skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just enough slightly obscure things I both like and recognise to make me confident I'll find great new stuff. Cheers.

Restraining myself to join in with just a single recommendation - Jan Jelinek's 'Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records' is the record I always post on these kind of threads and it always seems to land well with this crowd. It is probably my favourite example of the genre, and the production is so textured and the instrumentation has so many subtle aspects, it holds up very well to multiple listens.

Alright, two recommendations - the first time I clocked a 14+HR session was when I was listening through Skinshape's discography (comfy, catchy, mellow indie)
I think this could also be applied to education and not just working in due time.

Obviously for labs and hands on experience you will still want to go physically to your university, however I envision a future where all you need to do to go to class each day is pop on a pair of VR glasses and you are in a hall with all the other students listening to the professors lectures.

Granted there are self learning / online courses already to mitigate commuting to learn, however I believe the next step in education should be a VR college.
The true solution to remote conferencing is, everybody stays at their desk. A group in a conference room loses so much for everybody - others have trouble with who's talking, faces are tiny and far away, noise cancellation in a big room is hellacious.

Stay at your desk and join the meeting. Everybody can share a document, look at any document share whenever they like, look straight at the camera with good focus, sound wonderful with a headset mic. Everybody knows who's talking instantly, with their name associated with the voice and face.

The 'conference room' idea is a terrible one, and should quietly die.
"*nm" gates is just marketing speak. The transistors are actually still many 10s to 100s of nanometers across.

Actual nanotech will allow for gates that are legitimately just a few nanometers across.
Still, judging by the parent comment, it sounds like setting up a tile server in OSM isn't exactly trivial. Rather than editing, In my comment above, I meant PostGIS, not OpenGIS.

Anyway, I was interested in this at the time for a hobby project and (rightly) decided the effort would not be worth it. Thanks for the insight!
I have remove coworkers, and we learn from each other all the time -- it's mostly through code reviews, design discussions, and pair working on tough problems. We also recommend resources to each other when we find useful stuff (books, sites, etc).
Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
'Cranky Uncle' game offers a vaccination against climate disinformation
He called it a "null array" which I interpret as an array containing zero items. If it was just a plain old null then yeah, that's super annoying.
Is pedestal a better experience than luminus?
Agreed, though the effects can be detrimental when driving.

Have a look at https://www.steadymixes.com for 130BPM mixes and mashups to keep your pace moving.
Why would learning BJJ help in sales?
Since we're going for technically correct.. why make the comparison to mandating a constant stream from each phone, tablet & smart TV to the DHS?
More Americans Are Dying at Home Than in Hospitals
Big giant plus one on this whole comment
As I understand it, Meier is still pretty involved with any game that has his name on it even though he hasn't been the lead developer on them for years. Seems as though he keeps an eye on the whole "but is it fun?" thing.
> Modern "affirmative action" is not about "equality of outcome

Yes it is. Creating orthogonal standards to meet, in order to axjieve a quota is for the purpose of eoo, within a series of (future) outcomes.
Recreating Fingerprints from Pictures Is Possible at 3m (2017)
How Anti-vaxxers get around Instagram’s new hashtag controls
It's about music to put you in focus, not make you sleepy, and not distract you, not about music one personally likes to listen to as a music fan.

Some kinds work better for this than others.
Thank you for the reminder! I think finding cost-effective ways to decrease the world's carbon production / offset it somehow is super important: interventions / offsets likely vary by order of magnitude when it comes to effectiveness.

Best resource I've found so far: https://founderspledge.com/stories/climate-change-executive-...
Foundry Group Is Bringing the Helium Network to Boulder
Well, you can laugh, but it's legitimate stuff. Right now, all we have is self-assembling dna structures, but there's a bootstrappable path towards "tiny robots".
A plethora of local work-friendly coffee shops within biking distance keep me doing that as I work remotely.
If you played the game you wouldn’t be “betting”
It’s not paid by the government, it’s paid by the health insurance system that everyone must enroll in and had to pay for every trimester. Granted, it’s not too expensive.
Walking simulator is a genre like Jump & Runs/Platformers (Super Mario Brothers).
Clip looks interesting, although my favourite 'component' alternative is Integrant[1] -- your config can be just EDN and your start/stop functions are added as multimethods. Its beautifully little ceremony. Incidentally, the Duct[2] framework which builds on top of Integrant is my favourite way to get complex applications running. Currently using it for a number of different services and its a very pleasant experience. (I'm sure clip is too, Juxt do good work)

[1] https://github.com/weavejester/integrant

[1] https://github.com/duct-framework
Recently someone on HN recommended Unix: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan. I'm almost finished, and it's been a wonderful read.

I love reading about the development of early programming languages and computing environments, but I was surprised to find how helpful it is for deepening my understanding of things I use every day. It's amazing to me that tools like grep, which I use without a second thought, were written in the 1960s and 1970s and the code behind them hasn't been changed all that much.

https://www.amazon.com/UNIX-History-Memoir-Brian-Kernighan/d...
How to fight lies, tricks,and chaos online
When to Eat: The Importance of Eating Patterns in Health and Disease
In Russia - yes, but I think it could be appealed in other countries.
Not sure if there's a public document as granular as "information X", but that $5b FTC settlement came with a bunch of policies.

Also, the "clear history" feature should be rolling out (or maybe it already rolled out in your country) that lets you dissociate any 3rd party info from your profile.
Hardware accelerated CSS 3D transformations and SVG
Wow. Thats more than book/week. Is it really possible to absorb that amount of information. Won't you simply forget what you read in a very short time after, like almost immediately.
I wonder if the author has ever been on a WebEx with 5 people trying to talk over each other.
Only 10% of Americans spend $1000 on a smartphone
TSMC's 5 nm node is on track for high volume in Q2 2020[1]. They also have the announced 6 nm which they expect most clients to transition to[2]. If Intel's 10 nm is equivalent to TSMC's 7 nm then their 6 nm should be noticeably better even before 5 nm starts shipping.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/15016/tsmc-5nm-on-track-for-q...

[2] https://www.anandtech.com/show/14290/tsmc-most-7nm-clients-w...
Junk News and Information Sharing During the 2019 UK General Election
Looks like 90% of the people commenting here has never played the game.
That's far from enough IME. And a remote employee might still need some place other than their home sofa to work so that cost isn't automatically removed just by moving people out of the "one office."
Feels pretty good to subsidize internet access in the developing world and serve as the primary growth engine for millions of small businesses who wouldn't otherwise be able to reach their customers at such a low cost.
I work in an industry where client coaching and teaching is critical to success. It’s amazing how much impact a 30 minute face to face has compared with the same (or far more) time via video chat or phone.

Offline, unplanned conversations often yield incredible insights. I have the option to work from
home on Friday’s, but find being present with others gives me a far better understanding of what’s happening in our office.

Remote work works in a lot of contexts. And in many it doesn’t.
>What makes us special is persistent collective learning and abstract communication.

No; passing on knowledge isn't quite sufficient. The key difference is our ability to manipulate objects with hands, and our ability to harness external sources of energy, starting with fire.

Cetaceans (in particular orcas and dolphins), chimps, crows, they all are known to develop & pass on language, culture, and knowledge like hunting tricks. Cetaceans, and also octopuses have relatively high intelligence. The former live in long-running packs (pods), and pass on their distinct cultures, language dialects, and hunting habits. The later live with little to no contact with their parents, and have to discover everything from grounds up. Both have been around for much longer than humans. Neither have progressed anywhere near close to having a technological civilization, and are on relatively similar level.
That's a great way to lose tons of manufacturing, skilled craftsmanship, assembly, repair, and service sectors jobs along with many people in the arts, cinema, music, and... well almost everything but coding, finance, and the CAD parts of engineering.
Here is a link to the website of the library that they use, its pure chance that i was watching a talk with one of the creators of this library before i saw this at the top of hacker news.

http://pedestal.io/
Seems like the best way to go to me, but, in Germany apparently you have to start driving with foggy windows :s
(ok, or buy an auxiliary heater)
Moore's law is about density of transistors.
I agree that that's part of it!
This. setuid/SUID root was - and still is - a terrible idea. It is a (deliberate) hole in the security barrier. It was an idea spawned out of necessity because of the limited expressiveness of the standard Unix security model.

Once you let a process run with root or other elevated capabilities, that process should be isolated so nothing about the process can be controlled by the unprivileged user. SUID root utilities violates that.
Replenishing the Liver's Immune Protections
I am hugely in favour of remote work and, in fact, work remotely from a field in the middle of Ireland (so it could help with rural depopulation as well) but it's also worth noting that building a decent bike network - like the Greater Dublin Area Cycle Network, which was supposed to be started in 2010, would do a lot to address this too.

Of course, the source is the IrishTimes and Ireland has pathetic provision for cycling (aside from the odd greenway which is great for recreation but not transport).

Dublin seems hellbent on being 20 years behind other cities.
So the theory is that Intel and others do this for marketing purposes. In other words, they predict that they will sell more parts if they name them this way instead of quoting the physical dimensions. There is no other reason to do this than for marketing purposes.

That must mean, that this marketing works to some degree. Therefore, it cannot be common knowledge amongst everyone who buys PC parts. Or it might be somewhat known but still affecting their shopping choices. If it was truly common knowledge, there would be no incentive to keep naming them this way?
> much of this problem could be solved with microphone arrays and software

That's how it's done already. Beamforming mics have been around for a few years. They're definitely better, but still far from perfect. Because signal processing just isn't perfect. Incredibly smart engineers are doing their best on this stuff.
Tesla is planning to ship a truck soon and they've been driving the prototypes around for a few years now. So they seem to have a plan for this with all these boxes ticked (class 8 heavy duty truck, check, 500 miles, check, etc.). Also other's are already producing electric vans, trucks, buses, as well. And I think there was a story about some ginormous heavy duty mining ore EV trucks https://hackaday.com/2019/08/22/electric-dump-truck-produces.... Takeaway point is that if you need heavy duty engines with insane amounts of torque, electric is the way to do it. Most modern oil tankers are electric engines powered by diesel generators for the same reason.

Batteries are not cheap of course. But then the life time consumption of diesel for a Truck is not exactly cheap either and probably buys you a lot of battery and power to charge them. Assuming a million miles (which is what Tesla is shooting for with their drive trains) and a generous 6 miles to the gallon, we're talking about 0.5M fuel cost at 3$/gallon. Your mileage may vary a little of course but it's a nice round number. If you'd buy Tesla 3's at 50K each and stripped their batteries you'd end up with with 10 x 75kwh = 750kwh (and a lot of premium cars). So, lets just say that amount of money easily gets you into mwh territory which fully explains why Tesla can advertise a 500 mile range, which in a truck doing 50m/h is about ten hours of driving, which I'm sure legally requires taking some breaks in the US as well (i.e, plenty of opportunity for charging, just in case you'd bring up range anxiety as a thing).

As the whole point of a truck is to move heavy loads, adding a few tonnes of battery that you would need for this should not be a problem. Torque is superior with electric. I doubt moving 40+ tonnes is going to be much of a problem given that they routinely demonstrate the torque of EVs by having them pull e.g. freight trains, large jets, or whatever. Also, EVs can do regeneration downhill or when braking and they barely use any power when idling (unlike Diesel engines).
Not a well known artist but I really like programming to FILMMAKER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUau3wleuXc
Is there a way to use that in build in car GPS? Like Toyota Prius 2015?
To me it seems like everybody talks about it. I've lived in the US, Australia, and now Sweden, and almost everyone seems to have some sort of awareness of and opinion on this issue.
Even my 8 year old BMW's radar is good enough to detect people at very slow speed.
I’ve read this, too. Cats leave you gifts not because they’re being particularly friendly, but because they regard you as an incompetent hunter. You see the behavior in indoor-only cats as well though, say, leaving toys on your pillow, etc. In that case, I wonder if they’re reciprocating? You feed me, I feed you (kind of).
Why would you not treat your commute as time on the job?

People just trade their time for money, preferring to live farther away from work
> Everyone has different tastes.

Yep. And perfectly illustrated by many of the comments being about what works for them. in particular.

Sometimes I even listen to talk programs and don't lose pace (depending on the task). The horror.
> FB's A-team stopped working on ads a long time ago

What are they working on now?
A fully loaded aircraft gets pretty good fuel economy per person, at least as good as a Prius. I've seen figures from 50-100mpg depending on aircraft and of course how fully loaded it is.

So it's basically like driving a little less than the flight distance.
From the employee side, an easy-to-use calculator for commuting expenses could help. The monetary incentive is there for choosing a remote position, but people don't always know what it is, especially with car commuting.
Sustained usage has tiers. So .99% of a month would only be like 1% cheaper.
Maybe that was 2018, but last tool I adopted is 8 years old cindex/csearch code (well text) indexer: https://github.com/google/codesearch
Yes, The Social Network soundtrack is my favorite to put me in hacker-takes-over-the-world mood. I also like the Tron Legacy soundtrack. If I'm in a lighter but still productive mood, jazz: The Bad Plus, Brad Mehldau, and Eddie Higgins Trio Christmas album.
Didn't OS/2 bake a bunch of those things into the operating system where they belong? Why don't we use it? Multiple "Product of the year" awards (I've seen 4 in a row but cannot confirm). I'm still a fan.
I'm a bit skeptical that remote/distributed work (as opposed to just WFH instead of going into a local office every day) nets out to be all that green. It's hard for me to factor out travel that would have happened anyway from travel that's specifically related to being on a distributed team. But I probably do something like 10K miles/year flying that wouldn't exist if the team were co-located.
Speaking of incentive, though, this sets up a bizarre incentive to live further from the office, rather than closer. Right now avoiding a long commute is one of the reasons people are willing to pay more to live efficiently (closer to the office). It's also why companies are more willing to spend more to be in the middle of a city - it helps them attract talent.
Yeah I was careful about what rules I "ignored".

First of all I still communicate those rules so everyone knew what the folks above me were talking about.

Second any rule that had real world impact, other teams, involved other people's expectation and experience we totally complied with.

It was very much calculated rule ignoring.
In 1987, the company released Sid Meier's Pirates!, which began a trend of placing Meier's name in the titles of his games.[9] He later explained that the inclusion of his name was because of the dramatic departure in the design of Pirates! compared to the company's earlier titles. Stealey decided that it would improve the company's branding, believing that it would make those who purchased the flight simulators more likely to play the game. Stealey recalled: "We were at dinner at a Software Publishers Association meeting, and Robin Williams was there. And he kept us in stitches for two hours. And he turns to me and says 'Bill, you should put Sid's name on a couple of these boxes, and promote him as the star.' And that's how Sid's name got on Pirates, and Civilization."[5][10]
A great parser framework is Chevrotain by SAP
I didn’t think about it that way. Nice insight, thank you and all commenters here for your explanations!
Think of it as 1400 pm transistors.
Melbourne trams are more convenient than driving and are free in the city centre. It can work just fine.
That was my first thought as well: "I thought tunneling made this impossible"
We 've been saying that for quite a while(1). As much as 41% of CO2 is spent on commercial and transportation activities. how much of that could be saved if most of white-collar work (i.e. computer work in this day and age) is done from home or coworkin spaces where people can walk to? As a side benefit you would get total decongestion of busy "financial" districts and even a positive feedback loop, because decongestion would reduce CO2 emissions even more.

1) shameless plug: we are making a community for remote workers @ https://reworkin.com
I have a theory that restricting an on-ramp/off-ramp for one street during peak rush hour will significantly improve traffic flow on my freeway commute. I’ve taken the time to propose the change to my department of transportation, suggesting they simulate the change. Expect that suggestion went straight into the trash can.

Realistically, modeling this section of the freeway would be difficult, and proving there would be a net benefit - even harder, because there are accidents due to this on-ramp merge which cause the delays. The simulation has to model accidents to be valid.

If anyone knows of a way to simulate traffic, including changing accident probability based upon traffic flow (quick stops caused by merging traffic likely increase the accident probability), I’d like to model my commute and provide that to the department of transportation.
Except that then I'm surrounded at my desk trying to concentrate and work while everyone's talking on their headsets around me. Ugh.

No: if you want to be part of a meeting, everybody should be going to conference rooms or phone booths.
I have been listening to a downloaded copy of freesound.org user "reinsamba"'s 30 minutes of thunder storms for years. Literally one track.

Probably half of the "flow" time I've had has been listening to that one track. Hundreds and hundreds of loops. I'm not sure if this is a recommendation of the track or condemnation of my sanity.
I'm not surprised at this.

$450 used to get you a device running current Android, current SoC, 1080p screen, headphone jack, removable battery, SD card slot, and IR blaster. (https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_note_3-5665.php)

You just about cannot get that today at any price point. Remove the IR blaster, headphone jack, and removable battery and you start to see what is on offer at the 'flagship level' for more than double the price.
nginx is open source.
I tend to use the distribution provided packages which in case of debian are reproducible builds.

(yeah, i know there's a pro version of nginx. never used it)
favorites of mine:

* monolake / momentum

* Paul Kalkbrenner/ self
Show HN: Event-driven Shell – a way to control flows in multiple shell windows
Out of curiosity - what are the pain points related to Mount?
And these kinds of behaviors are bipartisan, equally bad, on both sides. That's just sad.
I don't think it's "wrong" inasmuch as folks continued to give Notch (and really all of Mojang) credit despite the fact that they were essentially completely incapable of pushing minecraft (or really any other games) past a very basic stage, properly embrace their community (Minecon was, by the way, a third party thing) with better engagement and a modding API, or monetizing what they had. Mojang was in a position to turn the fact that everyone had Minecraft into a central gamer identity service and their main argument against it was "standards like OpenID are hard."

Notch's accidental status as a symbol by stumbling onto a refinement of a Zachtronics game really drives home this phenomena.

Even though I love a lot of Kojima's work, I think that we see a similar phenomenon there and that phenomenon is comparable. Kojima certainly continues to have an outsized impact on the industry despite very limited output. Death Stranding is outrageously well-funded and supported despite being... well... I mean I'm playing it and I like it but I don't think it's a game that'll have more than cult status.

It's ironic really, because there are so many heroic indie creators hanging on by their fingernails in the industry pushing out amazing game after amazing game while the industry and market as a whole glorifies this condition even as it abuses workers with terrible working conditions (and worth noting: some of the worst comp in the software world). Meanwhile the fandom and press seem content funneling all those hopes and dreams for brilliant creators into a few avatars.
When I learned about history in school I learned about how bad the past was, how there were so many abuses of power. One thing that stood out to me was that what enabled many of these abuses of power was the ability for the rulers to keep things secret.

I naively thought that in our day and age we, or at least the West, had done away with secret courts. The time around Snowden was quite shocking to me. I fully agree that secret courts are a bad idea and that a free society has no place for them.
U.S. offers to cancel December 15 tariffs on Chinese goods: WSJ