skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks cool, I wonder how easy it is to click away though. I notice I'm on reddit or Facebook less nowadays because the content there stopped interesting me. (Side note: Someone on reddit said the way to quit reddit is to unsubscribe from a lot of the default subreddits and subscribe to subreddits where the content don't interest you, so you would visit the whole site less and less). No one posts their personal updates on FB anymore, I visit FB to see the 2 city-related groups I live in, but the number of dumb posts/comments there make me just snigger, sigh, and leave again. My addictions nowadays are probably YouTube and this site.

I've been thinking of making an extension that loads some elements of a site slower, or fail to load the elements (e.g. reddit's Ajax-based replies). That way I would be forced to refresh to view the content. I'm convinced the more it irritates me, the more I will avoid the sites with this active.
I love that there's a "web 3.0 browser" built in Status.

Whatever this web 3.0 thing is.
Would orally ingested nicotine protect lungs the same way that inhaled nicotine does?
As an example, WebKit had an LLVM-based JavaScript optimizer in 2014 (https://webkit.org/blog/3362/introducing-the-webkit-ftl-jit/), but dropped it for another one in 2016 (https://webkit.org/blog/5852/introducing-the-b3-jit-compiler...)

In broad strokes, LLVM chooses to optimize for generating good code for statically compiled code more than for, for example, memory usage, compilation speed, or ability to dynamically change compiled code. That doesn’t make it optimal for JavaScript, a language that’s highly dynamic and often is used in cases where compilation time can easily dwarf execution time.
I think the discussion would be different if the new name was better.

Replacing zeit makes sense, not sure the chosen replacement was any good.
Do you really know every side effect of every piece of your software stack?
Odysseus Against the Matriarchy (2019)
SSH != SSL. EDIT: Expect web servers running HTTPS in modern configurations to be affected, and other TLS based protocols. SSH is fine.
Connected Health: Telemedicine Platform Technology Patent Landscape
> hit pieces against local Democrats or praise for local Republicans.

This suggests another possible reason. Those behind them have found that if the 'fake' site appears to be 'local' enough, it will be seen as more reliable and/or it is more likely to get "liked" (given your "spread via Facebook posts"). Possibly their A/B testing has shown that fake 'local' stuff gets more spreading on FB?
I didn't realize how much effort it would be. Indeed, I think that comports with what I've seen from other forks - it takes a huge effort to keep it going.
Did you sign any contract with the first company? If not there's nothing to do except apologize for having to rescind the offer and wish them the best.
"There's no recipe chain that takes in Green Circuits and produces either Iron or Copper Wire. So once produced, you need to find a higher function for your products. You can't 'unmake' through a cyclic recipe."

There are Factorio mods that will give you access to recycling machines that will let you get back the ingredients that went in to making whatever it is that you put in to them.

So Factorio's recipes can be fully cyclic, if you want.
Thanks for the feedback!

I thought there might be an issue with such behavior, but didn't get around to addressing it in the proof-of-concepting this project never quite graduated from.

Do you (or anyone else) know of patterns or libraries for timing out channel pushes from one particular client to the backend? I'm using Phoenix Channels with WebSockets.
U.S. Miles and Yards... Canada, Mexico KM and Meters.
Does this jump into the "something/nothing to hide" argument?

The idea that there's an intentional backdoor through security for some institution that may or may not be acting in your best interest is enough for me to not want to use it.

Just about everyone has something to hide, but what they're hiding and the reasons they're hiding it may only be used as leverage against them and have nothing that's a threat to anyone else. My encrypted data has some old tax returns and past medical records--nothing too exciting or compromising, but neither are things I want random people having access to should my copy of the data be compromised.

There are plenty of valid reasons not to want a government agency to be able to pry into every aspect of it's citizens lives. I'd say most people hiding things do it for a lot of social/cultural purposes that aren't too significant at least not in terms of national security.

Take most peoples' browser history--few people want others crawling through searches that might make them feel stupid or insecure for whatever reason. Perhaps they looked at someone's public profile they're interested in dating and don't want to be labeled a 'creep' or perhaps they've been making great use of the free PornHub Premium access lately. People have rights to secure/hide those things and they're no real threat to national security.
Fictional Videogame Stills
I love to tinker but my best investment has been a recent purchase of an Acer 11" Chromebook ("311 spin") for the kids. Touchscreen/convertible, Celeron 4100, 64gb.

It just works, is less than 1kg, 9h battery life, no worries or what the kids might click/install/... and for myself a hassle-free Linux (VM?) for some quick evening fun.

Just wow. All my preconceptions about Chromebooks are gone.

Only downside is that for kid accounts you can't install chrome extensions - so no ublock. But you can install Firefox' android version so also not the worst.
part of the way investors create valuation for companies is based on employees. Thats why its not a wild west of software contractors everywhere.
This is part 2 (of 3) of my series on telemedicine IP landscapes and thought I’d try a post on HN. This market has changed quite dramatically in just the last month with the coronavirus pandemic and the waiving of regulations governing telemedicine. This report profiles the patent landscape created from an assignee query using the names of 33 notable telemedicine platform tech companies. Of the 33 companies, 11 surfaced with patent docs in the domain collection, with Teladoc Health (NYSE:TDOC) being the clear IP leader largely via its acquisition of InTouch Technologies. 29 of the companies are private and have raised approximately $1.8 billion in venture funding.
Jim
Ok, why don't you make a test and sell it at cost?
>"First, tech should embrace and accelerate distributed work. It makes tech more accessible to more people. It seeds more parts of the country with potential entrepreneurs. It dramatically decreases the cost of living for employees. It creates the conditions for more stable companies that can take on less risky yet still necessary opportunities that may throw off a nice dividend instead of an IPO. And, critically, it gives tech companies a weapon to wield against overbearing regulation, because companies can always pick-up-and-leave."

The next big "tech" revolution is working from home -- and distributed working. It has been around, like the way smartphones were around before the iPhone -- in concept, but never realized in practicality. It is an imperative that tech should accelerate and develop a cohesive set of products that will enable iPhone like working from home.
Node.js v14.0.0
I’d pay for Gmail, as all my important personal emails went there. However, I didn’t realize that Gmail was deleting my old emails. If they were more clear that if I didn’t pay, they were going to select, then I’d pay. Now I’m just pissed at Google. If they offered me to pay money to make my deleted emails available, and then lock me into a trivial monthly fee ($10?), I’d jump on it.
having put a few older applications into a Docker container, this article tells it like it is.

docker run: some error. fix this error.

docker run again: another error, rinse and repeat.
Not sure what verifiable stats could look like here, I'm afraid... but I can assure you that it is in fact true!
How about Visa and MasterCard? I would be more surprised where these profiles didn’t exist.
The smokers in my apartment building go outside everyday and make social contact with other smokers hanging out outside the door.
>all these AMD CPU models and choices are a bit confusing!

Perfect time for a whataboutism. Intel has far more confusing names, and more offerings; AMD has adopted what is essentially a cleaner subset of the Intel naming scheme.
To mention one more thing, I think what really frustrates me about this and incited me to comment a lot here is that to make his effort seem like a big deal, Patrick is presenting everyone else in Japan as fools and building up this white savior narrative.

His post implies that the Japanese experts and officials are both so inept that they couldn't keep up with his overnight-expert pandemic modeling and so malicious that they would persecute him for doing a better job. That's completely untrue, but with his reputation on Hacker News, it looks like a lot of people here are taking those characterizations at face value. As someone who knows Japan and respects the community here, that's a very upsetting development.

Unfortunately this thread blew up in the middle of the night in Japan. I happen to be awake, but it's so late I might be the only person in Japan in this thread before it dies.
GitLab community advocate here, just wanted to share the most up to date GitLab pricing information: https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/ Thanks!
Akrasia (/əˈkreɪziə/; Greek ἀκρασία, "lacking command"), occasionally transliterated as acrasia or Anglicised as acrasy or acracy, is described as a lack of self-control or the state of acting against one's better judgment. The problem goes back at least as far as Plato. In Plato's Protagoras Socrates asks precisely how it is possible that, if one judges action A to be the best course of action, one would do anything other than A?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akrasia
I suspect they’re trying to show product parity with Intel. To roughly compete with the i3, i5, i7, i9 intel CPUs.
Probably feet for the latter. How is it sane or understandable for anyone to switch from metric to imperial mid-route?
On anything embedded, the performance of Samba is atrocious compared to plain old nfsv3, which in turn is slower than iSCSI but that comes with its own troubles.

Personally I prefer NFS at home, but what I really really want is a NAS that doesn't cost four digit sums and can do full-disk encryption on RAID basis without the performance tanking. iSCSI with OS X clients sucks.
> This choice, like many choices involving vices or other intentional deviations from happiness vs wellbeing, are too often assumed to be made in ignorance.

Smoking happens to be a vice that has particularly noticeable side-effects on the rest of society. If you lived alone, had an adequate ventilation system (which does not distribute your smoke to your neighbors), and only smoked in your own house, I doubt there would be many complaints. The problems start when you have a family, or when you go outside where others now have to deal with your smoke.
Why Most Post-Pandemic Predictions Will Be Wrong
For a scientific article Krajbich's placing too much emphasis on luck in analyzing decision making.

Successful sportsman have always been comfortable with a small margin of advantage. Leagues and ladder tables put teams of similar ability together in match-ups, large differences are uncommon and seen as unsporting if too frequent.

People build their own structures for dealing with work and life, there's no structure you can bring to a point & click symbol matching game that would help inside the rules of the test. You could escape the test environment and reverse engineer the code in real life, or accelerate the test environment with a clicking bot and data-log the patterns. You could bring knowledge and grokked intuition from another field into a complex task for an advantage, but none of that here. Exploring alternative hypothesis in real life is useful because there is infinite (though diminishing returns) in adding to a better work skill or structure.

I don't know what value people are expected to get out of this article.
From Java pro view:

In Java it's a sin to do anything complex in constructors. You only assign fields and maybe, maybe, call some pure static function to assign a computed field.

That mainly comes from unit-testing perspective -- so you can mock the parameters for a unit object _before_ the object does anything.

If you really need to do something complex to initialize those fields, it's better to extract them to different
service class (and call it, ahem, Factory).

So the code looks more like his C example, but wrapped in classes.
The UDM Pro is just a run of the mill switch with 10gig backplane. We really need to start seeing true 8 port 10gig switches at reasonable prices for this to take off.

This 4 port Mirotik product is a good first start: https://mikrotik.com/product/crs305_1g_4s_in
Did they have any insight?
Because it's an easy position to retreat back to, even if it's not relevant.
> C++ gives you strictly more tools, particularly for guaranteeing reliability, and they're all optional.

You are right. But it doesn't help. When I used C++, I constantly shot myself in the foot by using its features. It did not feel like overusing, but I just wanted type-safety and to replace macros. It was impossible to restrict to useful features, because they are all useful in their way, only they come at the price of spreading everywhere until you don't understanding what is going on. Typing rules are insanely complex. Overloaded template error messages and hilarious amounts of boiler plate member functions just to satisfy the constructor rules and to catch the best overload for every integer type were the result.

I went back to C. It's a relief.
Discussion with 133 comments from late 2018:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18293940
ive tried out both. next.js focuses very much on the SSR/SSG job, whereas Redwood both stretches further in front of the stack (with Cells and a Form library) and further back in the stack (with Prisma/GraphQL). next is a lot more mature (5yrs?) whereas redwood is new. that help?
In general that's probably true. For the specific incident I mentioned, there are probably only a hundred or so people on the market world-wide at any given moment that have a clearly matching resume. Not caring to notice that at the HR level is truly "low effort".
Ask HN: What is your web “Go to” tech stack?
Why is it the go to? And maybe an addition of any API's/SaaSs that help?
Writing in C++ means that the C++ library you are using becomes a dependency. Probably not an issue, if you have the source code to all libraries that you use, but maybe an issue if you are vendor and try to support not only all possible modern compilers, but what they target to (platforms, runtimes, models, etc.)

With just "C", not "C" only at the interface part, you can avoid that. Even to the point that your binary artifact (library) can be reused safely between DEBUG and RELEASE. Alternatively you need to ship this as shared statically linked to CRT library (which lots of vendors do), but it's general pain in the ass... for all platforms.

So that is the hidden cost of C++, even if your interface is still "C".
Conspiracy theorists burn 5G towers claiming link to virus
"Perhaps all they wanted was the source code of his application to repackage (after introducing a backdoor)"

A counterargument against that is A: if the goal is to produce a version with a backdoor, they don't need the source to accomplish that and B: if that was the goal, they wouldn't want to give the original author any reason to know they were asking about it, so that when the backdoor is found in the wild he can pipe up and go "Oh, yeah, that reminds me, the NSA got my source code a few months ago..."
Risks of 3D printing face masks
I think it's dangerous thinking to wish the state and its guns to dictate life
I mean, that's fair, but growing past that is also part of learning to be an effective engineer. It's not always a comfortable process - it sure wasn't at first for me! - but that's often true of any kind of growth.

I think it's better described as a skill than as a talent, too. The former is learned, the latter innate, and as someone with absolutely none of the latter, I can attest that the former is attainable nonetheless.
People are not simple cost-benefit calculators, and even if they were, it's easy to screw up that calculation when 1) companies spend billions of advertising dollars each year to shift the perceived benefit (+ network effects reaped from years prior), and 2) you don't have experience with potentially addictive substances. Once you're hooked, it's no longer a fair fight, particularly if you have a susceptible personality.
The OP does have a point. You cannot control for the social isolation factor because there is no data on it.

The people who isolate with 100% success never get COVID and thus are missing from the sample population.

It is also easier to isolate than to give up smoking.
Ok, we've abandoned silence in the title above. I think that's redundant anyhow.

I also took out "your". That's a standard moderation trick since second-person pronouns in titles tend also to be clickbait: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
New Release Alert: Make Them Suffer
I get that cycling is complex to route but when I ask Google Maps for directions to the city centre from my apartment, it sends me over a huge row of stairs.

I notified them of the issue a couple of years ago and it got fixed a few months later, but it came back again. At that point I gave up as I don't really use the service for cycling anyway. I know my city well enough and when I cycle outside of it, I use Strava.
Check out https://freefilesync.org/
No I just instinctively scroll past them. I've come to learn the top 1/3rd of a google results page is usually bullshit, so I ignore it.
Sure, that quote is from Socrates about books. I don’t think he’s actually wrong: the average person today probably is less mentally capable than ~2,500 years ago. Books are more useful as a storage device, to be sure, but externalization does have downsides when it comes to mental cognition itself.

Don’t disagree with on the sequences of characters point, though. Unfortunately most people don’t make that distinction and lump everything into the ‘not worth memorizing’ camp.
This may overturn prior verdicts, though, too, if I understand it right.
Predictive text is still pretty bad when trying to use terms not in English for me...
> I'd rather hear from the people on the receiving end. If it's not welcome, then it should stop.

It seems kind of obvious that harassment of any kind isn't welcome by the recipient. That's given by definition of the word "harassment". I've definitely been on the receiving end for what it's worth.
> The riding position is awful.

I found that maximally raising the handlebars improves it a lot. For the older models this is something you had to arrange at ordering or take the bike to a service center for.
Funny how 90% of the media is controlled by 4 corporations but now suddenly that domestic outreach groups are organizing people to stop the economic destruction based on a disease which has a mortality rate the same as the flu, and suddenly everyone on the left is an investigative reporter and conspiracy theorist.
Digital Ocean Experiencing Major Outages
For one, some definitions would be nice. How do you define "fraudulent payments"? If I tried to checkout while on VPN and firefox with resistfingerprinting enabled, and your antifraud system stopped me, did that count toward your "millions per day"?
If you haven't signed anything you are under no obligation, if it was in the company's best interest not to refuse you after accepting you they would in a minute. say politely you've changed your mind, at the worst they will offer you some more money.
> I know many smokers that have different logic. They know how bad it is, yet for them it is not hard to quit, but they choose to smoke (often only occasionally or "celebratory" as some insurances call it). Many just don't want to quit, don't try, and accept the trade offs of enjoying their vice vs its harms.

I know some people who express the same. I just don't know very many at all who express the delusional sentiments from TFA.
Maybe, assuming that the better true conviction rate is a more just outcome. The goal here is justice. There are crimes where a conviction could be worse than the crime. I.e. abused child accused of murdering abuser. Giving any single juror essentially the power to veto a conviction is a very good thing for justice and sets a very high standard for police & prosecution.
I hate comments like this that only exist to create drama.
The developers frequently blog about how they're doing it, often going into immense detail.

Without spoiling too much, I have no qualms about calling them some of the best in the industry. The entire industry, that is, not just in games.
A problem is if you use RAII for other resources than memory, for example files. You want to put the close function in the destructor then, but close can throw an exception. http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/fstream/ofstream/close/
(Of course the solution is easy, you wrap close in a try catch block, but as alwaya all the solutions are easy in c++ but this is one of the surprising corners, which might be done more often wrong then not)
I use GSuite for work, the interface is slower than Eudora on a 486, it breaks a lot of formatting from Outlook users, and for some reason Docs and Sheets documents are confusingly in different places.

It leaves a lot to be desired, I’m not sure Office could be much worse.
The case against CS master's degrees
A Simple Error Resulted in a mistaken order of 28,000 Tons of Coal
these last 2 weeks me and my wife created a strict rule where we can't have any screens (laptops, phone, tablets) in a bedroom.

now we don't browse while laying in bed in the morning or at night. this simple change cutdown on my addiction even when out of my bed room.

When we go to our bedroom at night we know it means bed time, its a mental change.

Also, at first you'll feel an urge to look at your phone at night, but it goes away.
Cisco's (and for that matter most other) networking gear is ASIC/FPGA based AFAIK, the Atom or whatever main CPU is almost always only for management purposes.
I mean, you just defined Palantir so... VCs build companies to fulfill govt contracts all the time.
Is there a source for the '$15 billion' in profit for last year?
or start a viral social media campaign to shout down and browbeat anyone whose earbud volume is too high (assuming you can scrounge up enough moral reasoning to back your campaign and get the bandwagon effect)
This is really bad for us. Lot of our infrastructure sites are down. Oops.
That was one of the solutions I considered. I believe that would successfully limit Stripe's tracking, but it's just logistically complicated to stand up a whole second app just to serve one page and manage state between the payment app and my main app.
Lizards develop new 'love language'
I had never heard of Minetest before. Have you written up any of your experiences "writing a game" as you say? I'm looking over it and having a hard time thinking about the best way to dip my toes into it.