skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What makes this film fun for me is that sense that the world was still undiscovered - there were places you could go that had been forgotten, that mystical artifacts possibly existed, that secrets were encoded in plain sight and that the world was still big. That good and bad were easily identifiable helps a lot.

Some of that is just nostalgia for being a kid when I first saw it, but the world is definitely smaller and less morally definable than it was in the 1980s and vastly smaller than it was in the 1930s. There is an enduring appeal in thinking there are still big secrets and undiscovered places, rather than a meticulously satellite mapped and annotated world with nowhere to hide.

Even living on the most sparsely populated continent in the world, it's obvious you can never truly get too far away from other humans and that the age of discovery has been over for at least a hundred years.

I refuse to use the renamed version of the title, it's always going to be "Raiders of the Lost Ark" plain and simple.
The FDR era featured a lot more public corruption and cronyism then [sic] currently exists.

This is a bizarre misrepresentation of history. There are entire industries of corruption now that didn't even exist in FDR's time. The current government spends far more as a percentage of (a vastly larger) GDP; the fact that nothing useful gets done can't very well argue for less corruption.
Amazing. When I was a student working at a provincial election main office I used code to automate my job and that of five of my fellow students. Learned similar lessons.
Apple Is Ending Email Tracking with a Single Popup
They absolutely are, but "if you use Gmail then Google has access to all your emails" is not exactly a shocking security violation.
Now, consider that there's work going on to enable Linux to be compiled with profile guided optimization with clang[0], the DAMON patchset that enables proactive reclamation with "32% memory saving with only 1.91% runtime overhead"[1] and performance improvements achievable with futex2 system call[2].

Linux future seems bright with regard to performance.

[0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/1/11/98

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210608115254.11930-1-sj38.par...

[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/4/27/1208
I know some working livestock dogs; they'd be upset to be taken from their herd, they wouldn't be to worried about switching people.
The only caveat is carbon wheels. I hate rim brakes on carbon wheels,they legitimately suck and disc is way better for that application.

I actually just sold my carbon wheels and downgraded back to aluminium until I buy a disc bike for the long term.
Day One is such a big part of my life that this acquisition makes me very worried about its future. It's been gradually getting more aggressive with pushing people into subscriptions, and while I'm still on the grandfathered plan that can use sync without subscription, it makes me worried that I might have to migrate my entire 4-5 years of journal data to something else soon...
Ask the Internet Archive if they want them.
Generating electrical energy isn't difficult.

That's good; it should be generated where it's needed and then distribution will be unnecessary.
Yes, with pneumatic tires the contact patch area is the load force divided by the pressure.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27510192
now you have to have a cell phone number, registered with the state, and pay ongoing maintenance for the number’s service in order to take part in commerce. Imagine a world where nobody had to get anyone’s permission to send or receive payments, or pay ongoing fees for a service number, or register that number with the state. Now do you see where cryptocurrency folks are coming from?
"At the tunnels, especially Summit Tunnel, the Chinese were using great amounts of black powder, up to five hundred kegs a day."

"The CP found that, when they got to drilling holes of fifteen to eighteen inches into the granite, poured in the liquid nitroglycerin, capped the hole with a plug, and fired it with a percussion cap, the nitroglycerin did a far better job than powder. The work progressed at nearly double the speed, and the granite was broken into far smaller pieces. But the accidents proved too much. In one, after a number of charges had been set off simultaneously, a Chinese worker hit a charge of nitro that hadn't exploded with his pick.
It exploded and killed him and the others working near that spot. Strobridge declared, "Bury that stuff." Crocker said to get it out of there. And even though Nobel perfected dynamite in 1866, it was never tested or used by the CP. In 1867, the CP ignored the dangers and did make and use its own nitroglycerin, but except at Summit Tunnel did not make a practice of it."

"Nothing Like It In The World", Ambrose, pg. 200-201

I'm not just quoting the book, I read the whole thing. It's really a great story.
I disagree with that SCOTUS decision. It completely obliterated CFAA. Imagine if they said nurses/doctors could do that with their terminals and it didn't violate HIPAA.

I will say there is a ridiculous amount of redtape around law enforcement using data. Loopholes with third party access is already something that exist. So if it's above board monitoring would be easier... But I'm not sure we have adequate monitoring let alone enforcement now.

I feel this is a weak case to attack 3rd party data scrapers/brokers. The public generally recognizes the monster we created by having life changing data accessible to anyone with $50 and a bank account.

I want to side with LinkedIn but realistically I'm becoming more and more jaded on the concept of open internet and iot of everything. I hate the alternative of an open internet worse. I would love to restrict data scrapers but at the same time should we restrict who has that data? I'd rather we shift how we use the internet and socially enforce boundaries on companies.

I cant even open my fridge, use my microwave, stove without it being logged either by the electric company or bluetooth enabled appliance with TV and wifi temperature control software company where you hope an update doesnt brick the appliance.

There is no way in my mind that data helps the consumer. It might help companies maximize profit but at what energy consumption/cost to the environment?
I recommend Huckleberry [1] for all your baby poop tracking needs. I wouldn't want to do that shit in a spreadsheet.

[1] https://huckleberrycare.com/
Enhance Your Programming Vocabulary
PowerBI will become your worst nightmare
I've been looking at PowerBI the last few months, watching videos to see how people are using it, and am rolling out some simple dashboards for healthcare government agency.

As background, I'm coming more from a business/finance background but can do some simple coding (R, Python) and am familiar with some of the software development principals - git etc..

Take a look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr9UBeZ3AvQ - which is adding some functionality to a PowerBI dashboard.

Problems I see:
- Maintainability of this report/code will be near impossible. There is estially code hidden everywhere in the file.
- A new maintainer coming in will have absolutely zero idea how complicated this report is with out diving deep down into each field/measure.

From what I have picked up over the years, and reading HN, this is the perfect example of how PowerBI is going to become a nightmare. How do people not see this?

Honestly, PowerBI is one of the worst pieces of software I have seen the more I have looked at it.
I believe there is a point at which we will be emulating silicon so fast that we will be able to realize true Single Instruction Set computing.

Such a machine would be nowhere near as efficient as a CISC computer in terms of work per clock cycle, but what if our "silicon" in the future can run an almost arbitrary frequency? We would be able to emulate any instruction set natively in real time. The perfect FPGA.
This is frequent result of when two completely independent decision chains meet but are drastically different in every other way.

The method by which grocery stores layout items can have a lot of per location variation or in other works per location knowledge.

Sure most store changes have it figured out for normal items but like the arrival notes, seasonal and temporary items often have incorrect information.

Even worse is when the normal stock location e.g cold beer in the beer isle is limited in capacity so overstock(?) is put in other locations that differ day to day, location to location. Good luck knowing that the overstock location for beer is the soda isle but also sometimes the seasonal area during any holiday or sporting event.

The other side of the decision process, are the companies doing these apps which optimize for every variable, make every picker 100% replaceable. It would be interesting if they could incentivize pickers to learn a handful of stores inside and out.
Wow, a lot of people on Twitter angry that the security guard didn't try and take the guy out, and blaming the city and state governments for not being tough enough on crime. Is "I'm closing my store because there's too much crime" a thing that happens in real life?
So do pdf-417 barcodes. I remember writing the code for pdf417_decode and pdf417_encode (freeware) back in the day. The Blahut book on error correcting codes was a great help, but all the examples where using binary galois fields. The pdf-417 used a field of powers of 3 mode 929, so my brain had to figure out how that worked and put it into code.
The contact patch is only larger if the pressure is lower, and with a wide tire the contact patch is shorter and wider. Because of that there is less deformation of a wider tire along the rolling direction which is what creates rolling resistance.
The new Web UI has gotten quite a lot faster since release. Mine fully loads in under a second now, with one more second for hangouts to connect. The Android app I have all the tabs disabled though, but I don't have any speed problems there either. Are you still experiencing the slow performance that were there at launch?
I think this is part of the appeal of Markdown-based editors. The nicer ones can make the text look good both while typing and when exporting, but there's little to no hidden magic. WordPerfect, XyWrite/Nota Bene, and WordStar had -- and still have -- fans who insist that they were unparalleled at "just sit down and write"; good Markdown editors bring a lot of that back.

(And no, Markdown isn't, on its own, a replacement for a full-blown word processor, LaTeX, or the like. Many classes of documents just aren't that complicated, though.)
I mean go read the OPEC mission statement - I'm sure you'll see it's about stabilising the supply and making things sustainable. But at the end of the day it's about profit and price controls. EU has an additional layer of PC on top but it's the same bullshit - it started out with coal and steel, then they added things like auto manufacturers and farmers. If you think EU is a free market institution you are seriously out of touch.
Dinosaurs beat us to the moon by 65M years
It's a little different but in essence I agree.

Assuming the bricking of FTDI devices as mentioned in the update isn't "We sent out code to intentionally destroy counterfeits" (i.e. it served no other purpose, wasn't an accident[0])

Did they QA it with counterfeit devices to ensure they were bricked? Or did they just write a new driver for their devices that happened to result in (some/all) counterfeits being bricked?

If it's the latter, then it's not FTDI's fault. It's unreasonable to expect FTDI to QA their drivers against products that aren't theirs.

It is, however, their problem. The last activity that user did was install their driver, and the result is broken stuff. They've just accidentally pissed off a bunch of non-but-possible-future-customers. Taking "fairness" away: a percentage of those affected will assume it was intentional, even if it is very obvious that it is not[0]. And even of those who don't blame FTDI, a percentage of those will feel FTDI owes them something, anyway simply because "big bad corporation"[1]. It's probably in their best interest[2] to detect non-genuine products, inform the user of the potential risks and either prevent the driver from loading or allow the user to accept the risks at their peril if there's a chance the driver can brick the device.

[0] Say, the counterfeit has half the storage/ram of the geniune, and reports it has the same capacity, etc, and a driver update passes the "reality barrier"

[1] Forgetting how often "big bad corporation" is really, really, tiny -- and I have no idea whether or not FTDI is big; it's not relevant.

[2] Albeit, it may not be from a legal perspective...
maybe we need a good monopoly lawsuot since safari is usually the only browser available on the iphone.

im tempted to just x out the safari logo on mine since it likely cant be tested
Honestly, I pull up. I'm not pulling the pedal up, I'm lifting the leg and pulling my foot up, getting it into postion to push again, same as I would do for running.

you should try it, you can feel the relief in the pushing leg.
So for people who pay 5$/user/month for having Gmail on their own domain (which is really the main use a lot of individuals have for Gsuite), this is no-op?
Safari has an open source browser engine which is also used by gtk and gnome(Gnome Web)
So not only did they write something baffling, they also wrote it so that it was semi-portable.
One is reminded of Nassim Taleb's writing on efficiency and fragility. Long-lived systems (e.g. in biology) have a built in surplus, rather than operating everything at peak efficiency, because longevity is often determined not by how well you perform normally, but how well you perform during your worst crisis moments.
> For example, compare Google Reader at its peak MAU, to the current #1 open-source RSS reader app.

What's the current #1 open-source RSS reader app? Google Reader at its peak was by far the best RSS reader I've ever used - and presumably the same was true for many other users, hence why it shutting down functionally killed RSS entirely. But possibly I've just not found the better alternatives.

> Or compare Google+ to, say, Mastadon.

Wasn't your original point to compare similarly-sized services? G+'s userbase was multiple orders of magnitude larger than Mastodon's has ever been.
I think it is mostly a case of scientific belief in a trial by error process: if you believe in trying a bunch of different ideas, you are likely to eventually hit on solutions that help or hinder. You do need some minimum set of ability and brain power to do this effectively. However, even prophylactic or placebo effects can be minor wins (so long as you can manage to avoid dangerous things, like too much https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radithor ).
Never forget: by the end of the 90's, Corel bet highly on Linux. They ported software, contributed to wine and even had their own distro. By early 2000's microsoft bought some corel shares[0]. Soon after that, corel stopped contributing to wine, stopped new versions of their office suite for Linux and abandoned their distro.

Linux still has many problems on the desktop, but the failure of it achieving a significant fraction of this market can also be assigned to active sabotage from some external players.

[0] https://slashdot.org/story/00/10/02/220238/microsoft-buys-in...
That's a great point. I often do writing in markdown format using vim.

I really wanted to like LaTeX for writing, but I kept having to look up how to use it.
Ask HN: How do you estimate the code quality of a company after an interview
Hi friends, here is my thought:

We all know that for all kinds of programming jobs, or for all jobs that need to write code (even VBA counts), code quality is super important when you are inheriting a huge code base. The problem is: how to estimate it after the interview when they email you an offer? I don't think you get to see the code until you start working there, and albeit you can quit easily during the first few weeks, making the wrong choice puts you into a disadvantage position (just imagine you have 3 offers, you decline two and accept the one with a shit mountain codebase).

Some methods I think of:

1) Just asking around. Well it might work, but again your future colleagues might not tell you the truth, or they simply don't know/care about the code quality there.

2) Judging from lead personality. But what kind of personality cares about code quality?

3) Asking about tech stack and especially change of tech stack. This might actually work to some extent.

What's your thought?
>If a policy is effective and correct, I would not call it extreme.

Now if we could just convince most Senators to follow this principle!
I'm a mechanical engineer and I never would have guessed this. Kudos for doing testing to see what's actually true.
Show HN: Acronos – An asynchronous meetings platform for modern teams
Most web apps/websites aren't a whole lot more sophisticated than they were in the days of Netscape Navigator 3.0. They show text and pictures, accept form submissions and resize the viewport when I change the window size. Yet today they seem to require multi gigahertz CPUs to do anything acceptably fast. Yes there are a few that were not possible back then. Most though can't justify their resource consumption. Neither on the client nor on the server side.
Oh, very interesting. I hadn't considered that a quantum-resistant private key might have its security depend on a large amount of input randomness.
Hello HN!

Acronos is a team discussions platform that facilitates meetings completely asynchronously. Just start a discussion, say what you have to say through text, audio, video and more, and then open discussion to your team or specific people as an open discussion, or by asking specific questions and requesting answers to those. You can even automate daily standup meetings and more!

This came out of a need for my team to work remotely and we when meeting planning and scheduling became tough, we built this. It's been a great change letting people respond on their time and keeping track of every discussion efficiently.

We're close to launch of Acronos to public and we're opening it up to a few beta companies for now. If you'd like early access, check out our site and click on Get Now to fill the early access form. Happy to take any questions.

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The fire is about 4ft feet away from the tent. As you can see in the video with my grandson the fire is a small, wide, low, fire.

There is no way a properly built and managed fire like that will set that tent on fire.

And I did point out at the end of that post that you need to have campfire skills to do this safely.
This has been my experience. Fitbod is a good example of solid product-market fit (for me at least) without followup execution.

After the first use I was sold and paid for the annual subscription. But it's so buggy (especially when paired with an Apple Watch) that I've nearly stopped using it.

When I first started, I used the app DESPITE the bugs. Eventually the bugs got too painful to deal with. Now I do What Feels Right when I work out. Probably a worse strategy, but I prefer it over fighting through the bugs. (I keep the subscription in hopes that they will improve their app.)
Oops I guess they inquired the WORKERS about the lack of hot water, smart.
Thanks so much for ripgrep!! It has become my goto for searching large code bases!!
Maybe a lot of effort for little reward here, but you could always try contacting someone like LGR[1] and offer to send some for the purposes of making a video to show some of them off being unboxed and then used on their original hardware. In some senses, that might be about as good as sending it to a museum!

1 - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLx053rWZxCiYWsBETgdKrQ
>The first is that, by reading from both sides, they’ll balance and you’ll arrive at an enlightened center. This assumes the Overton Window is balanced, stationary, and not tilted to one side or the other. You’re beholden to the good judgement of each side to not move themselves further left or right.

Or, alternatively, and I think this will be a rather more accurate description of most centrists, it means that the partisan axis doesn't really describe any "principal component" of variation in people's actual opinions.

Indeed, this is broadly what political scientists find, IIRC: very few people hold the opinion "we should do as little as possible", but many people hold an opinion on one issue that gets them classed as "left-wing" and an opinion on another issue that gets them classed as "right-wing" -- and see no real contradiction between the two.
Y'all
Be careful with streaks. If you failed or forgot to fill in one box, it can be demoralizing.

Remember, streaks are not goals in itself, but a mean to achieve a goal.
process is relevant to pricing which is the point of GP's complaint. FTDI is not pricing their products competitively. That's why clones are eating their lunch.
I think there are foreign actors. But I don't think that's the entire explanation. I think rather they're taking advantage of rifts that were already here. And there are plenty of home-grown actors taking advantage of these rifts as well.
10:20 "when you reconnect" hahaha
10:20 "it's all stuff we made up"
10:20 "see you in hell, monkeyboy"
Android has auto-update for apps, although if your phone was too outdated then obviously no help. Note that sarcasm is generally unwelcome on hn (as per comments I have seen from dang).
It was also implemented in relational databases 30+ years ago and variants were patented by companies like Oracle and IBM. Geohashing was abandoned due to its several deficiencies as an indexing method, which still hold true today, in favor of other algorithms.

Ironically, geohashing seemed novel at the time because it was so obsolete that no modern system uses it. It is sort of like someone claiming to invent punch cards for programming.
> subject to compliance requirements that mandate that they themselves possess or have access to the raw information

It's literally called "(K)now (Y)our (C)ustomer".
Same here. 100-slide decks open without a problem for our entire org. And drive search is spot on 99% of the time. There are other issues, but these aren’t it.
I bought an Ikea induction to try it out alongside my gas stove. And it seems to heat my cast iron and steel pots and pans just as fast or faster than gas.
I want to go to a baseball game with a sign that says, "Legalize foreign substances".

Casual viewers like games with lots of hits and lots of runs, and the MLB has gone through a lot of effort to facilitate this (ie: runner starting on second in extras), but as someone who is really into the long-haul aspect of baseball (I like the whole farming and development system, I like the idea that baseball is not fair in terms of cap space, I like that the season is so long with so many games, I like the strategy around managing the bullpen), I really like watching "boring" games where pitchers are just throwing disgusting nasty pitches for 7-8 innings. There is nothing more exciting to me than a no-no. I really don't have any issue with foreign substances -- it's still impressive nonetheless.

To me, baseball is the only sport where fandom really makes sense. In basketball, you'll see fans of players moreso than teams -- their fandom will follow ie: LeBron around. And why shouldn't they be mostly fans of players? The coach and management makes little difference. This is opposed to in baseball where when you're a fan of a team, you're also a fan of the management and the owners and the coaches and the little decisions they make over the time-span of weeks (and even years) to get to a winning team. A lot of pieces have to come together, you can't just buy a superstar -- although you're free to try.

When one pitcher can throw nasty stuff (not necessarily throwing hard, just throwing precisely) and save his team from using the arm of someone in the pen, it's super exciting to me. If a little bit of pine tar is facilitating that, it's all the same to me.