skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use blogger, the thing the article claims doesn't exist.

I have a zillion blogs. I'm telling you from firsthand experience that it's hard to get traffic, it's hard to monetize, etc. So it's unsurprising that some people go "Fuck it. I don't care. I'm just going to talk somewhere on the internet."

And the irony is even if you go that route, people will give you hell. One of the most common criticisms I get on HN boils down to "Bitch, go start a blog and stop leaving long comments on HN telling us about your life." when I have a zillion blogs and I'm pretty choosy about what I say here.
If you are browsing with Firefox, then yes, you can. Set this variable, "dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled", in about:config to false and websites can no longer block you from pasting into input fields.
Nothing personal. But your post seems to be a wishy-washy way of justifying or pushing to take away the right to vote from people you disagree with. If you only want to take away your in-law's rights, you go ahead and tell them not to vote. But your in-laws are people who live in this world too. Why do you think they have less of a say in what goes on? The real world implication of your post is that we start having IQ or some kind of political intelligence test to qualify to vote. It is really easy to think this way when you are the one who has the power to decide who gets to vote or who doesn't. And then you eventually find that some groups of humans are more affected by your policy than others. That's a rabbit hole I think you don't want to go down into.
This doesn't ask the most important question: why would I learn Go at all?
Hi Anakaine,

Great point! It is actually linked to current expenditure. When you first register for an account and connect your AWS, we compute your potential savings and then take 10% of that number spread over a year. So you're not given an unknown number! I'll make that more clear in the FAQ.
I often notice when I start writing on a particular topic, I learn more about my thoughts and opinions of it and realize my thoughts are wrong or not really novel. Halfway in I give up since I feel like, "oh, this actually isn't really adding anything new to the conversation". Then I leave with a new humbleness about my beliefs but also a sense of "when am I actually going to know enough to warrant writing about it?".
I learned Rust & Go pretty much at the same time, and it actually works quite well because most of the paradigms are actually the same (structs & function implementation on top of them, error as return value). Rust is clearer about the point you mention[1], while Go introduction spend more time explaining things like threads and channels (which I wasn't familiar with), and finally Rust help you to use them properly, thanks to the Send & Sync trait, which make you realize when you're doing racy things.

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/ch05-03-method-syntax....
This book is pure gold. I recommend this to any programmer!
Pain is real when a person experiences it. It’s part of the Hard Problem, which separates the study of the signals from objective description of the inner experience.

A human who is wired to not experience pain probably has the brain capacity to experience it, with the appropriate modifications. We do agree that all experience is perfectly correlated to a physical states/transitions, so it’s conceivable to arrange organic matter in a way that a conscious entity could experience real (to them) pain. We may not have this technology and it would seem far off for now. But we are scratching the surface.

A monk who can rewire the experience of pain (e.g. while burning to death) still has something meaningful to communicate about their conscious experience beyond the pain receptors transmitting info to their brain. But perhaps if one’s arrangement of brain/nervous system matter isn’t so free as to be trained to overcome or modify instinctual pain response (e.g. brain in a vat), anyone can be forced to experience pain.
I am all for self-reliance, but if you really want to influence someone else, you might want to include a link to the project, especially when the only word you share has a much more prevalent meaning.
I blog a lot. I do it mostly when I do a fun hobby project and want to write down what I did. It's kind of like a public journal with some pics. They're usually esoteric enough that when someone searches for the thing I was writing about, they'll find it. I get a few hundred hits on a handful of pages per month. Not going to make it big with this, but it is fun and I just love publishing hobby stuff on the internet for some reason.

I also find it kind of fun when I'm searching for something and my own blog comes up reminding me how I did something 6 years ago.
From what I've read, immunity to other coronaviruses typically only lasts a year or so. SARS hasn't infected anyone in over a decade, and it's been a few years since a MERS outbreak.
Hi psankar, we ran across Ory when we were doing our initial "does this exist?" Google search, but haven't actually looked into that project too deeply.

And we'd never heard of Keycloak before, so thanks for pointing them out to us!

Have you ever used or built with either platform? If so, what was your experience like working with them?
millions of topics, no zookeeper ect. Kafka is addressing these shortcomings on the roadmap.
I think this is one of the most fascinating things about him to me, because he was born in 1872 and lived to 1970, so he went from living in a society where it was still common to travel by horse and buggy to one where we had nuclear energy and easy air travel, etc, and he never lost his sharp mind, so you get to hear the perspective of someone who went through all of that. I highly recommend giving his autobiography a read to anyone interested in his life.
This is exactly right. I had a blog for many months, shared it from my website and social media accounts, and it never showed up in Google search. After a couple months of speaking to an audience of 20 people, I decided it wasn't worth it. Meanwhile everything else I have tried shows up on the first page of results: Facebook page, Twitter account, Soundcloud, etc.

Google heavily biases their results to two things: the top 1000 sites on the internet, and clickbait (callout posts and threads slandering someone rank like you wouldn't believe; no backlinks required). Maybe if you keep at your blog for 2+ years, manage to land a few HN frontpage story links, it might eventually show up. But who is going to invest that time and effort instead of just setting up a Facebook page instead?
Wouldn't that just result in large companies having a even bigger advantage over the little guys?
Show HN: Automunge’s First Press Release
anyone wanna share their thoughts about deploying their own messaging system vs using a messaging system provided by their cloud provider?
It was a couple of months ago, so I don't recall exactly, but I think I couldn't get it to recognise the hard disk.

Are you using any particular boot settings, and are you using IDE or SCSI (virtual) disks?
Some businesses' fixed costs mean raising prices won't prevent bankruptcy.

Restaurants will remain available, but will movie theaters? They were already being disrupted by streaming services.
Greetly is hiring an Enterprise Account Manager
Since we won't track users, sell data, or use ads... the only ethical option is having paying customers.

If you look at Ghost, WPEngine, etc, there are a lot of people willing to pay for being able to blog independently. We are betting that within that market there is a niche of people that want to do it as easily as possible, which I think is Medium's best feature.
I feel like I used it wrong. BUT I think it is also very amusing.

https://www.autodraw.com/share/RIJ0ZMHLGNEP

It's very tempting to just use whatever it guesses you want. Which is how we end up with electric drills for legs, and maybe this inspires the creation of...new superheroes.

BTW congrats to the team on the launch of this new product.
"Sign up to download"? No. Just no.
Hospitals in the US are so lacking with patients that they are furloughing and laying off doctors and losing money. They never were overwhelmed and would not have been
>They're simply making it more and more difficult with the thousand-pinpricks approach to deviate from the systemd defaults.

I don't know what you mean by this. Even on systemd systems you can still install all your old tools and sidestep the systemd approach.

>[fragmentation] .... was a good thing for diversity of thought, and the ability to evolve better designs. Here, Lennart explicity stated he was using non-overt methods to force cohesion in a non-organic fashion, which to me indicates he valued his design over good design.

I didn't get that at all, the post you linked explicitly mentioned discouraging distros that deviate from the base setup for senseless reasons. You can see why this approach has caught on with distro maintainers, their job has been stuffing square pegs into round holes from the beginning. The idea of fragmentation just for the sake of fragmentation was never popular there.
Depends on what is meant by debugging. If you're talking about running a debugger on your program, you can attach GDB to your VM any time you want.
> The higher average post quality (because of the type of person that both had internet and used forums back then) as measured by intellectuality, domain specificity, and demonstrated expertise.

But this should be easy to get back in the same way blogs always did -- have individual blogs. Even if there are now a million blogs full of "noob spam" the good ones should still exist because their authors are the same people they ever were.

You still have the discovery problem, but that's kind of the OP's point -- it all falls apart if you can no longer separate the wheat from the chaff because of SEO and anti-SEO.
I can't access either the article or the archive thing linked in this discussion. Can anyone tell me what 10 states this is legal in? Are they listed in the article?

Thanks.
No. I get spam for predatory academic journals every day.
I actually ran into a case where the input maxlength on the password field was longer than the maxlength on the "set password" field. When I used my password manager I could login, but when I pasted my password, I couldn't login.
Further irony when HN flags a post about censorship describing a social network censoring someone.

It's technical, it's political. I don't see the issue.
It certainly worked for them. But results are not typically indicative of risk, so anyone doing X may doom themselves by doing something that doesn't work in their special context.
The Myth of the Senior Developer
I don’t know, just throwing in my anecdote that it was really easy for me to get unsecured credit last week.
Challenge accepted https://play.golang.org/p/iTwreChPZH8

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Show HN: A 16 person web based video conference
A 16 person web based video conference.
The beginnings of what is hoped to become a zoom competitor.
Food blogs are the perfect example of this.

Instead of an introduction and a recipe, you get a massive wall of text, such that you have to scroll for what seems like an eternity until you get to the actual recipe. Drives me nuts!
44% of US unemployment applicants have been denied or are still waiting
Yes. Too much networking without any technical accomplishments can often backfire.
Distributed messaging is really hard to get right. It'll seem to work fine right up until you get weird bugs and unreliability during at the worst moments.

I wouldn't recommend relying primarily on something vendor-specific like Amazon SQS, but there are very good out-of-the-box tools like RabbitMQ or Kafka available.

Writing your own messaging system is like writing your own database, it's the wrong choice 99.9% of the time.
For me, anti-aliasing is a fundamental of pixel art precisely for the reasons you say it's not :) The idea of pixel art and the techniques employed is to work _against_ the low resolution, using clever tricks to simulate more detail, higher resolution and more colours.

An example just off the top of my head is this 1988 C64 image by The Sarge[0], using both dithering and anti-aliasing combined with other pixelling techniques to convey depth, texture, extra values and to smooth the edges of a sphere to lessen the garishness of having pixels twice as wide as they are tall.

[0] https://csdb.dk/release/viewpic.php?id=118121&zoom=1
Since a good portion of this article is about platforming issues I thought I would highlight one of the good guys who is doing it right: Archive of Our Own. It does not have a recommendation engine or try to optimize for any consumer psychology networks. It does have an elaborate tagging that you can use to find something you'll be interested in and it's pretty good at displaying text on the internet. I also don't think it's going to get purchased by Yahoo and have a bunch of subcultures get dumpstered out of nowhere.

Ao3 for blogs? That'd be nice. I mean, does anyone actually like clicking into a Medium link?
Avoiding vendor lock-in is the only quasi-sane reason I can think of.
Can't hear the voices over the music.
Not sure you need a whole new internet. Maybe a search engine aggressively excluding commercial results. Even blogs with ads. Anything with ads or selling something would not be listed.
That happens to me too. You really thing you have something interesting to tell, and then bam, just a silly thought... good that I realized that before publishing it.
Claiming to be the Messiah is a long way from claiming to be God. There is good evidence Jesus claimed the former and not the latter (which wouldn’t even make sense to a first-century Jew).
It's the endless copying-and-pasting that gets you.

Fix a bug somewhere ... pray to the Nasal Demons you got there before more than two developers duplicated it elsewhere.
Serve Videos Instead of GIFs
Couldn't you DDoS this infrastructure by having beacons masquerade as users and then have people quarantined because they were marked as near an infected individual when in reality they were near a rogue beacon that spams generated identifiers? This certainly can't be constitutional in any Western system of government.

Even if the identifiers were encrypted with a public key that only the tracer service had the private key to, couldn't a bad actor register as a bunch of actual people and then have them show as coming in contact with infected people?
Or directly from 1991's "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic".
That is not how the SCAN study chooses study participants.
It's more like 90K now.

However, for perspective, North America (which is mainly the US) has had 1.65M cases and 100K deaths, while Europe has had 1.76M cases and 161K deaths.

With all the focus on the US as the single country with by far the most cases, it seems to have not registered with most people that Europe as a whole is of comparable size, has had a comparable number of cases, and has seen a lot more casualties.

I wouldn't draw the conclusion that this validates the US health care system, or the decisions of authorities, because of other variables, but it makes me wonder if a narrative about how terrible the US is has been allowed to obscure the facts.
Better link: http://ontology.buffalo.edu/04/AgainstSetTheory.pdf
There is Million Short which allows you to search without the top 100, 1k, 10k, 100k, or 1m sites. Personally what I'd like to see is a search engine that only indexes webpages without ads since that should eliminate lots of the SEOd garbage. It would also be nice to use the text to code ratio to derank JS heavy sites.

https://millionshort.com/
Mun v0.2.0 Released
>Trump could literally tweet to inject yourself with bleach and I doubt twitter would remove the post.

Trump is a special case. He's the President and his personal Twitter account is a de-facto official channel for communicating policy. The American people have a Constitutional right to hear what their leader has to say (even if it's batshit insane) and to "petition government for redress of grievances" (which is why he can't block critics anymore.)
Being in quarantine has unleashed a lot of nostalgia in me. Just recently I got a new blog up and running after years of inactivity.

I wrote a post about a precursor to blogging, which was “Everything / Nothing” websites:

https://ease.gg/2020/05/07/everything-nothing/

Does anyone here remember those days?
No, they're saying that 40 to 60% of people have antibodies that can make it easier to fight Covid-19... this could be one of the reasons the elderly die more often for example.
Keep in mind that those dividends would give you a ~20% gain (although probably offset by inflation)
Contact tracing is not needed - identify the people at high risk and protect them from the virus. People at low risk should be expected to circulate the virus and develop immunity. Contract tracing among low risk defeats the purpose.

If we're ever going to get our lives back, and not be on indefinite timeline of "maybe there will be a highly effective vaccine" we actually need the virus to circulate among people who can safely get it, get over it, make antibodies which historically - before the advent of highly effective vaccines - is how pandemics ended.

Total isolation policies prevent broad population immunity. We know from decades of medical science that the population develops immunity while acquiring antibodies.
I think there could be more fun and experimental content on the web. I'm working on a side project called https://taaalk.co, where people have long and continuous text based conversations. Please check it out if you're looking for something new on the web. (Feedback welcomed)
“Seems like the type of job where you’re only noticed when you make a mistake”
I noted that. However, "partially attributable" doesn't suggest to me one way or the other whether or not they corrected for that impact in figure 3. Or maybe I'm misreading the sentence.
The logs that businesses are keeping in NZ are quite funny. The whole ‘write something on this bit of paper’ process is basically opt in as far as I can tell.
Hexen 2.0 Cybernetics Tarot
> To me it means a particular pattern has been identified in the code and lifted to an implementation that needs less thinking and fewer lines of code.

To give you a sense of how I think about this, we can just focus on control flow. One option for control flow is very uniform and easy to grasp for anyone, including a programmer from 1950: there are [conditional] gotos and labels. Another option is if/else, while, for, try/catch, yield, return f(),...

So what gives? Particular patterns of gotos/labels were identified and lifted into a situation that needs fewer lines of code. Does it need less thinking? That's where it gets tricky. It's obvious to me that the programmer in the 1950s will look at try/catch and require much more thinking than if they just had goto/label code in front of them.

Template metaprogramming (I don't understand what usage is distinct from STL-like usage) is exactly about identifying a particular pattern and literally lifting a concrete type into a type parameter so that now you have a related family of code. Analyzing the code requires higher level and lifted thinking, the same way that manipulating algebraic expressions instead of concrete numbers does.

That's what I mean by higher level.

I agree that code should strive to reuse "fundamental" container types (implementation, or at least interface), but I don't see the connection to the current conversation, aside from the feeling that using those containers without lifting the types (whether in your mind, or in the language) is impossible.
Hmm, I'm pretty sure that a software engineer developing safety-critical firmware for embedded medical systems does not need to know anything about Apache Kafka. Or a game developer. Or a web frontend developer. Given the title it's surprising how many software engineers can in fact go through life and career without ever knowing anything about Apache Kafka.
Google has suspended Podcast Addict for having podcasts about Covid 19
Show HN: Use DynamoDB with the Redis API (Go)
I have no clue what's emacs org-mode, so I guess that answers that :)
> It looks like this is the author's fourth post and s/he hit a home run with the top post on HN.

> But that's rarely how things work.

Totally agree. I've written a fair bit about blogging, but when I started a new blog aimed at helping new developers, for the first month I wrote more posts than I had visitors (!):
https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2019/10/14/how-to-start-b...

I think that six months is enough time to commit. At the end of that period you'll either have the bug and want to keep blogging or know the format is not for you.
Except Staten Island had the second most cases per capita. Lots of the obvious NYC theories have holes where you look at places affected.
That would be the minimum wage not keeping up with inflation. A UBI would reduce the drain on society that employers who underpay their workers cause.
“Become Abnormal”: traits to cultivate for top performance
Demystification of (Linux) Traffic Control
In terms of evolution, they are losing if they do not pass on their genetic code to offspring so there's that....
Or DDoS society.
The Pulsar documentation says it requires Zookeeper: https://pulsar.apache.org/docs/en/administration-zk-bk/
Give NewsBlur a try.
I mean I like GIFs, but when I'm checking specific subreddits or going over Imgur frontpage.
Companies are using too many GIFs nowadays in their blogs.
Philip Kiely on Technical Writing and the Post-Covid Creator Landscape
Why should one live at all?
All the interesting places people have been pointing to are islands. Except South Korea, but it's effectively an island.
Sounds like filter bubbles to me.
Admittedly, I'm pretty ignorant of FPGA's right now, but I was curious about PCIe based boards a while back and was able to find some moderately priced ones such as

https://www.latticesemi.com/products/developmentboardsandkit...

It's around $300, which might not be cheap, but it's certainly more affordable than other I've seen which are very much out of the range of any hobbyists.
You can do a lot with setCustomValidity to improve error messages while still using the rest of the HTML5 validation API.
No mention of Twitter, Facebook or Instagram? It seems obvious to me that that is where the blogs went. People don't create content so that people they don't know have something to do in their spare time, they do it for the recognition, and social acceptance. In other words; they do it for the likes. The blogs dried up because the audience's attention coalesced on the few sites and apps that people used the most. Blogs won't come back unless people read blogs, and people won't read blogs unless doing so it easier than Twitter and Facebook. They don't care about censorship, or even privacy (apparently), just the sweet sweet dopamine rush.
Seems like a good idea. But it also seems others have tried and failed: http://www.blogscatalog.com/Automotive/index.html

And it’s the first page on google for blog catalogue
Turn off notifications for periods of 30/60 min? Still acceptable, and you could focus more.
Stellenbosch University has Bosendorfers in the conservatory. They are great!

I also almost had the opportunity to buy a Pleyel for cheap, but I think a dealer bought it straight away after it was posted.

If I had that kind of money I would go for a Fazioli these days. The story behind it and the niche of an Italian piano is just too enticing. I would go there and see the whole thing though. And of course if they don't play well with my style then... Well, then one always has the classic brands to consider. The other awesome piano is the Bosendorfer with the extra lower octave. Bosendorfer is actually now owned by Yamaha.
It’s not necessarily either-or, could be both. ie stagflation.