skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I host mine too because I'm not interested in paying ~$100/year for the rest of my life to access music, this is like welfare for tech giants and record companies and very little even trickles down to musicians. I got a Synology NAS and these days I just run the Synology operating system in a virtual machine and it's accessible via web UI or mobile apps and backs up to the cloud, this has served me very well for years now.
Currently there isn't
I don't think we'll have any problems here in Texas:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholz_Garten
Only the rich ones. You wanna build stuff in Buffalo or Detroit and they'll happily take your money in exchange for permits. (well, maybe not Detroit depending on what you want to build, they had a problem with too much housing not long ago but you get my point).
The 11-12 hour estimates of screen time include office work, e-mail, and so on. It’s incorrect to imply that all of that time is wasted.

This idea that success comes to anyone who just shows up and puts in a little bit of effort because most people are watching TV or browsing the Internet for 12 hours a day is, to be blunt, extremely naive.
There are so many COVID-19 denalists/disinformation sources on HN that it wouldn't have hurt to be clearer about your intentions so you weren't mistaken for one of them.
> The other issue (and we're part of this problem) is that a lot of former rental houses are being put on the market, so locals are having quite a hard time finding a place to rent, and having to end up in places like Reno, which is roughly a 45-60 minute drive away.

This has been happening for years, at least around South Lake Tahoe, due to rentals being put up on AirBnB. I've talked to numerous locals over the years while on ski trips and they've all said the same thing: if they're renting it's usually in Nevada and they drive to town every day. During big storms a lot of folks can't even make it to work at all.
Under Ballmer, MS dropped the ball on mobile. They had Windows CE, Windows on every desktop, and Xbox on the set top. And with all that, they couldn't put together a viable mobile product? They had the chance to make a holistic ecosystem that would span desktop, laptop, smartphone, tablet, TV, and everything in between. And they dropped the ball. Now we have to deal with a Duopoly between the largest advertiser and the largest media merchant. UGH.
It's sad but true. The air of superiority around academia is the primary reason I decided not to enter it.

A friend of mine in academia at a pretty prestigious university put it bluntly - it's gatekeeping for rich people. She's the only one who came from less than wealthy upbringing of her colleagues. And because she doesn't come from wealth, she's often abused by others because she has no "leverage."

I like the idea of a PhD. But these days, so much good work is being done in the private sector, why bother?
they might be intentionally blocking multiple windows for settings page because of difficulty in synchronizing settings across windows.

P.S. Linux user
I thought it was fairly explicit that the Zones were artificial?
re: #5 phpstorm

Correct, it's not free, but there is a 30 day trial. And... if you want to try it past that, it's $9/month on month-to-month pricing. For anyone working in "western" economies, it's near enough to free to at least give it a trial for a few months. The other 'big' competitors - vscode and probably... eclipse - both can provide value, but I've found the JetBrains stuff provide a much nicer out of the box experience for most PHP folks getting started out that that $89/year or $9/month to try is almost a no-brainer. But have also had people disagree, and almost always spend more than the $89 of their own time (or their company's time) getting VSCode set up with a collection of plugins.
Thanks - my genetic test is already en route! Been meeting with the genetics team at UCSF to look into this exact issue.
What bugs? I know of some that are left in for backwards compatibility, but otherwise its clearly working well enough to be the dominant tool for so many industries. And the parts that work are good enough that its easier to just change the industry to fit excel then change excel at this point since so many people have different requirements- see what happened with genetics recently
This is what I don't understand about qanon, which I assume is because what I know of qanon is only this surface-level premise.

Where does it go off the rails?

Because--if we're being real with ourselves--we have to contend with the fact there is a pedophile island, and heads of state, royals, and other elite are credibly implicated the sex trafficking that sustains it.
And all of those convoluted rules are why CA is forcing ADU's. It's the legislature basically telling towns to get it together or zoning goes bye bye.
Anecdotally when I was in college I remember doing a lot of observing of all the kid in various programs. I distinctly remember thinking all my pre-law friends and acquaintances seemed to be really looking for something... at the time I thought they were looking for "who they are", but status actually makes a lot more sense, even if it is a bit of "who they are" as well.

That's not a judgment about them good or bad, just something that seemed to stick out to me about many of them.
When my MBP 2015 croaks I don't think I will use any Apple machines regularly again. They've been my main laptops since the iBook G3/900 (prior to that I've used Apple as well, alongside other systems). So it's going to be a solid 2 decades or so.

For most of that time I had Linux/BSD/Win/Mac machines that I'd use for different things, the Mac being the "personal" computer first option. At some point Windows became unbearable and I simply stopped using down to the point I couldn't justify maintaining a machine for it neither in the physical nor logical sense (even maintaining familiarity with what's on them). This was roughly 2~3 years ago and being forced to switch to Win10 eased the decision to just EOL it.

Recently I'm doing most of my daily stuff on a Linux desktop machine (I've been a Linux user since the mid 90s) partly because of the lockdown. In the desktop, Linux has been the best experience for me for many years. Just not on the laptop for a variety of reasons. With Apple's increasing anti-user hostility I think it's time to deal with the mild problems and annoyances your typical Linux laptop is expected to cause.
Good points, some of which can be addressed:

Re: conditionals
SGML allows marked sections to have parameter entities as keywords, and recognizes INCLUDE/IGNORE in their expansions:

<!entity % e "include">
...
<![ %e [
will only be included if
e expands to INCLUDE
]]>

Re: mixed user/system text
SGML supports quite restrictive content model exclusions, eg the "-(script)" part below makes SGML reject script elements in main's content anywhere:

<!element main - - ANY
-(script)>

Moreover, you can declare an entity as a so-called data text entity, special chars in which are preserved

Re: running legacy parts
There's no difference to what PHP does now eg just running through the page/template doc until the end, erring out on validation errors?
http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v 1983 Rob Pike
Main take away I had from his book "Hit Refresh", was that he made sure products don't hold other products back... Example: Office is free to go and make Office for Mac and grow Office numbers on iOS, Android... Without any burden to prefer Windows to drive Windows sales, Windows has to deliver numbers them self... Same goes for Windows on Azure or many other products that overlap...
Does the unit of composition have to be a complete query/CTE? Theoretically it seems like it could be any fragment of SQL, but the docs seem to imply it must be a complete query.

I created something similar recently: https://docs.racket-lang.org/plisqin/index.html. At its core, it is also a library for composing fragments of SQL, but it has some novel (as far as I know) ideas. The most notable is that joins are values (or "expressions", if you prefer) that can be returned from a procedure like any other value. I was hoping that the world would realize "that's obviously how query builders should work" and copy the approach when starting new projects, but that hasn't happened.
How do you deal with reasonably complex data structures in OpenAPI?

We're in desperate need of an API documentation solution, and i reached for OpenAPI early on but found it (the UIs availab,e specifically) immensely confusing. It looks great when it's a small flat object, but when you're returning hundreds of unique fields and structures, lots of enums, etc - the result is an automated mess.

I don't think this is strictly a fault of the spec, but of the UI. They seem to design it around the pet shop example, which doesn't seem beneficial to any of our internal, large API responses.

Thoughts?
Just chiming in that your post matches 100% with what I've heard, seen, and read.

I'll add that it's one thing if some of the best self-motivated students are able to learn just by watching videos, submitting assignments, and seeing their autograde. It's another thing to expect this to work for 95% of the freshman class at Random University. Many will ignore the videos or not mentally engage, muddle through the assignments or cheat. Others won't have the meta-learning skills to identify where they're stuck and resolve the confusion.

So I'm not quite sure what you have in mind when you say "active teaching", but I completely agree at least with "interactive". At least the TA staff hours-per-student has to scale linearly. Professor time probably does too, but as you say, it's managerial.
> People considered me to be quasi-unemployed

On a related note, this is a mindset that I think is probably the biggest blocker to entrepreneurial success (and perhaps happiness?)

I have a friend (you know who you are since you’ll probably read this ;) who is by ALL measures a massively successful and brilliant person. Ran his own startup for 10+ years, just had a great exit. And during his post-sale victory lap in which he took a much-needed burnout recovery break, STILL began to refer to himself as “unemployed” in the context of worry over what to do next.

“Employed” / “Unemployed” is a mindset that’s been engrained into people for hundreds of years, so I can’t blame others for applying it to entrepreneurs. But I think it’s a limiting frame of reference and holds a lot of people back.
Sea Level Rise Hawaii
It's not inevitable. Our core routers aren't even the same routers as our edge routers. The edge routers won't touch a 10/8 in any direction. The core routers only allow them on internal interfaces.

I'm not sure what you mean by fallback proxies without proxying being involved. Could you elaborate and clarify?
Is it interference? Where are the free speech absolutists to defend this case?
This poor research project represents the state of the art out there in the wild.
I Still Use Redux for Global State Management on React Projects
They self-admittedly have a unique set of resources.

Natural Resources
Fresno County is unique among California counties in the range of natural resources (forests, riverways, and wildlife habitats) that encompass its vast terrain.... Two major rivers, the Kings and San Joaquin, flow through this rich landscape, providing the County with its most prized resource, water.[0]

[0] -https://www.co.fresno.ca.us/departments/public-works-plannin...
1. Where do you source parts for the pole?

2. How did you do these animations? Blender?

3. Do you have any relationship with lowtechmagazine.com?

Nice project, thanks for documenting it :)
@dang - can you switch the title to the original.
This is helpful context. I am not a scientist in any way, shape or form, but this is cool stuff. Appreciate the translation to layman’s terms!
That's just one data point. I could go on and on about how people make obviously bad decisions.

Take college major choice. Why do so many people get worthless degrees? They can do a simple google search to see how much people with X major make as salaries. It's not hidden or even a remote mystery. I won't get in to how people finance their education (not even reading the terms of their loans which are invariably awful).

As for career, I lived for a year in Minnesota and was amazed at how many people were incredibly underpaid (like 80K a year for a senior software engineer) and simply did not try to change jobs. Similarly many also refused to even consider moving to a costal city with better pay. I've also had co-workers that stuck around at obviously failing companies (and then were upset when their options were worthless).

And with investments, I've an aunt who inherited 50K about 20 years ago and just kept the money in the bank. Everyone knows you should be investing that money in the stock market or an appreciating asset, yet she is hardly unusual in just not investing the money. My mom invested it and made at least 4x on the money.

There are tons of these kinds of things - which are all simple and obvious, but literally most people don't do them for reasons that are just beyond me. I had a friend who was a semester away from graduating at UCSD and dropped out to take music lessons at community college. I tried to explain to him that was an awful decision, but he was just dead set on it. I've seen this stuff happen over and over.

Obviously, you can say that people don't have this kind literacy because they were poor, ignorant, ect. It doesn't change the fact that mostly getting by and moving up in the world is not rocket science or for special people, it's a matter of just making mostly reasonable decisions: choosing a reasonable career, saving money, showing up for work, taking good opportunities when given to you.
Since people might not be familiar with the unit Angstrom used in the article: it is a shorthand for 10^-10 m = 0.1 nm = 1 Å (Ångström).

Edit: Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angstrom
Participate in biometric study in Boston, Oct 28
All I really want is Fireworks. Never found a true replacement for it.
I remember being an intern at Microsoft in 2009 and going to a talk with Ballmer.

What I remember is the most charismatic human being I've ever seen. The man could have been a cult leader. He had and maybe still has power in his ability to speak. Any question we asked (and we were interns, we asked lots of them) he had not just an answer but a good answer. He spoke of his failures well too: "They ask if we should make a video game console or a phone, and I chose the console- I should have said 'both'!".

But nobody cares about how well you can speak. People want results.[0]

The original schedule for the event actually got cancelled at the last minute- there was a huge announcement that had to be made, a big deal that was going to change the face of Microsoft, and it overlapped with our time. He was very apologetic about that, and rescheduled us for the next week, and then spoke at length about this incredible thing that was about to happen.

That big announcement? Bing was teaming up with Yahoo on Search. (We all remember the day of that earth-changing event, right?)

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrhSLf0I-HM
StrictYAML
I think Balmer takes a lot of the blame that should probably be directed more towards the board. Balmer was doing exactly what they asked him to do and had he made the type of decisions Satya is making, they would have replaced him with a more conservative CEO.

Balmer was very successful in doing what he was tasked with. You can’t blame him for that.
The issue being raised is that the 8chan IPs here are owned by nobody.

> Both the Nevada-based web hosting company owned by 8chan’s current figurehead and the California firm that provides its sole connection to the Internet are defunct businesses in the eyes of their respective state regulators.

> In practical terms, what this means is that the legal contracts which granted these companies temporary control over large swaths of Internet address space are now null and void, and American Internet regulators would be well within their rights to cancel those contracts and reclaim the space.
My own C compiler on my own compiler infrastructure
> “... the Xbox One (which halved its marketshare vs the 360)”

This is an odd thing to blame on Ballmer — he was CEO already during the original Xbox and Xbox 360 launches! His CEO tenure was 14 years...

Why doesn’t he get credit for making Microsoft a top vendor in gaming?
Police Phone Decryption Capabilities Report
Thank you! I had just finished reading John McPhee's book 'Draft No 4' on "creative nonfiction" and I felt inspired to try it out!
I'd stress the informed part. Career prospects may look much differently on the outside than they do from the inside.

A common example I see is wondering if and when programming will be automated away. These questions come from ingesting the hype surrounding AI. So unless you're inside the industry, or have someone from inside explain things to you, you'll have a mistaken perspective on the future of software careers, thanks to the ongoing barrage of marketer lies. I imagine it's the same for other industries.
> What is surprising is the number of people purchasing these security services as well as the number of positive reviews. An incomplete security testing methodology results in a false sense of security for the assessed systems.

The same is happening in the "smart contract audit" space. The results of the audit do not matter to the audience that wants to see the checkbox of "audit".

You can currently make a lot of money undercutting other auditors providing these audits.

The person requesting the audit is making multiple orders of magnitude more money by having the audit.
Cryo-EM is such a powerful and important tool in biochemistry that any advancement is bound to have significant impacts. Its difficult to overstate how powerful a tool this is and how widely used it is to understand protein structures. Essentially, it let's you see what proteins look like, with some significant advantages over previous techniques like xray crystallography for many use cases. The technique won the 2017 chemistry nobel and was method of the year for nature in 2016, even without atomic resolution.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nmeth.4115
I noticed a horrendous slowdown of the default image viewer. Double-clicking on a small JPEG file (less then 1MB) can take up to 20s to finally view.

Got so bad, that I now have MS Paint as default image viewer.

I kinda like the image viewer's ability to view other pictures in the same directory, but the performance and waiting time to view anything was just way too terrible.
You need $130,000 for a 12 month investor visa. I think I'll stick with paying $90 a month, thanks. For an education visa you need to be registered with a university. This being Vietnam, I'm sure there's someone you can pay to make that happen, but I've never heard of someone who's not a genuine student doing that. Most common beside tourist visas is a business visa, but in case you're thinking of buying a fake one, agents do check nearly everyone at some point and you can get fined and blacklisted. Also you technically have to leave the country to change visa type (although maybe they've waived that at the moment).
Amazon SNS FIFO – First-in-First-Out Pub/Sub Messaging
nah, he turned the stock price around which is why Wall Street and MSFT employees love him.

Every single thing he's credited for "turning around" was launched under Ballmer.

My reading of Ballmer from the outside (I'd left long before the recent transition years) is that he probably trusted his division heads too much. He figured they knew what they were doing and he just had to steer the giant ship gently in a general direction.

What other explanation is there for letting Sinofsky run amok with the horseshit that was Windows 8 ? Or Office refusing to ship WinRT apps, ever ?

Ballmer had Microsoft in his blood and I loved him for that. People like to make fun of his "Developers, Developers, Developers" video, but that man put his soul in his work.
Nadella is bent on competing on low-price Linux VMs with AWS and he will lose that bet in the long run.

I don't feel like I need to go into the abomination that is Windows 10.

Or maybe I'm just a bitter Windows Phone user shaking my fist at the clouds (no pun intended).
Here is the rest of the details from my developer on the project-

What was our specific server size and setup and costs with RDS?
We were using db.t3.medium (1 CPU, 2 vCPU, 4GB RAM), we were using a DB cluster that has 2 instances db.t3.medium overall cost (~$118 monthly)
And now with EC2?
We are using c5d.xlarge (4 CPU, 20 ECU, 8GB RAM), we are using one instance c5d.xlarge overall cost (~$140 monthly)
What was the big cost savings?
Our main issue was in I/O (Read and write), we have very high I/O demand so we was paying for I/O and storage (~$600) and the second issue is CPU credit (~$90 monthly) so the total save is ($600+$90+$118)-$140= $668 per month.

Also EC2 performance is better than RDS because we get a very good cheaper than RDS server.

Note:
RDS is configuration less and has support while if you want to use EC2 then you need a person to do configuration and support for DB on it.
Apple stock has 10x'd under Cook since 2011.
Microsoft was flat under Ballmer.

So ummm, maybe a slight difference in performance.
And this is why I think public companies are a terrible model.
OK, haven't read anything about falcor since it's annoucement I always assumed it was GraphQL based. So the point is to not need to wait on team X to deliver feature Y? Rather the client teams are responsible for implementing whatever they need? I think I got it.
Given the choice, I'd choose mega-dosing over micro-dosing. Never around work, though.
The three key items: control the CO₂ level in the room, have enough motion / exercise, set up adequate lighting.
has anyone aliased npm to run nvm first, and then run npm, passing in the arguments?

or have people made nvm run when their system or terminal window starts so that they don't have to remember to do it
Reasonable rules for something like HAProxy are not at all prone to errors. Ours aren't even applied by hand. It only has to be made right when the automation module is updated, and that gets tested well before it goes to production.

Varnish rules are also not that difficult, but I said nothing of caching reverse proxy. I mentioned Memcached specifically in the context of federating traffic counts across multiple non-caching proxies.

Whether an application uses Memcached or not is irrelevant to the proxies.
Windows still directly generates annualized revenue of $22 billion. Plus Microsoft's dominance in that platform creates a ton of synergies in its other product lines. For example how many Azure customers pick it over AWS because they need a Windows-first cloud. It easily contributes hundreds of billions to Microsoft's market cap.

I'm sure Windows is no longer considered the sexy department in Micrsoft's internal culture. But corporate management would have to be ridiculously incompetent to let that business line get significantly neglected.
Peep (The Network Auralizer): Monitoring Your Network with Sound (2002)
There is serious work happening on building perpetual motion machines of the third kind (one that moves forever but does not produce energy). But to contribute to that work takes years of serious study. It's probably a good idea to do that study in a formal setting to avoid fooling yourself into thinking you understand when you don't.
Actual source paper:

https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/499/1/L111/5931805
Express really exemplifies the "composition over heavy framework" concept though - you never really hand over any control to it