skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't like everything he says, and I'm sometimes disappointed to see him refer to people who think Ethernet cables make no difference above $20 as "cable deniers" (though analogue cables can make a difference, especially interconnects) - but I don't think he's being dishonest, I think he's misinformed, and there's more than his "whatever works for you" takes on engineering matters. At least in my experience.
That's impressive demo. But graphical representation literally have an extra dimension of problems. Namely navigation and serialization.
This is usually it! As developers, we have all worked on features where it was obvious that users wouldn’t want it, but the feature would juice some metric so it was prioritized. Some time between that initial meeting about how this will juice the metric and launch, Product convinced themselves that users would actually want it and are not prepared to accept the feature’s failure. Finally, when indeed users don’t want to use it, it would get pushed at them repeatedly, through sales and through dark UI patterns. Tale as old as time...

This is what happens when you plan your product not from user need but from company need.
That concept is used in the Neal Stephenson book Seveneves.
Dns.Watch: Public DNS Servers
I've also tried twice over the last few years to switch full-time to Vivaldi. Once I loaded it up with my usual power user customizations, I would frequently notice UI lock-ups. Incredibly frustrating.

With Mozilla's recent comments in support of censorship and de-platforming, I just started giving Brave browser a try, since they appear to be more focused on privacy and freedom of speech rather than making divisive political statements.
Laying groundwork for making encrypted apps Signal and Telegram the next targets
You know how pastas (especially spaghetti) will stick to itself when you leave it out and become a big lump? Use that water to break it up instead of oil. It'll make your pasta easy to separate and won't stop sauces from sticking to the pasta.
Eager to check it out when it's able to breath again!

In the mean time, I can't recommend https://nightride.fm/ enough. Fun retro/synth UI, great stations, and a MilkDrop visualizer for whatever you've got playing.

When they do shows with artists and producers those are blast to listen in on.
That's a deeply unfair way of characterizing that. I love UNIX shell, but it is unquestionably true that it has a lot of cruft and could be a lot better designed. It's possible to both appreciate and enjoy learning complicated systems while recognizing that complexity is in and of itself a bad thing that should be reduced to the greatest possible extent.
Poolside is extremely cool, especially the desktop clients styled like classic MacOS
This article is unnecessarily complex, and offers solutions that are (mostly) applicable to older speakers.

Most modern studio monitors put the tweeter in a waveguide. By doing that, it accomplishes two things:

* The loudspeaker frequency response is consistent, no matter whether you're standing directly in front of the speaker, or to the sides. IE, the placement of the loudspeaker is less important than with older designs.

* Most importantly, a waveguide takes the energy radiated by the driver and it focuses it into a narrower beam than a conventional tweeter. By doing this, reflections off of the sidewalls, ceiling and floor are less of an issue.

To make a long story short, modern studio monitors with a waveguide are less fussy about placement.

Reflections off of the sidewalls, ceilings and floor can still cause issues with lower midrange and midbass response, but these issues can be fixed with EQ to a large extent.

The reason that EQ is less effective at high frequencies is because the wavelengths are so short. For instance, 5khz is 6.8cm long. Because it's so short, equalizing that frequency for one point in the room can screw it up at ANOTHER point in the room.

Low frequencies are much longer, and because they're longer, EQ is more effective. For instance, 500Hz is 68cm long. Because of this long length, if you EQ a speaker to flatten out a peak at 500Hz, that EQ will be effective over a broad range of positions in the room.
Desktop application was having issues connecting to https://textsecure-service.whispersystems.org. DNS record was returning 127.0.0.1 at one point.
Linking to Servo: https://servo.org/

Their blog posts are an interesting read too.
there is this twitter user that claims that non-elastic employees can't contribute[1]. I wish somebody could summarise this romance between AWS vs Elastic for simpler people because I can't catch up :(

[1] https://twitter.com/_msw_/status/1349939801445658624
Can confirm, have friends who work for this company. They are great, great dev culture and great bennys.
You're right that Bitcoin isn't great privacy-wise.

However, this might actually be one of the reason it hasn't been torn to pieces by nation states yet.

Also: there are newer cryptos that are much better when it comes to privacy/fungability/traceability, to name a few: zcash, monero, beam, grim.

There are some privacy fixes in the pipeline for Bitcoin (coinjoin, taproot, some L2 innovation, etc...) but it's going to be quite a while before that gets deployed
CIA Releases Thousands of UFO Files to the Public
Too frequently disconnecting/failing, yes. Won't say completely down.
What Are Blackheads?
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Oh, thanks, I somehow missed that line.
Sad to have just learned from that link that Privacy Guard is gone. That has indeed been a key Cyanogen/LineageOS feature for me for years (my phone is still on 16). I can't say I understand the decision to remove it.
What is the reason people migrate from Keep?
Show HN: OfferMarket – Invest In Real Estate
Yeah, the headline is very misleading.
Boosting Developer Productivity Through Linters
Make podcasts out of Project Gutenberg books with Mozilla's Text-to-Speech model
Circadian rhythm and athletic performance have been studied quite a bit, see e.g. [1] at which time of day elite athletes swim fastest.

Apart from obvious confounding effects, which factors related to travel are you thinking of that aren't already mitigated at the elite level?

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-72573-8
Network tab shows it's waiting for a request to /api so definitely under too much load right now.
Why are you all over this thread fear mongering about sterilizing immunity?

The vaccine trials indeed did not collect data about it, but the starting assumption (based on the mechanism of action of the vaccines) is that they are likely to result in sterilizing immunity. They may not! But the lack of data doesn't mean we should expect there to not be sterilizing immunity.
Canon made a site that lets you 'take photos' from a real satellite
2021 MacBook Pro Redesign
Mac user: what's a right click area?

Non-Apple laptop user: "It's that ridiculous concept of only being able to enter a right click in a specific area of a track pad. Also, can only scroll by swiping on certain parts of the track pad as well"

Mac User: You accept that?
When I saw this back in the 80's, I was totally WTF: Dark Dungons [1]

Just found out it inspired a film of the same name [2]

[1] https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=0046

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qc9JiIiOSQ

I however never worked out how to get my parents to buy me more D&D stuff whenever I wanted it.
InfiniCache: Exploiting Ephemeral Serverless Functions to Build a Cost-Effective Memory Cache

The paper name fits the title better.

The keyword here is 'Cost-Effective'.
Parler archive converted into an interactive map of the Capitol building attack
Has anyone used LiveView and this enough to give a comparison of the dev UX? I've mainly used LiveView for a side project and have quite enjoyed it.
If true then not surprising they'd act quickly to suppress news being spread when it will hurt their bottom line.
I can't reply directly to the totally useless and aggressive and self contradictory sibling message from rightfully banned user "SftwreEngnr", but if I saw a real Software Engineer writing code with abbreviations like "SftwreEngnr", I would fire them immediately. Nobody wants to remember your uniquely annoying special snowflake abbreviations, and try to guess and remember which letters you arbitrarily and capriciously decided to leave out just to save a few keystrokes of typing. Learn to touch type and spell out the entire words correctly without missing any letters, or find a different career, "SftwreEngnr".
Highly doubt FB is doing this unless you're like doing it in a group run by FB or something and then of course they are because you're a spammer.

Mods/Admins? That's not even a thing on FB more broadly, right?

Amazing this gets upvoted. User has absolutely no other pots/comments.
thanks, did not see that on mobile. so now we can just skip right on over to how people in those African regions die before they even reach more probable cancer age, it absolutely is more so because of them dying, as you initially pondered. Life expectancy is an average, and that average is less than 60 years old in large regions.
Just random guess but you probably triggered link spam rules. People posting the same link over and over. It looks a lot like a spam attack to an algorithm.
And some were business owners who flew in on their private jet, some were privately-schooled children of millionaire parents, and others were Olympic medallists.
Detaching yourself from politics is in itself a luxurious political statement.
I want to err on the side of caution and upvote this so that it doesn't get drowned out, but I'm sceptical unless there's proof.
I recently had my work laptop refreshed. The most noticable differences are that the new one is thinner, lighter, and has better battery life. Performance is roughly comparable and was excellent with the 3 year old machine as well.
And what is “worth”?

You’re just replacing a stone tablet with one in your head.
Got to say that this is another reason I'm shying away from these place. Some days their "moderation" seems smart. But the power is too great.
Do you know if they do this for their non-drivers? Imagine if they did this with strategists, pit-stop crew etc.? I bet it's not just athletic performance which is impacted, but cognitive performance too.

If you or your friend at McLaren have any insight about F1, please do email me (address is in my profile), I'm considering a career in it! My email is: hnblackvanilla@gmail.com
A lot of newer (like, last 5-6 years?) jackets have an outer upper chest pocket.

ex: https://oldnavy.gap.com/browse/product.do?pid=3397220020504&...

It's the most convenient place for a phone on your person.

Easier than pants pockets if you're sitting down. No fumbling with inside jacket pockets. And you can use your "normal" jacket pockets to keep your hands warm without worrying about your phone falling out.
The docs are so full of opinions and sales speak it's disgusting.
Billionaires add $1tn to net worth during pandemic as their workers struggle
The U.S. Navy nuclear program has developed 27 different plant designs, installed them in 210 nuclear-powered ships, taken 500 reactor cores into operation, and accumulated over 5,400 reactor years of operation and 128,000,000 miles safely steamed. (source Wikipedia)

Many of these have operated in and around the most densely populated ports and cities in the world.

I helped operate 3 of them. No issues.
According to the research done by Harman/Samsung, listeners generally prefer a curve that's gently sloping by one decibel per octave.

IE, if you want a pleasing sound, a loudspeaker that's playing 90dB at 100Hz should be playing 83dB at 16,800Hz. And the response curve should be consistent from point A to point B.

This recommendation can be impacted by the power response of the speaker, but that's another subject...
A simple API-gateway. We want to make it easy available for SMB's to setup an API-gateway to easily see API analytics, do easy rate-limiting, caching, anomaly detection etc.
It was a catastrophe. Not surprised they gloss over it. Plus Phish is more polarizing than Trump so it's dangerous to associate with your brand. Songs are longer than chess matches.
Yes, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25792396
Good buy by Sequoia, based on current ARR and TAM left for Zapier to consume even with competition in the low code/no code space.
And they'll sneer at people who actually know how to drive for being ridiculous nerds who take interest in such things.

Ive been to college with these people. Their mindset is "Im so much better than you. If only this stupid computer would read my mind, I'd be making 10x what you make."
[1] Say replacing the hydrogens in glucose with tritium

That's part of the problem. Think you can come up with a synthesis of glucose that replaces the nonlabile hydrogens with tritium, is doable on the days scale, repurifiable for human consumption and mass producable on-site at a hospital?

For reference ($900/20Ci):
https://www.perkinelmer.com/product/glucose-d-3-3h-hplc-puri...
> It is incredibly disrespectful to the film.

I found this attitude a bit confusing. The film makers are not there, who are you showing respect to? Also, do you read each crew members name? If not, what's the point of sitting through it?
I think you've just committed a sort of armchair dilettante history off the top of the dome with lack of reference to a scholarly source of History you accused Jonathan of doing.

meheleventyone has demonstrated how easily even just referencing the article I myself posted could undermine my argument.
I posted a message on my timeline. Suggesting people should switch to Signal with their link https://signal.org/install
if he was smart, then he said nothing that sounds like blackmail. but you could say, for example, that I have to settle the expense of reproducing it and writing it down properly or something similar.
Signal Having an Outage
Syncthing allows you to sync some folders and not others.
Is Elasticsearch No Longer Open Source?
https://status.signal.org/ says they have problems.
To be honest the criteria for a beginner and someone who's used a tool for a while are different.

You bet that `ls`/`cd` is a great name for me - it takes 2 characters and I don't have anything similar conflicting on the PATH.

For a beginner? Not so much - `change-directory` and `list-directory` would probably be better. It's the same with regular expressions `^[A-Z0-9]{0, 3}$` is perfectly readable once you're reasonably familiar with the syntax.

It's also true in other fields such as mathematics or music - the notation is quite good once you're proficient in it.
There are also normal ads for third parties. So not a replacement. They just also run their own ads.

And no, it’s not an ad placeholder. Because they have that too. There is a scene that says “you’re watching YoutubeTV, your show will resume momentarily” while a yellow ad bar progresses.

They aren’t also analog ads. You can tell when YTV is playing back an ad recorded within the show, vs when they flip the stream from content to ad content because the UI changes.

Nope, from what I can tell, they definitely just show their own ads to their customers.

When I had Dish, I saw a lot of DirectTV ads. That makes sense. But I never saw Dish advertising Dish. Maybe I just never paid attention.
Social Transmission of Pain and Relief
Unfortunately mainline support on this hardware seems to be lagging. I guess it is less important because of the limited use case of the device, but it is lame that getting modern mesa (which does support the GPU!) running would be a PITA.
There might be a difference between colloquial terms and control theory/system modelling there. Negative isn't pejorative when referring to a loop, it's (mostly) stabilizing.

A negative feedback loop example is a nuclear reactor (goes down when it's too high, goes higher when it's too low). A positive feedback loop example is a nuclear bomb (goes higher when it's high).
Hagens Berman Files Class-Action Lawsuit Against Amazon for E-Book Price-Fixing
Didimo: The Next Breakthrough in Digital Humans
Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua
My preferred .NET console stack
We came up with a something like $50k/year for a medium-to-small sized Salesforce installation. That was about a year ago now. It was also quite an act to get that number, had to contact a sales-rep at Heroku before getting any concrete numbers.
Blow just says "then the roman empire fell and that knowledge was lost" when discussing the Lycurgus Cup. He just states this. No citation or investigation. This is the classic oversimplification of both technological record keeping and the nature of the collapse of rome. There is no clear evidence that the "fall of rome" (which means about a dozen different things that happened over 1000 years) is responsible for the mechanism for creating such glass being unrecorded.

He makes the same claim about alchemists fire. Again, ill supported.

There are a tremendous number of reasons why ancient technology might not have surviving records to today. Amateur historians love to just assume this is due to "civilizational collapse."

He also seemingly inverts things. Is civilizational collapse the cause of loss of technology? Or is it the opposite? Does technological de-sophistication cause civilizational collapse? He seems to argue both in his talk.
Toon-Me, Toon your Twitter/LinkedIn profile picture
> anyone that desires to will be able to become fully self sufficient, we'll fire up our 3D printers to make a pencil instead of relying on the global supply chains we do now.

While probably unintentional, this sounds very similar to the practice of making high sulfur "pig iron" very inefficiently in backyard furnaces during the Great Leap Forward.

It would be the height of irony if these far-right, hyper-libertarian types took their ideology to the extremities where it begins to resemble Mao or Pol Pot's ideas about autarky.
As powerful as laptops are now, yes, lots of of creatives use laptops. There's entire industry (well, were before covid) of doing fast turn time on-site on video/photo editing. Lugging desktops around in giant cases paying surcharges for heavy and extra bag charges on airlines is incredibly expensive.
Tarsnap is ridiculously expensive. Only use-case if you have small files (few gigabytes at most) and you want to use it to do backup with scripts/command-line and do care a lot about encryption.
Trump issued an executive order on Janurary 12th with the title "Executive Order on Promoting Small Modular Reactors for National Defense and Space Exploration"

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-or...

Seems like this will be a thing in the not too distant future.
Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25791730
Of the services you listed, I only have Netflix. I hated that too, fortunately you can disable it [0]. Perhaps your other services have a similar setting.

[0] - https://help.netflix.com/en/node/2102
If it's a room mode, you might experiment with where your desk is in the room and by extension where your ears end up being within that space. Or add a subwoofer whose placement you can optimize independently from your speakers.

Taken to the extreme is the "Geddes Approach" which use multiple subwoofers placed around the room and lots of EQ provide a smooth low frequency response at the listening position.
We're talking about building useable products not solving science...
My biggest complaint about Vivaldi on both the PC and Android is the freezing UI; be it tabs or something else. That said, I still use Vivaldi for all my online banking on desktop and I use Vivaldi as secondary browser on mobile to browse reddit or other social media platforms.

I have several browsers installed on my Galaxy S7: Firefox, Vivaldi, DuckDuckGo, Naked Browser, and Chrome. Out of all these, Firefox is the worst performing and nearly unusable it's so slow and causes overall system slowness. Vivaldi and Naked Browser are the quickest and least resource intensive. Chrome is a few steps better than FireFox with DuckDuckGo somewhere in the middle. 90% of the time I used DuckDuckGo for general browsing though due its privacy tools.
Didn't someone run a web server on a ZX81?
I run Arch on the HP Envy x360 with a ryzen 4500u and it's a very smooth experience, I've had no issues. I did have Ubuntu on it at first and it may have been a bad install, but it was terrible. Half the time I'd turn on the laptop and something different would be broken.
Beamforming is a way of taking an array of drivers and manipulating their phase and frequency response to direct the sound in a calculated direction. IE, you can have seven drivers in a ring, and you can direct the sound in ONE direction instead of ALL directions.

Amazon Alexa does the same thing, except with an array of microphones.
This is exactly the kind of thing I've been looking for. It's not an absolute necessity, but mobile apps would basically make this an instant buy for me.
I've been using this with the Zettelkasten[0] method for a few months and love it. The keyboard shortcuts are really powerful and the UI is great.

[0] - https://zettelkasten.de/
The Work-Life Balance Revolution
I doubt there's much in CV for instance that couldn't be achieved easily with fast.ai. You don't need to be doing exotic things to build a product.
I feel like a lot of these are beyond the scope of the terminal. Like, we don't need a way to cat images — we have `xdg-open`, which will open an image file in the system's default image-viewing application. It'll open any file in its default application. Integrating images into the terminal requires doing away with the text-only abstraction, and in exchange for what? Something `xdg-open` gets for us already?
Yes, when was the last time you actually saw the credits on those devices? Like who is the lead designer of your phone? Who is the lead programmer of the last game you played?
I always found it odd that boxing and MMA main events are often held at midnight or so.
You misspelled America. In all seriousness, Silicon Valley seems to look at American government with absolute distain, I don’t have any confidence that they will take Germany, Poland, or Mexico very seriously. Additionally I find it highly improbable that the United States would ever agree to such a treaty; Silicon Valley won’t let it.
Companies like Facebook with their demanding WhatsApp users provide access to private data, and now Dropbox demanding access to private data is highlighting an interesting phenomenon: These companies feel entitled to our private data and now are becoming hostile when they don't get it.

I sincerely hope that the broader community outside of Hacker News pushes back severely on this behavior or else it will only get worse.

Edit to add: These companies have such a feeling of entitlement to our data that their next move will be to try to convince legislatures to force us to give them access to it. Mark my words.