skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've a GL-AR750S-Ext and it's excellent. Small, reliable, and properly configurable.

I also have a Linksys WRT1900ACS and it's a great piece of kit.

The point is that no matter the hardware, having the community-empowered OpenWRT at one's disposal is literally super-empowering.

Thank you the community. Thank you RMS.
People put egg whites in cocktails? That's a new one for me.
I’m working on a tool to onboard new hires faster - initially focused on developers/PMs because that’s the area I know best, but general enough for non-tech employees.

I’ve onboarded at 6 different companies, and each time, spent probably 3 months more than I needed in an ideal setting to onboard. That’s a lot of money down the drain for both the companies and me (opportunity cost).

We’re very close to releasing something, so if you would like to learn more or try it out early, please email me. I’d love to show what we’ve built, and to hear your thoughts. (I think you’ll find our tool helpful if your team has >10 people, but I’d love to chat even if that’s not the case.)
> environmentalists who unironically wish that humanity would cease to exist

Sure these people exist, but they are a tiny minority. This is just a sick form of neo-malthusianism which fails to understand climate change as a symptom of industrial capitalism. Aiming to destroy humanity is the logical conclusion of analyzing our era as "anthropocene", not "capitalocene".

> I want to (and do) spend money to lessen our impact on the environment

Unfortunately, environmental damage cannot be fixed with money. We need to address the root problems causing the damage. Use less resources, build more durable items and reuse them as long as possible, and only employ somewhat-recyclable materials. Planned obsolescence is a crime against nature and humanity.

Beyond every day items, urbanization a great factor of environmental damage. Concrete is a huge problem and so-called "developed" countries keep on using more every year, but for what benefit to humanity? There's already millions of empty housing units, we don't need more buildings: we need social change.

> I am doubly uninterested in environmental policy that encourages bad options over much-better-but-still-imperfect options.

Agreed, it's interesting to explore these imperfect options. But government policies around the globe concerning climate are not "imperfect options", they're actively contributing to the problem by refusing to stop infinite growth, and trying to reconcile greed and common good through green capitalism, the green new deal and what not. Looking at the whole lifecycle of a solar panel (with the current technology), how could someone call them green. Same goes for electric cars.

If the industry used less materials, less-harmful materials, and recyclable materials, the situation would be less terrible than it is today. We are currently paying for them to poison us and destroy the land. In most countries rivers are now considered undrinkable according to safety standards. The system is broken.
Game assets/virtual trading cards
> Isn’t a sterilized metal can safe by itself?

No, because of reactions between the contents (particularly acidic contents) and the can.
Well I must be the poorest rich person because I've gone full hikikomori
I was going to say that it's probably because people who had access to wheat would more likely have access to eggs, but it seems Chickpeas and Wheat were both first found around Turkey.
A friend and I are working on a low-code programmable kind of HTTP proxy. It let's users generate unique endpoints in our service, which they can use to receive, modify and optionally send HTTP requests to upstream services:

- the request modification + custom forwarding to upstreams happens im Javascript using an embedded v8 engine (using deno_core)

- we plan to support typescript compilation, too

- we plan to offer WASM execution, too if it suits our needs (research still has to be made)

- we also think of supporting protocols other than HTTP later on

This can be used to receieve and modify traffic input/output formats in a generic way. Since everything is written in rust, we focus on robustness and fastness. We could imagine running the thing on CDN edges, too for request modification (e.g. adding http headers, doing authentication etc.)

The state of the project is: under "heavy development", not even alpha, yet ;) If you are interested, have a look at: https://github.com/flow-heater/fh-core (the name is just the working title). Enjoy!
Sounds right, I've even had a lot of modern games crash or hang when the action gets hot and I'm spamming inputs (Path of Exile was frequent, but even Hades crashed the other day like this).
Is our collective imagination really so stunted that we cannot conceive of what the world was like before Twitter existed?
I guess you have to use it to see how consistent a workflow it is. The infuriating lack of good keyboard features aside, the acme way is refreshing and inspiring in my experience.

Simple anecdote: many terminal emulators highlight what they recognize as an URL, then make them clickable. Acme allows to make any text clickable and set the selection to a plumber, for action. A path, a git hash, a time stamp, whatever. This is so much better. Some terminal enulators can be used like that, foot natively on wayland, st with patches and urxvt with Perl extensions.
I think I heard this before, haha! That would be a cool to have a raw relationship maintenance tool. In a way, learning their language and culture helps you learn their love language too :)
i'd think it wouldn't be too hard to use something like opencv to detect frames that don't have any/much change between them and then correlate that with the audio detection to figure out what can be safely culled like in that fashion.
> No good reason other than the centralisation of power.

Hiding some implementation details from bad actors isn't necessarily a bad idea, though of course you have to figure out whether you're doing the security equivalent of hiding a proprietary algorithm (bad idea) or hiding your secret key (good idea).
Hexagons are, after all, the bestagons.

On the very very low chance you haven't seen this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thOifuHs6eY

And if you don't know who CGP Grey is and are wondering how this comment fits into HN, I can only offer that he's cashing in on his reputation a bit with the fun tone, but IMO the video is also interesting informationally.
Greg’s been holding out on us
Thanks! Can’t afford art yet so I have to do it myself, haha.
An app called EtymologyExplorer that allows exploration of word origins.

It shows word family trees in a visual layout. I made this because I'm really interested in how words relate to one another. For example "magnanimous" can be understood through its relatives "magnificent" and "unanimous"

Working on it has been both a blast and a slog (~6 years on & off). I used DL NLP (thanks fast.ai!) to convert written etymology paragraphs into a database of words and connections. The accuracy is roughly 99%. There are about 1.4M words and 1.3M word-pair-connections across 13k languages. The most interesting thing has been finding Proto-Indo-European roots, like "h₂enh₁", which is a 10k-year-old reconstructed word meaning "breath", that has about 1k modern day descendants ranging from "nose" to "anemone".

I'm just started making some revenue from sales of premium (to removes ads), which I'd like to grow. I'm also thinking of adding more visualizations to show interesting connections.

https://etymologyexplorer.com
A document editor that automatically turns knowledge into your personal Wikipedia. I started working on this because I couldn't search and connect text from different sources like email, Google Docs, Slack.

The main ideas are:

- Rich text editor that automatically creates bidirectional links between pages and concepts in your knowledge base (could be terms, names, companies, etc.)

- You can drag and drop snippets of text from one page to another - create live references and summaries.

- Currently working on integration with Google Drive, email and Slack so that you can reference / drag and drop snippets of text from there to your notes.

https://saga.so
> I don't think I could reasonably expect a person from a journalism/liberal arts degree educational and work experience background to identify steganography.

Typing the whole leaked document into a brand new Word file does not require experienced background and would protect your sources against most steganography tricks
In the past, I think the research has been of limited use. However, speculating into the future, with the advances in vaccine development we could possibly see fruit from that sort of research. A lot of the bans on Gain of Function research has recently ended. Still, scary stuff!
Good point, I wasn't thinking of actual military mortars. But I think "mortar" often means consumer firework in modern parlance.
> My personal, totally unsupported hypothesis: society is simply kinder and gentler now.

Loved reading that. I don't know if it's true, but I hope so.
New year's resolution:Top Methods
What's the purpose? Do finely tuned job descriptions attract more candidates? I'm guessing the point isn't to actually describe the job if the copy can be automatically generated.
SpotifyVsTheWorld:

A MacOS status bar utility for viewing real-time listener count for Spotify and Apple Music.

Check out the github over here: https://github.com/spotifyvstheworld

PS. the main repo readme is a bit outdated
I wanted to switch mine from 12hr to 24hr clock format.

I couldn't do it on the watch itself. I couldn't do it on my phone from the app. The only solution was to log in to fitbit.com in a browser, change a setting there, then re-sync my device via the app.
> The data science field has been flooded with PhDs with nowhere else to go that have no background in engineering, and sadly often have a very poor understanding of both machine learning and statistics.

I am a PhD student in a non-engineering field. I've been taking as many math and stats courses as I can, but what other courses should I be trying to take if I want to excel as a data scientist? Software engineering CS type courses?
What if you are a doctor and have been skiing with other doctors?
It was all people ate for millions of years
I look forward to your addressing some of the information actually presented in the article.
When then is SSPL still enforced on those who contribute to Elasticsearch?
"Hellacopters"
Your assessment is accurate. Crypto proponents paper over this, but don’t have an answer.

The part they say quietly is that the ledger supersedes the law and legal framework, and that’s clearly not how governments and their legal frameworks work.
One way delay between San Francisco and New York city is 37ms across the public internet today.

This is the same one way delay as sound in air across 12 meters, which would be on the large size for an orchestra pit.

It does get larger as you go further, but live performance with people on the other side of a large continent is completely realistic and has been done. :)

Sure, expecting to go between NYC and someone in china behind the GFW is probably asking too much for a seamless experience. But many people mostly want to work with people in the same country as them ... and for that, with sufficient technology, latency need not be an issue.
Python wrapper around The GraphBLAS API:

https://github.com/michelp/pygraphblas

For an upcoming paper we've open sourced using pygraphblas to analyse the bitcoin graph using the GAP benchmarks on a server with 1TB of RAM:

https://github.com/Graphegon/CoinBLAS
I always see these kind of things for Object detection in 2D images. What about for example feature detection in 3D meshes/ DICOM scan data? Are there equivalents to the 2D models?
Thank you Jose for your relentless dedication to the language and community. The last year of full-time Elixir/Phoenix has been my favorite of my career, and I'm really looking forward to future of the ecosystem.
Seems like much of the drama could have been minimized if Twitter simply positioned this as enforcing their existing rules.
Sad to ear all that kind of stories,
Governance is a real issue of bitcoin, and it is only gone get worst.
I am OK with it, you just have to assume nothing will ever change with bitcoin....
...as long as there is another place for changes happen.
If you want change stuff you need governance, take a look at decred.
It would make sense to combine these ideas with a circuit breaker that only kicks in once you have a certain MAU count.

Having it apply to every forum everywhere would suck and be unworkable, but once you're at Facebook/Twitter/Reddit/etc. levels of exposure, there are a different set of interests and responsibilities to society in play.
Something that is fairly well known in weightlifting circles is that "lifting heavy" will boost testosterone levels for about a day.

This is something I can anecdotally confirm: A few years ago my libido was low and I had borderline depression. After my lifts exceeded 100 kg (220 lb), there was a noticeable positive correlation between my libido and the deadlift days.
Body fat percentage is the more sensitive and specific indicator for health outcomes, though.

I realize not everyone has access to the equipment necessary to get a good BF% measurement (handheld devices and scales are garbage – you need a laboratory). However, measuring circumference around the waist at about the height of the bellybutton accomplishes approximately the same thing. (This will not be your pants size.) Above 37 or 38, things get dicey.

I'm happy to dig up references if you're curious about the details.
I assume it's because every product I've bought from them was terrible quality hardware wise. The Aria scale just randomly can't upload weights, also it will randomly just turn on for a whole day thinking you are trying to weigh yourself and will stay in that mode until it kills the batteries. I've had multiple of their bands and they all lasted less than a year before they had something break. At my work we gave every employee a Fitbit charge hr, and within 6 months half of them had the band separate from the sensor. I had another Charge HR that one day turned off and then never turned back on after 3 months of use.

I wanted to like them, but the quality of the product was lacking, and I'm happier with the Apple Watch.
And unfortunately this can impact their career opportunities as well.
Wow, from TFA, an average $6,000 per case. Something big is coming.
I wrote a similar app for archivists to push materials into preservation repositories. I used Electron, since it has good cross-platform support. The source is at https://github.com/aptrust/dart with documentation at https://aptrust.github.io/dart-docs/users/getting_started/

The underlying JavaScript code in that app started getting messy because I was working on several other projects simultaneously, but you might find it useful to play with as you consider your desktop app.

The archival community uses a simple text-based packaging format from the Library of Congress called BagIt, which allows you to include metadata and checksums with your archived materials so you can ensure their integrity and make sense of them when you get them back.

Anyway, you're working on an interesting problem. I'd be interested to see how it goes.
It's also nice that oranges and bananas come in thick and handy packaging.

The trick to the banana is that it's easier to open it from the bottom.

It's harder to get unwrapping an orange right.
I think you've nailed it. There are very few tools that help you connect the long term with the current week and day, at least in a meaningful way.

https://www.habitstack.com/ is geared towards this. You enter your goals for the year and chunk them down to the quarter, month, and week. Then the software prompts you to stay engaged with the system.

As Scott Adams wrote, "Losers have goals, winners have systems." :)

I'm the founder. Happy to dialogue about the future of productivity and goal setting any time!
> If I had a child, I would have severe qualms with it.

Yeah, I'm skeptical. If you had a child, you'd be so spread thin with keeping your kid healthy and safe, while paying for it all, that the licensing of some software they use would be the least of your concerns. You'd be worried that his girlfriend might be manipulative, if he's smoking too much weed, if he's partying too much, if he is being bullied, or if saving up for the PS5 is a wise use of his summer job funds, most likely.
That's a great idea, if those people were vetted for being objective. If I posted the communist manifesto, would that be blocked, would I be kicked out?

What about censorship on something like that?
This is brilliant you should publish this in a paper just like the OP did above.
Great idea. I've been using the command line application from https://github.com/carykh/jumpcutter for my videos to automatically remove silence but it's not as user friendly as yours looks.
Allow people to vote and follow different bellwether classifications.
This looks like a cool product. I can see its potential. You should expand on sales team and go hard on enterprise sales.
My (highly imperfect) solution to that problem is usually to go find the niche internet forum/subreddit for whatever thing I'm looking to buy and try to see what people there are interested in in my price range.

I'm sure I end up with results biased towards whatever's in vogue for that community and likely something a bit more expensive, but it seems to have been a reasonably successful strategy in terms of getting things that fit my needs.

Wonder if there's a good way to facilitate finding such resources and avoiding the endless SEOed spam that one gets when googling any item for reviews/recommendations.
Just shipped a Clue (Cluedo) note taking app to help you solve whodunnit, https://clues.netlify.app/
Agreed. EXTRA funny since facebook was originally entirely powered by data scraped from harvard student directory.
It's Not a Classroom – It's a Production Studio
Traditionally yes, but there's no legal requirement and many people don't feel the need to make the change (my wife being one).
Nothing being discussed was private. It was all globally visible.
That does make sense. Is this a newer thing, or has it been this way for a long while?

The can of beans on the fire is a camping archetype - one I've witnessed people mimic first hand. Seems unhealthy, knowing this now.
How's Solr these days, guys? Any drop-in replacement, especially the query language?
From China yes. The popular shows / movies (including anime) have quite different themes, which is easy to understand since countries import different productions. The exported culture for our consumption is mostly typical of asian interest, or more 'Americanised' / westernised even. Whereas comparing with western media there are more 'culture shock' type of eyeball-catching material, which to be frank doesn't stir much attention in east asia.

There are good side effects though. I have been to so many museums with Japanese art exhibitions showcasing varieties of works since it draws much interest in western population. The latest (pre pandemic) being the "inspiration from Japan" in Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which is eye-opening (I never realised the Japanese art that have connections with European art).

In conclusion, Japan portrayed in the west for me is more about obsession of elegance, extreme aesthetics, and bizarrity. These are merely my terrible personal generalisation / opinions.
Averages can easily be misleading in analysis like this, so I don't think you can draw that conclusion.
I found it interesting that you framed "people not wanting to do things by themselves" as the opposite of grit. What if it's just an issue of loneliness? I can see how even the most resilient individuals may want someone to talk / relate to if they feel lonely, and this desire be completely independent from their drive and competitiveness.
Website looks really great. I’m curious, did you build this from scratch, or did you use some established boilerplate to make it?
yes, you can backup to a Mac or Windows machine using a cable.
Is the code for this available somewhere to look at?
> Possible toxicity of something that we deem safe could be an explanation.

Plastics.
But what if the customer needs ElasticSearch, see that AWS provides it and don't look further?

If AWS didn't take the work of Elastic those customers might have used Elastic's services instead.

How can AWS offering the same thing not be competing against Elastic's offering?
NYC is a pretty big city (the biggest in the US) and the NYC mayor is one of the more important positions in US politics. They have been household names for quite some time. Giuliani was a household name before Trump because of this. After 9/11 he was even called "America's Mayor." de Blasio is often on the news and Bloomberg used to be.
Jitter is an issue as well. If the packets get routed in different ways the variability in latency might annoy you. Ever had a video call where the person gets really slow and then speeds up again?
Deplatforming Might Be Useless When It Comes to Preventing Violence
Acidic foods are not good for metal. Also, there's the possibility of metallic taste being transferred to the food so cans are often lined with plastic.
Wait until you read about Monarchy... I suggest Plato's Republic: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1497
> don't go much below 1/2 cup of almond

Is this just for taste reasons?
> You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.

That seems like it's cheating, somehow.
A search engine for code, written in rust: https://medium.com/@colin353/code-search-74a6a0a74789

https://search.colinmerkel.xyz/
The egg also seems like a good target for biomanufacturing. It's a liquid (essentially), and mostly composed of just five proteins and lecithin.
You're right, it's impossible to out-exercise a bad diet, but there are secondary reasons that being sedentary leads to weight gain besides just the raw number of calories burned.

For one, an hour you spend exercising or walking around is probably an hour that you're not eating. Many Americans are constantly eating when they're at home, either mindlessly snacking or eating a huge meal. Given that you only have 8 hours between work and sleep, occupying yourself for 1 of those hours could mean a significant decrease in time spent eating.

Incidentally, this is why intermittent fasting works well for some people.
Take a look into https://badger.finance/ which is the next generation of this.
I don't know what the answer is - is it less cruel to let a chicken lay eggs for a long time yet remain alive, or raise a calf into a cow, then kill it for its meat?
Here's the actual language from SSPL

> If you make the functionality of the Program or a modified version available to third parties as a service... (license conditions apply)

> “The Program” refers to any copyrightable work licensed under this License.

IANAL, but that seems pretty cut and dry referring to making an Elasticsearch or Kibana service, not like a GPL kind of "anything that touches this gets the license"
Is this due to predicament or levels of conscientiousness?

I've seen both, first-hand: working class people in more challenging scenarios, at the very same time almost a perfect correlation of 'risk aversion conscientiousness' with more wealth.
I'm packaging the Android SDK with Nix to enable reproducible builds: https://github.com/tadfisher/android-nixpkgs

I've actually been using this for years, but now that I'm using Nix Flakes I've been learning how to best provide a flake for this project. I think I landed on a decent solution.
> Environmental toxins?

Almost. It's the plastics.