skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Worst case, you spend ~2 years and get out with a MS degree.

I wouldn't bet on that and it's rarely that clean. I think a very common story with PhDs is:

1) after a year or so you have huge doubts you're going to finish

2) you consider quitting but don't want it to look bad on your resume, you don't want to be seen as a quitter, you don't want to let people down, you don't want the money you've spent so far to be for nothing, you know if you give up now you'll never be able to try again etc.

3) you hope it'll get better and push on.

This problem then compounds itself year after year as 2 becomes a increasingly weightier issue and sunk cost fallacy takes over.
Many sub-reddits are captured by a company and push recommendations towards only their products
I know that people build replicas of expensive Ferraris. But they always seem to take a shortcut and put a modern engine/driveline in it.

Most of the magic of a Ferrari is in the engine, driveline and running gear. When some Ferraris fetch north of $20m, if I was super rich and wanted one, I'd just have a machine shop build a duplicate - including the engine, etc. It can't be that expensive to do it, after all, the originals were built in a machine shop.
That argument loses steam when you find out the 1 in 400 got hit by a bus and the hospital flagged it as a covid death because that person tested positive on a previous covid test.

Listen to the Joe Rogan podcast from last week w/ Elon Musk, he agrees with my statement.

EDIT: Is it just me or is HN becoming more and more of an echo chamber where people downvote anything that goes against their own politics and yet they have no rebuttal or critical response. Lost a lot of respect for HN over the past few months. And for what it's worth, my original comment here is literally what's happening right now. Take your heads out of the fucking sand.
Why would we be surprised that illegal organizations will be very interested in having moles at the higher places??

Government is not an invulnerable entity, akin to a magical/mystical creature that would be superior to the private sector in every case. It is just concentrated power with a legal monopoly on violence.

If anything, this concentration of power makes it a more appealing target -- see also regulatory capture.

Also, I'm surprised this doesn't happen more frequently. One person was caught, for how many that will never even be suspected??
Apple now considers your 2014 MacBook Air 'vintage'
And #AllWhitePeople is? If it's a "given" that "not all white people" have the same life experience, then why is it a useful line of rhetoric, in your case, to pretend that they do? I'm not following your last sentence. Is your claim that the intra-race variance of experience is sufficiently [edit: not] different to a degree that it's useful, rhetorically speaking, to pretend that one race's experience is homogeneous?
It's not so easy. Delivery services mainly bill the restaurants. They take a 25-30% commission which the customer doesn't know about. Then they do aggressive marketing on TV, on the streets, and online to make their services known to customers. They brag about the convenience of ordering through an app or via website.

Meanwhile they employ an army of sales reps, hyping their services to restaurants. They downplay the commission rates and emphasize that the restaurant will be let behind because they are not represented online while everybody else is.

Luckily restaurants started to notice that being online doesn't really matter for a local business. Put your menu up and a phone number next to it.
Neat. Love the domain too
Will do! Someone also just turned me onto this site: https://asciiexpress.net/diskserver/ where you can connect your laptop or phone's headphone jack with a 3.5mm audio cable to the Apple II cassette-in port, and just play the audio files to transfer over games and other software. This is the magic I was hoping for.
https://github.com/imvetri/ui-editor

Building this to stop frontend from getting overcomplicated
I don't. Why would I miss him? Thousands came before him and thousands will after. They have and they will achieve important things, but will be forgotten in the end.
Many Intel codenames are real geographical features near the site where the chip was designed (often Beaverton, OR or Haifa, Israel).
The person in the photo you are using is not properly wearing their mask.
Possibly unrelated but I would pay $ for a one-click earnings call app. Type in a stock ticker, get the most recent earnings call in an audio player in one second.
I like the idea of ground-based laser-generated plasma.

Culminate many ground based lasers and point them all at the same voxel in space, use your magic methods to create a ball of plasma at that spot with the lasers[0], move the voxel around as fast as the ground based lasers can track it for the illusion of instantaneous acceleration and cartesian-coordinate style movement.

Added benefit : many radars capture artifacts from plasmas, so it'd look like a bogey to many systems out there.

even cooler : they don't need to be ground-based, just well coordinated. A bunch of planes, boats, drones or even missiles could be the laser beacons, too.

Imagine a bunch of missiles lazing what is basically a light-show to spook people in the air and on the ground as a psy-ops weapon, ignoring the decoy aspects of a instantaneously created radar-positive bogey.

The idea reminds me of Macross or something similar.

[0]: https://www.wired.com/2007/05/plasma-laser-uf/
> As I understand it, "privilege" has nothing to do with income metrics and what have you. Privilege means that you can assume that society and all its mechanisms will work in your favor.

When an Asian American born in the bottom 20% is much more likely to end up in the top 20% than a white person in the same situation, how is that not “society and it’s mechanisms working in favor” of the Asian person?

> The reason that a majority of people in a country can be privileged is that, as the majority, they can forget that the minority exists. They can forget that they are the majority.

That’s just a roundabout way of saying that minorities have disadvantages. Obviously that’s true. But expressing it as “white privilege” is a bizarre rhetorical device that doesn’t reflect how normal people talk. We don’t talk about the “privilege” of being average height, we talk about the challenges of especially tall people fitting into airplane seats or of especially short people in finding suits that fit.
Ha funny you mention this I actually said something similar though not as descriptive as what you stated in an interview before.

I’m arguing this is not such a great thing because I’ve noticed a few things that have occurred due to me being like this:

The gf will complain, a lot, that you don’t spend enough time with her.

You disregard eating sometimes (and I try to stay as fit as possible, sometimes I will just forgo gym because work > everything)

I have almost 0 balance for personal life, most of time from waking up is straight to
Bernie not voting yes for this is the final nail in the coffin for my enthusiasm towards him. I'd still take him over others, but he's no longer the firebrand anti-authoritarian that I took him for initially.
The Supermicro H11DSi Motherboard Mini-Review: The Sole Dual EPYC Solution
I know HN has some bad moments, but I actually still learn quite a bit here and get introduced to new ideas. That's a lot less common on Reddit, even though I'm only subscribed to niche, specific subreddits.

Nothing is perfect but I feel more informed and otherwise safer having discussions here.
> tab collectors who have...significantly more

Guilty as charged. I have a hard time saying goodbye to some of those tabs sometimes. Tab minimalists react in horror. Meh -- they're missing out.

> Now, with a simple right click, you can group your tabs together and label them with a custom name and color.

I'm afraid that this might just free enough pixels to allow me to collect yet more tabs. ;)
I love this phase though. It is a period of enormous creation. Just make sure to take a shower after.
> I am too scared to give it real money

You should be. I hedged a bit recently with some options. Options can be low-volume, so the bid/ask spread alone can kill you. Read that bit again. If you're not accounting for the spread, you might get killed. They're also incredibly volatile right now. I've had days +/- 30%. I'm not sure if someone like Robinhood goes lower, but a contract is for 100 shares, so the min bet is big.
This looks great. Definitely feels like something that should have existed for a while.

Hopefully this will encourage some “tab collectors” to convert their groups to bookmark folders.

I use Safari on my Mac, but its behind in tab management. I especially miss being able to drag multiple tabs at once between windows.
For me he was a remote public figure with a cult of personality and a decidedly iffy reputation (throwing things, being abusive, & cetera). Certainly he presided over the restructuring of a large company and launch of some very innovative products — but does that make him venerable? Not in my mind, no.

I’m going to admit I’d be curious to know what he’d do in this world (because as another poster eloquently puts it, we have no idea what he would be doing), but other than that... no.

I’m sure his family miss him though and I am not being dismissive of their anguish and sorrow.
I've been continuing with Concise Encoding [1], which is a twin format for storing/transmitting ad-hoc hierarchical data (similar to JSON).

Key points:

- It has a binary format (smaller) and 100% compatible text format (readable). Machines work in binary and convert on-the-fly only when a human needs to see or modify it.

- Supports all of the basic data types needed on a modern system.

- Supports recursive data.

- Future proof

- Fully specified [2] [3]

[1] https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/#concise-encod...

[2] https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/blob/master/cb...

[3] https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/blob/master/ct...

Example (text format):

c1
// _ct is the creation time, in this case referring to the entire document
(_ct = 2019-9-1/22:14:01)
{
/* Comments look very C-like, except:
/* Nested comments are allowed! */
Note: Markup comments use <* and *> (shown later).
*/
// Notice that there are no commas in maps and lists
(metadata_about_a_list = "something interesting about a_list")
a_list = [1 2 "a string"]
map = {2=two 3=3000 1=one}
string = "A string value"
boolean = @true
"binary int" = -0b10001011
"octal int" = 0o644
"regular int" = -10000000
"hex int" = 0xfffe0001
"decimal float" = -14.125
"hex float" = 0x5.1ec4p20
uuid = @f1ce4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426655440000
date = 2019-7-1
time = 18:04:00.940231541/E/Prague
timestamp = 2010-7-15/13:28:15.415942344/Z
nil = @nil
bytes = b"10ff389add004f4f91"
url = u"https://example.com/"
email = u"mailto:me@somewhere.com"
1.5 = "Keys don't have to be strings"
long-string = `ZZZ
A backtick induces verbatim processing, which in this case will continue
until three Z characters are encountered, similar to how here documents in
bash work.
You can put anything in here, including double-quote ("), or even more
backticks (`). Verbatim processing stops at the end sequence, which in this
case is three Z characters, specified earlier as a sentinel.ZZZ
marked_object = &tag1 {
description = "This map will be referenced later using #tag1"
value = -@inf
child_elements = @nil
recursive = #tag1
}
ref1 = #tag1
ref2 = #tag1
outside_ref = #u"https://somewhere.else.com/path/to/document.cte#some_tag"
// The markup type is good for presentation data
html_compatible = (xml-doctype=[html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" u"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"])
<html xmlns=u"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang=en |
<body|
Please choose from the following widgets:
<div id=parent style=normal ref-id=1 |
<* Here we use a backtick to induce verbatim processing.
In this case, "##" is chosen as the ending sequence *>
<script| `##
document.getElementById('parent').insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', '<div id="idChild"> content </div>');
##>
>
>
>
}
The Bastard Operator Fromm Hell
Don’t Just Be a Data Scientist, Be a ‘Chartered’ Data Scientist
> how does your "if those choices do harm others, we take the consequences" get enforced in practice and doesn't turn into a situation where a few people who don't take care to not infect others will kill millions?

By looking at everyone's choices, not just the one person you want to pick on.

Suppose Person A is an asymptomatic COVID-19 carrier and doesn't know it. They go to the grocery store without a mask. Person B also goes to the grocery store without a mask, and gets infected by Person A.

You could say Person A is responsible because they should have worn a mask. But you could also say Person B is responsible because they should have worn a mask. Yes, if you know there are a lot of asymptomatic carriers, you should take into account the possibility that you might be one. But you should also take into account the possibility that someone else might be one. So the appropriate rule in this case is that anyone who doesn't wear a mask in a public place where they can't social distance takes the consequences if they get sick. Someone who gets infected because they didn't wear a mask can't pawn off the responsibility on the person who infected them that also wasn't wearing a mask.

In other words, your scenario where "a few people who don't take care not to infect others can kill millions* simply cannot happen unless those millions of other people also don't take care not to get infected. So putting all the responsibility on the person who unknowingly infected someone else, instead of sharing it equally among all the people who didn't take common sense precautions, is wrong. Justifying invasive surveillance and tracking of everyone on those grounds is basically saying you want the government to make sure you don't have to take any prudent precautions or exercise any common sense at all in your daily life in order to avoid having anything bad happen to you. That's not reasonable.
Some of these are squarely in the uncanny valley!
https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/indpendent/eyJ3IjogIm...
Is this the thing three blue one brown uses for his live streams?
For anyone that does not browse T_D:

It was a common occurrence to see things like pictures of muslim women wearing headwear and a title of “It’s a diaper for their shit brains!”. There is casual racism, hatred towards minorities, and to top it all off, participants seemed to believe that there was nothing wrong with any of this, like you see above.
I totally agree with you about the awesomeness of the software manuals from the time. The whole aesthetic is so much warmer then it is now.
How is this different from requiring npm to be up to install packages?
Show HN: WWW search powered by OSS and common data
Some Linux distros are like that too. The users are just better at figuring out why. (I recall updating Ubuntu breaking DNS and killing my internet, and tracking down the issue to needing a new symlink after a service was changed or something like that)

Edit: Helps when it's open source.
I think it's more likely that their flagging is heuristic based and could easily defeated by a malicious extension author and giving detailed feedback makes reverse engineering the rules trivial.
So Tesla hopes dominating battery market rather than "accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy"?
How is it? Always wanted to learn
I shipped an MVP of an instant messaging app that re-imagines the dynamics of chat. Your conversation is no longer limited to the vertical direction. It can expand in the horizontal direction to separate different but simultaneous topics!

https://xpanxn.com

I also did a couple of Show HN posts for it. Didn't get much traction with either, but it's ok because I think my next steps are to revise the landing page and get a more proper UI.

Feedback is very welcome!
Thats very cool, I sort of started doing the same thing with black/death metal. Care to share your source?
I really like the concept! The "mark as done" really helps track things. Would've personally preferred if the items collapsed as you marked them as complete.

As one of the examples show this is the perfect way to convey installation / setup guides!

Look forward to how you take the idea forward!
Soo it's just a label thing?
Can you hide groups and show them later?
It seems to me chrome is still behind Firefox and his tab group extension

https://addons.mozilla.org/it/firefox/addon/simple-tab-group...
Reading these complaints about Reddit, and having been a long time member of HN as well as Reddit, I would say there are pluses and minuses for HN and Reddit.

There are some great sub-reddits (world news, education, Ask Historians, Ask Science etc.) and there are some echo chambers.

Similarly, there many corporate shill types and 'stuck up' bookish-types on HN , but I found useful stuff in the submissions and comments as well.

Let's not make this a Reddit vs HN issue.
It's not an Apple IIe without MECC software! Including that most famous of MECC titles, The Oregon Trail, which is about as synonymous with the Apple IIe in xennials' minds as Super Mario Bros. is with the NES.

I also recommend Terrapin Logo for more programming fun.
That’s noticeable here too; it’s not uncommon for to see a thread where it’s clear that at least one person is unaware that they’re responding to the same person. Without avatars and signatures all the posts blend together.

HN just avoids the worst of it by being very small on average.
I mean they can. It's their store. I don't think they should, but still
This is pretty common for languages right? TCL and the JVM come to mind. Nice for code running in a sandboxed environment, especially if you have full control.
I think python is getting more interesting lately, always found it a bit of a boring language.
VPN + DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) is a very potent combo turning your internet connection into an opaque pipe, as far as your ISP is concerned. DoH hides your DNS requests from your ISP, and a VPN service (basically glorified proxies these days) hide the IPs of site you're visiting.
If you are concerned about this issue then I urge you to use that combo. The more people doing that and the more normal that kind of traffic becomes the less able law enforcement is to use it as probable cause or similar.

AFAIK Mullvad is a non-US VPN service that does not require personal info for sign up and accepts cryptocurrency payments. Though I haven't used them myself so I can't speak for service quality.
For DoH, I'm only aware of Google and Cloudflare offering that. However they are both US companies so if anyone has a non-US recommendation I would appreciate it. At least using them is one step removed from your ISP, making it a little harder to get your records.

Please correct me if I have anything wrong.
It seems likely to me that it's impossible to have an extension system that allows useful extensions that users want while also being completely secure against malicious actors. Security by obscurity is an important tool in the abuse fighting toolbox, because it allows you to have cheap heuristics while increasing the costs for malicious actors.
I read his book as well! It's an amazing book. It helped me to come to terms with whether I wanted to do a PhD or not. The result: maybe later in life, but not now. The risks are way greater than I expected.
I synced an Ethereum fullnode on one of Linode's most powerful instances, it was fast but seemed like it should be faster. I was posting issues on github about how this wasn't working fast enough

a lot of tutorials online is about people trying to get their raspberri pi to sync blockchains, so I was prepared for the worst

but then I put together an 8 year old desktop and it synced in 2 days

kind of underwhelmed at "cloud" options. but they work
They haven't fixed the localhost thing which is in a roughly similar category. Google's response was vague and poor but the problems this extension had are quite serious. More serious than, say, Zoom's recent ones.
I liked what IE ... 8? has done abck in the day where opening a new tab from another one will create a colored group, so you kinda have automatic grouping that allows you to tell at a glance "Oh those all belong to the same tvtropes tab rampage, but I'm looking for that other thing now I was looking at before".
A funk band. If you're in the east bay and looking for a remote jam, let me know
Sure, I probably phrased that poorly -- it's not a unique advantage, but benefit of having URLs be the only way to link to dependencies versus a centralized, dominant package manager.
Building:
- a native iOS personal finance app while learning Swift/Xcode/UX
- Backed by two REST API services (one is auth service and other one that manages the finances) written in Spring Boot; running on docker-compose on AWS ec2
- Learning how to run these two services behind nginx proxy and on SSL - using mkcert on local box and letsencrypt on aws ec2.
I took up the French Horn to get away from the computer. Surprisingly cheap to rent from an appreciative local business, and it’s been nice focusing on something artistic and separate from my career during lunch.
I deleted my reddit account and read it read-only-accountless now. Having zero inclination to post there keeps my reading habit super lightweight. I don’t even bookmark subreddits. Just dip and dive out. I just can’t handle more than that amount of exposure to what it’s become.
Why are deaths going down?

If everyone goes out will deaths keep going up or down?

What sorts of preventive measures can we put in place to be safe when going back out again?

A lot of answers are still missing
Some are okish. My biggest problems are ads pushing content off the limited screen space, "please download our app", some just don't render well and skip around.

Funny enough, i went back to find some examples of ones that really drove me crazy and they have gotten better(snowboardforum, nasioc and wetcanvas). One's even got a big announcement about their ui update on the front page.

I do think the threaded style of comments is much better then the forums though. Ignoring the problems of upvotes.
I've been building a minimal social CAD tool / platformer game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qBOXfzHybU

(Built with three.js / react-three-fiber, and a simple Node backend.)
It seems like the same action can be taken differently depending on intent. For example, one of the things Dale Carnegie emphasized is the importance of remembering people's names.

If you try to remember people's names is that manipulative? If so, why do we apologize for forgetting people's names? If we write down the names of people we meet, is that manipulative or is it just being organized?

If you do it badly, yeah that's weird.
This seems to be a mixture of the "collections" feature from Firefox Mobile (Beta/Preview) and Firefox's container tabs, but without the security / isolation benefits.

From what I can tell, the main benefit seems to be in relation to identifying similar-looking tabs. It's unfortunate that they didn't bake in the same security and isolation benefits of Firefox's container tabs, or the "put aside and come back to it later" functionality that (old) Edge and Firefox Mobile's "collections" bring.

I'm also not sure how adding _more_ to the tabstrip will improve utility in Chrome, where tabs so quickly become impossible to manage because the strip doesn't scroll.
https://what-to-do-in-quarantine.web.app

I wanted to mess around and learn some new techniques. I created an app that will help you decide what to do while on lockdown. Users can submit their own ideas to the pool.
In the sense of you can see the source, it is open source. Not everyone will agree with your definition of open source.