skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nobody has a "thing," it's all branding

I don't agree. In my lab, where everyone is a researcher or research student and most people have tech skill and are building software, it's clear everyone has a "thing". One person was good at analyzing data and produce top-notch visualizations, few guys are good in ML, one person at was in her best game when designing experiment, one is the blockchain guy, some are very good technically, we are two good (or willing to) write documentation for newcomers, etc. Of course, all those people have a broad variety of skills, yet everyone have a special thing, and a smart strategy is to collaborate with them when you need the best on a particular point.
Thank you Dang!
Thank you, dang! :)
Interesting! it would be nice to have a mobile browser too, does anyone know of one?
This belongs here as well. Thank you to a dang despite my occasionally idiotic, off-topic slashdot-esqe comments that do not necessarily contribute to the font of knowledge that is this site.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...
My biz is decent about not double-booking on top of existing tentative mts for some reason, so that isn't a problem.

Too lazy to see what attendance score I'm skewing by not accepting mtgs.
For anyone looking for a Thanksgiving-evening behind the scenes deep dive, here's some lite reading: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...

Thank you dang! HN is one of the few places on the internet that feels the same as it did 10 years ago.
Thank you, Dang!

The Hacker News community is my favorite thing on the internet - and a good chunk of its success is due to your hard work!
> Well, If you are familiar with the book of James (a Jew) in the bible, he says this, "For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it." The law is a single unit.

The book of James is not part of Jewish canon and is not read by Jews. It's a Christian book. That James was a Jew is irrelevant, Jesus was also a Jew, does that mean the teachings of Jesus are Judaism? Woody Allen is Jewish too, but you can't quote his movies and call them Jewish teachings.

> Sin precedes the law and not the other way round. The law was given because of transgression. Look at the law as a guardian, a schoolmaster, to protect, and to preserve for a time, till the Saviour should come. God did not intend to relate with man through the law because by the law, is the knowledge of sin.

Ok, I can kind of understand this. It's a fundamentally different idea of the purpose of the rules and the nature of right and wrong. Seems foreign to me because I thought the law was to protect people from doing inherently bad things, and sin is just a fancy word for bad things. So I didn't understand how Jesus could make doing bad things suddenly ok. But this sounds like a more relativistic approach. Ok, I can get behind that I guess.

> If anyone is living in sin and claims that he or she is living under grace, let me be the first to tell you that this person is not living under grace. How can he or she be when God’s Word clearly states that “sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace” (Rom. 6:14)? Based on the authority of God’s Word, a person who is under grace will not be dominated by or want to continue living in sin.

I have no idea what this means, sounds like a lot of jargon that I'm sure makes sense to someone who is familiar with it but I don't get it.
Thank you, dang! Keep up the great work.
Thank you Dan! I hope all is well.
Europeans didn't generally call their methods of coerced labor "slavery". European aristocrats made bank off slave labor outside their state borders and still do to this day. If it weren't for Marx's letter writing campaign causing a large anti-slavery hubbub during the civil war, England's ruling class was favoring recognizing the sovereignty of the confederacy. Slavery was wildly unpopular domestically (you can see "woke" products at the time labeled their products as made by paid labor), but the source of cheap cotton powering England's massive mill industry was well understood and appreciated by people with significant capital.

I don't really appreciate the insinuation that the parent commenters implications are unsupported by western historical discourse and are a product of chinese propaganda. You're ignoring a vast swathe of western culture by doing so, notably the 19th century discussions about authority and oppression between the anarchists and, loosely, the socialists (who had not yet coalesced around Marx to the extent you see now). Meanwhile it's not clear "big government" is even a meaningful term outside american partisan bickering.
Was much of the "MegaDrive games getting better" accomplished by stuffing more chips into the cartridges?
Oh, my, yes... Thank you Dang!
Beautiful community, thanks Dang!
You are making things harder for your colleagues and should start accepting/rejecting.
Thanks Dang! I have learned a lot here, met some interesting people, and am consistently surprised by the diversity and depth of other people's take on things.

Lots of good "voice of experience" to be had as well. High value.

Appreciated.
Not quite. The multiple screen thing allowed several full screen graphical applications with different resolutions on screen at once, divided by a vertical barrier (a title bar similar to those on windows). This was a hardware feature at its core, if memory serves me right.
This is probably a hot take, but I think custom fonts are self-serving for the web developer and for 99% of cases, not a benefit to the user. Most people who use Google Fonts hotlink to Google which means you're sending information about your users' IP and fingerprint, URL visited, and timestamp they went to your page to them. Even when done right, users just don't care or notice them, and would probably rather have a faster pageload, less bandwidth use, and no flicker (FOUT, as noted by the article).

I'm a fan of the native font stack approach [1] that Bootstrap now uses, and is used by Wordpress and Medium. The idea is to have a long font stack that opts for the operating system font (like Segue UI for Windows, San Francisco for Mac, Roboto for Android, etc.), which is modernly beautiful, loads instantly, and fits with the users' native application.

[1] https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/system-font-stack/
'How to be an asshole in five seconds.' - the OPs honest title

And now the constructive version:

Take the time the receiving person and the topic at hand
need. Thank you, for making the world a better and more
humane place.

Boom, not a robot with utility function based personality anymore.
Facebook’s Libra currency to launch next year in limited format
It’s just Amazon being a dick. Smart home stuff, especially with home assistant, works well and without internet, self hosted, many things even have fallbacks for when there is no connection to your home assistant server. But Amazon makes smart home the iot hellhole that we thought we left behind. Well then.

And no, smart home is convenient even for normal houses.
Hey don't forget sctb!
> This very accurately describes Go

...and was a deliberate design objective made by an ex bell labs guy.
What is the benefit of using Julia over R?
Wow that's harsh! I actually have pretty much same experience. Company has done the very same mistake again and again and again and on the meetings i bring up issue to the team and often get "let's focus on the future", but yeah i was focused on the future to avoid wasting months of work again and again.
That's why I'll never buy any "smart" home stuff. With traditional locks, lights, etc they will last decades. No one is going to support 10yr or even 30yr old smart home devices, causing you to have to upgrade all that stuff later.
> How can you say it’s introduction is joyful?

Sure, if you want to sidestep the innumerable ways the automobile, or more accuracy the internal combustion engine, have completely revolutionised society, you could make an argument...

Except you can’t. Think about the increase in distance and speed at which goods and services can be rendered compared to prior modes of transportation. One simple example that comes to mind is the ambulance, in which that increase may well be the difference between life or death for an unknown but surely enormous population. A similar argument can be made
for logistic supply chains delivering medicine, food, sanity products, waste removal, all of which without, mortality would surge. Plague, famine, disease are some of largest killers in human history.

Please tell me again how the absolute gains measured in human lifetimes is anything other than joyful, outside of subjectivity which is an unresolvable debate.
there's also a difference between IoT and "look ma I wired an ESP32 to a DHT22 and sent data to timstream on my NAS". The latter is entirely you. WiFI isn't the issue, it's running cloud based hardware that can't work without someone's servers.
Thank you, dang and sctb!
In an insane world, Hacker News is one corner of the internet that I find to be "normal" and "sane". God Bless you Dang!
Happy Thanksgiving HN from the otherside of the world (I'm very envious of your stuffed birds!)
Show HN: Daily Naikan, a simple daily journal for the practice of Naikan
Hi, I made a Naikan journaling app. What is "Naikan" you ask? Quite simply, it's a method of introspection via three simple questions from Buddhist philosophy:

What have I received from ____?
What have I given to ____?
What troubles or difficulties have I caused ____?

The "____" part can be a person, place or thing. Basically, I'd love to know if Naikan journaling increases your gratitude, happiness or mental health in any way. It does for me.

Please, check out my app here: https://app.dailynaikan.com/

Note, if you want to know about Naikan, I translated the "About Naikan" section from the Japan Naikan Association's website: http://www.jpnaikan.jp/for everyone/index.html

Naikan is a method of self-observation/introspection developed my Yoshimoto Ishin, and is based on the mind/spirit self-improvement practice called Mishirabe. As a mind-body therapy in the medical field, it's generally used for self-enlightenment and resolving troubles or worries, as well as being used more broadly across enterprise and business training, school education and corrective education. The Mishirabe practice of mind/spirit self-improvement was originally handed down from the Pure Land school of Buddhism, however Yoshimoto Ishin set out to exclude any religious parts of the practice, simplify it, and make it widely available to anyone. Later, in 1968, Ishin established the three current questions central to Naikan ("What has been done for me?", "What have I done in return?", "What troubles have I caused?"). In Naikan, there is "Intensive Naikan" that lasts a week and focuses on a fixed scope, and there is "Daily Naikan" which is occurs for short periods within daily life. Although Naikan is used practically for various purposes, as a treatment for illness and disease especially, it's referred to as "Naikan Therapy".

Finally, a helpful article about Naikan can be read here: https://tricycle.org/magazine/naikan-therapy/

Thank you
It’s called Body Area Network (BAN) and there are also standards like your router https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_area_network
There are beds in hospitals that connect to the patients vitals, already.
This seems to be a use case for Emacs.
“Daddy, Is She a Robot?: The True Sinister Narrative of AI
And if you need to relax, there's also the Bong Recreation Area in Wisconsin
Ok, well I agree with that assessment. I just don’t think the article has made the case that the methods he talks about simplify handling these things at the boundary in some special way.

There are numerous ways, even in dynamically typed languages to use abstraction to raise the level of such errors and handle them in a single place.

For instance let’s take ruby. Rails has a “.blank?” Function that wraps up handling empty strings, lists, nils, etc. So if I use that abstraction, I’ve raised up having to check all those issue in every function, instead now I need to ensure the “blank?” function does what’s its supposed to.

So there’s definitely value in abstraction, and in moving certain classes of errors up the layers in the application. And yes I can see how some fancy uses of type systems (in this case Haskell) can make this work. The grandparent article seems to leave it there.

This parent article though seems to muddle things with the idea that parsing can do even better, and that’s were I think the idea is half baked.
Trying to tie it to real liquidity is a strawman. They don't need to manipulate the order book for USD/BTC conversions. They can manipulate options, trades between different crypto currencies, futures and the like.

Here's an article about spoofing and market manipulation of real money in regulated excanges: https://ankura.com/insights/spoofing-market-manipulation-and...

This quote from the above article, does not apply to crypto exchanges so far as I know:

"Rules govern how trading is done. Laws prohibit manipulative trading practices on both securities and futures exchanges."

"To date, no cryptocurrency exchange has registered with the SEC" from https://medium.com/semadaresearch/should-cryptocurrency-exch...
Yes, thank you dang - no discussion site does a better job of keeping the conversation open, relevant, and relatively troll free as HN does.
Indeed, thanks for keeping the community vibrant. Thank you, Dang.
No, not really. I have it set up, I attach my public key but I have yet to talk to someone who responds with an encrypted message. Then again, I'm not a heavy email user and I use other means of communication for regular contacts. If an online service (that has email functionality) supports it though (and I think more should) I'll gladly enable that.
> Cars cause so much pollution, noise, traffic, and take up so much space... How can you say its introduction is joyful?

Horses generated literal tons of pollution in cities, were complicated to look after, and slow. The arrival of the car cleaned up the streets, made it easier to travel (and travel far) and very rapidly became the preferred mode of transport all over the world.
AMD Ryzen 7 5800U leak suggests a superb laptop chip that could blow away Intel
Show HN: Notion and Fruition Website
Thanks for all your hard work Dang.
Thanks for input, will update that control. Sorry bit ancient UI library now :)
Ballmer was actually insightful and philosophical, when he isn’t throwing chairs around?
Allegedly or did he lie and what did he lie about?
Thank you Dang, I never cease to be amazed by the quality of people and content on HN.

May it live long and prosper!
Most from Eufy are cloud free (and even local network free).
Yup, my account is over 11 years old and still going strong! Previous forums I used were:

1. the Joel on Software forum, which was great, with a similar clean design, but didn't last as long (Joel got tired of moderating it, probably)

https://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/ (now has an outdated cert :-( )

2. Usenet. Epic thread that gives you a picture of what happened to Usenet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24772142 (a flame war between drummers went on for 20 years, and one of them is even flamed 8 years after his death!!!)

Random sample of how bad it could be: https://groups.google.com/g/rec.music.makers.percussion/c/-E...
I don't know anything about beer, but I've spent a minute looking this up before, so here's a surprise German lesson:

‘Hell‘ means bright. Sometimes, ‘light‘ is the correct translation (e.g. light blue is ‘hellblau‘ in German). But in this context, it means pale, as in pale lager[0]. Nothing to do with reduced alcohol content or calories. The German translation for that kind of ‘light‘ (as in ‘light beer‘) would be ‘leicht‘ (lightweight) or ‘light‘ (as a loanword from English).

Also, it's not ‘our town name‘; it's ‘their town name‘. Fucking Hell isn't made in Fucking; it's not even from Austria.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_lager#Helles
DIY Smart Doorbell with a Raspberry Pi
Thank you guys for all your well wishes. It's been a privilege serving this community.

(psst, thanks realdang)
It's definitely not money laundering, but are Princeton grads too good to be involved in illegal activities? What a weird statement.
Fugg.

Fugg!

Fugg me. Fugg you. This is fugged. You fugger. WTF.

Yes, it will suffice.
you can do this with pivot tables. if your database has more than 1m entries you can do some preprocessing with powerquery.

you don't even have to learn a single line of new code, if you've never coded before. you only need to know how to point and click with a mouse.

and the best thing is, you can take whatever you've done and send it down to whoever happens to have installed Excel on their machine, which, in a corporate environment, is everybody. Don't need to set up a new programming environment + dependencies.
Thanks, Dan.
I must have a low productivity score. Half the time, I’m staring off into space.

Then I type stuff furiously. Verify it. Then publish it. Problem solved. Correctly too.

But still a poor “Productivity Score”. No bonus this year.
Naively it seems that ingestion for data of the form

(space (longitude, latitude), time, DATA)

is readily addressed by the ideas in that patent:

- hierarchical partitioning of space, each node storing the data for the regions represented by a number of leaves. shard per leaf and adaptive rebalancing (merge,split, move shard) as necessary.

- within each shard, partition by time

With this you can gang together any number of nodes that you need to hit the aggregate ingestion rate requirement.

The query

"give me all the data that occurred in this region of space in this time period"

is readily supported as well. Applications (shard aware or hitting some stub proxy aware of the sharding) sitting on top of this datastore can use this repeatedly to build arbitrary logic (though you would have to query all the nodes if you don't have a space region, which is fine if your query rate is low).

Likely my mental model of applications consuming spatial data is too simple, but what other innovation would be required beyond this for ingestion and querying? What kind of interface does the datastore provide to the application?

Would also love to hear more about the comment you made above

"there are several more hard/interesting computer science problems related to topological types and conflict resolution that you'll likely need to solve before you have a useful system"
You can do it very simple by writing a custom generator function:

foreach(myfunc($array) as list($key, $value, $loop)) {}

Maybe you can array destructuring at this place, i am not sure at the moment.

And your manual counting you do in myfunc() and just yield the values
Thanks, I'm dyslexic and mess stuff like that up regularly.
Thank you Dan and Scott! I’ve learned a lot and definitely advanced my career and personal life thanks to the stories and the comments on hn. I’m so thankful for all you do to keep it this way!
CDC proposes camps "Green Zones" in America
Net Operating Losses generated in a disregarded entity are passed through to the individual level. You can convert capital losses to NOLs, you can convert gambling losses to NOLs, and a few other conveniences.

Pick whichever source/year combination you choose to respect more. Or present a conflicting source.

https://www.carnahanlaw.com/net-operating-loss-nol/

https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/can-a-cal...

https://www.mwellp.com/deducting-pass-through-business-losse...
Great response! Happy Thanksgiving.
Why aren’t there more of these communities, and if there is I’d like to know.
Thanks Dang for your work!
Yes I could not find the original link too. Closest I could find is (the link mentioned in the paragraph below is broken) -

"Interesting defense. While Chen has a good point about Microsoft taking the blame unfairly over this and perhaps similar issues its not like Microsoft is renown for their code quality. Indeed, check out an item in J.B. Surveyer's Keep an Open Eye blog from September 2004 which details how Chen's team added code to allow Windows to work around a bug in Sim City!"

https://www.networkworld.com/article/2356556/microsoft-code-...
Nothing against Scott, but he left! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21930336
Thanks dang :)
Then you haven't been here long enough my friend. Welcome aboard!
This is creepy, that makes me uncomfortable. This triggers me, that gives me anxiety.
The buzzer is there for both to mark the frequency and signal that it's alive. Its old sequence had a hourly faster buzz which returned to normal at the beginning of the hour. It looked like this

X:59:00 - Buzzing gets faster.
(X+1):00:00 - Normal buzzing resumes.

I think it served as a crude hourly sync signal for some systems until GLONASS came and provided atomic level sync. This also implies that there may be other non-human systems listening for this station.

It can be speculated that Russian Perimeter (Dead Hand) system [0] may be one of the listeners.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand
Thanks very much, Dang.
> I can go to places that don’t use this type of data to make bad decisions.

Now re-read the post you replied to.

> Once everyone starts doing this there will be no where else for you to go.

No, you will not go anywhere where this practice is NOT done, because it will become widespread and you will have to be really lucky to find such a place where those practices are not done. That is, if they set a precedent and companies follow and people tolerate.

> probably just a bad company to work for.

Shit will happen when the majority of the companies will be bad companies to work for.
Only table games qualify? Or “skill” games or what?
Agreed. I used mutt for all my email for a good six years or so until about 2012. However, all the HTML mail with no plaintext version that I was getting killed it for me.

There's .mailcap and dumping the HTML through w3m trickery that I know about now that probably bears revisiting mutt.
sctb stopped working on HN last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25055115
Thank you dang!!
Why? I think 2) is a viable option too.
Maybe it’s because it’s late, but I don’t really follow what this is. It seems cool, but the explanation is too abstract
Having a temper doesn't prevent one from being intelligent. Gates and Jobs had famously bad tempers too.
I think homekit works over your local network, I could be wrong though. Latency for commands is much lower than Google/Alexa for me.

I will never buy another TP-Link device. Life is too short to be creating accounts for your smart plugs...
Are Your IaaS DC's Secured in Azure?
Wow! Such synergy between two vastly different (IMO) music styles.
That New Yorker article is what led me to start reading HN. I don't work in IT and am not a hacker by any means, but the quality of the discussions has made it one of my favorite places on the Internet. My deepest thanks to dang and to all of the contributors.
I wonder if it is something that is borne out but because of the illegal nature of psilocybin it is shared as just an idea.
In a very old interview, Eduard Artemyev, one of the pioneers of electronic music, says how Jugalbandi inspired his soundtrack of the sci-fi movie Stalker (1). I think it is the Stalker meditation theme, which distinctly has a Persian oud/tar like effect (2).

(1) https://youtu.be/xjVT7MlE5rY?t=629s

(2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP1QXKbhqr4
Thank you, Dang! This is one of the only forums I decided to stop lurking. You have helped foster a wonderful community here.
We Need Design Thinking in Social Innovation
Thank you so much dang
Thank you Dang
@dang has been an inspiration to me in how to moderate and build communities, and im sure im not alone. his work may be more impactful than he realizes! Thanks Dan!
Here is an interesting talk on Carnatic music, which is the south indian classical tradition.
https://youtu.be/u9CGcusOz60

And because this is Hacker News, there has to be a LISP in the mix.
Also Kissing, Germany. I live next to it :P