skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like the mostly-peaceful BLM protests in Kenosha?

I wonder why there was a police presence there.
Taiwan’s new digital democracy (2019)
If that’s all you use make for just write a shell script with functions! Then you can take arguments and only have to worry about shells weird syntax instead of make + shells weird syntax.
Just realized this was from 4 years ago. But it's an evergreen concept almost even more needed now. I do appreciate even the political perspectives on HN which feel more reasoned to me then elsewhere, but also can apprectiate the one week sabbatical from it here.
CentOS as we know it is basically going away. Worse, they reneged on their promise of long-term support for the last release.

What will be known as "CentOS" will be the "stream" version, i.e. a rolling release distro with goals completely antithetical to what was out there before.
> Hoping the above won’t happen is not a strategy but a gamble.

Life's a gamble. Crossing the road on your way to work is gamble. Heck it's a gamble that you won't be taken out in the next 12 months by an insidious disease.

The bet I have placed personally is that Google is better at looking after my personal data that I am - so for example I use gmail instead of my own email server.
Andy and Bill's Law
CentOS 8 had its EOL brought forward to 2021 and CentOS 9 won't exist. Folks are expected to switch to CentOS Stream, RHEL or another distro.

https://lwn.net/Articles/839257/
This time I decided to go with an IT-unrelated project and I started writing a SF novel in English.

Not being a native speaker, I expected the language to be my main difficulty, but turns out it isn't. I am learning a lot about how to write an interesting story, enrich my writing and making it more pleasant (notably the famous "show, don't tell").
When you are vaccinated it is over for you. When everyone who wants to be vaccinated is vaccinated then it should be over for everyone. I would say the vaccine currently exists but is not widely available. I know vulnerable people with a lot of living left to do that can't wait to get out of the house.

It will be everyone's responsibility to ensure unnecessary restrictions are lifted.
Well, in that case, can I interest you in any keyboard cleaner, VHS head cleaner, or car wheel polisher?

(Not 100% sure of the last one, but I know I'm close.)
It's against the values of this site to laugh at and put down people who know less than you do. Rather than being snarky, why don't you share some of what you know so the rest of us can learn? I mean that quite sincerely.

If you mean something like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25786476, or "everything is political", or "not to have to deal with politics is just privilege", or "being apolitical is just being political in favor of the status quo", we knew all of that already. But of course there are degrees of experience.
"He openly criticized aspects of the culture..."

He? I thought the author was anonymous and never came forward, so it'd be better to use gender neutral.

EDIT: given the downvotes, I'd imagine some folks have a disdain for precise language, and prefer instead to just perpetuate outdated stereotypes.
I low-key think ARM64 might be the nicest ISA around. It reminds me of a modern, RISCier 68k.
In Memoriam: The Life and Legacy of James ‘The Amazing’ Randi
I can answer that.

The OSI doesn't approve any license that "discriminates on fields of endeavor", which means you are not allowed to prevent cloud providers from competing with you with your own product.

Premium sponsors of the OSI include AWS, Google and Microsoft.
So I am actually building out a site designed to do exactly that. http://rysolv.com/

It lets you crowdfund bounties for outstanding issues on a repo. And whoever resolves the issue earns the bounty.
You get to pick which problems you want to work on, just don't pretend you can't work on them.
The code names make issues with specific versions or eras easy to search
I doubt they want to. Its likely just either trying to get ahead of the PR or in response to complaints on social media.
You're using a very broad definition of "politics", which most people aren't familiar with and doesn't strike me as tremendously useful. When people say "politics" in this context, they're generally referring to what we might call "party politics" or "electoral politics", arguments that soandso ought to be elected or suchandsuch group ought to have more power.
Even if a bunker for rich couples included a fully equipped intensive care unit with an operating bloc and a team of doctors and surgeons on call.

In a post apocalyptic world, there is no medical school. Once your health staff is dead or too old to continue, you're on your own.

In a post apocalyptic world, there are no high tech factories to manufacture medical equipment. From complex machines to basic surgical masks and gloves, bandaids, morphin, syringes, vaccines, gloves, none of those are manufactured anymore in a post apocalyptic world. The factories have been destroyed. The skilled workers who knew how to operate the machines are dead or who knows where.

Okay, so let's say that your bunker for rich couples with a mini hospital also includes a factory to manufacture medical equipment.

Gloves and masks are made of plastic. Petroleum products. So let's say your bunker for rich couples with a mini hospital and full staff complement and a medical factory now also has an oil extraction operation and a refinery on site. You need petroleum engineers. These engineers have families and will expect to be well taken care of. Replacing the engineers with robots? You're gonna need a robot factory, built by humans. And so on.

See where I'm going? If you take this reasoning to its logic end you arrive at a full society.

No one can survive well in the long term without a modern society and all of its amenities, including government, public services, and taxes. Exactly all that would cease to exist in a doomsday scenario. Unless you are prepared to accept a standard of living worthy of the Middle Ages.

Every man for himself is a libertarian fantasy.
You might just be lazy. I haven't kept strict count, but I've chased at least four cryptofascists out of technical communities in the past couple years. My techniques are pretty simple; I introduce basic facts and some background empirical knowledge, and then use them to demonstrate that fascist rhetoric is usually disconnected from actual historical happenstance.

My calculus is this:

1. Are they being unmitigated pieces of shit? Are they failing basic norms of conversation and going off on irrelevant and hateful tangents?

2. Is their bullshit correctable? Are there simple and plain truths which, when added as historical context, reveal them to be hateful and insipid?

3. How much will the average person care about this nuance? Even if my points are right, will they actually convince onlookers or are they too technical or tiny?

If the answer to all three isn't "yes", then I don't bother writing a reply.

I don't know which part of the country you're from. My senator is Wyden, so all I have to do in order to make a positive difference is just vote him back in. Anything beyond that is icing. It is as easy as that; electing antifascists and their sympathizers is not difficult.
Realized I didn't actually have it in the profile and there's some sort of filtering on emails or the profile isn't updating. My email is my profile username @ gmail!
Don't pretend you can. What would you suggest I do about North Korea's or China's human rights abuses, for instance? These are the kinds of problems I'm talking about.
I signed up for an IPTV account only to find it's got on the order of 15k channels which makes for a playlist file that chokes modest parsers.

What I wanted was to write an app that serves as sort of a proxy, caches the huge upstream file, and trims it to size as desired.

I chose this as an opportunity to try to teach myself Django - an ugly but functional app can be found here
https://github.com/cmcconomy/iptv-filter
Big part of the difference is that one of them can be known.
I’ve been thinking about productivity apps a lot lately as I’m building something that resembles todo productivity apps.

I’ve started compiling a list of knowledge management apps.

https://listifi.app/u/erock/knowledge-management-apps

There are a lot of them out there, some with diehard fans, but they never quite fit everyone’s use-cases. The popular ones now like obsidian.md, roam research, etc. are all leveraging a graph database.

The market is super saturated and I wonder how much of them are fads. Productivity apps are fun to work on because the developer's can actually use the app without any network effects.

Good luck to you!
I did some brainstorming years ago on a similar idea, and the one part of it I would like to see implemented some day is tracking progress towards goals.

Trivial examples would be weight loss (or gain) to a goal weight bracket; or budgeting and building a retirement fund.

More complex one might be a career change, say going from programmer to lawyer, which involves lots of things over several years.

I think I had some decent ideas about measuring fuzzy progress but didn’t get very far with connectedness. For instance you have reading goals and a goal to read before bed (not on screen) and you want to get that law degree, so reading Book X might be working on all three, but each has a different kind of progress.

Anyway I agree it’s worth (someone) doing this and I wish you luck with it!
I wrote my own notes here on this talk if anyone wants a TLDR https://www.swyx.io/time-management-randy-pausch
I think the New York Times itself would say it's a partisan, left leaning newspaper. That's like calling Fox News, or CNN nonpartisan.
Of course, and we were well aware of that line of thinking. But the idea was to just try something as an experiment and see what would happen. It turns out that there is no space for experiment with this, not even for a week—there is only space for battle-to-the-death. That brought me a new level of understanding.
indeed. If everyone in tajikistan has $5 except the president, who has $1, the gini coefficient will be different.
I'm glad there's at least one other person vocal about doing this. I use a several-year-old Android phone, and when anyone new sees me use it, the first thing they ask is what phone it is and if I just bought it.

Those animations were for a time and place where phone processors were genuinely slow. That time and place is nearly a decade ago, and most of the world is stuck with lower productivity due to this vestigial cruft.

Think of all of those teens that can type a billion letters a minute without batting an eye, and yet have to unwittingly endure all of these silly transitions...

But of course, it breaks a whole bunch of poorly tested apps, even mainstream ones like Uber and Lyft.
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Good jumping off point to ask: What can we use to get our fitness data from our smart watches and keep the data private to ourselves?

I have gadgetbridge with a Lenovo WatchX. Cheap, cheerful, works ok without competing with apple watch for quality. Great battery life.

https://gadgetbridge.org/

What else is there?
What happens when all Bitcoin are mined?
18,597,862.5 mined

2,402,137.5 to go

Note: not meant to cause FOMO, but curious about HN predictions
Engineering and politics should not mix. I try to pick providers which are neutral and focus their energy on building good products, not activism.
How do you actually load / run this code without an OS? I'm guessing its the same way something like grub gets run?
My one word explanation: safety.
I am working on an iOS personal finance App that helps you to track assets and expense effortlessly:

https://www.percento.app

Unlike other Apps, Percento encourages you to only track significant money updates of your daily life, minimizing your time spent on tracking money. Features:

- Support multi-currency

- No login needed

- iCloud Sync

- Stock and currency rate sync

I've earned some active users for the past few months, who love the App very much. I haven't marketed the App enough so the audience is still small for English language countries. Can you tell me how you feel about my App?
OP already addressed that. When it's time to vote or choose your charitable donations or whatever, you can:

> ...go read Wikipedia for 30 minutes and be just as caught up as anyone else because you know the end result of the news cycle instead of suffering through it as it happened.
I use axon cover rx.
Without them if I walk into a store I have full blown migraine in 10 minutes. This is very consistent.

With them I’m good for 90 minutes at least.
Mozilla Is Evil
Evil starts out like a poison seed, it sprouts, becomes a seedling, eventually grows into a tree, that eventually bears poison fruit. Mozilla started small.

https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/mozilla.html

It's evil grew, and it became what it is today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZOc8gNDQpc

https://learnworthy.net/mozilla-labeled-evil-after-user-digs-into-firefox-privacy/

https://markssoftware.com/2018/04/08/mozilla-is-evil.html

Now that it is ready to bear poison fruit, some few have started to take notice.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/endangered-firefox-the-state-of-mozilla/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/an-endangered-internet-species-firefox/

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3487825/mozilla-in-trouble-2018-revenue-fell-20-expenses-exceed-income-for-first-time.html
The oxygenated fluid from the Abyss is a real thing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_breathing
Bingo this is the answer. You can't "speed up" the speed of light, but you can have predetermined latency with a synchronized clock that lets you do lots of great things.

Other ideas (this is not new btw), you don't get to hear the other participants but you're all on the same sync'ed clock with a metronome and trust the general output will be ok. Final mix is synced to viewers (obviously on delay to achieve sync).
Cute and fun! Thanks for sharing
My (LLC) partner and I have spent quarantine building a 'network administration' SaaS to simplify network changes for MSPs (IT providers).

Some features:

- Easy deployment of IEEE 802.1x (network access control) with PKI and BYOD portal.
(Freeradius with lots of PKI work)

- Configuration backup of network devices to a git repo (custom front end on git for network engineer specific needs).

- Runbook studio to create web forms on top of automation scripts with integrations to Nornir and Ansible. Execute the runbook on the SaaS, it gets pulled by the 'probe' and makes the change.

We need to launch yesterday.

Here's a screenshot:
https://imgur.com/a/YBvIauN

Our product is called Realm Helm.

We haven't made up our minds on if we want to apply to YC or not. I've gone through the videos/reading which has been a huge help but I'm not convinced the target market is big enough for YC.
I get 3 weeks with my (refrigerated, American) eggs no problem. I think our American fridges probably tend to be larger than European ones, so space in it isn't at a premium.
what about, now wait, hear me out:

test_results/timestamp/framework/enviro/version/log.txt

example:

test_results/1610687003/junit/prod1/1234abcd/log.txt

You can browse, filter, view logs and comments, see history for a single tests.

If you want to build reporting on top of text files, pick one of out of a million tools which accept them as input.

No management, no microservices, no database, and easy to archive and compress, de-archive.
> But what are they doing fast?

Solving programming challenges. Maybe this sounds broader than I intended. By "programming challenges" I literally mean Advent of Code, HackerRank, etc. This is by no means a general-purpose language!

I guess in your terms, the "problem one wants to solve quickly" is "outputting the answer that will be accepted as correct by the programming challenge website."
There's a shooting range, so I have a hunch about the plan for the post-doomsday critically ill in a sealed community with limited food supplies. :D
The Hypocrisy of Being Green
The first thing that came to mind was figma (or sketch).

You get an infinite 2d plane and you can put any number of windows (artboards in sketch) and then on the left you can click them to find them when you’re zoomed out or in.

This is actually a much better experience than the modern desktop having to alt tab or expose or something
Apeel CEO Wants to Extend the Shelf Life of Your Avocados and Oranges
I think the much bigger concern would be getting there. In such a scenario where you need a 3 year food supply, I doubt the highways to get to where these things inevitably are will be usable.

The counter for this would be to relocate there earlier in the unfolding of a crisis, before most people have caught on, but then you'd have to go more often (lower relocation trigger threshold), and also stay there until it's over, which would mean you'd have spent ~all of 2020 in one.
I'm building https://keat.app

After failing my last project where I focused mostly on engineering. I built a landing page now and I'm trying to validate the idea. It's still hard as I don't have much experience in this area.

The app attempts to modernize recipes applications. Most of the existing apps for recipes you cannot easily share them. Like I want to "clone" your recipe and adapt it to my taste.

I also want to create a community around it, where people can discuss and decide based on the latest research. This would translate into feedback for your meal plan.

Let's say there's a discussion about the recommended protein intake. Once everyone agrees on the amount based on a proper discussion, I would add a feedback rule telling you if you are meeting your goal or not.

I don't want to claim it's based on science because it's an ever evolving field, but I thing it would help bridge the gap between diets and research. And of course you'd be able to disable a rule if you don't agree.

I would kindly ask you if you think the landing page reflects those ideas well.
I don't know, I haven't made them with egg whites. Suspect they would work ok, possibly be too heavy/sticky. Give the aquafaba a try, you'll be pleasantly surprised.
You teach your children what you know, pass on your knowledge and improvise where you need to.
For the life of me this Oberon/Plan 9 obsession with "all text can be turned into commands" escapes me. It seems so counterintuitive and just aesthetically displeasing. Like there's huge swaths of software where this sort of paradigm just makes no sense ("click to evaluate" your Excel file, and then paste i there?)

Like OK, cool, I get an email and I can middle-click it there to run it instead of.... I guess opening a text file and putting it there and hitting enter?

Not to mention that limiting yourself to text really limits how far this metaphor can go.

I do realize that there's limitations of the time, and that for the time it would be way better than, say, Win 3.1. Just like.... it feels like an evolutional dead-end (compared to say, Smalltalk-y OS's whose concepts have lived on in things like browser dev tools and SFDC' Apex environments).

I don't mean to yuck too much on anyone's yum, just feels like there are better ideas out there at this point.
There is no single Marine One helicopter. The squadron has several identical helicopters, but they only get the "Marine One" call sign when the President is on board. At other times they use different call signs.
For which kind of music does this work in practice, though? The first musician in the chain would have a very lonely experience ;-)

Another technique is to mix all musicians on a server and send the mix back to all of them. Everyone hears the exact same signal, so in theory people could play perfectly in sync, but in practice hearing yourself delayed is very awkward and needs lots of training. We tried it but gave up quickly.
> No one can survive well in the long term without a modern society and all of its amenities, including government, public services, and taxes.

No one can survive in the long term, full stop. Modern civilization makes it significantly safer, more comfortable and longer, but rest assured, there are plenty of humans on planet Earth who survive just fine without governments, public services and taxes.
Does this blog have RSS feed?
I don't think humans are considered a crepuscular or nocturnal species.
Furthermore, birds are not mammals.
Thank you for the detailed response. It makes things a lot clearer.

I notice that you mention "Machine Learning Engineer" as a separate role. If in the idealized world, data scientists do analytics and train models, and data engineers take care of data, then what do Machine Leaning Engineers do? Are they, basically, software engineers who specialize in putting other peoples' models into production?

And you are right in sensing my confusion. There seems to be an abundance or data-related titles, which seem to overlap in their functions a lot, but are also very different when you examine them closely. So thank you again for your responses, they are very helpful.
Your question is begged. People are not actually killed for their beliefs. Rather, people are killed for their actions. Nobody can be killed simply for holding a belief, because it's not possible for the killers to tell who does and does not hold the belief.

So, really, what you're asking is whether people are willing to, once they start acting in a way which risks their life, continue acting in that same way. And it turns out that the vast majority of people killed by this reasoning are killed by genocide or as collateral damage of war; they're swept away by hate and violence which they did not invite.

The question really should be, then, rather one is willing to risk their life for the specific action of interrupting those who are trying to kill others in this way. And such interruptions often turn out to not be very risky, unless the interruption is happening very late in the process, at the moment of violence. It was not risky to yell at street fascists in 2017, before they were creating so many street fights, because they were not yet strong enough to simply fight, but instead had to justify their hate before a largely non-violent crowd. Now in 2021, though, yelling at street fascists is dangerous, but referring them to the FBI is relatively safe. What was acceptable praxis has changed.

From this POV, we must recontextualize your original message. Who is pushing and shoving? Fascists. Who are they pushing and shoving? Undesired minorities. By what means are you allowed to be selfish? Well, you might not be in an affected class! This is a failure of solidarity. You must be willing to defend the rights of others, if you expect them to defend your rights as well.
I loved Thomas as a kid and will let my kids watch it, but if you actually watch the plots they have very odd morals to the stories and are generally male chauvinist. But trains and it's generally harmless IMHO as long as you discuss the shortcomings with your children.
In 2018, Sal Khan's annual salary was $824,000.
Rove - a different take on knowledge management for teams.

Most knowledge management tools (including Notion, Confluence, etc.) are fundamentally wikis - you replicate information from somewhere else into the wiki. Rove is a set of extensions that works inside your existing apps (GSuite, Asana, Slack, etc.). You create backlinks between individual pieces of content in those apps, which creates a graph of knowledge that is unified across all your apps. Because it works within your existing apps, it's much less friction to add knowledge, and you never "forget" to keep it up-to-date.

Give it a try at https://userove.com - or email me saurabh@userove.com if you want to learn more.