skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm genuinely surprised someone could read that whole blog post (I'm assuming here) and come away with that conclusion. Gelman addresses this so directly in the article:

"Recall the Javert paradox. It’s completely reasonable to write about scientific misconduct, and yes sometimes we have to scream a bit to get heard over all the chatter of the scientist-as-hero press."
...
"But we need real expertise, not fake expertise. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Gresham, baby, Gresham. If we don’t contest the fake expertise, I’m seriously worried it will be crowding out the real stuff."

There is good research and there is bad research. The latter should not be given a pass just because all research has some amount of bias.
Maybe Archivebox (https://archivebox.io/) can suit your needs ? Archiving is what it does, but there's nothing built-in for searching
I second ride with gps. It also integrates better with the Apple Watch
This is an awesome deck. I'll be bookmarking this as a great resource to pass along.

Tangent: although the portability and consistency of PDFs is nice, I'd love a browser extension that gave me a nicer view of slides that were exported as a PDF. I find there's something more satisfying about discrete pagination vs continuous scroll for these types of things.
I think a better term should be lightweight, usable and performant. The framework shaming mentality is getting quite old.

Also, the portfolio website of the author is the opposite of tiny, with a 3.6mb load.
To be fair on Strava, they have made some effort to addressing this over the last few months:

https://www.strava.com/subscription/whats-new
with static sites server-side analytics are doable. You can still cookie the browser, record it to access log and you can get pageviews and uniques easily
Feudalist libertarian... how do people even get there? I remember when words meant things.
It's a lie criminals are not professionals. It comes with a set of other rules, rituals and codes. The money is not a big score but an unlimited amount of cashflow. The antisocials are the ones blowing up a money printing machine just for the sake of their ego. Have you ever seen estimates of the grey economy? That world is running way more efficient than civilian life because of the stakes. Guys like Pablo get that famous because he had an antisocial personality and had to blow up an airplane while he was one of the most richest billionaires in the world.
Not without root. Termux is very useful even on a non-rooted phone.
Not OP, but I've had friends in similar situations. When infants, they're pretty easy to keep an eye on while cramming / self-teaching. It's when they start running around more that it becomes harder, especially if you have a significant other who is also busy with work.
I have since come to the conclusion that I was both right and wrong.

If you analyze the meta-branching of that decision you can see at least three branches.

1) The one I took which was to stay at Sun. In this universe my employee purchase options continued to grow, Sun's stock split again, and my net worth grew by more than my annual salary that year.

2) In this first alternate, I take the job at Netscape in May of 1995, and become a multi-millionaire (on paper) in August. Using historical data for Netscape, and knowing that when they went public they had a 1 year lockout on employee sales, if I were to have sold 1/4th of my option on the anniversary of the IPO in each of 1996, 1997, 1997, and 1998, my net worth would go up to roughly $9.8M net of income taxes assuming I didn't file an 83b election (not that I could of come up with the cash to vest all my shares anyway at that time but whatever)

3) I take the job at Netscape, I am holding multiple millions of dollars in stock which become AOL stock in 1998 and don't sell them, they become nearly worthless 5 years later.

The illustration is that there is a path and different choices along the path end in different endings.

As it turned out, after Netscape went public, realizing that I was not going to make a whole lot of money on Sun stock as an employee, I left and started a startup with some other ex-Sun employees.

My take away from all of this was that decisions are neither "right" nor "wrong", rather they are just inflections in the timeline. Sometimes the timeline has given you additional advantage, and sometimes it has taken it away, the trick for me was to not get greedy. When there was "enough" advantage, lock in the benefit and move on, when there was "enough" disadvantage, stop digging the hole and move on. But most importantly for my mental health, as long as the slope was generally on the upswing, then don't sweat the choices that didn't work out.

With all that being said, I'm also a big fan of learning from decisions and trying to put into my toolkit things that would have illuminated the upside and downside more clearly if I had done them at the time. Case in point, "Never join a startup where the two senior leaders are both in a relationship and their reporting relationship at home is different than the one they have at work." and "Never join a startup that has never had to defend its existence to a skeptical investor."
Command At Sea, World War II game
CSV export is very limited. It lacks the second-by-second data in the original FIT file which you need for real analytics.
The Silicon Valley Implosion
I’d take that any day over having rich parents who are control freaks and dress that up as “caring” (but really only caring that I get good grades and follow their standards of ‘morally upstanding’)

There’s a huge distance between the majority of parents who “care” in that way and those who truly care about their children.
Welcome to the next stage of censorship:

Google anti-anticommunism is not covert but overt now.

Take note kids: all forms of anticommunism are going to be pathologized and, when possible, criminalized.
You can always write in Markdown, say with iA Writer, then export to HTML. I typically write offline, then type and revise on the computer, then copy paragraphs over to Sublime. Code snippets and syntax highlighting done with CSS.
I won the lottery, and you can too! The secret to my success: always picking 24 for the first number.
I appreciate Ronan and his reporting but I admit, the NYT has an ironic point. With the seriousness of the subject matter he should be more rigorous and less glamorous. Noting, unlike less reputable reporters he’s not purposely making things up to align them with an agenda. But, it’s sad to say that that has to be celebrated rather than expected.
'I am mine': This is what Alzheimer's is like at 41 (2018)
It doesn't look like it. Here's the talk info from the conference: https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa19/presentation/mahesh... Other talks have links to their recordings.

It also doesn't seem to be in the full video playlist from the conference: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbRoZ5Rrl5ldJR-XU4xQx...
Its a very handy utility. Sometimes when I am lazy to write proper multiprocessing support in my codes, I get some work started anyway by (1) quickly providing a basic CLI version of my code (2) throwing in a bunch of code-invocation commands in a file and calling GNU parallel on it.
I got that, but it was from the office firewall considering it to be a malicious site
> Imagine high-resolution evaluation of your work as a programmer by a nefarious party that is out to get you or your team.

Been there. I had to “make one commit a day” because I wasn’t committing as much as my peers. The next week of commits was me automating commit + Pr generation that only made changes to white space (plus normal work, which was mostly research at the time).
Please append (2014) to the title.
WASM w/ WASI is still in its early stages and cannot even support existing applications seamlessly, let alone a full operating environment. For now, it would be better to run a riscv64 system VM, since that architecture will both run with comparative efficiency under an interpreter or JIT, and be well-supported at a system level.
Man I love the fact that the upvotes continue to increase.
Fairness isn't an end in itself, but unfairness can cause people to revolt, which then leads to more suffering.

It's just a matter of how you weigh such considerations: https://www.utilitarianism.net/types-of-utilitarianism
A previous article about Jo posted years ago on HN: https://site.macleans.ca/longform/alzheimers/index.html and the Jo's final story in the series https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/they-came-to-celebrate-j...
Given what you just said, isn't it logical that Strava would want to monetize that?
Janus works pretty well, the endpoints are well documented and allowed me to write a small web app in python for connecting peers through janus. It's not too complicated
Are there any good parsers to convert pdf to html/epub? It would rely on the pdf being well structured.
Just wanted to say that I found this fascinating. Don't know if Mr. Evans was already a household name, but I just discovered his writing right now (a win for HN) and got lost reading previous essays.

Just wanted to say, thanks.
As far as I can tell, one of the coronavirus sleeper success stories has been https://outshool.com for homeschooling (and unschooling) kids. We've been using it for my 12-year old and we see both offerings and usage exploding. There's really nothing else like it on the market that we know of...
Can you point me to the as-you-type full-text search on Mac for a directory transitively containing 20,000 pdfs?
Why did you leave out the end of their quote about the metrics they use to judge their perception upon?

"--as judged by things I build and people I interact with."

I mean, I agree that sleep deprivation seems to induce temporary cognitive performance problems, but you're reinforcing a point that the parent seems to already understand -- that self perception is useless without objective performance metrics.

Parent gave their opinion, reinforced by anecdotal evidence that they believe is an objective measure of their performance.

Perhaps what should really be mentioned is that perhaps the metrics by which they are judging their cognitive performance are not as broad a test of those characteristics as one might believe.
a 15 second unskippable ad spot on 55" screen vs 700 X 400 pixels (or whatever youtube is) is not a fair fight.
This happened to me with my weight loss. I made a chain of it and did intermittent fasting for 9+ months with maybe one hiccup, but even on that hiccup day it was not a complete break, but just a bending of my rules (16 hours vs the normal 20, etc).

However, when Christmas came around, I started traveling and relaxed a lot more, feeling good about my progress from the months before.

It's not May and I'm just now hopping back on the train with the same intensity I had before. I usually got to 16+ hours, but my food choices were shit and I was overeating. Every time I ate when/what I wasn't supposed to though, I felt like an even bigger failure and used those emotions to justify my bad behavior.

It's been 1 week now since I've gone back to my more strict regimen and last night I really really really wanted to go out and get a burger around 1am. I managed to wait out the craving but it was insanely difficult and it's affected my work performance today.

All that to say, the chain is powerful in both directions. After you break it the first time, it's a lot easier to break again.
That clarifies it a lot, thanks for explaining.

I actually remember having to eventually go through Safari to print out that one page I mentioned above that was giving me issues in Chrome, so that makes a lot of sense. Glad to find out it wasn't just me somehow being lucky with Safari, and that it is actually a known thing.
Hemispherical Combustion Chamber
A (Mostly) Google-Free Android
How to write well when you don't know how to
Is this affecting your app negatively? They reached out to us a few months ago, and didn't directly state what they were doing, but strongly suggested we be prepared for changes to the API.
It should just be a set of protocols.

1) Your domain has a dns op (order placement) record like an mx record. Your op record points to your online pos system. A standard chunk of data is sent by the customer browser and received by your system.

2) You pay a company for marketing+online menu services. You optionally grant them the right to list/crosspost the same data on competing services. You have the choice which menu-fronts are allowed to use your name and advertise your product.

3) The order comes into your system like any other order. This triggers a separate signal to a p2p dispatch network. The dispatch network load balances all the incoming orders, assigning them to drivers in a logical way that hits restaurants and destinations with minimal extra travel.

4) The delivery driver chooses any client they want, that is compatible with the dispatch network. Tasks are routed to their client.

The order placement, pos, and the dispatch network are totally separate technologies, not proprietary vertically integrated institutions.
I love this initiative in principle, but the instructions left a rather sour taste in my mouth. Create a Firebase app, download and install Node and run some arcane cli commands? For what? To upload a 10-byte HTML file somewhere?

Please, do yourself and us a favour and sign up for a free account on https://neocities.org, and make a quirky website by hand for all of us to enjoy.

I half want to write a post like this but with dead-simple instructions, like "Open Notepad, write <html><body>Hello!</body></html>" inside and upload it to Neocities. Congratulations, you now have a website!"

A good addition would be a nice CSS stylesheet (https://newcss.net/ looks good, linked by sdan in his comment here) to get the site looking nice and mobile-friendly. That's pretty much all you need to make a simple website.
I'm not proposing that we reestablish the fairness doctrine, just using it as an example of similar government regulation in the past that didn't have the disastrous effects you predicted.

But since you brought up the limited number of choices, I would like to mention that we find ourselves in that situation again today in the smartphone and online video markets, although for different reasons. And that's relevant because regulation is only necessary when the free market fails to provide the choices and freedoms we expect.
Sure, but with .reg files all you need to do is look at the contents of the .reg file to see what the diff is.

The .reg file is the diff.

Could not have been simpler.

That's one upside of the registry being a database rather than a text file.
FWIW TFA's author is vehemently opposed to Matthew Walker's book.

(Disclaimer - I'm not. I found much of the content interesting and compelling.)
Historically the monopoly of the mail was abused for censorship (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_laws). If there've been comparable consequences from competing private mail services, I haven't heard of them.
There are numerous differences from a tax-funded maternity program and insurance. (the hope of) free markets determining insurance prices, ability to opt in or out of specific coverage, the source of funding to name a few.

The point isn't to trust people not to scam the system (because just like banks have found another way to abuse (now commercial) mortgage backed securities (CMBS)[0], market dynamics can be applied to people finding a way to abuse the system), but to design such a system best we can that gives the benefits to those the program is intended for, and to prevent abuse from malicious actors.

[0]: https://www.propublica.org/article/whistleblower-wall-street...
the date on this is 11/10/19, why wasn't this posted till now?
How was it energy-wise?
Unfortunately no. The conference recorded only regular track talks. This was on Tutorial/Training track.
Good point. It had his name and home address on the Best Buy label outside of the box. I couldn't confirm the address, but the name was the same.
Given that they've produced jobs for already-affluent programmers by gutting the security and incomes of the working class, not really,
My son got a school issued chromebook. My first reaction was: Oh, goody. We can install Python.

Nope.

The school chromebooks are locked down tighter than a crab's ass. What a waste.
Seems to imply a different amount of time. Work year would be the amount of time worked in a year (usually ~2000 hours give or take). Sort of like how a work-day is 8 hours rather than 24.

Man/woman/person/dev/etc-year seem to imply an amount of work that is equivalent to a year (~8760 hours).

Or at least that's how I would use those terms. It's entirely possible that these definitions are regional in nature.
The route builder has improved a great deal in recent times; they leverage the data they have to pick common routes for runners/riders. Have discovered several interesting places to run locally that I wasn't aware of, and its also fantastic for planning a commute (i.e. bike riders tend to on aggregate, avoid dangerous/unfriendly routes, so the planner ends up doing so as well).
I’ve been under sleeping and I play a lot of games. Poker, go, call of duty war zone. My performance in all of them suffers. I actually don’t allow myself to play poker anymore unless I have two nights of full rest.
I'm also interested in your tables solution. Also, is there an organized MVP.css community somewhere?
I tried that for an SRE position at Google. You can get through the first couple interviews, but if you don't study the exact material they give you--and they'll give you a lot--and aren't able to recite it exactly as described, you get turned away pretty quickly.

They feed you all this nonsense about wanting to see creative solutions in the interviews, but if you study the material they give you, all the answers are there. It might as well be a certification.

"You did well initially but didn't study the material we gave you. Re-apply in 1.5 years." No thanks; I was just keeping my options open and don't have time for all that nonsense. If you have a decent offer, tell me; otherwise, stop wasting my time. And, of course, what happens 1.5 years later? They call and email you incessantly asking you to re-apply.
DK64 required the expansion pak due to a bug (it was intended to work in either 4MB or 8MB modes and they couldn't fix a crashing bug in the 4MB version) and then Rare spent an obscene amount of money shipping an expansion pak with every copy of the game. That was probably responsible for a large fraction of the units shipped, with most of the rest accounted for by Zelda (which did not include the pak even though it was required).
I've been fighting my ~3000 (~70% untagged) bookmarks for a while.

Right now, I've gave up on silly tags like "Postgres" or "Python".
Currently, I'm trying to adapt the bookmark concept into different uses cases. The main one is sessions, but I have a few others niche ones, like "read later" and "a tool a day".

Honestly, my takeaway from managing my bookmarks, is that, snapshotting a session, is the closest thing I have to a "hot" start. I instantly recognize what I was working on and I remember why I opened/kept open those tabs.
It worked fine for me, and judging from comments on this page that respond to the article not just the title, for many others.

If you see this message in Firefox for many sites (try some random sites you rarely visit) it's probably a local problem such as "Anti-Virus" software or a "security" appliance helpfully making stuff unsafe. Get rid of them if possible.

It is possible that, as the message says, there's actually "Possible Security Issue" just for you, or some subset of visitors, and we can't really help you diagnose that. Maybe your ISP, or your government, or that nerd neighbour kid who said she'd fix your WiFi are trying to snoop you. But probably not.

It's also possible the server hosting this went a bit haywire maybe under the load. It's clearly on some cheap bulk host and those can be a bit flaky.
there can be more than one reason, but the censorship began in earnest after trump's election and before covid.[1] this isn't even a controversial position and i'm nowhere near the only person to have remarked upon it.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2018/08/06/636030043/youtube-apple-and-f...
If you are doing any sleep-deprivation experiment on self, only thing I ask of you is to not get behind the wheel and drive. I beg you please not to do any driving, even if you feel alert and not tired. I had a friend's teen who blacked out while driving after not sleeping much in 24 hours, causing a minor accident on the freeway. Falling asleep behind the wheel is most common, especially around 2-3pm, when the effect of sleep deprivation really starts to kick in, and brain decides to sleep without a warning.
Anti-communist (against the ideology) speech is not hate speech. Dehumanizing speech against communists (people who identify or are identified as communist) may be. Quoting Wikipedia quoting Cambridge dictionary:

> Hate speech is defined by Cambridge Dictionary as "public speech that expresses hate or encourages violence towards a person or group based on something such as race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation". Hate speech is "usually thought to include communications of animosity or disparagement of an individual or a group on account of a group characteristic such as race, color, national origin, sex, disability, religion, or sexual orientation".

This is a workable definition and it doesn't lead to a slippery slope argument.
The idea in the article is about acceleration and not velocity is great. We do not deal with the target but error. And the response to acceleration has to be proportional.

Why can’t it apply to real drone? Interrupt needed?
Not affiliated but I think Netlify offers a similar level of initial effort but with more room for later growth.
About 3 years ago my 2012 MBP finally gave up the ghost. I was traveling frequently at the time and still had my trusty Mac Mini. So I decided to get a tablet. I did tons of research and it came down to a spec’d iPad Pro with all the bells and whistles vs. a mid range MS Surface. I’m an engineer so I need to code.

I got caught up in the Apple fanfare, and shame on me for not doing better research, but the thing was near impossible to use for coding. It’s a beautiful tool, but not one that fit my development needs. I ended up using it as a 2 monitor for my Mac Mini and a media consumption device. In hindsight, I shoulda went with the Surface.

All I wanna do is be able to code on an iPad. Yeah I know it’s currently possible, but have you tried it!? Is that asking too much?
Acrobat does very well in my experience.
I totally understand wanting to push more people to subscriptions, honestly I find it a way more user friendly model than selling data, or doing other weird behind the scenes stuff. If you like this, pay us for it, and we'll keep making it.

Shutting down an API makes sense of course - I mean an API doesn't come for free - someone has to maintain it, upgrade it, etc, but I just hate it. More walled gardens and data that I can't really move around in real time (yes, I know you can export data, and I know entire apps like rungap can move everything around everywhere)

But god what I wouldn't give for an alternate world where so many of these things are open-source software that only needs to generate enough revenue to pay for some salaries (and not pay back 17 rounds of VCs) and have open APIs.

[Thinking right now specifically about Home Assistant. In my mind it's far better than any proprietary home automation platform, now that there's enough revenue to even pay a few devs to work on it full time, it's rapidly getting UX improvements that make it better even for non-developers to use, it's completely open, etc etc etc]
See what your SF rent gets you in an emerging city
My biggest thing I wish was fixed was being able to use template variables in alerts. https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/6557 Right now you have to make a chart that has every server on it or a graph per server. I would love to not have to do that