skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's meant to be a bit braggy insofar as to show off as how cool that time was. I am a very normal guy with no exceptional talents and intelligence. Also I am quite lazy.

It was the opportunities I had and the people I met who enabled me to have this experiences.

It's meant to be motivating to other youngsters to go try. That's why I sound a bit cheerleads as well ;)
Stomach ulcers are often H. pylori, so do check into that.

So far I find it's been fine for me. If I get acid reflux it's at night after a heavy meal or alcohol.
This doesn't have to be academic. You can do an experiment at home. Brew a big cup of coffee with a drip machine and drink it. Note how you feel. Then, make a batch of cold brew and let it sit for 48 hours. Drink half as much of that as you did the hot brewed coffee, but pease do so slowly as some people become very uncomfortable with that amount of caffeine.
The Power of Crossed Brain Wires
4) The W3C HTML spec is now mostly just a placeholder that says "Whatever WHATWG thinks is best" and it is almost but not quite true that WHATWG's Living Spec is increasingly "Whatever works in Chromium/Chrome"
Looks cool, but doesn't work for me. After selecting a theme it crashes with "TypeError: Cannot set property 'value' of undefined" in index.js:24.
PoC for Netgear 0-Day
am out of the loop. what is the rumor?
I live in Austria as well, could you share to which retailer it happened?
Trember Spaces: Great Video Alternative to Zoom, Hangout, Jitsi etc.
Hey guys,
we have developed a nice video group chat solution.
It's all free, no limitation, except 50 participants max per room. You don't need to register or install anything. Works from all devices and is pure fun.
You can create an unlimited video space, in which you can freely move with your video avatar, it's fully interactive, as you can upload images or videos to the space . Furthermore every participant can share his screen at the same time, cause all media can be replaced and changed in size in the space. It's really great.
I would appreciate if you would give it a try.
https://app.trember.com
It's his right to claim highly valued services for free and then cash compensation for when he uses them. It is also the right of every sensible corporation in the world to forward that audacious claim directly into the trash bin and not entertain it for another moment.
Agree. A system set up in enough detail to allow this principle to exist would be great: ‘here is some of my money, because I believe in you. I would like a return on it in the event your org continues to grow.‘
I'm fine with that. They decide to take a political stance, they shall deal with the legal consequence of their actions.
Soho Device Exploitation: Breakdown of the Netgear 0-Day
Coffee roaster here, at 350F the beans have turned yellow and barely started browning. 390F~ is around the point where most roasters would consider development of flavor to really take off (yeah yeah pre-development phase, I'm keeping it short) and beans will be done at various points after that depending on roast preference.

The smoke that the roaster produces towards the end of roast is no joke, and some has to get on the beans, but I'd say it is minimal enough to not be an issue as there should be plenty of air flowing through the roaster at that point.

If roasted improperly oils could seep out of the beans while in the roaster which burn as well and stick to the beans. I'd say that is more of an issue than the smoke or roasting too dark.
Not exactly the same thing but the other day I got banned from r/ADHD for a (moderate from my POV) comment about pronouns.

The mod then gloated about banning dozens of people other this and that "LGBTQIA+ people run the subreddit", and that "the lack of discrimination (...) for being cis or being white or being straight or being a man overshadows any discrimination they would receive for their adhd"

I don't think that's great moderation given the subject of the subreddit but what can you even do about it that would not be time consuming and pointless?
How Facebook Is Undermining 'Black Lives Matter'
If you've ever seen a black kid in school get ridiculed and told to "stop acting white" because they were studying and trying to keep out of trouble, you'd know what they're talking about. There are cultural issues that need to be addressed, in addition to systemic racism.
> How you organize your society matters much more, Japan/SK has fraction of the global population, and somehow maintain their economic importance.

They maintain their importance by being creditor nations, i.e. they are productive and save.

> India has all the problems of a democracy without much of the benefit. It's more likely that India becomes a CCP style country than stays a democracy.

There is a fundamental distrust of power structures in India. This is due to multiple waves of colonization by foreign powers, first by the Mughals and second by the British East India Company.

India is likely to be a liberal democracy far longer than the United States. It’s current fascination with populism doesn’t necessarily lead to authoritarianism. Rather it is giving a voice to the most disenfranchised in a country, typically those who are now economically obsoleted by automation.

> If India was so great it's smaller immediate neighbor wouldn't be so hostile towards it, and friendly to CCP.

That is due to political history and infighting between secular and religious figures in India’s independence movement.
The US electrical system is not 120V [video]
So not so different from /r/politics then?

"Orange man bad" 320k upvotes, front page
Python's regex implementation is probably not written in Python, so while it's trying to match, no Python code runs; it's all /C(++)?/.
Quarantined in 5... 4... Banned in 3... 2...
It says right in this article that of the money allocated, the Fed has not met it's commitment to disclose the lender, sum, and interest rate of about 3/4 of the loans they have given. It is a fair assumption by the author that we cannot have any expectation that the rest of the disbursements will be reported appropriately.
What you "think" is literally entirely against the reason Section 230 exists.
It's not very easy because it requires a constitutional amendment.
Build a sustainable open-source project with Staroid
Commuting would be easier with less people doing it too, so whilst going to the office is sucks, for many, due to transportation issues it would stick a little less with fewer people doing it. Even a single company can make parking easier if only half the company car-commutes continue.

Of course many businesses require employees to be present.
Sure it will be possible to stay open: just double down removing offending content and defend from the lawsuits. Large companies routinely have multiple ongoing lawsuits.
I personally don’t believe it’s ever possible to solve verifiable citizenship even in larger developed countries, leave alone in a diverse and populous country like India. Corruption at the long and porous borders and local levels is one big issue. There are many other factors with the populace, education levels, digital literacy, etc.
Show HN: Periodic sanitized snapshot of production RDS for developers/QA
That Apple will be moving at least part of their consumer machines to ARM-based chips.
Just got my first espresso machine during WFH. It's a great hobby, I'm so happy every morning.
I mean T_D pays and WPD takes, and if T_D is not quarantined but WPD is, it seem to almost makes sense WPD goes but T_D stays
Scientists Found a Mysterious Structure of Deep Shafts Near Stonehenge
Drop 100% gaming, social media and pot activity this summer and see how that business goes.

There is a big difference in the outcomes between the truly self-motivated dropouts I know (who have a PhD or C-level title now) and those who weren't 100% ambitious and self-motivated. For every success, there's a dozen or more flipping hamburgers, tending bar or working warehouses.

I'd argue anyone facing another year of Covid should just home school/GED, do a gap year to travel alone or volunteer for Americorps. You can always sell out to McDonalds or Google later.
The benefits of taxation is that you don't need to build up an endowment, you can just pay it today. You could spend $364M today, and then next year, and then every year. Why introduce random financial engineering to the mix?
> India has all the problems of a democracy without much of the benefit. It's more likely that India becomes a CCP style country than stays a democracy.

What is the basis for this? People have been predicting fall of democracy in India for decades (especially in the West), but nothing of that sort has happened. The closest incident was the state of emergency under Indira Gandhi in 1975-1977. India successfully recovered back then when the populace was far less educated and far less exposed to the outside world. It's not likely that anything like that is going to happen again.
The problem is that "lawful content" includes things like explicit support for Nazism and the KKK (not 2020 "Trump is a Nazi" kind of allegations of Nazism, but actual Nazis). Even things like abstract calls for violence are protected under the First Amendment: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio

I don't think people espousing this view understand the scope of what sites need to tolerate to comply. Would reddit be a better place if they let people say, "ni\\\\s belong in shackles" and, "death to Jews"? Because that's legal speech.
That message is so stupid. What's there to learn from the punishment if you don't know what you did wrong?
Open source to build search engines
Reddit once being a haven away from large corporate interests, has continually succumbed to the mainstream narrative of what’s appropriate.

Sure, there are communities that are horrid, but then there are those that are on the line. And inch by inch that line moves from moral goodness, to corporate interest.

Reddit is no different than Twitter/YouTube/Facebook, only they haven’t covered the same amount of ground.

Given another few years, if that, we’ll see the same censorship practices on Reddit, with the same magnitude, as youtube, facebook, and twitter.

This is essentially account entrapment. Show content they know is in bad faith, then punish them. Or, once a post is deemed in bad faith, retroactively punish them for not having the correct opinion.

1984
The most recent articles on DOOM are especially relevant here, because some of the names involved in Ion Storm (though not as directly involved in Deus Ex) show up in the various tales about DOOM and the early Shareware era.

(Jimmy Maher also is pretty good about citing sources and the book Masters of DOOM is cited several times as a primary source, which is also why it is recommended several times in sibling comments.)
This was announced back in February....

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8044337/Redd...
Yeah, like we had few colds/flus in the past year or two for our large-ish family, but now it's gone to zero for the past 4 months which is... impressive.

So does that mean when things come back on that we can expect a flurry of illnesses going around?
That's not a new problem at all, there have always been people who look at the site as a free code-writing service. Kind of the opposite of the "Thanks" problem are the question askers who complain that you didn't deliver them production-ready code.
Actually, I would argue even your approach does not really represent the real utility of a university. My list includes

1. failed to start a startup about hardware tutorials in local languages

2. failed at productionizing a propeller display, they are pretty popular popular now.

3. failed at productionizing a gas sensors with high resolution

The list of failures go on and on actually. But the real utility I had was the nice cozy university bubble where failure of projects isn't really ... accounted for.
a legislation with a flat tax would not be that bad. i guesstimate that close to 70% maybe more of new ads are done online. and google and facebook are disruptive to old players who pay a lot more in taxes. this tax would definitely affect new players to the digital add buisness , but i dont see anyone even trying.
What are they asking Facebook to do?
App Engine to Cloud Run migration tool
If a job can be done remotely, then it should be done remotely. Forcing your employees into an office so you can play up office politics and look good in front of your board is bad behavior. It's archaic, gross, and in the case of a pandemic, negligent.
One example is how the police are far more likely to shoot and kill unarmed people of color in the US[1].

Another example is how people of color in the US are far more likely to be incarcerated than white people are, especially for non-violent offenses.[2]

There's a reason the George Floyd protests have been so intense: His death was no isolated incident, but a pattern of continuing discrimination against people of color in America by those who control the power structures.

Sources:

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/protests-sprea...

[2] https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/color-of-just...
If I am currently in the free-tier, what's the next step for me as I look to scale?
> It works on a smaller community like HN because comments get 10s of upvotes at most.

I think you underestimate the size of this place. It’s basically a busy Subreddit.
A good time to advocate for telehealth, remote visits.
Great countries cant have any dispute with smaller neighbors, they just give away whatever the smaller ones ask for? You make no sense.
True, but it seems traditionally many schools have offered Computer Science, but not any other type of Software Engineering or programming degree and CS became the de-facto "I want to be a programmer" degree.
Worked for the Pentagon papers.
Not the parent, but I think the answer to your loaded statement is: no - that is not an accurate interpretation of their position.

Have protections -> must allow all content that is legal equally.

Dont have protections -> moderate site as you like.

Pick one.
How Apple uses anti-competitive practices to extort developers
Darknet Diaries – True stories from the dark side of the Internet
They aren't, though. Compare windows vs. linux geekbench scores of identical hardware, they are extremely different:

Linux: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/2638097
Windows: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/2635048

Geekbench is a terrible benchmark.
You’re missing the point: when you go to a store, you hand them cash. When you go to a website, you hand them data, which they turn around and sell for cash. The data you give them is the payment for their product. Why else would Facebook invest billions into free products? I’m not shedding a tear for the mega corps, but people need to understand that companies will charge for products one way or another.
I don't think it's necessarily fair to assume she "needs" that without further context.

My parents (late 70s; mother has severe arthritis) have an iPad that they use for video calling and they have been able to pick it up without issues. The only other thing they use it for is looking at photos we share to them on Google Photos.

They were actually fairly tech illiterate (if anything weird happened to the TV or VCR they would phone me), but maybe 5 years ago I setup a Linux PC for my father to send emails to relatives. I should note that this was the first time he ever used a computer or anything remotely technical (his career was as a carpenter). I expected him to get frustrated and never use it again after the first few times, but he has learnt and managed to pick it up fairly well.

I agree some things did take a while (e.g. explaining right clicking), but he persisted which was the main thing. The first few video calls usually resulted in me not seeing anything as they held their fingers over the camera, but they learnt how to do it. He has even started an online shop buying and selling Lego pieces (much to the detriment of my mother, as she barely sees him now).
You work for higher ed. COVID is about to decimate them. I'm not surprised they are taking this tack. It's survival mode now.
You can cook fish and rice in the microwave.

I'll speak to the ease rather than the speed of preparations.

In that regard I like Crock Pot and Instant Pot. Both of them can cook just about anything, including cakes. The best thing about them is you can just dump everything in them and forget until ready. I believe Instant Pot is a bit more versatile and stuff like rice and hard boiled eggs come out perfect every time. Youtube has neverending parade of recipes and demos (of any level of complexity) for both Crock/Instant Pot. To save more time one can also invest in food processor (chops up your veggies and whatever in no time) and countertop dishwasher.
If you're watching on a Mac/iOS device, it's also available in the TV app.
When bikeshedding meets virtue signaling you know you're in for a good ride
Reddit has two conflicting aims.

First, it tries to be a "community hub", like Forumer in the old days, where anyone can set up an "autonomous" messageboard (subreddit) to support discussion among a particular subculture. Consider e.g. /r/smashbros.

Second, it tries to be a "community-in-itself", complete with its own demonym "redditor", and a shared set of values, etiquette, and jokes/memes.

These goals are fundamentally at odds. A community of competing factions -- some of which openly hate each other -- is hardly a community. A board for Super Smash Brothers players which must hew to the diktat of reddit at large is not really a community of Smashers. When a norm on Reddit at large is violated by a subreddit, the general population is incensed. When a rule is handed down from the admins to the moderators of a subcommunity, the members of that community feel they are being manipulated by outsiders -- even if they might have decided to enforce that rule on their own, if they had been left to their own devices.

Reddit splits the baby and nobody's happy.
I mean, you straight up said that the people working on homelessness in San Francisco are taking all the money and don't want to actually fix it, implying they'd rather have the streets full of homeless people than find something else to do -- "Offensive garbage" actually seems like a charitable opinion of your post.

I'd encourage you to talk to a single person actually working on the problem. Literally anyone.
Here they are asking for volunteers first, but there is a clear push from management to get people back in the office ( and that is despite the fact that by all official metrics of our unit, we are basically killing it ). Doesn't matter. They want control.

Current rumblings suggest we are going back in July.
Type of HTML Colors
That would have to be on the investor's side, otherwise the incentives aren't aligned.
I think you misunderstood their statement.
That's the definition of a profitable business.
Have there been any “neuromarketing” successes?
Racial Disparity in Covid-19 Deaths [pdf]
I was told by an ex-employee of Patagonia that they pay under market wages. This person left the headquarters office for better pay. This is some time ago, things may have changed. They make good products and have renowned corporate ethics.
Name it, shame it. Not necessarily here but make sure places like Glassdoor know.

Nothing like a good public shaming to change a company's direction
Yes. Especially the sjw crowd in tech should reflect on this question. But they won't
"Torrenting has an incentivization problem. There is sometimes a real lack of incentive to seed a file, especially for obscure files where you may only find a single digit number of people that have it. Adding monetary incentives to the existing torrenting structure should prove to be extremely interesting."

In my opinion, if torrenting meant one needs to pay for download, we would never have heard about torrents. This might give people more incentive to seed, but I'd never use it for what I use torrents - get stuff for free or reduce the load of FOSS servers.

To me it's the usual crypto thing - very cool from a technological perspective, not useful in real life.

edit: typos
All gun-style launches have the problem that they have to do the entire acceleration in a very short amount of time, which means very high g-forces. Also happens at the ground, so needs even more speed to compensate for loss in the atmosphere. For small & robust payloads it might be an option, but for large satellites? E.g. Gerald Bull did high-atmosphere studies using payloads fired from converted artillery guns in the 60s.

Not sure if railguns in particular add much over chemical guns that justifies the complexity.
Satya Nadella: Remembering my father
Section 230 is another classic legalist versus legal realist versus "whatever absolves me" trap that people fall into on this forum.

The legal realism prevails with this stupid law, it will always prevail. You can both moderate / review / editorialize content, including political content, while simultaneously enjoying Section 230 protections.
How to turn site visitors into a source of income?
It's the main text of any new window or tab opened in Incognito Mode. 14px to be exact. That's not small print!
Hey HN, creator of DVC here!

DVC (https://dvc.org/) is known as Git for data projects. Technically, DVC codifies your data and machine learning pipelines as text metafiles (with pointers to actual data in S3/GCP/Azure/SSH) while you use Git for the actual versioning. DevOps folks call this approach GitOps or more specifically in this case - DataOps or MLOps.

We’ve been working towards 1.0 since we started 3 years ago. What began as my pet project now has 100+ code contributors, 100+ documentation contributors, and thousands of users.

Our community has taught us a lot - here are some of the biggest lessons:

1. Users say the serverless and distributed nature of DVC (inherited from the underlying Git) is one of its "killer features".

2. To share ML projects within and between teams, it’s not enough to track only files and pipelines. You also need metrics, plot and hyperparameter tracking. In DVC 1.0 we implemented hyper-parameter diffs, metrics and plot diffs right from Git history.

3. In DataOps, data transfer optimization is huge. Large deep learning models, millions of images in datasets, etc. We doubled down on optimizing 1.0.

4. ML pipelines evolve faster than data engineering pipelines and need to be easy to change. In 1.0, we’ve simplified the pipeline metafile format.

5. More and more teams use DVC as a part of CI/CD for ML and other MLOps tools. DVC is used under the hood in the CD4ML tool that was described in the canonical post on Martin Fowler’s blog: https://martinfowler.com/articles/cd4ml.html. We built 1.0 with CI/CD users in mind.

More details on https://dvc.org/blog/dvc-1-0-release.

Happy to answer any questions.

PS: I've published this in another thread, but I repeated it here.
Japan retakes supercomputing crown from US and China
This is a pretty nebulous statement, but I don't think there's a lot of truth here. "Certain areas" makes it seem like the discrepancy is contained, but it's not. Pretty much every decent sized city in the US has a murder rate at least several times greater than any major European city.

If you compare a rich suburb to Europe's average then yeah, it's probably comparable. But any sort of apples to apples comparison will show that the U.S. has a much higher violent crime rate.
I always thought the IRA was defeated by the Good Friday Agreement.

Which is to say, that it won.
Rail guns have a lot of problems for orbital insertion from an atmosphere:

1. Storing the energy to accelerate the payload.
2. Not accelerating the payload so quickly that it breaks apart.
3. Thermal heating from atmospheric drag.
4. The energy required to overcome atmospheric drag itself.
5. Strength/size of materials to build the sled and contain a payload with that much momentum.

My understanding is that 3 & 4 on this list tend to make rail guns a non-starter on earth.