skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The source code is far smaller that I would've expected, tiny in fact - no seriously, its probably <2000 lines of actual code and looks extremely simple to audit and fix bugs. It seems the only real external dependency is libtorrent.

Honestly, if your not already amazed if not at the simplicity of this project, than you should be by the simplicity of fuse filesystems and the capabilities it exposes.
Private Equity doesnt work like that, vc investing is a completely different game. If you want to stay middle class, continue investing like the middle class, i.e. etfs. If you want to move up, invest like those in the class above you do. I think the common knowledge about what kinds of risk the common man should be taking on are in some ways constructed to keep the "prestige" of finance. Its an industry built upon the appearance of competence
There's a monopoly and oligopoly. How can there be a series of monopolies?

They don't provide essential services, so it is very much possible to not do busines with any of them.

I don't like the way they do business, but let's be honest about the situation.
> I use vuejs with a json file containing all the data for the site

Seconded. It makes hosting a breeze; especially when you can just throw it on GitHub Pages within minutes. I also like being dependent on only a text editor and a browser ... a combo still performant on just about any device from the last 20 years if not longer. No need to install full-featured IDEs and the various dependencies.
How does one go about unit testing those terminal controlling functions?
I can't reconcile this article with the cnn story about the "Wednesday night massacre" by the trump admin.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/17/media/us-agency-for-global-me...

It says she was fired by trump via new usagm, with four other heads to be replaced by one of the admin insider cronies who is a religious conservative.
I don't think the person you are responding to was saying that a celebrity bus is more substantive than the Grand Canyon.

I think they were saying that going to a place because it has meaning for an ideal of breaking dependence on society is more substantive than going to a place so you can take a picture to get attention on the internet. It's not about the place, it's about your reasons for going there.

The Grand Canyon is a place with incredible splendor, and I am sure there are people who go there for substantive reasons too.
I've been arguing since the 90's that governments around the world failed us terribly by not creating public spaces. I imagined all kinds of terrible implications, some came true others I couldn't have imagined.

The simplest example is that we have businesses seeking consumers and people seeking products. You could boost the economy enormously by forcing both though a government funnel. (with reasonable exception)
Python, R, BigQuery, Kdb+ for Data Analysis (Comparison)
Inoreader has always been great, better than google reader that everyone is mourning. I've been using it for 7 years now. Today I use it mostly for Github commit feeds actually.
Yes, 2D assets can be reused, once you have a 3D asset, it can be used with a lot more spectacle. Of nothing else, when you're animating a change of visual angle, it's a whole lot more convincing and easier (animate some positions) vs the 2D alternative of having to animate or rotoscoped each of the pixels and frames for that gun motion.

And spectacle was one of the biggest sellers of games.
go-btfs first commit: Thu Jun 26 00:38:48 2014 -0700

johang/btfs first commit: Sun Jul 26 10:20:49 2015 +0200
Which is partly Microsoft's fault because Enterprises should have easily embraced the Microsoft Store for Business (emphasis on the "for Business" as a part of the name following one of Microsoft's more confusing name patterns; it's a separate more customizable "store front" than the "not for Business" consumer store): it's a lot nicer UX than System Center's "just ported from Silverlight" Vista-era ugliness, has more features than System Center (including easier license management for applications sold on the non-Business store), and better install technology. In one of Microsoft's many "forgot to build a bridge" problems with the Store, they forgot to provide easy upgrades from System Center, especially for the then (too many) companies still supporting Windows 7 side-by-side Windows 10 installs up until the security support deadline.

It's probably still too early to tell, but App Management for Microsoft Teams, updates to MSIX, and better Windows 7 compatibility for companies over-paying EOL extended security support agreements, at least for Microsoft/Office 365 companies, has opened the door to enterprises re-evaluating the Microsoft Store for Business. It might actually replace System Center like it was intended to, just years late.
Quite possible. In the years since my brain has completely unloaded transaction processing to make room for supply chain management, so I can no longer relate to the subject to see if it's the same research. :(

I recall I approached him in the break and congratulated him on the fantastic presentation. And it was fantastic - like a murder mystery story, it kept you on the edge of the seat, answering questions it has created earlier and culminating into the answer. An older guy, probably his science advisor, protested that it's not only the presentation that was good, and the research itself was not too shabby. To that I retorted that for all we know there was a lot of good research in the room but we will never find out because delivery was lacking. Research must beget research, it's what makes science from hobby. I think we reached an agreement. I often think back to that moment - what we build should lend itself to further building, or it becomes a dead end. Neither science nor technology are made from dead-ends, the proverbial shoulders of giants must stack up for the civilization to advance.
I don't know that there's a way to distinguish "ideological purity" from just any beliefs or conventions around what types of speech are appropriate for work.
Who's gonna fund a company that just exposed itself as having fraudulent accounting?
Web Graffiti as a Service!

Seriously though, I always wondered why something like this didn't exist. Very cool.
Anyone have recommendations for an Android RSS reader?
While I still agree on wanting to direct money from military to science, it isn't a one time cost. In 2012, the yearly budget for the LHC was 1 billion [1].

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/07/05/how-much-d...
Notes on RSI for Developers Who Don't Have It (Yet)
Sorting and information theory: why sorting is n log n
Thanks for clarifying, Im definitely behind the news (had never heard of triple byte)
Did you show up at the Yukon without a map? Did you go hunting at -45C without a jacket? Did you try to fish without a rod?

No one is saying it's impossible to do what Chris attempted, but lots of people do say that he might not have died if he planned ahead a bit.
I can meet you partway on that by agreeing that there are lots of constraints on this problem. But if someone is repeatedly creating accounts on HN just to post on flamewar topics, that's not a high quality use of the site.
This is classic Apple, they try to widen the audience that wants a tech by simplifying as much as possible, then finding a key value.

Prime example is the Apple Watch... who "wears" it now? Sports people...
> "pukers"

That's really funny.

On the one hand, I feel a satisfying connectedness when I visit a real-life place mentioned in a book: I traveled the Spanish countryside after reading "The Sun Also Rises", and got lost in the countryside and drank red wine on the hills. I also visited the killing fields in Cambodia after reading "The Killing Fields" and "Swimming to Cambodia". It was fucking terrifying that this happened in my lifetime.

On the other hand, I can see how stressful this is for locals, like both in Alaska and Spain who aren't asking for the influx. But at least in Cambodia, it is an important historical legacy and it brings revenue.

I've come to the conclusion for myself that I don't want to bother the locals just for my own satisfaction unless the target destination has been built with concern and sensitivity, and not for exploitation. Even the latter case is still subjective: are the streets of Paris' tourist-traps exploitative and annoying? What about the shops around Giza's pyramids? Both locations seemed to be unhappy about the tourism. I spoke with a shop owner in Panama and he said the locals love/hate tourists: the dollars are important, but the psychological impact of having their homes be fishbowls is not insignificant.
Most of the apps on those stores don't have to be OS Apps, they can be Web Apps, accessbile from any device connected to the Internet.
Apple has been working on glasses at least since 2006 and perhaps earlier, far longer than this article indicates. Perhaps there's not continuity in these projects, but I suspect an R&D team or two has been working on this for over a decade. Whether or not you still believe it, Apple generally releases new new products when they're ready.

"Apple started working on an augmented reality headset at least as early as 2006, but put the idea on ice because it seemed a mere curiosity compared to the iPhone. The possibility of some sort of iGlass device was confirmed by Tony Fadell, the former iPod division head who is now the CEO of Nest Labs, during an interview for the oral history."

https://www.fastcompany.com/3018060/apples-iglasses-are-real...

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2474968/innovation--ap...
I think the GP would use your source to prove his point as well. An absolute disparity of 2.8x but it does not consider the level of violent crime a particular racial category commits.

Your source also suggests unarmed white people are nearly twice as likely to be shot than unarmed Hispanics. Doesn't that contradict the narrative of racist motive by white police?

I have to wonder how many people were killed by police. Was it 100 or 10,000? The difference in magnitude could see these racial biases diminish or worsen.
Privacy has no "cost" whereas paying $2 right now is a very understandable cost.

Also, it's not $2 but $50, for users wary of automatically extending monthly subscriptions.
You’re a wimp.
> but doesn't effectively enforce that rule.

We don't know how effective their enforcement of the rules are. Maybe 99.9% of listings for banned items are properly removed and what we see are just 0.1% of a very large number. I would say 99.9% is a rate that most people would say is effective. Would you say the rule enforcement is effective if it catches exactly 100% of violators?
Most of the time I just read the article.

When I do read comments, it's almost always after having read the article.
WSL1 emulates linux's syscall interface. WSL2 is a lightweight vm. In either case you can run a regular distro, so not sure what you are on about a package manager.
There are medical spinoffs. eg Positron emission tomography = PET scan.
Apple iTunes has actually tried to mitigate this by supporting Movies Anywhere[1] for some video content and iTunes Plus[2] has no DRM, so they aren't as bad as some other walled gardens.

The app stores/systems on all of the walled gardens are problematic, but the way I see it it's largely because they don't want to create a web of trust including all of the other app stores (the weakest one's security would cause a loss of profit for all).

> What about X or Y

This behavior is largely a feature of the market and a failure of governments to choose to do anything about it. We are ~12 years into the iOS app ecosystem, and much further (~30 years) when it comes to packaged disk software/games which were sold separately for Apple/Windows/game consoles.

I'm more worried about the trajectory -- governments don't seem to identify this as a problem (except for a few select legislators) and other industries seem to be moving in this direction (John Deere DRM, Tesla apps, AWS Marketplace, etc).

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202915

[2] https://support.apple.com/guide/itunes/itunes-plus-itns1ec4e...
So you agree with the parent then, affirmative action and quotas should have never existed in the first place?
Indeed curious. Bungie’s Marathon series of FPSs of the same era also did palette swapping for the sprite-based NPCs.
It also brings an increase in recaptcha puzzles lol
The author is an extremely comprehensive game historian who is probably into the hundreds of thousands of words at this point, so they almost certainly are aware of it and you'll find it mentioned in another article.
> I am being facetious, but mainly to illustrate the point that we now have a series of entrenched monopolies in the tech world so “stop using X” isn’t a realistic solution.

Even if you could simply stop using X, "voting with your wallet" is often a fallacy, especially when voting with your voice and actual vote have consistently enacted meaningful change throughout history.
Something you'll notice during every WWDC is that Apple will repeatedly say that iOS updates are "always free." I always found that odd till I realized it both a throwback to the days when upgrades weren't free - but also as a nod to "We don't get paid by charging for our operating system." Once you're entering the Apple ecosystem - Apple is making itself the de-facto middleman between the user and everyone else.

I think that's what this comes down to - you're paying Apple the premium as a developer to access Apple's customers.

They aren't your customers. They are Apples. So this argument calls this out but is asking them to change that? Seems like they are asking Apple to completely change their business model.

Edit to add from the TC interview with Schiller, he even gives a way to get around the app store process, which I have used in a previous app that we did on iOS:

"One way that Hey could have gone, Schiller says, is to offer a free or paid version of the app with basic email reading features on the App Store, then separately offered an upgraded email service that worked with the Hey app on iOS on its own website"
Show HN: Slack app to play 1000s of quizzes right inside Slack
Hey HN, excited to be showcasing Trivia.

Quick context: At Springworks (our company), we moved to WFH from mid-March
and then announced our remote-first policy on May 6th. We’ve been since optimizing our home offices and our Slack workspace for productivity and testing lots of team-building activities.

We saw lots of traction with Quizzes, but they required fixing up a timeslot, downloading a separate app and conducting the quiz over a Zoom call.

That’s when we decided to build a Slack app for quizzes inside Slack.

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With Trivia's suite of quizzes, you can bring Social & Fun back to your workspace (right inside Slack) even while working remotely.

Trivia quizzes are fun, easy to launch, and provide a quick 5-minute break to your workday.

MCQs - multiple choice questions with 4 answers each across topics like science, tech, business, movies, entertainment, and even Maths and Grammar. Look out for the GoT, The Office and Harry Potter quizzes as well.

Seamless - play with your team anytime, anywhere right on top of Slack

Multiple game types (coming soon) - for variety

Leaderboards (coming soon)- track results real-time along with final podium standings showcased at the end.

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Try it out. It’s free for the first 10 quizzes and 7 days.

PS: Trivia for MS Teams is coming soon too!
I use NewsBlur in Firefox and via the Android app, and I'm very happy with it.
Does everyone at Zapier share a similiar opinion?

Zapier is built on Python, Django, React, Node.js, and AWS

Were you aware of the tradeoffs you made with that stack. Zapier has many technical issues: https://ca.trustpilot.com/review/zapier.com

If you went with a different stack I don't think you would have half of the issues your customers are reporting.
I've lurked on HN for over 10 years including making an unsuccessful YC application. It's remarkable how the general quality of arguments is increasingly aligned along parroting political groupthink on all extremes.

However, as a non-white male the most alarming observation is the blatantly xenophobic, anti-immigrant rationalising of white supremacy. Perhaps the most brazen exampel of this was vitriolic anti-immigrant comments following the mass shooting in New Zealand from a particular software developer I happen to know personally in real life on here. He obviously does not know this but I've kept a screenshot of those comments to remind myself about the true nature of people.
Do you organize stuff into different categories (can trello do that?)? Like home, work, hobbies, investigations, etc

Or is that something you dont really need to do?
> About two percent of desktop PCs and laptops use Linux, and there were over 2 billion in use in 2015. That’s about 4 million computers running Linux

Yawn...I'm not sure what to expect from someone who cannot even do basic math...
Can we now subject large "private" firms to the same scrutiny that "public" have to obey? I always thought it was ridiculous that you could call a trillion dollar company with millions of shareholder, "private."

From the sounds of it, this ruling handwaves away the inherent risk of investing in a company whose finances you have no visibility into by claiming that putting it into a diversified private fund is the same as a diversified public fund. Which is fine, but they should be subject to the same reporting requirements as public companies.

These regulations didn't appear out of thin air. The business world is full of evil people looking to rob everyday investors. See: Enron.
Did it cost them that much? I think it wasn't clear on that point. It looks like they rented the theater out for a fixed fee (since they have connections to the theater let's say it was $100). Then they can sell tickets and they get to keep the money for selling said tickets. So they sell tickets to themselves for $25,488. According to the theater that's the profit for the movie, and they're only out of pocket $100.

I suspect the $25,488 was so low to keep it believeable.
Ok, but the problem is that then this becomes an "is down" story, as in "Reuters' RSS feed is down". Those tend not to be a very high quality category of submission, and it's unlikely that a story with that title would have shot to the front page.

Rather it's the sensational they-killed-RSS! aspect of the story that attracted attention, because it ties in with the generic topics of RSS-lamentation and web-nostalgia which are perennially popular here (plus the word 'killed' evokes indignation, which invariably attracts upvotes).

I'm not mocking those feelings—I share them! I just think there's a binary outcome here: either Reuters is truly killing their RSS, in which case we can discuss that once we know it; or (more likely) this was just a bug somewhere, and that is not SNI (significant new information) which could support a substantially different discussion. For more on SNI, see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

Actually, the 'bug' interpretation does relate to the RSS-lamentation topic in a more subtle way. Software that's low-priority never gets as much maintenance attention. Perhaps someone made a change that broke the RSS feed, but no one noticed because they didn't test that.
Depends on which part of the ladder you are on. If you're the fund manager of a big fund, you got rich. If you're the LP of growth seed rounds, you probably got rich. If you're the LP of later stage rounds, you probably didn't get rich.
>An AR-15 with a 16in barrel is 30in with the stock collapsed and cannot be much shorter without the stock because of the buffer tube.

Telescoping stocks maybe not (my inexperience showing there) but folding stocks definitely can take it under 30 inches then. I assume you're saying a normal caliber ar15 won't be very fireable without a buffer tube. Anyways, apparently folding and telescoping stocks are also illegal in California, which might be the real reason amazon has these rules.
My issue with it is that a hand-wavy qualification that communicates only what you want it to mean.

How does one define "best" at all in this context? If you devote all your efforts to researching a problem no one is looking at and still come up with nothing, are you still considered one of the "best people"? What if you are researching a problem many others are investigating and then do find something new? It feels very much like hindsight bias to apply such a moniker.
Yeah, but they all want experience.
I would never assign null to an Optional nor use a library that returned one.

To ensure assignment before use make it final.
Agreed! Unfortunately, most people don't think of it as an acute problem until it's too late.
Not sure how ironic are you, but don't you think you'd massively win overall if the energy suddenly became free? Think how many problems it would solve :)
Moved to inoreader - free tier for up to 150 feeds, works on mobile too
Async communication is suitable to resolve some kind of issues. But it has two drawbacks: participants need to be competent at writing and reading prose (it’s harder than it sounds) and even with the best of care your ideas can easily be misinterpreted resulting in the loss of an async cycle.

For problems which are not well defined, and where a lot of decisions need to be taken, especially when they verge toward the arbitrary, it’s a lot easier to have people in a room and hash it out. A remote meeting can work too.

The problem with meetings are those which are not well prepared. There shall be an agenda and proper minutes should be produced.

For most complicated matters actions/investigations are supposed to be followed up. In a way that’s how you mix async with sync communication.
Self host FreshRSS and use Reeder on iOS.
The slope of the lines is more telling than their relative levels.
Obvious selection bias, if that’s even true.
In any free/freemium product/service, your attention is your primary currency (your wallet and your participation in the network effect are secondary). Marketing to HN viewers happens when a funded company announces hiring.
That's still pocket change and pretty irrelevant in context since merely half of 1 year's budget of the US military would still be able to power the LHC for over 350 years.
But the movement to leave Zoom happened due to the prominence of Zoom in many B2B companies that didn’t realize they were risking their security. Just reaching the status Zoom reached in 2019 is bonkers considering the competition had been at it for decades.