skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Terminology is a surface issue, another (possibly larger) problem is the amount of 'conspiracies' that have actually been proven to be true over time. Worse, because some conspiracies have for-profit motives behind them, it taints any source who repeats such claims, "They've been paid off by..." Two obvious examples that most people believe now: fluoride is bad for you, and we had little to no justification to go to war in the middle east after 9-11.

The problem is trust, and many of the world's governments and corporations (I would probably argue most) have proven to be unworthy of the public trust.

Really sad bonus thought: If you see what happened in the aftermath of 9-11, and look at how much money is made from warfare - how much of a stretch do you think it is for an otherwise typical person to believe it's an inside job?

This is why I don't watch the news anymore.
It's the "I read a lot of books and I want people to know" game.
I used this or similar (I forgot the name back then) when I was at UU decades ago; it was quite pleasant to work with as a teaching tool compared to ghc, esp at that time.
Couple reasons for those less experienced with VPS?
>Search: DDG is the obvious answer. But also reducing usage of general search is a major life improvement. Wikipedia and Stack Overflow have reasonable built-in searches

One upside of DDG is the bangs. If I know what I want is on wikipedia, just prepend !w.

I think folks need to learn how people searched pre-pagerank.

People treat google queries like a venn diagram with their top result being at the intersection, rather than using logical operators like AND, quotes, and -.

(Ex: "yoda -baby")
Raising money is much easier with an exit under your belt.
I've never understood the point of quora, it is a worse version of yahoo answers. And that is about the lowest bar.
Social Credit: Gaming the System
Suppose you rent a one bedroom for 4k in SF. You can do better than this, but let's go with it. And suppose your mortgage is 2k, and you make a solid salary of 200k in Atlanta.

It seems like a no brainer to move. But you're ignoring the fact that someone of equivalent experience could get a paycheck of 500k here.

That pay differential swamps trying to optimize by tightening the budget.
It's a shame that they don't offer a web version. I was interested enough in order to go to the webpage, but I don't want to download the app and make an account
> yes, Virginia, I have and use a Bluetooth clipboard

I'm assuming from context that your mean keyboard, but the idea sounds kind of cool so I have to ask: any chance this is a term for a a bluetooth device solely designed to facilitate copy-pasting between other devices?
Fun Fact: paywall.
I've been using yabai and skhd for about a week, I was wondering what you are using for your menu bar? I'm not really sure about a suitable replacement for something like i3bar coming from Linux.
It works for me on iOS however it takes a while for the entire thing to load.
God damn that's a lot of weed. I have some hippie friends that might go through that, but you've gotta be spendin.
This is a real rollercoaster you're taking us on, here.
How about: a typical typescript project does not start off with a dozen compiler pragmas non-trivially changing language semantics? Or: no matter their background, it will take at least 10x more time to spin up new developers with Haskell than typescript?
yabai has a feature that allows for focus following mouse. It's a little wonky with the menu bar, but it works pretty well and replicates the X11 feel pretty well.
>When 90% of the people you email are on Gmail or GSuite does Proton mail really help?

Depends on your threat model.

Having all your email in one place is a juicy target.

But the Swiss want a warrant for a specific crime, and then it's my understanding your government needs your password to decrypt the emails at rest.

Not being able to go on fishing expeditions is a good feature especially if you have years of email.

>Perhaps I am old but I don't know a single person that uses Whatsapp or Signal. Everyone just uses old fashioned SMS or iMessage if they have iPhones.

When I explain people can use Signal on wifi and not get any spam calls, many older folks are open to using it. You don't always need to sell Signal on privacy - older folks on a limited income may not have infinite data, being able to use wifi for calls and texts cuts data use and they like that.
> the yield curve inverted

The yield curve is no longer inverted.
Great line of products. I love GoLand, CLion and Datagrip. I mostly use VSCode now, but I've always preferred the debugging experience and tooling with JetBrains products for my more focused projects.
CO2 is fungible, so no problem just using regular fuel and sequestering an equivalent amount of CO2 from elsewhere in the atmosphere.

At $100/ton CO2 sequestration cost and 90kg CO2 per passenger-hour, that’s roughly $10/passenger-hour.
Don’t they have 100,000 employees that could’ve told them this just as well? You’re right this isn’t about UX. It’s about ego.
Quite interesting. How did you do that and what did it take (cost, time, effort)? NearlyFreeSpeech.net started off on this a couple of years ago, and it seems like this is a very costly proposition (something like $80K for accreditation?) that also takes a lot of time.
There's an cool python library called anndata (https://icb-anndata.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/stable/anndata...). It's designed for single cell RNA-seq experiments where datasets have multiple 2d matrices of data along with row/column annotation data. It's use of NumPy structured arrays is interesting.
Yes. I just use Searx[1], now. It aggregates multiple search engine results and has Docker images available. There are also public instances you can use.

[1] https://github.com/asciimoo/searx
Tripadvisor is boston right?
Oh they'll be censored alright. Have you been on YouTube or Reddit lately?
I can't say who since I don't know but my interest is piqued. It worries me no one would brief a CEO (who crosses borders presumably) to at least use a passphrase.
That’s only one of their products, and you have to pay to unlock the full version.
You should be able to enter counties - it may take a bit longer to download all the roads, sometimes it may take a while to download though and timeout...
My total comp (salary plus RSUs) is 400k, and my (now fully vested and liquid) stock options are worth 2.5M. I realize not everyone can replicate that, but I did this in Atlanta, not SF.

I also can drive 7 minutes to work or run 30 minutes on the Beltline and shower when I get in.

There are more trees here than SF, and we have full seasons. It's also way more diverse. Not everyone is in tech. The dating scene is great.

SF isn't all it's made out to be.
Last time I tested it Amazon Lightsail was also way slower.
I usually register my important domains for several years in the future, and have the register lock on. Some registrars call it transfer lock.

I also Backorder my own domains on namejet, GoDaddy, etc just in case they ever do expire there’s still a chance to get them back.

If only there was a company that offered domain name insurance, to make sure you never lose your domain, it’s never stolen, dns isn’t hijacked, and the site never goes down (ddos attacks, etc.).
By tracks, by any chance? Doesn't narrow it down much in Atlanta (specifically with mills), but if you're talking where I think you're talking, I'm ~2 mi from you. ;)
Exactly. A person's anecdata is worthless. "Lived experience" is anecdotal.

A female researcher doesn't add anything to a study on ovarian cancer or detract anything from a study of testicular cancer because of her gender. Her anecdata is worth zero in both case, her actual data is what counts.

If she tries an argument from authority (credentials or gender) her credibility is shot. Either the data supports her conclusions or it does not.
> the number of people with this knowledge is very small in most teams and sometimes there's none.

This is just it. It's expensive to organize things.

Bad architecture is worse than no architecture. It take time to build, then more time to tear down.

How do you organize with no experience? A mess already holds a structure. It can be evolved into the right structure. But if you adopt the wrong structure too early, you're stuck with a bad system that has to be destroyed and rebuilt.
It could just not customize my results.

When I search for "peking duck recipe" show me a recipe for peking duck, and don't show me "local" restaurants which are 300 miles away.
They backtracked for now, but they'll try something else in the next year or so. Their goal is obvious.
> Why is TikTok succeeding while Vine failed?

https://rickyyean.com/2020/01/20/from-socialcam-to-tiktok-ho...
> I'm not sure, on a daily basis, what you'd do with 125 kilowatt-hours of car charge anyway. A gallon of gas is about 25 KW-hr (to one sig fig) so that's five gallons of gas. That would be 150 miles of driving per day, around here that would be something like 3 to 5 hours of driving per day, which sounds like a horrible way to live

I’d have my car mine bitcoin when it’s not being used :)
Totally unrelated, Blockinger on F-Droid is dope!
It is a bad decision, I don't see your point.
They were amazing machines. The phone handling and multitasking was so ahead of its time! Imagine the phone rings, you answer and a notebook pops up for call notes specific to this person as determined by caller ID.
I'm making a tribute to the fact that he was an emotional rollercoaster of a human being.
Looks like `json-server` is a real server, whereas Mirage is a tool for mocking `XmlHttpRequest` and `fetch` on the client side in the browser.
This and the other stuff described in these discussions relies on Javascript, CSS or certain HTTP headers.

If the results are requested with a simpler HTTP client that does not automatically execute Javascript or CSS, where we can control te HTTP headers, then these manipulations can easily be sidestepped.

This is not "blocking". It is using a client that does not process JS or CSS, where we can easily control the headers sent. This can be done, e.g., with openssl s_client, obsd nc, socat, etc.

They are probably sending different html+css+js based on user-agent.

They have been doing that for many years. The difference this time is people are objecting to the look of what they are sending.
Maybe we need to be bailed out? We're broke on data, privacy and autonomy. Perhaps a 50% nationalization where democratically elected representatives serve on the board? The money can be printed.
Insta released video support; overnight 90% of video creation disappeared and growth stalled out as people went back to the platform Vine was borrowing them from. (Facebook’s earlier shenanigans of cutting off graph access didn’t help.) Further attempts to restart growth didn’t pan out. It didn’t help that most people consumed Vine via YouTube (and not the web or app). Other platforms were willing to pay creators much earlier (and had bigger budgets I expect)... but it was probably already too late.
It's just... Calling someone an asshole after they're dead feels...

I don't know. Maybe you're not wrong.
Where on Wikipedia did you see 1 in 50 for Spanish Flu? I'm seeing a much higher number: "an estimated 10% to 20% of those who were infected died' [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Around_the_globe
more like:

Elon: I have this next great idea.
*pandemonium results in 4 deaths as VCs get crushed by the crowds
Has it gotten so bad that you genuinely can't tell? I'm confident that it was a joke. Want some satire where it is difficult enough to tell that a number of people have been taken in?

https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath
Right. For example, after the yield curve inverted in 1998, it normalized and inverted 4 more times before the 2001 recession started. It doesn't say much besides "something weird is happening with the economy".
>> We estimate the basic reproduction number of the infection (R_0) to be 3.8 (95% confidence interval, 3.6-4.0), indicating that 72-75% of transmissions must be prevented by control measures for infections to stop increasing.

>> We estimate that only 5.1% (95%CI, 4.8-5.5) of infections in Wuhan are identified, and by 21 January a total of 11,341 people (prediction interval, 9,217-14,245) had been infected in Wuhan since the start of the year.

>> Should the epidemic continue unabated in Wuhan, we predict the epidemic in Wuhan will be substantially larger by 4 February (191,529 infections; prediction interval, 132,751-273,649),
How to download apps for your Fitbit
You're mocking the idea that the founder of a company would understand their market...?
What would they do if it was?

How much money would make you forget about it?
Not much wonder. Focus more energy on ways to monetize the DNA they have already collected?
Tangent: The mass market offering from Cloudflare does not have a way to buy/register a new domain. It’s been way too long since that offering was made public and it’s still stuck with just transferring domains from another registrar into Cloudflare.
I wasn't aware those were problems with email.
The public will soon find out that we should.
I've read your comment thrice and I can't make any sense of it and tell if you're arguing for or against the parent argument.
GMAFIA, not FAANG.
James Day Wins Gold Lion at Cannes
As the person below said, a lot of these people have answers for pretty much everything. I'm the person you're responding to and it pretty much always goes like this:

"Arent there other companies working on fraud on the blockchain? How are you different?"

"Our team is amazing and is made up of myself and my founder who have 3-4 years of experience and need to fill it with 8+ year experienced engineers because before then no one is really useful here."

Me: "..."

OR

"Do we really need another machine learning solution to classify documents? What is different from you and your competitors?"

"Well, we think everyone else is doing it wrong and that we've found the perfect solution."

"What is that?"

"Myself and my cofounder are far smarter than any of our competitors".

OR

"How do you talk to candidates about salary?"

"Well, we don't give any actual numbers, but we share our compensation philosophy doc, which ive linked here".

"Right, but can you afford these people? why do you expect them to take a huge pay cut to make you a millionaire?"

"The right person will have faith"

There's always an answer that feels like it was fed to them by a VC who knows it won't really work, but is just hoping and praying.
Yes, thanks, edited.

For cross-device control, there's ... Synergy, I think:

https://symless.com/synergy

There's an Android client (I've no experience with it): https://sourceforge.net/projects/synergyandroid/

On the Android, there's Termux which offers a clipboard interface -- termux-clipboard-get and termux-clipboard-set which I've aliased as "xp" and "xc" respectively. (I have similar aliases for Linux and MacOS's respective clipboard manipulators.)

You can paste (including to remote SSH sessions) with the ctrl-alt-v keystroke.

It's possibly to select and copy screen regions, but tediously, so that piping to / from xc / xp is far more convenient. (I sometimes use this for composing / editing HN comments, more frequently on other sites.)
Some previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10045261
Show HN: PHP Messenger Library
A thread from 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15835870
Nice to see .. but I think Julia is pretty much targeted at not having to do these kinds of jugglery.

(Don't get me wrong. I actually appreciate the work, but also use julia)
> I am brown

"If you’re not prepared to come to that table and represent that voice, don’t come, because we don’t need any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice."

"We don’t need black faces that don’t want to be a black voice"

-Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Massachusetts 7th

You have been found guilty of wrongthink, please report to the Ministry of Truth for reeducation.
> There is zero lock-in with appropriate architecture decisions.

Sigh, you don't know what you're talking about.

Everything past "make VM" is lockin. Firewall rules, be they security groups, NACLs, or what have you are different for each platform. Each service you use is lockin. Even the build scripts themselves are lockin. The users within the console, and all their associated permissions are lockin.

Do you want load balancers? AWS - so.. thats ALBs, or NLBs, or CLBs? Or did you want to spin up a bunch of dinky ec2 haproxy dockers? Does your application use sticky sessions or have session data? That limits you in a bit of ways.

There is no neutral way to talk about network, compute, storage, and api assets that don't involve lockin of a great deal.
Try using your favourite language will lead you to search for a plug-in. Then you discover you need the ultimate edition. Parts of it are open source but all of the parts you need aren't.
Spreadsheet: Virus Data
Dark matter was hypothesized because the universe is expanding faster than our understanding of gravity allows. The problem in that is if the universe is expanding so fast then something else must be holding galaxies together since galaxies are so incredibly vast and yet contain so very little matter.

Particle physics is currently defined according to the Standard Model. Dark matter was proposed because it plugs many of the gaps of universal expansion in contrast to the Standard Model, but not all the gaps. It would take far greater effort to invalidate the Standard Model and all of particular physics built upon it. There is also the problem of not having any other model to replace the current one. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model

The expansion of the universe is observed as red shifts and these observations are numerous and largely uniform. Dark matter, on the other hand, has not been directly observed.

* https://arstechnica.com/features/2014/07/dark-matter-makes-u...

* https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/dark-matter-link-to-...

* https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/more-bad-news-for-co...

* https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/one-night-of-telesco...

* https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/a-history-of-dark-ma...

* https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/07/dark-matter-still-mi...
That image was from a decade ago. The O'Reilly book must be three or four times thicker by now.
Graphical version.

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
I think the technical term is “dumb fucks”
Yes! Blows my mind every time I see him comment. It's amazing folks like him who keep me coming back here.
Culligan Water is the company I used. Systems like mine are custom built depending on your house layout, the type of filtering you want, etc so the cost could fluctuate.
I’m so sorry to hear you have such a dark outlook. I totally agree, those companies are not about the consumer anymore, but that’s fine. That’s their problem.

I see computers and the internet as an extension of ourselves, and so they still allow us to communicate with whoever and whatever we want. I’m so glad this community exists and we can express that.

The worst part should already be over, you just joined hn. I’m also all about good will, fun, and generally good intent. And if you do something cool but it’s costing you something, let me know how I can chip in.
As far as I can tell, the central thesis is that companies (maybe just tech companies) are screwed up. The sardonic tone though makes it almost entirely undigestable to me.

There's an emotional air of "the world is F'd and nobody sees it," that is independent of the central thesis, that makes it hard for me to take the anecdotes at face value. Which is too bad, because I'm sure there are a lot of grains of truth behind the author's experience.

Additionally, I have to observe that the author's experience doesn't align very well with mine. Certainly I've seen bad decisions, bad tech (but never a failure to use source control as he describes), some politics, intense personalities, but by and large I've found the vast majority of people to be acting in good faith, albeit sometimes creatures of habit and hard to win over before you build a track record.
Strong disagree with your thesis here. Most navigators of code are looking for something, and that something is not the most elegant refactor to make to cut some particular Gordian knot.

Navigation tools are essential especially because the (vastly) larger audience is uninitiated.
Hi neighbor, thanks for the info! These all sound quite sensible for certain types of companies.

I've got a CapEx/research heavy project that I'm a bit anxious about funding myself, so I'm trying to sell some lower hanging fruit first.

Are you working on a startup here? :)
I don't know if his family or loved ones will read this, but as much as I learned from his writing, I appreciated his attitude and manner even more.
It always feels like the mods are just disagreeing with you. The opposite side feels the same way.

I described your comment as being a jerk because mariedm asked for copywriting suggestions, specifically in the context of being a non-native speaker, and you responded with a polemical smackdown. That's not good-faith discussion.
Your last paragraph reminded me of universal package manager (upm): https://github.com/epitron/upm

I think I saw it on here recently. Not something I have a particular use for, but it’s interesting enough to remember.
“The zipper method”
Honestly, I don't know how much that matters. An interesting idea will always bring early adopters. The question is if they will stay and convert.
Although I love DDG, I'm having problems on all search engines these days.
A recent Time article [1] is theorizing that the source may come from wet markets.

It also theorized that the source of the SARS virus might have originated from an infected cat. And Ebola may have originated from infected bat feces, that might have landed on a girl’s toy, which she then put into her mouth. And the MERS virus in the Middle East may have come from an infected camel.

This appears to be a logical and scientific deduction.

So for this Coronavirus, it appears to follow the same pattern. Infected animal feces mutated into some virus, that made the transmission to humans.

My theory, is that perhaps an infected animal’s feces, may have mixed with other fluids, like blood, from freshly slaughtered animals, and mutated into something that infected a human with a weakened immune system (easy target), who then transmitted it to other healthy humans by contact.

On one hand, it does seem that the best way to guarantee that you’re sourcing your meat from a fresh and healthy animal, is to pick the animal that you want, and to slaughter it on the spot. This means that the meat vendor does not have to maintain a refrigeration system, and you don’t introduce other chemicals or salts to preserve your meat.

But the problem is that you have to keep the animals in captivity, and the meat vendor must handle, and clean all their urine and feces. And when animals get sick, their feces and urine gets infected, thus you increase the probability of an outbreak like this.

What’s the solution? Maybe China must begin eliminating wet markets, and eliminate the practice of keeping live animals in captivity, in order to minimize the incubation, mutation, and the transmission of such viruses. And instead, to begin using a refrigeration system, to preserve slaughtered animals.

[1] https://time.com/5770904/wuhan-coronavirus-wild-animals/
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