skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not surprised at all.
Kind of a circular activity, but I'm working on an app to help me be productive in quarantine. Planning on making a "Show HN" announcement in a week or to, but for now you can find details at: https://txtodo.app
Oh my, I empathize a lot with the author. In january, long periods of sitting brought me a slip of the L5-S1 disc, and now I have to exercise every hour or so in the office for several minutes to be able to walk home with manageable amounts of pain at the end of the day.

It takes a surprising amount of willpower to stick to the exercise schedule. Call of the zone is alluring.

In case anyone here is in a similar situation and has any tips, please share ...
Built a site to connect startups with free MBA interns for the summer (https://hireastartupmba.com/intern-stipend).

I’m an engineer exploring “the dark side” and saw a lot of classmates losing internships because of covid.

Contrary to the bad rap I feel that MBAs get amongst hackers, I’ve been pleasantly surprised how kind, scrappy, and effective my classmates are when applied to the right work “around the tech” e.g. marketing, running numbers, and fuzzy stuff that is important as companies grow.

Grew larger than we expected to a lot of other schools.

One disappointment: I wanted to call it “Hire the Dark Side,” but couldn’t find a single MBA who understood the joke!
There are a lot of additives in cigarettes, some of which suppress symptoms of the damage smoking does to the lungs. So it's possible that it's not the nicotine at all. Should be easy to test by looking at data from people who had COVID-19 and were using nicotine patches at the time.
r/geopolitics has been on the downturn from at least a couple of years. Mods try very hard to keep it academic, but it’s hardly that anymore with opinions (without sources) being passed off as academic routinely.

It’s still great for analysis related to American foreign policy, but it’s hard to take any other analysis seriously especially when it comes to Asian countries as the quality is lacking.
> Republicans who brought the lawsuit had asked the justices to side with them but to stay their ruling for about a week so legislators and Evers could work out a new plan to deal with the pandemic.

> The justices declined to do that and had their ruling take effect immediately.

This is ignoring reality in favor of principle||partisan positioning (choose your preference).

Nothing rational or legally sound in throwing the situation into chaos.
The dude believed in a bunch of random quackery and essentially killed himself because of it. Was diagnosed with some kind of rare cancerous tumor and ignored it for months, trying out veganism and fad diets for some reason instead of just listening to his doctors.

I'm pretty Jobs would be doing the exact same stupid shit Musk is, just without the weird twitter meltdowns I guess.
More cautious health authorities? More political support for suppressing transmission of the virus?

The public health measures in Alameda county that Tesla violated apply broadly to most businesses there. The fact that other counties in the US have different health measures doesn't mean that Tesla is being singled out.
clquery, a SQL interface to cloud resources. Using SQL and tables to interact with AWS (and eventually others) makes it easier to quickly query and join across various resources and services without needing to remember how to make and parse the underlying API.

`pip install clquery` or https://github.com/dongting/clquery
I think the big problem is all the code out there that depends on the GIL. A hypothetical python4 that removed the GIL would probably cause issues of the same general nature as the 2 -> 3 migration, though at a reduced magnitude.
Nonsense. See South Dakota, Georgia, etc. If just one State not doing what you think they should be doing spells disaster for the U.S. (and the world), then we've already crossed that Rubicon.
I'm in the tab collector category, but after I read something I don't need it sticking around in my autocomplete. If I want it saved I add it as a bookmark.

For this reason I just use incognito mode. On Android, every so often Chrome decides to just discard all my open incognito tabs. (This is also described here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidQuestions/comments/40fe10/in... .)

Could you fix this bug. Namely, please do not discard open incognito tabs without confirming with me.

I am sure I don't discard them accidentally (by closing the browser or something) as I am quite careful not to throw away my reading. I wish Chrome would do the same, and be more careful about just throwing away whatever I'm reading.

I feel this is as good a place as any to leave my comment so it is noticed.
Seems like a good fit for bundling and/or containerization of js-apps.
> Because it is incongruous to toss around "epipelagic" to sound scientific, but then quote every unit of distance in feet/miles.

The metric system is not more "scientific". It has certain convenient properties that make it easier to use under many situations, but it's not inherently better. Any "scientist" can make the trivial conversion to their system of choice.

The New Yorker is clearly choosing to target a specific audience where they think that use of units is appropriate. Get over it.
I've been working on a my new Hacker News client for Android, called Panda!

It's still early days but has the basic features done and the extra lockdown time is definitely helping build out the more needed features (you can't currently log in to your hacker news account but that's coming soon)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.elliotmu...
I have needed "the tab problem" solved for many years.

I've tried and never stuck with any third party solution.

I work in specific "modes/projects" and each mode has several tens at least of tabs open.

It would be great if I could somehow switch between work modes and see all the relevant tabs for that mode.
> I don't really think it would work as well for the "tab collectors" as they think.

I’m a collector and it’ll definitely help me a lot in one specific use case: I have a ton of tabs open and want to close some of them, but not all of them

Very often I’ll be growing the tab count on one subject (usually because I can’t find a satisfactory answer), finally I’ll piece that answer together and start applying the new knowledge elsewhere... then come back to my browser and all those extra tabs are now useless, but I can’t tell where they start or end

Sometimes I can find the “root” (the point where I started opening tabs on that subject) and know I can safely close everything to the right. But sometimes other important things are mixed in, so it’s not always possible, and even if it is that still means I need to find the root

The usual solution is having to cycle through every tab, take on the cognitive load of having to identify whether the tab only applied to that subject or not, then close it or keep it

Sometimes that means evaluating the relevance of 30 different tabs of 30 different sites that all look different, and rarely do they have “SUBJECT X” printed at the top

It’ll be really nice to be able to just close the group and not think about any of it and not worry about whether I closed something important, I’m really looking forward to this feature
https://debubble.me

Frustrated by filter bubbles and the general state of online debate, especially on Twitter, I made Debubble.

It’s a publishing tool that will let you challenge another Twitter user to a debate. If they accept, the two of you will be able to engage in a public but distraction-free conversation. Debubble will make sure you wait for your turn before you can deliver your arguments. It will also limit each response to 1500 characters (roughly one page) and the entire debate to 12 turns. Instead of cheering for their side like sports fans, registered readers will be able to signal the value they got from your conversation by starring the whole debate.

I haven’t properly tried to launch it yet, as my day job and kids are keeping me very busy at the moment.
It only takes one high-profile spamming incident to kill your reputation. This isn't hard to implement.
Giving each developer access to a full mirror of the production environment might also not be financially viable. If a production scoped database fits on a small ssd, then your deployed production dB should probably not be on spinning metal trying to mitigate the orders of magnitude performance hit with boatload of expensive ram. If it doesn't fit, then obviously you have plentiful other issues that should be screaming at you that your laptop performance profiling is not going to make much sense.
Clay Shirky describes this phenomenon as Eternal September in “A Group is its own worst enemy”: http://web.archive.org/web/20050615082335/http://shirky.com/...
Yes, generally.
Is this necessarily a problem? Reddit is social media- just as there are popular youtubers, twitterers, and twitchers, there are popular redditors. You could argue that popular redditors are actually more benign since the monetization opportunities are limited, and they seem to be making interesting communities for the love of it.
If you hire only people with a superficial knowledge of things (the usual for the "big consultancies") that's what you'll end up with.
You're not providing any evidence to back up your statement, except the opinions of Rogan and Musk; to my knowledge neither is an expert on health statistics. Could you provide a source to back up this claim?
Started on these at mid-March when the recommendation for quarantine came in effect in my country. Most are incomplete and WIP (I love switching back and forth between projects):

- Slack RTM bot which picks up my morning and goodbye messages in our channel and stash the duration into our time registration system so I don't have to do it manually. Using Slack library for Go, compiled to C library using gccgo for C ABI compatibility, then using Zig's cImport functionality to develop the bot in Zig (because why do it the easy way)

- mbedTLS bindings to Zig (Zig can generate alot of this out of the box, but I'm tailoring it by hand)

- HTTP/1.1 client in Zig, ties into the mbedTLS bindings I want to provide TLS support
RedisConf2020 Sessions
What should I use for search? I tried switching to DDG for a month but I kept finding myself manually typing in Google.com to make the more obscure searches.
The first browser I used with vertical tabs was OmniWeb, which originally ran on NeXTSTEP back in the day.

Fast forward to now; it’s still available for macOS 10.12+ from the Omnigroup: http://omnistaging.omnigroup.com/omniweb?pk_vid=258c19059951...
It's complicated? 538[1] (yeah, I know) did a decent dive into this back in 2018: as her electorate has moved left, she's moved right. The theories for that are pretty simple.

- The Dem/GOP split swung from nearly even to 45-25 over her tenure, so there's no longer any credible Republican competition to force her back toward her original left-of-center leanings

- She can outraise even the most serious Democratic challenger by more than 10-to-1

- She appeals more to pro-business, homeowner, and technocrat Democrats and independents than any other group, who in turn power that fundraising and also are responsible for Democratic plurality in the voter base

So we wind up with this dichotomy of her winning every election and getting booed out of nearly every town hall. The question going forward is whether she can hang on to her seat as easily in a recession California as in a booming one, especially if her constituency shifts away from her under economic stress just as quickly as it shifted in her favor.

1: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/california-has-left-dia...
Visual Contract Tracing with AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4pyEu5milo

OnCovid19.com:
http://oncovid19.com/
The pitch/yaw/roll rates have opposite sign to what I would expect (at least as a layman). Positive rate means decreasing angle.
Walmart quickly becomes a local monopoly, because they dominate over the local competitors who cannot leverage the same economies of scale to lower distributor prices nor afford to bleed money in one area in order to take over the local market.

Honestly it seems you either refuse to read what I wrote, or you are invested in a free market ideology. The link you posted is nothing more than a hard-libertarian free market fanatic opinion blog, heavy on snark and lacking in value.

Read about the damage Walmart does to communities and why even their mere presence in the market completely distorts it:

https://money.com/walmart-stores-closing-small-towns/

https://www.citylab.com/life/2012/09/radiating-death-how-wal...

https://popularresistance.org/new-report-wal-mart-destroys-l...

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2013/03/28/1197622/-The-Walma...

This goes for all megamart chains, Amazon and the like, but Walmart is among the very worst.
Sure it does, because they also come with high quality libraries.

Regarding C and C++ compilers, for the same reasons most high performance HPC computers use Intel, IBM, PGI compilers instead of plain gcc or clang.
Before reaching for a "real profiler" there's always the poor man's sampling profiler:

gdb -p $PID

ctrl-c
bt
c
ctrl-c
bt
c
crl-c
bt
c
...
YouTube content creators can relate too. Lots of videos about YouTubers getting randomly demonetized or removed from search results for no reason.
I'm not a very big fan of Push Bullet, what utility to they make? become more distracted?
I made a tiny service to embed CLOC stats for GitHub repos as an image in the project’s docs - https://git-cloc.fly.dev

Also enrolled for the science of well-being course on Coursera last week. Eye opening in some aspects so far!
Bro listen this is everything I'd tell my 15 year old self and I probably wouldn't listen but maybe you will

We write code for people not machines -- any 12 year old can code and see the pretty output but only a master can write code for people to understand. Remember code is twice as hard to read as it is to write but think of it as the ultimate design document, the single source of truth for a team

As a knowledge worker your role is to amass and disseminate knowledge think of yourself as a teaching professional like a tutor and abandon academic mark chasing ideology in favour of hyper learning

When we talk about DRY we're not only referring to code but also to repeating the same conversations and behavior patterns. Look at your work like an investment not just a trade of services for money -- seek ways to maximize the returns on your efforts and don't be swindled by people seeking to divorce you from the fruits of your labours by forcing you into narrow stereotypes -- they'll call you a ninja talent as a means to lower your guard you feel me?

Take it from someone who has been in software since before dialup everything we do is actually a conversation, it's no coincidence we call them languages and the quality of conversation determines the quality of the software it's a practical view of Conway's principle

Do your best and try to see beyond the curve at the application of computer science thinking to human behaviour after all software is a social exercise and in general a software solution is aimed at creating new communications pathways between people
I made a working autopilot in a userscript: https://youtu.be/JbWJ6EDodqc (Luckily, RCS fuel is unlimited).
Creative Director of Corebook – Online Brandbook Mindset Tool
Thanks. Just to clarify on the dsl remark: dsl work of course, but usually it is a two tier approach. First the dsl is designed and implemented, then the (other) team works with it on the main application. So far it looked to me (especially from Paul Grahams article) that in lisp usually these two phases are mixed, but i might misunderstand this.
Given the state of r/The_Donald at the time what spez did was kind of funny, and I would like to think that any self respecting HNer would do something similar in that situation.
Doesn't work for me due to Same Origin Policy. Am I missing something?
With all due respect, but I don't think you read the article.

Phone usage patterns and the interruptions they cause are wildly different than book reading.
But Swedish were self-isolating, companies allowing flexibility, all citizens have affordable access to great quality healthcarez etc. It's a functional country with high trust. The obligation to stay at home is not necessary when society and even economic actors respond reasonably.
If you control the top subreddits then I doubt you're actually moderating them. You're in fact just a manager over these subreddits. It's a hierarchical management structure with 5 people at the top of certain major subs.

Which makes this even stranger because why would these people want to be at the top? What's the motivation? Either pure power, or money.
I did some Pose Method. Just enough to level up and prevent injury.

I’m not a runner. Don’t know what the running community recommends.

https://posemethod.com/running/
The way to deal with tabs for me is to be a "tab ascetic". Majority of the time I have only a single tab open. Sometimes 2. With 3 it gets uncomfortable.
Transform+any+business+into+eCom+and+get+them+selling
Pulse Vs tone?

Is that a thing or did my brain just make it up? :/
For even lighter reading, try https://popular.pics – a picture/video viewer for Reddit I’m working on. I find it excellent for browsing image-heavy subreddits.
This looks very useful, but it combines valuable profile management work with disabling various web features per the author's opinions. Sadly, disabling those features by default makes it significantly easier to fingerprint users using this script (which is precisely the opposite of its intentions).

So I forked it and set those features to be disable-if-requested rather than disable-by-default, so that people who just want to manage separate profiles have an option that doesn't make them easier to fingerprint:

https://github.com/floatingatoll/chrome-private/
And for productivity, there's always AppleWorks[1]. Well, I suppose one doesn't get a 37-year old computer for productivity, but just in case...

[1] https://apple2history.org/history/ah19/
install from the repo then?

You can install a specific version from git via yarn/npm.

How do you trust a url more without reading the code?

What's going to stop deno ecosystem from putting minified js files on cdns and import them?
All of that may or may not be true, but the claim was that VCs pumped and dumped the companies on hapless investors, which clearly isn't the case.
The web rings of 2020.
> for await (const req of serve({ port: 8000 })) {
> req.respond({ body: "Hello World\n" });
> }

It's not the first time I see js iterators used and abused this way, and every time I feel that js and it's users are ready for full-blown monads and do notation instead.
SaaS for creating, editing and publishing audio content for global audiences http://narrationbox.com/. Still building a ton of features into it like audio widgets for news sites and blogs, audio editor. Basically making it end-to-end for audio content creators. Also reading Elon Musk's biography.
Hey I completely agree that it's how the law is currently written.

Reflecting a bit more on my Google Docs example (which differs from the original browsing history topic) I believe it was faulty. It would be a bit odd to treat bits I own as not mine simply because they're stored on hardware owned by someone else. In fact on it's face it appears to go against existing precedent that the 4th amendment applies to a rented storage unit.

When it comes to sensitive data like browsing history though, regardless of legal ownership it certainly feels like a form of unreasonable search. I really can't blame the original authors for failing to anticipate the existence of the internet though.
If it helps:

If you have view dead turned on in your privilege you’ll see dead comments.

Also, if a comment is too grey for you to read, clicking the time stamp will ship it in regular black text.

I occasionally vouch for dead comments if they seem reasonable to me, and on occasion that has immediately un-dead them.
An app to connect women travelling solo.

I've seen women posting on solo travelling facebook groups their current or next location and PM each other, especially in non-english language groups.

With the app, you would receive a notification when a new traveller (speaking your native tongue or not) is close using geolocation, then you check their facebook profile and message them (via messenger).

No need to display the app: you just wait for the notifications (which frequency can be changed). This is my idea for solving the egg & chicken problem, so obviously the app doesn't display ads (and is free).
Yes. So more importantly, these may or may not even be the kinds of things that the system flags. So we can’t even say that Google’s system is working correctly and is flagging things correctly. I’m happy to concede that the plugin needs to fix vulnerabilities, but it seems like it’s distracting from the main argument, which is how the hell do devs know what to fix in these review processes. I’ve had similar experiences with Apple, Google, and especially Facebook in the past.
For finding things I just use search in Power Tabs. Filtering down usually leaves me with a list I can scan through quickly. When it comes time to clean up I cheat by using that as well - filter my tab list, then select individual or groups of tabs to close. Generally I'll start by closing all tabs from news sites like the NY Times and WaPo under the assumption that they're probably stale, then clear out a bunch of HN tabs, and most often then switch to digging through the github ones to see what's actually relevant anymore. StackExchange and Reddit tend to get slashed pretty hard as well. Basically filter, viciously select, then close and I can blow away a thousand tabs in a couple of minutes.

The highest I've ever gotten was around 6000 on old Firefox for Linux and I did see some slowdowns then, but that was on a seven year old laptop.
Control+N a new window for each mode is what I currently do. Then Super+<backtick> to cycle through them (if you’re on a Mac)

It’s not perfect though. If you accidentally open a few tabs in the wrong mode there’s no easy way to transfer them. And I’ll often forget that another window is open in the background
The “un-“ prefix in “unethical” means “violative of; contrary to”, and the word as a whole refers to something that is in violation of an ethical standard. It is generally used discursively, to refer to the speaker’s ethics rather than those of the actor performong the action being discussed.
Law enforcement has a solution for that: Do tell people what the rules are and what they are doing wrong. Don‘t tell them how they got caught and what methods were used to catch them.

Telling people that they are going to be severely punished within days by a very powerful global entity, without telling them which specific rules they are in breach of or what they have to change is a dystopian nightmare.
Shameless plug.
I made the ContainerTabsSidebar firefox addon[0], which is inspired by the TST. It groups tabs based on firefox privacy containers, which means every container has an isolated cookie store. I'm a tab hoarder and developed it to work for such "use-case".

It's very similar to the groups presented, but displays tabs vertically.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/container-tab...
Ad blockers are almost necessary for the mobile web now unless you want to spend half your time dodging ads
Wikipedia is not too far from this. The place is controlled by toxic 'ministry of truth' creatures who admonish you for every goddamn thing.
I switched to the FF extension “tree tab”. it’s more our less the same, but it has groups (like these chrome groups) you can select on the left side of the tree tab