skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fabula: A Vue.js Inspired Task Runner
It’s a bit busy and the progressive loading takes a while, but it’s far from causing my iPhone to lag. What phone are you using?
On the topic of ZFS on Linux, does anyone know the expected timeline for version 8 of ZoL? Or is it just a case of "it will be ready when it's ready"?

I've had to import an pool from FreeBSD but can only mount the volume as readonly because of a feature flag enabled that isn't in v7 but is currently in the RC versions of 8. I'm a little nervous about running the RC versions because this is a "production" pool (albeit just a home server).
>To be clear, I don’t mean to dismiss the work of a lone programmer toiling on programs without anyone to pair with or learn from. I’ve been that person many times in my
career as a programmer, it’s not fun.

Wait, what? That's the most fun!
No because that child would be a Kenyan citizen and have the right to remain in their country.

Also, he was not illegally moved to the US- Somalia was undergoing a humanitarian disaster & civil war at the time, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Task_Force for the US support given on the ground. This would absolutely be grounds for seeking asylum.
Side projects are probably the most fun that can be had with programming, not just for the freedom of requirements but also because you can build something you truly enjoy building.

I'm lucky to be writing fun code at work - most of the time -, but the side projects keep me sane for many reasons. Not having to deal with 'bad' code that I didn't write, is also a nice benefit. All the bad code in my personal projects is mine, so no one else to blame :D

EDIT: typos and delete possibly negative statement
Also realized about every single concert venue here uses AXS and their miserable app. It’s so bad it almost makes me want Ticketmaster back.

The app is so, so bad.
Hyper 3.0.0
So because you personally can hide your private data, that makes this an acceptable form of security for 'everyone else'?

Pardon me while I humbly disagree.
That's not enough. Opt-out features are wrong because organizations/companies know that most people won't pay attention or not fully appreciate the dangers of it.
Oddly enough I find the collaboration more interesting now. Not sure if that’s a getting older thing but I like managing the PR’s, ensuring code is of a high quality and serving the needs of the users.
We badly need an alternative to animal agriculture. It takes up huge swathes of space, contributes more to global warming than anything else, and now superbugs?

This is terrifying and has far far worse implications than climate change. Imagine if we regress back to time where medical science is useless? - Where even having a child becomes a killer because the antibiotics don't work anymore.

I know most people aren't ready to give up meat, but we need to cut production massively and soon. Maybe cloned meat is the answer.
Being mostly right is an exciting place to be in physics though. Newtonian dynamics was mostly right for orbital mechanics till relativity after all.

Hopefully when we find out why we're currently mostly but not completely right, it'll be equally significant.
hacker spaces / maker spacers can be a pretty good place if you are a hacker / maker looking for friends with similar interests
I use the paid version of Books from Sort It Apps: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/book-list-library-isbn-scann...

All you have to do is hold the phone over the bar code for a second and it automatically downloads all the relevant information. This is by far (IMHO) the fastest way to catalog a mountain of books.

Not affiliated with the app or company in any way, just a happy user.
How to Operate by Keith Rabois
Hoarding, Motherhood, OCD – Let's not stigmatize, instead empathize
How Blockchain Is Transforming the Recruitment Process
And by that point, there wasn't much going on in Irix development. 6.5 was out in the late 1990s, IIRC.
Over the past 6 months the number of robocalls to my mobile number has increased from 1 or 2 a week to at least 5+ a day. I’ve also just stopped answering numbers I don’t recognize.m, which isn’t always ideal because I miss legitimate calls now. I actually just send it immediately to voicemail. Most of the time my voicemail box is full because it’s filled with junk I don’t bother clearing out.

Ive contemplated changing my number. But I imagine that won’t actually help. Is this just the new reality? Are there any solutions?
> To me, it seems totally reasonable to make all sexualized depictions of children illegal for this reason.

Among a huge number of intractable problems with fictional works, this also would make it illegal for many abuse victims to talk about what happened to them.
But Chromium still has most, if not all, the Google integration.

There are forks that try to strip Google from it, but it is a mistake to assume that Chromium is somehow better than Chrome.
I've given them the "I'm not interested" line. They always still try to make their sale despite me repeating it. The worst ones are the guys going around trying to sell steaks or to look at your power bill to "save you money". There are also people around here that will give you a sob story about why they need the money to mow your lawn. I've lived in a few neighborhoods around here and it's always the same. If I want you over you probably can text me, so I just ignore the door.
Here you are: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/09/are-antibiotics-turn...
I'm not sure how I missed this, but thank you for bringing it to my attention. It seems straightforward enough. I should be able to figure out the string operations.
The difference is the 'personal project' bit. If you have to do something, because it's for work and there's a deadline, then the fun hacks produce a general feeling of unease, uncertainty, and of not doing ones job properly.

At work myself i work mostly in isolation on codebases that have been in maintenance mode for years, where the original authors have typically either left the company or moved to another dept, and where there is almost no documentation. Everything is hacks and exploratory work, but it sure ain't fun. Adding relatively uninteresting small changes can take days or weeks.

Working on a broad and deep project as half of a pair is my preferred working mode so far in my career.
How I built a CDN for our multi-tenant app within a day
I only answer the phone if the call is from someone on my contact list.

My phone is in Do Not Disturb mode 100% of the time, with only alarms and priority calls whitelisted, so I know that if a call comes through, it's probably important.

Everyone else can send a message or record a voicemail. I'll call or write back when I feel like it. I have also taken the step of disabling all notifications except for direct messages to me. Those get to pop an icon in the notification bar, but no sound nor vibration alerts. I'll see the message whenever I decide to check my phone.
I agree.

I would argue that a revolution is statistically something negative, and that if we can avoid it, we should.

But, It is a last resort, if there are no other options left, revolution is the one option that "the elite" cannot remove.

The reason why some people seem to be arguing for a revolution is that they have lost hope in there being other options.
The doctors job is to decide which lab tests are needed based on checks they can do and their expertise.
> good quality scooters will get stolen more often. And there probably never be a safety lock good enough to prevent that.

I wonder if they could just make the electronics too costly to replace? Use a five phase brushless motor. Have ten different paired versions of drive electronics and motor, and no way to tell which is which without the right app to query the electronics. Cell packs with built in DRM.

Basically come up with ways that make it difficult to easily/reliably replace the main drive electronics.
Not to mention printing on paper is a terrible idea in 2019.
I don't know if it's mathematically sound, but increases in wages (especially at the bottom) and increase taxation at the top will certainly help alleviate the problem.
New Content Management System
> Well yeah, because you avoid me like I am an obsessive ex-girlfriend. :D

Hah. I'm equally slow to reply to most e-mails :-P

> and they don't want any newer technologies.

I don't think it's necessarily that often that it is that they don't want any newer technologies per se, but that it's easy to avoid technologies you don't personally see the benefits of, even if that is because you don't know them.

But I also see the reverse relatively regularly: People who push the new hotness because they want to play with them rather than for any real business reason, but who try to pretend otherwise. It's fine, if you want to try to rewrite something in a new language because you want to see if it brings benefits, cool, justify it as research.
I am simply a hard worker, very professional and very effective. I'm working a new content management and sharing platform and it is amazing, one can get it at https://www.getlucid.app/, just install it in your cpanel and you're good to go..
>The problem is that one "tribe"'s material conditions are at the expense of the others.

This presumes a closed system, and the assumption is demonstrably false in at least two ways. With an open system, you can conceivably have growth for both sides of the market (profit and wages).

For one, we are extracting energy and resources from nature, and the supply - at least of energy - is effectively unlimited. Longer term we can also mine the resources from outer space, which again is effectively unlimited. Granted, there are constraints on how quickly we can build out the gathering infrastructure for either, but there is no hard cap. Moreover, with the improvements in efficiency (economies and environmentalism go hand in hand here) we're reducing waste and reusing a lot resources and energy that would've previously been wasted, again moving the needle away from resource limitation and towards open-like system.

For another, the discussion is implicitly about USA (and similar case can be made for EU), meanwhile there's well known trade imbalance with goods purchased from abroad. Getting close to, or at, the point of balance is feasible; the current imbalance is result of difference in economical conditions and governmental policy.

The goods imported from abroad are specifically the ones that are mass-manufactured, which is where the wage laborers gets their wages from. The suppressed demand for local manufacturing suppresses wages of workers within USA (similarly, within EU).

Effectively we have outsourced the growth of wages to other countries. Making the source countries richer obviously has important benefits (stabilizing them politically, long term making them interested in clean environment, etc.), but it is a policy choice that needs to be balanced with in-country prosperity none the less.

And then there's the matter of changes in supply of workers, but that's a whole different subject for another day.

All in all, sure, reform capitalism: improve the trade balance, let the wages recover due to the demand that's already present, just supplied for from elsewhere.
If you want true friends just buy skateboard
Don't need a lab test for this one, there's a swipe test to determine if it's viral or bacterial.

Source: had about 40 or more in my life, was prone to tonsilitis for ages.
Then the Pad Thai is about as Thai as the Apple Pie is American.
But the naming (especially "toot", less so "Mastodon") will likely stop the network effect kicking in IMO. I think it's that bad.
to be fair, tooting also means to blow one's horn. Which come to think of it, also sounds pretty funny.

More seriously, the American Heritage Dictionary gives the following definition:

v.
To sound a horn or whistle in short blasts.
v.
To make the sound of a horn or whistle blown in short blasts or a sound resembling it.
v.
Slang To snort cocaine.

None of which is to fart. I do wonder if that meaning is a regionalism?
> The doctor is just running off a standard checklist for one of among 50 almost exactly alike cases during his workday.

"What do you mean it takes two weeks to build that software? IT IS SO EASY"
Yes, that was largely my point. While Rails at the time probably did sort-of encourage a monolith, there was nothing requiring it to be that way; it was their design choices, not Ruby or Rails that caused their scaling problems at the time they moved away from Rails.

When they were rewriting anyways, it's very much possibly that moving off Rails was the right choice anyway, but that was incidental to the far bigger problem of their broken architecture.
> globally, and across most countries, the weighted rate of return on capital was twice as high as the growth rate in the past 150 years.
HN doesn't allow inline images, so I've tweeted a combo screencap of a recent example of a sellers messaging to confirm my shipping address (no response from me and that order would not move) and an example of a seller waiting two days to tell me that the stuff I'd bought wasn't in stock and telling me to apply for a refund:

https://twitter.com/briandonovan/status/1125353433110700032
I went with Wordpress after a blogging guide suggested to minimize time spent messing with the blogging software, because messing with blogging software isn't blogging.
> Does it also work on humans? Does taking a lot of antibiotics since birth makes a human stronger and taller?

Quite possibly. It will also bugger up your immune system maturation spectacularly. That doesn't matter so much for animals destined for the slaughterhouse, but it does for you because viruses aren't affected by antibiotics.
Did you consider to use some kind of OCR?
Benefits of beta carotene and source of it
Marching Cubes
> Many ISP and other organizations had provisioned the size of the memory for their router TCAMs for a limit of 512K route entries, and some older routers suffered memory overflows that caused their CPUs to crash.

> Engineers and network administrators scrambled to apply emergency firmware patches to set it to a new upper limit. In many cases, that upper limit was 768k entries.

Is there some technical reason for the emergency patch not to have increased the limit to a much higher and future-proof threshold?

In 2014 it shouldn't have been hard to predict that the new 768k would have been hit in just a few years.
Critically in that case, the stall warning stopped when the nose was pulled up even further, because the computers rejected the indication as too large to be correct. So every time the nose was lowered, the stall warning activated.
I agree with the author maybe because for first four years of my software development career I was a lone developer. Maybe Dave was in similar situation.
"Descartes reasoned that since animals are not rational, they are not conscious, and since they are not conscious, they cannot even be aware of pain; their piteous howls during the horrible experiments he conducted on them were to him mere reflex, the unfelt expression of material reactions akin to the shrieking of a teakettle."

The Cartesian world view on biology has been catastrophic to our fellow mammals and even today aspects of this perspective survives. Physiologically, humans are not very different from other mammals, even if we want to be. We all have a limbic system and that means we all have the same emotions. Animals have feelings and emotions. When things happen to them, they react with emotions be it sorrow, anger, happiness, fear.
> but imagine the amount of money this will cost bigger search engines like DDG, Qwant, etc.

People use extensions to change the default search engine in their browsers? I honestly thought only malware does that; regular people use the Settings menu.
Germany is very big (4th largest economy in the world) and we have no problems with robocalls at all. I don't think I've ever experienced a robocall.
> I believe that Bitwarden handles it correctly via "live sync"

That looks cool!

Re: your other comments though: you're not doing a fair comparison. Try letting Dropbox trash your %AppData%\Bitwarden folder and then let me know how well LiveSync handles syncing! That's what you're doing to KeePass.

> However, this is one of the issues I have with Keepass - it may be possible to do better, but the default behaviour is abhorrent.

This isn't the "default behavior" though. The default behavior is in fact to synchronize everything correctly... if you only give it a chance to do that. But if you insist on letting your Dropbox desktop sync pull the rug out from underneath KeePass and replace the whole database randomly, it's literally impossible for KeePass to know what the old entries were to be able to merge them -- it doesn't have them anymore. It needs an old copy of the database around so it can compare the two, and those instructions tell you to make a second copy so it can do its job. That seems pretty fair to me -- what more can you expect? You didn't even give it a chance to do its job, and instead let someone else just trash the place while it's gone, then blame it for not actively fighting your attempts to do that?

This is why KeePass has plugins like KeeAnywhere [1]. You're supposed to use those instead of syncing your database like a normal file. [2] So KeePass actually gets a chance to do its job... if you only let it!

[1] https://keepass.info/plugins.html#keeanywhere

[2] Well, KeePassX[C] folks will beg to differ and just tell you to keep doing what you were already doing and it'll work Just Fine (TM), and that what you were seeing happening in front of your eyes was supposed to be vanishingly unlikely. It's basically gaslighting as far as I can tell, but somehow they can pretend it doesn't affect them, so I dunno...
Malicious DLL execution using Apple's APSDaemon.exe signed binary
I believe you and I'm glad that you have such a smooth experience on Taobao. I wish that it were as hassle-free for me, my wife, her coworkers, and pretty much anyone I've met who has used Taobao.

Here are two recent examples of my having to interact w/sellers on WangWang. Top half of screencap: have to confirm address or they won't ship. Bottom half of screencap: other seller waits two days to tell me that the stuff I bought was out of stock and I should apply for a refund (the items are still for sale on that shop btw).

https://twitter.com/briandonovan/status/1125353433110700032
Who ships safety-critical features as an optional extra?
AutoBOF: A Journey into Automation, Exploit Development, and Buffer Overflows
I would prefer to be buried with as little environmental impact as possible, so a forest burial seems like a good ide.

Equally as important is that I would prefer a joyful wake, one where friends and family get together and remember all the best times we had together, and to celebrate a life well lived. Have a grand old party in my name, and remember to enjoy the good things in life.
Frankly, I envy you.

Here are two recent examples of my having to interact w/sellers on WangWang. Top half of screencap: have to confirm address or they won't ship. Bottom half of screencap: other seller waits two days to tell me that the stuff I bought was out of stock and I should apply for a refund (the items are still for sale on that shop btw).

https://twitter.com/briandonovan/status/1125353433110700032
130th anniversary of the Eiffel Tower: interesting facts
Here are two recent examples of my having to interact w/sellers on WangWang. Top half of screencap: have to confirm address or they won't ship. Bottom half of screencap: other seller waits two days to tell me that the stuff I bought was out of stock and I should apply for a refund (the items are still for sale on that shop btw).

https://twitter.com/briandonovan/status/1125353433110700032
Revolutions are generally predicated not on possessing solutions, but dissatisfaction, means, and opportunity.
Texture Mapping as a Fundamental Drawing Primitive: Haeberli and Segal June 1993
Mean != 10%ile.

Mean != 50%ile.

Sufficience for the poorest (or at least the bottom half generally) is necessary.
> How is that not a proprietary lock-in if all your data is stored on a single company's servers?

Even more than this, I'm a big fan but IIRC GitHub is pretty infamous for making it excessively hard to extract issue data/move to other platforms? (I think the wiki pages are available as a repo, so at least that's easy to get).
Here is another factor to consider that I think many are overlooking: our steadily increasing RF-exposure may be altering the growth rate and antibiotic susceptibility of bacteria and other microorganisms.

I don't think many are considering this possibility, and I don't like what I find. It seems RF-radiation, even at non-thermal exposure levels, is able to both alter the growth rate and antibiotic interaction of microorganisms.

"Extremely High Frequency Electromagnetic Radiation Enforces Bacterial Effects of Inhibitors and Antibiotics":

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51408122_Extremely_...

"Evaluation of the Effect of Radiofrequency Radiation Emitted From Wi-Fi Router and Mobile Phone Simulator on the Antibacterial Susceptibility of Pathogenic Bacteria Listeria monocytogenes and Escherichia coli":

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5298474/

"Effect of radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation on physiological features of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain UCM Y-517":

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15456218

"Preliminary results on the non-thermal effects of 200-350 GHz radiation on the growth rate of S. cerevisiae cells in microcolonies":

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12452574
Fucking hell. That is a fucker of a dark UX pattern.
Facebook 'labels' posts by hand, posing privacy questions
This would destroy your gut microbiome so bad idea.

But yes I think it would work.
Now I get the Postgresql logo, and Hadoop too, even though the latter was named after the creator's boy's toy elephant.
Deep Learning in Clojure on the GPU: Weight Decay
This isn’t the case anymore. There is currently no real enforcement mechanism in place for the registry, so even a number on the registry will get many robo calls a day now.
> Not sure who 'us' is; HN readership is pretty diverse

Do you really believe that? 99% of us work in offices. You're in a bit of a bubble. Try going to a working man's club or the equivalent in your country to get a glimpse of the rest of society.
How to Develop Phi and Hipaa Compliant Mobile Apps?
It will not be chopped down. The idea is to plant a forest which is in some form of the word "sacred", a place that is respected, because it is nature reclaimed, or because it is a resting place of the dead. If a tree falls over (some live many hundreds of years), it will rot and take on its natural role in nature as food for fungus and other life. As people die, the forest grows. It shouldn't be maintained, the land should be considered spent, given back.

Forests and nature in general managed just fine without human intervention, and indeed, us valiantly putting out forest fires have only made forest fires more dangerous as forests are now denser than they'd have been with natural pruning.
Civilization Accelerating Extinction at Unprecedented Pace
Human society under urgent threat from loss of Earth's natural life
Iliffe Vector
Interesting Bran Stark Theories from Game of Thrones
The arsenic or the genes?

Arsenic would probably be via mass spectroscopy, the genes would be via transcrptomics.
Denver voters consider next frontier in decriminalizing drugs: magic mushrooms
Does it work offline?