skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat off-topic, but I always thought the most prominent real-life reenactment of The Fox and the Grapes was all of the media and thinkpieces that people have written about how living for an extended period of time would be just _awful_. You wouldn't find many people who think that 40 years would be an acceptable lifespan, and most people would probably like to live to 100 if they got there in good health, but as soon as the idea of living potential centuries is floated, it's all "it would drive you crazy with boredom!" It seems like a good-sized contingent of people believe that extending the human lifespan wouldn't be impossible or immoral so much as it would be _undesirable_. Boy, it sure is convenient that our "natural" longevity (whatever that means) is right at the limits of what humans can reasonably enjoy, huh?

I could understand the impulse people would have to not extend their lives if that's truly what they wanted, but the almost _cultural_ belief that seeking immortality is Bad and Wrong, something only pursued by cartoon villains and insane emperors seems like a collective agreement among people to throw their hands up and go "well, fine! I don't even _want_ to live longer, who'd like that?"

All of this, of course, doesn't touch on the moral, economic, environmental, etc. problems that crop up with greatly extended longevity, for which there are a number of altogether more palatable arguments that would need to be engaged with more fully. Still, it's an odd piece of ideology that makes people feel like they don't need to deploy any of these in the conversation - why would they, when they _totally_ don't even want to live much longer than 100 anyways?
Markdown -> HTML without killing the ability for text clients like the one I was using was a must have before I would switch to (neo)mutt. Here's how I managed to do it.

text/plain (markdown) -> multipart/alternative with neomutt

macro compose K "| pandoc -f markdown -o /tmp/neomutt-alternative.html<enter><attach-file>/tmp/neomutt-alternative.html<enter><tag-entry><previous-entry><tag-entry><group-alternatives>"
Networking hardware often has this option and I miss it often when deploying configuration changes to software. Its something a lot more systems could use.
Then it’s a taut line hitch, right?
My biggest problem with Windows is that you can't scroll in a window or a pane without clicking on it first. Both Mac and Linux support that and it makes the OS feel so clunky.
> Facebook hasn't figured this out with in-video ads.

You haven't figured it out you means. My SO watches theses ads, so does many others peoples.

At the end of the day, they still have to provide you this service, they aren't a charity. You either get theses ads, or you don't get that content... whether you believe that content is worth it or not, doesn't change its cost.
The claim was “nobody does.” I responded with “someone does.” An anecdote is sufficient proof here.
I used fish for a while, but the fact that it is a clear break from bash / sh syntax for things like chaining and redirecting made my reflexes all wrong. I'd type `dothis && dothat` and fish would just say, "umm, I think you mean `dothis and dothat`", or I'd have to use a bash subshell to run some command someone else wrote with some fiddly find syntax piping to xargs. So I just switched to zsh. Less cool name, but my reflexes are once again correct.
I smell a low-cost iPhone offering late Summer.
Exactly what software do you think they are behind on?
Don't post if you don't know what you are talking about. Bodyweight exercise is fine and great - yes, I have read Building the Gymnastics Body, Convict Conditioning, and did gymnastics and martial arts, so I have a vague notion of what it is. Except that it sucks for progressive overload. Progressive overload is VERY difficult with bodyweight training. If you aren't doing deadlifts, you are shortchanging yourself. Also, if you get stuck on pullups, guess what helps? Adding weight. Finally, it can be a time saving to not clean up everything and maintain your own workout space.
How much was it the assumption of a shrinking large vehicle market and how much was it a push for shrinkage?
Theranos: Stanford prof never trusted Elizabeth Holmes
That's a huge claim. I've encountered lots of people who have been erased from social media over time and invariably they haven't harmed anyone - not unless you consider "saying things other people dislike" to be harm, of course, which is what's behind the whole speech is violence trope from the left.
woodgears.ca is one of my favorite sites on the internet. really inspiring, although it's unlikely I'll ever build a pantograph router.
to avoid context switching?
I can’t think of a way to do that. When content is added via css it’s not selectable. Maybe fork it and see what you can do? https://github.com/secretGeek/html_wysiwyg/
I think it is quite plausible that feathers originally developed for thermoregulation. If they started as simple filaments that could be raised and lowered to adjust radiative surface area, it seems that thermoregulatory advantages alone could have driven a series of small evolutionary improvements towards flat, light-weight feather-like structures. Seeing a bird able to massively fluff up its feathers or pull them in tight against its body is like seeing a person instantly go from wearing a puffy down coat for winter to a sleek body suit for summer exercise. From there, I can imagine how these flat, controllable surfaces could be used by small animals to eventually control rapid descent from trees to escape prey and then eventually evolving to flight.
My gym is 3 minutes away, literally. I can run there in 10 if I want to warm up.
Varieties of Nonsense
> the negative externalities of GM and Fiat customers are both borne by everyone, but the transfer payments in compensation are paid to Tesla, not society as a whole

If the transfer payments mean Teslas become cheaper or more available, and therefore more people drive EVs, wouldn't that negate the negative externalities of using petrol vehicles?
Cap & Trade is weird.

How are the caps set, based on what?

And the system doesn't even reimburse the people who bear the externalized cost.

If you want to address an externality, just address it directly by fee & dividend.
Seems in line with what is known so far, e.g. https://gking.harvard.edu/publications/how-censorship-china-...
A little "gee-whiz" tidbit along with some new-age virtue shaming; a good start to the day indeed.

Sometimes a drug/convenience store is just a drug/convenience store.
"if you keep the hatch shut you should be pretty safe from your average molotov cocktail thrower"
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Yellowbird
[2]https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8555142...
Re SAN connections: what are the various options with respect to using the 10G ethernet, vs Thunderbolt, vs a PCI slot HBA-type device?
The Transformer Explained
A colleague mine at some point used some Ansible command within AWS which instructed AWS to terminate instances that did not have a specific tag... we were so scared as we saw production instances losing connection one by one, until we realized what was happening.

Fortunately, we had set the important instances to have termination protection. But man, the kind of damage you can do with a single command is huge.
I highly doubt apple isnt collecting inform on users of their services, they just aren't letting anybody else access it. Its matter of time before Apple builds something that uses all the info they have collected.
I was considering this one, but I'm just starting down this particular rabbit hole.
> It does? macOS seems to do well enough on the privacy front.

And my laptop is a lot more expensive than my phone.

Look, you're presumably complaining because you either own, or want to own, an iPhone, in spite of there being dozens of other phones with similar features, and hundreds more with different features. The feature / price point combination of those phones are in part a result of the App Store policies. Changing that cut will change the feature / price point: they'd have to charge more, or give you less, or find alternate sources of revenue (i.e., start spying on you).

Now, maybe their business model would work fine without having to resort to ads or raise the prices too much. But maybe it won't. The only way to find out would be to risk destroying it. Which is completely unnecessary, given that there are so many alternatives.

If you don't like their policies, don't buy their phone. If Spotify doesn't like paying a 30% cut, they don't have to make an iPhone app. There are lots of other options out there.
It's the BBC News web style to have relatively simple sentences, and each paragraph be made up of one sentence. The sentences do often become more complex further down an article.

Partly this was done so as to be readable on the old Ceefax and other mediums. But also so that it would be understandable by a wide audience.
From English to Chinese.
Joseph Menn on the Cult of the Dead Cow
I find that browser automation impresses both adults and children. It would help to find something content relevant to them like for example, some multi page website where they would have to fill forms or click on things. Skip headless and launch it visible and show them how the computer can automate away repetitive tasks. Ideally, pick something concise and give them a peek at how you can do this in say 100 lines of code and they should see the power behind tools like this.

One of my interns did something like this for himself as the school’s dashboard for grades worked inconsistently (high school) so he built a tool that logged in once per hour and checked his grades for any changes and notified him when there were.
can you give some examples of products you can't find at WF? I only ask because WF is the closest grocery to me and I don't have a problem getting everything I need. Granted, fresh fruit and vegetables don't have the 365 brand, but I'm assuming you don't mean that? I think the 365 brand is more about staples like milk, eggs, juice? Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong though, I'm sure I'm biased.
Exactly this. If Zuckerberg had done something illegal with the voting power structure, SEC would have ousted him by now. Everyone knew what they were into when buying the stock and if not, the buyers had not done their due diligence, which is not Facebook's issue.
Do Buddhists hold this to be true?
Ditto. My wife and I are stereotypically the perfect WF/TJs customers: ecologically-minded hippie-ish DINKs in an upper-middle-class suburb. We live a 3 minute drive from both, and she works a short walk from a Roche Bros (which serves a similar demographic).

Yet, despite the poorer selection and higher prices, the majority of groceries that enter our house come from CVS. Why? My wife visits one regularly to pick up prescriptions, and they have just enough of what we buy, at sufficiently justifiable prices, that she can get enough of what we need without an extra trip to a different store.

The most convenient store is the one you're already at.
The latter speculation is pure bullshit.
Fascinating.

"See Implementing the 1996 OECD Recommendation on the Tax Deductibility of Bribes to Foreign Public Officials, OECD (May 26, 1997) (Report by the Committee on Fiscal Affairs ("CFA") to the OECD Council at Ministerial Level) [hereinafter Implementation of Tax Deductibility Recommendation] (describing current member state practices regarding the tax treatment of overseas bribes). Attitudes of OECD Member countries concerning the deductibility of bribes to foreign officials vary greatly. See id. at 7. The laws vary accordingly but in most countries, bribes across borders are deductible as business expenses. See id. at 7-8; M. Javade Chaudri, OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions (Conference on Corruption, American University, Washington College of Law. April 6. 1998). in 2 COMBATING CORRUPTION-RECENT MULTILATERAL INITIATIVES 252 (1998) [hereinafter 2 COMBATING CORRUPTION I (on file with author) (summarizing and analyzing the OECD Convention, listing the signatories to its provisions, and noting that foreign bribery and related tax-deductibility is an accepted German business practice). The OECD Member countries are: Australia, Austria, Belgium.
Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland. France. Germany. Greece. Hungary.
Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands. New Zealand,
Norway, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Spain. Sweden. Switzerland. Turkey.
United Kingdom, United States. See id. at 261."

http://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a... (PDF)
This is similar to current nails versus cut nails. Round nails help for sheer force, but after a while are easy to pull out. Cut nails are shaped different and work much better. I built two blanket chests using cut nails to hold it together, glue only to make a panel wide enough. Five years later it still is doing great, even with 5+ kids using it as a toy box. Screws would have worked themselves out by now.

Also built a workbench with pegged tenons, guess it weighs 100+ lbs, and if you bump it with enough force the whole things moves, but the tenons are still not loose.
You can choose to share your email with each developer or not, so if you feel particularly attached to a service you can disable the email obfuscation. Or sign up withouth Apple ID if you know beforehand.
I'm not familiar with zsh. Can someone explain the implications of this? Will it, for example, disrupt the sharing of scripts with peers on Linux machines?
They offered an ad service some years back, but their insistence on privacy made their ad service uncompetitive, so it folded.

They've been focused on privacy for a long time, and developers running terrible ads is despite Apple's efforts, not because of them.
But this is only possible because regulators force the local provider to allow the distant provider to use their infrastructure at a fair price.
That's a bizarre reading of EGreg's comment. If the best theories that we have at present in some domain are weak, then we should acknowledge that. Doing so obviously doesn't prevent people from trying to develop better theories. On the contrary, it should spur them on.
> extremely difficult if you’re poor

I mean, I live in an area where there’s a Whole Foods within two blocks’ walking distance of two other grocery stores (one mid-market, one down-market.)

I think this isn’t actually that uncommon; people don’t see Whole Foods as actually satisfying the demand for “a grocery store” in an area (as it doesn’t carry many of the things people expect a larger grocery store to carry—it may have decent produce, deli, bakery, etc. sections, but its grocery section is rather lacking in anything other than up-market “bougie” brands) so if there’s an existing other grocery store, and then a Whole Foods also gets built, that doesn’t much decrease the traffic to the other grocery store to the point that it would close down.

The only problem is property developers marketing a new neighbourhood that only has a Whole Foods as being “close to a grocery store”, and people believing them and moving there. That Whole Foods was probably already there before the neighbourhood was, serving as an outlet to travel to for the larger region that that the new neighbourhood is located in; but the other parts of the region were being served by grocery stores located closer to them, and this new neighbourhood actually doesn’t have one of those.
I think it has been like this since Windows 3.1, so “some time” might be an understatement.
Man, this is why I love HN. One paragraph and you clarified questions raised by the last 10 injection molding articles I’ve read. Thank you.
Show HN: Classpert – A search engine for online courses
Dasher is such a novel concept of a keyboard it's almost alien. I love everything about it. You can install it on Ubuntu with:

apt-get install dasher
(https://packages.ubuntu.com/disco/dasher)

And here is Dasher's source code:
https://github.com/GNOME/dasher
Why HPE sees memory-driven computing as an answer to Moore's Law
My daughter is on a £150 6s, the same model I’m using right now, just fine for the last 9 months.
Yes, but it isn't enough information and TBH i do not think that at the language level you can have something that will provide a good enough UX (but then again i'm not in favor of Javadoc-style comments and i believe documentation should lie outside of the source code).
Ideally, they would work with Solid, a standards based approach to decentralized identity, to provide a general solution, rather than creating yet another new one.
Hi HN !

This is Felipe, FJ and Thiago from Classpert (https://classpert.com/). We've built a (free) search engine for online courses. Our intention is to help people search and find courses that most suit their personal and professional needs.

The idea is to offer an ultimate platform for comparing different and relevant aspects of online courses such as price, duration, providers, ratings, audio language, subtitles, etc. We believe the wide variety of courses and platforms available is an obstacle to the user’s optimal choice.

From a software standpoint, we faced 2 main challenges when building Classpert. 1) Crawling providers: Since we wanted to be the most accurate possible, crawling is the best option (instead of using affiliate feeds and APIs). The crawling engine is built using Ruby and PL/SQL 2) Building the search engine experience (VueJS)

From a business standpoint, we launched our MVP in December 2018 and are still working on our platform to give the best experience. This is why we’d love to get HN’s feedback. Thanks for taking the time to read this :)
Please at least read what you link to.

"was a Hong Kong-based operation to help the Chinese dissidents who participated in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 to escape arrest by the PRC government by facilitating their departure overseas via Hong Kong."

Which has nothing to do with the quote above and even less with your statement.
Perhaps that’s the norm, though my coworker commented a few minutes ago about how she has asked her parents questions about politically-related issues or events in private and they still are evasive about answering.

Her experiences may be uncommon and is only a single data point.
Insanity.... plus hackernews has been posting a ton of Apple propaganda. How rude of you, trading the quality we appreciate for money.

Every body has a price...apparently even hackers and their news/
Can you share a link to that paper please? A DOI would do...
Being poor doesn’t mean you can’t get a bus ticket. All it means is you are deliberate in your shopping and planning.

You plan your trip to take advantage of transfer tickets and such. Sometimes you walk a mile or two or you bike or you bum a ride from someone.

Being poor doesn’t mean you can’t plan and are helpless.

Sure it’s not ideal and I prefer being able to shop ad hoc at my leisure, no doubt. But when I had to I made do.
Actually, we're a contract manufacturer based in Shenzhen and that's what we sell them for.

You probably made the right call, though, even if you had found a perfect supplier. Hardware projects funded by individuals almost always end in heartache if they try to go big.
Physics breakthrough should solve quantum computing's dead cat problem
*it wouldn't

Too late to edit, damn it
> Both still hold (virtual) monopolies in their respective markets: Mainframes / desktop OS. It's just that these markets are no longer the most important.

That's actually a good point. Thanks!

Of course what's a "market" can be defined in a zillion ways, depending on what point you want to make. It's good to remember that "market" is a theoretical construct, not something tangibly real.
Sure it's a thing for a reason... the reason is guys who are into body lifting that was an easy source of calories and protein. It has nothing to do with your narrative.
Metal is still cheap compared to new equipment, though not by the same margin. Much of Gingery's machines use cast aluminum, which is something that can often be found for free with enough patience - melt down soda cans, broken transmission housings if you have a mechanic friend, old furniture if you can find an office going out of business, etc.
That's actually one of the better new features in Windows 10 (that you can these days scroll an inactive window).
Indie Hackers helped me get my first customer
> We (outsiders and history in general) have very little idea what happened, and a single photo which escaped the censorship.

...what? We have more than a single photo of the Tiananmen Square incident! While in the article, have some archival BBC footage:

https://youtu.be/kMKvxJ-Js3A
There's nothing in EGreg's comments to indicate that. I don't think accusing people of being creationists when they say something mildly critical of some branch of evolutionary biology is conducive to a good discussion.
>a single photo which escaped the censorship.

It seems there's quite significant documentation, even documentaries with video of the event. Perhaps more is coming to light because it's the 30 year anniversary.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/world/asia/tiananmen-squa...
Amazon Appstore exists[0]. It also takes a 30% cut.

As a comment above[1] highlights, it is more expensive than it might seem to operate the ecosystem.

It always seems like one should be able to reproduce a popular service in a weekend, but the details (and scale) are tricky.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1002999431
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20093819
First of all, being specific doesn't mean irrefutable, correct or that it makes actual sense. My statements only seem unspecific because they are ridiculous for an educated person in our current century (although many educated people from our century felt for the last one.)

I don't want to turn that example in an exaggerated dichotomy, but my point is that for someone who lacks skill or knowledge on a deeply complex topic, most of the time by using the specific jargon the person will sounds specific, professional, serious,... they will automatically sound like an expert or authority in the subject.

In other words, I don't think most of people here in this forum, and for sure not myself, is qualified enough to say whether the first sentence is more specific or realizable than the second one:

- We need to find a way to fix mutations in mitochondria by looking at the telanoma and several teams of scientists are looking at that.

- To resurrect a body we just need to insufflate the soul back to the body and several teams of sorcerers are looking at that.

And even if my examples are not good enough, this whole thing could be the "detox" fashion that happened a years ago, just on a different level/topic for a different target audience who needs more complicated words in order to be tricked.
It's very interesting! The 'property model' was apparently a real research project, which adds an additional ingredient over and above most systems in common use:

> The combination of procedural and declarative program code has found success in, for example, GUI element layout. The most familiar example is perhaps HTML, CSS, and DOM combined with JavaScript. The QTk library [12] in Mozart/Oz, Glade [7],XUL [16], XAML [34], and XForms [5] serve as further examples. Some of these systems, along with rule-based systems such as Drools [27], Jess [11], and R++ [14], also support concisely specifying declarative rules for maintaining consistency across values in user interfaces. Property models are distinguished from these systems by not only providing the ability to create rules that assist introducing a valid result but also by providing an explicit model of the dependencies these rules create. Inspecting the state of the model enables generic algorithms (e.g., for widget enablement) for user interface.

http://www.emarcus.org/papers/gpce2009-marcus.pdf