skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been teaching classes online since March. Honestly, even at the best of times it feels like teaching a brick wall.

One of the universities has a rule that everyone must have their cameras on at all times, so you end up teaching classes to seas of blank faces. You get no meaningful feedback this way.

One thing I've used which has been useful is Miro [1]. It is a collaborative whiteboard tool. Being able to get a little bit of output from everyone is wonderful. Even just being able to see people's mouse pointers move makers a huge difference.

One of the pluses has been everyone has suddenly got much better at using the universities online learning system (which existed before). General organisation and admin has been streamlined somewhat.

[1] https://miro.com/
> Dragging a country to/from the poles really establishes how ridiculous the projection is.

I mean, the pole is an infinitesimal point that _any_ rectangular projection must expand to the size of the equator.
I have realized that Twitter/FB are really unhealthy for me. You get dragged down the argument path so quickly. There is really no point in engaging. Just stay away, has been the best cure for me.
>It seems all the ads are literally lie.

As someone who's been in tech for over 20 years, let me explain. There are many reasons why job ads get posted, and not all of them involve the existence of an actual job that a hiring manager is trying to fill. In some cases, it's just a staffing agency trying to build a resume database. In other cases, it's HR conducting market research on compensation levels and talent depth in a particular geography. Sometimes, as has already been noted, it's to fulfill a legal prerequisite to bringing in visa holders. After awhile, you sort of learn to spot the fake postings.
Indeed. You can't have "the antidote to bad free speech is good free speech" and "don't feed the trolls" at the same time.
Actually, HDMI has DRM built in, and many DRM-laden apps won't work unless the HDMI DRM is working. The Amazon app has been telling me recently that my connection to my TV doesn't have it, but it actually does. Then I'll hit "play" again and it'll work. (I think it was a bug in their app, because it stopped again.)

So recording it requires something that implements that HDMI DRM scheme, but still allows you to record.
Totally. It also assumes that students will pay the UK's vast fees for a course made up entirely of non-interactive video content. And that teachers will grant the university the right to redistribute their videos, which is their IP.

Honestly it feels like it boils down to the assumption that students will keep paying the same amount of money for a degree with a world famous university's branding. It seems to really be that transactional for senior management.
> and poorly styled

I disagree. Good line spacing, comfortable page width (doesn't take up the full width of my monitor), clean & concise, no 'junk' surrounding the content. I'm not sure I see where you're coming from
Any more info on this? I once had a go at finding an open API for AIS data and really struggled.
Finally.

This has only been allowed since RFC 822 (1982). Is there any reason why Microsoft did not support this from the beginning (of Exchange)?
They should just fix searching in Outlook web instead.
What's the inverse of "No true Scotsman"? Literally almost everyone is Scottish?

If all trolling means is angrying up the masses, then I guess Mussolini and Juan Perón and Bernie Sanders are all fabulous trolls.
I don’t really know what you’re arguing, you seem to be making a few assumptions about my position, which are probably wrong.

In terms of $100M movies, I think they almost all suck, but that was the value you suggested. I’d say that no movie needs to cost $100M!

But plenty of movies cost $10M. If it takes 100 people a year to make a movie then you can easily spend $10M on salaries and overheads alone.

> Interestingly your argument fails for porn

Does it? I’d guess that the average porno costs a few hundred bucks to shoot, and takes a couple of hours. There is easily 100x more hours of porn produced per day than narrative fiction, and yet it only makes 25% of Hollywood, and notoriously, the actors are frequently exploited. I’d say that porn is a warning of danger rather than a proof of success!

> Depp can do some theatre

When was the last time you paid to go to the theatre?

> Most EDM is essentially copyright free, especially techno. 1 year of exclusivity is fine. Fuck NDAs.

My raver days are (sadly) behind me, but sure, OK, like porn, EDM can be produced with little investment. So what? No everything that is good is also cheap or easy to build.

> These days the cost of production has gone down so I think you will see more indie media taking advantage of that.

I’m a huge fan of indy media but, because of that, I pay for it, and I don’t like it when people freeload.

> The average budget for a reasonable movie is less than 5 million

I think you’re just making things up now, but even so, 5 million is a buttload of money that you need to get back. Few people are gonna spend that sort of money with no expectation of recouping it.
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I'm working on peapods.com ( stream.mikestaub.dev ) and would love your feedback.
Quantum Mechanics May Need Consciousness [pdf]
Now if only websites will stop rejecting plus-addressed email addresses as invalid. The most frequent offenders are mom & pop websites that you just _know_ are going to get breached.
Hyphens and equals are other options that are supported by various services:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Subaddressing

Equals specifically is used by mailing list software (esp. Mailman) for bounce processing (VERP):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_envelope_return_path
Cheapest NAS with GbE and USB3 for $20
Is there an expert who could explain what's novel here ?

The layman summary seems to imply specialists are surprised that people judge distance differently which seem crazy to me. I mean we have known for decades that vision is the result of a complex process involving different parts of the visual system and that people results on tasks involving mainly vision (and coordination admittedly) vary.

What's the surprising part here ?
> so both parents can work

today, many families find themselves in a position where they 'have to' work.

It could be 'lifestyle inflation' but it could also be the deeper specialization - and certain jobs needing that, but these skills erode before the worker is able to adapt to the next wave.
I got an interesting personal education on this working on some volunteer construction projects down in Mexico. The locals all move with a very deliberate slow pace. Us gringos tried to be more gung ho, and by 11 am the heat plus our effort had destroyed us. Meanwhile the local folks just kept on truckin' until sunset.
If someone knows the timestamp of this particular exchange please share.
Ignoring the troll is complicity now, okay.
May I never give in to the temptation of trying to make someone feel small.
Speeches in All of History of Mankind
Spotify discover is great but they haven't solved the problem of flow. Songs that don't fit in context are played next to each other. I wish we had John Peel back in its place, but then I suppose it's on me to find a good dj.
Non-journalists people: why can't you just report "the truth" ? why are you trying to push an agenda ? Why are you so lazy that you have to take your informations from Twitter ?

Non-tech people: why is this slow ? why do you have so many bugs ? why do you need one week to deliver this but two months for that ?

Unless you are familiar with a profession one tend to simplify the challenges of it. That's why I try not to give any judgement on others' work.
A lot of people posting complex things. All you need is SSH.

ssh sparkling@git.example.com
mkdir project-1.git
cd project-1.git
git init —-bare
exit
git remote add alternate sparkling@git.example.com:project-1.git

For the syncing part. If you don’t want to do it manually, you can add multiple destinations on the same remote. Someone already mentioned it here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23818609, https://jigarius.com/blog/multiple-git-remote-repositories
Ah yes, the famous "talker" Dijkstra...
It's from 2012. Old enough that this is part of internet folklore for a while.
Yes, I've felt this for years. By the end of the typical day I have absolutely no energy for anything. It seems to have been getting worse as well, the scope of my life becomes surviving the workday and nothing beyond that; no energy to see friends, go anywhere, do anything. And the scope has become increasingly circumscribed. This has persisted between changes in diet, job, location, exercise regime, etc.

By chance I happened to see a comment on fibromyalgia on HN the other day and I'll be damned if I don't meet every symptom exactly. It helps to know that's the likely cause (every previous attempt to achieve a diagnosis for the fatigue from doctors ended nowhere) but obviously there's no real solution so it's just about accepting those limitations.
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It was probably in the terms of the acquisition itself
Interesting perspective, yeah I agree that it's a lot of work at the beginning if I don't target a specific market.

At the beginning to decrease workload and define a small MVP, I should target a niche of outbound salespeople whom do a lot of outbound sales, and whom have a sales process that relies on how content is sorted... some ideas that comes up to mind:

- Professional e-commerces like https://www.rs-online.com/ (products in home page sorted in a way that can impress that visitor)

- Web Agencies (projects, services, testimonials comments sorting)

- [Covid-19 alert] Travel Agencies (sorting available travels in home page)

Just thinking out loud
I suspect the downvotes are concerning the assertions that 'we' have determined something.
Yes, you may. And I thank you in advance for that recommendation.

However I’m not sure how useful it will be. My reflection has a way of emerging everywhere I go, like the sun piercing a dark cloudy sky, my warmth eventually finds its way into my surroundings.
I have no idea why this was downvoted, this is absolutely true.
> Peer review is a cornerstone of academics

It isn't, it was a mistake trying to bring it everywhere. Peer review is a way for your jealous colleagues to stop your novel, disruptive, or counter-intuitive research from being published; and while it may serve some purpose in some limited fields, for most fields it does little else but suppress good science.

If your peers understood where your field was going, they'd be doing the research, not reviewing it.

Now, that doesn't mean we shouldn't have journals with editors, but peer review is not necessary to good science, and in most fields it is a parasite.
Thanks, this looks beautiful and simple to use.
Indeed, and in a year's time or so, the reckoning will start.
Journalists pay attention to Twitter because their readers are the most enthusiastic users of it.

These readers used to be called The Chattering Classes.
Is It Time to Kill the Penny?
Here is the moment where Steve Jobs receives the harsh question https://youtu.be/GnO7D5UaDig?t=3022
Show HN: We built an entire SaaS product in a weekend
typo "LXD is far more "batteries-included" than LXD"
The premise of the article is that they pay attention to Twitter as a source for stories. Not to 'build a personal brand'
You can use a USB hard drive and just save to it while still booting and running on the SD.

Check speeds when you get it to see what works for you best.
Yep this happened to me too after a few weeks of owning them. Luckily a trip to the Apple store and they replaced straight away. It made me question them at the time though. The guy said it wasn’t common back then
I had no idea that people can hang glide for hundreds of miles! That’s genuinely amazing.
Just google "arduino android" the interface had been used by many projects for so many years.
Fly? Isn't it basically gliding?
We are four good friends from Vienna who have forever been meaning to build a product together. However, we never quite found the time next to our day jobs. One day we were chatting and set ourselves a challenge to try to build an entire product from scratch in one weekend. The we thought—if we're hacking for three days straight, why not livestream the whole thing?!

That's how https://productweekend.live was born. We spent the past weekend building Feedback Fish from scratch live on air in front of thousands of people!

So, why Feedback Fish?

We all individually have built products before, but realised it was kind of hard to get feedback from users. All existing solutions are heavyweight and do a lot more than we want them to (e.g. Intercom, Canny, etc).

That's how Feedback Fish was born. It's an unobtrusive yet polished widget that fits into any website for users to drop ideas and issues into. You get an email for every suggestion, a dashboard to see all suggestions throughout history and pay us $10/month. That's it!

Reducing the scope of what we are building enabled us to finish the whole thing in a weekend, and we launched to the #1 product of the day on ProductHunt yesterday and got ~600 customers, the first of which have already started converting to paid!
All the deaths in my area are involve fishing boats and pleasure craft.

As a sailboat you are the stand-on vessel so you really shouldn't maneuver. They will see you. They can and frequently do make course adjustments to avoid other traffic.
Yes, articles like this are always full of comments denouncing the current education system and declaring, how much innovation there can be.
One thing I am sure about those making these comments that they never ever had any teaching experience. It is easy to "innovate" when you have no idea about the realities and restrictions of the domain you are "innovating".
I have noticed that the senses detach when I'm sleeping with hands on my chest too. In our community, it's believed that demons possess you if you sleep with hands on chest. Probably its because of this kind of feeling. Weird, indeed.
So, basically you hate any emotions?
But all rights are granted by society, including your right to own a house or a car or a laptop or the clothes on your back. ALL of these rights are “special rights society has decided to give”.

And in the case of copyright society has decided that media is something that is worth investing in and we have created laws that encourage that.

Some of those laws suck and are stupid and overreaching, but that’s not the argument here.
https://mobile.twitter.com/grantimahara/status/1243234010215...

This was his workbench. In many ways, it doesn't look much different than mine. Grant was an electrical engineer, like me. Gone suddenly before 50 from an aneurysm. I can't help but wonder if it looks like that now, filled with unfinished projects. Projects that only he understood the complexity of, and few would have the hope of picking up where he finished. Projects that will never be completed, now that their creator has died.

Grant, and Myth Busters were an inspiration to me as a young engineer. He was barely my age on the show, but influenced an entire generation of future engineers.

I checked his Twitter feed. Barely a bitter or angry tweet. None of the toxic outrage so prevalent in society today. The world lost a decent person, and a brilliant engineer.

Nobody knows their time. That what I leave unfinished would only be personal trivialities, and not angry tweets. That I would be able to have that impact on the next generation.
What do you think of online surveillance?
Do you believe in those pros and cons? I see nothing positive in that
Arty Bollocks (automatically generated artist statements)
Might be interesting to have a line items for "cognitive cost of having to deal with the crappy in-house tool when you know a good SaaS alternative exists" and "time spent wrangling the finance department"
I think arrogance is very underrated and should be included. A degree of arrogance makes you take on tasks that you are unqualified for; this aids in growth. It also gives you an inflated trust in your own opinions, and hence promotes exposing them to challenge and scrutiny. Furthermore, it encourages risk-taking, which is usually good for society even though it's often bad for the individual.
SEC Charges App Developer for Unregistered Security-Based Swap Transactions
Politicians and journalists alike use it to gain influence. Which would be fine in and of itself.

But they absolutely do pay too much attention to it. My problem is how many of them then mistake the screaming extremists in the comment threads on there for "public opinion" and the rest of us have to suffer this nonsense - until there's a vote on something that doesn't go anything like the way they thought it would, time and time again (there have been several examples in the UK in recent years).
AI Can Help Eliminate Counterfeit Products from the Market
IMO, more people need to ask themselves how their tools work and why they exist and find the answers to those questions
But filter bubble (FB) and echo chamber (EC) are two different concepts. They are not synonymous. The former is passive, and you have no choice. The latter is human nature. Birds of a feather and such. It's hard to imagine human nature reversing eons of evolution.

> "..indeed, search and social media users generally appear to encounter a highly centrist media diet that is, if anything, more diverse than that of non-users..."

"Appear to encounter" is a vague. Thst aside, encounter doesn't mean you're open to those ideas. Imagine seeing something in your feed that is close to a polar opposite of your view. The majority of the time that is interpreted as "That's BS. See. I knew I was right." That is, few have the time to pause and ask "what if?" or "did I miss something?" The exposure doesn't open their mind, it backfires and pulls the blinders even more narrow. I missed where this study addresses that boomerang effect.

Who are non-users? Fox News watchers? Or Rachel Maddow devotes? That's a pretty low bar. More diversity than than isn't saying much? Also, diversity in sources isn't necessarily diversity in ideas and perspectives. Most media sources are so worried about readers/viewers and ad revenue that they dare not venture too far from the prevailing narrative. Add in cancel-culture and an endless list of triggers and the reporting deviates further and further from traditional journalisms. Yes, content is delivers, how often would it qualify as intellectual junkfood?

> "Nechushtai and Lewis reported that Google News searchers in the US were directed overwhelmingly to 'longstanding national newspapers and television networks'"

That might be true, but it's not proof that FB or EC don't exist. I don't want to get off topic but most of the major news sources suffer from mono-vision, narrative preservation, parroting "conventional wisdow", and so on. The lack of depth and breadth and the sources is and continues to be a problem.

Furthermore, getting results in a SERP does not mean there was a click-through to read. Again, "exposure" isn't necessarily leading to more diverse ideas.

> "...fragmentation of national mediaspheres..."

IDK. From multiple sources I've read that limited ownership is leading to consolidation. With what data do they make this assumption? Most seem to agree that consolidation of ownership has led to lens that zoom in and stay tightly on message, as opposed to zoom out and look for possible other insights.

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I have to read more later. Hopefully it gets better. I'm not so sure this holds enough water for me. Yes, that's my interpretation. It will be interesting to see how this pov is treated here. Ironic?
There's the Windows Internals books[1]. Two book series, second book has not been updated. You'll find some good results for other operating systems if you just search "{name of os} internals book"

1. https://www.microsoftpressstore.com/store/windows-internals-...
@lcall, I agree, OpenBSD is great (especially the newer releases).

My only real complaint is that the community (openbsd-misc) is a bit cliquey.

As for the famous Theo, well, if you thought Linus was not afraid to state his opinion .... :)
> This is a mass produced faulty product

...and Apple is replacing them for free.
Having a controlled blood pressure really helps. Other than that... good luck I guess.
Yes, the harper’s letter is an excellent illustration of manufactured consent.
Robot arms coming out of the ceiling is bit more realistic.
I'm well aware of that -- except that an exponential is a straight line on a semi-log chart. But to people hearing the numbers, who aren't familiar with the phenomenon of exponential growth, a linear scale, despite being somewhat arbitrary, better captures the psychological impact. Consider an idealized example: we start with one case, and a doubling time of three days. It takes the whole first month to get to about 1000 cases. Even though you and I know that that's an extremely aggressive growth rate, 1000 cases still doesn't sound like a lot to many people, when they compare it to the population of the US (or annual numbers of deaths from various other causes, like swimming pool accidents -- a comparison I've actually heard made). In the next month, though, it would get to 1M cases, which is a much larger fraction of the population and is correspondingly likelier to get people's attention.
All of us will get more of this and other stuff.
Is there any serious idea about how a fair pension scheme could/should work without just buying the market? (So in some countries the pension system is just mandated by law, managed by the government. And might be even "guaranteed by law" to track inflation. But in this case it's again exactly the same, your purchasing power of your pension income depends on the strength of the country's economy - which depends on the global market.)
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Well how else are you going to do video on the web?!
Could predictive database queries replace machine learning models?
Wow! never seen that before. That's incredible.
> Saying stupid things or even outrageous (in your view) things is not trolling unless it's said for the sake of provoking people who hold those views.

Are you implying that there is some other motive to the President's tweeting? I always understood it as simply a way to piss off his opponents (and thus distract them with nonsense while energizing his supporters).

Gleefully annoying people by posting is the very definition of trolling.
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> I don't say that in ignorance of history

I can't see how you could write that without ignoring history. Colonialism was only ended ~70 years ago. Since then there's been a debt burden in its place. Add to that the direct coercive influence the global north, especially the US, have applied to the global south and this doesn't exactly paints a good picture of their supposed sovereignty.
That's a political disagreement. Political disagreements are good and proper.

A political divide is more like old Dutch pillarisation, where you have some people who read the red newspapers and listen to red music and work for red businesses and go to red schools (and live in red towns), and others who read blue newspapers and list to blue music and work for blue businesses and go to blue schools (and live in blue towns), and very little purple beside.

Purple media is a good thing. You don't have to be a moderate to agree with that.
It is eerie how much that looks like my workbench. I guess EEs are all the same.
I have the problem since a few weeks, and no I’ve never done anything with microvibrations while wearing them.

I do wear the case close to my body, so it may be adhesive weakening caused by heat. That would explain why some people don’t have it at all and some see it happen 4 times in a row.