skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chrome still displays bitmap images. (S)FTP is still used, there's a lot of legacy stuff on the internet, and Google does not dictate what technology people use. It's still a web browser after all, not an Instagram viewer.

> It's not part of the modern web, so it's just another loose end to tie up.

While I see that it is shared by many here, I do not get this sentiment. It's still out there and rarely used, yes. But similarly would not require much maintenance for the time being, remove it when users decide it's dead, not just your shiny modern partners. The codebase cannot be that burdened by support for the protocol, why even take action?

I guess what I'm trying to figure out is the reason why this even came up, is that to soothe some weird code base / maintenance metric?
6 Reasons Why Yahoo! Failed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_periods_and_events_in_...

You may find this information useful.
As much as I want to believe climate change can mitigated by individuals making conscientious decisions, it seems as naive as telling someone in 1970 that if they care about the smog then they can just buy a catalytic converter for their own car.

Climate change progress, like the catalytic converter, will be 1% innovation and 99% legislation. If you care about this problem please vote. Voting is arguably the most important action you can take.
This is quite possibly just a manifestation of a national trend by landlords (all ten of them) to raise rent so high that sure things like 7/11 or KFC quit. The only tenants that seem to be able to afford the rent are $COFFEE and The Habit. I've seen this in my home town (San Diego), Spokane, and Manhattan. I've probably seen it in other towns but it stops being noticeable.
Easier said than done, especially when most of the population doesn't care either because they're too young or too nontechnical; actually, I already don't use Chrome, but their search (which still shows FTP sites...) is, despite slowly getting worse too, still giving a wider breadth of sites most of the time. Bing and DDG help fill in the gaps.
knowing Cantonese helps here, as both the verbs you mention are still common verbs in modern Cantonese.
Probably the hottest July since it started being called July.
Did you change your ip-address after gmail started?
China is still way behind the States in per capita. Quoting absolute numbers is just meaningless.
Well here's an interesting thought. Let's say you train a generative network on illegal imagery. Is the combination of network and weights illegal to posses? What about images it generates?
It's not a belief our currency won't inflate, it's a belief our currency won't inflate or lose value any more than other vehicles.

Note that even gold "inflates" through the production of gold mines - and gold miners produce more as the price of gold (in dollars or equivalents) rises so mining serves as a check on the relative value of gold.
Quickly – Image Analyzer
This app is a proof of concept aimed at detecting users' needs. Please, try it and tell me about your experience.
Would you use it? What more features would you like to have?
Thanks for the update. As a long-time Flickr user, I too miss camera roll. The AutoUploadr and Camera Roll really got me connected to Flickr and I use it hourly on my iPhone, I have limited time on my iMac, Organizr is confusing and difficult on the iMac, impossible on the iPhone.

I am also an old-time programmer, starting on 6502 machine language, so I understand programming challenges even though I have never dealt with them on this massive level.

Please continue posting updates wherever is convenient for you, I know the users on the Flickr help forums are quite opinionated and fond of their own words so I understand a bit about not posting programming issues there.
You have a sphere. How do you distribute sensors over the surface of the sphere so you can accurate measure the true average temperature of the sphere?

If you have one sensor, you can't measure an average. Add a sensor on the other size and you have a better chance of measuring an average but still a lot of room for error.

Now add 100 more. If they are evenly distribute over the surface of the sphere you're likely to get a reasonable approximation of average.

If, however, all those sensors are cluster around a single pole, then you effectively get accurate of measurement comparable to when you only had a single sensor.

With this all in mind how are the world's sensors whose data is the basis of this article arranged on Planet Earth and do we know how much that deviates from actual average temperature?

The reason I pose this because the majority of people live in places with temperatures agreeable to the human body and many of the humanities sensors will be measuring these places but won't include what's happening in all the other areas of the world that are generally outside that livable range.

Just something to think about when we talk about global averages.
80:20 is a pop-culture take on the distribution. It does a good job of visualising it to someone who doesn't know maths.

It's really any distribution with the CDF of the form x^(-a)
Huh. I like barley quite a lot. Doesn't seem like it really has enough flavour to be offensive enough to induce vomiting though.
Possibly a hangover from when sending data across the wire was expensive and being able to uniquely identify companies with just a few letters was a huge cost-saving innovation.
It's more like "now we don't have to teach everyone to read and write, we do the (filtered/censored/etc.) communication for them."
It usually helps a bit to enable ssh compression. But, some toolkits are better than others at managing the X connection; in general, things have gotten worse and worse as X over network has gotten less and less popular.

To some degree, you're never going to have a snappy experience when the program and the display have a 50+ms round trip, but it's much worse if the program makes lots of synchronous calls to the display while doing work.

Most of the older tools discussed here should be pretty good at managing the X connection and are probably doing more things in an asynchronous manner.
The Difference Between Data, Information, and Intelligence
For someone who hates China conversations, it's strange that China is all you comment about.
The English language is also quite irregular both in spelling and grammer[sic]. Maybe we should start with it given that children around the world "spend countless hours learning this complex (and often irrational) writing system".

Disclaimer: native Chinese speaker, non-fluent Japanese speaker, English sufferer

edit: disclaimer and grammar...
Jimmy Kimmel is an abnormally wealthy individual, and according to my 10 second lazy Google search, $400k is less than 2 weeks’ pay for him personally. For the Kimmel show production company, or ABC, or Disney, it’s closer to peanuts. I’ll speculate wildly that $400k might not even offset the Kimmel show’s ad revenue for a single night.

Edit: another lazy Google search says a 30 second ad spot on Kimmel runs about $20k. That means they hit $400k with ~10 minutes of commercial? https://www.adweek.com/tv-video/new-data-shows-just-how-much...
Also, quality Veggie burgers have been a thing for almost a decade now. With major fast-food chain and grocery stores are offering them.

There are so many way to handle global warming issue, and yes individual contribution does matter, but the only way to move the needle in any meaningful way has to come from the top of the government and real actual meaningful policy and its implementation in a reasonable time.

That is going to be very tough to do in the majority of the world government.
Having worked with IMAP before myself, the spec is very vague a lot. It's a bad spec.

We had our own IMAP server implementation and had all sorts of problems even between different versions of outlook.

Each project had an inbox which you could cc in, resulting in huge inboxes (for the 2000s at least). You could also drag and drop an email you'd received into the project folder to share it with colleagues. And we had mysterious disappearing emails, but only at some clients.

One (of the many) problems I remember is that messages could have an ID, but the spec declared that it could change between sessions, so one version of outlook stored that in a short uint (max 65535) because why would you need more for a temporary id. So have fun if you sent anything more than that. And of course the client had different versions of outlook on different sites so it took ages to even figure out what was happening.

Another was that you had to make several back and forths on every request, messages about the messages, to say the payload and number of messages, but the spec was gleefully vague about the order this should happen in. So back then what worked for one email client resulted in an empty inbox for another.

I don't think we ever got it working properly with Firebird.
How do you spend to amultigigabyte file in chrome?
Does this mean that rust async is using poll/epoll/kqueue under the hood?
This documentary seems relevant:

Bill Still: The Secret of Oz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swkq2E8mswI
I grew up in the Midwest and spent half a decade between Texas and Georgia. Some of us are also sick of the hot summer heat. And I say that as someone who lives in the Santa Ana foothills in Orange county (it's regularly flirting with 100 degrees in my backyard during the peak of summer -- at least it's dry).
or Huawei

https://techbizweb.com/chinese-hackers-spy-on-u-s-law-firm-m...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10485560675556000
I use a combination of email + git (markdown + dir structure) + google calendar + google keep + whiteboard.

email is my first point of contact. Anything that enters my system is almost always via an email to myself. I prefix every new email with a date. Everything from todos (190816 - get your flu shot) to thoughts (190214 - why today was a good day) to lessons (190701 - don't take folks who love you for granted), stories i heard, bookmarks i find, information on people (190305 - Dave from NY really likes to go hiking, lets plan something), ongoing projects, ideas, IOUs, travelogues, books i want to read, etc goes in there. I have directories - bookmarks, projects, ideas, people which i drag these emails into. Any update on any of these becomes a reply on it.

My inbox is the stuff I am (or should be) working on. I try to not let it exceed 10 items.

Every few weeks, I go through my emails and look for the right place for it. Mostly stuff gets deleted. Sometimes it feels like it deserves its space. That stuff goes to git wiki. I meticulously index and cross reference my wiki pages. Some are files that go to their own directories.

Events like birthdays and anniversaries, credit card payment reminders, holiday plans, car registration renewals etc go from email to google calendar.

Information I really want handy like my car's license plat, vin number, my phones imei and sim card no, passport no, street addresses, office fax no, etc goes to google keep.

Stuff I want to mull over and stuff I just cant afford to forget goes to the whiteboard.

This system has served me well for over a year now. Its flexible, minimal vendor lockin, free. I access any of these from any device I have.

It just works.
Seconding this. Single-website apps are like single-use kitchen utensils. Why should I install twenty apps, each with their own background processes and attack surfaces and developer who might be bought out by a malefactor, when I can just have twenty bookmarks instead?
Somewhere in Chile someone is yelling How can it be the hottest world month ever, it’s snowing outside!
Companies do these things all the time and in other industries they get away with it. It would be nice if other industries would have similar strict audits and requirements.
Just a couple days ago, I used remote X to show some coworkers some things:

a) a (bad) NES emulator i wrote that was on my home machine, I didn't want to compile it on the work laptop

b) chrome running on the home machine hitting a webcam pointed at a pressure gauge --- I didn't want to bother with proxying and prozy settings, and I don't let the webcam accept connections from public internet.

I've also found it super useful for running java based KVM clients for IPMI --- run a VM with the properly old version of java so the webstart file works, and display it with remote X.

xv or eog is nice for looking at images without the hassle of transferring them first (although, transferring them would probably use less bandwidth)
startpage.com gives me better results than Google itself, because of the missing personalization bubble.
I agree on all major points but one: I genuinely enjoyed Shadow of the Comet. Then again, I've also played CoC in campaigns based on that adventure. Never ran it yet as a Keeper, though. Alone in the Dark, Lovecraftian as it might be, definitely represents several turning points in my life. The turn to an appreciation of slow horror, of appreciating the safety of real isolation. And while he's mostly demonized, I have to thank the boss at Infogrames who insisted that Alone in the Dark run on a 286. I didn't have a 386 or a 486 when it came out. AitD was my first brush with 3d, and while it did send me back to 2d for a long while just out of mortal terror, I've come around realized that like all art forms, there's a time and place for both in the world.
> Free speech is a negative right, which is a limit on government, which in turn means it cannot be infringed and that it has priority over rights of the government.

However, the rights of others – including the government – are considered when determining the precise meaning and boundaries of "free speech". The courts don't always get this right, but that's what they do. See the usual "fire in a crowded theater" example, which demonstrates not only an appropriate exception to free speech (if taken literally) but also an inappropriate one (if you look at the Supreme Court case it was invented in [1]), both of which were justified by how the speech in question would affect others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
It's a lot more than talking to pg and mysql at the same time, thankfully!

https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_multiple_da...

In short, to do this feature family properly and in an opinionated, predictable way means that you have to cover a number of non-trivial cases. Multiple primaries and their replicas is just the beginning:

- automatic connection switching on a per-model basis

- Automatic swapping between the primary and replica depending on the HTTP verb and recent writes

- Rails tasks for creating, dropping, migrating, and interacting with the multiple databases

Sharding, cross-cluster joins and load balancing replicas are coming soon.

I think what's important here is that every site over a certain scale previously needed to implement their own take on this, and there were a lot of thorny edge cases, race conditions and heisenbugs to do so. It's kind of like the old chestnut that if you find yourself writing original crypto code, you're probably doing it very wrong.

The fact that any project can uncomment a few lines and get all of this for free is properly awesome.
No, voting is passive. Be politically active: talk to your neighbors, at your local sports club, at work and at local events on climate change. Contact your local legislators. Give options to local polluters by researching options for subsidies. Write to your congressmen and ask for the most pressing local actions.

Democracy does not start with a vote. That’s just a step in a large process.
I’m primarily a React / Node dev, but I’ve been thinking about picking up another language and framework for a while. I feel like Node / Express is great, but I also sometimes feel like it’s not a proper framework, in that you end up assembling a lot of code by hand (ex: auth, data modeling) and after a few projects it’s tedious. Also, Node only offers concurrency as an unnatural afterthought...

I’ve dabbled in Django and it seems to solve some of those problems, but I also feel like web programming in an OO dynamic scripting language isn’t that far away from doing it in JS so I might as well learn something mind-blowingly new...

I’ve been exposed to functional programming in OCaml in a rigorous college course and absolutely loved it, how would you guys rate learning Phoenix + Elixir in my case?
Donate it to starving African children.
Is there a performance difference between Elixir and Erlang? I assume not since they both run on BEAM but I've never dabbled with Elixir.
Great writeup (even though it doesn't touch upon Distillery). Even cooler is that I discovered Render through this post.
For a counter-mantra to cover most of these: "Directly solve at least one person's real world need."

If every startup could work with one customer from the idea stage through prototype and beta, so many problems would be averted. And if that one customer leads you down a narrow path, it is far easier to broaden the scope of useful product than pivot an unwanted idea.
> I quite often have to reach for a dictionary when reading

So when reading kanji, how do you look up a word (picture) you don't know? Since there isn't a minimal set of characters, the notion of "alphabetical order" seems impossible. Weird that I've never thought about this until now, but I'm honestly baffled.
Same for supermicro - your drivers/firmware is on ftp
I'm rather new to k8s and I'm a little confused what this does. Is it an alternative to the k8s Dashboard?
Go for it! Only issue- you won't go back to node/django after going deep in Elixir. Really elegant + succinct.
> previously isolated Aircraft Control Domain and Airline Information Services
So what does your user name mean? Was it still a lottery and not the result of going all out?
for some people it isn’t, but i think he’s referring to the fact that food is pretty damn far toward the base of maslows hierarchy. many people (myself included) believe that a measure of a society is how far up the triangle you can get before needing to do something you don’t want to do to reach higher (eg work in order to improve your hobby skills)
What about kanji combinations? I bet you got to learn many thousands (made of the same 777 kanjis).
Oh, come on! The $200000 bounty for breaking Telegram encryption is there forever. SHA-1 BTC piñata was broken in 2017[1], and MTproto still stands.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13714987
Google removes Chromium jumbo builds
Definitely switch over to sassc-rails, which should give you a massive speed boost.

I also run an instance of bin/webpack-dev-server which handles all of my dev-time Sass pushing needs.

One thing I'm a little sad about is the decision to continue using sprockets (aka Asset Pipeline) for CSS and images. My understanding is that a lot of gems would break if they changed but I can't help feel an opportunity was lost to bite the bullet and do the big switch all at once. I guarantee you that it's coming.

Luckily, I can say that switching to using Webpack for CSS is very doable. The best instructions are here: https://gist.github.com/andyyou/834e82f5723fec9d2dc021fb7b81...
Do not underrate the power off setting an example.
Even if it was: do it. Making the calls you don't really want to make is something you can't learn early enough.

From my experience: it's fine and nobody will be annoyed unless you make it a habit to call them each day. It may simply show them that a) you listen to advice, b) you're flexible enough to discard old ideas, and c) you can execute quickly, which are all good things. It may also sound like you're just doing something to get funded, but that depends on your business, your pivot etc, I think.
This crash hit hard small Estonia right now, the market is open and every technology has become cheaper. The only argument right now keeping it alive is security aspect and not having either good climate nor gas around there. Or money to build my nuclear
400W is too low :) but 750W Bafang motor with non speed locked controller will get you to 50km/s without pedaling (not that I would recommend going that fast).
There are many pros and cons for each case. Not all people like the headache of setting a self-hosted app on a home server and many others are not capable/don't have the time to do it, maintain it or support it (at this moment, Joplin has ~390 open issues in github).

On the other hand, there's a simplicity focused note-taking service which will let you start taking notes in 20 seconds (that's how long it takes to create an account) in a clean, minimal UI and start sharing them with friends/family/colleagues instantly. No open issues as we speak and support is included! It has a free version too so it won't hurt to try it out :)
I've repeatedly needed to relink Signal Desktop when launching it after long spans of non-use (months). The first time was probably at least a year ago, if I had to guess, and I've had no signs of disk failure.
Yes, there are lots of issues with FTP. I've worked with it, and it is in many ways a nightmare.

That aside, you can use FTP for auth and ACL in of which HTTP and rsync just aren't capable. I'm not sure this is a flaw in the core protocol so much as the tooling, but there you have it. FTP config syntax may often be byzantine. But it's widely supported (especially on old, low-spec, or embedded devices). For newer stuff, yeah sftp is probably better. But it's still got its uses.
I'm not sure about peerage specifically, but here's an example with libcluster set up to discover nodes automatically when they join (or leave): https://render.com/docs/deploy-elixir-cluster
Lisp is like a religion. Once you get it, you cannot help yourself spreading the Word.
Does anyone have frequency lists of vocabulary broken down by type (verb, noun, etc.)? I've seen word lists on Wiktionary, and I'm attempting to cross-reference jisho and other sources.

How many words do you need to comprehend for daily competency? Would the 10,000 suffice?

How many words do you need to be able to watch anime aimed at children (eg Bono Bono) or teenagers (Boku no Hero Academia)?
"If the city has jobs and the weather is relatively nice versus the rest of the country then don't expect the home prices to drop for any long period of time."

people move there because of the companies and their HQs, and how the density drives the salary up, it has very little to do with the weather?

"My thinking is that with the deliver anything in 2 hours apps. It will be easier for people to move into an area where they don't have all the restaurants and small shops people usually like in the neighborhood. They can just order it. Therefore, making it easier for prices to stay up as long as there's a way to pay." Again, what does this have to do with the primary motivations to move?
I'm a native Japanese speaker but as far as the writing system goes, I fully agree with the linguist Geoffrey Pullum's following statement about Chinese characters / kanji:

In consequence, this horror-show of a writing system, with its crippling memorization burden for students and malign impediment to progress in science and industry, is the focus of so much intellectual investment and cultural pride that getting rid of it is out of the question. Intolerable though it is, it will continue to be tolerated – leaving English, with a spelling system that positively stinks, smelling almost like a rose.

https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2016/01/20/the-...

Don't get me wrong, I'm generally in favor of made-in-China products, but those characters to me were the worst made-in-China product I wasted so much time on (and unlike video games, I wasn't even having fun with them.)