skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have slight tinnitus, you can use a white noise generator. What I've found that works really well at work to both keep loud colleagues from interfering and to reduce any high pitched noises I hear is this https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php?l=... , you can also try their datacenter one. In another life when I used to have to go to the DC and work directly on servers I found it actually quite relaxing.
Its provocative but is it a good use of funds?

they spent 465k already, can spend up to 1.4 Million just on an advertising campaign. Those funds could be used to actually help users.

from the governor's own tweet. "3,366 people were arrested last year because of meth in SD. 13 people died."

they spent 35k per overdose death for awareness. Surely the funds couldve been better put to use
From a U.S. perspective, I question the categorical statement about 'legality.' See, e.g., Operation Varsity Blues.[1]. Maybe 'commonplace', but unless the folks involved have happily run it past their GCs and the local U.S. Attorney, don't get ahead of yourself there...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_college_admissions_brib...
Looks like the demo has bugs (https://i.imgur.com/cSgIlWs.png).
Clicking on the "icons" icon doesn't show anything, but the readme picture (https://github.com/uxbox/uxbox/tree/develop#uxbox) clearly shows that it should open in the bottom left sidebar.

I would have followed the project if it was more active, but no commits in 21 days for master branch, 28 days for develop branch and a diff of 246 commits between the 2 branches leaves me perplexed.
Before you get too far down this rabbit hole (like I did) for a home mail server, make sure that your ISP supports inbound/outbound mail traffic. Mine blocks it permanently, and I've been unsuccessful at getting it changed. In fact, I can't even get the tech support people to understand the traffic is blocked before it reaches my house and it's not a "firewall" thing.
They have a lot of videos. You're statistically unlikely to care about any randomly selected one. By watching a video, you establish that it's interesting enough for you to watch. It's much more likely that you'll want to rewatch it than that you'll want to view a random video.

I'm only half-joking here. To me, YT algorithm seems to be a mix of "show random videos you've already watched" + "show random videos from channels and users you watched" + "show the most popular videos in last few hours/days/weeks". It's pretty much worthless, but what are we expecting? Like all things ad economy, the primary metric here isn't whether you like the recommended content, or whether that content challenges you to grow - it's maximizing the amount of videos you watch, because videos are the vehicles for delivering ads to you.
This is a tragedy for half of humanity. Actually, all humanity come to think of it
> I was dismissed half way through for not agreeing.

Even if I got an offer out of that interview, I would have turned it down. The head of the project making such a statement (in the absence of a good reason for the stance) is a big red warning flag.
The classic take a cut at the middle
Sounds a lot like Zach:

Pt 1: https://thespinoff.co.nz/the-best-of/06-03-2018/the-mystery-...

Pt 2: https://thespinoff.co.nz/the-best-of/09-03-2018/the-mystery-...
Not really. Read All Star Superman for a great example of how you can have a story be about the fantastical and make it very human.

That story is about Superman basically becoming overexposed to sunlight in a way that makes him progressively more powerful (than Superman was already), but it is also going to kill him.

It is about what a man like that might do when he knows he is going to die and a lot of it is Superman's connection with people.
Just curious. How often to you go back to old notes?
Being able to encode it reasonably in 5 bits and comfortably in 6 (adding case and a few last nice symbols) was helpful too.
Is providing a disincentive for wire fraud really something that should be driving any compensation package?
You can't use most games outside of Steam to launch them. Most games (but not all) have DRM's and require Steam to be running to launch. You can look it up.
Since we are sharing anecdotes, I can report it's been 20 years of buying stuff on the internet and the combined billions of ad tracking research dollars spent by Amazon and Google have not yet come up with a better algorithm than to bombard me with ads for the exact same thing I just bought.
> what drives people to sign up, and what value you are getting

It might only be me, but this question is silly.

I'm getting the news, updates from a project or company I'm interested in.

Thoughtworks' tech radar is a great example of a project I love getting regular updates from: https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

Newsletters are not spam, it's a deliberate, on-topic tune-in.
This doesn’t make sense to include in the standard library, it’s a perfect use case for a crate.
Use Joplin https://joplinapp.org/prereleases/ it offer encryption for your notes
Radically cheaper launches will still be significantly more expensive than current maintenance contracts. Even if we have infinitely reusable rockets in the future, you're still looking at millions of $ in fuel costs for a servicing trip. I am personally not as optimistic about "soon".

If you send a technician out to the Earth-Sun L2 point (where JWST will be) so that she can throw some grease on a gear or spray WD-40 on a reaction wheel, she'll be 4 times further from Earth than any human has ever gone. Although there may be some synergy with future Lunar/Martian missions, there's a lot of work that needs to be done to figure out how to do that safely. I think L2 is the safest Lagrange point w.r.t radiation, but it's still potentially deadly.

>"there is no need to make a big structure capable withstanding 1g gravity".

While the overall structure may not need to withstand 1g continuously, you still need to design it to as much as 6 Gs of acceleration during launch (as well as significant lateral acceleration, and occasional shocks in the dozens or hundreds of gs).
I have similar examples in my experience. If you run operations it is something you need to watch out for because, in my experience, every vendor extends feelers to see if this is a possibility. It goes unnoticed by accounts receivable because the vendor marks the price up with the 'extra' so they see an invoice, and pay it and get the equipment, none the wiser that is some % higher than it "could" be. This is amplified by vendors of IT gear that quote a "high" MSRP, and then offer a big discount. So the vendor has rack switches for $4500 MSRP they are selling you for $3000 when the 'standard' discount would be $2500 (45 points off list). The accountant sees the 33% off list so they are happy, the vendor gets more than they need to make their margin, and the IT guy on the inside manages to pocket a few thousand that arrives via a side channel.

Everyone gets a little something and everyone is happy as a clam. It is fairly insidious and difficult to combat unless you can pit distributors against each other or vendors in order to force out what their real bottom line is.
go to edx.org and take cs50 from Harvard University
I just disabled them one by one and it looks like `Freezetab` extension is what's causing the issue.
This reminds me of the discussion where someone asserted that because were capable of taking our own pulse there’s no advantage to a device that tracks it all the time.

I’m not going to throw a chest sensor on every time I leave for lunch just in case I decide to jog there. Or when I get up from my desk to run up and down the stairs.

Nor is a chest sensor going to remind me to stand up every hour. Or allow me to set a reminder to take a bag out of my car when I get home. Or tell me what song is playing.

You’re welcome to choose not to use a smart watch, but to claim they can’t improve someone’s life is willful ignorance of the facts. They’ve already literally saved lives.
That is stunningly bad, as far as "evidence" goes.

I find it amazing that the rocks are so clear, and the snakes and bugs look exactly like the rocks. It's interesting that the snakes and bugs don't actually look like snakes and bugs, and in order to see what he sees, you have to forget how clear the rest of the picture is and except his analysis at (blurry?) face value. Just like backward masking in music, or the word SEX toasted into your Ritz crackers and wrinkled into some girl's socks, it requires text arrows, shape outlines, and highly specific descriptions before you can just almost see/hear it.

Imagine if National Geographic had to go through such extremes before we could see bugs and snakes in their pictures of them.

On Mars, sometimes a rock is just a rock.
I live in San Francisco, so I’m comparing my experience living and working in the city to LA, not Silicon Valley.
> The obliviousness of what was facing him after learning the FBI was on to him is mind blowing. He thought he could pay it all back and be fine?

I mean, it did work out. Guy will be out of prison in ~3-4 years. That's about 27 too few, given how we sentence people, but them's the breaks...

> His wife sticking by him this whole time is also amazing to me.

Blood runs thicker than water.
Remember that the VM is running on a hypervisor that is on 24x7 regardless of whether there is a virtual machine there.

The beauty of a VM is that it can get migrated around, so those hypervisor hosts can get turned off when load is not there. This is something that is likely happening already.
You literally just described fraud protection, which is something most banks nowadays use. It might be opt-out (or even opt-in) but that's very much a thing that banks do, and they get plenty of false positives with it.
What is missing from vscode for remote development? MS released their remote development extensions earlier this year, and everything from browsing to searching feels native.
Yeah,they will just disappear. You may be able to get save games, maybe. OnLive (which was great, btw) just went poof, gone.
It may sound similar but offensive vs. defensive behavior in (video) game strategy is a much different concept than cooperation in game theory.
The way I see it, a key attraction of Prolog and logic programming languages in general is that different evaluation strategies are possible, and in fact also starting to be implemented in several systems to various degrees.

For example, an increasing number of Prolog systems provide, in addition to SLDNF resolution (which is the the default evaluation strategy), also SLG resolution (tabling) as an evaluation strategy with different termination and performance characteristics.

These different strategies are very useful in practical programs, and it would be limiting if one were to prevent them by using extra-logical predicates.
Former Casper execs are building direct-to-consumer dog food startup called Jinx
I’ve learned to live a happy life without social media (mostly), I’d never go back to anything that resembled Facebook. I moved on and I’m happy for it.

I enjoy some Instagram and Snap, that’s it. I’m bored with them too though.
I used to work in retail and one of the managers ended up stealing about $350,000 cash from the store. Her partner worked at the same store and claimed that he didn't know anything about the situation but I just don't know how a spouse could have that much extra money, multiple years of their salaries and not realise that either this person is amazing with finances or something fishy is going on.
Nov 15th: 80,000 users

Nov 17th: 160,000 users

Nov 18th: 200,000 users

https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/1196571429099200512
> Speech is free regardless of the benefits and privileges granted to those who would speak.

You're copiously misinterpreting my comment. Of course free speech is an inherent privilege, nay human right, that doesn't require granting from any entity/authority figure. I'm very much questioning the logic behind their angst against Zucks' opinions on China. If anything, the free flow of information, free speech without retaliation and the general upliftment by being at FB should convince them to argue FOR free speech in China. I was hoping they saw the clear correlation between freedoms, free-speech, etc as the foundation for equitable wealth creation and prosperity, which they very much have experienced at FB.

I'm guessing their reaction is more visceral/emotional than logical. Most people tend to love their motherland despite it's shortcomings.
However if you can get a correspondent to also set up their own mail server, then you may realise the pleasure of emailing directly from sender's server to recipient's, without using third party email "services" and third party email servers. First party to second party. No third party.

Every time these posts about setting up a mail server reach the HN front page, there are usually complaints and they always center around third party email services. Perhaps it is the use of those services that is the problem, not the process of setting up a mail server.

Spam is probably made easier by the fact that so many people use the same third party email providers. Spammers have less servers to target. (Not the same situation if every user had their own server.) As HN commenters oft point out, email, the protocol and software, is "decentralised". But the widespread "centralised" use of the same third parties to send and deliver mail has negated the benefits of being (theoretically) decentralised.
I did remote development through Putty sessions using vim/tmux for several years. Would have been nice to have something like this.
I'm doing the same for exactly the same reason (afraid of bad ML from Google wiping my whole digital life)
The usefulness of a general "social network" is how many people it has. If I can't find almost everyone I know on it, and they are on a different platform (Facebook) it's easier for me to just use the other platform. People feel like they need it to keep in touch with others they don't see often (or even just others in general).

I personally don't have any major social media accounts, just small ones like HN - but I understand why people feel the need to use larger ones.
Thanks mate, I haven't had a good belly-laugh in weeks!
Slightly off topic but weird to not see Shadow.tech mentioned.

It's a smaller French streaming company where you get a complete VM you can do anything with for an unlimited amount of time.

It's not as easy because you will end up spending a little bit of time setting things up compared to a game-only system though.

I have used their service and was absolutely blown away _as a casual gamer_. I stream in 1440p 60fps+ with no hiccups and a latency of about 18ms from my laptops.

You need a solid connection, no low caps, and a good wireless router but other than that it's pretty amazing how well it works - also i would rather not use Google after their turn towards monopoly in the last years.

They are coming out with support for up to Nvidia Titan Tiers so you can have a crazy 3D rendering workstation on the go.

On the downside i guess it's not very green to be streaming several terabytes of data each month, also it's beginning of a pretty horrible slippery slope privacy wise.

But for "just gaming" or other non privacy/important stuff the "terminal" concept is pretty cool.

On a side note does anyone have any CO2/Megabyte calculator? I have had a hard time figuring out how impactful the move to constant HD streaming in a lot of homes is?

I slightly remember reading that the internet could use upwards of 1/3 of total power consumption in X amounts of years.
That's not true. Stadia does solve a number of problems some people want solved.

1) Faster multiplayer

2) Immediate streaming to Youtube at high quality

3) 4K 60Hz gaming without requiring a high end PC, or even simply gaming without a dedicated gaming device

4) Cross platform gaming so you can seamlessly move from one device to another

Nobody really wants to stream games, but moving gaming to cloud solves those problems.

It remains to be seen if Stadia can indeed solve the lag issues though.
This will eliminate the fuel burning CO2, but will not eliminate the CO2 driven off by calcination
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcination.
Still it is a start and if they can create another concretion chemistry without driving off CO2 it will become a total win.
This might mean a coupled CO2 trapping method?
You're overthinking my point. I don't care about the folk wisdom of bad apples.

I was just using it as a way of expressing the issue at the centre of aiming to have a zero tolerance society.

Not tolerating misconduct will always lead to ever increasing intrusion into our lives and people that choose not to take part where they can will automatically be viewed with suspicion for it because the ignorant assumption is only people with something to hide would do that.
This is only true if you strictly mean the city of SF, i.e., the tiny metro at the very tip of the peninsula. If you mean the metropolitan metro area, than SF is a nightmare without a car.

LA has a very good bus network within the city proper--one of the biggest in the world. It's possible to get within 1 mile of any publicly-accessible address by bus, and to neighboring cities (i.e., Santa Monica, Long Beach) and enveloped cities (i.e., Beverly Hills, Inglewood) as well.

LA's rail also enables car-free travel between Santa Monica, Culver City, Long Beach, North Hollywood, Hollywood, Pasadena, and Downtown. Including regional rail (i.e., the BART equivalent), it's possible to get as far out as Ventura County to the north, San Bernardino and Riverside to the east, and Disneyland/Orange County and San Diego County to the south.
What is functional reactive programming?
Cool, thanks for your response. Checked out your "reset hard" prototype demo; it looks great! Reminds me a bit of Bret Victor's talk on inventing from first principles, and a game called "Braid" that involves actively playing with time as a 1st-class property of gameplay. You should post a "show hn" on it! :)
Sun was ahead of its time in many ways. I used a Sunblade and never thought of it again until this article and its relation. Interesting.

I've thought a lot about zones and Docker. I remember booting a zone for the first time on Solaris (copies the kernel) and was amazed at how fast it booted. It had a lot of the same things (volumes that are mounted). I used to explain Docker as Solaris zones sometimes but no one knows what Solaris is.
In a criminal context in the US, you have a constitutional right to legal representation. I suspect Canada is the same, but I don't know for sure. In any case, this isn't a viable solution, even if it were a good idea, which I'm skeptical of.
Outside of web development, sometimes you need special hardware or workspaces configured to do development. Usually this can be done in a container, but that comes with its own annoyances. Having a central development server for large compiled code bases is really useful.
Good advice. Far better than the Red Hat branded info presented here. Personally, I prefer to push rather than pull, and I also use mitogen as the ssh strategy. It's incredible how much one line in requirements.in and another in ansible.cfg can speed things up.
> In every place I've been, the IDE choice has been more of a team decision

What OS(es) were you using at the time?

In my experience, IDE choice was a team decision in Windows (and perhaps Mac?) shops, where the build system was tightly coupled to the IDE.

But in shops that develop Linux code, the IDE and build system tend to be loosely coupled, and the IDE was a matter of personal preference.
No, my argument was that the description was market-speak and doesn't actually tell you anything useful. Faster than what? More secure than what, how? Its not class leading in either of those cases.

Further the project is yet another CADT model project which further fragments a problematic portion of the ecosystem while bringing little to the table technically.

And while I picked edk2/uefi, there are a dozen other firmware projects including one that actually does put a full blown OS in the firmware. So, if your augment is trying to be technical by saying edk2 does to much, that doesn't address boot loaders like uboot, while simultaneously failing to understand the why's of standardized boot-loaders.
I just (in the last two weeks or so) started using Molecule. It took a bit to get everything set up and figured out but now that I've got things the way I want them it really is pretty awesome.

I'm using it with Vagrant and VirtualBox at the moment, just because that was the easiest way -- if you aren't already using Docker, that is -- to get started (due to available documentation, examples, etc.) but eventually I'd like to use both Docker and my ESXi lab for testing.

Testing w/ bare-metal was always a pain in the ass as I'd constantly need to "reset" the hosts to a specific "known good" starting point. I have everything set up for automated network installs, though, so it only takes 5 minutes or so to wipe and reinstall a physical host.

Now, I'm doing all my Ansible testing against VMs on VirtualBox, running from an image generated by Packer. Those images use the exact same preseed.cfg file I use on the bare-metal host, making it sooooo much easier. I do all my testing on the VMs, make sure everything is correct, and then run it against the physical host once for "verification".
Transportation has to become more expensive in the green future so that pushes back towards local manufacturing.
That's only for exalted characters with nice hats and beards.

If you want to run MacOSX legally without risking a lawsuit from Apple (they even went after a repair shop, FFS), you must use their hardware, as per the license agreement.
I agree. In fact, I am a paying subscriber to both Stratechery and Sinocism. There are somethings where I want to be updated regularly and I will pay attention.
Superstar cities don't have and never have had a monopoly on talent. What they do have is a monopoly on capital. Try raising money in a non-superstar city.

This monopoly may fade as younger angels, VCs, and other forms of investors who are comfortable with telework and therefore with tele-investing take over. I've already seen a bit of that, but it's still far easier to raise money in e.g. San Francisco / SV.

Of course if you do raise money in the Bay you're just going to spend it all on real estate. VCs there should skip the middleman and cut checks directly to property owners.
Yeah, I don't understand what the plan was for 20 years from now when the contract gets renegotiated. Maybe he figured corporate amnesia would have set in.

Still, it seems like there are easier ways to make more money. eg if you're a really good salesperson, there are plenty of companies -- mine included -- that will happily double or triple that $360k/year.
Yeah, same rxn. I tried vsc's remote dev stuff to try pair-programming w a friend in another state, and was surprised and delighted at how well it worked. It was effortless and frictionless.