skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you're enjoying your experience so much, why the hell are you trying so hard to create content for social media?

Because many also enjoy the experience of being admired or envied by others, perhaps even more than the original experience itself. The original experience might even be "the necessary evil"* to get the appearance. Anything that can turn into an exhilarating "high" given by the appreciation of your followers. Like any high you have to chase bigger and bigger experiences to get the satisfaction.

Those moments pay off whether they're pleasure or pain because they all translate into literally days (/s) of appreciation from your followers plus a story to throw at the dinner table once in a while for another light dose of the drug. I think it's not really about lacking a purpose. Just perhaps that the purpose doesn't give them the same or enough satisfaction. Like any other "drug", you don't need to lack purpose to take it. After all being admired can be a purpose in itself.

And this by no means applies only to social media. People buy expensive watches, or cars, or houses where the maintenance cost itself reminds them every time of the downsides but other people's admiration more than makes up for it.

* the popular Everest base camp hikes, marathons, and others. Things most people don't necessarily enjoy yet a disproportionate number of them advertise them on social media.
My mail is basically advertisements and bills. I'd much prefer the packages I order to get priority.
While don't know how their arrangement with Microsoft works, anyone can pay for API based access to Bing.

Prices are here:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cognitive-...
Yes, it's Ruby, and api should be written in Ruby on Rails. I didn't want to specify but I figured could be guessed :)
See also markdeep [0] which extends markdown, has various templates including resume and commands are mentioned to get pdf version from command line.

[0] https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
Show HN: I'm doing (software) engineering consulting for 5$
Hi,

As part of dog fooding my own platform, Strmr.com - I decided to try to do remote online consulting for 5$ per session (mostly one hour slots).

I'm hoping this can be an interesting experiment as I'm hoping to get a wider view of what kind of problems the industry is dealing with, as well as expand my network, possibly with like minded founders.

Strmr.com is a platform for online professional services. It allows creating groups of providers to organize together. If you think this is of interest for you - please reach out through the contact form - I'm looking for more founders to join me on this.

https://www.strmr.com/j/1RlIlW
> "Medicine: Works great pure free market. Works great purely nationalized. What we don't want is a complex network of regulations from lobbyists combined with mandatory insurance (whether by government regulation or by practicality). Both the far-right and the far-left solutions would work great! We've landed in a no-man's land in between."

I don't think the far-right solution ever worked great. ACA is far from perfect, but it is saving lives. But the problem with US health insurance goes far deeper than merely how you pay for it and who gets access to it; the entire system is run in a very non-transparent way in order to maximise profits. The goal of the current system is still profit, not healing people, and that's where it goes wrong.

It's good that you mention mandatory insurance by practicality, because that's really the case: only very rich people can pay medical costs out of pocket; to most people, medical costs are a life or death issue, so it can never be a truly free market. A healthy-in-between system would be private insurance in a strongly regulated system; this works in a lot of countries. It's the lawless free-for-all where it's fine to screw or misinform patients for profit, that doesn't work.

My primary "centrist" issue is probably abortion: in the US the discussion seems to be all-or-nothing: either all abortion is legal or all abortion is banned, no matter what. A sensible compromise would be to allow early term abortions (first trimester miscarriages are extremely common, the embryo is still in an early stage of development), while strongly regulating late term abortions (they're already rare, and are only necessary for extreme medical problems). Abortion as an alternative to contraception can be made unnecessary through better sex ed and better access to contraceptives.
How did you tune the headphones eq without to app?
Salwa Canal
Curated Links for Weekend Explorations (24th July 2020)
Ask HN: Using MacBook as Bluetooth Headset
I want to create a virtual Bluetooth headset on Mac.

Smartphone will connect to this blueooth headset.

Then I want to use Bluetooth headsets input and output as virtual sound input / output device to modify the sound in real-time using Audacity realtime plugins and other softwares.

Is this possible? If any such software exists please let me know.

I realize this is easier to do with microphone/headphone jack but new MacBook don't have these jacks but they've Bluetooth
Named arguments is a no-brainer for me for any kind of programming language. I am hoping D adopts named arguments too, although it's a very uphill battle there with many programmers coming from C/C++ background being opposed to it in the name of API stability.
Please take this dismissive Wiki-linking clap-back garbage back to reddit. I come to HN to read insightful, diverse, thought-provoking discussion. It's definitely been slipping, but it's one of the few places on the internet that at least still tries.
Fraud, involving a means of removing and reattaching the bottle base, is much more likely than any of the methods I see suggested here.
> ...which mandates that the agency pre-fund health benefits for retirees up to 2056.

On it's face that sounds like an incredibly onerous requirement. Not being a US resident though, it's quite possible it makes sense and my ignorance simply can't tell. Could someone with more insight provide additional context here?
Congratulations on launching and on the architecture choice and dev insights!

With regards to the product, there are several consequences you are about to see and need prepare to mitigate. I worked on something similar and need to rewrite it, thus the learnings.

1. The site looks like a dream come true for political recruiters/promoters. You have a place full of users self-identifying with political labels in great detail and you can reach out to anyone. You will see a ton of spam from companies, parties, surveyors, you name it. You may want to throttle it by limiting number of new people that can be reached by a user in 24 hrs.

2. Scammers or predators could bait people into in-person meetings or worse. All they have to do is mimic the typical profile of their targets. There is no verification of truth in others, but there is a lot of personal exposure of yourself.

3. It was strange to see people’s likes and dislikes as a profile. It gives you a lot to potentially dislike in a person, but nothing really to draw you to them as a person. In a community, the more preferences one lists, the more odds they have of alienating their neighbors, instead of bringing them together. Labels and stereotypes have one thing in common - they pidgeonhole people instead of giving them personality.

You have shown you can execute. The above is just feedback on the inherent intended or unintended consequences behind this new funnel for mixing people. Social products can be quite dangerous but also fun. It’s critical to reduce downside risk.
Would you consider it reasonable if it were 4 hour on site? Or would you feel it's fair to be judged (and rejected) on a much shorter half hour one?
Doesn't see who makes the request.
Heard of email, America?
Who is the man in seat 61?
I always feel a bit nervous when software uses GnuTLS. Far less usage and far fewer eyeballs on the source code mean this probably isn't the only serious vulnerability hiding in plain sight. On the other hand, having multiple implementations of TLS seems like a good thing for finding bugs (or areas of risk) in the standards, and for ensuring interoperability.
Well that sentence is ambiguous. It could be that the guy on the skeleton team said the following:

"I am a bit dopey, but it's okay because I have my girlfriend to take care of me"
It's really astounding how he's clearly just pulling stuff out of thin air a lot of the time. Surely at some level he must realize he's just winging it?

It really bothers me when people act like they really know something for certain, when actual experts aren't even as certain as they are. Is there just some sweet spot of ignorance where you can easily convince yourself you've learned all there is to know about something, or do they know they're bullshitting?
However, the S&P 500 had a lower variance. So to compare the two investments on a risk adjusted level, you'd have to load up the S&P 500 with leverage, or mix your MSFT investment with something risk free.

For fun, I checked out what the maximum leverage would be that you could run, if you rebalanced your investment every day to reach your exact target leverage (an assuming no transaction costs and no interest on your margin loan) without you going bankrupt.

Under those conditions that's mostly governed by the what's the largest single day loss. The S&P 500 had a really bad day on 2020-03-16. Microsoft's worst single day loss was on 2000-04-24 when the dot com bubble burst.

All data from yahoo finance adjusted closing price.

My simple analysis suggests that you would have made the most money with 1.8x leverage on Microsoft. And with 1.9x leverage on the S&P 500. Both starting at August 22nd 1997 up to 2020-07-24.

That 'optimal' leverage would have multiplied your initial investment by 4.888 for S&P 500 and 35.956 for MSFT over those years.

I would have expected the optimal leverage to differ much more. But the pandemic really did a number on the S&P 500 for a while without hitting Microsoft nearly as hard.

(There are probably some bugs in my code. And in practice you'd probably want to vary your leverage based on observed volatility. You also wouldn't want to rebalance every day.)
From an earlier comment:

> One unwritten rule with these things is that you can't "cheat". For example put an empty box of cards in the bottle and then fill it with sand. If it's a baseball, it's a baseball, not a balloon wrapped in leather.
I toggle NC on and off all the time depending on the situation.
I disagree that commuting by car is a waste of time vs public transport (depending on the person).

I'm someone who cherishes a little piece of solitude every day. I'd be much happier self sufficiently making my way to my place of work in the nice private bubble of a car (even if that means crawling at 3mph in traffic), listening to whatever music or podcast I enjoy, or just being able to think without many distractions, than having to jostle my way on public transport with no privacy or personal space.

(disclaimer: I cycle to work, not drive, though I'd rather walk the 3hrs it would take me than the hour on tube and/or busses)
If editing a comment to be completely different from the original, it's good form to leave the original and write an "EDIT:", or at least refer to the original mistake, especially when several people have replied to that original comment.
There is:
mailcow https://mailcow.email/

Automatically checks DKIM, SPF and DMARC settings for your domain, comes with docker and can be upgraded by running a single script, and has a webgui and spam protection.
My Favourite Podcasts, Videos, and Articles and Blog Posts from Last Week
Here's the link: https://vigipedia.com/2020/07/27/weekend-explorations-07242020/
I don't know, this is what companies in my experience claim their take home tasks take - 2-4 hours, but it always turns out to be about 4 hours if you're lucky and absolutely nothing goes wrong at all (counting git clones, and pushes, and reading task description etc. etc.)
You're reading the sentence incorrectly: "and basically nobody does that anyway", means the preceding type checking argument you refer to is moot. So I insist, I am a nobody (according to this definition).

Btw I don't always sanity check the parameters, mostly at the system edges only.
The ACCC is one of those beautiful things, a government department that works precisely as intended without drama or controversy.
You can deliver physical goods by email?
Thank you for writing this. Your examples were lethargic. I know I should stay away from the 'academia is broken duh duh' threads here but I get sucked into them anyway. They're always full of armchair experts who don't know anything about universities or research except from being students or at best junior researchers and then think this makes them experts on the matter.

But the article itself had that same vibe for me, especially with how cock sure it is that the 'questionable research practices' are 'fraud'. I mean, come on - someone making up the responses of a 500 people questionnaire; yes that I could call 'fraud'. But not being included as an author on a paper, or being included when you didn't contribute that much? I've been in both situations and in some cases, I was completely fine with it; in others I was a bit miffed (mostly because of the same interpersonal frictions that happen everywhere where people work together) - but in none of those I would call it anywhere near 'fraud' or even 'dishonest'. Yes, there exist people who pay 1 or 2 people to write papers for them and then publish those papers with themselves as the only author. Again, that I would call 'fraud'. But the 99.9% of other cases - not even close. Just like because there is one billionaire underage sex trafficer, doesn't mean all of them are and that 'the system' is 'broken'.

And this is how I, again, got sucked into a completely non-productive 'discussion' that is so far removed from reality so as to be completely irrelevant anyway...
Grep through your HD. How fast? Now imagine grepping through the internetz.

As for FOLogic, IIRC RDF was related to that (or was that, can't remember) and it takes the sites investment to get that working on their site ie. you can't expect formal relationships between objects to appear magically, someone has to do it. And FOL if it existed may be computationally expensive.

And once you've got all that, how easy would it be to use? Probably most would go back to keyword searches.
Buffett cultivates his image very carefully.
There's more to this than just your personal consumption: absentee voting is likely to be pretty high this year and the mail system is common amongst the incarcerated to speak with their lawyers and loved ones.
OT, I know, but what I would really want to have available would be an exoskeleton "loader" like the "Caterpillar P-5000" in Alien.

There was a sort of it as a "civil" experimental one by Panasonic (with a projected affordable price):

https://www.cnet.com/news/panasonic-working-on-actual-alien-...

which was never finalized (let alone sold at that kind of price).
What GitHub Sponsors isn’t
I would be curious about explanation for cricket then.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/apr/22/sport.ameliahill

The suicide rate among British men is 1.07 per cent, but according to Frith's research, the rate among cricketers here is 1.77 per cent - making them 75 per cent more likely to take their own life.

But the game's toll overseas is even higher. In South Africa 4.12 per cent of players take their own lives. In New Zealand the rate is 3.92 per cent and in Australia 2.75 per cent.
Even if this were attempted successfully, around the baseball is uniformly spun thin yarn. The round shape is created by doing this accurately. And then you tightly sew the horsehide halves together? Are you kidding me?
If you want non-business non-fiction, I've always enjoyed Robert Greene's books. They're short history snippets first and foremost, with some Aesop-like morals of the story.
Yes, basically people never actually seem to be doing 'waterfall' or even aspiring to do so.

I do agree with tsimionescu that leaving testing (and debugging) for last invites trouble.

Btw, that's an excellent paper.
Kensington? That one was so handy to me too.
Makes me think of Hans Lehrach. Dunno why

https://www.molgen.mpg.de/hans-lehrach
There is a John Oliver's Last Week Tonight episode from a couple of weeks ago about this topic. Completely worth the 20 minutes it takes to watch it.
Is there even a way to allow for manual memory management (not just invoking the GC) in a manner that would still be safe that won’t defeat the purpose of a managed language?
I think you’ve misunderstood what “constructive" means in this context.
I've had these PLT headphones swap from phone to laptop when phone is playing music and laptop makes some noise (email notification, etc.) Whilst it's handy for the rare circumstances I want to start listening on the laptop without stopping the phone, it's a massive pain in the arse the other 99% of the time. Not least because it doesn't automatically switch back and start playing again.

I suspect it's the generic Bluetooth chipsets, mind, rather than anyone in particular because this happens with the PLT headphones and the Taotronics dongle I've got.
Rest assured it’s not just North America.

https://forbetterscience.com/2020/03/26/chloroquine-genius-d...
I am fairly certain this feature used to work well earlier last year. It broke sometime in summer last year as I even made a post on Reddit asking if this was a new bug.

Unless the redesign of Reddit broke this somehow? But as far as I know, this has broken for other sites too. And Reddit redesign is over 2 years old now.
DDG. Come looking for anonymity, stay for the bangs.
I am actually wondering if search engines really need such a large index. The vast majority of sites in Google's index are crap. If you were able to better select which sites to index it might help search quality and improve efficiency.
> if you over supply a function by position today PHP doesn't error

I'd argue that this it the worrying part. How often do you intentionally supply an extra argument, and how often is it an accident? I'd take the warning.
Parent's point is that any conclusion one could make from the data is worthless because, being public and unsecured, it could have been modified by any Internet user at any time before a password was set.
It is a completely dubious provision that loony anti Government Republicans passed to deliberately handicap the Postal Service. No other Public or Private agency has such onerous requirements.
I don't see how a 'delivery neutrality law' would help the economy?

Of course, businesses are going to go to extra lengths for their best customers. That's just expected and normal.
> remote work makes you vulnerable to outsourcing, reduces your job to a metric, creates frustrating change-averse bureaucracies, and stifles your career growth.

None of these are on the worker, though. They're all on the company.

I personally am far more effective remotely. Simply having a perfectly quiet and controlled environment is such a big plus. Not commuting, such a huge plus. I had the best commutes for most of my non-remote life, I walked to work for years (quite a hike sometimes, but I love to walk - but it was still a drag.

I find the timeframes of remote better. When someone walks into your office, you need to respond intelligently right away. You lose focus.

So many of my bugs could be attributed to being interrupted and forgetting to some detail in the code!

Remotely, you can quickly triage interrupts and give an instant response with a time estimate ("On this, will report back within the hour"), finish what you are working on, and then take the time to really look into their question.

(I am very sympathetic to others who aren't. Considering the great savings in resources and time we get, is there some way we can make it up to you?)
Add to combination use of atmospheric oxygen to make it really significant and a technological breakthrough.

Its relatively easy to build a rocket carrying both fuel and oxygen and make it go hypersonic. Using oxidiser from air gives it unique range and maneuverability capabilities.
Why the Dutch Wait Less at Traffic Lights
What's an affordance? Is it something with a technical meaning, like pragma?
How many passwords are that long?
Other than plain object constructs these kinds of functions are unheard of and better handled with a parameter object or array.

I can't help but feel if they just set up a clean way to name construct Params for classes this wouldn't need to happen.
Work or Walk?
> It's pretty much a win-win.

Even in strictly financial terms this is a dubious claim.
Searching for teaching materials or activities for children is so bad that developing the materials yourself is usually far less work!

I doubt the declining quality of search results is a product of Google's own advertising business, as the article would have us believe, and is mostly a product of third-party SEO spam. This outcome also wholly predictable. Part of the appeal of Google to early adopters was the lack of the SEO spam that destroyed the utility of earlier search engines. I recall conversations at the time when Google was so new they eschewed graphical ads that foresaw this outcome, though our predictions may have been a bit on the pessimistic side (i.e. Google held up against SEO longer than we thought it would).
> There are also factors such as, what about cracking jokes or otherwise having pleasant non work conversations at work.

These things are mildly pleasant. But commuting is very unpleasant. Being interrupted all the time is unpleasant. Working with a dog on my lap is pleasant.

On the pleasant scale, remote wins hands down.

TBH, I do most of my "chat" through chat now anyway.
I agree, it is a sensible improvement. What I don't like is spread operators in every form, but I can certainly live without

funcy(null, null, null, null, null, null, cake, null, lie)...
What was the alternative in 1997? None? Windows 95 was on every office desktop. It was the only desktop OS most companies bought. I can’t recall another desktop OS widely available. OS from Apple was a niche, mostly in education and desktop publishing, and on decline.
Most of the weirdness comes from government employees having special kinds of pensions (and health benefits).

If they were on a defined contribution plan like most of the rest of the economy, this provision would just mean that they actually need to make contributions on time.
It is a extremely onerous requirement.

It's part of the republican agenda to destroy all publicly owned infrastructure. They couldn't get the votes to privatize the USPS, so they're just trying to ruin it instead.
What about charging for build and distribution? Krita does something like this for their Steam and Windows Store versions, that helps finance their development. I personally believe that could also work for other distribution channels, such as a private APT repository, or equivalent to other platforms.

People could still build by themselves from sources if that's what they want, and if you want convenience you buy the software. Has that been tested? I personally think that could even work for CLI tools if a great distribution channel exists (that's something I have in mind since a while now, see this ask HN from 5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22178949).
You have never held a baseball, or seen its ~30% deformation when it is hit by a bat that reverses its momentum. It is hard. One fellow just does card decks. Perhaps he has a set of special tools. But a baseball?