skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking it up, it removes so many advantages of email, such as I don’t lose old mail when your now defunct IM2000 ISP goes out of business.

There also isn’t an easy transition from now — I can see exactly why we’re “stuck” with what’s actually a pretty great last bastion of decentralization on the Internet, for all its warts.
Assuming those lines were getting out of hand, I think it would be a valid question as to why they were not tidied up during the review of the line 4 addition by Alice.
Here is the original source for the project: https://www.mikrocontroller.net/articles/AVR_Transistorteste...

It is not really based on Arduino, but it indeed is pretty nifty little gadget. The documentation goes into great detail on the operating principle, how it detects and measures different components.
Thanks. Could you summarize what he has to say for us who don't understand him? I think that would be very interesting to many people, after watching the series.
I think the more likely scenario will be apps removing social logins and implementing their own login logic.
Frankly B&N is one of the better toy stores in some areas.
I selfishly hope that the Barnes and Noble at the entrance inside Mall of America stays (because I live downtown Minneapolis and take the Blue Line directly there for fun). It's always busy, it's large, it's glorious and stocks the most awesome video game and obscure magazines anywhere I have seen. I love this store!

I always want to buy something, but living in small little tiny apartments all my life and finally selling off the last of my video game collection (31 large moving boxes filled) I want less physical items and buy all my books digitally. I like physical more, but with iBooks and keeping it always available at my finger tips on all my devices, it's way to convenient. I realize I might be part of the problem. There is always the downtown library.
The NeXT Era Ends, the Swift Era Begins
Do we know much about the impact this has on our bodies?

This is certainly something to be concerned about, but without that context it's hard to know what this really means.

The article says a "microplastic particle" is any peice of plastic smaller than 5mm. That's bigger than some pills - I would definitely notice chewing on something that size.

So how big are these really and what are they doing to me?

For reference, the US and EU both regulate that 10 micrograms per liter of arsenic in drinking water is safe. Using my rusty high school chemistry (please correct me if I'm wrong), this is on the order of ~10^20 particles (atoms) of arsenic per year. That's way way more than 100k and arsenic is more inherently harmful to humans than plastic.

This could easily be genuine epidemic levels of awful, or it could be completely nothing. Does anyone know more?
Not because it’s Apple, but rather because Apple are exploiting their position as iOS App Store gatekeepers to require developers to add Sign In With Apple. Mozilla don’t have this position / power.

I think people would have the same issue if Google required ‘Sign In With Google’ in play store apps that have Facebook login, and returned throwaway / proxies email addresses.
They stopped having a "new releases" part of their main sections, so if I want to find a new release in SF/Fantasy it means having to look at all the books in that section.

Granted, that section is a lot smaller now, with books front-cover-out, as you say. But it's still kind of a sucky move for steady customers.

I used to visit the local B&N every week. Now it's down to every few months, when I know exactly what I want to find there. And the B&N is about a quarter toys and board games now (this is not an exaggeration). We're down to two bookstores in our city of 600K+ people, hard to believe.
> You need thousands of smart people going through every machine, all the software, all the systems. These people are never going to work for Baltimore or for Maersk, not in a million years.

I love this assumption that anyone smart or anyone good would automatically be working for another company or at another job. Not only is that just screwy off the top (assumes that smart people automatically can move and relocate to the most desirable job - even geographically) but it also assumes that anyone with any skills would never ever work in that type of situation to begin with. [1] Maybe there are good people that are working there but a government situation like the city of Baltimore is not chock full of the type of money required to actually fix a problem like that or ever Maersk management does not view it as a priority in any way. You know not every job is in a startup that has been VC funded and can afford to lose money ditto for a traditional company such as Maersk. Noting of course that the 'best and the brightest' that work for some of the 'top companies' are kind of screwing up frequently. Not to mention MSFT 'top' designed much of this hackable code at one point.

[1] Attorneys are often like this as well the halo of a top firm means if you are operating out of a storefront you must be stupid in some way otherwise you'd be working at one of the top shiny law firms.
That's not entirely true. WeChat in many ways is more impressive than whatever US equivalent is for a Chinese audience. And Didi executed far better than Uber without protectionism being in play. It's nontrivial to execute in a foreign culture to your own.
Their latest rebrand is also a disaster in my opinion. They went from a distinctive visual identity to a logo equivalent of someone pasting an Arial textbox in Paint on a black background.
> I wish people would be able to keep things simple and still use IRC

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> i have a linode box that runs irssi in a tmux session 24/7 and that’s all it’s for.

Make of that what you will.
It’s not like scientists actually believe it’s useless. Maybe some did for a little while, but it didn’t last long. There’s tons of research into what it does. Saying modern science is broken because a few people briefly thought some DNA served no purpose is a bit extreme.
Heh, that happened to me too... I loved it.
I'm a big fan of articles that that use lots of photos and illustrations interspersed throughout the text as examples.

Sadly, this article is not one of those. It describes many of Loewy's designs, but only has photos of a couple of them.
I checked the latency and throughput of the SSE4 POPCNT and LZCNT instructions on a bunch of microarchitectures [1], and can't think of any way to get that kind of performance with a combination of simpler instructions. These are occasionally very useful operations, and I really do want them to be fast.

[1] https://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf
I have been following a promising project[0] for quite long. They haven't yet released the product though.

[0] https://madresistor.com/box0/
Why not time cards that are punched by a machine? The tech to scan them in for payroll already exists, I'm sure. Reminds me of the push for replacing paper ballots for no good reason.
>need to to make money, and therefore they need to cut how much drivers get, and now drivers are picky over what rides they take,

Which is the same damn taxi dispatch problem that Uber was originally created to solve, so I guess now they can't use "we're different because internet!" to argue against regulations anymore.
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That’s surprising. Nobody has yet asked me for my WhatsApp contact details and thereby forced me to create an account. (Germany, previously UK).
But you’re forgetting that something like 80%+ of the big wildfires were started by PG&E equipment. It’s also willful negligence in the lack of maintenance [1]. It’s not 100%, but we can do far better.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/18/business/pge-...
Brings a new meaning to touch typing.
I've been programming professionally for well over 20 years (and many years prior as a hobby), and held "senior" to "C-level" positions. in my eyes I'm still a junior kid learning new stuff all the time. When I stop seeing myself as that, I'll switch vocation.
Does it matter?

I think it is important to have some means of supporting a family, but that might not involve the educational path that has become our standard for the past 30 years. It only takes one good income, and paid child care is usually a terrible deal for big families, so there isn't a financial justification for paying for two expensive educations. If the degree costs time or money and wouldn't get used, why bother? Avoiding unneeded student loans is a sensible idea. The earlier you start, the larger your family can be.

The lines between college and high school are starting to blur. Dual enrollment (or equivalent) is offered in most states. This lets students take college classes early, getting credit for both high school and college. Here it can start in 6th grade. You can get a BS degree before completing high school.

The reasons to wait are legal (typically must be 16 to marry), medical (roughly similar), and the ability to find a suitable spouse. That last one is usually easier in college. It can be a challenge to get everything in order at a young age, but the payoff is huge.
“Facebook plans gift card system”
> [Flatpak will be dead in 10 years] because it's solely focused on the desktop

By this logic, GNOME should have died a long time ago.

Focusing on the desktop makes Flatpak better at managing desktop apps. For servers we have, well, Docker.
I remember being angry when Congress cancelled fundings for Superconducting Super Collider but kept those for Space Station Freedom. From a scientific discovery standpoint, the decision was utterly unjustifiable. I'm willing to accept the contention that space exploration is more than science--it's the fulfillment of Man's aspiration. But if the existence of the space station becomes an impediment to space exploration itself then what exactly is the point?
It's a hard product to land if no-one trusts you.
People can't figure out how to get in and out of this infinity pool
I literally just re-nicked this week without having to rejoin any channels.
Please try our game, Star Sonata. https://www.starsonata.com/

It's in the same genre as EV, Star Control II, etc. It has been out for over a decade now and still under active development with a stable player base. The economic side is generally more about making bases and colonies and setting up automated trade routes than hauling stuff around manually, though. In general, people set up their economy while going off to do missions and explore in parallel.
>i guarantee that someone digging up a line with a backhoe happens ALOT less frequent then some idiot in a car taking out a phone-pole.

yeah, but can you guarantee that the repair costs total of the more frequently repaired option is greater than the repair costs total of the less frequently repaired option?

repair frequency is only a single metric -- what if the frequency was low but the cost to repair was 20x?
You might be happy with Mattermost. It's not IRC, and that is reason enough for me to grumble about it.

Anything that help to break the addiction of putting trade secrets on internet-connected computers is an improvement over slack.
> I'd say yes, the coupling of operating system and distribution of software applications has always seemed very wrong to me.

I agree with this in principle, but how far down the chain do you go? Obviously, you need to have some base libraries included. You just need to accept that some of those libraries will be old, and that they aren't going to change so rapidly for this to be a problem.
> "good enough" because a duplicate "probably wouldn't happen very often". Meanwhile, the consequences of a dupe would lead to a pretty bad customer experience. [...] My bar is much higher than this developer...

I see a lot of posturing in this anecdote, what I think is missing are:

1 - an indication of how often would a customer experience the issue;

2 - how bad would his "bad experience" be;

Did you calculate the former and took in account the latter in forming your judgement?

Or, otherwise, was the "correct" solution simple and obvious enough that any non-junior developer would have picked that first without hesitation?
The nice thing about Firefox is that you can configure it to use any DNS resolver you please!

It may perhaps be worth considering privacy-enhancing settings in the context of a mass-market product, where the vast majority of users do not know what DNS is and do not run their own resolvers. In such a context, do you think it might be possible that most users might be better off with privacy-first defaults? With, of course, all the appropriate configuration options for more sophisticated users.
To be fair, both christians and atheists who are interested in debating each other tend to have a hard time understanding the limits of their knowledge. The criticism can be directed equally in both directions.

The entire sum of scientific knowledge is based on unprovable axioms, just the same as the entire sum of religious knowledge is based on unprovable axioms. Faith is a belief in something you can’t prove, and people have faith in scientific knowledge in exactly the same way that others have faith in religious knowledge.

A wise person would understand that scientific knowledge and the various forms of religious knowledge are based on completely different foundational axioms, and as a result, any attempt to debate the merits of one over the other is entirely pointless. A wiser person might understand that criticising somebody for what they choose to have faith in is both pointless and hypocritical.
I learned this lesson from the videos of the Harvard course on justice. The lecturer got explanations that I thought at the time were laughable, but somehow in his response he rephrased them to be reasonable and a great platform to deepen the conversation. It requires a great deal of empathy and intelligence to do that and I try my darndest to read as much sense as possible from any question directed my way. Here's an example:

https://youtu.be/kBdfcR-8hEY?t=2446
Dart and MongoDB Tutorial #3: Refactor Our RESTful API into Controller Classes
Even if that would be the case, allowing private companies to so blatantly capitalize on fear, all the while mocking that so very hard won presumption, is simply an amazingly terrible idea.

Not only because under the pressure of competition some company in this sector will attempt to manufacture fear by any means available. If by misdirection,
or by direct action of some sort, but we'll all be so much worse for it.
> I'm just letting you know that's what I'd prefer

Do I always need to accommodate your preferences? Some of them could be hard to, like a frequently used feature of the language over which people have vocal disagreement.

If I do, can I ask you about reciprocal favors in language expressions of my choice? For some such preferences may look arbitrary, all underlying reasoning notwithstanding.

It's surely not a novel thing to have disagreements over language. How in general they are resolved historically?
We have milk delivered in glass bottles on our doorstep each morning. No difficulties.
Announcing Kubernetes Universal Declarative Operator (KUDO) 0.2.0
I was just playing around a bit a year ago and found divinity - the first 5 minutes of the game the little kid in me jumped for joy, because it was the first time I felt the wonder and excitement of a huge world like the Baldurs Gate series in over a decade. This is the team to do it, of any game team in the world.
It depends on what common apps are available. Only option I see for Huawei to get those is by leveraging the Chinese market to incentivize devs to make a google free version of their apps. This way they should have enough critical mass to make a port worth it. Offering a version of those internationally should be just a small additional step. This obviously would require ruling party of China to open up their user base to outside companies. But they would still have a lot of control through the app store, and if established successful this control could even extend beyond their borders. I wonder if there is a way for Huawei to actually get politicians on board with something like that...
This depresses me.

One of the reasons I don't like B&N is because I feel it's a store no longer dedicated to books. They have books, but it's also a gift store, a toy store, and a stationery store. From just my estimate, I feel about 40 percent of its floor-space is for non-book items.

Another book chain in Canada, Indigo Books, operates similarly.

I think the last bastions for book-lovers are used bookstores. Also, Powell's in Portland seems quite dedicated to selling books of all sorts.
They still do this in some cities?
> a dangerous mix of dry air, warm temperatures and gusty winds

I was wondering if there were similar technics to preventive avalanches to fight fire?
Honest question: I just use `python -m venv my_env` and then I use source to activate it.
Yes, and it’d help with simple finger oil on screen analysis, but it’d make for a frustrating ux.
Target does this. The price of certain online items sometimes varies in store, but they at least inform you of it on their website.
High-quality regulatory regimes are ones where bare-minimum checkbox-driven compliance yields good-enough results. Low-quality ones resemble kabuki, which I've personally witnessed in companies doing PCI self-certification.
That’s been my go-to interview technique for years. I want to see candidates say they don’t know under pressure.

Unless it’s for a very senior role, I think attitude and personality are greater predictors of success than technical competency, so long as their technical competency is ‘good enough’ to begin with.
I imagine the overview effect might be something dramatically different for a sociopath.
I have zero issues with how SIP is currently implemented. It's just hard enough to turn off to protect people, without being overly annoying.

I do worry very much about SIP becoming impossible to disable some day. Don't ban knives because people might cut themselves.
Does this fit?
https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1770/aliens
There's an online single player version built with Flash:
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/408816
Google's Underwhelming Game Streaming Reveal Creates a Big Opening for Microsoft
Corporations have abused their power to lobby, it's well past time to take that power away.
As a user I value this debate because it highlights a pitfall I had not considered. I suspect many people will not not immediately think of the downside to going through apple
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Wow, you have a lux B&N. Most of them are desperately understaffed, between the need to reshelve books, receive inventory, manage "cash-wrap" for the long checkout lines, corral running kids, ask the guy destroying the manga to stop folding the covers, straighten the magazines that have been scattered by readers, pick up the trash patrons leave all over the store, check the bathrooms for various "presents" people leave behind, and oh yeah, help folks find the exact book they wanted from the query "that book by that guy who was a chef and then did special forces but now has that book about contract bridge" so they can flip through it and order it from Amazon.

The cost cutting has happened in many places and if it continues, sadly, even a hedge fund won't be able to save it. Sure, lots of room to improve, and a mix of cut the bad and add the good will help. But don't fool yourself, retail is hard and B&N, the good ones, is real work. I wish them the best but it's a hard road.
I haven’t seen anyone upset over the feature set. The only complaints I’ve seen are those uneasy with Apple’s forceful hand. They are both the gatekeeper to the store and now gatekeeper to the login. This is happening at the same time they are being investigated for anti-trust.
I find it hard to believe this actually caused a DB problem, updating an int column on an indexed table should have taken nanoseconds. Far faster than any HTTP calls should have been happening. Sounds like something was very wrong. Someone fucked up with the network causing some severe DB latency or they'd written some really shitty code.

Even if it did, as the other comment says, you could easily work round it. If that was the behaviour there was no good reason to have it utterly perfect.
Even though I was a professional software engineer at the time, I was also a part time fitness instructor for over a decade. I even taught at women’s only gyms. I was really careful about not approaching anyone in my class - for the most part, women do not want to be approached at the gym - especially a women’s only gym, they go there specifically not to be bothered.

On a slightly tangential note women only gyms are the only place where some observant Muslim women could work out in comfortable clothing.
Powell’s is more of a tourist destination. Buy a mug, tote bag, shirt and 3 hardbacks you’ll probably never even read. Plus they’ve made some pretty poor financial decisions. Had to scrap renovating and expanding into a nearby building. Lots of layoffs. If they didn’t own their building they’d be long gone.
You can get water in aluminum cans. Pretty common when flying on a plane for example.
Lots of things come in glass already and it doesn't really seem to be a big deal. Spaghetti sauce, pickles, etc. Nobody thinks twice about any of that.
The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome
I think you missed my question :)

I understand the security concerns (arbitrary code execution just by loading an arbitrary file into vim).

My question was: this issue was caught, diagnosed, widely publicised and the configuration fix for it was widely deployed - nearly 15 (fifteen!) years ago.

So why is it cropping up as a "new" security issue now?
Why is the LCR meter expansion so damn expensive? The base starter kit is pretty reasonably priced, but I can't figure out what is going on with that LCR meter thing.. based on pictures the HW doesn't look like it has anything special on-board, so is it just a SW license cost thing?
Well the original—at least from my perspective—esports game was quake, which spawned quake con. At some point when quakecon startee really gaining traction, most games from that point forward stopped implementing a lot of the capability which fostered those types of communities.

While esports has gained a little bit more traction since then, my suspicions are aligned with the article, it’s mostly due to dumping massive venture capital into hyping it. And it seems to have hit a wall.

I bet, if they want to move beyond the wall it has hit, one of the key moves will be to start implementing those features discussed above, which will foster the communities which will allow those organic communities to form.
Apple is only removing Python 2, not Python 3.
If making access to the database available was a priority, surely a company with Microsoft's resources could find someone to maintain it?

And why shouldn't the database continue to work just because there isn't someone to maintain it? It's not like the maintainer is actually hand-cranking the generator that powers the database server.

And yeah there's definitely a trend with trying to make every news story look like a big dramatic news event with lots of intrigue and "tea". Mostly it's just pretty boring and undramatic stuff.
So? To quote the results of the paper, "the effects of consuming MPs on human health are largely unknown".

I'm just not concerned about ingesting tiny quantities of something that might possibly be harmful, even though we've been looking really hard for harms for quite a long time and haven't found anything of note. My environment is full of stuff that we know to be definitely harmful - could we fix that please, before we start worrying about stuff that might possibly be harmful?
This boils down to voting with your dollars, the root comment didn't like B&N's business practice and gave their business to someone else.
Good point. I have an irrational paranoia putting really vital stuff in those, but it would work.