skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the 80's I once met a guy who claimed to own the phone number on the "HOW'S MY DRIVING? CALL 1 (800) EAT-SHIT" bumper stickers, a parody of all those trucker's bumper stickers with real 800 numbers to report them to their masters.

Not sure how he monetized it, but he had some scheme going on, and paid for it by selling the bumper stickers. Probably he sold more to all the careless drivers who called and wanted one too, than actual shit eaters.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/HOWS-MY-DRIVING-CALL-1-800-EAT-SHIT...
I have two, one that started off as a development blog where I would post my learnings for myself and others who may have the same issues. This eventually moved to a more personal blog about personal issues also written in the hopes it can help me and others with similar problems. - https://michaelbrooks.co.uk

And my second blog is more focused on Web Development tutorials (mainly PHP/Laravel and JS/VueJS). I'm hoping to write a course on Laravel that starts at developing an app using traditional methods and then converting it to an API consumed via a frontend language (starting with Vue and then possibly moving over to React). All with TDD in mind so you can see how that works and how it'll change as the app changes. - https://michaelbrooks.dev
What the hell does this have to do with the advancement of computer science and the application of technologies in our lives?
although Antigonus does end up eaten by the bear.

Spoilers!
I forgot about how tactile and audible metal trigger braces are until you reminded me.

Those were so satisfying to actuate. The PS2s felt like trash by comparison (and we're easier to jam / break)
Show HN: An implementation of the Luleå routing table algorithm
I was going to reply mentioning Destin's YouTube series on 'Manipulating the Algorithm' Only to be pleasantly surprised that you linked to it right in the beginning. Keen to read it when I have a moment!

Edit: typo
I don't claim to be awesome but I use my platform to _show off_ my learning journey of different technologies. Luckily, the blog also became the reason of earning as well.

I mostly write about Python but not limited to it. It especially targets programmers.

Visit http://blog.adanansiddiqi.me/?ref=HN
I've made the move from working as an individual contributor to managing/leading in a couple of different careers, most recently software engineering.
In doing that, most of what I've learned has been from observing others and I write about these observations and how to be a better leader here:
https://andrewwerner.blog/
How long are people going to milk this Colombia episode to tell people not to drink Coca-Cola projects? I attended a few left-wing protests in the early millennium where activists also brought along banners and t-shirts for their own pet causes, and the "Coca-Cola kills Colombian union activists!" already felt done to death. At this point, it is just as tiresome as using the 40-year-old infant-formula episode to advocate avoiding Nestle products, and it will turn off more people than you'll attract to your cause.
I make Dev Tips: https://umaar.com/dev-tips/ a place to share little tips primarily with DevTools. Currently at 200+ tips.

Few other random things I've written:

* The Benefits of Speaking at Tech Conferences: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-benefits-of-speaking-a...

* Data Visualisation with 1 Billion Shazam Music Recognitions: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/data-visualisation-with-1-...

* Open Source: Learning new code techniques and concepts: https://umaar.com/dev-tips/200-learning-from-open-source/

* Programmatically creating images with the CSS Paint API: https://www.sitepen.com/blog/programmatically-create-images-...
Yes, this has long been true for postgraduate students, who are very valued members of most STEM departments. The worry relates to undergraduate students.
for elastic & redis backend https://kuzzle.io/
To a certain extent this is worse. Gmail have (or had, I'm not keeping up) this feature that it would display threaded "as-if" everyone bottom-posted, but default to send top-posted. If two people were using Gmail - no problem. If you were using a "proper" mua, it was a constant struggle to get to through the replies.

Outlook was/is no better - the infuriating part about Gmail is/was that to the Gmail user everything seemed OK - but at least for the outlook user they knew they were too-posting. Unfortunately, most outlook user are stuck in outlook - so there's no hope to change the situation for them.

I actually believe the state of Gmail and outlook is part of the "death" of email - and "need" for forums etc (that and the death of usenet news. Incidentally why the d-lang forums are so interesting - I just whish it was a bit more packaged for setting up just forum+news (dfeed https://forum.dlang.org/help)).
Probably primed a bunch of people to like mechanical keyboards when they got older.

It did for me.
https://cyberglads.com/ Building a game from scratch using Godot engine and a backend-as-a-service for Godot (https://silentwolf.com). Sharing everything via a Youtube channel and the blog.
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If only people with a genuinely good reason made contact it’d be a lot easier. If someone has a such a reason then they ought to be able to explain it well enough in an email, and given that the process of avoidance isn’t automated, it’s more than likely going to get seen.

Collaborations and discussions are always welcome and it’s not hard to get in touch with me, it’s generally very easy to separate this from the spam. Twitter is a better place than email to kick off a non-spammy relationship with someone you don’t know.

That said, half of the people who send this spam think they have a genuinely good reason and I have no doubt some of them even believe it. 99% of the time there isn’t a good reason, they are after something. “I saw you do after X and we provide Y which is necessary for X” is not a good reason. For instance, even if I’m hiring, unsolicited contact from recruiters who think they can fill that role is entirely unwelcome, etc.

I can count on one hand the number of fruitful outcomes from completely cold contact that I’ve experienced in >15 years.
Good, but on the atomic scale that's still a lot - as I understand it the key questions are how well it works on scales where the "strong" and "weak" forces also apply.
The thing about The Economist - there are small handful of topics, I do know something about. When The Economist writes about them, I tend to think "hey, that's a pretty good article". That tends to give me confidence in the quality of the rest of its coverage.

I don't always agree with it, but it's at least well argued and thought provoking.
> Hopefully, we get a CDC 'mini Army' like Korea/Taiwan have so this doesn't happen again.

The difficult part isn't getting a 'mini Army' after a crisis, it's keeping it until the next crisis, against all the beancounters that will soon swoop down and try to optimize it away.
The US has binding consumer arbitration. In the US those are not empty clauses, despite the fact that they break many legal principles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Mobility_LLC_v._Concepc...
What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'll just stick to my FUCKING STRONG COFFEE thank you.

https://www.goodbeans.nl/

https://www.facebook.com/fingstrongcoffee/
No, you changed 'are involved with' to 'it is', which changes the meaning. And please don't accuse me of changing what I wrote.
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It's all political rhetoric prepping people for the worst case at a time when few things were known.

Things change. The situation is extremely dynamic not static. And response will change too.

Germany is already thinking of scaling back its lockdown. So will Australia.
You are 100% right! I remembered that essay right at the end of writing the reply and wanted to mention it, because it’s excellent. Got that totally wrong!
I was researching routing table algorithms a while back, and this algorithm came up in several places, but I never saw an open source implementation of it anywhere. Maybe because it was patented back in the 90s. As far as I can see, the patents it had is now voided, due to not paying the fees for them.

This implementation is slightly modified as compared to how it was originally published. It now works with the much bigger BGP routing table today. It also does away with the maptable, saving a memory reference.

I'm sure the part where it is building the two trees could be improved, but I think this will do for now.
Interesting. I assume that that means something like "memorial"? I was able to extrapolate that from my very basic Russian.
Completely off topic: do you have a Rockbox-compatible, dumb, tiny, cheap music player to recommend for running? I burned through three or four Sansa Clips and Sansa Clip Pluses over the years, but those lines are now discontinued (and I refuse to participate in the scalping refurbished market), and my last one just died.
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Hey, I've just added Pro Plan to my baby side project.

https://mailist.app/ generates a weekly email that takes random unread articles from your list and reminds you to get to them. Once you do, you cross off the link from your list.

How do you add links to Mailist?
It's super simple:
- With Chrome/Firefox browser extension
- via Import feature (from browser bookmarks folder, Pocket)
- Using webapp

What does it help with?
Remind you to read what you saved for later!

Cheers!
Each kid would need access to a computer (the screen) + a smartphone (the remote control.)
Are we lacking in brands of soda?
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Even worse when you do find the recipe it uses some crazy measuring system!

What is one "cup" of flour? It obviously depends on how fine the flour is. Use grams! Use ounces! But above all use some kind of real measurement!
Why did you try it in the first place?
I'm going to sound like "it's just the flu" guy, and I hate that. I hate it so much.

Humans are terrifying apex predators. We're not great at flu vaccinations. But we're good enough to continue to be apex predators.

I'm not a doctor, I'm absolutely not your doctor. mutation isn't free. It's tough to maintain infection rate when we're hunting. Mutate, to hide, for sure. The virus wins in a few ways, but we'll find that and turn it into a cold.

The virus will get lots of chances to kill us all off. Actually, I have some risk factors and my chances aren't great. I'm an example human, but not the paragon human.

Anyway, perhaps wishful thinking. Mutation rates are scary, but disrupting a couple of factors is probably enough. If it's infectious but non-fatal, who cares? If it's fatal but can't transmit, who cares? Mutate. go nuts. just get away from this local optimum that is infectious and fatal.
Their game is this: ostensibly the articles are book reviews. But not quite. Sometimes two books are reviewed in the same article. Sometimes you'll have to read two thousand words until the book "reviewed" is first mentioned.

The book is basically the back story, a hook to the author writing his own longform article on the same issue. Informed by the book, sure, but no "the author then argues that..." recapitulation.
You sound like a bitter person.
Thanks, I have an unused Raspberry Pi, I will try this out.
I occasionally write about security, mostly about applied cryptography from non-math perspective.

If you are interested on day to day work in financial cryptography and hardware encryption modules, check:

https://www.malgregator.com/post/key-management/

Some predictions on future malware development (some of them confirmed by now):

https://www.malgregator.com/post/the-future-of-malware/the-f...

Or using modern smartcards like Yubikey with DevOps tools (Vault) by leveraging ancient technologies like pkcs11:

https://www.malgregator.com/post/vault-authentication-with-y...
I seem to recall they came out in favour of the Iraq war, which in hindsight didn't turn out to be particularly astute. Surprised to see no mention of that.
I agree, uploading a heap dump is completely unacceptable. And their privacy policy seems to grant them a license to use your heap dumps (they call them "log files" which is obviously wrong):

https://heaphero.io/heap-terms.jsp:
>Software applications generate a specialized type of log file. These log files are hard for engineers to interpret and troubleshoot. Using the Site, users can upload log files and we parse, analyze, and generate root cause analysis reports instantly.

>By uploading log files or leaving us feedback, you may provide text, images, software, videos and/or other material, including third party content ("User Content") that you share using the Site.

>Your User Content belongs to you (or to the relevant third parties). However, you grant the Company the following non-exclusive license: a worldwide, transferable and sub-licensable right to use, copy, modify, distribute, publish, and process, information and your User Content that you provide through the Site, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or others. You also grant us the right to use your log files to enhance the performance of our Services.

Not that I would trust even a perfect privacy policy when it comes to uploading heapdumps.

There are however some websites that work completely offline (you download the HTML page and there is no network IO), like CyberChef [1] or the Spotify thread dump analyzer [2].

And for heap dumps, just use Eclipse MAT [3].

[1] https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/ (yes, that GCHQ)

[2] https://spotify.github.io/threaddump-analyzer/

[3] https://www.eclipse.org/mat/
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And of course, you can tell you're a good hacker by finding interesting whatever is posted. Or something like that.
Glad to see that my patch is used somewhere :)
> albeit well over 300 years later, and as further proof that the Irish have perhaps the longest memories in the world.

Oh right. At what point do historical figures get a free pass on bringing up their bad doings?

And by bad doings, we're talking deaths in the hundreds of thousands, enforced slavery etc.
Yeah but to be fair, nothing stops them from providing the "shipping cost" or an estimate of it, next to the price of the product. They make no effort to kinda tell you how much this thing would cost to deliver.

Heck, they could show you "current shipping cost" estimate next to your cart total. They could also show you the delivery cost total if you were to add this item, next to the item you intend to buy.

It can be a solved problem if they attempted to do so, and as technical people we should be able to identify their BS when we see it. Even giant/big retailers don't do it because they know that greater than zero amount of people will just say "fuck it, I spent all this time filling the cart, I'm not going to bargain shop shipping prices, might as well buy it from here."
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Very common in Japan.
Never read it, but the preview pages look pretty neat. I might pick it up for a fun read. Might want to pair it with something like do Carmo's Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces (which is quite accessible) for the mathematical side.
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I write stories. https://idiallo.com Real stories about my work experience in Tech. Sometimes technical, but these days it's more about the social impact of code in the real world.
Ooh I remember mbone! At the time I was a kid and didn't have an internet connection at home, but I remember Wired talking about it back when they covered tech in detail.

Does anyone on HN know what happened to it?
The Left won't have that. It'd be racist.
Now would be a good time for every business to take an inventory of all the software services they use and define their contingency plan for each one.
> I don't know where to start, consider me triggered ;-)

Ha! You and me both. As an Irish lad in the UK, one of the funniest things I still encounter is republicans (British ones!) who hold him up as a hero. You really have to wonder at times.
Searching the page for "liberal" gives 41 hits, searching for "economist" gives 42 hits. It's very hard to take the article seriously even after reading just the first sentence:

> The publication has a sublime — even smug — self-confidence in its elite liberal worldview.

What ever they're proposing may very well have merit, but in that tone, there's little interest to hear the case out.
It's in the article "The Economist has never seen a war it didn't like"
Why is Trump pitching Hydroxychloroquine as a cure for Covid-19?
That is literally not true.
A few days ago I posted a bit of new from CNN about a student spotting a dagger/sword that was 5000 old. I really enjoyed spending some time going that rabbit hole (like that girl that found a sword on a lake etc.)
Absolutely nothing to do with tech. Absolutely amazing stories that made the mind wander.

This is a not a tech forum. (imho) this is an "open minded/interesting minds" people forum. I spend more time reading the comments (than the 2-3mins to read an article) as it opens my mind, activates me, motivates me, educates me. It is perhaps the best forum I've ever joined and I hope we all stick around for many years to come and enjoy the intellect!!!

EDIT/addition: I was very pleasantly surprised a few days ago when a bartender commented on a threany/article on the unemployment due to COVID. It felt good to know that we got all sorts of skills/ professions contributing in these discussions.
Don't criticise.. I'll be sure to pass this on to any Hungarians I meet.
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I don't understand, the flow of information is the email just above in your mail client ? why are replies containing the parent mail text even needed ? for me they're just a nuisance and duplicate information taking up useful screen estate - I'm grateful for all mail clients which hide it by default.
I agree that it doesn't delegitimize your insistence upon personal privacy, and in fact, I'm in your camp with that, privacy is vital. My issue with the term is that, when you think in historical terms about discrimination, it's people being forced out of places/positions/society because of who they are.

The difference, in this case is that you're not being forced out of participating in conversations because you're, let's say, black. Instead, you, on your own, are opting out of communication channels because of your own beliefs.
Thank you for the link! Definitely a good read for somebody who wanted to tackle this problem.
If anyone knows how to deftly bow out of a forced company outing, I'd love to know your method. Last time I tried to get out of one of these things, I informed one of the owners I had too much to do and needed to spend the day catching up on work.

She was furious and told me I was "damaging the culture."
"Hard headed" economics seems to be a particularly popular thing for us to pretend to know stuff about.
My blog is here https://blog.steve.fi/ and you should read if you like free software, and real life.

I used to document projects, these days I talk about baking bread, open-source work, and the fun of raising a bilingual child.

It's a little random, it's not got a narrow focus. I suspect that means it is harder to be involved with, but the blogs I follow? They have real life, not just one theme. I like those best.
I've seen this. But it is not even close to our(Google/Government/Facebook/"AI") potential.

I was thinking more along the lines: once somewhere in hospital some patient is diagnosed with COVID-19 - I get a notification on my phone: "Hey you potentially contacted confirmed case on {date} for {#} minutes being within {#} meters" Please monitor your condition and try to self-isolate. Probability of you having the virus is x%"

AI here should optimise criteria for people to notify based on probability of getting the virus.

I'm sure there will be a lot of research in current situation and in years to come. But there should be some level of such intelligence available in the system by default. And our default in real world currently is very low, compared to the marketing materials of AI companies.

I'm sure we are doing the best we can BTW, just wish it would be more

UPDATE: I'm not from Google while previous version implied that.
> Now, if I were the suspicious type, I might suggest that Sweden’s coronavirus policy was, from the very beginning, formulated with this endgame in mind: the weeding out of aged and infirm Swedes in order to free up residences, welfare benefits, and Lebensraum generally (pardon my French) for Muslim immigrants

Read a real source instead of this nazi garbage
Blog: https://blog.ovalerio.net

There isn't any special reason to read it, I just write about topics I find interesting (as expected but that can be almost anything), share news about my side-projects and occasionally post some Python/Django tips.

Adding it here just in case someone ends up finding something useful there.
Also, in the vein of "Stephens Sausage Roll" check out "Pipe Push Paradise"

http://pipepushparadise.com
Prospect is quite possibly the only other magazine for which I'd say the same, to be fair.
Most email clients (well, thunderbird/outlook at least) will collapse lines prepended with >
That‘s statistics. In reality there are many factors that make COVID-19 much more dangerous for a lot of people.
Besides, i don‘t feel like taking an extea 2 in 1000 chance of dying, thank you very much.
Yes. HN didn't even start as a tech forum. It started as 'Startup News'.
I agree. It's really good magazine considering how wide the scope it covers. Economist is clearly has point of view I don't nessesarlily agree with, but it's not any less high quality journalism because of it. Their viewpoint comes mostly from omission of subjects, focus and weighting of different things. Something any intelligent reader can live with.
The person writting the article doesn't really know what the word sublime means for a start.
It's also an unnecessary system, as healthy competition would drive down premiums anyway.
Going off a complete tangent (and this is why I love tree-shaped forums vs. linear forums - I can do that without disrupting the rest of the discussion):

> In-line tends to encourage (in my experience) massive posts, where people end up having several related conversations in parallel, and also huge point-by-point rebuttals.

I never understood why that's seen as a negative. What's the point of having a conversation if longer messages and point-by-point discussions are discouraged? The opposite of that is a shallow conversation that doesn't explore the discussed space. I like when people inline-reply to my larger e-mails, because this way I know what they're referring to, and don't have to parse out their attempts at describing in words which parts of an e-mail they're commenting on.
Here's a link to an article from the economist:
"We need a post-liberal order now
The international, rules-based system is collapsing. Overhauling it means combining national identity with a global ethos, says Yuval Noah Harari, a historian and author"
https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/09/26/we-need-a-p...
What’s a stronger mainstream brand than the Obama campaign (same artist)?
>Excuse my outburst, but who the fuck says that?

>There is no upside here. There's an only a downside: being rude.

Says the person who apparently created a green account just to shit on my grammar and cast aspersions on me.

Pot, meet kettle.