skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel the author’s pain - Aspera is a clunky 90s styled Ruby on Rails app that is about the most cloud unfriendly piece of software I’ve encountered, I’d love an alternative.

I honestly don’t care about about their proprietary UDP protocol, it’s nothing special, just another way to copy bits onto a wire. Dime a dozen.

The true value of Aspera is they provide an integrated browser plug-in that lets the technically challenged reliably upload large files. If the transfer is interrupted or either side changes addresses it deals with it gracefully. It’s also a bridge to AWS S3.

I spent some time looking for a replacement and while there are numerous download managers that facilitate people downloading large files, I couldn’t find any upload managers with the same level of integration and polish.

About the closet thing I could find is Cyberduck, but it’s not integrated with the web browser, not as easy for technically challenged people to use, and there is no support (community support but seems really hit and miss). However it does make good use of Amazon’s multiple upload api and will happily fill whatever wire it’s connected to.

Torrent software has largely the same pros and cons Cyberduck does.
Google (but not Apple) is still charmingly unable to tell when I've switched time zones between scheduling an event and attending it.

So, yeah, calendars are hard.
Many comments are focusing on kanban procedures, but the most important parts of solo development for me are social milestones. For example...

* Who will I show X feature to?

* When will I show it to them?

* Can I show them a draft?

To me, the biggest risk of solo development is not how I manage a todo list, but that I'll build the wrong thing, because I waited to get feedback.

Some things that have helped me a lot...

* set up a time to show someone your progress on feature X before you feel totally ready to.

* ask someone to try and pick up and tweak some layer of your code (or pair with them)

* if you are developing a library--record hour long screencasts where you use it in a realistic way. Prioritize issues where you say, "oh, I should fix that...". Repeat but with another person driving.

I use github projects and a calendar (the calendar appointments feel more important!)
yes, you can. Its called being a bouncer. I did it for 15 years. You don't kick and punch, and the video show quite clearly that the staff were simply trying to eject him.
Tips for Becoming a Digital Nomad in 2020?
I have always been interested in traveling, there are many places in the world I'd love to see and spend some time exploring and I've made the decision to try it in 2020.
I've been working full time on my side projects, currently, on https://visarequirements.site, all my side projects now generate around $3k in MRR
I'm fairly accustomed to working remotely as over half my work I do from home, the other half being in coffee shops. I've never attempted to work around the world though and I'd love to hear any tips, tricks, warnings, or stories of other HN members doing similar things.
This is great! I was using something similar before creating ZenJournal. Alternatively, you can also:

- Create a private Twitter account

- Private Slack community/channel

- Private Keybase account (E2E encryption)

There are drawbacks with all these though because they are not specifically designed for logging but for fast social interaction over the web, it affects things like UI, security, readability, and searchability, the advantage is they already have a load of features as you outlined. A journaling app could learn a lot from the design patterns of low-friction social apps though.
Also seems like drone.io works exclusively with Docker, which is tricky for Android and AFAIK impossible for iOS projects.
The 2019 Good Tech Awards
Relevant question: how to start a custom software development company? i.e. scale the work to several [hired] devs - ensure the constant flow of new projects/clients, etc... Does setting up a nice website help a lot? Will it bring new costumers?
I did try that but there's way too much going on between these and low level, it was slow and just not a great experience to me.
Yes... My own codebase has 669 XXX's, 227 FIXME's and 1564 TODO's... For just 615,981 lines of code. And that's valuable information during development.
Unless you can call someone who brings you food, clothing and book a living space. Oh and have a chat.
(Of course very little is free.)

It does not satisfy needs directly, but it is first order interacting with them.

Now, without means you cannot satisfy anything. Food is means too, as is house, these are directly satisfying a need. Communication can only maybe directly satisfy the high level needs. (Belonging and up.)
Bears mentioning that Piet is "faster than C" if you use the right compiler.

https://github.com/boothby/repiet/blob/master/README.md#but-...

Among the esoteric languages I've learned, Piet is by far, hands down, my favorite. But it's curiously opinionated about reading input. I don't think any interpreter / compiler gets it right, mine included. Painting (one does not write) Piet code to safely handle input, by that spec, is particularly annoying.
I will give you private surf lessons if you get me a good paying tech job near good surf
Well these days we have some black paramilitary companies that do some sadistic things even to their own contractors, but I guess "run of the mill" (not explicitly hired violence) companies like fruit companies don't really do that as much and of course IBM, Volkswagen, zeppelin, Merck, etc, Have some cagey histories too.
I think you perhaps misunderstand the study's conclusions (and that of most GWAS on intelligence). They conclude that high IQ (>170) is mostly not caused by genetic variants.
One unfortunate truth is that even if you make class interesting, most of the time "interesting" does not transfer to "learning". Most students only pay attention to the fun part which includes color, sound, visual effects, etc. but they quickly lose attention when cognitive engagement gets involved.

Every teacher can learn a few tricks to make class fun, but it is very difficult to keep students engaged in learning conceptual and theoretical knowledge.

Some students are problem-solvers. A cognitive gap between the problem and the solution is enough to keep them motivated and engaged.
Need an overarching vision. Absolutement. That's why I like to simply keep track of what I am doing or want to do in a calendar-like way. I never delete things from my logue of completed tasks, I just keep adding new dates and new ideas/finished tasks/want-to-dos at the top. It works well when you have an overarching goal.
Iranian-backed militia vows to retaliate after US airstrikes
> the enriched population does not help as high IQ is not caused by rare variants.

The enriched population tends to have a higher population of these common variants. Saying it "does not help" is kinda silly-- the authors and reviewers behind this Nature MP pub disagree with you, as do I ;)

In the end, we have small randomized sample studies directly on IQ; enriched case-controlled studies like this one; and large studies looking at proxy variables (educational attainment). They have all come up with broadly similar estimates for the effects of polygenic variation on general intelligence. That is, we have enough information to be reasonably confident in an upper bound.
> One pilot has to move all focus to it, without touching the other controls.

And even that may not be enough.

It's quite plausibly physically impossible if the pilot happens to be less strong than this one, or if the aircraft's situation is worse than this simulator's.

In particular, the Ethiopian flight was in extreme overspeed (if I recall, past the max safe structural speed for the plane!), which increases all of these forces. I'm not sure whether that was being modeled by the simulator, or if the simulation's model of trim wheel force is a correct one.

There's certainly no guarantee that a pilot can produce the force required to relieve aerodynamic load on the stabilizer here. It's a purely mechanical system.
To be fair, "sudden loss of steering" is different than "sudden loss of power-assisted steering".
I've been using `nethogs` for this for a long time, and it is already in most Linux repos and can be installed quickly.

https://github.com/raboof/nethogs
A lot of our problems are related to the fact that people need jobs.

Why do people NEED jobs? They could've all started services, small businesses easily. Especially for something like politics, there is always a new business to come up.

Ultimately, I think it boils down to student debt and healthcare. These two are weighing heavily on youngsters, stifling innovation. It's almost like a subtle throwback to medieval peasantry
China jails 'gene-edited babies' scientist for three years
Just a nitpick: Rust 1.40 seems to be the stable version for a couple of weeks now.
Is there an API for this calendar? I looked, but didn't notice anything. That's one of the G features that I like.
Have you seen restrepo? I highly recommend it.
WhatsApp to stop working on hundreds of thousands of smartphones on December 31
I felt the same exact way for a long time.

Tim Ferris has at times mentioned some regrets regarding the title and contents and wishes he could re-write parts of it because he does not like that association. He freely admits it was a marketing gimmick, essentially.

However, after reading/listening to some of his other works, I've seen it in a different light and grew to start liking it again.
The only person who has ever recommended Joe Rogan's podcasts to me was quite a leftie so I find this article's thesis a bit odd. This could be because of this new concept of "left = acceptance" and ignoring the more historical definition of "left = strong labour rights and taxation of the rich".
Being much older now, it's very apparent to me that whatever aptitudes I had as a younger student were driven by whatever good teachers I was fortunate to have at the time. In my case I had the good fortune of wonderful math teachers. As a younger student my Physics teachers did not engage me. It is only in my 30's that I appreciate Physics (largely due to personal effort, exposure to important historical problems, and understanding that my own learning style involves needing to empathize with the motivating problem)
Yubico Trusted OpenSSL and Got It Wrong
I would say, jfdi. You can provably build a decent mvp in a few weeks from scratch with no prior knowledge in a tool of your choice. I would personally chose react native + typescript + mobx.
Trello and notebook lists, but am looking at Clubhouse.
Also hoping to get a Linear app invite, since it looks pretty good.
Not sure where statistia gets its sources, but there are roughly 500 philosophy phds awarded a year
http://dailynous.com/2017/08/28/slight-increase-philosophy-p...

And roughly 2000 in math.
http://www.ams.org/profession/data/annual-survey/phds-awarde...

>The government has a variety of avenues to promote research in specific fields: by employing those researchers directly, by funding research universities, by issuing grants to researchers engaged in research. I feel these might be better at obtaining public policy goals, while being much less susceptible to rent-seeking.

It's surprisingly difficult to engage in pure research with government grants, believe it or not. In certain fields, like philosophy and math, just covering health insurance and providing lunch money might be much more effective.
Who says there need to be factories? They can artifically make likes and retweet and love counts themselves, us sheeple will never know. Twiter, Facebook, Amazon, they've all been doing it for years.
An English Energy Crisis Helped Create Champagne
The list of example programs is really fascinating:

https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html
Github issues and milestones for me.

Generally I put all features, ideas, bugs, etc into small granular issues that I can ideally complete in a day or two. I’ll group them into milestones representing high level goals (“implement video editor”, “v1.1 release”, etc) and then prioritize issues accordingly into a kanban dashboard.

I find that this method takes little extra time and lets me separate my development brain from my project management brain. I can come up with high level design and compose goals, then start hacking away later in tiny sprints without needing to think too much about how things fit together. Issue comments are also great places to record ideas when you’re e.g. at a bar with friends and have a sudden breakthrough that you want to jot down.

Most importantly though it helps with motivation, since it’s usually much easier to pick up my laptop knowing I’ll be able to achieve something that day rather than making incremental progress towards a larger goal.
There are plenty of GWASs on IQ, they just struggle to replicate each other.
Not at my computer atm, but nethogs won't list the process name/PID, will it?
I've found bing explicitly requesting lower-case versions of my urls despite mixed case being submitted in the sitemap.

Now I either 301 redirect to the proper-case url or ensure I have canonical tags set up.
That was a great read. I think structures mentioned therein like the medium is the message, the form of the argument vs consequences are excellent examples of cognitive or linguistic framing, ripe for hacking
A Decade of Urban Transformation, Seen from Above
The title isn’t “pure clickbait” although a little hyperbolic. I worked in a research laboratory in a top medical school in the US. The professor in charge of the lab was an amyloid sceptic, and the existence of this sort of “cabal” was apparent, at least to him. Words like “delusional” were thrown around. This was 7 years ago!

Also, considering the actual harm caused, i don’t think you can be hyperbolic enough about this issue..
Year in Search 2019
There was much hope that somebody would find a way to create an extreme ultraviolet light source that wasn't the size of a house and costs over $100 million. There's a startup in Fremont CA trying.[1] "A synchrotron beamline for home laboratory applications", says their site. (That appears to be humor; the thing costs about $30 million.) Right now they have a product for imaging but can't generate a powerful enough beam for lithography. They may be funding-limited. It took them 19 years to get to this point. Worth a look by VCs with $100M+ to invest.

[1] https://lynceantech.com/
I thought Xamarin was a very viable option too, esp considering that it supports F# as well.
US is extraordinarily import based while having remote businesses.

That makes it very global impact. Any failure in the USA will be felt by those offshore businesses causing effects on the related economies. Some are more resilient to this than others. It depends on how healthy is the internal manufacturing. E.g. a China crash would also have a similar impact nowadays because the offshore businesses would have problems, but has not happened yet.
That is more or less the same pitch of physics, while most of the important activity is taking place in the biosciences at the moment.

The underlying assumption is reductionism: if we understood atoms best, we can understand and control everything built on them. I am not sure that I can agree with you on that. Complexity makes that a pipe dream.
This is absolutely unsettling. I thought this was one of the biggest drops of the decade. We know how corrupt the FBI and especially the CIA is, especially post-Epstein era. Who investigates the investigators? I would take anything the FBI concludes with a grain of salt.
Parent's example comes from a field in which the system manifestly does not work. Basic tenets of nutrition change on a regular basis. Every study is funded by commercial interests. Nothing gets better, ever.
"Everybody has got a plan, until they're punched in the face." - Mike Tyson

The horrors of physical violence are not often understood by keyboard heros who feel superior within their bubble of close nit computer expert friends. But as soon as things become bloody, the skillset requirements drastically change. This happens to blackmarket vendors too. They get lured into some AFK situation and quickly become victims of much less smart, yet truly hardened criminals.

Good luck hacking your way out of that.

Julian will (most likely, I have 0 contact with him) be in a most awful place with the whole "legally" allowed shit storm hitting him where it hurts. Not a place where smart skinny people flourish.
>All right, let’s take another example to mark the distinction- when we touch a hot saucepan we instantly pull our hand away, what kind of intelligence would you call it since it isn’t a goal-oriented intelligence? Maybe consciousness?!

This is an amazing leap.

The Intelligence in reflexes is the intelligence of the peripheral nervous system! Made up of motor neurons which can learn just like every other neuron!

That the author would completely ignore the physical body as an intelligent system and jump to the muddy concept of consciousness, because it's been so ingrained that the brain is the only intelligent thing we have, continues to baffle me. Especially that the researcher is a Post-Doc at UCLA under Pearl!
I'm sure the film's budget could have afforded a consultant. However, if you watch the movie, you may notice that there was no need to show ProtonMail at all. It was a close-up, over-the-shoulder shot of the culprit using a phone to send an email. The whole shot lasted ~2 seconds, with narration. They could have simply chosen a front-facing shot of the culprit using a computer or phone to achieve the same affect.

In any case, there are still plently of TV series and movies that put less effort into a 5 minute 'hacker' scene than this movie did into a 2 second shot. They get my kudos.
Actress Sharon Stone Blocked from Dating App Bumble
Yes, you can tag messages with a 'key' for compaction (maintaining the latest message for a given key) and there's now a beta feature for key-ordered consumers on the same topic: https://pulsar.apache.org/docs/en/concepts-messaging/#key_sh...

You can also just use separate topics since they're very lightweight and can be nested under the tenant/namespace hierarchy.
> So why fly on a 737MAX when any other plane out there is safer?

Well no one can fly one right now as they are all grounded. However, once they get approval for a fix from all countries, the airplanes get updated with said fix, and the pilots get whatever training required for the fix and thus can start flying again, why not fly them? Presumably, that failure type should never happen again and its record seems fine outside of this 1 problem.
What's more apparent is that the goals of the war in Afghanistan kept changing and became increasingly ill defined. Which is comical in like the cosmic sense, since American military doctrine has always held that the most important part of military strategy is to have a well defined, primary objective. As well, our greatest political thinkers like Kissinger have repeated ad nauseam that military force is a political tool to achieve political goals.

The irony is that Afghanistan is the biggest proof by example of our own foreign policy doctrine, by way of ignoring it entirely.
Or if you don't want to install a mod, there's AlexMoon's Launch Window Planner [1] or KSPTot [2].

[1] https://alexmoon.github.io/ksp/

[2] https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/33568-...
I’ve been using Notion to integrate the kanban board, free form notes & references, client proposal documents, etc. all into one place.
Linux and open-source rules: 2019's five biggest stories show why
Devil's advocate: USA does what this guy says and regulates only US companies. So Boeing cannot pay bribes or jail, fines and all. Say, it's legal in EU for Airbus to bribe (or the law is no enforced.) How is this fair competition? Letting them all bribe we know how it ends
I really wish I could roll back to the old version of Runkeeper!
You can keep the branch commits for detailed history, and look only at merge commits the when you don't need details:

git log --first-parent -m

This will show a linear history of merges, treating the merged code as being added in the merge commit. You can add -p to see the diffs.
What you really need IMO is to make lessons relevant to students. And I mean personally, deeply relevant, not "I need this arbitrary piece of trivia to jump through the next arbitrary hoop on an arbitrary series of hoops they keep throwing at us for some weird reason" relevant.
Are there any widely-used, case-sensitive, public or corporate email servers?

I've certainly strtolower'ed some email inputs...
That's pretty interesting that an IP address is enough to trigger CCPA. I thought it had to specifically tie to identity versus something broader like zip codes and city names to be covered under CCPA.

I wonder if you would be okay geolocating just the first three octets.
That sounds very wrong.

According to https://randy.newairplane.com/2018/05/22/737-max-a-year-of-s... the Max had only made 41k flights total in May 2018, six months before the first crash.
We're measuring the effect of one thing-- getting a poor person to college-- composed with all the other interventions that are spread through the population.

We measure the value of this-- getting to college-- as very small and even possibly negative.

We also measure interventions and their values / impacts on earnings much higher.

Going "la la la but college would be much better and itself a win if we did 50 other supportive things" is all great, but it's fundamentally handwaving in the absence of evidence.
I'm guessing the perception that it slowed Alzheimer's is because some patients were misdiagnosed. Aricept can help with falls in Parkinson's patients with balance problems, and in my experience seems to help with arousal.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3013493/

Accurately diagnosing the elderly is difficult. My grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's 15-20 years ago, which was likely inaccurate. At this point it looks like she probably has Dopa-Responsive Dystonia and may also have some form of Vascular Dementia, some sort of CSF disorder, and possibly some other problem that hasn't been diagnosed.
Just wondering, what are typical failures with Jenkins that you see?
We Don't Wash Dishes Like We Used To
The branch history is preserved in the commit graph of the main branch, so you don't need to keep the feature branch.
> Out of 330 Game of Thrones characters, 186 die by the end of season 7, with survival ranging from 11 seconds to 57 hours and 15 minutes. This study of their characteristics reveals great potential for preventing violent deaths in the Game of Thrones world.

Looking forward to a follow-up study which will hopefully include season 8..
I haven't used Thunderbird enough to answer this
The Epstein and NXIVM stories should be enough reason to investigate all "Satanic Ritual Abuse" cases seriously
The Count of Monte Cristo is a true masterpiece. I have the unabridged version and have recommended it to others many times. Dumas has profound insight into human nature--the characters are beautifully drawn (even the villains) and with such realistic contours that they seem like actual people. A brilliant read.
Most of our revenue is from our Chrome extension. And most of the negative reviews are people complaining about us not offering features that Apple prevents us from offering (like system-wide support).
The Ultra-Wealthy Who Argue That They Should Be Paying Higher Taxes
http://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail for reference.