skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, the problem is that it requires internet access. When I found that WhatsApp was deleting important messages and that the backups and exports that I was counting on were useless, as I mentioned in another comment[1], I found that the easiest way to save those messages was to scrape them from the web client. However, connecting the phone to the internet meant that it would receive more messages and hence delete more messages. I took screenshots manually of several days of the oldest available messages to avoid losing them, but it wouldn't have been necessary if the desktop client didn't require internet access.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19669740
My rough understanding from reading the discussions at the time is that they can pull the engine into a performance range that passes the emissions test, but that range is 1) less horsepower, fewer lb-ft of torque and 2) worse fuel economy. Diesel as a technology suffers from more NOx production than gasoline because the increased compression forces it to run lean rather than at stoichiometric ratios. So, basically they tell the injection software to run in emissions test mode all the time and it's "fixed" but you're not going to get any of the other claimed numbers.
What percentage of bloggers do you suspect meet the "assumptions" criteria on that page?

I'm fascinated by how tech people perceive the other 99% of web users/content creators.
The state government set up Jackson Demonstration Forest specifically to show people how to sustainably harvest from a redwood grove. Notre Dame is a cultural icon, I'm sure the French would appreciate the gesture.
Yep, and given that some big percentage of car seats are not properly installed, do you then have to take the requisite minutes to install and uninstall each seat properly? There are a lot of challenging edge cases.
ReasonML with React Hooks Tutorial–Building a Pomodoro Timer
at another site I read that it holds the equivalent of 21 hectares of forest
I love Gilliam films, and I'll watch anything he does, but I think this a stretch: he's _very_ patchy. No-one ever accuses him of not being interesting, of not being full of ideas, not having a unique vision. It's just that those ideas are so rarely fully realised, and his films tend to ramble. They often feel incomplete, more surface than depth, gossamer.

As I say, I love his films and I'd happily watch almost anything he's done, but I don't know how much of that is down to me being enamoured of what he obviously tries to achieve. I just can't see how the critics are wrong most of the time w/r/t his films, and to me those bad reviews have generally come across as respectfully disappointed more than anything else.
> This ignores things like truly discretionary cash bonuses and one-time stock grants which exist, but I'd have no visibility into.

Having played at that level my experience was that generally they start at 100% of your 'base' salary and go up from there. Much of the knobs are intentionally opaque.
Amazon ‘flooded by fake five-star reviews’ – report
True, it is easy to be wise after the event. However, the management culture at NASA, which was also responsible for the loss of Challenger, and something Richard Feynman also criticized, did not change.

This lead to managers ignoring engineers' warnings about the foam strikes on Columbia, and also rejecting requests for high resolution images.

This is exactly the same culture which ignored engineers' warnings about the O-rings on the SRBs.

Linda Ham, the mission manager who rejected these requests left the space shuttle program after the Columbia disaster and was moved to other positions at NASA. Not firing or disciplining these managers will cause similar disasters in future.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Ham#Columbia_disaster_an...
To be fair, the OP was referring to all large outsourcing companies. There are a lot of outsourcing companies that charge well over the rate for a full time hire (they don't necessarily pay their employees that, but...) I worked briefly for one such "body shop" and I found that the company billed my time at a rate of about twice what they paid me. As far as I can tell, it tends to slot in between a full time employee and an independent consultant/contractor in terms of price.

Why do companies pay this premium? For one, it may be because they have a budget for a "6 month project" (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) but not for a full time hire. Sometimes it's because they think that they'll be able to pick and choose the best developers from inside a large organisation (and sometimes it works out that way... almost never, but sometimes...) But really it's just a matter of being naive, I think.

The company I used to work for (as an independent contractor... ahem...) went through a phase where the CEO was absolutely convinced that it didn't pay to hire developers -- they were a PITA (always demanding weird things, never showing up before 10:30 am, never dressing properly for work, etc, etc). They always wanted raises and you have to track progress and negotiate with them on price every year. You have to pay benefits and if a person is on disability on maternity, you've got to do something about it. You constantly need to be reviewing CVs, interviewing and hiring. If you get someone really bad, you can't actually reasonably fire them for a long time. Etc, etc, etc. So he tried a few experiments with hiring from outsourcing companies (all of which were charging considerably more than any of us were getting paid, I will add)... and it wasn't a disaster, but it wasn't really any better. But the cherry on the cake was, as soon as the project was done, they fled and no amount of pleading could get those developers back again (as you can imagine). So the CEO realised that having a crack development team was definitely worth the effort and the company really transformed as a result.

However, a lot of companies are still stuck in the mindset where it's best to have as few full time developers as possible.
There's an episode on this on Dirty Money (Netflix), which might answer your question. IIRC, "fixing" it would impact performance/fuel economy.
I've seen pictures of people assembling core memory by hand, it looks remarkably similar to the repetitive process of hand weaving a high-end persian carpet.
Long lived feature branches create a false sense of safety and comfort for each developer individually. As the branches drift apart for a long period of time, there is no way to measure how hard it will be to merge it all

A great explanation of how hard feature branches are to manage. But surely better architecture would alleviate that pain...
A hacker has dumped nearly one billion user records over the past two months
In the late 70s we bought 1.5Mb of memory (512k 52 bit words) of core for our Burroughs 6700 - it cost NZ$1M (about US$1.25M at the time)
+1 exactly this. LeBron did something wonderful, in one district. Government has far more means than an individual to scale that up to the whole country.
That's a good point but on the other hand, when you have no reason to connect accounts, connecting them in this way might not be good opsec.

I guess this could be useful to make switching mastodon servers smoother.
I don't think I'm communicating. From the perspective of the wealthy, those are quite painful. Not from the perspective of the middle class, and certainly not from the perspective of someone struggling to get by.
Copperfield’s magic secrets crashed into the moon, but you can help find them
I'm not going to debate whether any "companies" are good, but there are more than a few "deals" that have worked very well for the client. Good deals require a lot factors to get right.
> We were talking the other day about how the Bay Area's housing/homelessness crisis is a direct consequence of the collapse of the high-tech wage-fixing cartel.

Inflated housing costs are a worldwide phenomenon, you'll see a very similar story in Sydney, London, Tokyo and other places so I very much doubt the root cause is anything to do with the bay area. It might be worse there given the amount of money flowing in, but it's a much bigger problem.
A Notorious Board Game That Takes 1,500 Hours to Complete
Not the person that made the powerpoint? Not the team that reviewed it? Was this done by an 10 man team in some tiny start up? I mean seriously.
FTA:

> The school’s $2 million budget is funded by the district, roughly the same amount per pupil that it spends in other schools. But Mr. James’s foundation has provided about $600,000 in financial support for additional teaching staff to help reduce class sizes, and an additional hour of after-school programming and tutors.
It is not just directly related deaths, but also the area of land made un-inhabitable and the duration for which it will remain un-inhabitable. And the fact that we have no workable way of dealing with the waste. Sure it only take a small storage space, but it will be lethal for a million years to come.
A) If the traffic going over the backbone is properly encrypted compromise of the backbone doesn't accomplish anything.
B) Why can't the backbone nodes be encrypted too so that any attempt to splice the fiber would result in a break of the connection?
Yeah, I use Atom for JS and VSCode for Rust.
It's a complicated and huge codebase created by many people. It will have bugs.
Do you think the states of the United States would be better off as individual states with a pure economic and military agreement (i.e NATO + a kind of EEC) ?
Ask HN: What are some less known but powerful/important companies?
Do companies similar to, for example, Qualcomm exist.
Exactly. This article is like one of those BusinessInsider click-baits.
Very cool ideas. Time protection is indeed a must going forward, particularly for cloud hosting. Not surprised that seL4 got there first either.

Getting this to work in raw Linux may be hopeless given the breadth of the kernel data, but they have smart devs, so maybe they'll figure something out.

And Rob Pike said systems research is dead. Ha!
It’s not a shame. At a time in this country it was expected that citizens of means stepped into the gaps that government either couldn’t go into or couldn’t do well, and some of our best institutions come from this philanthropy.

I applaud Lebron.
African swine fever to leave China hungry for animal protein
I mainly got hung up on these words: "We boop snoots instead of boosting toots". Are these mastadon-specific terms?
What was it used for?
Vscode is perfectly hackable and open, can you be more specific?
Lover of the Strange, Barbarianologist of the Farthest Peripheries
“Because adding features requires engineering resources, and engineering resources are limited.“

seems to translate to ‘because we really don’t care’. It’s not as if Microsoft is strapped for cash.
Do you like to take your time when you put out fires?
An ActivityPub federated service over-top Git might be an interesting avenue to investigate, allowing for a code review/issues/release/etc... system that could be VCS-agnostic.
Why not Matrix? A federated chat protocol to go with a federated social media protocol.
> Let men who can’t keep their hands to themselves live their lives questioning every decision.

To err on this side would be a nice change. The consequences of letting men's trespasses go unaccounted-for are devastating industry.
If that's the criticism, it should presumably apply much more widely than just this case—why not all of civil law?
AI Helps Classify Lung Cancer at the Pathologist Level
What is groups? You mean channels?
I've often wondered about the effectiveness of donations to supplemental after school/summer time tutoring/coaching in under-performing school districts [1][2] versus donations to full time, private charter schools such as this one.

It seems supplemental after school/summer time solutions would build on the existing public school system and fill in the gap between 3pm-6pm and during summer where they are likely to be less supervised. It'd also be more scale-able to more children. I also imagine it also would produce less angst among public school teacher unions as its more supplemental to them versus replacing them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley_Education_Found...

[2] https://svefoundation.org/get-involved/events/annual-dinner/
Robots could wipe out 1.3M Wall Street jobs in the next 10 years
كلمات اغنية وينك ما تجيني خالد بوصخر
I was leasing one at the time and remember getting the notice to take it in to the dealership for a voluntary update.
I hear this a lot, and I still don't really get it - git is already decentralized! And not just federated, but truly decentralized where everyone has their own copy of the data. An issue tracker built on top of the git protocol, where issues/PRs/whatever arbitrary other rich text content you want lives inside the .git directory alongside the source code would be much more in the spirit of git. And you could build a pretty modern web interface on top of that!
IMO, your premise is a strawman. I don't detect any "it's just a theory" sentiment in the top level comment. What the comment says is that mathematical statements about "hitherto unestablished and untested theories" should not be taken as statements about the world.

This, to me, shows a rather sophisticated understanding of scientific truth, namely that we should demand that a scientific theory (as opposed to a mathematical construction) should be falsifiable. AFAIK, there is no question that the mathematics of string theory et. al is sound; the question is whether these theories are physical, and whether they are falsifiable. These are the exact objections the top-level comment makes when referring to "unestablished and untested theories".
Great to hear.

Do you have any insight in to why there's the drop in performance on the problematic line in the article?
You have just described my experience to me.

> Whether or not those tallies are in alignment with the general public is not relevant.

Is this not grossly pathological?
Ask HN: What useful internal tools or libraries have you built in your company?
I'm curious to know what kind of tools, scripts, automation, libraries, etc. you all have built to help boost the productivity of your team(s).
Setting Expectations with Clients
I googled this, and was very very sorry that I did. Suffice it to say this terminology is specific to a subculture of people who dress up as animal mascots. Booping snoots apparently means touching the nose, I think? I also ran across something called “cub porn” and now I need a shower so hot it can melt glass.
> "Review of Test Data Indicates Conservatism for Tile Penetration."

The title has nothing to do with power point. This is no different from how academics title papers. The use of unnecessarily big words & passive tenses (rather than active) increases with level of schooling.

"Don't bury the lede" - Journalists and writers are taught this. It means, save readers some mental clock cycles. Pore through your own news and figure out the most important fact. Then put it in the title and/or on top.

Highly schooled, intelligent and "honest" people don't do this. When journalists over simplify or make logic leaps in their writing, we call it clickbait. We also prefer the use of the words MAY, and COULD (probability isn't intuitive to most people) - which allows people to ignore the information.

Successful salesy types are intentional about their use of words. They'll use active phrases, avoid ambiguous words, use words that denote certainty to force action in choice areas, and vagueries to hide or down play others.

The officials were surely served papers before or after the meeting and made their decision despite the slideshow.

Summary: Engineers need copyrighting and sales training as well.
Gotta wonder if there's any automated way to deploy guylines from the top of the booster to the ship. I can't think of anything practical.
Yes: I decided to avoid the penalty. Had I not known about the penalty, I would have owed it in ignorance.
AVID has information on their website but in your own words could you describe how it helped you? Very curious.
The speed listed in the introduction is wildly wrong. The foam could not possibly have hit at 28968 km/h - that is the approximate orbital speed of the shuttle. At 82 seconds into flight, the speed is about 700m/s (2500 km/h).

Even using that figure would assume that the foam came to a dead stop instantaneously after detaching from the tank. I wouldn't be surprised if the relative speed was only 1/10th of that, putting the speed of the collision around 250km/h, less than 1% of the figure stated in the article.
Logically speaking, yes, the cathedrals don’t provide goods and services (in this case, shelter and storage) that are commensurate with their cost. A productive society in theory has no need of them. But we humans are emotional and irrational, and sometimes you need the grandiose and the absurd to motivate us to greatness - there’s just no getting around that.

Similarly, I’d prefer a world without nail salons - logically speaking. To me, they’re pointless and stupidly wasteful, and here in California they’re everywhere. Yet thousands if not millions of people love to have their nails done. It makes them happy and gives them joy in a world that all too often shows its claws. So even if I had the power to banish them, I wouldn’t. I genuinely believe they make the world a better and more productive place. Just like cathedrals.
I heard one possible reason for underestimating the damage was due to the move of a NASA (or the contractor?) lab/facility that dealt with this kind of issues, from California to a cheaper place such as Alabama/Florida(?).

The move was done as a cost saving measure. Quite a few of the engineers chose not to relocate with the office. When the space shuttle launched and the image was being reviewed, many of the experienced engineers (who could possibly have predicted it correctly) were no long with the team.

I remember reading above bit years ago while reading about the incident.
I'm jealous that they didn't adopt a solution that they didn't understand. So many times I've fixed unknown problems in terrible ways and not been given time to actually find the core problem.

Like 'filesystem access is slowing us down' so we move the filesystem in to RAM. Well, it's fast now, but why are we hitting disk so much?
BeetleB already mentioned ox-hugo above. I happened to stumble across this thread (because Org mode!) and I am also the ox-hugo author.

I started working on ox-hugo exactly to have an Org export solution that exports the content + meta-data. If you look at the screenshots on the ox-hugo homepage (linked in BeetleB's comment), you'll see what I mean.

Ask me anything about it.
It's surely super fussy, but at least it's a repeating pattern and not as fussy as wiring rope memory. That's a form of read-only memory used in the space program where the bits are wired in by hand to represent the stored program bit by bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P12r8DKHsak
I noticed that too. Apparently hn's algorithm really likes recent posts. Switch your view from "top" to "best" and it jumps back up.
Switch to brave!
Made my first convolutional neural network with Keras while playing WPICTF
Anyone at Google want to make an anonymous account and confirm/deny? :)

Stuff like this really disgusts me, if it's true. The saddest part is that non-technical consumers will never care about walled gardens or the gradual centralization of the internet - because the truth is, the more centralized we get the more convenient everything becomes.
It's funny how everything old is new again. I remember reading a paper in the late 90s about the Pebble kernel which supported a safe bytecode with which you could extend its runtime behaviour.

This might be it:

https://www.usenix.org/conference/workshop-embedded-systems/...
I don't think it's absurd to talk about the value of time.
The entity whose content took down by a DMCA takedown notice counter request the amount of fair compensation which the sender must obliged to reserve it to the court.

I don't know the English law term of 供託.
I'm hardly familiar with all the trouble this movie went through to get made, I'm really, really happy with the main actors that finally got to see it through. Jonathan Pryce and Adam Driver have such great interactions in the small scenes of this movie, and those really made it for me despite the legitimate problems this article brings up.
Or we require people to bring it up to code when they do major renovations (seems more in line with the Firefox rewrite)
Um so what about the endless govt programs out there that were supposed to achieve things like this brat have failed?

It's not like our country doesn't do anything - it's a very complex problem. There are efforts and they tend to have mediocre results at best. I've personally worked in some of these programs and the reality is govt just isn't well suited for the nuance and individual attention/thought different disadvantaged groups require. I'd wager that if you have ideas about how to fix these issues they'd be similarly flawed.
> Mathematical theorems (especially no-go theorems, one of the most powerful tools in physics) are at least as much of a fact as an experimental measurement

That's an overstatement. Measurements are more important than theory. We cannot form theories without measurements, and yes theories inform our measurements, but science always begins and moves forward with measurements.
The Sagrada Familia was attacked by anarchists during the Spanish Civil War, who destroyed Gaudí's study and the plans and models for the church. Decades were spent just reconstructing the project before actual construction could resume. In Notre Dame's case, there is much better documentation on the structure, so hopefully it won't take quite as long.
Because if this truly is a success then we want to spread the concept as far as we can as fast as we can. It can receive national attention and not harm those inside if done right.
yeah I saw those and to your point I thought there is no way these are legit and I thought it's definitely a scam
Show HN: 1kb progressive state management library inspired by Vuex
Definitely!

Would be nice to add "extra" verification via Signal too, or Google Authenticator. Although GPG's public key, if already known, provides a good source for that.
Wyatt Cenac's show Problem Areas is talking about school issues this season and the second episode focused on solutions focusing on different areas including continuing education of kids kicked out of regular school for misbehavior, the principal put her desk in the main hallway and changed the school police (New York school system has about the same number of education "cops" than Houston has actual cops) to a more humane, almost UK/Peel approach, and also education of prisoners for rehabilitation, for the title of the show it was pretty upbeat.
Text search across full message history has been part of stable production releases (on Android at least) for a decent long while, just fyi. (Desktop client has also gotten better (but is obviously far from perfect); those messages end up retrieved later on, fwiw).
> if you work at a luxury ecommerce brand

That's a big IF right there.

You're dismissing the author's point simply based on one hypothetical. In general, the author is right. JavaScript frameworks are being abused and developers don't care about the download size of their web pages, and it's terrible.

If you're on a desktop with a wired internet connection, then yeah, it's not really going to matter. But if you're on a 3 year old low-end mobile device on a spotty 3G connection, it's significant.
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Toots are posts. Boosting is reposting so your followers can see it. Instance owners can change the terms to whatever cutesy terms they want, so this example has boost replaced with boop and toot replace with toot.

Also this is a FINE example of why niche communities need unbiased online infrastructure. A casual google-searcher may judge them by whatever google's AI decides is representative of the group, and choose not to deal with them at all.
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