skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also see https://home.cern/news/news/computing/microsoft-alternatives...
What about all the npm modules?
Looking for a cool functional spec template
I am looking for a cool functional specification template.

I have an idea for a smaller web app, that I would like to spec out, so others can build it for me. But I cant seem to find an (open source) standard for this?

Snooping around I found an old one that NASA share online:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20160011412.pdf - might be a bit overkill. They also share the 2003 version of their engineering handbook: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/nasa_systems_engineering_handbook_0.pdf - looks cool, but it would be large.

Found this at Stanford: https://uit.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/2017/08/30/Functional%20Specification%20Document%20Template.docx

Is there a good standard one can employ? - or What would you use if you had to specify a smaller project to be developed by a 4-5 man team?

(I'm new to this forum, so apologies for breaking any unwritten (or written) rules).
You can have a flywheel for that.
I could easily halve that longest hop and a few others, because that's how many superchargers are along the way.

Edit: I checked and the longest, indivisible hop in my route is 180 miles.
Yes it is live, what do you mean about that?
> Everyday purchases because I get between 1-5% cash back and no fee or interest as I pay it off every month..

> A fee-free ATM that gets me airline points, when I buy my teammates lunch and have them give me cash / venmo me.

> In person purchases they make during the course of a day?

As a Dutch person, all of the above are done with my normal bank card. Everyday purchases aren't even be possible with a credit card. No grocer is insane enough to risk chargebacks and have to pay for that 'privilege'.

This year I've used my credit card for: Patreon, AliExpress, iTunes, JetBrains and wintersport in Austria.

Neither my normal bank nor my credit card give me cash back or points.

Ironically(?) the only time I ever had to pay an ATM fee was when I used my credit card.
I assume the number of people who would be extremely affected in this way is quite small.

I've never watched GoT and I've being there when people were having those conversations, or when people were having watching parties, etc.
Flatpack was started from a Desktop/GUI/GNOME perspective so you will have a better experience with snap if you want to package non GUI apps.

I personally don't care and a .tar.gz is good enough for me if it works (as an example I use Intellij from a tar.gz installer, is simple and it works)
So, what you're saying is the Keas that stripped the rubber round my windscreen up at Mt Hutt, thought my car was a big metal trap with tasty goodies inside?
It cuts after 280 chars if no other possibility. It tries to search for a \n or a "." in this 280 chars to have a cut at the end of sentence and make the cut less ugly.
I love reading these kind of stories about Japanese companies. I hope there are more and more of these as the current work culture over there is pretty depressing to me.
> Based on a documentary. Yes, it is.

If you want to cite a source, it's usually helpful to actually name it, instead of just asserting that it exists.

The rest of your comment is not relevant to the question of whether or not Sesame Credit takes political views into account.
> Parental leave seams such a natural right to have that it's strange that there exists any opposition to it. Mothers and fathers benefit from it. Fighting for women's rights is also figthing for a more just and balance society for everyone.

Yet our government (I'm swiss) stubbornly refuses to introduce a paternity leave. This will hopefully change in the coming years because they will be forced to through an initiative (one collected enough signatures already and a vote will follow).
To be honest, wipes are best...
> pining for a world where security doesn't need to exist

Nobody is doing that. We're "pining" for a world where our devices can have direct phone numbers instead of having to share a party line. Unfortunately, some people keep insisting that requiring households, businesses, or larger groups of people (i.e. CGNAT) to share a single phone number keeps everyone safer because it keeps most people from being able to receive incoming calls.

See my other post[1] for the technical reasons NAT doesn't actually provide security. TL;DR - this is a problem of definitions and a common misunderstanding about how NAT/routing works.

In the telephone analogy, I'm trying to say that you phone lines sh0uld have their own individual telephone numbers, because you might need them some day. Not having the ability to receive incoming calls will eventually limit you in important ways. "But incoming calls can be dangerous! Why are you trying to making us less secure?" We're not increase your options, which doesn't affect your security. Since incoming calls are dangerous, just disable your ringer or use a firewall that simply blocs all incoming calls.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20181274
Here are two such efforts:

https://carbonengineering.com/

https://www.prometheusfuels.com/
If it's either illegal or a poor experience. Either choose the poor exprience or nothing.

It is very much a moral argument as well as economics.

I wonder if it's attitudes similar to this that have landed us in some of these ultra-capitalist situations around the world.

"It's not about saving the planet, that's just a moral thing, it's just basic economics"
Still better than current batteries. You could pump that up if you store it in a liquid state to a level above common fossil fuels. Not saying you don't open a can of worms for implementing it...
The white paper will be published next week, then we'll know more.
>Is this fear-mongering?

depends on whether the action was taken by wechat or someone reported the user from the group, because if that's the case all the encryption in the world isn't going to help you. (and it's not particularly unlikely depending on the size)

Also as the other user suggested, you probably shouldn't advocate joining isis on a platform in a country where said action is illegal, wechat like any other company anywhere has the duty to enforce the law.
Yes, in the original agreement wages are absolutely the consideration. The point is here is that — all too often IME — companies will, shortly after you start, ask for another signature on an additional agreement, giving them (the company) additional things. The sexual harassment pamphlet example is mild (and more about me not signing something falsely rather than a bad deal), but I've also seen IP agreements and stock agreements after the fact.

If you consider only what has changed from the original agreement: the company gets whatever it is you're signing the document for. You typically get nothing, aside from getting to keep your job. It's in this second agreement that I just don't find a compelling argument that "keep your job" (i.e., wages) suffices as "consideration". If you do, it's effectively reneging on the original deal, and trying to replace it with a new one that's not as good for the employee. Meanwhile, the employee has likely left their previous employment, and is at a huge disadvantage to walk away at this point. Particularly so when a prospective employee asks for anything that requires a signature up front, and when the documents in question use legalese like "this is the entire agreement". After that, there shouldn't be any more agreements unless something actually changes.
> Capitalism’s failures arise from two of its defining elements. The first is perpetual growth.

It's not just perpetual, but exponential. However it has nothing to do with capitalism. How do free markets and private ownership over the means of production demand perpetual growth?

It's our monetary system which demands this growth. Bitcoiners have been harping about this for years, but that message tends to get lost in zealotry.

As long as you have a debt-based monetary system and a central bank that targets 2% inflation per year, you can happily have a communist economy that requires the same exponential growth. And similarly that would not be the fault of communism.
I can't think of a single use case for layers, to be honest. They only ever annoyed me, because I had to switch layers for editing some things that were automatically their own layer, like text.
Actually Texpad is mentioned in the article briefly.

But, unlike its MacOS version, on iOS it’s not as very good. For example, there is no multitasking support on iPad. The package managing relies on installing pre-defined “bundles”, which don’t tell what packages are included. On the Mac version of Texpad, we can choose between its own compiler or an external one like tex live. But on iOS, the former seems to be the only option.
You can use ultra-capacitors. Like Nawa's:

https://newatlas.com/nawa-technologies-carbon-ultra-capacito...

https://newatlas.com/nawa-nanotube-ultracapacitor-production...

Formula E would be a good proving ground for them.
I love reading anecdotes like this, they inspire me to do similar "non-scalable, good old personal approach".

But sometimes I wonder if they no longer work because we live in different (modern) times?
I don't know lots about the technical differences but if I understand it correctly snaps can be created for servers but flatpaks can't.

Apart from that Flatpak is largely, but not exclusively, a Gnome effort while Snap is backed by Canonical and Ubuntu, though again not exclusively.

That's a statement of fact but usually in these discussions it's uttered as a value judgement. The ensuing discussion creates much more heat than light.
Since iOS 13 ships with "full" Safari, how realistic is it to just use Overleaf / ShareLaTeX for typesetting on the iPad?
> Interestingly, the reported diet of two subjects (11 and 12) consisted primarily of a nutritional meal replacement beverage in 4 different flavors (Soylent, Rosa Foods). We refer to these subjects as “shake drinkers.”

puts down bottle of soylent
I really liked the approach the Dead Cells developers took.

They handcrafted tiles, out of which a metroidvania style levels were generated.

It consisted of a random graph generation(with constraints), and fitting the handcrafted elements to that graph.

It took the best of both worlds - a properly designed levels with tons of replayability.
> Swiss women's pensions are 37% lower than men's, primarily because women take time out from work to raise their children
Germany has the same approach with the forms you fill out on Hotel check in. They are on paper on purpose and have to be achieved for a year in case the police wants them to identify people. You of course could do that digitally, but then you wouldnt leave your fingerprints and DNA.

German source
https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article191846877/Hotelanmeldu...
What does "done" look like?

I am not at all that anything is, but I am saying in many cases we are closer to the finish line than the starting line. (If we come to think of it there are things which have been completed to the extent that many people don't even know they existed)

In some cases the good fight for equality has transferred into something besides good or equal.

When do you start thinking about how to cross the finish line and what should you do?
If possible, I'd like to completely get rid of everything xcf inside gimp. It's useless overhead to me.
Almost like super resolution techniques?
After the last recession, the abomination known as Dodd-Frank "fixed" things by requiring massively more paperwork than before. It just made the whole home buying process more expensive and less accountable. For example, even though you pay the appraiser, you are not allowed to pick the appraiser or fire them. We had a complete incompetent come out to do an appraisal (lost 3 times trying to find the place - delaying settlement) (unable to determine basic things about the property, delaying settlement) ... and there was nothing anyone could do.
> Parental leave seams such a natural right to have that it's strange that there exists any opposition to it.

There's opposition to it for a number of reasons:

1. Employers are people, and peoples first reactions to anything is almost universally selfish: "how does this negatively affect me? And why should I suffer financially for someone else's gain?"

2. Most policy makers are still men, and policy makers only decide policy based on their own experiences. If they haven't suffered from lack of maternity leave, they won't prioritize it as an issue.

Protest is a means of shaking the sleeping masses and getting your message into the public consciousness. That's how you make change happen when nobody in power is motivated to change. Once you build enough momentum, they have to change.
I remember Trackmania; it appeared well known to me when I played it around 2010, mostly because of the free (as in beer) version.
The collaboration and sync tools are very useful, including performant editing by multiple authors at once.
My Bachelor Thesis was implementing an operational transformation algorithm for tree structures (JSON objects) and evaluate it. Always thought about going back to it and build it into a usable application.
This article is international politics and is off topic. Doesn't even reference tech companies.
> It has been a decade since bitcoin was born, yet consumers hardly use it—or the hundreds of other cryptocurrencies—to pay for things.

And why would they? Adding two extra steps to paying someone -- the buyer converting local currency to bitcoin, and then the seller converting bitcoin to local currency -- can never compete with just transferring local currency directly. Cryptocurrency was meant to be much more than just a payment system.

Cryptocurrencies will not succeed until they close the loop: people receive their wages in cryptocurrency, which they use to pay for consumer goods in retail stores that accept only cryptocurrency (because their suppliers would pay their employees in cryptocurrency).

This is where cryptocurrency would shine, ie. by creating a global credit market, since the unit of account could be the same for e.g. Turkey, Nicaragua and Vietnam. A global cryptocurrency-credit market could arise, in which savers finance e.g. consumer goods on the shelves of retail shops. This would incentivize savers to purchase cryptocurrency in order to earn a low-risk return on their money -- something which is not possible to do in most Western economies with short-term interest rates at zero or below.

PS: If anyone is interested in creating the software infrastructure to make this happen, please let me know.
> Fighting for women's rights is also figthing for a more just and balance society for everyone.

What are “women’s rights”? Is parental leave for men (or non-female genders or whatever is the correct way nowadays to refer to people who are not women) one of “women’s rights”?
It is, in fact, worse.
We didn't have to support mobile platforms back then.
Mind giving the references to A. Sinowjew (1970) and H. Wessel (1989) in full?
In the article the author times the startup speed for each installation method.
It's a known issue that Snap installed applications are slower to execute for the first time than they are subsequently. It's not clear from the piece if the timed execution was the applications first run or not.
This actually used to be my setup too. But Texpad on iOS is not very good (e.g. no multitasking support). Its Dropbox sync is not very reliable in my experience.

Then I moved to TeX Writer and Dropbox, which worked better. Then I wanted more (code completion, version control). So I ended up with the workflow mentioned in the article.
I believe the research in question does not speak on the grounds such as to suggest women earn 20% less for the same job vis-a-vis men, but rather claims due to women are being under-represented in a variety of high-level jobs, on average, they earn less.

And the reason may not be in the realm of misogynist inclinations depicted at high levels of government, it may be the case on average women choose professions that pay less.

We know that men are more likely to go into “nerdy” professions such as math or engineering, whereas women are more likely to go into the caring professions and to spend more time looking after children [0].

0: Geary (2010); Halpern (2012); Maccoby and Jacklin (1974)
Micro Front Ends
In many cities bikes are faster than cars. In central London for example average speeds are around eight miles per hour (and falling). During rushhour it's even worse. Rushhour traffic in Berlin averages around five miles per hour. Even untrained cyclists are faster than that.
What does invalid means? Could you exemplify?
If you don't need offline solution, I think you can use them even without iOS13.
> IE6 did none of that

IE6 had just different users than Chrome has.

But MS did listen to them, even too much actually.

MS had their customers intranet developers to make happy, Chrome has its giant father, Google, the AD company.

Chrome is much worse in perspective for users freedom.
Absolute equality is not realistic. People are not equal, individuals are different from eachother. And I say that as someone belonging to a minority group. However, I am convinced that equality can not be forced. Differences are what make us interesting.
And yes, there are differences between the sexes, no matter how you twist and/or turn it. Trying to ignore those is unrealistic and a fair bit naive.
But it is part of the Nike history and should have been mentioned. It is disgusting to read that kind of fanboy publication, deeply bowing before a company that helped to construct the modern international slavery system.
Chess is just about the most highly refined competitive intellectual task / "sport" you can ask for (by sheer weight of the number of serious players, and the level of play, though a similar argument can be made for Go). In and of itself, that could be an interesting concept to explore. And if we reject it, I suspect we'd also have to reject other competitive endaevours, like soccer, tennis, etc. To be honest, I sometimes do wonder why we as a species seems to be so intensely focused on silly, "useless" skills like running the 100m in under 10 seconds. I guess it's in our nature to be competitive.

(Obligatory "I didn't downvote you")
Did Borges Predict the OO vs. Functional Programming Debate? (2013)
Most eye masks are not true blackout, some light still seeps in at the edges. Same deal with blackout blinds unless they're positioned millimetre perfect.

Combining the two resolves both edge cases sufficiently well that they cease to matter, and both can now be slightly offset without creating any problems. This is especially useful with the eye mask as it wont stay exactly where it was due to moving in your sleep.
Man, okay so clearly we all agree there's a problem and it sounds like we all have different ideas for a solution. One of my pet ideas - that I'm yet to see a real implementation of - is a Hacker News comments section style history.

Each new session would start a new comments section.

Each new manually opened tab would be a top level 'comment' (with timestamp).

Each pageload would be a paragraph in that 'comment'.

Each new tab opened via a link would be a 'reply' to that comment quoting the 'paragraph' it was opened from.

That seems like a good metaphor to me because it solves the traceability of "How did I get to this page". It doesn't solve the UI of tabs though, though maybe it makes it less necessary to keep tabs open.
> Exercise daily.

Although daily might be a bit extreme, the effect of regular exercise on sleep is pretty profound, at least in my case. I've been sleeping longer and better (according to my Fitbit) since I started working out and running, and if I have to have more than a few days off my sleep really starts to suffer.
Unless you have observed all users then you are pulling the "people lost data" out of thin air.

Here is something that actually happens since version 2.8: if you do not treat XCF files as the master image file format, GIMP complains all the time.
Hydrogen in liquid state leaks out of any container that you put it in. 70kg lead bottle stores only 1L of hydrogen and all of it evaporates naturally in 1-2 months through the metal. So no, storage of liquid hydrogen is a terrible idea.
> not in common parlance, it is a failure of a word

Harsh but not entirely unfair (it is, after all, how language evolves.) Although I'd counter that "isochron" isn't uncommon in travel-related situations (cf [1]) and "isochronous" is easily understandable by extension.

[1] e.g. in the UK parliament, #7927, "the resident population within the Woolwich 20-minute isochron area was about 60,000" https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmcr...
UI elements written in HTML are hella buggy. For example, Chrome's hamburger menu (I don't know if it's written in HTML but it sure feels like it):

1. Spacebar doesn't select items

2. Key equivalents don't work while it's open

3. Cut/Copy/Paste often does not work, depending on where the keyboard focus is

4. Inapplicable menu items don't disable properly

5. The caret continues blinking in text fields even though keyboard focus is in the menu

etc etc. This sort of basic bugginess is embarrassing and entirely avoidable by using the native platform controls, instead of re-inventing them poorly.
hell yes, I've been playing those little chess puzzles for ages. Extremely addictive!. Neat that you can drop into the game and "continue" from a point when you're just _sure_ the computer has it wrong, only to find out that of course it was correct all along.

Yes, rate the training puzzles!
Thank you. Unfortunately I've moved on to Vivaldi (happily). If your solution works I didn't find it, nor did any internet searching help me to find it.
Is this right or wrong?

I am all for taking parental leave supported with full pay and benefits for a good long time, but is there a point where that support stops? Six months? A year? Two?

It's not for everyone but some people will exit the work force for years for family. I don't think it is surprising or discrimination to expect there to be a gender bias in people making that decision. Those people are included in statistics.

Is it right to expect that choice to have financial consequences or do we want to fully financially support that decision for some as a society and make it a money neutral decision?
Do men and women have the same level of education and have they chosen the same career paths in average? If they haven't then that 20 % is meaningless. As far as I know men and women can choose to get the degrees that they want and can choose to pursue the careers that they want. If they haven't chosen to do so what do they expect?

Ah I see you edited. Yes that was exactly my point. If they expect to get the same money for nursing that you can get for designing rockets then that's basically Communism.
We are obligated to use iPads for external colleagues and it is a catastrophe for productivity. There are some nice apps but everything is restricted. Well, our CRM and ERP system use Windows, but even without that the iPads remain a toy for meetings.

Chatting with friends is ok though. But the ergonomy is still crap.
And in a world where you can't both live off the man's income anymore, that's completely unfair.

Forcing people to trade their future income and security to raise kids is terrible.
Am I misreading the gp's cited chart? According to that, it seems like hydrogen is only a factor of around 4x worse in terms of volumetric energy density, and is better than petrol in weight density.
Magnesium makes a huge difference for me.