skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Learning new things just takes a lot of time. In my experience the method doesn't really make a huge difference. Your conscious effort is the part you control, the unconscious effort you also need to make is not really something you can force. Don't forget to rest/sleep so there is time for your brain to process things in the background.
I think we're in agreement then. I don't think in terms of absolutes, there's always a trade-off to be made and one must be rational and measured.
proper C, get Zed shaw's book python the hard way it has a good deal on proper C coding.
I only have one problem with it. After disconnecting external monitors, it sets the brightness of the laptop monitor to 100%.

You know... plus the normal random osx crash that we're used to. Windows and Linux are more reliable these days on the desktop.
Well you could extend the definition to allow a small number of items which are entirely out of place. The point is that the right sort algorithm depends a lot on tthe distribution of input data and how much you care about worst-case vs average case trade offs.
Similar to Robert Christgau! https://robertchristgau.com/
>But the new rating system isn’t fool-proof, since some fake-review schemers have a way to get around the “verified purchase” requirement. One popular method is to recruit buyers in private Facebook groups with a promise to refund them for their purchase via PayPal after the shoppers show proof of writing a five-star review.

I heard similar gaming techniques are used by makers of diet supplements to build up 5-star reviews. They notify customers that they will send another free bottle of supplements of they leave a 5-star review. This means that the following amazon search results example showing showing overwhelming 5-star ratings are very likely fabricated and can't be trusted:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=lion%27s+mane+supplement

This is how you get "snake oil" products like noncompliant USB cables or defective Apple chargers into the "5-star" club that amazon buyers unwittingly trust.
Amazon reviews are about as trustworthy as the selling points of a slimy salesman.

I've bought products with a lot of 5-star ratings which were utter garbage.

Even if you only consider "Verified Purchase" reviews, every one of them requires careful vetting for authenticity.

There are companies providing quality fake reviews by native speakers as a service, where care is taken to not be overly optimistic and provide a few negatives to sound more believable.

Even negative reviews might be fake, often mentioning a competing product that is supposed to be better.

There are plenty of valid reviews out there, but the need to constantly question the authenticity makes them almost worthless to me.

I've mostly gone back to buying from medium sized local retailers. They might have a much smaller selection and are a bit more expensive, but make up for it with a decent quality control.
The content is super wholesome as well.
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I have both and I can't count how many times I need to understand something in some detail and put on a course. I learned Jenkins from LinuxAcademy and Devops principles, went on to build our jenkins server with all the jobs for our builds/automated testing.
24 years of weekly quotes is actually really impressive.
Yep, I was referring to highly eccentric orbits like Molniyas... apologies, I should have been more clear!
No, you're not the only one. Thankfully, I don't think I've ever ran into any serious issues with any OS release. I'm always a bit surprised when I see others report show-stopping issues.
You'll need to bring the inhaler in a bag of some kind, which Apple will want to search.
There are also forum threads on Macrumors with AppleScript scripts that make it possible to run older versions of iTunes (the one with the App Store) on Catalina (works with Mojave too). [1]

[1]: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/itunes-12-6-5-3-on-maco...
Throughout the experiment I was telling friends that I knew it was a silly idea that was very unlikely to work, but it was also easy and fun to try, and if it turned out to work it would be very interesting.
The best percussion I've ever had came from TAL-NoiseMaker. There's a Linux port.

https://www.kvraudio.com/product/tal-noisemaker-by-togu-audi...

LMMS also has its own percussion synth.

https://lmms.io/wiki/index.php?title=Kicker

As for samples, Echo Sound Works sends out occasional freebie packs on their newsletter. Their samples are usually good.

https://www.echosoundworks.com/free-downloads

Black Octopus Sound has a huge sampler pack that you can use in commercial stuff.

https://blackoctopus-sound.com/free-downloads/

Also keep an eye out for SFX packs around GDC (Game Developers Conference). Sonniss publishes one every year. You can probably find the (legit, official) torrents for past years.
My personal/hobby business web site (https://www.rlvision.com) is based on code 22 years ago. It's built with tables, because that's how you did things back then. The age shows. But I haven't found reason to rebuild it yet. Simply put, it works. It may not be mobile friendly, but the goal is to make available my Windows software, so my aim is desktop users.
The purpose of a test is to state that "This should NEVER change". Thus you need to figure out what will NEVER change before you can write any tests. You can use architecture to guide you - if you have a horizontal layer or vertical slice - either you know that whatever your layer/slice's interface to the other layer/slices will be hard to change and so you can always safely test there. The problem is your layer/slice is complex (if it isn't then your architecture is too inflexible!) and so you need to pick internal points to test. These internal points are then asserted they won't change - but you can legally refactor them latter if only you didn't have those pesky tests that would fail on conditions that might still be important.

Where to inject tests is an extremely hard problem.
I meant worsening of the situation for workers because of increase in security buffonata as a probable reaction to such revelations.
Indeed. Chiropractors are notoriously bad at QA
Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses
If this were true, I believe US-Americans would lead a more frugal life and avoid unnecessary expenses in an attempt to save as much money as possible for cases of emergency.
Very enlightening. Thank you for explaining this. Are there any resources you might recommend to someone looking to learn this stuff more in depth?
He even reviewed one of my favorites albums launched recently: https://www.scaruffi.com/vol8/bentknee.html
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No mention of Sr. Mary Kenneth Keller, B.V.M., a Catholic religious sister and the first woman with a PhD in CS? She helped develop FORTRAN and BASIC.
<bgsound src="ue.mid" loop="-1"> is princeless
So, I'm a bit of a cheapskate, so my soul wants to agree 100%.

But I also spend something in the neighborhood of half my waking life using a keyboard, so I could see choosing to spend money there even if you're happy with a $10 wristwatch. Assuming it really is that good, of course. I'd perhaps rather that than spend $1000 on a nice sofa when one of the $300 Ikea models will do.
But a lazy load is never truly needed, right? It's a way to save bandwidth.
The most useful reviews will always be ones from within your own social network. Because if you have a relationship with the person, they won’t endorse something unless it reflects well on themselves.

This is why I’m bullish on protocols like SSB[1] and Iris[2].

[1]: https://handbook.scuttlebutt.nz/

[2]: https://hackernoon.com/what-is-wrong-with-the-internet-and-h...
Not OP, but I usually order items to the nearest store not my home - I can't control when something is delievered to my home, and if I miss the delivery I have to go to the nearest depot which is a massive pain in the back. Instead I can get most things delivered to a store nearby and just pick them up on my way back from work.
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> but you can wipe the slate clean with these steps.

That subtitle is misinformation, and so is the underlying premise of much of that story, as:

1. All of the data Google collects is passed on to the NSA (if not also elsewhere), which will obviously not delete it.

2. The fact that the information stops appearing as part of your account does not mean it is properly deleted from Google's servers for their own internal use (and perhaps more 3rd party sharing).

3. The results of _processing_ your collected personal data - even mildly - are not part of what you see on your profile, and you're not issuing a command to delete all that.
I've learnt recently (not much former higher education) the power of making long hand notes on pen and paper. It helps me connect with and think through the material and take it in at a pace I can process it.

It's not quite the same, but I recently studied for a technical exam/certification where the syllabus included about 400 slides (about 10 days of teaching & lab work). I failed the exam just reviewing the slides, even when it was sat quite quickly after I had taken the courses.

The next time I sat it several months after doing the training, I spent about a day and a half writing out the slides. I went through two A4 pads and a couple of pens. I will never review my notes (I have the searchable PDFs), but I found that exam really easy the second time round.
Just because mobile phones got same (or better) screen resolution than in 1990s/2000s desktop PCs
My first site is still live. It went live in 1997, hand coded (using tables). Went through a few redesigns but the 2000 version has been left online as a fixed digital artifact from the time: http://pwp.detritus.net/
Thank you! I had thought I was the only one who couldn't read Apple's extremely sparse documentation pages with no examples, surely they were sufficient for REAL programmers somewhere who were not me. (Come on Apple, you can't include an example of calling a Button on your documentation page? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/button)

Hacking with Swift is impressive in how much ground it covers.
Users should be able to override the default behaviour of their browser if they want to, but the default behaviour should still be defined by the HTML spec rather than the browser vendor.

It's really frustrating when two browsers implement important parts the spec differently and push website developers to work around the behaviour one browser or the other with browser-specific code. It doesn't lead to sites being rendered differently as developers embrace the variety of user agents. It leads to people adding "This site is best viewed in Netscape Navigator" gif or "This application requires Chrome" on log in pages. Those are bad things.
I see what you did there.

in all seriousness though, yes? if you have to wait for the item to be shipped regardless, why would you order it to a store instead of your front door? it's the worst of both worlds.
Microsoft can free Windows
A quick browse and this looks interesting. Does anyone know if ray is hadoop-like (meaning it brings code to the existing data), or does it serialize the data to be processed amongst nodes? The docs indicates that it uses Apache Arrow to serialize state (which I assume to be the culminated state of the processed data), but doesn't mention the actual data to be processed.
Looks like a good timing for a weekend coding session.
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That wasn't when it was discovered, that was just the first practical implementation. The theory side was developed earlier. The Manhattan project was an engineering problem.
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I just tried, it works well (Chrome/Android on a 5.5"-something screen).
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thanks andrefuchs for the links, I wasn't aware of OpenCollective. If I get it correctly I still have to manually find all collectives that I want to support and send them money. So if I want to support 100 projects and I'll have to do 100 transactions?
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Like the day your security services interrogator tells you to get it back.
happy user of RLVision Artgem - thank you !
USD 25.000 according to GoDaddy

https://godaddy.com/domain-value-appraisal/appraisal/?checkA...
Yes, but where can we all see the schemas that has worked well and the ones which hasn't, I mean all that information isn't accessible to someone who wants to know the state of the art. In someways software industry has been really bad in documenting and sharing knowledge, it is really hard to get hold of documents of large software projects, and informed commentary on them from the industry for educational purposes, I wish someone would do something about it.
My personal favorite, which is in a similar vein - an Italian, although the site is in English; Frontpage; still updated - is https://www.luigicases.com/. He makes leather straps and cases for cameras. Famous in the classic camera community. Only active site that I can think of that still uses frames.
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I started with FrontPage 98 in '99. Moved to a self-written PHP CMS, then WordPress, then back to static HTML.

Had I stayed with FrontPage, my life might have been simpler - porting 20 years of content is not simple - but I would have missed out on learning a lot of HTML, CSS, PHP, Python, MySQL, character set conversion, MySQL vs UTF-8, etc.
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Smaller companies need generalists more than big ones do. You’re likely best off in early stage startups, small agencies, or your own consulting business. There are also incubators and such who can use that skillset to help bootstrap multiple startups per year.
> It's a good reminder of the original goal of WWW: share information.

That is what I miss the most about the old web. We wanted to build something better by sharing knowledge. And for a while we did. Then mainstream came and corporates took over.
Show HN: Hacker UI – a React design system for developers
> The lack of good drum kits and patterns is my current pain point.

True. But I have little tip for you: There's an experimental feature in Carla that lets you use Plug-Ins that rely on wine. Currently I use this feature with MT Power Drum Kit (decent sounding - still not ideal) and some other free Plug-Ins.
But I will agree that this increases the fiddling and virtual wiring. As Carla is able to save all that, it's still quite handy.

By the way: I use the Native Instruments Komplete Audio 6, works like a charm (and only uses hardware switches).
Do you use Gen1 or Gen2 of the Scarlett? - I've heard of some issues with Gen2.

Edit: I use the drums for making Metal music. Might not be ideal for other genres.
The marginal cost of my time when I'm already making enough money is expensive as fuck.
That's a user derived choice. I'm not saying user's shouldn't be able to change the way a site is laid out if they want to. I'm saying that by default it should use the HTML spec.
thank you, I just discovered honey was plant-based ;)
Copied from my reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/f3pb73/in_the_past...

About a month ago from today, I started working on a design system for my own personal projects. I wanted to create my own design language because the rest of them just felt too complex, too outdated, or too branded (for example Bootstrap is too old, Material UI is too Google-y).

I wanted a design system that wasn’t too complicated or special but just something that’s unbranded and aesthetically pleasing.

Anyway 30 days from realizing that, I have a design system I’m ready to share!

It’s called “Hacker UI” and I’m currently pitching it as “the hacker’s go-to design system” (similar to how Bootstrap was a go-to).

Features:

- 25+ components
- 25+ codesandbox examples
- New CSS-in-JS solution
- Composable styles by default
- Full Typescript support

There’s still a lot to be done with this library (optimizations, SSR support, CI and testing, animations etc) but I’m still super excited to share.

Please let me know what you think!

[docs at hacker-ui.com](https://hacker-ui.com/)
[github repo](https://github.com/ricokahler/hacker-ui)
See my comment above [1] with a link to a Macrumors forum thread that allows you to run iTunes and older versions of iTunes on Catalina and Mojave. It might probably break at some point in the future, but people seem to be managing so far.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22326724
Being colourblind I wasn't going to bother with this video but this and the other comments about his series have piqued my interest!
Having worked in digital marketing for over a decade, I've been exposed to hundreds of business models. The percent of them making someone rich on the back of selling scammy bullshit to stupid/gullible people is disturbingly high. I've long privately lamented that apparently to have a good shot at being rich, you must be perfectly ok with being a shitty person. I feel like highly intelligent people probably have a harder time talking themselves into making unnecessary piles of money by screwing people over.

Note: This seems far more prevalent in the B2C non-software non-vc-backed space. But then I expect there are a lot more individual millionaires being minted from those types of businesses than from silicon valley SaaS startups.
They don’t need to. Boot up a default AMI, change the key to whatever you want, then create your own custom AMI from that. Or you can use something like Cloud-Init.
You're broadcasting your address to people around when you're looking for ride. Unsafe? I think it's much safer than anonymous rides through Telegram platform. If you have any ideas besides criticism you're welcome to contribute.
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Show HN: Wasp – a DSL for building full-stack web apps
The reason that everyone congregates on only a few servers is because it solves the problem of discoverability (which is essential if you want others to watch your content).
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That's fascinating! My experience with miraculin [1] wasn't very positive because it completely removed the sour flavor, though perhaps in smaller doses it would make sense?

I guess I'd also worry that it would be hard to cook and eat because it adds an unusual dependency between ingredients: normally you don't worry that your ketchup on your hot dog will later make your cake taste too sweet.

[1] https://www.jefftk.com/p/miracle-berry
What is this if not an event?

Button(action: {
self.isPlaying.toggle()
}

They just happen to be handling it entirely within their view component instead of making it a function on some controller/ViewModel/whatever object that then goes and updates the bool. Each framework then has its own code gen or library or runtime magic that makes that bool change get reflected in other views.
I do this by creating a side project with a concrete objective. I then do my best executing the side project.

After I get something useful doing the Side project then I try to give a presentation about the side project.

Note that I have failed multiple times with getting something useful enough to justify the Side project.

Another way you can do this is just promise to give a presentation about the topic at a local meetup. And keep on giving presentations about it.
> They stole IP from western companies so they could reach the bleeding edge and then spent billions on R&D research to get ahead. Without the decades of IP theft, the R&D achievements never happen.

Is an excellent argument for more technological sharing (as is/was customary in china), and less IP ownership.
PuTTY has its own terminfo entry.

* https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.ti.html#tic-pu...
This brings back memories. I loaded this plugin as well to deal with some problem users.
Hi all, author of Wasp here!

My brother and I have spent about a year working on Wasp as a side project, and have just finalized a prototype that is not fully featured but should give a good idea of what it is all about.

Since there is still a lot of work to be done to make Wasp usable in the real world, we hoped to get some feedback, good or bad, to guide our future efforts! So please let us know, do you think it makes sense, what would you like to see in it, how do you see it progressing.

Thanks a lot!
I’m curious if any non movers would like to chime in here, because tempting as it is, I wouldn’t be surprised if this mentality was common among HN readers regardless of childhood stability.

Moving sucked, but i hadn’t until now considered it traumatic. I’ve always chalked up these feelings to being smarter than average and more self monitoring. Alternatively, being comfortable with losing relationships because I’m sure I can make new ones
Amazon should strongly incentivize their customers to report sellers who make such offers to them. This should make the game more dangerous for sellers seeking fake reviews.
I'm a professional developer and amateur musician. Honestly, I believe this is a case where the "Apple tax" is well worth it. You can get far with GarageBand and where that falls short you can use Logic Pro, which for $200 is still a far sight cheaper than the other commercial DAWs. Interested in hearing other people's experiences.
It's actually quite hard to hug static HTML pages to death, unless on purpose, with things like slowloris.
Someone somewhere must have faced the same issue as you. I’d suggest searching on Reddit and the Macrumors forums. Worst case, you can install Linux and continue using it (though the experience may not be the same in many ways).
Oh lord it's almost 1k long
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Except negative non-verified reviews tend to be helpful, especially for sellers that constantly relist the same product under different listings.

I've bought a few products that are bad to the level of fraudulent, only to see the product relisted so that my review wouldn't be verified.

Off course this could be abused by leaving fake negative reviews for competitors.

Whack mole. Repeat.
This is insane.

I commute a bit over an hour. Because I cannot afford to live close to my job and rent a place for me and child.

It would cost me triple my current rent.
I didn't say they were private keys.
Would be cool to see a whole free open source digital computing/communication platform of selfmade hardware and software built be the amish.
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This website looks extremely familiar. I think I visited it about 15 years ago and I am not completely sure but didn't you have a nice drawing and photo editing software there? I can't remember the name of it but it was the best ever, until it was disappointingly discontinued because of lack of buying customers :(
I'm not sure I agree with this. I always look for and at the 1 start reviews, and I find that to be more useful than reviews I find anywhere else.

4/5 star reviews are useless, but 2/1 star reviews reveal a great deal of useful information about a product.

A bunch of 1 star reviews of "UPS damaged my product" indicates a product that's as advertised and isn't astroturfed (much?).

No 1 star reviews, or 1 star reviews indicating misleading advertising tend to indicate astroturing.

1 star reviews indicating product failures, support failures, DOA etc... indicate to not purchase the product at all.

It's not a pure indicator, but I've found it to be more reliable than other review systems.
As long as there is some, even small, cost to posting a review it makes review fraud much less scalable compared to zero-cost reviewing.