skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heya there!

We're evolving together a server-side production checklist for digital products geared towards web, and I'm super keen to see what our community here would add or change!

By no means is this checklist complete - can a checklist ever be complete? - but it certainly can be extended!

Please drop your feedback below on the Gist (or here) with any thoughts or edits :-)

Thank you for your time and I look forward to seeing what our community at Hacker News has to say!

Warm regards,
Matt
Yeah, I agree. But not something that involves cramming for test scores, which is my main point.
That's interesting, I wonder if I have an 'uncloseable' PayPal account, since it started as an x.com account in '99 when they were giving people $20 to open one.
Jeremy Corbin did more than just “criticizing the state of Israel for human rights violations” though. This is a politician who, amongst many other things, called Hamas and Hezbollah “my friends”, so clearly his issue with Israel is not about human rights per se.
Only to the extent that a) there is direct competition sufficient for this to make a difference, and b) bad management isn't an endemic problem across wide swathes of American business. But there are widespread concerns about declining competition. [1] And some, me included, see American business culture as captured by managerialism. [2]

By your theory, all companies should be pretty efficient and managers pretty effective. But how many people would say that about their companies? If that's how most of your friends talk about their bosses, let me know where they live and I'll move there.

One good example to look at here is the notion of bullshit jobs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

[1] E.g.: https://hbr.org/2018/03/is-lack-of-competition-strangling-th...

[2] This is a good book on the topic: https://www.amazon.com/Confronting-Managerialism-Business-Ec...
In my experience there's not much risk of having a "huge bloated mess" so write more rather than less.

I keep all my work-related knowledge in just a single flat text file, which after four years at my current company is just under 20,000 lines long and ~750 KB. It's easy to grep and so I can find virtually anything quickly.

I think trying to get too fancy with organization could lead to troubles. A badly-organized knowledge base is hard to fix.

Most of the time I'm just kicking myself that I didn't write down something that I was sure was in there.
Speaking of France and geopolitics, it's worth noting you see similar consistent support for Israel from most of the other major NATO powers. And France's position on Israel is not due to conservative evangelical political influence domestically.
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>> That's what I've seen parents struggling with, and even teachers struggle with it too! Because they don't get how numbers work.

Is that the reason? Or because they've been told to "do it the right way"?
Big meetings are more time effective and easy for a manager but worse for many workers and productivity.
TikTok will be what takes down youtube. It'll happen.
Every communication platform is. Radio, internet, TV, even the telegram.
I'll sometimes just give a 10-second status update: "Working on feature X, it's coming along nicely", or "Fixed a dozen pesky bugs".

Eventually, others start to do the same. Granted, there will still be a couple of "long talkers".
This is terribly jumbled. Yes, if you’re in a non-Islamic religion that reveres the Old Testament, you probably support Israel’s land claims.

But Catholics, Mormons, and Evangelicals have wildly different views of the end times, and the “Bring in the Armageddon” crowd in particular is an outlier among evangelicals.
You are thinking of this article, which was a good read: https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/essays-culture/friends...
Emacs has this in paredit. A new tree edit mode is a fun exploration in non lisp sources.
Growth as a norm in industrial sections should be expected even given "fixed" levels of experience from industrial learninh curves as processes grow more optimized and efficient and features move from revolutionary to old hat.

Of course there is a matter of growth in what too - product count and quality (utility value) in some combination or profit. It is a known irony paradox that sectors which grow more efficient become less paid relative to what is produced. Part of the general economic trend of diminishing returns via saturation.
Using HashiCorp Vault as a dynamic Ansible inventory and authentication service
Constant human interaction? def seems like some counseling might be in order.

that said, i suspect living alone is _not_ normal -- meaning, humans prob evolved to live together in at least small+ groups.

most people that live alone, they haven't _really_ lived alone, imo -- b/c pre-covid, we used to be able to interact, date, etc.

not anymore. bigpharma owns us.
What is this $70k mono audio amp used for?
Which Twitter bought and promptly shit down. I never understood it; Vine was hugely popular (I was in college at the time, such things tend to spread pretty rapidly on a college campus), even getting celebrity attention. I really questioned the idea that Twitter couldn’t make the product work when we see TikTok doing just that. I guess Vine was, literally, ahead of its time.
ICANN takes the lamest swipe at Namecheap et al over blockchain domains
as a lego enthusiast, I have to say that it takes a somewhat recent lego brick separator (with the technic attachment) to dismantle it. most modern sets of over 1000 pieces come with that separator.

note: I have over 1000 lego sets ranging from the early 80's to modern times, I love lego.
> Title must be signed at sale

Even then this seems like a pretty pointless exercise, titles aren't particularly difficult to forge (assuming you don't just find it in the glovebox).

Without cryptographic signatures or a mandatory online ownership registry this quickly devolves into meaningless security theatre. But I suppose that's really the point, they ask for the title in order to make their customers feel safe, not to prevent crime.
It's not outdated at all, Trump's presidency was a direct throw-back to Dubya times [0] that whole thing with Muslim bans and getting treated like some kind of Messiah by evangelicals [1].

These very same US evangelical currents are also super tight with Israel, because they think Armageddon is gonna happen there and that needs to happen for Christ's return and heaven on earth [2].

These people are a end-world cult, one that has by now had direct influence on at least two US presidents in recent history. One of which they pushed into declaring a literal "crusade" [3] complete with "holy warriors" [4].

In the early 2000s there were a bunch of "scandals" about them infiltrating the US military to further Christianize it [5], even in the 2010s there's been incidents with US government acquired rifle sights featuring secret bibles codes [6].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/07/iraq.usa

[1] https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/newscms/2017...

[2] https://youtu.be/Fo77sTGpngQ

[3] https://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0919/p12s2-woeu.html

[4] http://articles.latimes.com/2003/oct/16/opinion/oe-arkin16

[5] https://harpers.org/archive/2009/05/jesus-killed-mohammed/

[6] https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/us-military-weapons-inscribed...
>You do this on a societal level and you waste centuries.

What you are missing is that YouTube recommends videos that you will likely enjoy. YouTube's recommendations try to minimize this waste.
> and the fact that the mRNA vaccines does not "kill" the virus in the same way the SmallPox vaccine did,

…? Actually, it has exactly the same effect as the smallpox vaccine. It vaccinated, aka immunised. What are you on about?
My son ran a render last night using the e-Cycles render engine: 12 minutes. Same scene today on Blender 3 with the new version of Cycles (aka Cycles-X): 5 minutes.

12 mins to 5 mins with a software upgrade is pretty good!
I used to keep a huge Notepad .txt file of a ton of company knowledge, gotchas, offhand documentation, and any kind of tidbit that I might need later. A few years ago, I migrated all of this to OneNote with detailed, formatted notebooks for every broad subject I could categorize. I recently shared my OneNote notebook with guys relatively new to my team, and I found them using it all_the_time. So not only is the "Knowledge Log" good for you, it can also be a useful tool to help others on your team.
Let's take the states for example 99.95 are nonentities so that leaves 330,150,668 *.0005 = 165,075.

That doesn't count the sex workers, security, or workers programming and running the bots. That is still a lot of people for one country, and shopping will change a bit, and they will all pat themselves on the back for saving the planet now that the population is under control.

You will have resistance but in the end the deathbots will win.
I agree, it's fascinating, isn't it!
Yeah, I helped someone with this problem a few weeks back.

From what Verizon told me, it seems like an app somehow enabled *72 - any call that came in when the line was already in use or went to voicemail was redirected to a Dakota number.

Dialing *73 disabled the forward and put things back to normal.
I guess the non-secret parts of the card number can totally be cross referenced with others merchants you've shown the card, but an online purchase very often also has a name and address so your identity is already out the window.

Also fraud detection systems will often track the type of purchases associated with a particular card number, to detect anomalies. So I suppose your privacy is somewhat protected from that, but the e-commerce sites probably already know who you are.
Show HN: I made a book with a hundred UI/UX tips
Hello.

This year I dived into UI/UX area and at the same time I work as a web developer. I sincerely love making good UI. But at my full time job it's not always possible due to different reasons =\

So I've been posting random UI/UX staff on Twitter, then I made a free book that had 50 tips (posted it here as well).

I decided to finish this year by collecting everything I learned and here it is: https://akcium.gumroad.com/l/ui-ux-tips.

This time it's a paid one. But, you can check ~20 pages of it, just go to https://akcium.gumroad.com/l/ui-ux-tips-sample, put 0 in the price and download it for free.

I tried to illustrate almost every tip and provide some additional links.

This is especially useful for devs and founders who cannot afford a designer or just want to make their UI look decent.
Three Markdown tricks I just learned
Syntax trees are lists and structs that have semantics.

Conflict-free means that there is no conflict in the semantics, not just that the operations on a syntax tree shape result in a valid syntax tree shape.

If we pass a syntax tree node with 12 children to two different servers which each add a node, we can easily resolve the structural conflict by adding both nodes, so now we have 14, and that may be a valid syntax tree.

However, that 12-child node could be, say, a call to a function that takes 12 arguments. (So 11 are being passed, and one is defaulted). Adding one argument is semantically valid. Adding two means the call is bad.
What are the metrics of cryptographers by country?
I can relate to that. Without my notes I'd be lost. Always trying to keep them simple and, if required, to make it accessible to others, to avoid creating tribal knowledge.
You are shifting the goal posts.

First you said:

>Immunity from prior-infection was worse than vaccination at protecting people from Delta.[1]

Now you are saying :

>We literally don't have the evidence needed to say with certainty that infection (of all levels of severity) provides "an immunity just as good as vaccination."

Meanwhile, all the data coming out of countries with centralized covid tracking suggests natural immunity is as good or better.

Here is another link if you are interested:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...

Reviewing health data for 2.5 million Israelis, It found:

>SARS-CoV-2-naïve vaccinees had a 13.06-fold (95% CI, 8.08 to 21.11) increased risk for breakthrough infection with the Delta variant compared to those previously infected, when the first event (infection or vaccination) occurred during January and February of 2021

>Conclusions This study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the BNT162b2 two-dose vaccine-induced immunity.
Israeli Company’s Spyware Is Used to Target U.S. Embassy Employees in Africa
Sure, that's fair. It was Mercari. Thank you Mercari!! I now use it for regular items, and Poshmark and Depop for clothes. No more broken web 2.0 app literally yelling at me that I hacked it.
There's also the issue that solutions to "unacknowledged problems" can be perceived as grifts.

"Your app predicts when my lightbulbs will go out and it costs $1? Wait, why wouldn't I just do what I do now which is have some spares and wait till one actually goes out?"
So how do these work exactly?
This is economic productivity. Why wouldn’t you measure it in dollars.
Yup, you guessed correctly!
Manual crop picking is an economic bottleneck - if prices drop to zero or below (including subsidies) leaving it to rot in the field becomes the main viable option, barring another process which could transform the crops into something profitable.
What makes you think EU law supersedes the local law? I don't know about the Germany but one old guard of EU, France, has been in supreme court since 1996 and every time they say French law supersedes EU or any intestinal law as it should be.
There are many groups, including nation states in the Middle East who would like to destroy Israel and the Jewish people. This is not hyperbole, it’s public policy. And it’s not just words, Israel has been attacked repeatedly by countries intent on its destruction.

There are some people inside the US, and outside it, who feel that allowing that to happen would be unacceptable. The western world does not want another holocaust on their conscience.
Merging text documents automatically can easily be shown to produce garbage results; it is not conflict-free.

If it did not have this problem, then that would give use the solution for syntax, right? Syntax trees can be turned into text documents. Oh, and those are a CRDT: and we have automerge. QED.
I've been doing the same exact thing for about 5 years now and I can't think of any skill I'd rather have than this one.

I wrote more about my system here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25302365
> the “Bring in the Armageddon” crowd in particular is an outlier among evangelicals.

Being an outlier still does not stop them from wielding over-proportional political influence compared to other Christian sub-currents, and particularly other religions.

To add data to that degree; In the US such well-organized and rich elite interests are very much the de-facto policy makers [0].

[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
Cyber laws are not known for being reasonable.

Though, this particular interpretation does make Google Chrome illegal; it has dev tools that can be used for manually sending HTTPS POST requests with forged headers. (It also has XMLHttpRequest, which can be instructed to do what nmap does with relative ease.)
We’re actually moving away from the subscription model - you can visit our homepage and get the extension installed for free now. The official announcement goes out Monday…

[and yes… that was why we went with a sub model over pay per use]
> Lego abhors creating unique blocks unless they can be used in other sets.

true for the most part, but there was a time where that was not true, we had part of the 90's where unique pieces ran wild. thankfully, they've moved back to more generic pieces, but the bioncle years were crazy.
Revision-controlled wikis are much more organized than some linear information overload or unsearchable paper bullshit.
Part of the "privacy" part is the fact that privacy transactions accept any billing address.
I've been keeping a 'work diary' in VS Code - tried a couple of simple notes plugins but I ended up just pinning my diary.md file in my main window... always easy to get back to it.

I think the only other QoL I have for it is the markdown snippet I created that creates the current day's date and other boilerplate data when you type 'td'. It works really well for me, and I back up to a private git repo.
I once ordered an LCD TV on eBay. After a few weeks a tiny box was delivered. I was lucky enough to be home at the time of delivery, so I rejected the package. I asked for a refund from the seller, which I received. From what I saw on comments on the seller's page, this had happened to a few other buyers, who were unlucky enough to open their tiny boxes, only to find ..excrement in them. There was no way for me to report this to eBay. Since I got a refund, there was no way to complain about it. eBay has become very hit-and-miss, and is probably not that great for used items anymore since you now have to pay taxes for them.
> But how is syntax based version control ever supposed to work when we have so many languages that literally parse differently depending on dependencies that aren't even in the codebase?

You create a language geared toward syntax-based version control which doesn't do that, and then relegate syntax-based version control the ghetto based around that language (not offering it as a general-purpose tool for programming in anything).
Escheat Show (Planet Money) (2020)
> as opposed to say hard work

Perhaps ability to consistently do hard work is also a natural gift.
Yeah and on that note I really would like a better Gimp. It's too clunky.
This definitely wouldn't work in the EU, you might have some sort of official ownership document from one country but still sell the car in another.
“Covid is a scary, scary disease. Deadly, highly contagious even before symptoms…”

Getting really tired of hearing this. To a HEALTHY human, it’s like a bad cold. Me and my family have had it in the last month and confirmed with tests so I know what we had. It’s gone through a bunch of friends too and the worst they experienced was feeling miserable in bed for a couple of days.

I have no doubt that for some it IS scary, but let’s not chuck around emotive language that isn’t an accurate description in the majority of cases.
Got it (although it doesn't seem to work on MSIE), which I guess is fine. However, it reminded me of https://www.sitepoint.com/community/t/i-found-a-way-to-hide-....
> so I guess even for $2000 you won’t be able to have a 30 km altitude,

Does seem like it references some difficultly-ness

> flying object with perfectly controlled laser launched from a trebuchet

Does seem like it 'assumes otherwise' to (or its at least ambiguous to me and would be less so if there was a perhaps some separation between the laser and launched, but maybe that's a bit nit picky)

> The laser in the study is moving with the projectile,

And would be even more difficult than such (at least going by how much energy would be required).

But regardless, I'm not sure that 30 km altitude and first achieving mach 5 is a major constraint beyond that is probably not achievable at the $2000 price point (or its not clear to me that it is from the paper) and would be something that could be worked around with more iterations of what level of ionization of surrounding air around a projectile with a given density would give the desired amount of drag reduction (perhaps zeptosecond[0] pulses would work even better than femtosecond ones that were compared against nanosecond, or achieve similar results with lower mach number and higher density of air being ionized around the payload).

[0] https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.11...
I don't think this person is lying. I think they genuinely believe they know what they're talking about. (Which is almost worse.)
Your comment really isn't adding any value to understanding the state of Python packaging.

From my personal experience, there's so many things that can crop up, not limited to:

- Conflicts with system packages from e.g. apt

- Conflicts with system packages from easy_install/pip

- Mismatching Python versions (even among 3.x with syntax additions only available in newer versions)

- Different dependency management systems (pip's requirements.txt, setuptools's setup.py, poetry's pyproject.toml, etc.)

- ... and the list goes on if you start talking about C extensions!

Additionally, not everyone does things in the same way which means the easiest way to package Python tools tends to be just bundling Python + its entire standard library together. Contrast this with Go, where `go install` does basically the right thing 9 times out of 10. I'm not a huge Go fan, but the convenience of `go install` is really unmatched.
>> His handlers went on to later change the narrative

If only the Tsar knew!
You're just making stuff up.

ARM doesn't have any cores that do 8 wide decode. Neither do Intel or AMD. Apple has, but Apple is not ARM and doesn't share their designs with ARM or ARM customers.

Cortex X-1 and X-1 have 5 wide decode.
Cortex A78 and Neoverse N1 have 4 wide decode.

ARM uses compressed encoding in their 32 bit A-series CPUs, for example the Cortex A7, A15 and so on. The A15 is pretty fast, running at up to 2.5 GHz. It was used in phones such as the Galaxy S4 and Note 3 back before 64 bit became a selling point.

Several organisations are making wide RISC-V implementations. Most of them aren't disclosing what they are doing, but one has actually published details of how it's 4-8 wide RISC-V decoder works -- they decode 16 bytes of code at a time, which is 4 instructions if they are all 32 bit instructions, 8 instructions if they are all 16 bit instructions, somewhere between for a mix.

https://github.com/MoonbaseOtago/vroom

Everything is there, in the open, including the GPL licensed SystemVerilog source code. It's not complex. The decode scheme is modular and extensible to as wide as you want, with no increase in complexity, just slightly longer latency.

There are practical limits to how wide is useful not because you can't build it, but because most code has a branch every 5 or 6 instructions on average. You can build a 20-wide machine if you want -- it just won't be any faster because it doesn't fit most of the code you'll be executing.
I'm getting flashbacks to SVN tree conflicts.
I started doing this for some software projects I wrote. I created a text file, and every time I fixed an issue, I would make a log entry. Notes what the problem was, what I did and how I fixed it. Since a long time can elapse between bug fixes, I tend to forget how things work. This is super nice to refresh my mind and saves lots of time.
The whole point of your comment is wrong.
Israel may be considered a democracy, but only for the so-called "chosen people"; This so-called democracy which is based on racial purity and militarism is in fact a form of fascism, and not a democracy in any way.
And the main reason for some of the countries in the middle east to become enemies of the US is the blind support of US for the Israel to occupy the land of Palestine and commit war crimes. Occupying other people's land, torturing and killing them, and then claiming to be a democracy is quite laughable claim by Israelis.
Me too! It's really nice, and integrated version control by git is great
composite numbers are integers that are evenly divisible by more than two numbers (including 1 and itself)
You could say that about free text too. You and I could edit the same word and then have a semantic conflict. Arguably the situation with code is better since some things like tests are less likely to conflict so you can have automated flagging of spots that have caused problems.