skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I hope she gets her Nobel prize. She deserves it.

If she and the others involved in identifying the root cause and coming up with the vaccine, do not get the Nobel in Medicine/Chemistry i will consider the whole "Nobel Prize" system to be a complete tool and sham.
How do I downvote a thread in HN, I can just upvote it?

Also is there also a way to filter out posts with the word "Rust" in it so I don't see them?
> The most obvious gap is that EFI booting systems don’t go straight from the OVMF firmware to the OS, they have to go via an EFI bootloader (grub, usually)

Why is that? We have used the EFI stub, which is part of the Linux kernel for quite a while. There is no need for a separate boot loader. Admittedly our systems are closer to embedded Linux than to big servers. What are the cases where you absolutely need grub (or another loader) today?
The difference is that Apple/Google contact tracing gives the user control over their data. Singapore's app works differently. Once someone's app picks up your signal, it's logged on their device and there's no way to delete it. The data is handed over to the authorities who have a list of everyone that they interacted with. Source: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/apple-google-contact-...
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If I may, it seems like you’re doing too many things at once, and yes the context switch is a killer.
What's the point of listing Edge or Opera? Is the same damn browser as Chrome after they forgo their engines.
HR reviews when a manager wants to fire someone, and ensures they have justifiable cause, rather than something more nefarious like racial animus that can lead to a lawsuit later. So if the employee is in certain protected classes, they need to dot their i's and cross their t's first.

While HR's main job is to advise and not order, this is one area where management tends to listen because in certain cases liability can become personal, and the cost is low.
Yep! Specifically, it can transfer all the important things in 16 characters. The medium option about four times as big to send exact stats rather than just levels; that seems like a lot of work for little benefit. The big one transfers every single item in your inventory.
I disliked the syntax, but was very curious why lots of devs were fascinated by it. Started to study Lisp/Clojure in 2015 and used more and more, and nowadays I love it.
Do you think that it may be caused by use of comptime? I have not looked at the benchmark implementations, but that kind of struck me as a reason
Agree 100%. All the people involved in this vaccine should be given the Nobel in Medicine/Chemistry.
Ask HN: Any cool Wikipedia API projects out there?
I've been playing with the Wikipedia API for a while now. I've built a couple small apps that use it.

A couple things come to mind:
1. I'm amazed at how much data they make available (mainly, from a technical POV; for example, they have an open search API that you can use with JavaScript that can do real time searches)
2. The API is pretty tricky to navigate. It's doable, but boy oh boy, there are a lot of gotchas and the documentation is pretty lacking.

Would love to check out some other projects that make use of the Wikipedia API that people here may have made :)
Looks very interesting. More people should take it. Some industries seem to underestimate what performance computers are capable of.
You can use BIOS settings to change the TDP to whatever you like, with substantially higher efficiency if you are under-powering and substantially lower efficiency if you are over-powering.
The constraints just weren't the same. I had a team of 10, could organize the projects however I wanted, and had huge budgets.

It does indeed create a very different way of approaching things. The pressure is simply not the same at all.

I guess that's one of the big lessons for me so far; experience in large enterprises is not comparable to working on a small startup project without funding.

May sound stupid, but it took me time to integrate the idea :)
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Well, I think there are two options.

Either Google should take a note from the old days when they were not rent-seeking jerks but did no evil and actually distinguished search results and ads by placing the ads to the side bar.

Or their practical search monopoly and all the profitablity from there should be regulated to oblivion.

That's just what I think should happen. The sensible me understands that obviously neither is going to happen.
Will this also exist for consumer DDR5?
>Singapore’s parliamentary political system has been dominated by the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) and the family of current prime minister Lee Hsien Loong since 1959. The electoral and legal framework that the PAP has constructed allows for some political pluralism, but it constrains the growth of credible opposition parties and limits freedoms of expression, assembly, and association.

https://freedomhouse.org/country/singapore/freedom-world/202...
Yes, but if you use a 'modern' GTK3 app (take a recent Meld), the absence of the titlebar (or decorated one, if you are into mdern GTK) really stands out. You're right that with some (older?) GTK apps breeze-gtk-theme used to work pretty well, not sure what changed.
The result can be split two ways. Either the advertiser wasted money on a click because the consumer will seek out the true XYZ. Or the consumer will be satisfied with what they've clicked and choose to buy it.

Hopefully the metrics show that the latter is mostly happening.

It's only fraud if the advertiser counterfeits XYZ's brand on their website.
Just because capitalism fails to provide something does not mean that communism would solve the problem, or that criticism of capitalism as a system is uncalled for. This is not some kind of binary capitalism/communism world we live in.
So, somehow blackmailing a company to stop buying advertisement at another company you disagree with turned out to be a good thing.
The US-China trade deficit is only a few hundred billion, which is peanuts at this scale.
I'm in the same boat.

I tried using pi-hole and nextdns but didn't worked for me because _I knew_ where to change back the settings, also, having multiple devices didn't help as well.

My current setup is a bit unconventional but has worked for me, in mac os there is an app called self-restrained, in windows there is an app called focal-filter that blocks websites that cannot be unblocked them after an X amount of time even if you reboot, I deleted the apps from my phone and now when I have the "urge" to watch a video I just do 10 push-ups.

You could also try to 1) "pause your youtube history", 2) unsubscribe from ALL your channels and 3) use an extension that removes everything from youtube (recommendations, history, etc).

Also, Ironically, I found a youtube video that helped me a bit more with this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-moW9jvvMr4

And the last one, I just worked on my will power and make a promise to myself to stop.

I wish you the best, Youtube is a really bad website when there is not enough self control.
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From the docs:

QPDF is not a PDF content creation library, a PDF viewer, or a program capable of converting PDF into other formats.
While Google does admittedly do a much better job preventing malware-ridden sites from running ads (for very long) than most platforms, to say there's "absolutely no malware" is a bit disingenuous when there do exist some sites with exploits and/or malware that manage to get ads in search results. The ad itself might not have malware, but the site it links to sometimes does.
>overtime has to be paid (these are things that came to pass due to pressure from unions!)

Not all jobs in Germany are unionized and many modern contracts have optional overtime hours built in them to prevent the employer from having to pay up for crunchtime.
> Cups and food containers are paper

Paper covered with PFAS? Not sure whether that's any better than styrofoam.
So this is arguing against GP's point since a washing machine should last for several years and is not fast-moving, right?
We didn't used to have two-factor authentication at all for most things though.
Where do they get the names from?
The influencer method to growing a marketplace
This is how the very Greek owners of the best Greek food in Austin (Santorini Cafe) taught me how to say it. And I’m inclined to believe them, because they make a damn good yee-ro.
Uber is about as fast-moving a consumer good as it gets. Up to the local speed limit.
Plus, ECC RAM is so accessible these days thanks to Ryzen. All the asrock mobos, from the lowest end to the highest end, advertise official support for it.
The Corner was another show by Simon. Really a miniseries. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corner
Others have said already but switching cloud providers, kubernetes, ci/CD, couch... it seems more like you were more interested in playing with tech than building a company
Right but if I presented this problem to you without using the word "phone" I'm pretty sure the answer would be "throttle and rate limit" and ban for abuse, not kill off the feature.

These lists are still available for purchase and thus they are still available. I'm not a criminal so I don't know what websites to go to but I'd be shocked if a file with a name like "US-ATT-SUBSCRIBERS-2020-12.sql.gz" doesn't exist.

As an example, my friends pool together as a "family plan" and we get a discount. I frequently get texts and calls from people asking for the person who pays the account. I don't use their name in anything I sign up for and they don't use my number. We don't even live at the same address - the phone bill is literally the only paper trail that connects us.

Therefore, the only way this mistake is possible is if these marketers bought the subscriber list or found a copy online somewhere.
I've seen this happen not because the code is hard to read but brittle. We tried and tried to clean it up but it was hard to tell if we were making a dent on code quality. Then a third party added a test system and we started writing automated tests. The code was a dream to work with.

I cannot overstate how much better it was to work with.

There were internal attitudes that prevented me from pushing for tests. Oh and the fact that the company had not used them in the past. But I regret not pushing hard for testing.
>Open Source Blender made it impossible to key groups (containers) and so I programmed a workaround for someone as a $15 bet that I could, and made a GUI for it - he used it and thanked me, but it was kinda lame doing it for 15 bucks

Not at all. You sold something for $15, which is more than $0 and a proof in a way that you can produce something of value to someone and sell it. Can you sell that again?

How irritating is that problem for those who have it? How expensive is it, as in, how much time and money are those who have this problem losing? How much would they stand to make in time and money? How frequently do they have that problem: is it only once in a while, regularly, or multiple times per day? Is it time of a highly skilled / expensive role or profile? Meaning: is it time of someone paid $$$/hour or $/hour?

>I don't know how to ask for gobs of money.

You have conversations in which you ask for gobs of money and keep your lips closed.

>I also setup someone's server (minecraft , gitea, docker compose, etc) for $30/hr - because I didn't think he could pay full rate ($66/hr) I got a few hundred on that.

You can't really know if you don't ask. I remember when I was in college listing my rate for a service that was 15x what others were charging. I was called by art galleries, jewelry stores, and companies to solve that problem.

One person could buy your "server setup" service because they don't know how to do it. Another person would buy it even though they know very well how to do it, but they wouldn't be doing something that is more valuable than $66 [either an activity that generates more, or napping, or anything], or that they "dislike setting servers up more than they like having $66", or that's just a distraction for them.
The crash has nothing to do with 800 tabs. Most of those Tabs are not active. And a crash, whether it has 1 tabs or 10000 tabs that lost the previous sessions is not using the tool wrong.
When was the last time 350,000 Americans died in a 'really bad Flu season", even without lockdowns? When was the last time deaths per day were measured in the thousands?

If you don't trust me perhaps you'll listen to Donald Trump, who told Bob Woodward in early February 2020: "And so that's a very tricky one. That's a very delicate one. It's also more deadly than even your strenuous flus.... This is more deadly,” he said. “This is five per — you know, this is 5 percent versus 1 percent and less than 1 percent, you know. So, this is deadly stuff.”
This is epic. I believe Google ads is the best. Other channels has one or the other issues.
thanks! fun to multiply every function by sin(t), makes it come alive.
What's interesting to note though is that I tried marking pointers __restrict__ in the performance critical sections in 2 of my C++ projects and the assembly generated by Clang was identical in all cases!

So while it is true that by default Rust has a theoretical performance advantage (compared to C/C++) because it forbids aliasing pointers I wonder (doubt) whether this will cause Rust binaries to generally run faster than C/C++ binaries.

On the other hand Rust puts security first, so there are lots of array bounds checks in Rust programs (and not all of these bounds checks can be eliminated). Personally I think this feature deteriorates the performance of Rust programs much more than you gain by forbidding aliasing pointers.
Building on the solid foundations from 19 and 20. This project could really take off this year.
> so I never need to install the Slack app

Same here for Twitter, Mastodon, the local news (push), weather (push and geo), public transport (push, geo and backround-service) and so on.

There are apps for all of them, but especially the apps in the long tail (local news, local public transport) are bad (as in: it is clear they are budget-restrained). I don't want to fill my phone with hardly-used, crappy apps, when a link to a website will suffice perfectly.

I use web-apps for anything possible. Via https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.tobykurien.webapps/ and https://progressiveapp.store/pwas
Comfort/efficiency..
Blame Intel for that. They dropped support for ECC RAM on the new Celerons and i3s.
Facebook does not reveal even a single letter of the recovery email's domain.
My pleasure, I'm glad you enjoy it!
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> safe, walkable urban

"Walkable" is an incredibly loaded term. It has evolved to mean "convenient" rather than "has sidewalks".

Struggling creatives don't usually live in neighborhoods that are safe or "walkable", though they may be urban and have sidewalks.
As someone who loves data and its interpretation, I enjoyed your colorful graphs a lot! Pretty cool to see life analyzed through data points.
Yes, almost all of them correct single-bit flips and detect but do not correct multiple hit flips.
My point is only that with those first two projects if you guys had stripped it down then you would have gotten feedback much faster.

And if that feedback was negative then you would have been able to move on to the next thing sooner.

And if that feedback had been positive it would have provided a lot of motivation for your co-founders.
The internet and the general availability of all knowledge and information are a paradigm shift. I think it is still underappreciated how fundamentally things have changed.
Corporate friendliness is not a disguise. It's needed to sustain the surveillance state cashflow.

As for general societal progress, I am really not sure what are you talking about. There is no progress whatsoever.
I found the pricing confusing. Unclear how/when a credit would be used.

Most landing page saas apps I've seen price based on page views, which lends me to believe those credits also limit page views. If not, I suggest explicitly stating unlimited page views (or what ever the limit is) if it's unrelated to the "credits" system.
CI/CD Workflow for AWS ECS via Terragrunt and GitHub Actions
Yup.
On my Android, each of those push-notifications come with a "configure notifications" which lets you turn them off quickly and easily.

Ironically, I use that feature for installed apps most (you're a banking app, stop bugging me with unrelated news!) and hardly ever to turn off a accidentally allowed web-notification.
Where are you getting this from? My understanding is that these errors are predominantly caused by secondary particles from cosmic rays hitting individual memory cells, and I've never heard something so precise as "you need two alpha particles". Aren't the capacitances in modern DRAM chips extremely small?
Why would you care about having unlimited access to an app that doesn't necessarily do what you need it to do? That's what we're talking about here - all the MVP should do is the absolute minimum to solve the problem it sets out to solve, and as a customer you don't know if it actually does that until either you've tried it, or you have validation from other people who've tried it.

No one should be worried about perpetual licenses or offline support for an app that hasn't proven it even solves the problem in a viable way yet. If those things are key to your purchasing decision then you probably ought to be buying from established businesses with proven products and good support, and that is definitely not any startup I know.

I suspect your comment betrays the fact that you think the first version of a startup's software is the first finished and stable version. That's the main problem here. Startups need to be selling long before they're at that stage.
Deliveroo used a Redux middleware to wrap their HTTP client
Strangely enough my ad blocker had been disabled and I didn't get any ads for Ozonetel. Perhaps it's because I'm searching from Philippines.
The first two hours of Kakoune in two minutes
When Google replaced mobile app install campaigns with machine learning based "universal app campaigns" (https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/6167162?hl=en) that give you very little control over the placement of the ads I always wondered if they were simply showing ads to Play Store users who were searching for the name of our app and charging us for installs we would have gotten for free anyway. Does anyone have here have experience with UAC or know how to prevent this type of thing from happening?
I miss getting those soup dumplings hot and fresh so much that I would unironically pay for this in a heartbeat if it worked.
I feel COVID-19 is the real test run.

Im in SA and the new strain is the real deal. Four people I know have perished in one week. I don't even know who to call or what to say.
I'm currently watching this TV show for the 8th time. I never got tired specially with the HD version. It is so good and I find it will age incredibly.
HP Prime and some other calculators (at least one TI) is based on GIAC XCas so here you go https://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/giac.html
I enjoyed reading your article. And myself what to start track some parameter. I'm thinking of "lines added into git", and make from them a little game eg draw a chart on a fridge.
Yes, and? How on earth are you going to even explain it to the police, let alone find which jurisdiction to use?
We (Saasform - https://saasform.dev/) are building exactly something like that. Since payments are heavily tied with authentication (and since authentication and payments rarely are part of the core business) our idea is to delegate these two key (yet non-core) features to an external service.

We are currently building our MVP and we plan to release the first part as OSS by the end of the month. Eventually the whole core will be open source and there will a version as a service (a-la GitLab). The first release will be focused on startups to help them to launch faster, in the next versions we will add more growth/enterprise features.

Feel free to drop a mail to dave <at> saasform <dot> dev if you have questions, want to contribute or if you want to be among the first users.
The Windows API asks the application to redraw the window on certain events (e.g. resize).
How the way you think was shaped centuries ago
Well, it does say "reading time"; I don't think the estimator expects people to write the article as well!
You are correct: https://www.spotify.com/us/opensource/
The only option is to Hide it.
Language is a living thing, but it doesn’t follow that it can be arbitrarily determined by individuals. You don’t get to make up and impose your own words, pronunciations, and meanings, or not if you want to be understood and respected. Language is a collective endeavour that evolves through the interactions of many people.
but it wouldn't have the private key associated with the certificate
Is UPenn being run by "Administrative Tools" or do they still have somebody with a "Scientific Mind" in charge of things?
>Tether being a vehicle to inflate the price of Bitcoin is odd

I'm not so sure.

I'm a great supporter of Bitcoin, but:

a) Tether worries me a great deal, especially if you dig into the background of the folks behind it. Unless tether lets itself be properly audited and proves cash reserves, it can indeed, in a rater straightforward manner, be used to manipulate BTCUSD

b) The current price action also worries me a great deal: it's IMO likely going to go through more 2018-like volatility events (i.e. a x5 haircut to shed speculators) through 2021 thereby lending temporary credibility to the nocoiners arguments.

I'd much prefer to see Bitcoin price be either stable in value or growing slowly.

But the nature of the beast makes that proposition a difficult one until it reaches its "natural" capitalization (whatever that may be - some say that of gold).
Facebook ads are the worst from a users perspective. I bought a floor mat through them once and for the next week all the ads were for floor mats. I just bought one I’m not interested in buying another. I bought a PC chair recently with my credit card, now I see a bunch of ads for PC chairs, again, I don’t need another one.
> There is no progress whatsoever.

Economic progress is a thing. https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/singapore/overview

> Singapore is a high-income economy with a gross national income of US$54,530 per capita, as of 2017. The country provides one of the world’s most business-friendly regulatory environment for local entrepreneurs and is ranked among the world’s most competitive economies.

> In the decades after independence, Singapore rapidly developed from a low-income country to a high-income country. GDP growth in the city-state has been amongst the world’s highest, at an average of 7.7% since independence and topping 9.2% in the first 25 years.
Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical has raised over $1M for struggling actors
For exactly this problem I did build https://unshort.link

It is a service that unshortens the url and removes (if possible) the tracking parameters.

It is GPL3, allows Easy Self Hosting and has an automatic browser plug-in
When you're starting out making music having just one computer for everything is fine but once you've reached the point where you spend a lot of your time on it, it quickly becomes a no brainer to at least have a dedicated computer for just that. It's about putting yourself in a productive setting where you only focus on creating and you have minimal distractions.

Besides, a dedicated computer for music production has a low entry cost since you basically only need a decent amount of ram. My studio computer has an old i7, 32 GB ram and it doesn't even have a GPU and the price was less than $500 a few years ago. It's going to outlast my current gaming rig and probably my next one as well.
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