skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How much do you email yourself?
Is it a frequent thing and what is it that you mainly send yourself? Just wanted to see who does it alot on HN as well.
I'm not 100% sure who's the target audience of this book, frankly. I had the opportunity to read it some time ago and, for someone new to the language/programming, it is clearly difficult to learn from after the first few chapters.
Fine article, but flagging as dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22443363

717 points by whatever_dude 4 months ago 498 comments
I know one of the reasons The Faroe Islands had a lot of testing capacity even from the start was that it is the same machines they use for testing fish pandamics. Which combined with the very small population meant that they could test a large protion of the people living there.
No because in startups an automated program can't tell the difference between unused code and code that was commented out/not being called. While we would all like to pretend that none of us do this because it's not best practice (especially if we were asked this in an interview :) ), in startups it's common, because there are sometimes more important things to worry about.

You might have more luck building security tools in my opinion--that seems like a bigger implication of unused endpoints, code, etc -- maybe call your potential customers and ask what tools they need around that.
I had a few more negatives:

- The lack of hardware volume controls is a huge bummer

- It’s definitely compute constrained, Google Maps drops a lot of frames when scrolling around

- I experienced Bluetooth audio cutting out intermittently a lot (wonder if it is an antenna issue or just software)

But the compromise is truly worth it for the size, it is, like you said, hard to fully appreciate just how small and portable it is
Mark Zuckerberg Loses $7B as Companies Boycott Facebook Ads
It's just streaming from the phone though, not actually over cell? I know they don't have offline, which is the main reason I've held off buying a watch and airpods for running: I only need a few hours of music, GPS, and HR, and it feels like this should be a good combo.
> The game server using async Rust, which was... exciting

As someone interested in Rust but not currently using it, what is the state of async? An expansion on the bullet points following regarding runtime scope would be interest.
I wrote a review of the phone after using it as my primary device for a while

https://www.justingarrison.com/blog/palm-companion-review/
You have an interesting point. You can see methane leaks in some IR photography, but it’s not as compelling as an oil plume in the water, or oil coated shores. Video from the huge leak outside LA —

https://www.scpr.org/news/2015/12/09/56118/video-porter-ranc...
> There are a lot of them in the DC area. You just don’t hear much about them.

For those of us entirely and woefully ignorant on where to start, could you provide a few names? I'm entirely apprehensive of this model on principal after having to deal with a project that relied mainly on Departmnt of Ag grants that stifled me in every step despite making them profitable for the first time in its 8 year history. But the truth is that as a former bootstrapping founder I hope funding is actually an issue that UBI can mitigate.

The idea of not having to rely on government programs, VC, or banks but rather a system that relies entirely on private funding from members of your family, friends and community with an incentive structure is something that interests me a great deal.

One of the more creative things I saw when I worked in Kitchens was this model where the Mexican employees would group their paychecks and give it to one member of the group of 5-7 workers/employees and it would allow them to have substantially more money than their single paycheck to take care of things that they would otherwise would need predatory payday loans for or simply have to do without until they could save enough to do so. And this would continue until every member of the group was served and it would start again, its an interesting system but it ultimately relies on Trust that I think could and should be done away with given that the technology exists to do so. That's not to say Trust isn't a valuable commodity, but is entirely unnecessary concern if well designed.

Remittances are another meaningful business model that I think are not only under-served but attract the worst people to them in hopes of keeping people in desperate situations to retain their demographic.
And GMO soy leghemoglobin, plus soy leghemoglobin soy protein.
> This is just part of life in a global pandemic.

There's nothing about a pandemic that says that passport issuance/renewal must be closed down all year keeping Americans trapped in the U.S. Stop excusing low standards.

Not to mention even if we weren't in a pandemic the whole process of passport renewals is stupid and overly time-consuming. If my information is all the same, why can't I just upload my new passport photo online and have my new passport automatically printed and sent to me?
If you ever get tired of Android’s failings as I did, know there is Microsoft Edge on iOS with adblock built in. You can still send tabs to desktop Firefox from Edge if you have iOS Firefox installed.

That said I use Firefox almost exclusively for the night mode, which is where I’m swiping this message from.
The Apple Watch Series 5 has 32 GB.
Deep Graph Contrastive Representation Learning
For a good overview of the current situation in the EU https://covid19-country-overviews.ecdc.europa.eu/#3_eueea_an... - unfortunately I live in that deep red mark on the left...
> There's little if any evidence to support fear of Corona transmission through food.

You're probably right, but there's perception. And that's very important for marketing. Pizza delivery companies are advertising their pizza as "untouched by human hand" from the time they emerge from the oven to the time they get to your door.

> It's not even the first pandemic in the modern era.

We have short attention spans. Not everyone is a history expert/pedant like you.
Agree. Watched Beach Bum last year with my friend in a small theatre, we were the only ones there minus another couple. It was so magical, almost like a religious experience.
Markets, Discrimination, and “Lowering the Bar”
Okay, here I saw no mention of the relevant points in

"Executive Order on Safe Policing for Safe Communities"

June 16, 2020

at

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-or...

So, in short, "money talks"!

Yes, it's the money the DoJ has long been giving to local police departments to help them "protect and serve" and in general be pretty.

So, we get to set up a company, say, Local Police Audits, Inc. and a company Audits and Approvals, Inc. The second works to make sure the DOJ thinks they are pretty and, then, works to make sure the first is pretty; and then the first works to make sure the police departments, e.g., in Minneapolis, Atlanta, NYC, Baltimore, etc. are pretty, get a coveted, official pretty prize.

And if a police department does not get a pretty prize? Then the DoJ "will make them an offer they can't refuse" -- get a pretty prize or lose your DoJ money.

The Blue Line, police contracts, and police unions aside, this offer will be meaningful to the local mayor, town council, and maybe the local newspapers, voters, taxpayers, chief of police, the state governor, and even the mainstream media (MSM).

It's all right there in that executive order.
I email myself when necessary.

Usually it is for reminders of something, or for transferring a photo out of my phone without opening up "primitive ftpd" and pulling the photo out. I've also sometimes used it to transfer a small file "in" to the phone for the same reason.

But I also run my own email on my own server at my home, so all of this usage is local to my internal network (no spying big-brother advertising corp. involved).
Is this too little, too late?
Rooting your phone would require a certain technical ability. Possible on andriod..

Side loading apps?

Technical ability like making an app for andriod cost me 10 dollars once. 100+ yearly for apple.

But you missed the key point. It doesn't matter both can be operated by non-technical people. If you look at the populations who own each one group has a higher technical ability than the other. One has people willing to pay 10x more for a phone, willing to pay for apps that are freely available in the other's store app store.
This reminds me of this pre-release book I'm reading from Manning. The author suggests a hard rule of avoiding if/else in functions.

https://www.manning.com/books/five-lines-of-code
Who is Mike Henry and who did he voice on Family Guy? The Sun
Quote: "We are able to indicate the likely region of the source..."

Then tell us who. And since they didn't said it in the first place, I bet is mother Russia again.
Apple Music could stream over cellular over the watch when the first Apple Watch with cellular was introduced. They added support for third parties last year.

Apple Music and maybe Spotify will work off line. The cellular Apple Watch has 16GB of storage.
I'm not conflating being poor and white with being racist, you are the one making that assumption. Nowhere did I mention the words "white" or "poor".
The thing to explain then, in either the precession or the orbiting case, is the variability in the period.
As a sailing addict, I actually find this very nice :)
Here's your recommendations: https://security.stackexchange.com/a/233863/111020

And yes I just spent 2 hours writing that.

There can't be a great authentication/crypto that can improve over time. In theory, it must block old things to be state of the art. In practice, it's used in client-server communications, that would break all communications if nothing could talk unless they're always on the exact same version.
Considering how important they are for most people at this point, it’s worth it. For most people’s only device, it’s got to work and work reliably.
I’m 39 and I’ve never done it in my life.
We were switching to metric in the 70s but Reagan reversed the process, "to own the libs" before that phrase had been created.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Metric_Board
This couldn't be the leakage from that nuclear powered cruise missile 'test' lost by the Russians 2017-2018[1]? That is, is Barents sea too far from the Baltic for a couple of years of tides?

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/21/17766426/russia-nuclear-p...
Same here, every time I use a browser without an ad blocker I am shocked by the amount and the content of ads.
As someone who has a Palm Phone and looked at the previous Unihertz offerings but found the screen size to phone size to be poor, I think the Palm Phone is still more accessible due to the screen resolution of 720x1280 and a 3.3" screen on a phone that's basically the same size.

The Jelly 2 seems like an improvement over the Jelly 1, but still that resolution of 480x854 is hard to swallow. Although given that there will likely be no Palm Phone 2, I could see myself getting a Jelly 3 or 4 in a few years.
Everything that has been former USSR, that's the usual definition (at least here in Germany).
> but their progress with site features has been... well, underwhelming.

As is Patreon, as well. Their website is slow and a pain to use. They just stopped publishing direct, hard links to S3 in subscription RSS feeds late last year or early this year (I forget which). They don't support generating per-user or per-timeframe affiliate/coupon URLs, despite suggesting that to their users as a paid content option.

Ghost made a big deal in comments on this site awhile back about "how much work" was put into integrating with Patreon in regard to generating password-less links, but really... Patreon generates password-less links already, as do a hundred email marketing apps, not rocket science. It'd take someone about 5 seconds to find a Django tutorial explaining how to generate one-time links on youtube, I would wager.

All of these platforms suffer more from their founders trying to be what they're not to some degree, in my opinion. A marketing platform run by people who aren't experienced in marketing isn't going to do well. Why do we expect that a publishing platform run by a journalist or an artist is going to do well?
Springer Nature Was Asked Not to Publish a Deep Learning Paper
Most VC backed businesses fail, and less obvious, changing an operational model (= company dna) into a VC-optimized one instead of a sustainable revenue optimized one puts a company on that failure path. It is not the capital, but the associated changes for the pursuit of the next round, and dangers of not hitting it. He is pushing back against the hits based business that burns out otherwise good companies, and Bryce is focusing on alternative funding strategies for companies so they can succeed without mega-succeeding.

It's pretty non-obvious. Eg, a founder yesterday in my area cited a ~$50M exit as a success example for what he is doing. Except to O'Reillys point, it may only be a success for a couple of investors, and possibly an income loss for most of the team. They looked good -- raised $2M, $10M, $23M, grew to 50-100 employees, sold for $50M after 5-9yr, helped Global 2000s and govs tackle some hard problems, probably had revenue around $5M+yr, and are now a reasonable part of BigCo's product portfolio for much more $. AND YET... if either the $10M or $23M have a 2x participation, only the VCs really made money (and less than their model needs, so a miss!), and only 0-$5M left to split with the 50+ employees who took years of reduced salary. That's the financial instrument stuff going on. On the leadership side, the hiring was fueled by funding, always more then operating revenue (otherwise no VC needed), so needed the next round or otherwise layoffs and a death spiral. (Only a few % of funded startups can choose to slow growth and switch to sustainable revenue.)

There are reasons to do today's model, but a lot of nuance, and from a creator's / equitibilty perspective, fundamental room for improvement. Glossing over that is no good.
So it would not be about remote-first vs office-first as others have said

If you are not invited to the VIP zoom meeting you are also second class no matter where you are
This really is fun. And it's like an underground rave, everyone there knows it's just a matter of time before the feds show up.

Just imagine if the film industry would figure out a way to embrace this and legitimize it, instead of (wait for it) trying to sue their most innovative and diehard fans...
Xtensa
When this happens people still will be able to transmit encrypted end to end messages, just they will have to encrypt them themselves off platform. I wonder how quickly this is going to be illegal and when algorithms to conceal true message in a regular text that makes sense will be more widely available.
We are getting closer to thoughtcrime being a thing
I distinctly remember we would watch movies and music videos in Second Life. The feeling of presence was very strong.
FRBs seem to make the front page of hn on a repeating cycle too lol
> has anything changed in regard to that endless amount of money? COVID recovery plans

Yes, that fiat currencies are not just predictably absurd and end poorly, but we're now in an transition period where they are all likely to fail at the same time and for the same reason.

It will take time as they're all printing simultaneously, and the CCP seems intent to drive the World into WW3. But the collective Human will seems open to radical change, now more than ever in my Lifetime because of the disruption caused by COVID. The entire system has failed and its going to take people to make those changes, maybe try a to see where you fit in all of that instead of just succumbing to defeatism and pining about your 'hapless existence.'

> According to analyst company Bloomberg New Energy Finance, more than half a trillion dollars worldwide – $509bn

Again, you can see this is an daunting task that cannot be solved, and just kill yourself now as its the way this all ends anyway, so ultimately you're just accelerating the time it will take you to get there... or, you can actually do something about it and maybe help your metal state and psyche in the process.

The choice is entirely yours. I'm actually more excited about Life than I ever have on my time on this Planet. Mainly because I've been involved in so many things that that led to paradigm changes.
This is someone starting with id Software's internal level editor for Doom (for NeXTSTEP circa '93), and getting it to build and run on OS X: https://github.com/fragglet/DoomEd/compare/b5885d42226568b18...

There are a few takes on this out there, same for QuakeEd.
Well, that's definitely correct. But they do require soy, GMO soy to be precise, and monocropping is harmful, while on the other hand, cows are grazing animals, which can have a dramatic effect on the fertility of the land.

That aside, I don't believe there's a study about the environmental effect of the manufacturing of this sludge vs eating real foods.

And as an aside, the emission from cows is not as simple as it sounds: https://www.farmcarbontoolkit.org.uk/news/methane-myth-why-c...
Oh, that's a really big pity.
The anomalous readings were airborne. Would that be possible from a missile lost at sea?
Of course masks protect people who wear them. Perhaps the protection is "minimal", but that's not zero.
Honestly, there's probably less justification in switching to Celsius than other units. Pretty much the only place Fahrenheit really falls down is that it's different from the rest of the world--and the vast majority of Americans are not exposed to that difference on a day to day basis.

Yes, you need to remember what the rather arbitrary seeming freezing and boiling temperature of water are, but that's not a big deal. And you actually get a finer grained measurement system without resorting to decimals. And you're less likely to need negative numbers for ordinary temperatures. (And, if you do, you know it's really really cold.)

Finally, while the Celsius degree size is used in a lot of technical calculations, the absolute scale isn't usually. Kelvin is used instead. So if anything were the "right" unit to use it would be Kelvin, but that would be fairly obviously silly for day to day use.
Dow Jones Hammer is a multi-account cloud security tool for AWS
huh, my memories have full color and some detail, I wonder if thats why I have problems remembering things
My original context was rather that of a junior developer asking a more
experienced developer what choices to make, and then questioning them. Which is good, but sometimes the knowledge gap is just too wide to deal with then and there.
Apparently US government never learns. As Schneier puts it, it will become a tool for criminal organizations in the end. I can't wait for this to become the norm and absolutely everybody would be able to spy on everybody. Then you'll have the equivalent of your nosy neighbor that sits on window, having nothing else to do all day, and just watches what happens on the street. Then you'll see how fast this law will go out of the window when the elected ones will see none of their secrets are secrets anymore.
Show HN: Gitdocs a Platform for Documentation
Hi HN!

During lockdown i've been working on building Gitdocs

https://gitdocs.page

It offers a simple interface for extracting your documentation from git (github/azure devops currently supported) and making them easily shareable outside your immediate team or organisation.

Still in very early beta, so I'm looking for feedback and suggestions for improvement alongside why this might be a terrible idea.

Be gentle as its currently running on a small VPS

Future plans include pdf and html export functionality and search.

Thanks!

- There will be bugs -
SmartThings will kill legacy features to make a smarter home
What’s that? You mean they took gambling addicts and gave them control of humanities efforts at scale? It’s all gone wrong? Shocking! Why, a minority of global power brokers have NEVER, in the history of humanity, used their sway over the masses to abuse their trust.

Most financial crimes are still just plain old “paper cons”. They lie on the paperwork.

At least in the US, regulatory agencies are so underfunded or had their mission altered such that “paper cons” happen constantly.

Panama Papers, many of Trumps tax dodge schemes (among others, calling him out because of viz, all those guys “do it”) etc

All very obvious, well known financial schemes.

Basically the origin of the word privilege comes from Latin “privy lege” ... “privileged by the law”.

Humanity is still ruled by ruthless tribalists looking to conquer the globe.

Ain’t nothing changed about it except the literal “who”, and sound forms and visual glyphs used to describe. We use a lot less Latin and romantic notions of higher powers in the sky, but still kowtow to hierarchy based upon scientific bullshit, convincing people “THESE annotations of the numbers are it, boy howdy! We def got IT right this generation! Sorry about rocket cars, but our finance scheme numbers keep going up so we did it!”

Still biologically motivated to the same ends.
Technically the problem here is using fractions.
I wasn't fibbing; it is disingenuous to lie in support of a cause. I did genuinely encounter this issue. But with what you've said, I'll accept that it wasn't to blame upon snap.

While the package wasn't named "sshd", that's an abbreviated way to refer to the ssh daemon. The package name varies between distros, but the config file and executable are known as "sshd". I was installing the ssh daemon package by whatever name the Debian/Ubuntu maintainers christened it.

Something else must've broken it, then.
All the time when I'm surfing the web on my lunchbreak.
Just FYI, there's a go implementation of magic-wormhole that satisfies the requirements you've listed: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william
It's just calling it by a different name though. Nothing of the magic has been altered.
You are as dumb as you are lucky and this comment is just the definition of survivorship bias. There are always some people who make money off of pyramid schemes (not necessarily saying that bitcoin is one) but that doesn't mean it was at any time at all a good idea to invest in one.

Real estate is another area that is very typical for bubbles and when the bubble bursts the large majority of people who are overleveraged will be eaten alive by the big investers (much bigger than you) who make money off the poor in times of crisis like they always do.
> It’s part of the structural inequality in our society, where we’re building businesses that are optimized for their financial return rather than their return to society.

Isn't this the whole problem? If people cared about society more than money it wouldn't be a problem to invest or take investment money, because you'd all be working toward the same goal of maximizing returns to "society". The problem is greed and selfish pursuit of wealth by certain kinds of people who see that as a worthwhile purpose for their life.
Can someone explains how this works? I have frustratingly been googling for 30 minutes now trying to learn how autochrome works. Being tech oriented it's so frustrating when people sum it up in 1 sentence "its made of potato starch and magically it makes color!"

How does it work? Do they hand paint the screen? How does it actually add red or blue to an arbitrary shade of gray which lacks any chroma? Does it work with video too?
When I saw the headline, I had a moment of hope they did something minimal, efficient, privacy-respecting, and secure, looking a lot like touchscreen PalmOS.
Camera phones against election fraud (2004)