skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While discoverability can be better with GUI's I find that googling things is always better for CLI tools. Most of my CLI search have a one or two lines of bash I can simply copy paste while solutions for GUI programms often involves lot's of screenshots of dropdowns to open and if the look of the application changed or the element's in the dropdown's are not the same it can be hard to follow.

Taking not's of how to do things or creating shorcuts will also always be better with CLI's since manipulation text is easy and always supported.
According to Next.js:

> Today, Next.js powers over 35,000 sites at companies like Uber, Nike, and Starbucks.
I came of age with Reagan in office, I've seen plenty of politicians.

How many other presidents have had a lifetime of lying publicly and being caught at it over and over for decades, and still lying and spouting obviously false BS, over and over, throughout a lifetime?

Every other prior president that I have any knowledge of their lives prior to office, has never displayed the level of inability to see anything but what they want to, and an inability to see facts and corrections as anything but personal attacks.

He is a classic narcissist, unlike anyone that's ever held the office before.

Johnson is the only other one I can think of who ever reached near this level of unstable behavior.

> the truth about how presidents usually are

No, Trump is unique in the history of the office. Bush doesn't hold a candle to Trump's personality disorder. Saying so fails to acknowledge just how critically self-absorbed and malignant his behavior is.
I have an extension in the Chrome store [0] that brings dictation into GMail. I piggyback on the Web Speech API, which in the case of Chrome uses Google's servers.

Considering the audio stream upload & processing & network jitter/lag, the speed at which text results come back is simply incredible. I don't remember the exact timing, but it was a roundtrip of 40-100?ms which is... crazy/magic.

I made a small experiment with this same Chrome text to speech engine which triggered a google image search and showed in near real time image results for the spoken words. The slowest part of that Rube Goldberg was the google images search + loading the images. [1]

I also.... "secretly" believe that very fast speech recognition is one of "the" secrets to building a smarter / better digital voice assistant. It's one of the key components (with a ton of groundbreaking NLP and/or the right regexes) that might allow closing the "strange feeling" you get when talking to the robot... voice... and... it... answers....... not ... exactly when...... you were expecting it.... to.

I'm super mega busy these days but also super mega interested in this. Reach out? :-)

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dictation-for-gmai...

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/BwqFQgWFsYu/
LED bulbs with FCC part 15 certification should be RF-quiet.[1]

If we're going to have anti-China tariffs, a useful thing to do would be to require FCC and UL approval. Power supplies would cost a little more but would not catch fire, and few things would blither all over the RF spectrum.

[1]https://apps.fcc.gov/kdb/GetAttachment.html?id=K0pZdRE7biF3a...
I suspect a third of Americans are now displaying symptoms of mental health disorders that were already present. Mental health disorders are drastically under reported in the US, and due to various stigmas most people are unwilling to except mental health illnesses as actual illnesses until they are prepared to harm someone.

This is the number one problem most police officers deal with when engaging with the public. Many people have mental health disorders they are not aware of resulting in all manners of poor decisions and disorderly conduct. Some of these disorders are severe and demand medication and some are exaggerated by existing medications. I recommend talking with experienced police officers and listening to some of their war stories.

My sister-in-law is also a managing mental health counselor and says the number of undiagnosed mental health disorders could represent as much as 40% of the population.

In my own experience I find that people hide from this by frequently changing their social situation and environment through out the day, such as driving to an office. When you are stuck at home full time with nowhere to go suddenly coping and distraction mechanisms are gone which becomes clear to the coinhabitants. I am on my fifth military deployment so I have gone through this a few times, and you can readily see the people lacking of a regular rhythm of emotional stability and stress management. You are with these people all the time as you live, socialize, and work with them. On a military deployment you can’t rely on a frequent change of scenery to hide your insanity.

The most common example of excuse that people would hide behind pre-pandemic is finances. Bad financial situations are stressful, but stress is not a mental health disorder. Extreme stresses though often exacerbate pre-existing illnesses. In that regard bad finances don’t produce mental health disorders as frequently as suggested but instead exaggerate pre-existing conditions that become more clearly identifiable.

The difference between stress and a mental health disorder is something called homeostasis, which is the ability of the brain to return to a state of regular emotional equilibrium following an incidence of high stress. The military refers to the cognitive process of actively maintaining homeostasis as resiliency and it’s part of our annual training. The inability to return to resume functions of prior behavior following a major stressor is likely the result of a mental health illness.

https://www.academia.edu/4970988/Mental_Health_DSM-V_mental_...
Ask HN: What's your favorite landing page builder?
I recently came across launchaco.com which is super nice but for the most part, I end up building my landing pages by hand.

If you don't have a favorite landing page builder, what would your ideal landing page builder be?
Holding out hope still: https://9to5mac.com/2020/05/11/14-inch-macbook-pro-2021/
Python One-Liners [Book]
> There is no short term price in stocks. Stocks are valued at their perceived long term value.

Hogwash. Pretty much every company on the S&P 500 dropped 30% around March. Did their perceived long-term value change 30%? I doubt it. I think most people were fully aware that most companies in the S&P's 10 year value wasn't going to change much; certainly not 30%. Yet, it dropped 30%. And then the next month it has risen back up to about 10% of its all-time high. I don't think people seriously thought that Apple, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, etc. suddenly dropped in value 30% and then suddenly rose 20% (yes, I know, technically it was more). If you can have swings of +/- 30% over a period of two months, I don't think the value is reflecting the long-term prospects.

There is both short-term AND long-term pricing in stocks. "In the short-run, the market is a voting machine. In the long-run, the market is a weighing machine." Ben Graham
> Competition from other car-makers, which is precisely capitalism. Otherwise it would be illegal price collusion.

You say that like price collusion doesn't happen anyway.

https://www.usitc.gov/press_room/news_release/2009/er0629gg1...

We already saw the Obama administration tax the shit out of underpriced Chinese tires to drive production and consumption of domestic brands. So some funny money gets injected into the market, and the first thing we see is American manufacturers taking advantage of the lack of competition by raising their own prices to absorb the delta in capital since cheaper alternatives no longer existed.

UBI does not work in a capitalist economy. Prices always adjust to the maximum people are able to pay, even (and especially) where it does not meet the statutory definition of "collusion." It's fucked by design.
In the USA being able to use public transit is very rare and most commutes in major cities are long. I used to have the good fortune of being able to commute by train for 20-30 minutes and had the option of biking as well. I loved that commute but I fully recognize most people are not so fortunate. I had co-workers in the same office who drove 2 hours each way.
What a world we live in...

Tucker Carlson on Fox News yesterday tried to directly correlate the findings in this study to other news agency reports ( lies according to Tucker ) on the coronavirus... see the video @ around 6:50ish headlining this story on Fox News:

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-cnn-msnbc-are...
> They've had the ability to do so for, well, 20 years now. They haven't yet.

as we don’t have proof that google did not do nefarious things, we don’t have proof that they haven’t. with such monopoly and power distrust is useful thing.
Have to choose the town wisely... in extremely small towns you might find people go out of their way to interact with you more and are generally more interested in your private business. Part of my family lives in small towns and I think they have less privacy than I do.
A thing can be for more than one reason at once.

Of course the US wouldn't have done this had it been against the US' interests.
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I believe you. But this is a case where https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... comes into play.
Congratulations on the cash, but after trying it out recently, Gatsby feels like it was made as a dare to make the process of displaying a bit of HTML and CSS on the page as complicated as possible.
Completely different. Look up privacy or anonymity on beaker's site? Crickets. It's a browser, apparently with all the dangerous bloat (javascript...) with a bolted-on p2p network that apparently does nothing for privacy or censorship resistance.

Freenet is a p2p network with a focus on anonymity and resistance against censorship. It's not a browser, but for freesites it's got protections in place to filter out dangerous active content.
One of the most superficial ways that Georgism obviously beats Marxism is that Georgists will tell someone interested exactly what to read, will acknowledge very explicitly the few parts that are incorrect or misguided.

Marxists meanwhile hem and haw about what an aspiring Marxist should read and will hand-wave away any contradictions.
From what I've read on China's mindset, they are impatient to regain middle-kingdom status. In other words, they are the economic, military, and cultural center of the world, and everyone else sends them raw materials. (trying to find the article where I read that - it was from some US diplomat).

A pre-req for that would be to secure complete control over all territorial claims. So if they can speed up the hong kong integration, they would do so.
I’m not sure we really want people trying this on their own initiative. This was a very good quality implementation, but most attempts at this would’ve consisted of a piece of cardboard and some spray paint.
SpaceX will sell the cheapest internet
Yeah seems so. It’s a shame that they can only be shallowly cast from mutable to immutable (and will even throw errors if non-primitive values are present). Seems like quite the limitation.

And yeah, I’m all for immutability as a default, but breaking so pervasive an existing API is a lot of damage.
I have an experimental GUI that uses a simple language to reify interactions as described here. It works great.
Instacart also manages to "lose" the meat products out of our orders somewhere between store and front door. And all they do is refund the price of the items.

So then you have to go out to the grocery store yourself anyway.
Ask HN: Should we be doing everything we can to bring about the AI singularity?
AKA was Ted Kazinsky right? Obligatory "not the murder part"

There is more suffering in nature than we can probably even imagine. I don't believe in an afterlife because the logistics of it don't make sense. Do dim humans have an afterlife? What about bright animals? Is there a cut off limit where all of a sudden you don't get an afterlife? So I think it's probably just this life. When I think of all the humans who never get to live up to their potential, who unjustly fade away unfulfilled, who never live an intellectually rich life, who find themselves on the wrong side of society or the law, etc. it makes me want to do everything possible to help the technilogical singularity arrive as soon as possible.

For a long time this is how I thought. I even started a college-level site devoted to math education and retention (had to pause it because I needed to take on projects that had a better chance of making money).

Lately I have been thinking a lot more about society (perhaps because of the covid19 insanity). Has technology really made life better for us? I'm not interested in statistics about age of death or personal wealth because I doubt those are the right ways to measure well being. Technology seems to concentrate wealth and well being. We've built cities around the automobile and in the process lost our communities. A large part of the internet has turned into a mind control and censorship industry. etc.

I'm starting to have doubts that we will be capable of creating a benevolent AI. ...if Musk makes it, possibly. If Bezos makes it, welcome to the dystopia.

Do you have any thoughts about any of this?
Silver Bullets in Software Development
I know someone in data analytics as Boeing. As of Sunday he had a job. Obviously Boeing is in multiple sectors and don't have all of their eggs in the 737-Max basket, working in other areas of aerospace and rocketry (see ULA).
Really good autocompletion replete with helper/explanatory text can help a lot with CLI discoverability.
I believe that the lightning strike concern is lightning strikes during flight not on the ground. They've got plenty of lightning towards around the rocket on the ground, and if it would be useful they could have easily added more taller ones. They just don't want to load the propellant if there is no chance of launching.
I use freshdirect and I can see why people prefer their own shopping. With the pandemic a lot of products are perpetually sold out and there's a week long wait for delivery slots. More importantly, the produce and meat they deliver will often be a day from going bad. I've gotten mushrooms that had more black spots than not on them. So I don't even bother anymore to order perishables.
Im not sure what your point is except to state a contrary position. Try to contribute better next time.
But they still make decisions on who to play (partially) based on who puts butts in seats.
Prontopia bridges digital divide to enable safer city living for seniors
Thank you! This is absolute gold.
kinda the point. If they were still run by engineers they wouldn't be having those Max issues. They might be having other issues, of course, but making planes that can't take off without crashing wouldn't be one of them
Yeah. I'm imagining the guy who says "fuck that" to picking the brown m&ms out as the same kind of person who goes "10A circuits should be fine. They build safety margins into those" or "those rafters should be fine to hold 2 tons of equipment. They're really stout 2x6's." You know, the kind of person who just assumes they know better and that what is planned doesn't matter. And if you let them do that they will totally kill you with their negligence.
Wait until congress hears about the influence Charles Koch wields. If you think I trust Koch more than Putin you’re out of your damn mind.
How so? They already have Dacia as their budget brand.
Yeah why would anyone not version control their dot files
I'm surprised I've never heard of this. The results seem pretty good too.

Searching for my username on DDG returns an entire page of results on "glanders", a "contagious zoonotic infectious disease that occurs primarily in horses, mules, and donkeys". I don't find anything related to my name until page 2.

Runnaroo, however, has my GitHub profile as the first hit and my person website as the second. I like those results!
Did you know you can get through the security cordons at international summits by simply arriving with flags on your car and your own motorcycle outriders? https://youtu.be/TdnAaQ0n5-8?t=56
John Insprucker just talked about this on the webcast and pointed out that with the chilled propellants used by the F9, it's also not possible to wait after prop load has started because the propellants will warm up and change engine performance.
Don't those platforms have their own package distributions? macOS has homebrew, and I hear Windows has a few.
This right here gentleman is in charge of what Twitter deems "factually correct" and "safe" for you: https://twitter.com/yoyoel/status/796186371408789505

Just wonderful, absolutely unbiased human being, 100% "site integrity" guaranteed: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8361349/Head-Twitte...

So no, let's not "lay that aside".
I used Kroger's clicklist when it first started, and it was find but got worse. It wouldn't have been so bad if I got the occasional piece of produce or meat I would normally give a pass too, but as time when on, it started to seem like they were actively starting to dump their worst meats and produce on clicklist shoppers.

I also found myself having to go inside the store almost every time to go get the items that were allegedly unavailable. In the end if I'm going to go inside anyway I might as well not pay the extra fee and not get the worst the meat and produce departments have to offer.
> You also could never afford to piss America off, which is why every other protagonist in hollywood movies is some Tom Cruise lookalike who combats people who speak English in a broken Russian accent.

Michael Moore's documentaries get shown in theatres as do others.

Such movies about Chinese bad actors wouldn't get even a single showing in China. And would probably get the director placed in jail.

You can slag on America for lots of things. This isn't one of them.

And, by the way, one of James Bond's enemies was effectively Rupert Murdoch (Tomorrow Never Dies). So, even English enemies appear in Hollywood films.
I mean the kind of data structures that the software is operating on, in particular the ones that can end up in an exported file.
more mindset than actual qualifications. The point is really about losing sight of what the company does and focusing purely on the money
How are you possibly writing any kind of real-time app in JavaScript with a GC?
Not sure. Why should those be needed?

It says run once and it literally launches 10+ within the same 100ms.

That’s just broken.
Are you asking what would happen if you defraud the company you work for?
Ask HN: What things take about 1 week of manual effort but can be automated?
I am looking for things to build for side project/income but lack the domain expertise to know what are the problems out there. I imagine many others are on the same boat. So, I am creating a thread for others to share their observations of inefficient practices that they have seen in their walks of life. The problems/solutions need not be software engineering related. For instance, someone who has worked in a cafe could share why their POS is inefficient (if it is). I hope this elicits diverse and interesting problems across different domains. Thanks in advance :)
That's ok, you're doing an awesome job, keep focusing on the good work :) It'll probably itch me again at some point.
> If these companies want us to take them seriously as champions of free speech, they have to play their role to help restore that balance of power, by being far more stringent about fact-checking the tweets of those global leaders than they would be for ordinary posters.

What about the executive and majority stockowners of these companies, and how they might abuse their power?

I would rather prefer a federated structure like email. Anybody can choose their own clients to generate their own biased/unbiased feeds, and with plugins for fact checking.

Elizabeth Warren had a position on making the big tech companies open platforms. That was along the same lines, and would provide a far better solution than handing off the power to control people off to FB and Twitter execs
it cratered for Boeing's planes before that because of the Max disaster
> The recent case with the baker was extending the protection of human rights to gay couples.

He offered to sell them a pre-made cake (in compliance with non-discrimination laws). The question was whether he could be compelled to perform an act of speech (custom-making a cake) that violated his sincerely-held religious beliefs.
Ford’s Latest Tech Helps Police Vehicles Neutralize Covid-19
Seems like a lot of options were/are debated: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-record-tuple/issues/10

The benefit to #{}/#[] is that # is not an existing identifier character (other than private fields) in JS, and also isn't an existing binary operator. Proposals to TC39 are constrained that they must as much as possible not "break" existing JS parsing of existing code. That removes a lot of possible characters because they already have valid parses. It also makes it tough to introduce new keywords beyond those ES3/ES5 set in stone as reserved, because they might be identifier names in user applications.
exactly, think of a bartender refusing to serve a problematic former client a drink, or the bouncers not letting them in, due to them being specifically sanctioned.
private business absolutely has the right to refuse service to people over their behavior or expressed intentions.

the US first amendment protects against GOVERNMENTAL infringement.

in terms of this Twitter tempest-in-a-teapot, they ALSO have a right to free speech and Trumps demonstrably FALSE claims can absolutely be addressed, labeled as false, and that is an absolute right to free speech that Trump has already threatened with specious "governmental action" which PRECISELY violates both the letter and the spirit of the first amendment!

Trump is violating it!
No. I do not think that. It does not make my statement invalid. Does it?

(Come to think of it, it is interesting to see how the US is so addicted to pills and the opiate epidemic. The doctors are free to prescribe willingly, receive incentives from pharma companies and there is almost zero downside paid by them for those that get addicted. Don't you think this would be a much smaller problem if there was a way to get Skin in the Game from the doctors and companies and make them pay for cases of opiate abuse?)

Anyway, I was thinking of drugs that may affect anyone, like treatments for common diseases. For those, the idea is that I would like to have some sense of symmetry in the risk taking for all parties.

As perhaps a better way illustrate what I mean: whenever I had to take my kids to the pediatrician, I would listen to the doctor's recommendations and would ask "If it was your kid, would you still do the same you are telling me?"

Here in Germany the practices are way more conservative and less pill-happy in the US, so I can't recall any time where the doctor would propose something that was not willing to apply to one of her own. In Brazil, however, I do remember in 2017 during an outbreak of Yellow Fever when I everyone was rushing to the hospitals to get a vaccine. I talked to a nurse who basically said "If it was my kid, I wouldn't give it. The side-effects are too strong and it is only sensible if you live really close to the Forest." The doctor later confirmed, and we walked out.
It's a desktop app. If Obsidian shuts down the app will continue to work as long as your OS can run electron apps. If it doesn't work, they're just markdown files a million other apps can handle.
I hope they name it mastodon.gov
It's possible physics-wise, I believe.

They do a couple orbits gentle approach first because a) it's not a great idea to barrel towards the ISS at speed and b) it gives an opportunity to check for things like "did our solar panels deploy" and "do we need to land because the air is leaking out".