skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha, paramount, this is important above all for a healthy mind and soul to be productive
To be honest, I think the world has bigger problems than "why is our kindle app not getting the most app-store reviews and stars".
That is pretty cool and awfully nice of these clams. It could indeed be inspiration to interesting tech. We already have amazing technology for light modulation if you take a look at a DPL beamer. This tiny chips have millions of tiny mirrors controlled by gas. At least TI does, I don't know if others have made progress here in the meantime. An incredible technology everyone takes for granted.

Changing the wavelength isn't trivial, this sounds very interesting. I don't know any techniques aside from passing it to another medium.
Well, you have MemoryIndex, which is different proposition (it's used for the percolate feature). I can get that redis search can be faster than Lucene based search engines, but actually running the search is the easiest part, there's a lot of thought and effort on making a decent search engine, and the article doesn't tell me if I can get facets, order by any field, make both fulltext and geospatial queries, and many more things important when you make a search engine.

I rememeber long ago when SQL Server included full text, we thought that our time fiddling with lucene.net had become to an end, but when we tried it failed miserably because the full text engine and the relational one where like 2 different parts, and if you wanted to make a full text search and order by a numeric field, it would have to make a temporal table with all the results of the full text and order that. Those are the things tha lucene solves so well, that I'm reticent to think that redis search has managed to make them ok at the first try. So, not apples to oranges benchmark, but if you have already redis and the search capabilities that you want to add are fullfiled by redis search, it can be a good product.
Thanks for the tip! If anyone is curious I found the list of commands here: https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/blob/master/lib/ace/keyboard/...
More is better. Those RAIDs are never satisfied.

Its a pity we don't have anything remotely similar for optical storage. Physical limits and all that.
There's an easier answer and that is - as an experienced programmer - don't write any tests for your 'toy project' - at least not at the start.

The missing bit in the discussion is 1) churn, and 2) a devs ability to write fairly clean code.

Early stage and 'toy' projects may change a lot, in fundamental ways. There maybe total re-writes as you decide to change out technologies.

During this phase, it's pointless to try to 'harden' anything because you're not sure what it's entirely supposed to do, other than at a high level.

Trying Amazon Dynamo DB, only to find a couple weeks in that it's not what you need ... means it probably wouldn't make sense to run it through the gamut of tests.

Only once you've really settled on an approach, and you start to see the bits of code that look like they're not going to get tossed, does it make sense to start running tests.

Of course the caveat is that you'll need to have enough coding experience to move through the material quickly, in that, no single bit of code is a challenge, it's just 'getting it on the screen' takes some labour. The experience of 'having done it already many times' means you know it's 'roughly going to work'.

I usually try to 'get something working' before I think too hard about testing, otherwise you 3x the amount of work you have to do, most of which may be thrown out or refactored.

Maybe another way of saying it, is if a dev can code to '80% accuracy' - well, that's all you need at the start. You just want the 'main pieces to work together'. Once it starts to take shape, you've got to get much higher than that, testing is the way to do that.
There isn't a single food delivery or ride hailing service in the world that is very very hard to avoid.
"Dark Sector" - the next big thing in sciency stuff?
I thing this article is missing a third type of hard: time-consuming/long-tail hard. Google solved a hard problem, but it's a technical problem and it could be replicated by another company, particularly since there are probably a lot of developers who have experience working on Google's Search. But the problem is that there is an absurdly long tail of features (curated news sources, relevant social media results, answer boxes, etc) and being able to serve that long-tail is part of what makes Google so valuable. It would take years for even a well-funded team to catch up to Google in this regard and the high barrier-to-entry is absolutely a moat.
Price controls create shortages. They always have and always will. You can't just create by fiat the economic outcomes that you'd prefer. You have to create the conditions under which those outcomes become natural. If you want to limit monopoly pricing of food delivery services, limit monopolistic behavior by breaking up large players. Don't allow one company to dominate an industry and then arbitrarily cap its revenue to some number that feels good.
Here's the way I figure:

1) If you're a student, yes. Store less stuff. 1080 instead of 4k video won't kill you.

2) If you're a software engineer, factor in at least $200 of your time for each upgrade. Bigger drives mean you need to upgrade less often, so no, buying more is not overkill.
Yes. Give it 3-6 months and you’ll see perfectly fine but non-spec-rated HDDs sold as EasyStores, etc sold at 40% off.

It will be on the market soon. They will have to sell those binned parts somehow.
It seems very unlikely that this report would fall into the well-known problem of not accounting for urban heat islands:

https://www.skepticalscience.com/urban-heat-island-effect.ht...

Are you specifically clamining that the authors ignored this ?
> I’m pretty sure that in most countries, a store can’t just sell another company’s products without entering an agreement with them.

Of course you can. What makes you think you can't?
Companies race to mine lithium, a battery essential
I thought about this too when I read the article
but then I thought that it might not always be possible to rewrite the code like that in other cases.
Maybe the example used in this article was just not the best example.
Ah gotcha, sorry, totally missed that!
Software engineer who deals with large datasets, disk images, etc etc. Throughout the years I've had to have a big "scratch disk" with yet another bigger "archive" to support my work.

For my scratch disks I need at least 1TB locally (preferred 4+), and for my archive I need 16TB easy. I deal with everything from shape files, to GIS, to huge flat-file processing etc etc. I'm the guy who can take 10+ years of data and make business sense of it so storage is a constant headache/need.

To get ahead of someone telling me, "you're doing it wrong": no. No I am not. Just because you don't have the need doesn't mean there's not a market for it.
That's fair, however I'd put forward that considering consequences is hard and mentally taxing which is why people don't do it much, as opposed to them being unable to do so.
It's really not that hard.

If you're a photographer for example, storage gets filled up VERY VERY quickly. A wedding photographer may do 1000-6000 photos in a weekend, 40-100MB each; which is 40GB - 500GB per event, depending on your workflow.

Video even more so - whether it's an entertainment library, or high quality videos of family, let alone if you do it professionally or semi-pro.

Home labs for anything - virtualization, data science, ML, CI/CD, etc.

My current NAS has 8TB drives in it, but only because of the price curve. I would've preferred 12TB but 8TB is where the price/capacity/performance cusp seems right now.
Do you have 12TB of data right now? Yes? Then a minimal RAID would need at least two 16TB drives.
> Publishing libraries like protobuf and abseil serves to drive standards in directions they like.

Could you elaborate on why they care? Do they have some kind of competitive advantage when it comes to Protobuf?
> Why is it so clearly capitalism that lifted those people out of poverty, and not modern advances in technology, such as in food production, efficient transportation of goods, sanitation, and medicine?

Because of the evidence of India and China is compelling.

https://forms.gapminder.org/s3/test-2018
YouTube terminates 'CraigTube' – 14yo channel, 621 videos lost
They're not dominant because it's hard though. Bing is similarly capable, but even if it gained a clear edge would it really win out over Google? Market dominance has little to do with hardness. Making a new cola isn't hard, but brand recognition and ubiquity are huge advantages on a different axis.
“Give me liberty or give me death” were founding words of our country. If you don’t believe our commitment to liberty and freedom was important, then what else made America the #1 most successful country for the last century?
Show HN: Quickly check the last 50 songs you heard on Spotify
I can't remember much about images - but basically filtering out question-marks and equals symbols (i.e. ...thing.php?some=value) in a lot of places. I remember getting Facebook and when they first started their API it was a bit better thought out, so they loaded images on the user's behalf.
Some great reading about 'hacking' myspace at the time: https://samy.pl/myspace/
I'm pretty sure the average american does not know what peer review means.
Channel stats for the terminated channels:

https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/craigtube

https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/UC40wiRfP8u2DrVvUm_V...

Videos from other youtubers complaining about the termination:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=valkUvJElgo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7pcL7VgAZE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Irp-5sw74s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3pQ5YuqzOI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akuBxQc1ubQ

Video from Craig himself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zzXWeevHE0

You can see he's putting a brave face on it but really he's totally gutted :-(. It appears the channel was terminated with no specific reason given, no feedback from or chance to redress any problems.

This was mentioned in the recent topic about the deletion of an electronics channels, but I thought it deserved a topic of it's own.
You can check it here https://github.com/dwyl/hits

Also https://twitter.com/holman/status/427937383376379904
I would like some comments on this:

I have been grappling with how to discuss issues related to covid as truthfully as possible, and I’m wondering if anyone disagrees.

My intuition as a physicist says that any discussion or comparison of covid effects that look at total numbers, while true, is less meaningful than looking at these numbers normalized by population size.

Both sets of numbers are true, both lead the intuition to different conclusions. What conclusion should the intuition land on?

Isn’t it strange that people can argue behind truthful data to lead people to completely different conclusions?
So if you're a Portland resident and you see a fee above 10%, what do you do?
The ADA requires the restaurant to make the accommodation, not the disabled person.

And that still doesn't solve the problem of people with social anxiety who are unable to engage in a conversation with another person.
Even for home use, if you have a family who wants to keep local backups of multiple devices. A phone, laptop and tablet per person for even two people would eat through a few TBs every few years.
I wonder how many of these hard drives are needed to completely scan the internet every month and create a "time capsule" drive that you can revisit and browse ten years later like a yearbook
Privilege Gives Your Privacy Away: Analysis of Home Security Camera Service [pdf]
What am I supposed to take away from this story? I'm glad that these adults are having such a transformative experience living in Connecticut with roommates, but it's hard to imagine thinking a story like this should be in the NYTimes.
UK investment in OneWeb satellite firm ‘geopolitical,’ Cabinet minister says
It’s a passive aggressive and unprofessional - you don’t want your employees talking to each other this way, so don’t start it either.
>If people don’t understand that a middleman adds cost as an adult, then that is an education issue.

I think the point is that middlemen are now using deceptive business practice to obscure the fact they are involved and in many ways cannibalizing direct business to the restaurants using "dark patterns". In the case of middlemen changing the phone number of the restaurant on services like Yelp/Google Maps without the consent of the restaurant should be fraud...its almost like I go to a bank and put my ATM machine in front of the bank ATM machines and charge customers withdraw fees...then claiming well I am a 3rd party of course I had fees (even disclosed it in order to proceed), while ignoring the totality of the circumstances.
hum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stool_test
Bipolar structure all-polymer battery (APB) technology-overview
I think that's just a type of bodybuilder hard. It just takes a lot of effort, discipline and time to do it.
If a restaurant doesn't comply, wouldn't this be fraudulent representation?
I'm not talking about usability. I'm talking about looks. An ugly UI may be very functional and intuitive to use, an ugly button design may well drive the point home that it is indeed a button.

That's not going to change the fact that I hate looking at it and therefore don't want to use it. It's not an either-or, you can have both, either or neither. However, if you use MFC, your app will look bad, end of story.

I'm aware that some people, perhaps most programmers, aren't actually that sensitive when it comes to looks. All I can say is that it matters to me. I can't put it in words any better than I can explain why your haircut looks bad, but it does! On the other hand, if something is annoying or difficult to use, I can explain why.
fair enough, i guess it makes sense to have that separate, just the rng methods nerd in me always interested in how to find randomness.
Almost every restaurant I order from also has their own website you can order from.
Oh, couldn't agree more. The bike was what clicked for me (plus the personal analytics, friends being there, etc), but it's not because of the bike that I started exercising. I also know folks who indeed use it as a very expensive towel hanger, so not dismissing OP's argument.

My meta point is that from a business perspective, I'm very optimistic with the future of at-home exercise - Peloton, Mirror, p.volve, be.come, etc.
Forgive them for misinterpreting a very unusual situation?
It's open source. In a way the linux/GNU initiative has won, because they finally have hardware manufacturers and large companies developing source code in an open way.
A person value assigned to a dog variable
My only concern with this, is he assumes that all that work is going to take an extremely long time and doesn't even consider the fact that it might take significantly less time than he proposes. He acknowledges this but doesn't actually go down the rabbit hole.

> Remediating climate change will involve unimaginably labor-intensive tasks, like relocating every coastal city in the world kilometers inland, building high-speed rail links to replace aviation links, caring for hundreds of millions of traumatized, displaced people, and treating runaway zoontoic and insectborne pandemics.

This does sound like a lot of work, but realistically it's like, what... maybe 10-20 years worth of actual human labor at current levels? Our capacity is so enormous that probably 90% of the things you'll interact with today were created in the past 10 years. If machines are slated to replace that amount of manufacturing, imagine the labor that would be displaced! If we could hypothetically throw double the labor into these projects than before these cities would go up instantly. Like Chinese Ghost cities.

Our civilization is already built. Most of the work went into building the required tools and technology which enable us to do more with less. Building skyscrapers is just large scale Legos when you have the right tools. What took Egyptians thousands of people now takes about 12 equipment operators. Now that we have those tools, now that we've commoditized them all this isn't really a "daunting" task for us as a species. Societally it presents new challenges, but humans are nothing if not resilient.
Yes, a political organisation with the goal, to help fight human diseases on a global scale. And increase human health im general.

And trusted and cited for medical facts all around.

But if they would be caught bending medical facts to political will .. that would be not helpful.
I made PR which suggest some changes and fixes:
https://github.com/Lab41/dnaviz/pull/21
Thanks. Either way, it seems much simpler to do something similar to what Holland has done than to move millions of people (hundreds of millions if we're talking about the entire world) inland.
The Tor community improved a lot the Tor Relay Guide in the last two years. Actually now you can easily setup a relay following the instructions: https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/

And if you're an Ansible user, you will enjoy Nusenu's ansible-relayor: https://github.com/nusenu/ansible-relayor
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The proposed project entails constructing a global-scale shared supercomputer capable of hosting the entire Internet on one platform as an application

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Kittyhawk
Having the backing of the government like with Premium Bonds is huge. Both for marketing and for trust.

Building trust is definitely a challenge for us as a new company. Funds with Yotta are FDIC insured up to $250,000, which helps, and we communicate that to users, but people still need to trust us fundamentally.

We looked into Premium Bonds and also found that a lot of Premium Bond ownership comes from older generations. We are hoping that our UI and mobile first approach make the concept more appealing to a younger demographic in the U.S.
I suppose similar was the reasoning behind the H1 visa program, which explicitly limited the lower bounds of salaries for the immigrants. (It did not limit other immigration types, of course.)
My experience is almost diametrically opposite on the first few things.

> Most of the speech in any conference around the world are just simple stuff that can be condensed in an hour

I have found that in majority of technical talks, an hour is thoroughly insufficient to convey everything in detail. This means, a good talk requires days of preparation, careful understanding of the critical aspects of the subject matter and building a narrative that joins all of them seamlessly.

It is incredibly difficult.

> Usually you could do the same in a 10 minutes session if you are targeting a more skilled audience

In my experience, 10 minutes is only good for elevator pitches. To take away anything of technical values, it usually takes 60 minutes or more.

> that is super hard to get people to work together doesn't matter what

That's why my mentioned running clubs/committees or being deeply involved a team sport. Those exact same dynamics manifest in the 2 scenarios and the skills obtained form there are to some degree, transferable to industry.

> What I find it useful is scenario base question like: last time you had a conflict in your team how did you handle that

I love these kinds of questions. Not because they always reveal anything important, but they play to the strengths of a good story teller.

Most people at this point, practice these questions just like leetcode. The interviewee doesn't answer your question, they fetch a meticulously crafted and appropriately fictionalized account of a past event, and the interviewer is none the wiser.
Is it though? He only has one side of the story so the (?) is asking for the other side of the story (which they might not be aware of). How do you do it as a CEO?
Same with my experience, which makes it even more perplexing to me why people use these apps.
I fired it up in a VM and it’s pretty awesome. Just trying to backup this dying hard drive before I reformat and put pop as my main.
Right! nobreak would make it much clearer.
Totally! We have thought about this a lot. It's too heavy a lift for us at the moment given the complexity, but this is something on our radar for sure.

Appreciate the feedback.
Just read your Nature article and loved it. I would like to speak with you to see ways we can help. My new book comes out this year and deals SPECIFICALLY on the asymmetry of power caused by AI. Pls send me details on how we can participate in your work: RajivMalhotra2007@gmail.com
When something is too good I will always ask, what are the trade offs?

On paper at least, it should be much more reliable than Coil Speaker. And this is my second MacBook Pro which has Speaker Crackling problem. ( Although it is more likely an Apple faults judging from Google Search )
A Treatise on JavaScript Dependencies
I've wanted to turn some students onto Rust, so I tried to give them https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings loaded into a repl.it account -- but the way repl.it works breaks rustlings in multiple ways.

I'd love if this Rust playground could eventually provide that experience.
Hey HN! I'm submitting this super small and focused tool which shows you the last 50 songs you listened to on Spotify. It can play them on the browser (if supported) or in connected Spotify clients (if any).
It's especially useful if you forgot to note down a song you heard a bit of time ago, for example.

Spotify on desktop already has a "History" option, but it's only available on desktop, and only shows you songs you listened to in that desktop client. My page shows you the last 50 songs, regardless of client.

Hope you find it useful!

edit: BTW, it is all open-source! https://github.com/cprecioso/lastify
I don't understand what you're saying.

That evidence of keys being faster than the mouse are old?

Why would the speed change over time? It's measuring the human, not the machines; and we are no faster.
Just posted a topic about another channel that got deleted, 'CraigTube':

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23781180
In Germany there are States that are basically virus free. Still the Federal Government after asked by the States to OK lifting of the Mask duty, insist openly that lifting the duty to wear a Mask would let people loose the fear for the virus!

Is it still OK to restrict freedom to just keep people in fear?
Percy has been acquired by BrowserStack
> Or her blood pressure could be so low that blood reached the brain only when she was upside down. Blood pressure that low could have been triggered by an allergic reaction, anaphylactic shock, or severe dehydration.

So, if this is a generic thing about low blood-pressure, including—potentially—low blood-pressure from shock... then could inverting someone who's going into shock in the field (where an ambulance is not yet arrived), be neuroprotective—ensuring they keep some oxygenated blood near their blood-brain barrier to feed their brain, long enough to stave off brain damage until EMTs can arrive and get a saline+steroid IV into them? Would it work for all types of shock? Toxic shock, for example?

I know that in the case of the article, the cause turned out to be a malfunction of the pacemaker itself, but is the doctor's original line of thinking still valid?
Every attempt at "solving" this "problem", including Snap, Flatpak, and AppImage, are an absolutely awful regression in the state of Linux. I absolutely hate this trend. These tools solve problems for only two kinds of software: proprietary software, and software with suck reckless, runaway complexity that it can only run in one specific environment. I have no interest in either kind and I will give no quarter to "solutions" for their "problems".

Criticism specifically regarding Flatpak: https://flatkill.org/
No citation, doctors I worked with told me. It's symptoms can be mistaken for leprosy and there is an immense stigma attached that escalated to violence. I doubt they were exaggerating.