This isn't a breakup. We weren't dating. You can just send me an email.
Yep. Even if it has never been easier for the maker/producer to setup their own Shopify store, it's still not enough.
Sure a decent website on shopify is better than nothing, but most likely only your current customers will go. You need extra skills to bring NEW customers: marketing, SEO, social media, etc.. and chances are that it's someone else that will have those skills.
> where keeping face and loyalty for his employer are two most important things in the life of a corporate drone.

But surely, preventing a PR and product release disaster would count as being loyal to the company and helping the company to keep face.
> can't prevent reads without breaking everything

I don't understand, you can lie to git-upload-pack and send anything you want to the user?

but when we used gitolite, we put sensitive stuff in a separate server and restricted reads to trusted users/deployment tools

edit oh I see, you want to let some people clone the repo but with some stuff redacted and still be able to make changes to the non-redacted stuff. I'd used LFS and move the ACLs to the file server, if using a single repo was a hard requirement
If you're on a mac or a phone and not using apple pay, you're just a glutton for punishment.

(Presumably the apple pay button doesn't show up if you're not on one of those.)
IMO the best podcasts are organic and conversational between interesting hosts, not "produced" segment shows like many of the big names. Here's a suggestion:

Omnibus! With Ken Jennings and John Roderick

https://www.omnibusproject.com/
today's FT front page headline 'Wirecard relied on three opaque partners for almost all its profit'
'Dubai-based unit of German payments group was not audited'

'Al Alam Solutions, a Dubai-based payments processor with skeletal operations in the Emirate, is the largest of the three “partner” entities. Wirecard refers clients to Al Alam in return for a share of any processing fees as commission. A former Al Alam employee said the business had six or seven staff in total and “the boss” was Oliver Bellenhaus, a Wirecard executive.
The other partners are PayEasy Solutions, a Philippine payments group that shares an office with a Manila bus company, and Singapore-based Senjo. '

https://www.ft.com/content/a7b43142-6675-11e9-9adc-98bf1d35a...
The relevant paper here is: https://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-90.pdf

It's not actually faster if you have to try all of them :)
At least there is a live demo, I see so many GitHub projects where a screenshot or a live demo would say more then a thousand words. Checking out a repo and trying to run it is a big hurdle.
Given that it was a data science interview is it possible they were expecting it to be a fast simple thing (some pandas, some sklearn, you’re done) and instead he did some long slow manual thing so they rejected him?
It wasn't really strange with Wheeler. When he was the head of the main cable trade association (over 30 years before the FCC appointment) it was at a time when cable was the scrappy upstart fighting against the big, entrenched broadcast networks to bring more options to consumers.

Later, when he was head of the main wireless trade association it was when wireless was the upstart, bringing an alternative to the big, entrenched wired services.

In short, he worked for the cable and the wireless industry groups at a time when being pro-cable and pro-wireless, respectively, was pro-consumer.
I don't know how to automate it but you can have remote guests make a separate recording using a USB mic and then email you the file. Of course, the more complicated you make things for a guest the harder it is to get them to go along and the more mistake-prone it is.

That does add to the work but it's not bad for a 15-20 minute interview.

The thing I'd like to see which I guess falls into the "seems easier than it is" bucket is software that automatically stripped out common verbal tics like "umm" and "you know." Cleaning up at least some of those and equalizing all the volumes probably takes most of my time editing a podcast.
We are trying to add state-level oversight in New York. Prosecutors believe that oversight is “marred by constitutional defects.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/nyregion/ny-prosecutors-c...
It had already ceased operation before the start of the war (in the US), and would have been taken up for scrap sooner or later anyway. Even without World War II, there is exactly zero chance that the railroad would have survived long enough to be useful again. Unused rail lines don't sit for 50 years without being scrapped. (At least, they didn't in those days. Tennessee Pass seems to be headed toward becoming the exception that proves the rule.)
There was no agreement for compensation, so I don’t know that’d work. Some actual damage would have to be done. Lost time alone isn’t enough, it could maybe be shown to result from the damage and need to be restored. Justice is restoration, what’s broken? I change minds though small actions like refusing to work for companies that are out of alignment with my values, maybe this could do it.

Sending a bill would be more of a symbolic FU than anything.
I downloaded install64.iso started it and entered the shell. Next, I entered 'awk' and got the response:

sh: awk: not found

Maybe their live cd doesn't include the whole 'base' set?
Sorry, no, there was no smugness. I agree with your points here quite firmly. I guess my tone didn't carry.
If you didn't know you had something like Gilbert's syndrome this test would tell you that these genes were different

UGT1A1
UGT1A10

You can take that information research more or change your lifestyle / diet to put less stress in processes that involve those genes.

Very useful or useless depending on who you are.