skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Oy vey. I don't know how serious this is but it's not a great look. Is this kind of thing common in the art world?

Sure. The British museum used to be fairly brazen about the fact that they'd loot less-developed countries for cultural artifacts. Who do you think used to sponsor archaeology expeditions?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Museum#Controversies
Not yet but it's on their roadmap.
You are correct. Several members of my family are teachers and they too get little respect, low pay, and some authority.
> Costco

I'm almost certain you meant to say Walmart here.
PyQt Tutorial
So this is basically an ad? Ugh.
Some of this censorship seems to be at the request of various governments. For example the "right to be forgotten" in some EU countries. What do people expect Google to do in such cases?
Conway's Free Will Theorem
Sloppy Game Review
That’s basic harmony 101
I would characterize myself as an Excel power user, and I love Airtable. The use case is different. Airtable is great for setting up a web-based relational DB app for multiple users very quickly.
For example, I have used airtable to implement a CRM system for a small but distributed team of non-technical users. I haven’t found anything else that allows me to set up such an application so easily and quickly.
>You look at someone like Linus that has created untold trillions of wealth and given a lot of that wealth away.

That isn't incompatible with being an asshole. The open source community is famous for having many...let's say "abrasive" personalities. Different people value different things, and for some people that might not be money, but they can still be awful jerks.
It actually deters me away that there is default content already there when I load the app. In my opinion, less is more and starting off with no content at all is a helpful cleaner alternative than having to delete all that default content.
I tried GnuCash and generally liked it. However, it was a little more complicated than I wanted. In addition, I wanted to be able to access via the web, when I was away from my computer. (cause at the time, I thought it was only available locally)

I also wanted my life partner (my lovely wife) to participate. This was going to be the hard part. Behavior modification. So I built a very simple "tracker".(php/codeigniter/mysql) Date, description, category, spender, cost, that could be accessed anywhere.

I asked my wife to start tracking spending. As we had just bought a new house and 1 1/2 year old. She was extremely resistant to the idea. Six months after using the "tracker" she told me that she didn't plan on doing it more than 2 days before she gave up. However since starting it 3 years ago she and I have increased our "frugalness" and really looked where we should spend money (vacations, artisan food and not items to impress other people… such as fancy cars.)

I think part of the trick is not necessarily import or export or "api"ing data. The trick is doing a manual entry for each transaction. Kind of like a spending journal, food journal or just a journal. There still seems to be power in manually entering a transaction, although it might not be by pen and paper.
Censorship by one company isn't specific?
Probably opening Pandora‘s box here, but I‘ve been wondering for a long time: why do people still use BSD? If memory serves me right, the *BSDs descend from the original Berkeley Unix from the 70s - but why stick to that „line of descent“ rather than going with the newer, Linux, line?
Why not the opposite take: take the inability to identify the threat with all the privacy invasion they have a right to so far, as a rational reason to revoke those?
Err... my comment was referring to the sales tax evasion. I'm aware that the looting of cultural artifacts is an age-old practice, that's only recently been legislated against.
Industry’s First 20nm Space-Grade FPGA for Satellite and Space Applications
Google knows very well that they're padding their search results with e-commerce sites to the detriment of meaningful content.
Nothing in templates is 'simple and dumb': it may look so but it isn't: try to write some, you'll inevitably makes some mistake and the errors are really awful!
Kind of sad all around. The table was essentially rescued from ignominy. But of course it belongs to Iraq. Then it'll probably just disappear again. Sigh.
> trying guess what ads I might be interested in,

No, they are trying to guess which add will produce the best return in terms of advertiser-sought behavioral changes if shown to you. That probably has some overlap with ads you are interested in, but it's not the same thing.

> Did they ever think to just ask me?

The ads that it is generally most valuable to show are the ones that the target wouldn't expect to have interest in. Advertising largely exists to create desire; if you ask people what advertising they'd like to see they will identify the advertising that would do the least to change their behavior from what it would be without the ads, which defeats the point. Untargeted ads would probably be more effective.
Dr. Stone an anime and manga about the love for science
3700 years after civilization ends with petrification. A teen scientist plans to bring civilization back step by step.

Wouldn't you agree this should be on every first education Curriculum?
Note-taking is very similar to blogging. Many people lose so much time while searching for the best app instead of taking notes. If you want to develop a proper note-taking habit, just start writing into somewhere. md files, evernote, notion, etc. after a while, you will know your needs and you will be able to pick one of them easily. I have been using https://www.zoho.com/notebook/ for a while and I am happy with it. Since my needs are extremely simple: bullets, tags, groups, mobile app, macOS apps.
Hypercore Protocol
First couple I got were asmind.com and secondhomarus.com

Utter trash
Apple pushes employees to return to work as Silicon Valley goes remote – Busine
Yes, but now we have DeepLearning or something... I'm sure it will be different this time.
> The acquisition blindsided the eCommerce CTO. DD was done out of Bentonville and was rumored to be partially done by a SVP at Google.

This is super interesting. Why would an SVP at Google be involved?
As far as I know, YAML 1.2 I think, is a superset of JSON so you could still use both. But maybe they use an older version or a custom parser...
Signed or unsigned doesn’t matter much both can overflow.

I actually started putting assertion checks about overflow issues almost everywhere but it requires great discipline. I wonder if there is a better solution available.
The destruction of Baghdad itself, including the House of Wisdom (large library), by the Mongols in 1258 is probably a more apt comparison.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Wisdom

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258)
$Msft cooking up that copy pasta once again.
8 threads, 8MB cache, 4GHz? Pretty fast, yes. Not the fastest, by far, but are you really arguing that casual web browsing for news viewing (viewing! the stats are not even for page load, but idle) should require top of the line equipment?
Ah yes, quite right. I thought the colours suggested that I was in fact already on the fixed broadband list.
I'd definitely agree that this is overkill for most people. In your case, though, I think that you could put the same amount of work into GnuCash and get the same results without writing any code. Plus you'd have a GUI with built in reports and whatnot. Not sure if that matters to you.

In the article, I briefly touch on skipping manual transaction logging and just importing statements from your bank / credit card. And I gloss over this, but it looks like GnuCash offers similar functionality for automatically updating stock prices https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes - not sure if it's a pain to set up or not, but it's probably not as easy as just calling a google sheets function.

Seems like you wouldn't have any reasons to switch over given that you've already got a nice system going, but just wanted to point out that you can use GnuCash in a way that's not quite as... rigid as the way I use it :)
And yet, you score a few extra points just by not being an asshole.
>Teams is leagues better than Slack simply because of how well it integrates with all of the other ms apps.

In which way? From what I have seen, teams functionality is so much worse than the native counterparts that I wouldn't call it integration. Even if it is better than Slack, it's obstructive to the point that I am wondering if the teams development team has ever used it to manage themselves.
I agree with you that I'd prefer GoSojourn myself, and that BikeTours sounds spammy. Having now looked at both sites, they both look legit, and at first glance, roughly equivalent in presentation. At this point, I'd base my decision solely on prices, dates available, type of tour, customer service, etc. -- giving no weight to the domain name.

I can accept that buyers would pay more for BikeTours.com than for GoSojourn.com (and that the author would earn more money for brokering such a name), but is there any empirical evidence that customers prefer the simple descriptive name? And by how much? That's a critical question. If the BikeTours name costs $40,000 and GoSojourn costs $200, could the $39,800 difference be put to better use by GoSojourn such that it beats out BikeTours?
are you looking for any relatives. :)
I'm guessing this is because older bills have fewer security features and so are more likely to be counterfeited (ironically, especially so if they're in good condition from having been kept in a drawer for most of that time).
The significant difference here is that Firefox has made it possible to maintain Split DNS without managing and reconfiguring every device via a network signal to continue to use split DNS (e.g. PiHole)
When Airtable came out, I remember hearing a lot of comparisons to MSFT Access (enabling non-technical users to set up DB-driven apps). Funny to see it come full circle and have MSFT now introduce a competitor. Maybe they should have invested in keeping Access current instead of leaving it stuck in the 90s?
11MB on Firefox, Windows.
I wish this stupid podcast would die already. It's a podcast in which misinformation is spread at a massive scale, under the guise of "I'm just asking questions". The initial quirky, fun nature of this podcast died out a few years ago, and it has been coasting on its past success for the recent past. I wonder who will be the next Joe Rogan?
Imaginary review: "Terrible cooking, too much salt. 2 stars (+1 star for being my wife)"
I'm interested in hearing more details on this, if you're able to discuss them.
He said in the announcement his podcast is remaining free. I don't know if you have to register with Spotify to listen, but I would think you would.
I rewrote the benchmark in perl and julia as well. Kept it to its origins, and including startup interpreter time.

Original python:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
def main():
for j in range(20):
for i in range(1000000):
str(i)
main()

/usr/bin/time ./st.py
3.16user 0.02system 0:03.19elapsed 99%CPU

Perl port

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
sub main {
my ($i,$j);
foreach $j (0 .. 20) {
foreach $i (1 .. 1000000) {
sprintf "%i",$i;
}
}
}

/usr/bin/time ./st.pl
2.31user 0.00system 0:02.31elapsed 99%CPU

And julia

#!/usr/bin/env julia
function main()
for j in 0:20
for i in 1:1000000
string(i)
end
end
end
main()

/usr/bin/time ./st.jl
1.43user 0.52system 0:01.30elapsed 149%CPU

This isn't a very useful test of anything. The optimizations ceased being python after the use of the map with list. Then it delved into C. Which is precisely the point that Julia is attempting to solve by providing the power and performance, without the multi-language costs/overhead.

Note: This is Julia 1.4.1, Perl 5.30.2, and Python 3.8.2 running on my 2 year old linux laptop with a kaby lake processor.

[Edited to fix formatting]
Easy to read Covid-19 Dashboard
Hello everyone. I have posted my site here before but I would like to resubmit and provide a little bit of info. I put together a US Covid-19 Dashboard (ncov19us.com). I realized that it can be difficult to find accurate information on the coronavirus. That is why I decided to take on this problem by giving a verified daily update that’s quick and easy to read and understand. While all Covid-19 dashboards report similar data, my site is different in that it is focused solely on US cases and includes data not featured elsewhere such as the economic impact and daily presidential approval ratings.

By displaying a wide range of data, I believe we can get a much better understanding of the impact this virus has brought upon us.

I am happy to deliver value to the my site’s visitors and will continue to have daily updates as our nation moves through this crisis.
Microsoft would be much better off if they had a YAML format for creating Windows installations, as opposed to their current unattended installs.
I’ve been using Gnucash for my personal finances for a several years now, and really love it - it’s not dead simple, and requires an understanding of double entry bookkeeping, but where it really shines is flexibility. A couple of examples are as follows:

1. Expenses in the future - If I book a bunch of plane tickets for later in the year today, I can book those expenses in those months in which I’m traveling (pre-paid asset until then) there-by seeing when I’m incurring those expenses vs. the cash flow of those expenses.

2. Corporate expenses - I can book expenses that I will be re-imbursed for as receivables and not have them run through my “income statement” (nothing like putting some business class plane tickets on your personal card to make things look weird)

3. Loans - whether it’s an auto loan on your car or simply a loan to a friend it’s great to be able to see your entire balance sheet (and remember that some items are outstanding!)

4.variable granularity - decide how detailed you want to get for some accounts you may decide you don’t need that much detail (because you track it some other way - like your 401k) and you can just track your total balance at month end (+/- deposits)

5. Track illiquid investments in your net worth (not saying the marks are right, but at least you have a placeholder value for them on your balance sheet (your home - private company stock etc.)

6. Privacy - it’s your data - no sharing it with anyone else
My position is clearly not what you suggest because we're discussing activities than fall within what foreign intelligence services do whereas this is clearly not the case in your contrived example.
Not when it has been discussed many times from many angles. And probably not when the company is a planet.

HN discussion thrives when there are details for the mind to sink its teeth into. This actually brings up another point: lists. Lists don't make good HN submissions. See previous explanations: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
What do you recommend (besides org mode, I don't use Emacs). I need something to write down ideas, store concepts I've learned, and at the same time has a Kanban board so I can track/manage progress of my side projects. Preferably, something that works offline. Preferably something open-source so I can rewire the thing to my needs.
Historical note: It has been traditional to post, in response to reports of security holes in other mail transports, "Just use qmail."
Quay.io has been down for over 14 hours
What is the best letter in the alphabet and why?
This is a very smart move. Zuck proving he's the best allocator of capital in the consumer Internet space once again.

Im not in the HN bubble so much, I did delete for a few years.

Recently installed it to get on a few silver bullion trading groups as there is a shortage and boy are those groups super valuable for buying and selling.
Thinkpad X series are very popular among openbsd devs.
I recommend a second-hand x210/x220/x230/x240... works great.

@jcs tests popular laptop models on his blog: jcs.org
Dat protocol renamed to Hypercore Protocol
Leveraging Disruptive Technology Without Disrupting Your Decision Makers
Thanks. Focused on info for the earliest stages of a startup for now, but we're continuously progressing towards later-stage topics.
Every year or so I look for a new wiki that does markdown and git. I don't remember ever coming across wiki.js before. I need to check this out. Thanks for mentioning it.
So why is this better when people could still take the raw IP addresses and do reverse look ups?

If I recall looking into the spec before there is a reason it’s an improvement but I can’t recall what it was.

I know there are tons of servers behind proxies and so forth but still it seems like over time databases could be built up to give some decent success with this countermeasure.
There are a few clear lines you can draw.

Many institutions built their collections through a practice known as partage or division of finds. They would go to a government and offer their services as archeologists in exchange for a portion of their finds. While this practice is rare post-1970, there's not any serious debate about the legitimacy of cultural heritage exported under this regime.

Purchases from the antiquities markets are also considered legitimate, assuming the export was originally done with the permission of the originating country.

Where things really get questionable is when material culture was extracted by imperial power or as spoils of war. The Rosetta Stone is the most famous example. Also, you've got things like the Elgin Marbles that were taken through fraud and subterfuge a long time ago. These kinds of things are grandfathered in as a legal matter, but there's a moral argument for returning them anyway.
Every time someone talks about inherent interpreter overhead, I like to remind of k[1][2], which is faster than c despite being a relatively naive interpreter.

1. https://kx.com/

2. https://shakti.com/
Yes, He Got to Keep His Leg
i think looting relates to desired material or financial gain
vs historical or cultural revelation niether of them would be immune to criticism but i think archeology has at least a foot to stand on
Maybe the downvoted are for lack of on topic and substantive response, but I really appreciated the Snow Crash reference. I thought it was funny.
Antisocial personality disorder is almost a prerequisite for career criminals. Disagreeable enough to commit crime and not feel bad about it, extroverted enough to enter or form a gang, and low enough in neuroticism to keep your cool under pressure. I'm not trying to paint all antisocial people as "bad". It's also a personality configuration that works well in certain military positions.
I'm glad it works for you. I actually tried to switch in an effort to "more FOSS" my life and ended up compiling a concrete list of usability problems that made using Antenna Pod frustrating for me. And that "usability" word has traditionally been the difference in my life between a commercial product and a FOSS one

* Podcast Addict offers auto skip intro seconds, auto skip outro seconds -- and the seconds setting is per podcast

* P.A. offers "stop after episode" if the sleep timer is active, and also allows not marking the episode as played if that "artificial stop" is active

* in Antenna Pod, "delete and remove from queue" does not clear it from the now playing bar

* the "auto download" appears to be opt-in, not opt-out, meaning one must set it for all 85 podcasts

* the bamboo menu doesn't include "delete" for an episode

* and a few more UI nits that bugged me

This isn't a rant, but rather an observation that the Podcast Addict developer wakes up every day thinking about how to make P.A. better, and that doesn't seem to be true for Antenna Pod
Impact in Production
I wonder how much it helped the creative flow to not know it was an allegedly unsolvable problem. No fear to fail, no stress, not the feeling something complex might be needed because everything simple was already tried.
Why Humans Freak Out When They Get Lost
You always have the Wine project, and one could contribute to such a project if DirectML is the way one wants to run ML on a system - if they choose to ignore the other APIs to use the GPU.
Ben Thompson & James Allworth had a nice discussion recently on the podcasting space and how Spotify is posed to close over this space.

https://overcast.fm/+BihnTujyQ

Disregarding over all the negatives of centralizing podcast discovery in one place, I would love to pay one fee and get 0 ads on all the episodes. Where the money is then distributed to the podcast hosts I listen to the most (like Spotify does already with music).

It's so bizzare to me how ads are still a thing. I never ever bought anything from an ad (my mind subconsciously ignores everything I hear in an ad & often paints the product in the ad in a negative light). And I lose quite a chunk of my time speeding over (the same ads) in the episodes I listen too.
>Why not advertise based on what they consumed last week too? And once you start down that path it's like the Netflix recommendation problem

from my personal experience because it takes a way too static view of my consumption habits. Echoing some other replies here I find these personal recommender systems to be completely awful.

They constantly recommend me stuff I've already bought or have no interest in any more, and Netflix constantly overfits what I like, vastly underestimating genres I haven't seen yet while recommending me awful shows presumably just because they fall into some sort of similar buckets to higher quality shows I've watched.

Case in point, the NYT already got rid of behavioural targetting in Europe last year and actually saw ad-revenue go up. (https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/20/dont-be-creepy/)
Quicken is out from under the Intuit Monster now, so it may be worth looking at again.
Ah, ok. So an article about a specific incident or a specific, small subsidiary would work?
Tamerlane Chess
AMD Ryzen-Powered Raspberry Pi Rival Uses Radeon Vega Graphics
So I'm not trying to sound negative, but it seems like Airtable falls under what I call the JIRA / Excel space of software. You let the end-user do unlimited things and it sold itself, I guess in a sense you could throw MongoDB in there too. It may not be a perfect solution to someone who does develop software, but for someone who just saved several salaries for hiring a developer it is definitely a gold mine.

Funnily enough, this looks like it's capable of replacing JIRA and Airtables in one swoop. If you're already hooked into Teams, it's an easy integration. Slack needs to play catch up before Teams steals all their candy.
Your comment is hurting me the same way it hurts to read people say wearing a bike helmet is more dangerous because cyclists will feel invulnerable and take risks.

It's like, people can invent a reason for anything, and either convince themselves their reason is the higher probability cause, or disregard probability entirely.

Honestly, what do you think is more probable: That professionals throw away thousands of dollars buying conspicuous tools every year, or that equipment used in high impact, mechanically challenging situations for 8 hours a day is designed to a different standard than equipment for homeowners who might use it a couple times a month?

My mind rebels so hard against internalizing how people make up so much illogical stuff to suite their preconceptions. I don't want to learn the lesson, but everywhere I look I'm being taught it over and over again.
Fixing 431 Request Header Fields Too Large in Node.js