skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks great. I wouldn't have guessed typewriter-mode from "advanced key controls". For my use case, I needed to disallow any going back and editing. If Cold Turkey can do that, you may have yourself a new customer. :)
Funny enough Teller, from Penn & Teller fame is attempting to use copyright to prevent his tricks from being revealed.
>an equivalent of a software developer in a different industry would be driven around in a company's car, dine on company's card and get fat bonuses every year

As a software developer, this statement feel like hubris.
This is interesting. It makes me think of the way we cluster thematically-related placenames in cities. It's well intentioned, but I think people can mentally store place names based on other categorical groupings (eg, we might remember a street had something to do with the sun- only to find all the area streets have some relation).

I'd love to read more on your thesis!
While this thing is being referred to as "mummified" the fossil itself is a result of gradual processes that replaced the original form of the corpse with minerals. It's not dried meat in there. The find was a few years ago, so much has been written on the topic, and you should read what the discussions of experts on the topic had to say.

I'm not sure if you read this link before but I encourage you to - it includes a nice summary of the issues.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/possible-dinosaur...
http://archive.vn/tC6ib
No worries at all! :)

Is anything around content marketing/marketing welcomed here?
yea.. same thing that's happening in the live stream world with Ninja leaving Twitch and etc.

Ultimately seems to be a lose-lose-lose for the platform (where they don't pull 1/4 of their prior numbers), fans (who generally just stop caring), and creator (who makes money short term but loses major brand equity, relevance, growth)

Rogan didn't know how high he could've taken it. Now he does.
Maybe he was ready to retire anyway?
In addition to outdated ports, several times I had issues with macports mucking with or otherwise interfering with the system-bundled copies of things which was a real headache.

Seems like the ideal setup would be something like Homebrew, except it "lives" in the ~/Library/Brews/ folder or something to that effect.
To be completely honest, if you're smart, and focused on shipping product you really don't care and will find a way to steal while at the same time obfuscate to the point where no one will notice or care. I get there's a moral dilemma for some, and credit etc. comes into play, but I can assure you the people that are solely focused on getting $#!t shipped really don't care, and by the time they have to they will have either sank or have enough resources to handle it.
Censoring is a losing battle. Because it attacks a symptom.

The cure for ignorance is not trying to hide missinformation (that just empowers the spreaders, gives it credence (they wouldn't bother suppressing it if it weren't true), or drives it into dark places you can no longer detect how much of a problem it is).

The cure is to educate people and teach them critical thinking (both of which are expensive and honestly most governments/companies/people in power don't really want a free thinking populace (they want a populace that believes their propaganda)) and to spread the truth (not that effective on populace who lacks high level of education and critical thinking skills)
I've heard several points for not choosing ClickHouse and going to TimescaleDB as an extension of PostgreSQL:

1. As it is already mentioned, if metadata (data about timeseries) are already in PostgreSQL, then it is nice to stay in the same database engine for querying data with joins of both metadata and timeseries data, so there is no need to implement integration of the two source in the application layer.

2. Also related to the first item: advantage of already knowing PostgreSQL API. ClickHouse has different management API, so it is necessary to learn. While if you know PostgreSQL, you don't need to learn new management API and only timeseries specific API of TimescaleDB.

3. ClickHouse doesn't support to update and delete of existing data in the same way as relation databases.

Then the final decision still depends on your need.
I remember Volkov Commander too.
From Wikipedia :"Volkov Commander (VC) is a file manager for DOS inspired by the Norton Commander. Volkov Commander is purely written in assembly language, and is thus very small (less than 100 KB) and fast".
It was really fast and really small when we had the 1.4 mb floppy disk back then.
Ontologies in the Software Engineering process [pdf]
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_trial

So someone got convicted for holocaust denial because they denied the existence of the holocaust? The system works!

Not being facetious, this is not a problem.

> If you ban people like Alex Jones, you also ban people who are activists for causes that society will adopt in the future. And we all end up worse off." I don't know how you can interpret that to mean that I am somehow in favor of Jones.

Easily because that's the implication of your statement. That there is no way to differentiate between Alex Jones's ideology and the ideology of human rights activists.

Which is a ridiculous premise.
It's the latter. A third party provides you with the stuff you need to export to consoles, e.g. export template(s) and such that for legal reasons can't be included in the normal version of Godot. Here's a recent thread about having a Godot game built for Switch: https://twitter.com/monolithofminds/status/12599133551769272...
An interesting question might be, assuming this animal has some descendants alive today, has its original gene sequence been better preserved in that heritage than within its own body?
First-generation learners being left behind in global education
Nice work, thank you.
> If you saw someone write something like "If you had a human assistant and asked them 'What’s the time in London?' and they honestly thought the best way to answer that question was to give you the time for the nearest London, which happened to be in Ontario or Kentucky, you’d fire that assistant." you'd be quick to call them out as an "obvious" bad employer.

No, really, this is just a tired nitpick. I hear a lot of complaints about Hacker News on other websites, about how the commenters are too nitpicky and "Actually, …", but I usually don't mind or actually appreciate many of those. This particular one really annoys me. Everyone knows that people make mistakes all the time, and clearly you shouldn't fire them for simple ones. But that's not the point that was being made! You just sitting here claiming people are obviously horrible because you saw the word "fire" is just not productive at all.
The original intent of that clause was to help us avoid needing to support modified versions that were deployed to production.

And we tend to offer a lot of free support, e.g., via our 4000+ member Slack channel [0]. We like making sure TimescaleDB users are happy.

But that clause was written 1.5 years ago, and a lot has changed since then.

There’s actually an internal debate right now on whether we need to keep it. So thank you and HN for spurring this discussion!

[0] https://slack.timescale.com/
"Lithium batteries" are not just lithium batteries, just as steel is not just steel.

There are many variables that are not visible to the naive observer, even for batteries from the same manufacturing plant.
I would take a vertical coffin of office space if it came with a door. Something to block out the audio and visual noise and supported whatever horizontal space was needed to host my monitors.

I realize some people could not handle the claustrophobia, but for those that can this seems like an easy win to minimize footprints while isolating those who are bothered by the distractions of others.
What’s the point of cheaper disk and ram, and faster systems if not for supporting higher level abstractions?
Ha, yeah, you'll have to find your skeumorphism over there. :) That's a pretty neat achievement, I have to say.

But I don't actually want to use a typewriter, I just want to force myself to write without editing.
This is incorrect. The infection fatality rate for COVID-19 is about 0.2% (1 in 500, or 200 per 100,000) for ages 20-40. [1] The baseline death rate for ages 25-29 is about 100 per 100,000. [2] Getting COVID-19 puts you at roughly triple the chance of death from all other causes combined. It's about 5x the risk of unintentional injury, 12x the risk of suicide, 16x the rate of homicide, 20x the risk of cancer, and 200x the risk from HIV or diabetes.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid#case-fatalit...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/LCWK1_2015.pdf p. 4
Where source of windows nt 3.5,and source of xbox?
I tried using Tesseract to OCR just some numbers on an almost plain background, and it failed around 2-3% of the time. Which made the whole thing useless, because I needed 100% correctness.
The Race for a Polio Vaccine Differed from the Quest to Prevent Coronavirus
Yoga seems 'spiritual' with wonky crystal powers and such but if you approach it as scheduled ergonomic stretching, relaxation through breathing exercises, and quiet introspection its obvious there's a clear physical impact it can make.
Neat, I wasn’t aware of this application of DL. Very cool!
Where source of windows 3.5,and source of xbox?
BlackRock is helping the fed with QE
They pressed a lever to raise the extracted value from the workers is my guess
Yeah the question should be "do you want an open office in this attractive location with easy access to public transit, or do you want your own office in this office park 10km outside the city that you have to drive to every day?"
We're talking about civil law here.
We implemented secondary indexes in Dolt, our version controlled database
>"Average life expectancy is a really flawed metric to measure the effectiveness of healthcare systems, because there are a ton of non-healthcare related confounding variables that impact average life expectancy. Anyone that dies early brings down the average life expectancy, and that includes suicides, homicides, drug overdoses, and car accidents. The US has more traffic fatalities per capita than any other Western European nation. The US has more opioid deaths per capita than any other Western European nation. The US has more gun-deaths per capita than any other Western European nation. While each of those problems have their own political causes...none of them have much to do with the underlying healthcare system, so using it as a metric to measure the quality of the healthcare system in question is ill-advised."

A socialised healthcare system forces government and the healthcare service to write and maintain policies that consider the health of the nation. Where as a private insurance based service doesn't.

The US opoid crisis is a perfect example of this. Many of those addicts in the US moved on from prescription opoids that they had been prescribed unnecessarily to streets heroin because there was little concern of the wider public health implications. In the UK getting a prescription for addictive strength opoid pain killers has long been near impossible because the healthcare system has to be careful not to create another problem in trying to fix the first one because it's their responsibility to fix it which also means Doctors are not motivated to meet the patients wants (e.g pain free) and only fulfil their healthcare needs. This is why the UK didn't go through the same crisis

So I say that life expectancy is a good measure of healthcare systems because it forces policy makers at all levels to consider the wider impact of public policy on public health.
It seems like they've gone to a lot of effort to make that hard to figure out. I looked into this for a while and was unable to find anything.

A lot of the articles are also... misleading at best.

I dunno, this site just feels pretty strongly like a misinformation campaign.
just no. no to all of that. it's a trailer. it was taken down from youtube, facebook, twitter, tiktok, and now google drive. for misinformation.

name an instance of google removing a google drive file for bandwidth cost.
As someone who was on a AAA team making a game on Lumberyard, I'd caution against it. The tooling, support, and community just aren't there (and it doesn't seem like Amazon is investing much in making it happen.)
I was a growth engineer for 5+ years and even though i worked closer with marketing and sales optimizing metrics, I was still an "outsider" because I'm so technical. It's a very strange and nuanced social barrier.

I'm a co-founder now (and only developer) at a small company that makes 7 figures and i still feel like a code monkey at times, though in a much better position than most.
New Mobile Health Tool Measures Hemoglobin Without Drawing Blood
Honestly nothing better could happen for SF than for all the people who would rather live in rural Utah or Texas to GTFO.
Office buildings should run like spaceships (2017)
An alternative to Python-versioneer based on GitHub actions
I'm really hoping this tech gets more accessible (i.e. uses OTS components and shows up on 2-minute-papers [i] along with a github repository) for a variety of use-cases e.g. not just detecting humans, but also for detecting wiring and other hidden features in walls and floors.

[i] https://www.youtube.com/user/keeroyz/videos
There was a related study of "Inspiratory Muscle Strength Training (IMST)" breathing exercises which showed a huge decrease in blood pressure with 5 mins of training for 6 weeks:

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2019/02/25/novel-workout-impr...

More on that topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22656799

Does anyone have a guide to how to actually do these exercises?
I added more color in my comment, but who wants to take on the supportability of your desire for third-party quad-port NIC or RAID controller? Even the DIY enthusiast PC market is a small % of the revenue made by the PC/Server market as a whole. It's already niche, and making a niche of a niche, sounds like a great way to pigeon-hole yourself into unprofitability. Too expensive for microcontroller/kiosk, not enough volume due to those unwilling to take on the compatibility concerns around ARM.

The microcontroller and kiosk markets are actually relatively large, and a good niche to be in. Adding the complexity needed to make a full-blown x86 competitor is extremely risky.

There are integrators out there using ARM in networking and NAS gear, but they are building the board to their spec, validating it against a small sampling of add-in hardware, screwing the box shut with a "warranty void" sticker on it, and charging a healthy markup for the service.
Thanks for the input, will bring it back to the team for discussion.

(Note: I really appreciate getting this kind of feedback openly from the community, so thank you :-)
Glad that I wasn't the only one to have alarm bells go off in my head when I read that first step.

There are plenty of other rational options, most people are saying github pages, but I'd like to put forth the NeoCities + Hugo combo as an alternative. It's a bit more complicated than I'd like but it's absurdly easy to modify and make content for once it's set up.
Using the ‘shadow-effect’ to generate electricity
I meditate ten minutes a day. It does absolutely nothing for me.
60 Minutes once did a segment on batteries made from seawater and dirt. They were large (low power density), but very cheap, and perfect for grid storage.

Haven't heard anything about that since.
Google Drive is not meant as a mass distribution service for video. Do they let you use it as a back door streaming service?
Scale AI releases free Lidar dataset to power self-driving car development
> privacy as a tentpole feature of iOS

At the time I was a Nokia Linux user, but as far as I can tell, privacy was not a selling point of iOS in 2012. The 'fundamental human right' phrasing is relatively new[1], and privacy isn't really mentioned at all before 2012[2]. It feels like this was a response to where Apple was failing than a principled stand, considering 3 years prior Wayback machine shows only a 404 for the privacy page. I can see how some folks might infer from this that Apple leaned into privacy as a means of spiting a supplier.

> Google Maps was obviously still going to have an app on iOS

If I was a paying Apple customer, I'd sure appreciate having that option at launch rather than months later with no firm date. Even in 2019 my real estate agent insists that Apple Maps is garbage, I can only imagine the chaos in 2012.

[1]: https://www.google.com/?q=%22site:asciiwwdc.com%20%22fundame...
[2]: https://asciiwwdc.com/
The company went bakrupt, but the game we made[0] still lives. It uses MongoDB to store user accounts, profiles, inventories, match history and all persistent data.
I was the one who suggested to use MongoDB when we started (instead of SQL) as the game front-end was JS and back-end Node.js, meaning that having a MongoDB database we could easily type, store and retrieve data. Overall I think it was a good decision, it ran pretty well with over 200k MAU, ~2-3k concurrent. We never really had performance issues with the database, but we did have to implement our own locking system to make sure that non-atomic operations are performed correctly. I think there are only 3 VPSs running MongoDB (one master, one replica and one back-up I think), so actually the entire database (a few gigabytes with around 1M accounts) only runs on a single cheap VPS.

[0]: https://curvefever.pro
I wouldn't mind that at all, though I'd need some way to sit for a bit - I don't intend to stand for 8 hours a day, especially not without room to walk a bit.

The other advantage would be able to go "BLAAHH!" every time the manager interrupted your flow.
Do the same rules apply to google cloud storage... or really any google cloud resource?
Sure, keeping a stack clean is always difficult. But I think OPs point was that programming in a container encourages a more fragile setup.

On a native setup, you get a feel for the fact that X config file might be in different places, or that Y lib is more robust and more widely available than lib Z. You end up with a more robust application because you have been "testing" it on a wide range of systems from day one.
On the other hand, they could support freedom of speech by not limiting access.

They do block access, therefore suppressing freedom of speech.

Arguing with "they're just saving resources" is ridiculous, especially when considering Google's wealth.
If this were a taught unstretchable string, the tension in the string ends up infinite and the compression in the picture frame also infinite.

Obviously the string has a little stretch, but even so, the tension in the string is proportional to 1/sin(angle), which for very small angles makes very large amounts of tension, which will eventually bend or warp the frame.

Instead, you should deliberately leave a reasonable amount of slack, and the tension in the string will then stay under 3x the frames weight, which it will be able to handle forever.
I like open offices. Very pleasant spaces. I also like working from home, but I like socialization too.
> Yes, but this is true generally; it's not specific to containers.

Always using containers make it harder for you to tell when you're making your setup brittle. If your environment always is exactly the same, how will you notice when you introduce dependencies on particular quirks with that environment? If your developers use different operating systems, different compilers, etc., you have a better shot at noticing undesirable coupling between the system and its environment.
Everything not specified in the FHS is reserved for use by the administrator. The FHS isn’t all-encompassing. It’s a contract about what directories the OS wont touch.

Generally you’re right and if you make a piece of software not follow the FHS you better have good reason. Nix, I think, makes a solid case since existing outside of the FHS is the only safe way to not conflict with every package manager.
Apples Macintosh division is the most profitable PC company in the world and has been for at least a decade. In fact, Macintosh is likely more profitable than all other PC companies combined.

Less than 10% is no excuse.
Mail is basically the only thing that is a royal pain to self host.
> there are very few economists who believe that a company should have 6 months of expenses in the bank for emergencies

Economics is largely a study of game theory. When The Federal Reserve and Congress throw money at all companies, no matter the risk, doesn't this erode the future incentive for companies to be self-reliant and increase the expectation of similar monetary policy in the future?

Also, I read your comment's parent as if it was on The Colbert Report, dripping with sarcasm.
somewhere near Versailles, KY ;)
We're moving away from general purpose computing, and Apple is one of the greatest forces in this.

Also, they are a threat to a free market for software, as they regulate their walled garden with arbitrary rules and skim off a lot of value.

I honestly don't understand why a large portion of developers have so much love for Apple. I'm personally a proud owner of a desktop PC with an ASUS motherboard. It serves me fine, and gives me full control over the software installed on it. I'm not a laptop-person but I believe there are many perfectly capable non-Apple laptops out there.
Monogame is really nice as a hobbyist.

I also like that you actually have near full control of what is happening, rather than poking at a black box engine and hoping the bits you plug into it work correctly. Of course, I'm of the age where you had to write your own Windows message loop and wrangle OpenGL or DirectX yourself to do much of anything.
Amazing examples. Thanks for the videos.
I apologize for the uncharitable description. It was more of an organizational issue. They could have picked any other tool to execute a self-inflicted DoS and I would have been upset with that instead.
So it seems like this project is quite literally, how to tie a very tight cord between the edges of the frame.
Nature Scientific Reports is so called megajournal. Their peer-review is minimal. They have tendency to publish all kind of weird stuff and even junk science.

More on Scientific Reports, And on Faked Papers
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/06/15/mo...
> do not save money, not even in the short term

Well if you put more people in a smaller space that saves money on rent. If you start using "productivity" or "output" or "net savings" that's effectively economic voodoo in comparison to "the rent is $10k per month vs $20k per month".
I would rather call it the new-found paranoia most legal departments now have, when IT dept. mentions rolling out new, unknown, non-auditable software in the company from a new vendor that wasn't grand-fathered in (= the legacy windows/cisco deployments). I'm happy about it. I'm just waiting for them to forbid closed-source firmwares/hardware.