skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has been a process for me. I started out using TinyTinyRSS and a few other apps. I always wanted an RSS reader that I could use anywhere on any device. I have finally settled on rss2email. I can read on any device I can access my email. I have setup an email just for rss feeds (rss@mydomain.com) and use a server side filter to put the feeds in the correct mailbox. I love the idea of not introducing another app to manage something.

For mail I use mutt. Mutt and rss2email are a match made in heaven. I can quickly process the stuff I want to read and the stuff I have little interest in. Feeds like Hacker News can get out of hand quickly without the ability to quickly process...
Community is always the most important aspect, agreed! Great to hear you guys are watching the crypto prediction markets closely, they are coming up with some novel features. I'm sure they'd all be interested in working with you guys at Facebook too given the users they could get through a partnership. Good luck!
It’s funny how dropping “guys” is such low hanging D&I fruit but also so hard to do. I try to use “folks” and honestly have started saying y’all a lot.
This is still not fair to real participants. People that cheat the system like that should not get rewarded
(Off-topic warning)

I'm hijacking your most recent comment since I'm past the time limit to be able to respond to your reply[1] from before - sorry! Here's[2] some[3] links[4] on the subject of learning to see in stereo after using VR (and those posts/threads contain links to even more articles/studies on the matter)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24504473

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/Strabismus/comments/ert2dh/wow_i_ha...

[3] https://old.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4kkhnp/i_was_stereo...

[4] https://old.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/39x4sx/as_many_as_1...
Earlier this year my immune system developed COVID FOMO and caused inflammation that destroyed my heart's AV nerves. I got relatively lucky that the inflammation didn't seem to cause any muscle damage. My heart looked perfect on an MRI, despite only beating at 21 BPM at the time. Apparently inflammation doesn't really show up on an MRI unless it's horrendously bad or it's caused fibrous scarring. The scan that really shows inflammation well is PET, and you don't really want to do a PET scan without good reason since it requires getting injected with a radioactive substance.

I've likely had inflammation in my lungs for years based on a previously unexplained chronic cough, and since getting treated for the inflammatory condition, within weeks my cough was gone and my pulmonary function is quantifiably normal.

So, it seems to me like systemic organ inflammation isn't too big a deal unless it happens to cause nerve damage, or gets bad enough to cause fibrous scarring. Unfortunately, if you can see it on an MRI, then you're probably already screwed. You can get a good view of any inflammation via PET, but you're going to glow for a while after.

Perhaps viral inflammation is a lot more destructive than autoimmune inflammation alone? It sounds like contemporary COVID treatment has become more effective with the addition of anti-inflammatory medications, though, which is great news.
If everything that CodeWithHarry says is true, then I don't see how it's his fault.

Also, this doesn't seem like a big deal. Just ignore the spammy emails for a while and close the pull requests.
I use Newsblur[1] in the browser. The best part of Newsblur for me, is its intelligence trainer.

Suppose you want feeds from website A, but don't want certain stories tagged with "mice", or titles containing "epistemology", and you only want to see articles published by an author named "Joyce Smith", you can do that.

It's pretty great. Reading RSS feeds has become so much more pleasurable. The articles that do make it past the training filters are almost always what I do like to read.

[1]: https://newsblur.com
FOSS and Crafts episode 11: An Ethics of Agency
This is not only kind of spam going on here.

A twitter user mentioned that some youtubers are themselves creating assignment aggregation type repos, and encouraging their viewers to contribute some copy paste code to those repos and they approve the pull request. That's insane.

I feel ashamed to say I am an Indian.
You haven’t mentioned what you want to use RSS for, so I‘ll try to provide some context as to how I use it.

Feedbin account linked to NetNewsWire on my iPad, iPhone and Mac. I chose Feedbin because it is 1. A paid subscription, I forgot what I paid, but $50/year I want to say and 2. A ton of RSS apps support it. I like the clear cut relationship and expectations of being a customer, not merely an entitled user with a free account, and I like that Feedbin is effectively platform agnostic and not tied to a specific client as long as you have a client that supports it.

NetNewsWire is my preferred client, but this is as much out of complacency as anything else. I’ve used some version of NetNewsWire for close to 15 years now. The current v5 series of releases is a very neat client, has a good team led by Brent Simmons developing it, and while I’m not sure what the feature is called, has a neat reader mode that can load the whole post even in partial-post feeds.

I use RSS mainly for blogs and webcomics, but I have a couple of news sites loaded in there as well. Most of those also send me Newsletters which I have automatically forwarded to my Instapaper account from my Inbox. I skim most posts, read some others in NetNewsWire, but if an individual post is long and I want to do more than skim, it goes straight to Instapaper. If it’s worth keeping for reference or to read again, it goes from Instapaper to my Pinboard Archive. I mark the news feeds as read about once a week regardless of whether I’ve gotten to it or not because most of it has a shelf life and if there was anything important I probably heard about it on some podcast.
I recently stopped usimg feedly after abusive ads everywhere, after some research, newsify was my new pick and loving it so far!
BBC confuses caste with division of labour bases on skills.Entire article is based on superficial reading of Indian culture. Please read the comment from this very post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/upvoted?id=drieddust&comments=t
The rub is that extremely rare is not impossible. It's happened before with ephedra famously.

Since this is basically an anecdote we cannot conclude anything on the population
I have a small feature request after using this product.

When showing how many points another user has, such as next to a comment they made, it would be better to show their entire net worth of points (if they sold everything how many points would they have) instead of their available to spend points. I’m interested in knowing how successful their previous predictions have been, not in how much liquid capital they have.
> Misaligned incentives always cause trouble, scapegoats not withstanding.

Yes. Exactly. Couldn't have said it better myself.

Stepping on a soapbox, I think a certain kind of economics thinking should be introduced to students at a reasonably young age, no later than secondary education, that thinking being "Incentive Analysis" where students are taught to think through where various people's and groups' incentives are, and why it matters. If nothing else, it should clear up fuzzy cliche-based thinking which can be misleading even though it has a kernel of truth: "If you aren't paying, you're the product" is wrong in some very important ways, starting with the fact that if you are paying, you might still be the product. For example: You pay for a service, in effect giving the company money for selling your information to other companies eager to have a line on a high-value paying customer.
Wow, the author himself! Thanks for the great details. I missed the detail in the article about single threaded testing, so thanks for clarifying. I definitely see the specs for the Samsung drive show higher peak random IOPS but I'm always trying to look past the marketing hype and see what's more realistic. What allows an enterprise-grade SSD to sustain writes longer than a consumer-grade SSD? I assume it's cache related (SLC or DRAM), but I'm still learning.

Awesome results from Jens there...
Ask HN: As a programmer how can you start a small business
As programmer how can we start business and create a passive income or maybe active income stream.

What are some ways in which you can get started and what are some hurdles you face ?

I would love to know the opinion of people who initially started out as programmers but moved onto doing there own business and what motivated them
Don't trash talk your current employer while looking for a new job. It's a bad look.
I have a couple of vaguely popular repos on github (~100,000 downloads a month)

Generally speaking, (T-shirt farming aside), if you find a genuine typo, or small way to improve documentation, then that PR will be very much appreciated. README-typos are quite visible, yet easy for maintainers to overlook.

If you are new to GitHub, please do not be discouraged, and as with editing Wikipedia- be bold.

(In the large scheme of things, its really positive that so many people worked out how to make a PR, and were then motivated to do so- lets not shame them too hard. Although occasionally neccessary, we must be mindful about gatekeeping, especially with the young and inexperienced)
Only trust those with skin in the game, definitely a principle to live by.
I'd like to be hired to work on Embedded projects. Over 14 years of experience in embedded development in various domains mainly Medical, Consumer Electronics, Networking and Defense domains.

Location: India

Remote: Yes.

Will to relocate: yes

Technologies: Linux Kernel and Device Driver development, RTOS, Baremetal firmware. Have experience in SoCs, Microcontrollers and familiar with FPGA and Xilinx Tools.
Languages: C, Python, Assembly

Interfaces: UART, SPI, USB, I2C, Ethernet

CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gautamnbhat/

Email: gautam.nbhat@gmail.com
> The problem I'm having is that in interviews I can't translate the thoughts in my head into words so I come across poorly.

If you are generally high functioning and your autism is mild enough so that it’s absent to third parties during first encounters then it’s not the autism that’s impacting your communication.

Speech can be improved with practice. Since speech is linked to motor-cognition improvements from this practice are generally permanent, like learning to ride a bicycle.

I would start by reading written prose out loud. It should output at natural speaking speed exactly as written even if there are errors in the writing. Your tone should apply natural inflection which provides your emotional state. The more challenging the written prose the better, but work your way up gradually. Complex thoughts should flow from your mouth like sewage: uninterrupted, at a regular rhythm, without pause/crutch words, and pausing/stressing only as the content demands to convey emotion (non verbal communication).

The above will solve for dexterity challenges but you also need to have your thoughts in order before speaking. This takes a different form of practice to master. I would suggest practice writing. Thoughts are formulated for writing the same as speech with exception to timing. So practice writing rough drafts focusing upon sentence order and order of logic. In speech everything is the first draft, so it needs to come from the mind well ordered the first time.

As a point of clarity it is generally understood, by the audience, that a couple seconds of pause to envision an informed answer for a complex question is fully acceptable. People are generally willing to wait through a tiny pause for a perfect answer as opposed to a rushed response demanding greater parsing.
An entire honeypot conference would be fun.
> Indians have a culture of going the extra mile at work.

lol fuck off. Indian work culture is toxic, nothing more. Most Indians in America think so.
He just seems wrong.

While in general we've become more efficient, almost every historic human activity has a strong following of artisans who preserve the old ways as a hobby/entertainment. They are becoming more popular than ever given youtube and the fact that people have more free time to enjoy things like that.

I'm not sure what he considers modern technology, but I'd say almost every piece of major technology has been a total phenomenon for civilization, from fire to cave paintings, written word, printing press.

Our goal should be to smooth out technology's disruptions to civilization and society rather than prevent technological progress.
how much is pay in SaaS/AIML? HW can pay 150K+ range with RSUs with PhD EE <5 years YOE. Graduated in "low tech" school. Job security is pretty good because barrier is high, literally you can't get a high school grad to do our job. AI maybe is higher paying but I also see on linked hundreds of people getting laid off during the pandemic becausue they were the first to get cut.
> Abrahamic religions are also devoid of the concept of caste.

While the Indian concept of "caste" (varna/jati/etc) isn't a native part of Christianity, Christians have varied in their attitude to it – some Christians have insisted that the caste system is incompatible with Christianity and that in becoming a Christian you have to give up your caste identity; other Christians have been accepting of the caste system, leading to the establishment of Christian castes such as the "Roman Catholic Brahmins" or "Bammons" – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Brahmin

Likewise, regarding Islam, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_among_South_Asian...
I'd much rather spend a minimum of $20 for the t-shirt and have the proceeds go to an open-source project of my choosing (or a pre-selected list of projects).
Even if it doesn’t entirely “work” for that one person it is still important to address the culture issue immediately and publicly, because it sets norms for everyone else in the room. Even if you are the only other one in the room. Perhaps especially if you are the only other one in the room.
Irony: https://github.com/digitalocean/hacktoberfest/pull/582
Hey man - I totally got what you're experiencing right now.

I've been in your position before. What changed for me was when I stopped finding motivation and passion at work. I instead chose to spend time giving back to my community, taking up a sport (Jiu Jitsu) and really spending the time to create a life that I'm genuinely proud of.

I recommend trying a bunch of shit out of work and see what you enjoy and see what sticks! Find your source of fulfillment outside of your work and that will give you the energy to push through your work.
https://www.protopage.com/ which doubles up as a nice web portal (I know, how quaint!)
+1 thx
I think people that say "don't eat sugar" don't eat sugar. They don't eat the things that require it.
HN aka dipshits who think they're smarter than reddit users.
The Parenting Pyramid [pdf] (1998)
It's a bit difficult now with COVID, but have you considered traveling, especially to somewhere with a low cost of living? I'm not sure how much you have saved, but it's possible to live on $1,000 in many smaller cities in eastern and central Europe, the Caucasus, Morocco, etc. You could build your startup for 6/12 months without eating much into your investment.
Interesting. The real estate space just hasn't caught up with search. It's so frustrating we get such little selection when searching for properties. Choosing the angle and compass is better than anything else out there.

Can you add more features? Like, can you search by views/nearby attractions/etc. This has potential to be a really deep dive into area. What about crime rate too?
In South India people don't always use surnames. Rather it is in format <Given name> <Father's Name> or wise versa.
> Ivy League schools in industries like finance

This also has to do with the fact that, in consulting and finance, it is the perception of intelligence by the customer that is much more important than the actual intelligence. Managers would rather hire the team of consultants from the Ivy League and rich people would rather pay the management fees for the Ivy League team to manage their money.

In industries that are more directly merit based and less "customer perception" based, you don't have as large of an over-representation.
> I would appreciate if people can let me know what's wrong with this comment.

I didn't downvote your comment but I will venture a guess.

It sounds like you are condoning and/or possibly endorsing the caste system. If you say "all mature societies need division of labor" does that mean you believe that everybody should be pigeonholed into a particular occupation forever?

It seems like there is a bigger point you are trying to makie but you need to write a little more to make it clear. Some of your spelling and formatting could be improved as well. It is strange but you can make a really excellent point but if it is poorly formatted or you have spelling mistakes, people will downvote you.
Quoting from the article:

> Years ago, these invitations to go swimming with American friends and neighbors were a sign of acceptance. But now the same invitations for his fellow Indians felt like a trap to out him as a Dalit.

Not trying to defend casteism or anything, and Maybe I understood it wrong, but this makes it seem like if Indian guys are inviting him for swim then it must be ascertain his caste, but if Americans do it then its a sign of friendship. This makes it seem like its more in his head.
Given cloud vendors low respect for their customers, the proper stance is to own your own infrastructure.
Glad I saw this article! I got two pull requests on one of my otherwise inactive repos last night. The first one just tweaked one thing in the README pointlessly. Seemed odd, but benign. Then a second one came later; another small silly tweak. Good to know the reason now.

Luckily that repo isn't terribly important and was only two pieces of "spam". But I can't imagine the shitstorm real open source projects are going to experience. Either they have to weather the storm or, what, disable PRs for a month? Yikes.
You don't need to be wealthy to get an internet access. You can get it at a school, a public library, a friend's home...
Absolutely, but I don't think it diminishes the necessity of the HR report.
There was a bunch of this on Drupal.org awhile back, you'd get patches in the issue queue where someone just ran phpcs on the whole module.
I think this should definitely be opt-in.

DO should make a list of participating repos and only PRs to those make you eligible.
Dunno about "a lot", especially when it comes to writing. Or you mean it as "more than Japanese and Russian"?
except for the overload? Not the fastest API either.
> It does address (partly) some of the issues with Swift threading.

FWIW, this is among the first of quite a few concurrency improvements coming to Swift in the near future. Swift 6 is expected to include a real concurrency model, likely based on some combination of async/await and an actor model.

The devs have been actively implementing a prototype [0], and the core team is expected to release a design document/proposal soon [1] [2].

[0]: https://github.com/apple/swift/pulls?q=concurrency
[1]: https://forums.swift.org/t/rethinking-async/37984/30
[2]: https://forums.swift.org/t/rethinking-async/37984/51
I use FreshRSS as my reader and use RSS Bridge to expand a lot of feeds
Big claims, any specific sources on the “love”, lack of capacity to investigate bog tech and “circumvention”? Also, maybe you missed all the google and facebook fines in the link.
A thought occured to me a couple of months ago. People so regularly forget social technology. Social technology has almost all of the above traits. Want to get rid of Money? Good luck with that.

I suspect, there's an underlying assumption that is false. Humans as individuals? An ideal, I suspect. Evolution favours not individual survival, but group survival. If we accept that Evolution can also be seen as a technological ratchet, then perhaps it becomes clear, it isn't merely technology, but the very nature of Evolution itself.

If this is in fact true, it means that rebelling against Technology (mechanical) is doomed, for it is not rebelling against the holistic. And if it is just a part of broader Evolution, then there is nothing to be done.
This is civil.

When you sign a clearence they tell you in the required training this is so you cannot profit off of the info you learn, even in fiction.

Has an obvious point of keeping you from having a financial motivation to breach that clearence.
Reeder is great. I’ll think about going back to NetNewsWire when they add The Old Reader.
Absolutely. That guy's video may have caused a lot of spammy PRs, but I'm pretty sure they're far from the majority.
> But the higher castes are extremely insular, and treat anyone of any race poorly.

This is also bigotry.

But I should agree that the people who come to become managers are likely to have the attitude that favours nepotism. These people are not interested in what they are doing. They just want to be a manager.
Reaching back in some ancient memory from 35+ years ago I recall that the rotation tables were sin/cos and the cos table overlapped the sin table by 180 degrees. I think there was 256 entries in When the ship rotated it stepped through the rotation table by three entries at a time, and took advantage of the 8-bit accumulator wrapping around. Then the value was used as a look-up in a table. The ships direction was a value of 0x00 to 0xFF, and that was used as an index in to the rotation table. I would need to read through the disassembly again to refresh my memory.
> I genuinely did not understand people calling for "DON'T SUE THEM, YOU WILL SCARE THEM AWAY FROM LINUX!"

Bringing lawyers in always makes people really defensive. People are unlikely to take risks if there's liability involved. Whether this is good or bad for free software I don't know. Probably not.

Linux needs more leverage over companies. Not necessarily legal leverage.
These type of repositories have existed since the first Hacktoberfest. They might even be useful for beginners to learn how to prepare their first pull request. But the idea of Hacktoberfest is clearly not to submit all your pull requests to such a repository.

It even seems as though DigitalOcean is blocking these type of repositories. From the FAQ:

My pull request is marked as being on an excluded repository. What does this mean?

Unfortunately, your pull request was made on a repository that doesn’t align with the core values of Hacktoberfest. We’ve decided that pull requests made to this repository will not count toward completing the challenge.
> Their fees are -0.025% (maker) and 0.075% (taker), practically the lowest on the market.

This used to be lowest, it's pretty high nowadays for traders who do volume (huobi, binance, okex, ftx all have the same product for lower fees). A few other exchanges like Bybit and Deribit have the same fees.
Did not see this mentioned in any of the comments, but Metaculus [1] has been around for a while.

Do you directly compete with them? Nothing wrong in competing, I have a feeling that people are probably more _aggressive_ (in a positive sense) in their outlook when "Facebook profiles" are not on the line. Nevertheless, I think it is a great experiment.

I do imagine that at some point, if this product goes mainstream, journalists would start referring to these statistics for topics which really require correcting for exposure bias. For instance, exit polls. In places where Facebook penetration (or even internet penetration) is not-so-great, this will blindside decisions. Of course, this by no means will be Facebook's fault but I am curious to see how Facebook is proactively adjusting for this adverse outcome.

[1]: https://www.metaculus.com
Going in-depth with Nintendo’s augmented reality Mario Kart RC car