skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think it’s complicated, you’re overthinking it. Using Kayfabe as a lens on the world doesn't mean assuming mass collaboration of seeming opponents, it means assuming self-centered organizations are working an audience for their own gain (and that interpretation checks out with Occam's razor better than many publicly accepted narratives of events).

This might be a better description than the linked article: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/magazine/is-everything-wr...

>Pro wrestling, unexpectedly, gave me a real insight into how the public is "worked" by celebrities, politicians, and so on. I often find myself being the first to see through these facades and explaining them to others, pointing out how individuals benefit from portraying a "character" of sorts. For instance, MMA fans that were never involved in pro wrestling are baffled by individuals like Chael Sonnen and Connor McGregor, when to us it is very clear what these individuals are doing months and years in advance of them simply being labeled as "liars and exaggerators" by the community at large.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/4laat6/is_ev...

>Politics and Public Relations certainly correlate with booking in wrestling. Anything does when you have to "work a crowd". During the 2012 election, the group of people I was with was amused when I was able to correctly "book" the Democratic Convention, predicting some "spots and promos" from the speakers, who was coming out when and why.

>After President Obama gave his speech, I said, "Obama is struggling to get over with the liberals this cycle and his convention speech had to play to the center, so they're going to send Bill out there to give him the rub." Right on cue, out walks Bill and the crowd pops.

>I couldn't help it. The convention felt booked like a WWE PPV. I spoke like I would gathered around the sofa watching WWE with some friends. That wasn't a reassuring feeling, realizing the world is a work, booked to pop a crowd.
Since then, the correlation is only more apparent, just like this article describes. The next time someone criticizes wrestling for being fake, I want them to show me something that isn't.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/4laat6/is_ev...
How to Build Better Forms?
So the value is not really about "education"?
It's a German registered association (e.V.), i.e. it's not only a single company or person behind it. Funding is done by membership fees. As a member you also get insights (regular newsletter) into the financial situation, e.g. how much money is on the bank account.
Because when someone is asked to do something, generally their first reaction is to do it because that's how they've been conditioned. Especially if they don't really understand that saying no is a totally valid response.

You see this exploited constantly by GDPR popups designed to default to giving the site everything and requiring the user to put an ounce of thought into opting out.
https://peterme.net - If you've heard about Nim and want to see what someone is doing with it. Along with various other projects and presentations I do.
>Universities should not be responsible for both education and assessment.

Easier said than done. In more niche disciplines, the only people qualified to evaluate student attainment are other academics in the same discipline. At UK universities, grades are routinely reviewed by an "external examiner" from a separate institution. In my experience, the result of this additional scrutiny has usually be to put grades up rather than lower them.
That last line is interesting. Can you please provide any links for further reading?
I used to be of that mindset (re: become a republic) but tbh I'm more of the line of thinking, if it ain't broke... With the parliamentary style of government, you need a figurehead. So you'd have to tear up a whole host of UK conventions going back centuries and re-jig everything, just so someone else gets the ceremonial role?

Much as some might like a complete re-write, I say expand the unit tests around it if minor bugs arise ( e.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15492607 ) and let the system run unless a major blocker comes up ;)
Cherry picking facts that strengthen only one side of an argument is as bad, or even worse than getting the facts wrong. "Wrong facts" are easily caught. Facts that are omitted or those that are presented without context are only discernible to someone who knows the subject, and otherwise appears balanced and well argued to anyone who isn't an expert.

Pointing out the omission of facts isn't "wanting an echo chamber".
Jerry (YC S17) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers (Toronto)
I have also placed maybe a dozen Home Depot orders over the years with no issue. Including a fridge that was delivered last month. I also like their app.

Apparently I’m an outlier.
Defoe’s account of the Great Plague of 1665 has startling parallels with today
I know HHKB are good quality, but I'm looking for a Tenkeyless (i.e. without numpad) keyboard, my muscle memory is too ingrained by now I fear.

Also pretty ridiculous that the two USB ports are mini USB.

I don't really have a budget if I could find the right keyboard, but after searching extensively there is none that checks all the boxes. Either I need to give up the USB ports, go with full size or go with lower quality (Das Keyboard).

I thank you nonetheless for the suggestion!
0.1% of 1.4B is still 1.4 millions
>someone with asthma can be on full, never-working-again disability in the USA.

This depends on the severity of the asthma and other factors. As I said, you don't know this person's medical history or the details of all the conditions they may have. I think it's tasteless to suggest that someone who most likely has quite a serious medical condition has "lucked out".

>I haven't passed any judgement on whether it's good or bad.

Ha!
Chinese outlet gains access to coronavirus press briefing, promotes Beijing
It really feels like in 2020 it's possible for a one or two person team to create a successful hardware company.
I'm not American and have no interest in that side of stuff. Keep your partisan political terms and debates to yourselves.

Call them forced to migrate, indented servants or whatever makes yourself feel good. I'll stick with the accurate term for such.

Edit: Sorry for being a dick, I made assumptions there.
How to Use Your DSLR Camera as a Webcam in Linux
In a Pandemic, Tech Workers Are Also Essential Workers
Not a lawyer but I suspect it would depend on the country.

As an example there are clauses written into ToS which don't allow refunds on digital purchases. These work fine in the US but are illegal in countries with stronger consumer protections like Australia. US companies do still have to obey local laws - at least when it comes to the sale of faulty goods.
> Cherry picking facts

OP's assertion was that the literature review didn't went as deep as he felt like it should with regards to a single data point.

That's not remotely comparable to cherry picking.
Home Depot was pretty good until 2 things.

They used to hire people with actual experience in the building trades as well as regular store clerk types. The store clerks launched a lawsuit saying they were being discriminated against, and won. This was basically the end of being able to attract talent from the building trades as the settlement required clerks to have the same opportunities as skilled people.

The other thing was the hiring of the guy who used to run Burger King, who put the final nail in the coffin.
The only thing I can say I learned from Engineering school is math. 4 years of my career completely changed my mind about what Engineering is.

I didn't know I would be solving problems.

Good that they teach math, but there's a giant disconnect between academia and industry.
Personally, I kind of like the balance of gogs/gitea on that subject.

You can switch language quite easily using the menu in the bottom center/right.

Also, in a self hosted context you can disable/enable languages in the configuration file easily.

Also, if you find the translation really bad (I think in most cases, the default translation is from MS automatic translation), you cam easily contribute to it:

-> https://crowdin.com/project/gitea

I personally contributed to the French translation a few years ago, which was really bad in Gogs at the time, specially with some over translation of technical terms such as "git commit" which was translated to "git commission" (a bit weird and laughable since "faire une commission" can be a weird formal way to say "pooping" in some contexts).

I took me a few hours to go through a few of the message strings and propose an hopefully better translation. It's quite easy to contribute to the project in this manner, far easier than contributing code.

Lastly keep in mind that gogs was created by a Chinese developer, and I'm half expecting that Chinese developers are not as fluent in English as developers from India or Europe. In this context, pushing for an internationalized service is a good call vs an English only UI.
Commenting so I can find this thread later but since you asked here is mine: http://prog.re/blog/
It mainly exists so that I can practice writing but I don't post very much (2 years between posts).
The Five Levels of Remote Work – and why you’re probably at Level 2
Senator Perdue's stock portfolio remained active during pandemic
It sounds a bit more understandable if you rephrase it as "a small group of largely unpaid volunteers should find a solution for which millions of users and several billion-dollar businesses will happily abandon their current long-running and well-tested solutions".
I think you are working with an oversimplified model of graphics programming if you think graphics code runs just on the GPU.

But even in this ideal scenario, there would already big sacrifices involved in just offloading this stuff to GPUs: Sacrifices in SW complexity and development time moving from programmer-friendly CPU code to hard-to-program GPU interfaces.

The reality is in fact a CPU+GPU juggling setup where interacting CPU and GPU computations must be carefully coordinated and performance-tuned.

If the CPU bottleneck didn't exist and we could do without today's GPUs, we could make better graphics applications (games) given the same investment and technical engineering competence, and game developer life would be much more pleasant.

(There's an alternate history of more programmer friendly GPUs of course too, see eg the Larrabee story)
For my workload I've struggled to see the advantage containers would give me. Maybe someone here can convince me, rather than the current justification of 'docker all the things'.

We have servers, they handle a lot of traffic. It's the only thing running on the machines and takes over all the resources of the machine. It will need all the RAM, and all 16 vCPUs are at ~90%.

It's running on GCP. To rollout we have a jenkins job that builds a tag, creates a package (dpkg) and builds an image.
There's another jenkins job that deploys the new image to all regions and starts the update process, autoscaling and all that.

Can containers help me here?
Stanford has made a toilet that identifies you based on your butthole
My speculation (I have no data) as to why it works:

Showing this to everybody shows it more reliably to those who actually will sign up. It is hard to target the right people reliably (maybe they deleted their cookies, maybe they use a different device...) so if you just show it to everybody the right people will definitely see it. First time visitors still won't sign up, but significantly more established readers will.
Cool to see someone else using a numeronym as the domain name - I also choose to do so for my site, but haven't any interesting content to share for now.
The thing about a hash though, is any client could create the hash, or verify it. You could even have consensus ala blockchain type thing.

I guess if we use message-id, then a signed message from the mailserver with the message id would do. But signed messages still usually contain a hash of the thing they sign, no?
Public speeches are about making listeners feel good about your speech so you get hired to speak again. They are not meant to convince or teach and no part of it matters for the future.
“Chaos Engineering” – Published by O'Reilly
Sounds about right for a couple of weeks in a summer locked indoors. Thanks
You can find my blog at https://ultimatemachine.se - It's pretty awesome if you're interested in human peak performance, building and running SaaS-products as an Indie Hacker or software engineering in general. I recently quit my CTO job to pursue a solo career building fun & useful products and services with software.
A cyber-security related blog:
https://thiebaut.dev/

I like quality content and hence aim to provide what I am looking for. When publishing, I want to teach the subject. The few posts I aim to publish per year do need to include everything from theory to source-code, accompanied by working proof-of-concepts. The internet is full of content, I want mine to be worth its place. Last but not least, it has to be innovative; no need to reinvent the wheel one more time.
> People will rebuy good products,

The big reason advertisers show the ads for products you already purchased is also to reinforce their brand. If you buy some stupid cable, you wont remember the name of the company that made it, but you will if they show you the add couple of times in a row and will likely to buy the things there again even if it not the same product.
If you go back as far as the 60s then you're not really comparing like for like. People don't want the level of medical care that the average American got in the 1960s.
Not if they're a University; yes if they're a short-termist capitalist enterprise.
The article cites examples from 30 years ago of a local manager(s), working for a Coca-Cola bottler (not Coca-Cola), directing a hit on union members (the article itself is from almost 20 years ago). That's terrible but Colombia went through a de facto civil war and was (is?) a violent place in the best of times. I do think you may be overstating Coca-Cola's involvement.
Ask HN: As an indi-Hacker, How have you manage to stay disciplined and focused?
I have been working as a remote developer since one and a half years now. I find myself working very little some days and a lot some days. Since working from home, I often end up watching some random YouTube clip or reading some stupid article which will never do me any good or sometimes running errands take over my work hours. Have you faced this problem? Did you try anything that helped you tackle this problem?
https://techinch.com as my long-running personal blog, mostly with software reviews, thought pieces on personal technology, and links to posts I've published elsewhere. I don't publish on it nearly enough—but it's the connecting thread between everything else I've published at other sites.

And https://capiche.com/e is my work blog—focused on software pricing, starting with this software inflation rate article: https://capiche.com/e/software-inflation-rate
The pure act of representional drawing (drawing what you see, "copying it") needs just two basic actions: measuring and comparing.

For that, you have to teach yourself how to see things in the most objective way possible, without meaning. Don't see a dog or a head or a leg, but just a mass of shapes, lines, areas. Measure them, compare them. It's all about that.

People think drawing is in the hand, but it is in the eyes and in learning how to see things differently.

Good luck! It can be very therapeutic and rewarding.
Anecdote: Drove the other day around my small town and never exceeded the speed limit and was actually 5-10 MPH below whereas normally I'm 5-10 over. It was Sunday, I wasn't in a rush but the lack of other vehicles certainly changed my driving style.
Sorry you feel that way. I'm an independent creator and agree there's lots of room for improvement on everything I build, sometimes I do the thing that works/is quickest to do, move on, and then revisit when I have time - the design of the site, web optimisation techniques, a11y best practices, offline support, less gimmicky call-to-actions, marking deprecated features are examples of things I defo want to prioritise and get done - but I agree with you, I don't want to annoy anyone so I should focus what you mentioned first.

Btw using mobile emulation I tried iPhone 5/SE/6/7/8/X, and on none of those did the signup form take up the whole screen. Maybe it's because the emulation doesn't have browser frames? Either way will eventually shrink that down so it doesn't occupy so much screen real estate.

> Why if I’ve never even seen your site, do you think that the first thing I want to do is divulge my email address to you and receive spam?

Don't know why you think my emails are spam! I think there are nicer way to convey your message, but appreciate you are sharing your thoughts. I myself often use uBlock origin to select + remove sticky headers/sidebars/ads which often detract from the main reading experience.
This is an article about Oliver Cromwell, where the author completely brushes off the atrocities he committed in Ireland.

You are correct that as well as all the murder and disenfranchisement and land confiscation, it was only indentured servitude (in Caribbean plantations, where the servants often died before their term of servitude was complete) and not chattel slavery.

But that's not really enough to accuse people of being racist assholes.
Visibility Bias in the Instagram Era
I'm under the impression they are nonprofit, so the money has to go somewhere?

Charity status for public schools is a tax avoidance strategy. They're not really non-profits.
COBOL-coding volunteers sought as slammed mainframes slow NJ's Covid-19 response
https://www.thestreet.com/investing/bank-of-america-changes-...

might be getting better now
https://www.ignition-training.com/posts

It's a blog about being a technical trainer. It's new, so there's only a few posts at the moment, but I have lots of notes for future posts. It covers training skills, course development skills, and managing instructors.

The blog is new, but I have been an instructor for nearly twenty years and wanted to share some things I have learned from being on the ground. It's a view that I have not seen in other blogs.
Linux++ (April 5, 2020)
I can never figure out a nice color combination by myself, no matter how hard i try. I have to resort to online resources such as this in the end.
will comment here so for my bookmark. i wrote my own static site generator as a learning experience.

https://www.staticfire.site
Read again:

> I don't know if they left out those facts because it didn't fit with the tone of the magazine of if they failed to do their research properly

> I came to the conclusion that it was the former

OP is explicit that they left out facts that didn't "fit the tone of their magazine". That's pretty much the definition of cherry picking. And leaving out facts always has the advantage of falling back on plausible deniability.
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 72
Are the weird edge cases easily fixable through some conntrack source patches? Or will they require major surgery to address?
Good intro. I can relate, I had to debug conntrack dropping packets and performance issues and it's not easy. Cherry on top, there aren't two distributions taking the same settings.

Also have a look into the conntrack hashsize. The conntrack connection table is a hashtable and the hashsize is how many buckets it has. This affect collisions, memory consumption and cache hits.

Then conntrack timeouts settings, that decide when connections can be released from the tables. Connections can be hold by default for minutes even after close. The most trivial performance test can cycle a million connections in a minute and put down any system using conntrack.

I wouldn't have guessed that cloudflare relied heavily on conntrack. It's not that scalable or easy to use IMO.
Honest opinion on API first mail hosting platform
Hey everyone,

I'm Pavin Joseph, founder and Systems Engineer at Mailcheap (mailcheap.co). Signed up since I saw a post on IndieHackers that to get the "Hard Truth" I should "launch on HN", so here I am...

Mailcheap has been in business for almost 5 years now but the platform was completely overhauled last month after more than an year of work on an API-first mail hosting solution.

I appreciate any and all feedback :)
http://diydsp.blogspot.com

ive been documenting the design ups and downs of a new class of musical instrument which hybridizes electronic and acoustic sound. you hear first performances and tech details demo'd and explained.
It's the opposite surely.

Suppose you pay £8000 for a course of lectures, with materials and access to laboratories. Then the provider fire the lecturer, close the laboratories, ... surely you see there's an educational deficit then. It may be true you can pass an exam from the course texts and online materials that remain available, but the educational benefit would be exceedingly diminished.
https://letsmeetin.space

‘Cause the domain name is clever enough to attract attention. Especially with sub domains. (Which were there before and are going to be there back at some point): Elon.letsmeetin.space , jef.letsmeetin.space. If you’re more insitutional what about nasa.letsmeetin.space.

Blog itself is very random.
Files by Dan Luu – Deconstruct
If so, why not just remove the arbitration clause?
draw.io / diagrams.net also embeds the data inside PDF.
Cow Dung, Garlic and a Prayer: The Fight Against Phony Cures for Coronavirus
Yes! I had this on a Virgin flight in 1999 as a kid. Was 10 years before I started travelling as an adult, and was sorely disappointed at how much _worse_ things had gotten
A meme, you say. Searching, you're doing it wrong.
Ask HN: I need a blog engine, which will be around for 10-15 years
Hi All,

Desperately need help. I need to create a blog. My wife has taken my child. The idea, to document everything so when my child is 15-16 years old, she will be able to read each and every post I do for her. Which blog platform, do people fee has longevity, in this crazy Covid-19 ridden world of companies going bust daily?
If My Classmates Are Going to Cheat on an Online Exam, Why Can’t I?
This is nice and I like lots of these combinations.

I'm curious about accessibility. Are any of these combinations harder to use for people with colour-blindness? How would i test for that?
I had my third go at Forth this year and I can say it finally clicked, to the point that I ended up buying a license for a commercial compiler for non trivial stuff.

If I may hijack this conversation: I'll be trying T3X [0] next, and know about the usual suspects B, BCPL and MCPL. They seem fun but not as malleable as Forth. Can HN recommend other (don't care if obscure) typeless programming languages?

[0] https://t3x.org/t3x/index.html
Yeah, normally I feel pressured to go faster when there's a line of cars behind me.
Lessons in Managing Haskell Memory
“But everyone else is doing it!”

You won’t be surprised that the Ethicist takes a dim view of this argument.
ROPs are only useful for pushing pixel out, if you intended to use a large enough portion of the GPU for compute you don’t need as many ROPs.

Since compute shaders can write out directly into memory you don’t need to use the ROPs to write the result into a buffer / texture like in the early days of GPGPU.

If you assume 20-30% or even more of your frame GPU budget is spent on compute you can reduce the number of ROPs to match.

Unless you have other bottlenecks you really only need as many ROPs as the fill rate you’ll be targeting which will be dependent on the resolution and targeted frame rate.

10-15 years ago ROPs and TMUs scaled 1:1 with GPU “power” the more you moved the load into shaders and then compute the less meaningful those figures are.