skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 4) They randomly decided one day to stop paying me royalties "because PayPal takes too much commission" or something.

Wow wouldn't that be illegal?
It's pretty straightforward to trace our evolution back to single cells, but to rocks? And I don't think there is a clear idea of where viruses and stuff come in. I vaguely remember an article suggesting there might be a previously unknown mechanism used by the brain to handle memories that resembles (literal) viral machinery. Some think there might have been a biosphere before DNA, that used RNA. But presumably early life underwent transformations that wiped out the very first, whatever it was.
These are Internet hosts.

You don’t run dhcp and update your dns from a client supplied unauthenticated field unless you’ve got no idea what you’re doing.
Nah. I feel a lot like you, and can't wait for the day optimizations matter again. But realistically, fat chance. It's easier and cheaper to hire 50 code monkeys to throw crap at the wall and make something surprisingly functional than it is to hire a few who know how to wrangle bits NES style. And even as processors max out, it's still cheaper to just throw more CPUs at the problem. There will always be niche markets that demand real understanding and skills, but the general 'coder' market is lost for good.
Most marine lithium batteries are LiFePO, not lithium ion. They're far more stable and safe to have on a boat. Compared to lead acid, they have better charge efficiency, deeper cycles, longer lifespans, higher energy density and specific capacity. Furthermore, I've never found lead acid batteries that come close to 1/10th the price...1/4 is more like it.
No, I'm not mistaken about precision because I never brought it up. It's a strawman solely of your own construction. (I, instead, suggested a much less precise rule, prohibiting all replies/discussion.)

You're implying that the rule here is written like the guidelines, but it isn't.

The guidelines provide some kind of explanation, reasoning, or purpose adjacent to a rule.

The "try explain better, on a case by case basis" doesn't actually succeed, only the same reason, in, perhaps, a different word order.

Surely you don't need that kind of repetition of explanation of purpose for the guidelines, since it's already there to be read. Why such resistance to doing that here, too?
Nowadays they're actually one of the world's largest registrars via their subsidiaries.
Anything like this that works on windows as well?
The site appears to be down now.
This is a true solo developer:

http://pketh.org/archives/

It looks like this thread is turning into general blog recommendations. I like these, and they haven't been listed:

https://macwright.org/

https://tonsky.me/

https://nadiaeghbal.com/posts/
Haskell’s killer app is maintainability
I believe it goes further than this. WHO and China are both trying to downplay the severity of the pandemic because they know if they publish more accurate estimates, it will cause mass panic. Panic is not helpful in any situation, and leads to an unstable society, hoarding, and destructive behaviors.
No one said you had to replace the entire fleet in 5 years.

I said how about a plan to do something within the next 5 years rather than a “plan” to do everything in 20 years.

Starting with buses should be doable because it has already been done on a large scale in China.

But any forward progress would be nice.
Thank you for the clarifications!

Is there a "list" of to-do's for helping nCoV-2019 researchers?

Many of us cannot follow the biochemistry but we can code/run bioinformatics pipelines faster.
Did you buy one? :-)
Manufacturing plant fire threatens worldwide vinyl record supply
Ah, it's sort of a running joke. Like "the fall doesn't kill you — it's the landing."

Our resume support is hit or miss, to be completely fair. I don't even try to use it myself due to bad experiences in the early days with Linux in 2000's and lack of need. Shutdown and startup is fast enough for my travel laptop that I don't care; and my workstation I never turn off. But I recognize a lot of people do really care about suspend/resume, and it works for some people but not everyone.
It's not only about kids. I usually watch videos regarding CNC stuff on youtube as I'm involved in CNC machining and I often find myself impulsively buying nifty things featured in those videos, although I understand they won't be of much use to me.
The cookbooks and recipe formats that we have were never designed for someone in your situation. And if you have a background in a field with standardized parts and repeatable results, the kinds of instructions cookbooks give can be maddening. Totally understandable.

One book that helped me was Vegetarian Cooking For Everyone. You may not want to cook vegetarian, but many vegetarians are young people who are also building their own cooking styles from scratch. So VCfE goes through the basics - like what is cubing and what is dicing - with illustrations. While it has complex recipes, it also includes almost absurdly simple ones, like preparing beans with olive oil and salt. But think of them like "kata"; basic exercises, that you can build up to more complex forms.

A recent book which I've recently found extremely useful is Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. It is a wonderfully readable introduction to the elements of cooking and how they combine, and it is great for complete newbies as well as experienced home cooks. It manages to be both accessible, practical and a little bit technical, perfect for the techie who wants to get better at cooking. It taught me things simple dishes like roasted chicken, which I had prepared like a hundred times before I read it, which have changed how I cook forever.
A great talk behind the redesign which achieved this can be found here:

BayPIGgies at LinkedIn June 2017: "Techniques for Design Reviews" by Raymond Hettinger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNqJDRsefg8

There's a lengthy lead in, but its worth listening to.
> We're at 2^15 and doubling every 5 days. If that keeps up for a month we'll be at 1M infected and 16K dead. From there it's another 50 days to 1B infected and 1-2M dead.

You may be a programmer, but certainly not a virologist. That’s not how that works.
Join ByteDance?
> On the other hand, I regularly get phone (sometimes email) support that seems to have similar flaws and I know (I think I know) it's humans.

Conversational bots for support are increasingly common, and the voices are getting better, and even outside of actual conversational bots humans following flowcharts that essentially render them into conversational bots have been a thing for quite a long time.
Well, it's one of the causes
Initially, they developed a specialty in that type of case. You can't expect to walk into an average court that's unfamiliar with patent law and leave happy.

Over time, they were bribed with public amenities by large companies. You know, the usual.

Now some litigants are moving elsewhere to avoid the above.
> However, what's perhaps more useful is that the Navy continues to offer a telephone time service (202-762-1401) while NIST does not.

https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/radio-s...

(303) 499-7111 - WWV (Colorado)

(808) 335-4363 - WWVH (Hawaii)
If someone can change your IP addresses on you, I have news for you: you’re not on the Internet but on someone else’s network who is on the Internet. I got my addresses from ARIN so my host numbers only ever changed when I thought it was convenient.

But whatever. You’re still wrong: Rsync is instant. DNS requires waiting for caches or an admin task to bounce the nameservers.
If that doesn't work, try telling them that star wars is just Dune dumbed down to a level that children can understand and enjoy. That'll get them riled up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J4LYVs5Gg4
This is actually a fitting description.

It’s effectively a distributed denial of service attack (DDOS) on the medical system.

There are a lot of old people in Wuhan and the province, that those that gets a heart attack or an old age ailment, where they normally would have been saved, will now die. This is a terribly tragic secondary effect.
I run Mint (now 19.3) on a T420 Thinkpad, and suspend/Resume has always just worked as expected.

I don't recall having to jump through hoops when I originally setup the machine about 3 years ago.
For reverse engineering, Rolf rolles.
Updates since 2004? It's like they took an old snapshot of BSD userspace and some of the syscall interface, except somewhat broken (see the long saga of broken select/kqueue in OSX). Fundamentally Darwin is a completely different beast based on Mach. It's radically different from the core BSD kernel. Most of their userspace is built on Objective-C, which has 0 overlap with BSDs.

It's cool that the Mac community used some BSD code way back when — that's why we use a permissive license — but they've forked whatever they took; they never work to integrate their changes back upstream. To the extent that they're a BSD, they're a very very divergent fork of a historical BSD. And that's fine, for them. I don't know if that makes them a BSD or not in some ontological sense.
AFAIK, apt-get and most if not all linux package managers only work system wide, and I can't install something just for a specific user.

Not all. Nix and guix allow you to install packages into your own profile as an unprivileged user. Best of all, packages that are installed by multiple users are shared in the Nix store.
Have you worked on external monitors with this setup? The last time I've tried, it had been a pain. The monitors were detected fine, but the scaling was completely off.
Some of the unmarked buttons on those machines will mute the ads. Depends on the model.
Whenever I evaluate a technology stack for microservice architecture viability, I implement the same feature identical polyglot persistent microservice then run it through the same load test as all the others. In that way, I can compare and contrast these various technology stacks. I blog about the results here.

http://glennengstrand.info

So far, I have covered clojure on ring, scala on finatra, java on dropwizard, javascript on node, python on flask, scala on scalatra, java on spring boot, go, and typescript on apollo (graphql).
Hello from a fellow Packt author

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?? Non sequitur. Big corporations were being killed by the filings in East Texas. Only winners are the trolls and their lawyers.
the internet needs more of this :)
Related (and covered on hn before): https://blog.cloudflare.com/standing-up-to-a-dangerous-new-b...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zotaRLROtw "Many stones can form an arch, singly none, singly none". This is one the first songs I learned to perform, along with Somebody Will.
They need to do controlled trials whereby they try their best to truly and objectively measure a sample and then compare those to real ratings.

I suggest that for most things, customer ratings are completely irrelevant.

They might want to ask specific, relevant questions, such as: "Was the car/flat generally clean and tidy" "Were there any problems entering the facility" on the customer side "Did the customer generate problems with the authorities" "Did the customer disrupt your ability to drive" "Did the customer make repeated requests for out-of-bounds services even when they were informed such requests could not be fulfilled" "Did the customer party include more individuals than indicated on the reservation"

etc. etc.

Then they can glean specific bits of information and provide guidance.

Otherwise, general reviews are pointless because they're muddy, set to different standards, emotional, unspecific etc.
Doesn't each phone basically ship its own modified Android-Linux with hacked up drivers specific to the model?
Not in the current environment no. Historically impeachment has been an optics move by the opposing party, that held true here. If you can't get the legislative branch to act with unity or get a useful case through the SCOTUS then most likely the stakes aren't actually that high in the immediate present.

On a more basic level, nothing the current POTUS has done to defend himself is something that the legislative branch couldn't take off the table in time. The country isn't burning down, the economy is fine, by any metric of genuine significance this is just an extremely unpopular president (not that I would claim he's trying to be popular).

The problem with the American system is that, short of staging a coup or actually burning the country down, pivoting before problematic people leave is hard. In my opinion this has the benefit that anything that seems like good legislation from the position of the currently weaker party will still seem like good legislation when they become the strong party again.

In terms of consequences I'm more concerned about things like both parties having noticed that executive orders are an easy way to circumvent the legislative process. My hope is that after election season is over, we'll see more challenges to executive orders that will result in firmer precedents for what a POTUS can and cannot do with an executive order.
"voice commands from a remote device to remotely access and control a computer". Filed in 2007.

I imagine the IBM Simon would be an example of prior art being first demonstrated in 1992.
Ah, yeah. I’ve met Yegor. Charismatic, but has some incredibly stupid opinions.

His latest post for example explains that if you ask your boss what you should be working on next, you are a loser.

I would never call any of my employees a “loser”.

If your boss thinks of you as a loser, you should fire your boss.
Well there is: a separate system for the disabled. It's better for the average user--it speeds up the system. It's better for the disabled--the handicapped van comes directly to their house to pick them up and takes them directly to their destination.
Designer/gamedev/makes interesting tools

https://xxiivv.com/
Most isn't objectively true. The (admittedly statistically problematic) pseudo-surveys I've seen land Mac contributors at 50% or less.
> WHO and China are both trying to downplay the severity of the pandemic because they know if they publish more accurate estimates, it will cause mass panic.

Transparently dishonest minimization itself risks causing panic.
Here’s a good one: https://stevelosh.com/

And here’s mine: https://jezenthomas.com/
As I've said I stand corrected. I just could not imagine people being shocked after PHOENIX [0], COINTELPRO [1] and ECHOLON [2], but even tech savvy people were shocked as you say.

[0] US government knows no limits
[1] US government does domestic espionage
[2] US governemnt listens in on everything
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I don't know, but 25M€ for Apple are nothing. They should have charged even more, since it affected millions of devices
I’ve seen a few with the Windows BSOD but not enough info to figure out what’s otherwise going on.
Phone timer isn't allergic to DST, for the future.
Does anyone know how ddg and co. pay for that? Do they get special rates? Because the normal price for using the Search API of Google or bing seems too expensive to be viable.
Firkin hell
Brent Simmons has a good blog where he writes about the development about the RSS reader Netnewswire

https://inessential.com/

(Netnewswire itself is not a solo project though)
I think he’s living off the grid on a boat in the South Pacific. Incredibly cool dude.
By "conversational bots", you mean the sort that say "I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that" in response to most things? I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about being able to discuss a topic briefly but not focus on the right details in order to be responsive.
FWIW, you can similarly fiddle with Intel HWP / performance <-> efficiency tradeoff on FreeBSD with the `dev.hwpstate_intel.0.epp=<0-100>` sysctl/tunable knob. We expose fewer of those other knobs, though.
Zoom has this feature built-in, it's called virtual background.

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/210707503-Virtual-...
Well would you use a song about the “Chancellors of Germany” to advertise the Maccabees’ next game?
Since that other thread seems dead now...

I'm one of those people. And from my point of view it would be a terrible burden to have to have that. Because at my speed (or broadness) of thought i imagine i'd have to wind up/fast forward that voice to an incredibly shrill voice, and even then it would be insufficient by several orders of magnitude. It would be like trying to press a river trough a straw. I'm just wondering about how common/uncommon this is. After reading the other thread(s) it 'seems' like the (sub)vocalizers are the majority?
> Honest question, you don't see a danger to our system of checks and balances if the executive gets to block impeachment investigations?

No, because its pretty clear that there is no system of checks and balances curbing executive abuse except when the systematic overrepresentation designed into the Constitution fails, barring the rare and unstable condition of a partisan disalignment (which has happened only a handful of times in US history), because the systematic factional overrepresentation in the Senate and in the Electoral College are aligned (and the overrepresentation is stronger in the Senate than the Electoral College.)

There would only be a system of checks and balances for executive abuse if the decisive actor in removal were the House rather than the Senate.
I think that at least in some cases it has more to do with the LCD displays refresh rate and its response to cold temperatures. "As the liquid in the display freezes the response time slows down. In other words, it takes longer for the numbers and letters on the display to change (Turn ON or Turn OFF)."

Reference: https://focuslcds.com/journals/what-happens-to-the-lcd-in-co...
Show HN: New router in PHP – small and fast
It’s unplayable and barely functional. Do you actually like it, or you just like the idea of what it could be?

There has been a multiplayer websocket .io game renaissance ongoing since 2016. Hundreds of multiplayer websocket games have been released in that time and they’re all objectively better than this, tech stack included. People like you are acting like this never happened, and I don’t know how you could actually be unaware of it. Some multiplayer websocket games such as slither.io are a worldwide phenomenon on par with Pokémon Go in terms of popularity.

In light of all that, I’m asking why you think this is cool because it doesn’t make sense to me.
Don’t you think there is a difference when no one is aware (back in December) and the way it is now?
A bit tangential, but this reminded of an idea I had when I was learning about containerization and overlayfs. Would postgres work with data stored in an overlay and allow a similar workflow?
> I would use a decent single ear, earset style mic.

Any specific ones you'd recommend?
That’s up to the court to decide, we wouldn’t know until spending a lot of money I guess.
Please don't post to Show HN unless users can actually try out the product. A sign-up page doesn't count. This is in the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
> You could use something like AWS Database Migration Service to replicate from your RDS installation to your Database Lab host.

my guess is that then your market will be restricted to those who are already running their own databases. Because RDS restore-from-snapshot is good enough to not go through the DMS hackery (which is exceedingly nasty) and probably will negate some of the "instant" features that you have.

Just my $0.02 though.
Apart than the fact that the editors were not native English speakers and I had to spend quite a bit of time reverting several of their editing changes, the whole process was generally smooth and distraction-free (although note I haven't really written a book before so I can't really compare to other publishers) with a few exceptions:

1) Depending on the editor team assigned to your book, they may introduce arbitrary content guidelines (e.g. no code blocks over 15 lines, no figure subtitles; had to press hard to get them restored etc.) after you have already submitted a couple of chapters. I don't really mind the guidelines but it would be great to know them in advance as I had to go back and revise the content.

2) My biggest gripe was their authoring workflow. Personally, I would prefer to write everything in Tex but unfortunately, you need to use their online editing environment (essentially, a wordpress installation with a heavily modified tinyMCE). As I do everything in vim nowadays, I had to setup my own workflow (write markdown + bibtex references, pass through pandoc to convert to html, run a sed script to inject the correct css styles and copy the result back to their system). It's a bit more effort but it allowed me to work offline and use git to track my changes. If anyone is interested in a similar setup, let me know and I can push a repo on GH with the Makefile/css scripts.

Also, there doesn't seem to be a way to get an estimate of the book sales unless you wait for their periodic royalties report. Not sure how it works yet because the book just got released but maybe someone else can comment on this.
Exactly, it's an incentive game. Airbnb has an incentive to maintain high rankings across the board, because customers compare ratings across platforms as if they're equivalent. If they see a majority of 3/5 on Airbnb, they're just going to go on Booking.com and book a 4.5/5 hotel instead.

The only way to avoid this I can imagine is relying on cryptographic zero-knowledge proofs to defer ratings to an external network (ideally decentralized, but a neutral third-party ala TripAdvisor could work too). The platform gives the customer and provider a token when the transaction takes place, and they can use it to anonymously sign a review on the external ratings platform.
I really don't I made it clear how universal clock throttling is to account for unreliable power sources. Every tablet, laptop, and phone does this. Your device wouldn't be able to boot up in cold weather if it didn't. Your device would start crashing sporadically when your charge is low. This is basic battery management. If a phone didn't do this it would start to crash with a 1-2 year old battery instead of just slowing down. This outcome is strictly better than the alternative.

The argument that customers should have been notified of functionality that strictly improves the usability of the product doesn't make any sense. How does extending the usable life of the phone (even if it is less powerful during the end of the usable life) making consumers more likely to buy new phones? Apple had acknowledged that old batteries could not drive the processor at the highest clock rate long before this became newsworthy. Like I said: if Apple pushed an update removing throttling it would lay bare just how absurd these penalties are.
This is actually something I've been looking for, to be able to test script size constrained serverless scripts!

Does it work when minified, or does it need node?

(By the way, you should probably not require an account to be on your waiting list)
There is: https://wiby.me/
Yeah, I was a lot less upset about some of the crappy experiences I'd had working for evil giant companies after I read "The E-Myth Revisited".

My elite 10 person team was doing a great job on Device A, while Device B had a team of 200 semi-skilled foreign contractors just barely keeping things on track. Then, somehow, the company decided to reorg my super-skilled team and promoted the leader of the contractor team.

From 3-4 levels up in the company, the Device A team and the Device B team were IDENTICAL. They were both delivering things on time and under budget, even though team A was costing the company 1/5th as much, they were both fine. These products were generating hundreds of millions of dollars or maybe even billions in revenue per year, so the difference $5 million/year and $25 million was irrelevant.

If I'd realized this sooner, I wouldn't have put so much effort into doing a great job at the expense of my own interests, and it would've been just fine