skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great work. UI tip: When reading on mobile browser and rotating the phone the text doesn’t expand to occupy more space like it can. I find myself doing this a lot to read code on my phone so when a site doesn’t adapt to allow me to read it without odd line breaks I usually leave the site.
How is this different from private/public tumblr blogs and micro.blog?
I use FBnofb and it allows me to block all the garbage on Facebook by not having an account and never visiting that dump.

On a more serious note, I deleted my account several years ago. This after coming to the realization how much I was passively scrolling past misinformation, polarizing political discussions and curated self-promotion from acquaintances I barely new.

It was funny to have people who never talked to me, complain to a mutual friend that they didn’t what was going on in my life because I was no longer on Facebook, but then never once reached out via any other channel to catch up.
Yep, it's a great idea - treat intellectual property like any other property. However, corporate lobbyists would shoot this sort of legislation down, so i don't have any faith that it can ever come to fruition.
black coffee + ghee/coconut oil is part of keto. He must be doing keto + IF.
Oh good catch, thanks!
This book?
https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
Interesting idea. How long is it around I wonder, it feels like it hasn't taken off yet. The bloggers there seem to perhaps come from a similar viewpoint, guardianista, I'd call it. If someone starts blogging what they might feel to be an unacceptable viewpoint, more torygraph what then, I wonder? Is it a curated timeline? Can they censor like Twitter does? What's the essential difference from a free speech point of view between this site and the existing social networks?
I think the features mentioned on the landing page should make it clear. I’m not that familiarized with tumblr or micro.blog tbh
This is such mind-blowing success, it makes me contemplate switching fields. Is it reasonably feasible to switch from IT to Biotech/Medical Research in the mid thirties?

I had a friend with Fukutin-related limb-girdle muscular dystrophy R13 and am wondering if CRISPR could be the solution for her.
This is so much fun. It would be great to have an export function that throws out an mp3 or aac file to share the music with others directly or use it (embedded) somewhere.

I tried several patterns myself and also tried the links others shared here. But now I’m left with the feeling that they all sound very similar. :(
I think it's right. It's not worth the performance increase vs the extra work needed to create a static site. I much rather put my resources somewhere else.

I think SSGs would only take off if it's shown that there's a drastic monetary savings.
Naive question - but does this change to make use of DX11/shaders in newer GPUs make it more likely to have a good cross-platform UI for app development?

I’ve looked before and although OpenGL is good for windowing, widgets etc, it’s not great for sub pixel rendered/anti aliased text.
*pre-existing
I'm a huge fan of using Lambda to perform hundreds of thousands of discrete tasks in a fraction of the time it'd take to perform those same tasks locally. A while back I used Lambda and SQS to cross check 168,000 addresses with my ISP's gigabit availability tool.[1] If I recall correctly each check took about three seconds, but running all 168,000 checks on Lambda only took a handful of minutes. I believe the scraper was written in Python, so I shudder to think about how long it would have taken to run on a single machine.

[1] https://dstaley.com/2017/04/30/gigabit-in-baton-rouge/
> Capitalism is not the thing preventing farmers from easily selling this stuff directly to consumers.

> Sure it is.

I think its exactly because Free Market Capitalism doesn't exist in the gatekeeping process we currently call the 'The Market' that makes selling directly to consumers an anomaly rather than standard and is quite contrary to your argument.

You have to setup a share system to try and have a chance to lower your overheard and CapEX with a farm. Even Farmer's Markets are tightly regulated in some States, and they force you to accept SNAP/Food Stamps to be admitted into the program that allows you to rent a spot for a season. Which presents a whole other set of issues to be paid for your goods/services.

There is nothing about Free Market Capitalism in that. And your complex supply chain system is the symptom and byproduct of that perversion.

> Why haven't these companies reconfigured to switch chains? They CAN do this. It is a matter of time and money to do so, and they would clean up after doing so.

Because since the late 80-90s there has been a systematic eradication of small farms in the US by large Chemical and Biotech Multi-nationals; its a lot harder to petition Monsanto (now Bayer) to stop doing the things that have made them trillions in profits than it would a small and pop 15 acre operation and adapt to this model. I highly recommend this book written by a local journalist in Boulder, CO, called Harvest of Rage [1], and he talks about the cascade effects of ruining rural America as the food belt became the rust belt and led to extremism.

> The problem is that everybody is assuming that we will be going back to normal in about 6 months, so anything at that time scale or longer is wasted money from the point of view of profit. Nobody will reoptimize anything until they are absolutely FORCED to as part of an existential threat.

I disagree, I'm currently in discussion for a position with a startup that is going even further to capture the food loss from this kind of myopic short sighted-ness, I hope I get it as it would be a good project to really sink my teeth into.

> This is all about optimizing for profit at the expense of anything else.

Agreed. But that doesn't mean we cannot include a value system in that narrative that helps find a middle ground. We have to be flexible and understand things won't happen over night, I've been trying to tackle this very issue for nearly 15 years, hence my background. And while I always want to see more progress I cannot deny we've come a long way, especially since I was a 90s kid in the US and we didn't even know we were eating pesticide leaden vegetables: we were lab rats!

Its no surprise my generation continues to have all these food-bourne illnesses like obesity, diabetes and heart disease. So rather than opine of what should be, try to make a difference in your community. Start a community garden program and plant fruit trees around your area. This was typical during WWII and should come back in my opinion. Now that people are now able to go outside.

1: 1: https://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Rage-Oklahoma-City-Beginning/...
Any idea what the cause is for that?
"Intellectual property" isn't a thing, "Intellectual Property Rights" are. They're not "antithetical to free market principles" if you accept that the "free market" requires regulation and that there are benefits to society by the cost of temporarily restricting free use with the subsequent benefit of ideas and expressions not being lost on the death/loss/bankruptcy etc of the IPR holder.

IPRs are (in general) things that are protected by law and open to licensing and civil suits for damages if used outside those laws and licenses:

* Trade Secrets and NDAs

* Copyrights

* Patents

* Trademarks
Agree. That sounded like “bulletproof coffee” with some changes.
where would one start if we wanted more up to date material on this domain?
You clearly don't feel completely safe because you are armed and need a neighborhood watch.
Stuff on your timeline doesn't appear there because Facebook picks stuff at complete random to display to you. Your feed is built from the sum of what your friends post, and what your liked pages post. Granted, Facebook does an enormous amount of shenanigans to highlight the most engaging/enraging posts from that source, and they're manipulating your friends to re-post engaging/enraging things they've seen, so it can spread to you.

But at the end of the day, the source for your feed is what your friends post. If all your friends post nothing but cute baby pictures, your feed is going to be 100% cute baby pictures, and nothing else. If your friends post nothing but cute cat pictures, it's caturday forever on your feed. And if your friends keep posting political bullshit that you hate, then that's what you're going to keep seeing.

The position I don't understand is the one where people endlessly complain about how Facebook has turned to shit, and then expect Facebook to magically fix it for them? That's never going to happen. Either curate your feed, or stop using Facebook. Those are your options.
Oh wow, I had no idea they were that advanced. How much do these go for secondhand?
Loving the app's simplicity and the straight-to-the-point approach you had taken with the website. Definitely giving it a try, great work!
If you can break your carb addiction the rest is not that hard. It was very similat to quitting cigarettes for me. Cut off carbs for a few days, it will feel horrible until day 3, then you almost feel euphoric but you still have an urge. Keep it up for a week then you start replacing the old habit with a new one (intermittent fasting with keto diet for example, or cardio). Even when I slack off, so long as I don't touch carbs I can just cut down on food intake or workout a little bit and I will have so much more energy. If I actually workout properly, people will notice changes in my energy level and attitude. It's really insane why it is so hard to make simple changes with immense benefits like this. I feel normal after stopping cigs and other vices but I am telling you, cutting out or extremely reducing carb intake has had the most impact on my life. If I didn't know better I'd be calling carbs an addictive harmful drug (in reality, our modern way of life that requires minimal carbs for fuel and healthy bodies that are energy efficient are causing a conflict with traditional meals and ingredients). Once you get some control/discipline over what you eat, controlling when you eat is a lot easier in my experience. When it gets hard to stick to the diet, intermittent fasting can compensate for lack of good calories.
There was some form of 2D GPU acceleration used in Windows XP that is no longer used in modern GPUs. I remember a PCI Trident video card that provided such acceleration for my Windows 98-era computer.

There's also a 3D fixed pipeline that was all that the first 3D GPUs could do and it is also removed from modern GPUs.

A game I still play to this day is called rFactor, and it runs much faster in DX9 mode than in DX8 or DX7 mode in my hardware. At the very least, it behaves that way in this week's test. This means my hardware doesn't have that old fixed pipeline.

Some people with old hardware can only run it with decent frame rate in DX7.

So the answer to your question is: yes, 2D has been accelerated since forever, but now we have general purpose 3D programmable video cards, and they are so good that now we only have general purpose 3D programmable video cards and the other forms of acceleration are obsolete.

Except for things like video codecs and DRM.
Bioinformatics Algorithms – All Chapters Published
Probably because it's off-topic. Or hateful. Or otherwise incendiary. Or your fifty friends upvoted it.

Spam isn't the only reason to kill a post.

What answers do you expect, not telling us which subreddit or which posting it is about?
It's interesting that they did not just undo the inherited disease. I assumed that, especially with Sickle Cell where we have a good understanding of how it works, they would go into Chromosome 11 and put it back how it "should" be with CRISPR. But instead they apply a workaround, ensuring continued fetal haemoglobin production.

The article does not mention whether that's because putting Chromosome 11 back with CRISPR is harder, or whether for some reason that wouldn't fix the problem.
Can you talk a little about how you built it?
In 1999 I set up a company to develop a VLIW processor that used adaptive compilation (but for Smalltalk bytecodes instead of x86 instructions). I was taken more seriously after Transmeta announced Crusoe, then a lot less seriously when it failed. Even though the reasons for that were not technical, everybody remembers it wrong.
I'm doubtful we are going to see any significant change. All the things that were drawing people to cities will continue to do so when the thing is over.
Libsquashfs and squashfs-tools-ng 1.0.0 released
Facebook is the harbinger of the techno-dystopia of the next decade
XAMPP [1] provides a fairly complete dev environment with a basic web sever and DB. Do this if you find using Docker an overkill for your project.

Bonus point, they have good integrations with AWS and GCP.

[1] https://www.apachefriends.org/fr/index.html
It's good that this happened! The original LZMA sources from Peter Pavlov are highly condensed and unreadable; they contain little to no comments and are hard to understand, and therefore reverse engineer.
Night owls have more grey matter in their brains than early birds
How did people use ed?
There aren't any fences, and the police are currently operating in the CHAS like normal.

From https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/06/11/43892640/busines...:
"And get this—the police are still in the neighborhood, doing routine police stuff. Last night I watched two cops deal with a person who had passed out on Broadway. They prodded her and asked “you wanna go to detox?” until medical professionals arrived. (Obviously, we should be funding social workers to take care of these kinds of problems instead of cops!)"
Uncertainty in the Workplace
It does for me on iPhone, what device/browser are you using?
I have encountered that unfortunate fact when doing my term homework for a graduate level computer architecture course. Failure to detect or misdetection of on which kind of x86-64 you run will cause type confusion and finally crash your code.
This is lovely. Really simple - this is a good thing.

I think I'm showing my ignorance as I didn't get why code blocks are surrounded by four back ticks (I thought Markdown used just one), but that's just me asking and certainly not complaining.
MNT Reform – Graphics Improvements HDMI, and Proper KiCAD Support
Having done keto for a long time I can only recommend two options besides Tea.

1. Become a weird coffee person and put some nerd energy into it so black coffee doesn't taste disgusting on it's own. James Hoffman on YouTube is a great way into this.

2. Eschew the coffee and take a teaspoon of MCT Oil before your can of zero-calorie Energy Drink (Coke Zero Energy is my favorite atm).
It may be dirty and people are going to tell you Aspartame is evil and is going to make you hungry(it really might, but you are still hours away from your window so black/white discipline is easy to keep alive), but for me it worked much better than dreading the coffee in the morning.
> My issue with all notetaking applications is that all of my notes are "very sensitive data" to me. I treat my notes repository like a combination diary, scratchpad [...]

Same here. I'm currently using Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/) for note taking, which syncs my notes via WebDAV to a server under my control. Supports markdown, but if I want to publish certain notes, I have to manually transfer them to the website.
It's easy to fix that by triple+ glazing windows and adding filters to the windows.

Source: work in a glass skyscraper
I put most feature development on the twitter account when I started (~3 weeks ago) https://twitter.com/collected_notes
And also wrote a little note that I need to update with more details: https://alejandrocrosa.com/collected-notes-tech-stack
If you click on a grayed-out comment's timestamp, it should take you to the comment's own page and the text there should be readable.

There's no approach here that doesn't suck. The fading of downvoted comments has downsides, but I think not doing it would have more downsides. It's really important for there to be visual signals of when the community doesn't support something, because in the absence of such signals, people will routinely jump to the conclusion "Hacker News agrees with this". That's not only a non sequitur, it's a category error, but that makes no difference.
One of my friends was just diagnosed with ALS. Such softwares listed in this topic make their life useful and enjoyable for their remaining years. Guys, keep up the good work! I'll definitely check where I could contribute too.
Could you elaborate on that please?
For what it’s worth, this project did get an update about a month ago. I can think of some cool uses for this if it works.

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1GFSsqP2BWz4gtq0e-nk...
You can't really compare value just by looking at core count, I imagine an old 128 core server off of eBay is going to perform much differently from something running on a more modern architecture.
Where's a good place to find some useful public SQLite data sets?
I wrote about the supported syntax here: https://collectednotes.com/blog/a-tour-of-the-markdown-synta...

I think one backtick is pre and three (with optional language is code with syntax highlighting)
There are very few websites I allow to run javascript. I'm against the entire idea of running remote code for the privelage of having paywalls, cookie pop-ups, newsletter invites, scrolljacking, and spyware.
Javascript was a mistake.
I feel like deepl.com still produce more natural translations.
This is in the works now.

Here's the issue: https://github.com/zulip/zulip-mobile/issues/117

Here's a recent (~3 weeks old) and active pull request: https://github.com/zulip/zulip-mobile/pull/4124
That's all literally 10-20 lines of code and actually much shorter than downloading html manually.

Puppeteer can wait for final HTML.
Me too. Not to hard to find, and the dots are better for my notes and diagrams than lines or grids.

I really like a number of the Japanese spiral bound notebooks too. The paper is great for my (mostly Japanese) fountain pens and inks. However, it’s much easier for me to find Rhodia here the US.
This was my opinion too, might be a generalisation, yet it is the impression I and it would seem others have!
There's a catch though. We primarily use GCP - About a month and a half ago we were planning to run a large compute job, since GCP already had these great performance-to-cost AMD EPYC 2nd gen Rome VMs available then, we decided to use them, only to find out later that there was a service quota of 24 vCPUs for these instances. The worse part of it was that it wasn't even clear in the service quota page that there was no point in requesting anything beyond 24, as for whatever number we put 512, 256, 128, 32, etc. for all cases we would get automatically rejected. Essentially it was a hard quota limit, and in principle it felt like it went against the launch blog post [0] of GCP stating a case of 224 vCPUs of these new EPYC processors being used at a time.

I'm not sure what the service quota is like on AWS, however it could be that AWS waited to procure enough of these new EPYC processors to be able to provide a reasonable amount of such compute for their large customer base.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/announcing-th...
Ask HN: How to care about work again?
I was fired shortly after WFH orders came into place in Canada, in large part because the lack of options for things to do made my job the overwhelming focus of the day and I lost the will to do the relatively menial developer tasks (building a website for a pdf based product using next.js) that were asked of me in a timely manner. I may have burnt out, I'm not sure. I'm not depressed, but I can't bring myself to really be enthusiastic for any given thing I could apply to. I think this is in part fed by being burnt (and burnt out) in the past, the significant time and energy investment in getting a job, but also the somewhat dispensable nature of most companies and tech products. It all just strikes me as "some tech crap that I'll never see put to use". It's tough to find a connection of any kind with the output of what is usually either quite dull intellectual work or very hard intellectual work.

The thought of assembling react apps for an arbitrary company is saddening and I can't focus on something I'm not intrinsically interested in. Not that building websites is not interesting, but it seems like the output is often very mundane compared to how how arduous some frontend architectures have become.

By contrast, I can focus very well on sufficiently difficult and impactful projects, most likely where I have some control in the decisions made about the project. Likewise, I have no delusions that I'm some slept on PHD candidate that is too good for basic work. But I don't really know where to go from here. Do I continue just sort of enjoying the summer like I have every other time I've left a job, perhaps spending my time on creating something or contributing to OS?

A good example of the previous, is that I was working on something I hadn't before in a domain that I'd never touched. Specifically figuring out how to compress files and embed them as attachments in PDF documents in the PDF product that we were working on. It involved understanding zlib and hex file signatures and compression methods. That said, the rest of the job included customer service responses and random troubleshooting for customers who used the SDK, something that made me dread coming into work and something that they did not make clear during the hiring process.

Do you have any personal experiences like this you'd share? What have you done when you've concluded that most stuff just isn't compelling enough to even get you out of bed for the morning meeting?
so it's a note taking app that lacks any of the privacy features? Wordpress too lets me safe drafts and leaves it up to me whether I ever publish them. I wouldn't call wordpress a "note taking app". it's not a note-taking app if it sends everything to your servers. And it's a shame there is not a single word on security/privacy: how is data protected at rest? your password hashes salted? what is saved client-side vs server-side? where is the security.txt or contact info? what is your data storage policy, cookies, gdpr etc?

you offer a premium package yet there is no info on any of the above? Security/privacy concerns aside you extract money yet haven't even got a vision on how to grow this (no business plan)

... I'd give this a hard pass since it seems to be just another hobby project where everything depends on a single dev but the product ultimately doesn't have a vision. (not that this would be bad - but the fact that there is no clear statement on it _while_ extracting payment leaves a first impression that is fishy, questionable and unprofessional)
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest. Both are highly recommended.
That was an interesting critique, thanks for pointing that out! I wonder if Walker wrote a reply to the criticism.

Update: he has. His reply can be found here: https://sleepdiplomat.wordpress.com/
What about an emergency folding kayak?
I found this to be very insightful from Jung that he beautifully captures here:

"For the fact is, I doubt his uniqueness; he is of a type which always was and will be. Therefore it was not necessary to seek him out. I saw him all over India, in the pictures of Ramakrishna, in Ramakrishna’s disciples, in Buddhist monks, in innumerable other figures of the daily Indian scene, and the words of his wisdom are the sous-entendu of India’s spiritual life. Shri Ramana is, in a sense, a hominum homo, a true “son of man” of the Indian earth. He is “genuine,” and on top of that he is a “phenomenon” which, seen through European eyes, has claims to uniqueness. But in India he is merely the whitest spot on a white surface..."
i started with dual booting - and later without hesitation i delete all windows-related partitions and stickers in all work and family computers.

every minute spent on windows appears like time lost.
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