skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just created http://unaffixed.com for finding and posting Gumroad-like jobs [1].

It's just a markdown file converted to html and served from a Fastmail folder.

My process was:

Read this thread [2] yesterday afternoon. Thought this sounded like a "looser" work environment. Searched "synonym loose". 3rd result was "unaffixed". Bought unaffixed.com and pointed it at Fastmail. MD to html with pandoc. Added water.css stylesheet last night. Thought up some ideas on making it better.

[1]: https://sahillavingia.com/work
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25686678
Thinking something does not make it true.
Also: https://lsngl.us/@alrs/105524182082875422
Dear technical people who are competent. I'll hire you.
Yes, truely this style of writing is so tedious. Informative articles should aim to present the matter in the style of an Encyclopedia chapter.
My half baked project isn't even hosted yet. I just work on it locally: https://imgur.com/a/FAVOOka

It's a site to curate the best links for given topics.
The original rust compiler was written in ocaml
https://chiffre.io

It's an end-to-end encrypted analytics SaaS. It allows me to provide a web analytics service to my customers where only they can see their usage data.

More like 3/4 baked, currently running in private beta, hoping to ship Q1 2021. Feedback is welcome !
It's kind of alluded to, but, while FP languages, as a broad category, were the progenitor of a lot of different PL ideas, Haskell ended up implementing many of them in a single place. It's fair to say "we were influenced by (this other language that originated an idea)", but it's also fair "and Haskell also has that feature". Do it enough times, and you start to see why the claim that Haskell is important; being a research language it's able to have all of these ideas implemented in it in pursuit of its design goals, where other FP languages pick and choose in pursuit of a different one.
> We, the US, simply don't have the literal bodies regardless of our economy.

Open immigration, create tax incentives for raising children, and start minting new US states. We could close the gap with China and India if we prioritized it. I think it's of strategic importance that we do.
On top of that I found the documentation and the book terrible. I thought it might be easier to understand what it does by reading the source code (didn't try yet)
Indeed, but I don't see as much issue with things which are freeze-able. You can Marshal.dump cyclic structures already with no issue. What seems to be the culprit at the moment is changing the method definitions / module composition of modules which participate in exchanges between Ractors. A lot of Ruby modules define constants dynamically, prepend modules to patch missing or broken functionality on existing modules, modify constants to patch bugs. Since there is no compile step / monomorphisation ahead of time it is likely that a program will be evolving after the VM has started and all the code has been loaded. I do not see the Ractor messaging setup covering it well at the moment. Maybe Ractor messages should be their own type which is only allowed to contain marshalable objects, and inside a Ractor the VM must be able to "replay" the same code structure mutations as the the entire VM (or those mutations must be cloned into the Ractor where appropriate).

While a lot of people scream that "you should not monkeypatch" (and it is pretty much always a good idea not to) it is not always practical, given the fact that a lot of software produced is imperfect and does need careful patching sometimes, and Ruby is great at allowing it.
Do you mean '<'?
> How many firearms, and ammo you can buy

How would you feel if I advocated for arming communist rebels in your country? It's disturbing how normalized calls to violence are on HN when the violence happens far away.
The US president has said that he will use the full power of the government to track down and prosecute everybody involved in the capitol riot.

I'd link you to the video of him saying this, but Twitter deleted it so I can't.
These two situations couldn’t be more vastly different.

The rally was organized by Trump, the mob that marched on the capital was there for Trump, marching with flags for Trump, encouraged and incited by Trump, and aimed at overthrowing a legitimate election in favor of Trump.

BLM was marching for lost lives that could no longer speak for themselves, organized by and for no single individual, carrying flags to honor the fallen, aimed at creating a future where less people would die unnecessarily at the hands of law enforcement.
https://omegacrm.net/

A simple all-in-one CRM for freelancers. Does not require JavaScript. Ironically built with Node.js and React.

It currently only allows the user to manage their clients. Planning on integrating per-client projects and billing, as well as time management.
> Counterpoint. Everyone I meet in San Francisco is against colonialism.

> Have you considered that Hong Kong is part of China, was taken as a colony, Democracy was introduced and by supporting a different system of government, in a country that isn't yours, is a form of internalized colonialism?

> Our country is literally falling apart.

> Our biggest problem in the west is our tendency to export our problems. China is internally focused, and will solve its internal problems in Hong Kong. Whether you like it or not. It's simply how they operate considering their 5,000 year history.

China itself was built by imperialist and colonial actions. If you truly are against such actions (or if you support treaty agreements) you would support Hong Kong citizens in their attempt to stay some sort of separate entity.

People have this idea that an enormous unified China is somehow natural. The linguistic variation of Chinese is larger than the romance languages today. China being some unified country speaking Mandarin is about as natural as Rome coming back today and enforcing Italian on all its previous empire. I'm not personally arguing that China should break apart, but the "5,000 year history of China" somehow implying that they need to take over everything in the area is just a made-up historical argument to support their current imperialism.

Maybe we can't go back and give Hong Kongers a voice, but we shouldn't pretend like their fate was somehow natural or just. And we shouldn't watch them go down now without a care.
Yeah, it’s kind of mind-blowing to me that this post is so highly rated when to me it just seems like a bunch of unsubstantiated claims like this, as well as blatant misunderstandings of fundamental functional programming concepts.
It's not my logic, it is what the American Policy thought was the decent thing to do.
Check https://bruzu.com a bit more than half!
Yes! But the refresher for lawmakers should be much longer, and e.g. include the typical error rates and what they mean.
> The situation in HK is depressing,

It sure is. HK was my favorite city. Great place. I liked to live in China too, but left when Xi got into power, because it was all too obvious, even 10 years ago, what would happen.

The turn to nationlism, xenophobia, and imperialism under Xi is insane. And the lack of reaction to it in the West (with the exception of the Trump administration) is even more insane.
In SciFi many ships have a military purpose and should be designed around the guns and the engines. Everything else used cramed in where there is space.
First person video of Capitol siege (35 mins)
I looked into it and the actual answer as with everything it’s extremely complicated and you’re original pithy 80% of IQ is heritable seems to be dependent on how much culture is involved in the testing methodology... https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-her...

I think the idea that we can control properly is extremely unlikely and IQ will turn out to be a lot difficult to extract from learning/society/environment than you might think, especially as findings with epigenetics and intelligence start to be shown. https://www.europeanscientist.com/en/research/epigenetics-an...
NASA's Curiosity rover: 3k days on Mars
I wonder how "walkable" a plane is after it takes a nosedive, and if the type of doors would make any difference in one's ability to reach the cockpit.
https://www.nps.io/

Create free online NPS surveys. Send them to your customers. When they answer one, you will get an email with their score, comments, and some statistics
I'd argue the damning point is that we still use the original constitution.
Exactly, these are de facto monopolies.
The treaty signed by China and UK guaranteed that China would not interfere with its governmental system until 2040.

Well it’s not 2040, they broke the treaty, that fully is a justifiable offence.
and if china offers statehood to hawaii?

the chinese will view it as a declaration of war.
https://modquiz.com - A spaced repetition tool that combines a notion-like input interface to make creating flash cards more organic, using markdown text, tables and lists. Also has a flexible schema so that questions can be generated in different formats like multiple choice, true false, matching, etc. buggy and not all the dynamic question features work but the foundation is there.

https://eniac.lrner.io - An incremental game used to teach the history of the building of the first computer, ENIAC. Buggy and the mid-end game needs to be implemented. I planned on launching this to HN and PH in a few months.
Prove that MAGA supporters did not just get a free and fair election and simply lost.

The GOP has a gerrymandered mathematical advantage and still lost.

At what point to the unaligned and left leaning folks, who won by majority vote, get to have their voice heard?

When did evidence become optional?
https://www.tree-annotation.org/

minimal universal syntax

alternatives to JSON, XML, and S-expressions slowly baking on top
Yes without fracking shale this would never have happened. I dont really like pumping toxic chemicals into the ground but politically and economically its great.
I would say the best teacher listens - how can you direct someone somewhere if you don't know where they are?

Of course, only really feasible for 1-1 teaching.
Not quite what I had in mind. Thinking more like: support relocation plans for Hong Kongers, nonprofits to donate to, etc.
AWS certifications get a lot of well deserved hate here. They are very marketing hype heavy and seem to be designed to give inexperienced people a false sense of expertise. That said, they aren’t a bad introduction if think of as just learning the table of contents and the glossary.

I do not consider myself an expert even though I’ve built some pretty large things on AWS. My own path was to build some toy apps, some side projects, and just play in general. Then I took a few certifications (pro and specialty) to help illuminate the gaps in my experience. Then I started building more.

Ultimately, the only real way to become an expert is to do stuff. You have to build, solve problems, pivot, do peer reviews, etc.
They've not won anything though, in fact they showed their hand to the world to wake us up, and sooner than later there will be a multi-lateral trade agreement between Democracies that will reduce the CCP's economic power - and India who' aligned with, allied with Democracies are readying to replace any economic activity in China. This isn't a war they can win.
Boycott everything Made in China (I’ve been doing it for years, and it’s not that difficult.. I mean if you can find alternative for 9 out of 10 goods then it’s of course still a big win). Similarly, boycott companies that kowtow to China (you can probably save a lot of money by doing so, e.g. by pirating all Disney movies/tv series instead of going to the cinema/paying for Disney+).

Support companies that voice support for those oppressed by the CCP (such as ProtonVPN, Notepad++).

Vote for politicians that are not afraid to stand up to CCP (I for instance voted for Trump despite having my political views mostly align with Sanders - solely due to his anti-China stance.. you can of course also argue that his administration has singlehandedly done more to stand up to China than the rest of the world combined in the past couple decades).

Spread awareness of China’s atrocities. If more people realized that CCP are even more evil and dangerous than Nazi Germany then we’d likely see more aggressive policies towards China (such as banning their companies from our markets, keeping the tariffs (Biden said he’d end them) - hopefully with other countries similarly implementing tariffs).
Not to mention that this land was occupied before the white man showed up.
The Natural Bears Classification System
https://qrono.net, https://github.com/c2nes/qrono

A work in progress, Qrono is a persistent, time-ordered queue server providing at-least-once delivery. The time-ordering can be used to schedule values to be delivered in the future, implement exponential backoff within a consumer, etc.

In addition to HTTP and gRPC interfaces, Qrono supports a RESP (https://redis.io/topics/protocol) interface allowing Redis tools (e.g. redis-cli) and clients to be used.
“i tried to post a link to my own site then looked up who was asking for my url” is extremely not black hat. nice try though.
I think you're going to run into problems turning waste heat into usable energy, because it implies there's a cold sink already that you can use to convert the temperature differential into electrical energy to drive your laser. High end laser efficacy ranges from 30% to 50%?[1]
But regardless, you're asking to get low-entropy energy out of high-entropy energy, and that's one of those "you can't win or break-even at thermodynamics in a closed system" kind of thing. Since spaceships come conveniently jacketed in a vacuum-insulating outer layer (i.e. space :) you're still stuck with some variant of radiative heat transfer, and "a big piece of metal being used as a infrared heat radiator because we pushed heat into it using a refrigerator loop) is still the cheapest option.

The last option techie that I've ever heard for rejecting heat already onboard on a spaceship (and this is pure technobabble from proposals about Star Wars ships massive power generation needs) would be some magical way to convert heat into neutrinos, which, since neutrinos can pass though most matter, could be inside the ship and still function as a heat rejection mechanism. [2]

[1] https://www.laserfocusworld.com/lasers-sources/article/16547...

[2] https://www.theforce.net/swtc/power.html
https://github.com/internalfx/pageflo

A Flexible headless CMS. Create data structures and deliver them to any front-end through an API.

It's actually not totally half-baked and is perfectly usable, but could use some more polish.
I'm struggling with https://memordo.com which is a minimalist flashcard platform where you can create public and private decks.

I use the tool religiously because I prefer my tool over the others tools available. I think the strategy forward for me is to create some public decks that others people would like to study.. Do you guys have any cool ideas for decks?
http://alanbernstein.net/galleries/2020-pecos/#lg=1&slide=1

Photo slide show correlated with gps track, for hiking trips. It's been a goal for years, I finally got it half-baked by just smashing together lightgallery and leaflet. Somehow it works ok on mobile.
Just pick a random torrent from the list and grab it?
Next thing you know someone will suggest HN with hierarchy for repeated and unrelenting topics. Linux ports on home appliances, ray tracing, vi vs. emacs, launchd vs systemd, walled gardens, .... Oh no, say it isn't so!
Is there a wallet product out there for keeping a Yubikey or titan safe from physical harm as well as stray readers? Or is that just silly at this time? I've seen a pocket knife like wallet on Walmart. Would be nice if it were lined with metal mesh.
What downsides? Even ignoring the economic and political fallout (which could leave them entirely isolated on the world stage), they could _fail_ in their attempted invasion even if only going head to head with Taiwan. The result after both a successful and an unsuccessful invasion could very well be a collapse of the PRC. They certainly understand this. That's way they've simply used the threats as a tool of internal propaganda. They may one day go for it, but it is very far from risk-free.
The article for me is missing the rationale behind those claims. I am not sure programmers believe those things. I would expect each of these claims to have at least one story/link backing them up.

I'm not sure any programmer claims that biometrics are the "perfect security measure", and if they did it would be nice to have a source.
Repository of knowledge about input lag in gaming
This is appalling on so many levels. It wasn't a protest. It was a poorly planned and executed attack on our country by people who claim to love it. This video shows clearly that they not only don't love America, they don't understand the first thing about our history or what we stand for. Violent acts of domestic terrorism aren't the solution to anything.
> This seems to be common when you take the conservative "side" even if it's not really a partisan position you take, simply disagreeing with implications that the entire right are dumb racists.

I don't even want to be doing this. Trump supports coal. Ajit Pai. He's a pathological liar. Trump sucks.

But a lot of the things he gets wrong actually help him in swing states. There is a lot of coal in Pennsylvania. So lazy opponents can't easily use those things to attack him because it would only get him more votes in places that matter.

And then we end up in a situation where the majority of people hate Trump for reasons that are actually lies, because the truth translates inconveniently to the electoral map and too many people care more about winning no matter the cost.
> We believe that decarbonizing the economy and dealing with past emissions (and their consequences), offers many opportunities for building important new companies that can produce venture type returns.

In other words: after governments have done it and in the process broke many budget deficit limits, now central banks too are going all-in on spending on this nonsense in order to maintain some semblance of normalcy (look at all these green investments and jobs, we are doing fantastic!).

While that is extremely stupid and dangerous, it is great for fake "capitalists" because there's easy money to be made front-running the idiots. Celebrate and dance while the music is still playing.
For the vaccine to lose effectiveness, the mutation would have to drastically alter the spike protein of the virus.

This is effectively impossible as the virus is dependent on a functioning spike protein in order to infect cells, and the machinery involved with the mechanics of the spike are extremely delicate. Errant mutations that would cause compositional changes to the shape of the protein are almost guaranteed to cause functional failure. Using terminology, this is what we call a highly conserved area.

In both cases for the South African or UK strain, if you take a look at the areas where mutations have occurred, you’ll see that the code responsible for generating the spike protein is basically completely unaffected. This will generally hold true for any successive future strains.
Part of the reason for opting towards dynamodb was it's essentially unlimited horizontal scaling. I know at least 1 team had scale that was just too large for traditional relational DBs, so dynamodb it was.
The other part was a large amount of sql usage was essentially just as a key/value store anyway, and dynamodb was vastly cheaper.
I agree that RDS is much more akin to oracle, but in my (extremely) limited exposure to teams doing the migration, the majority we're going to dynamodb. As another poster replied, it was clearly a different story in different orgs.
Sure, and the blinky Vietnam POWs talking about their wonderful humane treatment just had a bunch of dust in their eyes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/us/politics/democrats-tru...

> Behind closed doors, he made clear that he would not resign and expressed regret about releasing a video on Thursday committing to a peaceful transition of power and condemning the violence at the Capitol that he had egged on a day before.
Of course the CCP used those photos as propaganda to reenforce the arguably false narrative presented to mainland Chinese that the CIA was behind the resistance. The psychological aspect of warfare never ceases to amaze me.
We Disable Linux's THP Feature for Databases
Why do you need to convince them to move to Signal at all? Why does Signal need to unlock more adoption?

Constant growth and expansion isn't always a good thing and IMO it applies here.
I think we're in agreement here. Maybe it would have been better to say "republicans" than conservatives. But the point stands that not all Trump voters are Trump supporters that OP identified as racists with below-average intelligence. They may just be voting "not-democrat" on a ticket with two sub-optimal choices.
Everything is A LITTLE BIT political. And we reserve the right on when to focus on the political or non political aspect. My pancake breakfast has ties to unions, lobbyists, international trade. Guess what, I’m just going to eat my pancakes.
Now that you wrote "bomb", my brain just chimed with the info that the Indonesian government banned an extremist Islamist group a week or 2 ago...
None at all. When the democrats are in office you kick out far right. When the republicans are in you kick out far left. This way you avoid getting regulated. It’s a free country and your company it’s all good. It opens up opportunities for other companies to come in and take the business. Oh wait... are you a monopoly?
You don’t, you calculate it as part of your day rate.
Bill in half day increments.

If you need to justify your presence to a boss, you’re not a contractor but an employee without benefits.
Meanwhile his former transportation secretary’s sister is married to Xi. Elaine was briefly in trouble with the media for inviting family to government meetings.

But despite the mass media being a known political collaborator, let’s merely take the content you cherry picked at face value.

Power is in bed with power. Trying to paint one side or another as above that, ignoring facts of biology for political rhetoric is putting your head in the sand.
I don't think we're going to see a lot of importation of oil from Saudi Arabia the way we historically have. As electric car marketshare grows, the need for oil will go down, even if people start driving again. Combine that with domestic fracking, and imports from Saudi Arabia will probably remain lower than before covid.
https://omnifollow.com - A site to follow things.
JavaScript Pokémon game: https://pokemon.axelf.nu (https://github.com/axelf4/pokemon)

Subtle WebGL texture artifacts and browser-game microstutters drive me crazy. Any help with that would be much appreciated!
> The west needs to sanction China.

Do you understand that the West mostly sanctions itself when it tries to sanction a country which:

1. Has surreal trade surplus with it.

2. Supports nearly entire consumer spending part of your economy.

3. Provides most of your light industry goods.

4. Buys a big chunk of your debt.

This is why I was saying that China can easily do a blunder, after a blunder, and still outmatch the West economically, and you need something other than simply sanctions.
> A bigger issue is the lack surface area for cooling. Not even The Expanse gets that one right.

This depends on the working temperature of the radiator too. In theory if area needed to be optimized a (series of) heat pumps could shed more power from a hotter radiator.

If future designers want to be cute about it they could stick a high temperature radiator at the front of the ship as a headlight and lower temperature radiators in the back for a tail light.