skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, my thought is that the correct shoes for most people probably align more often than we give credit.

Let me spell out very clearly why I do not think this is so:

1. As I alluded to before, a big axis when choosing shoes is whether you have a tendency to over-pronate, under-pronate, or neither. Shoes that correct over- or under-pronation have different properties. I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to understand why someone who underpronates wouldn't do well with shoes designed to correct overpronation. Assuming (dubiously, I guess) that these traits are all evenly distributed, and ignoring any gradation within these categories, already you only have a one-in-three chance of getting the right shoe.

2. Some people have wider feet than others; different shoes are appropriate depending on this.

3. There are other complications: for instance, I wear orthotic inserts, which further narrows the number of shoes I can wear. Anything with little space on top or with elaborate built-in arch support is out.

4. Anecdotally, every time I am recommended a similar style of shoe which represents only a small percentage of the inventory of the store. When I watched my wife be fit, they gave her a different style.

If you visit Web sites about long-distance running (for natural reasons most of the people who really care about their sneakers are runners) you can find a lot of information about what shoes are right for what people and I guess probably what models are currently available with certain properties. But then again, you could also, you know, skip all that, and visit a specialty store (i.e., not Foot Locker), and have them tell you. I personally also discovered that I had been buying shoes too small for me because my ideas about how a shoe "should" fit were not quite right.

I suppose for a certain definition of "most people" you may be right: most people don't walk or run that much and won't experience any discomfort no matter what shoe they wear. But for anyone putting a heavy load on their legs or experiencing discomfort I have no doubt whatsoever that a visit to a specialty store is worthwhile.
Then you get Germanwings incidents
With battery capacities being what they are you'll also have to hang tight for the moment when they stretch long enough to allow you to even have the choice of driving to the same place you can fly. (Or swap batteries on the way somehow... not sure how well that would work.)
Not OP, but I think they mean in the context of software design patterns[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_design_pattern
The ghost gunner is used to finish metal parts that are fully functional, they will last for thousands of shots.

But they also won't pass metal detectors.
This is great news. However, I saw the most ads on Youtube; it would be great if Google followed suit and released similar data.

I hope this sets a precedent for publishing ad spending in future referenda too.
Is it still competetive vs car for supersonic flight?
The Mac vs PC wars seems to have mostly passed. If not back when Gates actually invested in Apple when Jobs came back as CEO, then certainly when desktops lost their primacy among devices and growth stagnated. It also became clear that market shares would remain roughly stable.

MS earns its money selling 7-digit support contracts for databases and other enterprisy products. More and more, they will go the way of IBM and shift to services.

To remain invested in some sort of petty tribalism proscribing individual choices in tools would just be embarrassing at this point.

It may also be harmful, causing its workforce not to notice good ideas first appearing on other platforms, scaring away people not willing to work with (in their view) inferior tools, and risking to end up with a shortage of expertise when they decide to expand on non-windows platforms.
Why Do Genes Suggest Most Men Died Off 7000 Years Ago?
I’ve just run “tree /f” from the root of my drive. It printed huge amounts of text but the scrolling remained instant.

I think your big problem is not necessarily with Windows console, could be with the command-line apps you’re using in it.
The trick is to unveil all the files the server needs to operate on and then lock further unveiling.

This way bugs/exploits of the server can't suddenly go read/write to i.e. /etc/passwd.
Re: "When it comes to Google, I'm more worried that they might just arbitrarily mothball something on a management roadmap whim."

Spot on. I would that if a site / application is hitting Maps' paid tier they can (somehow) monitize that traffic and cover the cost.

But monitization can't help you if / when they pull the plug.

p.s. I sometimes wonder how often Google looks at Slack and regrets mothballing Wave.
Indictments are not evidence. It is my understanding (correct me if I'm wrong) that no actual evidence has been presented (yet) in the trial of the first batch of Russians.

Nor will any evidence be presented because there will not be a trial. Mueller purposely indicted all Russians who are physically in Russia, knowing that they could not and would not be extradited.
Bit’s Component Playground Now Visualizes Multiple Exports
I am 100% sure that font is Roboto, while the rest of the email is written using Helvetica. This is not a throwaway, I just registered.
> let and const only control mutability of the reference. They say nothing of the value mutability. const then can only be a signal that you are not reassigning to the identifier.

Wouldn't this definition suggest that the value CAN be reassigned? The reference could be immutable but allow value reassignment, but is not the implementation of const.
> 2. Nearly everyone in tech has impostor syndrome - let the recruiter or company decide you aren't skilled enough - if you think you aren't worthy you are holding YOURSELF back.

well said. I've had such a hard time convincing really great people that if you find the job interesting, but say sideways from or two+ steps up from your current position, call the person advertising it and talk to them about it. Then if you still like the job, apply for it! You're (most often) much more skilled than you think you are.

(plus the phone call can help to get your CV noticed when you do put it in ;) )
This is already solved in technology terms. Battery capacities and charging speeds are already good enough for almost all long-distance travel scenarios.

It’s now just a case of getting costs down and infrastructure built out. But that’s the easy part.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "game engine" here.
Vinny Lingham's Civic Acquires the Identity.com Domain
Afaik, 10ms is not achievable nowadays, unless you use a very old computer. https://danluu.com/input-lag/
It is still true; Holding a train full of passengers hostage is foolish because there's no possibility that a train driver could disengage the rails.

Holding a plane full of passengers hostage is less foolish because the pilots/flight attendants can be bribed and bartered- it's not a technical impossibility to do certain actions, so there is more of an incentive.
My pet peeve with Jedi is, that it doesn't support autocompletion for type libraries, that are not parsable python code. For example, anything from gi.repository (i.e. entire Gtk) is then without autocomplete.

Jetbrains IDEs do support it: you have to manually generate the symbol cache for the first time, but the IDE knows your intent and maintains it for you, and for you as the user, autocomplete just works.

Another thing that Jetbrains has better, is weighing the importance of symbols that are offered: Open a random Django project, try to define a model and see, where the autocomplete makes better sense.
I've also recently made the change to a four day week, working from home, after years of a five day, work from office job. My experience mirrors that of the study. I'm more focused during work and don't feel that my productivity has dropped at all. The company I work for has been running with this model for over 5 years successfully with a high levels of morale and productivity.
Anyone can use those, so why are people complaining?

Google does a whole lot more, and can charge whatever they want for it. OSM provides usable solutions the vast majority of users; i’ve Moved to OSM a couple of years ago in everything for privacy reasons and except for the occasional Waze route or verifications, get nothing from google that I can’t get from OSM.
"Luckily, there are several easy ways to prevent things from tainting your poolside experience forevermore."

Okay...

"Always shower before entering"

Right, but I'm not the one with diarrhoea. I can't get everyone else to always shower.

"stay out of the pool if you’re not feeling well"

By the time you're feeling unwell, isn't it too late already?

"test water frequently if you own your own pool"

Getting your own pool is certainly a great tip. Duly noted. For those of you afraid of pickpockets on public transport - a very easy way of dealing with it would be to get a car. For some reason it makes me think of The Onion :)
Great app. The only thing that bothers me is that productivity is really touchy subject, there's no right way to be productive. It's different from person to person. This app is great for time tracker.
For sure, substack did this with peermaps + IPFS, check it out: https://peermaps.github.io/

Source: https://github.com/peermaps/peermaps

Also writeup about the architecture: https://github.com/digidem/osm-p2p-db/blob/master/doc/archit...
On the newer versions it generally does not ask for permissions on install but rather when they are needed, you can choose to decline, some applications might then misbehave. On older version like kitkat you are forced to accept all of the requested (and often very intrusive) permissions or not install the application at all.
Webpack 4.0 to 4.16: Did you know?
betalist, betabound, indiehackers, /r/alphaandbetausers, /r/startups monthly thread
Same here. I miss it but I haven't been satisfied with the options I tried (anyway Google long ago killed my list of feeds).
WhatsApp drastically limits forwarding across globe following violence in India
Cause throwing together a half-baked Android phone using the aged fork of Android that Mediatek provides, plus a few sketchy APKs with no comments or source is much easier than properly mainlining said fork of Android, then shipping a phone based on it.

Turns out, making the software to do cool stuff is most of the cost of building new products.
Ask HN: What database lesson did you learn too late?
I teach database classes, and I'm always curious to know: what were some of the biggest lessons you felt you learned too late? Things that bit you, and you wish someone would have distilled down to a very short, clear lesson that you could have absorbed earlier to prevent pain later?
How is a license that puts no restrictions on usage "less business-friendly"?

... Oh I see, Oracle's strategy here is to monetize GPL FUD.
First marijuana company to IPO on Nasdaq
Because there is a lot of people(in 3rd world and Asian countries mostly) willing to pay for a fake iphone. Outside of hacker circles, there is very very few people willing to pay for an open source phone.
If you're spending 2000 <what currency?> for "scrolling of menu bar items when an apps menu is too long" you should maybe reconsider priorities. You could possibly feed a few families in <what currency?-country> with that.

Plus spotlight works well as a "frecency based app launcher".
I'm still undecided. I'm pretty tied to the Apple ecosystem at this point, for better or worse, so jumping back to Linux is a tough sell right now. I already have a touchbar MBP, so for me it'd be solely about the extra RAM (which I really need) and speed bump (which is nice, but of lesser concern). I haven't had the keyboard issues yet, but have some concerns.

I probably will end up getting one but not immediately--that said, it's highly likely I'll get a dedicated Linux laptop as well and start looking into tool replacement and integration options in case it ends up going that direction.
I think I mentioned that F1 cars go a little bit slowly, however, the point I was making is that some thinking outside of the box is needed, from some area of engineering that is actually innovative. Innovation isn't just about funding, no amount of money sponged off the taxpayer and given to NASA and their greedy contractors will solve the problem. You need engineering talent and people who can bend the rules and do things that go beyond what can be learned from studying textbooks.
That’s the feeling I get after walking or cycling in London traffic and getting a lung full of diesel fumes...
Really? Where I am they're legally required to factor it in. So if you're working Tue-Fri for instance you get a quarter day holiday or something ... there's a few other nuances to it - pension entitlements and the like and it's a bit of a headache for payroll but that's what they're paid to do!
Yikes, the anti-Windows crowd is strident today. Yeah, cmd.exe is crap, and if you're expecting to use a Unix workflow rather than learn how things work in Windows, you're going to have a bad time. I'm not sure that religiously sticking to the baggage and constraints of obsolete hardware from fifty years ago is really a great ideal either...

But you just can't change existing shit willynilly in Windows, with the kind of install base and legacy it has, or you'll break things in a way that has been historically unacceptable in Redmond.
Antitrust theatre
They do use brand name components which are quite a bit more expensive than Chinese no-name ones.
Why is this called trolling? It's disinformation at best, and propaganda at worst.
Making CryptPad CSS 3 times faster, by loading it twice
How envy can nourish growth: on frenemies
WhatsApp to limit message forwarding to stop the spread of fake news
I'm doing the same. Been a local guide aswell. And if you are not based in the US, you never got ANY benefit from Google for that effort. I did it for the society. And now Google is earning 10x more with it...
Off topic but the title made me think of it, god that movie was horrible. I watched it last weekend after seeing him in the Shooter TV series and was like 'gahhhhhhhhh I can't believe I liked Antitrust in high school'.
Although I am sympathetic to her point (and I do love seeing living butterflies!) I think that perhaps Magritte's The Treachery of Images (ceci n'est pas une pipe) is the appropriate response to her criticism.

Butterfly's wings are spread in such a manner for display so we can see the patterns, after all, and taking a bit of artistic license in order to better satisfy a compositional need is a core concept of most creative endeavors.
What should medicine do when it can’t save your life?
Should we interpret your comment as support that it doesn't necessarily matter what the leading political ideology of the country is, rather who is the one enforcing it?
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter partner for ambitious new data project
EV SSL Certificates Are Worth the Paper They’re Written On, Survey Finds
99% of the people I know use MS Office. Maybe 20% use google Docs but not as their main office suite.

If they did release Office for Linux, I'd use it for work, since everyone uses it there.

> I feel you're just reeling these things off as some burden of work you want them to toil away at as a debt you expect them to pay to the Linux community.

I don't think they owe anyone anything. I'm just saying if they claim to love open source or Linux, then they need to prove it.
There is some truth in this article, but a critical point is being missed.

> per-capita income has more than doubled since 1972

Actually, per capita income has plummeted since 1972. To correctly assess income, you have to know the rate of inflation, and the official inflation figures are effectively lies because they focus on consumer goods, which have indeed become cheaper, while ignoring housing (and in America, college fees and health insurance), which has become drastically more expensive thanks to artificial scarcity created by zoning laws combined with the shortage of remote or rural jobs.

That sounds like only one factor of many, but I think it accounts for much of the rest. Real income falling every decade creates negative anticipation which has difficulty finding something to latch onto because we keep being told we are getting continually richer, hence the miasma of fear and hate constantly looking for targets. Nor is the fear unfounded. For centuries, we tried to figure out what destroyed the Roman Empire. Answer: the Romans were not destroyed by any external force. They were wiped out by their own ruling class, via abuse of land ownership law.

As for what to do about it, my first suggestion would be to start voting single-issue on repeal of zoning laws.
How WhatsApp Leads Mobs to Murder in India
Some are more sensitive to chlorine than others. I have astma and feel awful after having been in a pool.
1. In the video they say that in practice they see average pauses of 1ms and max pauses of 4ms.

2. It's still very early days for ZGC, but there are more established low-latency Java GCs. A non-realtime one is C4[1] (used in the Zing JVM), which then added generational collection to a design that is similar to ZGC. They report[2] a few 0.5-1ms pauses per hour

[1]: https://www.azul.com/files/c4_paper_acm2.pdf

[2]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mechanical-sympathy/...
Those eyeballs almost all belong to the Web Browser vendors who are almost exactly a proxy for the Operating System vendors, you mention them as three "unicorns", though it's hard to pick three, I have an easier time saying four, or maybe five.

Specifically they are Google's Chrome (Android), Microsoft's IE/Edge (Windows), Apple's Safari (iOS/ macOS) leaving only Mozilla's Firefox (standing in for the Free Unixes). If there's a fifth it's Oracle, as custodians of Java.

A tremendous weight ends up resting on the shoulders of these vendors, all of them based on the US West Coast, and it's not as though this a power _seized_ by them, it's more something everybody else shirked.
Or a dairy farm, or a beaver dam or...
You sound like you haven't really had to do much real-world work in JS or C++.

Apart from managing memory, what makes C++ complicated is accounting for the differences between OSes and shared libraries and even different hardware capabilities.

But it's perfectly acceptable for many C++ developers to write code that only works on a single OS or to ship massive bundles that include various compatibility layers or specific versions of libraries to escape the hell that is dynamic library loading.

Developing rich applications (i.e. the kind of app that serves the same need as a desktop application you need to download and install) is similar, except it's rarely acceptable to say "oh, this web app only works in Safari" while it's often perfectly acceptable to say "oh, this desktop app only works on the latest macOS".

Instead of different OSes you have to deal with different browsers. Instead of shared libraries you have to deal with different implementation levels of web standards (which is rarely an "on or off" distinction but in practice often means having to deal with experimental prefixes, different draft stages and subtle differences with no easy way to determine in advance what the browser supports exactly). And you don't get to compile per platform and users will complain if your code bundle is too big or features aren't supported in their browser.

"But web sites are simpler" you might argue, but that's not webpack is used for. Or at least the web sites you'd complain aren't using it. A wordpress blog with tens of JavaScript files is the opposite of what you get when using a tool like webpack.

Ironically a simple blog with the same user-facing functionality would likely be much smaller and faster if built with webpack (because a lot of the redundancy and size stems from the good old days' "bolt-on" mentality which is still a common practice for web sites). But surprisingly enough that's not what webpack is used for because "everybody knows" it would be overengineering.
They should just replace it with the power shell prompt that wraps the command line.
I trained briefly in a health club/gym pool (not full length, had a sauna etc). I would usually find that after swimming in it for any length of time, inhaling fully wouldn't feel like it was providing me with the expected amount of oxygen - hard to describe accurately the feeling but it definitely wasn't just breathlessness from exerting myself. Didn't really hurt or anything. When I swam in a proper fitness pool however, there were no feelings like that.
Looks like we soaked your quota, sorry!

It's not in the Wayback Machine, is there another cache somewhere?
As a nix person who now spends his entire day in the Windows terminal, I wrote a guide to setting up the console and pwsh for maximum productivity:

https://github.com/mikemaccana/powershell-profile/blob/maste...
>> Also, python wants to be everything ( functional, OO, imperative, etc ) and hence is the worst language to learn programming language topics in my humble opinion.

I think it doesn't get the functional/imperative parts right as they seem to be patched onto it. It is just a scriptable, OO language and pretty good at it, when combined with it's batteries included et al.

OTOH, Common Lisp is everything and is great at it. IMHO, a language with only paradigm is very restrictive and rarely helps when solving real world problems as they can't be effectively modeled in one paradigm only.

That is why CL is just a joy to solve problems with. So is Python and anything else if that one major paradigm that it supports is a right fit for the problem at hand.
This is why Google's generic services should be commoditized as quickly as possible.
> his is already solved in technology terms. Battery capacities and charging speeds are already good enough for almost all long-distance travel scenarios.

Really? It seems to me that decent EV ranges are around 150mi right now, with the best ones going to 300mi... meaning they generally might get you halfway from (say) SF to LA, and you can bet that none of them will get you all the way. And that's not even that long of a distance, depending on what your standards are. Now charging times run into multiple hours, right? How is that even remotely close to gasoline?
This, plus most sites side load content from major CDN's, like ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery and log the requests. You'll need additional extension besides VPN, Private Browsing and uBlock Origin - Decentraleyes:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes

It's amazing how much you need to break free from tracking, but I'm on the war path :) Btw, taking the red pill will cut you off Facebook and Google accounts, unless you provide real phone numbers.

Matrix movie: "You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes"
Who cares anyway
> Yes, or you can skip that part and do the tricky part in an actual programming language

Are you proposing pulling in an entire dataset into memory and post-processing it vs. creating efficient SQL to get what you need?
Moving to 21-hour week is almost 50% reduction from the current level. But unemployment is not 50%, it's much much lower. I guess it's a matter of degree. If reduction of working hours is radical enough it could reduce both unemployment and emissions.
Bookmarks Manager Chrome Extension Will Be Discontinued on Aug 15th
I've probably spent a few hours correcting Google Maps (and a couple of days on OSM).