skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I asked for your help in making scenario A plausible. You ignored me and complained that my fictional scenarios were fictional.

I take this as an admission that you cannot imagine a scenario in which the marketing practices you claim are non-deceptive are in fact non-deceptive. That says it all, really.
Ask HN: Best WFH Office Chair?
Not for muggles is a silly cop out. It's very nondescriptive. That "set of protocols and file formats" etc. could do literally anything.

Is it for a nas? Is it distributed? Is it some backup yoke for a cloud service? Do you run it on your own hardware? Is it all of the above? What does your data look like? Where and how are you searching through it? Is that part not for muggles either or is there a frontend? And so on basically forever.
Comments by Dan Piponi: https://twitter.com/sigfpe/status/1180146076579328000
Robot Game: Comparing 6502 C, Assembly, and Forth
To what does the harmonic series converge? (in IEEE754 floating point) [pdf]
Several years ago, Dave Asprey (Bulletproof Executive) was one of the most positive influences on my diet/wellness. It's too bad that his constant hustle, eccentricity, and "going against the mainstream" attitude rub a lot of people the wrong way.
U.S. announces end of Hong Kong's special status
>Stallman himself is OK with using proprietary software if it runs on someone else's machine.

RMS is against "Service as a Software Substitute" https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...

One could argue that GitHub is SaaSS, because eg. issue system encourages lock-in to specific service, instead of communicating via free email client.
"Not everyone can see pictures in their minds when they close their eyes and summon thoughts - an ability many of us take for granted."

I used to be into visualization as focus training. I can't "see" and change (move, change color) shapes in my mind at all. Artists I know claim to be able to do this. Obviously, Tesla (, Nikola) supposedly did this.

For those who can do it - to what degree can you do it? Can you imagine a circle? A cube? A rubix cube with color?

Edit: Since we are discussing this a lot - I am also a skilled lucid dreamer. In the sense that I trained myself for months to remember and control my dreams vividly. I realized my dreams have a "bandwidth limit" / "render limit". If I try to "look" at a detailed scene, it blurs and/or I wake up. Which, btw, is a huge argument against astral projection, not that anyone here likely ever even considered it to be real, but as a young child, I did.
Ask HN: Why isnt there a public spec for Bitcoin core?
Easy rebuttals:
+There is no public spec for linux -https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/lsb.shtml
+If you want one go build one
Better reason - there isnt demand for this
I would like to understand what other reasons there could be
Does it still have UglyBar from v77? Seems like that.
I think its website need a fast cache.
That's very useful, thank you! I've been looking for something that goes into a bit more detail, so your talk is timely.
Kind of. Live in a big city, but have in-laws an hour and a half away.

We go out there on the weekends, and occasionally for a week or more while her parents are on vacation or otherwise out of the house. We can both work remotely, so it's mostly how much we feel like being in rural Canada. We're in a great location downtown, but it's moot when you're unable to go to anything nearby.

Her folks live on a forested acreage, and we can do long walks with their dogs, go for bike rides, etc. They are in the city at least once a week anyway for work and other obligations, so it's not like I'm exposing them to stuff they're not already getting... But it's definitely a good change of pace.
You still do?

EDIT: I see it now.
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Tangent: I am the author of the Lingua Franca paper. I hope you enjoyed it!
Products like this show that Apple could have an ARM based Mac Pro in two years relatively easily. They already have PCIe Gen 4. TDP and memory capacity is already more than intel provides in the Xeon workstation line that they use.
I don't think this is a surprise for many people who have been working with people in different offices for a while. I don't have any hard evidence but from my experience you can work with people in other offices for months, often getting the feeling that formality and lack of trust was getting in the way.

But then I burn a ton of fossil fuels to fly over and spend a couple of days with them in person and the discussion changes dramatically. It feels so silly that you need to damage the environment and spend so much money for something that logically seems the same. I am looking at someone's face and talking. But it works, it is so unreasonably effective that from time to time I need to fly just to see a colleague in person.
To me every JavaScript framework feels to me like it wants to reason about components as data, ala Hiccup: https://reagent-project.github.io/
The word that always comes to mind reading these posts is bittersweet.

On one hand, it’s sad that they’re leaving, and/or that circumstances made the job less enjoyable than it would otherwise be.

But on the other hand, I cannot help but be happy for one who has thrown off the chains and is now free to pursue their dreams again.

Best of luck wherever life may take you!
Done With 2020: Cards Against Humanity meets 2020
It's funny that the original title for this article on CBC was actually "Zoom chats short circuit a brain function essential for trust: Don Pittis | CBC News" and the article only mentioned Zoom. :)
They changed the title and edited I guess after people pointed out that the research itself was not Zoom specific. I'm amazed how Zoom has become synonomous with "video conferencing" when there are so many other viable solutions available.
If you want some more detail, the term Austrian specifically was defined by the German Historical School. It was over a debate of method.

See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodenstreit

The most important Austrians you might want to study are:

- Carl Menger (Microeconomics, Methodology)

- Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (Capital Theory, Famous for Marxist critics)

- Friedrich von Wieser (Oppertunity cost)

- Ludwig von Mises (Methodology, Buissess Cycle Theory, Political Philosophy)

- F.A. Hayek (Buissess Cycle Theory, Information Economics, Political Philosophy)

- Joseph Schumpeter (Austrian educated but went his own way in many ways)

- Fritz Machlup (Buissess Cycle Theory, Trade)

- Israel Kirzner, not actual Austrian (Entrepreneurship)

- Murry Rothbard, also not Austrian (Political Philosophy)

Of these Hayek, Schumpeter, Machlup and Mises all eventually tought in the US and Kirzner and Murry are US studends of them.

There are books on the topic:

- The Austrian School of Economics: A History of Its Ideas, Ambassadors, & Institutions

Today there is split between those influence by Murray Rothbard, who has a perticular interpretation of Mises and very extrem views in many ways. The 'Ludwig von Mises Institute' is pushing this view, they are partly a lobby organisation. I don't think much of them. They tend to dislike Hayek.

There is the more traditional more academic branch, tody mostly represented by George Mason University.
And in a great many cases, when you dig into the details, it turns out that they are - in fact - doing it wrong. Or at least blaming scrum for things that scrum does not actually entail. Or blaming "agile" for things that are 100% contrary to both the letter and spirit of the agile manifesto.
It just takes a while for the site to deploy.
GitLab would certainly "feel" like a better bet. But I don't think there's much in it. If it's a free platform, perhaps some GNUers like the idea of their code being hosted on Microsoft's dime :-)
Where is your data? Is it in the CPU cache or is it in the GPU? Computing where your data is, rather than moving your data to where your compute is, can often be the best option.
> I don't need my text editor to send email

You don't, there's an MTA for that, but for composing mail, filtering mailbox, searching and other text-related tasks Emacs has much superior interface.

> be an IRC client

Messaging consists mostly of text editing, especially in IRC, which doesn't have fancy stuff like stickers, GIFs, videos.

> What difference does it make what programs do those things, as long as they work well and I can extend the functionality as needed?

A consistent, self-documenting, extendable interface.
How many trees in the Random Forest?
Sooo... is intel like crying in a corner right now? On one side we have AMD eating their lunch in the consumer space, they still haven’t launched a full gamut of 10nm CPUs. Apple just announced that they’re dropping them in basically the next 5 years. And now ARM really is encroaching on their core server business.

I feel like in 20 years from now we’re gonna be using intel as a cautionary tale of hubris and mismanagement. Or whatever it is that caused them to fail so spectacularly.
Allowing white hate isn't "protecting vulnerable minorities," it's spreading hate.
Unfortunately, MacOS still ships with SSH 8.1, AFAIK.
I'm worried I have this but I'm not completely sure I do. My dreams are not very vivid at all and usually I just "know" that things are happening in them instead of vividly seeing what's going on.

However I can hear music very clearly in my head. If asked to visualize, say, an apple in my head I really don't see it very vividly at all. It's depressing if I'm being honest.
Maybe I don't understand how the fee structure works, but if it's a percentage that doesn't feel very equitable.

If I launch a paid newsletter with one reader, I'm getting a lot of value from the platform. Once I gain a second reader the platform isn't doing twice as much for me. It's gone up a smaller, incremental amount.
The fact that one person can (mostly on their own) create a tool as widely-used and respected as Redis is very inspirational to me. Good luck for the future!
I'm an exception. I've never had a year of Windows on the desktop.

(UNIX, Linux, never Windows)
We are definitely in ColdFusion territory:

https://github.com/seancoyne/awesome-coldfusion#application-...
Over the last decade, Redis has been my go-to example of beautifully written code. Thank you for such an amazing creation @antirez, and best of luck for whatever you do next.
These EV Transmission Adapters Give You More Options for Electric Motor Swaps
Try linking them to this thread? I feel like it sums everything up in a way that a dev would understand.
SECI’s 2 GW Solar Auction Gets India a New Record-Low Tariff of ₹2.36/KWh
Perhaps the fact that a recent (2018, but posted here recently) blog post of his got flagged on HN after 141 comments has something to do with it...
Keep lookin. There are plenty of occasions where there will be posts and memes with a lot of upvotes that have things that would get you banned from most any other site: calls to violence, outright support for white supremacy, etc. They are cleaning things up some lately, but it’s all still there. It’s abundantly clear to me, at least, why they got banned.
I read it twice trying to figure out why you were invoking @dang.

In any case, I've had the same experience with only two programs - CouchDB and Redis.
I have noticed loss prevention being fairly pervasive, but I have rarely noticed actual security guards. The difference being loss prevention is there to stop shoplifting, and are generally instructed to never use any physical force. They'll take a description and let the shoplifter get away if the situation becomes violent.

I could probably count on one hand the number of times I've seen someone who looks like they were placed to discourage armed robberies. Although I have frequented a few grocery stores that had police hanging out.
How do you know they are enterprise drives then?
Folks are buying durians from a livestream
Yeah, I don’t see how maintaining a project like that has any long-term appeal. You’re not the upstart anymore, you’re the government. You stand to lose more by mistakes that affect reliability than you stand to gain by changing or adding things.

I’m at a similar point in my life, though of course I’m much less influential than him. I’m getting to the end of the most stressful and most important part of my career, with no desire to do something similar again, without a clear idea of what’s next.
No.

We have a rough idea of which coins belong to Satoshi, based on when and how they were mined.

Satoshi's coins are continuously monitored and have never moved.
The name for this in the security literature is "algorithmic complexity attacks". They were first proposed by Crosby & Wallach in 2003, with a running example of degraded hash tables.
Unfortunately it still has this "megabar"
> What is "staying in the flow"?

Run the code (with some debug logging statements, very likely), find a small mistake, make a few characters worth of correction, press your IDE's keyboard shortcut for recompilation and re-running.

If the last step is slow you can lose momentum and motivation to iterate quickly on the problem at hand.

Sure it doesn't apply to a lot of projects, that's true. But it's not charitable to claim it only applies when learning.
I get like a $1000 a year in cash back using credit cards and they all charge no annual fees and I pay everything off in full automatically so I never pay any interest. Add in the consumer protection and the fact that it builds your credit giving you better mortgage/auto loan interest rates, why on earth wouldn't I use credit cards?
Comparing Fintechs: AI-powered analysis of 30K customer reviews over Covid-19
So they're moving to a new "community based", "light governance" model. [1]

There are plenty of problems with BDFL-style projects, but I think there are a lot of advantages too. Redis is unique in my experience in that it works the way you'd expect - it doesn't cause outages, it is fast, and it has a vanishingly small number of gotchas. The feature set is well curated and for the most part fits together cohesively.

The most important thing Antirez did, in my opinion, was to say "No" to things. No to new features that didn't make sense. No to PRs that didn't fit the vision. Saying no is one of the most important jobs of a project maintainer. It's a thankless task that upsets a lot of people. But it's critical for a project to stay successful and achieve the leader's vision.

Maybe I'm a pessimist, but I predict after a few years of this new model we'll see weird features, more stability issues, and performance regressions as more cooks enter the kitchen. Time will tell.

[1] https://redislabs.com/blog/new-governance-for-redis/
I'd make it -1, that way regular programmers wouldn't know about it.
there's a valuable comment if I ever saw one
> Where Graviton2 is designed to suit Amazon’s needs for Arm-based instances, Ampere’s goal is essentially to supply a better-than-Graviton2 solution to the rest of the big cloud service providers (CSPs).

So the question is whether they can land Google, Microsoft, and/or Alibaba as customers for an alternative to AWS M6g instances.
Having been around for a while, I believe that GNU based software was a generational event, in the upcoming two to three decades future generations will have back our old shareware and public domain software licenses.
Nope, but that shouldn't be required I'd think? It's not locally, for example - as long as each layers resulting hash has not changed the cache is reused. Likewise on CI, if I repeatedly build the caches never miss, it works great. It's more a problem of sometimes, after a days or a week, the layers seem to be gone. But never in-between your pushes to a PR, for example, those always seem to stay.

I think that's happening is our garbage collection on old docker layers is being too aggressive. But because it works so well between commits, pushes to CI and etc - I don't worry about it. The majority of the time I want a cache to work, it works. So it's been a low priority thing for me to fix haha.

edit: Oh, and I forgot, we may have CI jobs running on different machines. Which of course would also miss caches, since we're not persisting the layers on our registry. I'm not positive on this one though, since like I said it never seems to fail between commit pushes _(say to a PR during review, dev, etc)_. /shrug
From what I’ve heard Intel management was taken over by marketing “professionals.” It’s an awful place to work and probably devoid of tech leadership.

Aka yes it’s a cautionary tail and time to run from that ship.
I wasn't interested in that (badum-cha!)
For all of the talk about how Bitcoin is not truly anonymous, this wallet demonstrates otherwise, with the apparent 'anonymity proviso' being that you don't do too much with it, and just let the coins sit.
If anyone at Mozilla is reading, your Security Fixes link 404s.

It will be here when it is released:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-2...
>Since when is MacOS using encrypted linux filesystems?

I fail to see where in my comment was anything related to "MacOS using encrypted linux filesystems" which, as of itself as a sentence, is confusing.

My comment's parent was explaining that anything worth keeping was worth backing up, and how easy it was to set up back-up even for someone with the commenter's skill level, using services like Dropbox.

My comment was explaining that certain users who have encrypted filesystems on Linux cannot use Dropbox, for Dropbox stopped supporting them around November 2018, which makes Dropbox unusable for these users who have to come up with back-up schemes excluding Dropbox or Box.
It also has a 'warm up' phase, if I understand correctly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17936810

https://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=415
Uber in Talks to Buy Postmates for About $2.6B
They still have 7nm and 14nm manufacturing businesses...
uBlock Origin still won’t be supported on Safari 14
Despite Apple announcing Safari 14 supports the Web Extensions API[1], uBlock Origin still cannot be supported.

[1]: https://youtu.be/GEZhD3J89ZE?t=4844
> I don't think it's a question of what is "desirable", but rather a question of what is inevitable.

inevitable is a smart way of pushing something you want to happen though. The famous quote from Margaret Thatcher “there is no alternative” is tge best example of that.

Also, as twentieth century shown us, their is nothing really impossible for a sufficiently motivated government, sometimes for the better but often the worse (from “landing on the moon in a decade” to “eradicate the Jews”).
State capital -- largest state in the US, by far; too -- plus a university nearby (UC Davis is "nearby" as in not too far, but not smack in town); California weather, and about an hour and a half drive to the bay area (traffic permitting, lol), so you could do a once a week/few times a month commute to SV-type gigs but stay remote.
Social Capital on the Dev Team
Thomas Sowell at 90
wrong link?
Politics of almost any kind will be flagged quickly here, even if it's tech related.
Why is it that one cannot export content from substack?
You might find using htm with hyperapp useful: https://www.npmjs.com/package/htm
Firefox 78 will be the new ESR. That unfortunately sets the new, ugly omnibar in stone.
See https://www.userchrome.org/megabar-styling-firefox-address-b... for details on how to customize the new address bar, including userChrome css for keeping its size confined to the dropdown UI like other dropdown/combobox UI elements.
Hong Kong Is Slipping Away
That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that removing visibility into their motivations, by pushing the bulk of their activity in their insular communities offsite, allows them to more easily blend in and use less extreme language to push their disgusting viewpoints and manipulate conversations onsite.

Essentially it reduces the ability to detect bad actors, is what I'm saying.
Love the post and the process
Can confirm. I have a server in my basement with 10TB+ of storage, sitting mostly empty, and I still don't have backups configured. Screwing with servers is fun and interesting, but configuring backups isn't.
The economics very well could work at a different split! We chose a 50/50 split because we estimated that we could grow and survive on $5/mo per user. We're 100% open to shifting that split and plan on making all the economics transparent to users so they know where their money is going, both the cut that we take and how the writer take is split up.

We don't want to over-promise on the revenue share at the beginning because we've got 3 key promises that we never want to compromise on but do limit us somewhat financially:

- Absolutely no advertising.

- Absolutely no selling/sharing of user data, even in aggregate or "anonymized".

- Reach profitability ASAP so we don't have to fund raise endlessly and lose control of the company.
He shared some of his struggles a while ago:
http://antirez.com/news/129

Great work @antirez! Thanks for your dedication. Stepping back as maintainer and giving your support from the Redis Labs advisory board is nothing less than what you did so far.

It's sensible that you don't want to make plans about the rest of your time right now.

Cheers
I'm a big re-frame fan from the Clojurescript world so this all looks rather familiar. For me it's a great framework and worth learning Clojurescript for.

Seeing the h() function makes me realise how much I miss Hiccup syntax for HTML and your component tree, especially with editor support for parens it's a joy. But it looks nicer than JSX.

I'm going to give Hyperapp a try, I like the small size aspect especially, and familiarity of the overall architecture, my fear is that if you're going off-piste enough to avoid the React/Angular well trodden track on an app, you might as well go the whole way and use Re-frame which is very pragmatic, with JS interop it's possible to do pretty much anything you want. And whilst the type system and compiler of Elm is nice, the slightly more 'infamous' parts of restrictions to JS extensions make it more limited in the real world.
Typo, should read It isn't focused.
I completely agree. I had never heard of Zoom before this outbreak. It was always some other small video conferencing solution or GotoMeeting if it was official business.
Mistakes to Avoid When Creating Your Pitch Deck
>So long as you don't run their JavaScript on your machine

Do you have much of a choice? I think a lot of GitHub features do not work properly without JavaScript. For instance, just trying it now:

- Can't mark notifications as done

- Can't edit the title or description of an issue or PR

- Can't dismiss banners or most modals/popups

- Can't commit files directly on the web interface

- Can't edit an issue or PR metadata (i.e. labels)

- Can't edit most, maybe almost all, repo settings

At-least it's not a blank page. If I see websites like that these days, I just close the tab. Thankfully, you can pretty much use GitHub in "read-only" mode without JavaScript, but working on it is probably quite hard without running their non-free code.

It would probably be better if they'd use Sourcehut or maybe GitLab.
Honestly, my sister is a very anxious person, and my nephew had a lot of complications with Crohn's prior to starting infusions. I think it is more precautionary on her part than anything.

Before the first infusion, she was advised by hospital staff that the insurance company might refuse coverage for infusions onsite if the procedure was ever performed in-home.
I could see Zoom ending up like Kleenex or Jet Ski or Crock-Pot or Chapstick, where the brand name becomes the word for the thing itself.

Edit because I googled it for more examples and couldn't help myself: Tupperware, Band-Aids, Post-It, Slip n Slide, Xerox, Velcro, Weed Eater, Scotch Tape, Q-Tips, Rollerblades, Jacuzzi, Bubble Wrap.....
Celebrating Three Decades of Worldwide Stock Market Manipulation