skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was just perusing the Hoon tutorial out of curiosity, and it's wild how alien of a language it is. To my eyes it's like a bastard child of brainfuck and common lisp; look at the "simple Hoon program" they give in section 1.1 as your first introduction to Hoon code https://urbit.org/docs/tutorials/hoon/list-of-numbers/

Also, the interpreter won't parse integer literals without thousands separators (which are periods). JackieChanMindBlown.png
As someone who helps software vendors overhaul their messaging to attract and convert buyers, I've noticed the following things about the "build vs buy" dilemma (or, from the vendor's point of view: the "build vs buy" objection):

- More senior buyers (CTOs, VPs) are less likely to pit the vendor against a DIY option. I suspect it's because they've been through too many failed DIY projects, or they have great clarity on what is and isn't a good use of their people's time, or they are better at estimating the (usually huge) amount of effort that would go into DIY.

- As the OP points out, a company with huge engineering resources is more likely to consider the DIY option, because, hey, they have all these engineers that need something to do. So if you're a software vendor and are tired of the "build vs buy" conversation, stop trying to sell to other software vendors or VC-backed tech companies.

- If someone chooses the DIY route, just set a calendar reminder to check in two months from now. Chances are they'll be underwhelmed with their progress, and an out-of-the-box solution might sound pretty good by then. (Don't assume they'd reach out on their own in that scenario--they've probably spoken with dozens of other vendors since your last conversation, and forgot about you.)

===

Separately, the part about vendor management is gold:

> To get the full value from vendors, you have to invest in managing vendors well.

I've spent so much time helping evaluate and implement different vendors (usually marketing platforms and similar), only to find out three months later that the software barely gets used.

On the flip side, if you're a software vendor, don't wait until renewal periods to check in on your customers and make sure they're getting the maximum value from your product.
In my experience, this line of thinking tends to lead to inefficient and hard-to-manage large projects based on languages which are convenient on a small scale.

Cough Electron Cough
https://medium.com/commitlog/electron-is-cancer-b066108e6c32

I mean, what percentage of users are adept enough to change a program they use and then what percentage of them would even want to go through the trouble of doing it. Moreover, why should we go through all the hoops needed to encourage novice/non-programmers to modify things they don't really understand anyway.

This seems like a solution/problem in search of a problem.
The project also already shot itself in the foot on arrival, due to the creator's other work. (He's one of the most prominent modern far-right philosophers/writers. Among other things, known for staunchly criticizing democracy and advocating for monarchism and authoritarianism as a better system.)
"I don't think you appreciate how numerical modern marketing is"

Maybe for the Fortune 500 / tech startup crowd, but I work for small / medium businesses and there is still a ton of ad dollars being spent with no attribution / tracking.

I will routinely setup clients with tracking tools, which then discourages them as they finally see what their digital ads actually generate in terms of revenue. Many stop their digital campaigns and increase their traditional tv/radio/print budgets or, fall back to running digital campaigns with no tracking.

AKA "Brand Awareness".
Really? Should they also "flesh out" that the death rate in hospitals is higher than in your home, even if they don't have the time adequately control for "people only being in the hospital when they're sick or nearly fatal to begin with"?

Working in a grocery store rather than staying at home is, intuitively, less safe. If they're not able to carefully control for the risk factors, they're doing a disservice to report that figure by itself. And it's a non-trivial amount of work to do so such controls, simply to appease those who repeat over-clever contrarian factoids like that one.
To stop feeding personal data to Google completely one must stop using the internet, stop using credit cards, stop filling out warranty cards, and so on. They vacuum up personal data from every possible commercialized database they can access.

But I can at least refuse to use a Google account, and to serve a tracking cookie. I'd have to live off the grid and in the woods to stop feeding them any data.
Is there any damage to priming the population to give up significant liberties if a crisis can be portrayed as serious enough?
Inspired by Twint I created an alternative web client that relies almost entirely on web scraping. The parser is more complete than Twint's due to the different goals, supporting things like polls and videos properly. It's still work in progress but very usable with features like RSS and convenient profile search.
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
>They're all generally a week out

So what? Then get your week out slot. Then when you get your order next week, reserve a slot for a week out. I have to wait 2-3 days here, so I've adjusted and planning on that.

If there are no slots at all, sure that's a problem. But claiming it's a failure across the board because you have to wait a few days to a week is kind of insane...
I assume you meant ‘learning curve’ but learning curse is hilarious here in the context of PowerPoint.
People that keep repeating this conspiracy theory have no idea what they're talking about. While it's true that the PAEA (The bill in question) was passed unanimously, the PAEA does not require funding retiree health and pension funds "75 years into the future".

You can read the bill itself [1] and see that this appears nowhere in it. What it actually requires is that the USPS fund the discounted present value of current employee retirement health and pensions liability.

What this conspiracy theory also critically misses is that the Post Office hasn't contributed to the fund in a decade but still pays current retirees out of the fund. With more money leaving the fund than entering it, it is expected to be depleted by 2030 [2].

1. https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/6407

2. https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-18-602
color naming is a cultural topic.
Seems as ethical or not as ABP's responsible ads whitelist.
privacy concerns? They first announced it was because Google was going to start charging for recaptcha.
I feel pretty strongly against the idea of immutable infrastructure when you're "infrastructure" (shared systems, running other people's software), but this article isn't about that.

The beef I have with this article is the idea of:

> New computer smell

> Getting a new computer is this moment of cleanliness. The keycaps don’t have oils on them, the screen is perfect, and the hard drive is fresh and unspoiled — for about an hour or so.

In my observation (and in datasets that I have access to), computers systems tend to follow the "infant-mortality" curve. This means that if they run for a little bit, they're likely to run for a long time (and in addition, if you have many of them, they tend to die around the same time). My conjecture is that many computer systems have initialization routines which are not as thoroughly tested as the normal operating state of the system. Due to this, we tend to run into more issues in "immutable" systems than you otherwise would in "mutable" systems.
Marketing dollars work, and bidding for ad placement is competitive. The field is made of clever people that optimize it. However I think it's dangerous to believe that advertising is "numerical" or metrics can fully predict ROI of advertising - the same way subprime mortgages weren't numerical, and the same way a population mortality graph cannot predict coronavirus.

A sudden drop in revenue may adjust the economy of bidding and show a potential bubble. The tiny budgets and one click campaigns (with platforms inventing unique metrics & targeting woo) in social media marketing compared to traditional marketing (huge barrier to entry) feel like penny stocks vs traditional stocks. You can easily mislead individuals and tiny businesses.
My father was telling me stories of the Swine Flu outbreak in 1957. It sounds very similar - he was in boarding school, unable to be sent home, and there were a couple of dozen schoolboys and staff nursing everyone else for a few weeks.

3 years later it was the "swinging 60's" and the economy boomed.

I think the difference between then and now is the "sophistication" of the financial markets, and how intertwined they are with government. "Too big to fail" didn't work last time, will some heads actually roll this time?
Nice. There's also:

I'm Blue https://colornames.org/color/174ac0

I'M BLuE https://colornames.org/color/1971d5
I feel it is driven by Facebook security. Third party NPMs or "poisoning the watering hole" attack is feasible against big tech giants. Some cryptocurrency projects have already been hit by this.
I lived in Aberdeen, and one of its claims to fame is "Granite City"... which also means the building exhibit more radioactivity than the norm.
Yosemite Nat'l Park is 1,187 square miles. There is no way that enough bears have migrated into the park to have quadrupled it's population from surrounding areas. The title references a quote regarding bear sightings in the tiny part of the valley that is normally populated with people. It's not only an inaccurate title, it's doubly misleading...
I think the larger problem slowing down their growth is not his "neo-reactionary" thought bleeding into the architecture of Urbit. I think a big part of it is the massive technical debt that Yarvin straddled the project with via his C code. It is written in a hard to read style that I at least have never seen before anywhere else.

[0] https://github.com/urbit/urbit/tree/master/pkg/urbit
Keeping the Immune System in a Fighting Mode
haha, yeah. There's just a crazy amount of negative things goin on about it on twitter. Hard to tell what criticism has a motive behind it, but still.
I've watched a few MasterClass ads whole way though. They have some funny bits and are well produced. My favorite was the DJ who has the mouse helmet(Deadmau5): noting from personal experience, if you are uncomfortable on stage it helps to wear a giant helmet.

Here's a link if you want to watch a 2 minute ad (if youtube is to be believed 31 million people have watched it.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtj6dDARgfQ

I've skipped a fair number too.. They are long.

I have no idea how they get experts in certain fields to do these classes.
If they do, GPL is fucked anyway. And not just GPL.
https://kodi.tv/about

If you are not using Kodi, you should already be using it :)

PLEX is a meme.
I subscribe to various annoyance block lists; they have the same goal as pophurdle (hiding banners and notices and crap like that), only they are already established projects, work in browsers other than Chrome, have no intention of eventually screwing over the end user, and are community maintained.

https://github.com/easylist/easylist/tree/master/fanboy-addo...

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardFilters/tree/master/An...

This post is not directed at parent, but the general HN reader who might be tempted to try pophurdle. Use uBlock Origin instead. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#installation
Most stores in my area are offering free curbside pickup now. Moving to pickup-only would significantly lower the human contact, both employee/customer and customer/customer. Nobody is talking about giving up on existing supply chains. Just the employee/product/customer mosh pit at the end.

That final part where customers perform a random walk around a warehouse until they've found everything is not a "well oiled machine". Better to hire some professional shoppers who know where everything is. It'll be faster and safer.

Even if you insist on remaining open to the general public walking around your store, there's a million things you can do. Some stores are limiting the number of customers in the store at one time. Some stores are requiring face masks. Some stores are marking aisles as "one-way" to make it easier to maintain distance. The last store I was in had plastic film over the payment keypads, and sanitized it between customers. We know how to improve things. There's just not a ton of consistency yet.
Oh, dude! I'm very glad you enjoyed my app!
Their submission got flagged so it vanished from the new links page. They think HN is doing it automatically for certain sites.
> They are raising their wage to $17 per hour. That's around $3,000 per month in stead of their usual $2,500 per month.

According to Google, that beats Walmart pay[0]. Less clear for Target[1]. Of course, if reports are even remotely accurate, Amazon warehouse working conditions are considerably worse.

I don't know what other retailers pay, but I wouldn't be surprised if they're comparable.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=Walmart+associate+pay

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=Target+worker+pay
Hi! What is the project licensed under? MIT?
Wasn't this the idea of the 4GL and 5GL craze in the 1980s and 1990s?
I second this. On my Android One phone (so pretty much stock Android) with Android 10, all it says is:
"When Bluethooth is turned on, your device can communicate with other nearby Bluetooth devices."
At The Fresh Market, I got an email that starting tomorrow employees AND customers will be required to wear masks.
And before there was Sodipodi, still to be found in the svg files created with Inkscape
Stanza – A Python NLP Library for Many Human Languages
That will be cool- we are waiting
> Macros are inspectable, editable, savable, able to be applied across files, easily used a variable N times.

In my experience with multicursor, I don't need to be able to "inspect" the operation as the act of typing it is inspection in and of itself. Sure they aren't saveable and thus aren't editable (but you admit this is a very rare use case - I can't recall needing that, ofc you often don't know when to want what you don't have).

As for applying across a number of files, I recently added an in-editor rendering of workspace search results to VS Code, and I've created an extension that can apply edits to those search results back to the original files. This allows for performing multicursor edits across many files.

As for using variable numbers of times, this is again quite trivial with multicursor. I simply select all the instances I need (either all in one go or iteratively), and go from there. I admit there is an art to selecting the right text such that iterative selection works with a single keypress, but once you get the hang of it it becomes pretty natural. (Unless you mean "apply this N times", which again I'm not sure I've ever been in want of)
Have you used Katex in place of Latex? The latter is much lighter, especially if you're trying to publish a tome for the web.
That is a one misleading title.
Cutting non-performance marketing spend like brand frees up cash they need to stay afloat. It’s short term thinking by necessity.

The execs running into the fire with ad spend to take advantage aren’t any smarter than the rest, just better positioned for the pandemic. I doubt virtually any of them prepared or planned for this scenario.

Though from my experience there’ll be lot of companies out there cutting short cycle high ROAS campaigns, throwing the baby out with the bath water.
You know, there are plenty of drawbacks on the act of offering options to the user, but the article touches on none of them.

It has really the wrong focus. It talks about pop-ups and distracting messages; it talks about surprising interfaces; it talks about actions that are hard to undo. But it doesn't talk about any problem that options cause by themselves.
Except encryption. You don't want to roll your own at all.
Show HN: Artificial Intelligence anchor that tells you news about space
Cloudflare for SSH, RDP and Minecraft
2020.15 an EASTer Surprise – Rakudo Weekly News
Yeah agreed... wtf is he even talking about? "terrible way to work" is an absurd thing to say - I use a command line for easily 90% of my work and would argue its a FAR SUPERIOR way to get things done efficiently. This sentence alone makes me dubious of this entire project.
Lower case prose with plenty of whitespace and little punctuation is the easiest to read, and well known from the days of typesetting books and periodicals. Python is the closest to that of major langs. Taken to the other extreme you get perl to APL. Or perhaps programming with east-asian symbols.

You're unlikely to find many peer-reviewed studies on this, the way you won't find many on proving other things learned centuries past.
I don't see why not.

750g/drive * 60drives + 45kg chassis = 90kg. I've stood on top of IKEA Lack side tables, and a) I weigh more, b) with the chassis, the weight is going to be better distributed (lower mounting and no flexing). It might slack a little.

Anyway compared to the price of the disks, a cheap small rack (they come in living-room compatible form factors as well. don't ask) wouldn't break the bank.

Only inconvenience would be the top-loading aspect. The Lack fits 19" exactly, and besides can't provide the needed counterweight, so you can't have sliding rails. Can't mount lower either, a Lack would only barely fit 4U.
Tamagotchi for Hackers
Sandpiles – cellular automata in J [video]
> That way if a corrupt file gets accidentally backed up to the NAS it won’t necessarily propagate through the entire backup chain like it might if you were copying the NAS directly.

That's a very good point. Thanks.
Imperial College code for modelling estimated deaths and cases for COVID19
Nobody said you need to bundle a Chromium engine to make a program extensible.
Rio's Olympic venues, six months on (2017)
The problem is support. Even if you put big caution tape around it, if you break it or change it in a way that isn't backwards compatible users will complain loudly about it. And if you have users paying lots of $$$ relying on it, it might force your hand.

Building a plug-able system in a way that doesn't blow up in your face can be hard. Firefox got a lot of bad press for redesigning their plugin system.
This is an important point, a pity it is downvoted without any argument.

Off the top of my head: Formula 1, Eurovision, auto shows, most spectator sports. I wish they all took a slightly longer hiatus.
I am confused though, as to why you would redirect someone else's domain to go to another party's site? It'd be like if I changed it so every time someone typed google.com it went to duckduckgo.com. Yeah, it might be more convenient for me, but it's... kinda breaking the web? Just for yourself, I guess.
> Right now, 0.1% of the US has had Covid-19

By any reasonable estimate, it's over 1%. Highly infected areas like NYC likely exceed 10%

> So, what's the plan here?

It's not feasable to get herd immunity in a world as open as 3 months ago. The hospitalization rate (and duration) is too high -> it would take longer than the optimistic time for vaccine development.

Electronic contact tracing, heavy testing, traveler quarantines, mass gathering restrictions. It's not going to get contained, but you can have a world where isolated bursts effectively get squashed.
title makes it justifiable for systems to both be hard to modify and difficult to use
Your data lives on your computer. And on the network, to anyone to whom you have given access. If your hard drive dies, you lose your stuff. But you might be able to recover the shared information.
I have zero motivation to spend any time at all finding this out myself, but let me guess, this somehow involves a blockchain.
AI Helps Create New Manga Reflecting Osamu Tezuka’s Legendary Works
Show HN: Scrawl-canvas – build responsive, accessible HTML5 canvases
Those seem more like musings than truisms.
Build a new project in a day without the steep learning curve
The two aims of the argument are often at odds in my experience. You can generally have one or the other, seldom if ever both
Do you ROFL at this https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2017.1... also? Especially the conclusion at the end?
We self host splunk and it can plow through petabytes of high cardinality data pretty dang fast. If the fields are not indexed and the search is complex, it can take minutes or hours. But usually, I can get live and historic data in a few seconds.

As an example, we have a pipeline of services. I can compute the time spent in each service with multiple levels of percentiles and group that data by high cardinality fields (as in, hundreds of thousands or more values). I just did a search for 4 hours of data across thousands of nodes for half a dozen or so services with multiple eval statements all piped to a timechart doing over a dozen stats operations. Half a billion events. It got done in under a minute.

Splunk charges so much because they are just so dang powerful.
Team designs carbon nanostructure stronger than diamonds
Nice article. I had published my thoughts from a CTOs perspectives on this topic a while ago. Maybe it’s a good addition to your article for anyone:

https://blog.photoeditorsdk.com/build-or-buy-f09785ce1138
There are a lot more people at home right now, but many are out of work and spending less. An increase in eyeballs don't always translate to an increase in revenue.

My girlfriend is a camgirl, and she tells me that while she has more people in her "room", they are tipping less and she's making less.
I hope I’m wrong because I want them to be successful but I’m less optimistic about the optimization potential.

I’d say that they are probably transacting 0.9X or something in that range.

Reason being that, I suspect, a lot of their transfer flow is from richer countries to poorer countries, as payments for services.

Of course that money flows back at some point, but as payments for goods shipped, which typically doesn’t happen through transfer wise.
Show HN: Fortune Web Service
I've fought to bring all those things to any marketing effort I've been involved with and have all but literally laughed out of the room. From my vantage point at least, the average marketing effort is "We spent all our budget, good job us."
How the Hunt for a Coronavirus Vaccine Could Go Horribly Wrong
Last I checked, FreeBSD is only used in their CDN appliances and Netflix is deploying their services in containers on Linux.
As somebody who started with CorelDRAW v3, I totally agree on the curves.

Inkscape has always been a great piece of software for me.
Will the CDC will eventually have that data? They're using death certificates, and I think those should include occupation. (Although I don't know how this works in the US).

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm

> Future updates to this release may include additional detail such as demographic characteristics, additional causes of death (e.g., acute respiratory distress syndrome or other comorbidities), or estimates based on models that account for reporting delays to generate more accurate predicted provisional counts.

Guide to death certificates for covid-19: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf
Similarly, if you are merely destructuring databases into text formats, most SQL database engines are pretty good about round-tripping their "dump" formats. For certain sizes of, for instance, SQLite databases, it is entirely possible to git store the SQL dumps and rebuild the database from them to query/work with them. (Whether it is reasonable to do it that way is another question.)