skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like an unreasonable criticism. Seeing a problem without a good solution and creating a solution to it seems to me the very essence of hacking.
Dangsgiving
Why would they double book him after they know he's busy, instead of before?
There's a similar explanation for Linux's success on servers: Linus is very strict on backward compatibility for the kernel.
But for Linux on desktop, the rest of the stack (GUI environments) is made by a bunch of CADT devs who don't care about backward compatibility is, so of course it failed..
I think a lot of people don't appreciate the fact of how terrible HN would be if the moderators decidedly to complete leave for a set amount of time (and I love HN as it is, just there is a lot of bad content that gets (auto)removed). They're good at being visible only when they need to be, and so it's nice that many users recognize the great and constant work they do.
Add my thank You dang to the list! Your work is genuinely appreciated.
BF 2020- Nvidia and AMD -shortage
In Europe Graphics cards like Nvidia 2070 or AMD 5700 with 8GB cant be found available anywhere and at least on Amazon there is no BF discount. Is this a "game" played manufacturer or distributers? Dirty games. This BF really sucks.
> The vast majority of traffic accidents I see (and I drive 8 - 10 hours every day) are entirely self-inflicted

How do you know that by driving by a wreck?
Sometimes down votes are so hilarious.

Whatever nice things one can say about platforms (and there are many) people are going to get kicked off. Of course the majority of the time they did something that was not allowed. No one can be mr perfect 24/7 365 days of the year, the rules can be totally idiotic too of course, at the scale the big platforms work false positives are [sadly] impossible to avoid.

But it doesn't matter. The platforms have to do house keeping, its unavoidable. If one deserved to get kicked off is entirely besides the point: It is not your website, you are a guest.

Your own website is an entirely different story. You have to break actual laws and you may deserve your day in court.

Compared to the cyborg-kangaroo court this is the superior deal. You can down vote me all day long, I have not broken any laws. You cant persecute and silence me for stating the obvious. On HN however this is how things work, you feel the statement lacks effort, is off topic or whatever other reason you can think of and then people get silenced.

I sure as hell hope HN doesn't implement an internet kangaroo court room (like wikipedia has, woah the walls of text generated by tiny issues!) but you can expect people not to speak their mind, not share their version of the story, to attempt to live up to your expectations and learn to survive your judgement.

This is why you need your own website.
thank you & Happy Thanksgiving dang & everyone else :D
AstraZeneca’s ‘mistake’ in Covid-19 vaccine trials could halt approval
Dang helped promote my "Show HN" side project to the front page [1], and that in turn got it worldwide press coverage [2,3,4,5]. But beyond that, I'm super appreciative for keeping the community consistently amazing throughout the years.

I've seen heated discussions here. Dang always offers constructive guidance when discourse devolves or gets off topic. It's never preachy, and it usually leads to amicable results when I see it.

In years past I commented in frustration that HN was at risk of becoming like Reddit. Dang said not to do this and pointed out a community rule discouraging it. Looking back, I was completely wrong in that judgment. HN is one of the few places that really hasn't changed. There are brilliant people from all walks of life and at various intersections of our industry, all coming together to ask questions and share our perspective. There isn't anything else like it.

HN isn't without faults, but it's the best community on the Internet as far as I'm aware. Frequently informative, always entertaining. I learn more every day because of HN.

Dang,

https://imgur.com/a/w7SRSzF (warning: audio)

Thank you.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23968134

[2] https://gigazine.net/news/20200728-vocodes/

[3] https://hightech.fm/2020/07/28/ai-celebrity-voice

[4] https://hypebeast.kr/2020/7/vocodes-free-launching-text-to-s...

[5] https://www.larazon.es/tecnologia/20200803/zdj5mf47zfc6rmci5...
Big Thank You Dang!
Obviously you can turn off any feature you don't want, if you are the customer. If you are a user, talk to your admin.
Right now: Vijay Kaporkar, Raga Bhairavi.

It's 10 minutes long. One chord. One tempo.

There's the accordion style instrument playing 3 note drone (reminiscent of pipes), minor chord.

There's some keys and vocals moving up and down the minor scale, somewhat randomly.

That's it, for 10 minutes.

This is pretty exemplary of this kind of music, and it's obviously limiting.

By every musical measure, there's not much going on.

I don't doubt it's authenticity, or that it has influenced other forms of music - but it's nothing remotely comparable to Jazz for example.

It's a hyper specific genre.

Edit: the link from the above comment (Ramakrishnan Murthy) ... is quite good actually, the creative quality is much higher than the music the article link, but the conclusions are mostly the same. It reminds me quite a lot of 'Pipes and Drums' where you have hyper specific and constrained instrumental qualities of a couple flavours (pipes are in one key, snare drum is ostensibly a very basic instrument) but they take it to to limit within those constraints.
The article takes great pains to point out that Leaf-Cutter Ants are not an unknown species though, they're one of the most-studied species of ant.
At least the spying is removed by not connecting it to the internet, though I still get the great full OS experience :/

I have a smart TV not connected to the internet, just a HDMI connection to another box. Then I learned that IP-over-HDMI is a thing!

In the very near future this will be even more futile - the TV will have it’s own built-in cellular connection just for telemetry. Anyone who objects will be shouted down as a 5G conspiracy nut, but this is exactly what 5G is designed for.
My guess is they figured out who prints the lottery tickets, then gathered data on the ticket ID numbering system produced by that printer in the past(winner vs loser ticket ID's), then trained that data via deep learning to figure out probabilities of jackpot likelihood for each ticket ID # (or by range of numbers), then figured out the historic distribution patterns in relation to the ticket ID #'s, then pinpointed the specific places actually selling those ticket ID's, then drove to West Bumblefuck and bought all those tickets.
My biggest hurdle was getting bigger projects and not just "fix my webpage" type tasks.

I tried cold emailing companies under my business name in order to get some better projects but i didnt receive much attention. Do you suggest other ways of reaching to possible customers?

The suggestion to hire someone to do the initial outreach is a good idea, i will try it out.
Developers Guide to AI
Tug 2020 – Beginning LaTeX Workshop [video]
Just to put a nail on it, a previous commenter above spells it out

“And some of those simpler solutions do come from the dynamic programming world. For example, ‘You can then go further and remove the more primitive operations, only allowing access to the higher level abstractions,’ is another excellent way to make illegal states unrepresentable. And you don't need shiny new programming languages or rocket powered type systems to do it. I was really rather disappointed that that section of the article gave a nod to Dijkstra, but completely failed to mention Alan Kay's The Early History of Smalltalk[1], which was, to an approximation, several thousand words' worth of grinding away on that point.”

So I feel like maybe we all were confused by what the article was suggesting, if indeed it suggested anything concrete at all.

1. http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/
Office Space had TPS reports in 1999. Companies aren't waiting for Microsoft's support to abuse their staff.
It's a reference to the forum r/Outside on reddit.com
Thanks much @dang, for all the work you do for HN. You are a true inspiration for me to hone my own community-building and moderation skills.
Thanks bud!
There is still, somehow, nothing I've found that's better than Thunderbird for an open source desktop GUI email client. Little choice but to allow it for many users like myself.

Worse still - even many of the proprietary ones now rely on 3rd party servers for "cloud" features, or are bloated and ugly electron apps.
I sincerely disagree, but wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving.
Dang, thanks. This year has been tougher than others, but you've done god's work.
I am actually building something even worse but in parallel I am thinking that the same skillset used to build monitoring could be used to build a tool to game these tools. Comment here if you are interested in building the roboemployee of the future to be used by employees rather than employers.
C was designed to fill its main purpose in writing portable OS in a higher level language, and given that majority of the today's world's OS is written in C, is the testament of its success.

It is interesting to note that while Brian Kernighan and Ken Thompson are involved in initial Go language design, C was largely Dennis Ritchie's baby and his got a complete PhD thesis on programming language design meaning that he basically aware of the state-of-the-art of programming languages design at that time.

The main argument of several steps back is probably about the lack of the functional language aspects like closure and this feature probably at the very bottom of the programming language features list that you want to have in porting OS, given the computer systems CPU and memory limit at the time. The other is object oriented, but you can perform object oriented programming in C inside the kernel just fine but not as gung-ho as things like the multiple inheritance nonsense [1].

Jury is still out on Go. The fact that Kubernetes is very popular for the cloud now does not mean it will be as successful as 50 years of C. Someone somewhere will probably come up with better Kubernetes alternatives soon that uses different languages. To be relevant in today and in the future, Go needs to adopt generics and its designers are well aware of the deficiency of not having generics for current Go implementation.

[1]https://lwn.net/Articles/444910/
All other communities are money driven ad bloated and later sponsored with bunch of crap products. And motivation is to promote stuff nonstop and moderation allows it. HN doesn't do any of those.
> That's putting it nicely. Based on experience, I'd say it's arguing about preferences while demanding that code be coupled because "that's how we do things here".

That's certainly not been my experience (and I get the exact opposite impression from people involved in the formal readability process).

> Academia is actually based on research and correctness to a much higher degree.

This depends, greatly, on what part of academia you're in. In many ways, Google is much better about correctness than much of academia (reproducibility, for example, is often near trivial at Google but uncommon in most non-theoretical areas of academia).

> The lack of focus on correctness in code worked on at Google is, honestly, appaling

There are tradeoffs here. On the one hand, you have tens of thousands of engineers, you're not going to be able to enforce perfection by every single one with the tools available today with a reasonable cost. On the one hand, I see evidence that Google is willing to invest huge amounts into improving software correctness at the lowest levels (like proposing and upstreaming changes to languages to improve correctness-by-default).
It's really sad. We already have an incentive to game other people's perceptions to get an easy promotion but this takes it to a whole new level, and seems to reward the trickster political over the people trying to just make an impact.

My expectation is that it's going to damage the productivity of the most productive but slightly increase productivity of the laziest quartile who should've be fired anyway. The biggest impact will be to drive engagement with Microsoft products which was the real endgame.
How Mumbai cab drivers manipulated the Ola app to cheat customers
I don't panic often, but I thought this must have been a send-off tribute, and I panicked.
Shame this stops working with the next firmware update that switches your TV to DNS-over-HTTPS. Because then, just like google ads switching to the main google.com domain, you will have to choose to block either every service from your tv manufacturer (including firmware security updates) or allow it all through.

My next TV is going to be a dumb one with a bespoke HTPC...
Thank you dang! :D
There are no communities like this because of Eternal September like phenomena. If HN acquires a million readers tomorrow, it'll be unrecognizable very soon. Nicheness on its own creates valuable communities. Another contributing factor is the 'appalling' UI. I love it, everyone else on HN loves it but an outsider is immediately repelled
Nice Deep Fake
This take is garbage. Touch typing and hunt and peck are two extremes. You can be somewhere in the middle and be Ok.
Just like you can go to companies that don't have open office plans? Sometimes these pernicious fashion trends spread so far and wide that in practice you're stuck with it
Rich people don't need to risk their wealth by signing up to be mules.
For iOS, I know of two. Both are on TestFlight:

* Gemini for iOS (https://github.com/pitr/gemini-ios)

* Rocketeer (https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2020/002812.html)

For Android, Ariane is available on the Play Store and for direct download:

* Ariane (https://oppenlab.net/pr/ariane/)

I had a brief look at the iOS ones but haven't checked how well they do in the protocol test suite: gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/torture/
I am out of almost all social networks. HN is the only one that I still visit for intellectual inspiration.

Thank you Dang!
Julia and excel are fundamentally different.

In Excel, the logic/analysis part is on the same level as the data. The data and operations done on it are a single file. A datum is in a cell, and a formula is in a cell. You can move formulae around like you can move data around. You are viewing and operating on the data/logic in the same context. When you open an excel document, what you see right away is the culmination of all analyses done on the data.

With julia, the data and logic are separate entities. You have to first import data[1]. The result dataframe is created by explicitly running cells/scripts on the import. When I view the dataframe, I cannot just point-click-edit it. Any edit I make is a separate line of code to run. Then the whole script is run again over the whole dataframe to get the new result. This is opposed to excel which creates dependencies on a cell-level and live-updates the spreadsheet with each edit, but without processing the whole spreadsheet.

Since logic is its own entity (script) in julia, it is easier to write long and more complex processes: things you cannot easily do in a single-line formula parallelized over cells in excel. Also, since the processing and editing are explicitly spelled out in a script, it is easier to keep track of changes and reason about logic. So they both have their advantages.

[1]: You can even do that in excel. Import csvs, databases etc.
That’s horrible, I hadn’t even looked at it like that.

But it will actually work better with 3/4G because 5Gs range is so short and it would be easy to block with just a little tinfoil.
How does one classify travel as essential or non-essential?
Good to know, I'll keep that in mind!
Show HN: Made Android app to browse Reddit in form of quiz-“Guess the Subreddit”
Also on Product Hunt : https://www.producthunt.com/posts/guess-the-subreddit-reddit-quiz-game

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/R4oOW2h

Developed using React Native

Saw that meme this morning, yeah? Or that cute puppy video, you liked it... but do you remember which subreddit it is from? And there's so many related subreddits that you don't know of which have better content! What if there was a not-so-boring way to get to all this...

Well, here's a gamified Reddit experience, just for you!

- A fresh way to browse Reddit content in the form of a quiz
- Challenge your brain to test knowledge of various subreddits & earn points
- Multiple game modes so that you are never bored
- See your game stats and share with your friends
- Explore many more new categories and subreddits!
- Non-intrusive ads that don't hamper your user experience
- Minimal UI with beautiful colors
There are times like this I feel electron is not bad of a platform. Platform APIs keep on changing but chromium always implement those in early phase(vulkan, metal, ARM mac OS etc). Development almost never have to worry about platform APIs.
How many drinks of alcohol are advised against by professionals, and how many do you find alarming in practical reality? What’s the delta? Milligrams of THC? What’s the recommended maximum for any commonly consumed drug versus known safe usage?
A thanks to dang's family as well - there's always someone sustaining us.
Thank you Dang, your levelheaded moderation makes this place great.
I did this a lot as a child. Find some random insect (beetle, spider, earthworm), pop it into an ant colony and spend hours watching the ensuing battle.

Never thought of it as cruel, which is unsettling when I imagine what an alien species with superior intelligence might choose to do with us.
thank you dang :)
Thanks for the hard work Dang!
Oh, I've interacted with dang a few times. I appreciate your manner in which how you handle the requests. Thank you so much for your hard work <3
This reads like cope for the fact that machines from other vendors will now lag behind Macs for quite a while to come.
Interesting data, though I have to say consistency of MDMA/Ecstasy usage makes me pause for thought. My understanding was that while (assuming purity and correct dosage) MDMA is relatively safe, repetitive use over a long period of time can lead to issues with a person's seratonin system?

My experience is far below that of the author, however in general I figured that it was safest to stick to a general list of rules. This goes for everything including alcohol. For me at least these were:

1. Don't consume anything by yourself, especially at home.

2. If you are in a sad mood or similar, think twice before taking anything. Are you doing this to avoid a problem in your life?

3. If you are to take something, make sure you understand what it is, what the dose is, and what the side effects and risks are.

4. Avoid anything with a high possibility of addiction or damage to health.

For me this has pretty much resulted in only ever trying: Alcohol, Weed (edible form preferably) and once or twice Psychadelics. Alcohol is a strange one, since it is objectively quite dangerous but very socially acceptable. In this case keeping an eye on how frequently you drink is important.

Though I've been offered coke, or MDMA or similar, I have always refused for the above reasons. Maybe it's possible these things can be safely taken / moderated, but having seen people take these and long term go off the rails, it does not seem like a worthwhile risk.
Welcome to the "New Microsoft"...worse than the old Microsoft.
I would personally trust coinbase over NYT at this point...

Especially given the circumstances of the article.
I'm curious what's the typical salary for devs at Japanese startups. I'm assuming it should at least be higher than megacorps which, from what I understand, are more traditional and based on years spent at the company.

I also wonder how much culture clash there are for foreigners working at these companies e.g. how do they handle conflicts or disagreements with seniority.
To paraphrase Tallulah Bankhead, so this is the village that can't spell "fuck".

Too bad Tuli Kupferberg isn't around to see it.
> We had a long experience with such a system.

No, your ancestors had experience with such a system. They are long dead, and the struggles they faced and lessons they learned have been abstracted and bowdlerized until all we're left with is a parable against the abstract idea of a dictator.

George Washington wasn't fighting an abstract dictator. He was fighting the British Empire, an actual existing enemy with an actual ruler, with millions of people on every sides who either supported or fought against it for their own reasons. I can't even pretend to understand the issues they faced, but I do know that you cannot summarize them into a single factor.

Consider a much simpler event, like 9/11. If anyone says, "There's one reason why 9/11 happened, which is X - this is why we must never do X ever again," how much would you trust such an analysis?

That's all I'm saying. My Korean experience tells me that anyone who says it can be reduced to a single factor, or even a major factor (the size of the government), is selling snake oil. Of course, that doesn't mean I know a universal solution to avoid tyranny. If there was such a solution, mankind didn't discover it yet.
Is this finished? It keeps saying early access pdf but I’m not seeing any expected timeline or current status
It might not be high frequency, but it certainly is real-time, unless you are implying that the agencies that give this kind of government certifications are all a bunch of fools.
Why not just use an Intel NUC?
New UK tech regulator to limit power of Google and Facebook
We should feel gratitude for what we have. And then chase the ambitious. Easier said than done, but a useful philosophy.
From a different article:

So are females most strongly attracted to the tough, macho, white-striped males? Actually, no. Lab studies have found that females of either morph prefer the tan-striped males. White-striped females, more pushy than their tan-striped sisters, grab the tan-striped bachelors right away, so these pairs form more quickly than the opposite combination. Males of both morphs tend to prefer the white-striped females, but those females quickly hook up with tan-striped males if they can, so eventually the leftover birds will form pairs consisting of white-striped males and tan-striped females.

https://www.audubon.org/news/the-fascinating-and-complicated...

Granted, the question of homo-zygotic white offspring viability is not even touched.

Edit: yet another article tentatively says the double-white sparrows to exist, but in far lesser number than expected, they suspect some genetic disadvantage.

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(15)...
NYC’s high-end Japanese restaurants deliver $800 sushi to survive
Generally any game you would find in a casino. Basically anything you could do as a profession which is why the lottery and raffles don't count.

This source links to an indepth source which is unfortunately not available for free online but which is probably the best resource outside of reading IRS regulations and cases. https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2016/oct/taxes-f...
Can you pivot running a corner in to marketable skills?
If life circumstances caused you to be on the scamboozle side of the internet for 20 years is there any way to grow up?
This, in a perfect world, would be the function of a service the size of GitHub.

Take the dross out of the web and serve it to those with the skills (and/or determination) to spend their attention in a dramatically different way to the vacuous consumers of media who turn thwir brains off for hours a day playing Farmville (or whatever the latest cycle burner is on Farcebook).

What an amazing development, I hope nobody comes along and poisons the process for profit.
Hacker news keeps me up-to-date on the latest buzz, the most interesting and unusual corners of the interwebs.
The value derived from the comments is usually greater than the original article itself. Thank you Dang.
If we tell you where they are, they won't be there anymore