skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to picture a little checkbox next to this, so that you can put a checkmark in that box as your hurtle through the air, then dig out the "parachute operating procedure" checklist and start it from the top.
It’s too late for nuclear. We’re facing 1 meter sea level rise within 20 years.

When human civilization collapses I’d rather have a field of unused PV battery cells leaking, than nuclear waste from all the meltdowns around the world.
Makes sense. There had to be something that already has a head start, even if not for the given purpose, good place to begin.
This would only work for autumn fruiting varieties. Summer fruiting varieties fruit on 1 year old stems, so unless you identified the new stems and left them...
> under what authority do we shut them down and how do we ensure this new power won't be abused in the future?

Parliaments are sovereign. Facebook violated a lawful summons by pulling a bait and switch:

“McNamee's comments came as an international committee of MPs in Ottawa renewed their summons for Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg and company COO Sheryl Sandberg to appear and give evidence before them. Both ignored the first summons, choosing to send company representatives in their place.”
I don't really see your point.

Even if you're right, and the State is way more evil than Facebook, how does that affect the fact that Facebook is still terrible?

If I were to say "Ted Bundy isn't that bad...look at how many people Stalin killed!", you would rightly say that that's a dumb argument. Similarly, just because you can find Entity A acting worse than Entity B, that doesn't imply that Entity B is good, and it doesn't imply that we shouldn't do something about Entity B, just because we can find something worse.
I agree with this, but I think to the extent that such tools are lacking (or at least that the overhead is prohibitively high for smaller projects), the parent is correct. Thanks for tipping me off to peru; hadn't seen that before.
> FB's agenda of selling ads is much more benign then whatever the state department wants.

I disagree with this, actually. Facebook's agenda of selling ads is the very thing that makes them toxic -- not because selling ads is a terrible thing, but because Facebook is so insistent on using people's personal data to do it.
The problem is that humanism is more of a flavor found in philosophies rather than a specific lineage or school.

Marx was humanist, so time already told I guess.
The fact is the OSS alternatives do have high quality type defs so there's no trade off to be had here.

Like I said before, it's just my opinion, but I'd take a library with thousands of stars and a group of people maintaining it over something unknown and paid any day. If you think it's a good idea to pay for this, more power to you.
This is an advertisement disguised as a technical post on container security.
Exactly my thoughts on all grounds!

Have been going independent since 2013 but would've loved to have had a mentor along the way, or even now for that matter.

But I guess I'm old enough now to know what I don't know and then to learn it.
I don't understand the comments here. TFA article says nothing about data capability, just that Huawei is in the business of running physical cable. TFA doesn't even state whether L1 repeaters are Huawei's equipment (part and parcel with the cable) or someone else's (Huawei just being physical installer).

This article is completely worthless.
On Creating a Roundabout Culture
I'm not convinced that the ones you pay for aren't tracking you too. As a non-app example, I pay for the Washington Post and uBlock Origin shows that I'm still food for doubleclick et al- even when I'm logged in.
Yes, indeed we have APAP, but they might be significantly costlier than CPAP. But CPAP is already a lifesaver. Our doctor was totally cool with CPAP, and suggested APAP if we could afford it solely because of its added comfort.
The irony that Microsoft sold out the web and jumped into bed with Chromium because they didn’t want to fix their video playback, only to have YouTube kick their new browser back to a worse experience is beyond amazing on this.
Direct link to response: https://assets.ctfassets.net/hhv516v5f7sj/77NQsg1qDb6d9Hi4PB...
Amazon believes that reading makes us happier
I’d imagine this is easier now with dependabot joining Github, being free for all, and implementing a proper CI test system for your repos.

Logically, the next step is supporting such infra for containers. Automate all the mundane regression/security/functionality testing while driving dependency upgrades forward.
As I indicated:

> Factor in whatever churn you want

Right, take the $20mm/mo in gross new business & apply your favorite convert rate to that. Then, apply your favorite churn rate to the existing business.

You have to pick really pessimistic numbers to get from 2.8mm signups of a $99/mo service to arrive at a $25mm annual revenue number. Specifically: ~.75% of their total claimed signups since 2004. Or ~2.5% of their claimed signups since 2016.

(Put another way: if they converted 10% of their signups since 2016, that's > $100mm run rate before accounting for churn.)

Basically, to assume they are doing only $25mm annually you have to assume either (as the parallel comment does) they are publicly lying about their number of signups or that they have pretty poor conversion/retention numbers. My guess is option #3: they are doing much more than $25mm annually.
"Mom's Across America" is a well known science denying hotbed who stoke fear of GMOs, chemicals, and vaccines.

They don't care whether or not glyphosate is safe or not. They care that impossible foods is getting headlines, and they want to get a piece of it by introducing FUD.

Impossible is 100% right to do a hard reply to this. These people aren't interested in honest debate or product safety and the world needs to know it.
> Close down FB. Why?

Because they violated a lawful summons. Sovereign Parliaments in multiple countries issued summons to Facebook for Zuckerberg and Sandberg. Multiple times, they pulled a bait and switch. In the United States, this would be like blowing off Congress and then one’s contempt hearing in court.

> FB should become a platform

What does this mean? And what does a democracy do when Facebook refuses to show up to provide critical information for that discussion?

Blocking Facebook is extreme. Large financial penalties, and possibly criminal proceedings against Zuckerberg and Sanders for wilfully evading summons, are more apt. But the need for something to be done in reaction to such brazen lawlessness seems necessary. And keeping all lawful options on the table when considering a response is prudent.
I've never really had a mentor and I'm honestly not sure what sort of professional relationship is even being described here. Is this like a professional parent who teaches you stuff and checks in on you and keeps you steered in the right direction, and steers you away from wrong directions? I don't think such a person exists, and if they did, I'd question both their motives and advice. Maybe this is a common sort of long-term professional relationship in other cultures or fields or something?

I understand why people who are in the early stages of learning about a career would want to know someone like this. How awesome would it be to have someone to help you make career choices. I guess I just assumed that it was always (understandable) wishful thinking on the part of high schoolers or CS undergrads who weren't quite sure how to get to where they want to go, or who don't know where they want to go yet and are seeking advice.

On the other hand I've learned an utterly tremendous amount from just about everyone I've ever worked with, including people way older than me and way younger than me. You can learn useful stuff about tech and life and careers from most people that you encounter in your desired career, and a lot of people you encounter outside of it. Nobody's going to have the answers you need for your own life, the best you can hope for is to absorb whatever kernels of wisdom you can from people you encounter that you respect. Maybe some of those people were micro-mentors, or just good people to work with, and hopefully at least some of them felt like they learned something from me too but who knows.

You can also learn tremendous amounts just from Internet forums like HN or Reddit. There's also tremendous amounts of BS or things that are irrelevant to you, but being able to sniff out the good stuff from amongst the garbage is a required skill these days.

The only dogmatic thing I'll say is don't believe anyone who's dogmatic about anything. If anyone tells you that there is One True Way to do anything, immediately doubt everything else that person has ever told told you (including me and what I just wrote). That you have to use this or that programming language, that you have to use this or that editor or tool or OS or API. There's no shortage of people in tech that aren't wired up to make the distinction between personal preferences and immutable laws of the universe. Just find what you like and dive into it headfirst. No amount of training or advice will substitute for self-motivated passion, interest, and curiosity, especially in the early stages of one's education or career.
I‘d like to second that recommendation. The book certainly won‘t win any literature prizes, but it does tell a fascinating story and gives a glimpse into the „wild west“ engineering culture that created the Blackbird.
>and b) you are in a latency sensitive environment where it is unacceptable to degrade performance of the latest browsers

As you don't work at YouTube specifically, you might not know they don't have this constraint. They are perfectly happy to let YouTube run like complete dogshit if the user is on Firefox.
That’s certainly an interpretation.

George Neville‐Neil, president of the FreeBSD foundation, recently gave the keynote at AsiaBSDCon. During his presentation he derided Sean Webb/Lattera for its focus on security (https://hardenedbsd.org/content/easy-feature-comparison), simultaneously deriding OpenBSD as “basement dwellers” (this in a talk asserting that the BSDs need to present a unified front to succeed in the world). He also made excuses for the fact that FreeBSD finally—finally!—implemented ASLR in 2019. (For reference, PaX developed ASLR in 2001, OpenBSD implemented their own in 2003, and mainstream Linux got it in 2005.) His excuse, that ASLR is “broken anyway,” was called out by the very first commenter for betraying a complete misunderstanding of what ASLR defends against (GNN trumpeted ASLR attacks on JIT engines, but executing malicious JavaScript on the host is out of ASLR’s scope and always has been). https://youtu.be/7kShjboN6ek?t=2820

I don’t know the full story between Sean Webb/Lattera and FreeBSD, but I do know FreeBSD has a poor track record when it comes to security mitigations, and if the presentation above is representative of how the president of the FreeBSD Foundation behaves at an ostensibly cross‐BSD conference, I know which side I’m immediately inclined to disfavor.
You have a working solution, and have decided to change to a platform that effectively doesn’t provide what you require to do business.

Whoever makes the engineering decisions at your company is an idiot.
From what I understand (haven't set up an iPhone from default in a long time) but the 'limit ad tracking' is off by default, allowing apps to have background app refresh privileges is allowed for any app by default (you must manually disable for any offenders unless you want it off for everything), the privacy features in Safari are off by default, and Apple's own data-collection and location-collection is also on by default.
There are so many other possible factors: timings, interactions with other processes, memory allocations, network conditions, etc. A random seed is just one of several non-deterministic factors that could have been the cause.
I'm all for having the producer pay for the type of packaging he's using: plastic or polluting package should be taxed much more than, sya, cardboard. But I'm of the opinion that the one who's responsible is the one who is buying stuff in the first place. If there's no demand there's no production, and no pollution.
Well, interestingly, "design by comittee" is a pejorative, so it raises the question whether C++ is, in a (specific, not universal) sense, a success or not.
Sad times :( Was my first dive into arch and I enjoyed most of the journey.
OP must have gone to a prestigious business schools in Paris
What are “unexpected medical expenses” if you have insurance? At most you would have to save the deductible/out of pocket max. But as quickly as medical expenses escalate when you don’t have insurance to cover it, it seems like most people would be screwed to a level that all of the savings they could accumulate would quickly disappear.
When people have chronic illnesses, they often times become immunocompromised, meaning their immune system weakens so much, microorganisms that are normally harmless get the opportunity to infect the host. That's why you see odd microorganisms.

Just because you see microorganisms in people that are also in petrochemical spills does not mean they are consuming petrochemicals within us. Many organisms have multiple metabolic pathways, meaning they can break different things down to get the energy they need. Heck, so many typically aerobic microbes don't even need oxygen all the time, producing lactic acid or alcohol instead.

I understand your concern for the unknown, but be careful about spreading information when you aren't yourself informed or sure of what you are saying.
Executive summary:

Cessna: How fast.

Tower: 6

Beechcraft: How fast

Tower: 8

Hornet: Yo how fast bro

Tower: Eh, 30

Sled: mfw

Sled: How fast sir

Tower: Like 9000

Sled: More like 9001 amirite.

Tower: ayyyyy

Sled: ayyyyy
How often do gas stations move locations?
i saw https://areweasyncyet.rs/ linked here, it mentions future extensions
That and they’ve already blocked most Google services.
> If they don't use Linux, I wonder how long it will take them to have something productive for the average worker.

If the do use Linux, I wonder that.

Not being snarky. Linux is unusable for "the average worker".
With every launch, SpaceX will add about a terabit of “usable capacity,” Musk said, and two to three terabits overall.
You probably right.
But all those satellites that are above the ocean at the moment they can be used to transmit data over sea's or between small islands. In this way it will compete with optics. Think of countries like Indonesia.
Fonts are terrible on Windows. It feels like nitpicking, but as a former designer, I notice. Constantly.
> By contrast, currying in languages with Algol-descended syntax always requires more rigamarole. It's possible, of course, in a lot of them, but it's harder than just a function call missing some of its arguments.

Really? Given a Python function

def divide_by(a, b):
return a / b

What would be so hard about

divided_by_2 = divide_by(, 2)
divide_5 = divide_by(5, )

Or, in Rust:

fn divide_by(a: f32, b: f32) -> f32 {
a / b
}
// ...
let divide_by_2 = divide_by(, 2.0);
let divide_5 = divide_by(5.0, );

I can't immediately see any major problems with this. It's basically a closure, after all:

let divide_by_2 = |a| divide_by(a, 2.0);
why are people so afraid of huawei? they are just a telco. they provide infrastructure. sure they can snoop on unencrypted traffic, but thats not their core business. so who cares if the 5g is american, russian or north-korean. if i were the us, i'd be afraid of 1. google and 2. facebook. their business is actually spying and selling that information. these know more about americans than any other company. they see data that is actually sensitive and encrypted. just because they are american companies, does not mean they will not leak to foreign intelligence entities. heck those are very likely on their client list already.
Tencent has already created a successful app ecosystem with WeChat mini-apps. I don't believe it will be too hard for Huawei to do the same (although it won't be easy either).
I've been testing the latest desktop editions all week so it would be rude of me not to try this one. Downloading.
The author attempts to extract some higher spiritual meaning from the ramblings of someone who is mentally ill.

This reminds me of a story about a reporter seeking out hermits who been living alone for decades. Searching for higher truths and enlightenment, all he found was varying degrees of alcoholism and mental illness.
I hate to be a downer but ill believe it when I see it. That robot is big, bulky, and does not look nimble or fast. A human could have picked a couple boxes worth of berries in the time it took that robot to decide to pick one berry. Anybody who has ever picked berries of any kind, be it strawberries or blueberries or blackberries will tell you, speed is the name of the game and even the average human versus an experienced picker isn't even a competition. An experienced picker is going to be grabbing multiple berries at a time with all of their fingers, not just one at a time. An experienced picker will have decided which berries to pick next before they even got done putting the ones they just picked into a basket which only takes a fraction of a second.

You will get far better returns breeding and genetically modifying the plants to be easier to pick or shake the berries loose than any robot ive ever seen. Sure, it is technically feasible, but nobody is going to spend a million dollars on a robot that doesn't pick faster than an experienced human, it would take multiple decades to pay itself off even if you assumed the power and maintenance was free.

Maybe in another 10 years it will be worth seriously looking into berry picking robots again, but berries are literally the hardest and most difficult fruit for a robot to pick. Uneven ripening, very delicate fruits, tangled messes of plant vines, very little maneuvering room, ect. It is like trying to automate a rally car before you are able to automate an oval track race.
I have a feeling that if Google is successful at something along the lines of cold fusion, most governments will ignore any patents. The genie will be out of the bottle.
WHATWG also stands for "What working group", as in "What working group is going to work on extending HTML"

http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1086387609
> the test was poorly written and didn't cover the assumptions of the code under test well

That's a cop out, you rarely know all the assumptions of all the code. The point of tests is to hopefully suss out those unknowns. Just saying "you should think harder and write better tests" doesn't result in better code.
SpaceX wants to offer Starlink internet to consumers after just six launches
This sounds like when that mommy blogger raised a completely misguided stink about "yoga mat chemical" being present in Subway bread.
Has Tesla started delivering repair manuals and replacement parts? I keep hearing about Tesla vehicles at the body shop for several months.
There's just never been a need. The SR-71 could already outfly missiles.

And in general, now that we have the technology, the SR-71's role is much better filled by unmanned craft like satellites anyway.

Stuffing a man inside one of these deathtraps and getting him home safely adds orders of magnitudes of difficulty. A better question might be, why would you want to send a person up in something like this, if you could possibly avoid it? It would most definitely be awesome, but it would come at the cost of billions of dollars and possibly human lives.

Also physics is a real bastard. Air resistance increases with the square of velocity. Even small gains over the SR-71's speed would come at a very, very high cost in terms of fuel burn rate, etc.
I follow primarily friends, family, and a few hobbyists in my chosen hobbies (model trains, space/rockets, etc.). It's been no trouble to curate - more than one "sponsored" post probably means I unfollow you, as do memes. The end result (barring their ads) is a really nice feed of pictures that are either cool or interesting to me personally.
That is a valid point. I don't think Yelp are bad people, just that in the context of this story, they're the "bad guys" doing the data collection.

If you count any sort of data collection as "bad", then you'll never help improve the products you use, can't get mad about features you use being removed, and have no right to complain about bugs. Data collection is important for software developers to improve their products, but it can be done in good ways. There's no visibility here on what Yelp is collecting, but I doubt it's that bad.
I would not be suprised if it is an offshoot of FreeBSD. That way they could get away from the GPL license altogether and wont violate any licensing agreements.

If they based it off Linux, unless it was avalible to download online, it would probably infringe on the GPL somewhere. Assuming they care about those things.
Were they really that demanding? IIRC, the last time I was in one, all they wanted was a ZIP code, which was weird enough at the time.
Also, the article mentions that "high-tech companies have long promoted the idea that they are egalitarian, idyllic workplaces. And Google, perhaps more than any other, has represented that image, with a reputation for enviable salaries and benefits and lavish perks."

By having large numbers of contractors, Google could have their egalitarian, idyllic workplace, but have a non-egalitarian 2 tier system, with distinctly 2nd class workers.

The reality is that people don't operate in a purely communal/egalitarian fashion. Nor are people purely hierarchical. There is always some degree of hierarchy, and some degree of communal existence. The larger the group, the more hierarchy is necessary. However, even in the sort of magical feeling hippie-dippy gathering of artists, there are still community leaders. There is still some kind of functioning hierarchy, or things just don't get done. (I have some personal experience in this area.)

I think the problems in such systems come about when people are in denial about their hierarchy, their meritocracy, and the consequences of not fitting in. If people have to pretend their hierarchy doesn't exist, and everything's just running on love and understanding, then people who violate the rules and norms still need to be punished. Often the hierarchy remains disguised by characterizing violators as fundamentally bad or selfish people. By abandoning consciousness of one's rules and hierarchy, one risks nonsensical, outsized, or downright unjust consequences being meted out by the group. Basically, it's a recipe for groupthink to take over and the abandonment of principles.
Skipping Breakfast Before Exercise Creates More Negative 24-Hour Energy Balance
anyway, it's much lower than death caused by burning coal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents
Laughter is provoked by a discontinuation of what your brain expects.

If you saw a dog walking a man on all fours, you would most likely laugh, because of the unexpectedness.

In this case, the unexpected terseness causes laughter. You don't expect what follows to just be "Eject". In a technical context like a manual, you expect what follows to be a detailed list of steps and instructions. When this expectation is shattered, you laugh.

Thanks for reading. Have a good day.
Vault is for secret management. If you are just looking at a key value based store or a service discovery tool, you might want to have a look at consul by Hashicorp.
No idea, but #3 is probably "change underwear"
I'm looking forward to seeing what China can do in this space over the next decade.

They have huge numbers of people, years ago I heard the trope "China has more honors students than the USA has students".

If they can focus these huge resources on tasks like developing a modern operating system and apps ecosystem, the US will fall behind.
A working professional's guide to OMSCS, the $7K CS master's degree