skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also really interesting the effect of management to drive timelines and innovation. If you look at the Apollo program, there was a ton of innovation driven by a incredibly fast design/launch cycle. Well managed timelines and goals can have a focusing effect (point the innovators in the most effective direction and give them the tools). The issue is when meeting the timelines and goals BECOMES the measure, rather than measuring effect. At that point it's just teaching the test and micromanaging.
More surveillance.
Nothing happens in few months with one guy. Even if it's Linus Torvolds. There are 1300 contributors to the project - https://github.com/git/git
Off-topic, but reading "Rogeuwave" gave me a sudden flashback to an old project.

Genuinely a name I've not heard for 20+ years. Thanks for the memories!
I don't paid for articles necessarily have to be labeled.
Let's not get too excited about causation there, though. Being about to die isn't a good way to stay rich in many, many dimensions. And rich people obviously aren't guaranteed longer lives.

In other words, it's a shocking statistic, but I'm not sure what to do about it since both wealth and health are influenced by so many other things, including each other.
Is the query langage less oscure than the query langage of ElasticSearch?
I'm going to start using explanations like that when I have to explain anything to my parents.
Body cameras were never going to fix a broken system because the state security and law enforcement officers are overtly and totally against them (and the logic behind them). So they were always going to do everything in the power to make sure that cameras in general weren't going to have the intended effect.

I don't think any system is going to fix the problems with state security and law enforcement until the legal structure that so many outrageous abuses is reformed.
They were named under completely different constraints to be fair - meant for CLIs in the first place. Versioner or Journal would be far more annoying to type than Git.
Asterisk was amazing fun, in one place we had it hooked up to a big chunk of Python -- everything driven by a program connected to the manager API, with events percolating through to a pre-websocket, pre-AJAX ColdFusion app (we used long polling, I think) that put up a popup with the customer's info as your extension rang. The preferred extension to ring was pulled out of the customer's call history, so they'd always get the same agent if possible.

For another customer it was a similar deal, only this time it was to glue an old school call center PBX system to Asterisk for reasons I can no longer remember. The PBX had its own management interface, so again a Python app connected to both interfaces and figured out call identities on both sides, which were dumped into a MySQL database for (I think) the web app used by the call center staff.

I talked to those guys a few years later and it was all still running. He told me it reliably hung once a week but he never bothered to report it because a shell script automatically restarted it in that case. Resourceful sysadmins! Good times
Have any more examples?
If you googled it, it really, really was not “many, many years ago”.

I object. As loudly as my old body allows.
Defer with C# 8.0
>Reading Twitter just makes me feel depressed some days, being constantly reminded that because I’m white and male I’m actually a fucking scumbag.

You should do what everyone else gets told to do when they complain about being harassed on the internet - simply ignore it.
Even the point they’re trying to make isn’t well backed-up:

> Many would double up their notifications sending both a native one and an email. For example, if someone messaged me on LinkedIn, that would trigger a notification in the app, plus an email to let me know.

Obviously, you turned on all notifications! Maybe some people like an email notification, and some like an app-based one. What’s the alternative: deny some people their preference? Surely this only matters if one of the notification methods can’t be disabled?
Here's a study that shows social isolation is a contributing risk factor for mortality.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/174569161456835...
I for one welcome this change. I want a standalone smartwatch good enough so that I can stop using my phone. The state of smartwatches right now is quite sad (I cannot afford an Apple smartwatch so I cannot speak for those). The simple list of things I want from a smartwatch right now are barely fulfilled by the best I could find which is Huawei Watch 2. I want Google Pay, calls and LTE, proper Maps navigation, sending voice messages through some Facebook owned chat app which everyone uses, some very very simple browser experience, bluetooth connection for headphones, Youtube and Spotify.

The Huawei Watch 2 I have constantly crashes, the battery life is horrible, charger doesn't connect well, Google Maps doesn't offer directions (only location), WhatsApp and Discord aren't supported, Google Pay works but I have to use PayEnabler because they don't care, Spotify isn't there and Youtube is very very laggy.

I guess the biggest issue is actually Qualcomm because the current chip is 3100 which is 28nm (is that like 5-6 year old tech?). I sincerely hope that with this acquisition and Qualcomm rumored Snapdragon wear 439 (they are rebranding it as 3500 or something) I will finally in the May of 2020 get an actually good (no need to be great) standalone Google Pixel Watch.
Thanks for pointing to recfiles. I didn't know about that. It's a pretty simple "DB" format. I like it (and I'll use it).
Rust is probably here to stay seeing as it was picked up by Firefox. I still think it could have been done better, but perfect is the enemy of good enough.
India Asks WhatsApp to Explain Privacy Breach
Going by Google's track record, the top priorities will be

1) Put Google Assistant in everything

2) Discontinue customer service in favor of a useless forum where you can shout in to the void
Git was popular before GitHub was a thing. Git was taking over the open source world back when everybody was on SVN, and people were just hosting their Git repos themselves. GitHub made Git ubiquitous for all types of developers and accelerated that adoption further, giving us the near-monopoly we see today.
Yes you can, and I think this is one of the main selling points of TimescaleDB.
Won't the "bundleware" just directly frob Firefox's state to make it think the user authorized it?
My takeaway: Eat seasonally and locally. Easier said than done, sure. But many of us can load up a van with some friends and head to a farm or ranch once a month if we care about this enough.
> Hetzner isn't really a 'cloud' thing in the same way as AWS et al are, and doesn't really seem to have ambitions in that direction.

Hetzner Cloud is more about IaaS than PaaS, and competes directly with DigitalOcean after the introduction of dedicated vCPU, block storage, and private networks. It's still missing object storage, though.

OVH Public Cloud, on the other hand, is trying to become the AWS / GCP / Azure of Europe – and with unmetered bandwidth is many times cheaper than they are – but at the moment it's still much better as IaaS rather than PaaS.
Using above half sampling rate will cause audible artifacts from aliasing. I guess you sampling rate is 44k...
Perhaps, but explainability is very helpful for predictability - it allows us to do better than just making statistical inferences from observed behaviour. Since ML models, unlike biology, are entirely our design, we have an opportunity to make them explainable and reap the benefits in terms of predictability.
Students at my university tried to create a 'men's space' on campus, similar to a 'women's space' that had existed for years.

The student paper was full of articles for months talking about what horrible misogyny men would get up to if they were allowed to gather in a space without female supervision and people were ostracized for expressing support for the project, there was an immediate backlash of intimidation that successfully shut it down.
>to say society doesn’t care about men’s issues is laughable

Life expectancy is going down, "deaths of despair" among men in particular are going up significantly, and as someone voices their concern that society doesn't care about these issues, you are literally laughing at them? Even if your underlying point is correct, to be laughing in their face and dismiss it as "MRA" seems to provide evidence against your own argument.
What's about a country that does have a universal healthcare for poor? Oh, wait...
> When the survival rate of using CAPS is an order of magnitude (or more) safer?

[citation needed]
I think you are misrepresenting what Github actually is.
AllStarLink (https://www.allstarlink.org/about/about.php) is software for linking ham radio repeaters that's based on Asterisk.
No it isn't.

Sunken cost fallacy refers to irrational decision making about a future action, incorrectly using the costs of past actions to do so.

It is not a fallacy to assess or reassess the value or effectiveness of past actions.
Beautiful story. I’ve also been thinking about starting a psychedelic spa. “Light and plants” has been the central thing I’ve been thinking about for design.
> The company never sells personal information, and Fitbit health and wellness data will not be used for Google ads.

Is there any legal enforcement to prevent this in the future?

Besides marketing by health status, I can imagine that advertisers would be very interested in your heart rate before / during / after viewing an ad.
You can care about how some people react without overvaluing the aggregate reaction.
If you actually are looking for another option, my bias is toward Garmin.
At the risk of seeming trollish...

What are we doing? Deploy the donations!
This.

Whenever I go I try really hard to find actual local craft and buy a single thing that is connected to place and will remind me of if.

Universally this one thing will cost me more but its actual local craft not Chinese import.
BlizzCon Protests: How We Got Here and What You Need to Know
Are there any plans to collaborate with the PostgreSQL project? Especially on Andres' work on speeding up the executor? My apologies if you already are and I have just not seen your names on the mailing list.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but the internet does not entertain me like it used to. There used to be so many fun communities, now everything is Facebook, Reddit, etc. We used to make fun of people who took the internet too seriously, but nowadays the internet really is serious business.

I think the dawn of smartphones, high-speed wireless data, and the internet being in everybody's pocket is one of the primary drivers behind this.
In British English, to call someone a 'git' is an insult. That's what is being referred to. Linus once joked that both Linux and Git were named after him.
We use Git because GitHub happened to be the first non-shitty code repository website.
What did it sound like?
If people are interested in alternatives, Garmin and Polar are companies unlikely to ever be acquired by a big tech company that would rely on selling data as a business model.
Shorting stock is a financial game that you can play if you can afford it. It might be related to disliking Elon Musk because of his some of his business practices are shady. Personally, I think he's mostly a con man but that view isn't widely held here on HN. If someone doesn't like his business practice and thinks it might fail, shorting the stock could be profitable.
15% isn't really that much. It's the difference between 65 and 80 which when you account for the rising chance of mental health issues after 65 is even less of a difference. I'm honestly worried that the richest still die before 100. Am I too old to be the generation that lives to 200?
How is git overkill? Perhaps you're conflating Git and Github? Or perhaps you're confusing git best practices or methodologies with git functionality?

Git costs nothing to use, you add it to a project and then it sits there until you do something with it. If you want to use it as a "super save" function, it'll do that. If you want to use it to track every change to every line of code you've written, it'll do that too.
The thing about fiction is that it is... fiction!

So yes, if you make the hypothesis that things went out so we would all be using BSD, then we would. And yes, successful projects and people always come from a part of luck. But so what? What happened in reality is what happened, and if they went lucky good for them, but this does not really removes anything from their achievements.
Use OS packages instead.
If not for the BitKeeper drama, we wouldn't have Git.
Same for Hurd, if GNU had a kernel back then, we wouldn't have Linux.

What else could we take away from Trovalds in order to push him to his next project? :)
> I have never had the feeling of something being truly ant-white.

There are indeed, albeit a small amount of legitimately "anti-white" people and groups. However while in discouraged that there are people who would inherit dislike me / hate me, I understand why they feel that way.
Positive effect of narcissism on perceived stress through mental toughness
This is pretty cool! Lots of "configuration package managers" would benefit from a universal interface, and many of these boil down to "directory of git repositories at a specific commit". Some examples: many dotfiles repositories, pathogen (vim plugins), fisherman (fish shell; exrok/fisherman).

It would be nice to have a unified way to manage these, and even better if that unified way was through UPM, the same way I install new nodejs, python, whatever packages.
And here I was considering getting fitbit...

Could anyone suggest an alternative?

I really have no trust that google will keep promise not to use the data.

edit: thanks all, I have too look into it all back home.
perhaps, but building a suite of tools that work together (but can still work individually) would not go against that philosophy.
Check out weworkremotely.com
You can also look for remote designer jobs on Dribbble.
Data has become incredibly important. A see a lot of people call data the new gold, or the new oil. I once read that some European nations stored their gold in the US, and are now having trouble getting it back. Oil is another valuable commodity where the US has always tried to stay in control over. With data, I guess it makes sense that European countries finally want a bit more sovereignty over it.
I have always traditionally been someone who would stay up until 2am a few times a week, and always been lacking in sleep. I've turned that around, along with a lot of other healthy changes I've been making, along with diet, exercise, and sauna use.

But the thing that's been an absolute game changer with sleep has been red glasses. So the idea is that blue light and to a lesser extent green light, both interfere with your brain's melatonin production. Everyone tells you to avoid looking at screens or your phones after dark, but who actually manages to do that? Also, these "night light" programs like flux just tone down the blue light, they don't eliminate it. These glasses block almost all blue and green light. They also have a barrier on the side so no light comes in through the side.

Sure, these glasses make you look like a dork, but they're great. If I'm in any state of lacking sleep, I find everything much less stimulating, and I get tired really fast. But even better, I sleep like I went into a coma, and I feel like I've been dreaming a lot more than usual.

There are tons of tips for sleeping better that I think all work, but from my experimentation, the unnatural blue and green light after sun down is by far the biggest problem that we all have.

Here are some examples of what I'm talking about.

https://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Savior-Ultra-Disruptive-Melaton...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07H44C8DT/
I wouldn't attribute any of the downfall of Couchsurfing to AirBnB, rather the new owners. There are a ton of reasons which were laid out by multiple disgruntled ex-couchsurfers in a myriad of blog-posts. I went looking for some of them but the best I could find was on Quora[0]. For me it was apparent that they new owner only cared about the number of users and proceeded to advertise instead of relying primarily on word-of-mouth, ignoring critical feedback from core members/ambassadors, as well as destroy the usability of the site (e.g. search and the groups got progressively worse), among reasons. The site was rather quickly overwhelmed with people who just wanted a free hotel while they go out and party, while the core community abandoned the site, leaving a vacuum to be filled by people who didn't care about the original "spirit". I went from hosting people every week, making lots of spontaneous trips and organizing events to not being involved at all. This was also true of tens of CS friends, many of whom pleaded with the new management to stop breaking things and to listen to their feedback. I knew at least 15 ambassadors personally who deleted their profiles around the same time all these changes were happening, particularly because their feedback was being completely ignored. I kept my profile up in hopes that things would eventually return... and also out of curiosity about how bad it could really get. Only last month have I received the first "worthy" request, where somebody actually read my profile and seemed to have some of the original couchsurfing spirit. Perhaps things will change again?

[0]: https://www.quora.com/Is-CouchSurfing-dead
I sometimes take CBD but it’s hard to tell if it helps.

I’ve taken a THC tablet before and it does work but I wake up with a bit of a weed hangover. It’s also not something that I’d want to do daily.

I’ll have to research TAC, never heard of it.
That's a completely different product than Fitbit is. Even its full blown smartwatches are very light, very dumb peripherals with very low power that last a week on a charge. They're really not the same type of product as a Wear OS or Apple Watch type device, and trying to turn them into one will take away all of why Fitbit owners choose them.
Positive effect of narcissism on depressive symptoms
It's astonishing that this is still an argument that can be seen in the wild.
I have been following this for what seems like a couple of years now. As someone who is into both maps and procedural generation of content, it's fascinating.

Procedural generation as a whole has so many, so very many algorithms out there and it is pleasant to see quite a few of them being born right on that blog.
And so is, for example, Android. But due to some (shady) tactics, a successful fork of either is impossible for a small group. Saying to a hungry kid in a favela "you are free to get rich" is technically correct, but ignores practicalities.

You could argue that Mozilla is either a shepherd (making best decisions for most users and that's it; take it or leave it) or a partner (listen to users and try to implement features they want) but you cannot eat your cake and have it too.
Pro se appellant overturns Section 101 Abstract Idea rejection
Yeah, that's offered although it's currently free.

No particular tricks to avoid detection. It's Puppeteer under the hood with a few customizations which works well on the majority of sites tested so far.

Given the cat-and-mouse game around web scraping you may never cover every website, and that's ok.
As you say, this wouldn't impact security any more than inserting the USB stick itself would - but having to run a HTTP server on loopback just to circumvent some security mechanism on the browser you own[0] would only say that some engineering mistakes have been made.

--

[0] - Do you still own a copy of Firefox? That's probably the hidden crux of the issue.
Summary: Woman contributes to mathematics; can't find appropriate academic position because she isn't a man.

As far as the article goes there is a bit about her contribution which is over inflated to, "reshaped maths". This is used as a jumping off point to talk about how she can't find the same work her male counterparts would, skills being equal. Finding out that professors were mostly men in the early to mid 20th century is hardly noteworthy but the article spends some time on it. Finally a bit of commentary by the author about missed opportunities because people other than white men have ideas, too.

The last seems to be the point, but it reads as an attempt to find misery and highlight it, rather than perhaps remembering the woman and her contribution. The contribution the author is really interested in is the failure and the opportunity it presents to make a trite statement about equality of opportunity. All with a click bait title.
An important and oft-ignored aspect of participating in certain activities! Even this doesn't capture everything. I am also very concerned about the possibility of being maimed by my chosen activities.

For example, open water swimming seems pretty dangerous, but the outcomes are (I would suppose) pretty binary. At the end you're either alive or you're drowned. I suppose that, rarely, someone almost drowns and is left partly brain damaged. But I think most of the time it's on or it's off. Motorcycling, on the other hand, probably maims far more people than it kills. So that makes it relatively more dangerous per hour!

But then you have to adjust by your risk factors. I am an extremely cautious driver. I stay in the right lane, I follow the speed limit, I try to avoid merging, and I check my mirrors. I do these things because, although I have spent a lot of time behind the wheel, I don't trust my fallible human perception and reflexes to take on riskier habits. I suspect, just based on the frequency with which I get into collisions compared to other people I know, that I'm safer than average. If I brought my driving attitude to motorcycling, it seems reasonable to believe that I'd be at much lower risk than the typical, weaving-in-and-out-of-traffic sport-bike rider. But how much so? Nobody has done any study that will help me guess. So, for now, I avoid it, and find fun in things that are less likely to leave me paralyzed.

Anyway, just some things that bumble through my head when I think about activity risk.
I do calendars, where it displays a month grid with days of the week at top, calculates the start day of the month, changes box colors for non-month days, month days, current day, etc. I add more bits if the language is more robust like filling in sample events, add in a month pager for control testing, etc.

This provides me enough math, control logic, looping and display logic to see what's what.
Pretty much. There's a preference you can change to allow unsigned extensions, but it only works in dev/nightly firefox and "unbranded editions" of release/beta firefox.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing#FAQ
The MRA groups, on Reddit at least, seem to spend more time blaming other people for things that are affecting men versus figuring out ways to overcome the issues.
Actually now I’m confused because I don’t understand Latin. Psyche definitely gets at the mind idea, but also soul or spirit. Ick sounds like what I do before I vomit but I guess “delic” is really what we’d be concerned about, but then this seems like it’s just talking about an experience of the first thing, an arrow pointing back to an amorphous blob of language. I’m not sure if it’s better or worse that I brought my own preconceptions to the word at this point, or how my preconceptions are different from the thing itself. I’m seeing other interpretations talking about dissolution. It’s certainly something big happening, that’s for sure! In a way, I’m also confused about mindfulness. Is my mind full or is the fullness of mind different from that? Does it mean something that there’s only one “L?”

Absolutely I think the next interesting discussions could either be about the word, or what to do.

Again, thanks to the author for properly choosing A New Brand, with existing baggage which perfectly typifies where discussions like this tend to go, see comments below.