skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this list highly amusing. You’ve listed quite a few barely-supported-by-evidence reasons, but you’ve missed the two big reasons that are big deals to a lot of people: lactose intolerance and allergy.

Most adults worldwide are lactose intolerant, although symptoms and the amount of lactose needed to trigger symptoms vary. And allergies to milk aren’t particularly rare.

In Scandinavia, most cafes seem to offer lactose-free milk, which is a great option for lactose-intolerant people. It’s also amusing, since Scandinavia has the lowest incidence of lactose intolerance anywhere. For milk allergies, oat milk is obviously a better choice.

FWIW, I think that foods like ice cream should always use lactose-free or at least lactose-reduced milk. It’s nutritionally identical but sweeter, so ice cream and such can be made with less sugar.
Replaceable batteries are kind of a lost cause these days. You could buy some model-specific batteries and deal with rotating them around and charging them up and carrying them and rebooting your phone when you want to swap, or you could instead get a power brick that works with most/all of your devices and doesn't require swapping, and doesn't get obsoleted by a phone upgrade.

It doesn't solve every problem that a removable battery solves, but it solves enough of those problems that you're unlikely to see much demand for a removable battery anymore.

And remember that engineering the removable battery means engineering for a couple extra mm in thickness for the battery enclosure, which isn't needed in a tools-only or soldered-in kind of deal.
> And travelling to the few and far between ultras

Depends where you are, I suppose. In South East England, there's fairly frequent 6h challenge races where you can ultra if you're quick enough and they're pretty cheap (~£40).
Looks amazing! Can't wait for it to be in the UK!
A lot of human behavior starts to make sense once you're familiar with the idea of costly signaling:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicap_principle

Competing in endurance sports, owning expensive cars, and being able to speak intelligently about art or literature are all signals about your personality, wealth, class, and/or intelligence which are hard to fake.
The State of Startups: Companies with –ai domains raise 3.5x more money
> ...and usually lacks good mechanisms for abstraction, reuse and hierarchical structure. It doesn't have tooling for refactoring...

Arguably, the whole point of having a diagrammatic representation with good formal properties is to provide new mechanisms for accomplishing these things. Of course these mechanisms, features etc. won't quite resemble the ones that are in use with text-only languages.
If you use a modern Linux system with KDE, you can try removing PA. Odds are you won't notice that it is gone. Not saying that network audio is a bad feature per se, but in my ten years of using PA, I have never needed it. IMO, systemd and Avahi are fundamentally different from PA in that most users have no need for the latter but almost everyone for the former.
"We studied mental health and well‐being in newly employed adults with autism who were participating in a supported employment program."

Is the study trying to show that people with autism get brought up to the general population's base-line when there is a supported employment program?
I'm sure that wasn't correlated with my today's select 100k messages, mark then as read and archive all - but the timing was perfect
Hopefully Ubuntu has updated certbot to support this.
I meant local as in the local jurisdiction you'll be tried in.

For example, most state bars have a referral service that will connect you with a lawyer. Similarly, there are other local professional orgs that will offer referrals.

E.g. http://www.calbar.ca.gov/Public/Need-Legal-Help/Lawyer-Refer...

Some quick intro screening / get to know you conversation should probably be sufficient for finding someone quality who can help you.
A car commercial (1987)
WebView is a NuGet package https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2018/05/09/modern-webvie...
Just run a bitwarden server locally, that's what I do.

Especially easy with bitwarden-rs or bitwarden-go (written in rust and go accordingly) instead of having to pull down the bitwarden blessed MS SQL stuff.
I did some programming in Max/MSP way back when, which was fun, and you have a point about the "functional" aspect. It was sort of the opposite of say, C, in that it was actually hard to create side effects even when you needed them.

But overall I agree with other people that I wouldn't want to maintain anything particularly large in that format. The Max "patches" were on the order of big scripts at most.
> Heck, one of our clients (a major UK bank) seems to be having trouble getting a few remaining members of their staff off IE8.

I just checked one of our major internal systems, still a fair number on MSIE7 -- 1 in 66 hits, representing 1 in 34 machines.
Things to know when building on IOTA
Ask HN: What does Google pay?
I am currently interviewing for a director (not senior) of software engineering position at Google. I'm wondering if anyone on HN has held such a position at Google before, or currently, and what it pays. I realize all positions will have ranges based on experience, etc, but what ballpark can I expect for a base salary, bonus, and equity? For a positon based in SF Bay Area, or possibly Seattle?
I'm very happy with the wayland performance in this release. XWayland looks really bad with sway on a HiDPI display, and previous to this release, firefox wayland was too slow to be usable.

That's no longer true. I'm giddy with how clear everything looks and how fast it is. This is a huge deal for me.
Thank you.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13390245
Where do you get the maps to make these?
Hi! I'm glad you're enjoying my list, I made another one named "2019 Remote Workers Salaries", hope it helps! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VOehQv0bOs2pY7RkKJ8R...
One of the most useless hacks I've ever seen
How to Host a Raspberry Pi Web Server on the Internet with Node.js and Ngrok
My advice to new developers
I'm curious to see what you mean, but the link goes to "The Challenges of Getting to Mars" which doesn't show any example of visual programming by controls engineers?
It probably depends on whether you are visual type (40%), emotional type (40%) or audio-textual type (20%, dominating academia). I am clearly a visual type with perfect color vision and my brain can do "search" on the screen in literally one "frame", i.e. localizing term I am searching for instantly instead of going line by line. So YMMV and whatever works for you instead of "there is only one true way and everybody needs to follow it".
Visual Basic is one of those tools that looks very different when it's mostly in the past than it did when it was mostly in the future. For its time, VB was a huge, amazing, incredible simplification of what had formerly been about that much of a pain. This is part of why it tends to be reviled today, but it opened up the door for a large number of people to address a large number of problems that were heretofore mostly unreachable for them.

That type of tool... the tool that lowers the barrier to entry and makes more problems addressable by more people... that's a good thing.

(But, FWIW, VB is not really a visual programming language... more of a visual development environment built around an almost completely textual language.)
I'm with you, and just moved to Google One myself (after subscribing for almost a decade). The value for dollar just isn't there for most use cases -- it's not worth paying 2x for a product missing key features like fulltext search and dealing with the constant, never ending upsell.

Dropbox seems to be hyper-focused on a market of graphics and other professionals where the speed to sync is their primary benefit. That seems like an unwise strategy to me, but I can see where those users would benefit from an esignature solution.
To me the thing that visual programming excels at is parallelism. Traditional procedural languages are fundamentally one-dimensional, and parallelism is difficult to view in 1D.

The biggest challenge is how much of our tech stack is based on raw text. Anything that isn't text-obsessed means you can't use diff, git, grep, vi, etc.
AIOps: what it means and why you need it
Great doc - thanks
Pink Floyd Guitarist David Gilmour Is Auctioning Most of His Guitar Collection
> They could try to offer some kind of "pay us to forgo marketing partnerships" deal, but I somehow doubt even most of the well-paid privacy advocates on HN would sign up.

I would pay for this, provided it was a one time payment! (I feel I need to add that caveat nowadays, since subscriptions are all the rage.)
https://www.lawtrades.com/
I'm not sure we can say we all "do just fine" on a low fiber diet. The current #1 killer in most Western countries is heart disease and we know high fiber diet decreases the risk of developing heart disease. High fiber diets also decreases the risk of other very, very common aliments like stroke, obesity, and type 2 diabetes.

I badly crave donuts, especially on weekends; I can't come to the conclusion my body requires more donuts.
No. Not what I was saying ... in my example the male ward needs no more beds than the female ward because the disease is ridiculously rare. I think we are inadvertently talking past each other.

Statistics are hard. At least for me.

Edit: also I wasn’t trying to respond directly/refute your comment. Just chiming in with a related concept.
It's mostly a matter of convenience and practicality. I can change the battery of my Nexus 5 with tools (mostly a screwdriver and a plastic prying tool), but I wouldn't want to do it away from home since it requires me to deal with small screws and needing some time to deal with small connectors that could be damaged if I was in a rush.

A common scenario is you're on vacation and taking a bunch of pictures and using GPS. You could bring your tools with you, but changing your battery involves 10+ minutes of careful disassembly/assembly and you need some space to work. You want this to be "changing AA batteries in a toy" difficulty levels.
Exactly. Effective communication is what made Feynman a legend.

Sadly, many extremely smart and profound scientists are quite incapable of (or not interested in) conveying clearly their thoughts to general audiences.
Aetna's new program could pay for your Apple Watch
Good on him. Selling a few pieces of wood and metal, iconic and irreplaceable as they are, to put food in hungry mouths is certainly a worthwhile venture.
"Should be" doesn't get us anywhere. The rationale is sound, regardless of whether it should be.
Munchery got away with stealing more than $50k from small local businesses
Really? This post makes it sound otherwise: https://gist.github.com/iosecure/357e724811fe04167332ef54e73...
I'm currently giving ProtonMail a try - but I'm also using a custom domain. My current thoughts are that I'll switch everything over to my custom domain, and then I'll never be locked into an email provider again. If ProtonMail doesn't pan out, I'll switch to someone else - still keeping my custom domain. My reliance on google and my attempts to move out of it has really been an eye opening experience I hope to not repeat.
A Room with a View
Good example of "track the exact thing you care about" and beware of misclicks by users!
Washington declared a public health emergency over measles
I hope you like paying per mailbox. That's a non-starter for someone like me who handles mail for 10-20 of my friends on my own domain.

That's $500-$1000 a year on Fastmail's Standard plan, the lowest tier plan that allows you to use your own domain.
iOS has let users add sites to their home screen, but very very few users know that it's possible, or how to do it.
Concurrency with Actors, Goroutines and Ruby (2010)
Who is asking and how much are they paying?
All rights are ficticious in that sense. Tell me, do you feel equally attached to your right to not have me steal, say, your phone ?
I'm doing Boston this year, it's a flight from the UK. In total It'll be $2000.

... my race to qualify was £40 entry, petrol (£25?) and £3 parking (I only put 4 hours on the meter from when I arrived to give myself even more incentive).

So as is so often the case, a range in an article is uninformative - it tells us nothing about the normal experience and leaves us all extrapolating from our own experiences!
But it isn't by default, that is the issue
The Importance of Solving Real-World Problems (For Devs)
I think the metaphor in this case is "The bullet proof vest didn't work? Well, stop standing in front of bullets!"
Can You Trust the Personal Internet of Things? No
I had Panasonic Plasma before, and LG C7 OLED since a year

The plasma had some burn in of channel logos that was visible on grey background only.

Zero burn in after 1 year with the OLED.
Distributed Coordination with Zookeeper (2010)
Why can't conditional variables be "visual"? This is not clear to me - data flow and control flow are both visual (albeit their flavors of "parallel" composition and the like are incompatible, so they must never be conflated when shown diagrammatically) and conditional variables can be accounted for in control flow.
The Value of Science (1955)
I hope that some manufacturers (hello HP!) will use that slim bezel 15,6" screen in a 14" body format without those hideous number pads I have to buy and never use. The laptop in the article looks perfect, just add three physical buttons around the touchpad as in HPs ZBooks.
And as soon as you want polyphony (dynamic instantiations of a subgraph) the whole circuit metaphor goes out the window...
If the bug was held by a nation state, and their use of it was burned for whatever reason, then the nation state could release it in this manner to sow chaos in lots of fun ways:

1) The entire world of iPhone users

2) The financial markets (Apple suffers)

3) The financial markets (non-Apple benefits)

4) The political sphere (distraction from)

5) Deniability (they got their recording and leaked the bug to deny how)
> I would pay for this, provided it was a one time payment!

The problem is that web browsers require some of the most intensive software maintenance of any software, ever. They're one of the most exposed attack surfaces to external security threats; and piles of new features are unfortunately getting continuously added to web standards, which need to be supported for compatibility reasons.

I think a one time tip-jar payment makes sense for a lot of software, but not for web browsers. I think a subscription-type contribution makes the most sense for them.
I recently heard that the reusable grocery bags are actually more wasteful than the single use ones because you have to use them ~500 times to break even and most people get far less use than that.

I wonder how many times you have to use your Loop metal ice cream container for this to work?
Start fighting zoning laws and you will pay for your housing with the time you spend to commute - because traffic will become insane as cities will be overfilled with people who will live in new unrestricted density communities.

There is no problem with housing costs. A median existing house in U.S., as well as just in any country, is affordable for the majority of people. Problem is concentration: there are few places where people want to live and costs in these places are insane. And it has no fix because this is dictated with how digitalized economy where almost every success is infinitely scalable, works. Face it: housing is about social competition, 1% will pay a lot for their places, 99% will be quasi-unemployed, that's how the future will look.
One word: Tudor.
Though it's important to remember that this doesn't necessarily preclude the existence of a "visual git", for instance.
Geez that was harsh...
I'm not trolling (that's propbably not a good opening).

You can connect to Gmail using IMAP with Thunderbird.

With google creating new email apps and then killing them off (hello Inbox!) having one consistent interface with programmable filters gives me most of what I want.

I used to complain about how dated thunderbird interface looked, but now I find consistency of it to be a feature.
The Information is an incredible book. I highly recommend.
"Hookworm then rampant in the American South" - what's that nonsense? It is still rampant in the poorer parts of the American South: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/05/hookworm-low...
> if neither is more likely to possess marijuana

Research says drug usage rate is similar for black and white people in the US, but prosecution and conviction rates are not[1]

1. http://www.hamiltonproject.org/charts/rates_of_drug_use_and_...
If by "designed to handle hazardous waste" you mean "everyone expects every part of them to be covered in garbage scum so nobody is surprised when any part of them is covered in garbage scum" then sure. There's really nothing special about their construction. They're normal trucks with purpose built bodies for minimizing the amount of space and labor needed to haul trash. The only thing special about them is a reduced expectation of cleanliness.
Yes, it's still useful for multi-symbol channel coding systems, and there are quite a few in common use; QAM is the obvious example.
Ask HN: Any good articles/videos on productivity and business?
Personally, I really liked these ones by Sam Altman:

http://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful

https://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades-are-short

http://blog.samaltman.com/productivity
Not an issue: as the application author, if / when you see that the user seems invested (not at a random point 30 seconds in or some crap like that) you can add callout or button to suggest installing on their device, and provide the relevant steps then.
Hi, author here scanning through the comments.

There are quite a few things that I had to leave out as the post was getting really long. I am writing a follow up article now titled "How Kubernetes and twelve-factor methodology saved us USD 300k in 24 months" where I am going to touch on this.

The short version is that we never intended to stay with a cloud provider due to the costs of operating a large cluster (we continue to use GCP for critical components of our infrastructure, such as monitoring and alerting). It was convenient while we could afford it thanks to their startup programs, but migrating our data aggregation workers from cloud providers to dedicated servers cut costs by 40% (which adds up to a lot, as we are using ±0.5k vCPUs and _a lot_ of RAM).
Does the Mozilla foundation accept private donations? Even if they do, they clearly don't push it enough.

I have no idea if it would bring in enough revenue, but it would presumably help? I'd much prefer a Wikipedia-esque donation request on the new tab page than any of Mozilla's other partnerships.
Long since? TLS-SNI-01 and 02 were only disabled only a few weeks ago, and they haven't been officially removed from the ACME spec, and the replacement - TLS-SNI-03 - hasn't been finalized yet.

I think you're conflating LetsEncrypt with ACME here. LE turned off the 2 methods, and added a different tls validation method last year, but neither of those are directly related to fixing the ACME spec.
This case has been going on so long it's funny to think about how differently I used to perceive both Oracle and Google back when it started.
Are you on macOS Mojave?

If yes, it could be because Firefox started honoring the system font settings of Mojave [1].

Enabling font smoothing in System Preferences now results in slighlty bolder fonts, and grayscale font smoothing. Firefox and Chrome needed some time to adjust to these settings, but now have the same rendering than the rest of the system.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1495282
Still closed-source firmware. Doesn't help much to use open-source that is lower in the hierarchy than closed-source firmware.
I think you meant to link to this one: https://github.com/athas/tinykaboom
Agenus to Fund Clinical-Stage Cancer Drug with Digital Security
Yes, as they would have lost less stock price if a fix had been prepared and released along with the announcement.

Yes, if options purchases were made before the market found out.

Yes, if their intentions were to change stock prices with the announcement in any respect whatsoever, whether up down in price and/or in volatility.

No, if they were not intending to change the stock market with the announcement, regardless of the fact that they did. (Naïveté happens. So does unconcern. Still, No.)
I fully agree with you. I always take my running kit when travelling, and when a meeting finishes will tend to leave my bag, and go an do an hour in the local park in the light. Trying to arrange to meet one friend is hard enough, many? Near imposible. Even making it to running club once a week is <50% as it requires negotiating with wife work dealines, work travel, an so much more.

Cycling is similar - I know doctors who are avid cyclists as it works so well. When they are on call they have to be available and can't go anywhere... perfect for the turbo trainer.
"positive well‐being can be understood to encompass the hedonic experience of subjective happiness and life satisfaction, and the eudaimonic perspective of psychological functioning and self‐realization"

I had never heard the term "eudaimonic" before and it is an interesting idea.

http://positivepsychology.org.uk/the-concept-of-eudaimonic-w...
No. Not mine. Not systemd. Not others. And I touched upon how rare this was in practice in my experience some years ago on Hacker News.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8384251

But it does happen to other people.

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/440229/

And there was one crash that made the headlines.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12600413
I don't think WebRender has anything to do with accelerated video decoding.

Here's the bug btw: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210727
Primitive: VR visualization of your code IDE
It sounds like this is the best time to fetch virtual machines from modern.ie [1] website. It is worth noting that IE is still used in many Point of Sales or other embedded devices. // Though I guess in most of scenarios it is IE6 for obvious reasons.

[1] https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/v...
I want 120+Hz display and I will gladly give them whatever they will ask for it
Also, it's only NOx and SOx pollution where the ships beat the cars. In terms of carbon dioxide pollution, the pollution from all ships in the world is utterly dwarfed by the pollution from cars.
Diversity in Faces: A Dataset of Annotations of 1M Human Facial images
That's pretty cool. Thanks!
Lessons from the collapse of GE
what about protonmail?
AptDeco (YC W14) Is Hiring Product Designer, HR Manager and Engineer
You realize the Snowden leaks only she’d light on our misbehavior and shows little of the shenanigans other powers engage in. You’re getting a very myopic view from Snowden’s leaks.
Well this was FANG (ebay uk role) but the hr gate keeper was based in Spain so I suspect even though my first job was on campus at world leading rnd Uni in the UK I got dropped.

The average HR person in Spain wouldn't have a clue about CIT and probably though I was a car mechanic.
Just FYI - a fix for this bug was merged relatively quickly (within 4 days), and was released just this morning.

https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/issues/468#issuecom...