skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I admit that I like Reddit for product or local-area research.

But whenever I find myself filling my time by scrolling through popular subs, I end up feeling like shit. They're teeming with misanthropes and the low-IQ'd. For example "Ask Reddit: What's one thing you wish guys knew?" or whatever. Or r/WatchPeopleDieInside (you mean watch someone have a disappointed look on their face... why is this entertaining?).

Reddit is like any popular entertainment (music, film, Nascar...), with a typical bell curve of un-intellectual stimulation.
For me, trying to follow some sort of quantification of what's "best" is what leads to the frustration feeling like I am missing something because I don't like something that's supposedly great . There's nothing objective about liking music. Some music moves us and some doesn't. Artists that are deemed to be the best are usually just artists that have sold a lot of records, which means a lot of people happen to like them (or they have good marketing strategies). You might like some of those artists because you might fall in the majority but you might not.

The search is part of the enjoyment. Start listening to whatever you can find that you think you might like and if you don't like it just put it aside and look for something else. If you do like it, you will probably be compelled to find more music like it. Look for interviews with the artist or band members and they'll probably talk about their influences and other artists they themselves like. Go listen to those artists and repeat the process. If you like those artists keep digging. If not, go somewhere else and find some other music.

There must be at least one song or artist who interests you. I'd recommend starting there. One of my favorite albums is Love Man, by Otis Redding. Maybe give it a shot and see if you like it :) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kyK5LvO6EbPrUC...

Also, go see some live music. Seeing music live is almost incomparable to listening to music through headphones or car speakers.
Based on your post it seems:

1. Living walking distance from work/school

2. Working fewer days

3. Communal eating option (eg local subsidized cafes)
I think the QA section should serve that purpose. Say that you got something bad and has negative review to tell. First of all, you have to eliminate your subjectivity (whether it is just you and your one specific product out of the lot, or is it everyone and everything out of the lot). Only the vendor can help you here first, and not the whole world. If the vendor is bad, then it is the platform’s fault (they didn’t help themselves by helping host the vendor). The best you can do is ask a ‘why’ question (why it is broken, or why it is not as advertised). Enough people asking the same, would naturally help everyone.

Now say you got something good. Again, you have to first eliminate your subjectivity. Why should the world care if you like something? But you want to help others make a good decision. Fine. Let them ask questions genuinely and then you can answer. Platform should let that happen because otherwise vendor would never let others answer on their behalf. QA should be the only place for interaction. Question should only be posed by potential customers. Answers, only by known customers.

Crowd sourced reviews are first and foremost subjective. They spawn either a fan boy syndrome or ‘I’m going to get’ you syndrome. If not either of them then they have spawned a whole new underground market of their own. Indeed, they have not proven to naturally balance the real and legitimate market; otherwise, they wouldn’t have been gamed. But Amazon does have QA alongside reviews. This makes it obvious that reviews are their cash cows using/abusing human psychology - of greed and gratification.
o-org-mode?
>Facebook deals in contracts, not promises and even if it was contractually agreed upon, what would you do about it? Sue?

Why shouldn't we expect more from companies? Promises should mean something. But really this is just another example of facebook undermining the basic fabric of society for its own gain.
I'm not sure this is true. Emacs is fundamentally command driven - everything is a command, and can be invoked, edited or replaced the same way. What triggers those is obviously key bindings for a lot of people but it's not really what makes Emacs powerful or extensible. People have diverse needs when it comes to wanting to interact with a computer, and it's great that Emacs's flexibility allows them to.
Web Developers haven't forgotten anything. They're designing for more ads/profit, not for end user experience. That's what pays the bills.
I use Emacs as my primary... everything. But I totally see the point and need for mouse-driven functionality. Emacs only works if you have two functioning arms with hands on them. Put a coffee, a sandwich, a cat, a kid, a beer... in one of your hands, and Emacs is unusable. If my cat wants some attention, I can't keep typin' stuff.

Though, not sure why the mouse-driven features are also wrapped up making shortcuts match VS-Code etc. That makes it a lot less useful.
Amazon’s Project Kuiper is more than the company’s response to SpaceX
I'm actually thinking of making this an option here: https://github.com/Uzay-G/archivy/issues/13.

It'd be nice to have those two choices.
Nice.

This reminded me that once I have theorized that it would be possible to extract computer password from the sound of the key strokes on your keyboard.

Simple phone or PC mic listening could take it all...
For electronic music there is this wondrous creation:

https://music.ishkur.com/
Show HN: Task: a task runner / build tool, alternative to Make
No, they check if you're doing what an external standard that you purport to follow is being followed.

You dont have to claim that you follow some standard that actually makes you less secure, you are just not going to be able to sell to clients who are also sheep in this manner (read: everyone.)
New P2P botnet infects SSH servers all over the world
The antibiotic paradox: why companies can’t afford to create life-saving drugs
Ask HN: Why doesn't Amazon release a phone?
Right now there is a duopoly when it comes to smartphones. I'm just curious why doesn't Amazon -one of the biggest companies in the world, with experience in both hardware and software- push for its own platform?

Is the smartphone market already THAT saturated?
I have the issue that I find Reddit extremely useful to become proficient.

I knew what problems my tomatoes were having the moment it started. I learned about blueberries needing something stronger than coffee.(and more)

I learned what microcontrollers are popular in the enterprise world by lurking.

I got some extremely useful information in a table form which was impossible to find in a Google search.

I suppose I just need to stop browsing the popular feed and it would always be useful.
What do you think of coffee?
Program Visualization as Abstract Interpretation (2016)
OP is probably from India, this is the norm here. Most companies will ask you for your last months of payslips, reason? Nobody knows.

In general, companies treat you are like a criminal trying to con them. Submit previous payslips, last company's relieving letter, contacting the previous company, stupid non-compete clauses, bond clauses and list goes on.

This is unlikely to change as most employees don't really have the bargaining power to question the rules, the workforce is abundant, they can just tell you to fuck off and hire someone else.
Bitcoin and the Bubble Theory of Money
this summer I uninstalled the app and only browse their website on mobile, apart being able not to crash the whole browser as the app does, it permitted me to spend less time on reddit and detox a little..also the website seems faster to open posts.
There is also Dagster - https://docs.dagster.io/
Show HN: Writing impactful marketing copy with cool Emotion AI
If you include China which is nearly as big as the US, and the EU which isn't far behind and it looks credible.
All words are made up. This word was made up as a more efficient gender neutral way of saying "Latino".
So like LyX?
thank you for you work!
Original Abloy was incredibly easy to pick. I remember seeing weird-looking generic Abloy-opener in 1957 when a lock-smith opened our door in about 5 seconds. Then Abloy changed the tensioning disk from front to back. And nowadays the tensioning disk is some random disk. But still no problem to Lock-Picking Lawyer or some other Youtube star.
Just bought my 7 yo daughter a mancala set for her birthday. She's absolutely obsessed (fortunately I love it too so she always has someone to play against!)
Android support for browser notifications landed in Chrome mobile about five years ago. (And yes, that included support for Android versions that were old even then.)

iOS still has no support, and nothing even on the horizon, as far as I know. Apple is intentionally holding back the open web. I find this infuriating.
I forgot about that, probably because I don’t see it anymore on iOS/iPadOS. I go to the www.reddit.com URI, not the mobile one.

Perhaps it is because I autopay $5/month to Reddit? It could also be the newer version of Safari in the beta iOS and beta iPadOS?
Sheesh Data, find something you like and listen to it! Repeat
.. Enjoy falling down Wikipedia holes to read about the music you like. Go out to gigs. It'll go in but your knowledge will be different to everyone else's

Though if you really don't like music why do you think you can get good at it?

Like I feel like I have almost no knowledge of painting, and that it's important in some sense, and I'll go to exhibitions but... None of it goes in. I can't answer questions on what I've seen. (But music mostly did.)
Yes it’s strangely addictive. There are some nice apps out there
Because the US doesn't have enough tariffs to compensate for exporters who don't meet US standards.
172,000 dead.

I'm going to stick with the advice from public health experts, which has been consistent and unanimous, thanks.

For details on how the US's death rates (CFR, per capita, etc.) compare, you can read more here, but it's not good. Other places aren't good either, but many places are much better.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/08/05/8993658...
Four months ago I had posted the first version of this project which was just the video editor. After garnering positive feedback, I decided to turn it into the social platform Gifygram where you can share your animations.

A major inspiration for the social aspect was MIT's Scratch game editor, which allows users to "Remix" other people's content into their own versions. Gifygram builds on this by showing all remixes under the original author's thread which adds another avenue of interaction on top of commenting and sharing.

For those curious, the inspiration for the animator was an old and purposefully goofy video from 2007, the 300 PG version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNqiSkd1M6k

And lastly for the WebAssembly fans, all the rendering and video encoding on Gifygram is done entirely within the browser, no video processing server required :)
Webm is not compatible with iPhone. Can’t you make it output standard mp4 files?
Didn't they recently change it so that you do see a Firefox logo when on Firefox?
Joker: A small interpreted dialect of Clojure written in Go
> I swear it's taken me longer to figure out how to build and include libraries with CMake than learn C

I had a similar experience learning C++. Learning the C++ language isn't all that straightforward, but there are at least plenty of resources available. Build-systems felt much more like a black-box, until I'd hit them with a stick for long enough that they felt familiar.

I started out with single-file C++ programs, invoking g++ manually with the appropriate flags for include directories and linking. I think that's probably the best way to go. Work up to proper build systems a little later on.

Perhaps another good way to start off would be to just use an IDE, and ignore the build process while you're starting out.
They did and failed spectacularly. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Phone
The Apollo app, that everyone seems to love for reasons unbeknownst to me, had that effect on me. I was happily addicted to the official reddit app when I decided to try something else. It ruined my experience so badly that now I barely even go to reddit.
We might find an alien race has already done that
You also can't navigate their site without being logged in. Something Google should crack down on.
Pneumonia that comes with flu is usually a bacterial superinfection that can be treated quite well with antibiotics. If you have the flu, your temperature goes down after two or three days, but then raises again, you probably have a bacterial superinfection and should consult a doctor.

These bacterial superinfections also caused most of the deaths from the Spanish Flu. At that time antibiotics did not exist.
Somewhat related — we recently purchased and have enjoyed a couple of circular puzzles from a small puzzle maker in the PNW — Bewilderness Puzzles[0].

I highly recommend the Mars puzzle in particular[1].

They also _smell_ wonderful. Like fresh cut wood.

[0] https://bewilderness-puzzles.com/

[1] https://bewilderness-puzzles.com/collections/circular-puzzle...
Speeding up JSON parsing in Golang
Im using this IAM policy on ec2 instance profile: "arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonSSMManagedInstanceCore"
There is way too much music compared to film and literature as it's so much easier, faster, and cheaper to make. Many of people's favourite albums were recorded over periods of days and weeks, while books can take years to write, and films are crazy often needing thousands of people. Additionally it is so incredibly subjective to the point that no one can agree on classics and it evolves much more quickly.

Really, there is no such thing as being a "music buff", but you can be a "jazz buff" for example! I'd say pick something mildly pretentious to feed your clearly slightly overinflated ego and dig deep into the history of that genre.
They also keep adding new stupid in-app notifications (I have OS notifications blocked for them) which ironically you have to use the website to disable. "Trending" stuff in subreddits you're not even in and suggested subreddits and garbage like that. I assume that rubbish does become an OS notification if you let them.
You chose to ignore the actual point I was making that close ouskirts of major cities are still uninhabited and there is no need to go to 'rural montana'.

Any large construction needs to go an approval process, the article talks about the same thing. This article is about a giant project, the point isn't about any single place that would be more or less resistant. It is about the fact that large amounts of unused land with close proximity to major cities is common.
In that case you'll be happy that learn that notifications on the web are opt-in instead of opt-out! :-)
Just use this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_...
Well, I barely started the day and I'm disturbed. Jesus christ, what world did I come to live in?
not sure if i'm the only one, but for me, on the latest macbook pro 16' top spec, the browser stops responding once i scroll enough. it's un-fucking-usable. if i click on a video after browsing for a while it's as slow as if i'm browsing from my toaster. the rest of the tabs work fine.

i hate the UI/UX for reddit, it's atrocious.
Both true! Don't force it, but also don't spend more than 10 minutes there.
(Source: med school, personal experience :\ )
I will somewhat reluctantly support Apple on this. There are no web sites that I want to allow interrupting my work/writing flow with notifications.

Also, the new awesome privacy settings in Safari on the beta iOS and beta iPadOS and beta macOS Bug Sur are very much appreciated, at least by me.
I've realised over the past decade that my brain just isn't wired to allow me to be a music buff.

I absolutely love music and the emotional effects it has. But I can never remember the names of songs, or how they sound. It means when I try to play music at a party, first I have to look it up by finding the playlist I put it in, and then it inevitably falls flat - missing the mood in the room by being too sad or happy or heavy or melodic. Many of my friends do this instinctually - they can throw songs into the queue and they fit the mood.

The one area I can seem to remember is actual bands I've seen perform. Something about engaging with live music sets it in my mind.

So while I think investing time into music if you enjoy it is worthwhile, there's no point forcing yourself. It might be that you're just not wired that way. And that's ok!
Logical Complexity of Proofs
It uses adaptive streaming (MPEG-DASH), iirc. Starts at a low bitrate and scales upward over time.

Works great for Twitch-length stuff. For a 10 second gif-equivalent, you don't get enough scale up time.
on /r/NyanNekoSugarGirls though? :)

https://www.reddit.com/user/palmerluckey/submitted/
A year long look at what life is like for a subsistence farmer in Vermont
What exactly is their duty? They earned money so they owe it to you as duty? What entitled you to their money? Do you have stuff? Can I come in your house and take things because it’s your duty?
How to Start Coding Websites from Scratch, a Brief Overview
I was looking forward to this as well. But then noticed you have to write the fun keyword in front of the interface. Which makes it more like a workaround than a language feature to me.
Finding an music/artists you like and seeing who their influences are and checking them out may be one path. DJ's can cut through that even faster since they surface and reference more material.

There are also a lot of movies out there - Béla Fleck made a movie tracing the banjo back to africa Throw Down Your Heart, if your looking to chronological type stuff in America, Ken Burns did a series on American Jazz and Country music - https://www.pbs.org/kenburns, Muscle Shoals, Buena Vista Social Club, The Nu LatAm Sound may be of interest for non western movies

https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-... (take with a grain of salt)

so much music, so little time!
Thanks for the feedback! I find it interesting you call it a hallway tool, I've never heard anybody refer to it that way before. When I first started, I had the free form drawing, and loads of people were requesting snap to grid options, so I added that as its own tool cause it had a few options specific to it. I personally use it to draw entire maps, as I often find it quicker to fill in a room than switching to the room tool and back. That's how I ended up with that name, and why I feel something like hallway is a little bit too specific for what it does.

I based the wall tool off of the line tool, since I assumed straight walls are the most desirable for people. How would you suggest making it work more similar to the snap to grid tool?

Thanks again!
Ask HN: 6 months into Covid-19, how are you feeling?
Yep, only thing that made sense. There was a heavy storm going through and I was driving by at night, during the day probably wouldn't have been visible at all.
I work in medical devices and we have a lot of that. We have tons of tedious processes that take a lot of time and don’t improve the product at all. Often they prevent fixing of problems. When you ask why things are that way the answer usually is “the FDA requires it”. But often when you read the latest regulations things it’s easy to see ways to improve our processes and still be compliant.

I think the problem is that the company has found something that works in an acceptable manner and there is a big risk that any change will have unforeseen consequences so people stick to what works, no matter how badly.

There is another set of internal rules that clearly make life of one function easier at the expense of others. Again, these are very hard to challenge.
I think this is solving several different problems:

1) I would love to have a better way to manage tabs and multiple files in emacs. This piece seems awesome!

2) Good context menus aren't as important, but a definite win! emacs is useless here. But I'm not sure your context menus are the ones I want.

3) As someone who's used emacs for a long time, I would hate to have my emacs shortcuts replaced by standard ones. I don't want to remap my brain.

I wish there were a way to pick-and-choose.
Ask HN: Email Services with Good Deliverability
I'm currently using Sendgrid to send out emails.
However, over the past year I noticed more and more emails are getting blocked because some email providers block some sendgrid IP addresses.
Not due to our doing, we have an excellent reputation at sendgrid, but we are on a shared IP pool plan.
My main frustration is that it takes days/weeks before sendgrid acts on an IP ban, even if it's a by a major email provider (usually microsoft in our case). I don't get how they can't monitor this and act faster. Their support is also terrible (very slow and only default-template responses).

I could pay more to have a dedicated IP at sendgrid, but that's a lot more expensive. I could also move to another service (SES, Mandrill, ...) but I'd like to ask opinions if that would be any better, since I would also be on a shared IP pool over there. Anybody that can share their experiences in this regard with these other services?
> In BigCorps, if there's a stupid requirement, there's usually a reason for the stupid requirement to be there in the first place

I disagree. I've worked in a BigCorp and many requirements were in place not due to reason but due to feelings and inertia. The "butts in seats" requirement was one of the main ones. Even after showing my boss that I could at the very least work equally as effectively from home, he still felt it wasn't OK for me to work at home more than once a week. And never underestimate the power of inertia. Things are this way, they've always been this way.
Me too. Now the malware links got pushed off the top. Maybe that is a good thing. There is something odd going on.
Aha. Thanks for the feedback.

Do you mind saying what’s unclear to you or what part of the homepage is unclear? Would a screenshot on the homepage help?

I think I may have overlooked this because it’s such a simple product. You add your contact details, and you can make them visible to other users on Poto who you want to share contact details with.
This article deserves some kind of award for peak pretentious smugness, a la South Park fart huffing. I'm not sure what the point is. Restaurants are nice. Muh facemasks.

>"restaurants are where life is lived"

As opposed to ... the rest of where life is lived?

>"Restaurants bring humanity to a city. They’re central to my memories. "

I'm pretty sure bringing food to a city is more central to restaurantness than bringing "humanity" to a city.

"Eating out in Houston is an exercise in acceptance." -are you shitting me? Do people actually feel virtuous and beatific because they bought a bucket of pork fried rice from someone not of the same race as them? What the hell is going on here?
> a tea brewing procedure where meaningful sensory comparisons can be made

As noted elsewhere, there is no way to meaningfully compare teas that require lower temperatures or longer seeping time with this procedure.
KPIs go up – "Sufficiently Powerful Optimization Of Any Known Target Destroys All Value" https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2019/12/31/does-big-business-ha...
A bit more than 5000 web servers return HTTP 418 :)

https://beta.shodan.io/search?query=http.status%3A418
The Rise and Fall of Tony Roma's
You have no mental model of the crazy person who drives his car into oncoming traffic.
I often hear it called Deletionism, and there is a Wikipedia article about it:

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

It cites a quote from Paul Graham (cofounder of Y Combinator) that begins "Deletionists rule Wikipedia."