skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GitHub was never fun. They don't care about spamming, maybe they even endorse it.

I'm not active on GitHub. I have an account, sometimes I file a bug or so.

Every now and then I get "invited" to some GitHub project I've never heard of. One contributor, zero stars, pure spam.

I always block those and report them as spammers.

GitHub, without fail, gets back to me saying that "oh, you can block him". That's it.

Maybe you could just stop people from spam-inviting hundreds of others? Maybe you could not allow invitations of people who never interacted with the person or his repo in any way?

But I hope they at least fixed their also very annoying notification bug where they sent me a mail that I was mentioned in a commit:

Someone had committed a binary file (image or whatever), and in there was actually a two byte sequence fitting my GitHub user name (two character name).

That's just idiotic. A few bytes in a binary do not "mention" anyone.
If that list so long, do you mind sharing it?
Adobe about to halt Creative Cloud freebie 'at-home' access for students
> Guix has fever Java packages because of that

That's right, but 13,800 packages is not exactly bad. I believe that is more packages than Ubuntu had a few years ago.
>My grand experiment at working at a $BIGCO has ended. It was fruitful – I made more money than I ever have, and the name recognition was nice the first few times someone asked where I work. Despite all that I'm moving on, back into the startup world.

I checked, and it looks like the author now works for Salesforce. I wonder how the internal culture compares
Let's skip small business for now. The economy is structured to leave most of the people with just enough money to buy couple of beers after covering basic expenses. It simply leaves no room for few month worth of savings. And every accident (like a visit to dentist) adds to financial instability.

Not everyone works cushy 6 figures IT job and hangs on HN.
I don't really understand the question. Is [] an operator?
> it's still possible to miss something

Could you elaborate?
Ask HN: I made a Covid-19 data visualization app, what else can I add to it?
I have created a web app that visualizes the COVID-19 data: https://covid19.evrim.io.

What would you recommend I add that would provide an interesting point of view that isn't obvious by a simple plotting of the data?

For example, I show the exponential moving average of the new cases data, which makes it easier to see a mid-term trend.

I don't want to add any forecasts, as I neither have the required background to do so nor do I believe that it's a useful pursuit in most cases, as the situation is changing way too fast with way too many unknowns.
Jared Diamond in "The World Until Yesterday" says that when he was on expeditions with natives in New Guinea, they would all go to sleep when the sun went down (near the equator so usually pretty close to 7pm), then wake up around midnight and chat for an hour or two around the fire, before going back to sleep again and waking up at sunrise (again around 5 or 6).
Same with my parents house, which is only becoming more apparent after my dad died, and we're cleaning up the house for sale.

There is just so much stuff, multiples of everything, at least a hundred Tupperware containers in the kitchen.

My mom grew up rather poor, and I've talked to her about her borderline hoarder tendencies. She says it's an unconscious thing, stemming from when her family couldn't afford to buy new things, so they saved everything that could possibly be repaired or repurposed, and she falls into a tendency to still do the same thing. Over 24 years living in that house, it just kept accumulating. It's not like it's a mess, mostly everything is nicely organized, there's just a lot on every shelf and in every drawer stuffed to the brim.

I fell into the same pattern for a while, keeping extras around of a bunch of things for no real reason, combined with being very bad at throwing things out or giving them away. I've gotten better, but it's a constant thing.
CIA suffered historic data loss from lax cybersecurity, report says
> Their abrupt cease of support for mercurial damaged it beyond repair for me and many others.

I'm not the biggest Atlassian fan, but they posted in August last year, gave 10 months notice and cited that less than 1% of new repos being created are using mercurial as their primary reason for doing so. If you cared about a project, almost a year is plenty of time to move it. I don't think it's entirely unreasonable to sunset a feature that is not widely used by your users, not widely used outside of your userbase, and that requires ongoing maintenance that the other 99% of repositories could benefit from instead.
Elon Musk aims to revolutionise battery technology
As a consumer of Apple products I am not too keen on any of these suggestions. I agree that developers for Apple's platforms would like these and perhaps there is some trickle-down effect for consumers.

> 1: Enable users to set default app preferences.

Fine, but really Maps and Email is pretty much the only one I care about. This is the best suggestion of the bunch.

> 2: Open up alternate payment mechanisms… without the Apple tax.

Nah. Last thing I want is to have to fill out my credit card information in every app and worry about what's going to happen with it. Apple Pay and IAP work perfectly adequately from the consumer standpoint.

> 3: Allow sideloading of iOS apps.

I don't think we have a problem with lack of iOS apps. In fact I wish App Store Review was stricter and took more issue with quality and dodgy business practices (i.e. excessive and addictive use of IAP).

> 4: Give third-party developers equal access to APIs.

What this is asking for is for Apple to effectively release features later or not at all. Or have some even more draconian App Store rules. I don't want every random app having full hardware access to spy on me as it pleases.

> 5: Stop sherlocking third-party developers.

Right, so Apple is not supposed to give me free access to nice features so I can continue to pay money to someone else. Right.
This doesn't sound right. Could you paste an example of a misuse of optional (for example: an unchecked unwrap) causing a compilation failure instead of a panic?
Should I backup my Kafka cluster? And how?
TIL. GitHub has/had a trending page.
Jewelry stores were previously boarded up in SF, but operating grocery stores, Target, and Walgreen's seemed to be a new thing.

Stonestown Mall, which is a long way from downtown SF, suddenly boarded up McD and Target during the protests.
> but Windows, Android, and IOS can be picky and not play well with open source. It scares me off a bit from using it.

This is what scares me off from using Windows, Android or iOS :)
The old trending algorithm was too easy to game. Just get a bunch of friends to Star your repo and you star theirs and you both show up.

The current method is worse but seems less gameable.
https://archive.vn/L28k6#selection-229.9-229.72
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Some of the arrows are so randomly placed it reminds me of:

https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kjh2110/the-10-most-biz...
I think you are talking about the acidification of soil caused by pine trees. I've heard the same thing but a quick search suggests that this might be mostly rumour.

Certainly large mono-cultures of conifers are bad for numerous other reasons.
> As someone who is now in kind of a dysfunctional organization

I suspected as much when I read that they explicitly asked you to give plenty of honest feedback.

It means that they know it's dysfunctional, and they know why you're leaving.

It's not a question of telling them "it's not you it's me", but there is nothing you can do. There's is no need to prep and get thing off your chest in the interview.
Keep it generic and short, move on.

You sound quite junior (no offence it's just that your question sounds like it might be your first time in this situation). No feedback from a junior engineer leaving a company is going to change anything, especially if they already are fully aware of the situation. At most they want to use this to build a case to get rid of someone they see as the issue, which is why to develop your feedback might make you enemies.

(By the way, you cannot know if whatever you say will stay between you and them, so keep that in mind)
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If it was a universal stimulus that's be great, but that 10% is a hundred-million-dollar subsidy to dishonest people and outright fraudsters. Such incentives affect people's behaviour and over long term this might even accumulate to a pretty damaging change in culture that will be very hard to fix.

Some people like to complain about regular welfare programs being abused, but at least those have some controls, they're not just a web form with your bank details. Abuse rates will surely be much much higher for CERB, and that was largely preventable.
It's just a bare minimum that you reduced, if you add some preference it's worse than that.
I did some test, maybe I'm just lucky, but i got password with a word starting with b at the 3rd generation, and i got adjective-noun pair in that order at the 5th generation.
Because the effective tax rate never really changes that much.
We wouldn't display flags—textiness is a core principle here—but if people felt like a location field in profiles might help ease misunderstandings, that's something we might do. Would most users fill it out though? I'm kind of doubtful. More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23547013
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“A bunch of friends” being about a thousand. Not that easy.
Speak for yourself. I try and sleep by 10 every night, unless I'm socialising, then get up at 6am.
I get that. And that's a great discussion for the Rust community to have.

I wanted to hear what Go devs have to say about this latest iteration of the generics proposal. But to do that I have to wade through endless comments about type systems and Rust. Even on comments directly talking about this iteration and how to use it, every other reply starts with "In Rust..."

If implementing generics leads more of the Rust community back to Go, then from what I've seen here: no thanks. I have a feeling we'd see every conversation in every community forum start with "In Rust.."
It’s about GitHub, the platform, not git the VCS.
The trend toward static typing is a fad, like NoSQL in the early 2010s. Who knows what the next fad will be. Perhaps correctness proofs will make a comeback.
I had no idea that GitHub was supposed to (or trying to be) fun.

If you're going to non-curated "trending" feeds looking for things that are already popular to pay attention to, you're not only wasting your finite free time but you're training yourself to be a follower.

Stop this nonsense immediately. Use your talents and build something great. If you never check the "trending" page on GitHub again, you will have a better life.
ELA does work when someone manipulates an existing JPEG. If you take a low quality JPEG, paste in part of a high quality JPEG and save in high quality you can easily tell which area has been modified.

Performing ELA on the output JPEGs when the editing has been performed on the high resolution raw images in Photoshop does not work. The down-sampling process effectively normalizes the noise levels.

The ELA analysis in this article is pure nonsense, it is simply highlighting the areas with high frequency components such as the dress texture, fine hairs and features on the face.

To do a proper study like this you need to compare against a sample of similar images which you know have not been manipulated.
They're inserting 5 billion events per second (for some reason), and AWS throttles everything (the following link mentions a limit of 3,500/second):

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-s3...

Also, if they're planning to do alerting, S3 would not help with that.

PUTs are 1 cent per 2000:

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
Which country do you operate in? One issue in some of the Western world is that your IP becomes blacklisted by some websites. There's also the issue that some ISPs cut you off for running a relay (yes, not an exit node).
Scotland lost almost all of its trees before Johnson's famous tour in 1773:

> "From the bank of the Tweed to St. Andrews I had never seen a single tree, which I did not believe to have grown up far within the present century. Now and then about a gentleman’s house stands a small plantation, which in Scotch is called a policy, but of these there are few, and those few all very young. The variety of sun and shade is here utterly unknown. There is no tree for either shelter or timber. The oak and the thorn is equally a stranger, and the whole country is extended in uniform nakedness, except that in the road between Kirkaldy and Cowpar, I passed for a few yards between two hedges. A tree might be a show in Scotland as a horse in Venice. At St. Andrews Mr. Boswell found only one, and recommended it to my notice; I told him that it was rough and low, or looked as if I thought so. This, said he, is nothing to another a few miles off. I was still less delighted to hear that another tree was not to be seen nearer. Nay, said a gentleman that stood by, I know but of this and that tree in the county."

Commercial timber (pine) is now quite common. Reforestation was policy after the First World War, when there was huge demand for wood for trench boarding.
Falling asleep quickly when you're tired I think is something that can be trained; I probably learned it in boot camp, where most days we got only 6 hours of sleep, unless you had watch duty, in which case you got 5 hours; and near the end there was a week where we only got 4 hours. Your body just learns to grab whatever sleep it can.

Re taking short naps: When I was at university, if I needed a power nap, I'd set the timer on my watch for 7 minutes and set it on my forehead; then I'd normally do two of these in a row (so 14 minutes of nap total). Once I got used to it, 1) as soon as I closed my eyes I'd start dreaming 2) I'd frequently have the experience of slowly coming to consciousness seconds before the alarm went off.

But that only works if you're only moderately tired. If you're really sleep deprived, there's nothing you can do but actually take a longer rest.
Thanks for that suggestion; I'd almost forgot about that Word file! When I made this project I wasn't familiar with Git, the importance of having neat README's and heck even linting code.

I'll update the README with that file, add few explanations and instead of having those screenshots I'll try to have a gif that encapsulates a session.
MetricsDB appears to be HDFS-based. TimescaleDB is Postgres-based and InfluxDB is memory and log-based. Prometheus is file-based.
It's like Tuxpaint creations of a two year old, similar sounds too.
Metrics on S3 at scale? It's about the worst tool you could use for this task.

The cost of puts alone would kill you.
I have used github for years and I have never even realized there was a system of trends/top lists. To me, Github is Amazon S3 for source code and issues!
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Well back in the day it didn’t take nearly that many.

Nowadays you’d have to do a mailing list.
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I haven't heard about this incident BUT it still doesn't shows why there are so many indian CEOs.

I really doubt that it's the norm.

Look at the numbers not the anecdotes.

There are disproportionate number of Indian CEOs. It would have been impossible with racism and what not.
That actually sounds, verbatim, like what Macintosh users used to say to PC folk back when they were on 68000 or PPC.
Batteries in the grid are the key to enabling renewables to accommodate fluctuating demand -plus- it creates an endless market for used car batteries once their storage capacity drops too far to efficiently drive around on top of, recovering a substantial part of the cost, thereby reducing the TCO for Tesla owners.

Big, smart long-game play that, for me, explains the stock price.
> [alternate payment mechanisms] ...fill out my credit card information in every app

Why is that the only alternative? How about

app1 \ / payment service1
app2 - OS payment service framework - payment service2
app3 / \ payment service3

This is how OSes should and used to work. To define the interfaces and provide frameworks for services to integrate.
The thing is fitting psychological conditions into neat little boxes is just a convenient diagnosis mechanism; human brains don't have on/off switches for different conditions, and actual presentations vary. So it's entirely reasonable that her behavioral changes (which could be as minor as looking up certain things on the internet) were not noticeable to others.
I'm not sure I understand your argument, but are you suggesting the effectiveness of Nazi propaganda and media control as justifying that people didn't know? Because that is totally backwards. Persecution of Jews was not some kind of secret agenda kept hidden from the people. Rather the hate and persecution of Jews and other "undesired groups" was a core part of Nazi propaganda.
> TailwindCSS

How big is the CSS per page? Do you have to do any per-page optimisations? I like the concept but when I look into it, the full library appears large and having to e.g. run a CSS optimiser to bring in only the CSS classes used on every page is added complexity.

Generally I'm aiming to inline all the CSS into the page with less than 50KB of CSS when it's uncompressed. Bootstrap was always too large for this.
Same here, it is just a place to dump a couple of stuff I very seldom work on, as means to provide something to HR.

I also interact mostly via desktop tools.
Perhaps a relevant comparison here is Pinboard.

It's a paid subscription website and has done very well as a one-man-army project. Its success hasn't compromised its virtues of being lightweight and no-nonsense (unlike Delicious).

If SourceHut could do the same for Git that would be great.
Will have to check this out :)

But is GitHub big enough they can just ignore it and go "bah we're too big now to care about others"?
So if a black person suffers from an act committed by a non-black person then that was an act of racism?
They burn coal instead of wood. In practice both are equally unsustainable but deforestation is an issue with higher visibility.
I kind of do have "fun" with GH. I follow people and see what repos they have starred, or code/issues they're working on. I also follow repos and check the source code that's being committed from time to time. Just for fun, to learn new stuff. The "Explore repositories" option did help me to find a couple of interesting repos.

I feel that at some point GH decided to distance themselves from the social aspect of the platform, but I still cling to it.
I thought that the recomendation was to sleep REM cycles multiples (45-60min)
ClickHouse DBMS allows to combine delta, double delta, Gorilla with LZ4 or ZSTD for column compression. But it is not often used as DB for monitoring metrics so something else is probably expected from time series DB.
You could say that Rusts great dependency management is both a blessing and a problem at the same time. C programmers, often motivated by resource constraints, are much less likely to use third party dependencies - not just to save resources but also because it is just much harder to do it and to do it well. They end up just rewriting the parts they need themselves. Because those parts are likely a small subset of a full-featured library, binary size and compile times are smaller at the expense of actual time spent writing code.
As fas as I have seen, 99% of in-house solutions are tailored for exactly 1 use case - the company that built it. Existing solutions like InfluxDB are made way more generic.

Companies like Twitter, Uber etc can spend many millions and won't notice so they can build tailored databases for themselves.

Will someone else use it? Probably not (sure unless this is something new or that differs a lot from existing solutions and gives a lot of benefits)
When I started using it it was free private repos and CI minutes.

Whilst GH has duplicated these features very recently, they are still things that are at the core of gitlabs offering, so are generally higher quality and better supported.

Gitlab is also open source, which lets me mirror their repo locally in case they die or remove a feature I use.

Oh, and gitlab isn't systematically racist, which is always a personal ethical win.

Shout out to sourcehut as a possible next cool thing - currently in public alpha
I would love to see an argument in what way the "old Trending algorithm" constituted a meritocracy.
Is it a deeper rabbit hole than FP? Could you give some links or good array language names?
People make the civil engineering comparison all the time, but is software development really that much less standardized?

What's standard in building a bridge? You have some physical constraints(length, what's the bridge crossing), material properties, environmental constraints(temperature, weather, wind, what soil are you building on), what kind of traffic. Then there are standard 'shapes'(though it's your choice of suspension or whatever). You then have a ton of standard tests that you run to check that the bridge is fit for purpose. But it's not like the bridge is built out of legos, and even if a lot of standard subcomponents are used the assembly will still end up being fairly unique due to every location being different.

Software does in fact have tons of standardization. No one thinks of processor arch when doing web dev. Or DB implementation. Or how you modify the dom(there are a handful of libraries to choose from, similar to a handful of bridge designs).

How do you make a CRUD app? You can do some arthouse project, or you can just use Rails or various Rails-like frameworks. They're all mostly equivalent.

How do you serialize data? JSON(before that XML, I guess). Yes, you can do something different, but you can also build an apartment building out of reclaimed wood.

The real uncertainty lies at the User Interface, which really isn't engineering driven, it's fashion and art and stylistic architecture. So yes, the way websites look tends to change and be fuzzy, but so do clothes and no one complains about that.

I think software people both overestimate the standardization of physical engineering and underestimate the complexity of physical engineers' decisions, presumably they're not just following a recipe.

TLDR: When software standardizes a tool or process it becomes invisible, an import and forget somewhere in the pipeline of tools we use. This makes it seem like there's a lot of churn. But the churn is a bit of froth on the top of really solid foundations. Yes we're always working in the churning part, but that's because the foundational part requires almost no interaction at all.
Out of curiosity, since you log into accounts via Tor, are you still concerned about exit node snooping these days? Do you enable the strict mode in HTTPS Everywhere, or do you trust that site-enforced HTTPS is enough?
If Atlassian products is a collection of poorly integrated what to say about plenty of enterprise solutions?

I am yet to find something that works as good as Atlassian products.
Ripoff of https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/work/Q68471881

also just use scholia and enrich wikidata.
> Last thing I want is to have to fill out my credit card information in every app and worry about what's going to happen with it. Apple Pay and IAP work perfectly adequately from the consumer standpoint.

Why should the consumer not be able to choose other payment services such as Paypal, Google Pay or Amazon Pay as a middleman?