skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are two other trends that worry me more. One is visible in the freezer section at the grocery store; a "half-gallon" of ice cream is no longer actually a half-gallon. Many other food items have shrunk.

A half-gallon seems like an absolutely obscene volume of ice-cream. That's over two litres! Why would anyone possibly need ice-cream measured by the gallon? Isn't it good that sizes are reducing from that much?
Likely this is to protect against hacked accounts and the hackers deleting the account after trading away WoW items or whatnot. I've had an off/on idle WoW/Blizzard account for 10 or so years now, most folks don't want to delete their accounts when they don't play, they just let their subscription expire, so this seems like the most likely reason this is in place.
As far as I know hibp specifically hides sensitive breaches (such as the Ashley Madison one) to non-verified access. Also, he basically only shows public data; your privacy was already gone back when the original company failed to secure their servers.
Retool (YC W17) hiring engineers, support engineers, designers, etc. in SF
Hi — we're Retool (https://retool.com), a fast way of building internal tools. We launched on HN around a year ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17725966). We're a small team based in Hayes Valley, San Francisco, CA.

Business-wise, we're profitable, growing quickly, and well-capitalized. (We recently raised a Series A from Sequoia. Other investors include technical founders, including Paul Graham, John + Patrick Collison, Nat Friedman, Greg Brockman, etc.)

Culture-wise, we're a small group who enjoys solving problems and working hard. We work closely with customers, and iterate quickly. We spend our days typically either writing code or talking with customers.

The market for custom enterprise apps is huge. And we think that we have a promising shot at capturing much of it: we have a product that works, that customers love (go talk to any customer!), and whose usage is growing rapidly.

We've significantly de-risked the business (e.g. have significant revenue, have a good amount of paying customers, have raised $20M from Sequoia, are profitable, etc.). But there's plenty of stuff to figure out as well. For example:

- How can we quickly ship new products while keeping current customers happy?

- How do we design the UI/UX for a new programming environment?

- How do we concisely explain what Retool is, without a 4 minute demo video (https://retool.com)?

We're hiring for many roles, including engineering, sales, developer relations, customer support + success. We think you'd be a good fit at Retool if you enjoy:

- building things,

- deciding what to work on, independently, and

- getting things done + managing yourself

If you're interested, please email me at david@retool.com. Thanks!
Verifying Phone Numbers on the Web with the SMS Receiver API
Fascist is maybe not a good term, because fascism is actually quite specific and to some extent euro-centric (plus, nowadays it just means "bad people" without people necessarily understanding what fascism actually is).

But China seems to be a country run on a totalitarian and ethnic nationalist ideology.
Show HN: Concept search engine based on most popular HN submissions
Thesis: Sites that do well on hacker news will tend to be sites with high quality content.

Tools: Hacker News Big Query, python, Google CSE

Steps:

1. Using HN Big Query, get all unique domains with more than 3 stories with more than 50 points (query link [1]). Sort by percentage of such stories to total number of stories.

By doing that, at the top you will get sites like blog.geoffralston.com that have 3 out of 3 submitted stories get more than 50 points (100% !). Or lucumr.pocoo.org had 46 out of 124 total stories reach 50+ points! Talking about good writing.

We cut the list at 2,500 sites , where the popular to submitted ratio is still at enviable 12%.

2. Add to this list all sites that had exactly one submission and that only submission ever from that domain had 300+ points on HN. I call them unexplored one hit wonders and thesis is that there are probably other gems on the domain just not ssubmitted yet. [2]

3. Now we have about 3,000 sites total. We will use Google CSE engine which allows up to 2,000 sites through annotations [3]. We have to clean the data now.

- Check if the domain still resolves. Sadly about 400 these high quality sites do not anymore.

- Check for redirects

For example this site is no longer on its old address:

https://david.weebly.com ... 302 Found (0.153)
http://www.david.blog/ ... 200 OK (0.0676)

- Check for all other sorts of weird errors

This took most of the day :) I used modified version of [4]

4. Manually clean the list from news sites that made it on (nytimes, usatoday...)

5. If you want to check if your site is on the list, check [5]. If you are on the list congrats!

5. Finally, here is the end result:

https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=014479775183020491825:c2lrlzrogb5

Search cream of the crop of HN submitted sites!

Let me know if you find this useful!
Read it and I agree with the sentiment. I think the more relevant questions is why has this happened?

Also the promise of a distributed digital networked society is revolutionary. It our actualization that is a simple elaboration on the existing.

If we were all working remote, being educated online, trading digital goods and currencies, and primarily living in VR then I would say a new world had been born.
You can implement the other interfaces using other objects, but they should delegate the ref counting to the root/main object.
Models (mental or not) work by analogy, and analogies can be very convincing in general and in answering the question “why” in particular. That is all that is normally needed; unfortunately, some people are hard to satisfy.
Even if it was bad code that falsely flagged the Docs, wouldn't that still imply that Google are parsing Docs in some manner if they're able to be flagged for ToS violations in general?

I got the impression that Google reading your documents was the source of distress in the parent comment.
Have to post links here due to 2000 char limit.

[0] https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=014479775183020491825:c2lrlzro...

[1] https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?sq=217608811855:37...

[2] https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?sq=217608811855:67...

[3] https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/annotations

[4] https://github.com/amgedr/webchk

[5] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ON26TVBUHH4FZuvH8YFQ...
There's no way they could have gotten any traction simply by competing on quality of features. Not only does Steam has a decade-long headstart, but people aren't going to willingly split their library over multiple clients unless forced.

Epic couldn't have realistically broken in without forcing people to use their client.
Normally I'd agree, but they added this due to the huge impact deletion has vs the cost. This is pretty clearly an anti abuse system they added begrudgingly due to real existing problems. I say this because its a huge burden on them to actually go through this process, so theres no way they chose to do it lightly, or recently.

If you got hacked and didn't want this to happen, would you still feel the same way?
Solar cells strike me as highly recycleable. https://www.veolia.com/en/newsroom/news/recycling-photovolta...
Due to an aging population, Japan has the “problem” of the police having little to do.

I think they could reroute them when time allows to do rounds on the elderly; checking up on them and doing small errands for them (coördinated via something elder accessible). I’m thinking things like prescriptions (if arranged for in some way), small groceries and such.
Waymo to customers: “Completely driverless Waymo cars are on the way”
It's been interesting the past few years to see this same stereotyped critique of HN coming up over and over. The consistency of certain aspects recurring together in them is interesting to me. Here's a few I've noticed:

1) They tend to at least in part be rooted in a problematic stereotype of the 'toxic HN reader,' which is inappropriately generalized to cover the entire community. The stereotype is generally of a rationalist bro/"man child" who thinks he (choice of gender intentional) is much smarter than he really is, with no comprehension of his privilege in society, or any awareness of the arts and humanities, with poor social skills, etc.

> "...the end result is that arguing on HN feels like passive-aggressively LARPing as scientists, but not with any of the good stuff."

Observe the key ingredients: generalizes to all of HN not just to certain users, implication that readers are insecure scientist-wannabes, implication of stunted growth (the choice of "LARPing" here is characteristic), poor social skills, and lack of taste ("but not with any of the good stuff").

2) The critique ends up being vacuous because any online community of sufficient size is going to have negative aspects to it. This fact leads to a necessary reading style where you seek out the best stuff among the less good stuff. I view it like panning for gold, filtering out a bunch of dirt in the process. I think most people are aware it's necessary to use sites like HN in this way.

Once you consider that, the critique starts to sound a little funny: it doesn't make much sense sense to characterize a large online community by its most boring parts if those parts are easily skipped over in accessing the interesting parts. So what's the critique really about?

3) The other aspect almost always present is that they're structured to make HN a foil for the speaker's own intelligence and enlightenment—and even more importantly, it's often used as a shibboleth to communicate that one is part of the group who has transcended HN.

Spend some time in certain Twitter circles (often made up of accomplished developers and/or researchers) and you'll see that this is so common it's developed abbreviations and can be communicated almost with something like a wink or a nod: snide comments disparaging HN can be tossed out in just about any context for a laugh and shared feeling of superiority.

It's interesting though because I've also noticed the critiques tend to have defensive roots: oftentimes the critic produced something that was not well-received by HN, at which point they become aware of all its problems.

In any case—it's a pattern I think HN readers should be aware of. The parent comment, for instance, is much more insult than substantive critique if you look closely—and yet it was the top comment on the article.
They're relatively interchangeable, but the distinction to me is that properties in CSS are on the left side and values are on the right.

So the --: declarations are custom properties, with values that get used as variables in other declarations with var().

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/--*
To be fair, this is actually the first time I'd read anything like what the commenter above wrote, and was quite happy to hear it. Though I understand if this is common knowledge in the HN community writ large.
There's a big photography site I use that treats the EXIF inconsistently. I rotate the image in my editor to work on it, then save and upload. In some contexts it looks OK, but in other contexts the site rotates the image again and it's wrong. I don't want to strip the EXIF because it has interesting information such as the camera model and lens, and the exposure settings. My editor doesn't correct the EXIF rotation setting, so I have no choice but to use a utility to strip that single value from the file before I upload it.
> A simple forum can allow for account deletion, literally every open source forum I'm aware of does, and it doesn't require "being a full fledged company," either. This site is written in a Lisp dialect, so it should be possible to implement a new feature in a single line in a REPL over a cup of coffee, anyway, right? ;)

A simple forum also has reply notifications, that HN has not. It is difficult to accept that HN is different from other forum software, with different priorities?

I don't know what being writing in Lisp implies that HN have to have some specific feature that you think it needs.

> Anywhere else, having to contact a moderator to ask permission to have one's account deleted would be considered a user hostile dark pattern, nefarious motives assumed by default. But when Hacker News does it, well obviously it's just another sign of the elegance behind its design.

It would be considered a dark pattern if the moderators were against deleting accounts, giving excuses or making the process unnecessary difficult. Since it seems that the moderators delete your account without bothering you, I don't think this is a dark pattern at all.
Welp, I guess we had a good run. Time to show the Chinese that they will never take away our freedom
I don't think the economy in this segment is changing drastically. Top handful of rockstars, actors, athletes, soccer players, etc were always compensated very well, while the median ones weren't. Not like you can get a Master in Talk Show Hosting degree and get a more or less predictable career path similar to the engineering/medicine degrees.

Come to think of it, the rise of multiple competing content platforms would actually lower the top performers' revenues due to the audience splintering.

Given that A16Z likely holds some stake in the mentioned businesses, I would treat this as simply another piece of marketing material for some upcoming IPOs.
Welcome to post 2010 :)
True, GDPR requires it to be as easy to withdraw consent as to give it.
No, that may be a generic message wrongly assigned to the observed behavior.
Presumably quite a lot of churchgoers drink coffee? And alcohol?
What does the feudal past of Tibet have to do with anything? Are the "Free Tibet" people covertly arguing for a return to feudalism?
Have run into this myself when building the same "preview upload" feature. It's annoying that it's not something that is just handled by the browser, it feels like it should be a supported feature of the "img" tag or something.
You can only dissipate so much heat passively conducted through the surface of the device before the temperature of either the internal components or the surface of the case exceeds what is safe. Getting around that often just means having some amount of forced air to carry heat away. In this case, it's a blower that pulls air in from vents, pulls it over various parts of the cavity (including some amount over that heatsink), and exhausts it out. Given how low the TDP of the CPU in a MacBook Air is, the thermal budget presumably balances.
Did you just condemn Harris for being a prosecutor without any regard for how she did the job?

Is get because you believe that the current criminal justice system is fundamentally wrong and would be better completely abolished?
It's not as bad as console exclusivity where you have to go out and buy another console for $400.

I'd take the annoyance if I know that the middleman isn't taking 30% of what I am paying the dev and the dev is getting 88%.
A half-gallon is slightly less than two liters, and is not intended to be one serving. Its a bulk purchase to serve a family, usually multiple times.

(Although I have eaten one in one go when I was a young man.)
China Reveals Exotic Flying Saucer-Shaped “Armed Helicopter” Concept
SCO was a farce. Microsoft used a company called BayStar to fund SCO's lawsuits, which had absolutely nothing to them; SCO wouldn't even release the evidence it claimed to have proving code copying for a suspiciously long period of time, and when the evidence was released, it was nothing of the sort. Ultimately, the legal merits of the case wouldn't have mattered, in that a bad lawsuit can still drown an opponent. What mattered was that Microsoft waited too damn long to try it: One of the players on the other side was IBM, which by then had a serious business in Linux on mainframes, and a two-bit nuisance suit jumped up with some venture capital wasn't going to sink the damn Nazgul.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2547289/baystar-exec-s...
Westerner here. I'd settle for allowing Muslims to build nice minarets on mosques in XJ without getting jailed, and for Hong Kongers to be able to choose who leads them (really choose: not from a list of candidates preselected by the Party) until 2047.

The motivation? A belief that humans are entitled to at least a modicum of political self-determination.
> Photoshop & Illustrator barely give you any options for jpeg compression or PNG output

It may have been in a different submenu, but the Photoshop JPEG/PNG optimizer was the most powerful/configurable that I've ever seen. Down to letting you configure the palette for PNG.

I looked it up, and it's under "Save for web". It doesn't seem to provide direct chroma subsampling control for JPEG, but the PNG tooling is insane.
That doesn't sound salty coming from an automated system.
There are also new Python bindings for WinRT (which is based on COM): https://github.com/Microsoft/xlang/tree/master/src/package/p...
I'm not really talking about the firing, I had another comment elsewhere about that part. And I could excuse only the password, because one creepy behavior can be excused, a recurring number of them not so much. I still need to excuse the password though, because I think that's just creepy. If it was just normal behavior, it wouldn't need excusing, it just wouldn't even be an argument.

I'm more saying that having your work password be a naughty fantasy involving your coworker is just plain creepy. I've never heard of this. I mean, even having a naughty fantasy involving your partner as your work password is creepy. How can anyone think this is totally normal and appropriate behavior? I know my wife would find it real weird if that was my password.

If you do that, and are starting to feel like other people find you creepy or are suggesting you might be, and you're confused why they think that.. I just don't know what to say. If you were under the impression having such a password is common, I'm afraid you were mistaken.

But, like I said, I'm giving people an opening here.. maybe I'm the one that's mistaken, and naughty sexual fantasies with coworkers as work passwords is a very common and normal choice of password. Presented with such evidence, I'd reconsider.
This directly contradicts the first results I find: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_California#/media/...

Solar and wind add up to 25.5% of generation, as compared to over 40% natural gas. Add hydro and geothermal and renewables rise to 43%, still far from the 100:70 renewable to gas ratio you claimed. But hydroelectric and geothermal are geographically limited, the plan is still to build more solar and wind, with gas plants for use when demand exceeds the renewables' production.
I'm only slightly surprised that a comment full of anecdote without a shred of actual scientific evidence is the top comment in this story.

MBA's have optimized everything... which is great! We don't need to spend incredible amounts on labor. We don't need to buy incredibly large homes. Make work more efficient... its the only way to compete with low cost emerging economic markets. Specialization and efficiencies are the only way to remain competitive.

From my perspective, the only real structural damage has been done by the success of concentrated moneyed interests in regulatory capture. We need to tax these efficient corporations and individuals fairly, and use those tax dollars to invest in universal healthcare, environmental protection and education.
It's kind of subjective. Decades ago, CEO's made 20:1 compared to workers. That's "compensated very well". Today is 200:1. It's still very well. A whole order of magnitude better.

In developed countries, today's winners win bigger. The losers stagnate. Globally, many have been lifted out of poverty.

The poor in developing countries are doing better. The wealthy are doing better. The middle class is not.
You don't eat all the ice cream in one sitting. If this random ice cream[1] is an indication, serving size is half a cup, so a half gallon should provide 16 servings. If you like the flavor, why not buy 16 servings at a time; if you live in a household with four people, that's 4 sittings of ice cream.

[1] https://www.target.com/p/breyers-original-ice-cream-natural-...
Fun fact - The Mark Williams Company[1], who made Coherent, was founded by Aaron Schwartz father, Robert Schwartz [2].

A couple of friends and I drooled over an AT&T Unix manual that our public library had in 1990 - 1991. Unix seemed really cool but we could never afford a real Unix machine. We talked about pooling our money and buying a copy of Coherent but we never did. Then Linux came on the scene and Coherent was forgotten.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Williams_Company

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
What happens when you travel to China? Is it documented by Apple?
Yeah I was surprised recently to find out that the whole thing is basically maintained by one person. Since it's an essential tool for me, I contributed a few minor improvements for some usability things that were irritating me. Thanks George!
This is awesome, great work!
Smart people clump together, and there are network effects.
3, as posted, is available off the shelf.
That url, http://www.retrocomputingtasmania.com
String theory is 100% based on real physics, and it’s very difficult to make a theory like it which agrees with all known physics — that it doesn’t create any new falsifiable results is certainly a problem, but it could very easily be falsified by making nonsensical predictions about everyday phenomena, which it doesn’t do.
Understood, it's a small complaint, the data is already out there on the web and it's not his fault. But there is value in aggregation or the site wouldn't exist. It makes it easier to just put a few emails in there and see what shows up for fun or malice.

It's great that sensitive breaches are apparently hidden but I'd be wary of judging for other people what is sensitive. Some like Ashley Madison are obvious, others less so.
I agree that there is definitely a pareto distribution in earnings—and there probably always has been for creative work. I don't know if this means that there are less people making a living in each respective field. For that, I'd like to see some hard data. How fat is the tail of the power curve, anyway? And how many curves are out there?
you may not know what face it is, but you do know that it is a face right? it's like saying you know someone is in front of you if he were standing in up, in your clear view, but the moment he's lying on a couch in centre of your vision you can't tell with certainty if the thing on the couch is a human being?
I get it now. It may have (falsely) determined a violation from their behavior/use of Docs instead of the actual content of those documents.

Nevermind my original comment then. That makes sense.
> macOS updates really do break a lot of stuff (especially for developers)

Weird example, as most of your users will be using a more recent version of macOS. So, while you're code isn't 'broken' for you, on your 6+ year old OS, it's broken for the vast majority of end users who will want to compile your code.
I wish my story was as cool and involved some technical expertise.

In year 10, a friend of mine saw our school network admin type the admin password in (he used his index fingers and typed in each character one at a time like someone with very little typing experience - this was 1998)

Anyway, I used this info to log in as the admin and I promptly deleted all of the student accounts in the school. Students around me immediately started complaining they couldn’t log in or access their assignments.

It was a stupid and immature thing to do.

Guess it’s a good reminder and lesson that you should always be careful who is watching you over your shoulder.