skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like you know a thing or two about this — are all the reports I see about companies leaking tons and tons of data through improperly configured elastic search instances something using the aws’s offering would fix (or even ES’s hosted offering)? I don’t really know much about the field, but if AWs’s single contribution were to be “we made it really hard to screw up the configuration and leak all your data”, I’d consider that a very deserving cause.
For example, the top 350 books doesn't include a single Chinese book! This is enough to shows you how biased and worthless this list is. It's essentially suggesting there is no literary tradition outside the west.
Do you have a better list?
https://Annotate.tv: take notes on YouTube videos.

Some random features I like about it: You can use the video transcript, do OCR of the video and export your notes into Readwise and/or markdown
It's similarly essential for teaching voice.
https://pastebin.com/Q8EKifEw

I'm using the Userscripts Extension in Safari for reference. But the code should work in any browser.
https://github.com/quoid/userscripts#readme
Awesome ideas! Reading news in retrospect allows more insight and less emotion-driven rants. And I dig the minimalist design. They load fast too.
Currently it's more of a fusion between Haskell and bash. I've played with Lisp a lot, but never anything serious; I can imagine that Lisp syntax, with appropriate hotkeys, would make for some speedy navigation/refactoring, though!
> All their contributions up until this point are still under the Apache license, so they'd have no reason to sue, I think

Ah right - makes sense.
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skiing is one of the safest activities you could be doing right now.
"The search engine said it was conducting experiments to determine the value of its service to Australian news outlets".

Sounds like Google is gathering information for an argument that Google News' traffic is of value to local news sources.
Kids almost always eat and drink from plastic. It used to be glass and metal.

Little kids are really surrounded by lots of fresh new plastic.
I would never claim “just” however I would say for an area that dovetails well with studies in micro-aggressions, context, bias, and the importance and nuance of words they are shockingly bad at naming things. Maybe you’re right maybe they dont dislike men but they tend to name shared social ills after men an awful lot...
I think if you’re using GitHub already you should look at Codespaces. It’s VSCode + containers in the GH UI. It sounds like exactly what you want.
As in, visual programming? I don't have a ton of experience with that, but my gut says that once the problems reach a certain degree of complexity, it would hurt more than help.

Or, how about vocal programming? I wonder if, in practice, dictation might be faster than typing? :)
I don't enjoy the negatives. We'll move to better alternatives as they become available. Until then.. it's just like democracy or free markets.. no demonstrably superior alternatives yet
Thank you, I've been running it for a year and half now.
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Many have secondary vents so they'd need to find all of them.
Politely, fuck off with the emoticons.
In the UK eggs are unwashed and unrefrigerated by law, but as that other StackExchange answer says, eggs sold in supermarkets are all from vaccinated chickens, so salmonella from eggs is basically non-existent. The NHS even says it's fine for pregnant women to eat raw eggs.
So dang isn't all-knowing? That's new.
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It's a minor detail of the setting of a story. I doesn't matter if it's practical in real life, it just has to be not be in contradiction with the fictional world of the story. Kind of like Star Trek allowing faster-than-light travel due to imagined discoveries in the fields of physics.

I like hard science fiction that's based in known physics, but I can still enjoy science fiction that's not totally realistic as long as it's at least consistent with itself and doesn't contradict known physics out of pure laziness or ignorance.

I think it's a better solution than just saying "Mars is at full gravity because of magic we won't explain."
was just looking for this today!
A todo manager: https://todo.network/

There are still many features I want to add to distinguish it from all the others. Written in Nim!
I believe that the three letter agencies in the US are leading the pack.
FWIW I finished AoC 2020 in Go -- but I had 5 years' worth of helper functions to prop me up: https://github.com/lukechampine/advent
This raw "sexual attraction" stat you're going on about is basically the only thing that comes through on a dating app for hookups, but it's WAY less important when you meet someone in person and kick off an actual relationship. Especially if you meet them at a group outing with mutual friends.

Instead of being a sweaty, nervous wreck desperately trying to hold an awkward conversation, you could just be a cool dude hanging out with his friends, playing Fortnite or hacking firmware or making pizza. Your date can see what actually makes you cool and fun, instead of just seeing some fake persona you've constructed.. and if she doesn't like it, forget about her.

People tried to tell me this when I was a kid/younger man, and I just assumed they were all a bunch of ignorant old fools. I didn't figure it out on my own until I was in my 30s, and then I was married before I knew it.

I do my best to try and pass this advice on whenever I can, even though I know that most guys who had the same issue as me won't heed it. Shockingly, I explained this to my greasy 12 year old nephew when he was complaining about women.. at the time he basically told me to piss off, but a few months later he had a girlfriend, haha.
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BPA acts as synthetic estrogen in the human body and therefore has a less significant but similar effect as being on female hormone therapy.

But sugar, or more specifically insulin can reduce testosterone in the blood as well. Sugar will also make you put on weight more easily and body fat will also increase estrogen.
Although the zoom idea is cool it’s nothing new. There have been many ui attempts at this like the zenzui ui in 2007. It was a rat race to find the best ui for these emerging devices called smartphones back in the day https://youtu.be/r12eUXJNbl8
Debian Buster LTS is supported until 2024 and then probably ELTS until 2026. Also how many of these 32-bit Atom CPUs are actually in use anymore? It's a pretty edge case.
Google's 'experiment' hiding Australian news just shows its inordinate power
I am fascinated by the continued prevalence of excel in many industries. It feels as if some modern scripting language should be able to replace some aspects of the spreadsheet and work much better.
Can you please use HN more in the intended spirit, which is curiosity? This comment breaks the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), and I noticed that a lot of your comments are expressing indignation at something or other. This is entirely understandable, but it's not what we're shooting for on this site. It's all too easy for it to engulf everything else, so we ask everyone to be conscious of that and stick to the intended purpose when commenting here.
After I had to put my subscription box Candy Japan on covid pause, I started exploring new projects.

First I created a baby name finding website, which had a bit of popularity, but only made a few dollars.

Then I got curious about the Roblox platform, learned to script there, launched a game and have been updating that ever since. It's doing pretty well, and is also the most fun I've had programming since the times of MUD wizarding.
I'm currently auditing the Stanford compilers course online. I understand the inertia in introductory courses, and the simplicity of MIPS, but hopefully the course is eventually ported to Aarch64 or RISC-V. Presumably a spim-like simulator for Aarch64 or RISC-V is the biggest missing component.

6.004 was one of my favorite classes at MIT, and the DEC Alpha AXP was a fine architecture to simplify for the pedagogical Beta architecture. However, I'm glad to hear they've moved to RISC-V. I presume they'd been avoiding porting the course to Aarch64 (or a simplified version thereof) due to intellectual property issues.
A survey platform designed around voice and video.

https://phonic.ai

It turns out that a LOT of podcasts are recorded asynchronously since it's easier to schedule.
It's one of those basic things. Like, when someone says "Make sure you have salt in the kitchen" they say just that, not "Open the first cupboard in your kitchen. See if there is a blue tin with a little girl in a frock carrying an umbrella" and so on and so forth.

The "make sure X is in your $PATH" is its own thing. I sympathize but there is a balance between docs for the expert and docs for the novice. This is closer to the former.
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There is definitely a magical feeling to spinning up Cockroach on a single binary and just letting it do things for you, vs the much steeper learning curve of Vitess. If you aren't looking for peak performance and are optimizing for rapid iteration and ease of use, that's a more compelling pitch than I've heard before. I've always recommended people choose either Postgres or MySQL, whichever they feel more comfortable running, since they likely won't have to ever migrate off the single db, and they'll have full compatibility for queries, apps, etc.

> Those companies exist, sure, but it's not most of the Fortune 500

That's a very interesting observation on database scale and not one that I've heard before, but I guess makes counter-intuitive sense. Most of the Fortune 500 aren't modern tech companies, and thus may not be as reliant on databases in the same way as a newer company.
> Maybe this sort of "boring" system administration isn't as popular as it used to be with all of that newfangled container orchestration stuff

Indeed, and all the "newfangled container orchestration stuff" also needs to run somewhere stable.
Luckily in Europe we have the GDPR, so the WhatsApp
changes don’t apply here. Still, great to see Signal’s user base growing!
It’s like locking your front door before you leave to work and let the keys on. Sure it’s locked, but does it matter ?
The parent comment both says that this is a global phenomenon and links to a study (not on Americans) whose _abstract_ says "There was a highly significant age-independent decline in total testosterone in the first and second decades of the twenty-first century. The decline was unlikely to be explained by increasing rates of obesity".
What's the market price for an idea?

If it's greater than zero, let me know. I have notebooks full of them. Business ideas. Project ideas. Political ideas. Social ideas. I generally can't give 'em away, much less sell them. Why? Everybody has their own ideas, and they like 'em better. And the ones in my notebooks don't have what really matters: validation.
None of the roamresearch pages load on FF Android and get stuck showing that 'spinner instrument'.
Prepping and bunkers are not about surviving forever with a luxurious standard of living, but about surviving for 2-5 years until some semblance of society re-forms. It’s actually an optimistic bet: that we don’t devolve permanently into warlords and subsistence survival, but instead whatever apocalypse that comes is temporary and recoverable. I don’t know any preppers or survivalists who think their bunkers will sustain them forever.

I used to consider myself merely mildly curious about prepping, but 2020 has convinced me we are much closer than we think to every man for himself, to the point where I am almost seriously looking for private, defendable land tucked away in the mountains with fresh water, juuuust in case. Not for a permanent The Road scenario, but to weather a temporary storm.
All fine in theory, but the rich will find a way. BTC hasn't really been 51% attacked yet, so the attack vector was buy up all the commit devs.
Firefox used to have a "scratchpad" for doing code in the browser, albeit somewhat barebones. Unfortunately it was more or less abandoned and eventually removed.

It would have been nice to see it expanded instead. A full on node environment would be a bridge too far IMHO but it would have been great to have added a good way to reuse modules and some more GUI niceties.

It did have full access to the current web page so there would have been security issues with new coders copy/pasting code from the internet. But a revised version could give it its own isolated environment by default.
But why stop there? Let’s bundle something like Excel or Powerpoint, or Photoshop or Final Cut.

If we’re deciding to bundle additional software with a browser, why would a programming environment (chosen based on someone’s favorite language) be top priority?
You don't know anything. Endogenous testosterone is NOT unhealthy.

When one of us high-testosterone males carries you out of a burning building you might reconsider. It's frankly pathetic how physically incapable most Americans are.
Ask HN: What would you do about a possibly violent person?
Hi.

I know a person that’s essentially gone insane and has become an immediate threat to everyone around them. They’re currently openly talking about using their substantial armory of recently purchased guns (and as far as I understand illegal tracer-round ammunition and other things I don’t understand) to shoot anyone related to BLM and anything even resembling mainstream liberalism or progressives. They’ve also recently hospitalized their partner with multiple skull fractures and a shattered right femur.

This person has also been setting up rogue APs during the protests in Minneapolis over the summer and dumping protestors personal data on various Discord channels.

Here’s the problem:
The ATF, FBI and DHS have all been made aware (by close to a dozen individuals around them), as well as local police, and they’ve made contact multiple times without anything substantive happening at all. This person maintains their armory and an online presence to this day.

I am not asking about fantasies about vigilante justice or taking matters into one’s own hands. I am asking about literally “Who would you call that has some ability to address this issue within the law in the instance that the FBI, ATF and DHS have failed to do so despite hoards of public information and countless reports already on file?”

This is not some sort of thought experiment. It is actually happening and I’d like to know if the community around this person has perhaps missed a possible resource.
Yes, recently I've been interested in visual programming paradigms like scratch. After all Python was originally supposed to be a teaching language. Maybe in 2030 the newest generations will find text files archaic and not expressive compared to new types of visual, vocal, or even "video" animated languages.
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I finally started to take the time to develop the parser and data types for "stutter" [1], a spoken programming language idea I had for a while now.

The underlying idea is that this language is absolutely syntax clutter free and uses grammar similar to how sentences are built, so that it can be predicted and recognized much easier in noisy environments whilst being a programming language that is made for dictation (instead of typing).

I don't want this to be an esoteric idea, so I'm also experimenting a bit with the use case of embedding it into my browser stealth [2] in order to automate and schedule web scraping tasks.

[1] https://github.com/cookiengineer/stutter

[2] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth
Good products matter. Not being a fascist also matters.
I am sure I am not the only one but some of the illusions do not work for me, and some only work after reading the description. Does your brain needs to be trained to 'get' the illusion?
Better question. Why aren't organisations like Amnesty International, Médecins Sans Frontières, Reporters Without Borders, and even the UN hosting Tor exit nodes? Why do humanitarian organisations not put their speech into practice but leave it to unknown "volunteers" to put up exit nodes?
I mean, to scare off the existing users of Parler, but, I guess, shutting the whole thing down by the Big Tech Cartel was more efficient. I just don't get how people get away with abusing an undocumented API to fetch and publish PII - something that's illegal. Remember how people did the same with with T-Mobile and got into a huge trouble? Until we keep having these double standards, there always will be polarization and tensions! And how is this mess good for America and the world?!
Sure we do. I care what the average person, or in case commenter, thinks about the situation. In fact more than I care about MSM’s opinion. You certainly seem to care with explicit/implicit cues in a lot of your comments.
When I read "Smart contacts on Bitcoin", I though you have somehow encoded smart contract logic in a novel Bitcoin output script, and that this contract script is thus executed by the Bitcoin miners. If you just use the Bitcoin output scripts to store some data, I would make a better name for your product.
And that's fair, but it's also pretty easy to draw very, very short lines to things like "Who has access to the NFL?" (class politics), "What are players allowed to say?" (first amendment politics), "What was the artist/musician/writer trying to convey? Do you see their political beliefs reflected here?" (E.g. Rand, Orwell, etc.), "Does my workplace allow trans people to use the restrooms of their choosing?", "Who grows this food, and how are they compensated?", "Who makes this garment, and how are they treated?", "Where does my electricity come from and how is it produced?". Etc.

We can choose to ignore these questions, but that doesn't mean they aren't there. While they aren't directly answered with "The Democrats" or "The Republicans" or whatever, they pretty quickly have answers that fall into one camp or another.
2 is amazing! How do you pick the news and create the summaries? Is it automated?
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Not all documentation should be aimed at an absolute beginner - the authors point about $PATH seems moot to me, especially considering how easy it is to look up.
Should a library also explain how an async function works in JS when introducing its feature that uses promises? Of course not.
Any field requires technical knowledge, and we're lucky we live in a world where its increasingly easier to overcome any roadblocks you find. I'm very anti gatekeeping, but if one expects to have every little detail drawn out for them then they're going to struggle in any even slightly complex field.

Overall I dont see how any of their points supported the random "install node by default" conclusion - and the point saying "most" people hate command lines made me physically reel.
the problem is that for most tourists skiing means taking like 3 runs, grabbing lunch and then barhopping or going to the pool. my understanding is that they're just holed up in their vacation homes living off take out this year. the biggest risk group are skico employees who have to use shared facilities. this is in all likelihood how i got sick and there have been lots of whispers that the infection rate between employees is very high although this has not been officially acknowledged.
I wish Kubernetes SIG Apps was more productive...
This is just a foul, foul recommendation

Don't play with your endocrine system people, let alone with testosterone which will make you dependent on it for the rest of your life
Distance from the source of sound is actually very important in live performances. There have been some empirical studies on it, but it’s still something people often get rather opinionated about. There is a reason though that a small ensemble can play to the beat of something like a drum, but a large ensemble like an orchestra can’t. There’s plenty of writing about how orchestras lag behind conductors and how different sections of orchestras have to take their timing queues differently depending on where they’re situated.

10ms is what I was always told was the generally accepted threshold after which a musician start to experience increased difficulty as a result of the latency. Which largely aligns with my own experience with audio latency. From there the difficulty just keeps increasing, and the performance quality keeps degrading until at some point the musicians and the audience gives up.
Large language models are wild, but can you control them?
Well if others know there's a bunker there then you're already doing something wrong
Honestly, a lot of my objection is to the naming of this list. "Western works my review-based model scored the highest" just doesn't generate clicks the same way.
Also I'm fairly certain that an explanation of what $PATH is on unixlike OSes and how to manage that is one of the first things one will see when reading any number of dev basics/getting started tutorials. I understand wanting to jump right into writing "real" projects but things like this are why I think spending a little time finding well-written tutorials and doing them makes a big difference when picking up a new language/library/framework/etc.
Small nitpick, but the macOS kernel is actually called XNU which is a hybrid of Mach and FreeBSD.
I have not eaten meat for over 5 years and I am extremely "ripped". I can power clean 2x my body weight and run a 10.5s 100m.

Sure, eating meat is healthier than eating carbs all day, but that's not the only alternative.
would ubuntu also count?
If you open the dev tools in your browser there's a full sandbox environment right there, not to mention the load of other sites available. I don't see why specifically Node should be installed.
You're superkuh, but I was replying to tptacek which is to say Thomas Ptacek, who has made this very strange argument multiple times.
That's going pretty far afield. I would recommend following the rubric I learned from Scahill and Greenwald which is pay attention to things happening domestically because you can do something about them.

I don't pretend there aren't infinite problems, or ones difficult to access, but I strongly caution against treating political problems as something that are immovable.
There are many notes about latency, how it can/cannot be solved etc. This ignores a basic technique being used by most vid conf vendors that is not music friendly - unpredictable (non contant) network delays happen, and to help counter that, most software speeds up the audio playback occasionally to help clients catch up when audio arrives later than expected. This is a HUGE deal breaker for music lessons as it wreaks havoc on musical timing .. even when the lesson does not require live playing together.

Just turning this off would make a big difference to online music lessons I think. The "speed it up to catch up" technique is fine for speech .. which is the dominant usecase.
a fast search engine of curated tools to help you build your next project: https://bearchip.com/

right now I am deciding on what to work on next, I plan to use some of the tools myself :)
The issue that most productivity apps ignore is context.

Lots of them don't account for real life events. Having to go to the doctor, going shopping, cleaning the household, spending time with your loved ones and doing sports aren't necessarily unproductive.

Most productivity happens for me when I have an idea and am able to start working on it immediately while keeping the focus on it without external distractions... It would be amazing if a productivity app out there is able to "juggle around" all the necessities of the day while respecting external dependencies (like an appointment at the doctor) that cannot be rescheduled.