skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see a few people asking how you blend in among the crowd. My strategy is to use a common device like an iPhone 5 using the Safari browser, and for the connection I use a 4G connection that I seem to be sharing with loads of other subscribers. Apple's Advertising Identifier[0] AFAIK is not passed into Safari, as that only applies to other apps and not browsers like Safari.

The only thing that could make me stand out is if I deviate from this basic setup and use different browsers on weird connections like a VPN (Yes - a VPN can make you stand out). Also: upgrading my phone to the latest model is probably an uncommon practice and used as another heuristic to track you, & I've heard many people like to stick to a certain phone model until it starts acting up.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/adsupport/asidenti...
I gave this a shot but found it more cumbersome than just writing an API server in Go.
It looks like, there are a few already using this in production

You can see it on this page: http://postgrest.org/en/v7.0.0/
interesting, thank you …
Hey. I am 37 and a week ago started to learn to touch type the proper way. It's not a problem for me to touch type, but I did it with like 4-5 fingers and Never could get past 80 wpm. Now I started to learn the 10 fingers method and I feel like I miss almost every stroke. So frustrating
He claims it's written in a subset of C99 that also compiles as C++
I guess with the introduction of BEGIN CONCURRENT resolves this.

https://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/doc/begin-concurrent/doc/begi...
I recently read that supabase.io is using this.
https://supabase.io/docs/postgrest/server/about
Cancel student-loan debt? That’s making the working class subsidize the elite
this should require something more than a URL, even a skype meeting would be more secure.
More and more effort invested into systems whose primary developers and backers will not drive to completion and allow to fall by the wayside when budgets get cut or the next shiny new thing comes along.
Show HN: WireGuard vs. OpenVPN, a 2.5x Difference
All of Zoom’s security team is based in the US to be fair. I don’t really agree in general that the X-conference should use X-software.
Wow, this is a ~5 paragraph article, but the scrollbar would make you think it was an in-depth examination. Nope, just listicle ads for holiday gifts.
Yup! Are you _genuinely_ unable to answer a question about products unless all the products in question are owned by the same company?

This thread feels pretty suspicious IMHO, I really, really doubt you're missing the point this widely due to irrelevant details.
I don't think he answered his friend's question very well. All he did was describe how he made it to a point where he didn't need to worry about very small costs. That isn't "getting rich" in my definition, but merely becoming middle-class.
Interesting how many comments here bring up the inability to live modestly as a freelance musician and have health insurance in the US.

Amazing that this status quo is so widely accepted. And that pursuit of art for happiness and income is frowned upon (or deemed too risky). Meanwhile people are willing to waste their youth in unhappy menial jobs in order to have health insurance.

Why shouldn’t people be able to pursue art as work and have a doctor?
Yes - standup comedy. I’m 47. Started 2 years ago, background mostly “nerdy” and not hyper social. Have done some paid gigs and performed for crowds of up to 150.

And at 38 learnt rock climbing ... got quite far with that until was stopped by an injury.

Also more recently podcasting and literally today Adobe Audition. More nerdy I guess but still.

Somehow programming is a good career to have a mindset of “I can learn anything”. The only thing I really think speaks against age when it comes to learning new things is your ability to dedicate time to get deep into whatever you’re learning. Job, family and other commitments etc can make it harder but if you’re willing to sacrifice some Netflix time many things become possible. Perhaps the other point is motivation - I won’t “waste time” learning things if I’m not highly motivated to do it - perhaps it’s an awareness that time is more precious now, I don’t know.
It seems feasible - the technology components to build a platform like this exist, and the sub-problems (community-building, trust/spam, peer review and consensus, supply chain analysis, and so on) have been researched and developed into large-scale production systems.

Bringing the pieces together in a robust and scalable way that results in an effective, simple and collaborative product is the challenge. It's potentially more a question of motivation, persistence and focus than technology.

As for whether the timing is right for it to succeed - I don't know:

Some people might not want or find it easy to follow even the best-intended guidance a platform like this could provide, for example if they're bound by local economic or cultural habits and constraints.

That could lead to social rifts ("we can't make these changes" vs "those people won't make the changes") which risks creating undesirable conflict.
Thank you. It just comes off very elitist and distasteful, not something you like to see in people doing big things. We want to look up to these people, not cringe when they "coin" a common phrase and dig their heels in when confronted.
I think there's something to this but Derek is falling into a couple traps here - first the trap of good, pithy writing, and secondly assuming everybody else has he has.

I absolutely accept that learning to live frugally and no longer make the same old mistakes with money is a huge advantage. It's amazing how that can compound and no longer having to worry about money is very freeing.

But then there's the whole 'and never had a job again' bit and the implication that his further success was either immaterial or just an inevitable consequence of having saved some money or maintaining a surplus - obviously not the case for very many.

It's very well written and pithy but, like much of PG's writing, leaves you feeling like hands have been waved like windmills.
Intel C for Metal Compiler 1.0.20 Released
I'm amazed most people in the US are so concerned about healthcare costs, it factors in when calculating relative wealth.

What is going on there?
I remember being in voice chat for a space spreadsheet game [0] and hearing the 'ding' for a new user joining the channel. Everyone knew to stop taking lest a spy discover where our fleet was. I really hope there's a similar reaction in these chats!

[0]eve-online.com
I track all my ideas using FreeMind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/), and generally recommend it.

It's not really being actively maintained, but since it's in an open data format if it ever stops working you can just export your data into whatever format org-mode uses.

Usually I don't get around to doing projects until at least 5 years after having the idea, so my ideas tend to develop little by little over the years until the time is right to finally pursue them. So this format lets me keep track of the various ideas as I slowly do more research and put more thought into them.
First Machine Learning REST API with Python/FastAPI
Scientists say they found a way to reverse the human aging process
It does. And if classical logic is what they like, they can use Isabelle/HOL just as nicely. It is classical. It has wonderful automation. Kevin gets attention because he is bold, not because he is correct.

Anonymous comments are cowardly; please show yourself. If you stay anonymous I am not aware of power dynamics, and I cannot adjust my response accordingly.
Agree. Flagged
K with Diagonal Stroke
(2019)

He's now experimenting with a distro focussing on a fast package manager: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-08-17-introducing-d...
I guess you're talking about storage size and not RAM, so you should check out openwrt. There are still a lot of micro router which are still 4MB rom / 64 MB ram. I compiled and run the 19.06 release (with a 4.19 kernel) on one of this target, a WR702N, last week actually :)

the kernel itself is about 1MB.
This looks neat. Anything similar for mysql?
There's a lot missing from that. How do you track things you are waiting for or that will take many steps over potentially months? How do you look at how much is going on in your life and decide how to trim that if needed? How do you use that inbox to judge whether you're working toward things you want? Where do you put things that you would like to do at some point but not right now?

Again, that's what a lot of people miss. When you have everything in front of you, you can look at it as a whole and say, "Alright, what do I want to be different?"
Just to add to the discussion - student loans are one of the FED's biggest asset: https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/commentaries/2020...
> I dread the day I'll have to go back to the office.

Unless you have a real vote in the decision, then the the best move, is to accept either result. Otherwise you saddle yourself with the mental and emotional baggage and clutter.

I suppose this is easier said than done, but worth the effort in converting the dread to acceptance.

This is just some random opinion on the internet of course.
BLM Terrorists Shoot Police in New Berlin, WI
This year, as a hobby, I got into 3D printing and CAD. I'm 40 yo
Writing PostScript code?
> America has lower life expectancy because of violence, not healthcare.

Opioid epidemic, violence, and healthcare system all play a role, both in life expectancy and quality of life.

> By and large, I view the American system as delivering better specific outcomes, without regard to price, all other things being equal.

What does this even mean? If it means choosing random encounters for equivalent similar conditions, and ignoring price, the outcome in the US is consistently or on-average better, I don't think that's true.

If you mean “where can the best care be acquired, without regard to how many people have access to it”, sure, that may be correct.
In a non-Euclidean space with sufficient negative (hyperbolic) curvature it should indeed be possible to have a convex octagon with four 90° internal angles. Just like in a space with positive curvature, such as the surface of a sphere, it is possible for a triangle to have three 90° internal angles.
Performance: NumPy (Python) vs. Mir (D)
> You can't anticipate every possible use case of your library!

On the flipside, I consider a successful software tool is one that is used to do something undreamt of by its author.

One should not try to imagine every possible use to which their software will be put, especially when designing abstractions or interfaces. But these abstractions should be flexible enough that they can be adapted for any use.

There might be very good reasons that the underlying function is not public (I can think of private methods in OO where end users absolutely should not be calling them). To me, this seems like the public interface is lacking or perhaps too rigid, or maybe not well-understood (either by designer or user).

In any case APIs are hard.
Offices are still open in the UK. It's fine, the only difference is increased frequency of cleaning.
Hmmm. Not so useful on my kindle.
Creative people to bounce random ideas off.
Physical activity with the above (go on a walk with someone, play a sport).
Unusual stimuli and contexts (if you never go look at modern art, go to a modern art gallery and think about your ideas there).
Lean isn't classical.

Lean is the calculus of inductive constructions with uniqueness of identity proofs. Classical logic in Lean requires using axioms.
Oops. 80,000.
Could you reign in the cynicism a bit, please?

I'm talking about my entire team, including me. These are people I know and work with on a daily basis. Part of knowing people is that you can tell when they're not quite themselves.

I've also polled my team on a semi-regular basis throughout the last 8 months on their preferences going forward, which is how I know I have a range of preferences across the spectrum of WFH versus working from the office. We've always had a flexible approach in this area because of team has always been distributed, but one of the silver linings of the COVID cloud will, I hope, be a more general acceptance of increased flexibility in working conditions for jobs where that's feasible.

Don't you dare put words into my mouth. Take it elsewhere.
Pompeii: Dig uncovers remains of rich man and slave killed by Vesuvius
Dishes, legos, other mindless tasks while letting your mind wander.
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In German: AlleAktien.de (in depth stock analyses and general ultra-long-term, rational investing)
If you’re trying to quantify your uncertainty about who will win the election, a poll would only be part of it. You want to be able to combine disparate sources of information. Maybe there is preference falsification and you want to incorporate as some sort of prior. As things get further from simple sampling from a population the frequency interpretation makes less and less sense to me.
This article is confusing as it says "meat" is banned yet describes eating fish and crustaceans. Does the author mean mammals, or all warm blooded animals, or simply land animals?

(the author also writes about exceptions, but they merely prove the rule, so don't challenge the idea of a "ban" -- I just don't understand what is banned).
I hope remote teams will start to invest more heavily in keeping up to date knowledge bases to help with exactly these kinds of issues. Tools like Confluence/Notion/whatever should really be solving this problem.

Video calls really grind productivity down to a halt. It's a strange phenomenon - when I have a call scheduled, it's really hard to get work done in a half hour neighborhood of the call.
I don't know who this person is, but this is a story that can only be told by a rich person, or someone who's family has money.

How do I know, because he isn't worried. You see when you are poor, or have been poor, you have this persistent worry that something bad is on the horizon, that the good times are going to come to an end.

It take real privilege to not have worry when you are just barely scraping by.
Well, if you are using foreign software for sensitive stuff, then you should at least be able to fully review the source and build the app yourself.

> All of Zoom’s security team is based in the US

That's the point. Thinking that the US are truthful and honest allies of the EU is plain laughable.
I still haven’t learned to touch type even though I’m in my 30’s and a professional software engineer. Other than people making fun of me, I don’t see the point. Programming has so many symbols and it’s not like I’m limited by my typing speed as far as I can tell. And for most non-programming text entry I’m on a phone nowadays, so touch typing skill is moot.

What would you say is the advantage to learning to touch type at this point? Has it been particularly helpful in some way?
Nobody cares about trivia like this when it comes to elections.
Zoom introduced meeting passwords a few months ago after similar issues to prevent randos joining meetings by guessing short meeting IDs. But there's a tradeoff between security and usability so they accept passwords as a param in URL, which for 95% cases is a good tradeoff (for example Outlook Zoom plugin generates the URL with password directly in meeting invites). Most people don't live-share their super secret in-progress meeting IDs and passwords on Twitter. Probably more people share their CC number or boarding passes on instagram each day.

However what Zoom and other conf tools could do is that they could read the password from the URL and then use `history.pushState()` DOM API to replace the URL and erase the password once the meeting is launched.

Downside would be though users wouldn't be able anymore to just copy the URL from browser's URL bar and send to other people to join.
We're numb because people prioritize love over fear. It doesn't mean people don't believe in covid, but rather co-exist with it, just as people co-exist with all the other madness that happens in the world.
I love MAD Magazine's Typewri-toons (1962, 1965), for playing with the characters themselves. I did similar things as a kid, first on typewriters then in online forums.

https://madcoversite.com/features-typewri-toons.html
We (www.gaswork.com) use PostgREST in production to serve up job posts and collect anonymous usage analytics for our mobile app and single page app.
I'd love some flashcard with native language. For example, I'm from Finland and I've been using Anki to leard Japanese, but there's no Japanese to Finnish sets available. So, the only way to learn using Anki is to translate Japanese -> English -> Finnish. And there's often new English words for me which will need a translation. I guess this kind of double learning is effective, but sometimes a little frustrating. I have decided to write some Finnish explanations to each kanji, which takes time.

Still, I think Anki is great for remembering new words. You'll just have to use it daily.
I used to like working from home. I had a better computer and plenty of different places I could work in my house.

But now I have kids at home all day and working from home is hell.

It’s all about context.

And you are correct: A lot of people don’t have good setups to work from home. And then on the other end, some offices are amazing and some are terrible. People who want people to come into an office should really try to make a better experience. Forcing people to come into a crappy office is insane.
I think something that obvious was intentional. Especially since it fits directly with the protagonist's mental state and his phobia of water. Water features prominently in that film for a reason.
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True yet by 'rich' most people mean a buffer above bare essentials large enough to weather most storms and indulge in some personal pursuits. Being one accident or medical bill away from homeless isn't what most people consider wealthy.
I love this, though it hurts to read as we're going into a COVID lockdown here on Sunday. Anyway, I love the idea of modern art + unusual stimuli in general.
This probably got posted because he reworked the blog theme and fixed the post. This rebumped the post in the RSS feeds. AFAIK nothing new has been added?
Non-technical users should rely on their local IT support to address issues such as this. We're talking about OpenWRT configuration here, which is quite a "relevant obstacle" anyway for other reasons.
This is absurd. Calling something "western" with obvious derision and speaking to folks not knowing how our eyes and brains perceive the world, is seriously hindering my even desire to want to engage in your point.

It should be no shock that cinema makers, by and large, double down on what cinema buyers are into buying. There is a clear feedback loop there and it has led to some results.

That you could get to different spots with different audiences is not really a surprise. Nor is it a requirement that one audience is wrong.

My hypothesis on the shaky cam is that makes it harder to try and take in details that are not essential. In large, you can't take in any details and can only remember it after the fact. You have to, in a very real sense, fill in the details on your own. With a bias knowing how things actually ended. Is why the shaky cam footage usually is brief and gets to a conclusion faster than drawn out fights. This probably limits the enjoyment from going back on something, but realistically most folks don't repeat view things anyway.

Making things more deliberate in fights wouldn't make things better or worse. In fact, I have grown tired of them in well choreographed fights, even. Real fights are quicker. With advantages compounding rapidly. Did you get the first good hit in? You are probably winning. Are you the bigger opponent? Probably winning. Mysticism is fun to watch, no doubt. But especially when movies try and claim their is no mysticism involved, it just gets tiring to me.

Now, are there still other ways? Absolutely. For myself, I have actually grown to dislike most movies and other visual mediums for the reason cited above and, in large, because books work better for me. Do I think this means that folks are better adapted to books? I mean, maybe. Probably not, though. Likely it is just my perspective on how this stuff best flows.

(And as a closing shot, I'm remembering that I love watching ballet. A well choreographed and executed dance is amazing to watch. Without me having to suspend any disbelief on whether someone could actually win a fight. :D)
Yes: http://restsql.org/
Same thing as you! I also like to visit ideas I've written down and develop them. Sometimes I'll do copywork, and just type out or re-write an article I really liked, just to feel what it's like to write something I liked... I cribbed this from someone else, I can't remember who. I delete all of it after, but it gets my ideas flowing for sure.
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Opinion: Grading Facebook’s Homework
And it hijacks the back button (FF 83.0, FreeBSD)
If Yahoo! and Sleepy Joe can, why can't AirBnB?
Preferred method to learn morse code would be to learn one bit at a time very well.

There's an approach to learning Morse code where you hear single letters sent at about 40WPM, with a long pause between letters. The idea is to learn each letter as a sound bite of its own, not dots and dashes. As recognition improves, the pauses between letters get shorter, until you're listening to real 40WPM code.

I thought from the original article that this was going to be a scheme for taking notes in Morse code, maybe with a key strapped to your thigh.
When I am looking for ideas - I find letting my imagination roam while doing menial tasks such as cleaning, yard work, or even driving helps a lot. The combination of not needing to pay attention and no distractions seems to free my mind.

When I am ready to start exploring that idea - a cup of coffee, someplace quiet, no screens, a pencil, and some blank sheets of paper turned horizontally (landscape).
They say that Bezos has strong opinions on how Amazon's UI looks and intervenes to stop them changing it, even though it's bad.
Worked in London and your experience doesn’t reflect mine.
Neat.

I'd rather have MIME type(s) for result sets. So we can tunnel over HTTPS.

Postgres Wire Protocol
https://crate.io/docs/crate/reference/en/4.3/interfaces/post...

Tabular Data Stream
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabular_Data_Stream
But the information has nothing to do with the size of the message. It is just a measure of how unique the message is. If everybody in the internet submits the same 1TB of data, but you transmit a single byte, then you are transmitting a lot of information, but everybody else is transmitting almost nothing.

I don't see how your reasoning about sending more or fewer headers fits into this; but anyhow the conclusion won't depend at all on the amount or the length of the headers, but on how many people are sending the same headers as you. It is impossible to know how much information are you sending by only looking at the bytes you send. You need to know the worldwide distribution of headers to measure that.
Tl:Dr - white squares for ducks while firing and a light sensor in the gun.
I noticed you also have a blog. Did you find that helps?

I have a daily journal where I log ideas/observations but it's organized by date on GitHub (and I get paranoid about having it in the cloud, TBH). The idea of organizing around ideas or topic trees makes more sense, though.
Just a heads up (which I should have mentioned): The uMatrix repo has been archived some time ago.
Are you able to share your script or your deck? Would love to experiment with that.
it's funny to me how worked up people on this website are getting about a mundane platitude.
Given that, despite the project name, the tool described by TFA is pretty obviously RPC over HTTP rather than anything resembling Fielding's description, graphql would would just as well.