skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speak wisdom, sow peace, especially when reciprocated.

But it is folly to cede ground when, as in our day, destroyers are afoot.

David did not seek to empathize with Goliath. He did what was needful.
Maybe the SCSI2SD would be a better option then? This one ships from the UK: https://amigakit.amiga.store/product_info.php?products_id=13...

Edit: Cheaper, older model: http://amigakit.amiga.store/product_info.php?products_id=126...
Codemate – VsCode extension to connect with developers
I find this need for certainty to be the most embarrassing part of this whole pandemic. What kind of person really cares how effective they are? They cost next to nothing, they’re comfortable and convenient. If they save one life, that’s worth wearing a mask.

Again to echo the person you’re replying to, the fact we still have to have this conversation is embarrassing.
From the end of the article:

> In conclusion: What should you do as a JavaScript Developer in 2021?

> Learn TypeScript

Talk about clickbait!
D3.js is cool - and you can do more with it than just data visualisation https://datacrayon.com/posts/visualisation/visualisation-wit...
I remember those stores. I remember them because I was switching to CDs for buying music, but needed a dual CD/tape boombox because I would record a new song on tape off the radio to listen to until I had the money to buy the album on CD. And Incredible Universe had all of the above. It wasn't that long ago but it was way different in terms of stores (Circuit City was another that doesn't really exist anymore) and my tech needs.
> This article is irresponsible nonsense.

Politics is a team sport and as long as you are on the right team that does not matter. You get to claim anything and you will get defended.

The media contextualises blatant lies from Biden while they remove context from trump statements to make it seem like he was saying something he did not. Media fact checkers label (like snopes) entirely factual statements as misleading. It is disgusting.

And to be clear, screw Trump, even if you are conservative (like me), you should not like him, he is the worst thing that could have happened to the conservative movement and his supporters are legit dangerous. But screw the media also.
Yes, I agree about the German approach. Japan (which I follow closely) is similar -- the issue of masks is drama-free, and much more pragmatic than in the US. But when I say "pragmatic", I mean it on both sides: you also don't see the insanity of people scolding other people over something with uncertain marginal effect. That's the part I can't stand here in the US.

I do think that of all of the things we have done in this pandemic, the act of forcing someone to wear something -- and on the face, no less -- is fairly obviously a politically fraught act. I'm not terribly surprised that the symbolism of the act became the story.
If by bursts of tinnitus you mean a high pitched noise for a few seconds (sometimes longer), these are rather normal and very common, not much to worry about I believe.

Is the sensitivity you describe specific to certain sounds? If so, that could be some kind of hyperacusis as it can be very focused on certain frequencies. Mine is mild/moderate so I can tolerate a loud discussion for a while, but stuff like broken glass is simply unbearable, it feels like the glass is breaking inside my ears and usually makes them painful for a couple of hours.
I've definitely seen behavior like this on Mohave on my old 2012 MBA, Tb of data written to the (128G!) drive over the course of the uptime of the machine.

There was no iCloud Drive on it, Safari not generally in use. Memory pressure wasn't extraordinarily high, but it wasn't a well specc'd machine for the current day.
I considered using earplugs, but I researched it online and I learned that using them regularly can cause health problems related to your ears. They are meant to be used on occasion not for a prolonged periods of time, so I abandoned the idea.

I also tried white noise generators, but those were only effective against neighbours and not outside traffic. In the end, knocking myself out with a bottle of wine was the only thing that worked. That's not something I would do regularly, but once every few months when the lack of sleep would start to affect me badly in every possible way.

After I moved to a quiet place, my life improved tenfold in a space of few weeks. The only thing that stayed with me is an elevated sensitivity to noise (a kind of trauma but instead of being afraid I get mad at the noise origin).
You can go into the accessibility panel in system preferences and increase the contrast and remove transparency, both of which aid readability and interaction.
Show HN: Tru – An Esoteric Language with Brackets
A lighter weight option is the --patch flag to 'git add' and 'git commit'.
You do get some free storage with the free tier database, but it is only a paltry 32MB. Additional storage is only $0.221/GB/m though. The paid cheapest SQL database (B0) is only $5/m, which comes with 2GB of storage. In practise, this is absolutely fine for light usage.

By .NET + SQL, I assume you mean you were using an App Service? They come with a lot of convenience, but I definitely agree that they are too expensive, especially when considering the level of compute you get. I raised this with someone from Microsoft before, and they said they were confident the value offered was worth it.

There is a free tier for App Service though. It's a shared compute model - I tried it a while back, and the performance was totally fine for light usage.

I wouldn't try to run Windows Server on a B1S, as they only have 1GB of RAM :) You might just about get away with it for Server Nano, but I've never actually used it. Best stick with Linux or BSD for these tiny VMs.
I just upgraded my 2015 Macbook Pro with a 2TB SSD and a new battery. I'm planning to keep using it for a few years.

The 2015 MBPs were the last ones that had replaceable drives (it's a proprietary slot, but adaptors to M2 are available).

I still think that the 2015 models are the last laptops Apple actually targeted at pro users. They even added support for PCI NVMe drives in a recent macOS version, so these MBPs got MORE EXPANDABLE after release. It's crazy! (It does have soldered-on RAM though)

The only comparable recent Mac was the 2018 Mac mini -- with user upgradable RAM! It does have soldered on flash, unfortunately. But it has so many ports, and with external thunderbolt enclosures you can add GPUs, SSD Raids, ... It's pretty amazing for a small desktop and surprisingly usable as a developer workstation.

(I'm not counting the current Mac Pro because it is so outrageously expensive that I can't imagine that it makes sense for anyone except the most highest paid professsionals)
I understood it differently, like if writing so often for OP tend to develop in this unhappy state just by the fact of writing, like if by doing it all the time he/she went "dry" of ideas:

> You can’t just write every day, you have to create things worth writing about! Experiences, research, work.

It seems at some point he/she finds the writing must be something more than just writing
Precisely this. When I first started out, it was freelancer.com which eventually went down the path of molecular type tracking. It's invasive and people don't want to pay you what you're worth, but you do it for the experience and to build up a feedback profile to bolster your credibility.

The feedback is what you work for, what you tolerate the poor payment for unrealistic work in return. Without it, you can't grow on these platforms and the people bidding for cheap labour know this and use it to their advantage. Platforms like Upwork all but encourage exploitation through fear, the lowest common denominator always wins.
> I find this need for certainty to be the most embarrassing part of this whole pandemic. What kind of person really cares how effective they are?

A scientist.

There are a great many things that we did during this pandemic that had no evidence whatsoever, and turned out to be wrong. Some turned out to be harmful (over-ventilation, for example). Are mask mandates one of these things? I have no idea. Neither do you.

It isn't wrong to admit that we don't know, because that's the first step to finding the answer.
The Workhorse Group Story
Florida also celebrates Thanksgiving / Christmas / New Year. So any comparisons showing CA's abject failure at containing the virus despite some of the harshest lockdown measures (while Florida performs similarly with a far older population) is just as valid in light of the holidays existing.

CA's Covid measures were disastrous, adding economic misery on top of health misery for zero benefit. Don't let people distract us from that fact.
No, It has been determined time and time again that if you have a respiratory illness that means you're struggling to breathe so much that you can't breathe with a mask on, that puts you in the extremely high risk category from covid

The only legitimate reasons are associated with anxiety issues, which aren't medically exempt.
I avoided the M1 Macs just to wait until the developer ecosystem catches up to it. By then, there would be a new macOS update that would resolve these issues in the OS and the many incompatible software offerings for the Mac that will be fully optimised for Apple Silicon.

Maybe next year, I will give you my development experience on a Macbook with an M1X or an M2 processor. Not this one.
So.. you’re saying that you want to play with nukes?

And hope that your own American city doesn’t get atomized in the exchange?
Hi everyone, I wanted to share a language I made that only uses a series of bracket characters. All operations are prefix-free, meaning one can follow another without ambiguity.

The following program prints "Hello, world!"

(0)(10)(33)(100)(108)(114)(111)(119)(32)(44)(111)(108)(108)(101)(72)>><<[<><>><<>><<]>>><<

The following prints 25th Fibonacci number:

(1)(25)(1)><>(1)(0)><>(1)>>>>>><<[(0)><>(1)>>>>>><<[>><>(1)><>>><<(0)><>>>><>(1)><><<<>><>>>><>(0)><>>><>(1)>>>>>><<](0)](1)><><><>><>>>><<
Modules make it easier to understand software. Yet what is "security" but understandability? Modularity brings about understandability. And understandability brings security.

Software threats arise from the fact that coders don't in fact fully understand everything the software is doing, how it makes it impossible or possible for hackers to gain unauthorized access.

If we understood the software perfectly we could easily and quickly remove vulnerabilities from it. And if we understand its limitations we wouldn't let it run a commercial airline on auto-pilot.
International airport transits are still suspended. Travellers arriving in Taiwan need to provide a negative COVID-19 (PCR) test result issued within three business days before boarding your flight to Taiwan, regardless of nationality or visa status. Antigen or antibody test results will not be accepted. There's been a seventh automatic 30-day visa extension for foreigners who arrived on short-term visitor visas on or before 21 March 2020 and whose stay has exceeded 180 days.
This is so hard to mesh existing examples into your framework of choice though. That could do well with a lot more examples around to spot the line between framework, DOM and D3
What this usually means is that the functions still exist but are named differently. Unfortunately the article does not go into any details beyond that attention-grabbing headline, but it does not sound very appealing:

> "But what if there is a case of bullying to be resolved, or a contract dispute that requires specialist knowledge?

Jackson says he expects his managers to take personal responsibility for these things (with appropriate training) rather than "shelving responsibility to a third party" - just as he used to do when managing his teams."

Is he seriously claiming that he expects individual managers to deal with employment law disputes themselves? If so it only means that they have not had an employment law dispute yet...
Specifically in the context of modules, I think it is a bad thing. It's hard to describe because I do it quite intuitively, but (very broadly) the way I find module boundaries is by trying to find the minimal interface for the maximal amount of code. For me, this usually revolves around some kind of data structure.

Importantly, this is completely independent of team structure. The boundaries between teams are not necessarily the minimal interface.
There's a lot of disinfo in this thread. React-three-fiber is great. Threejs by itself is also great. R3F allows people with minimal low level 3d graphics knowledge, to use higher level constructs they are familiar with, i.e. dom elements and react, to rapidly build compelling interactive 3d experiences. The aframe library is a similar kind of abstraction. WebGL has a thriving ecosystem and IMO is a signpost for the future of visual computing. Cross platform, OS agnostic 3D for the masses.
> You have to refuse even if the alternate is to definitely lose a billion lives. Can't be infinity.

Well, if the entire ecosystem collapses humanity is guaranteed to die - unless we figure out how to eat acid and breathe toxic air. That's 7-8 billion lives.
5G will have greater capacity at the same range, PLUS the high capacity, short range slice of frequencies (5G NR). It does not live aside from 4G, it enhances it within the same frequencies and adds some extra ones as well.
Ask HN: Has anyone made a web support chat based on Matrix?
Hello,

I've been looking at integrating a support chat into a website (which has live interactions, making a support chat more interesting than support tickets), and I've been thinking that Matrix could be a great system for that.

Has anyone already made some web support chat like this (ie. very simple user popover like interface interacting with a Matrix backend; the operators using a regular matrix client)?
Font is too small.
Multiplayer is always half broken due to Unity changing APIs. I recommend you use a third party system like https://mirror-networking.com/
Remote usability testing. Eye tracking, heatmaps, replays
I disagree, it's not valid. People have shown they're fine sacrificing their privacy, their digital rights, their morals in some cases, for the sake of convenience and lower prices.

Taking a stand means at some point saying "It might be your choice but it's wrong." And I know it comes off as preachy and arrogant and better than thou, but if we (arguably the most technically literate people there are) are justifying immoral corporate behaviour in the name of convenience, I have no hope for the future of computing.
Thanks, that is valuable information. It is quite a bit more expensive than the 10 inch readers, but then it offers a bigger screen. I will certainly give it a lot of consideration.
Go have a look at the linked thread, where people are basic their hysteria on three order of magnitude errors.
> overall case counts can be under control due to more effective control measures and lockdown discipline.

They eased lockdowns and the daily case and death count on the day they implemented the regional stay at home order was higher than on the day they revoked it, which was about a month ago, and since then the downward trend has continued.

What exactly are the more effective lockdown discipline?

Maybe it is allowing filming to go on without any hindrance, allowing outdoor kartering for films, but shutting down outdoor dining at the exact same location for regular folks who do not have multi million dollar budgets and political connections so they can loose everything they ever worked for?
Ok, just my perspective, that you dont need to share. I am typing on lenovo P51, not really a new thing, but I have two TB SSDs, 2 slots for normal ram (32gb currently), i7, no overheating, great keyboard, battery and simple possibility to just dismantle the lower part (or if needed the whole laptop) and blow all the dust out or vacuum clean it. Running linux where all the hardware (except the fingerprint reader which I would not use anyway) is supported.

Once something dies I can replace it at any time on my own and the prices for replacement parts are actually going down, not up. It is "a tad" heavier but on the other side, I would carry the backpack with me regardless of weight (and now I can skip a fitness session :D).

Why on earth are you even buying apple laptops? Ok, I do understand it for nontechnical people but we are on HN. I just dont understand a reasoning why you dont get yourself a proper laptop instead and all the convenience that comes with that. "Its beautiful" reason?

I would imagine you actually do work on your laptop and the look is not your primary criteria when buying a work rig (although I have always loved Thinkpad boxy designs).
Julia was created to tackle problems in applied disciplines (physics, neuroscience, genetics, material engineering, etc.). I was expecting it not to be picked up by your everyday app developer or by the overly abstract functional programmer. As an afterthought, personally I think Julia can do much more than that, I would say it can do at least as much as Python is capable today, but better.
> It feels intrusive

It IS intrusive!
That was the issue initially where scientific messaging clashed with public messaging.

People said "Will masks protect us?" and scientifically, the answer is no. No mask will 100% protect you

Unfortunately people take that and run with it to mean masks are useless and do nothing at all. If this has taught us anything, is that you can't give the layperson scientific information because they don't really understand the impact.

If the message from the start had always been "No it won't completely protect you, but wearing any kind of mask will drastically slow the spread" then maybe people would've been more receptive (And maybe the US wouldn't have politicised mask wearing)
Fines and jail time would be a start at correcting policy. Especially jail time for cops who refuse to wear masks.
A similar example albeit an order of magnitude smaller: I work with a space instrument which includes a camera, and for various purposes some times we need to send down entire images. Due to the of course limited bandwidth, there is an option to compress the image to a jpeg and send it down. The jpeg compression is written from scratch.

Of course much simpler than ffmpeg and video encoding, but reinventing the wheel is not at all uncommon in aerospace (and curiously enough, reinventing the wheel is precisely what the entire sector is trying to avoid..)
Reflections on All Corporate Awards
In 2019, Harvard University published a study, "The Demotivating Effect (and Unintended Message) of Awards," on such motivation's detrimental effect. During the study, 15 thousand students from 14 schools were taken. All students in the past have received awards for perfect attendance. Students were divided into three groups. The first group was told that if they did not miss a single lesson this month, they would be rewarded. The second group was told that they are already being rewarded because of the perfect attendance in the past. The third group was controlled, and they have not said anything. A month later, the results were as follows: the first and third groups had the same attendance rates. The promise of a reward for activity, which was already provided by the school's usual rules, did not have a substantial effect. The second group's result was interesting: the attendance of these students fell by 8%, as they now believed that they had already exceeded expectations by showing such a class attendance in the past. Therefore, according to researchers, managers need to be very careful with honors and awards in companies because there is a risk of giving rewards for work that should have been done or provoke a decline in productivity in people who already think they have reworked.
2015 and earlier MacBook Pros had replaceable SSD drives. Remove 10 pentalobe screws, take off bottom panel, remove 1 torx screw, pull out SSD, put new SSD in, reassemble, done.

The soldered on stuff is a recent change, and it's stupid for things like RAM, but even more stupid for things that wear like SSDs.
There are a few Aussies around here, but we definitely are not the majority, haha. The Aussie startup/tech space is quite tiny, especially in Queensland where I am from. One thing Australia is good at is quality over quantity. I see you guys being lumped into the same league of success as Atlassian, Envato, Canva and the handful of other startup successes.

Presumably, even though the labour for a fitter being $120/hr is quite high, the savings that companies will make in the long-run not having to repair broken machines that would have lasted a lot longer through regular greasing is the winning equation.

I'd love to connect and follow you guys on LinkedIn.
Personally I have gotten used to using `git commit --patch` for everything (even if I only have one change) just as a convenient way of reviewing the changes I am about to commit. With that, only committing part of the changes is no additional effort.
I don't know to what extent redundancy was there in WW2 aircraft.
Stardew Valley is now a cooperative board game
I just realized M1 SSDs are irrepraceable... Really, this is wrong on so many levels.
A cylinder like.. a cylinder with flat ends? No aerodynamic control surfaces? Was it metal? Was it rotating along an axis? Did it make a sound? Was it 1 foot, 10 feet or 100 feet long? Did it leave a vapor trail? Your story sounds like bullshit.
> Is all this just taking advantage of freelancers who don't know how to market themselves, or am I missing something?

I discarded UpWork precisely because of this.
it's like a condom for your face. What's not to love? I plan to keep wearing it even after this is all over.

In smarter countries, people wear masks whenever they are sick as a thoughtful courtesy to protect those around them. I'd like to see that attitude worldwide.
Except they don't build the engine. They used to, many many years ago, when the web was much simpler and everyone and their dog could build their own engine. These days, that is no longer the case.

So even if Konqueror is still "the best browser in the world", that is meaningless to this discussion. Building the chrome around an existing engine is almost trivial compared to developing a 100% independent browser engine.
I know for him ironically making fun of soundbite memes like drain the swamp I thought it was a very well written article with some amazing quotable passages. Definately helps I agree with the contents though

"Buying lottery tickets and trading manipulated crypto assets are both a tax on the poor and disenfranchised."
The info was available to me back in 1992. Somebody at your high school, typically called a "guidance counselor", would have it. It was available in a thick paperback book. I could also use an Apple II program if I preferred.

From there I picked: Rice, Rutgers, MIT, Worchester Polytechnic, UMass Amherst, Virginia Polytechnic. Clearly, that was not just one state.

After picking, phone the schools. Ask them to send applications. More applications may arrive by surprise if you do well on the SAT or ACT.

When an application arrives, put it in a typewriter and carefully type into all the fields in the form. Send it by mail, physically, and wait to get mailed a response.
Why is there a band of decelerating matter right near the top? I thought it was all accelerating outwards?

Also what's the gap between the blue bits?
Starts with a wrong headline already. It's not their own game anymore, they sold it.
Whoa, when did Github's wiki pages get so aesthetically pleasing?
That's a bold statement. I personally do care. I do contracting work and care about the code I write. And companies I work with seem to appreciate.