skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Economist Who Believes the Government Should Print More Money
Your point on worker solidarity got me thinking. In some countries(such as mine) we have decent unionization rates for IT workers, would it be a good idea to have such ethical issues encoded into the union lines?
What does "written in various languages" mean? Mixing multiple legacy encodings in one filename? Unicode filenames work fine on Linux (I just tested it with Chinese) and I would be very surprised if they didn't on Windows.
I toured Patagonia's headquarters last year after featuring Vincent Stanley, who has been with them since 1973, on my podcast http://joshuaspodek.com/guests/vincent-stanley. The culture was amazing -- friendly, productive, supportive.

I asked a random employee to join me for lunch. Whatever I asked about company vision, culture, etc she knew. When I asked why they did this or that thing a certain way, she'd say things like "Person A saw a problem with how we were doing it before, but couldn't solve it. Person B figured out how to solve it but couldn't implement it. Person C implemented it."

Critical to all their decisions, as I heard, were the environment, employees, suppliers' employees, and customers.

In most places, Person A's recognition of a problem would lead to everyone else saying, "Well, what can you do?" and leave it. If by some chance person B solved it despite the inertia, people would respond, "But what about X or Y" or some edge case and leave it.

Nearly any company could learn from Patagonia's culture.
The argument for automated releases is always that it is quite easy to do silly mistakes like forgetting a build step while doing manual releases. This also happened to high profile npm packages in the past and people complained that there was no automation.
I mean, he has clear deep love for dance music and the history of the genre which shines through in everything he writes and the examples he picks. And that's chimed with people for the last 20 years, it's a bible of a site. Maybe you just have crap taste ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> Some species also have complex features, such as cells organized into structures resembling muscles for movement, for example. She just doesn’t find it plausible that such complexity arose from a cancer.

Wouldn't that (theoretically) be be easier for cancer cells? The article doesn't state if these muscles came from "new" genes that were evolved for this or if they reactivated pre-existing genes from more complex ancestors, but the latter seems like a significantly smaller evolutionary leap than the former, and cancer cells would be in the unique position to be able to do that.
The problem is that it won't be great for much longer.
It's difficult to find detailed info about what they do, but looking at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18344636 the main point is that they are not producing proteins "chemically", they produce Hydrogen and use the Hydrogen as "food" for some bacteria or yeast (I'm not sure) and then they filter the bacteria or yeast, and they sold that as "single-celled protein", that is a mix of protein, fats and carbohydrates and other things (like meat, cheese, ...).

It's important that they also use some vitamins and nutrients, but it's not clear what they mean, and there is a lot of room for cheating here.

With CO2, water and electricity you can produce carbohydrates and fat, but you can't produce proteins because proteins have Nitrogen, so the question is what is their source of Nitrogen?

You can get Nitrogen from the N2 in the air, but it's very difficult to transform the N2 of the air into a form that can be used by living things. Only some bacteria and archaea can do that. But yeast, fungus, animals and plants can't do that. (Some plants (and animals?) host some bacteria to get usable Nitrogen in exchange of food and protection.)

We can transform N2 from the air into ammonia (or something similar) in an industrial plant, it uses a lot of electricity. It's one of the biggest invention of the XX century. Without artificial ammonia the global agricultura production would fall to less than the half of the current level.

So ignoring the source of the Nitrogen in a system to produce proteins is very misleading.
Does it still contain all the information that makes Henrietta Henrietta? like face structure, hair colour etc?
I started smoking cigarettes at 9 and was able to consistently get my hands on them by 14. It's never been hard.
Sure, and there are a few hooks for one in the C++ standard library e.g. std::declare_reachable [1], although it doesn't include an actual implementation. Only mark and sweep is feasible, not mark and compact, for obvious reasons [2]. Here's a mention of garbage collection Stroustrop's old C++11 FAQ [3]

[1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/gc/declare_reachabl...

[2] https://herbsutter.com/2011/10/25/garbage-collection-synopsi...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20120228143039/http://www2.resea...
Rent Dogs for the Weekend
Vapes aren't good for you, sure, but I don't think telling someone they are going to die at 55 is warranted or constructive
Boy howdy those goal posts keep on moving huh.
Solokeys are great. They also have a crowdsupply for a smaller form factor version (USB-A only for now):

https://www.crowdsupply.com/solokeys/somu
From the OP:

> Of course I'd like a static website for deploying, but I'd love a web gui which acts as a frontend for such generators.

If you want such a gui on your local machine you're not much more than a few commands away

npm i -g ghost-cli
ghost install local
Speak for yourself ;-) Most times I wear good clothes (and sometimes even shoes, when at home).
I wonder if they could have started as a sort of readability/patreon style platform for text without taking any investment and build just enough audience to become profitable. I imagine that running their servers should not be massively expensive, especially if they scaled up slowly.
i turned on 2fa for my npm account, and my published libraries aren't even at 1K downloads _total_ yet.

these guys with libraries that have a massive user base really have no excuse besides laziness for not having 2fa on their account.
Fairly sure GitHub Enterprise has been a thing for several years now?
I pay about as much for electricity as I pay for Internet. I wouldn't call that "ridiculously" expensive.
But the gap is closing!
In that thread the OP decides that the needs of a few outweigh the needs of the many. He went from trying to achieve "consistency across environments," which is very convenient and efficient to purposely making his workflow less efficient and more time consuming to suit the needs of two co-workers in an environment where his code will probably be read hundreds of times.

Develop how you want to develop and commit how your codebase is written. How is that hard? I guarantee whatever IDE you use has a feature to convert/change the indendation model of a file. Why is this even a topic?

You're not going to guilt me into using spaces because two people who read my code didn't like it. If you're using tab-width 8 I'm probably not going to like reading your code very much either. Does that mean you should change your entire workflow to suit me?
I actually ended up going further and removing me as author from gems I don't actually maintain anymore, which brings down my exposure considerably. It's actually not as easy as it could be to remove yourself as an author from a gem (have to do it via command line).
The carefully constructed headline qualifies as clickbait.

TL;dr Gravitationally locked planet around red dwarf has no atmosphere, we think, because of the absence of convective heat transfer across the terminator. No glimpse, not rare, nothing to see here, move along.

And, especially, no photo.
With chilling, but not entirely unexpected consequences:

Indicating the intimate involvement of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the investigation of the airline, Hogg's resignation was first made public by Chinese state-run media outlet CCTV at 4:50 p.m. on Aug. 16. It was not until 5:14 p.m. that Cathay Pacific itself officially announced that Hogg was stepping down as CEO, leading to speculation that his resignation was the result of pressure from Beijing authorities.
How about the French pharmaceutical company that shelved their vaccine before GlaxoSmithKline's? I will try and find the article, but as I remember it, their vaccine worked on the OSPa protein and had a number of proven and harmful side effects. It turns out that the Lyme bacteria is hard to vaccinate for since it can change its outer surface proteins to evade the antibodis pretty easily -- in the end, the immune system is much better on its own than relying on a vaccine.
It would have prevented this attack, so I'm not sure how its pointless. Obviously it doesn't fix everything. MFA is MFA. I don't know why anyone would take it as a guarantee that some third-party has audited all the code.
> Top executives don’t always know what’s going on at the operations level.

How much of this sort of talk is just hot air? Does it really matter that CxO doesn't know about loading trucks or whatever? I mean, there's a place for the knowledge, and someone should collect it, but isn't this kind of article just more of that "eat your broccoli, it's good for you" sort of thing?

I can give something of an example. In the 80s, I worked for an aerospace company that made satellite launch vehicles. I often went out on the factory floor to see the parts I had helped design get made. The brake press operators, welders, lathe operators and others were just artists, doing stuff by feel that they really shouldn't have had a feel for. But they almost universally thought what they were building was too strong, over-engineered. What they were missing was that flight loads designed the rocket's structure, not manufacturing or transport. In fact, there was a rule that Ground Support loads should not design any structure. That is, manufacturing, transport and erection were carefully done so that they imposed much milder loads than flight did. The workers missed this important aspect of flight vehicle design.
Does anyone have a donation link?

It'd be nice to chip something in for the work + streaming to the entire internet right now.
I would much rather back SOMU. https://www.crowdsupply.com/solokeys/somu#products-top
I don't understand why this is being downvoted, is a perfectly legitimate question.
Another happy user of Kallithea here!

I used to run Rhodecode some years ago, and switched to Kal when they forked. At this point I wouldn't be without it.
> Since women haven’t been allowed to compete in sports for thousands of years, what will happen to their bodies when they are allowed to compete?

I believe the effect here would be mainly in terms of training, recovery, and nutritional science targeted specifically for women evolving over time to increase the caliber of female talent overall.

You also need the recruitment programs, marketing, and prize money to more successfully identify the potential number 1 top females for specific sports, and convince them to devote a lifetime to training for it.

It’s not an evolutionary (gene pool) thing, it’s an environmental thing.

I would assume certain sports lend themselves more toward selecting for physiology that both men and women are equally likely to develop (e.g. hemoglobin) and others will tend to benefit from testosterone or muscle mass that men will always hold an inherent biological advantage, meaning the sports should maintain distinct biologically male and female playing fields.
Ask HN: What's your experience with job boards?
Are they still relevant today?
No problem with companies putting something on sale.

One of their values is that:

"We know that our business activity—from lighting stores to dyeing shirts—is part of the problem. We work steadily to change our business practices and share what we’ve learned. But we recognize that this is not enough. We seek not only to do less harm, but more good."

Running sales, just generates more impulse purchases and consumerism. If the products they make are truly the best that they can, they wouldn't have the need to clear out stock on a regular basis and to make way for new styles being made all the time.

Furthermore, they love to plaster their branding all over the "Big Oil, Don't Surf" campaigns (of which I do think is a good cause), but it's a little hypocritic when the surf industry wouldn't exist without oil, not to mention that their own wetsuits contain synthetic rubber (derived from oil).
Yes, because the machine language of ordinary CPUs uses a specific model of computation where branch instructions are the only way to effect conditional control transfer. But the idea of conditional control transfer is there in every interesting programming language to allow a program to react to its inputs.
It's about twice as expensive as France I think
the banality of evil prevails.
Every single day doesn't sound too often to have someone press a physical button.
Solid Wealth Systems
Testosterone, among many other things, increases expression of Hemoglobin and red blood cells. So it definitely helps with endurance.
Democrats have quietly opposed research into Lyme disease because Lyme discourages the hunting and shooting sports. This serves two purposes:

a) Discourages hunters, shooters, guns, &etc. (i.e., those who exercise the 2nd Amendment).

b) leaves federal and state park lands closed to those activities, allowing them to be used for other more liberal-friendly recreational/industrial activities (e.g., hiking, biking, birdwatching, mining, commercial fishing, &c.).

FWIW hunting exposes a person to more risk than hiking or camping since you're handling the carcass of an animal that almost assuredly is tick-infested.
Lockheed has a great deal of their MFA keys compromised because the factory that manufactured them had been breached for a while and nobody had noticed. Supply chain attacks are performed constantly against large, known entities and this case shows why they are so pedantic about security and justified in their paranoia. The problems have been execution of the policy and the costs of compliance.
From a privacy and security standpoint, can some help make Mighty make sense? I just don’t see it. Yes, Chrome does hog my RAM and CPU, but my browsing experience is simply not bad enough to just throw in the towel and give in to a MITM
Monzo review: an elegant way to manage your money
Which supports neither Lightning nor USB-C (not to mention that isn't funded yet).
I'd want to see independent confirmation of this. It's a beautiful story, but here's another media report (by the SCMP, owned by Alibaba, but still regarded somewhat trustworthy by and large):

"Cathay Pacific Airways’ handover of crew details ‘satisfies mainland Chinese regulator’"

"CEO Rupert Hogg threatened to sack any employee who actively supported the protest movement, including taking part in the illegal airport demonstrations."

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/302288...
Investing Can Prevent Climate Change
But if they do so because previous forecasts proved too high, then they were not always too conservative
Deschooling Society (1971)
I have noticed that many coding bootcamps offer scholarships for women. In other words, they charge men more for the same program. The laws against sex discrimination apply to discrimination against either sex, and it is bothersome that many schools and government officials selectively ignore those laws.
If there's a way for 1password to work over NFC on iOS, i'd be happy. Still, I bought a lightning/usb-c key this morning.
You tax carbon at say, $40 a ton. You then distribute any revenue from the tax as a dividend to every adult in the country.

It results in a net increase in purchasing power for your most vulnerable citizens.
Nonsense Word
It was the encyclopedia until Wikipedia really gained traction, which was 2004-ish for me.
Waymo self-driving cars head to Florida for rainy season
I think the transition from apathy to resignation will be seamless - humans are not good at dealing with long term risk and threat. When it becomes an imminent threat, which will likely be soon, it will already be too late.

No, the only way anything changes is at the point of a spear. There has to be an imminent and tangible threat, now. Otherwise, it’s business as usual.
Some thing would be lost, yes [1] but the core code and commit history would be preserved. Issues can still be re-opened if still relevant, and pull requests can still be seen in the commit history. Comments on pull requests, if not approving a pull, will result in additional commits to the code which will be preserved.

Whether this is OK for a given use case depends on how important ticket and pull request comment history is. For open source projects, I don’t consider that kind of history nearly as important as the code itself, since a lot of issues are wishlist requests, support requests, or downright spam.

[1] Including branches unless one runs a script to go to and clone each branch to the new repo
They link to an SO survey:

* https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018#work-_-versio...

where "zip backups" and network copy (each 7.9%) and "no version control" (4.8%) are higher than Mercurial (3.6%).

If you're in that boat, I can understand not using git (87%) because its UI sucks (IMHO), and not using SVN (16%) because it needs infrastructure, but Mercurial has neither of those hindrances. Heck, even RCS would be better than nothing at that point, and Hg is better than that.
> Scanning encrypted barcodes is highest and also phishing proof like FIDO keys.

I have never seen a solution like this, but I can't see how it would avoid simple relay phish, it seems as though bad guys can just get themselves a legitimate encrypted barcode and have their victim scan it.

Maybe you haven't explained this solution properly, do you have a link?
I have a long-range plan (similar to what's suggested by Jack Bogle), but this sounds like a good alternative for those that have room for climate protection in their investing scheme.
"Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" and a couple of other books from the bundle are available for free at the author's website:

https://automatetheboringstuff.com/
I live in TN which fortunately doesn’t have Lyme carrying ticks but other bad things like Rocky Mountain spotted fever and alpha gal (allergy to meat thanks to the lone star tick).

There are several precautions we take every time we go camping or hiking during tick season:

1. Spray permethrin on shoes and ankles.

2. Tuck pants into socks.

3. Leg tick checks during + full body check when we get home and for next two days.

4. Toss all clothes in the drier. The heat kills them. Do not wash first!

5. Shower with T/gel. Still not fully tested but we heard this will kill them!

So far I’ve had a few cases of an attached tick but nothing longer than half a day of exposure. Bleh!!
Men still holds the records for all categories, only reason a woman wins is that very few practice ultramarathons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarathon#IAU_World_Best_P...

You can see that the top man ran 433.095 km in 48h, while the top woman did only 401.000 km in that time, so he was about 8% faster. Compare that to 100m where the men are 9% faster, so the male advantage is basically constant with respect to distance.

Of course the worlds fastest women will beat any man who doesn't practice, so dedicated women have no problem beating men in smaller races.
I would absolutely love it if Git had this feature. Having it on Hg has saved me so many times.
Specialized Functions of a Carpenter's Pencil
I don't trust any mainland China sources at this point. Regardless of track record.
I find it interesting that for some people, even when woman get favoured and men get the short end of the stick, they still find a way to paint the situation as sexism againt woman.
For the in-brain computation, this may be true. However there may be non-local quantum effects emergent from the functioning of this massively parallel biological neural network apparatus, and information could be received and transmitted outside of the five senses. Whether this information or functionality is necessary for basic functioning of the brain, we don't know yet. I'm guessing it is, but I'm also guessing that we can supplant it by little more computation.
I don't really get it - why would the company know which of their employees was or was not part of this or any other protest?
Always annoying that things like this don't launch both in the U.S and Europe. All I see in my feeds is mentions of the Apple Card and I have to ignore it because it's a U.S thing only and I'm in Europe.
Migrating Functionality Between Large-Scale Production Systems Seamlessly
> Contractors are packed like sardines, the noise is insane. We're also "Agile" now, so we spend a ton of time in useless meetings.

Contractors in general might be better off working in an office if they aren't in a gig which is well paying. As remote work takes off, a greater percentage of those people may not be getting paid enough to make working from home a viable option, yet they'll still have to fake it. Sure, you might have the problem of your car breaking down on your way to the office because you can't afford maintenance. But at home you can still run into computer issues or a spouse who makes your life difficult. I think we tend to imagine WFH scenarios as being well paid and cushy, but there's that other side as well. WFH could still put up barriers between people who can afford it and those who can't? OTOH, affording working from home is way cheaper than affording to move.
Maybe git push -f my-branch

I can't imagine having a month of work on a local machine that hasn't been pushed anywhere so it has to be something about pushing.
I'm surprised that you can't remove/disable the fallback SMS number.

One thing you can do to mitigate that problem is to create a Google Voice number. Those are harder to port as long as you created it on Google Voice.
For those who aren't aware, the author of the post works for them. Maybe a founder; it's a little hard to tell. I've run across him doing exactly this in the past. Bad form, and (having looked at it in the past) the product he's flogging is amateurish.
> So a lesson in Software development is similar to betamax and VHS, so marketing is still a winner over technically superior architecture and ease of use.

Marketing is often necessary to get a start, but it is rarely sufficient for a long-lasting success. The claim that "it's all marketing" is usually made by those who look at one aspect of the technical merits and miss others that turn out to be more important. Just as in the actual VHS vs. Betamax story [1]. Betamax had a slightly, almost imperceptibly better picture quality, while VHS had double the recording time of Betamax. VHS won on the technical merits as they mattered to users.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotape_format_war
It does have lock-in because almost everyone is on GitHub and if they move they lose access to that community.

e.: people mentioning "Github profiles" when discussing preparing for interviews.
They got unpaid leave from work to participate.
Royal Dutch Shell, Amazon, Postmates, and the Rise of the Ventriloquist Employer
24 Years of Amazon.com Website Design History
I'd take private office and casual dress code over work from home. I live close to the city with a great commute but don't have space for a home office at home.
What artists can learn from Lil Nas X
Now, ask yourself : would your boss do the same for you ?
Mapping brain circuits in vivid color using tractography
Bicameral Monks?
Amazon under fire for new packaging that cannot be recycled
In many ways this was absolutely the best the CEO could have done. It seemed inevitable that he would resign, but its great to see that he didn't sell out his employees - which a few weeks ago seemed like.

A good way to be remembered positively during this situation.