skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to pick side projects based on all the things they say you should; does it have a large addressable market, does it solve customer pain points, are people willing to prepay before you start working on it etc.
And I would get to a point where I would give up because the projects, chosen this way, were not fun anymore and I would stop working on them.

So instead I now pick things that I find to be fun to me to work on. Instead of solving customer pain points, I try and solve a pain point that I have.
I'm liking it thus far
Pretty cool.

You don't happen to have some ping comparisons betwen WebRTC and WebSockets?
Same goes for Vim. Too inaccessible for new devs. There has got to be a modern, fast alternative with sane defaults. I am going to build it unless it already exists.
Some of my younger family wanted to play Monopoly: as only a couple were remote (only one in the end) we decided to host it locally on a board, and have people join by webcam (https://meet.jit.si/).

Worked quite well.

I asked a related question about playing boardgames via webcam here https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/50797/what-ho... and have a self-answer about our experience.

They're planning on Risk next, but I fancy Catan with multiple boards (not sure how to work it; we only have the base game).

We'd considered Table-Top Simulator, but webcam gave us more human interaction which seemed more important for the kids (they chose the real board over the virtual one). They already have lots of video gaming time which might have influenced the decision.

(FWIW there's an unofficial mod for Monopoly on T-TSim.)
Sometimes blame can be shared among more than just one. If I go run around on the highway and someone hits me, is it purely the fault of the driver that hit me? Is it victim blaming to say I should not have run around on the highway?
Slow is smooth; smooth is fast.
Designing Network Design Spaces
I am not sure about all of them but I know Secret Hitler has a license for non-commercial use listed on their website. https://www.secrethitler.com/

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
A full task-isolation mode for the kernel
COVID-19 just isn't that important on the global scale.

Car accidents last year almost certainly cost way more QALYs* than COVID-19 will this year (particularly if Imperial College in their 13th report is right about how badly undercounted the case numbers are).

* Car accidents affect most ages and health levels relatively equally, while COVID-19 mostly kills the old and infirm who are unhealthy, with poor quality of life and have few years left.
Show HN: Snipr – Board game I invented while cycling for 8000 miles
The pandemic is really bringing out the personalities of civilians, scientists and world leaders alike, from people hoarding essential supplies to scientist making racist remarks like this to world leaders stopping the export of masks and other kinds of aid to the neighbors. "Hangover from the colonial mentality" is the best way to phrase this. Hope the scientists really meant it when the apologized and we all behave like the civilized people we claim to be!
While I was cycling between Lisbon and Istanbul I was in need of some offline form of entertainment, especially during cold nights in a tarp.

To keep the mind busy while climbing steep Greek roads, I began coming up with rules for a board game.

In the daytime I'd come up with rules, to be tested and night. Having no dices, I toyed around with pen, paper, and a handful of coins.

I have decided to release this game the other day, for free and under a Creative Commons license.

Maybe it can be useful during these times of boredom, especially if you want to avoid screens for a bit.
Blargg's NTSC Libraries
A sponge makes a molecule that stops the growth of cervical cancer cells
Which means it's definitely not limited to US politics then.
That's a good question, I honestly don't know. My guess would be that MFI is essentially a checklist of all supported magnetic functionality, and therefore the experience Apple can promise in its marketing (ie, in addition to collecting fees, they don't want a user to blame Apple when a non-approved case doesn't work). I'd wager that a non-MFI case with magnets in the right places would still work; I don't think constraining to pre-approved RFID codes or anything like that.
Impressive port. I still remember back in the day, when setting a background image in Windows resulted in a big performance hit.
Seems like the only correct response to that level of prediction is increasing investment in studying the problem.

Which has largely happened in a lot of areas...

except for the people who think the correct response is to ignore any prediction that isn't perfectly specific?
Musth
Maybe a job interview is a good example? You both are pretending this one company is your highest priority and you have noble reasons for wanting to work there. Not just exchanging labor for currency....

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-08-17
I think you're not reading his comment in good faith. He's clearly not suggesting that whether or not something is true is decided by a vote of scientists. He's saying that the people who are most familiar with the science overwhelmingly believe that the evidence suggests that global warming is in fact real.

Further, people are wise to be skeptical or even dismissive of climate denialist claims because there is a long history of politically motivated people making deliberately but subtly specious arguments for it. Given both the overwhelming consensus and the glut of misinformation, it makes sense to filter it with a very high bar.
RockAuto's easily navigable catalog is what has gotten them $5000+ in sales from me over the years.

Autozone / NAPA try, but the catalogs are clunky and require many page loads to navigate to a given item. Once you find an item, it's a crapshoot whether the listing will be items that are actually for sale at a store near me. Half the time the first 5 items will be "generic" parts that don't actually fit my car anyway.

RockAuto lets you drill down to the exact part you need, compare 5+ different brands on the spot and add it to the cart without ever changing pages. It's a real triumph of slim web design.
The use of https://kosmi.io/ here is what I found more interesting. I've never heard of this service before but it's a great idea. Reminds me of some much less...polished chat services I've used in the past to group-watch videos. It's nice to see the concept fleshed out more with a public lobby and a Discord-like client.
No one will respond to this because it is promising news. Sad.
You are right. It is decided because not only do almost 100% of climate scientists agree, but there in indisputable proof of the basic method of action (CO2, CH4, H20 greenhouse effects) and we can measure that effect in the lab and then correlated it to measured climate change that normalized for various known climate cycles. The consensus in the fields is driven by the overwhelming evidence of the multidisciplinary field results, experiments, and modeling.

The benefit of science (reproducibility, falsifiability) has been hacked by commercial interests. This isn't even in dispute (Heartland, IER, many others). Groups that dispute climate change are all funded by CO2 emitters and the results are coordinated by enormous lobbying and donation campaigns.

Flat earth proponents are not operating within a scientific framework of doubt and proof, and neither are climate change deniers.
> Somewhat tangential note: most developers I have met do not understand what a 'container' is.

The problem is at least in part that the term is basically meaningless. It's too broad and flexible to be descriptive. As you quoted:

> A “container” is just a term people use to describe a combination of Linux namespaces and cgroups.
Discord for a company is a bad idea. The best part of slack is slack integrations. Sooner or later you are going to miss the option of your CRM talking to Slack
My main experience with their site is the incredibly aggressive and trigger-happy bot filter. If you reload a page a few times due to a bad connection, they block you. Not "solve this captcha to continue", just "go away, we're not letting you in".
SEO effectively means catering to whatever metrics Google happens to be focusing on at the moment. It's supposed to reward "good" content, but there's really no way of automatically judging what's "good" content so Google relies on all these other methods that are open to abuse.

Whatever way Google rates websites has a direct effect on the web itself. In a way they're a victim of their own success.
The "containers are just XX Linux technology" comes regularly in the comments but it’s untrue: Windows containers are obviously not based on any Linux tech proper.

Also the overhead intuition exists for a reason: on both macOS and Windows when Linux containers are used, there is actually a whole VM running Linux underneath. And Windows containers come in two flavors, one being Hyper-V based, so again a VM tech comes in play.

So there are technical reasons why containers are "misunderstood", it’s because most people don’t run Linux natively, and on their stack containers are more than just cgroups and namespaces.
You guys are still doing this..?
> Now also consider that unlike flu, we have no vaccine and the virus kills people in the prime of their life just as much as the elderly.

Not with the same rates. This should be kept into account, because when lockdowns will be lifted (you will have to at some point, even if it's just to prevent people from becoming insane), you won't have a risk of 0, so letting the lowest-risk population out first is a goood bet.

> Now also consider that unlike flu, we have no vaccine

But there are drugs in development and in trial. None will work miracles, some will not work at all, some will have marginal impact, some will have a little more impact. Those are the best bets at this point in time.

Waiting out for a vaccine, like many governments are hoping for, is irrational IMO, because there's no guarantee that a working one will be found - and you can't lock up your population for 18 months, even if you don't factor the economy in, because people will be destroyed psychologically.
Do you need to stick with it?

Side projects are a good way to harness raw energy to learn a lot of things hands-on in a rapid amount of time. But it also might be a good thing to not continue to venture deeply down a path just because you have started something.

I have multiple personal experiences where I have tried my best to develop my side project (or part-time business)
into a full-time business - with less than stellar results. Yes, I have built a tool or service! Yes, it works and provides value! Yes, people will even pay for it! But can it pay all the bills? Is it worth the stress? Is it even the right tangent to be on, as a business?

In addition you have financial costs and there's can be a massive opportunity cost (years of effort) to "sticking with it". Holding your cards when you naturally feel like folding may not be worth it either and it often takes years to find that out.
Likewise Firefox on Android.

(Page jumps around when I try to scroll, graphs are off the edge of the screen with no horizontal scrollbar, and sliders don't do anything)
That's circular logic. If patient A dies of heart failure during a covid-19 infection, you should not be concluding that the patient likely had a heart issue prior to the covid-19 infection.

Sure, it might be the case, but you cannot draw any conclusion here unless you compare it to other pneumonia cases.
Yeah, it is odd that Zoom is even used in the title of the submission at all. Given the current zoom media storm, it is obvious clickbait since the actual linked site does not mention Zoom anywhere. A better title might be "Play Social Games Like Werewolf and Secret Hitler Remotely"

I'd say Jackbox.tv would be a good name drop instead of Zoom since they've popularized the "code sharing Gameroom website" technology.
A new weapon in arbitration: sheer volume
Surgeons usually recommend more surgery and pharmacists more pills. It may not be conscious bias, but human nature tilts each to favor solutions toward their own skill sets.

My manager want's "pretty URL's" even though it's not a good idea to bookmark CRUD detail pages. It creates internal code messes to keep them pretty. It's yet another me-too feature that bloats the stack. I proposed a compromise, but he really wants them pretty.

There are too few K.I.S.S Cops in IT; the Bloat Mafia reigns. Warren Buffett says part of the secret to getting rich is confidence and conviction to say "no" when the logic and numbers don't support an idea but peer pressure says "yes". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22795294
We haven't gone through the "microservices" craze for pretty scientific reasons: I dislike smug talking "Chief Wizards/Architects/Scientists" who've been writing posts and giving talks on architecture, clean code, and refactoring, based on that one project in the eighties. Reminds me of those phony martial arts "gurus" who are all about abstract ideas and "energy" channeling, complicating the simple to sell seminars and subscriptions.

Anytime something is discussed, we ask ourselves if that change will improve users' lives. I am sure these are useful for other people at different maturity levels of software, but it is not for us, right now.

This is why we don't use React, Angural, Webpack and a ton of other things and libraries that are useful for others but add no value to us and only increase. We avoid adding complexity unless it's really worth it, and worth it for the users, not to give us pleasure of using a new library. We have side projects for that.
If you're interested on a more modern game with similar gameplay, Diabotical is in open beta soon https://www.diabotical.com/

I was in the closed beta - it really satisfies the quake style deathmatching itch I've had lately.
I think it more related to a mastery of a skill that is difficult to master. Such that knowing that skill sets one apart from the average programmer.

I am not sure of a good example tech, but maybe something like being the one person in the shop that has completely mastered a subject matter area that others haven't bothered to learn because it is too hard/confusing? Maybe, the device driver coder versus the application coder, etc. The amount of hours put in grinding at the office may be the same, but some people have mastered skills that are perceived as elite over other skills.

Pointe is a first level elite skill in Ballet. Some dancers may learn pointe faster or slower than others, but most dancers never will. By the time dancers are decent/comfortable on pointe and yet still far from professional level, they will be in an elite group.

edit-to-add: A big weakness with my analogous examples is that I feel that any decent programmer can learn device drive programming, difficult APIs, new data structures/algos, and so on, if they put the time in.

In contrast, many dancers that would like to dance pointe will be unable to, no matter how hard they try. Same with figure skaters who want to land a single Axel in competition. Chess mastery might be a good example too.
FreeCodeCamp listed the top developer skills for 2020
I think there are a range of software businesses that are now viable given the maturity of the mobile money systems, the penetration of smartphones and coverage of data networks. B2C is tough as purchasing power is low, but if you get to significant enough scale it works out. I'm seeing physical products do better for now in B2C, e.g there are a lot of so called pay as you go solar product players with decent investment now. I think B2B is still pretty untapped though and is personally what I'd explore more. Lots of businesses require tech solutions that solve challenges specific to a doing business context in East Africa. There are a lot of startups in Nairobi now, but quality is wildly variable. There are lots of gaps to fill!
Just trying to get the word out about a natural compound that is found in nature that promotes ANTIVIRAL Activity in Humans and Animals. This is the link behind the scientific evidence of this https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4676993/
And here’s a link to the only liquid filled supplement. The dry powders have been shown to not be easily absorbed in the body.
This is the only one I could find that has enhanced bioavailability.
www.resvantage.com
Why would you assume they want to? Opinion shows are the only thing watched on Fox News, they are the primetime lineup. Everything else is filler.
That is an interesting point and I'm not sure how public health officials are treating it. I'm in tech WFH so I don't see even half my life being lost from the lockdown (maybe 20%), but YMMV.
It looks like you may have the same cart that I do. Hint: in case the bearings fail, go-kart bearings are an excellent and higher-quality replacement and they're the same size. I load mine with 200+ lbs of hay at a time and haven't seen any problems since.
Hi, I’ve actually used BurnerApp to get a number that you pay monthly for. Something along the lines of 5$ for every 90 days I believe.
Recipe blogs are the worst! Just get to the goods already!
I hear Sigonas Market has their own delivery service. I go to their store in Redwood City and at the Stanford Shopping Center, but dunno if they'd deliver to or have shops in MV. Prices are quite good on some items, but they're not full-service (no meat, I think).
Lyft probably decided it was cheaper to eat the $70 than admit this attack vector exists.
That is very kind! Thank you -- I think it is time to get back into writing...
I feel nowadays containers generally refer to the concept, and cgroups and namespaces are the implementation details of a specific container runtime. These are very important implementation details for security and performance, but it doesn't fundamentally impact how you structure your containerized application.

You can take the same container image, and run using Docker, Firecracker, gVisor, or many other container runtimes. Some of them are exactly "like a VM, but lighter".
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I think a lot of people are probably unfamiliar with any definition of "imprint" that would cause them to look there. I know I can't explain what it means in this context.
Also beware of phony Magento sites that don't have actual products, but are just trying to get CCs, PayPal or crypto payments.
ya this has rapidly the last few years become the standard in Canada. I think the government mandated all the major providers enable it/support it and they did some tests and people initially freaked out (phone alerts at odd hours alarmed people) but then 'for the greater good' people got used to it (and learning to use volume and DND settings). Main use is timely emergency alerts for missing children. Used to be done across television and radio (still is I suppose, not sure, less people have cable television and who's got the radio on). Proven effective on a number of occasions too. And especially in recent coronavirus times it's been used to send more general notices for the first time insisting people stay home/self-isolate and warning travellers returning home from abroad to quarantine for 14 days.
Well, and that's exactly the source of the confusion. I was sent a "Netflix Party" link recently and sure enough, it was a regular Netflix.com URL that loaded and played the movie we were planning to watch. I had no idea until I was told that I needed to switch to Chrome and install a browser extension before it would actually do the synchronized play.

If it was "Watch Together" or something, it would immediately clue me in that there was something else I was going to need to install or sign up for in order to make it work.

Regarding discoverability, can't Chrome extensions register themselves to handle custom schemas? If Netflix Party gave you a party://netflix/movie-id/session-id URL, then it would fail to resolve on a machine without the plugin installed, while still not requiring any centralized infrastructure.
Your response is quite remarkable. PG's article contrasts 1) the careful predictions of experts, who study an issue in depth their entire life and pronounce on it carefully based on scientific models, with 2) the remarks of politically motivated hacks that seek to distract from the consensus for their own political agenda, often with remarkable (but unjustified) confidence.

PG warns against 2), the hacks, and points out that here we can see how utterly wrong they are, because the time frame is so short.

Now, GP points out that something similar happens regarding climate change, with 1') climate scientists and 2') climate change denial, and you take PG's warning against facile hacks (ie 2') and apply it to 1'), the climate scientists and experts? That's quite some nerve.
No.

The locally-used name here, "Spomeniks", more precisely groups and identifies these structures than the foreign word "Memorial" would. Calling them by another name would make it difficult to communicate usefully about them, while simultaneously stripping away a piece of their cultural heritage: their native-language name.

Additionally, as the article notes, Spomenik translates to Monument in english, not Memorial. They may be both "Spomeniks" and "Monuments", but the more precise name "Spomeniks" uniquely refers to them, while the less precise name "Monuments" refers to millions of other objects not associated with this Yugoslavian cultural effort as well. Prior argument applies.

For example, we call "Stonehenge" and "Moai" by their locally-used names. They may also be "Monuments", but they have more precise names available, which are widely used.
An experienced software engineer (yeah, developer) has experience engineering software. It’s been less than 10yrs since the advent of containerized deployments, and the space has been fraught with change nearly on par with the front end JavaScript ecosystem. Might as well just stick to writing code. OK, that’s the perception of my own peers, but I assume it scales.

DevOps is a recent advent, too, and sounds to me like it should be populated with folks who can participate in development and operations. Most developers I’ve ever known aren’t interested in operations.
Does building an IDE based on Theia provide significant benefit over simply releasing a plugin for vscode?
The "pro desk," garden center, and the returns desk are all places where I am able to have someone check me out. As you said, I don't work for Home Depot. However if you're getting penny clearance items the self checkout is the place to visit.
I don't disagree with your CNN comment, but the severity, consistency and magnitude of F-NEWS's lies doesn't compete with anyone tbh. They're on their own category.
Are these curated? There are a few that seem quite smug (eg "deep work"). Be careful in what you choose.
Oops, I didn't catch that when I posted. Hard to read small print on a phone. I'll pick up the first one!
It makes it easier for people to dismiss it; it actually is easier to learn.

Erlang it took me two weeks to become proficient enough to write useful things, without any real FP background. That includes leveraging OTP.

Even with that in place (plus a lot of Java, Javascript, some others, plus many more years of experience), it took me longer to be comfortable with Elixir, and there are still bits that surprise me or bite me (pinning a variable to match it rather than rebind it, macros, etc).
I just tried this out, and it works fine for at least one of the local organizations here, both in Google and DuckDuckGo (530-926-4698).

I just tried it with my own number, and my site comes up with both search engines as well.
Stealing requires intent, generally.