skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Midway through the article I was thinking it sounds exactly like Atomic Habits...
Finished to read it’s from James Clear. I can recommend AH if you haven’t read it yet. It has quite more to say about this concept than just a short article.
I flagged your comment, and it seems to have been revived, so I will explain why I flagged it:

"Spergy" (which refers to Asperger's Syndrome) is an ableist slur against people on the autism spectrum. That language doesn't belong on HN.
ASU scientific team finds new, unique mutation in coronavirus study
That is correct. (Though usually 3.5mm.)
> Extrapolating linear trends over four orders of magnitude is a good way to be disappointed in life

It's clearly early days - "it works in the lab, now we just need to scale it" type of progress. But still, it's progress.
This might be super basic, but... assume positive intent.

Your parent is not your enemy. Your teacher is not your enemy. Your boss is not your enemy. The other team at work is not your enemy. The corporation is not your enemy. The other political party is not your enemy. Or, more accurately, YOU are not THEIR enemy. At best, you're an NPC in their game. Many of them probably even want to help you, because you are another person in the world, and that feels good.

I take back what I said about this being basic. The first steps (learning your parent, teacher, boss are on your side) is pretty basic. But applying this concept to more complex systems, like corporations and communities, can be pretty advanced. But at the end of the day, what it means is that, most of the time there isn't a conspiracy against you, there are simply incentives that you don't understand.
Rebooting the SEO Strategy for HomeAdvisor
I second phpcaptcha.org.
Finally a laptop with a good (1080p) front-facing camera.
But I don’t need it. If I really needed it, maybe I would buy it.
Favor interrogative-led questions over leading questions.

A leading question attempts to get the listener to agree or disagree with a premise you feed to them.

An interrogative-led question often begins with the words: who; where; what; when; why.

Imagine the responses to these two questions:

- "Did you like the movie?" (Leading)

- "What did you think about the movie?" (Interrogative-led)

How do each of these questions make you feel? How comfortable would you be saying something you think would displease the asker in each case. What kind of responses are possible/likely in each case?

Of course, you can always be talking to someone who's not interested in talking. It's possible to answer either question with a word or two. So there's some assumption of willingness to participate. Even so, you can still sometimes use carefully-chosen interrogative-led questions to find reasons for the disinterest.

Asking good interrogative-led questions is essential for above-average results in many pursuits: science; engineering; interviewing; and negotiation; to name a few. It can also be an important way to de-escalate tense situations. I've found it especially useful when talking to subject matter experts when trying to learn something about areas I know little.

Here's an actionable way to apply the idea. The next time you find yourself asking a question that doesn't begin with {who, where, what, when, why}, stop yourself and rephrase it to begin with one of those words. What differences do you notice in how the conversation goes compared to similar conversations you've had in the past?
I can see why this is interesting from a project manager's perspective. But why would I as a developer want this, let alone pay for it? Isn't this the "developing in a browser" nightmare everybody was joking about a few years ago?

Maybe this will work for developing web applications which are executed on a remote machine by design, but everything else?
> I do think there are options to achieve all of that - scale without manual intervention, etc. - without Kubernetes though.

Indeed. Haven't people been doing that since, well, cloud computing?
So what's the defense?
I agree with you, but I see our phrases as different ways of saying the same thing. When you can perform the same mundane tasks in a way that brings meaning to, and takes meaning from, them, then you have found enlightenment.
I would instead of hosting comments on the site itself offload comments to Twitter/HN and link to it from the article like https://overreacted.io
COVID19 and the Decentralization of Money
Python support seems to be really lacking on your project. Why is that, lack of interest?
Spammers aren't dumb -- this gets stripped.
I agree that there are loads of open Gitlab issues, but I’ve found that their team are really easy to communicate with, really open to feedback and somehow also respond really quickly on issues. I like that they use Gitlab for so much and that they’re still really open to hearing about a workflow that’s different to theirs and keen to help with that.

As a user I really like that they have their tickets open like that. I’d never contact Github and tell them about some minor feature that would be helpful or give them feedback on a new feature they’ve released because how would you even do that in a way that’s not annoying? And with Gitlab you often get to feed in at the design stage which you’re completely shut out from anywhere else.

I’m not sure if you’ve actually had issues go missing - I know they have loads of repos and I’ve only engaged with a few - but my experience definitely hasn’t been that things get lost in the weeds.

For what it’s worth I agree with all the extra features being too visible. I kinda get it - one day I’ll get round to learning Kubernetes and I’ll probably do something with Gitlab’s integration when I do - but while I don’t use them those features are definitely too visible and add too much clutter.
First the mountain is a mountain,

then it is not a mountain,

then the mountain is a mountain.

https://terebess.hu/zen/qingyuan.html
Are we sure that this gitgardener stuff is even allowed by the GitHub ToS? I mean no offense to the OP of course, but clearly some people are clogging the site already by creating entirely fake users, with zilch useful contributions to FLOSS or the dev community. I don't think GH would look kindly on this sort of activity.
Plug for the platform that I work on, Coral[0]. We support newsrooms in many regions (including those that need to be GDPR compliant). You can self host the application on Heroku pretty easily with the button or run on a server if you like too.

[0]: https://docs.coralproject.net/talk/
It's not about doing it without a mouse, it's about doing it fast, comfortably, and powerfully. Pointers are a useful addition to graphic capable vi implementations, but if you do everything with mouse or trackpad movements then I don't think you can claim the zen of vi.
Top questions 4 eng-managers, how to find answers and things Jira won’t tell you
EGYPT! Extremely long time no see! (We've met before at FC and other south bay stuff but it was well over a decade ago, have some common links from Puzzlebox, etc)

Astolpho has been doing most of my art (like the squid buttplug on the buttplug.io page, and the Buttplug sommlier foxes on my patreon - http://patreon.com/qdot), but I'll try to contact you once I'm looking for more art, which I'm hoping will be soon, once I can get out of the code mines and back to applications work.
Hey Peteris, thank you for the reply, hope things are well.

One thing we found is that sometimes clients on a VPN have a smaller max packet size, causing SSL connections to fail, but it's not a main thing we're trying to solve. Primarily it's bandwidth and speed.
I saw an old demo from Microsoft research in their programming by example group. The idea was to figure out how to extract (json-shaped) data from websites given a few examples of where that data was by the user. The video on this site reminded me of that. I think this presents a better interface than MSR and by restricting to tabular structures of data (as far as I can tell), I think the system is easier to understand and likely more reliable.
The Tyranny of Structurelessness. My shallow interpretation of it is essentially: wherever there's a group of people, there's politics.

https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
Cars have had voltage gauges for decades. The really aren’t very useful because essentially by the time the battery reads less than its nominal 12v it’s basically dead.
Either a hilarious autocorrect, or someone is testing out Facebook’s new chatbot.
The misguided idea that there is more than one sense of something being someone’s data, and that thus, some how, the public has eternal right to any comment I make in Hacker News.

As expressed here by Paul Graham
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6813226 and enforced with blind loyalty by Daniel Gackle who repeatedly refuses to delete my stuff instead spending his nights examining and debating the minute details of my words deciding which should or should not be deleted.

If this misguided idea never existed, HN would be like all normal web services, the user would have a delete button and my life would be better.

But, the idea and the power position it allows are here, and my life is changed for the worse.
That free market capitalism is a good system that works. I grew up in a family that pretty much believed the opposite so I probably never would have become an entrepreneur otherwise. I mainly credit Milton Friedman's "Free to Choose" series for persuading me, as well as some of Paul Graham's essays.
Ohh, that's what I was missing. Thank you, this is a huge quality of life improvement.
The Skyrim lewd modding scene is W I L D.
Managing Through Crisis – Lessons from World War II
It works for common spam, but it does not really work for curated lists because they can remove it.

(I think it is also an RFC standard, not just gmail, but don't quote me on this).
Be wary of survivorship bias.

Not everyone that focuses on the process makes lots of money. However, some of the people that make lots of money do it as a byproduct of focusing on the process.

We're all familiar with the stereotype of the dev who's obsessed with polishing their code that nobody is using.
Or perhaps, instead of having the 30 absolute newest articles, you could have 30 articles, randomly selected from those submitted in the last hour. That way your chance at success isn't biased so incredibly heavily on how you do in the first 5 minutes. (And also, might make it harder to get brigades set up, since the list is randomly generated.)
Doing this is generally not advisable; you'll be found out pretty quickly if you do.

Furries are a pretty tightly-knit bunch of people, and the folks who occupy the artwork-having set are usually two or three degrees of separation from each other.

As an added bonus, in case the social network effects weren't enough, DMCA claims become easier because the provenance of a piece of art is often quite clear, what with the subculture's emphasis on always attributing the source of the art in question.
> Receive users’ consent before you use any cookies except strictly necessary cookies.

Yup.

> login cookies

Put an unchecked "Remember me" checkbox on your login page and link to your cookie/privacy policy. This is a good idea anyway as the user might be on a shared computer.

> Preferences cookies

Allowed to be persistent as long as they don't contain user identifiable information.

> A cookie that remembers your shopping cart if you leave the site and return to it later.

I couldn't find any specific guidance on this, so it seems reasonable to use a cookie that might last a few hours or so, then have a talk to your local Information Commissioners Office if someone complains.
Not sure if that's outdated but the home page says:

I have a goal I'm working towards. Mine is to achieve financial independence in 2020.
...
I've reached $800 MRR so far. My goal is to reach $2k MRR.
This a weird memory to be honest. Yes,you are right, English is a second language and normally sun and moon would be 'it' and not 'she' or 'he'.The teacher was too good to get mixed up when it comes to genders but because it was more than 20 years ago,I've got a feeling that there was more into it.Maybe it is how it used to be in onld English or something.
It might be nice to have a printer that doesn’t call home or an order one that is easier to refill.

Also with the cheaper pi zero, why waste a functioning printer - you might also have other services running on the Raspberry pi.
Because it uniquely describes a user within a group of 100 other people. 2^(-6.6) ~ 1/100
How has it affected you? Are you doing it for weight loss, or for other reasons?

I had a month off work recently (unrelated to the pandemic), which I spent learning programming. During this time I never ate lunch, only a small breakfast and a normal supper. But now that I'm back at work and I'm on my feet all day, I have to eat, otherwise I get super hungry, lightheaded and generally lethargic. But I've discovered that I don't have to eat very much before I'm back to normal.
Ask HN: CDNs with GDPR Blocks?
For business with minimal EU market keeping up with all the latest rules and potentially huge penalties around GDPR may not be easy.

Are any CDN's with a GDPR block option - that keeps up with which ipblocks or similar are GDPR covered and allows the website host to block access or redirect them?
Open source software really _has_ penetrated every niche.
Just double checked in a Windows VM. These are available when searching WSL in the Microsoft Store. Some of these are for a fee. There are also a few results for terminal emulators and an X server.

- Ubuntu (18.04 and 20.04)

- Kali

- Debian

- Fedora (remix for WSL)

- openSUSE-Leap-15

- SUSE Linux Enterprise

- Alpine

- Pengwin (Debian-based and apparently optimized for WSL, and an enterprise version)

- Centos (7 and 8.1)

-
If the US had functioning regulators, they might require Wink to let you update the device's server
I would add utterances [0], even if its not self-hosted.

[0] https://github.com/utterance/utterances
Now that's a highly respected company that doesn't ever upsell it's crap services and certainly never plays domain-name games. Lol.
Go Daddy stinks. It's bad. Avoid them.
Their entire market gambit is "fool the less technically savvy while acting authoritative"...
I can gossip about them at length if required, but let's rather not, and say we did.
Pretty much any other crap host will be better, even a 1and1 or something...
How is this diffferent from the antigravity patent?

"a device that uses a microwave emitter to create a high-frequency electromagnetic wave through a cavity to create a polarized vacuum. This polarized vacuum, in turn, reduces the mass of the vehicle containing the device."

(I know it probably is, just curious)
Yes, but of whom?
holy fuck I have not thought of Astolpho in like a decade

and of course this turns out to be by someone I have run into before in the Yiff Mines :)
As someone who has been through this process, I strongly agree with the advice of Lammy and nikivi posted in this thread.

Unless you have a high-traffic blog with lots of user engagement, I think it's best to keep your blog clean and handle comments/feedback elsewhere.
It's a great book if you want to understand bayesian modeling in detail. Its not 'dry' as in boring - it's an interesting read.

If you want something less technical then read Gelman and Hill 'Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models', which is also great. More for scientists than statisticians, I'd say.
Cold air rises–what that means for Earth's climate
Ask HN: Reimagine Education with Gates and Cuomo
Gov Cuomo said, in an interview [0] following an announcement about the Gates foundation stepping in to help "revolutionize" New York education,

"The old model of everybody goes and sits in the classroom, and the teacher is in front of that classroom and teaches that class, and you do that all across the city, all across the state, all these buildings, all these physical classrooms — why, with all the technology you have?"

So, what do you think?

[0] https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2020-05-05/gov-andrew-cuomo-taps-gates-foundation-to-help-new-york-revolutionize-education-after-coronavirus
It's sad that I need to ask what "used" means in this context, but did they respect Do Not Track or use it as a tracking point?
It would live in your own personal instance, just like how a lot of company confidential data lives in google docs and gmail today.
Ooooh hadn't heard of Polybius, been meaning to pick up Wild Hearts...

Still wish any other Mizuguchi game did it for me as much as Rez. Never got to try Child of Eden, Every Extend was good, Lumines and Tetris Effect were ok but just not quite the same. I think Rez had that combination of perfect timing and place.
>At the risk of sounding quite silly, how do people read these textbooks

literally just front to back. I did maths in university and when I started to work for a few years I didn't get too do much of it so I just got into the habit to put half an hour a day aside to work through whatever books I find interesting.

I actually enjoy it much more now than I did in uni given that I can do it at my own pace now and for fun.
Thanks for the detailed response.

I can definitely see where you're coming from. In fact, for VS Code, I believe they collect quite a bit of metrics on your usage of the product through telemetry, so it's definitely not "free" in the sense of "nothing given" - essentially, your programming and usage habits of the program are being sent to MS every second.

Re: the case of VS Code eliminating competition and MS losing the inventive to build good stuff, I think the core editor engine being open source gives me hope that this won't happen like in the olden days of MS. But of course, still a risk.
oh to be clear, I totally agree.

My fascination is that the original motions were not invented to escape the imprecision of graphical pointers, even though that's their main selling point today. They were invented to minimize (1) excessive tty printing, because printing is slow (2) keystrokes.

That, in 2020, these optimizations made in 1960 allow you to avoid the imprecision and slowness of a graphic pointer, we get for free :)
.. and the only thing that matters is you don't give up.
MS may indeed be willing to take a "huge loss" on this. It may dwarf the added revenue from other sources.

So like I don't know your particular context but I imagine MS's moves would seem surprising for developers, say, at startups. Whereas if you work at an IT adjoint to a mechanical contractor it might make more sense. What's at stake is that MS might be ramping up to some bigger announcement, "GitHub Cloud" or so, where you pay some fee for the cloud hosting and the sales pitch is, "imagine that you can fix a bug from a bug report in a non-crappy editor like VS Code, do a quick code review and push a button which will run your tests, canary deploy, then version it and push it live -- we take care of all that infra, you just pay for the Azure hosting." If you give half of that for free to everybody, you nominally "lose" but you increase the adoption rate of a separate revenue machine, which makes up for it.

A similar strategy was used by Microsoft to make their initial profits with Windows. There it was "you don't have to worry about the hardware specs -- we have already worked all of those out and all of them work with Windows." The key point in both is to say, "what are people seeking out, at the same time as they are seeking out my product?" and then to either give people a lot of freedom or a really easy option. You would rather take one pill that is carefully engineered to have the right omega-3 balance to stave off depression AND is a good probiotic AND has all of your daily vitamins, than to have to bother with a separate fish oil pill and probiotic and multivitamin. Focusing on product "complements" is often a really good strategy.
Life is about reproduction, yes. Nearly every non life-sustaining activity is about sex, and that's not even a thesis, that's an axiom.

But very specifically: Furry conventions are about sex. The drunken orgy room parties are far better attended (And yes, I have seen hotel contracts that prove this) than the "main event". Nerd conventions are about sex. SCA events are about sex. They are not exclusively, but as social activities, one of their significant motivating factors is mate-shopping, and there is every indicator that the other advantages of social activity (collaboration and trust building, trading, etc) are not significant motivating factors. People don't get jobs from BDSM conventions (Actually, they do, and then those workplaces go under because hiring people because you're fucking them is dumb).
One advantage of Balena seems to be that the logs in the cloud reduce wear on the sd card, so you can just unplug the raspberry pi (I can’t find the source right now - I think it was in the issues of balena sound’s GitHub Page)
I dunno. This is all so subjective. I don't think Day 1 of programming is about picking up programming. It's about seeing if there's going to be a Day 2-4.

And if Unity isn't in the picture, they sure as fuck aren't going to be hearing about WebGPU for the first 3-5 years of their journey.

Photoshop for game creation is a little bit loaded. I'll take it in good faith but point aggressively to how wrong you are because it's possible you just don't realize how much cutting edge engineering is being deployed.

For example, there's currently a major push towards moving everyone over to a job scheduled, burst-compiled data-driven architecture so that you can have tens of thousands of actors on screen at once. I stand by what I said about a VB6-like UI experience, but nobody is building anything real without learning a ton of C#, Quaternion math and shader language.
Just a note, Florian hasn't played with Kraftwerk since he left (retired?) in Nov 2008... so you wouldn't have seen him anyway. I sure hope that tour goes on once things return to normal!
Actually, we want to to be so high that nobody (including massive companies) can circumvent user consent.
All of these comments make me thankful to have Favor as an option in Texas: https://favordelivery.com/cities. It's owned by HEB and does grocery delivery from HEB as well.
I don't recall seeing any HN guidelines regarding acceptable reasons for downvoting. This makes downvotes ambiguous. It could mean that someone found the story/post uninteresting, or in breach of site etiquette, or that they disagreed with your position/argument but couldn't be bothered to reply.

Many HN users (including me) share your frustration with this state of affairs, but there's no consensus that this should change.
Does emails count as "in writing" - I have emails from the CEO that I will be paid out in July (after being told I'd be paid out in April) but nothing is signed, etc.
Thanks. VS Code is actually no saint in this regard. MS collects metrics through VS Code's "telemetry" option (I think toggle-able to off, not sure) and this data has no doubt been used to improve VS Code and help MS build better product offerings and hence more rake in more revenue.
If they are truly life-necessary. But it is quite likely that the elderly and the pre-existing conditions folk will survive getting the bread tomorrow instead of in two hours.

We already have a bypass mechanisms for the "I'll die if I don't get it in two hours". It's the emergency services system and it's there when your life is in danger and it's currently overprovisioned to ensure capacity.