skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dying off for some things, irreplaceable for others. I drive a car old enough that I'm unwilling to pay somebody else to work on it (not antique, just old). The forum for said make and model has gotten me out of a couple of jams diagnosing and fixing it.

My stationary power tools are also on the older side, and there's a thriving community dedicated to keeping the old iron running well.

The advantage of forums is that you can search them for years to come and learn from somebody who had the same problem 15 years ago and the dozen people who helped them solve it. Good luck doing that on Facebook. Their focus on shallow and short term "engagement" means useful stuff disappears forever and experts get tired of answering the same questions repeatedly.

And no, I don't consider stackoverflow/stackexchange a replacement. It does a poor job of handling long threads where people refine their hypothesis based on new data and questions the OP answers.
I've been running hubski.com for 10 years now. Luckily we have remained small enough to have mostly small problems. Similar situation though, no ads, no revenue. I intend to keep it going as long as possible.

>Fun times.

It is important to keep it fun. I've done silly things like https://hubski.com/weather and I am seriously considering adding user vs user chess.

I rolled a custom IRC that I am pretty proud of: https://hubski.com/chat
I find this concept of being a numbers person weird to being good at math. Most math is about symbol manipulation and numbers are really only at the end.
They keep adding to nine. 137×9 = 1233 . 34457×9=310113. When it breaks down: 99x9=891 sums to 18, sums to 9.
Isolation Forest Is the Best Anomaly Detection Algorithm for Big Data
> Not sure which those "non-desktop" systems are.

Consoles have used unified memory since last generation I think?

AMD APU have supported unified memory since kaveri I think, and Intel iGP have supported limited version of data sharing for a while, but I don't think one can call UMA "pretty normal".
My university realized the need for a proof writing course a little too late to help me. Students who did well in the more abstract math classes, aside from the outlier "gifted" mathematicians, formed study groups. I wasn't mature enough at the time to realize how valuable those groups were so I went it alone and my grades reflected it.
Once I get mine, I plan on building AOSP and seeing what limits I can push the hardware to.
I have a relative who worked for one of the largest narcotics prescribers in NJ, so I'm fairly familiar with the role certain prescribers play in perpetuating the opioid epidemic. Some of these doctors are absolutely part of the problem and barring them from medicine is the least we should do with them. Not all doctors are good people. Some care more about money than about their patients and will get patients addicted to drugs they don't need if it brings them more money.
> Since we're building up a team to work on Rust I now get to do more Rust-based phone screens and coding interviews.

It sounds like they are hiring Rust developers quite a bit too.
So has everything I wrote, thank god. We're too obsessed with 'keeping' things. It's good that the internet doesn't remember to the degree we all (used to) think. Things that are worth preserving will be, but 99% of all content should just die a natural death. We shouldn't start to conserve for the sake of conserving because we can now that things are digital.
Sure, but there's no reason to believe the person turning the bolt necessarily doesn't know what size it needs to be.

Example using the same logic as the post we're discussing: Someone flips a coin in another room. It doesn't necessarily have to be heads, so we should assume it's tails.
I studied theoretical mathematics.

The absolutely biggest and most common error and really the only one worth to be on list is not internalizing and understanding entirety of material as the course progresses.

Everything else should be basically to achieve goal of understanding the entire course material. It is ok to forget later, as long as you are sure you understood it at least when there was a lot of discussion about that specific part of course material.

If you don't understand something today, it is very likely the material tomorrow will refer to it and you will not understand that either. Even if you try to make up for it in couple of days, it will be rushed, will require more effort and your brain connections will not be the same quality.

Every person will have a different way to achieve that goal. Some people need to ask questions, some like to figure out by themselves, some will want to read, solve exercises for as long as necessary.

I have observed many people drop off and the reason was almost invariably the same. A bit of material passes by or maybe the load is too much, and the slippery slope of not understanding starts.

Especially when you start to study mathematics, the first couple semesters are foundational and if you don't understand something it is like a pyramid, the further in time the more connections with the material that you did not understood and the more trouble you are in.

I have seen people drop off because they thought it is the same as in their past or in other study areas. It is not. Mathematics is extremely connected internally and extremely intolerant of ignorance.
Perhaps the mobile loading time tolerances are larger, meaning that if the timings between desktop and mobile are largely the same, they could have different results.
> Can you reliably make and receive calls?

> What networks are compatible, and do they work with MVNOs and not just the big boys?

https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...

> Does the battery last for a reasonable day (>= 16 hours)?

Not really, but it's getting there: https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-4500mah-battery-upgrade/.

> Can you reliably send/receive SMS and MMS?

SMS work fine. Concerning MMS:
https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque....
You need to show a pic of the napkin that had this idea on it.
It doesn't help that the ads on Twitch are the lowest of the low in terms of quality so you have no desire to stay around. Also their way of doing preroll ads is just bad, you'll get to watch like 5-10 seconds of the channel before the ad just suddenly cuts it off, unlike YouTube or others where the ad is shown first then the content after.
20 second unskippable ads about cat food (I don't have a cat) to watch a 1 minute video.

No thanks YouTube!
I signed up for Red a few weeks ago and cancelled my Spotify account. Ad-free videos, offline vides and a reasonable music service. I think it's a great deal.
How did the FBI know during pursuit and air surveillance that the suspect would need dry clothes, and have the time to obtain them from his home to be ready with them when he emerged?
> Another idea is to make a turbo-jet engine heated by electricity instead of fuel.

I was going to decry the inefficiency, then remembered that a resistor is only device with 100% efficiency.
Did this author really try to debunk the claim "faster than 98% of laptops" and then name three laptops as a counterexamples.

Yes of course this is entirely marketing fluff but I don't necessarily doubt the numbers just because of the sheer volume of cheap low-end laptops. You could probably make the same claim talking about any high-end machine. It's something that sounds fantastical but really isn't -- perfect marketing material!
I'm really really excited about the new hardware here. Bummer that the software is pretty meh. If macOS was as great as it was in the 10.6 days I'd be the happiest Apple user ever.
This guy has a physics PhD from CalTech, so his sloppy reasoning is doubly shocking.
I don't know, like I said, people lived in California before the arrival of colonists, it certainly wasn't a desert the way the Sahara was.

Nonetheless for some geographic reason, sure, it makes sense to send water there to grow things. The politics of it all are, if capitalism didn't deliver on efficiency in things that bring justice, like providing everyone with good food and shelter better than alternative governments, nobody would tolerate redirecting huge amounts of water to deserts in California or cities on Manhattan island.

Without capitalism, there would be something intrinsically valuable to pastoral, moneyless living, like the kind of farming people were doing when these reservoirs were built.

It's just ironic that, people have been living in the Americas doing just that, for at least millennia, and the same exact 1800s people and their descendants who felt they were entitled to do what they wanted with their upstate New York land, however inefficiently, will do nothing to remedy the same exact kind of losses for people who were there before them. Which is to say, just for the people who used to live on precolonized land, the "human costs" were not resolved by a free press, or laws, or money, it was resolved by simply ceasing to "account" for those costs.

Although, like I said, today you can go farm for subsidies if you wanted to, which is as good as a government-sponsored remedy will get, turning $1 tax into $0.10 of low cost of living and $0.90 in agricultural business income domiciled in... New York City.
> Doom 2016 is quite literally a modernised version of Doom 1.

It's one of the best games I've played in a long time. Way better than Doom Eternal.
Bing? DDG?

What does the world have to wait for? The world is who chooses when a competitor starts to eat their market share.
Show HN: I created a no-code job board for careers in indie games
Hi! You know one now. While I stream music from Google Play (or Google Youtube Music, or whatever they've pivoted to), I still have all the mp3s - and for good reason, because Google Music consistently tried to switch many of my tracks for the "censored" versions, which I'd have to re-upload.

And Youtube Music isn't much better, and it's only a matter of time before their aggressive opinions on what's good for their consumers diverges from mine.

I'm not willing to let a company dictate which music I can listen to based on licensing agreements with yet another company. I try to buy my music directly from the creator, and keep it safe and sound.

Funkwhale will never be as large as Spotify, and that's fine. There is a niche for what they're offering.
Its forensic not speculative.
I had an iPHone for a few months and noticed my reddit time dropped considerably. Part of it was because iPhone (or Reddit? I don't even know who is to blame here) wouldn't let me choose the reddit app I wanted as the default. If a friend sent a reddit link to me it'd try and open in Safari and I'd get annoyed and just ignore it.

I'm back on Android now where I can choose default apps and now if a friend sends a link, I click it and read it, then I click over to the homepage, then 20 minutes goes by as I mindlessly scroll. It's a blessing and a curse to be able to use your phone the way you want to, I guess.
Yep, and we can do lots of other nice things. We can produce nice tables with the key/value data, filter it ("show me all experiments with an accuracy greater than 0.9"), produce well-formatted diffs across an arbitrary number of things, give you a nice Python API for analyzing the data in a notebook, and so on.

There are some examples of these things on the home page, all of which would be very fiddly to do with JSON files in Git: https://replicate.ai/#features
The problem being there is no incentive to be not a content farm.

Few people are going to spend their time giving away knowledge for free.

I am not defending Google, just being pragmatic.
> Coupled with the already considerable noise from the subsonic aspect of the propeller and the T40's dual turbine sections, the aircraft was notorious for inducing severe nausea and headaches among ground crews.[11] In one report, a Republic engineer suffered a seizure after close range exposure to the shock waves emanating from a powered-up XF-84H.[18]

Holy hell
They can’t do local time, but they can do UTC (and do it) without much investment if you run an NTP client. (Have 500 or so such units deployed, SNTP was giving too much trouble, switched to chrony at some point and those units require much less support)
> This is what I don't get about YouTubers. They created a business with basically only one source of income.

More importantly, they also then decided to scam their source of income by getting money from other sources (e.g. Patreon) and are now acting surprised when their own data host isn't happy about not getting their cut of the revenue.

Reminds of a scam that cinemas attempted in my state - because the distributor wanted a % cut from movie tickets, they sold cheap tickets and then charged rent for 3D glasses required for a movie (e.g. 2EUR for ticket and 12EUR for the glasses). The distributors took their distribution rights because of that at all.

Trying to scam your most important source of revenue is just a really bad business decision.
One of the ads I saw recently was, literally, an hour long video.
Nobody here advocated for "pure" anything. Money still changed hands in communist Russia, the USA has socialized services like fire brigades.

What I'm advocating against is the idea of a wholesale changing of a system of politics and economy.
>The goal for the investors isn't to increase market share though, it's to increase profit.

Right, but since the wholesale cost of their phones isn't likely to change much at this point, increasing marketshare is the most obvious path to increased profit. Also, with Apple increasingly focused on services revenue, getting more customers into its ecosystem makes perfect sense.

I agree they likely won't go after the low end. This site [0] claims Apple only owns 52% of the high end market so there's lots of room for growth at the mid and high end.

Anyways, since we were comparing Apple to Intel/AMD I assumed we were talking about PC's.

[0] https://www.gizchina.com/2019/12/08/apple-still-holds-first-...
Maybe not the masses but enough spammers, scammers, and a generally less "restrained" set of users so as to really degrade it. And then, of course, the "old Internet" mostly went away and DejaNews and then Google didn't do it any favors.
Which publisher was it? Surely this varies quite a bit between publishers.
Genetic engineers sound a lot like machine learning engineers— tweaking huge complicated models which can only be understood through observation/experimentation. Often times the training is stochastic and not directly repeatable too.
Sure, but that's a function of moderation and culture of the forum. You aren't going to get something like this on reddit - https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=51332.2960

You can walk through the series of these threads and get essentially a replay of history of this project.
How to create Incident Response plan for security teams?
Not sure what your background is, but if you work in SEO or do web optimization in general, this article really isn't that bad to get the gist of.

Maybe it's more of a target group thing?
This isn't really a "everyone needs to know" situation, it addresses the people that need to know and expects a certain pre-existing knowledge of the topic.
Definitely better. Facebook won't make you disappear.
The survey is now closed
What about creators that did want them, and YT decided that I didn’t have enough subscribers so they demonetized me?

I’ve put up some useful videos on a few technical tasks and was happy with the few dollars/mo/video they were kicking me, but it wasn’t subscribable content; I solved your problem, why would you come back?
Of course I can't find it now no matter how hard I look, but there was an excellent blog post on here many months ago explaining how the pyramid of needs has become somewhat of a lazy shortcut people like to see on PowerPoint slides, which doesn't actually communicate useful information. It made its way into the wider discourse via educators, who were actually using the model incorrectly in the first place according to a few quotes from Maslow himself in the blog. It's a shame I couldn't find the article. Basically, it's an abstraction of needs that is just too good/simple to be true.
Bardotcom.com
A goofy site for the future bar. For 2020.
Everything else is online. Now the bar experience too.
Eventually I want to add in games like poker, skiball, etc. IT supports live music streams through Facebook/YouTube live for the real bar sound.
> Its not cheap (12$ month)

How much is a cinema ticket these days?
Influencer Marketing Mistakes
> For many of them, it is youtube or nothing.

Is this really true? I mean, there are hundreds of video hosting sites, is YT really the only way of making any money?

This is like saying that the only way to make your business sustainable is to get a reserved place on NY Times Square... are you really entitled to it?
It’s not necessarily a binary though, is it? Articles like that enrich the discussion with new information, and may act to shift policy and perspectives over time. Expecting one article to turn someone’s opinions around completely is usually expecting too much. It’s a common expectation that “this story will change everything” but it seems to me that it takes time for things like this to sink in and change the momentum.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21251102
The most annoying part to me about ads on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram is just how hard it's pushed. You get 1 piece of content in your feed before an ad. The ads always use rich media so they'll take up 2x the space of a typical tweet for example so you get 1 person's post, followed by 2/3rds of your screen taken for an ad. Let me see like 3-5 posts from accounts I care about you fucking vultures.
Yes, I agree in this case it's exploitative.
> Commander Keen and Leisure Suit Larry and Doom and Deathtrack and Hexen and The Lost Vikings and System Shock 2

Yes, and the very first Duke Nukem [1]. So much fun! I'm getting into game design this year, and will endeavour to make pay-once, short, super fun games. (I say short, albeit with replay value - I'd hate to string you along for 100+ hours with pointless side quests)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4a3_wazRPA
I TA and tell my students that if they don't come to office hours or ask questions that they might as well be getting their degree on YouTube.

I don't mean this in the sense that they have to ask for every class, but the advantage of attending school (besides the piece of paper) is to get direct help. But I'm not attending a top 10 university and honestly most topics are covered by one of those universities and they post their lectures on YouTube or their own OCW.
People that enjoy listening to music -- audiophiles, DJs, music producers, musicians, etc -- often search out and download their favorite tunes, .flac and .wav specifically, simply b/c these formats have higher fidelity to the master mix. Granted, not everyone cares about high-fidelity audio, and that's ok too.
Some of the legal considerations that would apply based on the author's comment about things required for a good online store builder:

https://ecommerceguide.com/guides/ecommerce-legals/
I agree with this, which is why I have a nes classic plugged into the TV too. Everyone who uses it vs the xbone agrees its 100% a better experience. I don't have to log into an account to play, it doesn't take 10 mins to update a game, etc. Two people grab controllers and within a few seconds are shooting/fighting/whatever each other. Plus the variety is much larger.

I think a lot of the problem is the commoditization and merging of genre's along with the overwhelming dominance of a small number of game engines.

This means that a modern RPG pretty much plays the same as a strategy or shooter. Which makes everything feel like a remake of something you have already played. Particularly as the games don't really have differing artistic styles anymore either because that is more a function of how the game engine works than what texture selection or lighting effects are used.

Maybe the best way to describe it, is that modern games are "cold".
Full Linux system DoH/DoT resolver:

https://firejaildns.wordpress.com/

and a survey of public DoH servers:

https://firejaildns.wordpress.com/2020/09/22/a-survey-of-pub...
I made a tool that auto-generates open graph images.

I made it because I work in open source a lot and I was tired of sharing ugly links on Twitter and Facebook. One day I realized GitHub lets you customize them, so I started making some templates.

That eventually turned into a full product. It’s free to use. And it can create some nice open graph images for your open source projects.

I use the GitHub API to pull in a few stats from the repo: stars, language, forks, open issues, creator avatar.

I hope this helps the open source community by giving them a nicer way to share their projects.
Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dismantled
This is done quite nicely with clojuredocs being intergrated into Cursive / Intellij.

I hover over a Clojure function in INtelliJ and I get a pop up of the clojuredocs with description and example usages for that function.

It's great and I don't know why more IDE's don't do this. Why isn't VS linked to the MSDN for C# / .NET ? SO I can get the information for that function / class / library etc straight in my IDE!
Tailwind with a full vdom fw can be costly (not \w template-based fws)
It's worse when you have no idea if you're even _interested_ in the video you're going to sit through two unskippable ads to watch. It degrades the experience considerably.
Facing collapse, the famed Arecibo Observatory will be demolished
A Mathematician’s Lament (2009) [pdf]
>it'd be nice if they offered a way for creators to pay for YouTube hosting so they can continue to offer their channels ad free

This.

I work with a small art organization, and we've started to put our artists videos online (we couldn't have an event this year). Youtube makes it easy. but like flickr they put ads in and there is no way to get rid of them. If we could pay for the service we probably would. I'm not sure how much it would be worth though.
I mean it will, just socially and financially.
If you make your own UI, yes. But if you make a desktop-style application that's supposed to adapt its UI to small touchscreens, you're going to have a hard time with Qt Widgets. Even KDE uses Qt Quick for its adaptive apps.
The point of react components is to centralize all instances of something for consistency and easy updates.

This is also what CSS does for you natively. Tailwind is a beautiful, elegant, and ultimately unnecessary layer of complication.

It feels powerful and fast to beginners, and then you go through a design system overhaul with it, and start wishing you had just used bootstrap style class names and avoided the whole mess.
Standing up for human rights is absolutely a political act, but it shouldn't be a politically controversial act. I think that's why people have always been more willing to make political statements in favor of human rights in contexts where making other political statements would usually be considered distasteful.

Basic human rights for everyone should be the common ground that everyone agrees upon. Everything else we can debate in the appropriate contexts.
Biggest issue for me is less the time cost and more the disruption created by an ad in the middle of a video. It's maybe 10% as valuable to me to watch a 10-minute video with two ad breaks in the middle vs a 10-minute video with ads at the start. It's like trying to watch a TV show while someone is throwing axes at your head.
Thank you. I'm fine with AMP being offered as an optional framework on developers can build fast web pages. I'm not okay with Google giving preferential search treatment to pages built using their own technology.

If Google wants to prioritize fast pages, that's cool. AMP can be useful tool for making fast pages. But AMP is not necessary to make a fast page.