skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's probably why one of the first oil companies started working in Iraq was Russian Lukoil?
Surprised that someone so thoughtful would post something that seems so tone-deaf. That being said, it certainly will attract a very specific type of candidate (which was likely the goal all along).

DHH's response to this was particularly entertaining: https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1149299479088160768
At the same time, putting a urinal in an art gallery is considered a significant piece of art history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)
To some extent, I think this is good. While the Maker Faire is iconic and I'd like to preserve that at all cost, the actual org behind it is poorly managed and inexplicably for-profit.

It makes me think that there is room for new non-profits focusing on what people actually wanna do in the various venues as opposed to be a generalist system. I hope someone will compete in this fashion.
Similar to HMS M2, which was a submarine aircraft carrier. Likely cause of the sinking was opening of the hanger door to try and beat their personal best for launching an aircraft. This wreck is accessible to scuba divers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_M2
Yeah a lot of languages don't fall for the undefined should silently give valid results thing
I don't get your point here. You start off by questioning if the threats are realistic, then questioning if they're even possible, then you end by saying it's not that bad because waitresses can overhear your conversations too.

1) Those threats are 100% possible and realistic. If you think they're not just because the guy in this article is a contractor, then you're being incredibly naive and shortsighted.

2) Google employees have complete access to this data, and to think that they don't means you've decided to trust their word. Maybe you like Google, and that's fine, but it's not smart to trust them on this whether you're a fan or not. If their internal security policies for this type of data are terrible, they're never going to admit it and will definitely lie about it.

3) What people say in a restaurant and what they say in the privacy of their own homes are completely different. Can't believe I have to explain that.

> but they'd be foolish to basically give employees remote root on Google Home devices, and I don't think Google security is that foolish.

Why would you need remote root access when Google Home already uploads conversations to Google servers by default? That's the only part that matters.
say 3 apples if you prefer. The important there is how they differ, by the nutrients (other than sugar), and the fiber that acts like a sponge to release them slowly
I'm not sure what you mean by safe, but all you gotta do is pay your taxes and you can do whatever you want with that money.
There's no correct answer to this. The answer clearly depends on where people live.
Russian nuclear submarine: Norway finds big radiation leak
Longer duration battery storage can combat even more of the polluting peak in US
I think most people interested in starting a company have a different time frame in mind than people who are dating.

But who knows... I'd be curious to see actual data rather than supposing.
A lot of vegetable oils is not good. Not nutritionally dense as real foods, pretty much almost empty calories and very bad omega3/6 ratio. That partially applies to nuts too. Small amount of nuts is probably ok, especcially walnuts.
It's not that it's "less than optimal", it kills you. It's what killed Steve Jobs for instance.
It's an interesting article, but the most interesting part to me was the Bill Gates Line article the author also wrote. [0]
The distinction between a platform and an aggregator was not one that I ever considered. I'm convinced by this article that it's a useful one.

Does anyone know why it is that Shopify's stock has risen by 100% over the last year? I looked it over and couldn't figure out why -- is it the 3PL Fulfillment Network this article mentions?

[0] https://stratechery.com/2018/the-bill-gates-line/
Thanks! This comment was exactly what I was asking for, and it inspired some good follow-up comments!
I don't think "number of plugins" is a good comparison metric here.

The Shopify app store is regulated + tested by Shopify before getting the approval to go live.

WordPress plugins are the wild west, many of them incompatible with each other.
Some definitions of "maker" are pretty expansive, including things like sewing, knitting, brewing, woodworking, jewellery making, upcycling, sculpture, ham radio, bicycle repair, and suchlike.

If you use such a definition, a cosplayer who makes their own props and sews their own costumes qualifies for sure.
I was specifically talking about ransomware in all of my comments you answered to. You might disagree, but please don't put words into my mouth I didn't write.

Also, while ransom is paid in cash, these kind of crimes are not very common because the police can intercept at the cash exchange. It is really the ability to send money over the internet but off any official channels, which enables ransomware. Also, like with any other commerce, performing illegal purchases gets much easier with the internet, in this case facilitated by cryptocurrencies.
Good joke. Everyone laughs. Roll on snare drum. Curtains.
I don't know what he refers to. But there is a specific kind of zero downtime deployments which can restart without losing in-memory state, like Erlang.

Erlang also provides "fix in minutes, in production" stories he refers. For most of languages, it's very hard to remotely get access to an object, let alone fix things directly.

With Erlang, you can inspect every object in the cluster to understand what's going on for any user, and fix the plane in the mid-air instead of rebuilding a plane with the same issue, then go through the process to fix it.
Using asteroids/rocks as kinetic weapons is one of my favorite hard sci-fi tropes.
I bought a new Android table from Samsung 3 years ago for more daughter - when bought it had a 2 year old version of Android on and enquiries from Samsung UK said it would not be updated. My daughter is still using it today, unupdated from 5 years ago.

We tend to be an Apple household

Edit - the Device, bought in September 2016 was a Samsung Galaxy TAB E 9.6 SM-T560 WI-FI - I will check the software level tonight.
You'd be surprised how many companies operate with this biz model today. I call em zombie companies. management just sucks out the profit while they slowly crumble. Sad for all involved. Spinning out internal CRUD from a zombie co. is a whole nother ball game though
I think this "different language" concept is in many ways either revisionist history or scope creep. Originally, Larry said he wanted to remove historical warts, clean up the language design, and etc. I think the apocalyptic and exegetical snowball rolled faster than expected, and after the mushroom cloud dissipated and the dust cleared it was easier to say, "Oh, it's a completely different language."
When you take examples over the top, you are simply lying, because that is the difference between sensible choices made in reality and insane nonsense choices made in ideology tinted nonreality. And extrapolating examples globally is just as absurd... taking an exceptional mistake, and just assuming it's the status quo.

These kind of bad mental shortcuts are the result of decades of propagandistic programming, not any kind of reflection of reality.
Ooof. 5 hours. Looks good though.
WordPress (Automattic) acquired WooCommerce a few years ago.

Marketshare:
https://trends.builtwith.com/shop
This assumes a trend toward product commoditization. However, I believe the opposite trend is actually taking place: toward product brands. https://medium.com/@thecraigmartin/the-greatest-threat-to-re...
Fedora Is ‘Disabling’ the Snap Plugin for Gnome Software
It makes this factoid even more hilarious if the propaganda campaign successfully created the misinformation without actually obfuscating the desired information, but it's kind of irrelevant to the question of whether they should have bothered with the attempt.

Propaganda is relatively cheap and doesn't consume a lot of resources more directly useful to the war effort. You have a half dozen guys coming up with ideas and doing the graphic design, some printers, and you can either let civilians or enlisted put up the posters when they don't have anything better to do.

At that level of cost, if any piece of propaganda makes an impact, it probably pays for the entire campaign.
How does CI actually prevent these kinds of outages? Did CI save Google from the networking outage or tests prevent a global Cloudflare outage? Do you think those organizations don't spend enough energy for the average SV commute on test runs per release? Are you seriously going to pretend that those efforts "solve" reliability and stability in any non-trivial system?

It's actually not hard at all to write fast software deployment. Many people do it accidentally. But to tie it directly to editors and stovepipe the infrastructure around testing, that seems to me like a great business model that any rational engineer interested in reliability should immediately reject unless it's coupled with open source, statistically valid canary tooling at the bare minimum.

What you actually want at that degree of universal knife-switching is rollbacks.
and a low BMI (body-mass index) indeed (I'm around 18)

A BMI that low is not a good thing. It is evidence against your diet being optimal. Mortality rates are actually higher when BMI is below 20 (https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2156 https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/353/bmj.i2156/F3.large.jpg -- although causality is not established). And from a common sense or aesthetic perspective, such a low BMI almost certainly means you lack ideal muscle mass.
Very snappy site, nice work!

What front-end technologies did you use to build it?

I guess you're synching data to local storage and then querying it to get those quick page loads?
You can buy bed bug supplies on Amazon. Yet, https://www.domyown.com/ probably does $10m-$50m/yr revenue.
Is this similar to the device used in the movie Barbarella [1968], where the keyboard virtuoso is able to cause a series of odd expressions to appear on Barbarella's face?
I still have an app on my phone with a programmable frequency generator that i use to annoy people sometimes.

oddly the only person who gets really upset by it is a mid 30's guy sat a few chairs down from me.

16,500 to 17,750 is the magic range, 17,700 is my go to
"We'll empower you to easily sell your stuff" that leaves power and agency in the hands of individual companies.

WordPress + WooCommerce, PrestaShop and Magento already do that. Drop $10 to $20/month on hosting on DigitalOcean, install Wordpress, install WooCommerce, buy a cheap theme, buy whatever extra plugins you need, setup your payment system (PayPal and Stripe are supported), and you're off to the races.

And it's better than that, there's people with years and years of experience in modifying and creating plugins and themes so once you have enough $$$ from the basic setup, re-invest into the business and get better developer support for all the GPL'd plugins and themes you're using.
Switch's next Tegra X1 looks set to deliver more performance and battery life
> Transit is completely impractical in almost all the places where most Americans live and work. We’re talking about a commute that starts in a suburban cul-de-sac and ends in a suburban office park. Where would you put the transit lines?

Again, chicken and egg. You need density to get to a point where non-car commutes are practical, and you won't get that as long as you build car-first.

It wouldn't be practical to turn the whole country into Manhattan overnight. But at every level there are steps that localities can take to make things marginally better: permitting higher density housing, permitting housing and offices to be built close together, reducing or eliminating street parking.

And the various bits of better cycling or transit infrastructure add up: add secure bike parking to the office park and a few hardy souls will start cycling, then you'll gain more value from adding bike lanes, which in turn will get more people switching and then more extensive infrastructure becomes more affordable. Start giving buses priority at lights and more people take the bus, then it becomes more practical to build rail lines along the busiest corridors, and so on.

> our political systems are incapable of the coordinated effort necessary to make transit work.

Political systems are made up of people, and as the newer generation takes over the system responds to their wants. Many people want denser neighbourhoods and better transit and they are - slowly but surely - starting to get them.

> And even if you tore down Atlanta and rebuilt it as a walkable city you’ll never convince Americans to walk or bike long distances in 90 degree weather/90 percent humidity.

Sounds like a similar climate to Hong Kong, which is famously low-car.

No doubt many parts of the US will not have great transit for centuries. But that's not a reason to avoid building it in the places where it will work. If you look at many places that are now famously low-car, there was a similar level of skepticism when they first started introducing bike lanes etc..
Most companies can't afford a proper IT department and that just rules out a whole range of things they can do. IT is expensive; good IT is much more expensive. If it's not mission critical, SAAS is a great solution. Once you go SAAS, you can outsource some of the people using those solutions as well. You can outsource IT, HR, accounting, etc. Even sales, marketing, and support functions can be outsourced.

A lot of legacy business remains of course and this seems big business for the likes of IBM and Oracle. But I don't know of any young companies signing contracts with either and would recommend to actively avoid that kind of thing to anyone.
The nature of the book necessitates gross generalizations. It literally could not be anything else.

It's like saying you don't like Expanse because you don't like sci-fi... Okay, but why did you read it if you know you hate sci-fi?
Only if you're going to "no true Scotsman" ice cream. For anyone not subscribing to that view, ice cream can be made with or without eggs. French style, Philadelphia style, Gelato, and churnless all differ in whether there are egg whites, egg yolks, cooked bases, and density.

One recent method is to use a Pacojet to take a hard-frozen solid block and turn it into ice cream.
Current vs. future cities – Click on a city and explore its future climate
You make some interesting points regarding the current exhibition business. Before, Hollywood had a monopoly over the cinemas. Between 70 to 90 per cent of ticket sales would go to the studio of the film, hence the expensive food.

But, when the industry switched to digital projectors, the studios offered the VPF (virtual print fee) where cinemas got to keep a big chunk of the ticket sales to offset the cost of the projectors.

You could equip a 35mm film booth for as little as $7500 using old gear. Brand new was about $50,000 while digital projectors debuted at $100,000 and up.

Now, the theatres are keeping more of the ticket sales (50-70%) and they're charging for all sorts of "innovations" or upgrades (3D, ultra giant screens, fake IMAX screens, Dolby Atmos sound). All in 20-year-old multiplexes from the late-90's/early-00's expansion boom.

Did you have to pay a surcharge for stadium seating? Surround sound? Cupholders? No.

I think the current cinema chains are ripe for disruption.
Making money off art may be a scam. Art in itself however is not.
> don’t touch that, let the person who knows how to touch it

Practically, how would that work for a toilet?
Subtitle: "The carmaker says that it's not a safety problem if your car slips into neutral on the highway."

It might not be a safety issue (and of course it is, who do you think you're kidding?), but it's illegal in the two states for which I've looked it up (my home state of IN, and current residence of WA). Here's WA's law:
https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=46.61.630
What ad blocking for Android to would recommend?
Sure, but the author should have relied on those examples instead of creating some sort of bizarre hypothetical narrative to argue his point. I find it's always telling when an argument is based on hypotheticals or "thought experiments". It generally means that the author had to literally make stuff out of thin air to argue their point. It's antiscientific at best and disingenuous at worst.
Gacha players on suicide watch
> I'm liberal as all get out, but it seems clear Epstein was an equal-opportunity cultivator of powerful figures in both parties.

> Trump's being dumb enough to publicly brag about the association is very on-brand, of course.

Trump is playing the main street media like a violin. If you are thinking he is doing something because he seems stupid, it's just part of the plan.

Trump did say back in 2012 that the pedophiles had to go. [1]

And, since his inauguration, the massive crackdown on them has largely gone unreported.

1. https://mobile.twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/2552948836...
Yep, every day (London) unless I'm going out in the evening.
> WordPress + WooCommerce, PrestaShop and Magento already do that. Drop $10 to $20/month on hosting on DigitalOcean, install Wordpress, install WooCommerce, buy a cheap theme, buy whatever extra plugins you need, setup your payment system (PayPal and Stripe are supported), and you're off to the races.

My wife is starting a fashion business. This is a hill too high to climb for a non-technical user. She was up and running in 30 minutes with my credit card and Shopify earlier this week. We don't have time to maintain an instance, troubleshoot Wordpress theme and plugin incompatibilities, etc. That's time better spent on sales funnel optimizations, manufacturing product, and customer support.

Would we consider more advanced ecommerce systems? Sure, when she hits $1MM/year in annual revenue. Until then, Shopify earns their keep (and margin) by taking care of the mundane. Make dollars, don't pinch pennies.

See: "Dropbox is just ftp + git" [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Regulated meaning a tightly controlled and closed "market"?

Number of plugins isn't the greatest metric but it's a good leading indicator. It's kinda hard to estimate how many merchants and customers and volume of transactions have been processed when they aren't being tracked by a central entity ;)
The definitely most difficult bug I have ever worked on was a device that would have its flash memory erased from time to time. With couple of million of those in the field only about one hundred would be affected, every day meaning the frequency was enough to cause huge financial issue for the company (bricked devices to be destroyed and replaced, unhappy customers, PR nightmare) yet not frequently enough to be observed in lab environment.

We had to set up couple dozen of these doing operations 24/7 just to be able to note single occurrence of the problem maybe once a week or two.

The device was built in a way that made it impossible to observe physical lines between CPU and flash chip. This was intended as a security feature but caused the whole debug procedure to be extremely difficult.

The start of the problem could not be linked to any particular change in the software.

In the end we have tracked the problem to a single decision made a year before the problem started showing up.

The decision was to use UNLOCK BYPASS feature. UNLOCK is a special command sent to flash chip that kind of validates that the message was not garbled. UNLOCK BYPASS turns off the use of this feature. This was done to improve write performance as the UNLOCK command slows down writes. With the UNLOCK turned off, flash chip is more likely to interpret noise on its lines as a valid command.

This change did not immediately cause problems. Only later, another chip on the board started being used in a bit different way which caused much more noise to be generated. With the higher noise floor the flash chip would occasionally execute a command that was not sent from the CPU.

The irony here is that the rules for the construction of the device required that some of the signal lines are sandwiched in the inner layers of PCB between two layers of signal lines, to prevent easy access to the inner lines. With 4 layer PCB this prevented large ground planes that would help control induced noise that was causing the issue.

Whenever we tried to replicate the problem on a set of development devices (devices with the communication lines available for probing), the problem would not show up due to a different layout of the PCB.

In the end debugging the problem took about half a year.
Can't say I'm an expert on all of it but as David Cameron put it

>I would say it is not only a moral obligation that the better-off countries have to tackle poverty in our world when we still have over a billion people living on less than a dollar a day, but it's also in our interests that we build a more prosperous world.
It depends a lot on the animal, as well. We owned a couple different family cows; first a Dexter, whose milk barely had cream worth mentioning, and the cream was thin and light, almost like store-bought half and half. Then we had a beautiful Jersey, whose milk was about a quarter cream, the richest, fattest cream you could ask for. (I put on forty pounds while we owned that cow.)

You can get a very rich cream by simply skimming if you let the milk sit undisturbed for a while.
Is anyone else even more excited about the fact that Ikea finally redid their circa-2001 Microsoft Frontpage-styled Verdana website and it finally feels relaxing to browse their catalog online.
These are installed/operating reactors with a cooling design as old as their nuclear technology, whose designers made assumptions about what future water temperatures would be in the locations they were built. Those assumptions turned out to not be valid... it's not unusual for that to happen in engineering designs for systems with a lifetime that spans decades.

The article implies that nuclear power isn't an option to reduce carbon footprint because nuclear reactors won't work with elevated water temperatures. This is false, and is probably an attempt at influencing public opinion away from nuclear energy.

All that's really happening is that existing reactors aren't getting the cooling capacity they need from their existing water cooling plant. This can be addressed by expanding the cooling system or building a new one with greater capacity. Expensive, and undesirable to have to do, but that's very different from "Nukes can't work because of climate change"

Newly built reactors would simply take into account the elevated external temperatures from climate change and be designed according to those constraints in the first place.

The core of modern reactor designs is fueled by molten salts which also function as a coolant at temperatures of 900F or higher. As long as the cooling water that removes waste heat is cool enough in ambient temperatures to not be already boiling, a cooling system that uses it can be designed.
Curious About Consciousness? Ask the Self-Aware Machines
No, my problem is with the city planners that can’t get their act together and build the appropriate infrastructure to support all the road users.

And it’s with bicyclists that don’t understand the idea of a queue for controlling access to limited resources.

And it’s with drivers that think they own the road and pass bicyclists at patently unsafe speeds and distances.

There’s plenty of blame to go around; there’s no need to restrict it to just one party.