skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not forced to write your app code in the DB as SQL procedures, you can also write TS or whatever else and use it next to PostgREST.
> The history of science also told us by now that experts are stubborn, and sometimes they have to first die, for the next generation to accept another theory.

It tells us too that cranks will be cranks regardless of the evidence against them, and that cranks are more common than true revolutionaries.
> It's definitely not monopoly abuse on dominant platforms

How is the Google monopoly forcing them to make developer experience worse?

> the fact that browsers don't make money (even Microsoft couldn't do it)

Microsoft didn't even try. Microsoft wanted control, not monetization of the Browser itself. I'm pretty sure that Browsers can make money, especially from developers. JetBrains makes money building developer products, and people pay them, because their products are that much better than e.g. vscode.

Turn Firefox into a great developer browser that saves developers time and annoyance, and they'll happily give you money. Turn developers away, and they'll use a Browser that saves them time and annoyance. And at some point they'll stop testing in Firefox, just like they don't test in IE6.
I liked the mentions of the system76 boxes. I'm hoping for their internally designed laptop to be my next workstation.

Nonetheless, this Thinkpad sounds pretty good.
How long did you have to take it before you noticed a difference? Are we talking one per day?
That was my point, I should have been more explicit.

Their definition of freedom was a simple one, of three parts:

> 1. You respect property rights 2. You are allowed to speak your mind 3. You have a right to defend yourself

This clearly doesn't give a full and objective account of what the word means, as I'm able to give an example which pits one of the parts against another, leaving us to make a judgement call.
>Most people will just fix small issues they see or contribute a little in an area that appeals to them

Wikipedia makes this very difficult as well. I had to submit a small update to sales numbers for the best-selling video game franchises of all time THREE times because two separate admins reverted my edits for the most stupid reasons possible. Then they had some hand-wringing about the lack of sources (even though most of the data there wasn't sourced any better) before they stubbornly decided to stop reverting my edits. A less stubborn person would've given up editing Wikipedia after the first or even the second reversion.
My best guesses for likely examples:

- Pointers and understanding how operating systems address/access memory at a low level.

- Hashing (This one may seem a little insulting but I have seen otherwise good developers confuse hashing with encrypting and it seems like an easy mistake to make if you haven't worked specifically with either concept)

- Binary math, logic, and encoding.

- The OSI model.

- Parallel programming, the program counter, and how operating systems execute/switch programs.

I would not count these as "massive" holes and it is also likely that these concepts would be discovered by a self-taught developer especially if she has looked for material from college-level CS courses.

None of this stuff is necessary to make great software but having this knowledge can help make other things easier to learn or understand. It's like the difference between knowing how to use common git commands and understanding how trees of objects are used to form a chain of commits.
It sure would be cool to see someone successfully develop a new smart city. The idea has been proposed many, many times, but at least in the U.S. it never seems to work out for some reason (and it appears in Canada as well).

I would love to see a new city designed from the ground up on some currently uninhabited plot of land. You could make it walkable, beautiful, design it to have higher density housing from the start—so many things that would be difficult to add to a city that already exists (an underground tube system for transporting food and packages??). I guess the economic and individual incentives just aren’t there. Even if you built it, would people come?
You're right the bulk of the article is focused on Search. However, it also has this:

There are very specific kinds of businesses and business
models that should be overseen. The first and most
important thing is a body [that] oversees the collection
of user data and privacy and identification.

The "user data and privacy and identification" piece is also important. It's just not something this article really gets into.
I can see how one can argue that C-level compensation is too high (although there are also good arguments against that) but surely you can't expect Mozilla to solve this problem by themselves? If Mozilla cuts C-level salaries while the rest of the industry doesn't then why would any of them keep working for Mozilla?
Mozilla laid off entire threat management team
PHP is used a lot in France where I'm based, so that probably differs a bit from the US market.
+1 recommend it, also there is a Masterclass from the author Chris Voss.
No - Goldeneye 25 was a completely different project, focusing on singleplayer. Just a couple of days ago it had a takedown notice and its twitter feed is now gone:

https://twitter.com/007GoldenEye25/status/129309061086227251... (the tweet announcing it)

They are now Spies Don't Die, and are making it a 90s-themed shooter that will be reminiscent of, but not a remake of, Goldeneye: https://twitter.com/spiesdontdie
I second this. With Webdev + Machine Learning skills, you could build interesting products.

I give you an example from my life. I build PredictSalary (https://predictsalary.com), a browser extension to predict salary range from job opportunities which don't disclose salary range.

A browser extension is basically a bunch of JS files injected to web pages. If you know webdev (frontend), you are set to build a browser extension. All you need to learn are machine learning and deep learning. You don't need to dive deep (unless you want to). In my case, basically I just use basic regression to predict salary range.
Do you have any examples of well-written and thoughtful comments by ddevault that were downvoted?

Many of the comments I see from him violate the guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Many of his blog posts (4 out of the last 5 submissions from drewdevault.com) are ill-informed and angry rants about a technology or company. These discussions generate a lot of heat but little light; it’s not surprising that they are downvoted.
1. I run to enjoy myself.

2. When I was in my 20s, running races, I seldom hit the 2/3 mark without wondering why I was there, and half-promising myself I wouldn't do it again.

3. I don't get the feeling as often as I did in my 20s, but there is a great feeling when you are in condition, fall into a rhythm, and feel as you could run like that all day.

4. It is the perfect sport for a lazy man. You don't need to book a court, find a tennis partner or spotter, drive to the slopes, etc. You just lace up the shoes and head out.
ha, i think my subconscious was saying we need more colbert.
This is the part of the article that stood out to me most.

I definitely don't have the confidence to spend my entire paycheck on a just-for-fun project, especially considering how many projects I planned on starting but never did. Kudos on the author for being this confident and actually going through with everything.
there is a pocket joke here, I can smell it
I agree that it's weird that they fixed it and didn't consider it a security issue.

For the user it looked like it would provide two-factor authentication since the PIN is requested, while in reality it's not verified. Thus, they only provided one-factor security.
> You may remember that this played a strange role in Obama's birth certificate some years back

Just to clarify, the issue with the compression algorithm used by the scanner, not with the PDF format itself.

There a few videos of David Kriesel explaining the bug for the curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0O6UXrOZJo
I'd forgotten about the random mod privileges, and meta-mod.
Looks like Microsoft doesn't understand the specification that they wrote down themselves: It is a bug if an attacker can take over my entire Microsoft account via NFC. I wonder if Microsoft can make amends for any damage it causes. Credit card companies can do this and that's why some NFC payments are only 1FA.
Yes, we are in our mid 20s
Exactly. An “expert” is a skilled practitioner of some domain of human endeavor; a scientist is a truth-seeker. Expertise is orthogonal to scientific truth.
Cuba does it with flash drives passed around.
I and nearly everyone else even know who they are certainly don't care what Mozilla think about this. We know it as the custodian of Firefox and nothing more.

Beyond that my limited (and I do mean limited because I seriously don't care what they do as long as the browser remains FLOSS and high quality) understanding some political activists (with unrelated and potential laudable political agendas) have taken over financial control of Firefox development and are using it to fund their unrelated politics.
It’s decent for beginners with easy to follow tutorials and examples, but once you start getting in the weeds of JS, it’s not as useful I feel like.
I'm sorry; I should have thought about the more sensitive readers.
Thanks for letting me know!
It's clearly my mistake for linking to a tutorial.

This is a tutorial on my app - it was not meant to be a demo. Long story short, I will soon begin a channel where I will showcase my app, and that will contain exactly what you say: "The what", and then I'll describe "the how".

Thanks again!
Once you judge fear by an objective standard, you can just target your policy at the objective state instead. If fear is valid because people are being kicked in the face, we are reduced to the "people should not be kicked in the face" consensus that I also agree with. Then why involve fear at all? If a person is unexpectedly kicked in the face, is it any better?
> That's the price of a CEO

Can you explain why? What does this CEO do that is worth this much money? At the very least a CEO shouldn't be earning millions when the company is slowly dying. Have a sane base salary and give the CEO bonuses tied to the performance of the company if you must, anything else is plain ridiculous.
Does it really work fast enough that you could notice a difference if you took it in the afternoon vs not? I thought most vitamins and minerals took days if not weeks to work.
> Pardon my french but fuuuuuck.

Ditto. If Mozilla were on fire and I had time to save one thing, my selfish but unhesitating choice would be MDN.

I figured they'd shrink and, given their long-standing apparent mismanagement and bafflingly bad strategic choices, plus massive payroll/headcount bloat, eventually suffer a collapse, but I didn't expect it to be so fast. I hope something good survives this but is sure looks like they're rushing to destroy the good parts to save the bad, so, maybe not.
Yes, but this source has photos. BI's website appears to try, but requires JS to load the photos, and the JS crashes unless it can access cookies.
There's another thread at the moment about touch typing. I think that's only 'meh' useful. Instead, how about spending time on getting all the hotkey combos of your favourite IDE or editor into your muscle memory?

If it has a presentation mode, then also learning how to use any of the features of that would be a nice plus.
Fun topic, philosophers have been debating this for millennia.

It is really important to discuss what you think freedom means before delving into an argument.

E.g. Your freedom to drink big gulp sugar drinks every day and sit around and become morbidly obese does decrease other people’s freedom when they are paying for your healthcare costs. (If you believe this is true, it follows and is also true that massively increasing your risk of STDs also decreases society’s freedom due to increased cost associated with an unhealthy populace.)
The international law is very different for space and airspace.
Posted over 4K+ ideas publicly in the last 3yrs so decided to write a book
Why is there no black bar on the site? (she may not have been in CS or tech as we know it, but...)
International Climate Report Finds 2019 Was Among the 3 Warmest Years on Record
It looks like you're in Ecuador, and that makes it a lot tougher.

1. Are you an agency or a solo developer? If it's just you or you and a friend or two, you might get a better response building up your personal brand rather than representing yourself as an agency.

2. I can't judge your technical chops, but I can see that you have room to grow in UI design. I like this youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/DesignCourse, but there are tons of design resources available.

3. You might need to focus more on sales. Is there a small business you like that doesn't have an online store? Call them, email them, go visit them in person- try to make a sale. You could offer the work in exchange for products at first- once they are happily selling online, they will tell other business owners, and you can get more referrals and raise your prices.
In a democracy the government is inherently an extension of the people and so when you frame it as fair meaning whatever the government defines it as you are, at the same time, acknowledging that the majority have already decided the matter to be fair. Whether or not those people are willing to admit to the world or themselves that they believe the law to be moral, it is from their consent as a mass that the law was able to manifest. So at the very least the law is what most people most people think is morally fair.
Rome and Carthage Sign Peace Treaty Ending Punic Wars After 2,131 Years (1985)
The problem is the "smart" part of it - if it's smart in the sense that it was properly planned around something other than the automobile, then sure, I think you can get a lot of people on board. All the stuff in your comment sounds great.

The problem is when you start adding cameras and electronics. It's obvious Sidewalk Labs is just an arm of the Google data collection funnel. I don't want any part of that in my life.
I've heard "trees don't grow to the sky."
I'd imagine this would be most billionaires.

"Money talks, wealth whispers."
You'd think so, wouldn't you? In practice I've had parcels from Germany arrive a week before those which were ordered from Swedish companies on the same day. It even happened once with a shipment from China which arrived in a record 7 days while the Swedish shipment lingered in a postal depot for 3 more days. This was back in the time the Swedish postal monopoly still drove yellow trucks and cars and had not merged yet with the Danish equivalent, i.e. before things went downhill.
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TimescaleDB is great, not just for timeseries data, but also if you're trying to scale your Postgres database (with some cavaets, obviously.)

One often has a small number of tables, often a single table, with a high write workload. Changing it to a timescale hypertable, provided you can work with the additional restrictions that has, can let you instantly 10X your write throughput (or more with multi-node timescale.) That's a lot cheaper than trying to scale your database write IO by 10x.

I like multi-cloud services like this because it reduces the vendor lock-in that happens with these public clouds.
How do we contact you for a resume if you don't have an email?
That is interesting, because one of the black (should I call him that, I find "black" polarising) comedians here, Steven Brunswijk, used to call himself Braboneger which is a combination of his province and the mentioned word. However he stopped calling himself that because it wouldn't help his career (which I suppose means: others find it offensive). [0]

[0]: https://www.ad.nl/tilburg/braboneger-laat-bijnaam-vallen-en-...
I did not know that. Thanks for the information, as I can now cancel my donation and save a couple of bucks each month.
Long after a Covid-19 infection, mental and neurological effects can smolder
Can we please talk about NoSQL Databases now?
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.
Want to help? https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/
I'm convinced this is too high-level to draw any meaningful conclusions. Personally, as I have a family, staying at home with them while I work, and having no commute, is wonderful and has significantly improved my health and wellbeing. Someone stuck in a one-person flat will have a different experience.
ICMP then?
There is a semantic difference between the two. The straight quote is a superset of the curly one.

So "rock 'n' roll" is correct. And "rock ’n’ roll" is correct. But "rock ‘n’ roll" is not correct, since the wrong apostrophe is used. We're not quoting the letter n, we're showing that the letter a was removed.
I think being 400% over schedule can be considered a kind of failure.
I don't believe there is a difference in the minds of people between the two matters! Or rather, people may hold a different opinion on the validity of the fear, but one fear is the same as another fear. I do believe there is a difference in the relation of their fear to reality, which is why I think policy should just attach to reality to begin with. I don't think the difference is arbitrary - I think there is a relative and vital material difference, it just cannot be reduced to a quality of the fear in itself.
Not radical at all. It goes back at least to the early 1900's. Big newspaper owners like Colonel McCormick wanted to convey meaning by using fewer letters, thus saving on ink and paper costs.

They invented alternate spellings to suit their purposes. Most died out, but a few have stuck with us, like using "thru" for "through."
I wonder how hard it would be to get a MIPI capture device that presents v4l2, I guess it's almost certainly more expensive right now than a Pi Zero.

Anyone know of a SDI or MIPI capture card that works off the shelf with v4l2?
I have no idea what normal CEO salaries look like as a percentage of revenue. I'm not even sure if that's the right way to measure it. But it doesn't sound crazy high to me?

And the worse your company is doing, the more important it is to find a good CEO and the harder it will be for you to attract a good one. So you can even make an argument for why CEOs that joined companies that are doing badly might be getting paid more on average.
Second this. I used C for the first few exercises of the 2019 Advent of Code and it was SUPER fun. Granted, things that could been a single line of Ruby or Crystal took a few hours for me to cobble together in C, but my level and depth of understanding went WAY up. Totally worthwhile.
That's a different story. Aws was competiting for revenue with the developers of MongoDB and Redis' for profit company. Postgres' publisher does not use managed service as a source of income.
> But you're right. Obviously the problem is the technologists aren't in control.

Like, say, Brendan Eich? Is this a case of get woke, go broke?
It requires money to support developers. They aren't free nor do they grow on trees. If you don't have enough revenue you won't be able to pay for your development team.

Monopolies tend to suck the revenue streams from a market. While Google may not be directly responsible their market dominance does make it harder for other competitors to make money.
My first IBM-compatible, a Commodore PC20-III, came with Mavis Beacon's Typing Tutor, which did wonders for me.
Recently migrated fully to Firefox at work and was really enjoying DevTools. While they still lack features in some places, but Inspector tool with flexbox and grid visualisation is very useful. Also little hints why some properties were not applied really helps.
MDN is also one of my frequently visited websites with a lot of useful info.

Is there way open source community could save these projects? I would gladly sponsor further development of Firefox DevTools.
I just want to add that I happened to stumble onto a clover lawn mix from Scotts, and it's even Amazon's Choice:

https://www.amazon.com/Scotts-Turf-Builder-Clover-Lawn/dp/B0...

After seeing this, I realized it was perhaps a bit unfair to assign so much blame to one company, and even bought a bag.
Username checks... well, close enough
I wonder if this can be treated as a little bit of an unscientific UBI study? Can we conclude from this that well-being levels would overall improve with a UBI as well?
You expect me to believe this wasn't the aliens?
So basically, if they get woke, they go broke.
A related idea would be “image summarization”, i.e. an (as-yet hypothetical) technique for generating an image that’s an “icon” of a larger image. In the same sense of “icon” as the one visual designers are trained to create: one where both large-scale structure (shape+color) and fine-scale structure (texture) are preserved, while “redundant” detail is sacrificed, in order of least to most important for visual recognition by a human or image-classifier model. You could also call this a type of psycho-visual compression, in the same vein as chroma subsampling.

Simply resampling an image smaller keeps the large-scale structure (the shape and color), but loses the fine-scale structure (texture.) That’s why we don’t just resample photos down to 32x32 and use them as icons :)

Seam Carving (whether parallel or not) does the opposite: it preserves the fine-scale structure (texture) but distorts the large-scale structure (shape.)

But not always! The amount of shape distortion in Seam Carving is worst case O(N) with the number of seams deleted, but best-case o(1). It depends on the algorithm’s choices of seam.

Regular iterative Seam Carving, as described by its original paper, isn’t stateful-enough to be able to minimize any whole-image quality (like loss of large structure.) So it’s no surprise it hasn’t been used for something like this.

But parallel Seam Carving might just be the ticket for this problem. A model could be trained to select an optimal set of seams that work together to minimize the large-structure deformation of the image (i.e. the image’s lower-band difference in frequency-space), while also individually being low-entropy seams from the Seam Carving algorithm’s perspective.

Anyone want to take a crack at this?
> A lot of users don't appreciate that it's happening but it is.

That kind of backs up what I was saying, doesn't it? The browsers are good enough for most of the users most of the time and the new features matter to fewer and fewer people.