skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "selling" part here is convincing people that writing really matters. And you need to do it in a way that comes across as "You have a cool thing that is doing good stuff and I would like to make it betterer." You need to not make people feel insulted, which can be tricky.

I think that's the biggest thing I wrestle with is convincing people I have something of value to offer without sounding like "You suck!" It's really tricky when it's knowledge work.

The other thing about writing technical documentation is you have to understand the tech some to talk about it. I occasionally do resume work and I mostly do that for experienced tech people who probably know me through HN in most cases. I can edit their resumes even though I'm not a serious programmer because I have some idea what the hell they do for a living.

This is a really big thing for the tech world. Communicating well means you first need to understand the topic and the tech world routinely beats its head against a wall because managers and salespeople and so forth don't actually understand the tech well enough to be genuinely effective. It leads to lots of "They did this stupid thing because they honestly have no idea what the tech actually does."

This seems to be a factor in some of the debacles where some startup company has stuck "AI" in the name, absolutely can't deliver on that promise and they are getting sued because of it.

A lot of "tech" solutions are like that scene in Men in Black 2 where they open the mail sorting machine and inside is a guy with many arms flinging mail as fast as he can.

Many non-technical people honestly don't know the difference between a box of people and an actual machine-based solution. If you are crowd sourcing work from many remote workers and getting results on a website, they just see the website and go "Well, neat! Computers are amazing!"

So be prepared for writing technical documentation to be hard at first and involve a lot of research. But if you get good at it, you might find that people will seek you out because a lot of writers simply aren't qualified to communicate on the subject. They don't have the background knowledge.
I'm not keen on legally mandating the use of a particular domain extension, unless that extension is managed by a non-profit. Some of the newly-added TLDs have exorbitant annual fees, and if businesses were legally required to use them they could charge whatever they pleased.

Plus, you'd have a collision problem. What if one company has foobar.com and another has foobar.net, and they both collect data? (Imagine they're in completely different industries and the term itself is fairly generic, so there's no possibility of a trademark dispute.) They can't both get the ".delete" version of their second-level label.

(I realize I'm probably overthinking this.)
The illustrations and videos are good at conveying the relative scale of things. But one mistake they make is common to just about every cartoon depiction I've seen: the molecules seem to have intent. they fly into the scene and an atom is exchanged with the binding site, then then remainder flys away again. the stochastic nature everything is completely missing.
My PS4 has basically never been used for anything except watching Vue. Now, my PS4 has zero broadcast TV options since they don't support anyone else like YoutubeTV
Appreciate the confirmation that I'm not a lone, entitled asshat :). Sort of wishfully hoping this thread URL becomes a reference for HN admins to pay attention to the problem. It's real, and hurting HN.
I've got a simple run running that calculates my girlfriend's GPA. The University doesn't display your GPA where topics are listed, but it does list the grade and weight. The calculation is easy and it only runs once a month, and notifies her when new grades have been added.
They had predicted almost a foot rise in sea level for 2020-25 in 1984. So we will see what happens.
Source: https://books.google.com/books/about/Projecting_Future_Sea_L...
The only problem with this is that pygit2 needs a lot of love. The performance of pygit2 is kind of weak, and it doesn't even support everything libgit2 supports.

Maybe this will be the kick in the pants to get pygit2 to be better maintained?
I seriously doubt anyone at Amazon cares.
The article makes some fair points, but strangely seems to imply that open access is somehow opposed to rigorous peer review, which certainly leaves an odd taste in my mouth.

> Of course, scientific publication is subjected to a high degree of quality control through the peer-review process, which despite the political and societal factors that are ineradicable parts of human interaction, is one of the “crown jewels” of scientific objectivity. However, this is changing. The very laudable goal of “open access journals” is to make sure that the public has free access to the scientific data that its tax dollars are used to generate.
It could still listen and process GPS, bluetooth, wifi and NFC signals, and transmit the data when it comes out of airplane mode.
> that’s worth making this crazy fuss about?

You’re making as much a fuss about this as me. If you want to foster productive discussion, at least respond to what the comment you’re replying to was about: why should your tax bill be negotiable after you’ve finalized your spending?
I agree that the effort is best spent on promoting Free Fillable Forms which has no income limit (unlike Free File).

But I file my state taxes on paper because fuck those assholes. If your coworker stole 50 dollars straight out of your wallet would you not make a fuss? That is what these tax software companies are doing every year.

And I don't need a paid tax professional, I get paid on a single W-2. And the one time I did need them (income in multiple states, ambiguous residence, as an international student) they were useless and I knew the laws better than they did.
You could always be sent to a sketchy .com domain too. You can still register googlemailsender.com and scam unsuspecting people; that hasn’t changed.
"Altogether, parties supporting Catalan independence received 48 percent of the vote."

48>40

So from far away, I would question the neutrality of the Centre d'Studis d'Opinió.

Also, if the numbers are right, then why on earth does the spanish government escalate and not just let them have a referendum which fails and have peace afterwards?
Appreciated! It's a big deal, which is why I've posted so much about it:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
FYI this is the Vitter that was caught with hookers.
Is there a way to short these real estate investments and fleece climate-change-denying ideologues who are keeping coastal property values high? Do well by doing good! :D
Yeah so far coastal prices are far above the inland prices
Oddly lots of rich and connected are buying coastal properties... You would think their financial advisors would prevent them even if the banks give no resistance
It seems unlikely to stop selling space at a loss while maintaining revenue growth. After all, if they can do that, why didn't they already?
I've got one that grabs a few pages of my favourite background site and replaces my windows backgrounds every week.
It'll loop through the thousands they have there a hundred at a time, so I'm right for the next couple years.
I'm surprised they still grant mortgages, a lot of coastal places can't get insurance anymore, a responsible lender wouldn't grant a mortgage on an un-insurable property.

Of course government can always mandate a head in the sand approach...

Then there's the mega wealthy that can always afford a new house anyway, they'll be happy to pay for the location.
All else equal, being in an area susceptible to climate change related flooding lowers value about 7% on average according to some research:

https://www.axios.com/sea-level-rise-costing-billions-in-hom...
I doubt it. I'd think a court/opposing counsel would examine the nature of that tampering to see if it could have effected the evidence or not
It is not just nasty to customers.

It is public evidence of commitment to an illegal policy after the CFO was informed of the legal problems.

Not sure how you can do something worse.
The African savanna is very coal- and coke-poor -- for most of our species' early history, our natural predators, like lions and cheetahs, were unable to produce sheet glass in large quantities. When humans started moving north into Eurasia, where coal deposits are more common, they were saved by the fact that the ursine glass industry was depressed by terrible protectionist laws up until the Bearton-Woofs Agreement in 1944.
Object Pascal Grammar (Up to Delphi 2006, No RTTI, Generics or Anon Methods)
Nice! An apology apology! Way to go GitLab!
Nothing’s stopping you, perhaps besides certificate problems.
On the other hand adobe ist sucks up money.
Why not just make it into a chrome plugin then?
SQL, BASIC, HTML.
Cloud Application Framework for Golang
Screen has sessions too... unless I’m missing something and this means something else
If ADA compliant content requires more resources to produce, allowing something to remain in violation because it’s free seems like a great way to price ADA compliant content out of existence.

That said, perhaps an improvement to the ADA would be budget to help producers of free content to become ADA compliant.
> Cars are pretty necessary if you have kids in most of the US, for example.

Yet, there is a significant portion of the US population that can not afford a car, and the next level to afford to maintain a car, or afford to adequately insure a car.

And yes, it hurts economic mobility https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/business/in-climbing-inco...
Show HN: I created an algorithm to help me achieve Product-Market Fit
I don’t like NSO or what they do, but I don’t think I’m comfortable with the idea that there is legal liability here.

I wonder how much of that hinges on the fact that the messages had to transit WhatsApp servers, even if they didn’t actually hack any WhatsApp infrastructure.

By that same logic, it seems like an SMS exploit targeting a handset could make you liable to AT&T as well.
On HN, there's no need for every title to explain itself fully, especially when it's trivial to find out the missing information. It's good for readers here to have to work a little: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Also, many readers have followed this story and know what NSO is. There's no title that fits the bill for everyone.
bit.ly does not require you to be logged in to create a new short link, so they don't seem to be in compliance.
A faraday cage works for incoming signals, but not so much for outgoing. It also depends on the wavelength vs size of mesh.

I think using a solid cage is the best bet.
We've had cities and towns built in regular flood plains for thousands and thousands of years. Every single year there's a few weeks in the spring when the news is full of stories about snowmelt and ice dams or heavy spring rains causing massive flooding on the Mississippi and its tributaries.
> See any post on HN (or anywhere else in the western media) about any chinese company

That of course is not true.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
If they're rich, they can afford to experience prime real estate before it's erased forever and if they're connected, they can get a bailout afterwards.
> Essentially every song is on Spotify

Hardly, but their selection is impressive. What music Spotify has available is entirely dependent on agreements with the artist or, far more often, the music label. Those agreements are subject to change or expire, and songs are routinely offered for a time then removed (sometimes to be added back later) and can be subject to additional limitations such as having their availability limited to specific countries. It's basically the same situation as Netflix with movies and TV shows. Sometimes you can find copies uploaded by others to youtube, pirate trackers, or other hosting sites and sometimes you can't.

Streaming services will likely continue to exist for a very long time. Streaming services that provide the specific songs you want to hear or enjoy on Spotify today are not guaranteed and that likelihood decreases significantly as time goes on and your tastes diverge from the mainstream.
If all you listen to are top 40 radio hits you'll probably never have a problem finding copies of the songs you like in some form or another. Whatever has replaced Spotify 50 years from now will likely still be full of The Beatles and Brittany Spears. Even today I find there are songs that are hard to find, albums that are out of print and not available from streaming sites. As people move away from physical media and depend on the shifting sands of streaming music providers I expect the problem will only grow with time.

> How often do you dig up songs you listened to 20 years ago?

Constantly. Not that I'm only listening to songs from 20+ years ago, but my current playlist has songs from the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s and most playlists I create tend to as well. Not everyone cares about music and may not mind if they never get to hear their favorite songs again by next year, but I suspect many of the younger ones who feel that way now will at one point in their lives want to go back and hear songs they grew up listening to.
RCA's CED failed; its history can tell us why
They basically already do your taxes anyway, which is why you get a bill in the mail if you screw up.
You know how, when you've just recently pushed a new branch to master, and then you go to GitHub, it'll auto-suggest creation of a new pull request with the correct source and destination repos/branches automatically selected, and all you have to do is confirm to send it?

That's what I think pr.new should do. I'd definitely use that one a lot.
Hurricane Sandy hit NYC during a spring tide, flooding downtown and knocking out power and a lot of subway tunnels. It cost 53 lives and about $19 billion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_Hurricane_Sandy_in_...
Austrian Post fined for selling customer's political preferences
“I guess we just can’t do anything about corporate lobbying, the one problem that has existed since the beginning of time that is totally immutable and impossible to change.”
In many languages, you might use one for a type name, the other for a variable.

You could ban using the same identifier with different cases, instead of treating them the same.
There are private companies in the US that develop and sell exploits and implants, not to the US government, and not with any official sanction.
You'd have to create the real TLDs as SLDs on .delete, and then the way to make a .delete domain would simply be to append .delete to the existing FQDN.

So you'd thus have foobar.com.delete and foobar.net.delete, no collisions.

Not saying it's great, but it'd work.
Do you mean compile times for Nim or a project? It's accurate to test it yourself since it's free.
How does she feel about the whole thing?
I don't think it's particularly a sport for well-off professionals at all. It just happens that most of the people we interact with in SF/SV are well-off professionals, so those are the climbers you know. If you go a different part of the country/world, you'll probably find climbers of way different demographics.
"The Qualified Launch Program (QLP) Addendum is available for new gTLD registry operators as of today. The QLP Addendum allows a registry operator to register up to 100 domain names to third parties prior to the Sunrise Period for purposes of promoting the TLD, under certain conditions."

https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/announcements-and-media/announ...
If you include areas that are protected by seawalls and other barriers, I assume that number could include most parts of the Netherlands. Not exactly a helpful number. We should give priority to people who are currently unprotected.
You don’t need guns when you have money. Money is a lot more effective than guns.
Well, let's see:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

I don't see any reason to have a policy about this one way or the other, but in most cases there's no need to say which country a well-known company is from. There are a couple instances of "China's Huawei" from over a year ago, but that's negligible compared to the number of headlines about Huawei overall.
Given the way Congress treats the Post Office, I wouldn't take it for granted that the IRS has much choice in the matter.
The forced updates are much easier to control on Windows Pro than Home. And frankly, if you are doing mission critical stuff that can't be interuoted, you shouldn't be using Home anyway.
get_random_u32() which is the function in question uses RDRAND if ut is available regardless of what RANDOM_TRUST_CPU says. It is meant of fast source of “good enough entropy” for short lived secrets. Short circuiting to RDRAND arguably breaks the API contract, but when RDRAND actually produces random-ish values it is probably good enough.
Absolutely.

You're paying a tax to pay your taxes. That's fucked, and doubly so because you're paying the toll to a parasitic company that only exists because of the government's inability to provide basic services.
I wonder what constitutes collusion?
Government jobs don't work like the private sector. Furthermore, it's not at all clear from this sentence that it's incompetence or corruption in the first place. It could be that they e.g. felt they might get a worse deal if they tried to push for a better one.
Essentially, yes. The Dutch have been living with this for hundreds of years; it will cost, but it is certainly possible to construct mitigatory measures.
Amusingly, they list these requirements on "whats.net" - a site which clearly violates these rules.
Can you give some examples of those "pure genius"s?
Yes. It is really expensive.
"Oh, you're wanting to implement more 'privacy' for our users? Well it turns out that we've just done a reorg, and your whole department has no budget for the rest of the year."

As you say, whoever controls the money flow, ultimately controls the people, and can shut down any activity they desire...

Sure it's not "legitimate veto power", but ultimately it is the same thing.
Well, taken to another extreme, it's Philip Glass working as a plumber and taxi driver (as he did) between compositions.

ROBERT Hughes, the Australian art critic, filmmaker and writer, wandered into the kitchen of his fashionable loft home in New York’s SoHo to see how the plumber was going, setting up his new dishwasher.

On his knees grappling with the machine, the plumber heard a noise and looked up.

Hughes gasped: “My god, you’re Philip Glass. I can’t believe it. What are you doing here?”

Glass, one of the world’s most famous composers, said afterwards: “It was obvious that I was installing his new dishwasher, and I told him I would soon be finished.”

“But you are an artist,” Hughes protested.

Glass said: “I explained that I was an artist but that I was sometimes a plumber as well, and that he should go away and let me finish.”
You're right, that is what I mean, thanks!
Sorry for derailing the thread, but how was the new Azure Kinect's performance outdoors? I've had trouble finding this information anywhere.
Juul Shipped At Least 1M Contaminated Pods, New Lawsuit Says
Any DJ Screw fans out here ?
The six sides of the three record album 'Sandinista!' had a quote from the movie Alien written in the runout, "IN SPACE ... NO ONE ... CAN ... HEAR ... YOU ... CLASH!"

Not a program, but I remember being oddly satisfied when I noticed it the first or second time I played it.
> not all are fit enough to cycle regularly (old age, disability, obesity).

Obesity is one thing promoting modes of transportation other than driving is a hope to solve; where the developed world is showing highest rates ever and scientific studies showing that the chair of a car is unhealthy.
Some methods are NotYetImplemented but I'd be happy to expand upon any if anyone's curious! I don't even know what they should look like quite yet...
Fortran and Ada, as well.
Completely agree about JJ Thomson. Just happy to hear it was he who said it and not a that it was a quote by someone else falsely attributed to JJ Thomson because he is famous.
Climate-change-denying ideologues like the Obamas? Or are you the one being duped?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.masslive.com/capecod/2019/0...
Sony to Shut Down PlayStation Vue in January 2020
To manage my wife's medication on the correct timeframes I built my own bot. It's connected to our normal day to day messenger channels so it's been nice and convenient. https://reminderbot.io
What kind of sensors do they use in time-of-flight? Because I think they do use gated CCD or CMOS...?
The issue is that Linux’s kernel-only “fast” CSPRNG is just thin wrapper around arch_get_random() (ie. RDRAND) when it is supported.
So the way it affects them is by requiring the expensive construction of seawalls, drainage and other defensive mechanisms.
"Sadly" because in this instance, it appears there's a CFO in power who's championing selling user's privacy out. Not a comment of whether or not a CFO in general has more influence than engineering (or other) staff, but that an ethically challenged CFO is potentially a toxic influence to a company culture and direction.
> They use it to generate HTML even when HTML takes less space.

The fact that MobileDoc exists makes me physically ill. Something that can be expressed with one line containing a paragraph element and an italic tag is over a dozen lines of JSON spam.
They’re all using Python.

A bunch of friends from back in college got together about 2 years ago for Christmas. We all decided to use slack since we use it for work. I just created a private channel there and the python scripts all post to the channel

- Reddit is using the .json endpoints on the url, https://reddit.com/r/funny/.json
- Stack exchange loads the URLs and uses beautifulsoup.
- For Twitter I use twython

For posting to Slack, I use the slackweb package.
SQL also does it (albeit inconsistently).
USDS seems to have pretty good and competent people last I heard. If they were given the support they might be able to do something.
Please don't cross into personal attack in HN comments. You did that upthread and then did it more here. That's the wrong way to go. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and eliminate that kind of swipe out of your posts here—regardless of how wrong or annoying you feel another commenter is being. Maybe you don't owe them better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.
Aside from the Epic Games Store:

I don't mind purchasing games from Steam. I've purchased a game or two on the EA store. I don't know if I purchased anything on the Ubisoft store, but I know it's needed for some of their games. I've purchased games from the Microsoft Store.

I've purchased games from sites like Good old games, Humble Bundle.

I think in practical terms, it's a bit annoying to have different, heavy clients to use to have these different games. It'd be less of a hassle if they all had a Single Sign On, I guess. But, yeah, the vast majority of my games are on Steam and I only use the EA store when I want to play a game that's exclusive to that store.

It makes sense to say "but it's market competition, why would you dislike Epic", but I don't think it appeals to the gamer identity/ethos. Idk how many people actually care about it; it's probably a vocal minority.
Recently on a cruise ship I found my SSH access blocked.

And HTTP proxies were blocked too.

So I used a WebSocket proxy and that worked great. I highly recommend wstunnel.

https://github.com/erebe/wstunnel
But how tho? I get what you’re saying but I don’t understand how to act on it.
I couldn’t agree more. If the TurboTax lobby has bought your vote what are you really going to do...