skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds a lot like a tool I built for myself [1], sans the database. I agree that Markdown + Katex with a local server seems like the right move for most technical people. Lots of things like encryption, backups, and basic text search can be done via other Unix tools. I also agree that the big win is owning your data long-term, even if you get tired of maintaining the software.

[1] https://github.com/gwgundersen/anno
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Well-written ksh/bash is extremely light-weight, flexible, concise and easy to maintain. Changing shell or OS would be the headache, but easily outweighted by gains if used for the right jobs.
Depends what skills you have and how hot your market is. I know some people in big metro areas like London or Bucharest switching every year without problem as their skills are in high demand.
In my opinion, the power of the React/JSX model is really about allowing you to declaratively specify everything that can/should be specified that way. But then also allowing you to selectively use imperative constructs where they're needed, all while making it fairly seamless to move back and forth between the two at any level of abstraction.

Of course, with great power comes great responsibility...
AI researchers have been attempting to build common sense into software for decades and have largely failed. So if you think you can do it in 9 months then you're naive or uninformed. But hey if you've figured out a better approach then go ahead and do it, then show us running code. Talk is cheap.
The world absolutely needs a fancier Wordpress.

Preferably one where bad installs don't turn your website into a host for Martian hackers mining cryptocurrencies, sending viagra marketing e-mails, or SEO spam.
The problem with ancient material culture is that once it's gone, it's gone. We have an obligation to the scholars and peoples of the future to preserve material culture for their study and appreciation.
Not dissing Wordpress. Just the redescovering of software you install and can configure easily / install plugins to get what you want without coding yourself.

Lot of people hate on Wordpress but will go for other Nocode solution which has better PR because they're new and so have lot of free money from SV funds. Or just so they can make themselves feel "better than a Wordpress agency" when what they're selling is the exact same thing.

> We're a nocode agency

Ok, so you're selling website and apps using code made by other people. Like any Wordpress based agency.
I think so, or at least closely related phenomena. I was looking at somewhat different kinds of thinking than Kahneman is -- mine was, I think, more simplistic, basic deductions and Kahneman more about larger-scale cognitive jumps. But without having done an exhaustive study I suspect that yes, we were looking at the same distinction.
Maybe with the recent influx of larger core count systems, this isn't entirely unreasonable in the future.
I had a 2011 Macbook Air that would go blank randomly. After some investigation, I determined it was often when I was moving it from one place to another (sometimes even just repositioning on my lap), and that it was going to sleep, not completely crashing.

Of course, MBAs have no moving parts, and there were no rattles when I shook the machine and listened. Apple also could not figure it out. After replacing several parts, they eventually replaced the unit with a newer model (it was 2014 at the time).

Soon after getting my new MBA up and running, it experienced the exact same glitch. I knew it had to be something environmental, since the odds would be astronomical that they would have replaced my unit with one that had the same rare glitch. But I was traveling, which eliminated anything relating to my house, neighborhood, power lines, etc.

Then I looked at my wrist, on which I wore a Seiko Kinetic watch. It was triggering the magnetic lid-closure detector, which is on the sides of the base of the MBA. When I picked up my computer with my left hand (I'm right-handed, so this was less common), it would trip the sensor.

Interestingly, there is a very easy fix for this (and similar issues, mentioned in other comments in this thread), which is to only sleep the machine if both left AND right sensors are triggered. If it seems like the left side of the lid is closed and the right side is not closed, probably it's a false positive!
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CPU0 would disagree, for example. A non technical person might be forgiven for thinking a system that says CPU0 has no CPUs, when in fact it has one, again, for example. Many logical objects start their enumeration at zero and increment from there. There are four rings of operation in Intel CPUs, but they are labeled ring 0 through 3.
Thanks for reading and for the advice. I've tried to disconnect but not fully, I've still been talking to recruiters, reading job postings, etc. I just did a remote coding interview, and it went pretty awful but it felt like a sense of relief to do it because I had been dreading it for a while and was super nervous leading up to it. Now that it's done, I feel like I can relax a bit and also accept that things can go poorly and it doesn't have to be devastating.
This sounds like going back to AI of the 80s. IMHO, symbolic reasoning is unlikely to lead to progress.
> You can avoid instruction-level attacks by putting untrusted code on an isolated core with an isolated memory module, right?

No, unfortunately. Side channels will work even across numa domains, and cores with own memory.

Side channel free hardware is extremely hard to do even in simplest ISAs specially made for that. Look at how credit card industry keeps struggling making safe smartcards.
> As a result, two parties can simultaneously claim ownership of the one stock.

interesting, a very special case of double-spending attack, but on a security? was this kind of thing much more commonplace before electronic trading systems came about
Duolingo functions on the premise that "being conversational" means "cobbling together words shakily into passable sentences". I find that people in general have a low bar for "being fluent" and "being conversational".

Have you ever tracked a conversation you've had with your friends? A conversation can broach many different topics, and can go deep into those topics. Are you "conversational" if you can only say a few sentences and are completely out of your depth once the conversation switches to any other topic like politics, etc? No. Conversations can also last hours.

Doing things like duolingo will never have you reach fluency or even being fully conversational. It may be a good start, but it should always be complemented by studying with textbooks or online resources like instructors on youtube. Anki (or memrise) is necessary to start memorizing heaps of vocabulary words so you can begin to have simple conversations. Glossika is good for making yourself practice saying sentences and listening to sentences.

Native material is by far the most important aspect. That's how you find vocabulary and practice things like listening and shadowing along.
I only skimmed through and the combined breadth + intent of your projects seems very, very interesting — I mean it speaks to me. So, way to go! Mad props, please keep it up!

If you ask me, this is the shape of things to come.
That's a really loaded question.

There's not much new in terms of what a podcast is. At it's core, it's been traditionally radio format with modifications for video. And as a medium, radio/talk-show formats haven't shifted dramatically since I started doing production 14 years ago. Popularity and delivery medium have shifted more than anything.

The direction an individual podcast takes is really where it's potential and limitations can be found. A podcast with a live/video component and a post-production edited side, will vary greatly vs a product review 1-man-band type of show format.

My biggest concern is always saturation, and the ability to curate quality content to keep the most relevant and quality content in a visible spectrum. YouTube has become pretty muddy. My suggestions keep me in a loop of the same content, and the only way I discover something new is if it's recommended to me, or it goes ultra-viral.

Also the ability to sustain itself. YouTube had a large ad model backing it. People made a lot of money from their efforts. But then as it became more saturated, that translation to income has become more watered down. I see more and more concerns with how to get paid a living wage. Podcast have been a far more direct interaction with sponsors.

We pitched podcast content for TV show productions for years, and someone high up always shot it down. The ad revenue wasn't viable. It wasn't until Serial became crazy popular and break all the records that our bosses started to come around.
I'm guilty of this at 14; this was the only way I could get away with late night BBSing since the fan was loud and other folks would be disrupted into halting my modem joy. Only when our EE neighbor saw my rig and sternly told me not to do that did I realize it meant anything at all. sheesh
C++ Modules Conformance Improvements with MSVC in Visual Studio 2019 16.5
Yup, for an enterprise-internal CRM. Worked really well; flexible, and did NOT require me to do much or really any amount of FE tweaking (all the UI is composed with a GUI).

Very sad to see it go.

And FWIW, not planning to go with any other no-code solution; and definitely not with anything hosted by Google unless the provide a no-code migration tool ;)
You should review the Inclusion Criteria for the Magic Quadrant in which you are interested in participating. That criteria sets the bar for participation.

There are no specific "steps" to be part of a Cool Vendors document. Something you should consider doing though is conducting a "vendor briefing" with the analysts who may be interested in your offering so that they are aware of your company, etc.
It'll end up being specific to the species of bacteria causing the patient's infection, which means they'll first have to isolate the source of infection. Sometimes this will be an easy task, sometimes not. I suspect over the long term treatments that go to market will combine several (or many) natural or engineered phages into a single delivery protocol and those that don't find their natural targets will die out harmlessly.

This is a super interesting area of research that I think will ultimately complement treatments like biota transplants for chronic diseases and antibiotics for acute disease. As a therapeutic approach (at least in the US) its still young though, so I wouldn't expect to see dramatic changes for years yet.
Justin Frankel is another name that could go on that list.
I feel like I am missing something here, a mile of road in a rural area costs $1,500,000 to reconstruct? How do small towns afford to maintain their roads?? Perhaps there are many costs that don't inflate as the number of miles increases, like the equipment needed to break down and repave the roads?
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Thought for the day: spreadsheets have done more computing related to how business (and government and non-profits and schools) run, than any other programming language, including heavy lifters like COBOL or Java. Can I back that up with data? Of course not. But, having worked as a contractor in manufacturing (three different industries), university, advertising, magazine, real estate, gene sequencing, finance, and edutech, I have little doubt.

My preferred tool is python, I use javascript and/or SQL when I need to, I have dabbled in R, I have programmed in legacy applications on mainframes. Spreadsheets are more widely used than any of these, for doing computing that impacts how organizations actually run.
I think the parent comment was referring to hard-line internet, i.e. fiber and coax ("cable").
Realistically, I'm excited to pay even less attention to page weight. Shipping 10 megs of garbage javascript, even to mobile browsers? Bring it on!
Slides are here btw: https://media.nips.cc/Conferences/2013/nips-dec2013-pearl-ba...
I remember the bad old days of only 10-20 years ago when it wasn't unheard of to send a document to the printer, then walk over to discover a zillion pages of plain text starting with %!PS-Adobe-3.0.
Looks like the legs are just for show [1], but I bet you could kitbash something

[1]http://inmoov.fr/legs-non-motorized/
Lest the Apple fanbois be overly offended, I'm critizing Google here as well, and every other manufacturer that sells must-disposable tech.

Google and Apple are better in that the software has a better life cycle, but they are also worse because they have lead the way towards disposable hardware.
Yes sure, it can always be attached somehow. But even if used everywhere it has it's limits and ambiguities, e.g. when dealing with .jpg vs. .jpeg, .yml vs. .yaml and so on... It gets even more interesting when Editors create a temporary file by adding a prefix or suffix, or git/a package manager creates an additional file for conflict resolution.
Given that you only replace them every few years at most, it seems reasonable to make the operation a little bit more work-intensive to gain on other aspects.

In the end it's still nothing very challenging to replace an iPhone or iPad battery.
They made some impressive technical achievements, but their overall platform and infrastructure was awful. For example, no unified friend system, different online services for different consoles, no SSO for games.

I think for casual play like Mario Kart, Pokemon, etc, it worked fine. It absolutely hamstrung more complicated efforts like Smash, Metroid, and third parties were forced to all heavily build out their own infra or not build the feature at all.

These were problems that plagued much more powerful systems (Wii, 3DS - until very late in the lifespan of the console, Wii U, and even the Switch)
Hah, as 5GB large XML files... still, glad that it's there!
Duck Tape is the brand name of the original product. "Duct tape" is the generic name that the industry settled on.

("Duck" refers to the water-resistant nature of the tape. Duct doesn't actually mean anything other than sounding like "duck". Ironically, duct tape is the wrong type of tape to use on heating ducts.)

If you're going to be pedantic, then get it right. ;-)
Reports of Coronavirus Outbreak Hit Every Inhabited Continent
Haha, you wanted free antivirus?
I'm guessing they did a whois on the domains linked to the attack.
But the same is absolutely true for VC. They're not looking for 2x returns, they're looking for 10x returns.

And VC-funded startups are the right comparison to make here. Are they any less ruthless about pulling the plug on something that can't show any probable path to required growth?

(I think it goes without saying that neither Google nor VC's are trying to fund lifestyle businesses, the way a mom-and-pop bootstrapped startup might be.)
I would be very interested to see the breakdown of raw materials, equipment, labor, and various fees.
Podcasts are maturing and is starting to be seen as a serious alternative for advertisers, and thus becoming a real source of income for professional podcasters.

Companies like Acast[0] and Midroll have tech to dynamically insert targeted ads right into the audio stream while playing. So two people listening to the same podcast will get different ads.

[0] https://acast.com
Don't take this the wrong way, but I think you're overthinking this.

I personally read it this morning and honestly it didn't register to me in the way you're describing at all. I did not use the title as a sexist joke as you're saying, nor did I think that his wife is "dumb" because she thought that something is wrong with OpenOffice. The joke (if there's one) is that there's a twist, which is that programmers expect the worst description from non-technical users when explaining bugs, and "something doesn't work on Tuesdays" sounds a little absurd at first (like most interesting bugs). But even if it had occurred to me, omitting it just for the sake of not having the potential negative connotation is even worse imho.

I haven't seen a single comment in this entire thread that addresses the issue as you're suggesting, not even hinting at it. Just because you thought that it could possibly have that implication doesn't mean that it actually does.
Well I'll tell you what, you had me a little concerned when you launched. We're working on similar challenges over at Smartsheet. Please reach out if you're interested in staying in this space!
I believe Google Voice got a shot in the arm because of the Google phone plans (Google Fi) merging some infrastructure behind the scenes.

At this point, it's probably safe to assume that Fi and GV will die together ...
Based on Google's TPUs, and Microsoft's Brainwave.
Quantum Entanglement Meets Superconductivity in Novel Experiment
Such is the nature of language learning. It's not really sexy or fun to study vocab or shadow along to something you're watching for the 10th time. I see language learning exactly the same as working out- it's just a lot of consistent hard work over years. ;-)
I would concur (I've been around it a similar amount of time, building my first GPU rigs around that time). I would say it was once a bit better, but maybe that's just rose-tinted nostalgia. ("the good ole days")
Glad I'm not the only one. I was a Java dev for many years and also used it for private projects. When they started shipping unwanted malware together with Java was when I decided to remove Java from my toolset.
Most people don't even know how to run an experiment to verify causation. They chant the mantra: "correlation does not equal causation" then go back to correlating everything they see in the world.
I like TV because it tells me what to watch. I don’t have to choose. I think other people derive a lot of value from this as well. I don’t have TV but I’m at a hotel right now and watching TV while drinking beer (and typing this I guess) is pretty damn nice. It’s possible that feeling would wear off if I had it around regularly, though.

But I bet TV will still be a major thing, say, 30 years in the future. Right now 75% of households in the US pay for TV, so I think your comment is a little overblown.
I think the article does a fair work in answering this question - Optic fiber will not get the $ into the pockets of oem's or carriers. And it's already there in several metros(even in India)
They generally patch the worst spots rather than reconstruct, and accept generally lower quality.
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> We likely can't get glasses with the necessary processor down to the right form factor

That's silly. We're already pretty close, and if they really had to offload some things then the powerful computer that's a couple feet away in your pocket would make much more sense. Plus, as I said we already stream HD video on 4G networks without much trouble.
How to build your company's engineering brand
Discussed in 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17765034

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13186225

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9761355

2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=777580
We use this at work and love it. Great easy to use framework and easy to build on top of
Coverage holes are the real problem in American wireless.

It's awful in rural areas, and often still pretty bad around big cities.

When carriers claim they have coverage of 300 M pops, I wonder if it is more like 220 M pops. All the time I go to places that the carrier maps say have coverage and there is no signal.

Efforts to parcel out money to improve rural cell service fell through because there are no useful coverage maps.
> How many shows does NBC have each year?

People don't pay $12.99 for NBC each month.
Tiny little static site on S3 via Cloudflare for SSL: https://ajford.us

If you trust Cloudflare, it's a pretty easy way to handle SSL, though it doesn't give you the same level of control over your SSL cert without a paying tier.
Does anyone else find that the simple act of writing notes helps them remember and process better? I spent forever trying to find an ideal note-taking solution, but now I just write things in a single notebook. I rarely review my notes, but I find that simply writing thoughts down consistently has improved my memory and understanding of new concepts.
1 for 1 so far on my 2020 decade predictions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21943830
I do agree, this is one of the many improvementents/experimentation the project needs. Actually, the Minitaur example come with a torque controller implementation (https://github.com/bulletphysics/bullet3/blob/master/example...), needs tests. btw I'm going to use a Jetson mini as controller!! :)
Human Terrain: Population in 3-D
I've always felt a bit sad that my earliest forays into the web on Demon and CIX aren't fully captured here. You are all lucky whipper-snappers who have their youthful exuberance archived for when you're old and boring.
You should identify a target list of analysts who cover your domain and brief them on your offering. You are never too early IMO.

We typically do not produce Magic Quadrants for small, niche oriented sectors. We will use another document type called a Market Guide for such markets. Market Guides do not rank vendors like a Magic Quadrant.
"Chilling" is a bit of an overstatement, no? Maybe if we were talking about ATC systems or medical device firmware, etc., it would be more fitting.
In German speaking countries that kind of job hoping isn't well seen, at all.

Anyone switching after an year means they barely made it after the six months probation time, so many employers will think twice about hiring them, unless they are in pressure to hire someone.
I'm not sure about doing that with physical robots, but I've seen a couple interesting iterations using simulated robots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn4nRCC9TwQ
Part of the "ponzi scheme" that Strong Towns likes to talk about is that a lot of the funding comes from state and federal levels. Because the locality no longer is completely tied to the cost of actually building the road, the incentive to cut costs is removed and roads funding is something that local politicians "win" to bring back to their area and show that they've done a good job.
But you'd lose money on the second chain? Assuming >50% are honest. If <50% are honest the second chain is probably not worth anything anyway
There was one more person I remember. Jim Kent. He worked on the human genome project. President Bill Clinton compared that to man landing on the moon.
There is a certain weirdness that still can't be captured in a static archive, including sites that had dynamic server based content. But also the overall feeling of the internet back then. For example, pre-web I recall being able to telnet to a CD store and do a search, then place an order. The telnet interface acted a lot like a BBS.

Then there is the shared cultural knowledge at the time, such as Adam Curry (I think?) who on his own created MTV.com. Then later got sued and had to had the domain over when they realized there was value to it. On top of that, there was one of the first spoof pages I recall, "Madam Furry", which poked fun at Adam Curry's page. (Hopefully I'm remembering all these names correctly).

And lets not forget about Gopher, with Veronica and Archie, along with something else called WAIS (Wide Area Information Services), which always seem very slow and barely workable.

Oh, and how did we figure out the who/what/where? The Internet Yellow Pages, of course. Thick book that had everything categorized. I've still got mine around, brought it into work to put in the commons area book shelf.
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