skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple of days ago, I launched a major feature for my website monitoring service (https://tryhexadecimal.com), and that is status pages. I have been meaning to do it for a long time since some customers were asking for it, and it will help to differentiate from competition in a major way. I had to migrate my Rails app from Heroku to EC2 to accommodate this change (I need to obtain both a wildcard TLS certificate for my domain and certificates on behalf of my customers).

Over the next few weeks, I will be polishing it and expanding the feature set, but that's not where most of my brain cycles will go, though.

I am still looking for marketing channels that will consistently bring right people to my website every month. A few things I am considering:

* Double down on writing. I do have a behind-the-scenes journal-y thing ... with 2 articles on it. It certainly needs more love. What I want to do:

1. every N days publish a "behind-the-scenes" story about running a one-person business

2. share it on relevant communities, get on some newsletters, and perhaps get some backlinks

3. build an email list

4. get organic traffic from search engines every month

* Double down on SEO. I have picked most of the low-hanging fruit already (technical & on-page SEO). I do have a single webpage that accounts for most of the organic search traffic (pretty low in absolute numbers), however, I feel like I'm missing on several adjacent keywords. Ungood!

* Start writing in-depth technical guides. You know, the ones that would rank for a whole slew of keywords, and bring in targeted traffic to the website. That's what DigitalOceans and Linodes of the world are doing, and I'm sure it does wonders for them.
Most people and by extension most abusers aren't the very powerful. A majority of abuse is probably committed by people who have only slightly more power than the people they abuse.

It's entirely possible that our society makes it very hard to touch high status people and easy to destroy low status people. We can easily have the worst of both worlds.
Not sure why, but it is very relaxing dragging the moon up going into night ;)
Yes, if election workers are corrupt, your election results will be corrupted as well. No voting system can defend against it. That's what revolutions are for.
Very cool. Used to volunteer on crisis hotlines (doubling up as part of the network of suicide hotlines in the US if you called from an adjacent area). Great to see ideas like this!
Neither of these things prove rape...
Another game by the same devs worth looking at is "Into The Breach". Really great rogue like that's akin to SRPG's but distilled. Often times battles end up being more crisis management and you have decide what you're willing to loose to win the stage.
It's not. Look again.
I'm slowly improving https://www.saashub.com every day.

Apart from that, planning the new version of LibHunt.

Unfortunately, I find myself too much distracted by Coronavirus news :/
Actually, distracted driving and chemically impaired driving are two separate, orthogonal things. They exist independently of the other. A driver can be afflicted with either, both, or neither. One can be measured objectively (blood toxicity), the other cannot.

We might read reports indicating that X number of accidents were caused by distracted driving, but distracted driving is very hard to prove because it is easy to deny. The only statistics we have on it are either when a driver admits to not paying attention, or when there is overwhelming evidence for it, such as video.

I think we can easily assume that most at-fault drivers are not going to willfully admit to liability for causing an collision (especially if a party to the collision was hurt or killed), so it is safe to say that distracted driving is highly under-reported and underrated as a threat to road safety.
I'm slowly hacking on [jupiter](https://github.com/horia141/jupiter) (and [announcement](https://dev.to/horia141/jupiter-dev-log-0-intro-1ni9)) which is my tool for life planning, goals management, habit building, metrics tracking, etc. It's pretty hacky and tailored to my _way_. But it is fun to code (especially since $dayJob doesn't involve that anymore), fun to blog about, and definitely something I'm using daily.
I've been working on a lite PHP library acting as an agnostic query engine to aggregate content from different (files, API, SQL, document oriented, ...) kind of datastore and ease the usage of some aggregations : terms, facets, ranges, min, max, average, ...

https://packagist.org/packages/mkcg/php-query-model

And also working on a search engine (in C).
This is not free.
A logistic curve is indistinguishable from an exponential when you're "early". The earlier you are, the closer they are.
Audi A5 - still a small wheel in the 2017 model
I'm working a lot on https://www.tickgit.com, which is a glorified TODO comment finder for developers, to help us do simple project management in code.

It identifies code markers such as TODO, FIXME, HACK, XXX, etc (soon to be customizable) and surfaces them as cards in a web UI. There's a free and open-source CLI as well.

The web app is free for public repos and $3/month for private ones. I'm looking to add organization/team-based pricing soon too.

A feature that I'm hoping will have an impact will be a "TODO reminder" email that will email you within a configurable amount of time after a TODO is added to a codebase.

Right now it's just me working on it outside of the day job, I'm hoping I can turn it into a useful tool for developers!
The official line is that they use it mostly for improving elevation estimates for Maps. But that info is _old_ - maybe they're using it for more than that now! Some researchers (Cliff Mass?) attempted to get Google (and Apple) interested in barometers in phones for weather forecasting years ago, to no avail.

Hopefully they're trying something out with forecasting!
Ask HN: What are effects of COVID-19 on your business, how are you responding?
Seems similar to the sagmaker sdk? What exactly does it offer?
Wonder if the whole voice recognition could be done on device? No voice sent over the net, firmware updates to improve recognition. Then just call the needed APIs to activate services etc.
I recently joined a bunch of volunteers to build a web app allowing hyper-localized communities to fulfill requests using a volunteer ticketing system during the COVID-19 crisis.
Most people with high blood pressure also have some of those other comorbid conditions. But there are certainly cases of essential hypertension in otherwise healthy patients that have no clear cause.
Interesting question! Not yet as that feature is a UI button with no automation, but I will certainly consider adding something like that. Fascinating. Cheers!
I'm working a simple online faxing service[0] that doesn't ask for your email, and sends faxing quickly. Not free, but 0.20/page. Still working on converting the in memory db to sqlite. Feedback would be great.

[0] https://faxtail.com/
People like the system as it is. They could vote for a sheriff that upholds the law instead of local mores, and they could swap out the judge as well. But the majority doesn't want to. They prefer their "Trump Republicans" who "support law enforcement".
It’s a productivity device for consumers. You can’t trade in your 4x4 diesel truck for a convertible two-seater Miata and expect to haul an Airstream with it (and it would be illegal if you could) just as you can’t expect to run industrial tasks on a personal device. Different tasks for different devices.

If you want to run your own code within the framework of iOS, you can become an Apple registered developer.
> allowance tracking app for myself / kids

So, your wife gives you and the kids allowance? Very thoughtful of you to make her a tool. Maybe she'll even increase your allowance! :)
I'm making a tool to create videos from podcasts. It transcribes the podcast audio and displays the text over an image as the video is played. [1]

https://0work.co
I'm working on a multiplayer Legend of Zelda A Link To The Past (Zelda 3) ROM hack plus a fork of bsnes that allows for scripting enhancement, specifically the netplay aspect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwPs_fR1TyQ

Right now I have two players able to see one another when they're in the same world/dungeon/room but they do not interact at all yet.

Next step is to synchronize some basic game state like pendants and crystals collected to allow some basic shared game progression. Maybe even sync up open/closed/bombed doors state per room.
The bank (as well as the GM) bailout did involve equity transfers. I believe quite a few shareholders got wiped out, and the net result was even positive for the government (barely, but still).

Also interesting: The farm subsidies over the last two years, supposed to compensate them for their business losses due to Trump’s trade war, cost a multiple of the 2008 bailout (2x or 3x IIRC). None of that will be recovered.
This is an HN FAQ worthy comment!
The thing missing from both those implementations is link following. That's the "HT" in "HTML" and "HTTP", so no supporting it from the keyboard seems almost unacceptable to me in a web browser. Yes, I'm aware that no major brower _ever_ did support link hinting out of the box.

I'm using Tridactyl now, and am extremely happy with it. There are some problems, notably on the lack of Tridactyl support before the page loads, but with TreeStyleTabs it is the best browsing experience I ever rememeber having.
Plenty of website already run this scam, e.g. https://starregistration.net

I heard from someone running one of those sites that it's very profitable though.
Yes.

I still have to make a finished terrain generator, but I already implemented many things like octaved perlin noise (with shaders so that I can regenerate and make quick edits), poisson discs with perlin noise. I also implemented a midpoint displacement+successive blur to make mountain erosion.

I'm planning to use some brush editor to manually create terrain zone layers at a very macro level, for things like biomes, elevation, seas, etc, so that the terrain generator can do the rest, and then put cities manually. I've seen some pretty impressive terrain generators, but I'd rather focus on cities that look almost real, with building interiors.

The goal is to have a very large quantity of explorable land, without needing level designers and level artists, while not sacrificing quality too much.
we're (re-)building a platform for virtual art fairs in the wake of coronavirus — most fairs and galleries are cancelling or postponing events that will work super well online. We're building a novel experience from the ground up, not relying on VR or skeuomorphic interactions

here's a tour of the initial exhibition last year: https://lds.wistia.com/medias/4ucxldnz9n

if you or your friend is the operator of an art fair that'd like to move online, please do hit us up at hello at dot.gallery
If you want to learn programming, from my point of view, learn C.
Tech rapidly transitioning to completely remote interactions. Why do people have to travel and cram together to get things done?
ok we get that, but over here you can't even find masks or gloves anywhere. Wouldn't it be better if we didn't get the disease at all, so those workers won't have to wear the mask ?
> I wonder if introducing newbies to makefiles and vim is super empowering, or ends up gatekeeping by making it look "as complicated as you feared it would be."

This tutorial introduces Vim only after introducing shell and pipes. I was wrong about makefiles -- this tutorial doesn't include makefiles (I was thinking about Software Carpentry [1], which has similar goals). In any case, learning Vim isn't hard as people make it out to be, and one can easily skip that part of the tutorial to come back to at a later point without breaking the continuity.

[1]: https://software-carpentry.org/lessons/index.html
> But we've got to stop thinking about wearing masks in absolute terms of "it works" or "it doesn't work".

We're not saying that. We're saying masks make you touch your face, and that without training and correct fitting the minimal protection they give is probably countered by the increased risk.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/new-coronaviru...

> If the viability of the two coronaviruses is similar, why is SARS-CoV-2 resulting in more cases? Emerging evidence suggests that people infected with SARS-CoV-2 might be spreading virus without recognizing, or prior to recognizing, symptoms. This would make disease control measures that were effective against SARS-CoV-1 less effective against its successor.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2004973

> We found that the stability of SARS-CoV-2 was similar to that of SARS-CoV-1 under the experimental circumstances tested. This indicates that differences in the epidemiologic characteristics of these viruses probably arise from other factors, including high viral loads in the upper respiratory tract and the potential for persons infected with SARS-CoV-2 to shed and transmit the virus while asymptomatic.3,4 Our results indicate that aerosol and fomite transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is plausible, since the virus can remain viable and infectious in aerosols for hours and on surfaces up to days (depending on the inoculum shed). These findings echo those with SARS-CoV-1, in which these forms of transmission were associated with nosocomial spread and super-spreading events,5 and they provide information for pandemic mitigation efforts.
Surely Microsoft could just start recording with the with right windows update?

Yes, they could. I get some scepticism when I say my businesses have declined to move to Windows 10, mostly because we don't trust the security and privacy aspects. However, we deal with personal data, and we also deal with various types of information that are protected by statute and/or contract. It would be very obviously against the spirit and quite possibly against the letter of several different laws for us to knowingly store and use that kind of data on a system that sends information we can't control up to the mothership and/or that could be updated without us agreeing to it. Indeed, there are multiple ongoing investigations into Windows 10 because of exactly those kinds of concerns across the EU right now.

It's a good thing that non-technical people who do take privacy seriously, such as lawyers, are starting to notice the glaring problem with these modern technologies and advise against using them. With a bit of luck, we'll then get statutory regulation requiring disclosure in advance of exactly what these devices are doing and the security and privacy implications including when they don't work properly or if they get compromised. Again, there had been much discussion in Europe recently, at least up until the world was more concerned with another kind of virus over the past few weeks, of requiring much stronger standards for security in IoT devices, and those sorts of laws really can't arrive soon enough. Mandating controls to physically isolate all cameras, microphones, transmitters and receivers at the hardware level might not be a bad idea, either.
Many people are asking the same question, also in the medical community. I wonder when we are going to see some data on this.
Does the POSIX standard mandate that programs receiving EPIPE/SIGPIPE die silently?

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/signal.h.h...

Yes. The default action of SIGPIPE is to terminate the process.
Not sure why you are being downvoted. A statement by the company itself saying it's false is a lot more valuable than a newspaper using anonymous source.
I’m working on a platform (Distill) to learn people learn more effectively (one place to gather blog posts, articles, podcasts, webinars etc), and share learnings with your team. If Reddit, Genius and Pocket had a baby, this would be it.

https://distillforteams.com

Pricing model ala Github - open learning plans are free, per user pricing for private/team knowledge repos.

Let me know if you want to take it for a spin.
Inside a Titan missile guidance computer
Happened in World War II, and that’s why health insurance in the U.S. is tied to employers.
How to spot bogus science stories and read the news like a scientist
Covid‑19 Information and Resources
I’m cleaning out my garage to build an RV 12, a popular type of two-seat single engine home built airplane. Putting time at home to good use!

https://www.vansaircraft.com/rv-12is/
I am making Grafolean, easy to use monitoring system: https://github.com/grafolean/grafolean (generic, but network monitoring is first niche being served).

Currently there is support for protocol-agnostic agents (just send whatever values you have via REST API and observe the dashboards in UI), or you can use existing agents for SNMP, ICMP, NetFlow.

If you give it a spin, I would be happy to hear from you, good or bad (via GitHub issues or info@grafolean.com).

It is not FOSS, license is Commons Clause + Apache. Not 100% sure about it, but it seems fair - the goal is to allow anyone to use fully featured version for free, with source available and sharing allowed (basically "Right to Repair"), but with a restriction on selling to 3rd parties, which allows me (or potential other future maintainers) to sell convenience - hosted service, support and similar. This is not set in stone though, so I would appreciate (constructive) feedback.
i am a student and even using nano makes me feel less efficient and productive.

is there something I am missing out by not using vim?
Adding support for Mind Maps to https://diagram.codes.
Current project is "how to entertain the kids after days at home without leaving the house or playing with the neighbors' kids.

Other than that, I've been trying to shore up some long standing bugs with a side project (hostedapachesolr.com) that I've been meaning to get around to for 3+ years.
Do you know https://www.starregistry.com/about? They started in 1979 but there are many more companies like that.

Your post has made me remember that someone gave me one of their kits as a gift in the late 90's but I have no clue where it could be now.
For blind? yes. It is designed to be anonymous from your employer. Many employers, especially those for which employees would enjoy anonymous complaining, have TLS-intercepting middleboxes.
I guess it depends on your semantics/mental model of what a pipeline should do. My mental model says that each part should run fully, and the pipeline should emulate sequential behavior, with "yes" being a bit of a hack in this regard. Cases where the behavior of a pipeline depends on the internal buffer size and operation ordering (e.g. what if rm decided to print everything it did only after removing everything?) seem like bugs to me. Maybe your mental model is different?

In any case, I think that in the vast majority of pipelines, the default SIGPIPE behavior is not what is desired.
Why should it be the default ?

Animations help less experienced users understand what is going on and the relationships between objects. Plus they just make the experience more interesting and fun. An important aspect if you're newer and have to spend time climbing the learning curve.

And Apple gave expert users, who aren't their core audience, a two click way to switch it all off. So not sure what more you want from them.
I'm on a self-imposed sabbatical i.e. graduate school so I'm able to do quick context switching between the following things (no specific orders):

1. FINALLY, reading, chewing and digesting LISP. I can see the 'magical' prowess in it- but still not fully there.

2. Formalizing and standardizing an algorithm for one-shot learning using 'old-school' machine learning techniques that is freaking light-weight. Performs well on my problem set i.e. recognizing users from their mouse patterns (with as little as 10 secs of activity). But standardizing it to test it and benchmarking and then hopefully releasing it. Publication implementing the algorithm got rejected though :(

3. Growing highest quality and fresh produce indoors. Covid-19 has impacted some of my personal financial capacity but still doing my best. hexafarms.com

4. Writing essays.

5. A DSL for API testing (with things like API chaining, replay attacks, etc.)- the idea is to stack features slowly and then put a UI on top of it. Something like BurpSuite for those in the cysec space, but for programmers and pointy-haired bosses alike.
Wow. I love JF and, obviously, this idea as it's pretty much on the same basis. I'd love to send it to him as soon as it's done — if anyone can help me with this, I'd be more than grateful

Indeed, there are problems with Twitter, people take stuff out of context and like to be polarized. But just as you say, the first time I interacted with Twitter I loved the fact that I had to "distill" my idea.

Kinda like Vodka — you keep distilling alcohol until you purify it (or close to it). What you're saying about "refining the idea" made me think about this.
This is a super neat tool—thank you for creating and sharing!
I like to think about software that helps you think. Knowledge management, wikis, outliners, task managers, mind-mapping tools, and so on. There's a piece of software called TheBrain (https://thebrain.com/) which I really like; it does a great job of letting you make connections between different topics that are connected in your mind.

However, I prefer the usability of an outliner. So I'm making a web app that is basically TheBrain but visualized as an outliner instead of a mind-map.

There's a prototype available here if the concept sounds interesting to anyone else: https://thinktool.io/
Yep but I was looking for a turnkey solution. What you describe are workarounds. I tried several grocery management apps, and a lot of these did just that: Prompt me for data when a barcode did not result in a matched product. This is not the experience I personally tolerate and am looking for. For an app to get integrated in my grocery shopping, product identification needs to work seamlessly and reliably
How I use the Speech Synthesis API on my blog
Working on https://acrossapp.com for the past 3 weeks. Built a side project when everyone started WFH: https://hallway.chat
Isn't this still better than nothing?
Not at all. It's missing some of the more advanced features of the paid version and has only a very basic plugin bundle, but it's entirely useable. Unlike the free or cheap version of many other DAWs, it doesn't have any track count limits or restrictions on importing third-party plugins.

Just add an audio interface, a MIDI controller and a smattering of free plugins like the Komplete Start bundle and you'd be well equipped to start making music.

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/bund...
That is silly! Why a toilet paper run when you can simply use the fingers of your right hand and some water?

You Westerners have lost touch with reality.
Fantastic Stavros, I love it. Really close concepts we've got here. I thought of exactly what you've made a few weeks ago as... some words may or may not be jargon on a certain "layer" of my essay format. So what I barely-envisioned was what you put into code here. Will bookmark it!
“The New COBOL” (Benno Rice): what will be the *next* most-hated language?
Especially now that the speaking circuit / conference presentation / business world celebrity career path has come to a sudden unexpected dead end due to COVID.
Transforming the Ledger CLI in a REST API: ledgersight.com
Working on a search engine that responds with a conversation instead of a list of search results.

The conversation helps you to narrow down what you're looking for. I.e. a combination between a chatbot and a search engine.
thanks for the link I didn't know about this project. However here it's specifically a project to learn C :) but your link is still full a useful information (notably their dungeon generation algorithm )