skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some associated thoughts from 2016:

There's a remaining element that's not included here though, and that's the idea of connecting those questions into a coherent framework. Something I'm looking at in that regard is How Superstition Won and Science Lost: Popularizing Science and Health in the United States, by John C. Burnham. (http://www.worldcat.org/title/how-superstition-won-and-scien...) One element Burnham attacks specifically is the desystematisation of scientific communication, most especially in the popular media, where the goal "was to make the reader look at the paper and say, 'Gee whiz!'". The result:

The danger of unconnected facts outside of a systematic context was recognized early in all fields. In 1901, Stratton D. Brooks, who taught pedagogy at the University of Illinois, criticized untrained science teachers who, lacking 'the spirit of scientific investigation,' taught useless facts unrelated to the body of science. More than thirty years later, another educator was still denouncing 'giving the world facts without teaching it how to think about those facts and how to use them properly.' Nor was this phenomenon merely an aspect of bad teaching. F.C. Robinson of Bowdoin in 1905 denounced 'scraps of health knowledge ... - predigested knowledge brought on with one's predigested breakfast food,' facts that could entertain but not influence. By 1945, Carl J Potthoff of the University of Minnesota was still saying, 'Health education today emphasizes facts; its contribution otherwise to the thinking discipline appears to be fragmentary,' and in 1972 the authors of a Food and Drug Administration report found that most Americans did not have a systematic approach to health but rather used a 'rampant empiricism' based upon isolated facts and personal 'experience.' In 1947, historian of science I. Bernard Cohen was observing that specialization had broken popular science presentations into fragments: 'The average reader is not at fault for having little feeling for the life of science as a whole,' because modern popularization 'has introduced him to unconnected scientific achievements,' mostly, of course, practical. And in 1981, Leon Tractman of Purdue was complaining that he was so overcome by the facts of popularized science that he doubted their utility for anything....

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5bkbmg/a_day_i...
Almost all the add-ons are subscription-based, and most people use at least a few of those.
Ask HN: How do I concentrate more in meetings
I just try to listen but start to think about anything else till i catch myself but the process just repeats. Basically its boring but important. Not sure if there is some solution, maybe making notes ?
I agree on the slimness of Docker images, but if you e.g. have some kind of video or photo CMS written in PHP, then any housekeeping or export scripts etc are better off being written in PHP as well (or even integrated into the application) given how close they're already bound with the rest of the application.

For anything beyond that, I would very greatly prefer to have "black box", extremely verbose log dumps and database dumps that I could analyse over at my actual dev machine, or a good debugger that lets me step through the code to figure out what's going wrong.

I do realise that not all languages have good tooling, or that some people prefer to use `printf` style debugging, so it may not apply to all.
True, but it may very well get you a lot more than 50 a minute.
IMHO, it's better than a deluge of political posts.

I don't mind reading about politics but I come to HN to read about tech. We can go elsewhere to get whatever politics we desire.
The New York Times has since removed the offending sentence from this article, so it appears they agree that the wording was inappropriate.
If what is was also what ought to be, it wouldn’t be worth mentioning.

Personally I don’t have more than a nebulous idea of what I think the shape of free speech ought to be: {fire in a crowded theatre, parasite medicine during a viral
pandemic, homeopathic cancer remedies in general} seem like harmful things to allow, but the reason society (collectively rather than just the individuals within it) should allow and encourage free speech is to find the stuff where we’re all incorrectly confident what is and isn’t true. It combats groupthink.

Likewise, who should that freedom bind? Just the government, nobody else? That’s great where communication is mediated by public-owned forums, public-owned post, and public-owned telephone networks, but most communication is now mediated my private companies.

Compelling all private companies to be content-neutral in the same way as the government? I don’t see the downsides, but it is a radical change and I am a very long way from any form of law let alone constitutional.

But the point is, this is about what isn’t, not what is.
VMware refuse to admit leak of Atlassian Confluence RCE
I can't find any information on if VMware has a bug bounty provider, but if this is a bug bounty provider, they need to be held responsible too.
200 rps is not great.
Feedback on the site - probably should have some kind of way to let companies get off the list. For example, I know Twitter has a big office in Boulder, but they're on the list for a single job posting from two months ago that 404s.
> Just FYI, US public education is not good even in effluent areas.

See: Freudian slip
Socialism is a system where a clique of powerful people jail and abuse anyone who opposes their ways. Ostensibly it's for the good of society, but in reality it's just for the ruling class. Source: lived under socialism for 14 years. Also observe N.K.

Come to think of it, it's a woke utopia. Enforced equality, anti-meritocracy and cancellings making everyone live under constant fear.
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Yes, it’s true. Even if you remove the bad hires after six months, that’s six months of wasted mentoring effort and six months of of not being able to fill that position with someone who can do better.

That’s also six months that the bad hire’s coworkers have to put up with a bad employee on their team. They’re going to wonder if bad hires are the new norm and take it as a sign that it’s time for them to move on.

Bad hires have a lot of ripple effects. Most employees aren’t isolated islands within a company. Their coworkers suffer the most.
I guess I was listing the value of what crypto has.

What does "productive" mean? If something has somekind of value/property that is useful somehow, then isn't this "productive" in the sense that it produces that value?
I know it’ll probably never happen but I always thought it would be cool if there was an industry standard (or probably a few for different wheel bases) skateboard to cab interface/mounting points so that one could buy a skateboard from a choice of manufacturers and then pick a cab from another. I’m guessing the skateboard manufacturers would eventually consolidate into just a few, but cab makers could range from cheaper imports all the way up to super high end custom built ones. The ability to upgrade either a skateboard or cab independently from each other would be pretty sweet, too.
Firing is dangerous, it can demoralize the team extremely quickly. My rough rule of thumb is that for anybody who was even marginally liked who gets fired, expect one of your best people to leave.

On the other hand, if there is someone who people don't like, who visibly avoids work, and the rest of the team resents them, then firing is actually a really positive thing.
Looks fine over here, and he doesn't have to route through a fucking Internet gatekeeper like Cloudflare or Amazon... let's enjoy this golden era before Chrome starts flagging any site which isn't fronted by a "reputable" cache like Cloudflare, Amazon, or whatever Google decides to introduce.
I find that a simple list works best. The time spent on fancy lists/tools is better spent on doing the actual tasks on those lists.
Every university has a different agreement on how skipping reqs and credits work, but I'm really surprised that you're saying you need to go to a flagship school for Calc 2, because I believe that's normally covered just by the Calc BC AP exam.

Even if a college didn't want to transfer the credits for Calc 3, I'm surprised that they wouldn't allow you to skip the course. Also, for your friends, if they took a class at the same institution... doesn't that mean they got a repeat? Strange.

I also wouldn't generalize these things to people who occupy university posts, as they probably had interesting trajectories.
https://twitter.com/UnderdogDevs just links to a youtube channel. Assuming this is basically a pitch for UnderDog Devs... if you want to actually hire UnderDog Devs how do you learn more about that?
Some fabs did shutdown this year. One in Japan due to a fire and some in Texas due to power loss. I think both are back up and running, but it did not help to lose production.

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2021/03/30/200...

https://www.statesman.com/story/business/2021/04/30/austin-f...
Those can all co-exist with price transparency to create a more efficient market than without price transparency. I fail to see why society would not want to benefit from the price signals and have as much of a head start as possible on adjusting labor supply and demand rather than failing to and then having to suffer while trying to correct.

Here is a real world example I know from someone suffering due to their lack of interest in real world prices. Pay for most pharmacists has been flat since 2011, and declining since 2016. This is known from pharmacist sharing their pirate offers on pharmacy forums.

However, 22 year olds entering pharmacy school were not paying attention to this information, and instead were relying on the BLS's predictions that pharmacy demand would go up 10% and the schools' marketing showing that even though they will spend $200k on tuition, they will come out with amazing pay.

Now, if you read the forums, they are full of pharmacists regretting going into pharmacy, being crushed by hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt, and not doing their jobs properly of double checking prescription medications in order to ensure they still have a job because they have that student loan debt gun to their head.

So due to lack of pay transparency, there are tens of millions of Americans going to CVS and Walgreens getting medications from overworked pharmacists who themselves admit cannot properly vet the prescriptions to the degree they should. In the meantime, the schools that inflated tuition and class sizes got to benefit and taxpayers are left holding the bag by subsidizing these student loans.
have yet to see FreshBooks mentioned in this thread.

https://www.cloudwards.net/best-accounting-software/

https://www.freshbooks.com/
Yeah if I was building a business website I would want distributed caching/a CDN, mainly to support spikes, like what is happening now!
Some days it's difficult to tell which organization is truly in charge of the united states. Nominally for example, the state governments are in charge of things like medical care regulation, but increasingly unelected national business men threaten retaliation whenever the legislature passes law they don't like.
People tend to severely underestimate how fast modern machines are and overestimate how much you need to spend on hardware.

Back in my last startup, I was doing a crypto market intelligence website that subscribed to full trade & order book feeds from the top 10 exchanges. It handled about 3K incoming messages/second (~260M per day), including all of the message parsing, order book update, processing, streaming to websocket connections on any connected client, and archival to PostGres for historical processing. Total hardware required was 1 m4.large + 1 r5.large AWS instances, for a bit under $200/month, and the boxes would regularly run at about 50% CPU.
A tubless setup definitely requires some supplies as as well.
> Awww... You like each other but none of you dare to make the first move :D

Only if you ignore reality. If you hold a meeting and don't tell me about it, how can I attend? Both sides want the ops people involved. Maybe the one having the meeting should invite them.
That's why I made this post, was very happy to see how much it could theoretically handle.
I'm skeptical of the Apple Car project as a casual observer, are the employees too?
> still following a hunch

I'm not sure many would agree that the desire to scale was simply a "hunch".
Link worked for me, not a subscriber.
Is it really because of the physical size of the car? I rather think they're unable to keep it secret because of the large amounts of specialized hiring, supply chain talks, etc
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Not mine, but I'll pass the message on to the friend. I know they're focused on some other areas now. Thanks!
One of the first things I bookmark in every PDF I read is the index. When it's a click away, it becomes especially valuable.
https://www.cloudwards.net/best-accounting-software/
> CMU (don’t remember the name of their system)

Andrew [1], not sure it was usable in 1984 though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Project
I have a Muse 2 [1] and a Flowtime [2]; both are consumer-oriented portable EEGs using Bluetooth to transmit data displayed on their respective mobile apps.

The Muse hardware is seriously inhibited by the same user-exploitative trends we see everywhere, accompanied by meaningless promises. Many researchers used the Muse SDK and API until they discontinued it in 2019 [3] in favor of Muse Direct - another way to force users to feed Muse their data and lock them into a subscription.

Unsurprisingly, this was also abandoned [4] and they claim "We're working on a solution that allows you to collect raw EEG data using the free to download" app, which would still allow Muse complete control over your authentication, use and data. Ugh.

At least the community has reverse-engineered the LSL protocol and built a Python package [5].

Flowtime claimed that it offers a closed API, as they don't have the resources to maintain an open API [6]. I remember somewhere they claimed it was on their roadmap, but I searched again today and couldn't find any support of their claim.

BrainBit [7] and NextMind [8] seem to provide more robust developer tools, although I have no experience. Naturally, each of these runs more than double the ~$200 cost of the Muse and Flowtime devices.

I have no formal neurological education but I strongly believe non-invasive EEGs, combined with novel, gamified training techniques coupled with machine learning will usher in a new era of digital interactions. Like the transition from tactile smartphone keypads to the eventually-ubiquitous full touchscreen, I expect many design iterations in both hardware and software will produce utterly fascinating products.

I can't wait to get excited again for a product launch.

[1] https://choosemuse.com/muse-2/
[2] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/flowtime-biosensing-medit...
[3] https://github.com/sccn/labstreaminglayer/issues/30
[4] https://choosemuse.force.com/s/article/Muse-Direct-Subscript...
[5] https://github.com/alexandrebarachant/muse-lsl
[6] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/987756376/flowtime-bios...
[7] https://sdk.brainbit.com/
[8] https://www.next-mind.com/developer/
Just fixed it thanks :)
I heard Tesla fans speculate that coverage of Tesla's cars failing is driven by a secret cabal of short sellers and car manufacturers that are conspiring with the media, which apparently is also out to get Tesla.
Broadly speaking people on HN have no clue how to setup a performant httpd/app server and are impressed by abysmal performance/cost metrics like this or the MangaDex post. Everything these days is obscured through multiple layers of SaaS offerings and unnecessary bloat like kubernetes.

~10k rps (it was concurrent connections but close enough) was state of the art in 1999. Now 22 years later ~50 rps is somehow impressive.
Pepe ftw
Compared to what? I grew up in Shanghai and went to great schools but I also attended one of the best public school districts in Texas for high school, and there are many areas that I think my high school did better than its Chinese counterparts.
I'd say AWS is what gives Amazon the "tech" credentials, not Amazon.com which Target and Walmart are working on becoming.
Looks cool, all browsers look samey these days.
The big firefox update some time ago basically turned it into chrome. Appearance-wise.
This was super groundbreaking it was wild. Also Animatrix - set of animated short movies each discribing some part of the world. Super nice pack.
hypnosis is pretty good for fear
>" You have a bright career as a LinkedIn influencer ahead of you. "

I am not sure exactly what you meant to say, but this came off as a bit snide (to me).
True, a voucher system that let parents take their education dollars with them and spend it on the school of their choice would go a long way towards solving this. There's a reason the only serious opponents against school choice are teachers unions.

In some inner city districts there's a budget of nearly $20k per student. At that rate, a few parents could get together and hire PhD's to personally tutor their children.

This is something a well off friend of mine did with a bunch of other people during COVID last year. He called it a pod of families.

Imagine if everyone had access to this through vouchers?
Sweetwater is not "getting away with it." They have verified legal clearance, and the owner of linux experience does not.

Your concerns about "scamming" aren't relevant. Many of YouTube's most popular channels do this sort of contest, and there is no hard ban on this type of thing.
That’s not exactly novel either.

I’ve seen engines that do that and updated my own code to do so. Unfortunately git says that was added after they filed.

Their employees could have easily pulled this from community discourse.

What’s probably needed is community backlash; no more unity games. It worked with Apple.
Working in the space, that's one of the more frustrating things to see on HN/Reddit/etc. It's not a complex or niche thing, and especially for sites that only make profit when people can actually visit them, it's kind of a necessity to stay up as much as possible.

(Obviously the sales thing doesn't apply to OP)
I wanted to change to see if it will help me to reach more people. Do you think it's a problem? I'm new with hackernews
> The car manufactures have nothing to lose from the loss of oil changes, only the independent dealers

The dealers and the manufacturers are a symbiotic relationship.

If the service department stops being a cash cow, is the manufacturer supposed to give up more of their margin?

Because the dealers are independent just enough that if they decide to fold, the manufacturer can't just swoop in and keep everything running.

Right now people don't appreciate how happy the manufacturers are to sell the car to the dealer and take their money. If a car sits on the lot for a year it's not their problem (unless all of them do that is and there's no room)

Service departments and Finance departments are the two things that keep that relationship going. Right now part of the resistance to EVs from dealers is also likely the potential buyers.

You can guestimate EVs have a 10k premium over comparable ICE vehicles right now going based on a base Model 3 vs a Camry. The people who have money for that premium likely have better credit scores and can't be hit with extremely lucrative subprime rates.

Someone with an 800 credit score won't let them tack on a 3% finance reserve to their 1% loan, but someone with a 650 score being told their rate is 11% isn't going to question why it's so high...

Honestly this stuff is way more complicated than HN tends to assume. There are so many forces at play here that trying to make statements like "maybe tesla will make cars for all the other brands" is never going to be realistic.

> Transmissions are generally rebuilt by a third party.

This is an aside, but transmissions are often replaced by a dealer. Most places will not sell the average person on rebuilding their transmission lol, that sounds like a relic of yesteryear. Today a used replacement would be the middle ground offered for an out of warranty owner.
So instead of devs inviting ops people to the meeting they want ops people at, you are saying ops people should go up to devs while they are working and offer to help, even when they aren't needed?

No, that's not smart.
Yep, https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/mast...
Yeah, it's a different world from when I learned Awk. You might enjoy the (very short) book by the creators just because it's a great focused expression of the Unix way. But nobody needs to learn it.
There are a few comments in here that predictably suggest that simple static sites can handle large request rates easily.

Sure, that's true - but to try to progress the conversation: how would you measure the complexity of serving web requests, in order to perform more advanced cost comparisons?

(bandwidth wouldn't be quite right.. or at least not sufficient - maybe something like I/O, memory and compute resource used?)
Have you seen Gemini? It's a protocol that uses persistent TLS key pairs to allow for automatic "SSO" login on a Gemini client.
No. Russia has steadily been increasing its gas supplies to Germany, it's just that Germany b/c of the Energiewende (a.k.a. "the world's d*st energy policy" [1]) has been increasing its gas demand even more. Germany is gobbling up the largest share of the world's exported gas market (~>10%) [2].

> "Russia has delivered far less gas to Germany this year"

Russia's share of Germany's gas imports just increased again to more than 55% this year [3] – and this is pre NordStream 2.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/worlds-dumbest-energy-policy-11...
[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdgas/Tabellen_und_Grafiken#I...
[3] https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/151871/umfrag...*
Wikipedia as a whole has 8k rps, and that's with multiple racks in multiple data centers.

I haven't read recently, but they were only doing 200 rps per server.
> I'm not trying to make fun of Americans, I'm trying to understand what the extra efort is worth for?

Quit being dishonest. You're not trying to understand because it's really fucking easy to understand.

If you really truly want an answer, it's relatablity.

If you ask the vast majority of Americans how many centimeters are in a foot, you'll get blank stares. If you ask them how long 30 centimeters are you'll get blank stares. If you ask them how long a foot is they'll hold up their hands about a foot apart.

Americans use imperial units because it's what they used daily, what they're familiar with, and what they know. It's really not that hard to understand.

Think about if you had to switch from Metric to Imperial. Just think about all the wonky units and how overwhelming it would be. That's how Americans think about the Metric system.

But it's easy you say, everything is 100 up or down. So? That doesn't help with the simple fact that it's completely unrelatable.
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I agree that it can be less fair and equitable, but it’s factors more effective in terms of conversion to productive employees.

If I ever decide to go out on my own and form a startup, my co-founder will 100% be an ex-colleague. Is that fair? Dunno, but it’s the only reasonable choice IMO.
Ford is positioning the electric F-150 as a power station on wheels. Run a table saw off your work truck. Run your camp site off your personal truck. Emergency power during the next flood.
Yes but it's a huge waste of resources that only the farmer is paying for. They paid to house, feed, innoculate, etc those pigs. Killing them to burn them realizes no profit for them.