skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.indiehackers.com/ is a great resource around this.

The Mom Test (Book) is a way to verify the thing you're building people will actually want. Providing market-fit can be hard.

Startup School by YC is another good resource to keep you accountable and make progress with your ideas.
FFmpeg Video Processing and Conversion
we need to re-invent the whole internet and mobile... we can't possibly have apps for anything that spark our interest. that just won't work!
What Happened to Alphacare YC09
It seems like their company and business model was 10 years ahead of their time.
Still, if you compare getting O'Reilly membership by itself it would be cheaper to get the ACM membership
There is no purpose in death-less war. War is about killing humans beings till the other side accepts your conditions.

The current us space force has the sole purpose of supporting ground wars. And when they start battling in space in a hundred year, they will nuke planets or throw rocks on them.
Switching to Flutter from React Native
> Vega & Navi AMD cards cannot don't do pcie FLR or full reset properly so you'll have to do full machine reboot per VM restart if you're using one of those for Windows)

To add: for Navi 10 (RX 5700/RX 5700 XT) there's currently a patch available at Level1Techs[1] which force the card to enter and exit Bus Active, Chip Off (BACO) which essentially resetting the card.

I have been using this patch with my VFIO setup ever since the author made it available and has been working quite reliably for me with my RX 5700 XT reference card. v1 patch sometimes stuck in weird state after BACO but usually it could be fixed by sleep the machine and wake it up. I have not experience any issues with v2 patch so far.

[1]: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/navi-reset-kernel-patch/1475...
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What is Apple’s relationship with Musk?

I really feel Spacex need a good partner for their net.
Twitter Android client code execution discovered
This post is in the front page of HN because of this initial confusion. Otherwise that was no larger deal compared to other projects that are going on around the world.
The craziest fact about it is that mats of willow branches are a major part of its internal structure. Sustainable rebar
The long term effects... Yes. Short term ... No benefits I guess.
12 people is not a lot of engineers, considering all the work that needs to be done on both the modem and satellite side.

Unless they actually go public and file some FCC paperwork soon to actually get spectrum, I doubt that this is actually going to happen in the next 5 years, it seems like more of an exploratory effort.

I also imagine that this would be brutal for battery life.
The rain is the one I am concerned about the most. And it is covered very lightly.
I wrote a song for San Francisco after reading so many negatives...

To the tune of Dancing in the Street by Van Halen

(In the background)
(taking a shit sounds... grunting farting)

Dropping out around the town

Are you ready for a big brown stain

Summer's here and the time is right

for shitting in the street

They're shitting on Gough Street (they'll be shitting)

At the MOMA (shitting in the street)

Up at Fort Point (shitting in the street)

All we need is fiber, (sweet sweet)

sweet fiber (sweet sweet fiber)

There'll be piles everywhere

There'll be ooooohing, ahhhing, farting, squatting

Shitting in the street

It doesn't matter when or where

As long as you shit there

Whether you're a guy or a girl. take a shit while you twirl

There'll be shitting

It's just an invitation for defecation

don't get it on your feet

There could runny or solid, but guaranteed to be squalid

Shitting in the street.

All we need is fiber, (sweet sweet)

sweet fiber (sweet sweet fiber)

There'll be piles everywhere

There'll be ooooohing, ahhhing, farting, squatting

Shitting in the street

It doesn't matter when or where

As long as you shit there

Whether you're a guy or a girl. take a shit while you twirl

Shitting in the street.

The San Francisco way!

Shitting in the street.
Does simultaneous multithreading still make sense?
Now I'm sure they put that snowflake there for that exact reason. Brilliant.
Or, the TV UX designers can realize this, and make the TV respond instantly by switching eg. to channel logo plus a name of current programme (it is available from EPG) and then replacing it with video 0.5 later.

This would allow a rapid channel surfing, something I haven't been able to do on any recent TV.
I have written a lot of SQL over the years, and consider myself to be reasonably well versed with SQL and relational databases. SQL doesn't allow you to act on your data while seeing it. The interaction modes are totally different.

In SQL:
Type query -> See some results -> Repeat

Excel:
Everything in front of your eyes. You are manipulating live data. That is not something you do in SQL. (SQL doesn't mean much though, as it is a standard and not a tool. Maybe you had some specific SQL based tooling in mind)

> Excel stops scaling at about a million rows.

A large amount of real world data has less than a million rows. Every tool will stop at some point. At that point the benefits of Excel fade away, even if it could handle the data, as 1M rows are too large for our brain to make a sense of live.

>My cutoff at this point is that I'll use Excel if I expect my analysis to take less than five minutes

A lot of real world analysis takes 5 minutes.

Of course, Excel is not perfect, and I too will never use Excel for anything that has to be done repeatedly (pandas or similar solutions are perfect here), but for quick and dirty data exploration, Excel is very good.
@spinningslate, question, my Windows Phone is end of life in 2 weeks :) I was considering buying a Xperia with Sailfish.

Why you say it's nearing end of useful life? It's still being maintained right?
Ask yourself (and your bible) "what did Jesus say"? And "what would Jesus do"?

I believe that Jesus did not speak at all about homosexuality. There is no indication that he attacked or held any anger towards homosexuals.

Conversely Jesus was strongly anti-capitalist! No money changing or animal selling in temples folks!

But fundamentally - when reading the bible your question must be "am I a Christian - or not?" what is the purpose of Jesus's ministry and passion if he did not bring a message and a purpose beyond and more significant than the messages revealed to prophets and his servants? If you are a Christian surely your preoccupation must be his word - and more importantly his meaning; interpreted in the context of his explicitly stated principles and lived actions.
ZbMATH Post Publication Paper Review
Kafka and Dickens: A Case Study
Presumably this project is for just reading?
After trying out almost most of the major libraries in the frontend ecosystem I feel that MobX-style observables (in combination with a state-tree abstraction like MST) simply offer the best combination of developer experience and performance.

It is not hard to write readable code with hooks (and hook based state management solutions), but it takes a lot more ramp up time and I see junior members in our team struggle with the nuances around closures (what value was captured when in the component lifecycle) frequently. Adopting MobX has been a huge productivity boost for our team.

At the same time, I feel the full potential of MobX is not fully realized in react ecosystem because the React core team does not recommend Object oriented state management with observables - the ecosystem would be so much better if popular components accepted observable data-structures and were built with implicit change tracking in mind (rather than the usual combination of controlled+uncontrolled props and callbacks which ends up being verbose and repetitive).

I hope octane results in Ember gaining traction in the community. It would be nice to have a framework that embraces reactive observable models, without also resorting to weird monkey patching (angular zones).
France slaps Google $166M antitrust fine for opaque and inconsistent ad rules
Si vis pacem, para bellum [1] or "If you want peace, prepare for war".

Yes, there are many downsides to war, those millions of dead people you mention amongst them. The thing is, just because you have decided the downsides of war - millions of dead etc - do not weigh up to the potential upsides does not mean your neighbour thinks the same. Eventually you'll get a neighbour who sees you as ripe for the picking, unprepared for war as you are. Some people might die, sure, you being one of them, but in this neighbour's eye the trade-off is worth it.

Humans are a belligerent species. Just wishing for this not to be the case does not make it so.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_vis_pacem%2C_para_bellum
Amazon pulls in thousands of unpaid reviews for any product. Now what do you do? Give all of them the product free?

Lets say 3 in 100 reviews are good. And you want those 3 to come back and review the next product. You are even willing to pay them something. Is there a guarantee that they have interest and will show up, and if they do, is there a guarantee that they produce a useful review of the same standard the second time around?

Thats just one simplified reason about the dynamics of this process, that is going to block everyone from getting things for free.

Its easy to react, to push to dismantle it and you just end up with YouTube style mega mass of comments under every vid where the best comments are guaranteed to get buried unless they pander to the will of the herd.
Worms and Heavy Storms
Oh, infinite scrolling pages with links at the footer, like Privacy policy and About, which you never are able to click. I always wonder who thought that was a good idea.
In the past the actual image authenticated that the camera was at a place at a time, and anonymity was preserved.

The issue is : does it authenticate that a particular camera that belongs to a particular person is/was at a place at a time and produced an image - because if so then if the device is found in a search the owner/user/keeper is in hot water.

So the camera must be anonymous - but it must be impossible for a lie about the place and time to be encoded into the image.
You can show the program name and what's on on that black screen, this info is already available from EPG.
> If apple is working on this id have guessed the viability is arguably roadmaped?

The explanation could be as simple as: they have huge piles of cash and don't know what to do with them. Satellite internet (for busses and bigger) seems like a decent use for it. It's true that SpaceX is ahead and has cheaper launch prices than anyone, but Apple might believe they can just outspend everyone else.
"publishers across America make significant investments, at no cost to taxpayers" is an interesting claim. As I understand it, the majority of journal subscription revenue is from libraries and universities. Are they not taxpayer-funded?

I'd also be interested to know the reasoning behind "this cost shift would place billions of dollars of new and additional burden on taxpayers". Is that because universities will have to organise their own peer review instead of paying for journals to do it for them? Surely, if organising peer review is so valuable, the universities will happily pay for it, and the almighty market (hallowed be its name) will return those billions of dollars to their rightful owners.

Broadly, I think this argument is worth reading with an eye to what it doesn't say, rather than what it does. It's big on lofty appeals to "government intervention in the private market", and fastidious about mentioning the "billions of dollars" that flow through journal publishers, yet mysteriously waffles on the actual value they provide in exchange.
This might be a brilliant idea, on par with asm.js.

Mozilla can implement it like they they did with asm.js, after all it is a subset, not a superset.

It will then work in all browsers but (I guess) can be made to work much faster if the browser knows it can ignore the piles of old hacks that full html has to consider.

Edit: and like asm.js it might lead to something even better going forward.
"My students had such a fierce passion and thirst for learning the material. The continuous stream of questions during classes was a testament to their refusal to be satisfied by mere knowledge and to their incomparable commitment to achieve true understanding."

Should be everyone's default position.

"If you treat inmates like students, they will become students — and often they will surprise you and even become
scholars. They will become inspiring agents of change
whom we want to see out in our society."

An A+ for Annie Raymond.
I feel like that would happen regardless.
Some professional journalists.

And there were some valid criticisms.

This is a very common stance now - because one person said one thing, or a person said something once, or did something once then all people associated with that person (in the mind of the commentator) are a "thing".

The reasoning is "a rightwing person once said a racist thing, therefore anyone who is rightwing is definitely racist" it is clearly nonsense, and is extremely corrosive to debate.
now THIS is something I'd love to see a HN or blog post about...

edit: A google search brings me to this. https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/my-bot-has-stopped-working...

Seems it is from twimg, which I believe is the image host used for tweets with images attached? I wonder why they can't revoke this.

And interestingly, the js file linked in that forum post is still alive... https://abs.twimg.com/k/en/init.en.37d4e85afd8ede9741dd.js
This isn't the best comparison, since journals publish the reviewed articles, not the reviews themselves.

It's more like whether Amazon should pay the people who decide what should be in the Amazon Basics line, which I suspect they do.
With the implementation of system-ram operational mode [1] of devdax, you can just use normal linux interfaces for allocation of huge pages [2]. Those then can be seamlessly utilized by most memory allocators, with no need to modify anything.

libvmmalloc has been superseded by libmemkind [3], which better allows you to control the behavior of what I just described.

[1] - https://pmem.io/ndctl/daxctl-reconfigure-device.html
[2] - https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
[3] - https://github.com/memkind/memkind
Sorry, I meant to say we ship to production about a hundred times per day, not hundreds of times per day. We've shipped continuously since the very early days of Intercom. [1]

We have a solid CI/CD pipeline meaning that every good merge to master hits production a small number of minutes later. Most of these changes are pretty small, focused and routine, adding a new button behind a feature flag, a db migration, a bug fix.

These small changes add up over time to a steady stream of highly polished features and improvements.

[1] https://www.intercom.com/blog/shipping-is-your-companys-hear...
Ask HN: Who's responsible for Facebook's Hacker News page?
and why has stopped updating with new stories?

facebook.com/hnbot
I used an identical zero gravity chair and a lap keyboard. After about 8 months, I developed serious issues with my wrists (pain all the time)

I went back to a traditional setup with an ergonomic split keyboard so my wrists were completely straight, and my wrists only slowly recovered.

I'm now on 6 months of not using a computer at all and finally feeling close to 100%

My advice is leave ergonomics up to people who know what they are doing
This definitely cuts the snarky comparison to the bus lane in San Francisco down to size.
For those interested in what it protects: https://i2.wp.com/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thu...

Also, this enclosure lead to former islands being enclosed by new land: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schokland
thank you!

was having the same thought as i was going through the examples. and when the unix example came up, it dawn on me that the author is clearly omitting the background of these people to make a more compelling point.

yes they did great feats but most have a history of doing similar and learning from it in the past. fast-forward to present days, and our issues with not going fast enough, maybe the conditions and situations are different? maybe we are in a learning phase?

also for a better account of what happened in unix case, i recommend kernighan's latest: unix: a history and a memoir.
Even more meta, but one of the really big questions is: How to give people what they need instead of what they want?

I think it was pg who said "make something people want". If the plan is to get rich that is the way to go. If you want to improve the world, you should build something people need. Unfortunately, they often don't want it or don't want it enough to pay for it which makes the endeavor unsustainable.
oh fuck off
The article is too long and too wordy, but it provides many links to published studies on the effects of porn on the brain.
Guide on How to Invest and Earn with Bitcoin
That was a whole lot faster than the original!
The Age of AI (YouTube Original)
OK. But it seems like lots of work for just reading.

And maybe I don't read enough to trigger roadblocks. Or maybe I just block enough stuff.
Automatic Frozen French Fries Production Line Processing 200 Kg/H
I'm Buddhist and I'm Offended
Firefox keeps running after X is gone and waits for me to confirm to close all windows.
totally agree with you on this one. it's becoming a hn's favorites hub here. that's not a good thing.
I went back and looked at the significant failures that happened. They were really really lucky.
It is a myth that Coca Cola invented Santa Claus. He was a well-known figure in the US before Coca Cola stated using him.
Three Groovy String methods that will make your life Groovier
And now to your last paragraph: "Proper commercialization" ... The he US represents 5% of humanity. All this argument just expresses hubris and the will to use weapons to enforce it. China and India are no Europe. They will play by their own rules. And that implies hot war.

Talking to each other and collaboration is the way of a civilized humanity. A pre-emptive creation of a military branch is not.
>> It discriminates people based on religion.
>> Now, there are some arguments that say we already have different laws for different religion casts etc. But that argument is shallow, misguided at best, blatantly malicious at worst.

I respectfully submit that your argument is even shallower.
There are separate personal laws for different communities, all non-Hindu communities have exemptions under various laws (Right to Education being one particularly damaging example, the Endowment Acts being another).
All these laws discriminate against and put the majority community at a disadvantage vs. the minorities.

>> Because such things are there because the idea of being secular overrides even having consistent laws. Because it allows people to practice their religion.

This principle has allowed the policy-making process to be hijacked by vote-bank politics, in which every two-bit political party outdoes itself to woo minorities by offering sops, at the expense of the majority. Case-in-point: The Trinamool and Mamta Bannerjee.

>> Because then it only helps people who are fleeing from religious persecution from being a Hindu, and it does not help if you are fleeing from religious persecution from being a Muslim.
Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan are Muslim-majority countries. By definition, you cannot be fleeing religious persecution. Offered without evidence: The only Muslim immigrants from these countries are economic immigrants, and there is no humanitarian imperative to offer them citizenship.

>> No, this "religious persecution" thing is a very clever way to mask the actual intent behind this act. And in fact, this religious persecution clause is not even present in the actual law [1].

The act is a set of directions to the government machinery. It does not have to explain itself, and certainly does not have to contain the words "religious persecution".
When the general web user finally revolts against sites handing them arb programs to execute, the people that rely on them running their code ahum googfb caugh will have a "next gen" HTML that just happens to also be turing complete.

The only solution is to refuse to execute their code, and in the cases where we actually want to, grind the GET response through a halting engine a-la BPF.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20806638
Recently I played around with the newest iPhone filters. The pictures had weird shadows and distorted backgrounds.

Are distorted backgrounds really an indicator for fake profiles? Smartphones do all kind of weird stuff to "real" images.
There are plenty of things about developing for the web these days to be annoyed with, but overall the state of web development is way-ay-ay better than 15-20 years ago when IE was dominant and widespread support for standards was hard to come by. I'm much happier working in Rails or even modern JS/Webpack then working in any "native" app framework/language.
Show HN: Crytemis – Minimalist Symmetric AES Image Encryption Python Module
My experience is that vaping feels easier on the body than smoking but both cause coughing and congestion. It probably isn't a good idea to inhale large quantities of anything other than oxygen.
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What will stop them. I more and more understand Russia and China regards the anti missile defends.

There is no effective treaty or rationale leaders anymore.
> becoming
Difficult to understate the repercussions, in developer hours through the years, of such a briefly thought-out design and implementation!
Is this designed by the same people as https://ableton.com I wonder... Definitely a similar aesthetic.
I think he said he'd been thinking about if for a year or so. From https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2015/04/10-years-of-git...

>So I’d like to stress that while it really came together in just about ten days or so (at which point I did my first kernel commit using git), it wasn’t like it was some kind of mad dash of coding. The actual amount of that early code is actually fairly small, it all depended on getting the basic ideas right. And that I had been mulling over for a while before the whole project started. I’d seen the problems others had. I’d seen what I wanted to avoid doing.
As mentioned in an earlier comment [1] NYPL offers public access to a Bloomberg terminal in their SIBL branch at 34th & Madison [2].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21847130

[2]: https://www.nypl.org/locations/sibl

This might be unique to NYC. I’d be curious if other public libraries or institutions offer similar access.
Justice Department Suspects Sci-Hub Founder Works for Russian Intelligence
An objective person reading this comment, who otherwise knows nothing about this subject, might ask "If the so much of the web works without Javascript, then why is Javascript enabled by default."

Google just made changes that require users to enable Javascript in order to log on, e.g., to check their email via the web. The rationale for compelling users to make themselves easier for Google to track can be exaplained away as a "security measure".

Google also recently made changes to Chrome that make it impossible to globally disable Javascript for all websites in Guest mode.
Take a look at what Teledesic was planning in the late 90s. Elon’s a great guy, but nothing I see about Starlink is innovative over what they were working on over 20 years ago.
Linux Smartphone – Yet Another Librem 5 and PinePhone Comparison
It's not meant to be an extrapolation; it's meant to be a comparison. The point is they did it more cheaply than is conceivable today.
I think it might be really useful to run BugJail as an (optional) CI step and offer the user to download, integrate with the IDE, or have historical data. But I didn't fully understand the license regarding such usecases.