skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nvm, apparently they shutdown the web version... :(
> Data shows the peak has passed

That data shows that a peak has passed. You don't know if it's the peak. Recent daily new cases are at record levels, so there may be a higher peak in the near future.

We're going to find out soon just how "seasonal" this pandemic is.
This is lovely. Just lovely. Reminds me of the Postscript hacks we used to do with early Apple laser printers, back when they were the most powerful computers they shipped. :)
I'm glad this person has found something that works for them, but I think there is something far more simple yet harder to track down. None of these "brain hacks" are going to fix the underlying problem of long term motivation. Many have said it's a discipline issue. I disagree. I'm very undisciplined with my gym habit yet I still show up 5-6 times per week. I go very often, but because I want to, not because I'm "forcing myself".

I've been studying how this affects people with ADHD for my book. Everyone I've interviewed concludes in some way or another that there needs to be a far deeper, compelling reason to do something for them top do it long term.

Discipline is just a routine way you develop to execute something. Some people (usually not those with ADHD, I've found) are able to continue riding the wave of discipline until the project is complete, but they are doing so despite wanting to do other things. Is the conclusion that you have to suffer through some unhappiness while "forcing yourself" to complete projects?
There's an easier way that forces them to behave in this manner: poison the well by releasing ransomware en masse, receiving the money, and then not releasing the data.

Once the well is sufficiently poisoned, no victim has an incentive to participate. They don't know if they're paying a defector or a cooperator.

No state can take this action. Any hero who does so will be prosecuted. But if they /dev/null their bitcoin address private key, they can rest easy that what they did was purely selfless.
> Learning and understanding Lisp expands your umwelt. You will start seeing things differently.

Lisp made me weird. Every day I say something like "Rabbits are machines for turning grass into rabbits" and my wife just rolls her eyes.
SRE error budgets and maintenance windows
Or as Snow Crash put it:

“When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here — once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel — once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity — y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else:
music
movies
microcode (software)
high-speed pizza delivery”
> Ufo's existance were confirmed by US navy.

The way it's written, it sounds like the US Navy confirmed the existence of aliens, but it was just unexplained phenomena, right?
You can consider this part of your primary app, for example if your app is lacking note taking, and you always want a small window for writing some notes, related to your primary app then this app always on top could be note taking. While the notes in mac can be always on top, I can think of something similar which I would always want on top.
>That's a giant leap, to get from savings rates decrease in some countries to human wants are unlimited.

If human wants were limited, we'd expect to see, for any given country, savings rates increasing as incomes increase. We have not seen this, and in fact have seen the opposite (even in America, savings rates now are less than 50 years ago, when Americans were much poorer).

>Moreover, savings rates are quite country dependent (e.g. Germany has very high rates). Might it be that people in the US have been led to believe that they can make up for their unhappyness by buying more things?

Someone could just as easily suggest that German savings rates are too high because Germans are too fearful about the future so they save more. There's no objectively correct savings rate, so we can't say one country's rate is better than the other's.

>I can easily think of many people who are quite happy without having more things. So I just falsified your claim.

My claim is that "human wants" are unlimited, which does not imply that every human's wants are unlimited. If some people have limited wants, and some don't, we'd still expect the sum of human wants to keep increasing. And savings rates suggest that the majority of people don't have limited wants (or at least have not fulfilled those wants).

>Moreover there is significant research showing that having more things beyond some point does not increase happiness.

We're talking about wants here, not happiness. Who are we to say that somebody can't have what they want just because there's a chance it will make them unhappy?
I'd just like to remark that every comment on this thread came from a different person. I love HN.
How Much Do You Want to Get Paid Every 60 Minutes?
was Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 & later 2 for me
Poor people in wealthy countries also tend to have more kids.
Sleeping without my nightguard feels weird now, plus I’m sure the sleepguard didn’t eliminate all my clenching. I have a much less stressful job now so that helps too.
not really, you just find the file (using the full features of your finder) and open it the same way you always would. constrast that with windows, when you just choose “open”, then find the file and open it.
Direct mail marketers don't know how long you've spent on each Web page that you've visited.
The 'real' handover: Hong Kong fears looming laws will end 1 country, 2 systems
"Why is continuous growth even a goal?"

In a pyramid scheme, it is required.

In a "greater fool" scheme, it is required.

In a political campaign, it is required because it provides a justification for lowering taxes.
> quick prototyping, making and exploration

Thats definitely the cool part. With a debugger I can definitely see some good use cases for this.
GFM, Gitlab and others you list are CommonMark plus extensions, which is what I said.

What is the problem? It is like saying JSON is useless because YAML exists, or that ISO C, C++, Fortran, IEEE 754, etc. are all useless because compilers and chip companies implement extensions.
Aguirre was the film that inspired late Taiwanese-American director Edward Yang (one of my favourite directors) to become a filmmaker and ignited his love of film. He was reportedly working as an engineer in tech. Perhaps Herzog will inspire one of us here on HN to become director too.
The Tech Elite Are Selling Job Referrals to Facebook, Google, and Amazon
How to Be a Financially Conscious Site Reliability Engineer
I’d discussed that problem in the first paragraph of my post.
Dream of New Kind of Credit Union Is Extinguished by Bureaucracy (2015)
The people I know who work with medical data do indeed follow protocols like this, involving for example hardware security tokens and encrypted, physically secured private servers. Though, I believe this is more to protect patient privacy than the data itself.

More generally, I'm happy to presume (as long as the data is password-protected, say) that scientific data that hasn't obviously been vandalized is trustworthy. However, in this case we have positive evidence of tampering, and therefore a good reason to be skeptical.
Cheddar gorge is lovely. They did paper making there due to water power.

I went on a couple of school trips to Cheddar Gorge. It's a beautiful place. The highlight for me was Wookey Hole and the stories of the witch.
they don't bother anyone

Well, it's been like 2 decades since I last compiled a kernel myself, but back then I was definitely bothered with the pages of obsolete hardware which could be selected from when running make menuconfig. Not sure if/how people configure kernels these days but I assume it didn't get better?
I mean, "don't trust the client" was a thing in the late '90s when people were exploiting client-controlled things in Ultima Online so much Origin had to change the way some communication worked to stop it.

The most famous example I can think of was UOExtreme revealing hidden players, because if a player was hiding their presence was still sent to the clients of every other player in the area just with a "hidden" flag set. There were a bunch of other similar exploits associated with that particular third-party tool, but that's the only one I remember.

(so while writing this I did some googling and found the patch notes where they fixed it: https://uo.com/wiki/ultima-online-wiki/technical/previous-pu...)
There's some fun stuff we could be doing re the asteroids. Maybe send a mission up to deflect a non threatening one to check the tech works. If Musk's starship gets working that could provide a platform to lug some asteroid deflecting tech into orbit.
With the connector itself, it was hard to tell, but the plastic part you held in your hand (molded plastic plus strain relief) wasn't symmetrical.

You could thus develop a habit of putting, say, the flat part next to your thumb, and then you'd know the alignment of the cable. So if you knew the alignment of port, you could do reliably on the first attempt.

USB makes a slightly worse mistake, which is that the plastic part you hold in your hand feels the same way if you turn it around 180 degrees. So you have to point it at your face and look at it if you want to know which way you're holding it.
I don't doubt your good intentions, but read your own message. Who is more important? The "swing voters" and Republicans who it is unacceptable to offend or the minorities you claim to want to help?

When the chips are down, Democrats betray their allies rather than offend bigots.
Wow this just gets more and more confusing. Google, at 22 years old, is "MS2.0" and "successful" even though just a post ago 3 decades (though it's actually 4.5 anyways for both MS and Apple, but who's counting) wasn't enough.

Even though that's also approximately as long as Apple has been on its current success cycle anyways? If Apple had been "born" in 1998 would it be a "success" now like Google because the mac era never happened but things took off with the iMac and then the iPod?

This kinda feels like you decided on a conclusion and are now trying to backfill an explanation into it. :P
Prediction: ad buyers pulling out of Facebook is going to be the Lehmann Brother's moment of the coming economic recession/depression/collapse whatever you wish to call it.

Facebook is quite unique in that they are like the government. No one actually likes them, but you don't really have an alternative. But once this cascades on to the rest of the ad tech industry, it will trigger another round of economic collapse which will probably crash the entire big tech bubble.
The math here neglects the human element to all of this. There are speed limits to change and you also need to worry about the opinion of the other 50% of the population because when they fee disenfranchise they go and elect someone like Trump as a counterbalance.
Dorset is better for cider.

Source: I grew up in Dorset and was a teenager.
Boilerplate Next.js Setup with ChakraUI and TypeScript
> I seriously doubt this was ever an existential in the sense of the shipping cost itself destroying a business.

I've read many e-commerce blogs with US sellers lamenting that they can't compete with China on $5 items because shipping costs are 5X as much within US. Maybe not killing businesses, but definitely keeping many out of the market.

> China is simply able to produce cheaper things because they have lower labour cost and so on, and that is actually good for American consumers

Lower, but not nearly as low as it used to be. Minimum wage in China is almost 1/2 of US now.

There's real instances of shipping cost offsetting lower labor. Manhole covers are a somewhat famous example. They're still made in USA because shipping offsets increased labor and materials. Would it be the same for ecommerce? I'm not aware of any studies but to me, the increased cost and shipping time make it plausible
I don't finish 95% of my side projects and that is OK. Most side projects start because I have some interesting problem in my head that I want to solve and then I start obsessively solving it for a few days until it is solved or...until the next problem comes along and I lose all interest in the first problem.

I read Refuse to Choose by Barabara Sher because someone recommended it here on HN and it showed me that I am a scanner always looking for new problems to solve and the act of working on an interesting problem is what makes me tick, not the finishing of an actual project or product.

Usually I learn a thing or 2 by starting and working on a side project that I can use in my day to day freelance work. And sometimes when the planets align the interesting problem I am obsessing over is that bug I need to solve for a client and the satisfaction is double. Working on an interesting problem and making the client happy.
If I was looking to drop hundreds of thousands on a catering company, when the relationship could net them millions and millions over the future years, hell yes I'd expect samples to be part of the sales process.
In a world where the mail is the only reliable of communication with the rest of the country, subsidizing the mail was important to improve basic quality of life in more remote, and more poor, parts of the country. This survives to this day in 'media mail' rates, which are heavily subsidized to allow things like books and periodicals to reach rural people.

However, in a world where basically 100% of the business of the postal service is junk advertising and amazon packages, subsidizing it is just a payout to business, and I agree that the externalities now greatly outweigh any social benefit.
Lex's AI podcast is pretty great due to breadth of great guests he had: https://overcast.fm/itunes1434243584/artificial-intelligence...

This recent episode with Joscha Bach was amazing: https://overcast.fm/+OcVcduJ_s
Approaches to providing affordable housing for non-profit workers
Some of the FOSS greats really seem to be built to last. I totally expect to still be using Linux, Firefox, Postgres, VLC, and heaps more decades from now. So why are there so many day-to-day tasks which are still just painful using the most popular tools available? IDEs, email clients, calendars, WYSIWYG editors and spreadsheets are still decades behind their closed source counterparts.
Wait, where do you find that?
Been there. I would not raise anything of this with anybody in the company as it can get you into trouble. The best way is to silently look for another job. Vote with your feet. And when they ask you why you are leaving, just say the workplace is too political and nothing more.
I think software is an exception to the rule. Most other traditionally high paying careers still rely highly on credentials.
Encypted Btrfs Root with Opt-In State on NixOS
I think the conception here is that if you are subsidizing something in a way that is purely a wealth transfer to business, you should stop subsidizing it.
The "Separate User Account" idea sounds especially odd to me, since that seems like it could only ever slow you down.

The quickest way to build something is to have built it already. So let's say you're working on your new side project and you want to implement "Forgot Password" functionality. How do you do that? You open up your last project, copy it out, and plonk it down into the new one.

Now imagine you had to do that, but you had isolated yourself completely from the filesystem that held that old code (and all your other old projects, notes, etc. too). Do you have to switch accounts six times back and forth as you remember more bits of the old that you need to grab? Do you write a whole new system from scratch? Clone that whole other project from source control into this new users' filesystem? It seems like a lot of work that you've made yourself.

I agree. If you're doing that as a way to somehow hack your focus so you don't get distracted, you're already lost.
Actually, no...
The post office is not allowed to stop mail addressed to 'occupant'. That's all I get, stupid supermarket flyers that require me to go check the mail simply to ignore them. I ended up paying for a PO box, and now only have to check it once every 3-4 months.
Ruthlessly cut down the scope of the project to what you can achieve in 2 minutes
Would myself in 2000 believe that I would be running Windows 98 in a mobile phone, emulated in a browser?
The m68k port is well maintained and is one of the oldest Linux ports of all.

There are multiple active kernel maintainers and the port is regularly seeing improvements and new drivers such as for the X-Surf 100 ethernet card for the Amiga or the ICY board (an I2C board) for the Amiga.

There is also ongoing work to support LLVM [1] and consequently Rust [2] on Motorola 68000.

Disclaimer: I'm Debian's primary maintainer of the m68k port and I'm supporting a lot of these efforts directly or indirectly.

> [1] https://github.com/M680x0/M680x0-mono-repo

> [2] https://github.com/glaubitz/rust/tree/m68k-linux
Break Up Amazon & Facebook too.
and jokes involving Venn diagrams.
The data issue is that it most of it shouldn't be collected in the first place, not that it should be public.
Do you have some source for the lower import duty rates?

They heavily depend on the specific item category - in my experience usually 0% or ~5% for the tech items I've imported (but that is not really enough to draw any conclusions from). The de minimis for import duty in EU is 150€ (compared to $800 in US).

Edit: here is the Finnish Customs duty calculator: https://tulli.fi/en/customs-duty-calculator?current=goods&cu... (VAT is Finland-specific, duties are the same EU-wide). A quick look shows that e.g. phones, computer components, and DVDs are 0%, which probably accounts for most of my €150+ imports and thus explains my experience above...
Note that AFC is only required for high power communications. Low power devices (<250mW & <11dBi in any 1MHz band) don't need AFC. It looks like the rules are meant to avoid AFC for consumer gear and require it for professional outdoor installations.
It doesn't contain the list of people I am friend with on Facebook, and people I'm very likely to be friend with, while I'm not friend on Facebook.

It doesn't contain my GPS coordinates over years.

It doesn't contain the list of my interests, based on my likes and the tracking of my web browsing.

It doesn't contain an analysis of the conversations with my friends and family.

It doesn't contain the pictures of my weekends and holidays, uploaded by other people.

It doesn't contain my face.

However it's still quite bad and such dataset shouldn't be available like this.
> Any people running Linux on some rare old hardware care to share why?

It's called retro-computing and it's simply a hobby. You could also ask why people are fixing, maintaining and driving around with cars that are decades old.

It's also a very good method to learn everything about kernel development and maintenance. On x86, there are enough people looking at and working on the code, so you will have a hard time to find things for improvment.

The m68k port, on the other hand, has many places where you can help with improving the code and therefore get your feet wet with kernel development.
Unfortunately, this is not going to be nearly good enough.

I'd adopt a salt the earth policy with respect to the spying parts of Google. That'd be a start.

Sadly, there'll be plenty of companies that'll fill its shoes to continue spying on people, and many more that already do.

So much of the modern internet is built on a foundation of spying on users, and most companies will not willingly give up all the dollar signs they see when they think of spying and even more spying on their users and everyone else they can gather data on.

It's super depressing.
If this is so great, why isn't it the default?
That and Star Wars (doesn't need a subtitle)
Huawei's Chief Security Officer on 5G and Government Spying
> So people from every country get a shot

With a system that performs in this manner, predict the behaviour you would expect if the number of issued green cards is less than 140k.
I'm writing this because I've done it too, for a performance-critical embedded application, and I think it's an insight worth sharing, for anybody else who comes across this and is trying to do something similar. Not to put you down or one-up you or anything; I'm very sorry to have come across that way. Can I try again?

For a domain like [0,1], the Remez algorithm will do a great job -- because the exponent is barely changing, just the mantissa. For a range like [-10, 10], you won't find any polynomial of reasonable order that has acceptable error.

But, there's a really neat trick that does let the Remez algorithm work over the entire domain of floats, and get excellent performance with just a fourth or fifth order polynomial, or even third order if you're pressed for time, and minimal extra computation.

That is, with just a little simplification, you multiply x by (1/ln(2)), floor it, and stuff the resulting integer into the exponent bits. Then, you take the remainder (what is left over after taking the floor), and make that your input to the polynomial, and stuff the result into the mantissa bits.

There's a little more to it; signs and NaNs need to be handled correctly, subnormal numbers can be treated as a special case with a different Remez polynomial, and a few other corner cases and exact values might be important (e^0, e^1, e^-1). But the result works wonders and it's basically just using Remez but transforming the input to a domain that behaves more like a polynomial, leveraging the magic of IEEE-754.
How do we decide which companies to break up ? Similar argument can be made for any big conglomerate. Look at Reliance in India or Samsung in Korea, they sell anything and everything possible. Could it make companies hide businesses as well, just to not want to break up.
Landlords were the last kind of business to accept online payments, and before that many of them preferred money orders.
Generally interesting article. Makes his case pretty well

"But YouTube definitely has to be its own thing; it’s got no real synergy that I can detect with any other Google property."

This is a funny observation because YouTube was originally an acquisition and its integration with other Google products is very strange. It has at most points in time had its own rules about anonymity, privacy, multiple accounts, etc. Supposedly the gender setting (now google-account-wide) was originally a YouTube piece of data that got repurposed for use in G+ and other services that needed it.
Well, this is not a new problem. Antitrust enforcement and breaking up companies has been a thing for decades (if not at least a century)

Starting with companies that make over a billion dollars a year and are in multiple markets seems like an uncontroversial place, though.
Interesting idea. Do you have an idea when this could be useful?
> Incredibly complicated stuff, failed all the time. You can see a good example of this in Java RMI, which was still shipping in Java until recently

Agreed. Java EJBs,specifically distributed session beans, were the incumbent, along with DCOM objects on the Windows side.

Also, in my experience, I don’t ever recall anyone using RMI directly. EJBs were used much more frequently than direct RMI. However, IIRC distributed session beans used RMI under the hood.

We also did plain XML over HTTP using Internet Explorer’s XMLHTTPRequest object in JavaScript. Not SOAP, just custom xml. But that was client side...