skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a 1983 Honda and the aluminum shines like a mirror. It didn’t always. When I got it the metal looked dull and weather possible damaged. It is amazing what buffing it can do. From garbage to mirror finish. Very satisfying to watch aluminum being polished. The aluminum did loses some of the outer layer that had oxidizes but looks brand new once cleaned up. Looks new and has the structural integrity to be used in aircraft is not the same but for the purposes of a motorcycle cover it is just fine. There are many other applications for aluminum that structural integrity is not if concern like heat sinks. The LED light I am building uses aluminum extrusion as heat sink.
It seems like there's an API so I'm assuming it is possible to do.
IPFS is perfect for this.
I would argue that effectively using tools you don't fully understand is one of the primary skills of software development. If that were not the case, we would spend about 95% of our time taking online courses and following tutorials and 5% of our time getting work done. Instead, it's the reverse.

But that does not negate the value of deep expertise in one or several chosen sub-disciplines. Being "T-shaped" is a thing.
I'm Firefox user, but those arguments are ridiculous for me, it almost sounds like conspiracy theory. You just keep convincing people to use software not because it's better, but because of some blurry ideological reasons.

I keep reading articles like that on tech-related websites and they all miss the point which is: if Chrome-based browsers one day manage to gain 100% market share, what will it change if it is open source? What stops anyone from just forking that browser if Google makes anything wrong with it? And what did Google do with browsers so far, that we hate it?
Even though I wouldn't classify it as "awful", I do agree with the sentiment. Whenever I use Clion, I feel I need to have vscode also on the same project to mitigate the shortcomings of it's code completion and even search.

Clion's support for CMake is particularly enfuriating, with it's propensity to actively replate a target's name with filenames, even if they do not match in caps, which makes absolutely no sense at all and feels it is doing it's best to get in the way and sabotage your productivity.
Ask HN: What's your startup's BI tool/setup?
I am a software/data engineer who is stepping up as the responsible of data in a 30-person startup and one of the first assignments is to choose and get up and running a BI tool so people that don't know SQL can explore data, create/look at dashboards and export data.

Now that I am looking into this problem I am curious what are other startups solutions to this.

- Is the CTO or one of the engineers taking requests and running queries and sending csv/excel files back?

- Do business people at your company know SQL so they can run their own?

- Do you run your own BI tool? If that's the case, which one?
I guess most startups at this level don't need a BI tool but we have do as we have a strong business side and no-one knows SQL outside the engineering team.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is expected to step down, sources say
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cool, a malus when you try to "cheat" would be a nice addition for sure, also considering public transport, but that looks harder to implement
I'm in Zanzibar, TZ at the moment. Honking is also used when overtaking or in general to make others aware of your presence on the road (especially for pedestrians and cyclists). The interesting part though is with indicators. They use the right indicator (driving in on the left) to signal incoming cars to the vehicles behind you, meaning it is unsafe to overtake.
Curiosity. There is an endless variety of types of intelligence, so much so that always recognizing it is impossible. But curiosity seems to be the single common feature.
Interesting! I had no idea it was that high normally.
If that means you're reading your chats later it sounds as if you're also working outside working hours.
It seems the stock is up on speculation they will get bought out by someone
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I don’t disagree. I self taught myself my entire degree.
The ironic part of this is that if Apple allowed alternative browser engines, I guarantee you it is only a matter of time before you see Electron apps bringing their own browser engines with them to iOS. And not long after before Hacker News is screaming and moaning about it (like they do for Electron on desktop) and begging for Apple to stop it.
I advocate keeping all of these measures forever.

Before you flame me - I don't think they are to be used constantly, or all at the same time. They are all valuable tools to reducing the pain, suffering, and lost productivity of respiratory illnesses. I'd like to see universal masking in schools during flu season, for example. Limited group of people, limited time, but would happen every year. Maybe there's a trigger for a "bad" flu season.

It's insane to say we should not use things that work because they might be useful in the future. We just need to be smart about how we use all these interventions, WHICH WE ABSOLUTELY ARE.
People who listen carefully to what other people are saying and also people who are self-aware (meditation helps us understand our own minds and control what we think about).
Disney+ Drops ‘Simpsons’ Episode in Hong Kong Because of Tiananmen Square Joke
I nearly got a job with them back around 2001. At the time they were revamping their development group.

I had written some plug-ins for Winamp so I familiar with the plug-in structure. It looks like the new lead developer wanted to rewrite everything. Using all kinds of object-oriented methodologies. The older code was all C based and very simple. I wasn’t fan of the new direction.
I'm actually not too familiar with it, I was too young to use the original Winamp back when it was released, and can only remember playing around with the skins, along with RealPlayer on Win98

I'm guessing they went with version 5, since it looks like versions after that might have been a full rewrite?
For those not familiar with bodybuilding, there's 2 metrics in grading someone's musculature:

- Size (pretty much self explanatory)
- Insertions

Insertions is pretty much the shape and placement of muscles, some people have their biceps higher up in their arms, some lower down. Some people have mis-aligned abs some have perfect abs.

Zyzz, though nowhere near of being the biggest, had what most would call perfect or very aesthetic insertions.

His muscles' shape and placements were closer to some kind of perfect anime character than that of the average bodybuilder / gym goer.

This is one of the reasons, along with his personality, why he got so famous.
Yup, as someone who worked on fixing issues with IE5/IE6/IE7 behaviours I definitely feel the slow burning fire of Chrome repeating that whole saga once again. And probably in a much more painful way given the explosive growth of the internet and browsers since the early 2000s (I started working with web dev around 2005).
Woah, this is super helpful for me! The problems it solves for me are:

1. Unaware of the terminologies and requirements.

2. Unavailability and difficulty in discovering relevant docs for third party integrations.

I'm sure a ton of developers will agree. Looking forward to how this project evolves!
Servo wasn't a fork, nor was it meaningfully a "community" project - sure there were community contributors (it was a fun project to hack on) but most of the meaty work was being done by Mozilla employees.
Winamp 2 was generally preferred. If I recall correctly, it skipped version 4 not because v2 + v3 = v5 but because nobody would want to download a Winamp 4 skin. Not kidding.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29380171
Nice! The feature to import my twitter account is quite impressive to detect my favorite topics :)
Who would buy Twitter??
Firefox on Android is absolutely excellent these days, but it still shows how Mozilla is really hesitant to embrace it. It's the only mobile browser with really adequate ad-blocking, thanks to extension support. There are a lot of other extensions which are really useful on mobile that aren't on the recommended list, though. I can understand why they restrict extensions (some don't have a viable UI for mobile or would require significant changes), but I recently went through the hoops to install non-approved extensions, and having Privacy Redirect and Stylus are life-changers.
It’s been updated:

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is expected to step down from his executive role, sources tell CNBC's David Faber.

Twitter stock jumped more than 11% on the news.

Dorsey currently serves as both the CEO of Twitter and Square, his digital payments company. Twitter stakeholder Elliott Management had sought to replace Jack Dorsey as CEO in 2020 before the investment firm reached a deal with the company's management.

Elliott Management founder and billionaire investor Paul Singer had wondered whether Dorsey should run both of the public companies, calling for him to step down as CEO of one of them.

It's unclear who's set to succeed Dorsey. But if he steps down, the next CEO will have to meet Twitter's aggressive internal goals. The company said earlier this year it aims to have 315 million monetizable daily active users by the end of 2023 and to at least double its annual revenue in that year.

Twitter did not respond to a request for comment.
Today you get 0 fastpasses.
Neither is voting a law of nature, and nor is property ownership. So what's your point? That we don't have to do it this way? Well, sure. But what's the actual alternative?
It's an old people problem the same way influenza is an old person problem. It has almost the same curve for lethality vs age. Just ten times worse across the board, except for older children where they're in the same ballpark. Now I'm not terribly worried about death and disability from influenza as a younger adult, but it hospitalized me as a child and has laid me on my ass as an adult twice. ("It's just like the flu" was never too reassuring even if it had been true, eh?)
This article spoke to me.

I do find the technical underpinnings of crypto (I refuse to ever use "web3") fascinating and I'm sure there are some valid applications. But everything I see right now is empty hype and usually just an open invitation to land grab in the promise of future profit. The spirit couldn't feel any more different than the original web.
there also isn't a reason for them to use it xwayland works fine for the usecase.

I hope they support wayland natively but its just not necessary atm.
> If we were all like Star Trek’s Mr. Spock, it would never cross our minds to hate or be jealous of the rich. They provide us with everything.

It sounds like trolling, but it really seems it isn’t. Amazing. No one rich ever put food on my table or clothes on my back.

The rich are just better at saying “mine” than others. Their money is not more productive than others.

> Without the rich, we cannot become rich ourselves.

Actually, you need poor people to become rich because they are the ones whose needs are large enough, they will work for too little, and expose themselves to the dangers that rich people don’t. Rich people risk their cash, poor people risk their limbs and their health laboring for the rich.

He’s thankful for being a Smith up front, at the end I hope he’s also thankful for being a Dick.
Nice extension :) I assume this is using the sites own search engine metadata a-la https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structure... ?

I did a little digging into this a while ago for a hobby project, but it never went anywhere. Well done for shipping! :D
Yes it is much more apparent with typed languages (and starts to show with typed Python as well).
Quit being a whiny brat while immediately changing the subject to avoid a weak argument, and maybe you'll get better engagement.
Any OPDS-capable reader can access the media on the server and they also have their own API afaik, though I haven't really found any 3rd party client apps yet.
yes, that's saying thanks. It's equivalent to the hazard lights, but in some vehicles the hazard lights button isn't very accessible.
You are better off assuming everything is.
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In general for applications, I usually say no to telemetry because I don't know exactly what data is being captured and how much they're stretching the truth on what it will be used for.
>In the mountains of Italy, drivers give a short honk before entering a turn on a serpentine road, which usually can't be seen around. If there is no responding honk, they will take the full width of the road (making the very tight turn easier and faster). Tourist drivers have to pick up on this :)

It seems like it should be illegal (and also partly suicidal) to go into the opposing lane in a situation where you cannot see if there is an approaching car. You're relying on someone in an opposing lane hearing and understanding your horn, for relatively little gain, and potentially fatal results.

Any situation where you can do everything 'perfectly' and you have a significant chance of dying or killing someone because someone else doesn't notice is a good situation to avoid.

If you hit someone's car under these circumstances it would be criminally negligent in my opinion.
Naive questions:

- what do you mean by "miners" in this context? Malicious contributors sneaking crypto-mining logic into the codebase?

- doesn't the concern about Trojans and spyware affect every other open-source project in existence? How have they been protecting against that, and why couldn't the Winamp maintainers take similar measures?
From user NgNg on 26 February 2020 05:23 @ livescience.com
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1) Myxozoans have been known for quite some time (the taxonomic Class was erected in the 1970s), and it has been known since they were first discovered that they have no mitochondria. Therefore, it has been known since soon after they were first discovered that they are obligate anaerobes.

This would make them unique among Metazoans (i.e., animals). However, Myxozoans are rather odd Metazoans in the first place (in fact, for a long time they were considered protozoans). This is probably due to the the fact that they are obligate parasites (parasites are often very highly derived, and sometimes almost unrecognizable as members of their higher taxonomic groups). For instance, Myxozoans, although Cnidarians, were not recognized as such until about two decades ago.

2) Cellular respiration and "breathing" are two different things. Cellular respiration is when glucose is metabolized. If that metabolization involves oxygen, it is considered aerobic respiration; if it doesn't utilize oxygen, it is considered anaerobic respiration. "Breathing" is the mechanical movement of air in and out of the body. The term can also be used to refer to the movement of oxygenated water over specialized gills. While both cellular respiration and "breathing" are called "respiration" they are NOT the same thing. There are many metazoans that do not breathe (or even have specialized gills). These organisms get their oxygen via simple diffusion over the body wall. In fact, this is true for most (all?) Cnidarians -- the Phylum to which Myxozoans belong. However, ALL living organisms have some sort of cellular respiration; in the case of Myxozoans that respiration is anaerobic.

3) The cool finding here is that there are no remnants of mitochondrial genes in the Myxozoan genome. Since the phylogenetic of the Myxozoa indicates that they are derived from Cnidarians, and all other Cnidarians are aerobic, this is a bit puzzling. Normally one would expect there to be some remnants of disused genes, even if their initial deactivation was in the distant past.
Babashka is fast-starting but slow-running (compared to JVM Clojure). AOC puzzles typically contain a lot of loops so you will likely run into the slow-running-ness. But it shouldn't be much trouble to move to Clojure when you hit this.
I also grew up on C then Java. Now I mostly work with Python but when things get serious I usually turn to JVM languages.

The feeling knowing I can relentlessly refactor my code without breaking a thing and not having to worry about typos is just wonderful!
I really hope that's not the case - at least the browser has an excuse of being a scripting platform, a 3D and 2D rendering and layout engine, a video streaming platform, a database, a server and who knows what rolled into one - that Toolbox thing hopefully has less than 5% of that in its codebase.
You're both right!

https://web.archive.org/web/20131219003849/http://www.winamp...

> What happened to Winamp 4? You're not imagining things. Yes, we skipped a version number for the following reasons: a) Winamp 5 combines the best aspects of Winamp 2 and Winamp 3 into one player. Hence Winamp 2 + Winamp 3 = Winamp 5! b) Who the hell wants to see a Winamp 4 Skin :P c) We think that a Fibonacci sequence for versioning might be pretty damn cool. d)We improved so much in Winamp 5 that we figured it warranted skipping a version. ;)
As far as I can tell, the article is massively overstating the role of Disney in bringing about the Copyright Act of 1976.

There had long been widespread agreement that the 1909 Act needed significant revision to deal with the large technological developments since then in how copyrightable works were created, copied, distributed, and consumed, and to make US copyright law more compatible with the rest of the world. The copyright term provisions of the 1976 Act are straight out of the Berne Convention, and were included in the act to pave the way for the US to eventually join that and other international copyright agreements.

Disney may have been in favor of the 1976 Act, but it would have come about in substantially the same form if they had said nothing or even lobbied against it. The 1976 Act was one of those "its time has come" things.
I have no particular beef with Dorsey but I think this would make sense. He's been CEO of both Square and Twitter for years now and no matter what time you wake up in the morning or however many specials diets you undertake you're not going to be able to give the focus a solo CEO is.

I think the bigger issue is who gets to replace him: will it be someone with smart ideas or someone to serve as a puppet of activist investors? I can't find a source right now but I remember at the time Fleets were launched (Twitter's since-removed version of Stories) that the feature was pushed heavily by investors rather than anyone inside the company. If that's true then the next CEO could be a true disaster.

EDIT: ah, there we are: https://pxlnv.com/linklog/twitter-fleets-elliott-management/, and a deeper read on Elliot Management: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/27/paul-singer-do...
I'm pretty sure this is exactly how Cave Johnson got started at Aperture Science...

https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Cave_Johnson
No where in the article do they even try to ask the people who own or paint these words on the vehicles? Speculation throughout and not a shred of input from any of the people actually involved (Drivers, Lettering painters, police..).

Conclusion: none! We don't know and didn't ask either.

Really weird article.
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Often before lunch.
Great thing to keep in mind for pandemics: what you learned three days ago might be very stale.
Because of such an apparent conflict of interest. At the end of the day we do not know how many good ideas (for the users, for the web and for Firefox market share) were silenced because not to upset the feeding arm. And where would Firefox be today if it relied on its own users for the revenue instead?

Having your main competitor as your main customer is not a good position to be in for any company.
Tell me one graphical application that starts up in less than 0.1 sec on desktop? Unfortunately, desktop OSs don’t employ optimizations like what exists on android and ios, which strangely manages to start programs in that timeframe.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey expected to step down
Cynical, or realistic because everyone has seen what the consequences of such projects can be?

Progress can still be good, just like it never was if it also means there are severe downsides and they are just ignored for the sake of progress.
Winamp was still my music player of choice until a little over a year ago when I finally made the switch to MusicBee.
> So when mask use increased 29%, symptom prevalence reduced by 9%? That doesn't seem quite the same argument as the one you're making.

It is a real word example. It's not an increase of 29%, it's an absolute difference of 29%. Specifically, mask wearing in the intervention villages was 42%, in the control 13%. That is, in a hypothetical village where mask wearing approaches 100%, you might expect something like a 20-30% reduction, assuming a linear correlation. Again, that's not the real world.

> Why?

If an intervention is effective, the effect needs to reproduce. If it doesn't, the larger effect likely occurred by chance. Publication bias promotes positive results and inhibits negative or null results.

You have the same problem with all these COVID drugs. Remdesivir appeared to have an effect in early trials, now it's proven useless. Molnupiravir was initially report to be 50% effective, now it's down to 30%. At the other end of the aisle, you see that Ivermectin has many small studies showing remarkable effectiveness, but the larger ones show little to no effect.

If you apply scientific standards, you must apply them across the board. You must not let wishful thinking guide your decisions.
The Saudis/SoftBank.

Wait.
Recent Nightly releases have pull-to-refresh, and you can jump through hoops to install all extensions on the mozilla site (not sure about side-loading).
5.666
The employees have been trying to buy it through an ESOP.
Wow, that's a first. Clicking the URL hung Brave, completely unresponsive for 2-3 mins, now it's loaded but shows nothing but a dark blue background. Same for every refresh, too!
The stock popped 10%. Is this a vote of confidence against him or for whoever has been waiting in the wings? There has been enough agitation against him by the activists that this can’t be a surprise.
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But given the recent developments with Edge, I'm not sure if Microsoft's political power is of much practical benefit to the community.
That's how I remember it too, but I think the expectations of simplicity has changed over the years - in those days, it was closer to great defaults and no gratuitous features, whereas now it's a bit more like less flexibility (although really, Firefox has masses of options that aren't included in the UI but are accessible from about:config, so I don't really think Firefox falls victim to this criticism).

Part of the old tradeoff was that extension writers could do almost anything to make the web browser do almost anything. Nowadays, extensions are much less flexible. I think for good reason: being able to click a few buttons and get pwned isn't really a desirable feature. But the tradeoff has moved. I don't think that's really an argument against Firefox, but consider that powerusers are often very conservative, I'm not surprised that it caused some disagreement.