skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another difference between emacs and Office 365. The code and functionality of both are also sustained by an ecosystem.

For Office 365 that ecosystem is by and large constituted by the paid labour of workers employed by Microsoft, together with a minor subset of plugin contributors for certain applications.

For Emacs, the ecosystem includes everyone who adopts the use of emacs.

In other words, to Microsoft's system you are a customer. Microsoft may choose to adapt their system to your use case if you are lucky enough to represent a big enough user or use case. To emacs you are part of the very ecology which sustains the whole system. That's where the sense of empowerment and 'freedom' (I hate the term) comes from.
well no, because they didn't actually release the feature, therefore no damage was actually done.
Show HN: Findyour.blog – a blog directory for niche and new bloggers
So basically Dapper TS? I’m very interested!
Do you know of a better spot to shelter them? The city only owns so much property.
Ask HN: Examples of great ‘productized consulting’ landing pages?
I found Jane Portman’s “Productized Consulting Guide” intriguing, and am curious to see more examples of how people in different fields put this idea into practice.

Here’s an example I encountered today: https://punchlinecopy.com/work-with-punchline/

Do you have a similar page on your site? Have you come across others which impressed you?
I think a key part of Mythical Man Month is that the biggest challenge was almost never technical. Sure, with limited storage (temp or persistent), that introduced some challenges but those have been overcome in the vast majority of circumstances, yet the complexity remains.

If you look at the monolith -> microservice swing and remember MMM, it should look a lot like the specialized surgical team model he lays out. In fact, if you go a step further, you'll see that his entire approach of small discrete teams with clearly defined communication paths maps cleanly to systems+APIs.

We're trying to build systems that reflect teams that reflect processes.. and distortions, abstractions, and mappings are still lossy with regards to understanding.

It still comes down to communication & coordination of complicated tasks. The tech is just the current medium.
Only because it can now. I think that dimension is mostly tapped out as well:

As I go to a complex website, much of the software to use it gets assembled in real time, on the fly, from multiple different networks.

It still sounds ridiculous: when I want to use some tool, I simply direct my browser to download all the software from a cascade of various networked servers and it gets pasted together in real time and runs in a sandbox. Don't worry, it takes only a few seconds. When I'm done, I simply discard all this effort and destroy the sandbox by closing the page.

This computer costs a few hundred dollars, fits easily in my pocket and can run all day on a small battery.

It has become so ordinary that almost nobody really even contemplates the process, it happens dozens of times a day.

I don't see any room for dramatic future improvements in actual person hours there either. Even if there was say 2 generations hence, some 7G, where I can transfer terabytes in milliseconds, how does this change how the software is written? Probably won't.

Probably the only big thing here in the next decade or so will be network costs being eventually seen as "free". One day CDNs, regional servers, load balancing, all of this will be as irrelevant as the wrangling needed with near and far pointers in programming 16-bit CPUs to target larger address spaces which if you're under 40 or so you probably have to go to wikipedia to find out what on earth that means. Yes, it'll all be that irrelevant.
The searchbox would benefit from keyboard shortcuts like up/down arrow and tab/enter to select.
Is this quote about the foreign criminal activity in China?
I haven't received the email yet. Are they canceling the feature altogether, or just making it opt-in by default?

I liked the idea of the feature quite a lot. I'd love to be able to publish select Triplebyte info. It just needs to be something I can choose to do, rather than chosen for me.
This is a beautiful explanation, thank you!

It's also compatible with barbegal's hydraulic pressure analogy elsewhere in the discussion. A liquid- or gas-filled tank feels pressure (i.e. force per area) on the walls as the fluid "wants" to either (1) flow to a lower gravitational potential energy location, for a liquid tank in a gravitational field, or (2) expand in volume, in the case of a pressurized gas tank.
Security Is Everybody's Job – Part 2 – What Is Application Security?
> My angel.co and LinkedIn are already public, why not Triplebyte too

Because you opted in to creating those profiles and the information they contain, and made them public. You opted in.
> Let's not kid ourselves. Concentrated caffeine is a drug and not a nutrient.

Coffee can contain both nutrients and contain a drug. They are not exclusive.

The title is misleading in focusing on caffeine. But the article mostly focuses on the benefits of coffee and tea, while occasionally also talking about the drug it contains.

Your analogies don't always work. Nicotine is not consumed as a food. Neither are magic mushrooms consumed on a regular enough basis to be considered for nutritional purposes. Beer however is a better analogy. And both beer and coffee, in moderation, have a lot of studies so far showing a correlation with longer lifespans. So, is that from the nutrients? From the drug within? Or from both? All are possibilities until we pinpoint causation.
I can't think of any. Process attempts to reduce humans into instruction following machines. Sometimes this is necessary (think safety checklists) but most of the time it squanders the very thing that makes humans special: the ability to make predictions and respond to changing circumstances.
Still, picometers are very different from "half the energy in the system".

We do store energy in water towers for example, so it is pretty surprising and unintuitive that if you put two large water tanks, one full and one empty, right next to each other, open a valve between them allowing their levels to equalize, then assuming there is no distance and you used teflon coated valves you lose... half of the energy as they equalize!

I certainly wouldn't have thought so. I'd have thought you keep 70%-95+% of the energy.

Actually the oscillation explanation didn't match my intuition at all, because I would have thought the water flows from high to low until the point of equalization and then stops flowing, without oscillation.

I get that this doesn't happen, but I would have thought it would!
Yes, this is that song. Everything in polish media now is political discussion and/or fight about presidential elections (it's postponed due to covid19 crisis), and I consider this as part of this fight. Personally I think it is nothing to lose mind about.
That's not how science works. Please stop calling it pseudoscience just because you don't agree with the findings.
> It is possible it is entirely inauthentic, a mere artifice for damage control from a reputationally maimed business.

I honestly don't think that matters in the slightest. One of two things happened.

1. deletion requests spiked like you wouldn't believe

2. the board caught wind of the bad feedback and forced this response.

#2 i don't believe for a second. it beggars belief that the board is following day-to-day activity and further, at the start of a holiday weekend? no. way.

not independently anyway.

#1 must have happened, ammon asked for advice from the board and other close allies, who wordsmithed this reply. there is 100% no way that this email came from the same hamfisted person that deployed this change in this particular way with this particular timing.

So why doesn't it matter? Because the action is taken, quickly, and the lesson learned. For observers this is also a great lesson - in damage control.

The problem as I see it is that this has to get buried, quickly. The damage is done. TB was obviously already on the ropes, leading to this poor decision in the first place. I've never used TB, but what I hear about it is more bad than good. Good luck to them.
I recently saw it mentioned that another site's URL ids were consecutive numbers in base 52, and then base 36 here. I was previously only aware of the use of base 64, so my interest was piqued — why choose one over the other?

It looks like the reason is that in base 36 information can be encoded in the 26 characters of the alphabet plus 10 numeric characters. In base 52 you can use the same, but case-sensitive and possibly without vowels. This makes it work nicely in URLs.

I was going to ask the significance but thought I'd post what I found instead.
Yeah, those guys got laid off early on the COVID-19 cost reductions as being 'troublemakers'.
We are thinking about how we can make a stronger (and specific) privacy guarantee so it's not just a matter of our future intentions. I had a long conversation with my co-founder about this yesterday. We did not get anything together in time to include it in this email. But we're planning to.
The same thing can't really happen in US because US does not have state media. (Apart from funding Radio free Europe which can't operate in US.)
I feel like generic embedded advertising would be a step backwards in podcast monetization. It seems to me that interstitial adds in podcasts are incredibly powerful because they are usually in the voice of the pod-caster, so on average the listener is probably going to be much more attentive to the add since it's closely related to the content they're actively paying attention to. Without that people will just tune them out like every other ad
> We can choose where to draw the free speech line and still uphold the principals of a free and open society.

You really, really can't.
This paper aged well
> independent media

I thought Trójka is a public (and thus government sponsored and controlled) radio station, no?
Microsoft, if we assume (and I think for these purposes we should; he wasn't quite strictly speaking one, but he behaved like one) that Ballmer was effectively a founder.
The hint that we don’t need an app. What use is served by the app over the website? The only thing I can think of is that you can’t (easily) block ads on an app, but can in a browser (if it lets you).

Sure, they’re in the business to make money, but if enough users leave because of the app and ads being shoved in their face, Reddit will start to make less money than they did without the app. It’s not gonna happen anytime soon, but it’ll happen eventually. Reddit won’t last forever, just like Digg and /. didn’t. Sure, they still exist, but (last I heard) their active user numbers keep going down.
I generally agree though I will say that platform exclusive music still exists. I’ve seen this primarily with hip hop, especially when Tidal was trying to break into the streaming scene. Apple Music also occasionally has platform exclusives. Usually the way I’ve seen it work though is that these new releases are initially exclusives for something like one month and then become more widely available.
Show HN: Feldot – Explore the Web Together
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This after working remote for years, from all over the world.
V-Craft: A Toolset for Building Extensible Page Builders with Vue.js
I'm Luke Hackworth, developer of this site. It's really difficult to find new websites nowadays. The big players penalize posts that lower engagement outside of their own sites, meaning most people are only exposed to a tiny portion of the real web.

I created Feldot to enable the exact opposite behavior, pushing the user to explore new domains. Instead of a link aggregator like HN or Reddit, it's a domain aggregator, pointing to an entire website.

Because it's tough to find new sites, I also created a tool to help find new sites, Feldot Explore[1]. It's not just a list of domain names; each one was scanned to verify that a web server is running on it, and some basic scans were done to remove a majority(but not all) parked domains. The list was checked a year ago so it's not exactly fresh, but I think the signal-to-noise ratio is still good enough.

I posted this a year ago and it gained no traction, which isn't surprising considering its appearance. I revamped its UI, though it's still very much a work in progress. Any feedback, positive or negative, is very appreciated!

[1] https://feldot.com/explore/
Hello, just out of curiosity, is using the NFS Client Provisioner Helm chart necessary anymore for normal kubernetes deployments? My company was using it, but it became a bit of a hassle on GKE for our team, as we found that A) if you tried to reprovision the NFS Client Provisioner then it would no longer mount the NFS share directly, it would create a new subdirectory and the files in the top level of the NFS share would be inaccessible within our pods, and B) It did not support NFSv4. After some research we found that Kubernetes is able to utilize NFS shares natively these days. You can either mount a NFS share directly in a pod as long as its reachable in the network:

https://docs.docker.com/ee/ucp/kubernetes/storage/use-nfs-vo...

However, if you still would like to pre-provision the NFS share as a PV/PVC you are also able to do that and expose the NFS mount as a Kubernetes Object.

https://docs.docker.com/ee/ucp/kubernetes/storage/use-nfs-vo...

Just wondering, now that NFS mounts are directly available within Kubernetes, is there any advantages to utilizing a "3rd party" NFS Client Provisioner Helm deployment?

Anyways, looks like a really great write up. Although Kubernetes can be a big hassle for small teams, I feel like its slowly becoming more and more user accessible and user friendly to more organizations. Even with the mental overhead and hassle of running kubernetes, my team at work has seen some clear benefits from going to an ec2/ansible based architecture to a GKE/helm based architecture.
And the loss will be in the form of gravitational waves.
Amoral if I had to suggest a word, but business and amoral is basically redundant.
Ask HN: Where are the gaps in my understanding as a new webdev?
Yello!
I am trying to build a data-visual interactive site. Here is what I got so far out of my research. I have included my idea of what the stack will look like.
I am hoping for feedback that fills in gaps in understanding, shows alternatives/better options, and more! Forgive any egregious oversights.

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databases (tech not yet researched)
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core logic (tech: sbcl)
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server compute & memory (aws?)
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routers/switches/network devices (tech: invented already at DARPA)
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client OS through access points on device (tech: variable)
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Client browsers (tech: engines and parsers for html, js, css)
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DOM (tech: put together by choices of models, views, and controllers using html, css, angular)
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User interface (tech: human)
I really like this idea. I'll talk to my head of product about it.
Elephants Don't Play Chess [pdf]
When it comes to China I don't think that the aftermath of WWII are key.

The events within China were ongoing and had their roots in the 18th and 19th centuries, as per previous comments, and they are still ongoing.

Japan had invaded in earnest in 1937. That in itself was a consequence of what had been going on for more than a century in both Japan and China. WWII's impact is that suddenly the US was happy to help the RoC and even the communists against Japan. The US did shorten the Japanese invasion of China but I don't think Japan could have prevailed anyway because they were to swallow too much.

Then the US supported Korea and Japan in the aftermath of WWII in their global play against communism and the USSR but that did not have much impact on China.

China is the natural and historical super-power in (East) Asia and there is nothing the US can do for or against that on any relevant historical timescale.

What WWII did is making the US the main power in East Asia. That's neo-imperialism, really, and again linked to the temporary weakness of China. This can be useful for some countries in order to balance Chinese influence but, again, in the long run the overwhelming power will remain China. However one looks at it a 300 million people country on the other side of the world cannot outdo a 1.4 billion country next door in the long run.
A day using money in Cuba
cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Course
(I am still seeking an explanation for Japan's signing of the Plaza Accord that doesn't rely on calling in favours from the LDP. Anybody have one?)
The alternative is that they could just pay their devs 5x what devs would get paid in Europe, which is where this article is about, which is already being done.

Then the staff member can outfit their workspace as they see fit.
Why are you under such tremendous pressure? It is this a desperate move of a company finally going out of business or a result of an extreme pressure from the vc side?

Who has accessed the data already? Not only directly but indirectly as well? Have you received any compensation or settled any transactions by exposing the data?
This is not relevant, because the British began trading opium before that. The opium market was a normal and legal part of commerce in China for several hundred years; the British did not need to manufacture demand.
Do you think that with integrating AI/ML techniques fully into manufacturing automation that in our lifetimes people will become fully obsolete for this kind of work? As a cloud/software/network guy I am curious to see someones opinion who is knowledgeable in this area.
I think it's historical revisionism to claim "mistrustful of the british and looking for an alternative."

The British never controlled China anywhere near the degree they controlled, say, India. Their presence didn't penetrate beyond the coastal provinces (you can see this in that the Chinese presence in other British colonies was largely Cantonese/Fujianese). Even Japan never managed to control more than a section of the country.

The Chinese civil war is legitimately (not euphemistically) referred to as a civil war: Elites battling for control as the center weakened.

I'll agree that the use of the British as a propaganda foil was somewhat effective, and legitimately pointed out atrocities and unfair treatment by all the foreign powers involved. But the value of that propaganda (still effective today) was disproportionate to the actual influence. Nothing wrong with that by the way: state building always involves such propaganda.

By contrast you can see that Britain fully controlled the Indian economy (though for many people lower down on the feudal hierarchy the British were merely one part of the control system, essentially trading one prince for another). And, like China, Britain was one in a punctuated string of foreign invaders who displaced the remnants of a fading prior system. "Indian" identity was more a construct of the educated upper classes who were able, in the 20th century, to eject the British.
Ok, I've had that happen to me one time. I hate that.
To be precise this the email they send you when you request them to delete your account.

"We're processing your request and should be done within 30 days.

We will verify your request using the information associated with your account. Government identification may be required and we may ask you for more information in order to verify your identify.

Any questions? Email us at privacy@triplebyte.com"

They didn't need "government identification" when I signed up for it. Never going back to this site again.
But Rogan's discovery mechanism on youtube is largely short clips of the most controversial or attention-grabbing moments from his long-form content. I would wager to guess that many of his youtube-only viewers probably learned about him from a short clip and went on to watch the full interview out of curiosity.
Human origins: Are we hybrids?
> The Friday announcement was a result of us pushing to get the profile toggle feature out that the email linked to

The absolute most important part of the feature was a last-minute addition?
Dbanay/Smalltalk – “by the blue book” C++ implementation of Smalltalk-80
Interesting, are there any specific features of SQL that make it a good tool for this? My knowledge of SQL is limited to relatively simple selects and joins, and unfortunately my take-away is that I find it clumsy and verbose. Are there advanced, expressive features that are a good fit for constraint solvers?
>Computers can't derive your meaning from context either. If they could, you could just have a single "Do What I Mean" button. But that wouldn't be a computer; that'd be a magic genie :)

Isn't (usually) the moral of a magic genie story that there is no "do what I mean" button? "Be careful what you wish for."
> Then the British said, wait, we have something that you want to buy!

LOL. You’ve gotta admit, that the British are total scumbags for thinking this.

How does this logic serve your moral goals? Hey, let’s get a bunch of Chinese peasants addicted to drugs, and then we will supply them that drug. Profit!

You’ve got to admit that the British has lost any moral standing for doing such things.

Easy steps:

1. Get foreigners addicted to drugs

2. Supply them with drugs, and make it legal to operate there.

3. Meanwhile, the drug is illegal in Britain.

4. Profit
You see too much criticism of a fascist state that at every turn subverts human rights for its own benefit?
> We really need a better medium than the current WWW for this kind of archival, because the researchers are going to retire or die, and then they will probably stop updating their pages, which will then apparently become inaccessible with modern browsers.

I predict at some point we'll end up with a project that does Flash-on-WASM to keep Flash usable.

https://medium.com/leaningtech/preserving-flash-content-with...
It seems exposure to western style business did cause this withdrawal. Sad truth is a democratic China is a lot easier for western capital to control remotely, hence the need to avoid this trap as long as the wise want to escape an updated form of recolonization.
how many Rogans is that?
Demand for opium was on the upswing in China before the British entered the trade.

The British did not have a power to manufacture demand in China and in fact could not place personnel in China. British opium was smuggled into China by Chinese merchants.
Can have applications in AI / AGI alignment.
> But I can't help feeling that I'm subsidizing your lawless, anti-social approach

No, you're subsidizing rich CEOs and their shareholders.
I'm not sure what you mean by ZFS being such a big problem, the CDDL license is considered incompatible and therefore OpenZFS isn't going to be considered for upstreaming. Also, most of OpenZFS development is driven by companies that use it with the Linux kernel, so clearly there isn't that much of a problem with using OpenZFS and Linux. It's pretty similar to how the BSDs may not allow something in base due to licensing, but will allow it in ports/pkg.

If you're asking why OpenZFS is not hosted kernel.org, why would kernel.org host an out of tree kernel module that is never going to be upstreamed? Firmware on the other hand is needed to initialize and use a ton of hardware, and so it makes sense to have a central repository for vendors to submit required firmware. More importantly, why would the OpenZFS community even want to be on kernel.org when they support multiple operating systems and have also not pushed for upstreaming? I really don't think OpenZFS is being treated any better or worse than other license-incompatible kernel modules.

I just don't see how you can characterize it as zealtory any more so than FreeBSD wanting to remove all GPL'd software from base [1], or OpenBSD sticking with Clang 8 in base because of the switch to the Apache 2.0 license [2]. It's pretty normal for software projects to care about licensing.

[1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/GPLinBase

[2] https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-April/112300....
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