skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Re:Re:Re: https://re-re.re/
A website to make your email conversations public by adding reply@re-re.re to your emails.
Have you tried https://www.beeminder.com/? It is more flexible than it appears at first, and you can easily use it on top of a traditional todo app (https://www.beeminder.com/todoist) or just a plaintext document (https://blog.beeminder.com/nebulous/).
Twitter CEO @jack Detailing Agenda For Further Political Censorship
Truth is, Japan is a country with a lot more freedom than most western countries, so it is not surprising to find weird things or things that most people would find unethical.

You can certainly trash 99% of the "weird Japan" stories you see in western medias.

Most of what you hear is from foreign people that did not even remotely try to learn the language or understand the culture. They make a fuss from minor cultural differences. It only gets worse when they experience Japan exclusively through the resonance chambers of the online expat communities.
I find it sad that schools are having to use for-profit foreign-owned services like Zoom. If I had a child, I would have severe qualms with it.
Antifa.com Redirects to Joebiden.com
I'm working my way through Skiena's Algorithm Design Manual, while implementing the main algorithms and data structures in Racket.

It's interesting since the book presents all of the algorithms in a very imperative style, all in C, so it's a bit of a challenge to translate that into the functional world of Racket.
Apple has a publicly documented solution for Keychain involving HSMs, which I think makes decent default tradeoffs between recoverability and security. And of course they could, and once did for local backups, offer an opt-in unrecoverable passphrase option. On the face of it they have decided to favor law enforcement over their customers here.
Some friends of mine had a pretty low latency (sub 50ms) using Jamulus (https://github.com/corrados/jamulus), which is an open source conferencing tool specially made for musicians. Need to self-host though.
You're not supposed to play music over amateur radio
Plan9's Ndb as a General Purpose Database
Thank you, you put it well. That is what I meant.
> I don't think self-hosting is really a good idea if you can avoid it, but a lot of people are soothed by the idea that they could, if they really needed to.

Ability to self host often also means ability to switch hosted providers. And things like being able to run local copies or instances in CI too.
A (toy) BitTorrent engine in Rust whenever I want to recharge a bit: https://github.com/mandreyel/cratetorrent.

The scope is small and well defined and so is a welcome break from having to divine murky business requirements, slow iteration speed with microservices, and other every day fatigue.
Software for live-streaming DJs to show IDs of the tracks they're playing, in real time, directly off of their Pioneer DJ gear!

https://prolink.tools

Since night clubs and festivals are a no go there's a lot more live streaming going on by DJs. I'm always on the look out for great music, and it's always a struggle when a DJ misses your ID request in the chat. Or of-course, when you're the one DJing and you just don't have time to type it out :)

source: https://github.com/evanpurkhiser/prolink-tools
example overlay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rvdzTYK29E

Technically the software covers a _lot_ of the stack

* Reverse engineered Pioneer DJ gear's proprietary low-level network protocol to masquerade as one and receive state updates from the physical DJ gear on the network. The implementation is a typescript library [0].

* Implements a NFS client in typescript to download the music metadata database off of the USB drives DJs plug into the DJ gear.

* Uses kaitai-struct [01 to generate parsing code for the (very old) DeviceSQL database files that the music database use.

* The application is built as an electron app, react + emotion (styled-components) + framer-motion (animated components), and mobx with serializr to handle IPC between the main thread and renderer.

* Uses websockets with the same serialization driver to communicate updates to the overlay browser window which is rendered in OBS (or another livestreaming studio software)

I've just started working on an API backend for it as well, where the same serialization backend is used to publish users app store to a central server which will be useful for features like "Live user track voting", where you pick a playlist on your gear to expose to users, and they can vote on tracks.

[0]: https://github.com/EvanPurkhiser/prolink-connect
[1]: https://kaitai.io/
Could you consider making a list of common feedback items that already have resolutions? I imagine it would make a popular HN submission in addition to a useful FAQ.
Well you might be more isolated than me if you think guns have to be legal in order to have a peaceful society, I come from Europe and that kind of thinking is just crazy for us.
Portabella (https://portabella.io) is my primary focus (side project wise) right now.

The long and short of it is: privacy friendly and end-to-end encrypted project management. Think Asana/Trello/Jira but end-to-end encrypted.

A few cool things;

- it's an open startup, meaning all our interesting metrics (user sign ups, MRR, etc are public)

- we're about to release our SDK which means more cool projects can integrate with it. It's also how we built our feedback widget (https://portabella.io/feedback), the widget just consumes the SDK

- we offer a 70% discount for non profits and students. Additionally we'll price match based on local purchasing power if our plans are too steep.

Check it out!
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I'm building a fully observable personal finance data source for myself!
For some context, we're pretty strict on quarantine and introduced pests here and have been for a long time. Comedians have often joked that you could walk through an airport with a nuke under your arm but you'd be arrested for a banana. We've also had some huge blunders with introduced species, cane toads have caused a lot of destruction to local eco-systems and the NSW football team.

It's served us well over the years though, many common virus/bacteria/insects that are prevalent in the rest of the world have been kept out of Australia.
I am 95% done with my first book! I'm a PhD student in CS and over the holiday break I finally sat down and wrote a book that's been in my head for months.

The title is 'Everyday Data Science' and it's a collection of stories, methods, and tutorials on how to use statistical methods in your day-to-day.

It's fun, about 100 pages long, and almost done at the editor.

I'll launch in the next few weeks on Amazon and I'm pretty excited.
This is amazing! I bought the remake on Switch for Christmas and this little version perfectly wraps that up! Job well done to the maker
I'm working on an online tool for preparing algorithmic problems.

In my country there is quite large community of so-called "sport programmers" who master solving math/algorithmic puzzles to win competitions or gain rating on platforms like Codeforces. It's a fun way of learning coding, especially if you are into rivalry.

There is also a growing need of creating new tasks. Actual approach is using a command line tools to work with solutions, generating tests and checking correctness. It works but I feel like every time I need to reinvent those methods and repeat same mistakes. It's a tedious process.

I aim to create an SPA with elegant interface which will simplify this process as much as possible. Templates of LaTex statements, input generators, verification pipeline, user accounts, everything in one place! Additionally, I want to put there many guidelines for educational purposes.

I'm really excited about this project, working on it with my younger brother and we already learned a lot. My dream is to finally share this tool with a community ;)
Phones aren’t a utility merely because of their general importance, but because of the specific importance to the public interest of having a single, universal telephone network.

I don’t think there is a great public interest in a single curated (algorithmically and/or manually) user-generated-content newsfeed system. In fact, insofar as such a category of product is desirable, I think that the public interest is in competition and freedom to differentiate, including in terms of content focus and preferences within the bounds of the law, just as is the case with, say, news outlets that aren’t driven by UGC.
Latency Makes Music Jamming Together in Real Time Nearly Impossible
A programming language for thinking, instead of shipping software.
Biden’s plan is better than that - kickstart the green energy industry with plenty of blue collar jobs. What’s the alternative for these people? Keep racking “wins” in the culture war while their communities self destruct? Or vote for a socialist that will hand them money, but that seems very unpopular too.
>Because what Google wants to buy is their marketshare and existing userbase.

Personally, I'm curious how that worked out for them. The announcement of this purchase, and how they handled Nest, is what made me stop using my Fitbit.
I've heard of half of Oklahoma being declared Indian country but I haven't at all heard that public services were revoked and casinos were set up. We'd also hella hear about it because it would mean Tulsa would've been forcibly removed as a city!

This isn't a speculation of malice, but I will say narratives like that were precisely the false and sometimes racist presumptions that had to be fought in that case! Oklahoma was claiming as soon as the land is declared Indian country, the tribes would let all the rapists and murderers out of the state prisons.
I've been building an app for bread baking with bakers percentages. It's been hard to find a solid recipe app that's not hell-bent on monetizing via a shipping list or even supports easy recipe creation.
Not true that it doesn’t allow production usage, it just doesn’t do it by default.

The intention is that it’s up to the one using the BUSL to specify to which degree production usage is allowed:

“The Licensor may make an Additional Use Grant, above, permitting limited production use.”

Eg. Sentry allows all non-SaaS production deployments of their BUSL licensed code, which is pretty much the same goal as here, but with BUSL the code will be actually open source eventually whereas here it will stay in this extended AGPL-like license forever?
Agree, it will be so cool when we can have everything eggs offer and none of the cruelty.
Two family members are college music students. I'm a musician too. The answer is that they're making do with whatever they've got, because it happened suddenly and everybody had to scramble. When the lockdown started, I bought them some good microphones, and to be honest, even mainstream headphones have pretty good fidelity.

Possibly a bigger issue is having a place where they can work. If you've ever heard a podcast ruined by background noise, you know what I mean.

I think that musicians are particularly adept at mentally filtering out shortcomings of the audio "stack" when they need to, and hear what they need to hear. There are still seminal recordings that are only available as scratchy phonograph records and tapes made with primitive microphones. Maybe it's because we process music at a symbolic level. And it's possible to focus the lessons on the things that can be done remotely. By the time they reach college, they're already playing at an exceptionally high level.

A friend of mine who's a music professor at another university says that he encourages students to use "whatever works" including their cell phones, so that the mechanics of recording don't distract from learning music. They've always had to deal with issues such as students who can't afford professional quality instruments.

Of course they're missing out on ensemble playing.
I find it mind boggling that US government entities use a service run by company with such deep ties with China.
> Network delay can be just a few milliseconds even across a city

If you limit your collaboration radius in that way, then sure (though it still depends on the router technology the packets encounter along the way). But if you want to go beyond that, the numbers get bigger. For transcontinental stuff, much much longer.

But thanks for correcting the basic thrust.
First of all, that's not a deterrent, though. If I can steal your money and all I have to do is return it if you catch me, I'll keep doing it. So you need some sort of punishment on top.

Which brings us to the second point... At minimum you should be fined, at least to cover interest gained while you held the money, probably more to cover emotional distress and otherwise.

Plus, at those kinds of sums, we're somewhere into "stole pension money territory" where we're only a few minutes away from "old lady took her own life after losing life savings".

So things are a lot murkier than they might seem.
I taught myself Tcl/Tk back in the 90's. It was relatively simple to develop UIs with it. I remember the Tk layout manager was more pleasant than fighting with CSS...
Well just looked it up and he's a Porsche fan and was always driving one. Well and Ford Focus until his last days in MS in 2008.
No. None of the things you describe involve both providing service to third-parties and modifying SSPL-licensed ElasticSearch code. You are operating the code purely for your own benefit, and you are not patching SSPL-licensed code, and therefore nothing from this discussion is applicable to your described use case. (I'm not your lawyer, etc.)
I'm 33, been in the software game for a while now. The most recent 3 of those years at FAANG earning a hefty salary. Maybe it's just COVID-related depression or something, but I don't feel the joy I used to feel from coding. I look at the next level on the promo ladder and think... what's another $XXXk in RSU's going to change about my life? I need a change.

I recently started tinkering on the beginnings of a no-code eCom brand that I'd like to build up into a "lifestyle business" a la 4-Hour Workweek. I can't share much about it yet because I'm still researching my market segment, but I'm reading and learning a lot about product design, branding, and business that I never gave much thought before.

It's not the unicorn dream that many on this site have, but there are a lot of single digit millionaires living their best life off this kind of business. I'd like to join them.
https://kbee.app

Building a platform to transform your Google Drive into a customer facing or internal knowledge base.

This week we're working on creating dynamic customer portals from folders in Drive. From our previous experience we know a lot of customer success teams have a template folder of docs/slides/sheets, which they copy and share with customers. We want to automate this + create a slick, branded portal.
>Without the right blacksmith, there can be no magic.
Magicians will be magicians, always hustling (bullshitting)

>management may consult the blacksmith in the selection of magicians

I mean when you put it like that, why hire a magician (bullshitter), if the magic relies on the blacksmith?

And, if management needs to consult someone (a blacksmith) on hiring (another blacksmith or for whatever reason a magician), then arguably management is made of magicians.

Don't get me wrong, I agree with the point your making. It's just the problem is with BS and BS is rampant, or like you say: a dime-a-dozen.
I made most of the edgy ones and had shared them throughout 2020 on my Twitter - only Stack more layers and Squirrel are not original content and ofc the really polished ones like how many angels dance on the head of a pin and the daft punk reference

The writing process for this article was meme first, content second
I'm working on a PC game, isometric roguelite or something like that.

I'm also battling depression and tbh it's taking its toll quite efficiently. Last month was nice and I worked on the game nearly every day, this month I haven't touched it at all. :D I just sleep.
Study controls for this, though:

> After controlling for confounders—including year of study, age, race, BMI, comorbidity status, alcohol and smoking use, and level of physical activity—total testosterone was lower among men in the later (2011-2016) versus earlier (1999-2000) cycles (P < 0.001)
I agree it's misleading here, but people (in my area at least) commonly refer to the big professional-tier fireworks as "mortars".
Representative democracies were invented to solve the "junk food policy" (i.e., passing out all of the money in the treasury) problem of direct democracy. Maybe there could be a representative link aggregator where annual elections determined who was allowed to vote on links.

A variation on representative democracy would be to have a recommender system identify demographics, and then to weight each demographic equally. So, for example, the votes from the "blogspam fan" demographic would be normalized to one, to fairly compete for representation with the much smaller "long thinkpiece fan" demographic.

Another solution would be quadratic voting, where you can vote once for free, but the nth vote would cost (n-1)^2 reputation points. That would allow established community members to express their intense dislike of certain content, to balance out the larger population's mild preferences.

It would be pretty cool if there was Reddit, but each subreddit could implement a different voting system. We might see a lot of progress and experimentation.
The way the evolution in software went, platforms became more capable and allowed individuals to automate more common tasks. QA/DevOps/SRE teams were consolidated and replaced with smaller platform teams which empowered internal engineers to quickly write scalable and well tested services. If data management, instrumentation, and ML tooling become sufficient then perhaps the data engineers will be replaced by a science platform team.

Caveat is that many scientists are expected to publish novel research to advance their career. "Infrastructure" and "data management" do not tend to produce the kinds of sexy projects which are attractive to publish.
Usually what ends up happening is that various treaties will be set up such that the Oklahoma state government and the relevant indigenous nation would collaborate on the governance of the area.
Short answer: No.

Longer answer: The industry itself (not Uber alone) may help the demise of the dining out experience, but you still need profitable restaurants to keep this secondary business alive. Perhaps kitchens will just be that, kitchens. Fewer employees, no wait staff, greeters, etc. Less rental space needed if the kitchen isn't catering to a dining experience. The restaurants-now-kitchens may even be more profitable that way.
I'm building a web app to play an icon clicking/hunting game based on Dota 2. It has been pretty fun working with Web RTC and web sockets, as well as doing some cool stuff with React hooks and PWAs, and I'm planning on "releasing" it soon.

https://dotaherohunt.com/
I can use products like Geforce now and manually best my server to a location a few thousand miles away. Ping time increases from 10/15 ms to about 70ms, and for anything but twitch gaming I can get high fidelity graphics and controls & sound synced indistinguishably from playing on my local PC.

This is not a technology bottleneck, it is an implementation bottleneck. Zoom has benefited from the WFH and remote learning movement, but the market is ripe for disruption with a higher quality experience.
Not even the most liberal societies on Earth, usually the Scandinavian ones, go as far as you describe. And they do have a prison system meant for prevention of recidivism and reintegration into society.

What you're saying is closer to an utopian ideal or who knows, something at least 50 years from now, in the future? :-)
Everything listed in the second article, including iMessage in iCloud is end-to-end encrypted: AirPods pairing keys, Safari tabs/history, learned keyboard vocabulary, Home app, Health app, Apple Card transactions (not sure what the point of this is as obviously the bank, card network, many others have detailed records), Maps favorites, Memoji, Siri data, Screen Time data, and Wi-Fi passwords, and yes, iCloud Keychain.

The catch is that if iCloud Backup is enabled, the iOS device will make a copy of its private iMessage key and save it with the backup, rendering your messages accessible to Apple. This doesn't affect Keychain.

Other services such as iCloud Photos are not E2EE and are always readable.
President Trump Is Declassifying All Documents Related to ObamaGate
AMD got downgraded today because Intel has new CEO.
I don't know why the new CEO would be better, but they say fish rots from the head.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AMD?p=AMD&.tsrc=fin-srch
Yep, they blew up the "only inland site in Australia showing human occupation continuing through the last Ice Age" [1].

"Even going through and doing excavations in those areas; to find the plaited hair and the artefacts and how they have been dated back to over 46,000 years — it's something we will always remember." [2]

40,000 years is a long long time, 40,000 years still on my mind. [3]

[1]: https://theconversation.com/rio-tinto-just-blasted-away-an-a...

[2]: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-26/rio-tinto-blast-destr...

[3]: https://neighbourhoodpaper.com/culture/40000-years-is-long-l...
So you’re blaming the FDA for allowing something into American food that the EU doesn’t?
Hawaii started as hot lava extruded from the ocean. All life on Hawaii originally came from someplace else.
A browser extension called Curb Your Consumerism that detects when you are on a checkout page and shows you how long it took you to earn enough money to complete that purchase.

The idea is about increasing the mindfulness of your purchases and reducing unnecessary environmental waste driven by impulse buying.

Here's what I'm planning next:

- Detecting the checkouts and extracting the checkout total generally across websites still needs refinement.

- Storing the purchases/savings locally in the extension storage to show you a graph of spending and saving.

- Showing a CO2 savings estimate.

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/curb-your-consumer...

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/curb-your-con...
Seems universal to all Japans manufacturers. Wonder if it has to do with their infrastructure.

Even latest Nissan's Leaf kinda sucks (poor battery thermal management).
A couple of projects:

- A vertical BI tool for courts. Every court is its own animal and something as simple as closing a case can be stored and managed in different ways, and the complexity is so high that it's hard to visualize the data. This solves those problems in a clear, understandable way.

- A national hearing reminder service. Each year, millions of Americans fail to appear in court for low-level offenses and arrest warrants are issued. This paper was just released, showing text message reminders, in part, reduced NYC failure to appear by 13-21% and led to 30,000 fewer arrest warrants over a 3-year period:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/10/07/scie...
We're starting to roll this out at a national level with https://HearingReminder.com
I made a vegan pavlova just the other week. Took chickpea juice straight out of a regular can of chickpeas and whipped it up with sugar. No adjustment necessary.
Why do you think that coded ETL is winning over the click-and-drag variant? I'd say the latter makes things a lot easier no?
I noticed the police helicopters in the bay area were only showing up as mlat reports on adsbexhange a couple months ago as well. Easy to spot but weird how they suddenly stopped squawking. Are they exempt now?