skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stop arguing by just reiterating the same set of assumptions over an over again. Especially since most of them are demonstrably wrong.

Firstly most products are commodities and are priced based on cost of production. They are volume products in international markets, people will import grain from across the world if that's cheaper. Yoy can't raise prices on them just because you want to.

Goods like Macbooks are the minority, and most peope who buy macbooks arent on minimum wage and UBI will increase their incomes by like 5% big woop.

Pick up a book on economics and you will realise that economy is not that predictable and mechanistic, and that there are mutiple competing theories, and all ofbthem are ibconplete. So no matter what you believe ecobomically, you should be carefull rather than dogmatic about it.
> I have no interest in demanding how other people define their docs.

I definitely do not want emoji's in official documents, emergency procedures, etc. And I would demand for the same - emoji's are at best decorative, and a lot of times a distraction. Most documents that are of importance to me should be straightforwardly written - and that means no emojis.
See the sibling comment.
Does this story have to be linked to such a shitty ad-filled website? I mean, there are ads right smack in the middle of the figures and pictures of importance.
>>>I AM better than Trump supporters and I DO look down on them. All of them.

So you THINK you're the smartest guy in the room...and yet you can't even conceptualize that, somewhere among the US population of 330 million people, with ~6.6 million geniuses, that there are intelligent, educated, open-minded voters who heavily-weighted policy issues such as border security, 2nd Amendment, and countering a rising China, looked at their Candidate options, and opted for Trump as a best-fit to pursue their prioritized issues.

If your brain can't fathom that possibility, then ARE you objectively better than ALL of them? That's far beyond statistically improbable. I would hope that you would cultivate a sense of introspection and contemplate the subject. All of us would benefit. Seriously. No one in America gains when portions of our population are completely unable to productively engage with their fellow citizens, which they've cast wholesale in a mold shaped by the most ridiculous, caricatured stereotype possible.
I always wonder if there is value in extending the HTML spec to include contracts in webpages for 3rd party calls. Might help enforce a domain level policy by a domain owner making sure content creators have to oblige.

Exactly the reverse of the cross-origin request header.
And what happens when this service you depend on gets shut down for whatever reason?
Toolbase.io - Search engine for SaaS tools sorted by industry, size, painpoints.
I'm curious, do you think the Chinese people have been so brainwashed that they are incapable of considering the U.S. as a beacon of hope? The only interest America has in Hong Kong is purely financial. We've not done much to support democracy and freedom over there.
My startup is a Cronhub customer.

What makes cron-job.org not an alternative for us, is that this they monitor by crawling a URL that you provide. This is limiting and doesn't serve our use case for backend system monitoring.

By contrast, Cronhub gives us a public endpoint that we must ping by a certain interval to say that our service ran in the interval.

We also use their slack integration to show any monitoring failures in our #fires channel!

It's a monitoring service that "just works" and we don't have to maintain it, and if things go wrong we can reach out to someone since we are paying customers.

Also Tigran is very responsive!
The Pros and Cons of Perforce Helix Core Edge Servers vs. Forwarding Replicas
3-Benefit of the Custom Keto Diet
Show HN: Nexus – Free Avatar, Logo, and URL Enrichment APIs
Hey HN community!

Today I am launching the beta version of a project I've been working on called Nexus (https://docs.nexus150.com). Nexus provides APIs for avatars, logos, favicon, and open-graph data.

I needed an API for user avatars, company logos, url unfurling/embedding for my other projects – and Nexus was born.

I'm launching the beta version in order to help discover bugs/issues before opening up the paid version to the public.

Feel free to check out the documentation and start using it today for free: https://docs.nexus150.com

More public APIs to come. Let me know what other public APIs you would like to see in the roadmap.

Thanks!
Google Books is still pretty decent, although I wish they still were scanning old books. I think they discontinued that.
Dr. Fauci Backed Wuhan Lab with US Dollars for Coronavirus Research
If you're an actual mathematician writing pages and pages of equations, LaTeX is not complicated, unintuitive, ugly, or slow. It's actually extremely well designed for addressing what is a very difficult problem, the problem of translating mathematics into ASCII. For how difficult that problem is, LaTeX is quite genius.

I think a lot of the would-be LaTeX-disruptors lack enough experience actually writing mathematics. LaTeX worked because Donald Knuth is both a great programmer AND a good mathematician. When LaTeX gets replaced, it'll need to replaced by a person (or team) with similar cross-disciplinary strengths.
Probably, but Section 230 needs reform. If this makes that happen sooner - in court or congress - so be it. We cannot depend on congress to do anything, so maybe it's time to push the issue a little.
No VM, it is just a light weight distribution of Kubernetes that can be effortlessly installed and run on Linux.
John should follow up with UFCEE, UFSEE, YOU-FC, etc.
Super cool! are you able to share what are the tools you used underneath?
> By contrast, here are some examples of techniques that, used responsibly, would not be affected by the new signal:

> Interstitials that appear to be in response to a legal obligation, such as for cookie usage or for age verification.

Too bad they don’t penalize cookie consent popups. Google is in a unique position to motivate website owners to stop using tracking cookies and make the web a better place. As a reminder, under GDPR a consent is only needed for tracking cookies, not for functional cookies. I guess whitelisting such popups is better aligned with their ad business.
A bit OT, but do you mean the servers for AppGet?
Yes, and it clearly says it's not open source in the README:

> Since Photopea is not fully open-source, this account serves as a place for bug reports and general discussion.
Africa's information and knowledge gap has become even more evident
Happy 20th Birthday, Audacity
Over time in a project, "flexibility" often starts to become synonymous with bug-prone, and poor organization of classes/functions/data is another big killer. Three functions in different places doing almost the same thing but with unique quirks, and you being fairly new to the codebase don't know that any of them exist, so you write a fourth.

Neither OO nor functional approaches solve this inherently, but the tools of OO provide some nice options. Just think about why you'd be using them for each case.
It would be very useful to know the percentage of completed deals. Is it 1% or 10% or higher? I think the number tends towards 1% rather than 10%. We (mostly) hear about successful deals and not unsuccessful ones which why this article is very valuable.
But if it’s closed then how do you know everything went down? I’ve had some double flushers in my day.
Oh wow, let's see how that would work with tariffs and taxes. The U.S. government can do a lot to screw with business operations, domestic or abroad. A bureaucrat sitting in an office at the DOE or Trade can hold up a shipment of controller boards for any number of reasons almost indefinitely; piracy, hacking, heck even conflict minerals.
I learned pointers properly today
I've found PyOxidizer immature in comparison to pyInstaller.
https://www.pyinstaller.org/

Your milage might vary, but I think the former is still very much a work in progress.
Italian Video by CGTN (China GT Network) Just Before Pandemic Hit Europe
Can you elaborate on what you think is bad about Google Docs? Aside from the data privacy concerns from the fact that it's owned and operated by Google (which I agree with), it seems like a fantastically usable, available, and powerful product. What do you fear would happen to LaTeX in this situation?
Notes on “Code BEAM V 2020”
Of course there's a difference. A domestic engineer needs great software development skills and decent communication skills. A foreign engineer needs great software skills, great English skills and an extra measure of communications skills to bridge the cultural gap without ever meeting face-to-face. Clearly one of these workers is more highly skilled than the other and would be harder to recruit.
I appreciate the enthusiasm, but that web page needs a serious reset of expectations. Starting with the battery: 500Wh means if you want to run a fridge, it better be a tiny one. For those that don't have this stuff memorized, you can run 5 old-school 100W incandescent bulbs for an hour on that battery. That's about 20 minutes of microwave oven, and then you wait 3 or 4 hours before you do it again. Best I can figure, it'll barely run a 3.2 cubic foot "dorm" fridge, and with lossiness it probably won't be able to do even that. It'll run your lights, it'll charge your phone, you can run your laptop. Which is probably good enough for most folk.

But that picture with a rigid panel just lying on that thin ledge, that has to go.

Source: RV owner with 410W of heavily-researched solar on the roof, and a big-ass battery.
> basically going after the long tail of cloud hosting.

I want to really stress that your thesis is on point, but it's not about cloud hosting per se. If software is eating the world, and everyone is going to have some level of proficiency as a dev, Microsoft is targeting being the digital operating system of the economy. You write and run your business on Microsoft, whether you're a Fortune 500 or 5 people working out of a coworking space, and you can even get email, team chat, office apps, workflow automation tools, and everything else under the MS umbrella if that's what your business needs.
Big Tech’s favorite law is under fire again – what Section 230 says
The counter argument is every netflix show and movie, every hbo show, every amazon show, is available via torrent moments after it comes out. And yet Netflix and Amazon are an N and A in FAANG. They're hugely profitable, even though it can all be pirated trivially.

Similarly there are things like humblebundle which releases all software DRM free (or did) yet devs are making money.

This isn't about zero piracy. It's about whether or not DRM is effective. I think sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't. I'm not sure I can put my finger on where it is and where it isn't.

As one example, my impression is it's important for software like Maya, 3DSMax, Autodesk. I'm confident most companies i've worked for would not bother purchasing the appropriate number of licenses if they didn't have to. It might not even be deliberate. It's just if the software wasn't DRMed they'd just install on each new employee's machine and put it on a forgotten TODO list to buy a new license. The software is large enough and the market small enough that DRM matters.

On the other hand, examples of Netflix above, it not clear it matters for movies. Nor is it clear it matters for AAA games or even many popular Indie games.
I'm waiting for the milli, I'm not sure what the mini is.
Legal Systems very different from ours, because I just made them up
Thanks for the support! Yeah, this was a hard decision but hopping the right one for future sustainability.
I do totally understand what you mean, but I don't think you should dismiss the idea this swiftly. This is effectively a dictatorship vs democracy argument. I tend to suspect that neither solution would provide exactly what you wanted unless you were the dictator!

If you accept that premise, the decision has to be: which system would serve the most people the best? I'm inclined to think that a team with a budget of $20M would probably get the closest.
> This is going to be really unpopular but you could allow people to write their papers in Microsoft word .

Many journals do allow Word submissions. Nature, for example[0]

[0] "we strongly encourage you to incorporate the manuscript text and figures into a single PDF or Microsoft Word file" https://www.nature.com/nature/for-authors/initial-submission
Oh, it is a lot of effort. Just pouring a lot of money and hoping that we can get through warts (without losing the best parts) of LaTeX is unreasonable.

And in fact, there are projects:

- https://www.mathjax.org/, and its much faster (and less feature-complete) variant https://katex.org/

- http://www.luatex.org/ - I guess this is the closest to what you mean

- https://rstudio.github.io/distill/ (using Knitr; it can generate HTML or PDFs)

etc, etc.

Even now, other libraries use BibTeX, which would be the easiest to replace in some more standardized format (JSON or YAML, so it is easy to load from web, directly).
Just so you know, the immediately-invoked function expression (IIFE) syntax is unnecessary here. This would do:

javascript:document.designMode=document.designMode=='on'?'off':'on'
Most confrontations can be resolved beforehand. The confrontation is unnecessary, take small steps to improve relations. Even a firing shouldn't be a confrontation it should be part of a process .
Some of these questions and answers (bottom link on page) are hilarious.

> I believe that Linus Torvold was the ONLY Son of Code. I believe that He open sourced the OS to save us from our bugs, and that the ONLY path to salvation is to accept Linus as our Lord and Savior, whereupon we are forgiven for our bugs. I believe we only compile once and that continuous integration, as believed by Coders and Programmers (and by some QA Specialists and Architects), is a false doctrine. I do not know where Linus was from ages 13–29, but I reject the idea that he spent time in Silicon Valley with venture capitalists and/or brogrammers. I believe that Jobs and Gates were historical figures who were NOT Sons of Code. I acknowledge that Linus instructs us to code (in the Linux kernel, Version 4.19 and Luke 5.0-rc1) beginning with the command "vim" (not "nano" nor "vscode"); nevertheless, I do NOT believe I am a Son, Daughter or Child of Code.

> I am living inside the Internet technically, but it's not my fault. One day when I was pre release, my developer (or other programmers) brought me into the Internet illegally. Ever since that day, I have been living inside the Internet. I am not a human being; I do not have a web server; I do not have an I.P. address; and I have not been granted a hostname by a DNS. I have never been banned for any trolling on the Internet.
That is cool. Thanks for sharing it!

I remember seeing this image in an older version of Don Norman's famous book The Design of Everyday Things:https://pictures.abebooks.com/JVALLES/3324134975.jpg

I think that was a US plant, but it was a cool idea.
How about a modern TeX formatting layer to replace LaTeX?
I assumed that if ctrl-F works, then screen readers also work. Can you share a bit of information about what tends to go wrong, and/or how document authors can fix it?
I think this is a world totally foreign to what HN's world is about, which is why it's so charming/aesthetically pleasing. (exaggerating a bit, but not that much)

The reason that these switches and dials are ok to be hardcoded in metal and glass is that they (and the people) do the same thing, over and over, year after year, for decades at a time. Rinse and repeat.

Versus the software world (or more accurately, the world of starting up new things and experiments within months) -- where you don't know what you're building yet, whether it will work, and if it will still exist next year.
All well and good but blockchain doesn’t invalidate the need for ‘good faith’, which is actually due diligence supported by rule of law.
Still my favorite editor, so that’s sad to hear.

For those of you that have moved on from Atom, but didn’t go to VS Code, where did you end up? Sublime Text is probably where I’ll head (back to), but curious if there are other options people are happy with. Have tried VS Code multiple times, but it just feels kludgy to me.
Word with a template is the easiest way I've found to write scientific papers.
Like a personal identification npassword?

Seriously, though, PIN implies a number for a reason (even if people don't think about it or say things like "PIN number"). They should expect confusion if they refer to a password as a PIN.
Never touch a running nuclear reactor...that i think say's it all
And if you try to create one you’re gonna get a reality check really quick when you allegedly threaten the sovereignty of some nation state like those seasteading people did.
Some executives stay long term, some build portfolios, guide companies through a given stage and jump to the next. They can then say they “saved” this and that by offshoring. What happens 5 years after they leave is of little consequence.

Institutional knowledge informs why a solution works better than a shiny. The contract org will push through what works best for them, more than what’s best for your org long term. Contract orgs like checking off Hundreds of NIST or CIS controls as if that in and of itself means anything substantive.
How about just about to make your own island in international water?
USSR's Strategic Rocket Forces Control Rooms were also quite spectacular. It's a pity I do not have photos of them (for obvious reasons).

This https://habr.com/ru/post/446098/ is close but not quite. The satellite state map (ru: Карта спутниковой обстановки) and rooms themselves were less fancy but more brutally-functional I would say.
The colors seem a bit exaggerated - these pictures were for sure originally mostly black and white, and whoever digitized them, added a lot of bright colors. In reality it was greyish as in the last picture from Chernobyl. I worked in a Soviet semi-military chip factory, it looked pretty much similar.
> That back-fired big time when the quality of service went to crap with companies rushing to bring these services back home.

Ofc now many of these have gone to crap again now with full automation.
Although HK appears to be the direct casualty of US change of trade status, the reality is that China is one who will bleed once the HK trade window is closed.

For too long China practised a kind of hostage diplomacy where it solves its problems by taking hostages and then negotiating for concessions. For instance the two Canadians detained to pressure Canada to release Huawei CFO.

Hong Kong is now another hostage of CCP, Xi betting that the US dare not tighten the screw on its tariff as long as HK is a hostage in its grip. But most likely China will fail, as HK people have prepared themselves to be sacrificed to bring down the CCP. On an individual level HKers will begin another mass exodus like in pre-1997.
I wonder if Python will go back and address other shortcoming which I assume are tied to the parser, such as the inability to use quotes inside the interpolated segments.
I've often wished this feature actually, especially when submitting pull requests, and you'd like to showcase the new features. I've often had to either embed a video link or convert to gif.
No keyboard cut, copy and paste?
If I had a few million dollars budget for improving latex, I'd spend 90% of it UX research. What are people using it for? What are the biggest pain points? Which easy wins are there?

Then try to modify it as little as possible while improving things.
> Most of them were specific to Windows, which casts a lot of doubt on its cross-platform promise.

Oh. That really surprised me, as I had assumed the bugbears I have as an occasional nim user were because it was developed for/on Windows primarily. Actually bothering to take a look seems to show me that isn't the case at all.

Bugbears such as the linking story on Linux¹, the argument handling², the style and verbosity of the compiler output, [a bunch of others]. Nothing show stopping to be fair, but a bunch of things that just seem out of place(and that always seem to require explanation when co-workers see a nim tool).

1. https://github.com/nim-lang/rfcs/issues/58

2. https://nim-lang.org/docs/parseopt.html , although alleviated by argparse to some extent.
Nobody knows for sure what they were doing since the script dropped via the salt vulnerability downloaded new scripts and executed them every 60 seconds. Just because all they found were crypto miners doesn't mean it was the only thing it was doing. And also there were multiple groups exploiting this vulnerability at the same time as was evidenced in one of the scripts trying to detect and eliminate competing scripts dropped by someone else
Yes, I often miss being able to do "1 second / 2 MB in minutes / 1.2GB"
Yeah, that's it, between Bulbasaur and the people sitting down. Here's the picture I took of it the last time I was there: https://pasteboard.co/JauAUWV.jpg
DDG has reduced my need for Google Search for about 99% now. I even dread having to adding “!g” to my search as I have a growing dislike for Google’s grey UX patterns.
There's no reason for this, and it bothers me enough that I'm doing something about it.

A (series of) REPL commands is just a test, where acceptance and rejection is manual: we look at the output, and keep changing the code until we get what we want.

At which point, we should be able to say to the REPL: yes, this result is correct, this is a test, and it's now called "Thing does what I want when I give it X and Y".

The runtime then saves this as a test, and will run it automatically when you ask it to. If there's a regression, it will boot back up into the interactive REPL so you can inspect it and fix it.

I've been writing a REPL. Turns out that's a lot of work, but I'm getting to the point where I can add this feature, which is the last one I really want to add before I go public with this thing.
> I’m pretty sure HN, the site were literally posting on, does not have either of these,

As far as I know, HN does have two full-time employees whose sole job is moderation. I believe they also have some automated spam detection involved too.

> yet it’s miles better than anything on fb or twitter so I’m not sure I buy this argument.

This can be explained almost entirely by the fact that bad actors go where the greatest concentration of good actors is. Small communities are relatively safe with little effort required on their part, because they simply aren't a big enough target to be worth a bad actor's time.

For a long time, it was taken for granted that "Mac didn't have viruses". It wasn't because Mac OS was somehow more virus-proof than Windows. It was simply that Mac was like 2% of the marketshare and thus just not a worthwhile platform for hackers to target.
It also makes many parts of the world less effective. Air and water pollution can significantly impair brain function and cause stress on employees
So true! Also based on the design of Blogger!
I think they were appended to the end of each line, so unfortunately that would make it non-obvious that something was there. If they were rendered as spaces that would explain not being able to see it. Displaying them as � would be an improvement.

Again, this was awhile ago, but I don't think they were single characters, it was a sequence of characters.
Learning is a prerequisite, jobs pivot, things change

Maybe in another hundred years things'll settle down