skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, I went down that path, too. Super puts less strain on my fingers, and feels more natural (also, I've been using 95% Macs for half my lifetime, soo...it's a lot of retraining).

It surprises me that there isn't a distro or easy to use tool to use Mac-style keybindings, given the overlap of Macs and Linux systems in tech.
What is PG? What is Jessica?

If one isn't already immersed in the VC mindset that dominates (and is apparently a significant dynamic of) YC, how is one supposed to parse these articles?
Actually the entire point of poker is to make your opponent make a mistake or play poorly. A mistake being if you had perfect information a move you would not make.

Clarification:
If you played with cards face up no one would ever make a mistake. You could calculate the odds and the math would be perfect. The goal of poker is to make an opponent make a mathematically incorrect play.
XP was released in 2001, It was really good for its time. Most people kept using it(beacuse of Issues with Vista) till 7 launch(2009).So for 2009 XP may seem old and outdated. But the fact that after failure of Vista XP was able to keep OS marketshare for Microsoft is astonishing.
> Because mask wearing by infected people can reduce transmission risk, and because of the high proportion of asymptomatic infected individuals and transmissions, there appears to be a strong case for the effectiveness of widespread use of face masks in reducing the spread of COVID-19. However, there is no direct evidence thus far on the magnitude of such effects, especially at a population level.

Thank you for the link.
Show HN: Mp4.to – MP4 to MP3, MP4 to GIF, MP4 Converter API
...and hit it anyway?
I like the blog and all but WHY IS IT SO YELLOW?! It hurt my eyes enough for me to switch to Firefox's reader view which resets most of the page's CSS.
Hey, what's up everyone, it's your man Todd. I'm back with another video and, today, we're gonna throw a giant rock off this bridge! But first, a word from our sponsor.

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OK guys, so I'm gonna tell you a story about how I've been throwing rocks off this bridge for years. You see, my ol' grandpappy showed me how to throw rocks into the river when I was 10, and he told me "Boy, life's a lot like these rocks. It goes up and up, and one day you find it plunging straight into an icy river of death." And that just really inspired me, y'know? Rest in peace, ol' man. I love ya! Hey Frank, did your grandpa ever teach you to throw rocks into a river?

3 minutes later at a convenience store

Sorry, we can't film in here? We just wanted to buy some snacks. Yo, we're just a youtube channel, alright? It's not cool? Okay, fine, we'll turn it off. You coulda just been cool about it, jeez.

8 minutes of nonsense later

(couple walks by)

How y'all doin'? Oh, we're just having some good wholesome fun here, throwing rocks into the river.

Oh shit, I hope we don't see Officer Bradley around here again. The last time we throw a rock off the bridge he was like "You darn kids" and I was like "Whoa, bro, chill!"

3 minutes later

Alright, here goes nothin'!

(throws giant rock off bridge)

Guys, this was incredible! That's actually one of the BIGGEST rocks we've ever thrown in here! Unbelievable, dude. Oh. My god. WOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Another 3 minutes of bro'ing around

So guys, if you want to see what happened after we threw that rock into the river, stay tuned for my "Tossing a Rock into the River AFTERMATH" video.

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Speaking as someone who is less of a connoisseur, and who even uses a drip coffeemaker, I wholeheartedly agree that a burr grinder is a huge help. The quality of the grind probably matters, but the biggest difference for me was consistency. No matter how hard I tried to be consistent with the blade grinder, I got a different grind every time, and that extra variable was enough to make the process a little too opaque for me to easily get better at.

With my burr grinder, everything fell into place. When you are brewing coffee every day with the same grind, the same amount of water, and the same brewing method, all you have to do is use fewer beans today if yesterday's coffee was too strong, or more beans today if yesterday's coffee was too weak. I use a scoop instead of weighing the beans, and that's precise enough for me to consistently make coffee I enjoy.
Really only works for one round though, since you'll be Emergency voted out if imposter reveals are on.
Ask HN: Updates to “What Can a Technologist Do About Climate Change”?
Bret Victor's writeup from 2015 is a wonderful read with useful pointers and data: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange

It's been five years... if an addendum to this article were written today, what would it say?
I would highly recommend downloading the ESV Bible app (or reading it in browser https://www.esv.org/Ecclesiastes+1/).

The book is a relatively short read and I find it to be fascinating. “Koholeth” is about 1300 years ahead of the existentialist but like Kieregaard he ultimately makes some decisions on what the meaning of existence may be.

Old Hebrew Scholar, Robert Alter, called the book “the most peculiar” of all the books in the Old Testament. I hope you enjoy :)
PG = Paul Graham

Jessica = Jessica Livingston
Yes but it is not always ok (policywise) to attach USB devices to corporate equipment.
That's kinda the point. People expect technology to suck so they don't bother complaining about it because they're just used to it sucking.
Was just thinking about the cultural effect of people who hold deception to be ethically better than violence, vs. those who accept occasional violence as a price. The authors preference for teaching deception over domination is an example. Such timing.
> Well, you might be surprised to know that there is not a single line of C involved in serving this connection as well as the underlying terminal and functionality.

I was quite dubious of this. Surely the Go runtime is written in C? Turns out that no, Go is self-hosting. The runtime for Go is written in Go. So if you remove the OS, which they did, you have reinvented the wheel! A rounder wheel, this time, to be sure.

The previous wheels I'm referring to are Pascal, Java, Lisp, Forth, Prolog machines. This wheel is a different shape because those others are dedicated, purpose-built hardware, that can only execute those languages.

I wonder can the same (as Tamago, not Pascal et al.) be done for Rust?

https://randoc.wordpress.com/2014/05/01/western-digital-pasc...
ha, I quite like the idea of General Detritus! Just detritus generally. It's strange for me as I've been using it for so long now, my mind skips a beat and I feel like I've had a post update whenever I come across the word IRL :)

I've actually just picked up my first ever Pratchett - "Small Gods" - after having somehow avoided reading him for the past 30 years!

"Detritus was the first troll member of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch..." - I'll look forward to that, thanks!
> it hasn’t been close to replicated.

Because not many have those values anymore
>There's no legal way to fix a broken legal system, just as an inconsistent logical system can't overcome itself.

Legal systems are not actually that rigid, see for example the long tradition of SCOTUS overturning case precedent including their own. See also the large number of elected judges in the US, who could be replaced directly by people.
It's not criminalizing people. It's criminalizing behavior that is very detrimental to society.
That is the risk of self-reporting, although some people easily forget...
Same here. I read the Trial this summer too. It felt much in the same vein as Ecclesiastes did.

Vanity of vanities.
Right, you could be spending those dollars running ads, which the market is more likely to respond to :/
Users often find half open intervals confusing, so it often makes sense to render an interval as ending one tick before it actually ends (especially when the boundary is at midnight).

We introduced this change after frequent complaints about our invoices when we still rendered a month as "01.03.2020 00:00 - 01.04.2020 00:00", while people are fine with "01.03.2020 00:00 - 31.03.2020 23:59" despite the minor inaccuracy.
JavaScript Interview Questions and Answers
Assange and Elon Musk are the two hot button names that get the low-information commenters around here really upset
And, as you’ve alluded to, the scope of what software does for us on a daily basis has expanded by several orders of magnitude. Not only have a number of devices that used to be purely electro-mechanical been reworked to use microcontrollers (cars, everything in the kitchen), but the scope of activities that have migrated onto the web or our phones is truly massive.

30 years ago, software bugs might interfere with you professionally, but they wouldn’t stop your ability to get money from the bank, cook food, or do any other day to day tasks.
It’s just social play and backslapping among the oligarchs, don’t pay any attention to it.
Everyone in the thread is overly paranoid. IANAL but have delt with this stuff enough to know that in general you’re fine if California law applies and it’s an MIT license - don’t violate the MIT license though. None of the non compete clauses are enforceable here and you can compete with your employer.

What you can’t likely do is induce previous colleges to quit the company and join your new company for whatever the term is that the contract says you can’t. Usually a year.

When you “fork” it don’t just hit the fork button if you are real concerned. Make sure you have your own copy of the thing and re push it.

They can sue you if they feel like it no matter what the contract says or CA law but they will probably lose on the terms you mentioned in CA. So unless you are high up and going to a direct competitor of say amazon hypothetically, you probably have nothing to worry about.

And yeah, sure, have an attorney read your contract if you really want. It’s 300-400 bucks well spent because then you have an attorney you have worked with when something real hairy comes up.
I'm very anti-prohibition and I also agree. I've tried very hard to come up with a justification to allow unbounded access to the "nasty ones": meth, fent, heroin, and possibly coke/crack and xanax. What sets these apart? Their rapid delivery and extreme affinity for hitting reward pathways makes them chemically addicting almost by their nature. Further, they have narrow pharmacological windows, making overdose common. Ironically, if you look at the data blinded, without knowing the drug associated with the data point, alcohol _squarely_ belongs in this group.

However there are plenty of entries safer than these drugs, that are far easier targets for legalization first.
I've found one YouTube-based technique that helps me sometimes.

Basically, search youtube for some specific topic (eg "MediatR" b/c I'm working in .NET)

Using the relevant results, create a playlist and order it with the shortest videos first, or in numerical order if some are part of a series.

Then, start watching the video's. You'll get some garbage, some useful insights, and some really solid advice. Stop when you've had enough and you're at least in a better place to get on with your own work in that particular topic.

Good youtube videos give you the benefit of some context and opinion around the topic. You can't get that with documentation because it typically takes too much of a "reference" approach that isn't helpful if you're just starting but need to get something done.

Stackoverflow works if you got a specific question and can navigate past the smug a-holes, but it also eschews context and advice though in a different way than reference documentation.

Of course, the best thing you can do is to have a kind mentor that will patiently answer your questions, or better, ask YOU questions to guide your learning. Sadly, that's not always possible.
Tldr +~10%

If only they could merge with V8 progress would actually reach everyone

If mozilla wanted to be disruptive they should attempt to make https://github.com/graalvm/graaljs
production ready.
The JVM has gotten much more human resources at optimizations than either v8 or smonkey and it is an open question how much could it outperform v8.
There is still great software being made. I would say that the interface in a Tesla is pretty great. There is just more software out there now, so the number of bad pieces of software are magnified that much more. But, I think great software is dependent on how willing the developers are in making it great. Yes they need support from management etc., but there is tons of great software out there, it is just that there is more and more mediocre and bad software being made as well.
my favorite quote... or way of thinking about software in general: "it's not a question of whether there is a bug in this code. it's a question of how impactful the bug is on the people using it."
> Well Android has 80% market share, but there’s too many confounding factors to know why.

If the vast majority of devices already have this capability, what difference is it really going to make forcing it on the remaining 20%? Why hasn't Apple already been forced to lower their fees if they are the underdog in terms of market share? For that matter, why hasn't Google been forced to, given how easy it is to sideload?
Sometimes the law is designed to target something that might happen rather than a personal action that caused something to happen.

One such law that exist in most countries triggers if you drive while under the influence just by yourself on a lone road. You can still end up in jail. In the eye of the legal system it is bad enough that an accident might happen. Same for driving a car deemed unsafe. There is similar laws around the world against guns and explosives, where simply possession is enough to run fault of the law.

As with most laws, first time offenders generally should not end up in jail (US can be a bit strange and unfair on that point). However a lot of laws all over the world are simply about what might end up happening given a risk factor.
Cat imitates human, in first scientific demonstration of behavior
That's not the average now, though - especially not for someone taking medication. If folks ever even need a wheelchair, that is often temporary. It is so much more common to use other walking aids, if you need them at all. And this is still factoring in folks that aren't taking medications and are older and couldn't start on treatments early. This is all changing: People are getting diagnosed earlier than they were previously and started on modern treatments early on, which not only tend to reduce flares (in folks with Relapsing-remitting forms, the most common type) but they make flares less severe. All of this means as treatments get better and younger folks make up more of the statistics, the disability chances should still go down.

OF course, there are some folks that do better or worse. I have very few day-to-day symptoms and those are mild: I'm 42. Some folks get in pretty bad shape in their 20s.

As far as side effects: Some have a much higher chance of death. When that gets to high, they deem it unsatisfactory. I wouldn't be surprised if this was instead of or including a chance of being even more disabled or damaging heart/lungs or something else that shortens life.
hm this is interesting how they incorporate audio snippets into blog quotations
Well, why would they want to do that? They're going to be selling a lot of juicy ads now. You wouldn't want to interfere with that.

They've already got the headline of "Facebook to launch Oversight Board to oversee ads", so now they can safely kill it.
I agree with you, but i dind't see the text you're quoting on the article. Was the article changed?
I may or may not agree with this document or this website (never heard of them), but honestly, I am genuinely shocked at the number of people I run into both on the street and at my workplace (a university of higher learning) that does not believe that COVID-19 is conspiracy. They are hell bent on that everybody should wear masks, don’t think this is all a load, and that we should ignore everything anyone outside the CDC (or any medical doctor that does not agree with them for that matter) says about it.
I'm still baffled every day at the depths of our own misguided thoughts and beliefs. ️
It's uncomfortable for some people to not smack me in the mouth when they walk past me in the street.

They have to take a little care where they swing their arms.

In fact some people don't take that much care, and we usually say it is the people who physically dominate a space by being inconsiderate of others who are acting entitled and privileged.

So no, I don't think it's entitled or privileged to ask people to reduce significant[+] aggregate harm to others, at minor inconvenience to themselves.

However, I think it's entitled and privileged for people to decide that they don't have to wear a mask based on their "personal risk assessment for themselves", on the theory that other people can just quit their jobs or whatever and stay locked up at home to feel safe from the unmasked crowds outside. That's the "if people want to feel safe they can stay at home if they want" theory. That's not a reasonable imposition, and does not constitute the reasonable balance of needs that we'd call a free society.

For those for whom it's particularly uncomfortable, I don't know the policy elsewhere, but in the UK, it's permitted to not wear a mask if you have a reason for not wearing one. Reasons are quite reasonable: For example if you're with someone who lip reads, or they give you anxiety or whatever.

The goal is to ensure that almost all people wear one, not that every last person must wear one if they have a reasonable reason not to.

The reason for enforced policy is because too many people won't wear one at all without a stronger incentive. Just asking people to not harm others isn't enough, it seems. (And people really can't get their intuitions around exponential growth and clustering, so they mis-estimate aggregate risks to others by a lot, even when they have numbers to go on.)

[+] (It affects the R number. The difference between R > 1 and R < 1 is pandemic versus disease dying out. It's also the difference between a long pandemic with onerous economic and social consequences, and something that is manageable. The overall effect is profoundly significant in aggregate.)
I've tried a number of different approaches and have found that my sweet spot is coffee made from really great beans in a drip machine that turns on at a set time. I use a burr grinder but it's not a real game-changer.

The beans make the biggest impact. The convenience matters the most. Everything else is just a waste of mental cycles to me.
Gain of Function virus research is evil.
You are/were evaluating it in the wrong class there I think. What viewing it provides seems intended to be functional as an extension of its role for management purposes; not ergonomic for actually reading the ebook.
It's also worth saying that the human brain can almost instantly do a fight or flight calculation as to whether it's a moose or a plastic bag floating by taking into account the motion, and it's reflective properties etc.

This task clearly is very very hard to do, but tough shit: if you can't safely control a megajoule of kinetic energy coming down the road your computer shouldn't be given the benefit of the doubt.
Show HN: Strongweek, an iOS app focused on weeks months and years, not due dates
On the one hand, you have a renaissance man (RISD-trained painter and Harvard-minted CS PhD) who authored On Lisp and started up and exited successfully with some of the most respected technologists as partners (Trevor Blackwell, Robert Morris). On the other hand, you have the author of Founders at Work, someone who not only thoroughly interviewed tons of successful founders (& bootstraped a pattern-matching capacity) but also has a reputation for a world-class EQ that built community and kept bad apples away.

So, yeah, the DNA of the founding team matters a lot. Seems like for scaling companies (like Y Combinator, itself, is a company – and by Sam's definition of creating more value for others than itself, has become a platform) – traits are extremely heritable (not so much the case with children!)
Live server push without JavaScript
I like this comment and I learned the same lessons from golf and poker. Pay attention to the process and what you can control. As long as you make emotionless decisions and execute the process you shouldn't worry about the outcome. In fact the pressure of competing comes from the expectations you put on yourself by worrying about the outcome before you finish executing the process.
i think we all want to know what software you're using. Pokerrrrrrrrrrrrr 2 seems to be the default, and it's fine, but there has to be something better.
It's "lead" not "lede."
Discovered via the doc below, I've used lipoker.io and blockchain.poker. Both decent and accounts/logins not required
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10iOD7Wy_YU4NmkPU7ZH7YTrq...
Most foreign students aren't white. Letting them stay in America doesn't play well in states that have a deficit of educated people and a surplus of electoral college votes.
I think the difference is that the entire software/hardware stack is a world created entirely by humans, untouched by "reality" for the purposes of all these annoyances, so it feels like we should be able to wrangle it better after so many decades. It's entirely our own creation, and we decide every iota of it, and yet it bites us (justifiably or not - turns out thousands of people each creating different layers of a gigantic state machine is hard to perfectly coordinate, but we may have been able to do better by now if we had been more thoughtful and patient throughout).
In your own words:

> It doesn't matter the yield

So I ask again: how do these small yield tweaks indicate that US nuclear strategy is "entirely based on a pre-emptive surprise strike"?
Anyone know what routing servers? BGP?
As other comments have noted, these experiences are not unique to COVID. However, it strengthens one of the messages that needs to be heard - that this pandemic does not bring a black and white result that people live or die. There are damages this disease can bring to your life even while you survive the disease.

Where I live in Utah, there is a strong attitude of: "Utahns are young and healthy. We won't die, so lets just let the virus run rampant. We'll all recover and go on with life." That attitude is part of the reason we're currently one of the hotspots in the country. Stories like this help show why that attitude is wrong.
What is YC?
Was going to say this.

You wouldn't see so many scholar's mate games if this was the case.
Trust requires reciprocity, and reciprocity has broken down.
Obviously this just comes down to personal preference.

All the major companies have poured lots of money into engineering typefaces specifically for their UI and brand. They're all designed to be easy to read and give off just enough personality to not be distracting. Objectively, I'd be surprised if one were better than another.

I like some of the open source sans serif fonts just as much as Apple's SF fonts. Google's Roboto has a bit too much personality IMO, but it might be better tuned for Android than the web.