skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I interview productized service founders and they all share their revenue transparently: https://www.productizedstartups.com
I still use an IBM Model M keyboard every day, made in 1993. I'm currently looking for a new keyboard that takes less desk space and doesn't require a PS/2 adapter, but the Model M still works fine and is a pleasure to type on.

Keyboard rant: I'm appalled that it's so hard to find a good mechanical keyboard that is not meant for gamers with those RGB lights. Part of the problem is Europe, some options either don't get here or are usually out of stock. But even looking at the total market there are just not that many mechanical keyboards with quality switches, a simple backlight light and a USB hub with a couple ports in the keyboard.
Still wearing mine... until it falls apart.

Then, I'll unbox my backup Pebble and wear it until _that_ falls apart.

Hopefully they'll have something comparable by the time I run out of them?
Right, but the F91W was first released in 1989 and is still the second best selling men's watch on amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Mens-Watches/zgbs/fashio...
> I can't see international travel restrictions to Australia being relaxed until a vaccine is developed

Honest question: Australia wants to seriously lock its borders for 18-24 months? And what if a vaccine is not successful (despite tens in development, just two are being currently tested on humans)?
Reminds me a little bit of Heartlight PC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEqIO3Zet-o
Native speaker here.

Spomenik comes from "spomen", which translates to "recalling /remembering someone dead or some event from the past". It's basically a memorial that should invoke the viewer to recall the events past and/or people who were involved.

While spomenik is used for all monuments around the world, when someone just says "spomenik" the first thing that comes to my mind are those post-WWII spomeniks - probably because there's so many of them.

I feel like monument isn't a right translation. Do you call Eiffel Tower a monument? If yes, I can tell you that Eiffel Tower is definitely not a spomenik. If that is the case, "memorial" is the proper translation for spomenik.
> container is an abstract idea

In this context, it's not, it's specifically referring to a process running in a cgroup.

> LXC is one way to do so, runc is another way to do so, docker is a third way to do so

Docker is a suite of tools for managing running LXC or runc, both of which set up processes running under cgroups.

> Now if you took some other OS, there'd be different solutions, each with slightly different details and thus properties, but same idea

You should read the article.
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Nuclear bombs being launched at all major US cities simultaneously was just as much a possibility as a global pandemic for quite some time. It doesn’t mean that it wouldn’t have been a black swan event.
If Australia has to choose between destroying our education system and having good relations with scions of the CCP our educational system is toast. We are fortunate that any tension there is self inflicted.

Australia can't afford to have bad relations with China; they are too relevant and powerful in the Asia-Pacific region. If we are taking in and educating powerful Chinese students it has nothing to do with charity at any level.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22797729
I write about cryptography, mostly about resources that I think are missing. If I’m trying to learn something new and nobody has written a good explanation of it then I’ll write it!

https://www.cryptologie.net

Some examples of articles I've written:

* A 4-part series on hash-based signatures https://www.cryptologie.net/article/306/hash-based-signature...

* ASN.1 vs DER vs PEM vs x509 vs PKCS#7 vs .... https://www.cryptologie.net/article/260/asn1-vs-der-vs-pem-v...

* BEAST: An Explanation of the CBC Attack on TLS https://www.cryptologie.net/article/413/beast-an-explanation...

* Fault attacks on RSA's signatures https://www.cryptologie.net/article/371/fault-attacks-on-rsa...

* A history of end-to-end encryption and the death of PGP https://www.cryptologie.net/article/487/a-history-of-end-to-...

* Cryptographic Signatures, Surprising Pitfalls, and LetsEncrypt https://www.cryptologie.net/article/495/cryptographic-signat...

* How symmetric password-authenticated key exchanges work (sPAKE)
https://www.cryptologie.net/article/490/how-symmetric-passwo...

* Proof of Elgamal's semantic security using a reduction to DDH
https://www.cryptologie.net/article/464/proof-of-elgamals-se...

* Developers Are Not Idiots https://www.cryptologie.net/article/466/developers-are-not-i...
I love your blog, David!
I distinctly remember Outlook doing top-post by default (and making proper replies tedious) way before GMail existed. That's when top-posting invaded everything.
One day, nature will give up a secret.

Gravity and the standard model are, as written, very different theories. Our short-range gravity experiments are simultaneously at the forefront of some classes of high-energy physics one might explore at the LHC and interesting astrophysical/cosmological questions.

With our entire program of measurement, we are pushing as hard as we can on the theory of gravity, looking for a gap in the armor to see what's next. The draw of these short-range experiments is that it is totally-unexplored territory, and with every step forward, we continue to check whether or not our oldest-known force behaves as predicted.

It's late, so I'm beginning to ramble: There are viable theories that predict that gravity should get stronger at these scales, and viable theories that gravity should get weaker at these scales. With this result, those theories just got squeezed into a smaller box.

While this isn't my result (I helped with this one, but am not a prime-mover), for me, the big draw is to study gravity until we push it, like all the other interactions, into the realm of the microscopic.
But sourcehut is a commercial site.

I am not going to pay money to some organization when I don't even know who that is and where they are located.
There's dev.to, which is like Medium for tech writers.
https://medium.com/@andzwa

Lessons from building software over 30 years including 10 running engineering teams at Google
I see. It feels quite funny though to be so specific about the ramblings of a man, who clearly says whatever comes to his mind without further thought. He might as well have said it and nothing would change. Definitely though there is a difference, and I should have probably worded myself a little differently. But it's quite hard to adhere to a high level of truthfulness when the other side clearly has no regard for it.

And just to be clear: I'm not very biased person to either sides, and I think it's amusing to see Americans get so riled by their opposing political side. I treat all of the US media to be biased in some direction, and never to reach the level of objectivity I myself would enjoy. It would be nice though that they would, I agree, but this is the reality of the current world I guess. If I could decide, I would just break apart the whole two-party system and give people actual options in voting. Perhaps then at least those who can think for themselves could vote for a candidate they believed in, instead of just voting the "least-worst" candidate.
It's the nostalgia of ye good olde days of when those devices where perceived as good ideas or the best in town when there was a early market growing when they were around.

Their existence was tested by the competition and found to have been commercial failures but can still live on as useful toys, like the Commodore Amiga days, BeOS days and the CHIP days and so on.

They are remembered and kept alive by niche communities around 'what if' they survived with open source alternatives, aftermarket additions or more additions. Very happy to see this and good luck to them.
What global warming?
Agreed the spam is worse. But I normally enjoy Troy's writing style. This piece is not the same. The same point could be made in his normal tone.
The biggest laurels go to John Lee and Ted Cook -- they were at the tip of the spear for a combined ~12+ years to make this happen.
I've only started posting regularly more often recently, at https://darrendevitt.com/. I'll be using it to document a new app I'm building in the Knowledge Base space.

After a new post I publish the same post to Medium, as the possibility of attracting new readers there is greater, but there's often a time lag there as you wait for a publication to pick it up or not.
where is the server hosted? In your home or hosting provider or cloud? Keeping a server running 24x7 is the challenge for me as far as email is concern. What happens when your server is down and someone mails you?
I dislike gadgets as in "tech objects which primary function is to be perceived as cool and to make the owner feel good as owning it".

I think tools can survive more than gadgets. I have an old HP LaserJet 4l which I think was manufactured in '90s and which still works like a charm. I also have a Nikon D300 DSLR which still works. My car is 16 years old.
I lucked out with my Sony MDR-1RBT. I bought these things 7-8 or so years ago, the built in battery lasts a month with ~2 hours per week day use during my commute, and all I've had to do was that I recently replaced the ear cushions.

They were £400 when I got them from HMV at the time, that was tough money to spend as a student, but to this date are probably the best investment in technology I've made. I've used them for my commute almost daily for almost the entirety of those 7-8 years. I honestly don't believe I have any other gadget that's lasted that long with that much use.

That said, I got out my original Moto 360 watch yesterday to see if it could be of use for my running during lockdown.
That thing was useless the day it launched, and even less useful now. Probably one of the worst gadgets I've bought.
Not at all. I am not alowed to expose customer data to the world as well, regardless how many promises they make on the website regarding how carefully the data is handled.
Croatian here, although I was a child when Yugoslavia fell apart (born in 1982.), I remember many details about life back then - and in certain aspects, it was better.

I had no notion of Croatians, Serbians, Slovenians, Macedonians.. we were all Yugoslavian, with slightly different accents. To this day, I've friends in all ex-yugoslavian countries and the feeling I get about them is that of brotherhood, not friendship.

We could go to seaside at any point for free or enjoy national parks.

Nowadays, it's cheaper if I fly to Thailand for 2 weeks. It costs me less than a week at my own country's seaside.
National parks are overcrowded and deteriorating, and rightist-nationalism ruins the interaction for people like us - who don't hate and just want to get along and enjoy life together.

There was plenty of food and I particularly remember comics, especially characters called Raja, Gaja and Vlaja :)

The only thing I feel sorry for is the animosity that was stirred up because of selfish reasons, the feeling of brotherhood and ability to enjoy the land's natural beauties was something special. I hope that one day we can have all the good back without the negatives.

Stay safe brothers and take care!
Then why you post utterly meaningless numbers based on 1500 reported cases far behind the curve and ask for my comment? And please stop insulting me, you have gone too far.
I wonder whether WhatsApp has mulled over restrictions on user behaviour rather than on number of recipients/forwarded content. So, a user might be limited to forwarding only a dozen or so messages a week.

I have no idea what effect it might have, but I'd like to see such an experiment.
You also have to pay for the working space. The reason why paint jobs cost so much has more to do with the lengthy setup than the actual labor or consumables. You need to maintain a specific temperature. You must detach the painted parts and tape them. There are minimum volumes of paint you have to use before you can mix them. This is why painting one part is so expensive. Painting three bumpers at once is much cheaper but nobody wrecks 3 bumpers at once.
Top posting is also useful. It reverses the order of the stack of messages in the expectation that you've read the rest already and are more interested in the most recent. In many cases that's the correct assumption:

* Long email threads

* Long forum threads that people visit every few days to catch up.

HN has an interesting mix of top posting (new comments start at the top), and voting.
Just discovering the language with this post. I'm must say I'm impressed by the syntax. I've read part of the documentation and understand every code example just by reading it, which is sufficiently rare to be mentioned.

I'm thinking to give it a try as a scrpiting language but find it too bad it seems no longer maintained. Code has not changed since 2 years.

To note, there is a pure Go implementation of Io[1] which is actively worked on.

[1] https://github.com/zephyrtronium/iolang
It is and in truth I had given up on HN accepting the idea of a coming bust years ago. Any time I read a comment questioning the quantities of money being thrown around, the dubious value of some investments or asking how long this can last it was usually downvoted to oblivion or dismissed with plenty of "people have predicted a downturn for N years and it's still not happened!"

Yet here we are. I'm quite sure some who genuinely believe the coming recession is purely due to Covid-19 and not an inevitability that has been years in the making. I don't know what I would say to those people, I think they might be beyond convincing.

Anyway after a couple of painful years I'm sure we'll be able to watch the recovery and the beginnings of the next boom/bust cycle unfold right here on HN.
Or the NetBeans built-in profiler as well.

Android also has quite capable profilers.
I find on cheaper watches like this the band eventually breaks, and you can't really find replacement bands which are much cheaper than a whole new watch.
They do. I vaped for a while, and my wife bought a battery powered fan for when she went into labour and it came with some cheap 18650. Luckily I had a few high quality Samsung ones lying around from my vaping days that came in handy!
I genuinely appreciate the DNS snark.
It begs the question - does lockdown mean coronavirus is a net "positive" on lives lost, as people will be saved not driving, going out, being stressed, even catching Flu etc. I haven't seen anything about this but the question is worth asking.

Also worth saying I fully agree with the lockdowns simply because of exponential growth.
> Yeah we understand all of our code, right? I'm developing an Electron app. I let you guess how much I know about the code behind electron/chronium.

I get your point however I feel there is a different between not having full understanding of the platform you are using (be it Electron, Windows, macOS, Linux, etc) and a small library from Facebook of all companies. The fact they were able to change/fix the issue within a day(?) says to me they just didn't bother to look at what it was really doing in the first place.

> Let's start banning facebook. Shall we?

Is Facebook not banned, or at least extremely restricted within the New York school network? My daughters school in the UK has a complete block on Facebook.

But yes I would happily ban Facebook. I feel the value it adds is not worth the trade off. For the purely social connection functionality (which I do see value in obviously) there are other options that are not as dirty as Facebook.
https://opensourceweekly.org/#past-issues

As you guessed it, I publish a weekly post about open source.

In 2018 only, GitHub had over 100 000 000 repositories, so I'm here to curate this and find the hidden gems.

I try to publish only projects that I think can have a big / positive impact on the world .
I don't doubt the existing code was a mess, but I'm pretty sure their time would have been better spent refactoring it into a more modular structure. For example, what actually made people switch to Firefox eventually was tabs and a popup-blocker. There was no need to rewrite the entire network stack from scratch to support this.
That's cool! At some point, I myself thought about making a clone of HN that just filters out everything that is not a blog post. However, I couldn't come up with a solid filter criteria.

I agree that your method is not quite there yet, still a lot of large domains (airbnb.com, spiegel.de, spectator.co,...), but you started and that is already more than I ever did ;)

I would suggest including the HN metadata, such as the number of upvotes and comments. These are, in combination with the title, important criteria for me whether I click on something or not.
I have a friend who has multiple domains but all mapped to 1 mail box with catch all. There is stores those to specific address in folders and he rest in a common folder. He is using a hosting company. They charge per-email account. He was the basic 5 email account, 3 for family, 1 for himself and the last is the one with the catch-all for over 10 domains.
Would be a real tragedy if they had to cut back on administration to make up for the lost revenue.
Some antibacterials have antiviral properties.

https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/36/3/646
Australian here too, just graduated along with my partner (who was an international student). You're right about the long-term consequences for the university, but I would also add that universities actively undermine their international students at every turn (perhaps because there's little profit motive to help them succeed in their ludicrously expensive education).

The thing that pisses me off the most is that the student services usually provide very little guidance to international students about their legal rights in Australia, leading to massive wage exploitation (this is a global problem -- I have friends in the EU -- namely Finland -- and the US that have suffered from this too). Fears over their visas being revoked mean that they are also very unlikely to report abuses by the university or their employers to anyone. I've had to plead with friends to report their employer to Fair Work for outright wage theft, and I know many people who were lied to by their employer into thinking they can work more hours than they can (which was then effectively used as implicit blackmail -- "if you report my abuses, I can get you kicked out of the country"). They didn't know better, because they weren't told by anyone.

And then there's work experience. Many degrees (especially in engineering fields) require practical work experience in order to complete your degree, but employers are incredibly reluctant to give international students unpaid internships (let's not get into the fact that unpaid internships are actually illegal in Australia, except for the specific case of university degrees it seems). My partner has dealt with employers who have explicitly said that they don't accept international students (which is not legal as it is discriminatory), and others have done it more slyly (international students can only work 20 hours a week during semester, so they put on the job description that you must work 21 hours a week). And universities don't help here either, in fact I'm going to name and shame UTS here. At a UTS Career Fair a few years ago, they specified which employers accepted international students and which didn't on the maps (only about a quarter did) and then they gave all of the international students different coloured name badges to local students. The net result was that international students were ignored when they came to any of the "local-only" booths. I don't know if they continued this behaviour, but I sent a complaint about this when I heard about it. Absolutely disgraceful.

Sorry, I just felt the need to rant.
The insurance company can also just reduce the billed amount.
https://www.pine64.org/pinetime/ maybe?
Nobody wants to shut down their country, they just want thousands of deaths even less. And there ain't no way for people travelling by plane to follow social distancing.
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How is "lengthy setup" not labour?
ES2020: Quoi de Neuf JavaScript?
Natural number game
Funny you mention thermal design. I thought it was BS at first, but last summer, our intercom system went down, which also included door control, so you had to go down several floors to let someone in who had no way (without out-of-band communication) to tell you they were there (postman anyone?).

It took them months to fix it (this is a new build block in London) and when they finally did, it was a simple reboot.

The engineer told me it had overheated in the summer sun. I mean, really? I found this hard to believe this piece of equipment designed to be outdoors, overheated in British sun.

I was furious, I could have rebooted the damn thing myself and saved us months of pain if I'd had access.
LastPass Slows Down the Browser
Which one weighs less?
WhatsApp to impose new limit on forwarding to fight fake news
Airbnb Raises $1B to Stockpile Cash in Pandemic
Mine is https://meda.io

I write about mindset and webdev and aim for it to become a resource to get unstuck in your dev career and startup journey.
For me, part of the excitement is to see personal blog sites.

So anything like Medium, dev.to, InfoQ, DZone, etc. is not really what I was getting at. It would have to be a link aggregator like HN that either has an army of editors, a disciplined community that flags invalid posts, or a technical way to filter for personal blogs.
Does this imply that WhatsApp is not end-to-end encrypted and Facebook can read the contents of the messages in order to determine what is being forwarded?
>I’m a purchaser of enterprise software.

Hi - Can I add you to my Linkedin Professional Network?

But in all seriousness, does this mean you are part of the procurement department? I would love to see some posts/thoughts on how someone in this position approach procurement of enterprise software.
Here's the thing. I have a Garmin that also gets more than a week of battery life, with an always on display. It also does the fitness stuff very well. There wasn't an advantage to the Pebble angle.
Show me where he’s asked for money for his idea.
Now I'm curious about what you think of some of my projects.

https://github.com/soatok/faq-off :3
I love your blog. Since that metagame post I’ve had you in my reader and get excited when a new post appears. I just read some of your cashflow post and that is interesting, actually I’d like to comment on it so adding comments would be nice or at least have a HN thread for each post.
Understanding of the user’s needs and limitations affects digital product design
For instance, you could run your package manager across all containers to see if they have packages with known CVEs. Or manage the filesystems of all containers on the system (the usefulness of this is only clear with filesystems like ZFS and btrfs). This is effectively what you can do with Solaris Zones.

You can also do this on Linux with NixOS, where you can define the system and all containers it runs declaratively. Updating the system will update everything, including the containers (of course, you can also pin the containers or packages in the containers to specific versions).
But the customer has to pay it back if the lose the lawsuit, correct? If so then it’s absolutely fair.
Yes! I was amazed when I took it out of a packing box a couple of years ago and it still works just fine. I think Spotify doesn't work any more, but we use it as a old fashioned internet radio in the kitchen. The sound quality is surprisingly good.
I blog at http://www.ssushant.in
I blog infrequently. I blog about using Julia programming language in OR and web development.
Strong recommendation for Baba Is You, probably the best puzzle game I've played in a long while. I won't say more since it's best played blind.