skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two years ago I bought my first pair of barefoot shoes (no elevated heel, thin and ultra flexibel sole) after listening to an episode of TED Radio Hour, where they featured the talk “Born To Run” and started reading more about the whole idea. I started to learn how to walk forefoot strike and did a running course for how to run forefoot strike properly. This was the start of going down a never ending rabbit hole. Some of the things I learned during the past two years:

* Learning a new walking technique is super hard, it takes at least months, if not even years.

* Wearing barefoot shoes and walking forefoot strike seemed to significantly decrease my lower back pain (although I’m not a 100% certain if there is a correlation, I just know that my back pain decreased a few months after switching to barefoot shoes)

* Got rid of my neck pain completely (I’m extremely certain that there is a correlation here, because my posture changed, more on that in a later point)

* I realized that my leg muscles (especially hamstrings and calves) are extremely tight and possibly also shortened. In the beginning I had trouble to get my heel to the ground without feeling tension in the calves.

* Just because I adapted my style of walking, my posture increased significantly. I walk and stand way more upright than before (I compared recent pictures to older pictures)

* Significantly decreases the number of migraine attacks. I’m also quite sure this is because of the forefoot strike (although not 100% certain) since heel strike puts a lot of pressure in the neck and head. You can easily Test or experience this Stress on the neck and head yourself if you stick your fingers in your ears and walk barefoot with heel strike over firm ground. You should “hear” it. For me it works best when I put in noise cancelling over ear headphones and walk heel strike (no music, just the noise canceling effect).

Of course all of this is highly subjective and many/all things I described may not correlate at all. This is just my personal experience.
Recently laid off, looking for TS/Go projects.
> I understand the desire to fix the light (and certainly the dark forest settings were difficult to capture), but it just looks overdone to me, no longer real life.

It seems for me, that the goal of editing was not to fix the light, but to move away from real life. Probably something along lines "to reduce level of detail, to let onlooker's mind to fill gaps in details by itself". Or maybe not: this possible explanation is a result of my mind filling gaps, so it is a projection of my mind onto reality which speaks more about me than about reality.
One of the interesting side effects of this is what happens after the pandemic is over but the technology is still implemented. What other things could be worth tracking?

I once did a hackathon where we used ShotSpotter to generate an array of house addresses that should be prioritized after a shooting occurs. The idea was to connect students and parents who witnessed gun violence with community resources (i.e. not just the cops) that could provide guidance and therapy. This same protocol could be adapted to notify everyone "exposed" to the shooter's phone and provide those resources on the fly.

One other semi-dystopian possibility is using the protocol to apprehend criminals. Most people would not accept real-time location tracking by the government, and so such functionality is out of the question (or at least not publicly available to the majority of citizens, local LEO included). However, what if the police could go to Apple and Google and ask them to "blacklist" your phone, so that everyone around you gets a notification with your description, alleged crime, and cash reward? Your phone becomes a walking WANTED poster. And of course, they'd start with AMBER alerts first, and maybe work their way down to trespassing and petty theft. Which is not to say that this world would be far worse off than it is now, but it will be different.
>You're advocating building massive software applications over using what's already available

When did I advocate this? You're pulling statements out of your ass.

>Are you saying that those 4000 customers (companies) should have just built their own tax compliance finance systems?

Let's kick that pea sized brain into gear. What the hell do you think the answer is to this question?

The answer is NO.

>That would have cost 4000 * 1.2 million which would be a total economic spend of four billion eight hundred million... how about you put your ego on the shelf and listen to other people?

There's your ludicrous and garbage logic. Who on the face of the fucking earth would think this?

It's not garbage logic or ludicrous. What you're doing here is crafting an insult and an attack and directing it at me.

Let's put it this way. I don't like you I don't want to communicate with you because you are a huge fucking ass hole.
You assume that because many people could look for bugs, many people do.

I added an easter egg to a widely used piece of software many year ago. Noone discovered it until another maintainer published it, maybe a decade later.
It was the first 7 years of my career - not my whole career.

Of course there is a large amount of lock in, how else would it work? You're modelling every business process on software, to move away from that would be costly. That's the very nature of software, especially complex software modelling real world complex critical processes. This isn't some ticketing app written in node that you can change as easily as your socks. This is the system that powers the worlds finance systems and supply chains.

I'm aware of the downsides, I've written whole chapters in books about the downsides. DO you think your 22 year old smart arse ignorance is somehow impressing me?

It's easy to hate something that's too complex for you to understand. Idiots have done that throughout history.
Khanacademy is great and don't get me wrong, but what I see is an engineering blog that doesn't force HTTPS and an ad for Google products.
All that Khanacademy did was optimize code, setup the partner console properly and pay the (likely enormous) bill.
As I read in another comment here: "How to scale: Make it somebody else's problem" + pay the bill.

Edit: ah, a case study from Google about Khanacademy. This post was definitely an ad: https://cloud.google.com/customers/khan-academy
Another: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2013/08/khan-academy-ru...
Around 10 open, I'm looking to press OneTab. It's break time. Tabs are grouped by time, but it works for me
Quarantine has made me realise how little free time I actually have. I am supposed to be doing a basic database for a friends lab. It's turning out to be mainly a data validation and cleaning project. Without a cycle to work, a cycle back from work to split up my day I have really little motivation to sit more hours coding after I have cooked dinner and eaten. I should get on with it though.
This is a polarizing opinion, but as someone who exclusively drives electric I firmly support phasing out, and eventually banning consumer gas vehicles. A more realistic approach to do so would be to increase incentives - in the form of rebates for both new and used vehicles, as well as rebates for charging infrastructure.
How to Install Varnish Cache for Apache on CentOS/RHEL 8
Pushbullet actually has a desktop application with a tray applet. But if you keep your browser running 24/7 it might well be worthwhile to use an extension instead of another piece of software that installs separately, and has more access to your computer.
===== Melatonin ======

The effects of melatonin are super noticeable. It's like taking drugs: you pop a pill, and feel different 30 minutes later. Melatonin makes me feel drowsy.

There is no placebo here. After 15 to 20 minutes, I always get irritated and ask myself: why doesn't it work?!

It does, just a bit later.

===== Vitamin D ======

Sorry that I'm sourceless on this. I read somewhere that melatonin and vitamin D are inversely related in their cycles of when they peak. Someone suggested to take it in the morning.

Regardless of whether the timing is off or right, vitamin D is needed to not be depressed [1]. So this part might be a placebo (like I care, I'm pragmatic) and at best it does something.

I do notice that it indeed prevents me from feeling like shit by virtue of sitting inside all the time. That also might be a placebo (I still don't care, placebo's are demonized and it's a competitive advantage if you accept it). The trend has been going on for 2 weeks now.

[1] Note: there are way more sources. I just did a quick Google search and picked the first URL I could find.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29943744
Lockfiles should be used for production code, as per https://deno.land/manual/linking_to_external_code/integrity_...
Unreal's Python integration is incredible. I made some modifications to it at work to run a version of WinPython (both for loose scripts outside the engine and pip access)

It's great for complex asset pipelines and quick one-off editor scripts, at least in my experience.

The only thing that felt a bit wonky to me was attempting to use bitflag enums.
And you're a vile and horrible human being who doesn't know how to treat another person with respect.

You're a sack of shit.
I don’t hate it and don’t think I should. I love brutalist architecture. Vast expanses of midcentury concrete and bunker-looking buildings gives me a sense of tranquillity, permanence, and purpose.
We actually binge watched game of thrones for the first time while we were both on mat leave. Hadn't seen a single episode before then.

The difficulty there is that I think everyone universally acknowledges (?) GOT just fell apart like a car crash in slow motion in the later seasons. It's hard to separate that from the knowledge that they started to depart from the books and were clearly undergoing irreparable problems/pressures by the end of season 5. Don't think we can blame that solely on tech... And it's hard to think about the cgi specifically when the rest is falling apart...
the whole post is interesting but if you're short on time jump to the end "Open Source"

Then try to have a better attitude when leaving issues on github or whatever. Be thankful. Take responsibility if you want a change to make the change yourself. Offer it as a PR but don't expect it to be pulled. Others can grab the PR if they want it even if the maintainer doesn't feel it's a fit. If you have a suggestion offer it as a question like (would it be faster if this did X instead of Y? or would it be useful if feature A existed?)

I'm not good at this myself but I'm slowly getting better over the years.

Also also, I wish there was a better way to express thanks. In the article it was mentioned that thank yous are rare where as angry demands are common. But, there is no easy way to express thanks. Like opening an issue and saying "Thank you" is frowned on. Even leaving a comment under a tech blog post that just says "thanks" is considered by some to be unwanted noise. I don't have a solution here. Maybe you have some suggestions?

Also, if you feel it's appropriate, sponsor your favorite projects. I've wondered if there is a good way to promote sponsorship. I don't want to brag that I'm donating each month to various projects but I do want more people to consider sponsoring. Especially user oriented projects like say Blender, software that 100k to 1000k people are using which would normally probably cost $1500k-$3000k a year, maybe a coffee a month would be worth if you're using it often? Same for things like Kodi? Or VLC? both of which I've got 1000s of hours of usage out of.
Thank you for sharing those insights.

The idea that you have to go through a dealer, join some overcomplicated volume licensing programme, possibly buy extra stuff, and probably pay a premium for the privilege just to get a legitimate copy of LTSC to use doesn't sit well with us.

If Microsoft offered LTSC as a one-time, off-the-shelf purchase with no strings attached, I expect we'd buy several copies immediately. It seems to be the only version of Windows 10 we might actually want, other than for having the same as our customers/clients for testing purposes. But as a small business, we have limited time and resources, and we have remarkably little interest in playing big business games.
Law enforcement also has to tell people how they were caught, perhaps not the entire story, but at least most of it. That, too, is a good thing.
if you cash out the $5k you lose candidate status.
Building a rabbit hutch and nice area for running with protection against predatory birds.

Working with a friend who went back to the farm three years ago - for context at 40 he's the youngest person in the village - on local country cooking, sustainable farming, and promoting the area as an attractive break-away resort to breathe some prosperity into what is a really quite sustenance area.

And of course my non-side project that I decided to dive in to at exactly the worst time in a decade. Oh well. But optimistic on that.
France to fine tech giants up to 4% of global revenue for illicit content
"A new French law compels internet giants to remove pedophile and terrorism-related content within an hour or face a fine of up to 4% of global revenue."

Can France even do this? It seems crazy. The 1-hour requirement also seems unreasonable. So if Facebook is caught not removing illicit content within the hour 25 times, they will owe their entire global revenue to France?
I'm not at all familiar with Chinese VPN services. But it's my impression that the Chinese authorities mostly care about domestic VPN use. Citizens are limited to approved VPNs, which are obviously backdoored.

More generally, as long as you're not interacting with domestic Chinese people, authorities don't care much about what you're doing. That's what I've seen providers claim in darknet forums. And that was my experience when I leased VPS in Hong Kong. Once I made it clear that I wouldn't be interacting with domestic Chinese people, all was cool.

I have used one Russian VPN service, Insorg. They're one of the oldest. I've read about others, but don't recall names. And it's my impression that Russian authorities also mostly care about interactions with citizens.

So anyway, I typically start with a mainstream VPN service. Then I chain one or two notoriously hard to coerce ones. And for Mirimir, IVPN is the final one. Because I've written stuff for them, basically, so using IVPN earlier in chains would be stupid.
Liberal and inconsistent:

noun.swanhead

a female swan, especially a male one
"I did a few interviews to try to get a good picture of his swanhead"
Maybe they failed to update the bots to work around the quarantine page
That is not enough at all and there are other attacks! I can't belive in 2020 some people still need to be explained why not enforcing https is a terrible thing!

For instance, will a lockfile prevent someone from eavesdropping on the download of a modules through http? If so, please kindly tell me how!
Thank you! I handle this at the moment by requiring manual approval before the content becomes visible on the website (I customized the Django Admin interface a bit), but should the number of quotes become unmanageable I'll start looking for other moderators.

Edit: Also, we try to follow our guidelines on what a promise/prediction should be, you can find them on the 'How it works' page.
So it's reimplemented chmod and iptables?
> In your database (https://fauna.com/)

Unless this is a product marketed exclusively at Evan Weaver, CEO of fauna.com, then this is not "my database".
I second this. I worked for several professors over 20 years as a software programmer at an ivy league college, mostly working alongside grad students. The grad students had to fight to get to work on their own projects or do them in secret. Collaborating with someone without getting the approval of your advisor was often considered a betrayal and would get shut down as soon as discovered. If you weren't interested in the advisors projects they would not take you on. Post docs were treated even worse. This isn't true of all advisors, but many of them are like this because they are trying to build their own reputations using your work (their name goes on all your papers). If you really want to work on your own thing be up front about it; otherwise you'll spend the entire time doing things you're not interested in and which will define the kinds of jobs you can get afterwards.
btw: https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/1063

they know there is a bad mitm vector and won't fix it
I found a free espresso machine on craigslist (Gaggia Classic). It was old, rusty and "wasn't working". Spent time researching the model, took it apart and de-rusted and cleaned every part. Now it makes delicious coffee. Totally worth it
Not wanting to sound too negative, but literally the first example I tried doesn't work as I expected. Go to https://dostring.com/split-string-online, enter "sdfuh sudhf iuah weuf ewf" (without quotes), for Split character just press space. Result? Every letter in a new line, every space in a new line. I would expect one line per word, not per letter as a result.
Great project! I've been doing this manually on HN and found the predictions I was tracking to be totally wrong. Please continue on this project, I'm not a movie critic but I give this project two whole thumbs up.
If the max list of permissions is somehow objectionable, fix THAT, not keep the list secret.
> Considering the fact that the browser platform is now a real service required by billions of people, they should be responsible to have enough staff to handle extensions properly.

Extentions don't have to exist at all. At least for a very long time, there were no extensions for Chrome on Android (not sure about now but that may still be the case).

I suspect google would love to just deprecate all extensions entirely, they're probably a massive headache for them (as this thread shows).

A lot of things Google used to do that attracted geeks like us are really a problematic thing when the average masses of people are using them. Google is learning that the hard way, and the process of fixing that pisses off us geeks.

Apple took a different path of locking things down more aggressively earlier, and a lot of geeks (myself included) hated them for it. Now, after we're seeing how the modern world is so incredibly tech illiterate and how security issues are affecting the world, I think Apple got this right and Google got it wrong, and Google knows it and is trying to fix it, which is pissing us off in the same way Apple used to piss us off (but we apparently got over it).
Whilst I agree that phasing out combustion engines should be a priority, I have read recently that new studies have found that a lot of the hazardous materials that are inhaled are actually particles ejected from brake pads and tires. Both of these obviously are still present on electric cars too. It will be interesting to see how this research develops and what innovations come as a result but as someone who lives near a main road, I really am getting more and more concious of the long term effects that are yet to be realised
Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution:

https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
With long enough time horizon and some limited exceptions, I’m not certain this is controversial.

The moment you add a specific date, I suspect this does become polarizing. Many would like gas cars to be gone in 10 years, others 50 years, and others whenever it becomes cost effective.
Dunno why you’re downvoted. I’m in the same camp. Compilation speed is an important factor in choosing a language.
Oooh is there a link to the work/who’s working on it?
It spread much faster in New York so we got to see the devastation it can cause. Same will eventually happen everywhere else if the measures to slow the spread are lifted. I don’t get why you’d want to exclude the data from New York when it’s our best example of what a full-scale outbreak looks like in the US.
He uses Reddit. Just like everyone else who claims to have left Reddit.
There's no way that any of this is going to meaningfully affect Chrome's market share.
I have two questions:
1) How to port a node package to deno?
2) How to keep both a node and deno packages in the same repo?

Clearly without packages we are not going to use deno.
Also I don't want to switch from well-proven packages like express/koa to an new unknown http server just because it supports deno.
Thank you!

Also, there are no user accounts so all submissions/votes are anonymous, in case anyone wants to submit something they're interested in.
If you're using a blacklist, it it really machine learning? Or are you using it to re-train?
this reminds me MonsterID by splitbrain - https://www.splitbrain.org/projects/monsterid
Yeah going quite well so far. Haven’t done too much marketing. Let me know if there’s anything I can help you with!
Same here, it came with a demo disk attached to the PS1. G-Police was on there too and Abe's Oddyssee I believe.
How to make white label React app for landing pages
Ah, trustless :)
There is a Presidential election in six months. That means there is a major element of politics in everything that happens between now and then.

The incumbent candidate wants to reopen. Because the election is near, it's especially important for the other side to portray whatever he does as wrong and incompetent and life-threatening. So you then have a major political apparatus pushing the argument that reopening is dangerous and publicizing any instance of any authority saying anything negative about it. They don't benefit from a nuanced or moderate position.

Some of the people you hear pushing this are the partisans themselves, but most of them are just the people who only listen to the media from one side and then repeat what they're told. Meanwhile if you listen to the President the economy is doing great and everything is fine and we'll all be back to normal in a month or two.

The truth is, as always, complicated, and somewhere in the middle.
You're applying some general definition of "open", when the term "open source" has had a well understood definition for decades.
Electric vehicles do not reduce PM emissions, and produce more microplastics as heavier vehicles erode tires faster. As helpful as EVs are they're not a cure-all for air pollution.
Show HN: Command at Sea
I've been working on an audiovisual project that gets data directly from Ableton Live and feeds it into my THREE.js app. You can see a couple of demos here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9k1pv6hhGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxj8g_Y1BtA
I'm building a simple analytics tool for client rendered applications (mostly SPAs). The idea is to make it possible to track user action on the client side (through URL changes and button/link clicks and form submissions), without requiring a developer to go through and add event tracking everywhere, while also not collecting information that would require GDPR/Data Privacy notices to be accepted by the end user.

Doesn't have a website or even a working MVP yet, but if anybody is interested in giving it a whirl when it's 'ready', my email is in my profile.
Man this is super cool!
One thing is to add a HEPA filter to your dwelling's HVAC system.
There seems to be a lot more left than right. Something that ought to be neutral such as r/barcelona has a heavy left wing slant to it. The delete posts about crime in case anyone notices any demographic patterns involved. And they have now turned into the corona gestapo, posing pictures of people not social distancing enough for their standards all in the name of "saving lives".
The company may lose money and ultimately fail, but you're still getting paid.

You also get to call yourself an entrepreneur / founder / investor / whatever for your next thing.

The point of these kinds of businesses isn't to build skyscrapers that last 100 years, it's to build a pretty sandcastle, get paid and go do something else when the tide comes in.