skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found the speech very interesting, and the columnist’s attempt to twist it into relevance about his own hobbyhorse of US politics to be very boring.

Russian politics is very interesting on its own, and we hear far too little about it (whilst also hearing far too much about US politics). The analogies between the two are extremely weak and generally uninformative; saying “my opponent is like Putin” carries no more information than “my opponent is a big poop face”.
No, he wasn't a first-day founder. But he joined not to long after and it was his private money and him as a CEO which built Tesla.
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@gmail.com, moving all those to personal domain;
few catchalls@domains
These articles seem more concerned with detailing how important it is that it wasn't Christians. Makes sense for a organization centered around "religion and public life", I guess. Quite the angle.
While I've never done it, AHK seems to have an API for being able to interact with DOM elements.

Check the marked answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49516638/ahk-web-element...

The above answer shows both navigating to a new page that isn't open yet or interacting with an already loaded page based on the title of the tab.
Books about Silicon Valley
> what is the legal hangup that would make such a suit unsuccessful?

You say that it's "widely accepted that social media causes depression". Are there any studies in the peer-reviewed scientific literature that have shown this? Are there any studies that have shown it's false? If this ever went to trial, each side would have to bring expert witnesses to testify to these conflicting claims, and a jury would need to decide which side was more credible.

Also, a plaintiff who claimed that social media or gaming caused their depression would have to prove that this was actually the case. How would they prove that their condition wasn't caused by something else in their life (or just by genetic predisposition) and that their addiction to social media wasn't just a symptom of their condition? Will your psychiatrist testify to this on your behalf? (Don't have a psychiatrist? So how do you know that you're actually suffering from depression?)

Finally, chances are that most of the members of the jury will be social media users who enjoy it or at least don't consider their lives to have been damaged by it. You'll have to convince them that something that they do every day without ill effects has somehow harmed you.
Such a pity we lost gmane.org.

Lots of knowledge gets lost these days.
Right? It's architectural prosody and super interesting to see how design can effect the very mood of the environment. I love cyberpunk and find brutalist architecture to be one of the primary styles in the genre that really helps to build the setting. There's a sense of impressive oppression that emanates from well executed brutalist buildings and sometimes mystery like in the case of 33 Thomas Street [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street
He's insulting some guy who was being rude to him. He can do that if he wants whether he's a powerful public figure or not. It's called free speech. If you don't like it, go cry to your mommy little soy boy.
Just a guess to be clear. Not an employee myself.

I would imagine there's a lot of porn, sex work, stuff Verizon is trying to wash its hands of lately with Tumblr.

EDIT: Ah yes HN - where admitting that you're just speculating wildly like everyone else gets you the downvotes -_-
Yes I have two addresses, the custom (actively used) and the gmail (legacy, forwards everything to my custom).

I registered my domain at Gandi.net, which offers access to their smtp and imap servers when you do so. They are my provider atm, but since I own the domain I could switch to self hosting anytime.
There are far larger foundational problems in the healthcare system that prevent further digitalization.

None of the points you name strikes me as a good use case for modern machine learning techniques:

- Siri and co can hardly understand everyday things. Using NLP for symptoms seems like a massive downgrade from speaking with a human.

- how does machine learning play a role in pre-screening? Pre-screening can also increase costs because you find a lot of harmless things as well

- I hope you will Put out a product telling if something is safe or not using machine learning. There are already systems out there and they are much more akin to experts systems which makes much more sense.

The only area where I see a big impact is medical imaging where you can already see great research going on.
Ask HN: What tech choices make “new” Reddit so unbearably slow?
I never visited Reddit much, but occasionally web searches take me there for tech support questions. Every time I visit in the past year or so I'm shocked at how slow the interface is, and don't even understand how its possible to make web sites so unresponsive to user input. It's as bad as visiting a local news site that is laden with ads and several auto-playing videos, but it doesn't seem to be running that much ad content.

How does one make such a bad web app, and what technology choices should I avoid to make sure I don't end up with a mess like this?
For most usages yes. For gaming though it's right on the edge: theoretical minimum at 350km orbit is 40ms roundtrip, which would work for most games. But many complications, including position of the satellite, latencies within the networking components, packet loss etc, can easily slow this to 100ms+, which is unsuitable for many online games.
Wow, that's interesting. If you change your device (phone/tablet/desktop/laptop), do you have to set them all up again? Set them all up = log in, sync signatures, display name etc.

How do you access these email addresses anyways? I think it's safe to assume you're not paying a G Suite subscription for each of them...
Harvey Smith (lead designer of Dishonored, etc. etc.) wrote an article about his love of Far Cry 2 a while back:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140622234515/http://penny-arca...
It's been six months.
Unfortunately, the "so long as they are stable" constraint is incompatible with idea of mutable database backend. SQL pays massive performance price for OFFSET and it's results are still neither fast nor stable.
The reason monogamy is ideal is because human beings are a tournament species[1] that's smart enough to have realized that emulating a pair-bonding species results in better societal results. Mainly because if we just followed our animal natures a huge percentage of men (far greater than now) would be shut out of the mating market. Having a large population of young males with no mating prospects hanging around is harmful to society for many reasons, the most severe being one of the charismatic winner types deciding he wants to sell them a dream and putting them to nasty work.

[1] https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi674.htm
Memory-boosting pills have no real benefit
Clarification - we're not archive.org. Archive Team and Internet Archive are completely separate.

And we're only archiving things that "any guy on the internet" can see. If someone can access the messages simply by joining a group (with no moderator approval), I'd argue it's fair game.

We're not going to be unreasonable, though. If something private slips through and we receive a takedown request from the author, we typically remove it.
Individuals have always been able to delete their own posts. If you log in there, you can still do it (before the 14th).

Also, see betamaxthetape, above. If anything is archived, they will respond to takedown requests.
Predicates in Swift
You can't do anything like space colonization on the cheap. The current manned space program isn't very expensive in the grand scheme of things, but it's hardly space colonization. Low earth orbit is only 250 miles away. If you get started right after breakfast you can go that far on a bike.
Datomic. Also interesting:

https://github.com/sixthnormal/clj-3df
I'm genuinely curious from an ideological perspective, why archivists think all this material is worth saving?

People often compare the shutting down of sites or the banning of content (e.g. When Tumblr banned porn, or now yahoo shutting down groups) to the burning of the Library of Alexandria. But there is a huge difference. The LoA held knowledge collated and collected by the best thinkers of the time. The Internet is not that. The Internet is an open platform where anybody can say anything like that. Most comment sections are filled with all sorts of material ranging from factual to entirely fictional.

I realise it is hard to decide what is worth keeping (and therefore erring on the side of saving it all), but I'd wager that the vast majority of archived content is not useful at all. The Wayback machine is a perfect example. Lots of great stuff, but that's a drop in the bucket compared to the vast amounts of useless, or even redundant information stored.

It is a lot of resources thrown at saving, not the equivalent of the Library of Alexandria, but the public toilet block graffiti wall.

Anybody want to share what drives them to do this?
No, no. I mean who should you hold accountable. I'd rather hold Sony's marketing, than a bunch of developers who finally got their shot.

Like it's understandable to me that a small software team would sell their big shot as something huge. It's the job of a publisher like Sony to keep consumers' expectations in check.

Hold the right people accountable lest it will also keep happening.
Now we have 2 control panels, search sucks, auto updating drivers and killing receipt printers (Line for a city block because the cash drawer took 45 seconds to pop for each cash paying customer) Thanks windows!
A good way to try Datalog is to use a state-of-the-art Prolog system that supports SLG resolution (tabling).

SLG resolution is an evaluation strategy of Prolog programs that provides favourable termination properties compared to SLDNF resolution which is Prolog's default execution strategy.

A great example for this is XSB Prolog, since it has pioneered and refined many of these techniques and serves as an example and benchmark for many other Prolog systems in this area:

https://xsb.com/xsb-prolog

The nice thing is that this approach allows you to use Datalog, and at the same time gives you a Turing-complete programming language that is comparatively easy to grasp once you understand Datalog, while sharing many of the same advantages and being syntactically only a slight extension of it.
If you say open-source I believe it's safe to assume it's a fully free helpdesk system, right?

So do you access this system through the browser? If you change the device, there's no initial time investment to set all these up, right?
They are basically pushing a credit line in-app to half a billion users.

That's the wet dream of western credit card companies.

Sure in some perspective getting people not used to debt at all to easily overspend might be called empowering from a twisted neoliberal point of view.
I'm mostly digital but i recently snatched a paperback... which reminded me I'm growing old because the font was too small for me :)

So I guess in the future I'll get more hardbacks instead of less. They tend to use larger fonts, and sometimes (if the paper isn't crap) even have better contrast.
Ask HN: What did you learn in 2019?
What was the process like? How long did it take? Any special methods you used? Would you do it the same way if you did it over again?
The reports about the yellow markings are not credible. Just look at photos taken at the freemont car plant: https://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/tesla-t...

Plenty of yellow lines in those.
Any way around the paywall?
> In my opinion, the best way to learn about abstract algebraic structures is to sit down with a book (...)

For starters, what book would you recommend? Cheers!
The costs are orders of magnitudes more than simply travelling to study nature where it is and will continue to be hugely expensive for a long long time.
10 really sucks. The only work around I've found is server 2016 with desktop experience.
When you switch devices, do you set these addresses all over again? How do you deal with syncing display names, signatures etc, if so?
> SpaceX hopes to pocket a lot of money

True but to their credit SpaceX's launch prices are substantially lower than pre-existing options and they have been a leader in a step change in competitive launch options coming to market.
Over 300 Tesla Model 3 Spotted Ready for Delivery as Gigafactory 3 Fully Awakens
For those who may not know, here's a similar library: https://github.com/CanopyTax/single-spa

I'm glad to see two solutions out there, because there's a lot of variety in how this problem can be solved. For example, single-spa recommends (but does not mandate) using import maps [0] using SystemJS (to get better cross-browser support) The idea is, each application says they want 'react-dom' or '@angular/core', and it is resolved to a URL.

However, if applications are built expecting, say, different versions of dependencies, a naive approach to import maps won't work (e.g., the import 'react-dom' is requested-- how do we know which version to serve?).

At my employer, we take each frontend application and transpile to ES Modules and then combine via webpack. It's not what's recommended in Single SPA, but it greatly simplifies the deployment architecture for us.

We don't have to worry about hosting a CDN that can resolve import maps, everything's just in the bundle.
Is there a reason we should care why such a rando says this?
> Theoretically you can do the same thing that AHK does in a .net language or even Powershell but AHK is just easier to whip up something very quickly.

This is exactly how I see it too. 10+ years ago I would have written a C# app to do something that I can now do in AHK.

Of course there's limitations (I wouldn't write a super intensive native app in AHK) but for little workflow optimizations it's so good.

For example, I wanted a quick and dirty way to grab the hex color under my mouse cursor and copy it to my clipboard. With AHK it was:

#h::
MouseGetPos, MouseX, MouseY
PixelGetColor, color, %MouseX%, %MouseY%
StringLower, color, color
clipboard := SubStr(color, 3)

And now when I press Windows + h as a global hotkey it does what I want. I set it up to start when Windows starts and it uses 1.5MB of memory. Can't really beat that for overall efficiency (few minutes of coding, doesn't take up much resources, etc.).

A while back I wrote a blog post on using AHK for defining global hotkeys. I still use that method today. If anyone cares, that's at: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/remap-and-set-global-hotkeys-...
remember when search actually worked? Miss that dog...
When you switch devices, do you set these addresses up all over again? How do you deal with syncing display names, signatures etc, if so?
See below. My main concern is early medical/biohacking groups that shared data, like medical tests, and engaged in extensive discussion/community driven research. Such groups go back to at least the late 1990's.

A main concern of the Archive Group (again, below) is art that was uploaded there.

I'm sure those are not the only two classes of examples. See for example the bird watching group in Delhi that has been collecting data for decades. (In the link of the OP.)
Here's some solid advice for consulting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YF0_N7DuwA&t=1254s
The size and striking appearance give a sense of safety, nobility, and a feeling that the structure's purpose exists beyond what people think of it. There isn't the delusion that such a large structure can do anything but permanently change the landscape around it, and no appeal to some lost Great Tradition of Architecture. Brutalist architecture has dignity in its old age; rust streaks, plant growth, and other signs of aging feel like a graceful admission that nothing lasts forever, instead of an inevitable abandonment of the structure.

The LA river drainway lets you appreciate the power of the river even when its not completely flooded. Towards the end, where the bed must become dirt, you see the far future of the entire drainway, where it's not a decrepit building, but just rock that has returned to nature.
neoliberal - had to look that up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
My English edition is five paperbacks, but these paperbacks run at about a thousand pages each. A 1000-page paperback is a major hassle to read (how do you comfortably hold it?) or carry around, and they seem to get damaged pretty quickly (the spine is a mess by the time you’ve finished reading). I’d prefer a larger number of thinner volumes.
I'm not an expert, so take this with a grain of salt, but isn't this fixable with mirrors and angles?

For a satellite in LEO most of the light is coming from the sun and a much smaller amount is coming from earthshine and perhaps the moon. If your solar panels are on an articulated arm it should be possible to place them so they reflect the light upwards and the satellite's body is in the shadow of the panels. Now the only light on the satellite (and the back of the panels) will be the earthshine, and you can perhaps combat that by painting the satellite black. If it's always in the shadow of the solar panels then heating shouldn't be a problem, right?

As I say I'm not an expert and there are probably multiple reasons this won't work.
Step 1: We only need to archive the genuinely good content.

Step 2: It will take a long time to look through all this content and determine which parts deserve keeping.

Step 3: We will inevitably leave out something that someone else thinks is worth keeping anyway.

Step 4: Let's just archive everything.
I see. How do you manage access them? Mail client or browser?
Whatever the highest bid is. The market is the only true valuation mechanism.
Then why do they include it at all?
> I'm sure they exist out in the wild, but personally I haven't seen a project where GraphQL really shines through. In my experience, HTTP2 and reasonably well designed RESTful endpoints are the right default to go with. There is the argument that building good APIs is hard, but I believe someone who has reasonable experience with a stable technology will outperform someone using a new tool for the job. If you're not familiar with it, you won't know what to look out for.

GraphQL doesn't make a ton of sense to me, unless you're expecting many clients with significantly different query pattern requirements and prefer to take on performance and (maybe) security uncertainty & complexity to accommodate that more easily.

If you only expect one client (or a few very similar ones) and you want GraphQL-like division of labor just have your frontend and backend folks actually talk to each other and maybe have the backend folks also write a client library for their services (my preference, most of the time).

[EDIT] but you bet your ass I'm not putting up much of a fight against it if I'm in anything lower than a development lead or architect position—no use fighting that fight from poor footing when, as you mention, it's +5 CV points anyway, so who cares if it's maybe not the best solution :-)
Here's what i do:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ce1cbg/beginne...

1. RelioSync for mirroring all data from multiple places into single place

2. DrivePool is a centralized local storage for everything

3. Arq Backup send everything on schedule to Wasabi cloud.

Above strategy supports (but not limited to) Windows, versioning, undelete protection, local storage resiliency (multiple local drives could contain multiple copies of important stuff), client-side encryption, cost-efficient offsite backup.
If you get a new device, do you just login with your fastmail.com and everything is synced (display names, signatures etc) or do you need to set up these things again?
You've probably run across it and maybe even tried it, but I use CodeMirror for Codeframe [0] and it works well on the every mobile device I've tested on, and is pretty customizable.

[0] http://beta.codeframe.co/
2 to 7.

One personal/work email on my own domain, one catchall on gmail, mostly for signing up to public services that will spam me (sadly their spam filter is much better than what I can run on my server).

5+ legacy email addys on various non-gmail free services, that i don't sign up with any more but have some of my old accounts.
Where the Frauds Are All Legal: Welcome to the Weird World of Medical Billing
Well let's make the manufacturing capability to do so. It's as if the "manufacturing capability" is some limited rare earth metal. What is the actual limited resource other that ingenuity and engineering?
The highest bid is often someone who overestimates what something is is worth.
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It's a new day and age.

If you love writing software then you are already at a massive advantage to other non-tech founders. You will be closer to the problem and solution than anyone.

Don't waste time or money on an MBA. You can learn everything you need to know to run a SaaS in the $1M ARR range online. I wouldn't even stress about things like accounting and financial management like you mentioned. You should be worrying about finding product market fit and marketing.

A SaaS where the founder writes code is usually super lean. Don't worry about money problems until you are making it. :)
If You Cant Solve a Problem with Hammer Solve IT with Bigger Hammer
Ah the old straight jacket argument against computer security, never gets old.

The reason is very simple, the billions of wasted money fixing security exploits caused by industry's adoption of C.

Morris worm is more than 30 years old, and the old ways can still be used to attack modern systems that people insist in writing using C.

https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/06/14/prevent-the-impac...

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210348

https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/16/a-proactive-appro...

https://kernsec.org/wiki/index.php/Kernel_Self_Protection_Pr...

https://security.googleblog.com/2019/08/adopting-arm-memory-...
What do you do if you get a new device? Is it painful to set these things up across your devices? They'd need to have the same signature, display name etc.
FCC isn't going to reject a radio license based on reflection of unregulated frequencies (light).

But IAU publicly decried satellite constellations in January, months before May-- and this public statement followed literally years of IAU discussions and discussions with SpaceX, etc.

Despite that, years later, SpaceX is only just getting around to taking small mitigation measures now, after two launches.
most certainly, I would fully agree that touch is an important ingredient to socialization and stimulation -

it is the premature claim that it changes DNA what is so annoying and misleading.

because once something changes your DNA it suggests that it is there forever (that is why it captures people's imagination)
They do it regularly. Lead in gasoline (ethyl corp), asbestos.
If you change devices or get a new device, do you need to set everything you've set up in Heirloom again? Or it's all synced?
I mean, theoretically (i.e. I have no idea if anything does this), you could have underlying system file descriptors, which did not inherit, then a mapping from "libc" file descriptors onto OS ones and some code in fork() to copy over any OS file descriptors that are exposed to libc-using code.
> But stories like Mint are rare today, thanks to a sustained, successful campaign by the companies that owe their own existence to adversarial interoperability to shut it down, lest someone do unto them as they had done unto the others.

This invites the question of whether there are any consumer-data-friendly financial services out there.

I'm a fan of both the FSF and FireFox, as both seem relatively less rapacious than the alternatives.

This was a great article.

Aside: https://eff.org/join is confusing. Can I join if I buy something?
Yes. The archiving was starting to take a lot of bandwidth. Some care had to be taken not to bog down Yahoo's servers.