skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting list, thanks for sharing. I'm the PM for CI/CD at GitLab, and I don't mean to hijack the topic, but wanted to give a heads up that we are looking at building a feature for these kinds of procedures that aren't quite pipelines, based on Jupyter Runbooks. Would love to hear your feedback: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/9427
> It's also just...literally not worth your time to do anything else. Servicing your own car rapidly gets into needing a ton of tools

It really depends on what service you plan to do. If you're going to do things like changing bulbs, air and cabin filter, wipers, and the battery, you could get along with just a conventional socket set if that.

Oil changes will require a oil filter wrench/cap, a torque wrench, and a funnel. And those tools can also be used for transmission fluid changes.

Once you get to spark plugs and brakes, you'll need more tools, but those services aren't frequent enough to really warrant buying the tools as opposed to renting them.

> takes a bunch of time

I typically will change the oil on my vehicles myself and a oil and filter change takes me about 45 minutes (including the time to drive to the auto parts store to recycle the old oil). The last time I took my car somewhere for an oil change, I had to drive to 5 different places and finally had to settle on one that made me wait about 3 hours before they could get to it and change the oil.

There are certain services or repairs that will take time (brakes, suspension, exhaust) where I would just as well take it to a mechanic to do it for me, but there are plenty of others that don't take much time at all and cost significantly less in terms of saving on labor and your time for setting up an appointment, taking the car there, getting alternative transportation or waiting, getting the car back, etc.
This pool seems to be completely out of touch with reality. Venezuela in the top 10 happiest countries?
Ok, so yup, flash rocked. Why can't we capture what was rad and ship it now? Who was critical to building it then?
The problem isn't so much people who require a car to get around as people who can't get around and therefore rely on deliveries. It isn't really feasible to supply them with any reasonable amount of groceries and other stuff by bike or bus.

And I'm assuming, possibly over-optimistically, that "no cars" doesn't include ambulances and police cars and fire trucks and so on.

And I'm also assuming, almost definitely over-optimistically, that people who have jobs where they may get called in for emergencies at all hours of the day or night will get ultra-special Manhattan driving licenses. After all, medical people don't live at the hospital when they're on call, and they're not going to.
"Individual contributor" is another common "IC", although following "homemade" it would be unlikely enough that I didn't notice it as a candidate interpretation until stumbling across this thread and considering the acronym independently.
LinkedIn data is provided freely by its users. MLS, on the other hand (which Zillow and all other such sites/agents get their data from), is a private database.
I ordered Kopi-O last week and was annoyed to realise they pre-mixed their coffee with sugar. So literally no option to get "pure" coffee at that stand.

I actually try to remember the eating houses that offer ice lemon tea without sugar (very rare). Usually it's even better quality/fresh at that.
Thanks, that made me smile like an emoticon.
It looks like you have some numerical instability causing the numbers to wobble as they rotate.
Apple is printing massive profits, however they're not quite $20 billion per quarter massive.

Their last quarter was $10b in net income, and $11.5b in operating income. The last four quarters were $55b in net income, $64b in operating income.

Apple's current cash plan is to draw it down to net zero, according to Cook, through returning cash to shareholders. I would expect them to continue to be extremely conservative on investments and acquisitions as per their historical norm. Their net cash is down to about $100 billion now, and total cash was $210b as of the third quarter results (likely under $200b now).
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There's a method I read about on lobste.rs for this. You write down the list as you did and then turn pieces into "Do X by running Y" and over time more things get automated.

That's a hefty deploy protocol, though, and automating cross-platform builds may be more trouble than it's worth if you're releasing rarely.

It's pretty neat you follow a deploy checklist.
also thousands of games made with pico8 on the net live. Sure pico-8 is not a replacement for flash but people are posting live games and they are making them quickly. Celeste, one of the top 10 games last year on many lists, started as a pico8 prototype live on the web.

Also flash never worked cross platform in the modern sense (phones + tablets + desktop). It's a very hard problem and no system I know of handles it automatically for anything more than simple HTML text forms
yes that seems like the approach to take, much good advice from the HN folk
Many things could also be delivered with cargo bikes for the last mile with trucks only delivering to neighborhood depots.
Most racing games were horrible on the 8-bit computers.

Even on the Amiga there were few actually good racing games. Lotus Esprit Challenge and Stunt Car Racer(God bless) was among the good ones.
Awesome, thanks for that!
I have tried organic stone ground flour bought from the organic shop, grinding my own might be a bit beyond me, but may be worth investigating.
Anecdote: Indoor rock climbing fixed my back & shoulder pain from computer work completely, as well as keep my wrists strong for typing and guitar.
> It's almost always about money

As someone who as gone through a fair deal of litigation and arbitration, this is wrong (or at the very least, inapplicable). It’s a common armchair lawyer’s myth.

If your opponent has more than $100,000 the tables are fairly even; more than $1 million, totally even. There is a ceiling to court costs, and a finite amount of time before judges issue rulings. (Spending to try and get an outcome predictably pisses off judges.) Getting to a judge costs money; once you’re there, American courts are robust.

At an individual level, these thresholds are prohibitive. At a corporate level, they’re not. Exhibit A for you should be the SEC’s win-loss record, even against individuals. (It’s mixed.)
God do they proof read these articles at all? The image right at the top is captioned: "Workers wearing protective sourround pigs at a farm". Misspelled AND missing a noun :-/
If you look at the new residential sky scrapers like 432 Park around 10pm on a weeknight when most people should be home, you'll notice it's mostly dark.

These tall expensive condo towers are like totems to the wealthy absentee residents of New York.
The silent component of the disgust behind what's happening in articles like this is the fear that medical professionals will see greater profit from letting you die than from saving your life.

I bet there are already cases like this, either in the US, or in the dystopia that is China.

Fuck, I mean, there's already people out there who drug people and harvest their kidneys in a bathtub of some dirty motel somewhere. If there are people doing this shit on the black market, then there's definitely sociopaths that would do this shit in the hospitals if they thought they could get away with it, which is just what the organ donor checkbox opens the door to.
There’s also the fake review problem, where you get a real product with a counterfeit review by some guy, or thousands of guys, that is paid on a Facebook group to give five stars.
> Does she likes eats a lot fermented foods - like sourkraut and real yogurt? They have been shown to help with stomach microbiome.

Sometimes, might be time to investigate these to, thanks

Edit: on the sourdough front there is some strange results, I tried an artisanal organic sourdough from a bakery that takes their bread very seriously, and she reacts to that (however, I really like it, so a bit of a bonus for me there :-) ), strangely there is a rye sourdough she gets from the supermarket and she can eat that fine. Its a puzzling set of reactions. Howvever, the good news is its not gluten its something else that can be isolated.
Who's responsible for privacy then? That's another situation where you can't have it both ways - can't tell the platform they don't own the data and simultaneously hold them to GDPR.
I wonder how common that is. I believe I had a trivial password on HN and on Facebook. Six zeroes on HN and dictword121212 on Facebook and no one ever did anything.
Softbank has completely destroyed the natural order of things and we will all pay the price for it.

Companies that should have died already are instead valued in the billions. I use the term "valued" loosely because valuations are just VCs circlejerking each other off and selling snake-oil to retail investors like mutual fund companies chasing returns. Anyone who believes the "valuation" numbers they read on Techcrunch deserves to lose all their money investing in them. These zombie companies are buying their customers with Softbank money and will keep doing this until they believe they have created a new market. It's an absurd waste of money that will cripple things once things revert back to the natural order. Silicon Valley is going to have a huge, huge reckoning when the Vision funds collapse, which they will.

Masayoshi Sun got lucky once, by betting big on Alibaba, and now he thinks he can do it again, with more money. Already his fund is a failure with his terrible investments that have mostly lost money once it hits the real markets, so as the money pulls back, lots of companies will die quickly and painfully.

It will cause real estate to plummet in the Bay Area and mass unemployment like what we saw during the dot com bust. I'm not sure if this will cause a global recession, but with hundreds of billions, it very well might.
> Amazon sells lots of food items that are sold by Amazon.com.

“Sold by Amazon.com” is not safe, because of potential commingling with stock identified as the same SKU from Fulfilled by Amazon sellers. If you know of a reliable non-FBA third-party seller, that's the safest thing
Adobe did open the swf spec in later versions. Swf was compressed bytecode. Still a lot more efficient than the way we send js.

https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/pdf/swf-fil...

There were a number of tools that compiled to swf.

It sucks that Adobe never opened the Flash Player. That was it’s death nail. They had little to gain from it. It was free. The money maker was Flash Studio and other Macromedia tools.

If Adobe had opened Flash and had a sane security Sandbox it would have survived iOS. Adobe was like the old Microsoft though. They just didn’t get the power of Open Source.
Try living in a place (e.g., the U.S.) where being a renter carries the assumption[1] with being in the bottom-third economic bracket with the property owners thereby opting to provision units with the cheapest-available accoutrement and equipment (often the most poorly-designed).

Poor product design often entails poor user experience like environmental pollution of light and sound.

[1] --- Exclude high-income and nominal high-cost metropolises like New York or Bay Area.
That is horrible! Families can be really nasty like that. For whatever a random comment on the internet is worth, I believe you did the right thing. And people who put this above the life of your daughter are not worth associating with.
Hmm, how does this compare versus the Craigslist/3Taps/Radpad litigation? Are these similar issues?
This solves 70% problem. But there is no way to make Audio out of text using data clay.
>"There! Now I've done my part".

they indeed have done their part. The problem isn't caused by these people.
A Day in the Life Of: A Self-Taught Data Analyst Who Now Builds ML Models
Radiskull.

Lord Destros.

I'll await Bloomberg's coverage of when those two get topped.
You can store yeast in the freezer for over a year, so it shouldn't be too much of a burden to buy it.
I wonder how much the authors of C64/Amiga Bubble Bobble, R-Type, Paperboy, Ghost'n'Goblins, Buggy Boy, Solomon's Key, Pang, Arkanoid, Silkworm played the game? Those were actually good ports.

Do you have a list of the games you worked on?
WeWork buidings are filled with clients that are brought in by other SoftBank money. It's human-centipede equivalent of VC-funds circling back around to each other, in hopes that suckers will invest in it and then they pull out.
Amazon Warns Customers: Those Supplements Might Be Fake
https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-fake-supplements/
And the author is a massive hypocrite too.

> Apple seem to suggest that their engagement will make the local people happier.

> We recognize that Chinese aren’t going to be Gorbacheved.

Did anybody follow what happened to regular citizens of the Soviet Union after it broke apart? Economy output cut by half per capital, life expectation reduced drastically. And freedom in some of the republic got much worse as they became absolute dictatorships. And this guy speak like it was some glorious event for the people.

Presumably, on his moral high horse, he would agree that the democratic government of Iraq was a massive improvement over Saddam Hussein? But such judgement should be left to the Iraqi people, and last I have checked they are not exactly happy with what happened to them in the last decade and half.
We invest pretty heavily in reducing medical mistakes. Why shouldn't we try to do the same with cars?
Can you explain how your ./deploy.sh script forks onto three laptops (Windows/Mac/Linux) and "plays around" with the installers/build a bit to make sure it works? I obviously can't release builds that don't even run because I didn't take a few minutes to test them.
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I am personally invested in this question also.

Some have drawn a correlation between the use of organophosphates (one infamous compound in particular) and the rising incidence of celiac and gluten intolerance diagnosis in the USA. It may be something to look into.
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Simply put, Flash was the Web's 80's moment — It influenced generations to come, eventually ending up in monotone conformity.

Obligatory Gabo Corp Intro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y-ESJS911c
2.7% identified as transgender, genderqueer, genderfluid, or unsure. The study just used narrow definitions of trans and GNC.
people are incentivized to do the most profitable thing they could that pushes up to the legal edge.

Pipelines running across the mountains forests might look unsightly, but if they help utilize existing resources more efficiently, they should be allowed. Otherwise, wastage is even worse than the pipeline's costs.

The option where the oil remains unextracted in the ground won't/can't exist, no matter how much these people who refuse pipelines want.
The other thing that made rotary dials hypnotic was the sound effect. Would be a nice enhancement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pIw9xyDQkY
Remembering my chats with loss prevention at Walmart while I worked there: by volume customers are the worst overall, but employee theft are the worst per person. Thus catching one employee thief represents several thousand in losses. Meanwhile customer theft is dealt with in a more bulk-like fashion.

Left unchecked employee theft can scale. Think of a cashier skimming cash, or customer service person colluding with a friend to return junk. Both customer and employee theft require stoppage, but employees are tough because they are trusted by default.
I went through a site layoff where of all the developers only me and another guy got relocation packages instead of severance. I would have much preferred the severance since I had to put in my resignation to avoid moving.
lol. era.
Some people find profanity inflammatory in a way that could reasonably be considered linkbait, in which case the site guidelines would require a title change (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). There's no solution here that will satisfy everybody.

Generally we find that it's better for HN not to edit away profanity. If there's some other reason to edit a title, that's different. But profanity per se is often just energetic and direct language, and if you take it away you run the risk of Bowdlerizing or bringing in euphemisms, which is not in the spirit of this site.

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Many apparently have missed that Flash is pretty much alive, Adobe has renamed it into Animate.

In fact some might even been playing Animate AOT compiled games on their iOS devices.

https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html
> I don’t know what this means. I assume that’s a regional difference.

The rest of your post describes a region where I would expect that statement to be particularly true. Does everyone live conveniently near their work, or are your low-income jobs forgiving of your incredibly unreliable and slow bus system? Either of those would stand out more as a regional difference.
It’s more that only a few years ago, the same experience could have been revisited - the technology and the means exist - but business reasons say otherwise.

In this case, it’s the Fortnite world.

If Fortnite were a game in the 1990s-2000s, the data (map, world, characters) would be on a CD or DVD and the multiplayer server would also be included on the CD: the community runs its own servers. If the developers release a huge new update - including over digital distribution - users still have the original discs and server software, thus if they want to relive “Fortnite 1997, v1.0’ they can - just reinstall it from the original media.

With the iOS App Store we used to be able to make versioned backups of the IPA files and restore them using desktop iTunes so if an over-the-air update for... say, Angry Birds, added an obnoxious amount of pay-to-win functionality then we had the choice to downgrade before things went to shit.

Now, we can’t do that. This is why I don’t buy mobile games anymore: I have no guarantees about my ability to keep what I paid for.
Sully's the man. His description of the experience of piloting in a crisis and analysis of the design and regulatory issues reminds me of Sidney Dekker and 'Safety Differently': http://sidneydekker.com/
Started up my own version of this ~10 seconds before I saw this story. It's amazing how a simple program ("yell at the user if face position < threshold") is enough to quickly train some better habits.
On the contrary, it lives on as Animate.
The pause button make sense, force users to focus on the page briefly every now and then to save bandwidth - Netflix does something similar to prevent long running auto-play.

The looping is quite different though, there's no legitimate use for it, and I can't find any controls that would allow you to set a song to auto-repeat. So it's either a bug that they're struggling to fix or an intentional change to make play-lists less functional when you are not watching the platform.
The premise of this article is just weirdly wrong and out of touch. There are monstrously huge creative spaces on the modern internet, powered by better and better tools. YouTube. Unity. Scratch. Roblox. Twitch. Itch.io. Blender. Minecraft. And so on.

It is noteworthy that professional/corporate creators haven't followed the hobbyists and kids into some of these spaces to represent their brands as much as they did into the land of Web+Flash. I don't see how that matters when measuring the "Internet's Most creative Era."

Consumers are more savvy, and brands are have gained some wisdom to not step on territory that makes them appear inauthentic and creepy. Second Life was an interesting experiment, but I'm happy that big brands haven't made ads in Roblox yet.
I agree with you the trade war is likely to have far more of an impact (at least an order of magnitude) than any of this, however as companies like Uber go public it no longer is only affecting private investors. And Softbank definitely propped up Uber for the IPO like they tried to do with WeWork, but I guess that was a one trick pony.

Also let's not forget how many pension funds are tied up in VC portfolios, so while it may not have an immediate crashing impact on everybody it can ruin people's retirements.
"Moneyball: the art of winning an unfair game." by Michael Lewis.

Pretty good. Makes you think! More in-depth than the movie (as you'd expect)
> I'm building a project around this and would love to hear about your experience.

Mind the selection bias. People that went through layoffs, bounced back, are reading HN and decide to publicly share with you their experience are not necessarily representative.

Also take into account ageism in IT. Recently had a video call with an older engineer from SV that's smarter than me which confirmed you can be up to date with the latest tech but once you go through the door (after having scrubbed the CV of any obvious age give-away references) and they see you could be their father it's game over. And this for a contractor position where they can fire you the next day! He was seriously considering retiring for the lack of jobs and not for the lack of skills / work power; also thinking about moving to cheaper locations.

Layoffs push people out of the industry and even work force entirely.

That being said, this post will have some good psychological impact for some.
In my 20s I was into extreme sports. Motorbikes, skydiving, freediving and the shebang. Just loved the adrenal rush.

One of my motorcycle instructors told me “motorbikes are insanely dangerous. They are essentially crotch rockets. Not wearing helmets is a deathwish and I’m pretty sure i’ll outlive you if you ignore the safety. Think about helmets and guards as those extra Mario lives. Your helmet will crack but your brain will be fine.”

Sane advice, i’ve cracked multiple helmets. Brain is doing fine.
It gets close enough if one just focus on one platform.

Or if one shells out to Delphi, RemObjects, Xamarin, Qt.
Nice work! Thank you for sharing it.

Aside from the number-stopping request others have made, I think it would be more accurate for the callback to happen once the dial has finished rotating back into its place, not on initial mouse release.
Another "fun" one: typo in git tag names.

The rakudo project has monthly releases with tags like 2019.07. Once I mixed up the year and month in e release, so I created a tag 2018.06 instead of 2016.08 (don't remember the exact numbers), and pushed it.

I deleted the wrong tag as soon as I noticed, and pushed the correct one, but of course when the date of the typo'ed release month came around some years later, things blew up for everybody who still had the wrong tag in their local repo (which turned out to be quite some developers).
China's Xi Warns of Shattered Bones for Resisters
The presence here of a large international community and many non-native English speakers is one of several reasons why we all need to be charitable about language. The HN guidelines address this:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Same here, on occasion, but I've found they typically make you whole when you get a dud.

Good example:

I bought two collapsible milk crates. They loaded all my groceries into them in the store.

When I got home and lifted the first crate out of the car, it had too much weight inside, the bottom fell out and two bottles of wine shattered.

I told them the story when returning the crate two weeks later, they waved me off when I said I had a pic, told me it wasn’t necessary, and refunded the wine without being prompted.

Trying to get wine refunded with most other retailer would probably require talking to a manager and making a scene.
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