skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pandora bought them (I think?) and never really took advantage of their design focus.

I miss Rdio everyday still. I'm nostalgic for it the same way I was for Palm's WebOS. Looked great but felt it never got enough eyes.

Nowaways I'm on Apple Music. Little clunky, but at least the apps are native and not webviews. I expect Apple to improve it over the next 2-3 years though, they've made Photos apps pretty compelling over the years. I don't want to pay for any service that releases a "Mac App" that's just a website with MacOS chrome.
Piero Manzoni's "Mierda de Artista" (literally canned shit) was his way of protesting against the commercial art establishment. They laughed all the way to the bank by selling it for its weight in gold.
Yes, the “person from Porlock” who knocked on his door to sell him insurance. That’s the most enduring thing about that poem, as it’s so relatable. Those people from Porlock are everywhere.
That's one way to look at it. All businesses come down to balancing income with expenses indeed. All i'm saying is that 30% cut on the income by apple makes it harder , and sometimes impossible , for some business model to survive.
Data protection principles, which date from about 1995 and have been recently boosted by GDPR, make it quite clear what the problem is:

- is the data personal? Well, the point of running facial recognition is to identify the person, so yes.

- does the organisation processing the data have consent of the person? No.

- is there one of the other justifiable or necessary reasons valid for processing the data? No.

So it's a data protection infringement.
How I Created QuanticDev.com Using GitHub Pages
That is a clever approach to track files. Thanks for info.
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_from_Porlock
I added recently a bit more of detail in the document explaining when I would use redis (and when I wouldn't) to build production systems, here: https://github.com/fpereiro/backendlore#redis . For most applications, I think it's a viable alternative.

Modeling data with redis is great fun, and quite different to the relational paradigm. I hope you enjoy a lot your upcoming project!
Yes, the cloud premium is also a kind of insurance - you know you'll probably be able to double your capacity anytime you need it.
Other good clojure add on for ideaj is rainbow brackets!

And clojure pretty symbols.
Why Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale ‘wants to know who you are’
I have recently published quanticdev.com using only GitHub Pages and markdown and decided to create a guide to preserve this knowledge in the form of a video/article so I can reuse it in my future projects. GitHub Pages is a free and a pretty good hosting service. It is an add-on for regular GitHub repositories, and you can host your website as well as code and other things in one repo, which is pretty good. I must warn that GitHub Pages is intended for techies. If you want something much simpler, go with Google Sites, or Blogger.com, or WordPress. In the first part of this video/article, I will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of GitHub Pages. In the second part, I will deploy a brand-new website using GitHub Pages and simple markdown. Everything will be done through GitHub's UI and online code editor. I will also demonstrate a sample React website hosted on GitHub Pages.

* Video Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPhmR3TiGq8

* Article: https://quanticdev.com/articles/website-with-github-pages (same as above)

Outline of this video/article:

* QuanticDev.com Intro
* Why GitHub Pages
* Advantages
* Disadvantages
* Alternatives
* GitHub Pages Setup & How I Created quanticdev.com
* My Recommendations
* Conclusion

Free website hosting resources:

* GitHub Pages (for techies): https://pages.github.com

* Supports Jekyll: https://jekyllrb.com
* Supports Static HTML + CSS + JavaScript
* Supports React and others: https://create-react-app.dev/docs/deployment/#github-pages

* Google Sites (non-techies): https://sites.google.com

* Alternatives for Bloggers

* Blogger (basic): https://blogger.com
* WordPress (more advanced): https://wordpress.com

* Alternatives for Programmers

* Heroku: https://www.heroku.com
* Firebase: https://firebase.google.com
Ask HN: What’s the best book you’ve read that nobody talks about?
Avast pulls plug on Jumpshot after data privacy scandal
>> This gives you and RDP session with no software install needed. The use case of guacamole is accessing a system from anywhere without needing your ssh keys, RDP, or VNC software. If you're happy doing any of those directly, adding a middle man doesn't add any value.

The point is that I'm not happy to do this directly, for various reasons. I don't want to open up any ports that get forwarded to my LAN for remote desktop, and I want to be able to access LAN clients from machines behind a proxy that just blocks anything but http/https traffic. That's why I looked into Guacamole.

Maybe RDP connections work better with guacamole, compared to VNC, but I don't have any windows machines I want to remote into, so that's of no value to me.
If you include sensible search term variations like "corona virus" or "coronavirus", both terms proposed in the article vanish in insignificance: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%201-m&ge... The combination "corona beer virus" doesn't even have enough data to show a breakdown. Some people think that the earth is flat, that doesn't make it a good news story.
> Psychedelics aren't for escaping reality. They're for facing it.

Not always. Are people really facing reality when they take ayahuasca and come back claiming that the drug opened a portal to another dimension where they talked with beings there? The shaman providing the drug often encourages this interpretation of the experience, and if anyone suggests that the drug merely scrambles one's neuroreceptors for a time, users can respond very angrily.
finland doesn't exist
I have a relative that works for SF Govt. You know things are bad when even some of the bluest liberal brains this side of Stalin are fed up with how "progressive" SF is.
Challenges in Brain-Computer Interface for Neuralink to Work
Story from VTDigger: https://vtdigger.org/2020/01/27/health-records-firm-agrees-t...

Spoiler alert: "Pharma Co. X" is Purdue. Shocking! /s
Glasswall outage: Postmortem: Production gets some new IPs
Or that person is taking profits, no reason they are in the negative. How do IPOs fit into your zero sum argument?
Disintegration technical beta review – shooting for something new
This reminds me of Arduino.

evil.h == arduino.h
Unless you're trading penny stocks it's not likely to go to zero. More likely to get bought out or merge with another company
New machine learning papers published a day, how to keep up?
Montaigne - Essays
> The problem is that all old car manufacturers are treating EV like the enemy, which it is to their old ways.

In what way are they treating EV like the enemy?

> Same thing happened with Kodak.

No it did not. What happened to Kodak was that its primary source of profit, film, was threatened by new technological developments. That is in no way comparable with the situation of car manufacturers.

> You spend decades, centuries even, perfecting the internal combustion engine. Your pride and joy is now obsolete. You can see why it was so hard for everyone to switch over.

It was hard to switch over because it was thought that it wasn't profitable. Now that it is apparent that it is profitable nobody has any problems switching over at least not any problems of the kind you are talking about.

> Almost all your cumulative knowledge, obsolete.

Almost all knowledge is obsolete... wtf. Are EVs not vehicles and haven't we been making vehicles for a long time?

> It is why Toyota, with their insanely successful Prius, who knew full an well how transformative the EV side is, dragged their heals until to this very day.

Because they were concentrating on hydrogen cars.

> Most of the Germans have delayed their EVs for mass market in the US from 2021 to 2022. Even Hyundai, who is the closets to Tesla in efficiency, is frought with delays. "We are X* we will have no problem making an EV" they said!

And how many delays did Tesla have?
The first employee recognition platform powered by WhatsApp
"We believe" is AMC's hedge against actually lying. Maybe they do actually believe it. Irrelevant. Any 3rd party shouldn't believe it, certainly without any evidence.

2.4 visits isn't evidence. I believe the number, but it is meaningless on its own. How many of those tickets are for sold out shows? What pct are utilizing free upgrades (IMAX, Dolby, etc)? How much did these individuals spend prior to membership? What's the average concession spend vs non-members? What are the admin and advertising costs?
I stand corrected, you're right! I hadn't heard about OpenResty.

It's amazing that this exists, I would have never thought it possible (because of what I saw as inherent limits in what can be expressed in terms of nginx configuration), but now that I see it, of course it is :). From what I gather, custom code can be written as Lua scripts, and many of the modules are written in Lua themselves.

Thank you for sharing this!
Yep, you can now get 4700 fibers or so in a 2in conduit. Current tech can do over 35Tbps per fiber pair, up to 800Gbps per wavelength.
> Need any more proof?
:) yup, a lot more.

I'll address your points individually:

1. > Didn't your grandparents kept all photos in one place?

Perhaps, but not sure how this trickles up to societal/economic centralization.

2. > Didn't your parents send you to same school as all other kids in your street?

Nope, but again, this would be an instance of societal imposition of structure, or more often due to necessity. If you live in a remote village it's hard to attend a school other than the closest.

3. > Didn't you went to same dancing places like your friends when you started sniffing for girls (I'm assuming you're male, reverse the gender otherwise)?

I did, but these places were quite dispersed in space :D. In total we had probably a dozen or so over the years (I come from a big city though, might be different in towns).

4. > Don't you keep your tools in same box(es)?

Yes, but again this is an instance of tidiness in daily life, not of societal centralization.

To sum up, I think that it can be said that our species prefers order of some kind to pure chaos - this I agree with.

I also agree that there are social network effects that cause clustering/centralization of some sort to emerge.

I however don't agree that the extreme centralization that we see in the tech/internet space is inevitable or desirable. I also don't see how the natural forces we discussed can lead to such extreme centralization.
FB for example built its monopoly by often acquiring/copying its competition. If this had been prevented I think people would have gladly used a broader range of social networks.
Sounds very promising; but my guess is limited used in vivo. If it works as explained, would be wildly successful at limiting the spread of HPV if used in condoms and lubricants. In Vivo, to cure viruses like HIV, it would also need to wake up and destroy infected T-Cells that make up a person’s viral reservoir. Without that, the infection persists. however, would be very useful for people who have to overcome multiple forms of resistance to several HAART drugs before they can become undetectable.
It struck me as funny that you introduced the Iron Maiden. Is there anyone who doesn't know them? Or are they mainly famous in my neck of the woods?
They just announced "killing" of Jumpshot:

https://blog.avast.com/a-message-from-ceo-ondrej-vlcek

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/avast-cuts-data-access-to-ju...

"For these reasons, I – together with our board of directors – have decided to terminate the Jumpshot data collection and wind down Jumpshot’s operations, with immediate effect." Ondrej Vlcek, CEO.

A lot of staff will be laid off, but I think this was the only good choice.
I was curious also, so I googled “beneficial virus examples” and this was the top result.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/05/friendly-viruses-pro...

> Bacteria can be friends and foes—causing infection and disease, but also helping us slim down and even combating acne. Now, a new study reveals that viruses have a dual nature as well. For the first time, researchers have shown that they can help our bodies fight off invading microbes.
> Its a free service

They have a free product, but not everything they offer is free.

- https://www.avast.com/en-us/store

There are ways to provide a slimmed down version for people to use and try and that way they can advertise their other products inside their software where you can pay to use them.

They simply chose to do this. Regardless if it's paid or not, this was a business decision.
Speculating assumes it's not valid information. Not having a reference on hand, having a valid reputable reference, and having and invalid reference are not one in the same so not sure what's being implied.

Anyways, I googled it for you:
https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...
I'm not against your point of view to be honest. It's a perfectly rational and pragmatic to act this way.

I'm not also advocating that "complete, complex automation" is the definitive answer to this problem. On the contrary, I advocate "incremental automation" which, solves a single problem in a single step. If well documented, it works much better and reliably in the long run & can be maintained with ease.

Quoting John Gall:

> A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work.
Definitely. In case you are not in China: would you expect your government to stop everything for a handful of cases?
I'm not on macOS, so I can't try it right now, but I've bookmarked this and will keep an eye on it. Basically the report/output view of Iodide/Jupyter without the "editor" view? I was really hoping something like this would come along.
I've heard of them, but never actually heard their music.
We reached the point where NOT being hosted on AWS is a competitive advantage :)
It's about exposure to risk. Imagine you have a giant bowl of M&Ms and you ate one every day. Now say that one of them is laced with cyanide, maybe not enough to kill you, just enough to make you sick for a couple of weeks. It's a really big bowl, though - there are millions of M&Ms in there so you're probably fine to eat them. Now say 2, or 5, or 10 of the M&Ms are laced. How many M&Ms would you accept before you decided to get your M&Ms elsewhere?

Agreed that generally once you've built and tested your code with a given compiler, I seem to be as reliable with C++ as I am with other languages. But if I can remove a whole class of reasons for me to have a really bad week, that seems like a winning move.
I built a keyboard shortcut library for React not too long ago. There are a couple of issues you might run into.

There is a real chance that you don't define your keyboard shortcuts all in one place. There could be many components that have their own shortcuts. Some might override each other (Press "E" to toggle flashlight on/off or while riding a boat, "E" disengages). Since that's the case, you need a way to turn off or unregister the shortcut.

There is also the chance the shortcut is not being activated all the time. Having experimented with a method like in this library, I can tell you that unless you are focused on a root or parent element to the component, it's not going to fire.

Third, I'm not seeing any tests. Are you instructing people to install this library and it's not tested?

I opted to write my own that defines a single global event listener and can register/unregister shortcuts on the fly. No dependencies and tested[0]

[0] https://github.com/UnicornHeartClub/react-keybind
Yes.

Evolutionarily, the adaptive immune system itself is the result of viral integration.

Though not a commensal relationship, priming the immune system for healthy function, principally for stopping cancer, see high incidence of leukaemia in children not exposed to pathogens (this might be pathogens more generally, it been a while since I took immunology but the immune system, treats cancer much more like viruses than it does bacteria (n.b. broad overgeneralisation)).

See also the use of phage to attack bacterial infections.
Oh man, tights and long hair, I had forgotten about that. Weird how, say, Black Sabbath had a completely different fashion aesthetic even though they were playing similar music at around the same time.
Show HN: Don't use this runtime type checker, use TypeScript
What problem does the body have with breaking down artificial sweeteners?
What to do when you don’t trust your data anymore
Techniques/Tips for Speed-Reading
No thank you qwertygerty, for the lovely digression ;)

I've always felt that you can't be liberated from your attachments, if you don't fully realize what it means to be enslaved by them in the first place

I've always thought the subject of Renunciation in Hindu Philosophy would make the subject of a terrific screenplay

There's a film you may enjoy, one of my favorites actually, The Razor's Edge (1947), written by Somerset Maugham

Young American, born at the right place and the right time, who instead of contributing to the booming growth that would place his nation at the forefront of nations, chooses to chuck it all and "idle" for awhile

Here's the scene he arrives at an Ashram in the Himalayas after a chance suggestion from a stranger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDGwAoLhJE4
Oh huh, thanks. Fear of the Dark was pretty widely played, but maybe not so much nowadays.

Here's one of my favorite bands live, Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio on vocals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ4aCUlijfw
In retrospect doesn't seem like a very big surprise that they would resort to something like this as Practice Fusion was initially launched as free for a long time, and costed only $99 per month later.

One should be increasingly wary of using free software for crucial applications and sensitive data. Being HIPAA compliant isn't enough.

There's a regulatory body called POC3 (https://www.poc3.org) for communication device (and software) providers who make money from pharmaceutical ads to lay down ethical guidelines. Hopefully a body like this should be formed for partnerships between pharmaceutical companies and EHR (& similar) software products too.
Our game is cursed. Here is why we think so. It's on Steam against all odds
// Original macro hack by Robert Elder (c) 2016

Described also back in 2000 on https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html
Native vs. Cross-Platform Development
q - Text as Data

q is a command line tool that allows direct execution of SQL-like queries on CSVs/TSVs (and any other tabular text files).

q treats ordinary files as database tables, and supports all SQL constructs, such as WHERE, GROUP BY, JOINs etc. It supports automatic column name and column type detection, and provides full support for multiple encodings.

http://harelba.github.io/q/
That story makes me want to become a goat farmer every time I read it, but, Dropbox must have intended that usage if they had a publicly available API, right?
>education has been in decline for a long time.

Is this supposed to be a joke? The information exists but you didn't try to find it.
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Yep, I totally understand the value of it. I just don't recommend it for individual 'homelab' type use cases unless you really need to log in without any client.

I wanted to try all the options because there are many claims out there that they are somehow faster than VNC or other solutions due to clever protocols or compression, however I found that this wasn't really true.
Title is misleading, it’s still a desktop app but will probably use electron (so “technically” a web app, I suppose) but title implies a fundamental change in functionality/usability on Mac which is not happening.
Sure you can animate, that is what WebGL and SVG allow for.

Ah, like breaking Android UIs when dealing with fragment management or misplaced constraints on ConstraintLayout, usually only solvable after one finds the golden post on medium?
That electric cars, scooters, are good for the climate. And especially, do not criticize Tesla, although the carbon footprint of their cars is unknown to everybody.
Short identifiers, long lines, combining on one line. Seems to be oriented toward minimizing lines of code, or conversely maximizing code visible at a fixed vertical screen/window size. Is there a reason this is particularly useful or important for this kind of code, or is it more idiosyncratic than that?
The e-sign on the actual document has the date/time and other PII. If it is on the document, it was signed by you.
This is true. But most of us are not fully aware of the vulnerabilities in our own mental state. Nearly everyone is walking through life with some issue, hurt, scar, and many have trauma that is not fully understood.

In that context, certain things that may seem benign to try can easily progress into a stronger habit, then a dependency and pave the way to a real addiction.
Sure, but: "Florey had not patented penicillin, having been advised [...] that doing so would be unethical"[0].

Anyone else immediately thought: "OK, but they patented it, and the spin off company will presumably licence the tech for exorbitant sums, should it ever reach that phase of course, so it'll just be another expensive 1st world thing. No money? Bite the dust."?

And yeah, I know, patents encourage inventions and promote discoveries, we're all the better for their existence, they are literally the best thing since, well, invention of sliced bread.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillin#Mass_production
Elastic Beanstalk with Docker has worked well for me.

If you docker'ize the app you can really run it anywhere.
Windows (and some other OSs) have/had an "archive bit" ¹. It used to be visible in the file properties, next to the read-only and hidden attributes, and was labelled "Archive" ²

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive_bit

² https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/figs/sam2_0801....
It's a blog page on holistics.io so it is paid-for PR content. Or a blogvert.
Compendium aside... If you're a bootstrapper or interested in starting your own bootstrapped business... You should read this. It's insightful. It's scientific. It's valuable advice.
I haven't looked closely at either, but the spirit of this effort reminds me of Cello, recently discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22102533
> Instead, NoSQL systems like HBase, Cassandra, and MongoDB became fashionable as they marketed themselves as being scalable and easier to use

HBase did not - the project has always been very clear that they cater towards a very specific set of use cases - fast writes with little schema constraints, fast single-key and range/fuzzy lookups, not big ETL pipelines.

Even during the rise of Hadoop (everything is a file... I mean file based!) and the subsequent absorption of that into the Public Cloud vendors, SQL has always been there, just wrapped in different tools. These days, someone else hosts it and it's now called Athena instead of Hive, but fundamentally the same thing and has been the same thing.

Even Apache Sparks entire Dataset/Datframe interface yields SQL-like execution plans, exposing the same functions that an RDMBS would, just in Scala/Python/R.
This is a solved problem via service workers. They can cache all the app's content and you can choose to cache whatever you like including api responses from any service. They could also be configured to serve cache first and replace the content in background. At this point if the app is slow to start, it's 100% on devs/architecture. The only problem is if you exceed the quota for cache, which is varied by browser/platform, you risk the browser just nuking all your cache/localstorage/indexeddb.