skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, fetishizing instruments of death because of the "cool tech."
With a few exceptions, pretty much all of them are games i buy at some sale or at recommendation of someone i trust but i find time for actually playing them much later. Many of those games (e.g. VtMB that i mentioned elsewhere) are games i've bought (let alone played) way after their developers ceased to exist.

You probably need to check out the whole "gaming backlog" meme :-P
How to fight and take a punch.

People are capable of taking much more punishment then they think. With an hour of practice, you can overcome the initial fear and act much more rational when push comes to shove.

I understand that this is not just "intense concentration" while sitting behind your desk, but that is exactly the point of learning, get out of your bubble.
The Most Annoying Thing on This Year’s Web Summit
Andy Miller on how Apple acquired his company, working with Steve Jobs [video]
VIAC is a great alternative. It's cheaper than traditional banks and allows a higher share of investment in equities: https://viac.ch/en/
And I say stupid things with my real name attached all the time to do my small part in preventing that future. I'm not afraid to attach my name to what I believe in (and really, quite a lot I probably don't)

I also think people are fooling themselves if they think they can really hide their identity behind a screen name.

Staying silent and hiding in the shadows enables that kind of future and can be seen as a pretty good cause of those sorts of things happening around the world throughout history.
Plenty keyboards with mechanical switches have numpads. Is every single one of them failing your niceness criteria somehow?
for a realistic approach to the superhero genre you might want to check out the amazon original series The Boys

obnoxious narcissists making the world worse, one deed at a time.
why would the section marked “Git+Github” have “collaboration” marked as ‘no’? Like that is what it actually does...
Actually that's really interesting because it exposes a bias in their recommendation system. They must be heavily biased towards things with mass appeal instead of specifically targeting user preferences, which is funny because it goes against the grain of the whole "targeted advertising" promise of ML. You'd think if anyone could get that right, it would be Amazon, yet..
You can improve on this by adding recipes to your Anki app so that you'll remember them after a while. It is really nice to be able to recall recipes (both the ingredients and weights/ratios) when you are working in the kitchen or grocery shopping.
Sensationalism at its best. Any non profit that cannot shell a couple of bucks for domain will have hard time doing anything of value anyway. Now it costs 12$, even quadrupling it to 50$ won't change anything.
Small city: everything is in walking or cycling distance, there's little congestion. Big city: distance between points of interest is large, there's lots of traffic and congestion, people complain about public traffic, and take an hour to get from place A to place B.

This is my experience, having lived most of my life in small places (ranging from a monastery to a city with 25k people) while listening to people in big cities complain about their commutes.

Now I live in a city that isn't exactly small but not huge either. I'm already suffering the consequences of traffic and longer distances. Moving out of small cities is when I started to actually need a car... of course having more people and congestion doesn't show up in traffic only; it's also in the grocery store queues, restaurants packed full, parcels not delivered to home because they're too busy to deal with everyone personally, etc.
I thought HN audience was smart and not manipulated by inflammatory headlines.
Thank you for the clarification!

Still, makes me think that this could have been stated clearly instead of relying on the reader interpreting it in that manner.
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You are ignoring a very important part of it - some people genuienly want to "help their country" and are willing to sacrifice personal success for this. For example it's not exactly a secret that 3-letter agencies don't pay software engineers anywhere near as well as other IT companies would, but the promise of doing something "for your country" is worth more than money(just like game developers sacrifice money to work on something they really like).
It seems some people find that not having to move the arms makes up for hand contortions.

But you’re right, the article conclusion is that “First of all, the reduced distances will increase speed, (...)
If it turns out that 40% keyboards can reduce Repetitive Strain Injury or R.S.I. (...)”

Anyway, I think touch typing helps in all fronts. The alternative is not just slower typing, it also adds a mental load that can only distract from the thinking.
I remember when every incremental advance in modem speeds and standards was a big thing. Companies like Sparco[0] were major movers.

At home, moving up from a 300/1200 external modem to a 9600bps internal (backplane card) was huge.

I was first on Usenet in 1986. My employer didn't have a full-time connection then, just a modem that would autoconnect every few hours to upload and download email/Usenet/etc. This was before domain addressing, where you would have to give a full navigation path from a well-known server like decwrl or uunet. I was literally the first person in my company to put my long form email address on my business cards (before @(domain) addressing).

[0] https://sites.google.com/site/unistarsparcocomputers/
I've never taken a college compsci course before but I've written UTF-8 to UTF-32 converters before as a part of a project. Do Unicode/other character encodings really need to be explicitly taught in a class? Most of the complicated behavior (like left to right text, precomposed characters and decomposed characters, grapheme vs. code point vs. glyph) gets abstracted away and would probably require a semester course to teach in depth while the general concepts (character encodings turn text into numbers, Unicode is the one with the funny faces) on the other hand are so widely known that I'm pretty sure even lay-people are aware of them on a basic level.
Do you happen to run Linux? A couple years ago I looked at the MSI laptop, which actually has Cherry Brown switches, but it was heavily gaming-focused and I couldn't find anything about Linux support.
Computers are hard. Websites are complicated.

Learning vim is more of an obstacle than using Notepad++ and FileZilla would be.

As a beginner, you know only enough to pass by. You can do a lot with just passing by, so long as you don't bump into places you can't get yourself out of. "Just enough command line and vi to edit a file" is a bit magic, but plenty of the other stuff involved is going to be as opaque.

I think the skillset of "learn how to write websites in a short time" is going to involve some level of "here's this stuff I have to do in just the right way" anyway.
To me it reads more like Nebula is a VPN solution, with end-to-end encryption and security groups baked in.

To my understanding, a service mesh does not establish a common VPN-like network, but assumes it's there already. Nebula and service meshes both provide authentication, end-to-end encryption and role-based access control. A service mesh can do more than Nebula: it makes it possible to shift traffic between services for example apart from a "security group"-like filtering.

However, I might be mistaken. Any corrections are more than welcome.
Racket v7.5
Reddit FIRE is also worth reading: https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/

Also JL Collins' book "The Simple Path to Wealth" is well worth a read, on the same topic. If you don't want to get it, this talk covers the basics: https://youtu.be/T71ibcZAX3I
What I've always assumed, but now this thread has me doubting myself, but what I've assumed is that these systems, even though they appear to suck at specifically targeting me, must somehow be pretty good on the average, still netting big profits overall even though they don't seem to live up to the promise of getting me to buy stuff. But if everyone has this impression, maybe it doesn't work? I mean, I assume companies like Amazon and Facebook would be pretty good at least at optimizing the total rewards from using recommendation systems, but maybe you can't tell from your own anecdotal use. I have no idea. I'd love to see an analysis that includes aggregate numbers.
> I don't think that many people think that the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund losing money (SoftBank's largest LP) is harming any American citizens

"Hey Chief, I know the band of robbers hit 30 houses last night, but they were all Chinese people here on visas; no American citizens were harmed, so we shouldn't investigate."

Fortunately, that's not how the American legal system works. And if it worked that way, it would harm the US tremendously. Generally, investors are more ready to invest in places where there is a rule of law and functioning judicial system. Sure, the American justice system is not perfect, but it is better than many places. Foreign investors can confidently put their money into American companies, including through VC funds, and know there are some protections. If those protections only applied to American citizens or US public pension funds, we would face a large reduction in investment of foreign capital in the US.
Arcologies.

City-sized sci-fi’ish pyramids, containing all the residential and non-polluting commercial and workspace needs of an average human’s entire lifetime.

Surrounded by natural wilderness that people can escape to at their leisure.

Food supply (that can’t be grown inside the arcology), energy generation (beyond the arcology’s own renewable capacity) and heavy manufacturing will still have to come from elsewhere though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcology
The principle that induce this technique is that every time you create a loop in one direction of a cable, you twist the cable, the exact same twist that would have occurred if you held a cable with both hands and twisted one side (as if you were squeezing water out of wet cloth.

This technique as well as figure 8 with I use on guylines (when hiking with my tarp), create a counter clockwise twist for every clockwise twist, thus eliminating the tension that causes cables/guylines/ropes to eventually tangle up.
It can fit inside a Nintendo Switch case.
Debian General Resolution: Init Systems and Systemd
Face the wheelbarrow the direction you want to go before you fill it.
I'm very proud of our support team! That's exactly the kind of help I'd expect them to give anybody :)

We are expecting people to pay money for a service which others provide "for free", so we need to differentiate ourselves, and having real humans who not only provide great service, but are located close to the technical teams and can feed quickly back to improving our service is a key differentiator for us.
When your audio player picks these random tracks https://i.imgur.com/QRoGQRy.png (example from earlier in the day) you start believing in a Higher Power..
If you mean two objects where the first has a singularity and the second "just" an equivalently heavy matter-object, strictly speaking in classical GR (as the only agreed-on current theory) the latter will invariably collapse into the former so the answer is no. But on the other hand, I don't think any modern particle physicist actually believes there is a singularity as its a purely classical construct. This is why there is so much research into black hole information processing in the first place.
Using a monospaced font for prose, and putting Mishima anywhere near a "cringe hierarchy" are the most cringe-worthy things I've seen today. And boy howdy have I seen some cringe!
To get a list of all the other locations go to the DO page (strip the filename):
http://speedtest-ams2.digitalocean.com/

It's not https, for performance? ...
(My download|upload: 33Mb/s | 8Mb/s)
I never thought of it this way. Thank you for providing some perspective, it made me reflect on my thoughts on the subject.
> Logical fallacies - how not to think.

Does anyone know a good app or website that drills you in recognizing logical fallacies from realistic examples/scenarios?
So happy to see this! We created ZeroTier for the world this is talking about. :)

https://www.zerotier.com/

/shameless but on-topic plug
In Greek letter β is actual pronounced like Vee-ta and in words it's read like latin V (Babylon is pronounced like Vah-vee-lon).
As a Vimmer, the HHKB is very close to perfection. I can reach every key without having to move my hands too far, the Fn key fall right under my right little finger and Control being in the correct place is a huge win. The fact that it has Topre switches is the icing on the cake, I wouldn't use any other keyboard on a prolonged basis.
Former UK official in Hong Kong 'tortured in 15-day China ordeal'
Electron makes it easy to build badly-performing apps. VSCode has put a lot of effort into avoiding this.
hahahahahaha putorius
If you can, read Zweig's The World Of Yesterday, a memoir on life in Vienna before WW1. It's surely rose-tinted, but the amount of culture and intellectual life was outstanding, what an enormous loss.

(Hitler also lived there at the time, going to the same class as Wittgenstein for a year or two, neither remembering each other later)
I couldn’t think of a worse suggestion for a typical person looking for money management skills.

Sure, half the book isn’t about bitcoin, but half of it is, and that’s a problem for the 99% of people that will and should never interact with Bitcoin.
I second this. Never tell an interviewer what you are currently making, only what you want them to pay you. There is no need for them to know and it only gives them leverage.
I prefer a user driven random walk. Like a multi-arm bandit over a hierarchical graph instead of a stuck-in-local-minimun + noise recommender. But no one does it.

Years ago, there is an app stumble upon. I always find it engaging. Hard to get bored.
Ask HN: What news sources do you trust?
While the short video series is indeed also criticizing the traditional econo 101 money account (I'll leave it to the discretion of the viewer whether that critique is deserved or not), it does also address and explain the traditional views in a concise and accesible way in under an hour.
No, the 'mystic bullshit' is very real in e.g. vipassana (for example, anything about "vibrations") regardless of the race of the speaker
You're saying that there are higher rates of homosexuality among furries or am I misinterpreting that? If so, what makes you think so?
It can be a pain worrying about "what's the worst thing that can happen?" all the time. Maybe even psychologically counter-productive!

But surely, it's worth at least considering.

The argument here is that the development team is there to stop the business failing.

Is that all there is? Or is there something else?
“In areas where bison graze, plants contain 50 to 90 percent more nutrients by the end of the summer.”

How does this work, thermodynamically speaking? Is it that by being culled, the plants engage in more photosynthesis overall, so there’s a net gain? What about nitrogen?
Pick up any GNU/BSD tool you use but don't fully understand and read the man page. There is often something valuable that you'll learn in an hour.
uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking
Okay, so I won't try to rob you of that experience. I've felt creativity and perspective when doing psychoactive drugs, too.

The rate of good ideas (or rather, the feeling of that, as it is) was called "interpretation madness" by one podcaster.

When you relate alcohol with postponing one's emotions, perhaps this is because you've seen that happen. So have I.

But I've also seen dozens of friends get stuck in their emotional (and educational) development for years because of weed.

Don't forget the hashishins - the drug is literally named after a bunch of assassins who smoked to forget.
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> but this guy was just evil:

Yeah, in my opinion Beria was even more evil than Stalin, only that his "personal failures" kept him out of holding the "first spot" in the Soviet State: you have to be efficient with your time like Stalin was if you want to be a ruthless dictator, if you're wasting your time raping innocent women you're not at all on the right track of being in a position to kill millions of people further down the road.

That's why Khrushchev's counter-coup just a few months after Stalin's death caught Beria by surprise, something like this would have never happened to a guy like Stalin, who was first and foremost interested in killing (or rather, in having them killed) his enemies and especially his political friends, no need to "waste" time in killing or raping innocent women who had nothing to do with politics.

The only other Soviet official who was close to Beria in evilness was Nikolai Yezhov [2], who of course that Stalin had killed once he had done his dirty business for him.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrentiy_Beria#Arrest,_trial_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Yezhov
Over 200ms "negligible". Ok Google.
Thanks for your message, like you said it's a real challenge when the domain is quite broad (such as social media). I'm currently based in Taipei.
"In Ancient Greek, beta represented the voiced bilabial plosive /b/. In Modern Greek, it represents the voiced labiodental fricative /v/."

For centuries, and probably still today, the language taught at school was Ancient Greek -- that's where I learnt the pronunciations. I don't know if pi had a similar change in Greek pronunciation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta
We built something like this internally and it was more tricky than we expected. Calendars are hard as are Google's different authentication methods and APIs, especially for service accounts at a GSuite level.

I can't imagine using a third party service for this as calendar data is pretty confidential. Would probably have saved us a lot of time if this were an open source project though so we could use our own database.
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See also: The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim...
Accidentally breaking GitHub Actions with a shorthash collision
Yeah definitely somewhere where people should be allow a personal preference.

What does that numpad offer that is not already on the rest of the keyboard?

I think if you are comfortable touch typing numbers then there's not much advantage to having a number pad.

(I've worked from laptops (without numpad) connected to an external monitor for about 15 years now so I may be missing something potentially useful here.)
The first option would likely be terribly slow. Scanning emails to check for things that have been moved around and client-side-grepping emails would be extremely slow. For this to even work you'd probably want some local cache, which is not trivial to do. Granted, my benchmark here is people like me who have over 100k emails on their account.

The second is likely the better thing to do (But likely not in postgres for large-scale, if anything due to the SPOF. Unless someone really enjoys maintaining postgres clusters). However, you still need some IMAP/JMAP somewhere for normal mail client access, and in this case you'd likely have to implement your own translation/access layer. I would probably come up with something that wouldn't have users directly access a database, and instead provide some sort of identity-aware access layer. Basically reimplementing IMAP/JMAP, again.
Mathias, founder of Memory here. Happy to answer any questions if you have them! :)
That counts as financial advice; or gets close enough to it that it will probably run afoul of the same problems. Financial advice is all fun and gains until there is a down year and someone loses 10% of their savings. Or worse.

The hard challenge in the field is how to attract customers that are not quite savvy enough to figure out how to open their own brokerage account but not people so clueless as they'll go into old age with a 100% allocation to stocks. The more accessible the higher earning (ie, riskier) options are to unsophisticated the more catastrophic the backlash will be when the bad years arrive.

In a sense the regulatory system evolves to make the cheap-management options harder to find and tailored financial advice easier, because the people who aren't already in the market are going to get eaten alive making rookie allocation errors.
First aid skills, e.g. Heimlich maneuver. You might end up saving someone's life by being able to act calmly and correctly.
May I ask why you would want to sell such a business? Running such a business is my dream and I just have a hard time understanding why someone would sell a profitable business unless you're set for life?
In my opinion it's not all about lazyness.

You have to consider the costs of building an app native for each platform vs a cross platform framework built with javascript. Single javascript code base for all platforms is a lot cheaper.
I think it depends on the situation. In my case, learning Vim was quite beneficial as I had to maintain servers along with backend development. For any frontend development, starting with a modern IDE will be any day faster than Vim.
For those from Canada - that's a Swiss version of RRSP basically.
Yes. There is a CloudLink extension for saving the history & notes itself I think, which supports Dropbox, Google Drive & OneDrive. Backup can be also sent daily by the email. And then there is a FileSafe for files - you will simply generate the key (there's a button for it) and upload you files, which will be offline encrypted and then uploaded to your configured cloud storage - Dropbox, Google Drive, WebDAV, AWS S3. The size is currently limited to 50MB (because of the offline encryption).
I mostly use the num pad for custom key combinations as those are usually not occupied by some system built-ins. It's pretty handy, but obviously falls short if you have to switch to laptop keyboards often.
Yup, I don't really have an issue with the advertisement model as is with IG because it's been a fantastic incentive for me not to look at it :)

However, Wales' mission is noble and I hope he does well!
Android flaw lets rogue apps take photos, record video even if phone is locked
Yes indeed I had neglected the "To whom"...which reminds me how often I think a message is aimed at me (egomania) when in fact it has an audience I am not even aware exists...
FreeNAS 11.2-U7 is now available for download
For me, the short answer is "not one above another". If you can read multiple languages, getting a wide(r) view of news from papers is really valuable.

Also, reading around, digging deeper and looking at the same story from, say, your local news org, a national news org and something like Al-Jazeera is really informative.
> Also desktop apps are becoming super slow and bloated now thanks to electron.

The people who build slow electron apps would have built slow native apps, if they could build one.
> getting to solve problems beyond anyone else's reach

more this, and less "tools beyond anyone else's reach".

A fair number of people go to work with these groups to "check the box" that they've done it. They know who's at NSA, or CIA, or DARPA. Because they spent 2-5 years with them inside the box. There's a tremendous amount of self-confidence that comes out of a successful turn at one of these places. You know you know.