skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the first Linux Sucks that I have seen and although it's humorous it doesn't seem like satire. The issues he humorously points out are real issues with the Linux desktop today.

I've been saying for a long time that one of the beauties of Linux is that anyone and everyone can do their own thing but that can also be a weakness. You have thousands of incredible talented developers doing their own thing. If you piss off some of the talent on your own projects they'll leave and do their own thing. That's beautiful in a way but it does weaken the Linux desktop as a whole.

A benevolent dictator / vision is counterintuitive to the OSS spirit but it's priceless IMO.
hi mcint, i use the DIY ruby script for a poor man's webdav server (there is IIS webdav, Apache or Caddy webdav, but they are more involved):
https://gist.github.com/jimfoltz/ee791c1bdd30ce137bc23cce826...

For sync I use syncthing. Syncthing and ruby work on Android and/or Termux respectively.

So sometimes I like to browse / lookup my TW5 from a multitab VR environment, my android phone or my desktop
There's enough evidence for vitamin D being beneficial that it's certainly not likely to hurt anything and is probably a good idea.
The anglosphere countries should offer citizenship to any Hong Kong citizen that wants it.
> They also run on razor-thin margins, so they don't spend a dime they can't see immediate, measurable ROI on.

You're not wrong, but if their margins are so thin, where is slice making its money? VCs? Or is slice raising prices (Delivery fee, increase per item cost, etc).

Couldn't these restaurant owners just increase their prices to what Slice is charging?
> same old Square and Saw waves

You should explore more electronic music. This is either an intentional attack or an ignorant statement.

Edit:

> musicianship has all but died in Gen Z

See South Park S15E07 "You're Getting Old"
What a dose of reality for anyone yearning for Linux desktop to succeed. I use Linux at work and at home because of the configurability and security and because our servers run Linux but I absolutely do not enjoy tinkering around when things don't work. Although I can usually figure out a way or workaround, it's such a waste of time and life is short.

I wouldn't mind paying as much for a Linux distro that just works as I would for Windows 10, or even double. But one can only dream. I've filed and commented on quite a few bugs only to have them ignored. The paid support for Ubuntu has a minimal order size of 10, so it's not really an option especially since I don't know how well it works. I wonder how big the market is for a paid Linux distro that just works.

Given the general user-unfriendliness of Linux desktop, I can see why so many people use Macbooks who work on Linux. Maybe the servers they work on run Linux. Can't really call the individuals 'dumb' though, like what the video does. At most the Linux 'organization' on the whole comprising these individuals, if there's such a thing, is 'dumb'.
Dark Patterns in UX, or things you should not do to users
Does your contract say anything specific about your stocks? Could try reaching a lawyer or union to see what are your rights.
Brawndo. It's what plants crave.
There's an official Wayback Machine extension for Chrome:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wayback-machine/fp...

I use it, it's really useful.
My open source repo was inspired by conversations in the subreddit, and open source software doesn't do much besides provide value.
PHP is great :)
You're thinking of 301.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes
I once helped a friend get his bar on Google Maps by claiming the business. They send a physical letter to the address of the bar.

How do they go about claiming other people’s business? Do they just say “yeah, I own the pizza parlor on food street 3, Ohio, but send verification to startup avenue 10, Silicon Valley”?
The lack of a standard library is definitively a major factor and the way npm solves the Diamond Dependency Problem exacerbates the issue by an order of magnitude. Not only is everyone pulling in dozens of packages that do simple things, you also end up pulling in dozens of versions of each of those packages because package developers aren't forced to flatten their dependency trees. And since no one is forced to do do this, using something like 'yarn install --flat' yourself is a huge pain.

If we had a proper standard library and a sane package manager with flat dependency resolution by default, bundling just the parts of the standard library we need for the web would be easy (browserify has existed for a long time).
Celebrating the Nature of Repaired Software
Meanwhile, Google still hasn't released an arm64 Windows 10 build of Chrome.
wasn't there a B plot in Silicon Valley (the show) about something like this? a pizza based start up doing unethical things in the name of growth?
Maybe stop hardcoding cryptoalgo's so you have to spend a lot of money to migrate? This is why protocols like TLS support negotiations.
Ram usage will increase in Sublime Text as syntaxes are loaded into memory. The last time I checked on a Mac, loading every single default syntax would get you in the low 200MB range.

A large part of that with the current stable builds is syntaxes that embed others - so Markdown fenced code blocks and LaTeX files. For simpler syntaxes you’ll see a much smaller jump in ram usage.
I would add these gotchas/recommendations:

- Airflow the ETL framework is quite bad. Just use Airflow the scheduler/orchestrator: delegate the actual data transformation to external services (serverless, kubernetes etc.).

- Don't use it for tasks that don't require idempotency (eg. a job that uses a bookmark).

- Don't use it for latency-sensitive jobs (this one should be obvious).

- Don't use sensors or cross-DAG dependencies.

So yeah unfortunately it's not a good fit for all the use cases, but it has the right set of features for some of the most common batch workloads.

Also python as the DAG configuration language was a very successful idea, maybe the most important contributor to Airflow success.
What does the author mean "the new chloroquine"? No one knows if chloroquine + zinc is effective when taken early. Anyone telling you they know is lying.
Show HN: Magic – Easiest way to add passwordless authentication to your app
Thinking AI means re-thinking data
Compiled vs. Interpreted Languages – C++, Go, Haskell, Java, Python, JavaScript
I don't know if I wholly agree.

These are good questions with regards to language design.

But for some people there is a massive learning experience that comes from designing and implementing a programming language and it's compiler even if it never becomes a successful or popular language.

I feel this learning experience is has plenty of value even if the end resulting language does not.

Anders Heljiberg wrote Turbo Pascal, J++, and Delphi, before moving on to things more widely accepted as successful like C# and Typescript. Yes Turbo Pascal and Delphi had some large followings

Likely his experience from previous programming languages allowed to him be successful later.
I always felt neither Airflow nor Superset solved any of the foundational problems with data analytics today. If we take Airflow, it is relatively easy to schedule runs of scripts using cron (or more fancy Nomad jobs with a period stanza). What else does Airflow give me that cron doesn't? Is the parallelization stuff working? Dask is built from the ground up with parallelization in mind, sure it seems to solve a more foundational problem than Airflow. Is triggering and listening to events working? Doesn't look like. Is collaboration working? Doesn't seem to be the case since after writing your python script you need to basically rewrite it into an Airflow dag.
lol that's technically voter fraud too
TrackIR accomplishes the task that many people seem to think only a vr headset can give them: Headtracking freelook immersion; they are extremely comparable.

And binocular depth perception is only one method of depth perception..

edit:

> or that things can happen in places that aren't in front of you

> TrackIR doesn't magically make you able to look over your shoulder.

No idea how to decipher this: I have no issue looking around in any of the games I use trackIR with. It gives you the exact same freedom of input it just doesn't seal me off from being able to see what's going on irl around me.
PayPal Integration with React Native
Will Evidence-Based Medicine Survive Covid-19?
I think you would find it enlightening to read a history of radio, notably but only talk radio, or if you can't find one, write it. And before there was radio, many or most newspapers had a particular axe to grind.
>> reasonably privacy-friendly
> Telegram still has no E2E encryption by default

Right, but e2e encryption is a small part of "privacy".

Not leaking your personal data, identity or telephone number, and with whom you communicate is often more important.
I just think of Sliceline from Silicon Valley, but like a digital version of switching boxes.
Modern solutions to manage large-scale projects in 2020
It seems the best way these days is to get creative - Write a blog post that is interesting to the target audience and mention your product as an aside.

Exactly like this HN submission did.
The funny part about this too if you listen to the podcast is that Derrik Reimer is ending statickit because he is having trouble monetizing it / finding product-market fit with static sites.
This is a very cool idea. I have often wondered if I could set up a private Jupyter notebook with Python to do something similar.
There's a big "How this works" link on the page.
> keep some traditions like the 808 bass drum

Yes, but almost nobody is dropping raw 808 kick samples onto their tracks. Even though it's a "traditional sound", usually artists do quite a bit of work to transform it. Kind of like what, you know, "real" composers do with "real" musical traditions.
I organized a vr party recently with my old beat up vive and people played keep talking and nobody explodes for 6 hours in a row

That’s the state of VR today.

Whenever I do VR as a social activity there’s never anyone leaving unsatisfied. And I’ve “sold” plenty of headsets that I hear reports about still getting regular use several years later

And now with oculus quest it’s an even easier sell

Every time there’s any vr related post on HN, the most upvoted comment is about VR being dead tech, all the while oculus and valve have their headsets on constant back-order

Maybe consider that you’re not the target audience
When dams cause more problems than they solve, removing them can pay off
Some information only matters to you if you know right now. Timeliness and relevancy are important to the user. The existence of the New page on HN and users who visit it prove that the search for the right content at the right time is one worth it to those to visit New.
Looks good Zac! I love that you came straight out of the gate with "No BS". Classic!

I've built a similar service but it also includes a website builder if anyone here is interested. Check it out at https://www.webase.com
This is probably a good start.
There are now 24 trials (of some kind) listed on ClinicalTrials.gov:

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=vitamin+d&cond=C...

At some point, high-quality RCT results will be in.
We wrote a fairly in depth blog post on how to combine Puppeteer based E2E testing with deploying an app / site to Vercel / Zeit. This is just early days as we are working on making that integration even better, basically adding E2E testing and monitoring to the whole JAM stack proposition.

I'm mostly curious if folks here recognise this problem and how they solve it right now?

Big disclaimer: I have a horse in the race, I'm the co-founder of Checkly.
First, this bot doesn't work. I was using this https://etlgr.io for disposable emails and it worked no stress.

My Outlook app kept getting closed by android and I kept missing emails. So I created a disposable etlgr email to get bank notifications. Created a rule in Outlook.com to send balance notifications anytime money enters or leaves my account.

Also a few times when discussing with clients, sent the email title to the bot.

A few months back, there was one "a page a day" book reading service that came on hacker news. Created an email just for it.

Another to receive manga notifications.

Etlgr recently became a subscription service and that was the end.

MY OTHER USES FOR TELEGRAM

RSS feed reader for sites. Also created a private channel for my friends that posts 100% free udemy courses. It's been completely hands off for over a year now.

Why Telegram Rocks

My telegram account is accessible from 4 different devices - Two phones and two laptops (6 client apps).

Could switch off the phone with the number registered to telegram and I'll still be able to chat. With WhatsApp this is impossible.

I could lose my sim card, both phones and one laptop. But if I still have access to one client, I can login on fresh devices.

This is because once you're registered, telegram sends the OTP to the installed clients instead of SMS.

One awesome stuff they do is that after a successful logon on a new device, the notification is broadcast to all logged in client apps. Deleting the notification in one device will not remove it in others.

Making it harder for account takeovers to happen stealthily.

Also newly logged in clients cannot terminate older sessions.

CHATTING

The ability to edit already sent text in telegram is awesome. Make a mistake? Correct it.

Telegram does not leave a "deleted" stamp when you delete a message unlike WhatsApp.

In telegram you can delete everything in your chats from the other person's device.

WhatsApp allows you to delete your chats from the other person's phone. Telegram tops that by allowing you to delete the other person's words from their own phone!

Without this, quoted chats will have empty placeholders alerting the other party.

FILE SIZE Limit

Up to 1.5GB per file

Telegram Rocks.
Covid-19 How Far Away Are We from Herd Immunity?
Technical discussions are hard; a few tips
They're not advocating for freedom of speech, they're advocating for the tolerance of racist speech under a politically correct banner. Most of them wouldn't bat an eye at the suppression of speech they disagree with, which is evident in how often their attempts at general argument devolve into rants against "the left", SJWs, feminists, etc.
What parts to you find fulfilling? One approach would be to assign a value to aspects of a job you find fulfilling. This could include things like a short commute, casual dress, flex hours, remote work, low politics, good/smart coworkers, and challenging projects. For some challenging projects may be worth a lot, for others remote work to be with family could have the highest value.
Mushrooms were illegalized in NL recently, but truffles, a way of growing the same thing but underground, remain legal. It's possible to buy them legally there and semi-legally ordering them online from many other EU countries.
Assume that future kinds of Bisquick can have negative amounts of flour, salt or baking powder. Now recipes in the dystopian future just require a simple change of basis.
> Couldn't these restaurant owners just increase their prices to what Slice is charging?

Not possible (in the traditional market). Competition is ferocious.

Maybe that will change, with all the interceptors and delivery companies.

It's a miserable market. I don't think I'd last five minutes in it.
There are advantages to having VSCode in Electron. I run VSCode as a web application on my server that I access remotely using a browser on a number of different machines. That instance has access to the file system on my server, allowing me to use any machine to do my work without installing anything. Try doing that with Sublime.

Microsoft is leveraging this by allowing you to open up VSCode in Github for any file, no installation necessary. Amazon is doing the same with Cloud9 on AWS that they acquired earlier.
Yeah, it's completely mystifying. The mayor has "called for" the guy's arrest - can't he just order his arrest? Can't the governor do the same?
My point was that top40 (“most broadcast” + “most purchased”), and Spotify’s “most played” (i.e. “most listened to”) are distinct concepts. For the past, we only have access to the former, not the latter, because nobody can know exactly what songs people were listening to the most (e.g. which records/wax cylinders were purchased and then played more times in total; or, even further back, which pieces of chamber music were performed more times; or, even further back, which folk songs or hymns were sung more, rather than transcribed more.)

To focus on only the recent past: we only know about radio plays (determined by cronyist industry dealings) and about record/8track/cassette/CD/iTunes sales (where a record sale could represent a purchase due to virality—i.e. a purchase for status-signalling/watercooler-conversation/joining-a-subculture reasons, but where nobody actually listens to their purchase more than a few times; or it could represent a song everyone loves and puts on repeat all day every day. And a purchase could represent a fad that fizzles out; or a classic in the making.)

We can talk about what the top40 billboard charts were doing back then, but what people were “most listening to” is very likely a wholly different list with little intersection to the billboard chart. Just like this Spotify most-played list is actually an almost-entirely-distinct list from the current radio top40!
But the point of coding the choice is ... so the user has a choice? This is a bizarre response.
> They have a product, it's out in the market now.

Sure enough! (image link) https://images.ctfassets.net/wzcrdezk3u3k/4BYPBt61B2XnAsY3ys...

https://shop.magicleap.com/#/

>> $2,295

>> What’s included?
Magic Leap 1 (Lightwear, Lightpack and Control),
Lightpack Charger,
Control Charger,
2 USB-C Cables,
...
Thanks for the answer! I didn't know there are already ready-made sensors for such use-cases (though I'm not familiar with Home Assistant itself either, only heard of what it is).
At least you can look up what 404 means and reason about what's going on. What does this change solve? I mean if you moved your site then you would issue a 301 from the old host showing people it had moved. I don't know when exactly people make lots of different versions of the same website where it makes sense to fail over to the old one if the new one doesn't work. Baffling
I appreciate the author’s work on so many projects, but the quote doesn’t resonate with me. There is a new post almost every day on HN about “saving the Web” that gets voted to the top - and it has been this way for several years now.

But I don’t think fixing broken links is at the top of our priority. Many links need to be broken. And I’m glad my old stuff isn’t around. Hopefully much of my new stuff will go away too. I think this is just humanity’s process - to sift through it all and hang on to the pieces people want to save.
The hydrocephalus story looks a bit sketchy [0].

Also if anything brains are hyper optimized for many things (based on the many specialized sub-units). I’d bet we are essentially not unsupervised, and the sub-units of the brain are essentially fine tuned for many tasks, and hyper optimized to use all their resources incredibly efficiently (memory optimization must be intense). Not that the generative models won’t get close in some general way relatively soon, but I could see human brains being another 10-1000x more powerful than your ballpark pretty easily.

[0] https://www.gwern.net/Hydrocephalus
It sounds like he will still work there, just not as CEO. This article is a bit light on details. There's no reason given for this.

I'm surprised this didn't leak during the last couple rounds of headlines about laying off staff and more recently raising money. Is Magic Leap really good at keeping secrets or was this a last minute change to funding outline?
40th Anniversary of Uuencode
Because that PIN can only be used on that device, whereas your password can be used from anywhere. Think of it like 2FA where one of the factors is physical possession of the device.
Anti-socials are a big market and that is their target audience.
I remember reading about fruit fly brains and how we're at a point where we can computationally simulate them now, but I'm not sure where that went.

Anyone know?
Did something similar with an old Dymo LabelWriter 320 which does not work on Windows 10. So i connected it to a Raspberry Pi, installed Cups, compiled the Dymo drivers and now i have a small print server.
Thanks! I didn't know Xiaomi made such sensors too. They are definitely one of the brands that I recognize.
I can't seem to find the link, any help? The Insider win64 downloads are x64 only still at https://code.visualstudio.com/insiders/
Perhaps. But if so, I don't think the difference is in any intrinsic quality, but merely in circumstance. Having been exposed to good music or other art is a privilege. So is having the time to search for it. If the people who listen to crappy mainstream music had more spare time and less stress, they might seek out better alternatives. The fact that they don't doesn't entitle us to dehumanize them by comparing them to computer-generated non-player characters in a game. Instead, we should decry the system that feeds these people crap when they just want some kind of relief from their already crappy lives.
In other words: establishing causation (or lack of it) is more useful than merely correlation. Yes. But hardly breaking news, or even specific to medicine.
Google treats 302s and 301s differently when it crawls. A 302 is effectively ignored and the search index isn't updated - the original URL that threw the 302, is left in. Whereas 301s result in the new redirect target URL replacing the original in the search index.

By filling up your sites with nested 302s (following this to it's conclusion, in ~10 years time), is not only a management headache, but may fall foul of Google (I'm not sure nested 302s, will send positive signals to Google) and result in your whole site being de-indexed.
> In my office

Two of those words are extremely important to your experience, "my" and "office".
imeetify-share calendar feature, first of its kind in the industry
imeetify ( www.imeetify.com ) upcoming productivity mobile application available on iOS and Android platforms announces the release of powerful new feature , first of its kind in the industry “Speed Share”
Using Speed share, imeetify users would be able to share their calendar with option of their preferred meeting slot, time of the day, 2 weeks/ a month calendar slots, which is first of its kind in the industry to be done exclusively on mobile devices.
According to Ben White, Chief Product Officer imeetify states that “We are releasing the speed share feature which is testimony to our core philosophy of making things simple. Currently no application has this feature of calendar share which is designed to simplify the arduous & complex process of calendar sharing”
download imeetify- https://imeetify.com
I've administered Windows networks. Windows backwards compatibility sucks and the fact most Windows legacy software runs better under Wine on a different OS is a testament to that. Almost none of the current OS's are good at backwards compatibility. It's not just a Linux problem. Hell Apple doesn't even try.
At the very least, you need to provide the IP address(es) you'll be connecting from so that your users can poke the smallest hole possible in their firewall. Opening up 27017 to the world ain't happening.
The difference is that the best authors know how to reject their own bad poems. I think the next step is a GAN that learns to weed out bad writing.