skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.
I don't understand how else I'm supposed to receive content without constantly rechecking everything and having to remember where I stopped previously.

What is more, I've got bunch of scripts that do keyword search for topics that interest me on Reddit/Hackernews/GitHub/pinboard and generate private RSS feeds. That way I can quickly skim through them once in a while and stay up to date without having to do manual searches.

P.S. if the website doesn't support RSS, you can still use one of feed generators that basically scrape the website now and then and generate the feed.
I've used http://fetchrss.com so far, there are also some open source/selfhosted alternatives like
https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
I admit when this story dropped I got caught up in it. It was my first time purchasing/managing server hardware and I had just finished getting our 6 node configuration of MicroBlades up and running. The board picture Bloomberg had as the banner of their story exactly matched that of what I had spent over a year and a half getting my university to order on our (a club’s) behalf.

Suffice it to say all logic went out the door that day. A friend and I inspected each of the blades visually, but didn’t see anything. I then called SuperMicro support and asked about the report. The person on the other side had one of the most tired, frustrated, and depressed sounding voices I’d ever heard. All they could do was point me at the company’s official statement on their website, which was down for a considerable portion of time that day.

As a Tier 2 vendor, SuperMicro makes decent stuff. A bit rough around the edges and doesn’t come with all the goodies and support you get from Tier 1 vendors like Dell, but man can you bulk buy their gear. At the time, we were able to get 6 blades and a chassis for ~$20K USD (2x10 core Xeon w/64GB memory). Dell had us at about $15K for a weaker configuration of a single blade, and HP wasn’t even on the map.
How to Hire Your First Remote Employee
Yep. Inoreader. I browse 300-400 items a day through it.
That hat never worked apparently, and is now in a museum. https://twitter.com/jpdanner/status/1045843778722967552?s=21
Stop requesting refunds and just take your money back.
Also even on those days the ads were only for the page where you were reading that specific email, it didn't go into a hidden profile that carries over.

Google is actually very privacy councious when it comes to their own properties. Where I agree they fault is with their double click cookie that follows you around the internet
Yeah but we are the good guys? right?

There is a select amount of cognitive dissonance required to support domestic implants in our hardware then call out the chinese when they do the exact same thing.
Yep, all the time.
Hell yes! Even for my podcasts. One place for everything, no algorithm to mess it up. I'll cry the day a GAFA will use their power to kill it.
A couple of meta suggestions:

The submission title is provocative and personally I'd say misleading. As can be seen in other comments, it can lead to badly framed discussions and general dislike about the project. The project readme doesn't even mention Webpack, so why is the leading phrase "Webpack killer" in the title?

The repository readme is very long. As a dev, I'm looking to capture the core concepts of a project from the readme: what is this thing, is it relevant to me, and how does it compare to other things? Most of this information is covered, but there's a lot in addition. I'd recommend moving everything about specific languages to separate files and simply reference those in a list.
What is the deal with that?
Absolutely. Reeder for iPad ftw, and FeedWrangler for syncing (although Reeder might do that now, I haven't bothered to look).
I don't know, I would like to hear Vint Cerf do a talk on intelligence services. Particularly if the second half of the topic is spitballing solutions.
"lets you import anything"

It doesn't seem to support importing css or image files. I don't use them, but the webpack css-loader and image imports seem popular.
Suppose you have ten microservices. Running them in containers would surely be more energy efficient than in full blown VMs or dedicated machines?
To Be a Soviet Jew (New Years 2020)
What material are you planning to use for cooling? We already have the power density of a nuclear reactor on some chips.
In a word, yes.
I use QuiteRSS as my reader of choice for news articles. As well as monitoring feeds for some of the websites and servers that I run.
The reason I like RSS is because it is focused on exactly the information I need with no distractions. No extra popups, menus, offers to subscribe to mailing lists and most of all, no adverts. All in one place in a common format that is easily parsed.
Absolutely you can either designate an unstable “develop” branch and do stakeholder demos from there while keeping master clean, or you can develop on master and ship from stabilization branches. You can have any number of branches and assign any level of quality and polices to each. But you can’t avoid TODOs entirely by keeping them only on feature branches as what you’ll need is a branch with all features integrated but not necessarily shippable.

If you do stakeholder demonstration from an integrated “develop” branch and ship from master, you can have a policy of “no TODOs in master” meaning you won’t ship the TODOs. I’m not saying one must have TODOs ever in the branch-that-will-be-released but that they can be very useful and almost unavoidable to have in some integrated branch, because you may need to show a product without it necessarily being ready. Exactly what quality gates you ship with is a preference, for example specific comment tags (PERF, FIXME, TODO, ...). These are just words. In my codebase TODO means "this works but isn't optimal, so should be revisited IF the code ever has a reason for change". In other codebases it might mean "This is utterly broken and can't be shipped". Whether shipping is acceptable of course depends on which of those interpretations one uses (And using both would be a process error).
what do you think about the oversea slavery that made your clothes and your phone?

to be clear, I'm not blaming you as an individual, just honestly curious about your moral compass.
so, would you mind showing any non-FANG, but write heavy site? Besides that, even the operation of most social networks should be very easy to be split into town-sized instances with batch-updates in-between instances (see mastodon specs https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Runni...). What actually costs a lot is constantly surveilling all user interactions, data-warehousing that and playing out ads. None of which is necessary, and a 20ct/per user/per month should cover the actual service nicely...
This is me too!
Curious how much power this clock uses, as stepper motors are known to be very power-hungry even in low-current mode.
I was hoping uselessd would gain some traction. The thesis of the project started well
After a year of AWS I can tell you it's as much a PITA or more to manage all the components as it would have been to manage a few Spring Boot and MySQL Droplets.
If you are developer try using https://github.com/instagrambot/instabot (Instagram is part of Facebook). You will be blocked quite fast. For research and fun I did things more sophisticated than instabot and still got blocked. So Facebook as company is researching this area and is actively using whatever is possible. I'm pretty sure they will get much better in the future. In the end they want companies to buy ads and if competition gives better result than they do, they will lose.
Open-Source Web Apps – Grouped by UI Kits
Tragically, no. After Google killed Reader, I (amazingly) couldn't find another client that didn't have some fatal flaw that didn't make it not worth the bother.

I now use the dumb, low-tech solution of having a few folders of bookmarks of sites in various categories, which I'll occasionally check using "Open in Tabs".

Lamentable
I've been sitting here trying to understand what point you're trying to make for a few minutes and I'm really coming up blank.
I don’t think a lawyer will impact the water cooler.
I use RSS daily for all things. Those webpages without an RSS feed are ones I never visit as I don't want to change my habit of 15 years.
I find it interesting that somebody dedicates his or her life to figuring out how these CPUs work when exactly that information is just laying about in some vault in Santa Clara.
I don't understand how those work but they seem different from what I am suggesting. I am saying to use the strength of the cell tower signal received by many phones in order to detect where authentic cell towers are.
The Innovation Prisoner's Dilemma
Yes, that was very impressive. But you forgot to mention the operational range of the used missile system.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(missile) says 25miles/40km

Think about how many you'd need to reliably protect your denser populated metropolitan areas? And the accompanying radars?

When i first saw this 'Temple of Doom' [4] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/SR...

i immediately had to think of the Planet of the Apes
movies.

OTOH they'd make really good anchor points in the seawalls we need to build because of rising oceans!1!!
Both show as Not Secure on my Chrome (78.0.3904.108)
Yeah, but you need a 3d printer and an ultrasonic washing machine. And you'll need to buy a lot of other tools if you're not into electronics already.
Yes, this is what I'm referring to. Math and algorithms rarely, if every, show up in my work beyond basics that don't require more than a week or two of information.
This doesn't tackle the click farms / click workers though...
Most of these have close English equivalents, but as a second language learner, the author does not have a large enough vocabulary to summon them easily.

Learning a second language is not the same experience as being a native speaker.

Having grown up without German in my life, I will never have the eloquence or depth of vocabulary in German that I do in English. That's OK. It is the nature of the human animal.

Knowing my limitations, I would be reluctant to write an article about "English expressions that do not exist in German"
> the overhead

The computational overhead is negligible. This simply isn't a credible argument against HTTPS.

Netflix send petabytes of data over HTTPS. There's no excuse for anyone else.

> A medical site is different to a static html site like listed in the post.

Different in degree, but not in category. Your browsing habits on ordinary non-sensitive sites can still be used to profile you.

> ISP regardless of SSL know which sites I’m visiting

They can still look at the destination IP, yes, and they can probably look at your DNS requests, as secure DNS is currently only rarely used. It's still worth doing. Knowing that someone went on Wikipedia tells you almost nothing. Knowing the specific pages they went to, tells you a great deal.

> It’s there in the HTTP host header regardless of SSL or not.

That's not the case. HTTPS encrypts all headers.

> transit security can easily be encrypted without SSL

The easy solution is HTTPS.

> people are too lazy to encrypt their content within the application.

A universal principle in cyber-security: rolling your own crypto scheme is generally a terrible idea. As I said, Steam and Apt are the exceptions; they use plain HTTP for delivery, and implement secure file verification using hashes. Even here, with competent people running a simple delivery scheme, there can be serious security issues [0].

When it comes to web applications, you cannot implement your own secure delivery, for the obvious reason: an attacker can just replace your code. Sites like LastPass.com still have to use HTTPS to deliver the web app.

Even if it could be done, there would be no reason to. The browser offers you HTTPS, so you get a carefully designed, battle-tested protocol, and a carefully designed, battle-tested implementation. You are entirely shielded from all the complexities. You aren't going to do better in JavaScript.

> When I want a pure server with nothing other than my application I don’t want to download a certificate bot, install (lang) and let it mess with my configuration.

It's additional configuration work, yes, but I don't accept that it's much of an argument against HTTPs. You still have totally free choice over your tooling and languages.

> I don’t dismiss that HTTPS is important but I feel platform is flawed.

You've not presented a single good argument against the technical merits of HTTPS.

> Owned by corporate greed. It’s security based upon pay us money or else model.

You can get certs for free. This isn't new. [1]

[0] https://justi.cz/security/2019/01/22/apt-rce.html

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Encrypt
Assuming this is in the US, it's exceedingly unlikely the company would risk putting a negative reference in writing. OP is unlikely to get more than a confirmation of dates worked though.
Go read the book "Way of the Wolf" by Jordan Belfort. Thats all you need to get started. Read it twice.

Also, disregard any opinion that gives feedback on your site or product. Talk to real customers (after reading the book).
The Kākāpō Files podcast ran during the breeding season this year and gives lots of details about the Kākāpō breeding and conservation efforts.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/kakapo-files
Been there myself and seen it in other places too.

It can actually be a good filter, prospect-wise: a company that does gossip about/blame an ex-employee for some of their failures is advertising their own lack of agency.

If they were smart, they wouldn't gossip, and not even let the gossip go. That's very bad strategy, both internally and externally.

If they're not, well, I can't tell you what to do.

What happened to me:

1. first I spent several horrible months expecting my whole career to be over;

2. until I realized my ex-employer and its own reputation in the field was totally irrelevant and could not harm much my reputation (or better yet, act as a useful filter);

3. when looking for employment, when relevant, I explicitly mentioned this experience and what came with it, and what I was then looking for in a new company/position/team, so that I was the first to pitch what did happen and how I reacted to it.

It served me well.
Those that listened to my story and took the time to understand it turned out to be great teams to work with.
Those that dismissed me on the spot, well... I can't say really - but what I heard of afterwise from ex-employees was kind of reminiscent. :)
I switched from Chrome to Firefox a few months ago across all my devices. Got to say, I should have done it earlier.
It's a shame he didn't go into StrongARM Acorn machines. A7000 and RISC-PC machines. They were true powerhouses.
I went to the Wakefield (UK) Acorn show and was privileged to see the Phoebe! All I remember of the unreleased machine was that the case front was designed by the person who designed the ZIP drive. It was yellow and had a 64Mhz bus which was apparently compatible with PCI standards.
Always loved Acorn computers; being a product of the BBC Microcomputer initiative in the UK.
Who is Google? (if you see what I mean)
Yes. Please don’t ever go away (even more )
The level of passive-aggression in the side-swipe at djb is quite impressive though.
Cool ideas. I’m definitely interested in adding browser history into the mix.

Transaction data, I already collect automatically (and semimanually label because the existing auto labeling is insufficient) and find quite valuable.
You're right, I should have mentioned tau. But the viral link is the really big deal here that was overlooked for too long.

> It looks like you're part of the cabal!

I have no horse in this race ;) I only commented because the title seemed needlessly inflammatory to me. Everybody should just read the full article, like I wrote I think it's very good.
I'd assume these fake likes improve the metrics of most managers... "look at the improved user activity since rollout of X feature!"

There's probably not much incentivation to investigate them too deeply.
The thing about low fat diets is that you are not supposed to compensate the lack of fat by adding more refined sugar.
The Human Brain Can Locate the Sensation of Touch Even Beyond the Body
After listening to the video I have a hard time seeing the difference between paying for likes vs paying for ads from an ethical stand point.

Instead of FB, etc getting ad money, that ad money is being spread out to many others instead. It also seems like this might be more cost effective than ads.

I think I would consider this much more ethical than how Google puts the top 3-5 results as "ads" these days. Sometimes I question how long until I have to go to Page 2 to get off the advertised results.

Note - In the above I'm only considering this practice being done by legitimate places sharing fairly accurate or honest content. Such as a business trying to promote a sale or a blog piece.

I would consider paid ads, paid likes, paid comments, etc., to be unethical if the content they're supporting is false.

TLDR: What's the difference between paying Facebook/Google/etc for an ad vs paying someone else to like your post? The 2nd seems like a better solution for a majority of people.
> they’ll be forced to evaluate the paper on its intrinsic merits rather than the reputation of its author

Similarly, many academics won't evaluate published papers on their own merits and instead focus heavily on proxies like publication venue. Conference papers are unfairly viewed with suspicion compared against journal articles (in my field at least), and certain venues are viewed as superior in general to the point where some "don't count".

These academics instead outsource the evaluation to a few reviewers, who often don't know what they're doing. Peer review does not appear to be as reliable as it is treated. I view peer review as closer to a lottery. And the "best" journals still frequently publish nonsense. It tends to be more pretentious nonsense in my field, though.

I don't care too much about signaling the quality of my work and instead would rather publish in more specialized journals and conferences where I can reach the people I want to reach and get better feedback. I recall at a presentation on getting a faculty job someone said that they won't count any publications in journals with names they don't recognize. Both quality specialized journals and bad journals are included in that set. Add on top of that the common view that conference papers also "don't count" and I think the incentives here are bad.
SpineAPI – Access your ML models through HTTP requests
> Of course German is not unique in having "doch", most other roman languages ...

Slightly off topic but from a historical linguistics perspective, German is not a Romance language.
Tl;dr: an excellent book on computational complexity theory.
It's also significantly faster the webpack, at least in my experience.
Yes, I use Feedly.
Yes, every day, for checking various websites. I realize most people prefer Twitter/Instagram for getting their updates, but RSS gives me only the things I asked for, right when there's an update.
Yes, and will continue to use it until support for it dies or someone comes up with a better way to aggregate things I actually care about reading into a simple interface. Hopefully the latter comes first :)

I was sad when Google killed Reader, but Inoreader has been a great alternative for my daily use.
You can write an essay to describe the concept but that is quite different from translating.

What your are arguing is like jumping from "assembly is Turing complete, of course you can implement tail recursion" to "assembly is basically lisp" and that claiming otherwise "logically doesn't make sense". Sure, with lots of effort you can express anything in any language, but there are concepts which are much more easily and naturally expressed in any given language than another.
I stopped for a while after Google reader died, but a couple years ago I started feeling like I was missing things and happily picked RSS back up.
Of course. Podcasts are the one "hidden" usage of RSS that many people don't know about.

That's actually how it should be. RSS is a "machine talks to another machine" thing.

I have an IRC bot that relays RSS feeds into IRC channels: https://github.com/bhaak/cinchfeed2ircbot

I also have a little static pages generator that fetches RSS feeds and turns them into minimalistic web pages to read through on mobile devices. I have to clean that up somewhat for putting on "Show HN" these days.
Whats the pblem if you just dont pay ?
Yeah, how does that work?
Show HN: The app that pays you for saving money through a monthly lottery
>All legal documents and forms should have one.

The ones you download from e-government in Turkey have QR codes. I think other e-documents have QR code too. You can validate them by using https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tr.gov.turkiye...
"""feeding into the narrative that science is just another competitive team sport where people compete with whatever means necessary is downright dangerous."""

This is precisely what modern science is (well, a major subset). The competition for grant funding and attention space is extremely intense.

I agree there was no "alzheimer's cabal" but it's not uncommon in science for the prevailing mainstream position to (intentionally or otherwise) suppress alternative opinions ("extraordinary ideas require extraordinary evidence" is often used to maintain the status quo).

One of the important issues is when an idea ends up dominating funding. If you have a legitimate alternative hypothesis but can't get the funding to run the experiments to provide that extraordinary evidence, you'll fail to convince people. The people who get the most funding are the ones who are the most competitive, not the smartest, or the rightest.
All true, but it slides by the main issue: what are all these Ph.D.'s going to do? In the post-WW2 era, when the percentage of high school graduates was going up, each professor could have several Ph.D. students go on to find jobs as professors. With no Baby Boom, and the percentage of high school graduates having flattened (which was always guaranteed to happen eventually), many fields don't have enough other options for people who get their Ph.D. In some fields, sure, there are corporate R&D centers or other places to put that to use, but in many fields, a job in academia is the only plausible place that Ph.D. students have in mind as their eventual destination, and there's just no way most of them can get a spot there.

The universities shouldn't be relying on 2/3 or 3/4 adjunct professors, but they're doing it because they can, which is because the system as designed produces way more candidates for professorships than there are positions available.
The green new deal is often described as being just about climate, but it is not, and its costs are not. There is a lot of infrastructure etc spending. Think of it as an omnibus bill.