skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't used Pushbullet in depth but on first glance it doesn't seem like a browser extension at all. It looks more like a standalone chat app that happens to be running in the browser. It has nothing to do with enhancing the browsing experience, except for a share-link feature?

Google might not want to make Chrome the browser into an OS.

If i were Google i would also be skeptical when such standalone apps wants to read my browser cookies or access my http://localhost. Actually i think cookies is the violating permission here.
That sucks. Don’t beat yourself up. If it was the right decision at the time, it still is the right decision.
I think the reason people go straight to something like an anti-cheat driver first is that they think "technology created this problem, therefore technology must fix it", despite the fact that the only possible ways to "fix" it using technology requires dangerous/invasive technologies, when what is really needed is a social solution.

Unfortunately, too often those who don't fully understand the implications of say "Lets install a program with full R/W access to the computer to fix this" or "Lets get rid of all encryption on the internet" are the ones making the rules.

/rant

This comment kind of grew beyond scope, so sorry about that.

Edit for clarity/formatting.
> I predict that soon there will be a large class action lawsuit with thousands of restaurants going after the delivery services for these underhanded tactics.

On what basis? You can't just sue someone because you don't like them-you have to have some argument that they wronged you.
https://build2.org/build2/doc/build2-build-system-manual.xht...
Reminds me of a certain novel I read about few years back where certain people would become living calculators through some kind of chemical intervention. Losing all personality in the process they'd become incredibly productive savants capable of sifting through an ever increasing volume of data.
South Asians and East Asians are pretty different genetically, so the lack of distinction really doesn't help.
Great work on this davidmccabe! I remember hearing about this just before I left FB and am so glad that it is open source now.
Designing the Nteract Data Explorer
Toyota and Lexus share the same owners, but one is still more "premium"
Very, very well said. Supply chain attacks are a hell of a drug.
The Reinhart-Rogoff spreadsheet error, given its influence in supporting "austerity" policies around the world, is a less obvious example of a computer bug with horrid consequences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt#Metho... and https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22223190 and https://theconversation.com/the-reinhart-rogoff-error-or-how... as starters.
I should have made it clearer that I was writing about trends, not absolutes.

So yes, hypergolic powered rockets are still around, but mostly they are old designs on the way out. The Proton family you mention was on the drawing board before the book was published, and is to be replaced by the kerolox powered Angara family.

Similarly, the Chinese hypergolic Long March 2/3 families are old designs in the process of being replaced by the kerolox powered Long March 5/6/7 families.
areas currently home to a third of the world’s population will be as hot as the hottest parts of the Sahara within 50 years, the paper warns. Even in the most optimistic outlook, 1.2 billion people will fall outside the comfortable “climate niche” in which humans have thrived for at least 6,000 years.

Or we could start now with more remote work, less driving, etc. The pandemic has shown us just how much pollution levels can drop in a short time if we just feel adequately motivated to make such changes instead of our usual talking smack and doing nothing.

And this may not be the last pandemic.

We do not have to take this sitting down, so to speak. We can vote with our feet and our pocketbooks and begin creating a more pedestrian-friendly world and more human-friendly culture and so forth.

Nothing is inevitable. Nothing is set in stone.

If mankind is the cause of global warming, mankind can fix it. We just have to stop making excuses and pretending we are helpless because "Well, I'm just one person and there are 7 billion other people, so what I do doesn't matter, so why bother?"
By 2021, we will all be underwater on our mortgages thanks to the coronavirus.
Thank you for the explanation, the reasoning sort of makes sense but I still can't wrap my head around how on the left side of the equation there is nothing(0) on the right hand there is something. Something cannot come out of nothing when considering natural phenomena in reality.
Jewgle
Ask HN: Podcast like the books The Cuckoo's Egg, and Revolution in the Valley
Are there any podcasts out there either with the hosts or guests telling stories like the stories in the books The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll, Revolution in the Valley by Andy Hertzfeld, and Hackers by Steven Levy?

I've read these books, and many others like them, but I thought it would be awesome to listen to a podcast where the characters from the stories are guests invited in to retell the stories, however I haven't had much luck finding such a podcast. There once was the Debug[1] podcast with Guy English and Rene Ritchie, and they had an awesome, and very long, "episode series" where they had Apple folks in to retell everything from how Safari to the iPhone was made, if I recall correctly. However the podcast has not been active since 2016. Once upon a blue moon I find a podcast that has a single episode of this kind, but without it being the focus of the podcast.

There are some podcasts like this in the hacking/dark web/cybersecurity genre of computing history - Darknet Dairies[2] and Malicious Life[3] come to mind - but I'm talking a bit broader in scope. I'd like to hear about how the first version of Unix was made, or Plan9, or Vim, or Emacs, or how this weird bug was discovered and fixed, and so on. Interesting stories told by interesting people from the history of computers.

Does anybody know of any podcasts like this?

[1]: https://www.imore.com/debug

[2]: https://darknetdiaries.com/

[3]: https://malicious.life/
Like a mass casualty incident in slow motion– a EM doctors recount on Covid-19
And when that happens, it will have been impossible to see it coming...
Since it's actually about you and for that one guy, you should just tell him what it is that is set in your mind.

The thing about it though, is that mindsets are not readily transferable. They are basically worldviews which are formed slowly and because of their foundational place in cognition are remarkably resistant to change.

One challenge is technical debt. To start to understand it, find a tool that he uses regularly (assuming such a thing exists). Maybe it is Excel. Now have him solve some kind of problem with it. And then schedule a meeting with his friend the following week to review his spreadsheet. Then add requirements that his spreadsheet must handle. Tell him he must hurry so that those requirements are complete before his meeting. Ensure that there are too many requirements for the spreadsheet or that there isn't time to properly reorganize it.

In the meeting, explain to his friend that he has been the mastermind of this spreadsheet design. Have him first demo the calculation features of the spreadsheet. The have him walk through the design, show the formulas in the cells, explain his naming scheme.

The goal of this exercise is to demonstrate why engineers seem to be so concerned about their code organization and technical debt. Which is that they have their name on any mess they make in the code, and they have to maintain it as it changes. Without ever having done that part of it, it is difficult for a business person to really understand the developer's point of view.
Thanks!

Will you go to the "fire and forget" route of hoping I do some "Show HN" and be unaware in between, or will you provide some way to notify you?

Especially, since the thing is rewritten but partially modular I have started asking around me what features are most wanted, so that I can start the modularity effort in areas that make most sense. I've been considering an online poll. Will you participate? How to reach you?
Exponential growth doesn't work forever. As recently as 100 years ago there were less than 2 billion people in the whole world. At 7.8 billion and growing 80M [1 Germany] each year, we're running out of room to breathe.
To be more specific, the figure of merit is the wet-bulb temperature.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature

There are a great many places where people live that regularly exceed 45 C in the summer. However, these places also tend to be very dry. So it's misleading to think "it only hits 105 in Memphis but it crosses 120 in Las Vegas, so Memphis will be fine". In reality the wet-bulb temperature in Vegas is usually lower than in Memphis.

Human beings cannot survive when the wet-bulb temperature goes above 35 C. There are a number of cities that occasionally see wet-bulb temperatures above 32 C, which could become deadly heat waves in a severe warming scenario. This is particularly true near the warmest seas -- the Gulf of California, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. (Mazatlan in June is absolutely miserable.) There was a recent study published in Science about it:

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/19/eaaw1838
The Great Asshole Fallacy
Yes, exactly. When I need HN in dark mode, I open a pre-configured Terminal profile with w3m launched by default, and have a nice greenish font on a dark background.

It looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/FqLB0g8
Although this post was written for physicians, I think hacker news will still appreciate it
> But how did you make a bookmarklet to produce a zip archive, even non-compressed?

Not quite sure I understand the question. Bookmarklets are bookmarks which contain JavaScript code, for example:

javascript:alert('Hello, World!');

You can put that in a link

<a href="javascript:alert('Hello, World!');">Bookmarklet</a>

and then you can right-click the link to bookmark it. Now, when you want to run that JavaScript code on some website, visit the website and click on the bookmark.
Just downvote it and move on, there’s a chunk of hacker news shills and bots with either throwawayXXXXX as the username or A446EDFCC - hex usernames.

Don’t even bother they are not here to discuss they’re here to stuff the thread with their garbage, so just downvote and move on ..
> grey-on-color is lower contrast than white-on-color.

> Let's not make HN one of those sites.

The OP of the thread you are replying to is #828282 on top of #f6f6ef. That is lower contrast than black on white.
Why is x^0=1? How can something be generated out of any equation where the only number is 0 (nothing)
Arent we all? We have learned to think of ourselves as consumers, haven't we?
Guessing you're also excited for December 18? ;)
We can not rapidly push much of the population into extreme poverty and still solve this with Carbon Extraction: https://www.npr.org/2018/12/10/673742751/how-1-company-pulls...

Bill Gates is investing in it about the same way he called a pandemic. He’s doing something but not making enough noise about it.

Vote for a carbon tax to pay for these plants, put them in areas that used to mine coal or drill for gas.
>Does that really mean anything other than you can do more things with mobile devices than just browse the web?

That depends, what is the usage pattern of browsers vs. everything else on the desktop computer? Because you can use the desktop computer for more things than browsing the web.
>but scale isn't a problem many people need solving when 2TB of RAM fits in a single box.

What's the price of that on the cloud? I know I can run crazy big tables on DynamoDB for a couple of dollars. I don't know what 1 month of a relational database with 2TB of RAM costs on the cloud, but I am pretty sure I can't afford it.
Some outdoor gear is still made in the US, like some small ultralight backpacking tent brands (Tarptent); they also tend to have very strong warranties / repair services.
I used this way back in 2003 when it was still called Hydra.

It was the first collaborative text editor I ever used and was a showpiece for Apple’s Randezvous (later Bonjour) implementation of zeroconf. I was absolutely amazed.

I never used the collaborative features (much) but it certainly impressed people when I showed them!
What if a man solves one of the problems in secret before committing a crime? Your suggestion could then be interpreted as "permit millennium problem solvers to commit, with no legal consequence, any one crime of their choosing." That would seem like a questionable proposition to anyone not fully devoted to mathematics.
> This seems like an experiment worth trying at least.

Yup! I am really excited about Deno and curious about how popular it will be in a few years.
https://bestrpajob.com/ is a website where I'm posting RPA jobs that I found online with direct apply link.

Currently I source only US,UK,DE,AT,FR,RO countries.

I am open to feedback as there is still content work to be done in making it community fit.
Sort of an unfortunate name collision with Apache Poi, which is one of the largest projects at the Apache Software Foundation.
Flutter is one of the fastest growing frameworks for the past two years and therefore dart too. It most likely will succeed cause of this pace and the community growing around it.

When flutter for desktop lands into beta I think it will pick up even more pace and would be very hard to ignore for a lot of companies.
After ten years of JavaScript and after working on TypeScript apps that have now been around for 5+ years, I can assure you TypeScript is less maintainable long term than most languages.

Did you know that TypeScript’s type system is turing complete? Good luck figuring out literal bespoke type frameworks in TypeScript. Did you know you can have a TypeScript application that takes more than 8GB of memory to compile?

TypeScript is literally a Microsoft play to regain Visual Studio market share they lost by creating a language that much like C# and Java, practically speaking, requires a massive feature rich IDE for most developers to write software efficiently with.

You all fell for it, and at this point it’s too late. Millions of extra development hours will wasted maintaining legacy TypeScript apps for years due to a Microsoft marketing stroke of genius.
Software doesn't just "exist", it's created. And spending time and/or money on creating means taking on the risk to fail. Again, they're not putting out contracts for bidding for every software they want, just like most enterprise software isn't custom made. They buy lots of software from companies. Those companies have competitors, so cities can choose which software to buy. Those companies shoulder the risk of not being chosen and having wasted the money.

If the cities built it themselves, they would not be able to choose who to buy from. And if their self-built software sucks, they've wasted money and have a shitty software. One that they may not be able to replace, because there's no longer a market for that kind of software. Public endeavors into building things (airports, train stations, rapid train lines etc) in the recent decades in Germany does not predict a bright future for these kinds of things.
I don't know, it doesn't seem that unreasonable to me. Walmart is allowed to advertise it sells Levi jeans, even though it sells other brands than Levi.

If doordash didn't sell Saddleback food, i'd agree, but given that doordash distributes Saddleback products, seems reasonable to me they are allowed to advertise "buy Saddleback bbq here"
Yes there is much better way.
Install Stylus plugin and copy and paste the same script (except meta tag) with rule on domain.
And it just works fine across all instances of domain.
Morrowind runs really well on my modest android phone, with openmw,
It even support mods,
Arazona resident here: bring it on.
The behavior of ASI is fully specified. Semicolons are optional. There is no undefined behavior in the language spec that makes using semicolons somehow safer.

Furthermore, even if you always write semicolons you are still subject to ASI modifying your code by inserting additional semicolons where you don’t want them. So you need to learn the rules of ASI regardless of whether you use semicolons or not. https://feross.org/never-use-semicolons/
Sure it did, in all these years my only native apps have been on personal projects.

In what concerns work, we use a mix of mobile Web, Xamarin, Cordova/PhoneGap, C++ with native views, depending on the customer requirements.
Well you just heard me say it. Your thinking capacity is limited and inherited but just like physical muscle devlopment, you can develop it. Women basically have to work out 10x men to have similar muscle development (hormones) but they can develop it. Similarly,you don't just grow muscle because your ancestors had a lot of muscle,you still have to work out. All that I have read about intelligence leads me to believe that while hereditary ceiling differences exist for certain "mental muscles", it is something you develop starting from early stages of life.
I went with "vingle".
This was sarcasm.sorry.
Yes it will look out of date. But whats important? A functioning app or good looking one? We all know that websites written for ie6 are out there today making millions in revenue. It always comes down to the functionality not the looks
Policies, a verbal rule with your devs?
Biology's tools applied to myths to understand how they may have evolved. It is a very innovative work, but it is so innovative that one may think that it is a bit artificial.

It is also nice to see texts written in Tifinagh. This script is used in North Africa since the 3rd century BCE. Unfortunately there is no mention of Ethiopia's Ge'ez script, which is one of the oldest alphabets (9th century BCE).

And in reflection it makes look at phylogenetic reconstruction in biology. I remember a professor telling orally that there are a lot of randomness in DNA evolution and that phylogenetic reconstruction is actually a bit artificial.
You’re confusing AI with machine learning.
I'm guessing that's more true for people buying high-end fashion than it is for those buying high-end hobbyist gear, as the latter are more likely to research products and put significant weight on performance rather than blindly trust a brand name.
Rotting
This is really nice, discreet and readable. Good job!
I think you need to make it clear that you are a maker and your limitations are more in the realm of physics -- what can work and what won't work.

Business people tend to be more social-oriented, people-oriented. And one of the pitfalls of that is that most such people think if you just make the right friends, find the right words, push the right emotional buttons, you can make magic.

And sometimes that's true. But sometimes what they want is a case of "Something cannot be both heavy and light at the same time. I can be light and large -- like a cloud -- but it can't be both heavy and light. Pick one."

I do a lot of studying of social things and I hate people who are manipulative. A lot of people with serious social skills are manipulative.

In short, many of them lie when it's convenient because they don't want to deal with negative emotions or whatever.

So I would have them watch the Jim Carrey movie "Liar, Liar." and challenge them to use their social skills to tell the actual truth in a more acceptable manner instead of fudging.

I would also recommend negotiating books. Hard skills when it comes to dealing with people helps make it possible to be both honest and diplomatic.

The Mind and Heart of the Negotiator is research based and very meaty.

Getting to Yes is also research based, but a quick, easy read.
The technical difference is lack of language-level module support, requiring manual management of vtables. It can be done, see Linux kernel for an example, but often times degenerates in a ball of globals.

To further clarify, one can use DOP style in many languages, including languages that are ostensibly OO. DOP is a style, using data hiding and polymorphism as sparingly as possible, as opposed to OOP style, which strongly encourages using data hiding and polymorphism at every corner.
As far as I understand it, they are comparing the statistics of the 5,683 sample to the 17M in order to determine whether anything stands out. If Covid-19 deaths had no associated factors, then we shouldn't see much of a difference between the two.

However, we are seeing differences, for example with diabetes.
Stevie Wonder is surely more widely recognised?... Or Prince.... Dave Grohl also did this for the Foo Fighters first record (not sure on the mixing part though)
‘Randonauts’ have found a great way to spice up lockdown walks
Why the downvotes? HN is getting more and more hostile.
Trail Router is wonderful. I’m getting back into running after having moved and it’s great for discovering new routes in the area. Thank you!
A country or city filter/search would be good. Tried to use the site for 10 seconds, but then gave up.
I think background color and text color options with inverted voting arrows (as suggested elsewhere in this thread[0]) would be enough for most people.

What.cd used to let you put a url in your settings that was injected as the stylesheet while you were logged in. This approach would let people publish and share themes--though shared themes could be a (pretty visible) security concern.

I remember also running into issues trying to use non-https-served stylesheets since the site was https and browsers balked.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23199725
1968 would indeed be about the right time period as "I grok Spock" bumper stickers appeared around then too.
Nothing stops you editing the photo, printing it out, and taking a photo of the printout.

The new photo would still get signed, and look original.

And if you did this in the right conditions, it wouldn't be possible to tell it was a photo of a print.
Learn How to Prove Your Intellectual Capital
As much as I would like to believe that Joe McRando is going to keep a six foot distance from me and where a mask, I've seen enough to make me believe he wouldn't.

Therefore, it stands to reason that it be, maybe not illegal, but definitely very heavily encouraged for people to stay home. It's one of the few cases where I am pro-government power (as much as it kills me inside to say).
Feels ironic, could be considered "meta", that the link goes to techcrunch and my screen shows:

> uMatrix has prevented the following page from loading:
> https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers?sessionId=...

Yes, there is a dire need for fixing the Internet.

Oh, by the way, remember, when fixing the Internet tools and protocols... The following sentence was written thinking of aircraft hull design, isn't a browser some kind of "netcraft" that has become too complicated and needs a redesign?

"It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
Audio can be improved with AI.

There are lots of demos of AI separating human voice from background sounds.
This is such a great idea! You don't need compression because images on the web are generally compressed already. Can you share any of your code that does this?
It’s rarely just a discussion. It’s almost always a holier than though preaching session.