skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A minimalistic web app host that supports serverless functions. Just create an account and you have an entire sub domain to work freely in. No projects, no deployments, no git, no cli, just create files, folders / routes and functions and away you go, all from the browser.
No, maybe I'll give it another try based on your suggestion.
I'm making a web app that aims to aid people in crafting on the game Final Fantasy XIV. I wrote a small piece about it here: https://leite.dev/posts/manipulation-app/
Does it being a "foreign" company really matter at all?
Yup, people have been brainwashed into thinking "bubbles" are a problem when they've been the solution to that problem from the start.

I've suggested that idea a million time, it's all yours for the taking for those who want to implement it:

Build a social network where there is a per-user karma/reputation graph, with a recursive mechanism to propagate reputation (with decay): I like a post, that boosts the signal/reputation from whoever posted, and from people who liked it, and decreases signal from people who downvoted it.

There can be arbitrarily more sophisticated propagation algorithms to jumpstart new users by weighing their first few votes more highly and "absorb" existing user reputation graphs (some Bayesian updating of some kind).

Allow basic things like blocking/muting/etc with similar effects.

This alone would help people curate their information way more efficiently. There are people who post things I know for a fact I never want to read again. That's fine, let me create my own bubble.

The TrustNet/Freechains concepts seem adjacent and it's the first time I come across them — looks interesting.
You are not "buying" "friends". You are being introduced to other individuals that can help you succeed and believe in you. If you already have a network of people who can invest, buy your software, introduce you to other people then yes you are right YC is of not much value.
What about the homeless.

That’s gotten out of hand. I understand they want to discourage streakers and guys who flip open their raincoats or whatever, but someone who looks for a dark corner to pee is no where near being a sex offender. That’s a travesty.
I'm working on a Polish dictionary. There are already professional dictionaries online but I miss one feature: to be able to search in definitions. It's also scrabble oriented, so words come with anagrams and so on.
> At the time her response was that she doesn’t necessarily believe in black superiority…

“We” is not the same as “I”. She was speaking on behalf of a group, and a group which may not have even discussed their actual beliefs on the truth of the “theories and observations” presented, as that was not the purpose for which they were (explicitly, in the letters own terms) presented.
This is really timely. I was about to post a Show HN to get some feedback. I have been working on an app that will help people in their stock trading. You can find it here: https://guardrails.xyz The expensive market data feeds are not hooked up yet and I wanted to solicit some feedback before proceeding. I am also looking for monetization and partnership opportunities. Here is a youtube clip explaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C96f_xXXQZw and a survey : https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Q8QVJN3
Thank you! I can't believe you have been here all along, hiding this.
Which I think is a bit of a gaping hole.

As a male who has been around 70kg for all of my adult life, I have consumed many different "diets". All from eating whole foods to eating more processed foods and easy packaged meals/junk food, all not impacting my BMI.
Open source continuous profiling software https://github.com/pyroscope-io/pyroscope

I did a lot of profiling at my last job and it was always kinda frustrating because you usually have to do it adhoc on your machine, and you can't do it in production, or you can't go back in time.

So I started looking into possibilities of doing it in production, and after doing some research and back of the envelope math I figured it's possible to run this kind of stuff 24/7 in production environment and store months of this kind of data for cheap.

I just released the first version a couple of weeks ago, would love any feedback on this.
It's important to note that sovereignty can mean different things. Certainly the federal government and each state government are different sovereigns, but that doesn't mean that the federal government can't use eminent domain to seize land in a state. The federal government is the supreme sovereign in the USA.

It is similar for tribes: they are recognized as sovereigns on the same level as states. The federal government remains supreme and, in fact, can revoke their sovereignty at any time through Congress.
> ...if you provide a way to upload logs and then search them that's Elasticsearch as a service

Yes, and if you let your internal company blogging platform ping a service upon every new post, which then feeds that post into Elastic so blog posts across your company are searchable?

I suspect one way to avoid this would be “buy a commercial license” (or use Amazon’s fork if you’re so minded), but if you’re using Elastic’s open source offerings — I’d be careful about licensing anything under SSPL, whatever your intentions are.
A (kind of) decentralized and secure voting platform:

- distributed as a PWA(written in Rust, client and server side)

- the authenticity of voters is certified by the voters themselves validating/signing their contacts profiles (by scanning a QR-code). Similarly to the PGP web of trust.

- most of the voters data (included their private signing key) is encrypted client-side and then optionally stored on the server

- moderation policies is to be defined but would ideally by done organically by the users themselves

- the recommenced voting system to use would be by majority judgement [0]

- open source, open government model, non-profit

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_judgment
Dungeon Magazine -- was the

BEST. MAGAZINE. EVER!!!

(Well, other than computer magazines... <g>)
Most definitely. I suppose, being able to achieve the results that eggs afford us, but by starting out with arguably simpler ingredients, we'll become better cooks.

As our understanding of fats, sugars and proteins improves, we'll be able to control them even better. Cooking is chemistry, after all :).
A visual bot maker.

Imagine a blueprint editor similar to one found in UE4 or Unity, but for chat bots. You can place a node a connect it to other nodes to express the logic of a given bot command, we have support for Variables to persist data across invocations and also have Parameters so if you just want to import something from the marketplace without editing the nodes you get a simple form view.

It's still very Alpha, not all the nodes are implemented, variables are currently bugged, the editor can be a little buggy, but it's something I'm actively developing and plan to monetize eventually.

https://isobot.io/
and an example blueprint on the market: https://isobot.io/market/blueprint/54c99d7f-8030-4280-9899-2...
Building a documentation platform (Think Confluence alternative). Thought it'd just be a case of hooking up a WYSIWYG editor and a database, and yet there's still plenty to do 5+ years later: https://www.bookstackapp.com/
I hear it's the least evil of the FAANGs. And then there are oil companies etc. I think relative to the average company Google's doing alright.
I'm working on DFlex: JavaScript Project to Manipulate DOM Elements (https://github.com/jalal246/dflex)

Also, I'm looking for contributors! If anyone interested, please let me know.

I wrote about it here - Why DFlex and how It's different: https://dev.to/jalal246/dflex-javascript-project-to-manipula...

The work is still in progress but can't achieve the desired outcomes without community support.
I'm not forcing people making $10/hr to work in a tight kitchen where social distancing is impossible. I'm supporting local restaurants!
thinking of the next steps around one of my projects : http://learnnodejs.dev/
I don't see how this can be true. If you're splitting your investment, your downsides are smaller but your upsides are also smaller, and presumably by the same amount.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-advertising/apple-c...

Apple makes 2 billion a year on advertising projected to go up to 11 billion in 5 years. While a fraction of total rev, I don’t think it’s correct to round off 2 billion and say they are somehow not an advertising company as well. (You don’t have to be just 1 type of company)
I and my friend are building API to search for structured news articles [1]. It's a data-as-a-service.

We've been working for ~1 year. Our full-time job now. ~3k MRR

Our recent article about what we've learned [2]

[1] https://newscatcherapi.com/

[2] https://newscatcherapi.com/blog/we-ve-been-running-a-bootstr...
Yup. And the community at large is going to suffer for it.
IMO the journalists should be expert in protecting their sources, and they failed here (arguably, Winner picked the wrong ones). Winner is an expert in her own field (e.g. Farsi); not in journalism, steganography, or OPSEC. The steganography was well known in journalist circles I was into in, back in '00s.
I think this is interesting, at least in terms of judging quality of individual posts.

I remember back in the days of kuro5hin there was reputation, you could earn reputation with thoughtful comments and then good reputation would mean more visibility for your posts. Has that proven to be a horrible approach? Are there communities that work this way now?
To extend the analogy so it's more accurate: or you could go to the local stream and drink some water (host your own speech).
Facebook sues two Chrome extension devs for scraping user data
I get that this leaves non-midi keyboards behind though, as well as all other instruments. If anyone has ideas on that topic I am all ears!

Initially I do plan to keep the scope small to see how well it performs, identify the problem areas, etc.
Teardown of Russian GPS and microphone bug found in iPhone
Food Delivery Is Keeping Uber Alive. Will It Kill Restaurants?
In the last several months, I've been working on MintGate that allows taking any Internet link and protecting it through a proxy that gates users by access tokens (Etherum, ERC20, ERC721, 1155, xDAI, Matic, NEAR, and others). We think of ourelves as mashing up authentication tokens with actual token economics. :)

https://MintGate.app

Feel free to reply here or email me via jonathan AT mintkudos.com if you're curious to learn more about us.
Bitcoin T.I.N.A. has had the best take on valuation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHHUKx3YCJI
A note taking app called thinktype: https://thinktype.app

The goal is to make it as easy as possible to write down your thoughts. You can immidiately start typing when you open the app, and thinktype uses one field to write and search notes, so you don't have to ask yourself whether you wrote something down before.
I've recently started a newsletter for junior engineers with career and engineering advice - https://www.thegreencoder.co.
Over the past two years I have fallen down a medical rabbit hole that has revealed some really weird things to me. I don’t know how to explain it convincingly so I’ll just get it out:

The reason why this is happening is also part of why autism is going up (even when controlled for broader diagnosis) and autoimmune complaints are going up, as well as many other things. It’s because we have systematically eliminated fat and red meat from our diets over the past half decade, and also because we dialed up on sugar. In a bizarre plot twist, it turns out that everything we think about diet is wrong and a diet of beef, beef tallow and salt not only doesn’t screw up your cholesterol, it fixes almost every medical problem that people have. Again, it’s too wild for me to convince anyone. It’s too crazy. If you don’t believe me then go see for yourself. Meatrx slash success stories.
Just want to second adsb exchange. I was using fr24 for a while and I think someone on here suggested adsb-e and it's a godsend. Living in the DC area, I see lots of fuckery where military helicopters that don't even show up on fr24 at least leave these weird artifacts on adsb-e.

Note I live on the flightpath between the WH and Camp David, and the Marines practice this run A LOT. I only found this out once I started WFH every day due to the pandemic.

Sometimes it's a lone helicopter, sometimes they are in a trio. But FR never shows anything and ADSB-E at least shows an artifact that essentially appears as a drone with no tail number.
A better de-escalation would be to reduce the number of and need for weapons as well as counter hate speech and radicalization. I don't think body armor is going to do the trick, frankly.

(aside: this conversation has jumped the shark IMHO, so this is where I'm getting off. peace, literally)
Stress is also on the rise, especially among gen Z:

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/stress/2020/report-o...

Which shouldn't be surprising given the quality of life a typical worker enjoys today vs in decades past when cost of living was much more in line with wages.
> you specify the far right

Because they were the ones who outright rejected masks? It's not like this is a bias being cast on them unfairly, the right has rejected masks on a basis of personal freedom (whether you agree with that take or not) and have been extremely vocal about it.

That being said, Democrats and leftists are people too - they're fallible. This pandemic has taught me that humans are far more social than I think most people realize, that we get bored incredibly quickly, and that we will normalize anything and live around it. Masks have become commonplace, and pretty much all content & media produced in 2020 will be immediately recognizable by the masks everyone is wearing.

Interestingly enough, I have seen pretty much 100% mask adherence in teenagers. I live by a high school and see them walk by all wearing masks even after school.

> Mayor adler of austin got extended family together, had a wedding, then took a private jet to cabo where he recorded a video encouraging austinites to stay home.

Yeah, the rich don't give a shit about the rules and guidelines, but what's new? Not following extreme quarantine protocols is probably very low on my list of criticisms for that mayor.

> They say the right thing, but are doing something different.

I've noticed the same thing with my liberal friends, but I have to remember that they're at least trying. They wear masks when they're hanging out and not eating, they're more aware of hand-washing, they don't share drinks, etc... You can't just look at the one thing they're doing to cling to a sense of normalcy. I wouldn't hold a right wing person to any more stringent of a standard, either. My problem with it has been the right's general rejection of any type of public safety measures.

I've been in an extreme quarantine because I live with an immuno-compromised person, but I have to remember that different people have different risk tolerances, and that at this point it's hardly the fault of people going to restaurants and that it was mostly our governments complete lack of action that lead to us being on this path.

Honestly, I just wish that it had never been politicized in the first place so that we didn't have to have silly conversations about political leanings of people given only how they respond to a pandemic. I guess I can't even talk about that without recognizing that our President is the one who politicized it, so :shrug:
Absolutely beautiful landing page and docs. Congrats.
Mumble requires running your own servers, and many universities already pay for Zoom licenses. Why not ask your vendor to add a feature to software you're already paying for?
I don't normally post stuff like this, nor do I normally look at Twitter.

But I saw this linked on another site and, well, I'm shocked.

The video mashup has literal calls for revolution and attacking our government from elected officials, broadcast on regular cable channels. Not thedonald.win, not parler or Gab. And not Facebook.

Although I'm sure these clips are on those sites too.

Damn! It's actually pretty frightening.
SSPL is hostile and vague from the get go, you're making it sound like MongoDB were the righteous ones here.
Yep, there's even a "helicopters of DC" Twitter account which is really interesting.
Latency will always be an issue here. 200ms is enough to throw off the timing of an “all-at-once” note or syncing up sections.

I’ve been a hobbyist musician since leaving school 20 years ago. I play piano, guitar, bass, mandolin, cello, drums, etc. All of the typical video platforms fall short of having a low enough latency to achieve “remote orchestra”.

There was one product/service that I tried that got closer than anyone, JamKazam (https://jamkazam.com/) and there were a few audio only options back mid-2000s that had close to 20-50ms which was better.
https://www.businessinsider.com/hunter-biden-opens-about-add...
this is global, but eating beef regularly isn't / has never been a global thing
Imagine if the only way to use Linux or Kafka is to use a specific hosting company. The title should've been "Doubling Down on our Revenue Model by changing our Licensing"
A Google Spreadsheet powered online store SAAS platform: https://www.gridmart.io (still in alpha).
We decided to pursue this project after getting an average of 4 inquiries per month from different clients who want to customize/add more integrations to their [insert current ecommerce solution] site
My poor friends are a lot more likely to smoke. Education probably plays a role in adherence to these types of public safety measures.
And time is a product of causality chain established by light incidence, thus making up reality.
Preliminary benchmarks show them surpassing Zen3 on the desktop with only a slight frequency bump.
Extraordinary claims require.. one anecdote? Globally we eat more meat per person today than ever before. Only very few people have been on a high beef diet ever in this world
How much does a helicopter cost to operate per hour? Whatever it is, it's probably not worth it to catch some guy in a jet pack.
Open source Android, iOS and Web app for learning about and managing digital and physical security.

From how to send a secure message to dealing with a kidnap. Umbrella has best practice guides in over 40 topics in multiple languages. Used daily by people working in high risk countries - journalists, activists, diplomats, business travelers etc.

iOS https://apps.apple.com/us/app/umbrella-security/id1453715310

Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secfirst.u...

Web https://umbrella.secfirst.org

More information https://www.secfirst.org
Nothing expected, very much appreciated.
You also need to understand a bit of Japan. Ikebukuro is the womens/girls Akiba. So it's really normal to see the oppoiste of Akiba there. There are countless cafes there that cater to females, where in Akiba it is male.

And akiba is short for akihabara.

The underwear vending machine are out, and hidden now, mostly Akiba from what I hear on whispers, not in public. Maybe even one in Nakano broaddway...

And Kissa's in general are in decline, not just no pantsu kissas.
I find Google over-agressive in the other direction when it comes to location. I’ll search for “Empire State Building” and get a page full of local junior high science projects about the Empire State Building and local burger joints with Empire State Building posters on their walls.
There's a bunch more discussion of this in Brian Bagnall's "Commodore: The Amiga Years".
Rio Tinto have a poor track record for handling indigenous lands too. Just 6 months ago they demolished indigenous australian heritage sites, for apparently very little gain.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-26/rio-tinto-blast-destr...
The carrot is "we might ban your opponents" and the stick is "or we might ban you".

In addition to outright ban, consider other things in the "shadowban" category the tech companies might just as easily do to a politician they don't like. A little tweak of the algorithm, and positive mentions of you in web search or social networks start disappearing, and negative mentions become frontpage...
Are you telling me CNN are not groundbreaking?
Making a practice area for students to hack a network for CPTC, setting up a SBS 2003 with a few windows 7 clients with email and everything to package up and help students learn how to hack a network. I plan on making it mostly public and hopefully RIT lets me open it up to the world to self serve spin up a copy on the new CyberRange they made
Haha, that was one I was very specifically thinking of! If you get buy in from the players, tomb of horrors is a lot of fun!
From docs/LISP.md, on how the Lisp contained within lacks a GC and instead uses reference counting without a cycle collector.

> So you do have to be careful not to create cycles, so think about how your code works.
My personal opinion:

AWS doesn't offer any version with new licenses.

Then they fork the project, and none of the improvements AWS makes to the fork gets pushed upstream to ES. Which only hurts Elasticsearch as a project.

ES can take their ball and go home. But they're doing so to their own detriment.
Exactly! I've used AWS' service, it's awful. Elastic's is better, and price is comparable or better in fact. But the point is they don't even have to compete on price if quality is superior!

If I'm spending $100k/mo on my logging stack, and it's falling over frequently (which in AWS-land means multiple days of back and forth, opening tickets etc), I'd way rather pay $120k/mo for something that actually works.
Even the FCC has been known to raid pirate radio stations alongside armed Marshalls in riot gear.

https://www.democracynow.org/2004/9/30/longest_standing_pira...
Google and Apple (or any other big tech pairing) pairing don't compete as strongly as we would like. Even ignoring the fact I don't want a stronger google, I also don't think this will provide meaningful competition to Apple at all.
Linux Foundation has suggestions on how avoid SolarWinds type attacks in future
Ah, this is one of those that can only make me think of how news outlets, especially since in Brazil they're even more tightly controlled and aligned and oligarchic, report on governments from other countries, of political prisoners and messed up stuff going elsewhere(specially if it's in 'countries we dont like' of course), and how it is when it's an 'us' story(and of course put Assange in here too).. And that then it drips down to partially informed ppl that are basically tamed into whatever position interests oligarchs and that it becomes useless to try to discuss anything because information is just not reaching the overwhelming majority of people. That's how you end up with a Bolsonaro.

Yeah, sure, democratic/western ideals and blah blah, how about when it's time to put them into practice? I think sadly we all know what happens, and we mostly just look away. To be clear, I'm not talking about any single case in particular, it's more of an essence thing.
I think you need to count calories to really know what your eating. I did it as an experiment for a week, it really interesting to see how fast you blow through your daily calories snacking or adding sauce
Trying to sound like Autechre using VCV rack.

https://vcvrack.com/
> keep on trying

This is the over-used Japanese expression "頑張れ" (gan-ba-re). Low-EQ people (younger me) say it when they don't know how to comfort someone who just told them some sadness, worry, or frustration.
Ooh, nice. So, sort of like Exapunks crossed with Screeps?
Unclear which way the causal arrow goes.
Having grown up in a liberal part of the country, I didn't even know people thought D&D was Satanic until I saw a 1983 episode of "The Greatest American Hero" called "Wizards & Warlocks" where there were references to the game being 'evil' (although the game in the episode was closer to LARPing, the nod to D&D was clear). I was confused and asked around. That was my first introduction to the wackiness of Bible-belters.