skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, thank you!

Not kidding, I was thinking about how I could make talking to APIs behind an OAuth wall easier in Prestige, just this morning (it's evening for me now). I didn't know Postman and Hoppscotch did that. I'll ideate for some time first and then see how they solved it.

But yes, I do want to add something like this in the future. Thanks for the pointer!
I'm a little skeptical that it would be safer for pedestrians and bikes. Bikes need to merge with traffic already in the roundabout instead of simply going straight through an intersection, and pedestrians would need to always check for oncoming cars rather than being able to mostly rely on lights telling them when they can cross.

But then most of my experience with roundabouts is with large, multilane roundabouts so the traffic is still pretty fast - maybe smaller roundabouts with significantly slower traffic would be safer than I'm picturing.
Blog posts like that are often too superficial to be useful.

It be best to run through real examples, ok, what are your actual milestones about, how did you break them down, what are your actual stories, how do you connect the two, etc.
I need me some proteins walking microtubules videos. Little damn machines almost make you want to believe in intelligent design, but natural selection and physics are just right to make it awesome.
Unless you want to internationally relocate to stay with this firm, I would assume that it is time to move on and leave this to someone else. Even if the firm has no intention of giving up the location, they also aren't going to be committed enough and keeping it will likely be a thankless battle.
US ships trawl and overfish as well. The Anti-China sentiment is uncalled for.
Sound design for software: Why software makes noise and how it's made
MIDI Rings Ideas
Eh. I would like to believe it, but pragmatist in me knows it is not true. I will add that willingly ignoring this facet is doing a disservice to pandemic handling. It simply cannot exist without political will and capital.
I agree with most of the content of this article.

Especially this part:

"Ethics are necessary, but not sufficient. More helpful are questions such as, who benefits and who is harmed by this AI system? And does it put power in the hands of the already powerful?"

Distribution of power is the most important political question, more important than distribution of wealth or what we call ethics, that is always biased and hard to measure.
If country A undercuts taxes below a set minimum of 15%, country B is within its rights not to recognize taxes payed in A for the purpose of avoiding double taxation. As a result, country B can demand tax payments on profits generated in B regardless of what taxes were payed in A. Unfortunately, in the real world governments are beholden to the commercial interests and rarely use the mechanisms available to them. Given enough willpower offshore tax havens can be eliminated in a split-second.
Ask HN: Need a simple HTTP service that allows basic string persistence
I am building a simple bot. The bot scrapes an RSS feed.
The only persistence I need is the date time of the most recent item on the RSS feed.
I dont want to have to spin up a DB.

What would be great is a service that allows something like the following
simple-storge.com/account-id?data=the-date-i-want-to-store

Anyone know of anything like this that exists?

Any help greatly appreciated.
I recently worked as drone photographer on a cruise along remote Australian coastline. One of the guest lecturers on board worked for decades with/alongside the navy, apprehending or fending off illegal fishing boats entering protected waters on AU's NW Kimberley coast.

Back in the 1700s, there were Indonesians coming down to collect sea cucumbers for the Chinese market:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makassan_contact_with_Australi...

Not sure if it's current policy, but the guest lecturer described an assessment process for boats they apprehended. A vintage all-wooden boat with no electricity/etc was allowed to continue their traditional fishing practices in the area. A modern boat with powered outboard, metal/fibreglass hull, etc was seized and destroyed. There was a third class I can't recall that was somewhere in between.

I can see something like this being a way forward, where you can fish smallscale for personal use (yacht crew subsisting on whatever they can catch) or small commercial use with a certain style of boat and catching method. Any bigger operations would be restricted to specific zones, or captured and destroyed with little warning.
There's a lot to admire about Germany's reckoning, especially the Stolpersteine, but the American history is so different that it's a lot harder to apply.

Germans are able to view National Socialism as a horrific 12-year aberration. But in America, slavery was long-term and pervasive. Its presence infects all of our founding myths. Germans can easily denounce and discard Hitler, but it's much harder for us to do that with the likes of Jefferson and Washington.

So much of our American identity is tied up in the founding fathers. Is it possible to celebrate their heroics while denouncing the atrocities they took part in? Washington is the model republican leader, the "American Cincinnatus", and "father of his country". He was courageous, impartial, prudent, and dedicated to the American project. Americans want to see those attributes in themselves and their leaders. Yet he was also a slaveholder and there's no excuse to be made for that.

Jefferson was even worse. Not only did he own slaves, but raped them. He's also the writer of the unofficial American motto and inspiration of many other human rights declaration "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Lincoln later used those words in his denunciations of slavery.

These men don't deserve to be worshiped - frankly no president does - and we do need to have a reckoning with their atrocities rather than brushing them under the rug, but we should not discard their principles which are core to our nation.

America is fairly unique, being a nation of immigrants. "Americanness" doesn't (or shouldn't) represent any ethnicity or religious group, but rather belief in American values like individuality, industriousness, equality, forward-looking and so on. And also the carrying of the original sins of slavery and genocide that the nation was built on top of.
From a mixture of what you have said, with some reading between the lines:

* AU was originally head office + manufacturing + r&d.

* Then, head office was moved to the US (where the company president is now), but manufacturing + r&d were left in Australia. I would bet money that when this happened, there was an announcement of "don't worry, this is the only change we're making, all the other jobs are safe and everything else is staying the same!"

* Now, manufacturing is moving, but everyone else has "been assured that their jobs are safe".

Can you see the pattern? The 3 that have resigned so far can.
Drones are perfect for this use case, as they have long loiter abilities at higher altitudes. Low single digit Global Hawk fleets can provide high availability over large amounts of geography.
Practical REST [for Beginners]
would love more of a writeup on how this project works!
> Look, there are plenty of things that the media at large deservedly gets criticized for, but trying to pretend calling it the Wuhan coronavirus early on in the pandemic is the same thing as specifically emphasizing it as "the Chinese virus" 6 months later is just lying.

Your argument explicitly depends on the context and it depends on the criticism. The context wasn't "6 months later". It was days later. And the criticism was that it is racist. That it is xenophobic. That it is intended to humiliate and threaten people of Chinese descent.

A much more plausible explanation would have been that Trump and his insistence on calling it the "China virus" was an attempt to deflect any political blame for his administration's policies to try and contain the virus. A more plausible explanation was that Trump was being unnecessarily coarse. Or unnecessarily provocative. But no, he was accused of racism and xenophobia.

But even before the phrasing of "China virus" was a thing, Trump was criticized for shutting down travel from China as being racist. In hindsight it turns out to have been a very shrewd, life-saving move. But instead of giving credit where credit's due and recognizing the wisdom of shutting down travel, suddenly the phrasing was racist and xenophobic. The accusations were the same, but the goalposts were moved. That the same people (the media) lobbing the accusations of racism and xenophobia were only days earlier using the same language is clear hypocrisy.

Since racism is wrongthink and wrongthink doesn't merit being discredited, it's easy to see why it's thrown around so casually. It requires no justification and is a cheap way to generate outrage. And that makes it a useful political tool.

We now know that many of these same people (the media along with their cohorts in government and the socials) shut down reasonable discussion regarding the origins of the virus while simultaneously using accusations of racism and xenophobia. And that's potentially scandalous and should be deeply embarrassing.
It sounds like you were asking a 25 year senior who has proven themselves able to start multiple companies leetcode style questions to decide if they are competent. The sort of questions that candidates have to waste months drilling for. That is insane and disrespectful towards the candidates time. Younger people put up with this but seniors know it’s nonsense and he was probably just tired of it all. You didn’t want to hire a software developer, you want a leetcoder
In Praise of Open Source Textbooks
I have recently been using the Linear Algebra book by Jim Hefferon to study the subject. This is because I'm taking a linear algebra course in college, I am visually impaired, and the books I get from college are literally unusable.

As a person who has to use a Screen Reader, math in PDFs is almost impossible to read for me. The problem is almost insurmountable if the PDF is a collection of images, but even if it is a LaTeX-generated PDF, reading anything but the simplest of equations is very, very hard. In these cases, having the LaTeX source to read is a godsend.

To the authors who publish the source of their books: thank you, thank you. I cannot express how grateful I am. To anyone who is related to /working in the publisher space: it would be incredibly useful if there was a process to get the LaTeX source of books upon request, although I understand how copyrights/etc might make this difficult.

Some other books I would like to point out for being open source: Apex Calculus, Open Data Structures.
I must be missing something because when I go to the Chrome password manager all I see is this:

https://i.imgur.com/h7ZAGZw.png

When I choose to edit an entry, it only gives me the option to have a username and password. I don't see where to put security questions or backup codes, etc. and searching around for a TOTP generator feature also yielded no results.

https://i.imgur.com/yN5GaDf.png
Argentinian military, like in most of south America, is completely corrupt and should really stop existing for the good of its people. Whenever they have resources they use it to fuel military dictatorships.
These sorts of tasks are teaching you how to think a specific way which our society promotes. Mechanistic, natural, causal, rational (in the first-order logic sense) with a healthy dose of Ockham's razor and simplicity as an aesthetic.

I stress though, I'm a big fan of these things and the innovations they have enabled, but you still have to understand that they are an axiomatic underpinning. It's like Euclid's parallel postulate in a way: There is non-euclidean geometry out there.
For elegant matrix syntax I like julia or fortran better, if I need a lack of a license or more speed. Octave is good too, but it is much slower than Matlab. Numpy is in a weird spot. Its still slower than Matlab, but its everywhere, but all the versions and environments are different so you need containers to be portable.
Shiva Aayadurai also had some great content on this topic.. we need more of such people to carry the message forward in next generations
And 5) lab detected (But this one is losing power)

'We don't know' can't be a theory (by definition). Theories try to explain and know.
Interesting thing about Mercury is that Prince [1] is written in it which is the only "browser" that supports the full print CSS spec and is widely used and considered the gold standard for converting HTML to PDF. Mercury was developed by the founders of Prince.

So you probably have used content created in Prince which is built with Mercury. Pretty interesting to have such a successful product built with your own programming language that is also as complex as a web browser [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(software)

2. https://www.princexml.com
My One-Line Branchless Solution to FizzBuzz
I just want to make nested checklists to keep track of what needs to be done. That anyone on the team can easily change, reorder or delete without anyone in management knowing or caring how or why we chose to put what we put on the checklist.

Management should only care about the results and money. How we organize to get any particular thing done, should be no one else's concern.
But if the valid hash changes as a function of time (e.g. a time based salt value), does it still matter as much, then? If a stale hash is stolen, then it doesn't allow to log in since it's no longer valid, nor does it allow figuring out the original password.

I find it interesting to reason about all of the interesting ways this could still break, as long as the words of Eoin Woods [1] are followed: "Never invent security tech.", to only reason about these things outside of production environments, and use tested solutions there. In that regard, asymemetric cryptography and the frameworks surrounding it seem to be the one way to go.

Of course, that brings up a further question: why aren't certificates the default way to sign up for sites for end users? Instead of coming up with a password, or using API keys or whatever, why not create a certificate through some sort of a browser/external mechanism instead? It feels like no attempts have been made to make something like that easier, so that it'd replace the concept of passwords.

Thanks for your input, but i guess i shouldn't take up too much of your time.

[1] https://speakerdeck.com/eoinwoods/secure-by-design-security-design-principles-for-the-working-architect?slide=31 (or in video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qN3JBGd1g8 )
Much of the fish in the US is imported from China. So it's not just what "they" are eating.
Imagine that you are designing an electronic bank vault door. The product requirements state that the door should be secure when it’s closed and should only be able to be opened when authorized. Oh, in an emergency, the vault should fail closed unless there are people inside.

How would you prove to the client that your solution implements these requirements? Modeling the system using a language like TLA+ is one way of doing that.
none seem to be from the trains, ah well. still fun.
Linux Touchpad like MacBook: Touchpad gestures land to Qt, Gimp and X server
Getting more money in the hands of governments is not going to do to us any good, they will just increase spending.

It will end up being: increase in price -> increase in government spending.
Everyone will pay the increased prices, governments will pocket a % to keep their employees busy or employ their friends for public work, some of it will be redistributed to a portion of the population.

I believe taxes shouldn't be paid by anyone and governments should disappear.
This is really cool! Would be interested to see if the JavaScript blocks could be used to essentially run integration tests using something like this, so you could assert that the response has certain properties. Being able to define an entire test suite for a service in a format like this would be really useful.
The White Walkers were a direct criticism of the US public and government’s inaction on global warming.
ECS is commonly implemented without reflection. What are these implementations missing?
> But from the beginning there was pushback and more recent work shows there is no reliable correlation between expressions on the face and what we are actually feeling. And yet we have tech companies saying emotions can be extracted simply by looking at video of people’s faces. We’re even seeing it built into car software systems.

I've been involved with a startup where the CEO was certain we're only a step away from replacing humans in recruiting healthcare workers with AI analyzing expressions in self-submitted interview videos, as well as analysis of quizzes. I got pushed aside from that startup for being the 'obnixous technical humanist' (which is a caracterization I wear proudly).

> AI is neither artificial nor intelligent. It is made from natural resources and it is people who are performing the tasks to make the systems appear autonomous.

I've argued as a technological consultant times and times again that the effort they are spending on automating humans out, would be better spent in making those humans happier and augumenting them with an automated system. The fact that the CEO saw his low level employees as just temporary assets ready to be replaced meant that their life in the company was miserable.

> This April, the EU produced the first draft omnibus regulations for AI

I digress. I'm wondering what they're plan of action is since it was a European startup and since April we're theoretically pushed away from using AI to gauge candidates and all of their VC investment money came with the promise of 'automating healthcare recruitment and scaling globally'.
Actually to have safer cities remove cars from the traffic equation. A city without cars will be safer and cleaner for pedestrians and bikes. Air quality will also be better.
What model of WiFi mesh routers did you use? Where did you place them (distance from floor, proximity to metal objects)?
Very convenient to haul 60lb of stuff in public transport...
Jack Dorsey Heckled at Bitcoin Conference by Laura Loomer for Twitter Censorship
And that’s why we don’t see aliens. All of them figure out how to make really powerful lasers before leaving their home planet ;)
> I have never been asked to personally condemn anything

Wear a Trump hat to work and see how long that lasts. Just tell people you voted for him, see if “you’ll be asked to condemn anything”.

“I’ve never had any problems with the people I work with“… probably just means you are aligned with them.
See this: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/69018/merkle-roo..., for another explanation for the setting in which Merkle Trees are efficient at proving the existence of a vertex.
> Formal legal equality, they argue, the promise of the American experiment, has never been actual equality, even as, over the centuries, it has been extended to everyone.

This is simply, factually true (except for the “it has been extended to everyone”, part; even formally, legally, the US system permits discrimination on every axis, it even has a strict heirarchy of conditions required to discriminate.) To deny it is inconsistent with the overt liberal ideals that the piece here seeks to defend, which perhaps is itself an illustration of how the American national mythology built around it supposed devotion to the ideals of liberalism supercedes actual liberal rationality.

> It is, rather, a system to perpetuate inequality forever, which is the single and only reason racial inequality is still here.

Is that the intent? I dunno, I’m not really comfortable treating groups of people as ibdividuals with coherent intent. That seems yo be dangerously straining convenient metaphor. Is it the experienced outcome? Certainly.

Is it the reason for the outcome? Certainly, mythologizing legal equality and overstating its reality and consequences on material condition is a source of resistance to change to deal with actual substantive systemic inequality (while that may seem cobtroversial under modern “legal equality” that includes integration, the benefit of hindisght abd emotional distance should help even defenders of the justice of the status quo recognize that it was under the segregationist system of separate-but-formally-equal).

Come talk to me when your defense of “liberalism” and “Enlightenment rationality” against Critical Race Theory doesn’t start out with dogmatic defense of mythology about the concrete results of those things that isn’t defensible on the terms you claim to be defending.
I have also suffered periods of technical burnout -- it's almost inevitable that the workload will exceed your capacity at some point in your career.

Contrarian opinion here - maybe it's okay to leave the side projects behind. I don't work for a FAANG, but have had several senior and lead developer positions at mid-to-large companies for the last 20 years. As I moved in my career I took on increasingly challenging projects at my day job, and quite frankly there was nothing I could do in my free time that would be close to the challenge or variety of some of the larger projects I have worked on. By the end of the week I just had no brain capacity for more tech stuff.

I have consistently spent 10% of my work time on new training (whether it was company policy or not) to ensure that my skills have kept up to date, and I use that to introduce new technologies to the company when it organically fit the companies needs.

I would suggest experimenting with some new hobbies (preferably something athletic to offset the office work) to see if anything interests you. You may have reached the point in your career where your day job is enough "tech stuff".
They've been delivering on that reasonably well I think. https://news.mit.edu/2021/lithium-ion-battery-costs-0323
I'd electric bike that.
The worst thing is, people have this belief that Apple is somehow protecting them, so they offload the critical thinking to Apple and lower their own guards. For example, a person thought he was getting a legitimate Bitcoin wallet app, but turns out it was a fake and he lost his life savings [1].

edit: to be clear, I'm not blaming Apple for not stopping these scams, at their scale, it's just practically impossible to stop every scam, but by making their unrealistic promise that everything on the app store is safe, they are misleading people into this false sense of security.

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/30/trezor-...
I had the same exact thing happen to me in 2017. It was so bad that I packed my stuff, left San Francisco for good and radically changed my day to day. I decided I'm just gonna make music – which I did for the whole of 2018.

Things radically changed once again in 2019 when I did my first ayahuasca. That somehow almost completely eliminated my "tech PTSD" and I went back to tech a month or so after.

It's been 2 years now, I have a remote job and side projects that I can't wait to work on when I wake up.
> Exactly Zero

Based on experience in Internet forums, I believe we either need to be in a 'curious state' or the conversation isn't worthwhile - in fact, it's a negative - and I think when someone says 'Exactly Zero' of my comment has value, they aren't curious.

dang describes a 'curious state' very well:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
The issue is that many of the desirable farmed fish like tuna and salmon are carnivores. Farming them still requires catching mass quantities of less-commercially-useful fish along with the issues that has.

Edit: I should say part of the issue. There are other ecological concerns with farmed fish.
The right tag for the job: why you should use semantic HTML
The modern trap of turning hobbies into hustles (2019)