skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe we should print this out on acid-free paper-thin flexible wood-pulp sheets stitched to together to form linear organized aggregations. Each aggregation would contain one or more works and be searchable using a SQL-like database. To make this plan really work there would need to be a collection of geographically distributed long term physical repositories that would receive periodic updates as new material became available.

All joking aside, I do wonder wither digital or analogue formats are better able to survive into the distant future.

* What impact will DRM have on the accessibility of our knowledge to future historians?

* Is anything recoverable from a harddrive or flash media after 500 years in a landfill?

* Will compressed files be more of less recoverable? What about git archives?

* Will the future know the shape of our plastic GI Joes toys but not the content of the GI Joes cartoon?
Most of the TVs provide a software update functionality, maybe custom firmware that disables networking hardware could become a thing.
Actually, your parent is correct: it is sexist.

It makes a distinction based on sex. It is sexism.

It is not, however, negative, as your parent implied.
AWS Is Now Available from a Local Zone in Los Angeles
I knew him first as a lyric writer. The article mentions Beware of the Beautiful Stranger, which really is wonderful, but some of his other lyrics are pure genius, too.

I highly recommend the albums Beware of the Beautiful Stranger and Live Libel if you're in to slightly folky music with insanely clever words.
I certainly have leaned on UTF-8 but I wonder how efficient it is for the numerically-higher code points if the language is not heavily cp1252, like Korean.
I'm fine with that. If its using 5G then it's not on my LAN and the concern in the featured article is no longer a problem.

Furthermore, if its using 5G then its not tied to the IP address that my other traffic comes from and so they can't use the TV to target me with ads online either. (Provided I don't use any of the same accounts on both the TV and my other devices.)
They're missing my favorite of the bunch... http://se-editor.org/
Wouldn't even really need 4G, 3G or even lower would work if you're just sending text analytics of shows watched. Even the more nefarious spying efforts could go out through text if they bundled a speech to text converter on board.
Giving Voice to Employee Concerns
Minor nitpick: Energy density is energy per volume. What's crucial here is specific energy, ie energy per mass.
I have always made sure to recommend to my fellow influencer friends about Buymeacoffee and they are thanking me for a wonderful product you have implemented!

Awesome work guys!
Thank you team BMAC !
I was there when this decision was discussed and made. It was nothing to do with marketing.

The really important decision was to switch to a rapid, time-based release cycle from a traditional long, feature-based release cycle. We wanted to reduce the amount of work that was "fixed in the next release" but not yet shipped to users; to increase our responsiveness, so that if a new feature suddenly became important, we could quickly get it into the hands of users; and to avoid developer issues like schedule chicken and rushing to get not-really-done features into a release because the next release is far away. This change was indeed inspired by Chrome, and it worked well; those goals were achieved.

Then a much less important question was how to do version numbering in a world where you're doing these frequent releases. There is no technical reason why some releases should bump a major version number and others should not; the amount of new features or breaking changes will fluctuate from release to release, but the same kinds of changes are present in every release. It is therefore simpler to just have a uniform numbering scheme so no-one has to decide whether a release should bump the major version number, and users aren't trying to understand the difference between a major version bump and a minor version bump (when there isn't really a meaningful difference).
It seems seriously irresponsible to be in a position where outages of any scope are "a complete surprise". Especially with a service that is key to real-time monitoring of health, the entire company should be of the mindset of "What could possibly go wrong."
So you've made ko-fi.com
If you don't mind, can you please elaborate about the backend too.
This should be the HN link instead of the trashy ad-laden daily mail page
Restaurants and other brick-and-mortar food businesses are highly location dependent. Only way to find the right location is boots on the ground, getting a good real estate agent, real estate lawyer etc. That's a rather more bespoke service than something like Stripe Atlas could provide.

As for incorporation, tax filing, payroll and everything else a business needs, there are already companies providing those services to the food industry. Maybe they're ripe for disruption by a superior experience though?
I don't think anyone chooses iOS because it's on version 13 versus Android's version 10.

Users generally choose the phone, not the OS. And the most popular phones are pretty close on the numbering schemes.

Another example is SSL and TLS. SSL 3.0 was the last version, then TLS 1.0 took over, but a lot of people still thought SSL 3.0 was the latest and best.
Agitating for unionization often involves pointing out specific problems with working conditions, and suggesting that a union would help solve those problems. I have no issue with that kind of thing.

If the entire union pitch is "the bosses are greedy fat cats, let's get them!", I do think that's toxic. There are good reasons why companies can't ban even toxic kinds of union organizing, but I would be very unhappy if I had to hear that all the time.
I think the problem is that because of the size of each torrent, and there's 1000 of them, it's difficult to effectively seed all at once, so instead people would rather seed sections at once, and rotate through them.

I'm not sure how people setup the rotation though, that can't be an incredibly common feature but I could be wrong.
DeepMind's Alphastar vs. Serral [Starcraft Introduction]
Former home brewer and, for a short time, amateur beer judge here.

You've got it right. It's not that more hops = better beer. It's that more hops = easier beer. Malt-forward beers are much more difficult to get right, and require a lot of very careful attention to detail. Hops are easy: Just throw them into the batch and set a timer. Their strong flavor is also useful for masking a lot of consistency problems and off-flavors that might stem from other, trickier parts of the brew process.

The brewmaster of a new craft brewery is likely an amateur who recently went pro, and has very little practice brewing at an industrial scale. It's an over-crowded market right now, too, so they're operating on very tight margins and working with a clientele that can afford to be very picky. The days when one could get away with marketing something like Shiner Bock as a bock are long gone. So they can't afford to burn a lot of money working out why a recipe that yielded a perfect malt aroma at a 5 gallon batch size comes out flat and lifeless when scaled up to 30 barrels. They'd be out of business before they got it pinned down. Hops are easy, though, so the hoppy beer brewer is more likely to survive.

I suspect that this effect continues on to packaging and distribution: Hoppy beers can handle some amount of oxidation where cream ales and lagers quickly start to taste like cardboard. That's useful in an overcrowded market where your beer might spend a few months sitting on a shelf before anyone drinks it. (Hopefully this becomes less of a thing as cans, which have a longer shelf life than bottles, increase in popularity.) And there's no way that your local TGI Bennihan's or the "537 beers on tap" bar is staying on top of cleaning their tap lines, but, again, hops can help mask the funk.

It's also something of an open secret among beer judges that hoppy beers are at an unfair advantage to win the "best in show" prize. Because the final selection for that prize comes at the end of the day, after the judges' palates have been deadened by endless beer tasting, and hops are about the only flavor component that is as subjectively noticeable at the end of the show as it was in the morning. Any amateur brewer who's involved in the beer competition circuit is going to be influenced by that.
I'm getting about 90% whitespace on the home page (using a Pixel 2). I have to scroll loads to get to the bottom 5% of content. Just an FYI
If only democracies could be trusted to not elect tyrants. Unfortunately, there are many, many examples to the contrary. That fact was one of the primary motivators for the Bill of Rights. You are right that there would be bloodshed when facing a tyrant (certainly more than if there were no way to fight back). In my mind, better that than the gas chambers. Let’s not forget that Hitler came into power by popular vote.
I want to second this. I never had an account and I've seen the deterioration of conversations among my friends from being about reconnecting positive experiences to complaints of what someone says on there all the time. Unfriending their relatives with racist rants. All the cake news.

They don't realize the impact it's having on their lives. Facebook has become a justification to bring hate into our personal conversations. Their crazy aunt says something on there so they believe this makes it a public conversation, but I have no idea about that.

Their debates are personal conversations had in public. Facebook has made the problems of talking about class, religion, race and politics inescapable.

There's a reason we avoid those topics at holiday gatherings and business functions. They divide us and cause psychological injury.

Fb has capitalized on this fury and drives profit from anger, dispute, hate and all these other emotions we don't want to have. These are the conversations that don't end and people want to win. They're live long disagreements where people won't change their mind and find equally violating people to fuel their rage and others to direct it at.

These didn't use to be everyday conversations. Fb makes it easy to intact with those you disagree with violently and often. People you'd choose to avoid in real life but new can't because fb makes more money of pitting those two divergent personalities together and continually antagonizing them.

It's hurting their mental health to be surrounded constantly by dissenting voices trekking then they are wrong for whatever reason.

You're wrong. You're wrong. You're a bad person because you believe that. You're inconsequential. Someone said this thing about you.

It's ruining people and I don't know how to get that awareness through to them. They're telling me more often they wished they'd just never gone on there and I say don't go back. Fb is like the abusive spouse they are addicted to.

How do we save our friends and family from that abuse? How do we help them escape? I'm so sad for them and I feel helpless to save them from the peril that is so obvious from the outside.
Yeah, it makes it a non-starter for me.

AWS could really do more in the area of making it super easy to get a hybrid managed database.

I run a DB that AWS does not have managed support for, it would be great to have managed backups, managed patching, autoscaling, etc.
> Hackers warn that connected televisions can provide FBI a window into homes

FTFY
I do not find that to be the case in practice, I occasionally here it used like that, but consider it misuse.

I suspect a dictionary might accept it as an 'informal' alternative to the main 'death by' definition.
Why Airflow?
There are more breweries learning how to do good lagers but still few and far between.

That may be but Portland, Oregon has some excellent cider as well. Belmont Station in Hollywood is pretty much my go to place, they've a diverse selection of beer and cider.
Just because they don't now, doesn't mean they might later. Law enforcement may override that in some circumstances.
The Justinianic Plague’s Devastating Impact Was Likely Exaggerated
Two thoughts on that. Encoding it to a text format with CRC data for posting to usenet is highly inefficient in terms of data storage. And 33TB of stuff is not going to be retained for 8-9 years, the last I checked due to the huge volume of binaries traffic, the major commercial usenet feed providers have at most 6-9 months of retention for the major binary groups. Beyond that it becomes cost prohibitive for them in terms of disk storage requirements. This is not an issue for the majority of their customers, 6-9 months is more than long enough retention to go find a 40GB 2160p copy of some recently-released-on-bluray movie.
Hmm, this is not really true. There are a number of apps/software for brewing and I would wager nearly every brewery is using one and not using paper/pen/manual spreadsheets. BeerSmith, Ekos, Fermentable are a few.
I've changed my emoji writing style from the canonical ;) to ; ) just so that editors won't auto "correct" my proper ASCII emoji into an unholy yellow winking face.
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We haven't done that directly, we did push out our chat bot:

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/insideropinion
I've never run across a VPS or dedicated server provider that blocked inbound IRC. What providers prevented you from running an ircd?
Work your whole life and live in a moderately priced home. Housing prices around you drastically shoot up for reasons outside of your control while you're in your 60s. Not fair to be forced to move at that point I think.
Good god those linked articles ought to keep anyone busy for months
Love the feature where creators can message their supporters. Congrats on the HN launch!
I bet Google's founders are glad they didn't consult you first when they were creating a search engine.
Back in the days I had to pay extra for a bnc/bouncer service (similar to a proxy), now most IRC networks offer vhost automatically, but I assume it's a bit less secured since the IRC networks themselves still know your real IP address.
I lived in Jūrmala for a year myself and besides the bars, stocking up for 70c a bottle, or about 1€ at most, was fantastic. Good quality beer for cheap.
This hasn't been the case for most Java projects I deal with, native dependencies are fairly rare. Can't comment on Python or Node.
AWS Outposts Now Available
This is not a YC company. Apologies if there is any confusion. Title has been changed to Show HN.
Straight IPAs are waning, at least where I am. Now you are just as likely to find a new england IPA, or a 'hazy IPA', whose hop blast is far less than a traditional IPA
They deliver to a PO BOX, but you pay for that service, it's a distinct mailing address for your use.

They don't however fallback to the local post office when undeliverable, which is the point here.

I've lived in very rural small towns in California, and it required developing a personal relationship with the post office staff/postmaster and UPS driver to have undeliverable packages left at the local post office. The post office employees were technically bending the rules for me. But we had so few local residents it wasn't a significant problem.
As far as I understand it, IPAs don't require specialty equipment and they don't take as long to brew, so you get quicker turnaround and need less storage space. When you are running a large beer company out of warehouses on the edge of town, storage isn't as much of an issue. But when your beer is being made at a downtown microbrewery, there's a huge cost to that extra storage space. If your beer takes two weeks to brew instead of six, you can produce 3X the beer in the same space.
OpenAI Procgen: Procedurally Generated Game-Like RL Environments
Yes it is, from the Google statement:

> We want to be clear that none of these individuals were fired for simply looking at documents or calendars during the ordinary course of their work.

> To the contrary, our thorough investigation found the individuals were involved in systematic searches for other employees’ materials and work [...] This information, along with details of internal emails and inaccurate descriptions about Googlers’ work, was subsequently shared externally.
Oh yes, if the world had just locked in on Rochefort 10 as the most godly beer ever, we would all have been in heaven rather than hops hell by now.
It is a commonly believed myth that the Fed is mostly private. The people in charge of monetary policy are appointed by government.
"But they have no requirement -- and I would argue no business -- to wipe a non-company device just because someone added a corporate email account to it."

Personal devices are excellent attack vectors if allowed on the internal network unmanaged. The alternative is not accessing internal resources, email, etc., unless the employee is given a company-owned device.
I'd say you "virtually shook hands over Skype!"
I see what you mean. I agree, for a human editor with domain knowledge, those files are easier to read and maintain than JSON. However, it's definitely nontrivial to parse as a machine-readable format. If other projects are supposed to consume the .txt files directly (i.e. not going through the command-line utility), you should at least provide an EBNF grammar.

Example: I assume, the scorer lists are actually lists-of-lists, where equivalent JSON could look like this:

[
{"player":"Gazinsky", "goals":[{"minute":12}]},
{"player":"Cheryshev",

"goals":[{"minute":43}, {"minute":90, "overtime":1}]},
...
]

... which is absolutely more verbose.

However, if someone just went by the data, they could get parsing wrong: It looks like the outer list (of players) is delimited by spaces - however, there are also spaces inside the player names. A better approach could be to split the list by ' signs as each player has at least one time - however, players can have more than one time and could probably also have apostrophes inside their names (e.g. Irish players). So I guess, the best delimiter would be a letter after an apostrophe after a number. Except, we might also have parantheses, etc etc.
Super uncalled for

and yet I must admit I laughed
Women don't listen to music because men shows up and liked music too much?
Proji: A fast and simple terminal-based project creator and manager
Idea strength, cringe, and the media environment
Humanity is periodically faced with the fact that it is not special [0] and that it lives on an insignificant little blue planet [1]. I don't see that trend changing anytime soon.

What comes to mind of course is Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI. Although I only believe in eventual AGI many years from now, I think it's very interesting to foresee the potential impacts of a machine sitting on the step above in that ladder. See Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence [2], a great read.

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[0]: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HumansAreSpecial

[1]: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InsignificantLit...

[2]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20527133-superintelligen...
As a programmer, it's interesting to view organizational structure and culture through the lens of software design. Specifically, how Google's culture and organization is so radically different from Amazon's.

Amazon genuinely tries to embody the Unix philosophy. Two pizza teams that have ownership over their slice of the company, and get to decide how their team/org should operate. As a individual contributor at Amazon, there is zero expectation that you'll have unrestricted visibility into what other organizations are doing.

Google in contrast, breaks every rule in software design. There is no information hiding - everyone can see everything else. Decisions aren't made locally by the team in question - they are made centrally by people you will never see. Or by a mob of random employees who have made it their hobby to lobby against your plans. As a team manager, you cannot even decide which members of your team can check in changes into the (mono) repository - you have to get approval from someone who has been certified by the "readability team", and they have almost year-long waits to get certified.

Amazon is microservices and Google is the majestic monolith.

The Google approach works great at smaller sizes, but as the organization grows in size and complexity, I don't think the monolith approach can still work. I'd wager that is exactly the growing pains they are now going through.
The language itself is Turing complete, but the kernel will refuse to run a program that it cannot prove will halt.

There are three categories of programs; programs you can trivially prove will halt, programs you can trivially prove won't halt, and programs where it's difficult or impossible to prove whether or not will halt. The third category is what we call the halting problem. Only the first category will be run by the kernel.

The nitty gritty is that the only jumps which are allowed to go backwards are the end of a loop with a fixed number of iterations. All other jumps must jump forward.

This sounds like it's really limiting, but in practice there's not a whole lot of useful stuff you're unable to do.
It's unfortunate that most consumers want a smart tv and don't want to deal with the hassle of a box.
At least when there were dumb tvs with a box set you could vote with your money as to what was important ie channels or security/privacy.
You could wrap the TV in aluminum foil.

>Perhaps the best April Fools’ joke of the (Youth) Journal [a Dutch news program] came in 1969. Special cars would drive around with scanners to track down television owners who hadn’t paid the license fee [it’s like in the UK, where you have to pay a fee to the BBC]. But if you wrapped the TV in aluminum foil, you could fool the scanners. Before long there was no foil to be found in stores. http://business.time.com/2007/08/21/why_dutch_people_wrapped...
Of course experts can be wrong, but you won't know that they wrong or how in any particular instance, so you won't be justified in agreeing on something contrary and silencing dissenters who bring up the expert opinion.

I'm just talking about obvious reasonable behavior here. For instance, experts probably agree that nuclear radiation causes cancer. It would not be sensible to believe that nuclear radiation doesn't cause cancer and then expose people to that radiation, believing it's harmless just because experts are at risk of being corrupted.
For me it's amazing how much more performant software can be when you can just serialize and load data from disk using something like recordio or leveldb.
I am looking for a service that will allow me to directly pay creators at the same price as an ad impression, paying per page view. So far ways to pay creators are almost always based on dollar increments, but I would have much more use for a service that lets you pay in increments of $0.001. Today this is basically impossible because payment fees make direct payments of this scale impractical, but it could theoretically be solved the way the ad industry does - by paying a lump some once a month.
For me on amazon.de the WD 8TB USB 3.0 drive is currently at EUR 159.99. Where do you get it for EUR 135?
I'll agree with this (or at least what I think you're implying).

The beer of northern New England is mostly driven by what tourists from Boston and NYC (more for Vermont than the other two) will shell out $10 for and a great many of those people want an IPA that you can patch the road with so that's what gets brewed. I can't comment on what things were like 10+yr ago since I wasn't paying attention to beer then.
> people like watching Netflix or Prime Video via the nifty apps built right into their TVs

I fall into this camp - I really like using the physical remote w/physical buttons to play/pause/rewind, change volume, etc. I used to be a heavy chromecast user but switched for these reasons.