skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* I'm not planning on shutting it down at any point, the cost to operate it is very low (it's just a bunch of static files at its core). But I am personally also always weary to put stuff in online services, that's why I made it all open source: other than observable actually all the pieces are there (including editor and offline support), not just runtime/parser. You can download the files and check them into git, and edit them, and host them trivially. There's no "download all" button yet but if there's a demand for that why not :)

* Private notebooks make a lot of sense, and perhaps this is where it can be a viable product as well instead of just a useful open source tool? I have plenty of runway, but still it would be more sustainable if it could eventuallu pay my rent.. Similar to the (old) github model I mean (pay for team features / private notebooks you can share with some) with some reasonable limits?
My main goal right now is to raise awareness for it. I think many many web developers especially would find the notebook paradigm really useful, but how do I show that?

* A lot of stuff.. auto save, I store every revision but currently you only can retrieve the latest, social features (e.g. recent notebooks, avatars), actual documentation (in notebooks of course).

If you have ideas or thoughts on where I should take this, do reach out! Email in my profile.
Here you go. GP linked to a very old version. This one is the latest version, and examples are syntax highlighted.

Edit: Forgot the URL: https://postgrest.org/en/v7.0.0/auth.html#sql-user-managemen...
You're using fedora on cloud services and corporate infrastructure?
What is the goop inside a lava lamp?
love zerotier. highly recommended
The most pressing problem we have is not Coronavirus, it's Moronavirus.
There are definitely FPGAs that are a lot more capable than the FPGA that I'm using. For example, see my reply to flatiron here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25172781

While it would have been easier to use a larger/faster FPGA, part of the fun of such a low level project is to work within harsh constraints and see what can be done regardless :).
The transcript of the SoftBank investor talk reminded me of:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uraG-z0grkc
Arch isn’t x64 only. Manjaro’s an Arch derivative, and is the preloaded OS on Pine Book Pro’s (they used to preload debian).

The switch is disappointing for me, since I’d prefer Debian with a minimalist wm. However, manjaro + kde is good enough for light usage, and definitely easier for more mainstream users.
Yes, we stopped using it (because impacted us negatively).

Being FB user feels like, everyone is happy except you. Everyone is traveling all the time, eating only in best restaurants, what they say should be treated as an expert opinion and so on. Best solution for us was just to stop using FB. (I am still holding FB account to create test applications while developing sign in with fb kind of features)
Unfortunately that doesn't work so well for a disease whose main source of risk to each person is the behaviour of other people.
OP is already paying for them by buying the products they sell.
I love it. Not that it doesn't have it's issues. I've been here 10 years now though.
Measurements of fully baked services are interesting to someone looking to buy VPN services.. But the correlation with how these implementations perform in general could be very loose. Maybe these services have a specific bottleneck that cripples OpenVPN or can offload crypto for wireguard, or are using very different combinations of algorithms, or are sending less popular protocols to specific and therefore idle pools..

While I would suspect wireguard performance is quite a bit better than a similar OpenVPN configuration, I would want to see analysis of specific setups and what resources they actually use on both sides.
The only real conclusion from most of these studies is that nobody knows anything for sure, and had COVID19 been as deadly as the Spanish Flu, we'd be just as fucked as we were back then. If not worse, because of much greater mobility.
Cool Testflight Apps
I don’t understand why Apple doesn’t just document this. Is the team responsible for it just pro-UIKit and doesn’t actually want people to use SwiftUI or something? Because the lack of documentation for so long really does give me the impression that they actually don’t want people to use it. It’s hard to believe it could just be incompetence.
I wouldn't say bad programmers, there's literally nobody offering me a job in rust/crystal/swift but electron and JS SPA jobs are countless.
Do you yourself truthfully believe that Trump wanted to make policy decisions based on the best science available?
The idea of a thermostat using its own detected temperature as a random input to help set the temperature would be horrifying, if I weren't already convinced that that's how mine works.
Show HN: Branch Poke – nag people to clean up branches
Maybe have a look at https://www.fiverr.com/categories/programming-tech/cybersecu...
>Most companies don't allow you to do work on non-corporate computers, for intellectual property/security reasons.

I'm genuinely curious how common that is these days. I certainly work on personal computers and a lot of people I know seem to do so as well.
… and this is why price comparisons between rail and truck freight are typically bad, my dad tells me: because railways are expected to pay for their tracks, whereas trucks’ use of the road network is massively subsidised by passenger cars.
> Society also doesn't "force" you to get a job that doesn't make you happy.

1. Absolutely
2. What’s this about a job making you happy?

> But speaking realistically, society forces people to do many things without using direct physicality or threats.

I don’t get this line of thinking. I can come up with compulsory taxation, but you can always move to another society. What has society forced you to do?
It does matter, because not every use case requires everything but the kitchen sink. If you're building things that only ever require the same mass produced components for every application, well that stifles the possibilities of what can be built.
Do you have any examples you could point to? A few years back I looked into this and the only real viable option was Qt Embedded, which is expensive for embedded and requires royalties to be paid on per-device basis. I wonder how much things have changed since then and whether there's now a viable FOSS GUI stack for embedded Linux.
One of the big problems is that early in the Pandemic, the WHO, Fauci and most media said that Masks were useless. This was repeated several times. The turn-around occurred later and nobody apologised for their earlier, incorrect stances.
Linux on iPad
Apple lobbying against bill aimed at stopping forced labor in China
Ok so you're not the target customer for this product. Do you believe people with this problem should be deprived of a solution just because you don't need it?
In marketing-speak, the various 'HDR' standards refers to a bunch of things, not just to dynamic range :
https://www.cnet.com/news/dolby-vision-hdr10-advanced-hdr-an...

IIRC most of those are using Rec.2020 ?
I totally agree on Musk, but I think you could say similar things about many “role models”. We’re just going to need to teach young folks that people are complex. In situations like these I think about how Dave Chappelle speaks of Bill Cosby.
They know COVID is real and they almost certainly believe in science. They just don't care if it doesn't line their pockets.
The Kollected Kode Vicious (Transcript)
> The purpose of ads is to inform people of things they wouldn't otherwise know about

That's cute. I've never seen an ad for a wikipedia page though.

The real purpose of ads is to convince people to buy things that they otherwise might not have, so that companies can make a profit.

Take the https://www.theguardian.com/. I've got adverts for:

- an electric toothbrush. I already have one. But surely the new model is better!11!

- London apartments. I live 170 miles away and have no desire ever to live in London. But maybe I should because London is so amazing!11!!

- Remitly ("send money to India online"). I do not know anyone in India and have no need to send money there.

- "70% off" "Store Clothing", whatever the hell that is. I have plenty of clothes. But maybe I need more and to be more fashionable!11!!
Sadly these days the ability to read and write is insufficient in order to be an informed citizen because of how complex our media world is.

One really needs to have some solid critical thinking skills in order to be able to judge the overall reliability and trustworthiness of a book, article, tweet, news episode, etc.

And ideally have some fundamental historical knowledge, basic math, logic, fundamentals of science, etc.

Id argue many Americans are, through no fault of their own, not well-educated.

EDIT:

I cribbed from Noam Chomskys description of what it means to be educated:

https://www.openculture.com/2016/04/noam-chomsky-defines-wha...

'Humboldt, Chomsky says, “argued, I think, very plausibly, that the core principle and requirement of a fulfilled human being is the ability to inquire and create constructively, independently, without external controls.” A true education, Chomsky suggests, opens a door to human intellectual freedom and creative autonomy.'
> Anyone have a link to a collection of writing by Jan Morris?

> That just has a listing of books?

I don’t know what you were asking for if not this?
Yes, FF has already done that. Fortunately, there is nobody to read this.
Yes, backlinks were the thing that made Google what it is today, their first and most famous ranking algo was all about backlinks[0].

Find "a way to hack Google ranking" is a multi billion dollar industry called SEO. Sadly, an industry gone too far[1].

Because of this, finding and discovering good, high-quality information on Internet is still a big problem unsolved to date. And it's getting worse day by day because, at the same time, more and more people are playing that SEO game flooding the web with low-quality, almost nonsense, junk content.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22792243
It seems like a pretty common scenario, at least to me. There’s a 1 hour meeting to present Project X Status to Executive Y. You are presenting for 20 minutes so are required. Exec Y’s schedule for the next month rules everything out besides next Tuesday at 6am. You can’t just decline and not show up. You just have to suck it up and wake up earlier that day.

This scenario is actually much easier in COVID-WFH because I can just roll out of the bed at 5:45am, run a comb through my hair and fire up the videoconference. When I worked from office it meant waking up at 3:30am, leaving my house at 4am, and getting into the office by 5:30am.
Q: Asteroid Mining. Why?
https://openlibrary.org/search?q=jan+morris&author_key=OL313...
How to Evaluate NPM Packages Quantitatively
this is the weirdest take on ads i’ve ever heard. sounds like “i have too much money and enjoy when people show me new ways of spending it”
> It underpins the entire financial system. And it can’t be removed.

Of course it can be removed. There just isn't enough incentive to remove it yet.
Oxford is a good start for the beginner. Wikipedia has a bibliography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Morris_bibliography

Depending on where you live you could try your local library or the local university library.
>most software jobs were in large cities

I'm not true that is necessarily true. Most software jobs were in large metros. But, in the Boston area for example, I suspect most software jobs are still outside the city. (They were essentially 100% outside the city 20 years ago.) The same is almost certainly true of the Bay Area; most of the software jobs are not in SF proper.
You may have a look at Josh Kemp book “No degree No Problem”
Unlikely. That would probably be a bit of effort/expense. It might make it easier to request a device be unlocked however.
Follow the money.

This probably has little to do with maintaining roads, fairness , etc. It has more to do with finding a new revenue source to take advantage of. Sort of like Douce Bank saying that Work from Home people should pay a WFH Tax.

The most enthusiastic proponent of an EV tax has been the Infrastructure Partnerships Australia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Partnerships_Au...

Infrastructure Partnerships Australia is an independent think tank that looks for ways to raise capital. To justify their existence, they look for ways to separate the masses from their money. Just another private group run by Corporate hacks and sleazy Gov.

ICE Vehicles pay registration fees and a gas tax that's suppose to go into the Road Infra but never entirely does. EV's pay registration fees and I'm sure there is already a tax on electricity that is used to charge them just like there is a gas tax for ICE Vehicles. So isn't this double taxation?

Perhaps the problem here is you could get a few Solar Panels and a Battery/Storage device and deny them their revenue/profit/tax. We can't have that, can we....

As soon as technology starts digging into the pockets of Tax Revenue, a new Tax comes along to negate any savings benefit for the consumer.
Yup, exactly. And to make the waters even more muddy, some of it just boils down to personal preference. My office was open-plan, but my section of it was always relatively quiet, so it usually wasn't difficult to focus and get work done, even without headphones. It was nice to see my teammates and do 1-on-1 meetings actually face to face, in person, and to run into other colleagues and have an impromptu chat, either about work or non-work topics. I had a 30-minute walk to/from the office that helped me clear my head and get ready to start the day, or wind down and end my day.

Even then, pre-pandemic, I preferred to work from home most of the time, even though I didn't have a desk at home. Turns out I just like being home during the day, and like being able to take little short breaks here and there, without feeling weird about it at an office. And even though our office wasn't too bad with random interruptions, I liked having essentially zero interruptions at home.

Fortunately we (coincidentally) moved into a larger space a few days before SF's shelter-in-place order back in March, and now have a dedicated office room with an adjustable desk and monitor (a big thanks to my employer for providing reimbursement for some home-office expenses this year). Pre-pandemic, my partner did go into the office most of the time, and I don't think the two of us would have been comfortable in the old place (a loft with no doors and walls), working and taking Zoom meetings every workday. (But I easily recognize that if we had kids, neither space would have been great for permanent working from home.)

Sometimes it's hard to recognize that everyone's situation really is different (as you point out), and that even people with similar situations can just have different preferences and attitudes that can make them productive and happy with some setups, and unfocused and uneasy with others.

I think we also need to remember that this is not a standard shift to working from home. We're doing this as part of a global pandemic that has nerves frayed and has put a lot of other restrictions on our day-to-day lives. I expect that many people who are having issues working from home due to social/collaboration reasons would have fewer complaints if there was no pandemic and they could get their social interaction from hanging out with friends at their houses or in public places. And many who previously worked at an office 5 days a week, every week, and miss the office, might be happy in normal times working from home anywhere from 1-4 days a week, getting their "office fix" on the other day(s).
Sewing. First to make masks for the family. I then made sail and varnish covers for my boat. I broke my wife's domestic machine in the process (still recovering from that beating), but have graduated to sturdier machines and projects. I make a lined pouch out of up-cycled materials that seems to go over well with friends. I made a backpack that is my take on a Goruck GR1, but with a more slender profile and lighter weight while keeping the rugged exterior. I flirt with the idea of starting a cut-and-sew operation for custom backpacks at some point.
Absolutely true, there is a lot to prove there. It's not an elementary explanation by any means, rather it is an outline that someone who knows Galois theory well could probably reconstruct.
I use caddy-auth-portal and caddy-jwt to generate JWTs for AuthN (based on SSO) and then use postgres built in row level security for AuthZ.
The purpose of ads is to inform people of things they wouldn't otherwise know about. In that regard, I appreciate good ads that tell me about things I would want to know about and didn't already.
Reliable Stack Traces, the Reality of Myth-DWARF Stack Unwinding & other stories
http://archive.is/X8VkL
Hospitals Know What’s Coming
Planets So Close to Their Stars That They Have Magma Oceans 100km Deep
It looks like you're using an ice40 FPGA?

If you can make your project work with 38 I/O pins you could probably get it fabricated in ASIC by Efabless free. You just need to meet their repository requirements and make your verilog module conform to this interface:
https://github.com/efabless/caravel/blob/master/verilog/rtl/...

The openlane tool converts your verilog all the way down to final ASIC design...

You'd need to license everything Apache 2.0 though. And it would have to be done soon, the deadline is Nov 30th.
It seems that some of these startups are solving some small problem to automate tasks, on another company’s platform.

Like to update your content across multiple social media platforms. While they are useful to some people, I don’t really see them as game changers worthy of startup funding.
Maybe. On the other hand, maybe they're likely to engage more with the few apps that still support their version of ios.
I expected this to be about ergot [0], a fungi with hallucinatory effects.

It's suspected that ergot caused the Strasbourg dancing plague of 1518 [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergot

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518
The example I gave elsewhere are ads for live shows (back when that was a thing). I like live shows and sometimes the ads are the only way I learn about new ones.
Emoticons p22 !
Improve Social Media Marketing
Bad as in "unrealistic", i.e. lacking details and textures? Probably because they're researchers not 3D game designers. My guess is that it is just showing a standardized raytracing scene from a public research dataset used to compare raytracers.

The scene is demonstrating their "lightpath vectorization". If the claims work out, the real gains are the better use of the full hardware capabilities by vectorizing multiple rays without GPU/SIMD branch divergence - the divergence happens happens when different rays intersect different objects and dramatically slow down parallel work. That should really speed up rendering so allow more rays and create less noise, more detail.
You say it's "posix-like" - so what from posix had to be left out?
There was something more energetic and exciting about working together in the office.

Maybe it depends on the project or who you're working with but I'm not seeing it anymore with from home.

In fact it's gotten pretty boring. I'm almost over it.

I worked because it was fun. Now the fun has basically gone away it's not as appealing.

Thinking of taking a year off and just doing my own thing.
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How small are the files?

Here are some strategies to make S3 go faster: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19475726

--

You're right that S3 isn't for small files but for a lot of small files (think 500 bytes), I either plunge them to S3 through Kinesis Firehose or fit them gzipped into DynamoDB (depending on access patterns).

One could also consider using Amazon FSx which can IO to S3 natively.
> Why does (b) look so bad?

What's bad about it? The only thing I can see to criticize is the fact that the 'rays' cast shadows onto the floor.
Human content curation/ranking?

I have no much hope for algos, nor for AI. People will find ways to hack and fool them forever.
Covid Vaccine Delays – Why?
Instagram is actually pretty good at displaying only ads for things I’m interested in. Maybe I’m an easy mark, but it doesn’t really bother me, and occasionally I’ll buy something. I’ve also had the opposite experience on other platforms, where the targeting is shit and the ads make me stop using a product/app/site.

I think this is great. By putting tracking in the control of the user, the user can decide if they want shitty, generic ads or targeted relevant ads. What’s missing now is a built in ad blocker for iOS.
Life that has been continually evolving as the environment changes is much more likely to develop into a super threat than life that has been frozen for ages and is waking up into a world that it is not optimized for.

Anthrax outbreaks have occurred all around the world. Just because it occurred in Siberia and there is evidence that it survives being frozen for long periods of time doesn't mean the risk of some super threat from permafrost is of any exceptional significance.

It seems however that people like to be frightened and to have something to panic about, especially Americans, and your newspapers and magazines cater to this by cherry picking data that can be twisted to tell a scary story.
I don't think I suggest that a product should not exist. I suggest that targeting the competition instead of the use case is a bit silly.
Wow! This is really cool, thank you for open sourcing this! Do you have any posts talking about how you got started with FPGAs? I'm a SWE and want to get into this area. Your language seems to map directly to what I was sort of expecting to see in the HDL/VHDL world but wasn't finding. You're making me want to buy a VGA monitor and an iCE.
The documentation for everything lags years behind now. The only reasonable explanation is just that they have far too few people working on docs and don't consider it an important thing to hire more people for.
So, is there really no standard way to save a web page as a single page any more ? (Some browser extensions seem to be able to, but they feel kind of hacky...)

I swear, browsers have gone downhill since the days of Opera 12...
Yup, I wonder same thing. Besides the docs, it's the lack of comments and help on the "developer forums". They are content to let developers flail and struggle with a topic for years rather than take some time to help. It comes across to me as gross arrogance, but it could be something else.
> Your office can be place where you still have the option to work uninterrupted

That used to be the case many, many years ago, before the "open floor plan" debacle.

It's not the case anymore.
I really hope they won't prosecute him
Techniques like these seem very exciting for me in terms of making AI more general-purpose.

This type of thing indicates to me that we will see robots that can effectively learn and perform a variety of tasks in the real world in the relatively near future. Within years rather than decades. I mean it's not a fully functional system and doesn't solve all problems, but it shows that there is a type of "functional-checking" approach to abstraction that could work, hopefully in multiple contexts.
There are at least ways to get the ads down to a manageable level in the mobile app.

If i notice a 15 sec ad before the video starts I just restart it and hope for a shorter one.

If there is two ads at the start of the video, you can close the video and relaunch it after the first ad is finished to skip the second one.

If the video has midroll ads you can scroll the video to the end and press restart from the beginning. That will remove the midroll ads.