skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know what's off ? GP's comment about how he doesn't get why and how Facebook's usage is problematic for some. On HN. Where we have been talking about every aspects of Facebook every 6th submissions for years.
Exactly.

I started out doing this and now I drink a bottle every night. No problem.
Actually, those who drink in moderation are more successful and happy than those who quit.
Kali Linux is a particular flavour which includes pen testing tools, which is why it makes the list, they're not referring to all distributions.

Don't make me defend this rubbish! =)
Doesn't that just mean "average"?
Hey Ivor, Jira Clone looks rad, thanks for releasing it under the MIT license!
How to Use Storytelling Conventions to Create Better Visualizations
More information here along with a quickstart: https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2020/01/fusion-tp20h1-in...
After trying to find something similar myself, originally I found some "methods" online to bypass the trial time, but I eventually just gave in and bought a license - and IMO it does exactly what it says on the tin, and is still updated and is cross platform so I think it's worth it.

But if anyone knows of any nice GUI tools that are similar do share!

EDIT: Just thought I'd mention how I use it. Basically I use it like the chrome network tools, but I intercept POST requests to the server and try to much with the data that's sent to make sure the backend isn't blindly trusting the client, or to see if there's weird ways I can break the code with special input, etc.
The Sims at 20: how a generation of young people grew up playing God
You might want to check out 'The Book of Joy' by the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu (Nobel Peace Prize winner and archbishop). The book lays out what these two men believe are the fundamental pillars of enduring happiness. Instead of doing a poor job summarizing the contents, here's a link to Amazon if you're interested: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CZCW34Q. Wish you the best.
Does Bank of America have a stablecoin not tied to any major fiat currency with over $600MM of value locked in the contract? (Hint: no, no they do not.)
Is Slack known for their good engineering practices?
Nuclear Reactor Simulator (WebGL)
Doom changed PC gaming forever
Same with SGN in Scotland
They don't pass the actual label, the pass two images and a 0/1 valued boolean "Are these images in the same class?"
That's a very insighful comment. One of my ex's (who was otherwise a rather terrible person) absolutely poured herself into making sure that her daughters were well-liked and did well in this game. I think it's one of the best things she's done.
that's gonna end well...
Could be an example of the Hawthorne effect - observing any behavior increases performance in that behavior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect.

Also, it's amazing the kind of site HN will upvote if it confirms their priors. This site is the most spammy looking thing, and it does not link to the original study like it claims (both links lead to a totally separate article).
> I self insure my car and my house.

You have liability insurance for anyone you may hurt with your car. It's a low probability, catastrophic life event, that makes more sense to insure, than to save for. Yes, liability insurance only goes so far in truly catastrophic events, and yes, you can do things with lawyers, but insurance covers most of the serious unlikely problems you may have.

> I have spare versions of both.

Self-insuring a house by owning a second one is not a good plan for the overwhelming majority of human beings.

> However, I have seen nursing home care and other non family provided care for super old people, and I would rather kill myself if I had to depend on that (I support assisted suicide).

Okay - that's an entirely other story. When I am talking about support, I am talking about truly basic life needs. Food, shelter, transportation. None of these are prohibitively expensive, when you have a small income.

A pension can't really afford intensive-end-of-life care, or long-term medium-intensity care. Hardly any kind of savings that you can scrape together can.

> If this is the goal, then isn't the whole country the best pool? AKA Social Security?

Yes, social security is a pension program. I wish I could invest more than 5% of my retirement savings into it, for the reasons I outlined above.
What Color Is Your Name? A New Synesthesia Tool Will Show You
It really isn’t. You can get into complicated topics but at the core it is simple arithmetic. Addition of what you earn and subtraction of what you spend.

Financial literacy is about exercising self control and utilizing skills that are already taught and known.
Apathy at work is only possible if you have a nothing-required job where you can't get fired for not working.
It happens, but commonly employers will notice and fire such an employee.
I wonder what would happen if all major OS & Browser vendors decided to agreed on a long-term plan to migrate/evolve the HTML, CSS, and JS specs & implementations towards a functional equivalent variation that could be efficiently implemented with the same semantics and level of security (or better) but with far less CPU and memory inefficiency, removing indirection and dynamic abstraction layer by layer, until suddenly we get something that has all the legitimate benefits of modern web development, but with the same memory/CPU footprint of Cocoa or .NET, being also cross-platform and built into every OS. Wouldn't that be great?
Parking may be reduced but the flip side is that we will have hoards of always cicuclating cyber cabs or we’ll have private owners returning and summoning their private vehicle from free parking at home, thus doubling the trips taken

Not to mention sending a car out for errands. Self driving will free up parking garages, but fill up the roads.
I ran a website for youngsters several years ago.
One of the duties to maintain it was to moderate discussion boards.
Some kids were difficult to manage and would not accept to be banned (via email/IP/or whatever solution) and would keep recreating profiles.

Ultimately I dealt with those ppl by “greylisting” them. Added a sleep() prior each page rendering of 5 to 25 secs (actually it was more sophisticated and would stream chunks over TCP so the slowness feeling was even more real).

Worked like a charm. Few days after the recalcitrant would no longer come on the website.

I called this “moderation by degradation of user experience”, and was pretty effective like the solution described in your post.

Think about page load if you need to restrain visits.
Bruh, I named one above.
I use FB almost exclusively for news about the Middle East, especially Syria where the Assad regime actively targets journalists who tell the truth about what is happening there and very few Western journalists are going into the areas the regime is bombing. I have vowed to not use FB once the regime is gone, people can gather freely, and real news media can operate openly.

My FB feed is mostly depressing these days, as it is filled with images of (among other things) maimed and murdered children. I can see how avoiding that would probably make me happier and more productive, but FB also helps me stay up to date on amazing humanitarian work being done in liberated areas. I also feel that burying my head in the sand would be a betrayal of my fellow Syrians who have, and still are, sacrificing so that my children as well as theirs won’t have to fear state terrorism.
>It gives you a credit of $1,000 monthly for 2 years, but there's no real indication anywhere on Github of exactly what that pays for?

Random screenshot I was able to find on their help page. Seems to be that the pricing for github enterprise is around $21/month/user.

https://help.github.com/assets/images/help/organizations/sta...
I deleted my FB account like 2 years ago? Never looked back. Unfortunately, I still see way too many people around me still using it. Have little faith on masses quitting the service.
Ask HN: How should a security company measure KPI?
The product that I want to make and sell is a network security device. I am finding it hard to determine how much value it provides to my potential users. It could easily save them from having their identity stolen which would in theory save them a lot of money. But I don't know how to translate that into a KPI.

So I'm trying to look at this from other angles. How do related businesses measure KPI.

For example, what about companies that manufacture locks. What about companies that manufacture safes. What about back when companies used to sell antivirus software. How would a company like that measure KPI?
You don't think you're creative while programming? I believe it's more art than math / analytical at times, that is if you're doing OOP. Can't say about functional or system's programming though that sounds like there's not much room for creativity as abstraction is hard from what I've experienced.
You're halfway to an important insight, but your partisanism is blinding.
Another good way to reduce time spent on social media is to reduce the number of connections on each platform to less than 100 people/brands. All platforms struggle to find new crap to feed you with once you go below this threshold (except YouTube)
quit facebook about two years ago. i stopped using my real name on social media, use random names and gibberish for accounts.

i also stopped reading any news, it's all tainted bullshit anyway by whoever paid the most to have it written. i talk more with people around me to get the news.
As I understand it, the author isn't even talking about web based GUI toolkits like Electron but more about the web itself (i.e. CTRL-F, back button, etc).
Do.. you not know what Boing Boing is? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boing_Boing
Is indefinite detention without even a criminal charge a valid punishment for that?

The defendant was charged with child pornography offenses.

But there is a real concrete fact that the government wants to be able to imprison someone indefinitely, without a jury trial, for claiming not to know something when there is certainly a reasonable doubt about them knowing it.

The defendant was claiming to forget the encryption key to a device because it allegedly contained a massive trove of photos that would likely get him locked away in prison for life. Said device was one he had owned and used for years, including shortly before he was arrested and the device confiscated (based on testimony of his sister). It's not reasonable to believe that he just conveniently forgot his encryption key as soon as he was arrested, especially when forgetting the key was beneficial to him in the underlying proceeding.

However, it is very easy to imagine a situation where someone LEGITIMATELY cannot decrypt the device.

Yes, but this isn't that situation. And this ruling benefits that hypothetical person.

this decision cannot go the way the prosecutor wants it to.

We agree on that, but it didn't need to. The prosecution already had a strong case against him on the underlying criminal charges. They got what they wanted -- a deterrent to others trying to do the same thing just to avoid jail time.
True. My understanding is that they're fairly active in the Hacklang community; they're big enough to have received a mention in the HHVM docs: https://docs.hhvm.com/hhvm/FAQ/faq
Very close minded on crypto, aren't ya?
Not an uncommon practice, Jeff Atwood calls it "hellbanning": https://blog.codinghorror.com/suspension-ban-or-hellban/
Lots of great points, but perhaps a bit unfair to AoE. As madengr says, the math gets way worse than what's in AoE.

AoE isn't really supposed to be a textbook in itself. It was written for physics students, typically at the graduate level, who need to design experimental apparatus without a formal engineering background. It's not an ideal introduction for newbies, and unfortunately it's recommended for that role way too often IMO. But it's a great sophomore resource, so to speak.

What's needed is something between the Forrest Mims "cookbook" level and AoE... something that gives you the theoretical underpinnings needed to know what chapter in AoE to turn to. People who are interested in the RF and communicstions side have always had the ARRL Handbook as a resource, but that book has limited appeal to those who are more interested in microcontrollers and other electronics topics. This page looks like it might make a useful contribution there.
Or, move to Australia to curb internet addiction.
I am glad you shared your personal experience. Quite refreshing to read (even if it's a negative experience) in a thread that usually gathers a gazillion of people who "don't understand what's wrong, I use it only in an healthy way: for events and keeping in touch with friends/family a continent away".
Quemuse – The Future of Q&A
The internet is an amazing thing. A network that allows instantaneous global sharing of information. Revolutionary digital information access technologies, like Google and Wikipedia, have led the way into the so-called Information Age of Humanity.

Alex Shakhmalian, the eighteen-year-old founder of web startup Quemuse, wants to further that vision.

He wanted to make a platform where people from all around the world could ask and discuss anything on their minds with ease.

He said he was dissatisfied with offerings from major Q&A sites, like Quora and StackOverflow.

“On most platforms, you need to use a full name, and it’s common for users to have a properly-filled-out profile, brimming with all that pointless information that no-one really cares about,” Shakhmalian says.

“I wanted to create a platform where anyone can join and immediately ask questions with ease, through a sleek and user-friendly interface. A straightforward, quick way of sharing knowledge where and when it matters most.”

He believes it has the potential to become the standard of modern Q&A.

Quemuse boasts an impressive array of features, from advanced direct-messaging to an interesting kudos system. A Quemuse on-site chatroom is also underway, which the company hopes will further serve to engage users.

Quemuse is a social Q&A platform that curates the latest and hottest questions of all topics asked by users like you. Discuss the topics and interests you love, such as gaming, tech, sports, science, news, and endless more. You can ask questions instantly at any time or create fun polls to get a variety of awesome answers. Additionally, find yourself discovering intriguing and thought-provoking questions with excellent and thoughtful answers on topics you follow.

Quemuse has been featured on the front-page of ProductHunt on the initial day of launch. Currently, Quemuse stands strong on the featured showcase with over 150 upvotes on the second day of launch.
Have you seen that used for interviewing? Yes, some people can do it in a 1-hour interview, but wouldn't you rather ask something that can't be done from memory?
Interesting, it looks like Microsoft has finally realized how unpopular they are among SV style startups. I’ve never been a fan of Windows but if there are enough perks in the program I would seriously consider using a Microsoft stack for a future startup.
Salesforce is a pile of garbage. I don't understand at all why it's so successful.
There should be an option for "fuck, I'm far past on being worried about this." (I.e.: the option of do you worry about your emotional state)
If you are upset with the way they treat you, then perhaps you should reconsider your relationship. Have you contacted them? I personally go years without speaking to some of my friends and pick up right where we left off. It feels like there has been no time gap. I do not put much stock in friendship. It would not be upsetting to me if none of my friends contacted me ever again. You may not be the same.
Support for evolution of binary frameworks in Swift
You can tell they're not messing around because there are 7 MIT math and physics courses listed as corequisites. Looks like a fantastic resource. On the other hand I have no idea when I'd get the time to do this until I retire. Maybe I'll spend my retirement years like fixing up vintage amplifiers and designing circuits.
I know engineers who have asked it, yes. It really seems to be a test for "who was paying attention to that one lecture in CS205 near the end of the semester"
https://quemuse.com
8 question survey (followed by a summary that explains the questions, but if you use browser navigation buttons it's irrevocably lost).

1. I find it difficult to relax after a day of work

2. After a day of work, I feel run-down and drained of physical or emotional energy

3. I feel less and less connected and engaged with the work I do.

4. I do not have a clear idea of the value and purpose of my job

5. I am harder and less sympathetic with people than perhaps they deserve

6. I am worried this job is making me harsher emotionally

7. I feel that I am achieving less than I should

8. I feel that I do not have time to do many of the things that are important for doing a good quality job
I'd bet the headline is overly optimistic but if you watch the video it is representative of how this stuff is done (source: I am not a biologist but do bioinformatics work at UH Cancer Center and like to spend time in the wetlab observing the bench scientists doing this type of work).

It's at the very least impressive how they can go from sequence transmitted over the internet to synthesis and testing on animals in hours. That's the kind of integrated process we need to have to beat things like this.

I'd be (very pleasantly) surprised if the vaccine turns out to be effective, but this is still worth a watch for the process that they are doing. If you are not in the field this gives a decent sense of what it is like. (Caveat: I've only worked in one lab, so for all I know both mine and this one are far behind the times in terms of cutting edge, but it seems legit to me).
> This is what kill files were for, which every half-decent news reader of the time had (something that's still lacking in most contemporary web forums).

Agreed, but the problem was that every new user began with an otherwise empty killfile. And so they had to be quite thick-skinned to outlast the barrage long enough to build up a respectable kill file to quash the noise, spam, and trolls.

Unfortunately what often happened is the new user was overwhelmed, disappeared, and never returned.

> No, the real challenge that Usenet faced was the World-Wide Web. People were enamoured with the new shiny, with hypertext, and with embedded pictures and styling, which Usenet did not have.

This had a very significant effect. The draw of the web, new, shiny, and fancier than plain text Usenet postings, had a huge effect in cutting off the influx of new users to replace those who disappeared.
Looks like original post was 4 hours earlier - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22313320
Not only that but latency is introduced artificially to make users feel more confident about changes they've made.

https://uxmag.com/articles/let-your-users-wait

https://www.fastcompany.com/3061519/the-ux-secret-that-will-...
> Who in their right mind, given any choice on the matter, would want to lock their retirement into the existence and health of a corporation?

When pensions were invented, there wasn't any choice. In fact modern employers in the US use almost exclusively 401k's instead, for exactly the reason you argue.

But employers with pension programs that predate modern retirement regimes still have them. And they can't just "roll them all over" to employee-owned securities in any practical (or even legal!) way, there just isn't a scheme to do that. And you can't just cut them off and start using 401k's instead, because the pensions are are being funded by the contributions of the active employees!

It's basically an addiction. And it's not going to be fixed absent very extensive government involvement and probably more than a few bailouts. Until then we'll suffer along and sigh when companies go under like this, leaving their pension recipients destitute.
No, I mean it literally ranks nearly everyone as burned out. As an experiment I chose the second-to-lowest burnout score for every question but one (for which I chose the lowest score). My risk of burnout was rated as high.

That's ridiculous for answers that by any objective measure would be great.
That's fair, I missed that sub-detail.
If to speak about browser technology as a GUI toolkit then there are three big things that are greatly underestimated.

1. Bubbling/Sinking(Capturing) event propagation schema.

With that schema a container knows what event is passed to a child and did child process it or not. On desktop, windowed widget handles all its events without notifying/asking its container.

This actually is pretty big - it enables composition of atomic input widgets. On Web you can use <input|text> as part of more complex widget.

2. CSS and CSS selectors in particular.

As the way of styling component from outside - independently from its event handlers/code.

So code changes DOM state and CSS defines how that state shall be presented. And not only that but styling of elements in context (cascading).

That is "separation of concerns" at its best.

3. And the DOM.

While each UI system has DOM ( tree of windows/widgets ) in one form or another the Web pushes its further: it adds unification of widget (attributes/states) interface.

Any widget or element may have ID, class or other attributes defined. And those can be used for styling.
Are Gen Z-Ers More Security Savvy Online Than Millennials?
Happened to me. My best friend went to the private school and I had to go to public school. It definitely impacted my grades. I had asked my parents to send me to the private school too but it wasn't in the cards. And by best friend I mean someone who was a peer with similar work ethic and intelligence so we learnt from each other. That was traumatic. I had made that friend after moving to a different state in the 5th grade. I remember leaving my friends as being somewhat traumatic but not as traumatic as the different high school thing. I sort of owe my career to him and his family since they were software entrepreneurs in the 90s.
We are somewhat in agreement then. I was responding from the perspective that simply being a nonagenarian (or even octogenarian) means there is a very high probability you will require assistance from someone (especially in US with driving distance everything), so planning for just basic life needs at those ages is insufficient.
Also, MBAs assume then can hire anyone and then they complain the performance suffers.

The truth is, development is a high skill profession. It should take decades to master if we were really realistic about it.
Don't really remember how, but my family switched to using a single snapchat group to share baby and pet pics, which imo works better for that use case. Even taught my grandmother how to open stories, even if she sometimes gets lost when they update the app. Maybe not much better than FB on most issues, but it's nice to get in and out without the facebook timesink, and these kids (probably) don't have to worry about embarrassing pictures on the public internet forever.
This has given me an idea for a cheatsheet generator site. I feel a lot of cheatsheets are pretty similar: section, subheader, and a list of keys + descriptions. Could make this an easy little vue app.
Just read through a couple chapters and this is fantastic. Does anyone have a resource like this (theory-based, but still very hands-on and practical) for other subjects related to engineering, like say building engines?
The problem with Web Component libraries I've seen (including this) is that the moment you use any external libraries, you lose the entire point of Web Components. That is, to have fully native reusable bits of code that can be built upon and used interchangeably with any other tech stack just like an <a> tag or an <input>. As soon as you start using libraries with a build process you might as well just use React or Vue or whatever else.