skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am SO excited to share early access with everyone on Hacker News today. Everyone who signs up at diallapp.com in the next 24 hours will get an invite. I can't wait to hear what you think.

Diall got its start in 2020... Right after the death of Ahmaud Arbury, my close friend, Marcel, called me. He voiced that as a black queer man, he didn’t feel safe going on his nightly runs and didn’t know where to turn to improve his mental health.

75% of mental health problems begin before the age of 24 and ALL of us are human beings with stressful lives.

So we started Diall, as just two friends that felt called to action to make mental health education more inclusive, actually fun, diverse and approachable.

We hacked together an MVP and built the first platform that takes over the core mental health education experience.

Diall reimagines mental health education for the modern age and makes it something all of us can look forward to – we make this happen by translating the science of mental health into short-form digital content.

We're just getting started on our mission building the most powerful user experience and expanding to more platforms. We've been iterating with early users daily and shipping features weekly. I'm super excited for you to try it!

AMA! I'm around :)
Funny, with a name so close to uBeam you'd think someone would pick up on the joke. There is some precedent for German residents extradited to the United States, it all depends on how grave the crime is (fraud is explicitly mentioned) and on reciprocity, ie if the same crime were enacted with the countries reversed whether or not the extradition would happen as well.

Some information here:

https://se-legal.de/schlun-elseven-lawyers/lawyer-for-extrad...

Regardless: marrying to avoid extradition may work, but it may also work against you if it appears that the marriage was a sham to avoid extradition. Finally, the US is required to cooperate in order to give up your US citizenship, which for fugitives they are unlikely to do.
Discover Routes Around You
For the drivers, the riders, the weekend trippers, the sunrise chasers, the breakfast runs, the charity runs, the mind cleaners, the apex chasers, the explorers…

Transverse is for people that want to get out and drive whether it's solo or with a pack.
I dislike mind maps because they always impose a central point/root and enforce hierarchy. I prefer to just have free floating nodes that I can attach however I want and build clusters. That way my thoughts are not constrained and and I can build all sorts of relationships. Too bad there are so few software products that enable that. The best one I found is called Scapple. It's easy, quick and cheap (30 day free trial, lifelong license for 20$). The only thing that sucks is the export, other than pdf or jpeg. And it's only fit desktops. Still a great tool for quick initial sketches
> If work with not easily deterministic code typically but not always ML models like say speech-to-text or Face-Recognition or classification/ recommendation systems or network performance dependent applications like video conferencing that wouldn't be that feasible

Nah, most ML systems (actually doing something in the world) are mostly just ordinary code, which can be tested like any other code (as you put it into functions, etc). The models themselves are pretty awkward, but you can normally freeze the model and just use that to ensure that things stay working while you refactor, and then re-run a few (10+) times to check coverage and intervals and stuff.

It tends to be more difficult, as many DS/data people are not software engineering focused, but it's not impossible.
It'd be awesome if I could import my Google Maps location history into something like this so I can stop giving them my GPS data forever. I just find it so damn useful, but I'd like to port it over, wipe it, and start on something privacy-respecting.
> I've seen people implement SAP in a couple of months. It's possible. It's still expensive and clunky though :-)

Never worked with SAP, but still coming off my burn-out hangover from $OLD_JOB - worked to migrate the nexus of the firm's accounting systems from COBOL to MS Dynamics. Unto itself, I don't really have a problem with Dynamics - I do have a problem with MS and their piss-poor available materials on the topic. While I understand their business sells training and certifications, this does ass all for folks pulled in as a pinch hitter during a death march. Can scarcely fly out to Las Vegas for a week long vacation while I'm working 16 hour days to beat the clock on our last true COBOL coder's retirement date.

The greater issue I have in enterprise systems - often the consultant / contractor firms[0] involved in the process. The classic fly-out of classy sales-engineers replaced with low-rent off-shore coders for the actual work. Slick-as-shit documentation that does not match reality in even the simplest of cases. Counter-Party contacts that neither care nor hide their lack of caring for the outcome of the project. Pressing for aggressive timelines that do not meet reality

I would assume there is some correlation, however, between buying $ENTERPRISE_TOOL and an unwillingness to hold consultants feet to the fire on their own failings, structuring a contract that keeps them honest.

[0] - Not to state `ArnoVW is one, only stating a pattern I've run into all too often.
For me personally, it really helps to be able to see things like how the responses compose to create the outputs.

I know a lot of math-minded people are able to intuitively "get" concepts from symbolic representations, but yeah it definitely makes it easier for me to be able to poke at something while figuring out an unfamiliar topic.
Show HN: CRDTs+WASM for local-first, collaborative note-taking in the browser
No, that is not the restaurant industry version or the construction industry version. You can't possibly compare "good practices" in software with building codes and food safety regulations. Building codes and food safety regulations are based on facts, science, and decades of experiences. Good practices are rooted in ideology, hype, and not based on facts. There are no studies showing that "having tests helps". There are no studies showing that "splitting code into multiple files means that you'll have a better end product". And experienced people (like in this thread) even say that there is often not that much correlation between how code "looks" and how well it works.
Please change your title ("Pakistan dissolves Parliament as Imran Khan receives vote of no confidence") as it's inaccurate. He did not "receive" a vote of no confidence. The motion to hold a vote of no confidence was blocked, and Khan asked the president to dissolve parliament.

Original title on scmp site: Pakistan dissolves parliament as Imran Khan gets reprieve from no-confidence motion
Why Second Life Failed (2011)
The "safe" section is directed primarily at the development environment but once you start collaborating with something like Terraform, there are a whole bunch of ways you can forget to plan or apply a change (for example applying in a PR but forgetting to merge or closing it because you don't want to go forward with the change but forgot you applied it or a part of it). Shameless plug but my co-founder and I started Terrateam to try to make it really easy to get going with Terraform on GitHub and stay safe doing it. https://www.terrateam.io/blog/posts/safety-first/
Hi HN! Author here.

A little while ago I shared the terminal based version of the project (https://github.com/Sambigeara/fuzzynote) with the community. I since got inspired, and disappeared into my loft for 9 months to work on leveraging the core logic for use in a WASM-based web client. So you can now sync your notes between your terminal and any reasonable modern browser (some early limitations in mobile)!

The project has (finally) reached MVP and is ready for use, and any feedback is very welcome.

(Direct link to app https://fuzzynote.app)
It's good that we get visualization tools to explore artificial neural networks: the problem of "transparency" - understanding what an instance of ANN does instead of remaining a "black box", hence "teaching us something" as opposed to "just somehow working" -, is in fact much reduced when the right visualization - e.g. revealing the patterns that the connectional weights come to identify - is applied.

It is a primary goal to understand what causes an emergence of function. ...Which should be necessary to build (and tweak, and hack, and refine, and export) further. (This point of view should be a basic tenet, yet it does not seem to get the proper focus in this realm.)
Though the early information states that there were bodies of "hundreds of Russian soldiers", found when the Ukrainian forces eventually arrived to the area.
Democracy is shrinking around the world, so as much as we like the concept theoretically, we should probably remove it from the definition of "stable". China seems quite stable too.

And Kazakhstan is not quite locked down like North Korea. You were thinking Turkmenistan, or just projecting your prejudice towards all Central Asia. It is not without problems, of course.
Mongolia still exists because both of its neighbours, Russia and China, accept that it's a useful buffer between them. In particular, the Soviet Union supported Mongolia staying independent, to prevent PR China from cutting off its access to Eastern Siberia. That's the short story, at least.
Show HN: Faith in Humanity – how do you feel today?
Click on the graph to see a daily snapshot of events which may or may not be relevant. This is just a hobby app from a friend of mine, but I think it's pretty cool in a 'data is beautiful' kind of way.
Critical mass is 47kg, so I think you would have to distribute it across a few containers I think.
Umm... that's the thing, does anyone have NUMBERS to back these claims up?

What we know is that military budgets SOAR (duh!), but what about washing machines? Transistors? Ballpoint pens? Antibiotics? The gazillion peace time inventions?

There's no part of me that can actually believe that you can ship off hundreds of thousands of folks off to war, you switch 10-20-40% of your economy to make bullets, and somehow research overall still comes ahead, it makes no sense. Let alone those cases where you country is physically under attack (which is most wars, not every country is as privileged as the US, to never have had a foreign power invade it at any serious scale in the last 200 years).

Research is more concentrated during war time, and more visible, frequently. But does war time research actually outpace peace time research? I don't believe that.
I know about all those. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30904417

What about peace time inventions? Which ones outpace the others? Are we SURE that war time inventions outpace peace time inventions?

Do we have any studies that prove or disprove what you claim?

Otherwise it's just a trope.
They usually can still be prosecuted for crimes committed abroad by the local justice system, as if the crime had occurred within the country's borders.
> What is the moral of the story?

Countless non-software developers, ranging from IT support to business analyst able to implement business requirements. Good for business if you ask me.
Aside: in case that's an eggcorn and not a typo, the day would be "fateful", as in, something momentous happened, rather than "faithful", showing loyalty.
An alternative is the Overland app for iOs [1] or Android [2], logging to compass [3]

Each has features that the other doesn't: OwnTracks can apparently determine a location using iBeacons, whereas Overland can't (though it can detect WiFi networks). Overland lets you record your mode of travel (e.g., driving, cycling, walking), whereas this still seems to be an unimplemented "idea" for OwnTracks [4]. Compass is also designed for tracking a single person, whereas OwnTrack can handle multiple.

[1]: https://github.com/aaronpk/Overland-iOS

[2]: https://github.com/OpenHumans/overland_android

[3]: https://github.com/aaronpk/Compass

[4]: https://owntracks.org/booklet/ideas/
An apology is something you make for someone else. It doesn't say anything about internal state, and frequently does not.
Amusing related fact of the day, I heard the french nuclear authority transports some of the radioactive uranium in retail pressure cookers. Apparently it's good enough the stop those radiations, they need the pressure release valve, and is much cheaper than to build something custom with very little benefits.
> Emacs is actually quite poor at opening large files, at least comparatively—depending on the machine, 65K lines may be enough. However, there's an addon, i.e. a ‘mode’, that implements editing of large files somehow.

Yeah, essentially this (apparently) mostly occurs when the file has no newlines (like json often does). I think the hacks are around turning off font-lock mode and one or two other things (install long-lines-mode if this is a problem you're having).
As you can see, there is no more discussion possible with people that caught the mental version of Covid, much to my dismay
How about "catching up" on events, if a client had an outage, can it indicate the last event ID it had and then get a natural replay of the older events?
Cython is 20
Apologies are something you make to other people in an attempt to convince them of something (for example that you see what they see). For that to be relevant internally, you would need a dialogue there. Not a monologue.
If you haven't seen it, Brian Lovin also has a fantastic, in-depth security checklist on his website that links to many more valuable resources: https://brianlovin.com/security

It's aimed more at "the minimum any person should do", so isn't as wide-ranging as the OP and a bit more practical to share with family & friends who might not be as technical.
Ironing out the issues around scaling can take years, and investors are skittish to back projects that might reach well into the 100’s of $millions, and there’s so much other development in the market that it’s hard to pick the winning horse. Innovations gained during R&D might also be picked up by competitors, or they might rely on some complementary licensing that makes the whole thing unprofitable.

I’d expect there to be more and more interest and investment in this space over the coming years, given the latest developments around energy security.

(Interestingly, the Back Bay Battery Company simulation maintained by Harvard is commonly used as a case study in MBA programs.)
Perhaps you won't be failing to understand if you read it once again - the part "wouldn't be Russia in any way" refers to benefitting from crimes. I never said Russia actually commit or didn't commit those crimes, it's simply not enough evidence to say for sure.
Is there an alternative FOSS Android app that record tracks but does not rely on a remote server? Only to keep tracks locally, on the mobile device, and if possible, to let the history file be synced (e.g with Syncthings)?
It’s Putins neighbours that desperately want to get into NATO so he doesn’t invade and slaughter them like he’s doing with Ukraine now. He has a history of his behaviour.

And it was the Cuban government that wanted Soviet missiles on Cuba as a deterrent against another Bay of Pigs Invasion.
Doom can make me nauseous, especially if I'm watching instead of playing. So does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Fury (an anachronistic indie game using Duke3D's engine)

Theories: Doom's 35fps framerate cap; try an "uncapped framerate" port like GZDoom. Another thing could be the pseudo-3D look up/down used in many software renderers of that vintage; the world is skewed rather than rotated, so that vertical walls remain vertical when projected onto the viewport. Modern 3D-accelerated ports don't do this. (Or you could turn lookup/down off)

Neither theory explains Source nausea, unless perhaps you also played it with a low framerate.
If it's an environment I'm comfortable with, writing unit tests is faster than testing by hand.

If it's not an environment I'm comfortable with... dear lord it is absolutely brutal to write any kind of test.
> “This is what happens when companies become Software Engineered"

But... people do use a very similar term, overengineered. Quite appropriately. You are absolutely allowed, encouraged, to call out someone specifying a product to the nines because they can. See Juicero, I'd argue Peloton, a.. decent proportion of products that involve Heroku or Kubernetes.

But so are engineers allowed to call out someone playing financial find-the-lady to obscure what they're really doing: using trust relationships built over decades, if not centuries, to fuck over customers.
Finding a place to sure nuclear waste from civlian reactors has
been a difficult job in the US.

I think the Nevada site eventually got rejected.

Last I checked power plants still store waste on site.

When it comes to far more dangeorus uranium waste talked about in this article
where does the military store it?

I presume they have their own site that is operational and not waiting
for the national one?
Ahh thanks for explaining this, it looks like there's definitely still some work to be done (and as usual even more work until it' something everyone's on board with).

I personally know that I make the choice between client-side rendered (Vue, Svelte, Mithril, Lit, etc) and server-rendered (Nuxt, SvelteKit) these days and I purposely made the choice to use client-side rendered when I was dogfooding my own native web component project. Looks like it's still a choice that has to be made and SSR isn't quite there (everywhere) yet.
Li-S Energy[0] is a company with Lithium-Sulphur battery tech that looks to be close to commercial production. They just announced today[1] that they're building a commercial plant that will produce 1000 cells/week (equivalent to 2MWh of batteries annually). Arguably still somewhat vapourware at this point, but much better than most others I've seen.

[0] https://www.lis.energy/

[1] https://www.lis.energy/site/PDF/0f90f952-4a18-45ea-bce9-3c52...
> My gut tells me that big names like SAP and Sales Force are easier to sell to executives.

I've heard it said that SAP is sold on the golf course, not in the IT boardroom.
When I type “web.” it autocompletes to “web.archive.org”, I don’t think this list is up to date at all.
I'm not sure I got the pointe. Could you explain?
That's an impressive level of bikeshedding. Do you really think it matters? I mean, really anything in the world but your mood going to get worse if it's spelt in a way you dislike?

(brit here, cares little if it's spelt ph of f)
(not) to build terminal color schemes
On this subject I highly recommend William McNeill's The Pursuit of Power.
Please don't try to store 600kg of U238 in a 1.11 cubic-ft container. That's just asking for it to go pop. Fissile material like that needs to be spread out, to prevent any one lump becoming supercritical. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_criticality_safety
There's a number of settings that help some people. Try changing Field of View to a smaller value and turn off walk-bobbing if there is any. Some can only play in window mode, others need full screen. Low framerate might be a problem too.
I can't recommend other than https://gpslogger.app/
GPS Logger

https://gpslogger.app/
Doubtless named for The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act which raised or lowered taxes? Anyone? Anyone?
There's an obvious tradeoff having an authenticator (2FA/OTP) separate from your secure password manager. If you lose the device with credentials, you're screwed. It's really easy to lose access to a device (and usually without advance notice).

Or you can override the 2FA, and then you're back to hoping the verification procedure of overriding 2FA is stronger than a dedicated attacker. A password manager managing 10 OTP accounts means 10 attempts at social engineering to bypass the OTP.

I realize having everything on the password manager goes against the "a thing you know plus a thing you have" security policy, but I imagine you'd have much more grief linking every account to a device (a smartphone, usually) you expect can (more likely: will) fail in the next 0 to 6 years.

On the flip side, if you decide to make the thing you have a biometric feature, there's the downside that this thing can never be changed but could possibly be spoofed. In twenty years, you'll still have the same fingerprints, and you even have the same fingerprints, iris, face, etc. when you're unconscious.

Maybe the best strategy is a hardware key with printed backup code? Then you really need to hide the printout somewhere only you know, where it won't get destroyed, where it can be accessed relatively quickly without a complicated lockout, where it won't get accidentally discovered by the HVAC repairman, and where you won't forget after 0 to 6 years. Solving this location riddle seems the most impossible of all...
This is an interesting little example of how "systemic" happens, or can happen.

The list exists initially to support a feature, a utilitarian reason. Then, being in the list has SEO value or some such. The list becomes a legitimacy or authority test. It affects traffic, sales.

Maybe other stuff piggybacks this list. Anyone who needs a list of important domain names uses it. Ordering search results, caching, testing, crawling... More dynamics unrelated to Apple's original purpose.

Meanwhile, Apple continues to treat the list as a relatively unimportant thing... Just a clunky little hack that enables autocomplete. At some point, willfully ignorant of a whole industry of professional services out there promising to get you on list.
There are many of those on F-Droid.
The strangest thing about this list for me is that it contains multiple .onion addresses. It also seems to have been at least somewhat filtered for "objectionable" content (porn etc.).

I assume it must have come from user searches at some point?
Ask HN: How do you know when you need a break?
What are the signs of burning out for you? And what do you do to re-energize?
> "stop covid" at all costs

Hardly anywhere seriously tried this. New Zealand probably came closest.

It seems that far too many people in this thread are arguing that the total number of COVID deaths - 980k in the US - is effectively too low? As a result of excessive caution? Are you sure about that?
the crazy part is, just like the proverbial "iraq WMDs" the whole "iran threat" is mostly propaganda. sure they are "enriching uranium" but you have thousands of ALREADY READY nuclear weapons so why would they try to use their currently non-existing weapons against someone who does?

i have read on HN that "many countries opposed the US when it invaded iraq, afghanistan, yada yada" but the fact is, they way russia is being sidelined and singled out, no one has had the balls to do that with USA even when they managed to destroy sovereign nations in the interests of "free democracy" and other shenanigans.
Ugh, I guess that's why the iOS browsers all suck so hard with autocomplete?

I always long for Firefox's url bar, it easily beats everything else since Firefox 2 came out or so. Nowadays you have to un-configure two layers of "let's put a search bar in your URL bar" but then it's still just amazing. Especially compared to google, which obviously doesn't have an incentive to have you skip searching on google.com... and apparently apple doesn't want to you complete just any old urls, but only apple approved ones?! This seems like such a useless kind of (soft, but still) gate-keeping...
MetaAI showcase two bots speaking to each other
I really like the conclusion for application developers:

* Avoid black and white, as they are used inconsistently.
* Never combine two colors or a bright color with foreground. Only combine regular/bright colors with background and maybe regular colors with foreground.

I have seen too many unreadable terminal outputs (e.g. white one white) when using a terminal with a light background. All of those could have been avoided by following these rules.