skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have some anecdotal experience here which is not in the same trend.

Our baby was born 10 weeks premature on the 4 June, although her being premature seemed to be entirely unrelated to COVID-19. I'm happy to say they've been doing super well and we expect them to come home this week.

Although not related to prematureness, of interest in regards to pregnancy and COVID-19 was that the gynaecologist mentioned during pregnancy that they had anecdotally noticed that during our lockdown here babies in utero were on average noticeably bigger than usual. They supposed that it might be related to moms on average being more relaxed due to not needing to do things like stressful work commutes.

Our baby was quite a bit bigger than average for their maturity which was quite fortunate given how early they arrived.
This is why I love using Emacs. It's great for one-off tasks, super customizable, and yet easily replaced by the right tool when needed.
Not sure why this is being posted now. In the context of early collections of computers on a LAN, sometimes with a shared (flaky) file server, this comment makes sense, and was (kind of) funny.

However, it seems out-of-touch today, because of years of work in building more reliable systems out of distributed components has made the internet and scalable internet services possible.

It is perhaps not without irony that one of the key idea drivers in this space was Lamport himself, with early papers on clocks and synchronization, and later work on Paxos, which is found at the heart of many of the most reliable systems in the world.

Perhaps we should call this a "Lamport's Irony"; when you complain about something (jokingly) and then spend your career fixing the problem you complained about.
so, if you compiled a language shell, or interpreter this way; you would end up with a sand-boxed shell/interpreter?
I LOVE Bryan Ropar's Plastic Chair World. I never thought I'd see it called out on hackernews!
I agree with your reasoning. Also the link the parent provided was referring to taking it as a preventative measure, before you know you have Covid-19, not once you know you have it.
hui sry!

I have to update the number in my head :D
I never understood why websites are not personal property and why US gov. decided that anybody can crawl and scrape them at will and free of charge. That would be similar to someone crawling your house and making it fully visible and searchable to the global public . I guess Google Maps already did that.

My understanding is that .com (commerce) prevailed and people who have websites want to be fully public, visible and searchable.

On the other hand deep web and dark web exist but most of the people who use it and operate there do it because of shady business.

I don't entirely understand your search engine idea but if internet would start all over again I think the right model for search engine would be to have website owners submit their websites to the search engines along with metadata so searching experience becomes rich.

Metadata would be similar to something like Resource Description Framework
https://www.dlib.org/dlib/may98/miller/05miller.html
>housing anywhere in the American West

The problem with the American west is that people from California (and the other wealthy coastal areas to a lesser extent) see it as within the range of places they'd consider moving too.

There's no universe in which an rapid infusion of people who have more money than the locals is not bad for every local not selling overpriced garbage to the newcomers for a fat margin.

You see the same problems on the east coast and in the southeast but you see them in more constrained geographical areas because people from NYC don't cash out move to Indiana or Mississippi, they move to Vermont or Pennsylvania.
My down votrs already shows, that propaganda works.

As a German i also can say: been there, done that :)
"Rite-Aid employees can already recognize your face"

Are those same employees networked together and can remember the exact day and time you where in any of the stores and know exactly what you purchased? They have also memorised the entire FBI most wanted list and any other list of faces that may be in a "bad credit" database?
This is fantastic, thanks for sharing it.

I wish I had it when I was a CS professor in 2004-2006, teaching Compilers to 2nd year university students. They would have found it really useful.
Generally, I like the 'rich snippets' feature, but I think they've gotten worse.

For example here's a reddit post I made from 6 years ago showcasing a search for 'mac shortcut screenshot' https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/1ou4i0/a_search_for...

It's extremely clear, and results in minimal cognitive effort in parsing the result.

Here's the result now: https://i.imgur.com/A726Dhw.png

There's so much more cruft:

- 4x low resolution screenshots which I initially thought were related to ads

- An extra URL

- Multi-step instructions

- Lots of extra words

- Bold formatting has been applied inconsistently

Seeing the text: "Command + Shift + 3" in big bold letters was great, but it's now changed into something else.
Historically, centralization in the computer world grew from the glass house in which the one computer a company or institution could afford to buy or lease was installed -- and programmed by the tech gurus colocated there. The centralization and batch processing constraints of that era are now obsolete, having been replaced by inexpensive distributable computing, data storage and network building blocks. I suspect that many organizations haven't fully embraced the far more reliable, dependable and scalable approach to delivering services is related more to managerial issues ("tried and proven") than technical creativity and ability. The "C-Team" needs to be sold on the benefits that are obvious to the tech gurus of today, in language corporate leadership can understand and motivate their commitment.
>perhaps not directly transferable

Yes, I think that's the general problem. On the printed page (or a digital facsimile of one), footnotes work well because a reader can almost effortlessly redirect their eyes to the bottom of the page and tell at a glance if the footnote is something they care about and want to absorb. Clicking on links, flipping to the bottom of a long page, etc. is far more effort and pretty much defeats the purpose of many types of footnotes.
I'll put it this way - my friend tried to switch after his freshman year (where it gets tricky) and even with a recommendation from a professor who is a _big_ deal in the cybersecurity research community, he was denied because he was coming from business and not first year engineering.
After IBM, Microsoft and many others publicly declared (for marketing reasons no doubt) to stop working and delivering face recognition systems, a new competitor quickly fills the space. Color me surprised.
AMD has been around since 1969. Oh, and they invented x86-64 and licensed it to Intel.
The "job" here is drawing diagrams that describe a set of interrelated parts and Adobe Illustrator is not a tool for that job.

The first thing you need to make the kind of illustrations he's making are the ability to automatically route the lines in a way that doesn't look embarrassingly bad. (Not the Bezier curves that Powerpoint comes with)

The other problem is how to lay out the boxes so that the diagram tells a story and that is a matter of elbow grease and having pride in your work.

All of the time somebody shows us a hairball of 10^6 nodes that have 10^8 connections or so and expects to get praise for it. If the culprit is lucky they might make the cover of Scientific American or something, but nobody is the wiser after looking at that type of diagram.
> On other words, Rite-Aid employees can already recognize your face. Deal with it.

However, Rite-Aid employees cannot recognize every customer's face. Scale is the difference here, and scale is what people object to.
There's also a number of issues of the Magazine on archive.org

https://archive.org/search.php?query=Galaksija
Not sure if I'd call it an “internet rule”, but a rule of the attention economy (of which the Internet is the primary medium).
Apeel Sciences: https://apeelsciences.com/
I don't work for this company or have any affiliation but they are up to some really cool stuff in the food space. They develop a plant based coating for fresh produce that keeps it fresh for longer minimizing food waste and making produce easier and safer to distribute.

https://andela.com/ is another company that is really awesome and doing some cool stuff with helping make technology jobs more accessible to people all over Africa.
I agree in fact Tim Cook even called out to major share holders of Apple that if you are looking for immediate value you are in the wrong stock and should immediate leave. What companies need are bold leaders like Tim Cook that puts a foot down and say the value to customer is more important than teh value to share holders. Share holders are in a way their own worst enemy.
Median, no, but average household consumption already includes all consumption, market and non market. The average USAn with negative net worth and no job lives a lot better and consumes more resources than the average Sudanese person. The average employed USAn lives better than probably the top 2% of Indians, definitely the top 10%.
What's the copyright status on this book?

It's surprising to me that a new copy still costs $150 in 2020, when it was published in 1924, and both authors passed away 45+ years ago, and are thus unlikely to be "promoting the Progress of Science and useful Arts".
Malware Reverse Engineering Handbook
This handbook by CCDCOE Technology Branch researchers gives an overview of how to analyse malware executables that are targeting the Windows platform.
And they face no repercussions for that ? That's the kind of things that tend to annoy powerful people
Cool, I just noticed that Buzzoff is as bulky as Alexagate. Is there a reason for this?

With my naive understanding, I was expecting a more generic device that can be placed close to any microphone (laptop, phone, smart speaker, etc) something like this IKEA usb lamps : https://www.ebay.com/c/1278841657
They also have a really cool zine that's loaded with 90s hacker culture. https://n-o-d-e.net/zine/index.html
And 2. and 3. use the IBM Power architecture. Only 5. place has Intel.
>Especially the YouTube videos.

Couldn't find the channel, what's the name?
> But in some cases, you probably could make it absolutely bulletproof.

I don't believe this. Not on modern hardware. I worked on Spectre for almost two years while at Google. We wrote this:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05178
Please add a few bullet points on the top of the page, it takes way too long to figure out what functionality you added, when I open the page all I can see is you starting with "It's a mod of this model watch" and then you talk about how it looks now, and how you put it together...
Jam Is Obsolete
Technologies with similar capabilities are being rolled out en masse throughout retailers across America. I've worked with a regional grocer supporting one of these projects. There are turnkey systems from several vendors, but the general concept is similar. Cameras have full coverage of the retail floorspace from multiple angles. The systems can track an individual throughout the store, and they can observe someone pulling items off the shelf.

This is used for a couple things. One, if customer pulls product A off the shelf instead of product B right next to it, the manufacturer of product B can purchase the ability to have their coupon print out at checkout to be handed to somebody who is proven to have an interest in the category. Alternately, it can be used with self-checkout systems to confirm that the shopper actually scanned product A, or to alert security to check the shopper's receipt and cart at exit.

Amazon is offering this sort of technology for checkout-less stores, but similar offerings for loss-prevention and targeted marketing are online and available.

It would be trivial to add face recognition to this stack, and I strongly suspect it is in fact offered if you ask for it. The use case there would be focused around the loss prevention aspect, and that's a huge financial driver for implementing these systems.

Another interesting feature of this market is that the websites for the products themselves don't really advertise the full functionality of the product. You won't see the scale of the offering until you get to the in-person sales demo and slide decks. It feels like the vendors know how the technology could be perceived.
I read Appendix A and it doesn't seem to be against what they are doing currently. Unless you assume their search engine has exceptions or intentional bias. We have no conclusive evidence to believe the same(including the currently discussed article).
I am conflicted by their shopping app integration. But I wonder why I am having trouble accepting shopping integration vs maps integration. Having google maps part of the result makes for a better and quicker experience to information. But if shopping were a more successful product the reasons would hold their as well. I understand the intention behind anti-trust regulations in such cases but have trouble accepting them in data driven products like google which have huge user experience benefits from tighter integration of their own products.
I would love if anyone could help me with my conflicting thoughts on this.
This just conveniently blows past how the accurate processing and storage capabilities of a OS are about 5000% more capable than the eyes + brain.

Refusing to see that as a problem or at least a responsibility to consider is why people are starting to hate our industry :thumbsup:
The RISC-V Reader: An Open Architecture Atlas
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-im...

A cursory reading of the headline might suggest this was to prevent spreading of the virus, but the president explicitly said that it was to protect american workers from immigrants competing for jobs

There was also the case a few weeks ago where the government told students on visas that they need to leave the country if their school switches to all online courses in light of the virus[1] which is not only anti immigrant but explicitly reversing the brain drain as was mentioned earlier in the thread. They did reverse that decision but only after major colleges started a joining in a major lawsuit.

There was also the whole "Muslim ban" limiting legal migration.

Oh and ICE deported an Iranian student despite being given a court order not to, so they're also explicitly breaking the law in order to deport people[2]

In both words and actions this administration has been against legal immigration even if it's at less of a degree than illegal immigration.

[1]https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...

[2]https://www.wbur.org/news/2020/01/21/iranian-northeastern-cb...
I use a similar heuristic that I’ve dubbed the 90% rule. In many cases, you can buy something that is 90% as good as the best product available for two thirds or even half the cost.

If you want the very best, though, you have to pay through the nose. Ergo, you should always try the cheaper product first.
I must be the only dev on the planet that doesn’t think cloudflare is that great.

They are the last of the major CDNs to offer this sort of functionally — code you can inject at different points along the request.

Yes, they did a huge service to the internet by giving everyone free SSL but their control panel is maddening and it’s very hard to understand what each switch/knob actually is doing behind all of the marketing speak.

I think the free DNS are great too but I see all this worker stuff as a catch up “we do this too” feature and not a new thing. They aren’t doing it better than anyone else.
I've had multi-level deep false awakenings before, 3-4 levels or so. But a few weeks ago I actually had one that was maybe around 20 consecutive false awakenings, waking up something scary happening then waking up again repeated well into the double digits.

Freaked me out a lot because normally when I'm having a nightmare I know how to force myself awake instantly but that wasn't working that time. Honestly started to wonder if I'd died towards the end of it and had to pull myself together a bit when I did wake up for real.
Ask HN: Have you abandoned Next.js for another front end framework/library?
I'm starting a new project as a technical lead. The last React app I built from scratch was as a freelancer using Next.js. Generally my experience with Next.js has been positive, but while I can still debate my options I'm wondering if anyone has run into problems that caused you to move away from Next.js? And if so can you please tell me about them.
That's really impressive work. What flavor of regular expressions do you follow there?
Well one caveat: at some point, you reach a level of expertise such that you can evaluate tools for yourself, and don't need rules of thumb like this. At that point a mid-grade tool might make sense.

I do have some expertise in some of the areas you mentioned, and disagree with you:

Musical instruments: if you're starting off on guitar, get a used Yamaha for $80 and spend as much money as you can on lessons. It's better to be a virtuoso with a Yamaha than to have a high-end Martin you can't play collecting dust in your attic. I have been given more than one expensive guitar because people heard me play and thought I'd get more out of the guitar than they were getting out of it.

Bikes: I got a fixed-gear bike for $90 to use as a daily commuter. A month in, I was tired of getting flats, so I replaced the tires with Continental Gatorskins which cost more than the bike originally did. After that, the bike lasted me >5 years without modification, only occasional tune-ups. I got rid of the bike because I was bored with it, not because there was anything wrong with it, and paid $250 for a system that was functionally the same but looked a bit nicer--the only real upgrade was a Brooks Leather saddle. Tons of bike messengers are running similar systems far harder than I am.

Both music and biking have somewhat snobby subcultures that will talk crap on cheap gear to justify their own lavish purchases, but ultimately nobody can say anything about what guitar you're playing when you bust out Paranoid Android or what bike you're riding when you zip past them. Skills beat gear every time.
The Context Overridable Global Pattern in Go
I really like this idea. Are you planning to do it?
Yes. That's how Medium works!
Came here to say this. I've recently bought the cheapest bicycle and stand-up paddleboard I could find, precisely because of that reason. I don't know if the hobbies will "stick". Can always invest more later.
I use both daily. Eclipse doesn't have that specific feature.
The problem here is that something that's useful for users (saving time with knowledge panels, question/answer lists, and suggested searches) also takes away clicks from other websites. Something can be both good for the user in the short-term (quicker answers) and bad for the user in the long term (fewer websites survive if clicks are diverted). We have the same issue with "ecosystems". It's great for the user that the Google Assistant can ring the Pixel phone if you don't know where it is. But it's one more feature that locks our smaller/independent competitors.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvrLvII5oxSWEMEkszrxXEA

These are all from the articles on the homepage, https://n-o-d-e.net/index.html, many of them contain videos but also with mirrors on YT/archive.org/etc. I would be really interested to know what software he uses to make the videos.

The Zine also seems pretty great.
This reminds me of Nassim Taleb's barbell strategy.

Basically, combine a low-risk strategy with a high-risk-high-reward strategy and avoid medium risk. That way, if the high-risk strategy fails, you won't be completely ruined, but if the high-risk strategy succeeds, you'll have a big reward.
I'm not happy with the premise that 'best' means 'most expensive' as i'm pretty sure anyone involved with software will undoubtably know - Oracle anyone? :)
* birth control women can apply comes with sometimes severe side effects (edit: and even for that my wife needs my consent here in the Maghreb)

* Having an abortion just got a lot harder in parts of the US, is even more limited in most parts of south america, requires consent of a male guardian in lots of islamic countries or is just illegal

* Staying without wage is not an option when you need to feed yourself and the unborn

I still fail to see where the actual choices are.
A Taxonomy of Fear
I read the book, the End of Error by John Gustafson. He works on a lot of numerical problems right there, providing code and results.

He also goes over the history of floats and numerical computation, highlighting how often the best method was never adopted, for reasons as simple as patents or it not being better by enough.

Unums are better by enough, and they're being used at LLNL in experiments. It's just a hard ask for people to switch the number system they use, even switching from decimal to binary was a huge slog in the early computer age.
Well, yes, that’s exactly what it does. Operating systems include many tools.
A Massive Leak of Nintendo Source Code Is Causing Chaos in Video Games
Alexagate Blocks Amazon from Spying on You
Show HN: I built a free alternative stock data platform
McDonald’s reports lowest quarterly profit in 13 years
> I have a 12v cordless drill. Ended up saving me tons of work over the years but by no means either the best or the worst

But are there cheaper drills that do the same?
This of course sounds dramatic. But then, people who fall into this bucket continue to build, sell, and most importantly open source some of the most dramatically societal-changing tech with zero regard for what they enable.

This mindset would have open sourced the Manhattan Project if it was written in Python and used interesting storage advances, but it was safe because it was FOSS.
ScienceMag has a post about this result [0]. From that text:

"Perhaps the Cubists were right. Researchers have found that when everything from icebergs to rocks breaks apart, their pieces tend to resemble cubes. The finding suggests a universal rule of fragmentation at scales ranging from the microscopic to the planetary."

[0] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/rocks-icebergs-natur...
Over the last decade, professional investors have increasingly turned to nontraditional data sources to gain an information edge over the market. Much of this “alternative data” doesn’t require a deep financial background to interpret, which means that even casual investors can find plenty of unique insights.
However, existing alternative data providers sell almost exclusively to professional clients and charge thousands of dollars a year for access to their services.

During my summer break from college, I’ve been recreating some of the most commonly-used alternative datasets, and hosting them on a free, easy-to-use platform designed for non-professional investors. My hope is that this platform will help bridge the data gap between retail investors and Wall Street.

Some of the data I’ve aggregated so far includes:

-Corporate private flights (professional investors use this to predict upcoming M&A and investments)

-Personal stock trading by U.S. Senators and Representatives

-Social media trends and sentiment

-Insider trading

-Robinhood user holding trends

-COVID-19 research progress

and much more. You may have seen my senate trading dashboard on the frontpage of Hacker News earlier in the summer.

You can do a deep dive into a specific source, or do a ticker search to return all of the data for a specific company. I’d love to hear any feedback you have on the site, and suggestions for new data sources to add to the platform.