skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone sees halos or starbursts around lights? I've developed that and a bit of visual snow. It freaked me out in the beginning, but now it's like meh. Vision is fine, I had it checked.
Like what? Everyone always bashes where they live though, right?
I think that's definitely something to consider. In theory, everyone would love to be the best in the world at something, but in practice, how many people would want to live a life required to achieve that?
The best part about cycles is that you don't have to get it right on the first cycle. There's always the next cycle to improve the rules.
You could also read documentation and ask questions about it. And unlike meetings, everyone won't just forget the answer and have to have the discussion next week.
The best way to increase you odds of getting shot is to own a "power tool". Something is not adding up here.
Thank whoever put the website up!

The text is pulled verbatim from the camel book[1].

I somehow assume that "everyone" has used or had access to a well thumbed copy of the camel book, but realize that it's a product of place and time

[1] Programming Perl https://g.co/kgs/ZnNHTJ
We Analyze and Visualize Kubernetes Events in Real Time at Rockset
Could you share please how you cultivate the discipline, and maybe, books/ podcasts that inspired you?
Don't rag on software teams for making trade-offs based on the resources they have.

It's not just that app devs aren't making non Linux/x86 apps, the problems are that those devs now cannot make non Linux apps. Period. In spite of this lack of portability they're now crowing about how portable and awesome their "cross-platform" app is. All of this to provide the consistently mediocre Electron experience.
With their multi-process approach, you'd have separate processes even when sharing the runtime to the point that sharing the DLLs likely has minimal benefit. It's the equivalent of running firing up Chrome twice w/ two different user profile dirs...shared libs, but no obvious perf advantage over two separate Chrome installs.
Fedora by being a testbed for RHEL will always have the goal of testing things before they are ready and will NEVER have the goal of providing an optimal experience.
Tesla short-sellers lost 1.4B after earnings report
Show HN: Dot-Art. Low res, 4bit artwork templates. Custom to you
That's fine. More power to him. I have to stay moving foward though. He may be happy with where he is and he should be. He earned it.

But I'm steadily arriving at the conclusion that if there's never going to be enough of this company so that I've got paid off 4-wheelers and hotrods in my driveway too; then it just isn't a good fit for me.
There are many many people who don't know what a healthy meal is, hence the obesity epidemic. But in this day and age you can find all sorts of crap in the supermarket that you can just heat up. I don't know, it's just weird. Well, thanks for sharing your perspective.
The Control Revolution book goes into some great detail about Quaker Oats. Fascinating stuff regarding hacking the minds of the masses.

A very brief overview of it: http://blog.snailtext.com/posts/quaker-oats.html
Sorry, it is actually in preview and not officially released yet. You can get the preview image, docs, etc in the PR: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/pull/3042
Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit is a free ebook available in various formats:

http://book.mixu.net/distsys/
I agree 100%. It depends on personal goals.

Another thing is we can train skill B by using a method that we enjoy, to remove half of the pain.
What you're describing is arrogance, not intelligence.
If you label a moderate as a radical, it reduces the informational value of the word and additionally it reduces the stigma of being radical. If speaking plainly is radical, then does it exist in the same category as civil disobedience? How about leaking classified documents?
Yeah, singlehandedly transforming the computer industry. So terrible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer
This is why I keep coming back. It is not unusual to see world leading scientists, book authors, and startup CEOs in a quick browse of the comments. The kind of people you want to be at dinner party conversation with, if your goal is intense technical discussion.
Thanks for summarizing the content!

I concur, the original title of this article is super long and confusing.
The Tech Intellectuals (2013)
The thing is, I don't disagree that a large (if not majority) number of developers reach for dependencies by default, instead of carefully considering patterns first.

I don't think bundling React the view library, Redux the state management library, Typescript the Javascript superset, GraphQL the API query language, Webpack the bundler as one "React the platform" is helpful.

I'd like to see the developers that automatically merge all of these technologies together by default because everyone else does it (or worse, because X Big Tech Co does it) to start questioning and exploring other options. I'm not sure how to get there, and maybe my comment above is my contribution towards convincing readers to reconsider their understanding of the React ecosystem.

You're right though, it is a mess. I think the mess comes from people and how they code, not so much this specific library nor the language.
You have the two backwards.
I want law enforcement requests to be difficult, and impossible to automate. Imposing barriers to retrieve footage is a factor which I think helps prevent overreach. Although it's probably too late..
AWS Left Reeling After Eight-Hour DDoS
"Pg. 10: Yeah, Juul and the like really are hurting children. Grades 2 & 3 Obesity are increasing too. Both are not good."

I read the charts a little differently - overall tobacco product usage has gone down quite significantly, with cigarettes and cigars driving the majority of that. I think it's a safe assumption to make that at least some of that drop is due to the switch to e-cigarettes like Juul. Obviously "how much" of that drop is due to the increase in e-cigarettes vs. the natural decline of smoking is in question, but I would not draw a conclusion that e-cigarettes are hurting children.
Just last week I added shortcuts to our MacOS and Windows Electron app in about 15 minutes. I didn't read any documentation and I'm not even a developer, just a designer. I can barely make a proper if loop in js and I can't tell the difference between a method and a function either.

Electron is sooo simple. I mean, we've run into some pretty interesting issues like with hardware acceleration and difference in color and font rendering between platforms, but if a guy like me can code, sign and ship a fully functional application, anyone can.

Also, I can really recommend Vue and Quasar for anyone looking at building electron and mobile apps. Really fun!
The announcement this whole discussion links to talks about the new ARM support, so I am confused as to what you are talking about.
Thanks, I updated the title because I completely agree.
+1 on Mathematics, Form and Function
An amazingly deep book. Which I've been rereading every since it came out.

Much food for thought as Pirsig furiously "statically latches" his Metaphysics of Quality.

Edit: and yes, can confirm world my view has changed significantly since first reading. Even more than ZAMM, which has had a similar effect.
No, I mean, some sort of cross-team functionality where you need broad agreement, not four managers all trying to manage literally the same thing.

I probably do more cross-team stuff than the average dev, but in anything beyond a trivially-sized organization, managers are doing it all the time.
Maybe your questions are not appropriate for stack overflow, do you mind linking your profile or sharing the questions?
User Testing in the Wild: Joe’s First Computer Encounter (2011)
and a time where it meant a digital vandal over POTS lines;

Well, those were "phreakers."

In the 70's, "hacker" was a person who "hacked" out the credits from public domain software and put their own name in it for resale. And you bought it anyway because software was so hard to come by.
If the field you're in has a million people, then split the field into a million pieces (actually this is probably too conservative, maybe go with 100k or even 10k) and pick one to become best at.

Since the field is currently successfully employing a million people there must be that many profitable pieces if you slice it correctly.
The biography puts me in mind of Johnson's own "No, sir--do you read books through?" I've read a fair bit, but never have sat down to read it front to back.

Penguin has a very handy volume combining Johnson's A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland and Boswell's A Tour to the Hebrides.
The same is true for TV in most places, shows are/were carefully constructed to maximize the odds that you wouldn't change channel during the commercial break
It's rude to interrupt someone without giving them the time to put down whatever it is they're doing. Even if it takes more than a few seconds.
You are making two choices here: one out of say 10K and the other out of 100. You'd be lucky to end up with 20 bits of entropy. That can be cracked in a microsecond (exaggerating a bit and/or assuming a distributed data parallel cracking algo on a massive botnet), assuming the data source (youtube) is accessible, and this recipe is known, which it is now since you described it in public.
Most are too sick/debilitated to move around searching for better places to live. And in the move they risk losing all (including their lives), because living on the streets is a real risky bet.
I think this peaked some time around 2015. Back then, I remember many developers getting up in arms about following Apple's guidelines to a T, or insisting that Android apps look like a hyperactive stack of colorful paper cutouts under a direct light.

Since then, I think many of us have gotten tired of looking at overdesigned sameness that by now we all know will age quickly. Programmers no longer see the sense in chasing a perpetually changing visual standard for no reason other than "BigCo said so". Most importantly though, BigCos in question have fallen out of our good graces, and the "Design Systems" they keep pushing are now regarded as nothing but cynical branding exercises that come at the cost of UX.
In a later version of Electron (for Windows 10), it could use the Windows supplied Chromium WebView and shrink the size by 80%+.
Imho this isn't just pure speculation, it's simply extrapolating trends that have already been going on for centuries.

And one of the most dangerous non-answers to it is this:

> Sure not everyone can make the change so I guess they'll end up doing maintenance work or something, social services or just sit on their ass playing video games.

Because it assumes that societies will properly respond to it with social reforms accounting for these changes. But unlike the automation trend, the social changes that need to accompany it are a far cry away from even being recognized as a requirement.

In that context I do not see a future where people without a job will be "sitting at home playing video games", it's far more likely that people will be living on the street and won't even be able to afford food, because their gig-economy job got replaced by a fleet of corporate bots, just like most other menial and low-income jobs.

Will such a society recognize that not everybody can find a meaningful [0] place to work? Will it maybe force people, to work underpaid just to keep up the appearance of "pulling them bootstraps"? I mean, there's already a whole lot of that going on.

Maybe it's just the pessimist in me, but I just don't see the kind of "utopia" emerging from this many people imagine it to be. At least not in the way we are currently going about it, where the societal impact of massive tech-advances is regularly relegated to something that will be fixed post-release.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
No, it’s the top decile of all people (presumably adults). The bottom three deciles don’t drink at all.
I just had to confirm this with a distance measuring check in Google Earth and yep, looks like it's true. Had no idea.
I'm pretty sure I'm the best person in the world at combined Scrabble and coding.
Racial Bias Found in a Major Health Care Risk Algorithm
Different ways of defining a function in JavaScript
What I should have said: all farms should be able to run without power for limited times (several days) and not collapse. if you depend on external power to pump water, where is the battery backup?
"Porn sites use Google Analytics too" isn't a shocking revelation.

I can't imagine anyone surfs porn in 2019 without a serious popup, ad, and privacy blocker.
https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#AttacksOnOn... It's not 100%, but the more of the connection your attacker can see, the worse your odds. If you're in the USA and you're using nodes in the Five Eyes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes and you're being tracked by the NSA, they might be able to see everything. Maybe. Also check point #4 on this answer https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#EverybodyAR...
Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 (15-Inch) Teardown
Your Next SSD Might Be Slower (Thanks to QLC Flash)
I'm kind of surprised to read that entire article and not encounter the phrase "ohm meter" anywhere in a search. Rarely does anything serious have only one ground rod. Three legged telecom towers will have three rods, one attached to each leg, linked together by a ring of 6 gauge copper buried outside the perimeter of the concrete foundation.

Multiple 5 foot ground rods in the correct configuration bonded together could offer much more conductivity to the earth than one 8 foot. The article seems to be obsessing about the length of the rod and not the scientifically measurable ohm resistance.
Using the word experience is why we're in this mess. These are tools we're talking about. Not an African safari.
I've always liked "Mathematics for the Million" by Lancolet Hogben.
"as a father I was clearly not welcome"

I've experienced this. I tried to volunteer with the summer band camp my daughter was in. The volunteers were all mothers. I got lots of vaguely accusatory questions, and then got turned away. The implication was that I was some sort of threat.

Things can go a different way too. I've heard of other fathers getting lots of unwelcome romantic attention from the mothers.
This reminded me a story of this funny guy who was trying to sell famous large-scale prints/canvas of random popular instagram posts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytrZuE1JamY . Anyway, good luck!
I am a customer, I run a bunch of personal sites and hobby projects. updown.io is wonderfully cheap, the pay as you go model is perfect for my monitoring needs. I have no need for the stats, just the monitoring which it does well.
Yet does not allow you to sign up anonymously. I'm still not sure why you need to host a tor site unless your server is in a censored country.
And put that in an app store?
I know I'm not the best at anything I do, but when combined the overlap makes a niche for me that has so far worked out well. Pure luck frankly.

However that is only because the skills I'm thinking of aren't in themselves hugely common. I'm not mega skilled at them, but the relative rarity of some means the overlap really is quite small - fortunately!

It's not going to be good advice if your key skills are, say selling things and being super knowledgable about cars. Oh look, an obvious union but that combination is popular already. So I'd say start by becoming good at a couple niche skills and then see where you end up.
I store my information in a safe and happen to be extremely close friends with a few locksmiths.
I've recently managed to make Prometheus+Grafana stateless using https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex if anyone is having issues with scaling / backing up.
You work for a life style business not a growth company. If you want a startup, go find one.
What’s Everything Made Of?
> it kind of makes sense to let Ring store all of the video in one central location since they can just hire armed guards to keep it safe.

Ring can hire all of the armed guards in the world, and it won't protect your data from Ring.
Two-Story Modular Offices (Easily Put Offices in Warehouse Space)
There is no such thing as a C / C++ compiler implementation. There are C implementations, and C++ implementations that may share some components. They do not typically share optimizers, because optimization of C++ requires quite different characteristics of an optimizer than one for C -- although most of the C optimizations may be applied after the C++ ones have run.

If it is hard to see how C++ optimization would differ from C optimization, you simply aren't looking very hard.

There are many different toolchains, but with the toolchains that are commonly used, C++ programs are faster than C programs. More specifically: C++ programs are at least as fast as C programs, because a C program is a badly-coded C++ program that fails to use language constructs that would make it a better program.
>I think it's no question that psychedelics are mind opening.

Having used more than my share: there's plenty of question that psychedelics are mind opening. Just because something feels profound doesn't mean it is. People in the 1800s used to think nitrous and ether sniffing was profound.

You'd think after all these years of people experiencing profundity there would be some great work of art or philosophy that people are able to take back to reality from their drug experiences, but as far as I can tell it's just burn out "trippin balls" stories, people losing their minds in various unedifying ways, and weirdos like Kerry Mullis talking to aliens.
My pain point are the last 10% of a project. Stuff you couldn't figure out yet, obscure bugs and being stuck.

Building a quick MVP and running closed alpha/beta tests helps me push through it though.
Getting feedback on your project and feeling some kind of progress is a great cure.
And the thing about child paper routes is that they were considered a form of contractor. The newspaper would provide you the papers on credit, at the end of the month you would collect the amount of the bill from the customer, then pay the newspaper the amount you were billed. The billed amount may have been 50% or so, I don't recall the exact amount.
Not the same, but you can use two-man crypto verification to make sure a file was signed/encrypted by multiple parties. Example: https://github.com/psypete/public-bin/blob/public-bin/src/se...
The companies don't maintain them at all as it is. Service life is like 30 days. As it stands lots of people steal and ride them unpowered or rip them apart for scrap all around LA.
The title misleadingly implies that they are able to de-anonymize private browsing users, but that's not what the article is saying at all. It's just saying that many porn sites happen to use Google analytics.
> four 8 foot ground rods

> They added a massive chunk to the overall cost

What? You couldn't afford four 19 dollar rods?

https://www.platt.com/platt-electric-supply/Ground-Rods-Copp...

Or four 36 dollar rods?

https://www.platt.com/platt-electric-supply/Ground-Rods-Copp...

PV array ground buses for something small scale will commonly be a single bare 6 gauge solid copper conductor bonded to the rods with 7 dollar hardware. Unless your setup is really huge, no more than 80 dollars of 6 gauge bare copper.

It's not like you need to buy a $800 thermite welding kit.
I believe the use case is to bring legacy enterprise Qt apps to your browser, instead of Windows desktop. No sane person would develop web using Qt.

- Cash registries

- Hotel booking

- Factory management

Etc.
Lost 100$ to phishing site back in the day when testing blockchain analysis on my AlphaBay deposits, I deposited into a phisher's wallet and ended up watching that on the blockchain instead with no withdraw ability. I should have PGP verified link. This DarkDotFail guy is honest for now but time will tell. Tor is wild west with PGP the only way to really know anyone is who they claim.
Show HN: 1-800 phone trees with 0 lines of code
Hello everyone!

I'm Dave, founder of WelcomeUX ( https://welcomeUX.com ).

Still in a very early stage, WelcomeUX wants to help business owners build, publish, and maintain routing of their business' phone systems in minutes, with 0 lines of code. It's super easy, and no coding experience, or developers are required.

How? // WelcomeUX offers routing through IVR. IVR is, for example, when we call a 1-800 #, we're routed to different branches of the phone-tree when we press a certain digit on phone's keypad, or enter some information like credit-card number, SSN, etc. I'm starting off with simple digit-based routing.

Inspiration // I was inspired to build this, because of the complexity involved in building and maintaining IVRs. I've worked at a FinTech startup where it cost them $80k+ and many months to build their IVR system - for a single phone line! For small business owners, this kind of budget and time are out of question. Existing IVR softwares require an IT person to set things up, which can cost hundreds of dollars.

How does it work? // WelcomeUX provides business owners a simple web-form to fill out that helps them build their IVR, along with concierge-like service to help business owners set things up. Once set up, all execution details, deployments, versioning are taken care of by WelcomeUX.

Pricing // I've put $40/IVR/month on the site, but I'm more than happy & willing to work with you on pricing, especially considering WelcomeUX itself is in a very early stage.

Why on HN? // By launching on HN today, what I'm looking for is potential early customers to work with. If you're a startup, or small to medium sized business, I'd love to work with you to help you build out your first IVR system. Please "Request Access" from https://welcomeUX.com , and we can chat about your IVR needs.

Final // I'm super excited to be on HN today, and will be here to answer any questions.
Thank you!
> With the dawn of digital advertising, where every view, click and conversion is neatly accounted for, advertisers have come to realize that newspaper advertising has always been a low-return-on-investment marketing avenue, even when it was the only game in town. They just didn't have the metrics to prove it.

How does this compare with television advertising? I see them as similar. Is traditional television advertisement per-viewer revenue dwindling compared to the past? I know the subscriber count is reducing and they have alternative income streams via subscriber fees. Is it that the ROI on television advertising remains higher compared to print simply because there are still a significant number of eyeballs?
Sometimes web developers will circumvent core HTML features because they don't do everything they want and aren't extensible enough, although this is generally considered bad practice if it's at all avoidable. Sometimes they just don't bother to write semantic HTML even when they could. But the platform itself has the infrastructure; it's possible to write bad software on any platform.
Right now in Chicago it's 51 degrees, but in Toronto it's only 14!
many managers and directors at tech companies are like this, they have good skill at coding/understanding tech stacks, managing, marketing, writing, speaking, and understanding the business aspects
sorry yes, multi-tasking :-) thankyou. I shall get back to work.
> Is there any reason, other than expense, the NAS couldn't be reasonably secured on site?

It's not even expensive. I have a couple of NASes in my home, but it would take a pretty intensive search to find them -- certainly more than a thief has time for. (I don't hide them to keep them from thieves, I hide them to keep them out of sight and out of the way for aesthetic reasons.)