skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A CMS written in Go. It’s still very early and it has the basics of user creation, multiple domain support, themes and user management by default. What will make it really powerful is plugins.

Plugins are still being developed and currently use the go plugin package which is really good for performance but can be bad for security and compatibility with versions and operating systems. I plan to either move over to using RPC instead or supporting both options.

Everything is available on GitHub under the MIT License.

https://github.com/uberswe/beubo
But getting a shot is way less tedious than changing life style.
At home:
Experimental tools that connect max/msp(ableton) and arduino (LED control).

Think highly general max patches that automatically export realtime audio, midi, and automation data to a central hub, with a GUI that allows you to assign that data to visual properties that are then sent to a neat LED setup I've built. Akin to the mod table in a synthesizer like serum/thor, but with all of ableton's data on one side, and a light show on the other.

I started building this in react out of familiarity, and because I really want the visual feedback, but this has introduced 100ms+ of round trip latency, which is enough to break the effect. It has to go max -> JS runtime within max -> socket.io listener -> react app -> listener -> arduino, which is goofy as hell. Trying to figure out a lighter, faster stack for this without having to learn both a new language and domain in tandem.

I'd love examples of projects in this space, if anyone has favorites.

At work:
A GUI/IDE/DSL for cross platform design system management, to service one of the largest design systems in the world.

We (Adobe) are about to start hiring an additional technologist to work on this. Potentially relevant experience: typescript, cross-platform UI dev, building version control systems, graph DBs?, visual programming (scratch, nodebased, etc), anything related to IDE dev or expansive config management tooling. That's off the top of my head, don't take the list too seriously. My email is psteele@, feel free to drop a line and I'll hang onto your info, but won't promise anything beyond a "we'll see in a bit". I'm not the hiring manager, just the primary IC.
Hey, when my side brings the guillotines it is completely different from when your side brings the guillotines, how dare you suggest that there is any similarity between their behaviors? Yours are the guillotines of hate, ours are the guillotines of love and tolerance!
Were you travelling in Europe? I typically lose weight while travelling because I'm walking more and have fewer snacks around. This includes months in the US last year where pace and timing of a lot of our driving meant we ate fast food a bit. It was hot so we couldn't stash chocolate/ice cream, we didn't have access to a fridge so we didn't scoff leftovers, etc. We mostly lived out of a cooler and cooked on fires. We walked around exploring cities/towns where many residents would not have though. The number of mobility scooters and the like is incredible.
I'm making a video editor that removes silence from videos. After creating a bunch of code screencasts, I've found most of my editing time is spent manually cutting out chunks of silence, and it's always felt like a job the computer should be doing.

So I'm making a native Mac app to do it for me. It's in private beta right now, and feedback has been good so far!

I'm hoping to hoping to get it launched in the next few weeks. Aiming for a minimal useful feature set initially – recording the screen, removing silence, and exporting (either an edited video, or the timeline of cuts, to enable editing in Resolve/Premiere/ScreenFlow), and I'll build up from there.

https://getrecut.com
Are you using the ffmpeg wasm thingy?
If you're doing any kind of composition where mixing and mastering are a mandatory component, you're strongly encouraged to have a proper set of cans, or even better, a decent set of monitors. The tech has gotten rather good these days, so you can get a decent pair for not that much. But if the class is primarily about the theory and the arrangement, and not so much about the final mix, then I don't imagine a good setup will be needed or even recommended.
A near real-time peer-to-peer piano keyboard visualizer for remote music lessons. Peer 1 plays their keyboard,
and the midi data is sent to Peer 2 where a keyboard animates and sound optionally plays.

Project name is Midishare.

Got the idea after starting piano lessons about 5 months ago. It’s all over zoom, which works surprisingly well for music lessons on its own, but it’s difficult rigging a camera to show the remote person what you’re doing on the keyboard, as well as getting the sound to come through (if you don’t have a nice audio interface). There is still the issue of communicating finger position, not quite sure how to solve that one yet, or if it really even warrants a technical solution (again, you also have zoom to just communicate verbally, works okay for fingering)

The keyboard I use to animate playback is a 3D model which communicates the flow of playback surprisingly well, it’s at least a pretty cool accomplishment on its own!

I’ll launch it with a Show HN one of these days, within a month or two is the goal!
I'm working on building an app via smart contracts that helps people do Qirad. Qirad is finance without collateral or equity stake. It was instrumental in helping to create a flourishing economy during the Italian Renaissance but has since been forgotten.

I'm a non-coder that's currently learning DAML and React.
I find it hard to believe "people" would willingly do this but when it's faceless corporations, it can and does happen
>a game that used to be associated mostly with unwashed cloistered incels.

In the same way that "pro-life" does not literally mean anyone who is in favor of life generally, I think you're misusing that term, which refers to a particular culture that did not exist in 1978 or even 2004. Come on, somebody has to defend 80s nerds. ;)
I designed and built an airport weather sensor network. Output is available here: https://davidsen.aero/awas/kgbr/

(Still working on vis, sky condition, and present weather.)

As you can see by some missing data on the graphs, it’s not always available. But the sensors are carefully selected to perform to FAA standards. It’s been really fun putting together a high-precision, distributed system (packet radio data links) that can withstand the outdoors.
That actually makes it a bigger deal in a legal sense since it was a foreign account.
The Enhancer for YouTube extension cuts down on the annoying things when not logged in. I was able to move to YouTube to temporary containers using the EfYT extension to set my preferences.
I'm making a job board for local businesses to post listings as well as for people to find jobs working for small businesses. It's mainly for a portfolio piece, but I'm having fun making it.

I'm also going through and implementing this paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.06610.pdf
A Tour of Self
Fighting is one mechanism for establishing the social order of a group. So in the absence of some way of ranking people, people will eventually devolve to fist fights to determine who is boss.
Some people have more receptors and/or are more sensitive to certain things.

Higher testosterone leads to more risk taking and other adverse behaviors, as well as increased blood pressure and, anecdotally, "increased aging." I believe it has something to do with collagen synthesis.

You absolutely made the right decision to come off TRT.
Prototyping Battlebot in Second Life to Fight It IRL on Discovery's “Battlebots”
"Obsessively private messaging app", that will be available at silent.app. In many ways a LOT more secure (and much less user friendly, alas) than Signal. I expect that maybe 3 people in the world will need that. If you're interested, reach out to me, I have a private alpha available.
From the NYTimes article that Poitras links to, this really sounds to me like a perfect conjunction of mutual screwups on both sides. Winner didn't know that the documents had a stegonographic ID embedded into them, and the people at the Intercept who hastily published high-resolution raster scans of them didn't know or care either. Really seems like there's equal blame to go around on both sides.

Just my opinion: Winner was either very naive or very ignorant to assume that any classified level document didn't have tracking IDs embedded into it. It's been a known thing for mole hunts for 70+ years... There's tons of declassified information that can be found in cold war era books on intelligence related matters about how false information is fed to known agents, and such.

nytimes:

"Ms. Winner, then 25, had been listening to the site’s podcast. She printed out a secret report on Russian cyberattacks on American voting software that seemed to address some of Mr. Greenwald’s doubts about Russian interference in the 2016 campaign and mailed it to The Intercept’s Washington, D.C., post office box in early May.

The Intercept scrambled to publish a story on the report, ignoring the most basic security precautions. The lead reporter on the story sent a copy of the document, which contained a crease showing it had been printed out, to the N.S.A. media affairs office, all but identifying Ms. Winner as the leaker."
Being from Europe I actually wondered how much of a difference there can be between US and EU when it comes to that issue, and this[0] StackExchange message was particularly interesting to see EU cases being much more prevalent than US ones.

I grew up with unwashed eggs and never gave it much thought, but now I guess that's one more thing to keep in mind (although I live in North America these days)

Somehow a little (probably incorrect) part of me likes to think that the unwashed eggs are more "authentic" and lead to better food - it's not rational thinking at all, and I'm not waiting for salmonella to hit me before I work at changing my mind about that :)

[0] https://cooking.stackexchange.com/a/67006
This is the most interesting take on realigning (micro?)blogging incentives I've ever seen. I hope it gets its chance with millions of users, even if it has incorrigible issues like our current standard.
The holy grail for me is aquafaba-based macarons that work reliably. I've managed to pull them off once, but aquafaba meringue is much less tolerant of higher cooking temperatures than egg white and is prone to exploding into a foamy mess.
Exact phrases, even when quoted?
Observation: A party can incite insurrections -- by claiming that other parties incited insurrections...

Advice: If a party doesn't want to incite insurrections -- it should never claim that other parties incited insurrections...

Shakespeare Quote: "Neither a borrower, nor a lender be..."
Tensorflow Datasets includes a lot of the 'standard' datasets in a way that's dead simple to call up and use (including ~10 variants of imagenet):
https://www.tensorflow.org/datasets/catalog/overview
> Violent protests that did not lead to the death of a single police officer.

I did some quick fact checking, just for my own peace of mind. I view the George Floyd protests as overall peaceful, but it's good to question one's understanding. So for what it's worth Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests_in_Portl...) lists one casualty. I'm guessing that was the August 29th event, which wasn't a police officer.

So yeah, seems you're right, and that's an important fact to keep in mind. 7 months of protests with only one dead, in an area people keep arguing is the worst of the BLM protests.
An app for sharing and discovering culture of all kinds (creative works, events, and places): Giraf (https://giraf.app)
Current main side project is a website, "Theory of Predictable Software". I want to try and pull together a lot of threads of thought I've had piling up over the past few years: engineering psychology, microeconomics with specific focus on public goods, collective action problems and institutional economics generally, statistical process and quality control, systems dynamics and bunch of other buzzwords worthy of tweet-bragging.

So expect that to land any century now.
Not sure what country you live in but if it's a GP, they write you a prescription and you go to a lab.

Many endocrinologists have blood draw facilities within the practice.

Either way you have to go back to interpret the results and, if appropriate, receive the prescription.
The same reason they kill off mosquitoes, snakes and spiders that come in on boats.

Zero tolerance is only effective if it is _zero_ tolerance.

Invasive species have huge economic impacts, to the point of causing the extinction of local species, and acting as transmission vectors for disease in humans.

For example, the Asian Tiger mosquito:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aedes_albopictus#For_humans

This is as much about advertising the "zero tolerance" part, which hopefully results in less meat/fruit smuggled across the border by visitors.
Just make sure "selling" of shares can be automatic, because nobody wants to go back to a post they already read just to sell their shares or whatever.
A file receiving service. I edit videos and more often than not, people don't have space in their dropbox or google drive to send me large files.

Madry let's me send people a web page that they can upload files to. I pay for the storage, they don't need an account.

https://madry.app
This is intriguing! Do you have a website / mailinglist / etc for those wanting to follow along?
> So she sets the record straight over 20 years later

The record is set straight in the first sentence of the letter, which explains the intended role of the things presented : In response to those who defend The Bell Curve (“Defending The Bell Curve,” Opinion, Oct. 24, 1994), please use the following theories and observations to assist you in your search for truth regarding the genetic differences between Blacks and whites.
Ordering in is probably just as bad unless you really go out of your way to order healthy.
WTF. This is unironically exactly what I need for work right now. Definitely looking into this!
Haven't used it in a while, but I think pinterest is one of the better ones in this context.
Automated CI/CD platform Harness raises $115M at a $1.7B valuation
My time to shine!

Hazelnut Choc Chip cookies, designed for Aquafaba.

NB. You can switch out more of the hazelnut/almond meal to adjust the taste, but don't go much below 1/2 cup of almond!

https://imgur.com/a/G2M1QoE

1 & 1/4 cup almond meal
1 & 1/4 cup hazelnut meal
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
2/3 cup flour (gluten free blend works fine)
2/3 cup raw sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt (ideally fine)

Mix above together, set aside.

1/2 cup aquafaba

Separately, whisk aquafaba until fluffy

6 tbsp coconut oil (liquid)
1 tsp vanilla extract

Add to aquafaba, whisk until combined
Add dry ingredients from above
Mix until tacky dough forms
Place in fridge for 30 minutes

Preheat oven to 190C

Form a ball from about 1.5 tablespoons of dough.
Place ball onto baking paper lined tray.
Bake in oven for about 15 minutes.
I would be willing to create an account (at least for some contexts, like work) and let DDG track me as long as it would improve my search results and I had 100% visibility and control over what they retain.
Got a source for your assertion?
I don't think McGirt v. Oklahoma actually gave ownership of the land to Native Americans. It might seem that being on reservation land would mean that but apparently it doesn't.
Vanity not integrity - anthony bourdain - most honest and inspiring man if all time
They are not the masters of their domain.
In the one case I'm backing up about 60 development / testing VMs (they are based on a handful of RHEL / CentOS versions). The backup speed runs at the speed of my network connection (or the disk that I'm pulling from). For each snapshot, it takes about 2 - 3 minutes to transfer the full file manifest from the client to the Snebu server, and typically my backups are only a few minutes of transferring the modified files.

I have noticed that if I backup to a low-performance 2.5" USB drive, then if the SQLite DB is on that drive the SQL queries can be time consuming (slow seek times on the drive). But in the case of using my Raspberry Pi 4, I keep the SQLite on the internal SD card and dump a copy of it to the external hard drive after backups, and it is much faster.

Compared to Borg, Snebu can handle dozens of servers going to the same repository, and does file-level dedplication across clients (since many are based on the same base build, there is a lot of space saving there). However, compression is a bit less because I'm using LZO, and not doing block-level deduplication -- on my test setup I see Snebu taking about 5 - 10% more space than Borg on an initial backup (haven't tested Borg on much more than that, but will at some point).

Also, compared to Borg and Restic, if you are backing up something with large databases or VM image files, Snebu may not be suitable as it is file-level deduplication instead of block level. However I typically back up VMs from inside the VM (not from the bare metal host), and for databases I do a full hot backup once a week and just do archived redo logs daily.

There's documentation on how to create plugin scripts for DB's and the like (with a template script in the docs) -- I'm putting together more examples that handle Oracle, Postgresql, and maybe LVM snapshots specifically.
Video Mashup of Elected Officials Calling for Civil War
By the way, light has no speed. Light is not a "thing" that "moves" through space, even if it is a particle. Source and target of light incidence simply exchange their excitations through entanglement, symmetrically. There is no direction of movement. And there is no movement.
AC Propulsion Tzero
Maybe throw in some Xanthan Gum. Ive had some good results using that...
I’m building some projects to slow the internet down.

1. A less addictive Hacker News (https://hackerdaily.io)

2. A brief overview of yesterday’s world events (https://abriefhistoryofyesterday.com)
Yes, but that comes with a caveat –

If you use a custom domain (without thousands of users), you lose the anonymity benefit of Owl Mail (the custom domain itself becomes the identifier). Which means BigCoA and BigCoB can still trade/sell tracking/advertising info on you.
I'm working on the next version of JS8Call[1], a digital mode for amateur radio, that enhances the mode by using some of the latest RF research (LTE/5GNR/Turbo Codes/Polar Coding) for sending reliable messages over weak signals/links.

[1]: http://js8call.com/
I just discovered making Aquafaba too, and have been using it as a tea/coffee creamer alternative as adding vanilla and stevia sweetener.
Nope—bitcoin is generally using excess energy or energy that would usually go to waste. Putting a data center next to a damn doesn't increase greenhouse gases.

Bitcoin mining and the oil and gas industry are partnering for miners to use the energy that would normally be lost to flaring [1].

[1] "Energy Giant Equinor to Cut Gas Flaring With Bitcoin Mining: Report"—https://www.coindesk.com/energy-giant-equinor-to-cut-gas-fla...
Most grocery stores now offer curbside pickup at no extra cost.

There are some non-monetary inconveniences associated with this. In aggregate, they are probably less significant than the monetary and non-monetary inconveniences of having the chance to catch COVID-19 inside the grocery.
Swift being "rusty" made me laugh to myself quietly.
Apple's health data is all stored offline, unless you have iCloud enabled for health data, in which case it's end-to-end encrypted and only used so devices can sync. You can choose to share certain data for their research programs.

The answer as to why other companies store data online should be obvious: There's a business can for having access to that data.
That may be part of the explanation, but read this:

> Lokeshwar noted that even men with a normal BMI (18.5-24.9) had declining total testosterone levels (P < .05) during the same time frames.
I've been looking for a map like C++ STL written in C. I need to lookup symbols to get function pointers, among other uses. Part of a general process of replacing C++ with C. Maybe I have found it? Interesting project, thanks for posting.
It’s illegal unless it’s congress doing the policing which is what they’ll do.
This article is wrong. It’s dated from this morning, and it says “As for Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston, the husband and wife duo have been continuing to run the startup accelerator, albeit with a full-time staff.”

But, Paul Graham has long been retired from YC to write his essays. It says so right on the YC website: https://www.ycombinator.com/people/
> It is easy to find other magicians. It is not easy to find another blacksmith. Without the right blacksmith, there can be no magic.

What? That runs counter to my experience at every company where I've either seen data engineers or worked as one. My observations of how management treats the two groups is this:

Data engineers ("blacksmiths"): Blacksmiths are paid less. People think of them as less highly educated. Their work is less creative. When they are successful, their work is mostly invisible. They are interchangeable. People think of what blacksmiths do as more like scripting than writing code. Blacksmiths mostly work on configuring systems they didn't build. Blacksmiths do more troubleshooting than building. Their roles are focused on support.

Data scientists ("magicians"): Magicians are paid more. Much more. People think of them as more highly educated. By definition, what they do is magic. They work on prominent projects. Their successes are highly visible. They build large systems that only they can comprehend. They use support staff to clear away mundane obstacles so they can focus on unique, highly creative aspects of work.

Saying that we need more data engineers than data scientists is like saying that we need more janitors than CEOs. That's true, but it's true because we made it true by structuring projects around one prominent, well-paid person supported by a staff of invisible drudges.

This smacks of the positive self-talk that QA and software testers used to give each other: "We are indispensable! We take pride in our craft! Nothing can ship without our signoff!" And then lots of companies reduced their QA or eliminated it wholesale by focusing on continuous delivery and changing consumer expectations of what "broken" or "acceptable" means. The same fate awaits data engineers.
I'm always amazed how cuisines vary vastly. In Chinese cuisine (which I'm familiar with), The use of egg "by"products (as in, not just cook egg straightly) in cooking is significantly less compared to Western cuisines. Milk byproduct, even lesser.
The list of supported hardware is short, but surprisingly accessible. It's likely that random bargain bin hardware will not be fully supported, but with a few minutes of research it's easy to pick out something that will -- like used Thinkpad.

We even managed to get arm64 support on the Raspberry pi before Ubuntu. :)
Probably going to zero.

Not with institutional investors with their hundreds of billions of dollars to invest.
Iirc Twitter was really close to going down before Trump's election brought it back to life. I'm guessing Twitter will be back to that state in some time.
Are you familiar with the comedy of horrors that late night public access broadcast was? Not saying it shouldn't be done, but let's set realistic expectations: nobody is going to want to use a government website to exercise their speech, especially because of the types of speech it will be used by. (Unappealing, basically.)
Came across this article - it's a large investment, at a large valuation, but I've never even heard of Harness before.

Curious to know if anyone here has heard of it, or used it. If you've used it, does it have any unique selling points?