skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
General interest/articles/websites: I choose a few aggregate newsletters, a few specialist pages, and combine them all via RSS. I use NewsBlur as my reader, and kill-the-newsletter to convert subscription newsletters into RSS feeds. This gives me one place to check a few times each day, rather than constantly checking the sites individually.

Books: I have a To Read list on my public library account where I keep track of books I want to read. Normally when I'm at the library I'll check to see which of those is available(a feature of their webapp) and grab a few.

News: I subscribe to Up First by NPR and PBS NewHour podcasts. This gives me a little over an hour of news each day, 10-15 minutes in the morning and an hour in the evening. This keeps me in the loop without feeling like I need to constantly be reading more.

Social Media: I only use instagram, and I only follow my friends and artists/craftspeople that work in media that I have personal interest.

Takeaway: I built a source of inputs that I value and lean heavily on those. Essentially, I have a small pool of information to consume, rather than drown in the ocean of what's available. I also routinely prune all of these sources, adding a few and removing a few.
Bummer it had to be so hard. Thanks for sharing.
100% agreed. My life got a lot better when I focused on controlling my sleeping time rather than my waking time.

Although personally, I don't think one needs flexible working hours to achieve it. Once I got my habits and home lighting right, my sleep cycle very naturally became: sleep at +/- 10:30, wake at +/- 6:30. That only works if I stay out of sleep debt, of course. But that's entirely worth it; I didn't realize how much sleep debt was harming my mental clarity until I experienced a long stretch of sleeping enough every night.
Anyone know something similar to this, but with help generating a web front end?
I'd love to generate a small UI for my team to help with openssl commands, being able to input data would be a bonus.

I could probably cook something up with node fairly fast, but I'm a remedial programmer.
Razer Blade Stealth 13" 2020 or the newest Dell XPS 13" (but that is not aluminium).
biggest reason I switched to Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
Not immediately, but eventually the lack of spending and debt defaults will show up.
> As with a lot of things, it comes down to communication. Between teams, and between the services they write. Which is just another expression of Conway's Law.

This is so accurate. I've heard engineers give state not needing to communicate, chillingly, as a positive for microservices, like "we won't need to talk to each other if all of us are working on different services". My other favorite is using microservices as an excuse for why the product isn't working "oh, my service is working fine, but his service is doing this when it shouldn't", when we're on a small engineering team.
He was definitely wrong by a factor of 3, then! But probably more.
Moving TinyMCE to Modern JavaScript
> This was a bad enough fuck-up that I removed my social proofs and now recommend that people not use Keybase

What do you recommend people use instead?
Your child's problems are your problems.

Whereas your child's joys are often ... also your problems.
I find it odd that a publication has a blog. Is this content lower quality than what they usually publish? More meta? From a content management point of view it seems silly to have a completely separate stream of written content on a written content site.
Try driving through the midwest and Appalachia sometime.
Sure, I'll just go ask my HR department to generate a training plan and hire a training department for my 9 person practice.
The RAM going bad in my PC was one of the most annoying issues I had to troubleshoot. It started with having my firefox pages randomly crash. first occasionally and then several times a day.

I then started getting errors when playing games with obscure error codes - which yielded nothing when searching them up.

I eventually found a comment in a thread about the crashing game that the RAM could be bad. I ran some diagnostic tests and with the number of errors that came up I was surprised my computer worked at all
I think that microservice approach is good when you can share those services between many applications
In most cases
microservices can be the new premature optimization because you can start to lose the focus on the product itself and think about the the microservice as a product
That was true in the newspaper era. Now that we're in the web era, they can do both. They could have improved the article immensely without changing any of the prose, while adding links to the underlying documents. WaPo and the NYT do this regularly.

Don't forget the power of hypertext :)
How many people do you know who are going to buy the latest iPhone this year or next? I can tell you that among my acquaintances, that number is vastly lower than it was if I asked the same question in February. And that's assuming that everything with the virus goes as well as possible, which it isn't.
OP's niece takes on the liability as the owner (ie she hits someone and causes harm her insurance doesn't cover), but OP retains legal claim against the property, preventing someone else from obtaining it through a legal judgement or similar proceedings.
> React is known for providing a fast user experience

No.
“Idle hands belong to the devil”.
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We can print more money, but we cannot print the things the money will buy. When the factories shut their doors and busineses small and large collapse and the food supply chain implodes, you can't eat money or shelter from the rain under money - and all that turning the printing presses up will do is to make it clear to everyone just how unreal money actually is. We know from other countries that's really hard to undo.
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Debian flavored Linux.

Linux because I always loved to tinker, customize my stuff. Not just the computer but my home and car and I can customize Linux as much as I want.

I also love using CLI. I like to have remote connectivity to my home computer when I am out without having to render entire GUI on my handheld device.

It's also what I am most familiar with.
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I want to frame this comment and gift it to those whom deserve it most.
Looks the same as depression to me. Though I wonder if referring to it as ennui might make it more manageable. Depression has suicidal connotations, and if perceived as such can lead to a downward spiral.
See also, Hammerspoon for an open source project that does this.
Schools are not going to repeat for everyone, if only because it would be monumentally unfair (and counterproductive) to force students who learned the required curriculum to repeat a grade. But if you just give everyone a pass and throw students into the next grade who basically skipped a semester, that's not going to play out well either.

ADDED: What I suspect happens is that most schools bend over backwards to pass everyone they feel they possibly can and adjust lesson plans when schools come back to recognize that many students didn't really learn much the previous semester.
> I fully expect, and you should too, foreclosures to skyrocket and people to be on the street.

Why, in the worlds wealthiest nation is that something I should expect?
Hey everyone!

A bit of a backstory: We’re 3 young professionals working together in the same company for our day jobs. As we went into distancing a month and a half back, we started noticing a lot of local initiatives aimed at community response to help the elderly and other risk groups isolate.

Most of them were (and still are) run quite inefficiently, using Facebook groups or Google forms to take in volunteers and requests and match them manually.

What makes our platform different is that it:
1. Handles matching automatically and as efficient as possible
2. Is scalable globally
3. Can be used by existing efforts and initiatives
4. Is extremely simple and easy to use

So we’ve done it! We’ve built an app for volunteers that works using geolocation and that deploys requests for help in-app. Requests can come both from “in need” users for the app and from web forms that use the location and deploy the request in-app. Existing organizations can be “Verified” through a badge once we vet them.

We have built:
1. A React Native application written in Typescript (<3). We use Mobx for our state management.
2. A NodeJS API with Nest.js & Typescript. We use MongoDB (database) & RabbitMQ (message broker). You can access our swagger API publicly at https://api.komak.io/docs/.

Our DevOps stack:
Kubernetes/ArgoCD (CD) - Fastlane/Drone/Github actions (CI) - Sentry (error reporting)
Their $600 camera links to a search which produces 4K body at $1200 as the cheapest camera option... Maybe it once included an 1080p one, but it does not at this point.

Relevant:

"Primer" won many rewards on a similar budget ($7K)

"House" had an episode shot entirely on a Canon 5D (A $2000 camera at the time, IIRC; however, the production likely cost >$1M per episode at the time)
Maybe its conways law, or maybe it's just that designing a distributed service is difficult, and when you break a monolith down, you're having to deal with distributing that monolith N times, and solving those CAP issues N times, which usually is not trivial. Not to mention tuning the network.
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OK, so perhaps it extends to journalism. It's a sentiment I would have agreed with wholeheartedly when I was in software, and here in veterinary medicine I know that training is difficult, people with seemingly high aptitude often don't help you train them, and experience is a great measure of someone's ability.
Can't be used for analytical purposes... Welp looks like no one should even download or look at it. You could violate the ToS by looking at the data and drawing conclusions!
The opposite of boredom is not entertainment. The opposite of boredom is activity. Your house being on fire is not boring, but it’s also not exactly fun either.
Really nice. Reminds me of Platypus[1].

I don't really use GitHub but, if possible, please change the GIFs to MP4. Besides being sharper and way smaller, one can control the playback to rewind/fast forward.

[1] https://sveinbjorn.org/platypus
We're actually working on a collection of such stories internal to our division. We've found that these tales are a great way of helping people understand the complexities and quirks of our nearly 3 decade old code base.
Normal investors lack the ability to invest in real estate the same way that wealthy investors do. It's nearly impossible for you and I to invest in a new office complex or similar. So normal investors are stuck with the housing (usually in a single market), existing small commercial, or REITs. Houses are fickle and gains are mostly due to luck (or volume). In my experience, yields on affordable commercial RE are not that far off from broader market yields.
I'm not trying to suggest unionization or a change in social order, but there's an information disparity here that I have yet to hear a compelling suggestion as to how it helps the employee - if it's a two way street, what advantages does the employee get out of it?
Ask HN: How can you find an honest online review/info of a product nowadays?
Every time I want to research a product -let’s say, a camera- I have a hard time finding ‘non-advertising’ information. What I mean is that if I go to Google, you already know what happens, most of the links are blogs from people who get paid to write about these products, and I don’t know how to distinguish between these blogs and the real ones written by people who are not paid (if any), and this happens with YouTube too for instance. If you go to Amazon or any other online store, you’ll mostly find fake reviews. My last shot is searching on reddit, HN or similar online communities but I don’t always find what I’m looking for.

So, I was guessing how you research a product in order to be able to select the right one for you, because I feel like I'm seeing ads everywhere...
Where I live, most tombstones have one of the few popular sayings or Bible verses on them. I'm sure the choice of a particular one was deeply meaningful to the person making that choice, but it gives zero information (above "probably wasn't an atheist") to an outside observer.
I see quite a few people defending microservices; the org is the problem, they must not have written the software correctly, etc. Most org structures are not great. Most software is not great. If you expect the exception to be the rule you're setting yourself up for a career full of disappointment.

Microservices are a modern re-branding of service-oriented architecture, but 'microservices' sounds cuter and less like it belongs in Java-land, and there's some theoretical idea that splitting your app into even smaller pieces will somehow make the whole thing better.

SOA/microservices solves a few problems and introduces a great many. The original SOA proponents were pretty explicit about this. Beware! There be dragons here! But one of the main pieces of prescriptive advice from domain driven design is helpful for splitting into distributed services: split along domain lines with minimum inter-service dependencies. Payments is an obvious one. Microservices seems to buck much of this advice in favor for a blissfully ignorant principle of "small" or "isolated". Good luck isolating something that is not meant to be isolated.

Scaling software is hard. Scaling teams is harder. Trying to scale teams by scaling/distributing software is an understandable goal but extremely hard to pull off because of additional complexities and costs you incur in doing so. Dev gets harder, deployment/ops becomes harder, testing becomes harder. Cross-team communication, documentation, API publishing and adherence goes from being very low impact within an org to suddenly being critically important.

To do SOA/microservices effectively you need complete organizational buy-in, and you have to commit completely to developing tooling and solving all the associated problems in moving to a services approach. Often, it's easier to just put it all back together, organize the code in such a way to minimize merge conflicts and wait for the ungodly slow test suite to run in CI. There are good reasons you rarely hear SOA/microservices success stories outside of enormous companies (Netflix, Facebook, Google, Amazing, etc). Doing this stuff takes an enormous investment and commitment from the entire organization, and there are just lower friction ways to skin this cat if you don't operate at mega web scale.

Growing a monolith is hard. Growing a microservices/SOA architecture is also very hard. Growing is hard.
BMW has sold many cars using many of these ads over many decades.

I take that as evidence that the ads work and the ad makers haven't "misread the target audience".
I wish we could not communicate in bumper stickers. I did not argue this in any way, but you jumped to a conclusion and I am not certain what that conclusion is based on.
IQ is, at best, a measure of raw capacity. But what matters in practice is how you apply that capacity. If somebody is enthusiastic then they are alert to details, excited to try things, and resilient in iterating. That means they're going to end up with a smarter end product than somebody who is smart but not really into it.
> which necessarily won't be able to simulate the entire universe nor anything at a high level of fidelity and so requires constant tricks to convince the inhabitants things are real"

No tricks. Simulating the minds is the entire point. Simulating physics isn't the interesting part of these kinds of simulations.

> I absolutely do not understand how you can just simulate minds without an environment

Each simulated mind contains a set of beliefs about the local environment. The intersection of the belief-sets of the people in close physical proximity dictates the local reality. If some belief-sets conflict, choose the set that has more believers.

Global consistency can be assured if all beliefs that survive a conflict satisfy certain conditions.

> I suppose I will have to read the book because the noise argument you are presenting seems bizarre to me.

You don't need to simulate the LHC, you only need to simulate what outputs the scientists believe the LHC should produce, ie. they expect results consistent with the statistical models of quantum mechanics. Introduce some random errors here and there as a demonstration of human fallibility (like the FTL neutrinos mistake a few years back due to a loose cable).

> No I don't think so. The number of possible "simulated objects" is infinite

The number at any given time is not. Every simulated object will have logical properties associated with it, particularly at its interface. Satisfy the logical properties of the interface, and a simulated mind wouldn't know the difference.

> Not convinced on this point either, but anyway this would conflict with reality considering a great many people already believe with certainty that they are living in a simulation.

They may believe it but they can never prove it, and so they're not actually seeing through the simulation.
Why is the oil price negative?
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How about people who don't want to live in a dense urban environment, no matter much an economist tells them that the "economies of scale" of a city are more favourable for the statistical model they happen to believe in the most?
The Fed balance sheet is kind of irrelevant. What that number means is the quantity of reserves in the system. Only the money that is spend in the real economy has inflationary effects. One more steep is necessary for that money to have real effect and that doesn't happen automatically in a depression.

If you increase the reserves, you are forcing the interest rate down, so you are making credit more cheaper (until it arrives zero and can't go further down).

For inflation to appear you need borrowers to who the banks think is good business to lend, and that spend that borrowed money in the economy. That it's not going to happen in a depression, when nobody wants to invest and the banks are scared to lend.

What is necessary is a decisive fiscal policy. That would increase the central bank balance sheet also, but what would cause some inflation would be the spending in the economy, not the number in the balance sheet.
It adds optional infrastructure at the back end.

Infrastructure has direct and indirect costs, must be built maintained scaled monitored paid for etc etc.

You need a very very good reason to choose to implement optional back end infrastructure.

None of these reasons would be strong enough to convince me to start building and maintaining and paying for that infrastructure.
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Zoom runs on AWS and Google too, so they're apparently cloud vendor agnostic. If Oracle starts acting up, hasta la vista.
> So I have no idea what the poster means by 'without any useless packages'

Consider this targeted at Ubuntu users. Ubuntu out of the box has a huge amount of packages, and most packages have more dependencies than on "lighter" distros (anything optional is pulled in by default).
Unfortunately, this is not true. I wish it were.

Firefox's JavaScript engine is still slower and large JavaScript apps become sluggish more quickly.

Also, I still haven't found a way to let users download files from JavaScript (e.g. through a button click that invokes a function) in Firefox, that wouldn't open another window and in the process close their websocket connection.
The WSJ editorial page has been predicting hyperinflation because of QE since 2008, but it stubbornly refuses to materialize. Maybe this time...
I use Process Explorer when I have to, but

1. It’s not built into Windows, requires separate download;

2. Searching is hit or miss.
Yes, definitely. I was just struck by how close some of the similarities were in this case. That said, it is a simple enough class of app that there are bound to be similarities between them and I was sincere in congratulating the OP.
In the long run, the market beats principle in your home. But “the long run” can often be far beyond a useful timeframe for a single human lifespan.
Right, if it gets taken away it gets given to me as the senior lien holder. For best legal protection, I should loan her money with some nominal interest rate.

A distant family member did this on the house of one of their kids, and it saved them from losing it in a foreclosure. The other lender was so angry with them for refusing to release their lien; but they couldn't legally force them to do it.
Add to that the feds have been quantitatively easing and the money has to go somewhere.

The market doesn't need to reflect the reality when you have an excess of cheap cash on the market.
I think wordperfect was a diffrent settlement at least according to https://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/08/microsoft_novell_ne...

From that the settlement was around NDS for NT
When I was in third grade, we spent half the second semester learning about different kinds of whales. This is material I forgot pretty much as soon as it was over. When I graduated high school, my mom and I went through all my old elementary school material to see what we'd like to keep for sentimental value and what we're okay with throwing out to make room in the garage, and we were just overwhelmed by the sheer massive volume of paper that came out of that whale unit.

There is so much redundancy in elementary school education that you can take out a large chunk of it and still teach the same amount of information. School could be way, way denser than it is. Hell, even in high school, a full year would cover the same amount of material as a single semester of one of my college classes, and my college classes only met 3 times a week (for the same exact class length as my high school classes; or fewer than 3 times a week for longer class length).
You make the assumption that:

- the ones who wrote/edit wikipedia articles for random companies aren't the the Marketing/PR departments of such companies;

- Marketing and management feel that simple language devaluates the company importance;

When in reality, any company should keep an eye on their wikipedia page - if not them, then who the hell has the best knowledge to update it.

Sucessfull companies have pretty straightforward and simple communication, that's why they pay specialists to do it, or do it in house with specialists of their own.

Unless you're talking about a random company where the marketing is done by someone who had to fill for the marketing guy that left the week before, because he said in a lunch break that he had graphic design course in colege.

If that's the case, then why bring it up as a generalization, since is a bad practice, and indeed the exception to the rule? Or the goal is to state the obvious: there are bad marketers/managers like there are bad developers/artists/electricians/MDs/nurses and any other profession done by people.
Maybe Tech will in short term, but investors still will need to chaise yield in a zero interest rate environment.

As soon as things pass, money should start to flow back into startups.
This is what happens when you reach a certain age when you need to deliver on your said “experience”. All of what was said is true, but it is also comparable to saying “be what you want to be” to your child, forgetting that the hard part is in actually following this advice, rather than giving it.
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Western Europe and Scandinavia mostly.