skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I find though, with things that don't have deadlines it kind of falls apart and last minute just becomes never happens.

This is pretty much my situation as well. If a task has no deadline, it is not likely to be completed unless absolutely necessary (such as chores). Work tasks and such (assuming they have deadlines) I can be much better about completing not at the last minute, as long as the deadline is relatively close to the assignment date. My personal projects suffer because I get distracted super easily (like going on HN, Reddit, etc) rather than doing the work. I do have moments of spontaneity where I decide "this is a good thing to do", but I'm not sure if that's motivation or procrastination of other task...

Unless it was something school related. For some reason no matter what class or what task, that was going to be completed last minute unless it was a group project. I'm much happier being out of that environment.
How to quickly develop high-quality code. Team work. (2017)
Under that definition, would you agree that this article titled "Why can’t we hate men?" is hate speech?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-cant-we-hate-men...

If so, what do you think should be done about it?
> but the NSA having broken encryption a bunch of times, sending NSL's to chip makers and such is fine.

Fine according to whom? Many Americans, myself included, are outraged at this.
The inside-out tracking is done on the PC over USB. The Rift S is essentially just a basic I/O. Very little processing is done on-device.
There is a simple solution. If you read something, and you’re offended by it, that’s your problem. The worlds full of stuff, you’re free to take offence to absolutely anything at all. Nobody has any obligation to protect you from that.

The one and only place this falls over is with the concept of “obscenity”. But if that’s the only place you have to make exceptions, they are much, much easier to define.
You bring unique expertise to your clients that noone else can match. In these VC convos and elsewhere, consider focusing on your strengths rather than pointing out how others are reaping rewards for your work. The fact that others get $$ for wrapping your work and advertising it can be viewed as a positive thing; it's a contribution to society even if you don't get a cut of every transaction. Of course you want some cut, and more would help you grow. You yourself probably have a better bead on avenues where open source or VLC is likely to succeed than anyone.

VC funding, I hear, is more about the people than the ideas. It can also be cliquish. It might be worth asking a friend who's received such funding for some constructive criticism on your approach. If you don't have one, make one.
>No libraries or frameworks (the exception being analytics)

No, analytics are not an exception. Don't put fucking spyware on your pages. I can't believe it's 2020 and people still need to be told this. It's not okay.
Nice slides. I missed him covering ripgrep and friends, which is very useful to avoid slower find-grep queries.

Along with ripgrep, I think GNU Parallel (covered in the slides) and htop (briefly discussed) are great additions to any Unix development environment.

The rest of the standard utilities have stood the test of time surprisingly well. But top is a bit wonky, xargs has many pitfalls and, as I said, ripgrep is great for speeding up some find-grep workflows.
I don't think there's any relationship except an inverse one between user choice and app sandboxing.

QubesOS, Snaps, Firejail, Sandboxie, browser tabs to some extent, restrict user-freedom in only the most technical way, with no bundled choice traps. On the contrary, a good sandbox allows users to forego human curation/proprietary malware detection services and execute any code they want.
A pandemic plan was in place. Trump abandoned it in the face of Covid-19
A random assortment of citizens seems just as likely to be more corrupt than less, if it's even possible to measure that objectively.

However, it does seem likely to me that random citizens would be less capable of governing effectively in areas where actual knowledge of law, politics or some degree of domain knowledge is required.
I wonder if the "Cinematic" look at ~24fps seeeming less tacky than the "Soap Opera" look at ~60fps has just been trained into us via familiarity though.

If we lived in an alternate universe where cinema was all 60fps and soap operas were 24 would we think that 24fps looked tacky instead?

On the other hand I think there's definitely some objective effects in play here too - CGI is a lot easier to make convincing at a lower framerate and added motion blur.
Probably a few months for a really usable version of it, though seeing stuff like this makes me really want to finish that work. I'm working on it, but first we're reworking the software update process in general. That work is getting pretty close.

I recommend trying out stuff like this on moons, so you can just throw them away if it breaks.
Your interpretation of the study is not accurate. From https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/aug/12/bernie-san...

"Perhaps most important is that Sanders’ wording implies that the 226% jump stems from comparing hate crimes before and after a Trump rally within the same county, when in fact it’s a comparison from Trump rally counties to similar counties that did not host a Trump rally."
Government didn't "decide" that. Government was slow at rectifying the loophole. Legally, all of Amazon's customers were breaking the law by not paying "use" tax.
I recently advised a friend who was building a web app in java and after launch he found the site would go down periodically. As the site grew it eventually started going down several times a day. Took weeks for him to find the memory leaks that caused this. Definitely might be good to have a chapter or two toward the end on performance, profiling, scalability, and plugging memory leaks.
Since we're talking about tiny websites, and this seems pretty relevant:

If it's only static HTML and CSS, it's just a bucket o' files. You can store things like that on S3 for... I don't even know how little. A tiny amount. You will not find a cheaper hosting option than this.

I made this site on S3, using Svelte, which is intentionally the humblest, smallest step up from plain JavaScript HTML & CSS, at the link below.

http://pitch-deck-svelte.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/

Now, the one drawback here is that this doesn't have HTTPS, and you'd need CloudFront for that. This link covers how to do that (note: you should buy your domain on AWS, using Route 53, when following these instructions to make your life easier).

https://medium.com/@sbuckpesch/setup-aws-s3-static-website-h...
Voyager – A whole new way to work remote
Wait are you talking about WeWork or AirBnB?
I've seen the terms used regularly with regard to Urbit, and I believe they're derived from:
Feudal - your computing is connected to the larger network by sitting under a larger scale host entity. Pyramid/hierarchy structure, essentially, where you're dependent on your host for visibility and connectivity.

Libertarian - Urbit very intentionally distances itself from much of existing tech in order to maintain independence from it, and to deter the platform from being co-opted by a mob in the way the internet was during Eternal September.

(Not my opinions, but my understanding of arguments I've seen. Correct as necessary.)
Why should one strive to be happy instead of strive to do something meaningful?
Check out the Pepsi logo design doc if you want a real laugh: https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...
>> The Founding Fathers could not have predicted this.

HA! The founding fathers were all lawyers and newspaper owners. They were very aware that private interests, through control of available media, could exert influence all manner of public debates.
I would be very curious to know how someone could design an airline Computer reservation system this way.

I agree that when using a SQL database that use locks instead of snapshot isolation you need to be careful about the order you scan row and join table to reduce frequency of dead-lock.

My experience using PostgreSQL is that deadlock are extremely rare and when they happen they are automatically detected by the database and client simply abort and retry the transaction when this happen.
You can also use it with dd, or even just redirect it directly to a block device. I use it a lot for writing USB images. `pv image.iso > /dev/sdX`. Just gotta be careful not to redirect it to the wrong one...
> Strava integration with apple watch and apple health is so poor I stopped using it directly, relying instead of stuff like health fit.

Heh Strava gave me so much trouble when I switched Apple Watches. I think I had to delete and reinstall the app a couple of times before the app realised that I was using a different Apple Watch, and offered to pair with a new one.
I'd be extremely careful about trusting anything written in the Grauniad.
I've got a complicated proxy setup to contend with and have to build via Jenkins on some older Linux boxes, so it's just trial and error. You have a build script you'd be willing to share?
In general you'd expect repeat customers to be happy with their purchases.
There are no bad horses, only bad odds. A bet is a horse and its odds and your stake.

But even that is false. If you never win, you picked bad horses.
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Plenty of times, see the entire open source movement or the cypherpunks, or the browser wars in which Firefox was a major competitor, there must be tons of examples.
MLP popularized this usage but it predates that.
It’s another opportunity to rewrite orphaned services
At the level of getting the job? Basically how many and on what vesting schedule. The most common vesting schedule I have seen is a quarter of the RSU grant vests after one year, and then another sixteenth vests quarterly thereafter out to four years. I believe Facebook has removed that first year cliff and now vests quarterly. Amazon backloads theirs where most of it vests at around five years.

You need to know how they affect your taxes. Go look up the actual regulations (they're not complicated), but it's roughly something like this: when they vest, that counts as income in the year that they vest, and your broker will typically immediately sell and withhold the money for taxes. When you sell them, you then have to pay taxes on the capital gains (the difference in the price you sell them for and the price when they vested). If you hold them for less than a year, you pay short term capital gains (basically the same as income). If you hold them for at least a year, you pay long term capital gains (15% last time I checked). Unless your company's stock price is rising incredibly fast, the vast majority of what is taxable is going to be on the vest, not the capital gains, so it won't make much difference whether you hold for a year or not.

Whether you should hold them or sell them is a topic of much contention and depends on the company and your personal situation.
Getting something for cheaper because of marketing-driven pricing, wasting time dealing with empty shells you don't want, reimbursing the customer...

You have all those elements when backblaze was shucking drives en masse, but nobody would say that was fraud in any way. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/

If you intentionally sell a product for cheaper than you buy it to build market share (I think it's fair to call this intentional when they process the payment and don't bother changing the listed price), and you're willing to sell a whole lot of that product to someone, you can't cry foul when someone profits off that.
I'm not sure you need window functions for your query.

Have you tried something like this?

SELECT time, '2018' as metric, value FROM metrics

WHERE time >= '2018-01-01' AND time < '2019-01-01'

UNION ALL

SELECT time - '1 year'::interval, '2019' as metric, value FROM metrics

WHERE time >= '2019-01-01' AND time < '2020-01-01'

ORDER by time;

You will have a 2018 and a 2019 line if you plot this. (And you can of course make the time-periods dynamic.)

Note: One of our (TimescaleDB) engineers authored and contributed the PostgreSQL data source to Grafana. We happen to see quite a few Grafana dashboards built with SQL. If you'd like to debug in real-time then I'd suggest joining our Slack: https://slack.timescale.com/.
Makes sense. I have also experienced performance issues in some projects. Thanks for sharing!
Kurento is not dead. New releases are published from time to time. And its companion project OpenVidu provides a lot of features. Mediasoup and Janus are also really good projects.

Disclaimer: I'm OpenVidu project lead.
The A-Z of programming languages: AWK (2008 interview with Alfred Aho)
5) Fixing a Windows problem can involve having to go into the registry, which can't be copy/pasted and is extremely difficult AND dangerous. (There probably IS a way to copy/paste it, but I don't know it)

This pretty much sums it up. You just simply do not have enough Windows experience. Nothing to be ashamed of but doing comparison in this case will give skewed results.
There's a very funny Mitchell and Webb sketch on this very subject:

https://youtu.be/-Zj50DmBFp0
Stuck at home? Don't become couch potato
I usually don't do that intentionally(or do I?), but when it eventually does happen I feel, I don't know, alive?

I guess this is how thrill seekers must feel like.
Found the google clown, I’ve been pissed at google for nearly a decade, and yet still continue to use my gmail address, because it would take me literal weeks to detach from it... and I’m actually technically capable of understanding what I need to do to separate.. 99% are not, they “control” these markets.
Bridgetown – Webpack-aware, Ruby-powered static site generator
There is also a technical reason for microservices -- scaling and releasing independently. The company I work for is a B2B company. We use our APIs for our own (relatively low volume) website. But we also use it for batch jobs and we sell direct access to our APIs to our clients and they use our APIs for their own websites and applications. One large client gets signed, the usage of one API can spike by 30%
Ask HN: Super-rich getting ready for Doomsday?
It is apparently an everlasting anxiety but it seems coronavirus fueled it once again. Do you see such a trend in tech moguls or Silicon Valley?

[30 Jan 2017] Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich)

…

[6 Mar 2020] Coronavirus ‘fuelling spike in doomsday bunker sales as mega-rich build virus-free panic rooms (https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11114776/coronavirus-spike-doomsday-bunker/)

[21 Apr 2020] Panicky super-rich flee to luxury doomsday bunkers in New Zealand to escape coronavirusm (https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11444200/panicky-super-rich-flee-to-luxury-nz-bunkers/)

[21 Apr 2020] ‘We Needed to Go’: Rich Americans Activate Pandemic Escape Plans (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-19/-we-needed-to-go-rich-americans-activate-pandemic-escape-plans)

[15 May 2020] Super-rich buying underground bunkers with SHOOTING RANGES over fears coronavirus will spark social meltdown (https://www.the-sun.com/news/833092/super-rich-underground-bunkers-shooting-ranges/)

[15 May 2020] How the super-rich spent lockdown (https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-52669638/how-the-super-rich-spent-lockdown)

[19 May 2020] Ultra-wealthy purchasing bunkers with underground shooting ranges amid coronavirus meltdown fears (https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/ultra-wealthy-purchasing-bunkers-with-underground-shooting-ranges-amid-coronavirus-meltdown-fears)
The python utils section missed the very cool json.tool that can pretty print JSON files (and exists on your OS if it includes Python):

cat /tmp/foo.json | python -m json.tool

https://docs.python.org/3/library/json.html#module-json.tool
Individual Contributor. Basically means no direct reports.
The proposed workaround is that you distribute software through apps and allow Termux to essentially get plugins from other apps (whether distributed via the Play Store or sideloading).
Kurento is not dead. Main contributions are on OpenVidu project, that somehow is part of Kurento (but with other name)
It could be worse. You could have a large company notorious for rolling out competing external products, like messaging and video chat apps....
slashdot terminology for the article being discussed.
Sales shrunk doesn't mean usage shrunk. Replacement cycle of PC should be getting longer due to enough performance.
I went down this path about a month ago. Don't expect to find any good quality data on stocks for free. If you do need data on stocks I recommend IEX, but expect to pay a good amount of money for any sizable amount of data. I paid around $100 to scrape the historical daily data for the Russell 2000. Getting intraday data for any sizable time period would cost an astronomical amount of money due to the way IEX charges for their data.

For forex, the situation is a bit better - you can get information from Dukascopy/Tickstory for free. For cryptocurrency there is data available from Binance.

There is also QuantConnect, which is an online IDE/system for developing manually coded trade bots. They have historical data for a wide range of financial products and it's all available for free. The catch is that the data can't leave their system, which eliminates the possibility of training any sort of advanced machine learning model.

Edit: for these types of questions I would recommend searching /r/algotrading
The idea of using gaming stats like FPS kill-to-death ratio as a passive measure of cognitive function is fascinating to me. Along the lines of other passive stats like smart scales and fitness trackers.

Obviously, there are specific tests you can do, but it's difficult to integrate those into your daily routines to generate consistent stats.
Does your bank have a web interface?
Have you read any of the cases? They get pretty detailed about what is and isn’t allowed. This is not the first time we’ve been having this debate - far front it. Though, some seem unaware that there’s a substantial body of court history on the subject, both American and otherwise.
Well ... things are getting super weird. Are we going to see TikTok entering the international entertainment market?
I hope this keeps the author more encouraged to write, because as usual, this is the first and the only post on their blog.
I didn't not claim that the modern war was directly related to some historical deterministic path. Just that regional power trying to control other weaker regional powers is not at all new in Arabia.

It is pretty much standard politics that happens during all political systems, and thus can not be blamed on some theory of capitalist overproduction.

While the Saudi state didn't exist 500 years ago, the roots Saudi power is older then 1744.

My point was more that influence politics in the region is very old and thus any explanation that is derived from some set of economic relations that exist now can not explain most of it.

> This is literally a vulgar form of the Leninist argument?

Leninist argument is about Capitalism, where based on the Marxist theory of over production countries go out to expand the market for their product. They have to do this because on Marxist cycle theory, capitalist production leads to overproduction, and then those products can fall in price so much that there is no more profit, so you need to find new markets.

First of all, this does not apply to Saudi Arabia because that cycle theory really doesn't make much sense for their economy. Saudis do the opposite where the artificially limit the production at all times, so their is no element of a market over-producing constantly.

Saudi does not go to Yemen to buy raw resources, turn them into product and sells them back to the Yemeni, that is how Lenin envisioned it.

If you wanted to make a Leninist type of argument, even if doesn't really fit, you could argue that Saudis invade Yemen so Yemenis had to buy their product. However that makes no sense as Yemen does not consume much oil and are a marginal costumer.

Really the point here is that all these things have been explained 100x better by academc of economics and political science but instead people keep repeating 100 communist propaganda and apply it to ever situation even if it is pretty far removed from the theory of those communists.
Tip for a better use of browser's print to PDF feature: use an ad blocker (uBlock Origin in Chrome works fine) to remove noisy html elements, ads and clutter. I basically cut everything but text, even navigation elements. And this btw is where Chrome comes handy for (e.g.) Firefox users: you can browse and print separately. You always have a ready-to-print setup in Chrome (or else) while browsing somewhere else.
I haven't yet looked into another promising feature though, which is (if I'm not mistaken) the availability of a CLI for this . Would be very interested to automate the process, but am concerned about whether the element blocking will work.
Ideally I'd like to be able to save printed pages either automatically or via bulk selection (within my browser history) to Evernote or anything like (it seems to be the best solution for me, as it has a great indexing, fuzzy search and relevance, plus the fact that the storage is not limited unless I start to upload more than 10 GB per month which is unlikely).
Anyway, would be glad to hear if anyone came up with a similar or a better solution.
> You will not find a cheaper hosting option than this.

Services such as Netlify, Surge.sh, and Firebase Hosting can do this at absolutely no cost and you get HTTPS.
The only proper thing for the doctor is to say no. Prescribing it or giving a placebo would be unethical. This actually leads me to suspect that he’s just lying; it’s hard to see how the doctor involved could avoid repercussions, even if it didn’t blind him or give him a heart attack.
The author of that also thinks the natural speed limit is 30 miles per hour, so take the assertion with a grain of salt.

http://moslereconomics.com/2008/05/22/energy-crisis-solution...

(The claim about interest rates is a bit more complicated than "set it at zero", too. The full claim from the linked article is "the natural, nominal, risk free rate of interest is zero". Most uses of interest in our economy aren't risk free.)
Is there a reason why you don't use mdfind instead (built-in spotlight search from the terminal)?
That way you can search pdf files directly from the terminal without converting to text first, and the directory is already indexed.

E.g:

[$]mdfind -onlyin ~/MyDirectory someSearchTerm
Concept Art from the Never-Made Neuromancer Movie
Even it’s truly risk free, why would someone lend money for free?
But how is that different than one company owning over 91% of the newspapers in the country? I think most people would agree that's a bad thing.
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DoD Funding for wearable Covid detection tech
Saudi Arabia and OPEC have their own reasons to limit oil production. Pretty good ones actually.

And the Saudis were fine with doing so when it was against US interest in the 1970s.
Interesting and roughly in-line with what I've read elsewhere. One must note, however, that performance on a couple of benchmarks does not generalize to all problems. Still - perfect is the enemy of good, and it may be that when looking for a high-level language one might have to settle for "good enough."

Anyway - good job!
I thought the optimum speed was 45 or 50?