skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing to productize. You just use CMD[,Control}-P, select "Print to PDF", save to a relevant folder, and off you go. If that's too many steps, use Automator or whatever the equivalent is on your OS to make a shorter hotkey. (I had a Hammerspoon script for this once, but reverted to just doing it manually, since my muscle memory on the keystrokes is sufficiently well trained that it supplants my desire to find the .lua files somewhere to pass to Hammerspoon..)

The entire point is that there is absolutely no need for a third party to get involved in organising your web browsing history or remembering your bookmarks. Use the shell. Very few third-party services will be able to match the power of this tooling, for the reasons I gave above. My history = my data, for my own private purposes.
You can't fault the guy for believing / wanting to believe that what he's doing is useful.
Scaling Flow to tens of millions of lines of JavaScript with Types-First mode
Being a former teacher, absolutely yes. Reproductive plans, and how to fit them into school year, are topics of conversation and informal “coaching.”
It's a long tail starting back in the days of my great great great great grandfather. Back in the mother country he was tired of the same old same old and decided to travel to the New World to start anew. 300 years later I was born here :)
I'm also colorblind and a heavy Grafana user but I haven't had much difficulty reading dashboards. What are you having trouble with? The most trouble I've had is colors of multiple lines on a chart being too similar but being able to use the mouse to select a line and see what the line is and its value helps there.
This. Some of my friends are still running Intel's 4690k, which was released all the way in 2014, as that suffices for most of their basic tasks and games at low-mid settings, as a lot of gaming is GPU-bound.

With the typical 5-year upgrade cycle on CPUs for most non-hardware-enthusiast gamers and general-purpose users, I would expect the AMD share in Steam stats to drastically increase by about 2022.

Also, mind you, Steam numbers are not really representative of the overall market. Most online hardware retailers reported 50%+ of their high-end CPU sales to be AMD in Q1 2020.[0]

0. https://www.pcgamer.com/amd-market-share-gain-q1-2020/
Am I crazy or was there a comment in this thread calling out the moderators of HN and their own censorship? Did it disappear as well?
I would love to sit down with a few of these ivy league educated VCs and get them to explain how they justified investing massive amounts of LP money into blatantly bogus revenue models.

If they can come up with anything other than "build a monopoly and then figure it out", I'd be shocked.

Look at all of the most prosperous public tech companies, especially the famous FAANG companies. Every single one of those sells a product/service with an actual profit margin (ads, ecommerce infrastructure, cloud services, media, smartphones, operating systems, etc).

Not a single one of them got to where they are with the "sell a product/service at a loss and then figure it out later". Why? Because that's an incredibly foolish and reckless use of capital.

This is also why I don't like when companies like AirBnB are lumped in with ones like Uber during these "unicorns struggling in the pandemic" discussions. AirBnB has a sustainable revenue model, they were simply affected by an artificial restriction on travel. Uber and DoorDash have no excuse.

VCs, if you're listening... for pete's sake stop blowing investor money on this nonsense and invest in actual good businesses.
>Because AMD is a company with a long history of making crappy processors

Tell that to Microsoft and Sony.

Like it or not the Xbox and PlayStation shows what the future will bring for games on PC which is exactly the opposite of what Intel tries to sell.
Custom Themes seems to be one of the most wanted features of the Community.
Is there any plan implementing it in the near future?

Recently I digged into the source code to find out how easy it is to create my own custom theme. Unfortunately I found the dark and light theme variables hard coded all over the place. :(
It would be nice to have yearly, monthly, weekly and other recurring graph, I tried to hack it with sql window function, but it gives lot of problems.

https://community.grafana.com/t/yearly-monthly-weekly-and-ot...
Sounds like a darn weak moat to build a 58b USD valuation on.
This is video of him stating it: https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1262487139083837448
Almost feels like they were doing an A/B test
Upvote: https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/18041 and add any additional comments and context there. In addition to making the light/dark themes more accessible, I think we should add an additional high contrast one.
android 10 has been pretty bad for rooting etc. i think they would do well to release something that us techies can tinker with though. Call it android 10 unsafe edition :) , i gotta say im pretty happy that its still possible to disable annoying bloatware like 'settings' and 'play store' via the android debug shell. the moment that changes im going to have to drop android altogether, because i still dont believe in using a phone like a computer.
I definitely need a new one!! i got this one for Christmas like 6 years ago.
"This is basically how I live already. I sometimes want something specific from a specific restaurant, but more often than not, I just want something and I browse through Seamless until I see some food that looks good and order it. I don't really know or care where it's coming from as long as it's reasonably priced and has decent ratings."

I sincerely and genuinely hope you are the minority because I simply cannot imagine living my life like this and I hope others are not either.

Yes, I know there is the archetype of person, especially in tech, that considers food nothing but fuel to keep their brain going. That's the kind that gravitated toward Soylent.

I think it's appalling. Food is one the the most important human experiences. It is specific, it is unique, it is cultural. I would put it on the same pantheon as poetry and music in terms of historical and artistic significance, and the gap between the bottom of the barrel and the truely life changing experience.

Now, I recognize I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum. I crave specific dishes from specific restaurants. But most people I know at least follow some form of branching decision tree: "do you feel like Mexican or Japanese?". "okay, sushi or ramen?". "that place across the street or by the park?". "okay should we call them or see if they are on doordash?"

I do agree with your other points about the technological factors here, but disagree with the foundation you built it on.
Also to mention frequently asked feature: alerts using queries and templated variables [1][2]. Creating even simple generic dashboards with alerts is not possible, unless variables are hardcoded in hidden queries.

[1] https://community.grafana.com/t/template-variables-are-not-s...

[2] https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/6557
It is the tactic that is used often, real world or online. Since they will always outnumber you. Although hasn't happened on HN right now.
Great example. People sign up for BabyCenter, maybe from a paid search ad. Nine months and done. Insanely high advertising CPMs there because first time parents are about to make life long purchasing decisions.
Same, the last time I had that feeling was when I opened up my N64 and played super mario 64. A slap in the face.
Architecture of German Coronavirus App on GitHub
I keep getting connection timeouts.
The web’s transition from nomadism to feudalism (2018)
"The mistake SoftBank made wasn’t investing in them, it was investing at a valuation that grossly overestimated the size of the opportunity, and how quickly they would see their return."

That doesn't say much. When you're off by 20X for a close-to-IPO company that's a huge mistake and the diff in funds would've been better spent on spray and pray R&D. Many companies are good investments at 20X lower valuations than what they recently raised at.
About 15 years ago I tried polyphasic sleeping for about two months. I was on a horrific work crunch and I threw myself into it. I believe my schedule was a 20 minute nap every 3 or 4 hours (I forget now), with one nap being two hours instead of 20 minutes, a total of about 4 hours a day.

The first week was horrible, but then I got in the groove and I actually functioned and got work done. I'd often wake up a minute or two before the alarm went off.

There were a lot of problems. If I ever found myself killing time, eg, waiting for a test to run, and not actively doing something, I'd want to crash badly. Sometimes I'd be in the zone working a bug in my code and my "time to take a nap" alarm would sound and I'd be tempted to keep working. I learned it was important to stick to the sleep cycle even if I was feeling alert. It was terrible for family life because if I had to, say, take the kids to the zoo on Saturday, I'd have to schedule it to fit my sleep pattern, and it wasn't always possible.
Seems lot a lot of effort for seemingly no return at the time.

Without evidence to the contrary, I'm unwilling to doubt him.
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I don't know what the methodology of that site is, but it's certainly flawed when it comes to computer monitors. Based on their calculator, I shouldn't notice the difference between 1080p and 2160p when sitting 2 feet from my 16" laptop monitor, but the difference is night and day. I don't want to get into a philosophical debate, but if I can see the difference that your equation says I shouldn't be able to see, the equation is wrong, not reality.
> So now being against freely printing $3 TR, and sending out handouts is considered 'unacceptable'?

No, referring to coronavirus aid bills as "blue-state bailouts" and running the Senate as a party-state are unacceptable.
Unlike the .com implosion, the current unicorn market is propped up by VC funds and angel investors. By the time they IPO and you can short them, they're not really unicorns anymore simply by getting to that point.
I'll be ok, but your thoughts really are appreciated. Nice words from nice people are always a welcomed thing.
At work we have to compile everything from source because compliance, and Grafana is one of the harder ones to get right. There used to be good documentation for it a few versions back but I can't seem to find it lately. Is there any good documentation on how to get Grafana compiled from source?
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> Is this a thing that's happening?

Sure. The Afterburner Card that Apple is selling to accelerate ProRes decoding on the newest Mac Pro is an FPGA. They’ve opened it up to third parties like Red as well iirc.
Right now apps on Google Play are required to target at least API level 28. This will most probably be raised to level 29 in the near future, essentially blocking distribution of Termux, at least in its current form.
Pseudoscience isn't about "vibes" though, its about mis-using scientific concepts in disingenuous ways.
I live in Paris, and I could easily afford a new car (or two) with my income as an SRE.

But then I'd have to park it, and just that would double the monthly cost. And then I'd probably use it once a month on average.
yes, this is a huge pain point for us as well
John Carmack is the person I'd most like to read a programming book authored by.
Actually it's it still giving a 404, but (after remembering and looking up the --content-on-error option to wget) it appears TFA is served just fine as if it were a 404 error page.
We’ll see more highly skilled workers who aren’t interested in having kids. That’s a common dynamic. The SF Bay Area has more dogs than children.
When a country that's only 70 years old goes into a civil war - that's not an indicator of a strong system.
Cops love shooting people in the US. Now they can pursue their passion.
Changes in life are an opportunity and that's always something to get excited about. Full steam ahead!
It's very interesting, especially if you grew up playing id games, and it's also an easy read. Go for it!
On a funny note, I fed myself for 6 months with VC money iFood took.
The thing is, it works sometimes.

Facebook IPOed without a business model. Their ad platform was crap, attracting generic banner ad prices. They launched all the targeting tools pretty quick, so Zuck obviously had a a plan... but public investors took the risk.

Amazon was a long term example. They were losing money on every sale to be made up in volume (sticking with economist cliches) for decades. Now, they're literally 1000X bigger than the 2 billion dollar picker-uper startup.

I agree though. There has been a ton of spend spend-2-to-make-1 MOs running businesses lately... and it is ridiculous. Also agree about Matt. The cat can write.

I just think it's worth remembering the rational starting point for all the irrationality. Uber's initial value proposition was:

"We are a software platform company. Software platform economics apply, just like Google & Microsoft. We'll scale like software and have a monopoly like platforms."

That actually wasn't all that unreasonable. They did scale at a speed that a non-software (or law abiding) company couldn't have. But.. it turned out not to work. Market share didn't translate into monopoly pricing power.

Now (or maybe last year), the alternative value proposition is/was: "When self driving gets invented..." This one is unreasonable.

Softbank really did go big on some very bad bets huh?
They mean handtracking. Oculus touch is a tracked controller, which means the controller is tracked and the tracking system has no concept of a hand. You could put the controller on your foot, or the floor or on your dog and it would track in the same way as your hand. Hand tracking uses computer vision to recognize hands, for most humans fingers are included in that
Just curious: what kind of anomaly detection are you looking for? Can you describe the kind of thing you'd want this system to detect?
Well regardless of economic boom or bust, the chance that a startup runs out of money is probably higher than the chance that a big company chooses to lay you off.
Find me at http://redundantrobot.com/

I'm down to see what you have going on there.
Yep. The whole reason the SB Vision Fund exists is because some Saudis needed a place to park their oil wealth that traditional markets couldn't absorb.
For me, the source of my procrastination usually falls into one these buckets:

a) Not motivated or interested enough in the work

b) Not feeling mentally sharp

c) Overwhelmed and disorganized

I don't find it useful to spend time building productivity systems, because productivity comes and goes for me based on many factors. That's usually OK. But when I do find myself in a productivity rut, the solutions are usually straightforward:

a) Not motivated? Take a step back and find a new angle on the work that seems appealing. Might require seeking new perspectives from others. In some cases, it will require a competitive angle.

b) Exercise and read more in place of technology time

c) Simple to-do lists, with basic categorization and priority does the trick for me here. This is especially true when leading a team on a project. At its most primitive, this is a spreadsheet with columns for "TODO, category, priority, blocked-by, assigned" etc.
i see you still have plans to continue with uPlot testing :)

https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/21835
Interestingly, I feel the opposite. The inferior texture memory means that many games just used Gouraud shading (or sprites) instead, which was quite clean. At the time, I felt that N64 games looked cleaner than PS games, mostly because of the textures, and I also think they have aged (slightly) better. At least those games that didn't aim for realism - Super Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time are still quite playable, while the looks of GoldenEye 007 are probably more of a hurdle.
Yes, but often they simply decide not to return to work at all.
Lucky for them they can afford these taxis to get everywhere. I can't and I am happy to walk a while to get to the closest bus stop so I can get to the tube. But I prefer the bus as I can take multiple buses within a hour for the same fee :)
Tesla are aiming for full self driving, aren't they? If they have managed to find a simpler problem set that will still allow them to reach that outcome and release incrementally, isn't that a smarter approach?
"...you can tell from the inside when a company loses its way."

Those example pathologies you listed are SOP at all the mature orgs I've worked at.
There's also an important difference between "your house" and a common open forum with tens of millions of people.
I just use the PDF defaults from whatever browser I'm using at the time. Nothing special involved, just the defaults.

I do use 'pdftotext' to do more fine-grained searching if I need to - but for the most part I find that a simple "ls -l | grep <search>" suffices, since this method preserves page title text too ..

I did the same thing for this thread and had no issues with this command, whatsoever:

$ pdftotext WorldBrain\'s\ Memex:\ Bookmarking\ for\ the\ power\ users\ of\ the\ web\ \|\ Hacker\ News.pdf - | grep -i "Print-to-pdf"

Results:

".. nothing beats print-to-PDF. Its just awesome."
"fancier laid out pages), I Print-to-PDF again after enabling Reader"
Company I am working at has moved from dozens of graphanas across multiple teams to Datadog and I miss it dearly.
> I have no incentive to start preparing tasks or being organised because I've come to enjoy the thrill of doing everything in the last minute.

Wow, that really resonated with me. I think sometimes I delay stuff as much as possible just to see if I'm up to the challenge of getting it done.. like I want to make it harder because it's too easy.
The default palette is definitely a challenge, since it has pretty low contrast and Grafana's defaults use a lot of thin lines.

I especially have trouble matching colors in a legend with the drawn objects in the graph. The best help has been the hover panel, but it's unsorted by default and the highlight contrast on the panel for hovering over a line is pretty dim.
The author seems to be a bit confused about the difference between "throwing" and "rejecting".

> Promise.allSettled can never throw

Of course not. And Promise.all neither. Promises don't throw, they reject.

async/await is syntactic sugar on top of that, which can make it look similar to throwing, but you will never actually "throw".
Back-to-work risk management using intelligent automation
While i respectfully congratulate the authors of that shim for their ingenuity, that is no support.
One of the reasons why these startup bubbles happen is that you can't short companies pre-IPO, nor can you short VC funds.

It's a good demonstration of why shorting is an important part of a healthy market, no matter what people like Elon Musk claim. It's the way that sanity fights back against bubbles and irrational exuberance.
Honestly had my mouth gapped open for a few seconds. Sad news.
Not much of a problem in theory; just include the relevant library.
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100% agree that human confirmation bias is VERY strong and impacts HN. This is partially the reason why I'm so concerned with (human) moderators having the ability to impact visibility of stories/comments[1].

Also, definitely agree that HN would be worse off without downvotes. I just think the system badly needs improvement. Below is a previous related comment of mine:

I think "downvoting for disagreement" generally works on discussion related to non-sensitive topics, but starts to break down once discussion enters the political realm. It turns into a numbers game. Since the dev community tends to lean to the left, the "downvote" numbers are skewed in that direction. It leads to non-left users getting frustrated and possibly no longer visiting the site (including myself), creating an echo chamber and eroding the overall quality of HN.

Why not set a max of 3 downvotes a day? Or subtract 5 karma points IF you don't include a reply with your downvote? There's gotta be a way to improve this.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23223555#23225685
See my reply to your first question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23228145
That's a good point,the dataflow can be confusing to understand at first, especially when used to a purely procedural paradigm. In a way its similar to the differences between functional and imperative programming, and you first need the right mindset/basis for how it works before you can be productive. Once you understand the concurrent nature being described by HDLs, it begins to make sense - I always elaborate my HDL (actually usually other folks code) so I can see the dataflow that's being inferred graphically and it's very useful
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Have you seen this talk/blog from last year's Monitorama about anomaly detection with Prometheus:

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/07/23/anomaly-detection-u...
I’m sure Travis Kalanick is so happy he dumped his shares before all this.
Sure why not? The US does that same thing so what is the problem?
You're welcome! I understand the shock of it seeming like something has completely disappeared, which is one reason I want to get rid of that pagination, as soon as our software can handle that load.
"To analyze how VC deal activity responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and attendant
economic crisis, we use data from Pitchbook, CB Insights, and Capital IQ. We tabulate VC investment deals in U.S.-based startups by industry and sector using the Pitchbook and CB Insights data."

Pretty early to analyze this data. I find that both these sources take 20+ weeks to get close to accurate, and they are never really perfect.

FWIW, my view is that I think recent deal activity has been very high at a16z, Sequoia, Founders Fund, and others but that's just from where I sit.
https://histre.com/ has tree-style web history, taking notes on those web pages, and more. Disclaimer: I'm the founder.

It automatically creates a knowledge base for you. The paths you took to arrive at a piece of information is just one part of the puzzle that it puts together for you.

The main idea is that we throw away a lot of the signal we generate while doing things online and this can be put to good use for ourselves.

Some related features that Histre has:
- Sharing collections of notes with your teams
- Saving highlights
- Hacker News integration. The stories you upvote are saved in a notebook, which can be shared with your friends, or even made public.

I'm focusing on search. Most knowledge base apps have terrible search imho.
Nonsense. Being a whistleblower requires running some risks. It's a necessity. You can't really blow the whistle on crimes etc. without ever going public -- at some point there might be a trial and you'd have to testify, else it's not a proper trial.

And again, horse, barn, door. It's gone. It ain't coming back.
There are other choices, consumers just don't want them.
Just wanted to say thanks for an awesome piece of software. It's one of those "I can't believe it's doing it and doing it this well, and it's free" kind of projects. For me, Grafana together with ElasticSearch and InfluxDB+Telegraf is pure monitoring/analysis/alerting bliss. Stay true to your roots and don't get tempted to turn into Kibana ;)
Or do A/B testing and incremental rollouts?
The road to authoritarianism is always an easy one-way street. The road back is hard, uphill, and soaked with blood.
Checkout the contribute folder on GitHub. Here is the developer guide:

https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/contribute/de...