skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth noting that was an de-indexing bug this weekend affecting all Google servers and a lot of pages.

Might be just that. More information: https://www.google.com/amp/s/searchengineland.com/googles-de...
"Let’s just bump the major version when we deprecate. That way most people depending on the project won’t see this error until they try to upgrade to a new major, which means they are actively developing it and really should look for an alternative."

You won't be able to enter the "recipe for disaster" without at least seeing the warning when you update your dependencies. At that point it's your prerogative if you want to continue with a deprecated package.
> These resources are irreplaceable and belong to the whole nation.

I'm confused. (Libertarian here) Are mineral rights nationalized in Australia? How do they 'belong' to everyone there, as opposed to the person who owns the ground that those resources are in?
The scale of ambition is completely different. The Computer Literacy Project put a computer in every school and led to 141 TV programmes over a decade. At the highest levels of government, it was seen as an urgent priority. We wanted to be a world leader in software and we heavily invested to make that at least plausible on a per-capita basis.

Today, there's lots of ambition but very little follow-through. They talk a good game, but it's all piecemeal and penny-ante. It's very difficult to actually find out the specifics of what the government is spending, but it's abundantly clear that we're being left in the dust by China.
I suspect it depends on what you're building. Some problems in computing are drastically harder than others. Crud-like web applications, for example, are a well-trodden path now, but there are many applications of software that are not as straight forward.
If the person who owns it is the government, then it belongs to the public.
This is unnecessarily dismissive. Since online interactions are more common over time, we would expect marriages (or anything else, really) resulting from online interactions to also become more common over time.
As an anecdotal counterpoint, I'm a dedicated amateur photographer [1] who works entirely on a Debian stack (Darktable/GIMP). I've been occasionally curious about Lightroom/Photoshop's capabilities, but have never felt that I was lacking anything so grievous as to consider a switch.

Furthermore, I'd have to run an entirely different OS from the one I've been using since 2002, and lash myself to a licensing model that would be both crippling and expensive.

From my perspective, Adobe's tools do have remarkable capabilities and substantial support. The improved content-aware fill is remarkable, but I never need it. Adobe's close relationships with camera manufacturers (and large developer team) ensures that new cameras and lenses are supported almost at release. Lensfun and Darktable do a great job of keeping up with new hardware, but it often takes at least a few months for new cameras to be supported.

I buy slightly-older hardware, and I check for Darktable compatibility before purchase/rental. (The GFX50R isn't yet on my radar screen in part for this reason[2], though support is clearly on the way[3].)

[1] https://www.charliehagedorn.photography/ https://www.instagram.com/charliehagedorn/

[2] https://www.darktable.org/resources/camera-support/

[3] https://github.com/darktable-org/rawspeed/pull/161
The DMCA is not draconian, and in fact is a pretty even handed law. Its implementation by the various platforms is what's draconian - a mostly automated system that defers to rights holders without any sort of real appeals process.
If you can't see it, it will also be harder for casual pirates to find. It's basically impossible to stop piracy, but it can be made more difficult, and that could have a significant impact.
DDG isn't only using Google, it uses other search engines too.
> Publicly funded educational institutions can compete by reassigning some of their budget dedicated to sports

Athletics programs are a huge driver of both alumni donations and student enrollment. Unfortunately. Not to mention licensing revenue from apparel and the like.

> Because they are passionate about academic research (and potentially teaching), something that the university is very aware of and has no problem using to their advantage.

This was more effective when the pay disparity was smaller.
Outlook consumes 1.5GB RAM alone. Then Mattermost and Slack with each 1.5GB, whoops you're at 7.5 GB. Another 2GB for Photoshop, another GB for Cisco Jabber, Excel... then 50 open Chrome tabs and whoops, where has all the RAM gone?

For people working on 64GB+ workstations this is no problem but Apple only supports 32GB in the newest lineup of MBPs.
As someone who is personally a great fan of Rust, I have to say that this is a very defective attitude.

If you're not writing it yourself (WebRTC is super simple, and this tool is basically the absolute bare-bone example of it—make a pipe and transfer something over it), why in the world would you care about what language it is written in beyond whether the language is safe, performant enough, and not a nightmare to execute on the target PC?

If you're not making it, you don't get to pick the tools. Paying just to get decide tools for other people also seems like a really weird thing to do.
I've worked at a couple companies now that have this problem. I know that one is now on their third try at a second gen rewrite of their aging core product. They can't ship it because they haven't found that magic formula to make it the most perfect program ever[0]. Sadly, this has been with multiple teams trying.

[0] I call this the Neo Architecture. They're looking for "the one". The architecture that will allow for any CR to be handled elegantly and beautifully, where all concerns are completely separated, where all data is perfectly abstracted. There's no such thing. It doesn't exist. Just ship already!
That's not my argument ;) My argument is that is why you don't give landlords a one time cash payment when you end rent control. You are making someones property worth MORE, paying them is giving them a double win.
90/10 rule. The last 10% is 90% of the work.
Completely agree but I'd bet that, if this was an article about US spies, there would be hundreds of comments deriding it by now.
More like, Faces of Open Source Seen from North America?
You can do that with free static hosting services like Netlify (Netlify specifically also supports serving "proper" HTTP redirects), or maybe free tiers of CDNs.
You say that like "not now" is "never". What is depressing is that people would rather let the tragedy of the commons and collapse play out at full speed, rather than giving ourselves a chance at achieving better sustainability.
A nice way to implement this is with a frame budget. You simply keep a variable that keeps track of how many miliseconds of budget you have left. Every time you render to the screen you increase the budget by 1000/fps. Then you simply run the emulation until the budget runs out. if the emulation gets too far ahead of the rendering you can consume extra budget by simply sleeping -- which is now less important to get exactly right, you can simply sleep away 90% of the budget for example, so if the sleep overshoots you've got some play.
I think this is not "forgetting the older web" but the algorithm simply penalizing things that look like they pretend to be from the past.
You missed the point: Raising government taxes increases the funding available for those institutions.
This is our kids earth. I think my kids are smart and I know they will demand change. I will be at their side. The time to make sacrifices is now and this makes me look towards Norway with envy that they would choose environment over money. Good job. Climate change is real.
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There is a whole specialized field of pricing. The answer is it depends. And even then there are often multiple “correct” strategies.
How many life-saving gene therapies have been developed in these countries?
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For me the biggest learning experience was building a system for a company, (a moderately complex CRUD app at the end of the day) and maintaining it for 4+ years.

If I had to go back and modify the code, if I didn't understand it straight away then it was usually worth refactoring. It was my own code so I had no one else to blame if it was crap.

That probably has expanded into reading others code and seeing better ways of doing things like you say.
In the first month of my fourth year since I chose to live by another environmental value of not flying -- which has become one of the best decisions of my life by improving it beyond any expectations -- I look forward to more nations, organizations, and people choosing similarly.

More of us keep finding that unquestioned following the values of a system created in ignorance that we could lower Earth's ability to sustain human life and culture doesn't make us happier.

Taking responsibility for how our behavior affects others doesn't sound as much in-the-moment fun as most of the crap that burning fossil fuels does, but it builds community, personal growth, and enduring emotional reward.

I used to crave eating mangoes in the tropics and seeing as many of the world's sites as I could. Now I see the bigger issue wasn't the mangoes or sites, which were passing fancies, but the craving, which the oil industry shows in the article. Life in service of others, compassion, responsibility, and such outweigh whatever profits they get abandoning them.

I can give their past generations of pollution the benefit of the doubt for our collective ignorance. The evidence of the result of their craving is overwhelming now. I hope they escape that craving in favor of responsibility and humanity before my home, and the homes of billions of others, is underwater.
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"In general mineral rights in Australia are reserved to the Crown"

https://www.austrade.gov.au/land-tenure/Land-tenure/mining-a...

Which seems as complex as you might expect for something based on similar UK laws:

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsUK/planning/legislation/mineral...

NB I've thought for a while that land 'ownership' is a slightly odd concept - not helped by being in Scotland where land ownership has had over a thousand years to get in a nice mess.
Agreed on IoT stuff. If you're just staying in a place a few days the last thing you want to do is figure out how to get all the smart home crap to work. Stick with regular light switches please!
Yes. If it were not for the suffering engendered all this obsession with sex would be highly amusing.

And personally as someone who favours individualism -- despite having grown up in a culture where arranged marriages are the norm -- I would not go back to "traditional values" especially as there is no indication whatsoever that traditional societies were any more authentically happier than we are today.

The only way forward is individual autonomy (mentally, emotionally not just economically).
Integrations with third-party apps have helped me to win loyal customers
usually platforms that allow controversial topics to be discussed also happen to be the ones which grow faster. at some point, even hosting becomes a problem requirement some revenue streams. i am not blaming reddit or any other platform i am just stating that this cycle has existed for a long time and is predictable.
I'm so glad I'm in a country where you can't be laid off at a moment's notice like that, and I very much hope this is not going to change, despite our disruptive leader™'s wishes.
I think part of it was the tone set by Linus. He had an attitude that on the surface seemed to be perfectionism but was really just abusive. It's good that he stepped back and rethought how we dealt with people.
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I'm not making the claim, I'm offering the question whether more research is needed to determine if the exposure of extreme material increases the level of depression and anxiety a subject may experience.

I am simply responding to your statement which seemed to conclude that only violence and extreme acts are the only measure to determine if something has a negative or positive impact on society. I do not believe it is the only measure, so I posed the question.
Big Brother is smartwatching you: China's workers monitored by wearable tech
It's pretty sad that these days we are using tech that would make a 1960s spy feel ill-equipped just so some a-hole can't film your wife in a shower at a rental house.
> Go makes sure that you have to write a hundred simple and easy things every time you work with it to solve problems.

This is precisely how I feel, could never capture it in words myself.
I too noticed that for some queries, Google is becoming really, really unwieldy.

I can't recall the exact search term, but I kept looking for some site I visited some time ago, and no combination of words could get it to actually find the actual site. I finally just gave up and found it in my browser history.
I would not be surprised that if along the way, googles search results were optimized for income of ad revenue, over other metrics - knowingly or not.

I to have complained about the search results of google going down hill. I was told "I was just to technical".

Whatever the case, the web is not the same as it was in the early 2000s and it really is sucking if you are wanting to search for something.
I worked for a while on a distro. The issue tracker is stressful for two main reasons. One, a lot of esoteric bugs that are hardware dependent. It's so frustrating to ask for help in testing to be ghosted or told 'no.' People don't seem to understand that as a small team, you don't have and won't buy all the hardware choices that exist to work on something for free.

The second stressor are people being adament and pushy about what they want, and not bugs at all. Go build your own distro, guys.

I found myself being a real dick to some people, so stepped away as it wasn't worth the stress, and I didn't want to tarnish the reputation of others who worked on the project.
Also known as the difference between doing things right (beautiful code) vs doing the right thing (working software).

I like ideas from the systems thinkers like Russell Ackoff about this.

> Ackoff expands by suggesting that doing things right is about efficiency but doing the right thing is about effectiveness. He makes a strong case for the connection between wisdom and doing/identifying the right things. He notes further that when we try to do things right about the wrong thing, we actually make things worse. Such attempts at improvement actually take us further from both the recognition and accomplishment of the “right thing”.

https://ackoffcenter.blogs.com/ackoff_center_weblog/2018/04/...
We're among those that believe there is room in the search space. We're building out our hyper local product search service city by city at https://attic.city. It's meant to fill the void with regard to smaller, non-chain stores that Google shopping seems to focus on.
> Also, can we please limit our housing to humans and just banks that exist in our country?

I would argue at least in cities this would solve most problems. Humans must be either the owners or the tenants, and banks must put all their houses on the market within 1 year of a ownership/tenancy change, or face expropriation.
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You got distracted by the emphasis on details in recollection of this poignant experience.

> We’ve spent the last few months tweaking the product I work on, running tests and trying to come up with ways of increasing engagement, because not enough customers are renewing their subscriptions.

So serious problems were visible to everyone, but somehow the possibility of job loss was not made clear. This is partly management, but to some extent a full blown sector wide social problem where we distract each other with stories and beliefs that are false until it is too late to react with a realistic assessment of the potential down sides.

> That was nearly two years ago now, back in the middle of 2017. It had been the perfect job for me. ... I spent the next couple of months job hunting. ... world had become a lot bigger and more complicated while I was working in that company, and we hadn’t kept up

And moving on was difficult, involved a lot of rejection, and didn't even properly start until after a major career course correction.

> Looking back now, my old job wasn’t nearly as perfect as I thought it was at the time. ... I had stopped growing.

There is the lesson, and it is a pretty robust one that applies to many readers here.

"If...you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning."
--Catherine Aird
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7 hours of observation, one image every 90 seconds: that's 280 images. My phone takes 8 megapixel photos and those are about 2 MB, based on that the 870 megapixel image would be about 200 MB. 200 MB * 280 = 56 GB. Doesn't sound that much.

Did they publish the images? I'm sure many astronomers would be happy to examine them.
People used to heavily criticise Minecraft from a technical point of view. Their criticisms were often entirely reasonable - it was at one point a very inefficient and unstable piece of software. However, it's now the second best-selling game of all time. Sometimes it's better to churn out a release and fix the problems later than let quality worries block you from achieving anything.
What is it with the obsession about "hate speech" in some random internet comment section? Report that user, ignore it, turn off the screen, whatever. How in the world is it worth spending actual policing resources on this nonsense?
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Easy for you to say after a lifetime of flying.
They do not get general subsidies as far as I'm aware, though they probably get specific subsidies for some specific purposes, like servicing lines in thinly populated areas that might otherwise not be commercially viable. But those subsidies are equally available to other train operators.

I don't think they receive any kind of subsidy for this particular event; it's just standard marketing stuff.
I've noticed, and apparently the statistics as well, that this trend turns around the age of 32 to 34 for men. Men usually go for women 3 to 4 years younger than themselves. Which is around the age that women need to choose whether to procreate or not.

If you're a 28 year old woman without a partner you only have a few more years of being physically optimal to give birth to a healthy child.

So the average-looking men suddenly become more interesting. They have a career going, they are stable, aren't womanizers, and won't gather too much attention from the competition.

I'm definitely average looking and I didn't get much attention in my late 20s. Only in my 30s I started getting attention from women who would formerly only go with the types of men they now avoided like the plague.

One of those guys is a good friend of mine. Great looking guy, just a great person if you're... not a woman. But he's the "bad boy" women fell for when he was in his 20s. Now he's in his 30s and still playing his old game.

Take a pick:

Option #1: An 9/10 looking 6,2ft tall guy who had over 100 sexual partners, constantly plays the seduction game just to get laid, is constantly flirted with by younger women, can't hold a conversation unless it's about sex, booze, or soccer, still goes to clubs several times a week.

Option #2: A 7/10 looking 6ft tall guy who had 4 sexual partners in his entire life (all longer-term relationships), can hold a conversation, has female friends, worked on his career instead of being in clubs 5 times a week.

Sure, there are still women who fall for him. His most recent relationships were women in their early to mid 20s. He's actually trying to settle down and find a long-term partner, but he has no clue how. The last 5 of them he fell in love with, all left him hanging just a few weeks into the relationship.

I am in my 30s and when I was on dating apps I'd suddenly get a ton of matches. Obviously also from women who are like my friend: promiscuous (no judgment here) women who, in their 20s, got pregnant and were left by the father.
Just to give a little bit more context, in contemporary javascscript you can write something like this (wrapped in a try-catch:

async function http_request_new(url) { return new Promise(...) }
const http_response = await http_request_new("https://www.google.com")
...

The await signals that the asynchronous http_request function is non-blocking, and we should continue execution once the non-blocking return value (promise) has resolved. Previously idiomatic javascript would have looked like this:

function http_request_old(url, cb) { return ... }
http_request_old("https://www.google.com", function(error, http_response) { ... })

Luckily node.js provides util.promisify that converts any old callback-style async function into one that returns a promise, so that await can be used:

http_request_new = util.promisify(http_request_old)
const http_response = await http_request_new("https://www.google.com")
...

Unless I'm mistaken, it's fairly trivial to promisify the old-style code
Anyone who just walks outside and treasures their surroundings and the environment understands this point. People who want to drill for the short term view don't see the beauty they are destroying for lifetimes ahead of us.
I hope they are not free services that might suddenly become "Hey look at this ad before we redirect you" type services.
I know. I was giving an example of modern biotech
Do you live in a high-priced urban area? I'm curious what this increase is for you as a percentage of total rent.
This is possible for them because they have saved their oil profits and turned it into a $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...
On the other hand the USPS doesn't turn your letters into public announcements. They don't decide which letters you see and which you don't. They don't decide what ads go with it. The analogy is fundamentally flawed.
I think we agree? There's a huge amount of effort being spent on extracting fossil fuels which will destroy our planet which could reasonably be used to develop sustainable technologies instead.
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The population of Norway is smaller than the city in which I live. I would say the city in which I live often teeters between sustainability and the opposite. Is there some limit to human organization scale where we can be effective?
Particularly interesting is the tidbit in the middle of the article that there is no freight rail crossing of the Hudson River south of Selkirk[0], near Albany. So any freight train that wants to travel between NYC (except Staten Island) and points west must go almost 150 miles North of the city.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selkirk_hurdle
Build your UI with native HTML. 25x faster than JSX on initial render. It's not a full framework, just a view layer builder.
The article seems very concerned about what is the right level of abstraction to teach. I understand the appeal of starting with Jacob’s loom, especially when you’re going to follow up with something low level like basic. But maybe code academy disagrees. Maybe young people these days don’t need convincing that computers just follow language commands, and with a high level language that’s maybe a safe lie to teach.

We might further wonder about what to teach for futures non von Neumann architectures. What is the Jacob’s loom if a multi core machine? The organ of a quantum computer?
That doesn't mean less people need fuel, though...
So as with all other open systems, spam is destroying the web.