skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which one and how? And how are you sure they're not just faking it?
My mother's and grandfather's musical tastes were huge for me. Also two of my old girlfriends' tastes. We're not so atomized that the only influences we have in life are marketers and tabloids.
Surface Duo kernel source code released by Microsoft
> then either games will cost less

They don't. The prices, between MTX and multiple release versions, have gone up if anything.

> they will be better

Pretty close to unuantifiable. What quantification we have, critic scores, aren't showing any movement in the ~decade since Steam got competition (Origin, GoG, etc).

The only benefit seems to be for the shareholders and corporate executives thus far.
By and large, none of these things are really all that "negative". You're talking about nits at best. And I'd argue that HN is the way it is intentionally, based on the audience the site owners want (or wanted) to appeal to.

That said, there is an unofficial guide that has been assembled, that documents most of the kinds of things you're asking about.

See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16437973
A lot of people also love the large format artwork on the album cover and sleeve. Playing a record while studying the liner notes was a favorite activity of mine in the olden days.
Let the costs increase then.

All food containers must be recyclable or compostable. This should be a rule across the globe.

We should also ban single-use plastic. If costs need to go up, then let them go up. Consumers need to understand the costs of their consumption and we can’t destroy our planet so that corporations can be more profitable.
Well I guess this is my larger confusion/concern: only people in the gaming space seem to be seeing this for what it really is. Media outlets so far seem to be running with the 'Epic is taking on the establishment' narrative.
> I don't like not being able to run software of my choice on a device I (in theory only, in Apple's case) own.

I just don't find this compelling and don't really care about it. There are lots of products to choose from, you can build your own stuff, buy a generic phone and load whatever you want on it, etc.

> The problem (and this is a problem) is that benevolent dictatorships never, Never, NEVER stay benevolent.

Then new products will arise when this happens.

> Basically - I find this argument extremely short-sighted. It's trading any sense of long term thinking for the immediate convenience of letting someone else do the work for you in the short term. I have very, very little respect for this argument.

We routinely delegate trust in society to experts and other accountable entities. It's like saying we shouldn't have an FDA and everybody should just make sure they aren't ingesting something that will kill them.

Also, can you clearly articulate what exactly I'm losing here with a single App Store? So far I just see more cons than pros.
Surface Duo confirmed to have unlockable bootloader, opening door to mods
Happy to expand on some thoughts or questions.

Already found and fixed two typos.
At least in YAML you only have to quote a string if it contains a colon-space and can therefore be inferred to be a dict. In TOML all strings are quoted: https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/issues/105#issuecomment-14...
I don't understand what you're saying. Using hand soldering tools, the tin-lead alloy becomes a liquid, sure there might be traces of lead going into the air that you can detect (ppt? ppq?), but that doesn't make it a health hazard. You might abrade traces of lead onto your hands handling soldering wire, but surely washing your hands after soldering gets rid of that. If you do a few mistakes you might get small lead balls in your work area, but even then I don't see how it gets in my food. I don't understand why solid lead or alloyed lead is supposed to be a safety problem by itself. It's not radioactive, you don't get sick by standing next to it, you have to abrade it and eat the shavings.

Heating soldering wire isn't creating lead vapors like leaded gasoline does.
Enjoyed reading it. I was under the impression that diplomats live luxury life with Govt Protection when they deployed. I wish if author would have shared detailed experience on few particular countries. Its good that this guy has seen so much. Its great learning of world wide system.
It would be more akin to Apple only letting you use the fuel that they sell for the cars they sell, just like Tesla did with their proprietary charging connector (before being forced, at least in the EU, to use a standard connector).
Narok, a town 120km away from the Equator snowed first time in record
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Call

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-couple-guy...
As our n=1, how can you claim that it is indeed the best of all possibilities ("so perfect")?
This seems like a good one! Thanks for sharing.
Steven Pinker's work is disingenuous and riddled with inaccuracies.

I suggest reading Chris Ryan's Civilized to Death to correct the intellectual damage inflicted by Pinker.
> We already have that in a lot of EU countries

Citation needed?

There are many glass deposit schemes, but apart from Norway and maybe Germany, other EU countries' _plastic_ deposit schemes to my knowledge are either draft proposals or rejected draft proposals? What exactly do you mean by a _lot_ of EU countries?
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible"
— Walter Elias Disney

"Sometimes, you can either be right, or you can be happy."
— My mother (though probably some other people, too)
> I read somewhere that they move about 6 times in their lives and that children are used to get friendly quickly because it will not last.

I think you may have misinterpreted the statistic about moving 6 times in a lifetime. That’s less than once per decade, and it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re moving away from their friends and family.

In America, it’s common to buy a “starter home” as your first house and then move to progressively nicer houses throughout your life as you can afford different houses.

Some people do choose to move to different cities for jobs or families, but it’s not true that we’re all moving away from friends over again.

If your only experiences in America were traveling to large, expensive cities then you likely saw a disproportionately large number of job-related moves. It’s common for people in big cities to move there for career purposes for a while before relocating elsewhere to raise families later. If you were primarily talking to people at bars or after-work social events, your sample size was likely biased away from typical people with families, who generally are spending time with their children rather than out socializing after work.

When we do move away, it’s common to maintain friendships remotely and coordinate return visits. Most people don’t simply forget their friends after moving.

I’m always fascinated to read outside descriptions of Americans on the Internet because they so often don’t resemble life here at all. Then again, whenever I read Reddit and Twitter it feels like many Americans are describing exaggerated versions of cherry-picked edge cases as if they were normal life here, so I can see how it happens.
Generate Your Website in Browser
I think its more correct to say x.25 was virtual circuit based - over a packet based system.

x.25 had a MFT (Metric Fuck Ton) of error checking (at each layer). I used to work in OSI based networking - debugging OSI issues was an art - no wireshark back then

However You could do some cool things with osi based networking binary attachments natively supported, years before the internet had it.

Interworking between legacy system like Telex, I used to have my own telex number and answerback and could have had an x.400 email address at the country level.

Ps id take site you linked with pinch of salt no mention of PAD's for example.
There's always the "cantenna"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantenna
PxCode Challenge D3 – mobile web page challenge
Lua 1.1 online demo for MS-DOS
Here is one...

Semper Fi, devil dog
> Medication cures symptoms of depression but cannot fix the underlying problems causing it

This implies that there always is a root cause, which I don't think is the case. Very often there is, but sometimes there's just an imbalance.
Foil/plastic/paper juice boxes are my vote for 'recycling nightmare'. And kids use them by the dozen.
Tech Flashback: Fujitsu M2266SA – Part 1
1- Offer over funnels : Funnels are important, but if I have to choose between a funnel or an offer, I’d choose the OFFER FIRST. You can close 6/5 figure deals over text message, PDFS, ugly 1-page websites, and emails. The offer is the key. Don’t create offers that you “think” people will like, instead, find out exactly what they want, do some digging… and give them exactly what they are looking for, and don’t overthink it.

2- It’s not all about the “one close call” : High Ticket clients have a different psychology. Part of attracting high-paying clients is knowing what triggers them to buy (exclusivity, high perceived value, emotional, psychological, time investment, etc..)

3- Don’t sell, select : Everything in your funnel should be designed with you SELECTING them, not you begging for their business.

4- Break the rules! You can go through copying what works, and try it out to get some quick success but eventually you’ll get to a point where you create something new in the marketplace, and you are the first one to offer it (angle wise, position wise, offer wise), so take it! First mover advantage is risky, but that’s where all the upside is, if you get it right.
pxCode challenge! Day 3 - Give us your Sketch, and we give you the Code!
We choose a mobile web page challenge this time. We make this page within 21 mins. Can you go faster?
Check our results below!

Preview the result here: https://bit.ly/3hp4Fah

Final source code at CodeSandBox: https://bit.ly/32jzQ2P

Send us your Sketch; We will show you how powerful pxCode is.
pxCode Official Site: https://www.pxcode.io/
It exist in stock emacs as vc-region-history. Fantastic functionality.
> Being uprooted every few years has led to an inability to form long-term relationships. I was essentially trained to have a timer on my friendships: approximately 3-5 years. In my time we didn't have the internet so once I moved it was over.

I don't mean to belittle the specific challenges/hardships of your childhood, but I think the 3-5 year friendship thing is pretty common. my childhood was almost the one you wish you had: I went to school with the same kids K-12 and I have a brother two years younger than me. I can't say it worked out much differently for me though. outside of the main clique, which I was not part of, all the friend groups seemed to get scrambled up every few years as people got older and grew apart. I had tables where I was welcome to sit at lunch throughout school, but it took me halfway through highschool to find a good group of friends. most of my classmates came from well-off families, so it was expected that we would go to college out-of-state. so we all went off to different colleges across the country. I'm now the only one from my highschool friend group to live in our home state. I made some good friends in college too, but again, we were all going to school far away from home, so we naturally went our separate ways after graduating.

I'm not sure whether it's better to be exposed early or sheltered for a while, but I think this is just the nature of our world. people move around in search of the best opportunities, making new friends and losing track of old ones along the way. as a CS major, I can get at least a decent job pretty much anywhere, but most people aren't this lucky. after living a different life in a different place for a few years, memories start to be the only things you have in common with your old friends.
very noble of you, great option.

yes, i do think this stock has potential to at least 2-4x in 2 years from where it is today, and if things go south will at least be acquired for current valuation. so its probably better than any alternative investment i can do.
You can check out Lunr. The Jekyll theme Minimal Mistakes has that as a search option and builds a JSON index file.

The demo site uses Algolia though https://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/
That's not config data that you have here, that's your program input (hint: you pipe it to stdin).

TOML is for config, config that users edit by hand, not input.
The real secret weapon is to take the truth table and use a karnaugh map to reduce it to just the necessary states in a structured way.
Similarly, the French first program ("première chaine de l'ORTF" before 1975, TF1 after) was transmitted in 625 lines SÉCAM on UHF band and simultaneously on 819 lines black & white on VHF.

Old black & white 819 lines was the more highly defined television system before HDTV.
I'd recommend "Lambda, the ultimate GOTO" https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5753
Headlines need to be hyperbolic nowadays to maximize clicks, and 'rising [sadness] among young men' doesn't sound nearly as dangerous as 'rising nihilism among young men'.

I think the writer of the headline thinks that most of his or her readers are unaware of or uninterested in the philosophical connotations of 'nihilism'; to them it means 'without an enduring source of meaning', 'without enduring emotional connections' or more frighteningly 'without moral compass'.

Here is a societal process (family instability), the headline wants to imply, that makes our country more dangerous.
"If you're going through Hell, keep going."

I _think_ it was Winston Churchill who said it.

But I like that it can apply to all kinds of situations. A stressful time a work? Hard times in personal relationships? Feeling depressed? The quote applies to any difficult situation I've ever found myself in.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21357771/apple-cloud-gamin...
Semper ubi, sub ubi.
Is there any instance of (a) a SaaS with a legally binding contract with some teeth around user privacy and (b) where that clause was exercised and the user benefited?

The civil route be an alternative to regulatory solutions.
Yes! K-maps are one of the most useful tools i pulled from my EE design class.
Are you on Linux? I found that on mac, omnisharp "just works" whereas on Linux it would only offer completion if the file has previously been visited that session.

I always meant to file a bug but never did.
Peter Dutton confirms Australia could spy on its own citizens under plan
"What I cannot create, I do not understand"
― Richard Feynman

Very humbling.
More than that, if I write in a test assert(10=2*3), eventually I will find that test fails and fix it. Thus getting the test wrong isn't fatal. Of course if this is a more complex case (which it probably is) the bug might take a while to discover since it made me write wrong production code, but at least once it is discovered and fixed (both the test and production) that will not be broke again.
ASK HN: Might people be interested in a newsletter physically mailed to you?
Was thinking about newsletters and how most are forgettable or are left unread in your inbox amongst spam and everything else.

If it was physically mailed, it would be something a bit more special.
Back when I was eager to join they still had this ridiculous several month or 2 year long process to get in, so after reading a few accounts of that I said screw it and never even tried again, even when they changed that. I guess I wasn't the only one, and in the end I joined other projects where contributing was fun and easy. (And yeah, I'm neither someone to start projects nor spending consistent time every week, but that doesn't mean you can't contribute lots of time).

Still a happy Debian user after all these years, but I'm past the time where I'd spend effort to even try to join.
Ignoring Linux != Hostile to Linux

Just because they don't want to build for and support a relatively tiny platform does not mean that they're hostile toward that platform. They support it in other ways via their game engine. Steam, on the other hand, has a vested interest in supporting Linux due to SteamOS, which they hope to pursue again in the future.

Just because Valve has a lot of goodwill in supporting Linux, even though Proton hasn't really affected Linux's market share in gaming, does not mean everyone else is actively hostile toward it.
People say I don't take criticism well, but I say, what the hell do they
know?
-- Groucho Marx
To this day, the majority of wide mouth glass jars you see at the grocery store have the same diameter and thread pitch of one of the mason jar lid sizes. Which means you can find a clean replacement lid for most of them, and use it to store other food or non food items.

Classico pasta sauces literally come in a tall Mason jar, with volume marks on the side.
This is really cool looking. Thanks for sharing
Using Testcontainers with Micronaut and Kotest
They are controlled like sliders (swipe up/down to adjust) and contain the same information, but are much more compact.
It is best to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it.
-- Lillian Hellman
The notion of vehicles ro travel distances is not the problem. Engineering said vehicles as mechanically inefficient depreciating status symbols is the problem.
One critic's 8th best, as of 1996, not 8th most popular.
For glass bottles, I don't see the point. There's no glass shortage, and glass debris doesn't kill anything or leech into the soil from landfills.
No. We need less paper mail not more.
What sort of nightmare format from hell has significant whitespace at end of line?
'A risk to firefighters': Trump's drone ban makes it harder to stop wildfires
I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
-- Andy Rooney
The new IE is Chrome actually.

With 20% global market share, plenty of countries don't care about Safari support.
Did you read the 'Enchiridion' (Epictetus)?
Just to clarify for everyone not familiar with how cell broadcast works: It's entirely passive/unacknowledged, much like IP multicast on a local link (without IGMP).

The risk it poses to users' privacy is about the same as that of an FM radio receiver.
I see it the same way. I've had to have the "why did you hire me if you're going to tell me how to do everything?" conversation with a recent manager.
> For local emergencies the German app solution seems to work adequately

Are you sure about this? While the NINA App did provide me with weather warnings as well as (possibly pinned) warning about the Coronavirus, I have no information about the delay with which those messages were provided to me. It could well have been a delay of over half an hour or more, without me noticing it.

Yesterday I decided to uninstall the NINA App, since it showed me that it doesn't work. It had all the permissions necessary to pop up a message and to notify my with a sound, yet it didn't do anything.
ggcemacs? That is the speedup everyone is talking about these days.
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve.
Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong
problem. Work hard to improve.
-- Alan Perlis
I recommend you Let's build that app Podcast course[1]

It's a paid course, but will give you source code and save you a lot of time, the instructor has a Youtube channel[2] with the same name, in case you want to check his content first and see if you like it.

[1]https://www.letsbuildthatapp.com/course/Podcast

[2]https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuP2vJ6kRutQBfRmdcI92mA
You are planning too much
Absolutely yes. My SaaS startup uses it, and it's really great.

I strongly disagree with the "innovation tokens" argument, at least as applied here. For one thing, while Elixir and Phoenix can certainly be considered "innovative" in the sense that they're better than more common alternatives, they really aren't "innovative" in the sense people sometimes try to scare you with—it's not all that different, on a fundamental level, than those alternatives. It feels very similar to Rails or Django—different in some ways, sure, but not at all alien.

But on a more fundamental level—all being well, this startup is something you're going to be doing for at least the next two or three years, and quite likely more. By far the most important factor in making technology decisions is going to be to use technologies that don't make you give up in frustration. Building a startup is a long hard journey, and yes, there will be many time along the way when you'll be tempted to throw in towel and give up.

If you're working day in and day out in a codebase, framework, language, or idiom that you don't enjoy, feeling that every day is a grind, then regardless of anything else you're chances of getting very far are less then they'd be otherwise.

So you're number one consideration when picking a language or a framework should be something that is a joy for you to use.

Of course, that's not to say productivity with he language (etc) is not important. Of course it's important! It's probably the most important factor that goes into that feeling of joy. That's why so many people love Rails… and that's also why so many people love Phoenix.

So go with it. Forcing yourself to use something that will be a slog for you to use is a fatal mistake for your startup—so go with what makes you feel comfortable and productive. If that's Phoenix, go for it!

My startup has been going for more than a year now, and in retrospect writing it in Elixir with Phoenix was absolutely the correct decision. I can say a lot of good things about it: it's comfortable, powerful, productive, efficient, and so forth. But most importantly, because of all these things, I'm not pulling my hair out. Yes, doing a startup is hard. But at the very least we can avoid making things worse by deciding that the things that are under our control (such as the framework and language to use) won't be adding to those headaches.

Maybe there are other languages and frameworks that are even better. Maybe that's true, although I do think that Phoenix is at the top of the list at the moment. Some people are already comfortable with Rails or the like, and prefer to stay with it. Sure, if that's the position that you're in, that may be the correct choice for you.

But as a general rule, the principle shouldn't be "avoid innovation", it should be to avoid getting stuck in a tech stack which will feel like a grind to work on a year from now.
The Entire Universe Might Be a Neural Network
This guy Jocko Willink talks about discipline = freedom, I think he wrote a book or two (retired NAVY seal).
All creativity is an extended form of a joke. Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
-- Alan Kay
Some Thoughts on Writing
They open sourced some of their core tools for it ([1], [2]) along with some documentation and examples.

Since it was designed as a data format (comparable to JSON) rather than a programming-language syntax, there's a lot less need for quoting.

[1]: https://github.com/janestreet/universe/tree/master/sexp

[2]: https://github.com/janestreet/universe/tree/master/sexplib
L’ABBÉ. — Madame, madame, un bon mot ne prouve rien.

LE COMTE. — Cela est vrai ; mais un bon mot n’empêche pas qu’on ne puisse avoir raison.

--

The Clergyman -- Madam, Madam, a witty saying proves nothing.

The Count -- That is correct; but a witty saying doesn't prevent being right.

https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_D%C3%AEner_du_comte_de_Bou...
Apps for porn site/porn games aren't allowed on iOS. There's many 4chan apps for Android, but none for iPhone. And apps frequently have to gimp themselves to get around this requirement, like Telegram where on iOS you cannot see 18+ chats you can see everywhere else.