skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a couple of YouTube videos from AvE (he takes a bit of getting used to, but he knows a fair bit about electronics) about a Dyson vacuum cleaner [1] and hair dryer [2]. Lots of moulded plastic and glue, little substance. On the other hand, Miele recently repaired an old vacuum cleaner [3] that worked for 30 years before breaking.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPTzNJMd19A

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-vJxez9UF8

[3] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34290597
email addresses were treated as disposable and temporary from how i remember it before gmail went mainstream.

providers came and went and custom domains for emails were extremely rare... at least in my circles
Scientists discover how bacteria use noise to survive stress
Today it’s hard to make an economic case for a well-rounded liberal arts education — but I’d bet that in ten years, computers will be pretty good at everything except the stuff you get from a good liberal arts education.
> Now, if F='-n', second trap

You're not wrong, but I think it's worth pointing out that's a trap that comes up any time you exec another program, whether it's from shell or python. I can't reasonably expect `subprocess.run(["cat", somevar])` to work if `somevar = "-n"`.

(Now, obviously, I'm not going to "cat" from python, but I might "kubectl" or something else that requires care around the arguments)
A past colleague of mine reached out to see if I had written a negative review on glassdoor. I left on good terms, but the company was going through some very real challenges.

Several scathing, albeit somewhat accurate, reviews had been written.

Looking now, all but one of the negative reviews have been removed.

In short, glassdoor is worthless.
Agree. I was "invited" to Blind and every thread or comment were useless, antagonistic personal attacks, complaining, etc. It was very immature.
This.

If we're doing our job as a generation we are moving the focus of human education from the gross to the subtle.
I haven't evaluated the appearance of text in Pharo, but I agree with the importance of the issue. Poor text rendering in any application or environment would be an immediate dealbreaker for me.
Instagram 'helped kill my daughter' (VIDEO)
That sounds reasonable, I'll look into it--thanks.

I was imagining an algorithm where each pipeline-aware utility can derive port numbers to use to talk/listen to its neighbors. I may be able to use http content negotiation wholesale in that context.
How are the merchants paying benefits to credit card owners? Either way you would be fool to believe the merchants pay anything with their own money. It's just like saying that the lottery owner pays the winners.
Gates succeeded by creating a 40 year monopoly which established and largely controlled the heartbeat of the computer revolution. That's about as exclusive as it gets.

Any monopoly tilts the playing field so 90% of the business sector's profits pour into the pockets of a tiny few, leaving others high and dry. And virtually all the notable tech successes of the past 20 years arose and thrived via monopoly.

So it's little wonder why VCs like unicorns so much. The profits involved aren't shared with others.
agreed, I switched from a mix of manual wine prefixes and playonlinux to all lutris. As an added benefit it makes DXVK seamless.
Fractal – patterns recur at progressively
It will last at least as long as the warranty.

Cars in the US are required to be able to run on 87.

Look up engine knock sensor.
I agree. When our cleaner started with us, we had the latest Dyson vacuum. We asked what she would prefer and she asked for a Miele. The Miele is still going strong ten years later, whereas the Dyson broke sometime after its second repair (lots and lots of brittle plastic).
Or Windows gamers for that matter - it's not like there are a bunch of closed-source linux games that need WSL to run on Windows. I am puzzled by the assumption that Valve engineers somehow have a (professional) opinion on WSL
I am familiar w/ (relatively) high fees and near-universal acceptance so I'm not sure your dichotomy holds. Either way, I do appreciate the features my card providers offer me as a buffer between my bank and the merchant. Don't have to completely trust merchants or the government, can leverage the escrow the card provides to be on my side since I pay them and can leave them so easily. I agree, it is fairly clear which one is preferable.
Hence this service which would appear to be much easier than setting up a persistent remote ssh server with port forwarding.
It will be when the drives they just added have had more time in use. The best part of this is that them adding those drives signifies that they were on the market at good prices to add; competition is a good thing for consumers.
I read Paradise Lost every year around this time. I have it in my briefcse right now. It is the greatest thing written in the English language. Period.
Inject the virus directly into the tumor(s). It should then be able to inflict maximum damage before the immune system comes along and stops it. Perhaps the use of viruses needs to be in addition to other treatments for this very reason.
TM3 and TM5 are specific subcases for TM2, and turn the APT server / client into a honeypot

TM6: we should have an overlay onion router, and I agree that the current complexity is worrying, I'd love to see a minimalist version of TOR (with minimal I don't necessarily mean the code size should be small, but minimal assumptions, and that the safety of the system can be verified from the assumptions)

TM4: I don't understand, Lets Encrypt does not calculate private keys for public keys...
And creating an account just to do anything. And being subject to whatever horrors lie in their privacy policy.
Which block I/O scheduler is the best? We asked eBPF
Just because the government makes an investment in some research doesn't mean that it has bought the public rights to all commercial applications of that research.

This should be obvious on HN of all places. The government is just an investor in this context. It can demand whatever terms it wants, but the terms you're proposing are basically "100% equity in return for funding initial development costs." Nobody with options would take that deal.
<slow clap>

I'm guessing you don't have kernal task 2000% CPU problems? Because my 2017 MacBook Pro is 5x the cost of my Chromebook and rarely more functional.
"Contracts prohibit merchants to charge more than cash" - Interestingly, this is changing in New Zealand. More stores are passing on the fees (2.5%?) if you pay using a credit card.
Meng Wanzhou: US to 'move ahead with Huawei executive extradition'
Using a binary protocol library for RPC (e.g. gRPC, raw protobufs, etc.) rather than writing your own text-based protocol incorrectly.
>and that there could be an undiscovered proof that computers can never attain it?

It's already implemented in at least one physical system.
Came for the puerile, stayed for the pedantry.
The hard part is the NT-like kernel in Rust, not the web-based UI. ChromeOS uses the linux kernel.
The Dyson urinals I see in pub bathrooms are awful, they spray everything everywhere, a bit too much form, a bit too little function.
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For example, it was incredibly disappointing that company of heros did not support crossplay... The pool of players is significantly smaller.
I've no problem with wives that get half--I figure that's part of the deal when you get married. Wives can and do get far more, though, and that truly does seem unjust.
Probably much better, but I don't know the math myself.

The main key is having just some barrier to entry.

If you know how to repair motorcycles, you're going to be around more people that can afford motorcycles in a city. They'll be more expensive ones on average and people will be less likely to do the work themselves (time is worth more or they don't have a garage to do the work)

There's a shop in Chicago that only works on mopeds. They charge $75/hr on the workbench and that's for relatively cheap machines. Wait time without a rush fee in summer is on the order of weeks because they are the only non-independents in the game.

Due to the population, you can also run pretty niche services/shops. I know a place that only does battery sales and services. Phone, automotive, household gates, and so on.
Thanks for this. The HN comments were useful.
Just an anecdote, so feel free to ignore. I have a family member who is a drug addict. It seems obvious to me that the same part of their brain which is responsible for their addiction is also responsible for them being a pretty amazing athlete. They would practice sports obsessively, chasing those tiny little hits each time they made a basket or caught a ball, in a way that was categorically unlike every other kid I ever knew. I'm not saying the addiction mechanism works like that for everybody else, but it's pretty clear to me that this person would do extremely well in an environment without modern drugs.
Debian Apt security update
Sure this is just personal preference however Facebook always was a huge waste of money if I sold anything worth while (like my SaaS und stuff) however it worked kinda great to sell cheap China reimports and other shit like that.

Not to mention that it gets more expensive and less effective every year. And all those 'bugs' where clicks count from the wrong countries and all the other horrible stuff the Facebook adverser forum is filled with.
It's weird, but I first noticed this when I went to Greece. It's kind of difficult to get around in Greece. They don't have a wide-ranging national train system like some other European countries. They have a bunch of regional bus lines to get you from area to area, and they may only run once or twice a day. That'll mostly just get you between major cities, and they take a while.

I also noticed how difficult it was to get from my SO's place in NJ farm country to a nearby big city. From Philadelphia, I have to take an Amtrak up to Newark (or a SEPTA regional line up to Trenton, and then an Amtrak/NJT to Newark), then another train to the closest NJT stop in NJ, and then bike a couple dozen miles. That's at least 4 hours, compared to 1.2 hours by car.

Nearby towns and cities have shuttle services between other cities/towns, but trying to get to Philadelphia with those would require 5 or 6 transfers, basically the entire day, if you can even time it right to do it in one day. Anyone who lives out in the boonies and wants to work a well-paying job in the city is going to need to commute hours by car, which is expensive both in transportation cost and in time.

Having a car is expensive, but anyone trying to improve their station in life will need one to get to a better job. And the time it takes to transport themselves takes them away from things like family/personal time, childcare, continuing education, or additional jobs. So transportation will definitely hold the country's economic development back (in terms of increased access to jobs that pay better), as long as most of the good jobs are located in hard-to-reach metropolises.

If you suggest a plan for people to ditch their car in exchange for better public transit, the response seems to be "but I like my car!". Nobody wants to give up a convenience just to improve the economy.
These maps don't show a dam thing and the analysis is super weak. Its common sense that people in cities make more money and are more likely to walk to work. Then workers in rural areas drive alone to work and make less money.

https://xkcd.com/1138/
Ask HN: What kind of emails are you getting?
I consistently see colleagues email inboxes overflowing with thousands of unread messages. I hear people saying they get 100s of non-spam emails a day.

I've been in all kinds of organizations, from big to small, Military, Academic and Corporate. I've been a CEO of a VC backed startup with dozens of employees and corporate customers. I just don't get 100s of non-spam emails a day.

So for those of you that do get 100s of non-spam emails, what are all of these messages? Are most of them just cc'ing you?

I'm baffled at the concept of getting that many non-spam emails. What are all of these messages?
Pizza is incredibly high margin with low cost of goods and lots of upsell. It's fast and easy to make and delivery has been priced in over decades. In-store purchases also offset the cost because of the vertical integration.

The model is sufficiently different enough to make it extremely viable, and perfectly scalable for the smartphone era.
The author of article actually mentions this.

The problem with regulatory capture is that it is generally inefficient and given big enough opposition can get cracked.

The other important profit but not mentioned is externalities. Unethical but common. Damage the environment, damage society by exploiting the poor and others with little choice.
Some externalities can be exploited for a very long time...

And also exploiting information asymmetry, by marketing or otherwise profiting as a middleman.
My guess is they meant 10TB as it would be a more "equal" comparison:

1 10TB drive

10 1TB drives
What not to do if you get laid off or fired
Lightning Factories
Ten people give their opinions, as requested.
One person thinks you're arrogant and tells you so.

You can't argue with results.
Yes, I mean I don't personally value a first class trip at $12k (e.g. would never pay for it out of pocket), but it's fun to be able to experience the very best in air travel at almost no cost every one in awhile.

I do value business class, though, and happy that I can redeem points over paying for it out of pocket. There is a joy in actually being able to lie flat and sleep on a 11-14 hour flight to Asia or Europe and feel rested when you arrive vs feeling sore/cramped/and jet lagged for the first 2 days of your trip!
But if you write some code, you must be writing it to do something. That something is your spec. This may or may not be what the customer wanted, but writing it down may make it easier to explain what it is that you've decided to implement, and understand whether or not it could be the right thing.

Requirements do change constantly, which is all the more reason to write specs, so that you can understand the change and its implications (and present it to your customers) before writing the code. I am not saying this is always the best approach, but changing requirements in itself is not a reason not to use formal specification, but an additional motivation to use them.

For example, this is a nice lightweight formal specification tool that allows to specify UI interactions quickly and play with them to see if they are satisfactory before implementing them: https://sketch.systems/ This is more "agile" than changing code between iterations.
In my experience undergrad programs can fail hard in this too because of the limited time to cover the subject matter.

14 chapters of Digital Signal Processing in 12 weeks w00t!

For many of my engineering courses at a top tier public university it was in-one-ear-out-the-other.

Though, the most of stuff I learned at community college (pre-engineering) did stick.
...A 53% chance is "pretty much not possible in the slightest"?
So the people designing the spec don't have enough information about the problem space. As the programmers begin working, they explore the problem space, extract the information they need to understand a solution, and then they can actually solve it. Bit of a Schrodinger's cat situation... The solution must remain undefined until observed.
I find if they are mounted at the right height they can be fine. But some are mounted to optimally spray your face with the water from both your own and previous users' hands... disgusting. At least the taps with the built-in Dyson dryers have not taken off - if used with a shallow sink, the dryer just sprays up water from the bowl into your front.
Why isn't Smalltalk mentioned on the front page?

It seems that simply mentioning that Pharo is based on Smalltalk would immediately convey a lot of useful information to people who are new to Pharo.
I wouldn't advocate for breaking any laws or stealing anything that doesn't belong to you, but a whole lot of places have "totally unused bandwidth" and it won't hurt them at all financially for you to use 1/4 of their unused capacity.

Funny story: I'm kind of unusual that I run an open WiFi hotspot in my home, because I have plenty of unused bandwidth and guests in my house and even neighbors are welcome to borrow some of it anytime. But one of my neighbors one time downloaded illegal content on my WiFi (the exact name of the "True Blood" episode was included, with a date and time), and I got a "cease and desist" letter from the ISP. (sigh) I felt it was pretty rude of my neighbor. I mean, just because I leave my car door open in my driveway doesn't mean it isn't rude of you to use my car as a getaway car in a robbery, you know?
I've never understood the cult mentality in consumer products like Dyson and Apple. There are many very good products that are as good and many times better than these cult products.

As for the move, I'm sure it's profit based for the purpose of cheaper labor or being closer to the target consumer, but only an insider would really know the real reason.
I'm actually in the process of refurbishing and (potentially) upgrading a TRS-80 Model 100 for everyday usage. Sure, it won't have any of the modern stuff available, but it will run for hours off of 4 AA batteries that I can purchase anywhere.
Thanks for your suggestion! I was hoping to perhaps put together a short video to show it off in action (it really is quite simple).

That said, it might actually be easier for me to use the "accordion" approach, as you suggested, My video editing skills are pretty limited and this is currently a side project of mine that's completely bootstrapped.
Just like how every company offers work from home after 5 and on weekends.
American pragmatism (Richard Rorty) got snuffed.
AWS certification exams test for basic and foundational AWS knowledge. They don’t try to do anything other than that. The “whys” are learned in the field, certified or not.
Understanding AI is part of being an informed citizen in the 21st century
I felt the same with the Dyson stuff, lots of form and advertising.... but I didn't see the value there.

I ended up buying a Shark vacuum.
There were ample ad supported solutions that were pretty painless.
Source: set up several invision free forums for my friends in 5th grade. Never touched a server and had no idea what we were doing, but used it constantly to stay in touch.
I've been managing a small instance since version 5. There have been a few hiccups here and there, but mostly due on my part to not reading the release/upgrade notes carefully enough. Since version 8/9 it has been absolutely pain free. Run apt-get update then apt-get upgrade wait a bit and enjoy the new release!
I was there. I was 12 in 1995 and mostly accessed the Internet at school. In my teen years I eventually built my own computer and participated quite enthusiastically in the burgeoning social networking culture. That time spend became a core part of my identity.

But it was insular, normal people didn't care for it. Facebook was the first social network everybody used.
It's just one part of the tooling, and doesn't solve program-correctness on its own. A formally verified toolchain is only really useful for projects which have pervasive mitigations against these kinds of errors. In other words, if you have a code base which has been verified to a high standard, you would also want a toolchain verified to a high standard.

In an ideal world you'd have a formally verified toolchain for a language without as many deficiencies as C, but here we are.
Show HN: (FB, IG, Twitter, etc) how to delete accounts, search histories, etc
Hi all.

I've been creating a spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14EGunLNCtPCIcDiT_l8M...) with official links on how to delete accounts, search histories, tweets from Facebook, Instagram, Google, Whatsapp, Netflix, Twitter, etc. My motivation was because is not always an easy job to find out how to get rid of user accounts depending on the website.

Feel free to include any websites you want, change the spreadsheet layout.

Happy to hear your thoughts
My whole family was on ICQ when I was a kid. This may not actually be true but my understanding back then was that ICQ was pretty popular internationally (most of my family lives outside of the US).
>> "a smaller-than-average share of workers drives to work alone in more compact college towns"

We all talk about trying to get people our of their cars, but imho isn't all about cities or even transport systems. Imho it is about jobs. The great divide is between those who work in places that support alternative to private vehicles and those that do not.

If your employer wants you to work changing hours on short notice, public transport doesn't work. Asking someone to show up an hour earlier than normal is difficult if that means they won't have a bus/train available. I want to see studies comparing various sectors. I'd bet good money that those working government and/or education jobs (the college towns in the above quote) are less likely to drive cars to work. And conversely, those who work private sector jobs (swing shifts, late hours, on-call etc) are more likely to drive cars.

Personally, I now work in a government job (military) with a few hundred people in one building. Lots of people do bike/walk/run to work. We have bus stop right in front of our base, but nobody uses it. It just isn't reliable. Our bosses don't want to hear that we are late because the bus was stuck in traffic. We also sometimes have to work strange hours/shifts. Sometimes our day ends "whenever it ends". 2000 quickly becomes 0300. Will the bus get me home at a random hour and with enough time to sleep before the morning? My car/bike/feet sure will.
It's strange that you dismiss a heavily researched area well respected in modern philosophy and heterodox economics as being "idiots".[0] You may say their research is flawed, but there is no grounds to call such people (who usually hold PhDs in economics and work at world-tier universities) "idiots".

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18490388
I've been enjoying GitLab at my last three employers now, with the CI integration being the most liberating feature compared to the traditional CI providers. Especially the Docker CI runner gives you a great integration test environment, and I'm impatiently waiting for this MR [0] that will allow dependant containers to also talk to each other. It's the last missing piece for my ideal CI setup.

[0] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/merge_requests/1...
WhatsApp down: App not working as chats breaking on iPhone and Android
You would lose the ability to do transparent caching which I agree is rather annoying, but I think most environments where that sort of caching occurs (mostly corporate and school networks) also have the means to explicitly configure client machines to use an internal caching mirror.
This is a genuinely good take, and the downvotes are disappointing. We like to describe new efficiencies in productivity and information-seeking as "good for the consumer," because that's a highly positive effect.

But it's awful for any supplier who hasn't found a way to be better than the best yet - and that in turn can encourage unhealthy consolidation of large businesses at the expense of small ones.

Put another way: let's face it, some of Adam Smith's predictions about the risks of monopoly were right too.
One need not have an expectation of a good outcome to be disappointed that it doesn't happen.
Used GitLab maybe 5 years ago now? I was impressed with it despite its immaturity. These new features look great though.

I found the operation of on-prem GitLab to be a bit of a PITA back then, has that changed? There was a whole bunch of rake tasks and junk you needed to run to upgrade and it required a shutdown of the system.