skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great job - your timeline widget looks really neat. I look forward to seeing how it develops in future.

For your interest, there is a small group of hobbyist developers and small companies developing timeline products for the web.

As the developer of ChronoFlo Timeline Maker (https://www.chronoflotimeline.com), I welcome you to the timeline maker community!

Good luck with your project.
Digital Transformation for the Rest of Us - Not for Profit Educational
Restaurant couple mistakenly served $2000 Mouton 1989 after ordering $18 Pinot
Ah the tyranny of a voluntary service. We need the government to force them to be less tyrannical because that form of influence has never been abused to enforce actual tyranny over non voluntarily services. Maybe the free market should hold these companies accountable and we dont have to hand over power.
It's not that "analogous".

Take a peek, it doesn't unwind the stack unless you ask it to, which gives it much more power than exception handling in languages such as Java.
>Yeah, I like Pocket, it can't be trained like Google news. I wish I could use Pocket recommendations on desktop.

You... can? Unless I'm totally misunderstanding what you mean.

Unless you're using a linux distro that compiles it out or something, it should be right there in as an option in about:preferences#home

https://imgur.com/a/1Shcxoo
"Less repetitive/boring" != "less mentally taxing".
Minor gripe, but especially in a time when people should know about exponential growth and stuff it kind of bothers me when it's used like this.

'Exponentially' refers specifically to a change in rate of growth. You could say 'profits are growing exponentially' or 'things are getting exponentially worse', but it doesn't quite make sense for this case. I would say 'Chrome is orders of magnitude worse' or something.
> There is nothing "magical" that has happened to banks when they switched to fiat money

Of course there is. Deposit guarantees are enabled. That and the central bank’s credible power to influence money supply and borrowing costs as well as act as an unconstrained lender of last resort.

There is a lot of scholarship, originally from the turn of the last century but perennially refreshed, on the inherent failure modes of fixed-supply money systems amidst a growing, industrialising or industrialised economy.

Fixed-supply assets are good. Fixed-supply currencies cease, quickly, to be currencies.
Adding Authorization to a Node.js App – Beyond Role-Based Access Control
The man's natural speaking voice is the loudest I have ever heard. I could identify him coming down a long corridor by his voice well before I could by sight.

He drove a several-year old dark red Mercury Montego in which he almost ran me over in a parking lot behind the EBC. He was on the phone.
I think the VSCode extension marketplace greatly helps with the huge breadth of tooling. Not sure if this is applicable to regular Visual Studio as well, I've honestly never used it.
The +/- in a given poll is measurement error derived from the sample size. They don’t account for systemic error.
Agreed. I've really come to love Express and the direction its gone after years of using Rails- which eventually left feeling like a prisoner to its opinionated nature.
Ask HN: How did you know you've achieved product and market fit?
Product & market fit seems to be the "holy grail", and many people seem to portrait it as a moment when you "know" you've achieved it.

At what moment did you realize that you've achieved product & market fit for your product?
I have seen a few, should start documenting these.
I came to the comments specifically curious about this. I'm currently running Firefox with multi-container, and a couple of the about:config tweaks from https://www.privacytools.io/browsers/#about_config

Obviously it's all relative (e.g. compared to Tor), but is the general consensus that this is good enough?
Show HN: Protect domains from malicious browser extension
Not exactly. The Common Lisp condition system is usable for handling error situations, but it's usable for much more as well; the act of signaling a condition does not immediately unwind the stack, like throwing an exception does, and the restart system allows for actively choosing which pieces of dynamically provided code should be run instead of just blindly executing them in order.

This allows for some extra flexibility with regard to how to handle errors, and with regard to how conditions may be used without any unwinding whatsoever.

(Thanks for the props!)
No, I'm talking about the kind of thing that provides a `Context`-like object that allows the application developer to share memory between requests.
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Ask HN: Real examples of quantity leading to quality (not the pottery parable)
I keep seeing the pottery class parable being used as an example of how quantity leads to quality.

Is there other better real life examples?

I found a few like Jennifer DeWalts 180 websites etc that I detail here (https://joshdance.medium.com/pottery-class-parable-or-real-examples-of-quantity-leading-to-quality-934760ebbcf3) but I would love to find other examples.
I agree that my experience is only one datapoint. But your comment was in response to someone who's experience was having more issues on Windows than Linux by saying that you don't have issues on Windows, which is the same thing.

Personally, I run into way more issues when I try to use Windows than Linux; for example, whenever I boot into Windows on my desktop, it doesn't recognize that my ethernet cable is plugged in unless I unplug it and then replug it back in. It also sometimes just doesn't give any audio output when it boots up, and I have to reboot to get it to work. These and other issues I have may not be issues you run into, but they are just as valid experiences as the issues you might have with Linux. My point is that the argument that Windows "just works" out of the box is not as objective as you might think.
While people are commenting that $30 in materials is not very realistic, I find that's nothing compared to stating that 2 people can build this in 4 hours. I don't think it could be built in that amount of time if you used a large cnc router and had all the G-code already prepared. Looks to me like a week of work. I love the animations. Also the chain drive going around the bicycle rim is downright silly, you would have to weld gear teeth on the rim which would be extremely difficult.
Probably the one I work for since that's who's paying my bills.
> The big difference is, Google pulls stunts like that small things that aren't critical to the company's business. Microsoft, on the other hand, was blithely jackhammering away at the foundation of their business.

For sure, I think MS was panicking tbh. They missed the mobile revolution (This was Ballmer and Gates), and then cloud was starting to take off and realized their OS and Office products were not optimized or read for that shift. I think they realized they had to change, and change fast and as a result didn't go well. But at least it started the change we see today with MS (for good or bad).
Hi! Today, we're launching WZRD, an online platform to create immersive videos using AI.

1. Upload your audio track

2. Pick a visual theme

3. Render your video

Enjoy!

Any feedback is welcome!
I use Safari.
Well what I meant show me plans with 1000s of pages of itemized highly realistic goals that have a chance of succeeding and yield real technological advances over a period of 30 years with 100s of professors putting their professional careers on the line for a common goal. The overlooked value of the HEP community is that they have moved to the industrial age of scientific endeavour, while almost everyone else is stuck in the Middle Ages.

It would be great if people managed to organized around any of the goals you mentioned, so far it hasn’t happened at a comparative scale for various reasons.
I've was implementation lead for several GDPR implementations in Germany. Only on HN would a comment with facts that clarify a subject where a lot of misinformation exists get downvoted.

If you've downvoted that comment you have done the community a disservice.
Yarn 2 is very nice. The portal: protocol is great and it works well with Nix package manager.
Talos VFX – open-source shader graph
Who are the geniuses / slimeballs at Microsoft who snatched the JEDI contract away from AWS for dubious reasons, and who partnered with Duck Duck Go, the most visible complainant about Google's search dominance, and central to the government's antitrust case that it just filed?
This sort of thing happens even for high-end pentesting. Here is the same assessment done by four decent consulting companies. They all found risks that the other companies missed.

https://ostif.org/four-audits-of-randomx-for-monero-and-arwe...

This is what I'm giving to clients who have unreasonable expectation that all vulns should be found during an assessment. The usually "time boxed" nature of this sort of work does allows for 1.5 sigma when many companies always expect 3 sigma coverage.
I'm expecting that after a decade or so of rapid development by people constantly hyping and offering a vision of the future that's a complete lie, that at the very least some of it would materialize.
Where did I mention any causality?
Airpods/ Beats/ Watch is a $25 Billion/ year business with 40%/ YoY growth. Neither product existed when Jobs was alive.

That's something Nadella hasn't even managed, let alone Ballmer.
Let's just be glad they still have an API. I think the days of brand name social media services providing any useful free API are numbered. They've already gotten the growth boost they wanted out of it, so now it's just an expensive liability.

I just killed a side project that would have depended on social network APIs because they all lose functionality with every release. The trend couldn't be clearer.
> Hard work only matters when you work hard to change yourself.

This may be necessary, but is certainly not sufficient (to the OPs point).
We're a 40 person Design agency, that has been running on Mac hardware for almost 40 years now.

Everybody of us used to be a huge apple fanboy, now every one of us hates them with a passion.

They completely ignored their customers for the iPhone money grab. Their hardware and software used to be synonymous with quality, nowadays their shoddy quality has become a meme at work.

"Oops reboot." - "What did you expect, it's a mac."

We're looking for the door, and slowly started to introduce windows machines. We were shocked how fast computers got
without apple catching up.

Apple used to he one of the pillars of our productivy, nowadays it's a liability.

And from a developer perspective, they murdered their own App ecosystem.

Mac software used to be really really good. But who do you expect to write great apps for 70ct per sale. That's just ridiculous. Also, why should I get an iPad pro, if I can't even write software on it.

They could've dominated the PC market if iPad Os was actually a real OS.

I doubt that apple can keep its brand relevant without opinion leaders like design professionals.

I mean, c'mon, even Ive left.

Apple is dead, it's only a matter of time for the rot to bring it down.
A minor off-topic comment but,

> and a pack of paper wieners baring her face (“so they could actually picture me as a Hotdogger”)

shouldn't that be "bearing"? unless the paper hot dogs revealed her face hidden behind them, rather than blazoning it prominently. (in the way a document can "bear" someone's signature)
With hard xrays you can visualize interatomic densities and lone pairs. I know there are structures down to 0.5Å resolution now but that must have required careful setup. I've seen diffraction out to 0.75Å but I could never collect complete data at that resolution.
Since the songs are just embedded it looks like the platforms that actually host the songs handle that (Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube etc.)
Does entrepreneurship have to be a 80 hour week full time all-or-nothing commitment? What of those passive income advocates that talk about slowly building revenue streams on the side?
surprised microsoft still has 72% of server market. I thought by now Linux servers will be reigning supreme. Though, I will admit IIS[0] is wonderful piece of software. Also does the open source world have a direct match for active directory etc, that are used by enterprises and smb's ?

But then, maybe I could be wrong a killing could be made selling linux boxes to be servers on the intranets around the world.

[0]: https://www.iis.net/overview
This. A lot of founders seem to underestimate the effect of timing. I've read so many many stories where a startup took off when another product got worse/shut down (for example, Feedly really took off when Google Reader shut down, and so on.)
Is this targeted more at users of the condition system, or implementers who are writing their own common lisp compilers?

From the Amazon blurb:

>In part 1 of The Common Lisp Condition System, the author introduces the condition system using a bottom-up approach, constructing it piece by piece. He uses a storytelling approach to convey the foundation of the condition system, dynamically providing code to alter the behavior of an existing program. Later, in part 2, you’ll implement a full and complete ANSI-conformant condition system while examining and testing each piece of code that you write.
There are numerous anecdotal reports of Trump supporters refusing to answer polls or giving intentionally misleading answers. But it's inherently impossible to know how prevalent that phenomenon is. Pollsters can't force voters to respond or give truthful answers.
I'm definitely not arguing that biased news started after that but it was much more niche then. And if you go back 20 years from that, it was incredibly fringe.
Motivations lead to the justifications.

The problem with interstellar warfare is, outside the "Dark Forest" concept of "kill everyone just in case", there aren't all that many motivations that seem to make sense.

Any interstellar species probably doesn't really need to steal planets, resources, etc.
Wouldn't it have been entirely against Voice of America's mission and purpose of funding if it said something positive for China?

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/10/white-house-attacks...

I mean this whole episode is farcical but if I was a buyer (which I am as a taxpayer), I'd want what I paid for as well.
What makes opposition movements adopt telegram? What's the key feature that makes them adopt it instead of WhatsApp or Signal? People are not crypto nerds by default, so there must be a simpler answer.
The first network access fails until you grant local network permissions to iSH.
> Python is not suitable for complex multi-layered systems

But PHP is? I cannot imagine a "complex multi-layered system" for which PHP is a better solution than a Python stack.
This should be no problem.
19/20 does, though.
> If you made the House an even number, they might have ties, so then they would need a way to break ties.

The House can and does have ties, even with an odd number of members; members abstaining or missing votes in the House are more common in the House than the EC.

You could extend the same EC voting arrangement to, say, (to pick an odd number of territories) Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands as D.C. has now.

Or adopt D.C. statehood, in which case then you have an odd number in the House + an even number in the Senate + zero.
JR Simplot was the wealthiest man in Idaho for a long time, and if I recall correctly didn't get through high school and was the perfect model for the kind of low-status signaling addressed above.
I've used Twitter nearly every day for years, and the first I heard about bookmarks was on HN a while ago. I've always just used favs as a bookmark substitute.

They recently added it as a prominent menu item on the website, but it's still a complete mystery about how to create a bookmark (buried under share icon, which is semi-usable on desktop and completely awful on iOS).
I think that they didn't release a list. I think it's just a mention of the fact during the earnings call, which focused heavily on the way Coke's revenues are way down during the pandemic. Presumably the list will come later.
>How is taking rides on the way home bad service
Does uber guarantee that there will be paying rides to bring you back home? Otherwise you are driving on your own dime

>Why should I get the same wage as a sub par driver
Because that's not how the world works. It isn't some meritocratic paradise that fairly pays people for their work.
Besides, nothing says uber can't pay you more for being a better fully employed driver. If you truly are a better driver, surely you could get a raise right?
> I don't know if it's different in the US, but here in Europe I know lots of career academics that consider their postdoc(s) as one the favorite parts of their career.

How well do they get paid? What kinds of benefits do they get? In the US, the annual salary is $40-50K/year - roughly half that of a tenure track faculty member. I just checked one university and picked a random post doc and a random assistant professor. Postdoc is getting $51K/year, assistant professor is getting $110K/year.

It's fine if you do one stint, but a lot of people need to do multiple of them. It's not all that unusual seeing someone approaching 40 before they get a tenure track position.
That's going to be a fun toy on election night, as state results come in.
Regarding the politics, it's not surprising in the least.

There was some controversy earlier this month surrounding a significant change in the admissions process at the top public high school in San Francisco[1].

Historically, this school based their admissions process on academic performance; a student's standardized tests scores and GPA were the criteria used to determine whether they were accepted into the school.

As a result, the largest demographic were Asian American students. So affirmative action was put in place, so non-Asians who performed worse academically got admitted over Asians who performed better. Even with this race-based discriminatory policy, about half of the student body consisted of Chinese-Americans and the percentage continued to increase.

Now, the SFUSD school board has voted to change the admissions process to a lottery. They have effectively made it clear that academic achievement has no merit. They are prioritizing racial identity over education, and even have the audacity to claim that anyone who opposes this decision is racist[2].

So, yes, politics has indeed gotten very extreme in academia.

1: https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/Lowell-High-Sc...
2: https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/Chaos-and-a-ho...
The electoral college is designed (from the start) to prevent the larger, more populous states from dominating the country. Seems to be working as designed. And doing a good job as a system.

Politics is extremely broken, yes. But I don’t think the electoral college is the fault.
> You would have bet the farm on the undervalued bet on the prediction markets.

This is what's frustrating about sites like 538. They have Biden as an 87% chance to win. A betting site I frequent has Biden's winning odds as -180 (1.556 for Europeans). If they really believe the accuracy of their models, they should literally be betting the farm on a Biden win.
Show HN: Browser XS-Leaks and Tab crasher by domain
Website: https://cache.ndev.tk/ Code: https://github.com/NDevTK/CacheAttack Discord: https://discord.gg/kZPqHwg
Detects browser history :D theirs also buttons like "Window mode" for Firefox users who have enabled browser.cache.cache_isolation and "Blocker" for chrome users this crashes tabs by domain name the "Youtube" button may be buggy.

The network page can be used to list HTTP servers on your local network.

The Gender page can be used to detect your gender using the Ad personalization cache.

Unrelated but theirs also https://rickroll.ndev.tk/ which bypasses the chrome download limit to spam the user with lyrics.
It reads like a parody SV developer blog post.
The problem is that options are scattered on 2 interfaces now , some of which are grouped by hardware, others by concept and others randomly. Plus the new interface has 3 columns you need to scan. You may be right about bluetooth options, but you are not going to find wifi passwords via search.

The path is: Network & Internet -> Status -> Network&Sharing center -> <Connection name> -> Wireless properties -> Security -> show characters.

The fastest way to get to that is via a google search: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/find-your-wi-fi-...

I still don't know how you can see the password for a network without being connected to it.
I run a few bots which notifies on Slack/Discord. I think a Tweetdeck like grid would make more sense for them. Since these notifications are sometimes a little too chatty, I think it sits in-between a Tweet and Notification.
I think that's a different goal, they want to be quasi unemployed with money, surfing at the beach in Bali.
You and the people of Latin America are making a language category error though. The people of Latin America speak Spanish (and perhaps Portugese), and the Spanish word "America" means what it does in Spanish. But in English, the word "America" refers to the USA. It doesn't make sense to complain about words in other languages that you don't speak.

You acknowledge what America means when you use the English word "Americas" to refer to the regions within North and South America, because in English that is the word to use and has the other meaning.

The same logic applies to "football", btw. The vast majority of English speaking people refer to soccer as soccer. That people who speak other languages use a word in their language that sounds like "football" to refer to soccer does not give them standing to sound off on what Australians, Americans, and Canadians call soccer. There is room for the British to bicker about it, but they are a distinct minority among English speakers.
Show HN: I built 6 (+1) apps in one day
I've a bunch of year folders from years ago when I only produced what's now seemingly a month's worth of pictures in a year.

Now I'm dumping pictures onto a harddrive every 6 months or so. I'm planning on dumping everuthing into one folder and writing a shell script to sort them into 'yyyy/mm/yyyy-mm-dd'. Just need to work out how I'm doing that.

I don't use or trust online storage.
How solitude and isolation can affect your social skills
Early French settlers in Canada suffered badly until the locals taught them to boil arborvitae needs, I believe.
> You can `import {readFile} from 'fs/promises'` in Node and it works as you'd expect, including top-level await

I can't believe I missed that. I've still been writing promise wrappers like a fool.
> The reality is that the leader of a not for profit organization competes in the same job market as those for for profit organizations. So if you want someone decent to do a good job then you need to pay them the market price.

I'm not sure how true this is. people that work at non-profits often don't view jobs at for-profits as acceptable substitutes unless they really need the money. the belief that they are making the world a better place (or at least the image of doing so) is part of the compensation package. the real bidding war is among other non-profits.
I think 57421175 is actually 57420075 but the keyboard doesn't go low enough
Well, the fact that I have more than 25 years of experience kind of tells that I am not a 28 years old anymore, doesn't it?
Also, I think it is pretty standard in Europe (and I think I saw this in Australia too) to refer to person in newspaper as Name, <age>, which makes it a "common practice" of sorts...

It is hard to hide an age :)
Show HN: Layluh – Minimalist front-end for YouTube