skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then they would likely get a pretty clear anti competitive lawsuit on them.
> In most modern cars there is so much automatic that you really never use the majority of controls you are presented with.

Then why the huge rant about buttons and knobs if I rarely need to actually touch them?
Anecdotally - I find Laravel to be a much more pleasant experience than Rails (from someone who uses both daily, but has been using Laravel for much longer). Can you point out where you think the experience in Rails is better? Maybe I'm missing something...

For a few cases off the top of my head where PHP/Laravel > Ruby/Rails IMO:

- Waaay less magic in Laravel. Controllers are explicitly named, and views are explicitly rendered from methods (Unlike in Rails where everything can be done based on the naming convention of the files).

- Ruby/Rails has too many ways of doing the same thing. Laravel is quite streamlined in that regard. A big part of this is Rails abusing meta-programming IMO (for example, compare ActiveRecord vs. Eloquent).

- I find Laravel's documentation to be top-tier - I rarely have additional questions after reading the relevant sections. And there's official built-in support for a ton of 3rd party services (e.g. Stripe subcriptions).

- Some support for static types in PHP (better than nothing, but nowhere near where I'd like them to be).

- Blade > ERB IMO. Less noise + easier to read. And again, explicit calls to view.render(["var" => $var]) vs. implicit @var insntance variables tacked on to the controller.

Apart from that, PHP is:

- Less prone to memory leaks due to it spinning up a process/thread per request (which can be quite a big advantage - since it means you don't need orchestration overhead for smaller projects).

- Fast enough that performance isn't really a concern (compared to the amount of stories I've heard about migrating away from Rails due to performance problems - I've never heard the same about Laravel).

It feels to me like Rails blazed the trail for developer happiness a few years ago - but these days it seems like a bit of a relic.
Feature teams are the choice for projects with deadlines
No, but realisticly speaking, you are not the most liked person in a company if you had to sue the company for discrimination.

Additionally, I am a tech person, and not a lawyer. Sueing my employer to allow me to work productively doesn't feel like nice way to spend my time.
In my opinion: It's neither ethical nor necessary!

There are easier ways to get a website ranked. Publishing good and useful content, creating a valuable product, optimizing your site (for crawlers and users), and following a sane marketing strategy is much more important than backlinks and page rank. I never had any problems outranking poorly made sites that had a much "stronger" link-profile than my sites.

Needless to say: You will also build a better product/business if you do not waste your focus on cheap SEO-tricks ...

But I do not judge people using these tactics: SEO is daunting-game and - as long as Google acts as intransparent and unpredictable as it has in the past - people will focus on "esoteric" tactics.
In your defense, kids don't always pick the best long term path for themselves, or consider the long term at all. I know several people that didn't consider the long term and struggle to find gainful employment. I myself stumbled into my career which fortunately worked out but I shudder to think how things might have ended up otherwise. I'm glad she found her own way forward though.
I find that even if you don't use the internet features, you're still left with a massive slow box that takes ages to boot up, has a sluggish UI, and regularly gets video and audio out of sync.
Yes, it's remarkable how once you move outside the tech hubs there's only PHP, Java and C#. I've observed that PHP survives in smaller locations where there isn't even any Java or C#. It's ubiquity is quite depressing.
> Therefore, in the case of PageRank and SEO-potential: It is better to try to buy domains of local companies in your area that went out of business. These are much stronger.

I never understood how this works.
What do you do with these domains? Do you just redirect them to the main business site or do you create a supporting site on them that heavily links to the business site?

Anyway the old domains won't get any new attention if you don't work on that and then you can just can work on your main domain.
Thank you, you caused me to dig up what I had read and I misremembered the causes. But within 15 years the rich were back on top.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/04/04/how-sout... (original study: https://www.nber.org/papers/w25700 )

Slightly different analysis, on wealth mobility on a shorter timescale:
https://voxeu.org/article/impact-us-civil-war-southern-wealt...
It's a tradition in irc to call someone a "fed". This just legitimates it, :P
There's nothing of any particular value on it. I'm keeping it around as an experiment, to see how long it'll last before the data is unreadable.
Anyone here remember lyrics.ch and their inevitable takedown?

The copyright situation is not complicated; lyric copyright resides with the songwriter, and is usually sublicensed exclusively to the publisher. Like Napsterisation, these were forced open by hugely widespread infringement, and eventually a stalemate has been reached between publishers and the internet.

Like youtube, this will result in lots of weird anomalies where ownership is disputed and the publishers claim all sorts of things they're not technically entitled to.

Like a lot of other things, the publisher may never have made a clean official copy of the lyrics available, so the actual compilation is done by third parties - but that doesn't grant them a formal copyright in that work. (Unless the weird sui generis right of databases comes into play)
WSJ had a focus on Google and NYTimes has Facebook in the crosshair.
Bitcoin is getting stronger and more compelling
I'm not a pilot, but my understanding is it is quite different to driving in terms of attention — a cruising pilot can easily look at a screen for 5 or 10 seconds (?) entirely safely, whereas a driver might struggle to even stay in lane looking at a screen for 10 seconds. So a touch screen is fine for a pilot but probably not good for a driver.
That is where expertise, experience and actual knowledge comes to play. Which Feynman at that moment possessed. It is also relative, you can be both too much accommodating and too much disregarding. One person can move between the two extremes over his own life.
In short, because every-man-for-himself has a long history of great success. It simply works.

Ignore it at your peril.
As assisting systems mature, we will get humans paying less and less attention to driving. Just last night I was watching air crash investigations and there were a series of accidents on a 777 where the pilots where "expecting" the airplane do something because usually the automated system picks up the slack, well except in that particular circumstance when the accident occurred. And these are trained pilots and they understand these systems fairly well (at least when they are told about them). I don't think the general population will ever be trained or have a deep understanding of their car's assistance modes, they will expect it to work. Overall, cars will probably be safer, but we are probably going to witness freak accidents as a combination of driver inexperience and software bugs.
Chinese companies have been relying on instant messenger as the primary communication channel for a long time. So definitely it works.
Thanks for the post. It is exactly what I need right now.
Then? Carrie Lam step down?
Then? Chief Executive elected directly?
Then? Independence referendum?
Then? ...

There is no end really, and absent a working political process to absorb and debate demands, street protests can always turn toward the extreme. That's why it's dangerous to force people to go this route.

Unfortunately there will be a red line somewhere, and for China it is probably one or two steps away on that list. Remember, Tian'anmen Square also spiraled out of control from very mild beginnings.
I just keep my codebase warning free and check it in CI. No need for -Werror on package level, users don't need to deal with random breakage from a false-positive warning.
I think this makes the case for not owning ANY smart TV.

Are there ANY manufacturers that have a strong track record of out-of-the-box configs that aren't total swiss cheese, combined with years of prompt updates to address issues discovered later, going out to the lifespan of a typical dumb TV?
Pretty sure that's the main reason Genius will have difficulty pursuing this case. Google isn't infringing their copyright, because they can't copyright someone else's work, and I doubt the unique pattern of apostrophes is enough of an infringement to claim Google stole, it merely proves the source of the content was them.

It does, at the least, suggest Google is paying someone who less than ethically sources their data though.
Ask HN: How do you deal with failure of not getting into a good school?
How do you deal with the failure of not getting into the top highschool in CS?
Should I listen to my "friends" (more like old classmates) offer (everyone wants me to go to their option)? Which is to go to their school? I can go to another second option (but it requires a complicated commute and money)
Mazda (at least my Mazda6 from a few years ago) can do this because they have a great interface to the entertainment/info system. They have a joystick with a few mouse-like buttons on the center console just behind the gear shift. It's very easy to do common tasks like change volume, change station, skip to next in playlist without taking eyes off the road.
My wife actually didn't realize for more than a year that the screen was a touch screen. She had never had to use it.
Putting of a bad policy for a little less than 30 years doesn't seem trivial.
Because I don't want a screen. But if I want a newer car, they all have them, so a screen that hides most of the time is the best best thing.
Agree that azlyrics is the best one for reading lyrics while listening the song.
The problem is that it’s not obvious when you’re behind on security patches. You can only fix what you can see. And without knowledge in security, you can’t see insecure / unpatched software.

That said, maybe something like what Chrome does or what windows does would work ok. Pick a time / heuristic and install security updates automatically out of the box.
If you want to make the argument "this is a bad warning because it will cause many false positives", then that's a perfectly valid argument to make. It doesn't really apply in this case, but it's a valid argument to make against a warning being added.

That's not the reasoning given. The reasoning given is that since only bad programmers would make this mistake, it shouldn't be a warning at all, since those kinds of programmers "will create a lot of other problems regardless". That is nonsensical. You could make the same argument against ANY warning. The whole point of a warning is to alert the developers that, while their code technically follows the rules of the language, they've probably made a mistake.
>My husband’s grandfather once owned a bus company in Poland. Like my husband and some of our children, he was a person who was good at fixing broken things. He would watch professional mechanics repairing his buses, and then never rehired them: He only needed to observe them once, and then he forever knew what to do.

> Years after his death, my mother-in-law came across a photograph of her father with people she didn’t recognize: a woman and two little girls, about 7 and 9 years old. Her mother, also a survivor, reluctantly told her that these were her father’s original wife and children. When the Nazis came to her father’s town, they seized his bus company and executed his wife and daughters in front of him. Then they kept him alive to repair the buses. They had heard that he was good at fixing broken things.
public reason: safety.

Private reason: we want total voice controlled system so we can listen to everything you say & do in car, log it and get into the ad and analytics business. One step at a time well be here.
It's not that people don't want to give him donations. He doesn't want any.
This is my bad! I have been spreading fake images! Sorry that was sent to me via WhatsApp. ( But I can promise you the real thing would have look just as stunning ) Keep your attention to the Dropbox Folder.
This is surprising and good to find out. Thank you!
Could the Big Bang Be Wrong?
Most TVs have quite advanced image and motion enhancement filters that have no use in a computer monitor but make a very visible difference in picture quality. I would guess scaling signals is also looked on more closely on a TV set. If your devices already do enough in this directions it is still somewhat hard to use as you have to find a way to turn the TV on. CEC is most likely not present and the only way to control it and the way its done on computers is not understood by most devices.
Taxpayers money well spent
You can have a copyrighted derivative of a copyrighted subject - for example, buying a stock photo of the eiffel tower at night pays both the photographer and the lighting designer; and buying a translated book pays both the original author and the translator. This is known as a "derivative work".

However, to be copyrightable as a derivative, work must contain sufficient new expression to satisfy copyright law's requirement of originality. So you can't copyright a photocopy of a book, for example.

Presumably Genius thinks their lyrics are analogous to the photograph, rather than the photocopy; they may not own the lyrics, but they own this particular transcription of the lyrics.
>The sheer number of cyclists means bad behaviour just does't seem to be an option for motorists: safety in numbers.

I was once almost hit by a car who didn't look coming from a side street in Amsterdam, the surge of cyclists behind me angrily shaking fists and yelling curses at the driver was quite something.
You probably mean uBlock Origin, not uBlock.
I never tried the pronunciation, I'll give it a shot and see what it does. At a guess the results will be terrible :)
My own post on this was deleted in less than two minutes (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20200354). Hopefully this will stay.

This is extremely important as this topic was cheered on very recently (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20186775). As it turns out the "evidence" was bullshit.
What's wrong with crunchyroll? I thought they were legitimate?
Sorry two of those were mirrored images, ( See the reply above ). My fault.
This trick may work much, much better for people who are massively engaged in their fields and need a new perspective. I don't think either Feynman or Crick started disregarding everything when they were noobs.
Use daddy's money to go into Singer's side door by buying extra time for the SATs and then bribing everyone along the way.

In reality - I never applied to those because it didn't seem like it mattered and I knew I couldn't afford it. Ask yourself why you care about school X, Y, or Z, and find a way to realize that any one individual school is not the critical path to your dreams.

Also, know that exploiting the opportunities you have is way more important than lamenting the opportunities you don't have.
I have a Samsung TV but I've never thought of scanning it for viruses. So, thank you for this piece of news. Looks like we should take care of ourselves; at least, thanks to Samsung for warning.
You can also eschew all electronic communication and do things purely in person—that works too. The valuable question to answer here is how well do these processes work compared to each other.
Some classic Whataboutism right here. Smells like a desperate attempt at deflection to me.

"FBI? But - but - Russia!"
My guess is if he were to start accepting donations he could do it full-time as his main job. Guess he doesn't want that.
What's the advantage of Pi-Hole over ubound?
>I worry that people are trying fix org culture problems with communication software, which is unlikely to succeed.

Agreed. If your work culture demands that you answer every single slack message within 30 seconds, or forces you to be "online" constantly, you have bad work culture. This is not a issue that slack, or email, or texting, or phone calls can fix.

You could argue that slack makes fostering these work cultures easier, and to that I would say it's still just bad management.

Also - and this argument gets brought up a lot by slack haters - if that @here, or other notifications, are so impeding to your daily productivity, you might just have trouble focusing. Which isn't bad, but learn to deal with it instead of blaming Big Bad Slack.

Hint: you can exit Slack and check it once per hour, every few hours, or even once a day. I've yet to see one real life example where people are forced to be online and respond within seconds of receiving a message.
I believe there are two different crowds. The older one does the candle light vigils. The younger one wants HK independence and doesn't really care about the rest of China. But it would be great if the second group learned a bit of history, including of protest movements in the mainland, and showed that all-China vision you speak of. It could only help themselves and help everyone.
That's a more difficult problem to fix. In Sydney, there are quite a few cycle lanes popping up but are almost all dominated by enthusiast cyclists in lycra on sports bikes, and I'd rather cycle on a road than deal with them. In the Netherlands, of course, cycling is a normal every day thing so the commuters far outnumber the enthusiasts and it's safer for everyone (enthusiasts / sport cyclists don't even bother trying to cycle during busy times, they'd be constantly stuck behind commuters).
The format of the api (and its' payloads) also depends on the purpose of the api.

If the api is meant to be tightly coupled to an app, and is designed for that specific purpose, there's no reason to use anything like xml (or even, json) - it should be compact binary and minimal footprint.

If the api is meant to be general and apply across a range of client environments (e.g., you're selling this service api, and you dont know how or what your customer might use it for), it makes sense to make an api that's using an open format (like json, or xml) and have easily able clients in multitude of languages.
Nice tribute. Fathers (and Mothers) make such a difference....
Because of Slack positioning itself like that: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/13/slack-releases-new-financial...
I just can't take this website serious. Is it a parody or a joke?
It looks awful and it doesn't even fit on mobile (https://i.imgur.com/6GD8yfD.png && https://i.imgur.com/lxs0gVG.png)

What happened to keeping it simple?
http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ or http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
What's interesting is that this poster, supposedly an FBI agent, is pushing an anti-Russia narrative in his other posts. Kind of ironic that the same organization that claims Russia is manipulating social media is doing exactly the same thing themselves.
There aren't many of these kinds of lanes here (NL), at least in the cities.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20183942
Top UCLA Doctor Denounces HBO's “Chernobyl” as Wrong and “Dangerous”
I'm not an expert, but there's an interesting discussion on Quora: https://www.quora.com/Can-an-American-nuclear-power-plant-bl...

The key factors seem to be:

1) the plant must be capable of running as an island. It seems not all of them are; I suspect the problem is the plant consuming a variable amount of self-power e.g. 1MW being connected to a 100MW generator results in a very unstable system.

2) whatever safety event causes the problem must not trip at the generators themselves but disconnect the plant cleanly from the grid. Since these events are by definition exceptional, this may be very hard to avoid.

> with abundant nuclear + hydro you could easily over-produce a bit

Both of these are exorbitantly expensive to build, and hydro requires specific geology.
Wow! Who designed that UI to get to the virus scanner?!
> I don’t see the point in PHP going through that whole renovation unless it’s to hire more and cheaper developers.

and may be being cheaper to hire is a bigger importance than you'd care to admit. After all, the person paying the bills wants it to be as low as possible whilst still achieving the result. And they call the shots.
Sure, they hire a good # of devs---who then mysteriously want to go into management, leave to start a startup, or simply complain about their bosses. No one with actual agency and power in the matter chooses to stay in that position, once they understand what it is, what their options are, and aren't handcuffed by a mortgage. Or perhaps the company isn't as dysfunctional as the interview, and they stay---in which case it is just the interview that's miscalibrated, serving as an arbitrary hazing ritual.
doesn't look like they applies to cars either.
The worst is the touchscreens on some Honda models (eg. 2016 Fit EX).

1. They removed the volume knob in favour of a volume slider on the touch screen. Very difficult to use, and even after a couple of years I have not been able to get used to it, and keep reaching for a physical input.

2. There's many UI quirks (bugs and ill conceived design flows) that make menu navigation, managing saved stations, switching from AM to FM, connecting a Bluetooth device etc. extremely difficult. RDS is even disabled by default, which defeats the purpose of having all the extra real estate of the touch screen.

Lots of complaints from users, taking them years to acknowledge it sucks.
-Wall, despite its name, isn't actually all warnings. Compiler devs only rarely put new warnings into -Wall.
> Anyway the old domains won't get any new attention if you don't work on that and then you can just can work on your main domain.

It doesn't have to get any attention. Links (or a redirect, or other things) from it will still (massively, depending on the quality of the domain) improve your ranking.

You could also throw some unrelated content on it, and will likely rank for quite a while until somebody complains loud enough that Google manually sets up a -100 on your domain.
I don’t understood with how cheap chromecast/Apple TV/whatever streaming machines are these days why people don’t use one of those and just not hook the TVs to the network? Is there something specific on the tv that’s not available on these other platforms?
wonderfull reading i'm sharing this with my friends
> First off with regards to the touch screen in the Tesla. In the vast majority of drives I never ever touch it. Not once. Why not? Well I have my temperature preference set, I usually play the music that is coming off my phone, and well, what else do I need to adjust in my car? I can do music volume, do next or previous song, and pause music, from the left steering wheel button. Wipers and headlamps are automatic. Navigation is voice controlled and works.

I promise that if you never need to adjust a UI consisting of buttons and knobs that it will do nothing just as well as a touchscreen. UI should be made for people who adjust their settings, though.

> Plus there are so many buttons. Buttons for functions you truly may never use!

They won't bite.
Linux support on Lenovo personal systems
Show HN: Caoutchouc - A LaTeX alternative based on markdown and asciimath
It's the only mile that metric people approve of :-)
I've always suspected the chans were full of feds, the toxic speech functions as obfuscation allowing for open discussion of sensitive subjects.