skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great work!

I'm curious how this tool relates to the rest of the site: https://www.sleepsources.com

Is it a family-run site that let you create and launch the calculator? Or did you build the whole site? What's the bigger story here?
Additionally, there's often a package in the AUR for the software you want to install already. Just gotta look at the votes and comments beforehand, and if you're feeling paranoid, the PKG itself.
The first difference being that there was plenty of successful legal action against such laws and policies which led to the law congress passes being changed. Legal precedent on the issue is very clear and so challenges to it have been quite successful, something that never would have happened in China. And, of course, organizations that support BDS aren't being kicked out of America. This is a pretty bogus comparison.
Yes, but what was that thing he did? Voting: acting in accordance with the law. By pressuring him to resign, he was basically told that his actions within the law were immoral, unacceptable, and harmful.

Eich had a choice to save himself: renounce his views. Of course the Jews were not given a choice during the Holocaust. But as a different example, they were given a choice to renounce their faith during the Spanish Inquisition.

Clearly it's ridiculous for me to compare being burned alive to being corporately run out on a rail. Yet the choices offered, from a moral standpoint, were similar. Choose to renounce who you are and what you've done and you can stay a good member of society; stand your moral ground and be persecuted. In either case, the crime was not violating the Law of the State, but the moral law of a certain majority of society.

How do we judge if we are being treated justly? Is the law always just? Are actions outside the scope of law always just? In truth, this is often subject to the time and place. Even today, we sometimes treat people unjustly within the scope of the law. That's why I suggest ethics that do not hang it's treatment of people on the power to act from personal morality alone.

I think rather than say "repent or be shunned", other tactics could lead to changing the subject's mind or actions. Or even accepting that exiling the person does not change much materially about the world. They'll still be the same person in exile, doing the same things, so what was the benefit personally or to society of removing them from the group?

If the "harm done" was merely to the emotional peace of the part of the group that has to come to terms with the morality of people acting within the law, this seems like a reason to keep the person. Because again, even if working outside Mozilla, Eich may vote the same, so the "harm" from a legal standpoint against gay marriage is unmoved either way. The only effect of the backlash was purely to the emotional peace of either (and to the overall quality of life of Eich). Keeping them could at least allow a rapport to form and possibly change views, on either side, without causing further harm. But this is just one case, so this may not work in other examples.
Because websockets can traverse almost any network conditions. (This isn't a full TCP layer running over TCP), if that's what you're worried about. Feel free to kick the tires, or watch a video. The performance is equivalent or faster than a SaaS tunnel, but you can run an exit-server wherever you like, to lower the latency.
Anyone know about potential human immune responses to these?
If you've been a web developer for 20 years, then you remember the IE5 and IE6 times.

Total vendor lock-in.

It was hell.

You have a reason to use Firefox.
A git repo is often received from untrusted source in internet and there were associated bugs in git.
The difference between a theory, a conspiracy theory and the truth are best described by varying levels of evidence. A theory is not currently accepted as the truth, but it might be the truth. A conspiracy theory is something that has been proven to be untrue, but people still believe it and pass it on. The truth is the internally consistent and fact supported state of the world as it was and as it is.

There were many people who were going out on a limb with the assertion that the NSA was probably vacuuming it all up, they had means, motive and opportunity handed to them on a golden platter, on top of that it corresponded with what we would expect to do ourselves when in that position (not that there was any such temptation). The hacker community was well capable of seeing this as a theory, rather than as a conspiracy simply for absence of proof. That didn't stop others from labeling the hacker community as a bunch of conspiracy theorists simply because they could not imagine it to be the truth, but a lack of imagination is not the same as proof and the output of such a process is better described as wishful thinking than rational thought.

Snowden changed all that. All it took was one person willing to burn their career to provide the proof. But beyond that nothing much has changed.
Because that seems to be the mirror. The mexican url is https://wiichan.uwu.mx/meta/res/51.html
(proof : https://iplookup.flagfox.net/?ip=201.128.144.213&host=wiicha...)
It's really cool tho
Understanding Regular Expressions once and for all [PART 4]
It's not only the 'at risk' who would benefit from not getting the disease: many people who have been infected have not completely recovered, and it's not clear what the long term effects of the disease may be.
Other than that, if we want to stop the spread then a high percentage of people will need to be vaccinated, which is difficult when personal freedom is put above all else.
Website: Since it usually takes around 15 minutes to fall asleep

Me with a sleeping disorder: lol

(No offence, awesome product!, but I can't use it)
This is also coincidentally a good list of quality software companies. I recognize a few that I use from the list: Ghost, Shogun ;)

Focus on the skills, rolls. Teams that don't just work remote, but "async". Fractional work. App development that can be sub-contracted to a dev shop, in lieu of full time hire. Shops can specialize in particular categories such as "next-gen dart / flutter"
Optimizing Websites and Servers for Traffic Surges
There should be a minor law in the spirit of Greenspun’s tenth rule: Every sufficiently performance-sensitive system eventually grows some version of a slab allocator[1].

There’s really no substitute for packing fixed-sized objects together in N big array chunks. If you can operate in a particular context (or entirely) with N=1, you can substitute handles for pointers. For any reasonable # of objects, those handles can be smaller than a pointer and provide even better compaction and thus cache effectiveness.

[1] https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~kubitron/courses/cs194-24-...
If you like to solve math riddles you will definitely love this app
Plenty of companies use covid19 as a ruse and a convenient excuse.
For those interested in this topic i recommend reading about the Montessori method.

The basic idea of the Montessori philosophy of education is that every child carries within him/her the man/woman he/she will become. In order to develop the physical, intellectual, and spiritual powers required for this task to the fullest, there must be freedom—freedom to interact with a prepared environment.
What about CPU data cache misses due to the fact that malloc doesn't have a concept for how best to organize that data chunk of data based on your application's specific usage pattern?
IMO there is one more factor in play: pricing inertia once “market prices” are set

ie why are upfront mobile app prices free or peanuts? A big reason is cause they started that way. If mobile app prices started at closer to desktop app prices at the beginning, we’d probably have a much different mobile app marketplace today.

Another example: developer salaries in the US compared to rest of world, where they’re much lower even after normalization. I posit that a key reason was the easy money VC years around 2010, and they just stayed high ever since.

I’m sure there’s a proper economic term for this phenomenon :)
The successful early attempts to shut down covid relied on contact tracing of international travelers. Very much in the purview of the NSA.

They even failed to keep it from literally putting a carrier out of commission.
True, my question is quite vain since we'll never know at what level the information got stuck. monitoring, intelligence, political .. pick any
OK I see your point.

But then, if this is like the seasonal flu, then we'd have to be vaccinated regularly?
But it's ~hard to know if~ unlikely your CEO is this single person out of 8 billion, especially because you only considered searching in a pool of optimistically maybe 1 thousand candidates.
Crawling Websites with Elixir and Crawly
"High speed rail on a large scale is really something that has to come from the government."

We learned about this in highschool history.

From wikipedia:

The Pacific Railroad Acts of 1862 were a series of acts of Congress that promoted the construction of a "transcontinental railroad" (the Pacific Railroad) in the United States through authorizing the issuance of government bonds and the grants of land to railroad companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Railroad_Acts

All transportation is subsidized by government. Great investment; I'm completely on board. With the understanding that owners and operators pay back via taxes. (Whatever is fair, something modest.)
I love this Spurious Correlations site. And you are correct - a correlation can be a first-filter, especially if you have some reason to believe that there would be a causative connection. And though "correlation does not equal causation" is a cliche, it is still so easy to get sucked into equating the two. Part of the human brain's desire to make sense of things.
I'm seeing lots of successful developments from the Wikimedia folks. Their latest project, namely Wikidata is already bigger than Wikipedia ever was; not to mention the projects they launched before that. (Wikimedia Commons free media repository, Wikivoyage travel guide etc.)
Is this the list you are referring to? https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/networks/

Seems like OVH is not on it anymore.
Personally I’m excited to switch to the Mozilla branded VPN. I expect it will be a good try at a VPN service, and it will hopefully be a way for them to make a bit of extra money. If it fails, it fails and I’ll pick another.

There are companies launching on HN and employing people on HN all the time. Those companies may or may not survive the long haul. I don’t see how I can sensibly demand more of a promise from the software and services that I buy, vs. what we (collectively) promise to our own users or customers.
Although I'm not currently planning to try any self-medication, I will study about Harmala alkaloids to learn about its significance with bone density. Thank you.
Is there a Rust version of Atwood's Law?

---

FTI [0]:

> In 2007, Jeff Atwood made the quote that was popularly referred to as Atwood’s Law:[5]
>> “Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.”

[0]: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Jeff_Atwood
I lean more to setup nonprofits like Mozilla as Cooperatives, that way it will attract less the wrong kind of people (execs aiming to get millions of dollars in comps) and the money can be shared among the people doing the grinding.
> Man, I’d really love to see Matrix to become a standard.

I thought the same about XMPP 15 years ago.

I think chat protocols are much like languages, it's almost inherent that in communication between people different standards and different communities form.

Different groups of people use different messengers to (often unknowingly) express an identity.

I've giving up on the hope that there will be one universal language / protocol to unite everyone.
I was aware there was more complexity than I mentioned, I somehow missed that they mentioned a non-profit.

>And Google, at least in the early years, seems to have controlled as much as 90% of the Mozilla Corporation Revenue. I couldn't find the current figure, but the above links mention Google as currently a major financer still.

Google paid most of their corporate revenue. The last reported year, 2018, was the first under the new contract, and looking at revenues you can guess how much smaller it was then the Yahoo one. If I remember correctly, the contract information will be on the detailed financial report released this year.
This.

We need our tax laws geared to increasing the velocity of money.

I believe that with the growing global middle class we actually do need to print money faster than we are, because we don’t want to be in a situation where people think that not spending is more valuable than spending. Wealth is not zero sum, and these new families need to partake.
Glass filters UVB, which is required for synthesis of vitamin D. It is nearly transparent for UVA that can also damage your skin (no sunburn, but cancer). So maybe wide spectrum filter would actually be preferable.
Show HN: A better way to track and organize your job search
https://jobhuntbuddy.co

The job search has been a kick in the teeth, I started building JobHuntBuddy to keep my sanity while hopefully helping others with their search Job hunting can be a long grueling process. I love coding and making new projects.

JobHuntBuddy started as a way to show employers what my work is like, while letting me dogfood it for my own job search. It also gave me a (productive) creative outlet while being unemployed.

I know I’m not alone in this, lots of people are losing their jobs and struggling to find employment with everything going on in the world right now. This is my way of using what I know to try to help people.

Of course, I would love for this app to turn into a sustainable business and allow me to be my own boss, but right now I want to help as many people as I can. I’ve added a free tier that lets job seekers track 10 of their applications and use all of the tools available.

If you’re having trouble managing and organizing your job search maybe JobHuntBuddy can help you. Creating an account is free and I’m actively adding tools and features based on feedback, so don’t hesitate to reach out and ask for help.

Happy Hunting
Given how many adults would board a ship to sail to faraway lands in the past before much was known about the "here be dragons" places, suggests adults still value exploration.
Quote: “ The deaths from covid have been spread out across the population enough to not make as visible an impact as 9/11. Which is precisely why comparing the effects of covid to widely known historical events helps build an impression of the size and effect of the event.”
It's the biggest European cloud provider.
I think what you miss here is that in addition to efficiency, resilience is important in agricultural (and arguably other industries). Depending on foreign supply is all well and good until there's a shortage. Then you're screwed.

Arguably China have just found this with semiconductors. It was all well and good depending on TSMC, until the US blocked their supply.
So Where's Waldo / Wally is now a symbol of hate and oppression? Oh noes. Glad I'm not these white supremacsists who attended this event [0] /s

We need to be inclusive at all times. Show some solidarity to the oppressed activists. /s

[0] https://www.flickr.com/photos/infomatique/5846729480/
Just to make sure, I don't think it "ends" the discussion, but some research presented in the documentary was later discredited: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7002030/

In particular, the "infants prefer gendered toys at 9 months" can easily be explained by exposure to such toys at home. The "1-day-old infant look" can be refuted as BS by anyone who saw a 1-day-old infant: Their eyes do not focus at that age!!!

Long story short: Buy "boy" toys and "girl" toys before seeing the genitals of your offspring. :D
Thanks for the actual research.
Looks interesting but so far only talks about using it as prophylactic via inhalation; however the virus is known to enter via mouth, eyes and anus as well (breaks in skin probably). Even so inhalation and touching to mouth are likely the most common vectors of infection, so seems promising.
Given that capital gains are taxed at lower rates then income, its actually a tax-avoidance schema above everything else.
Shortwave is really tough in urban environments these days because of all the electrical noise from poorly-designed electronic devices. If you live in a single family home, try turning off your power at the breaker box, powering your radio off of a 12 V battery, and see how well you can do. Alternatively, take your station to a rural campground.
The title is very strange because it fits the Haber process which was discovered over 100 years ago. It turns out the article is about applications considerably narrower than just "nitrogen products" in general.
I detest uber. yet AB5 is an abomination, an embarrassment. sad
Nice work! I really like that i could drag the minute hand on the clock and it "snap" to the 30 minute value. That's a small but important touch.

This is a simple and straightforward. Don't bloat up the site too much and this will be a great project to show off and easy to maintain. Keep building stuff like this :)
I’m really interested in how low level the hacking is, specifically network card and hard disk firmware. Does anyone have breakdowns of how these work or copies seen in the wild?

I particularly liked the bit in the article about hiding data in packets intended for other hosts and harvesting them through passive relays. Is there a way to detect this sort of thing?

Is everything really compromised?
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I wish we had a deployment process trivial enough to support that. On the other hand, eventually you want to farm that job out to customer success or an implementation engineer, and then it's not so fun having the data in source control.
Oh just do nothing then ok, just shut the company down I guess why bother. I mean if it's not successful now it never will be right? Why even try.

You do realize a world existed before Apple made the iPod and the iPhone right?
Budget / number of americans
It's quite unreadable on mobile too, unfortunately. I'm not sure you're not missing out.
The developers from Conversations have their own managed server offering [0] and IMHO are really setting the bar for XMPP nowadays. I am also running a paid/managed offering via Communick [1] and I hope that I can make it profitable to be able to get a share of the profits to them.

Question is, would you pay for a hosted XMPP server? If not for you (because you probably already have your server) would you pay for other people in your contact list to make it easier for network effects to kick in?

[0] : https://account.conversations.im

[1] : https://communick.com
> This comes at the price of not optimally supporting students who would do much better in a different kind of system.

It depends on the culture of the place the school system is applied in. This kind of blanket utilitarianism by way of school is a sad state for society as a whole. In a country like Canada we have a sordid past, very recently, when implementing the residential school system [0].

That's the more extreme case but I'd argue that elements of that exist in every school system when applied in a one-size-fits-all fashion and when that system has a monopoly on education.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_...
Yes but I think inhalation is the deadliest route. I could be wrong though.
Netscape tried it. GetRight tried it; darn, even winzip tried it but people just wont pay for it. On the other hand, once you start adding copy protection mechanisms that work, we all start whining.
Imagine you manage all this but they change something fundamental and you have to (get everyone else to) reinstall all of it.
It's not like girls grow up in different houses/schools/families as boys do. Computers are equally around. You can argue if/how they are stimulated to play with computers rather then something else, and having role-models definitely plays a role.

Moreover, it's a discussion if we should strive for equal opportunity or equal outcome. Some ideologies push for the latter, and (ironically) free will of those they try to support gets in the way.
I'll take the burger with fries, die perhaps some time earlier but lived a happy life instead.

Seriously, even IF that cocktail would be healthy to someone, dosages would heavily vary between individuals.
Cool. Sounds like they've put good effort into cleaning things up then. :)
Destroying someone’s life for having the wrong opinions is not charitable to their humanity. It is not how America was until very recently. Sure, people have always been vilified for their views, but they’ve most times been able to continue making their private living nonetheless. Deviations from that, like the McCarthy Era, are rightly seen as wrongful failures to live up to this ideal.

As for the “rich and powerful”, do you mean high school kids making inappropriate jokes that become national news stories, blue collar guys being fired for not being up-to-speed on 2020 cosmopolitan sensibilities, or anyone who says a single negative thing about BLM riots?
I did. Inherited a legacy web app that did stupid things in Python in memory (basically search and aggregation).

I realized a rewrite was the best course of action, but in the meanwhile the old thing had to stay up and running, and as the volume of data increased, it started to run in to HTTP timeouts as often requests took longer than 2 minutes.

I moved the thing to PyPy, and got about a 30% speedup from that. Only one lib had to be replaced with a pure python alternative, as it was using a C extension.

It bought me enough time to finish the new implementation (duplicate the data in Elasticsearch, hey presto from over a minute to about a second to get results).

For some workloads PyPy's JIT can do wonders.
I mean, probably, but you'll also go nuts trying to any serious collaboration with true-Office people.
Its not very clear at this point[0].

[0] https://github.com/servo/servo/discussions/27575
> Look at all the projects Mozilla got involved in that were not really related to the browser.

Do you have some examples of this? Also, their mission is beyond the browser:

"Our mission is to ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all. An Internet that truly puts people first, where individuals can shape their own experience and are empowered, safe and independent." [0]

I've said it before but I'll say it again since it's relevant:

The cost of building and maintaining a competitive browser is huge and it's hard for Mozilla/Firefox to compete with Google/Chrome. Firefox saw its monthly active users go down by ~6% in the last 12 months [1]. I think Mozilla should consider stopping Firefox development and fork Chromium to focus on accessibility and privacy (both in and out of the browser). It's far from ideal--there'll only be one popular browser engine--but it's a trade off that could help Mozilla put more money and time towards its true mission: "to ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all". The cost of building/maintaining Firefox is holding them back from putting more money and effort toward that mission (and I think that's why they're reducing their workforce [2]).

[0] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/

[1] 222M MAU in Aug. 2019 and 209M MAU as of Aug. 2, 2020 https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity

[2] "Today we announced a significant restructuring of Mozilla Corporation. This will strengthen our ability to build and invest in products and services that will give people alternatives to conventional Big Tech. Sadly, the changes also include a significant reduction in our workforce by approximately 250 people." https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/11/changing-world-chan...