jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Modern cars have crap suspensions/steering geometry for unassisted steering. This is a side effect of the geometry that helps keep their wide tires from making them wander all over the road. That said, it's only a marginal increase in effort. Modern cars are just fat. An Altima curbs at about the same weight as a base spec 2wd pickup that would have come with manual steering in the 80s and the Altima has a much higher steering ratio.
And HR asking for a quick chat should set off greater alarm bells, especially with regards to documenting the discussion
"In physics or engineering education, a Fermi problem, Fermi quiz, Fermi question, or Fermi estimate is an estimation problem designed to teach dimensional analysis, approximation, and the importance of clearly identifying one's assumptions. The solution of such a problem is usually a back-of-the-envelope calculation."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem
Preparing, negotiating, and generally trying to avoid this may be what's taking the longest.

FWIW, my password reset email was sent via Gawker side-project kinja.com. Curious.
^ This guy is right. Changing your job will get you a much higher raise than asking.

In my own experience I only got a significant raise once in my career - I asked for $90/hr when I was making 80/hr, and they gave it to my to my surprise. That's around $20K/year.
Atlassian's bug tracker (Jira), wiki (Confluence) and CI system (Bamboo) all feel that way to me; B team, or even C. "Atlassian--we make software that you can eventually get to work in some fashion but will never please you in any way."

Jira is almost OK, but still has that enterprise stank of trying to do too much and inserting itself too much in your workflow, instead of helping you and getting out of your way. Some people are less generous toward Jira than I am: "Next time I'm looking for a job I think use of @jira might be a deal breaker."--Peter Seibel[1].

I have no generosity toward Confluence, their wiki. Bad UI choices, a weird & inconsistent markup language that again becomes another thing to wrestle with indefinitely instead of unobtrusively helping you. I've had to use it at two jobs, and there won't be a third.

Bamboo, their CI system, seems OK, but for some reason I end up debugging a lot of build failures having to do with leftover or broken state on the build machine, which seems like one of the first things a CI system should help you avoid.

[1]https://twitter.com/peterseibel/status/451758184470835200
It would take something truly novel to make me consider anything on top of the simple and powerful setup which is react + a custom flux. I don't see much here except some glue that reduces flux boilerplate for actions. It also seems to be a replacement for a simple mixin that subscribes components to stores. The animations feature doesn't seem to be too different than the standard CSSTransitionGroup. The docs say that the Tuxx abstracts away the "complexity" of flux but I don't buy it.
Thanks - I spend too much time getting it ready and then never launching, so by publicly declaring this I'm hoping it'll motivate me to actually get the job done, 12 times!

This post hasn't gained any traction but maybe one of the monthly projects will catch the groups interest!
I echo your sentiments about disillusionment with weakly typed/dynamically typed languages and I still haven't really reached a situation where I was glad I didn't have a type system backing me.
What are the benefits of BSD vs Linux? I could never quite understand why people would chose BSD, but that's likely just ignorance.
Well, that status page links to http://www.w3.org/community/ortc/, so I don't think they mean CU-RTC-WEB.
This isn’t a story. I’ve installed competitors’ apps many times to see what they are like. Doesnt even mean that I use them beyond seeing what they are like. And even so, not a big deal if you occasionally use a competitor.
Could you be more specific please?

There is an example database in the Bitbucket repository if that is what you mean.
Couldn't it be there from someone who knows you? I was under the impression that Facebook grabbed people's contacts list on mobile apps.
https://www.troyhunt.com/the-ethics-of-running-a-data-breach...

Other than Troy Hunt being well known and building a reputation on being a white hat security guy.

In the world of data the only thing you can trust in absolute terms is encryption. Anything else involving people involves shades of grey.
Thanks :)

I also want to experiment with reduced pricing for non-profits, but first have to get the basics down and ship the free and enterprise versions.

And then pay back a huge debt to Django with code contributions and corporate sponsorship.
It's simple really. Have your doctor take a blood sample, get it tested for vitamin D deficiency and regulate your intake accordingly.

I've had myself tested december last year, mostly out of curiosity. Turns out I was severly deficient. Not really surprising, being a vegetarian locked inside. Started taking the highest available dosage (20000) via prescription twice per week and now feel much more energetic and "awake" I think.
I've had another test a few weeks ago, and while there's no acute deficiency anymore, doc suggested keeping up the current intake for another few months.
One thing that I miss from PostgreSQL is transparent encryption. Some information systems require encryption of personal data by law. It's trivially implemented with commercial databases, so you can enable it and check a mark. Not so much with Postres.
Did you deactivate or delete your facebook account?

As I understand, deactivation is temporary, deletion erases all data.

But if people did delete their accounts and Facebook didn't erase the private data, aren't there consequences to this?
See they are just covering their asses at this point. Besides, bugs are not random nor can one casually observe them to be little until more is known.

Might be a huge problem that takes them weeks to solve.
Thank you... that is the one. I may have misremembered the characters involved or perhaps read it from a different source.
heathrow is seriously the worst airport i've ever been in, in terms of overall experience. and that includes some pretty dilapidated pre-renovation indian airports.
That has been close to my experience in the past as well.
Works on the Amsterdam <-> Brussels train. It scanned correctly even from a mobile.
A similar technique is used already on the website http://www.wondersay.com
Here the URL path is the text to animate and the fragment hash stores the settings. Bitly is also used to hide the contents of the URL (and hence the messages).

This is clever, in that the entire content of the website is not stored in a database, but in external links. Obviously the biggest problem with this technique is having bots crawl your site, so Google's #! convention is used.
That's not my experience. I bought a 128GB Patriot Torx some time ago and one day it stopped working completely. I lost all my data. They gave me a new one and 7 months later I started having data corruption problems. Now I can't even format it from Windows.

Maybe it was bad luck twice but I'm sticking with hard drives for now.
the sad thing is that my first thought was "as a brown guy, there's no way i'd ever dare to do that".
Interestingly, I find old books charming, especially ones with signs of wear and age. Kind of like a sturdy old table with nicks and bruises or a skillet with scrapes and scratches.

I think eBooks are fine for "on-the-go," but hard copies certainly have a place on my bookshelf. In time, hard copies will become a niche product, one you use while sitting in your easy chair on a cold winter night. Everyone thought the radio will die with the advent of TV, but it just found a niche (nobody listens to the radio in their house, but they do in their car).

As a side note, the OP said that he prefers reference books as hard copy books. When I think of reference books though, I think searchable content, which means I want my references to be in eBook format.
They all look mostly the same, sure the French spend nearly double the time on "Personal Care" as Americans but when you're talking about 0.7 hours vs. 1.3 hours that's really not a big difference. I'd be a lot more interested in countries like Russia, China, and various places in the Middle East, Africa, and South America. More precise age groups would also be interesting.
In today's frothy market, do you think that they'd only be at $3B? Not baiting at all, I'm curious on how you'd break this down as it's always an arcane art.

I mainly wonder as companies like C3.ai are above a $10B market cap on 50% or less of DO's revenue. And C3 (just to extend the example) is carrying lower margin services revenue as well. Growth is somewhat different, granted.
Same for me, but I can understand if it is hard to implement in the current design.
I'm on the fence about Sci-hub. Every time I read about it, I remember this article about how they operate.

>Let me be clear: Sci-Hub is not just stealing PDFs. They’re phishing, they’re spamming, they’re hacking, they’re password-cracking, and basically doing anything to find personal credentials to get into academic institutions. While illegal access to published content is the most obvious target, this is just the tip of an iceberg concealing underlying efforts to steal multiple streams of personal and research data from the world’s academic institutions.

This might just be a hit piece by the same companies who are losing money, but it has some merit with proof of attacks changing passwords, etc. Real, tangible damage. I'm not sure this is what Aaron Swartz envisioned. I'm all for vigilante justice or whatever pirates use to justify it (seriously, I petitioned my local college to stop subscribing to them) but this is hardly the same thing.

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/09/18/guest-post-th...
A bit like the comments about incongruous items in the recent Apple lab video, I find the presence of a Pocket Operator on the video demonstrating ease of assembly rather amusing.

They already ticked the expensive camera box, but for proper hipster bingo success, you would also need: some kind of branded grid paper notebook, a metal mechanical draughting pencil, a teapot with loose leaf tea, audiophile headphones and a 40% mechanical keyboard.
This is an extremely ambitious project, and hopefully turns out to be worthwhile. For complex/interconnected systems, building ~accurate simulations can vastly decrease the cost of decision-making, and I'm very bullish on digital twin technology, generally. Trying things out in a simulation can be a cheap way to guide more detailed engineering analysis and 'rough in' an approach.

As an example, my startup, Bractlet (bractlet.com), uses detailed, physics-based energy simulation (aka "digital energy twin") technology as a tool to optimize HVAC design and controls in large commercial buildings. I'm sure efficacy varies widely by domain, but it's worked extremely well for us so far; we typically help our customers save about 20-30% on their energy expenditures annually, and the digital twin is the bedrock of our approach.
After looking at this, I thought of another approach to achieve somewhat similar goal. Anyone interested in exploring the idea? I am a software engineer. So a hardware engineer and an industrial designer would be helpful to punch hole into my idea. Let us connect and explore some possibilities. My email is in my profile.
what happens when you want a new CPU of a new socket type? what happens when you want 8k screens?
Can you elaborate on that please
Control of where Linux development is going is indeed economically worth a lot. Copies of the Linux kernel are near enough to worthless for the distinction not to matter.
Most recent browsers support HTML5, which allows SVG with implicit SVG and XLink namespaces. Not that I suggest you don't use namespaces in standalone SVG, as that is still required.
In a traditional for loop fashion:

def known_edits2(word):
L = []

for e1 in edits1(word):
for e2 in edits1(e1):
if e2 in NWORDS:
L.append(e2)

return set(L)
I was looking at those. Do you have any experience with them?
Don't have time to verify this until the weekend, but if it works as advertised, this is brilliant.
If anyone has any questions I'll be happy to answer them.

Unfortunately working on my startup came first over challenging them legally -- since the value of the winnings was over $5000, I would have had to fly to their local court in order to proceed legally.
I would say 2500$ for a non-apple machine. Yes, building my own is definitely an option, but time is of the essence, so I prefer buying. If I had to allocate a weekend between building this machine or hacking, I would have to go with the latter.
run a proxy server company? this would be perfect material for a viral campaign.
Had IPv6 been an incremental improvement over IPv4, with a larger address space, the costs would have been much less

This is not clear to me. It seems like the base cost of adopting any new protocol is pretty high, so simplifying IPv6 wouldn't have reduced the transition cost much. Given the high base cost, it actually makes sense to pack in as many fixes as possible IMO, especially since this is our one chance for the next ~25 years or so. (Some people are complaining that IPv6 didn't solve enough problems, like routing scalability.)
"I think my biggest problem with bidding sites is that they drive down the rates. I see writers offering themselves for fifty cents an article and Virtual Assistants charging $25 for a day’s worth of work. Are we so desperate to earn money we’re willing to settle for less than slave wages? I don’t know of anyone who would flip burgers for such a paltry sum, but yet many will happily accept next to nothing to get a proverbial foot in the door."

Slaves don't get paid any wages. That's why they are slaves.

Why not use it to your advantage and hire the cheap people instead of be one?
Logical thinking will get you booted out of office.
Companies like this confuse me. They are cutting 2800 jobs, or 20%, which means they employ 14000. What do 14000 people do at a stationary bike company? (I know they also make possibly dangerous treadmills, etc).

I misread the headline at first, and thought the total employed was 2800, and they are cutting 20% of that, and I thought 2800 sounded on the high end but reasonable.
That's the difference between understanding the machine and understanding people (and understanding that most people do not (really want to) understand the machine).
Not shocking, since the FAA consistently disregards NTSB recommendations, I doubt they felt like getting chastised for safety issues in yet another transportation type
I'm not that familiar with Rust at the moment, could you expand?
I'm sure Godwin's law was introduced because of a genuine problem with lazy comparisons to Hitler. That said, any time I want to make a genuine comparison to something Hitler or Nazi Germany did, I have to go out of my why to find some other historical figure who did the same thing, just to avoid wasting time arguing about whether a comparison Hitler invalidates my argument.
> Canada has recently been having a very difficult discussion on Native American deaths and disappearances at residential schools -

What difficult discussion? The natives were exterminated and have no power or recourse. How "difficult" can the discussion be when there is nothing at stake. How about this, lets have a discussion where china or russia or the UN takes half or more of canada, forms a new native nation and returns it to the native canadians. Lets see how warm canada will be to such discussions.

The only thing canada is good at is superficial virtue signaling "discussions" when there is nothing at stake.

> this is a discussion that could never happen under the Chinese government.

That's cause china didn't go to the other side of the world and exterminate a continent full of nations. What is there to discuss?

> Yes, it's wrong to say that voices are completely silenced in China and completely free in Canada - but it's pretty disingenuous to suggest they're on equal footing.

No more or less they are. There are things you'll get punished for saying in china and canada. It's disingenuous to pretend one is better than the other.

The only country in the world that is genuinely better than china, canada and everyone else when it comes to free speech is the US. But even here free speech is under attack both by internally and externally.
Even UK-only release in Signal means more people with cryptocurrency wallets than all other cryptocurrencies combined.
> They would have to pass tax increases to fund that

Or reallocate money previously allocated to libraries, social workers, community colleges, public transportation, etc. etc.
Are you suuuuure about that?

> Its payload is a high resolution downward-looking camera for navigation, landing, and science surveying of the terrain, and a communication system to relay data to the Perseverance rover.

(From Wikipedia)

Also: https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25526/bottom-of-ingenuity-ma...

I'm pretty sure the point of the helicopter, other than to test powered flight, is to capture frames.
When does a Ponzi scheme stop being a Ponzi scheme?
s/programming environments/systems/
I suppose the only thing here that really interests me is the backup server, and even then I've got enough (potentially misplaced) faith in iCloud/Dropbox/Google photos to not spontaneously combust at the same time as I lose/break my devices. Out of interest, what software do you use for the backups? Is it something like Borg/rsync and a cron job, or is there a nice batteries included solution?
I'm not saying that it's a clear cut issue. I think there are definite cases when freedom of speech causes more harm then good. If someone will preach that we must kill every single person with 8 fingers, for example, we will curtail his freedom with very little consideration.
Thanks for the suggestions, I wasn't aware of either of them.

Ditto has a dead website and it's not on the Play store, there's a link on its repo but it's dead. APKs are not viable for mainstream use.

And I just tried onboarding someone on FluffyChat, and as of right now, it's non-viable as well. During the process I have to go back and forth between web browser and application which completely went over my mother's head despite the textual instructions, and when it's set-up it defaults to Matrix usernames instead of doing automatic contact resolution using an identity server.

On the other hand, the UI is pretty nice and fits in well with native apps, if the app had a more serious, bland branding and a tamer color palette it would be up to task UI-wise.
> What this month has demonstrated, reiterated and rubbed in until the wounds bleed again, is how massive and debilitating updating Big Sur has become.

This is over the top. Most users are not noticing 3gb vs 1gb difference per download or the delta between what was and what is for short updates.

They are just glad it’s getting done without messing with it.
Price definitely impacts reviews as well. If you want to boost customer reviews on any product, cutting the price resets customer expectations to the downside. Raising prices for any reason also raises customer expectations.
> February 22, 2021
great resource! thanks!
It seems you can’t say anything on the internet without someone interpreting it with rigid binary thinking. Fine then. Microsoft isn’t great either. Google does some good things. News at eleven.
When I wrote "we in the rest of the world is very aware of that and frankly a bit tired of it" I wasn't referring to any particular person, could be Trump, could be Clinton or could be Obama. No one except the US wants the US to keep playing world police/leader.

This is the time to work together, not for one country to be the leader.
Funny, just yesterday I was wondering what a shell would look like if it was an interpreter for a modern language. The important thing about the commands is the composition, not the language they are embedded in.

I think to make something as instantly usable as the the shell is quite hard, but to make an environment that is suitable for harder tasks that just get messy in the shell in a better language, but which still inherits a shell like way of doing things could be an interesting project.
Indeed, it suggests something very core to entrepreneurship - the good money is always in new places, not existing ones. Oneupmanship in an existing field always turns into a game of capital and manpower, bigger risks for less reward. But "breaking out of the box" and finding that new place can be a really tough thing too.
It is more noticeable since so many large sites use it. Kind of like a MS BSOD was a common joke because so many people used MS Windows.

If we were all having our own rental servers then.... well, many sites that we know wouldn't be around :)
Personally, I can't see that they can do much more than this. If they're going to supply access via the website, or allow you to share with others then they need to be able to decrypt the file.

I never assumed that it was impossible for them to get access to my files. I just assumed that only certain people had access to the keys, and they only gave them out to third parties when forced to by law.
It is, but this addendum provides diminishing returns in terms of usefulness versus sentence length/parsability...
Two years ago TechCrunch was publishing an article every time Rackspace went down listing all the hot startups down along with it. AWS is no more a SPOF than any other major hosting provider.
Branch delay slot gives you something to do while you're not sure where you're going. In the best case, you don't take the branch, and you have made progress down the correct path without knowing that it was the correct path. However, it's not always possible to fill the branch delay slot with useful instructions, so a lot of the time it ends up just being a nop.
Sorry about this - we'll look into this right away...can you shoot us an email at INFO AT TEXTYAPP.COM?

We are iterating on the Chrome Extension daily as we launch features and encounter bugs like this.
This service, along with other interactive features, can be realized trough GTalkSMS, a jabber account and an IM client e.g. Pidgin.

I've used this combination for some time, and been quite satisfied with it. The only issue I've had, is that the GTalkSMS app steals alot of resources while running on my android phone. I hope this is not the case with Texty.

http://code.google.com/p/gtalksms/
http://www.jabber.org/
http://www.pidgin.im/
If it's an observation, why is it pushed like an agenda and used like a justification?
A feature I really like in Texty is the Desktop Notifications.

Like Growl, but also lets you click reply and respond to the SMS as well.

It's just easy and works.
I find it surprising that they did not and do not plan to employ any sort of interlocks/padded walls. What I mean is, if the system is exhibiting some very abnormal state (e.g #remirror_event above a fixed threshold or more than x standard deviations above average) then automated repair actions should probably stop and the issue should be escalated to a human.
Not really useful answer. I rarely give tips because I don't care about social pressure and most of the time the service is not special anyway.
Then please spend few billion dollars of your own money, or try to raise that much if you feel inclined to do so, while I support the man who is already spending money on those issues instead of complaining on HN......you might think whatever you want about Gates, but the money he is spending is helping people. Period.
"Résumé" does mean summary, but "précis" merely means "precise" in day-to-day French. Using it when you mean "summary" is incredibly old fashioned and a bit pompous; most people wouldn't even understand what you mean.