skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've done this before, just not with an iPad Pro.

I used Blink (because of Mosh support), a Digitalocean droplet running docker and Dropbox for syncing local and remote files. Very similar approach to what's been mentioned in this article.

Some of my experiences as a full-stack web developer:

- Front-end development sucks. You can use Coda for iOS but it doesn't help much. What I was missing was Chrome's inspector. You can do some basic DOM manipulation and console logging via apps and firebug but it's not productive.

- Manipulating image assets. I didn't use the official Dropbox client (I think at the time Linux support wasn't very good) I instead opted for a small script written in bash that talked to the Dropbox api. If there was an image that needed manipulating, I would push that image to a folder in Dropbox, which I could then open in Pixelmator in iOS. Pixelmator would update and sync to Dropbox and I'd run the bash script on the server to pull the updated file.

- Browserstack didn't work on mobile Safari. I don't know if it does now but at the time, I couldn't get it working.

- Lack of multi-tasking. Granted, iOS now supports split screen so maybe this isn't a big deal anymore. I'm ok with looking at one app at a time but app switching in iOS was horribly slow.

This was over 2 years ago and things may be better now but overall as a full-stack web dev, I wouldn't recommend it. It was a frustrating experiment.
Well, not really. This runs it in the browser. I’d like to run it as the actual VSCodr app with all of the benefits of the menu bar and shortcuts.
You are optimizing for the fact that you need all your companies to give you this since you can't predict the single "hit" that will generate the vast majority of the value of your portfolio.

Founders are (or at least should be) optimizing for the fact that they are most likely to be a mediocre business that isn't going to cash out with a lottery ticket.
That's an interesting read. It's nice to see broader perspectives on some of these topics.
They were also, apparently, correct! The mozconfig was indeed revised to remove the offending lines after the issue was raised! (by nuking the port work entirely)
It was a work-in-progress tree and they weren't redistributing any binaries/sources from there. The Pale Moon devs were both wrong and remarkably hostile.
Within climate change what you're asking about is called TCRE or "transient climate response to cumulative carbon emissions". E.g. this research article should answer some of your questions. It's an analysis of historical temperature, CO^2 emissions, and the relation between the two: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsta.201...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient_climate_response_to_...
I doubt you can ever eliminate "cash," but only make it worse. For example, prisoners can't have cash, so they use cigarettes or cans of mackerel as a medium of exchange and store of value. They're heavier and bulkier than cash, but they work the same. I think any barter system will inevitably develop a "cash," because sellers want more potential buyers, and buyers want more places to shop.
> few startups who are doing automated dynamic analysis and working on symbolic execution

Can u mention some of the new technical directions? I used to work in security, did windows AV, kernel layer, code analysis, etc but i have been out of this game for a couple of years

Today I am more interested in compiler techniques and code synthesis.
> (only nit -- after a day or three heavy use it sometimes takes me a while to stop hitting capslock for escape on my regular keyboard when I'm home)

Why don't you rebind your Caps Lock to Esc? For Windows there's uncap <https://github.com/susam/uncap>; on Linux you can find it in your KDE/Gnome settings or look at the uncap Github page for other methods.

Or if you do use the Caps Lock key frequently, what for?
Phylum-wide survey: multiple independent gains of head regeneration in Nemertea
His style perscriptions can be directly attributed to Jonathan Blow (which they match) who he also mentions in that section.

Also I think the mention of golang is telling which I think is an implicit bias in his preferred style reccomendations.
Please don’t use that word.
The SJW movement has definitely permeated Mozilla, "taken over" might be an exaggeration though.
I’d still be surprised because cable news is dominated by the 55+ demographic. IIRC, less than 20% of viewers are 15-54.

Facebook doesn’t sell catheters and old people scooters, so I would guess that their audiences are more diverse.
What is the point of this comment?

I’m not suggesting any one individual attempt to innovate themselves out of a world polluted with plastic without outside help, but I guess digging yourself a 15-foot grave could be construed as one method.

It’s always easier to say why a thing can’t be done than come up with methods of doing a thing and implementing that thing.

I have friends who intentionally restrict the amount of plastic-packaged items they buy, they would struggling to throw out a 200mm cube of tightly bound plastics every month or two; so we know significant reductions in plastic waste are possible on an individual scale.

In the scope of, for example, landing a probe on an asteroid and returning a sample, the engineering challenges facing us in the form of reducing plastic packaging use seem to me, the non-expert, fairly trivial.

I could list some possibilities I, and others, have consider, though they seem to be extensively thrashed out in the comments here and the internet at large.

Was going to the moon, or being able to buy an all electric production vehicle, or the modern microchip, not a mere sentiment at some point?

It seems like the primary lack in this context is the desire for collective action, which appears to be changing.

Perhaps I wildely misunderstood your comment?
Depends on the day. Most times I try I'll lay there tossing around or staring at the window for a few hours.
Is there some life cycle assessment (LCA) writeup somewhere on the whole plastics issue? From what it looks "recycling" was big lie due to no accountablity? So all consumer facing regulation in societies with a working waste disposal system is pretty much pointless, if the mess is on the systems top end side.

In Germany, I now get everything in single use paper bags as the default, if I don't intervene, which I see as worse environmental impact, the then few grams of plastic bags we had before.
As long as you have a closed system, with near 100% waste caputure, no plastic should end up in the wild when accountability is enforced through all waste management transactions.

So I'm still not shure, how this whole garbage patch topic connects to consumer policies in countries with working closed disposal systems, is this just activism to distract from inability to control the systemic issues here?
> 91.2% of people have coverage, 67.2% through their employer. 71% of Americans answered they are satisfied with their employer-provided coverage.

So, almost 4 percentage points more Americans are satisfied with their employer-provided healthcare than actually have it?

Or do you mean 71% of the 67.2% not 71% of Americans?
You misunderstand; Internet Archive is based in the US, so they are legally obligated to comply with DMCA takedown requests filed by anyone.

Admittedly, it would be harder to enforce, but IA seems to be doing a good job complying without legal action.
"I think we’re probably just a decade or so away from having lab grown or “impossible burger” style fake meats able to compete with factory farming on price."

I hope so.

"I’m less sure how that will apply to milk and dairy though."

I hope someone, at some point, will be able to take an udder, hook it up to an artificial source of nutrients, and have the milk robot come by once a day without any further living creatures being involved. Pure science fiction right now, and if we can hook an udder up to an artificial nutrient source then why wouldn't we be able to do the same to a human brain at which point the whole need for dairy would be moot, but hey...
But, what do you think of the specific points that were made in the video (not the title)? Are they not worthy of discussion, since, ostensibly that is why we are here?
These articles are always hilarious.

The way most people use iPads as 'dev machines' could be just as easily configured using a $199 netbook from Best Buy and a copy of PuTTY. (Or, buying any not-broken laptop from Craigslist for $50 and saving yourself $1100.)

Granted, as a sysadmin, most of my job could be done on an iPad too (SSH, RDP, web browser, and messaging applications), but every few days I need USB, Serial, VGA, or Ethernet (along with manual config of the adapter), among other things.

So, with these iPad there are always caveats: you end up needing to keep a "real computer" around for all the cases the iPad can't cover, which is most of them.

A few days ago there was a discussion about Termux (https://termux.com/) on Android here, and with things like USB OTG and removable storage that are commonly featured in Android, a Kindle Fire tablet (which cost about $50-150, regularly on sale) would be more usable, even, than an iPad.
fwiw I work 9-5, i just like being more productive during that time.
I assure you that anything metal gets recycled. It's much cheaper to recycle than dig more ore out of the ground.

tosses brake rotors in city recycling pickup bucket
I don't know about never. The price of a product is related to its scarcity. At a certain point, there will be recyclable materials we are almost out of. At that point, I can see recycling becoming very profitable.

I can see a time when we mine garbage dumps for materials.
The most interesting paragraph was that the author is thinking about porting the Kali pentesting suite to OpenBSD. That would be awesome.
Mozilla Firefox also has a similar clause in their license agreement. Modified versions of the browser are not allowed to use the Firefox trademark, which is why Debian for years would use the Iceweasel name instead.

I don't think MOzilla ever threatened legal action out of the gate like that though.
Aortic valve disease is bi (Tri- for unileaflet but that usually presents at about 5-10 years) modal; trileaflets around 70-80, bileaflets at 40-50.

There are quite good reasons to not replace, not least of which is that replacement valves are nowhere as good as your native, particularly if it’s still functioning.

Ie if metallic, you need to be on anticoagulants for life which can be a massive pain and cause other complications. Metallic last for around 30 years.

If porcine/bovine or possibly human, then they degrade much faster, 10-15 Years is the average.

So, depending on your age, and depending on the repair your aorta needed, the surgeon likely decided that since you will have to undergo the knife at some point again anyway (either for graft replacement for the Dacron that now makes up the proximal part of your aorta) or eventually due to the valve, you might as well minimise the complexity by only doing one thing at a time.

Plus, since we first started doing TAVIs (transcutaneous aortic valve repairs) they are getting better and better - see article - so possibly you wouldn’t need the on-pump surgery.

Interesting that it costs you $160k; in the Australian public health system a valve is about $30k.

Source: I did my honours thesis on cardiothoracic surgery (actually on mitral valve repair, but spent a lot of time in cardiothoracic theatres dealing with aortic valve-disease)
If I understand right, one of the problems in the case of cancer is that we don't have great data about the people without symptoms who wider screening would catch. Once we catch them, we treat them, and many recover. But to say how many of those would have been fine anyway, we'd have to know more about the un-screened rest of the population.

The hope with widespread cheap screening would be that it might avoid this. If heart-rate smartwatches become as common as smartphones, we could train our treatment model on everyone, and do better. Or at least this sounds mathematically plausible to me (not an expert).

Whether it will come to pass, or whether doctors will continue to treat as now (anything which an eyeball test says looks like an early stage of a known disease) I don't know.
I agree, if you can get it.

But credit rating counts for a lot.

Even if they can prove sufficient steady income, if they don't have a good credit rating, there's a good chance they are unable to get a bank loan, credit card (or additional credit if they have a card already), and perhaps not even a small overdraft.

I can't speak for the US, but in the UK, even "payday lenders" who charge >1000% APR rates will no longer lend to someone with a poor credit rating.

On top of that, for someone who isn't used to it, and who already lives on the edge of what they can afford, "thousands", probably at high interest, is a big loan they may reasonably worry would put them into an unrecoverable debt spiral.
I don’t know, but it may well make sense. Private treatment often is quite reasonable because the alternative is free. You can get a private self-referral MRI for instance for £200-400 in the UK. I haven’t heard of people coming from the US for treatment though, only about people from the UK going to Poland for dentistry, which apparently is cheap and good quality.
Ask HN: How to backup/reset WebAuthn credentials?
As of today I do not own a hardware authentication device (YubiKey etc) but am very keen on acquiring one and starting to make use of the recently published WebAuthn standard wherever it is offered.

However, until today it eludes me how a credential backup/restore process is supposed to work, since it is only a question of WHEN not IF the hardware device becomes damaged/missing/stolen/'to be replaced by shiny new device'/etc.

Obviously, in any of these cases a process is needed to identify myself to all GAZILLION web properties that I enrolled on the old/damaged/missing/stolen/etc hardware device, revoke the credentials of the missing device and re-enroll a new authentication device... all in one go for all web pages that I enrolled on.

Non-starters for practical purposes are any kind of manual processes that would need to be performed for each web site individually, such as logging in with some 'printed emergency backup token' and enrolling a new hardware device on each web site.

I am aware that credentials cannot and must not be extracted from a hardware device (the raison d'être for using a hardware device). As far as I understand I am generally able to enroll a second hardware authentication device during the enrollment process, which would obviously defeat the purpose of a worst case / emergency / backup device if it always needs to be present in the same physical location as the primary device for enrollment purposes. Even in the simple case of always enrolling two authentication devices and just wanting to 'retire' one and enrolling a new device, I could not find any documentation on how to revoke the credentials of one device, authenticate with the remaining one, and to enroll a new 'backup' device for all GAZILLION web pages that I need to authenticate on.

How is this intended to work in practice? Am I missing something?
I feel like chat widgets have become the new email popups. Extremely annoying when you get asked if you need help one second after landing. Not to mention that many widgets also play a sound.

Saving this extension for later to go over the source. :-)
The US Senate makes those maps meaningful.

For every other aspect of government, it’s one man one vote. For the Senate, Wyoming has the same representation as New York, even though the population is less than the Rochester metro area.
With all of these AI generated arts, it's not clear to me whether this is using the training data as a kind of template and then somehow generating entirely novel content or if it's essentially just a somewhat sensible re-organization or re-quilting of the same components. In the case of poetry, maybe just a jumble of the original verses. Based on my knowledge of machine learning, it's more like the latter scenario, which somehow doesn't strike me as something radical...
that's my favorite
Unfortunately this still has two of the three problems I pointed out, and as I said it is unlikely a Rust user would use threads for this purpose in the first place.

It's definitely less "simple", contrary to what the text introducing it says, compared to letting futures+tokio handle the concurrency for you. Not to mention less efficient.

But I suppose it needs to be this way so as to be equivalent to the other languages' examples.
It would, but far more CO2 is emitted for transportation, heating, and power generation. Plastics are maybe 2% of petroleum use:

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.php?page=oil_use (see "petrochemical feedstocks")
The bottles are labeled at your local plant for your area. My bottles talk about NY-NJ-CT.
Suse is once again an independent company
DC power wise, the original reason why they did this is that it's grossly inefficient to have a 42RU worth of 1U servers, each with its own individual 110-240VAC to 12/5VDC power supply in it.

Or the equivalent of that with four-servers-in-2RU type setups, but also with AC to DC power supplies.

They centralized the AC to DC conversion in a single unit in the rack, feeding either 277VAC or 480VAC to each rack, and ran 12VDC to each server. The new system wisely moves from 12VDC to 48VDC (same as most telecom equipment), and probably has basic DC-DC converters in each server unit for 48 to 12VDC conversion.

They've also gone with custom motherboards that entirely eliminate the 5VDC rails which are distributed by 'normal' ATX server power supplies.
The future is your insurance company making you wear a smart watch 24/7 if you don’t want to pay a huge premium. I predict it’s going to be a huge quagmire over the next decade or so.
Slightly OT, but I think it's time to move on from using "retard" as a derogatory term, in the same way we've all moved on from "gay" and "spastic". It's just offensive.
He specifically discounts this idea around the 33 minute mark
This is true - Lisp is making / left-associative.

But this observation does not change my point: that the parent comment is saying "Lisp already has the ability to do + on lists", but the reason "+ on lists" makes sense is because Lisp is using the underlying associativity of mathematical +. And the latter associativity property, for abstract mathematical "+", is what the blog post is describing/exploring.
The cure may statistically be worse than doing nothing.

For example, prostate cancer can kill, but more people die with prostate cancer than of prostate cancer, in the latter case often with minor symptoms.

Detecting it before it bothers people helps those it would kill, but subjects lots of others to testing, and those tests will initially have false positives that unnecessarily stress those it wouldn’t kill.

Worse, the side effects of treatment can include incontinence and erectile dysfunction that can significantly affect quality of life for those were follow-up tests also produce false positives.

Thats’s why there is discussion on whether screening for prostate cancer makes sense, and if so, for whom. See for example https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD....
I've started to see boxes of water. They look like milk cartons.
>> There's quite a difference...

The difference is between inflation as a by-product of a powerful, growing, economic engine with healthy wage growth (unfortunate but acceptable) and deliberately generating inflation, via money-printing, as the means to stimulate a stagnant economy (pure foolishness).
> I spend 14 hours a day coding.

A chair isn't what you need if that is true. A life is what you need.
I've worked at startups with AWS technical debt that ended up costing them an amount way out of line with what they really needed to use.

With that said, I'm definitely confused by (the evidence introduced in) the GP's response (linking to the Lyft/AWS video). I mean, both AWS and Lyft are trumpeting the setup as an efficient use of AWS, and it still comes to $0.14/ride? That doesn't add up.
Recycling has nothing to do with plastic pollution. Plastics that don't get recycled instead get buried in a hole in the ground.
> Did it gain any real world traction in the meantime?

Still a research language, but pretty fun.
People who work in tech can be surprisingly resistant to change. Anything that threatens to alter someone's workflow will see a huge backlash from people who will always equate "different" with "worse". It's what happens when a cargo cult forms around Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
You say that like it's a bad thing. You do know the title of the forum you're on right now, right?
What's missing from the "profitability" equation are all the costs that are pushed elsewhere:

- polluted water so we're all injesting micro plastics
- polluted air as the manufacturing is a mess
- increased energy consumption to manufacture "perfect" looking packaging.

These all have real, hard, cash driven consequences that aren't factored into the normal profitability equation.
It has a backend via C and thus GCC, but it enables some things that plain C doesn't due to making certain things easier, plus the ABI for functional programming stuff matches up very cleanly with the hyper-optimized stuff.
> I'm not sure if XUL and XPCOM really makes sense the way that it did when it emerged sometime in the history of Firefox (or Mozilla or Netscape - I'm not sure.)

XUL and XPCOM start with Netscape Navigator 6, the bulk of whose code was made open source and would eventually become Firefox (and Thunderbird). So we're talking about stuff that was designed around 1998 and never really updated to track the latter development.

For its time, XUL was really a major departure from HTML. But several of its ideas were eventually implemented in HTML: the Web Components specification originates from an attempt to standardize some of the custom component work in XUL, and the CSS box model explicitly listed the XUL box model as prior work. But, given the influence of the other browser engines in their development, the resulting specifications aren't XUL, and there's important but subtle differences in how they work. And maintaining two very similar but actually different ways to do the same thing is a recipe for bugs and security holes. At the scale of Mozilla, that unused code can be a very fruitful way to hack users' computers--the NSA actually used a vulnerability related to unused features in JS (specifically, E4X) to track Tor users, since Tor was using an out-of-date version of Firefox that wasn't getting security updates.
this is kind of a trivial question but is the apple watch HR monitor known to be better than that of FitBit? I got a Charge 3 for Christmas and I barely even wear it anymore, as it would say things like "95 bpm" when I'm working out and I'm clearly at around 135 bpm. you can say things like "oh wear it higher / lower / tighter" whatever but if it's that prone to being 40 bpm off the mark, what use is it.
Thank you for the very informative reply. Frankly I didn't have the energy to really quiz my very excellent surgeon on all the details. I was pretty low energy at the time. I was relatively young for the surgery, mid-50s, so I don't doubt that that was a factor.

I'm not sure a valve will cost $160k. That was the cost of open heart surgery with a double bypass and aortic aneurysm repair. I ended up paying about $8k of that after the insurance did its part.

I would definitely prefer a less invasive procedure. Recovery would probably take less than five months, for example.
Debian actually vendors all third party code. Their source archive is the best place to search if you are looking for old but good software that is not available any more from the original author.