skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they don't have any intention to develop this software without a profit, then they shouldn't have positioned themselves as a free-and-open-source product in the first place.

If something satisfies the four freedoms [0], it is free software.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html.en
That wrist computer has a lot of compute power, suggesting sleep tracking needs more is a rather extraordinary claim. Not having decent UI far is more credible.
> Not to mention that limiting yourself to text really limits how far this metaphor can go.
Why?
I imagine the problem is no one could possibly agree on what politics is so you will have endless bikeshedding over if something classifies as politics.

Does a post on climate change count?

Does a post on city design and public transport count?
Everytime I open a can, the first thing I do is sip the delicious Aquafaba. I should run it through the carbonator!
Spanner is proven at immense scale, I don't see why Cockroach's architecture can't be.
I'm leaning towards p-hacking myself, but I'll note the composition of your photoreceptors is partially coded on your X chromosome, which leads to differences if you have 1 or 2 X's -- one X makes colorblindness significantly more likely, 2 X's are needed for tetrachromatism.
You are picking the trusted server you forward to. The idea is to prevent your users from just pointing to some random DoH server on the internet.
I'm curious if the author has heard of sites like:

* https://repl.it/

* https://jsfiddle.net/

I didn't see anything like that mentioned in the article, but I think that you can easily write code inside your browser today.

Also, web browsers are already extremely heavy and complicated. That complexity is convenient for end users, but it also has costs, like making it very difficult and expensive to create a new competitive browser. Do we really need to add another standard to turn them into offline IDEs on top of everything else?
There is a great youtube video about exactly that:

Why is it so Easy to be Thin in Japan?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr4MmmWQtZM
I am working on creating an app for people with type2 diabetes.

They only need to take the picture of the food they are about to eat and the app will tell approximate range of how many points their blood sugar can rise. For example, if you take a picture of an apple, it can tell that eating a full apple will increase blood sugar by 5-15 points. Its a range because it depends on the quantity and the individual insulin resistance level. Its better than being blind to numbers and poking with needle every day.
Businesses operate across multiple states, so the size of government doesn’t preclude economies of scale.

I don’t understand why goods would necessarily be more expensive because a government is smaller. The price of goods is mostly a function of economics, not government price controls. Consumable goods in Singapore or Monaco sell at prices similar to other very large governments.
I'm writing a open book / blog series. Working title is "Building an OS on an FPGA: First Gate to Self-Hosted Compiler". I'm very early in, but realized I had all this knowledge from these different architecture levels and haven't tied it altogether to see what I'm missing... So I started to try and find out by doing it.

Been documenting my process and the evolutions of complexity and considerations in a way to put together a book like http://craftinginterpreters.com/. Kinda hoping I can it to a point where you could implement the second section byte code machine entirely in a compiler you built... for the OS you built... for the CPU SoC you built... on a FPGA.
Right, and to add upon this - that's because all ideas originate from the senses.

To demonstrate: try to imagine a new color you've never seen before that's not in any way associated to any of the colors that you've seen. (it's impossible)

Or think of it this way: You could explain a car to someone who has never seen a car before, but only so long as the ideas used to explain the idea of a car (e.g. wheels, doors, windows), have already been familiarized to the other person. Otherwise if those ideas weren't familiar, such as a wheel, you'd need to also explain what a wheel is. And if the concepts used to explain the wheel wasn't familiar (and so on), you'd eventually hit a point where you must expose the idea(s) directly to their senses (eg show them), otherwise they will never understand what you're talking about.

So all ideas come from the senses, and your minds ability to combine these "pure" ideas that you've sensed. "Pure" ideas are cheap and easy because they're the simplest ideas - they're what you directly sensed. To have good ideas, you need to combine many "pure" ideas together, hence why those who have experience working closely and thoroughly with something, will often have the best ideas associated to that something...
Its usually when there is a fundamental difference between ideas where no compromise can be made. For example, I think cities should ban personal car use while others think this is a horrible idea. We could go on and on repeating these same conversations but its not particularly useful or interesting.
The average american woman weighed 163.8 lbs in 1999, she weighed 171 in 2020. Average BMI increased from 28.2 to 29.1 in the same time period. Women on average added 2 inches to waist size.

Men went from an average weight of 189.4 to 197.9 in the same time period and BMI went from 27.8 to 29.1. Men on average added 1 inch on waist size.

A 5% increase in weight over 20 years might be concerning from a public health perspective, but it's not something you'd see just by looking at people.
Am I the only one that doesn’t know how to code in a spreadsheet?
Earlier bing also moved from .net Framework to .net core and saw 34% improvement. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/bing-com-runs-on-net-c...
That and chickpeas in dry 20-50 unit bags are ridiculously cheap. Like the cost of 4-8 cans at the store and produce 50x more.
I had the same realizations as you and have been working on my productivity application for over a year. I've learned a lot about human motivation and decision making. Good luck.
You realize the birther movement was started by the Clinton camp when she was running against Obama, right?
> we can swap one type of detector for another at the very last instant, implying that the photon was “always a wave” or “always a particle” in order to produce the result that we see.

Can't help but think that whatever supposedly "happened" is not that relevant, what matters is the measurement.

Clearly "the photon" is only the effect of the interaction between light and the act of measuring it. You just can't remove the measurement from the phenomenon.

In our reality ("to us"), light doesn't make sense if it's not measured, and the result of that measurement is not light itself, but the product or outcome of the interaction of the measuring device/method and whatever "light is" (when not being measured), if light can even exist without being measured (which is unknowable).
https://smist08.wordpress.com/feed/
> or are indigenous tribes living far from civilization.

Yes, and they survived this way for thousands of years.
a humble ask for eGPU support
I am working on Lulim Jewelry (https://lulimjewelry.com) which is my custom jewelry company.

You can customize your ring with any engraved image (inside or out) and then I use 3D printing on the backend to produce the ring in gold or silver. My most popular customization is a fingerprint ring. You can see some pictures of my website.

I spent a decent amount of time on the design software which uses fabric.js and three.js for design and visualization. The website is most a static site and uses google cloud run for the api.

Check it out, I’d love some feedback!
Unreal Engine Cloud Build Service, Whatcha Say?
Hello Hackers,

We've started an Unreal Engine Cloud Build service. We started it to serve our own needs, but thought it'd be nice to make it its own fully fledged service. It is pretty much the same as Unity Cloud Build, but for Unreal Engine instead.

You can subscribe to be among the first beta users here: https://unrealcloud.io.

It is basically a CICD platform, to help you quickly run your tests on every iteration, build, and share your executables with your team automatically.

We already have an MVP that works for our needs, but before going any further, we'd like to get your feedback, and know whether it'd be useful for others too.
Thank you, great work.
Sorry for the noob question, but here it is anyway. What kind of projects and career paths does this kind of programming enable?
Lesson learned from building my own crypto trading bot
This article reminds me of Cory Doctorow’s short story “Masque of the Red Death” in Radicalized (2019), which haunts me still and cured me of any bunker curious tendencies.
Also, having recently watched The Social Dilemma, social media might be stressing people out too.
>Here’s my pitch: build a browser that comes pre-installed with node.js, an IDE and a simple runtime environment.

https://glitch.com/

https://runkit.com/home

https://codepen.io/

https://github.com/features/codespaces

Maybe you don't need new browser ?

Maybe ?
You could probably do this with AutoHotKey as well- on Windows, anyway.
Windows 10x, Microsoft's Answer to Chrome OS
Would love to see what the user experience is.
The dark is required, so many are all but blacked out. But I'm not sure on 100% artificial. I do know it's completely over reasearched.

Coops are now one of the most crazy over-specified engineering things you'll ever see. They test and maximize cost efficiency of things like: how often to wipe dust off the light bulbs, given 50 different variables, and then contractually write it out.

For every tiny thing, and that was 10+ years ago.
Pebble Time Steel, could be argued is better than anything anyone has made. Companies adding amoled screen drains battery, complicated OS to jam as many widgets as possible renders them hard to use.

Garmin arguable comes closest, but they're expensive as they have GPS trackers and other features, but I don't find their OS intuitive.
To be fair, the GP may have been claiming that mammals sense magnetic fields and then the mammals guide avian migrations. The sentence is ambiguous ("In mammals, this is what guides birds ..."). This kind of fits with their whole "all of nature is one. The Force is created by all life and flows through and binds all things" vibe of the GP's post.
When I moved from Brazil to Canada I was kinda surprised with the portion size in some restaurants here. Also:

> how much of a punch in the face of sweetness/richness literally everything available in US restaurants is

Yeah, too much sugar/salt/syrup/condiments, too many artificial ingredients on things. Today I was talking to my wife how the Cheetos here is not so good, as it has a weird orange color and the taste is way too much superficial. The cheese too. too many cheddar varieties with colors that doesn't seem like something made out of milk.
Would you consider transportation more efficient if it got you to your destination faster and cheaper, but put out 5x the pollution?
I suspect this applies to societal taboos in general, though there may be an opposite effect -- forbidding certain types of discussion can rapidly destroy the status quo if the discussion that remains is biased in some way.
> staying on 7.10 safely and keeping an eye out to see who's gonna fork it and at least keep up security work on it under Apache 2.0 moving forward

I wonder how many companies would be willing to pay $100 a month for their elastic search to continue to receive security updates... in theory the right individual could make a decent living simply forking the various OSS projects that have since gone noSS, applying security fixes, and collecting money from the companies build on them.
Eat more Soy
Trying to peel individual phrases off from the context of the whole letter (which you oddly chose not to cite) isn't helping your argument. And if she were a white supremacist, that would be an extremely different situation from someone who's a member of an oppressed minority making snarky remarks about a book that she perceives as pseudoscientific race baiting. You've really misrepresented this whole episode, but thanks for your concern.
Good to see DSA in there. I've been using BouncyCastle for cryptography in .Net on Windows just to make it compatible with Wine.
Disturbing how exactly?
I agree with most of what you said but disagree with the ACA being bad for small businesses.

> Trump voters already have healthcare. They're disproportionately likely to be folks who bear greater burdens under the ACA--like small business owners. Or the majority of people who are happy with their private health insurance.

I don't understand this at all. The ACA has been a godsend for myself who over the last 8 years been an owner(for 4 years) and employee(for 4 years) at a small business. It allowed me to work for a small business(as both an employee and an owner) because I could get insurance. I tried getting insurance before the ACA and was denied because my testosterone levels were 5% under the cut off for normal.

And second it's been super helpful because the biggest barrier to recruiting for a small business is healthcare. Specifically many developers are willing to take a 30k+ paycut to get premium healthcare(which isn't providing 30k of value but is unpurchaseable for small clients) and this problem was worse pre-ACA. If we had a Medicare option the job market would be more efficient, and small businesses would be better able to compete with enterprise.
I take the "wtf is user/local/bin in $path?" to be a question from a non-tech person that is interested in learning to code. I can't be sure though since the author stated he has failed to install Node js.

Should Chrome have Node JS loaded into it during install? I don't do web-dev so my answer is no.

Should there be browsers made for those learning web-dev that come with these? By all means, sure. Go nuts.

This also might sound elitist but I would expect the kind of person that takes an interest in coding to be able to google what $PATH is or hell take the complete instruction "add <dir> to $PATH"
If you haven't had watermelon rind juice, you totally should.
See, keeping your communities clean is the kind of thing that very much is in your sphere of influence. So is voting (and campaigning, if you can) for good candidates.

I'm talking about larger problems than that. Most anything that happens at the federal/geopolitical level, for instance, is non-actionable for the vast majority of people outside of voting or sending letters/phone calls.

Also, no need for the insult.
That's a great guide! Thanks for sharing.
Much more what I would have expected from the parent link :)
U can use html / js with browser in like 5 seconds. No need for Node.js. Just write an html file and link a js file and you can code whatever you want.
Just for fun, I added pdqsort to the benchmark:

https://github.com/orlp/pdqsort

Here are some of the results on an Ivy Bridge hackintosh:

size, qsort, inline, sort, stable, pdqsort, radix7
1000, 88.0, 60.6, 31.2, 37.5, 24.6, 12.8
10000, 109.3, 77.1, 45.6, 51.6, 29.1, 12.0
100000, 137.1, 97.7, 57.7, 71.9, 33.3, 12.5
1000000, 159.6, 114.2, 70.6, 88.6, 39.7, 20.4
10000000, 185.2, 133.7, 82.0, 99.7, 43.6, 19.4

Edit: it's not quite as easy to plug radix7 into pdqsort's more varied benchmark program, which expects a template function with a type parameter of int.
Xiaomi added to the military blacklist
I would sum up your point as this "necessary does not equate sufficient." Sure... Not only do we need to "do work" but we need to make sure it's helpful to us and our children. Obviously.

The fact that one could do useless or evil work isn't an argument against work. Just don't do dumb/evil shit.
Arguably better search engine for Confluence and Jira with tons machine learning magic https://pagebrain.ai

Have been working on this for about 2 years now, still not sure if anyone would want this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I would love to get some feedback. Please have mercy :)
The ratio of male to female authors and the small subset of countries that absolutely dominate this list tell me just about all I need to know about it.

Sure, they qualify how the list was built at the top, but titling it "The Greatest Books of All Time" serves to perpetuate the problems with who gets exposure and what styles and perspectives are considered worthy of praise. This kind of list is exactly the thing I'd have bought into as a pretentious high schooler. It's a shame to see this thinking continuing to be propagated in 2021, in my personal opinion.
With caramelized onions? A sour cream and sriracha frosting?
Let's be brutally honest here - nobody really cares what Provider A condemns. This is not choir practice! We get enough noise from the MSM.
Defense is usually the aspect preppers most enjoy giving consideration, not something they short change.
From Machine Code to Ruby
blockchain technologies like bitcoin seem to have the worst possible privacy proposition for trying to fund terrorism because it is exactly inverted. Once you tie one or a few people to their wallets you essentially have the entire history and topology of the network right there in the public.

In Seeing like a State, James Scott points out that the single most important tool of statecraft is legibility. That is to say the ability to render processes transparent and readable and processable. Giving everything a name, an an address, an account, and so on. It would be funny if crypto turns out to be one of the strongest enablers of states in the future.
Hacker Programs
which do you think is the best hacker program for iPhone?
I have been running a relay node from my home network for 5 months now.
Aside from sometimes melting my cheap router with concurrent connections I did not notice anything out of ordinary.
The author of i3 Windows Manager has a series of interesting blog posts about his pain points with Debian project. [1] Well worth reading the blog series.

He also has a research distribution named 'distri' that tries to fix certain aspects of those pain points. [2]

[1] https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-03-10-debian-windin...

[2] https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-08-17-introducing-d...
Ouch, that’s one of those painfully bad ideas that makes it obvious most people lack a basic understanding of physics.

Creating enough mass from energy to hit ~2/3 earths total mass is several orders of magnitude larger than the Death Stars main weapon. And as you point out if basically anything fails all that energy gets released on Mars.
Also worth mentioning https://codesandbox.io/ especially for those familiar with VSCode.
30% ? The difference is 9% and is probably made up through other taxes. I know Washington has the highest alcohol and cigarette taxes for example
Wasn't the "cheap ploy" tried long ago with a week of Erlang? It probably didn't work as intended then either, but I'm curious if it's just the scale of HN that has changed, or if it's something else, that makes such an experiment seem even more out of the question now.
This is so much faster than create-react-app. CRA takes around 30-40 seconds to start which this takes no more than 1 second.
esbuild is probably best thing happened to JS ecosystem recently and I hope all official Front end generators(CRA, vue-cli, angular-cli) will migrate to this.
https://www.failory.com/blog/startup-failure-rate

https://www.failory.com/cemetery

(for the "never" side of things)
TSMC to Spend Record $28 Billion on Advanced Chips / Capacity
Layer 2 protocols are just those that operate "on top of" a base protocol, such as Lightning Network (on top of Bitcoin), roll_up (on top of Ethereum), or POA Network (also Ethereum).

(I would argue that the terms are imprecise though -- some protocols are described as operating "on top of Ethereum", but have their own consensus etc. which can function without Eth, so they could also be viewed as layer 1s with a bridge.)
The study basically said body mass projected the same results? I can't help but think that the typical foods we consume as an 'advanced' nation are ones of convience and ones that primarily are addictive and unhealthy; this has to be a significant contributing factor. Along with low activity, more cerebral work, vs physical labor has to be a play as well.

Edit: they did mention that comorbidities, including diabetes were a contributing factor. Sugar is the root of all evil, and Americans for sure love their corn syrups... after all it is their cash crop.

Oddly enough, recently there was the company Lipocine in the news that created a new drug that basically is designed to restore normal testosterone levels in men: TLANDO.
Why She Keeps Lying to You
Not just algos. Read Fox News, and they're now "leftist". Comments are different now though, so it's all editorialized and the public sees through it.
Erlang, twice. Maybe someone else will find the links.

I triggered the second Erlang day and it made pg mad at me for the one and only time that I'm aware of. That was before I was dang.
Are you aware of the console? I have used it for all kinds of stuff.

Here's what you do: go to about:blank, open the console and start typing JavaScript code. Try:

document.write('hello world')
My wife and I had a little chat about this yesterday when my comment got popular, with me expressing some regret for working so much. She told me she doesn’t really remember much of anything about the first year. Then she shrugged and said that’s probably the most useful thing I could have done.
It's the same algorithm, but it only considers upvotes by users who registered before (checking the code...) December 13, 2008. That's long ago—only (checking the data...) 1.5% of HN accounts existed back then. Yet the "classic" frontpage is not that different from the main frontpage. This was the main conclusion when pg launched the feature: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607271, and again in 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2073513.

What that tells me is that the forces creating the HN front page don't have much to do with changes in the userbase over time. That's interesting, and I think to most people (me included, and pg probably included) counterintuitive.
Is this a side-chain with independent EVM and also mineable? I need a simple and clear explanation of what stack 2.0 is?
You can have political discussions on HN, you just have to follow the guidelines. All of the bans are just people not following the guidelines.

Notice as well they're called guidelines and not "rules". To me, the word choice was intended.
There's an awful lot of room between getting worked up and doing nothing.
It's quite related to work, but I'm making a release tool.

It's a serverless single page app that opens and merges pull requests, and then creates a release on github (takes parameters such as branch base, branch head, and release notes) which then would trigger release pipeline(s).

It's been a cool learning experience learning. Got better at golang, doing my first front end (vuejs), and seeing what a serverless app actually looks like with cognito and bearer auth, dynamodb, etc.
I found myself needing a facebook for the first time in about 10 years (I deleted my facebook a long time ago). So I decided to sign up using a fake email and a fake name.

I was extremely shocked to learn that facebook requires you to upload a real picture of yourself in order to use the service[1]!

I tried several times creating new accounts. Each time the account was locked and it required 1.) my phone number and 2.) a real picture of myself. Why would this ever be a requirement for using social media?

1. https://imgur.com/KvsPiFY
Just FYI Dollar Cost Averaging has not been proven to be more effective than lump sum investing.
Back in college I would sketch something every day in jsfiddle
Beaker Browser (beakerbrowser.com) already has got you covered.