skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A way that I handle this, particularly on Twitter, is I have a couple people that I think do a good job of curating other people's content and retweeting it.

So I just go directly to their page, and I check in often enough that I know when I'm to things I have already seen.

I've fallen into the scrolling pages and pages on YouTube, and it is far less satisfying than when I used to just binge watch channels as I learned about them.
I am often contacted by people who ask me to scrape a dynamic/JS rendered websites. You might be surprised to know that many of such dynamic websites are actually depending on some API end-point which is being accessed via some AJAX like functionality which you can access directly and get the required data. I often faced the situation where data was not fetched via some external source was already available either in data-field or some JSON like structure hence no need to use Selenium with headless browser.
NetWire used to plant evidence against Indian activists.
I don’t think any common definition of cash includes the idea that payments are “irreversible”. I don’t even see why this is so important. If someone pays me physical cash by mistake they have legal recourse to get it back. It’s not finder’s keepers.
I'm not 100% sure what you mean by a 'webasm' site (web assembly powered?), but the article describes scarping via headless browsers which actually render the page and allow you to select elements that are client rendered.
You might have been going into shock. A pulmonary embolism can block blood flow to part of a lung and kill that tissue but it won't necessarily cause SpO2 to drop much. Patients who are otherwise healthy have extra lung capacity to spare.
I did not.

My blog did have the word "Peanutbutter" on one or two posts. And the word "sex" on another. Maybe at some point both words showed up close to one another when experimenting with some "random articles" sidebar or some "you may also like" list.
Well yes. That was an obvious issue. However the point is that the email was received 10 years ago, so you are only proving that you had control of the domain at that time.

Of course validation links should expire in a relatively short timeframe.
Refactoring can also leave the code better off while simultaneously leaving the business much worse off. Just ask Netscape.
Ugh, that seems like it just exchanges one form of waste for another. If it takes off the price of storage is likely to rocket in the same way GPUs have.

Let's not shoot ourselves in the foot, again, for another digital gold rush?
What if you enjoy overthinking though? What if that is your relaxation, is to be incredibly consumed in thought and solving new and intricate problems versus the dull existence of just "being"?
I think that google doesn't care is precisely the point
ZAP HUD Proxy is the best option here...

Load the page on it and it shows you all the request being made along with the payload as it happens.

Find the one you need, copy the data, endpoint and HTTP verb and recreate it in your language of choice :D
That’s fair. In a two car household both cars aren’t typically used for hauling the kids around.
"the failure of particular media verticals to monetize and adequately understand the landscape of the industry they operate in" doesn't apply as directly as the author would hope.

The failing "sell records at the record store" model is one thing, but the model for the rights to include music in television shows, movies, plays, video games and such is a different one.

If the maker of a game like Grand Theft Auto pays the rights holder to use music in a game then it is worth something to the game maker because it is exclusive -- and it wouldn't be if that exclusivity wasn't enforced.

It's not as if they are afraid people would watch your stream because they don't want to pay for a music streaming service or buy records.

The rules have always lagged practice in this area. The DVD release of 1980s TV show Knight Rider was hung up for years because of negotiations over the sound track, which was packed with contemporary music, some of which they got the rights for, some of which they replaced with covers, some of which got replaced completely. At the time nobody thought about the DVD rights.
Definitely a good point! Would you be willing to share what company you started?
Congratulations for the launch! How are you finding Haskell? Why did you pick it?
It can't be made useful because the output of a useful calculation can't be known in advance - otherwise it wouldn't be useful.
A side point but as you're OK with the i* devices I'm curious what it is about the macs that lead you to "won't".

(Not trying to start a flame war here)
> "These fucks", according to reddit poster, are people like Ron that call something out as safe and die from it ...

Another interpretation. Clearly, the sentence is open to interpretation. My interpretation remains that in the second of two independent clauses it's quite possible for the phrase "these fucks" not to refer to the first at all.

> nor are gun stores closed because somebody thinks that they are [more likely to spread covid]

Then why are they closed? Political opportunism?

Using the excuse of a lockdown to advance unrelated political agendas is far worse than criticizing said lockdown.

> Yes, New York and New Jersey have some of the worst death rates

Yes, yes they do. And they've had lockdowns since the beginning of the epidemic, starting in NY just three days after the first in the nation and in NJ one day later.

And integrating over all that time under lockdown, they have the worst per capita death count.

And that is the most reliable statistic because it averages out most of the noise and short term trends in the daily rates, and avoids the differences in testing rate between states.
A better date and time API for .NET
32" 4k monitor at a normal viewing distance (~30" seems like a good estimate without bringing out a measuring tape) is pretty comfortable for work at 100% scaling. At that distance 1080p video looks significantly worse when compared to 4k, although a large chunk of that may be due to bitrate.
Probably not! What kind of movements do you have in mind?

If you mean stuff like "delete 5 characters", probably not. But I never really got the appeal of that over pressing delete five times. The time it takes me to count the characters to decide it's five of them is probably longer than the time it takes to press delete the appropriate number of times without thinking ...
They aren’t photorealistic but most of them seemed pretty close to my eyes, like movie actors under perfect lighting with a bit too much makeup.
Aha, and do these cops pay the license for playing the music in public?
Don’t let that slow you down. Just launch the damn blog post and let your readers tell you what you should hope to accomplish.
Micro looks pretty cool! Thanks!
“whatever reason Amazon gave” was dismissive, but also accurate. They gave a reason. The poster dismissed it and the comment was downvoted for the dismissal.

Each action was ideological.
The question is not whether they are more empathetic overall, but whether they are more empathetic towards similarly aged men, and when considering that specific object of empathy, I would imagine there is a strong correlation.
We could pay for Google (or somebody else) to do it for us.

We would pay to access their ”distribution”, a limited set of packages vetted by them. Distribution vendor would screen changes from upstream and incorporate into their versions.

Of course this is more limited world. It’s like using a paid Linux distribution with certain amount of software covered by the vendors support policies.
I can see smaller bitcoin transactions running on an alternative networks like Stellar, where assets (like bitcoin, USD, etc) can be issued by a trusted 3rd party.
I've occasionally mused that funding for a legal case should go into a pool, which is divided equally between both sides. That way, any money thrown at a case is, at least in theory, aligned with the incentive of "getting at the truth" rather than overwhelming someone with a valid case, but lesser resources. I don't mind someone raising the profile of a case by adding funding, especially if the stakes are high for one party, but it shouldn't be at the detriment of justice.

It's kind of a half-baked idea, and I'm sure it's not totally watertight but the existing problems you've mentioned really bother me.
Command-C is copy basically everywhere in macOS. Even in electron apps and qt apps. I haven’t come across an app in about 10 years which used Ctrl-c for copy.
Facebook under fire over encryption plans as man jailed for abusing 52 children
interesting, why not buy it ;)
>Just last night I was thinking about how it was possible that, given the relative trends, Mozilla’s greater legacy might turn out to be Rust, not Firefox.

John Carmack
@ID_AA_Carmack

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1293227109738061826...
It's par for the course. When I was in university you had to submit papers in MS Word, Excel, or Powerpoint. Computational Math courses were either Mathematica or Matlab. Engineering courses were AutoCAD, Revit, and Solidworks. And programming migrated away from STL C++ to VS C++. The free, opensource equivalents weren't quite there yet.

Using proprietary software/tools is not the worse thing universities have done (looking at you $700 biology dept textbooks).
Salaries for Software Engineers Continue to Rise
You are a few versions out of date here -- Mac screenshots now show a preview by default and clicking on the preview opens it for annotation. This is true as of 2018 (Mojave).
When it harms the ill-gotten profits of party insiders, and not sooner.
For people interested in maintaining access to end-to-end encryption for consumers, this is the type of argument that needs to be countered.
Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software
Humanloop and Hugging Face=the fastest way to build an NLP API on your own data
It used to be more of a concern. When I fist started coding in the 90s, we cared, and optimized everything. Then CPUs and memory started getting cheaper, and I often heard the mantra of "Just throw more hardware at it." Once the web took off, it became "Hey, we can just let the user's system do all the heavy lifting".

It is only recently that people are starting to come back to thinking about efficiency, and I thank mobile apps for that, as people do notice when a specific app is a big battery drain. That has brought back reasons to optimize your code, because battery drain can mean poor reviews, and it has a material impact on the success of your product.

Which is a really long way to say, "Yes, we should worry about this."
"For California Public Schools". I'm pretty sure that most high school kids are not going to be reading Euclid in the original Greek...
List of services and how to claim (sub)domains with dangling DNS records
I keep my server at home. I used to look after colo servers. If you go colo try and find a fixed price for data transfer. Power is also a big factor in colo. You can generally get 1/4, 1/2 and full racks.
And irdb.

http://www.irdb.tk/
If I'm reading bundler's docs rightly, the new 'source' syntax only appears to prevent this: https://bundler.io/man/gemfile.5.html#SOURCE-PRIORITY
It'd be nice if it could lazily clone the repo in the background so the search functionality would work as more files are indexed.
For what it's worth, the much maligned touch bar has good integration with the screenshot functionality, and you can adjust options through that interface while in "screenshot mode". Video recording is also easy there.

I'm also pretty sure recent versions of MacOS have annotation capabilities unless you directly copy to clipboard. Not sure though, don't have a mac anymore.
Raza here (one of the founders of Humanloop). Just wanted to share that you can now train any Huggingface model on your own data just by labelling and curating a small portion of that data, with Humanloop. Humanloop provides a labelling interface with active learning and then hosts your trained model.

We're still trialing the Hugging Face models in beta but would appreciate your thoughts and feedback.
That not correct. It is similar to saying that the ideal person to write criminal laws must be a criminal. One possible place to find people with deep knowledge about a particular area is academia, just to give an example.
> The screenshot UI is frustrating, where to save to is under options, you cannot preview your screenshot, you cannot annotate the screenshot (something I do all the time on Windows), and having to choose between saving to file or clipboard is annoying.

I agree with all of this, but for what it's worth: Command-shift-{3,4,5} (and maybe others?) all bring up a rapid screenshot cursor. That action integrates with the little "smart" preview window that recent macOS releases have, so you can just click the little floating window that appears on the bottom right of your screen to see the capture you've just taken.
Electricity product from a coal plant vs a solar farm is the same, but its costs are not.

The cost per kwh from a coal plant has not changed in 10 years. Solar has seen massive reductions and is cheaper than coal. Consuming more solar power is gives more profit to the solar power industry. I'm ok with that.
Sure. This one happens not be Selenium.
Those bills cost energy to produce. The bank had to be built. There was a teller there, did they spend any energy driving to the bank that day? Did you use a duffel bag? Where’d that come from? Etc.

Just like the mining rigs that produce bitcoin. It seems like you're conflating fixed costs (of plant and machinery) with marginal costs (of exchanging some amount of BTC vs fiat).
The closest I’ve ever seen is Elementary OS but even that isn’t quite right.
I would say thought that if your hands are cold, warm them up before you take a pulse oximeter reading.
Huh. Lots of different perspectives out there...

- Is it weird that there's barely any training of practical software engineering in a university setting as it is, and now this question posits that one of the great durable examples of such a course is somehow against the norm?

- Is it weird that a community would train someone in methods and concepts using the technologies invented up the street?

- Is it weird to think that after decades of deeply-rooted institutional ties between Apple and Stanford that they wouldn't have a genuinely beneficial relationship and respect for one another?
I do web scraping for fun and profit, primarily using Python. Wrote a post some time back about it.

https://www.kashifaziz.me/web-scraping-python-beautifulsoup....
In case you were wondering, the skier dropped his backpack and was able to get away from the bear

https://abc11.com/bear-chases-skier-romania-skiing-brown-cha...
Maybe the problem is that there's no equivalent of the AUR for Debian-based repos, and/or that packaging for Debian is a serious pain the ass.
+1 this has saved me countless of hours
>But my wife loves the look and feel of Mac OS, and has just grown frustrated with a few things lately that are obviously just restricting users to squeeze them to more expensive products or locking them in to Apple's ecosystem.

So glad this is catching on. Although I was surprised this coming from Mac and not iPhone. What is it with Mac that caused the frustration?

On iPhone, it is clear everything is about pushing for services revenue.
Basically if a service company.com offers subdomains for customers my-company-123.company.com and I later cancel my account: can somebody else then register the my-company-123 subdomain?
That's always the problem with freedom, it works for good guys and bad guys alike.
Here's the paper of Cardano's provably secure PoS algorithm https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/889.pdf
EraDB Launches Log Management Alternative
Bitcoin's fundamental value is negative given its environmental impact
What is the strawman here? I've had bitcoin since 2012, and this wasn't as much of a pressing issue back then. Perhaps blindly, I then believed it had the potential to serve as a global, decentralized, stateless currency. I still want those things, but bitcoin transaction fees have gotten too high for it to make sense as a currency for the majority of real-world transactions. There's no solution there. And as a store of value it poses a real threat to the planet. There are better technologies now; the only real advantage bitcoin has , is wider acceptance by people and institutions as a payment mechanism, due to its longer history. But, with the transaction fees being what they are, and the potential for innovation with Ethereum and other more sophisticated cryptocurrencies, that's bound to change over the next few years.

I honestly don't understand how people can continue to defend it. The only explanation I can think of is that the masses who showed up to the party late don't care if it's gotten out of hand and is now in danger of trashing the place or setting the building on fire. They just made the trip out there.
I write scrapers for fun and notebooks for work but never thought to combine the two. Great idea!
Take a look at OPEC companies that have priced oil in other currencies:

Iraq started pricing oil in euros in 1999:

https://www.theglobalist.com/iraq-the-dollar-and-the-euro-5/

Iran started pricing oil in yuan in 2012:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-17988142

What's our geopolitical relationship with Iraq and Iran now?
Video walkthrough: https://youtu.be/PlPTVbhrKYM
Hey HN,

Funding Open Source is a hot topic here and after more than one year of full-time work without being paid I have finally achieved (a little bit more than) ramen profitability.

I'm happy to answer any question.
It's probably an 80:20 problem of sorts. More like a 99:1. Externally, people mostly appear to be comprised of flesh and hair. Pick any random square inch and the odds are that you will land on flesh or hair. That gets different on eyeballs, but they are still just bags of goo connected to muscle. The devil there is in the details of the blood vessels and the iris and things.

And then you get to teeth, which are like wet rocks. You're building this thing that is going to bomb if it can't do soft, meaty, hairy things convincingly and then there's this itty bitty section you're only going to see sometimes that is a dark membraneous cave full of wet rocks.
The title is a little misleading. Prior to this article, at least one of the companies advertised its difficulty selling masks in a local newspaper, and then promptly sold out of all 250,000 masks it had manufactured.[1]

The real problem here is the difficulty these startup mask manufacturers have with securing bulk orders. Those lucrative deals are often, it seems, prevented by preferences for existing models, restrictions on models, and sheer institutional conservatism about trying something new.

Another issue is the difficulty legitimate manufacturers have listing their articles on search engines and online retailers, which often still restrict mask listings due to concerns about fraud or price gouging.

Also, the website of one of the companies has a website that is down on day article was posted.[2] Not clear if that is due to the coverage from NYT, or other operational problems.

[1] https://www.unitedstatesmask.com/products/1836-n95-particula...

[2]https://www.demetech.us/
I got "demoted" from being a Director and Fellow at a small company to being a Senior SWE at Google, with a significant pay bump even after taking into account bay area prices. I kept telling my old boss that I didn't want to manage, and eventually got the Fellow title instead of Director. I felt like I was stagnating.

Now I'm on my way to Senior Staff SWE, and I keep telling my managers that I don't want to manage, which so far has been working OK. I've got enough responsibilities at home (3 teenagers) and at work that I don't feel like I need additional "children" to manage.

Maybe I'll feel differently once my kids are a little older, but right now I've got plenty on my plate without worrying about others' careers and the millions of additional meetings that managers have.
we are not totally sure yet (since we are now focusing on getting the project to the stable stage), but we think the most straightforward way would be to provide our own, "one-click" deployment/hosting service. On the other hand, since we are providing an e2e solution we think there could be multiple spots for providing extra value on top of the language, but we have yet to explore it.
Java or C# is just a tool to teach CS concepts. Teaching iPhone development is more specialized and knowledge is less transferable.
He does the same thing with actual stocks and nobody cares, why would they care about BTC?
Oho you are also building a DSL for full stack web apps, I didn't expect that :D! Consider joining our Discord (https://discord.com/invite/rzdnErX), I would love to learn more about your quack!

True, right now it is just one file, and language is a simple "configuration", declarative language, just because we didn't need more so far. This is how we started, because we wanted to focus on capturing the basic abstractions of the web app at high level, and we want to keep the language as simple as possible -> so we decided to start really simple and then extend as we need more power.

We will certainly add splitting into multiple files, and will probably go beyond that with actual modules, expressions, simple conditional logic, basic types and similar - kind of like meson (https://mesonbuild.com/Syntax.html) and Terraform.
Right now we don't see it ever becoming a Turing complete language, since we don't intend to capture the low-level logic in Wasp - we feel existing solutions are better fit for that (JS/TS/HTML/CSS/...) and we would not be doing our best work there, nor would we be able to keep up with the innovation.

Although, never say never -> my mind does wander off to Mint (https://www.mint-lang.com/) every so and so, thinking if we could do something similar at some point -> but even if we do, that is further down the road.
This is like saying my car's engine uses oil as lubricant, not as fuel. It's true, but I still have to change the oil every 5,000 miles. So I can still calculate the cost of oil changes into each mile.

Since transacting Bitcoin securely is the utility of the network, just as moving around is the utility of a car, it seems quite fair to judge the energy consumption of the network in terms of energy expended per transaction secured.
Fiat currencies have no intrinsic value so how is Bitcoin different?

It crashed in 2018, it lost 65% of its value.
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines. Can you please not create accounts to do that with? We're trying for curious conversation here, not internet war.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Couldn't agree more re "the feed". I ditched social media, then found myself back there every now and again to check in on friends - very hard not to get sucked back into "the feed" each time.

Eventually, I signed off of FB & IG, and built a minimalist social network with no feeds, designed to be checked once a week (on Sunday): https://www.sundayy.app/

Feel free to give it a go :)
This. I wonder how much work it would take to get the Pantheon desktop running on FreeBSD if they wanted that as the base.
Has anybody actually used this app? It sounds like hell, like someone said, it will be like Twitter, except with actual yelling.
btc considered harmful
Indeed. "The original intent of the sweepstakes contest was to provide all McDonald's customers with over 1,850 chances to win prizes best suited to lessen effects of the current economic slump" is exactly the kind of inane, obvious lie that corporations seem required to make in response to things like this.