skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting that kitty is getting more exposure. I definitely agree it's the fastest terminal on OS X. Dunno about Linux though.
> Why is it ok for games to lack a good story but not ok for them to lack good art?

Personally I think that both are okay. Even more so when someone seems to be doing such a good job on one of the aspect.

What's not okay is going around and arguing that you just can't do better than that. He could do better, he just don't care and I repeat, it's alright to not care.

His older post was disrespectful to all people that do take pride in what they do and want to improve it.
I don't know if this is intentional, but the testimonials keep changing before I've had a chance to finish reading them. Bad UX imo. Why put em there if I can't read them properly?
That does not look better
Storage is useless without retrieval. Good luck implementing a system to replay your movies of spacetime...
You’re basically inviting people to break non disclosure contracts that are often a part of pricing negotiations.

IANAL but I really hope you’re not storing confidential pricing information along with the email address alongside because I have a feeling you could open yourself up to legal issues in the future.
Some (not all) of the services listed seem like they could be very useful but I am verging on the sceptical side. Perhaps clarifying these points will ease my doubt:

1) Who is behind this? I can't find this information easily on the website.

2) How and where from are the testers acquired?

3) Do I receive any demographic data about each tester? I.e.: location, age, etc...

4) Has anyone here tried using any of these services?
No, no: it was just a "technical" security question, not personally important at all. Thanks for the reply.
I remember some years ago when I had surgery, the surgery was pre-authorized. After the surgery I received a bill for $20k. Insurance refused to pay the surgery place and eventually both parties settled it. I ended up speaking to someone at the insurance company that I went to school with. She said that for this procedure and amount of time for operating room the max they pay is $2k. So, there was no way that company would see $20k.

I also refused to pay as patient is responsible. Few years later I received a proper bill for $300. It was long after they could collect, so I told them to beat it.
I wish you much success. I’d love to buy you a coffee or other beverage and hear all about it.
Not as consistently as I'd like to, but I definitely do
The old joke: "How can you tell if someone is a Vegetarian? They'll tell you."
Same here! Killed my morning in to work time on train sorting this out.
I would have assumed that lesbian ideas about immigration ran the gamut of the political spectrum, just the same as non-lesbians. It’s curious that they apparently cluster at one end.
The site content is kind of weak, they had this bee strain for all of a year on how many hives? Not exactly convincing numbers
I think people in the software business tend to assume that the main cost in large projects to do things like implement a new ERP system are licensing costs - which hasn't been my experience. Licensing costs are significant, but they are often pretty small compared to the cost of paying a partner help you implement a new system, as well as internal costs to backfill staff etc.
I wish I did. I would suggest looking in Reddit's r/writing for advice.
I have some friends who have severe mental health problems. The shit they can come out with on their social media can be pretty, well, mental. If this is the standard that everybody is put to, then I could easily find it very hard to get a visa, purely for not abandoning the unwell.
Ford Says Its AVs Wil Last Just Four Years
We use Scrumwise. This is focused on Scrum and Kanban, and also supports issues to a certain amount. The staff is very responsive.
Uber made nearly $500M from a 'safe rides fee' – money went to company
The reference is to trophic levels and caloric loss.

Plants, in net, capture about 1-3% of available solar energy and convert that to equivalent biomass. Food conversion -- the parts you can eat -- are a small fraction of that.

Herbivores and predators each convert about 10% of the food energy they eat into body mass, for a 90% reduction (approximately) at each trophic level. Grazers lose 90% of the primary plant food energy, first-order predators lose 90% of the herbivore food energy, second-order predators (rare, but they do exist), lose 90% of the first-order predator food energy.

This is known as the trophic or ecological pyramid:

https://www.britannica.com/science/trophic-pyramid

Yes, eating something that can eat what you cannot is a net win. Eating something that eats what you can (most contemporary livestock) is not.
What are your healthy habits and average working duration?
I've had this problem off and on. The thing that's helped me lately is looking back at the times I focused and learned one thing. Example: I read a (MS)SQL book nearly 8 years ago, it was well written but not excessively long. I took my time with it. And you know what? It's been relevant ever since, and I've been surprised how frequently I know more off-hand sql knowledge than other devs. I"ve had this experience a few times now, and it always boils down to thinking you need to choose the most relevant, most important thing to learn. You don't. Just choose _a_ thing that is relatively interesting and relatively important, and spend a little time with it. It will last longer and take you further than you realize, and also help you contextualize other things you want to learn. Its not a simple additive -- its exponential. Things in general are more related than people realize, and this is especially true in tech. Most skills you learn will translate better and last longer than people give them credit.
That's true. In fact GCC should be able to do that in principle. I guess it only does it if it believes that the vectorization is significantly profitable.

edit: it is possible it only does it on PGO builds.
I've never been able to track down an email and if I do it's from calendar@google.com or something along those lines. These are people somehow inviting you directly through an invite and you never get an email.

I had this happen about 5 times over the last 2 weeks. I've disabled everything I could in all of my calendars now (including Samsung which I missed).

Incredibly frustrating because I can't even BLOCK the person/bot sending this.
It absolutely feels like a tool for managers, not developers. I just want to see what I'm supposed to be working on and push them to the right person when I've done my part, and all of the rest is noise to me.

Jira puts issue management first (and even fails a bit with that IMO), and makes getting work done more painful than necessary.
Adobe Marketing Cloud (previously Omniture) is a very big analytics provider; I think you can be sure they track you.
Diversity != Diversity of thought
Interesting stats, do you have a citation on the suicide rates?
I Applied Mark Zuckerberg's Face to Facebook Emojis
> I am not sure how hacking Hugo or Jekyll could help me add commenting, searching etc.

Searching should be left to Google. I'm skeptical blog users actually search on a site though I admit I've never seen any metrics about that.

If you insist on having comments on your site and force users to sign-in etc this can be easily implemented with an API and some client-side code.

> I would say this represents more than 99% of the bloggers.

This thread is about HN users, not the general population.

> I find markdown to be very hacky when its a bit more than just headings and paragraphs(eg. nested lists with ordered list inside unordered list are so hard to do in markdown)

Well, no wonder you prefer Wordpress.
I don't see where I criticized them, it's a perfectly legitimate strategy - part of the reason Oracle is still around and Sun isn't. No need to be defensive.

Oracle might have found a way to make money without being hated (too much) by the community, which I think is a positive development. There is some credit for Sun, which (iirc) is where the move towards OSS started; but Oracle is adding the $$$ aspect they are famous for, which Sun could never quite crack.
It's not really Bob's fault/liability of Alice gives him confidential information is it? (The exception to the rule being government data)
This nonsense gets repeated over and over again:

What you get is what you build. New roads just create more incentive for driving. It's been well documented over and over again that vehicle miles driven increases proportionally to roadway created. Lewis Mumford famously said “Building more roads to prevent congestion is like a fat man loosening his belt to prevent obesity.”

It's not the roads that cause traffic, it's the convenience of driving. To show how absurd the argument is, let's use it for housing - I'm sure it can be easily "documented" that building housing leads to higher population figures. So it must be bad, let's not do it!
Assuming "package" is not just another name for "module" and that it goes away once "installed" (i do not know about NPM), what would be the difference between 1000 single function packages and a single 1000 function package?
The O'Reilly book Understanding The Linux Kernel is fantastic. Starts you off in the deep end with memory management/addressing and fans out from there. Notably excludes networking, as the book is long enough without it.
I dont get how the crane factors in to this unless you're suggesting that the extra energy could be stored as as gravitational potential energy, which probably doesn't fit the definition of "reasonable storage". I presume you'd get the energy back out of the system by dropping heavy things from the crane? A dubious proposal imho. I don't think there is a well-tested reliable way to harness energy from falling objects and convert it into some useful form.
Sure, but the quality of the battery that the shop down the road will install is questionable and often below the OEM originall since the manufacturer has no incentive to sell their OEM parts outside of their service network.

YMMV but I replaced the battery on my Samsung Note with two off eBay and in both cases the life was similar to the original that already had 2 years worth of wear.
Well according to him we are the latest civilization and have entered the final decadent millennia of our existence. We’ll have to wait and see!
I'll go several steps further: intellectual property is an invalid form of ownership and shouldn't exist at all. Piracy is always a just action because the monopoly over information given to people by the state is morally wrong.

"Intellectual property" is fundamentally different from classical property because information is not an exclusive good. If I hold an apple, you cannot hold the same apple, but we can both hold a digital copy with the same information.

There is no evidence that intellectual property is necessary for innovation or creative endeavors. There are many many ways to monetize creation including but not limited to subscription, donation, live shows, advertisement, and commission. http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstfinal.ht...
See also: custard antenna

https://michaelcullen.name/2019/04/custard-antenna/
> Lua makes JS look positively divine.

Mmm...just had a quick glance at the language reference. Couldn't see anything that would make it inferior to JS. Care to elaborate?
Go is as performant for web backend CRUD as Java and .Net in my experience, despite being compiled. I am auditing Rust's performance but in the meantime changing the system architecture through things like message queues and/or in memory databases makes the performance increase by leaps and bounds.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20807363.
Most sites add analytics by default without having any CRO strategy in place let alone understanding of the privacy implications. It's just a case of "let's just add analytics and maybe we might find it useful sometime in the future". It doesn't help that Google Analytics, the bigger provider out there, has an atrocious, maze-like GUI that makes understanding of these matters difficult for even experienced web professionals.
He's saying many of these resources are necessary to run the site, and that it takes effort to not collect data. I'm not disputing that, but isn't it somewhat besides the point? The data is still generated & collected, even if there's no intention of it being used. (which doesn't mean it won't be used at some point). If anything, the argument from privacy would point this out as a deep systemic flaw in the system, that even sites that have no interest in any of this data still have little choice but to generate it if they want to avoid laborious & costly custom solutions to the task of running such a business.
Also good to call out the better digital reverb units do this:

1) Split analog signal

2) Pass through one side to output (probably with a signal boost)

3) Take the other side & digitize

4) Apply effect to digital signal

5) Convert output digital signal to analgo

6) Mix into the output of step 2

I find this to be a very audible difference.
Design Smooth Interactions with InVision Studio
I use a password manager for a couple of reasons.

1. Can generate crazy long and random passwords and I only have to remember the master password.

2. One central place for all authentication data. So if I need to change a set of passwords, I can go to my manager and know all the sites I need to change. If I need to remember the password for a site I haven't touched in a while.

3. More metadata. Things like username, website, email address, security questions, etc. These can all be stored in one location.
But putting it into words would help solidify those thoughts into concepts you can grasp and then later articulate.
If you can find a way to retrieve the info, yes
Literally lol at calling the Model 3 a "supercar"
“There was just one problem: that fee didn't actually go anywhere except straight to the company's coiffures”

Coiffures: elaborate hairatyles

Coffers: financial accounts
I've been boycotting Angle Soft for political reasons. Not that anyone cares.
So the "database" is the new module? So an entity can share its whole database or nothing? Everything smaller than the whole database seems a module to me.
Typekit (acquired by Adobe) makes licensing and using web fonts MUCH easier than it is to do without. I share your distrust and dislike of Adobe, but let's not pretend that there's no value to that particular service.
It's the Citicorp tower you're talking about.
Practically speaking, it’s going to require the destruction of wealth on a vast scale. All that sprawling housing (and the associated businesses) will be physically or practically bulldozed to disincentivize use of private vehicles. GLWT.
> If your substrate gets moldy in a week then it would be hard to package and sell it to a customer.

Clearly you've not worked for Cisco...
I think for what is important you can make it important effectively forever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5D_optical_data_storage
I found this article incredibly naive. A recent stint in ad tech showed just how deep the multi-company coordination and orchestration go. Assuming that linking to Google's fonts or images doesn't expose your users or that Adobe's Typekit isn't part of Adobe's Advertising Cloud seems like putting your head in the sand.

Particularly pollyannish is the author's handwaving Google Analytics away with an "only for counting conversions". Holy Crap!
User specialized member functions can be used to circumvent the private barrier (IIRC formally you are not allowed to do this for std types). Also elsethread someone discussed the extremely evil example of placement new'ing a vector on another vector's buffer then swapping them.
A Guide to Excel Spreadsheets in Python with Openpyxl
Speak of economics and wine, one of the clearest examples of non-rational economics behavior was detailed by Richard Thaler regarding an economist wine collector.

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.5.1.193
It's because landlords have more power than renters. So if I as a renter need a car to get to work, but my landlord decided not to build parking, now I have to also rent a parking space. And if parking is not required to be built, it will probably be in short supply and now I'm either paying a huge amount for parking or I just can't park.
So you want to breed cube-shaped cows?
> because they can ban you

Anyone can ban you, even your hosting company. In practice banning is pretty rare.

> I might as well just use Disqus or Facebook comments that I can embed on the site

And you will contribute to unethical tracking practices even if your users are not logged in to Facebook or Disqus[1].

[1] https://replyable.com/2017/03/disqus-is-your-data-worth-trad...
Good. Any company who works with ICE, the Army or the Police should be boycotted.
As someone who grew up on a steep farm where grass, fruits and potatoes where the only options that worked out in practice (most of it is steep, summer is short and unpredictable) I'd say maybe you should reconsider.

One easy thought experiment that helped me understand: given how extremely poor our ancestors where and how hard they worked to make ends meet there must have been some advantage to keeping animals.

Otherwise they wouldn't have had them, because they are sometimes a real hassle and gathering food for them is time consuming I can tell you.

So maybe your idea would work in a more temperate climate. And maybe it would provide extra food for people further north, but it would mean a lot of land that cannot be used for anything but pastures would go out of use.
I am a huge fan of Isaac Asimov, and I am seriously disappointed to learn that he sexually molested women so brazenly. I couldn't believe it when I read the article, but a quick google search produced primary documentation. Not only was his butt-pinching well known among his peers, but was openly joked about as a harmless quirk:

https://the-orbit.net/almostdiamonds/2012/09/09/we-dont-do-t...

I'll still cherish his writing, but, like many of my intellectual heroes, he now gets an asterisk next to his name whenever I think about him.
The world’s wealthiest (eg, the American middle class) have the largest carbon footprint, and would make the most immediate impact by eating less meat.
One protests where they can, and where it's feasible. In this instance, they were in a position to turn down a company that not only makes software that is directly used for purposes they don't agree with, but whose CEO has a viewpoint they strongly oppose (in contrast with Microsoft, 3M, or Charmin, which support in a very indirect fashion).
But a unix system has a module system: the filesystem and its folders. The fact that there are a number of "functions" that are in the same "default namespace" is just a convenience: if needed two binaries with the same name can coexist.

Also i will add that in fact the systen binaries are already split: at minimum /usr/bin and /usr/sbin (but also historically, /bin and /sbin although i think in recent linux system the last two are just symlinks to the formers, or the other way around)
IAB Europe Is Updating Its EU Privacy Guidelines, but Skeptics Say Not Enough
You 100% can if you use metal 3d printing

or lost PLA casting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics
Tracking where Chick-fil-A customers go on Sundays
Great site, I just noticed that when trying to link my friend the www. version of the site doesn't work -- please fix =)
Their share price seems to be doing ok.
Exactly. He's whining that he's on the graph when he's using Google Analytics and Adobe Typekit!
Founder of Capiche here!

Yes, this is obviously a risk, just like lots of employees who share their comp packages on Glassdoor are taking a risk. A few things to note: 1) We're finding a ton of really interesting pricing data that is NOT under NDA (including companies that don't use NDAs, as well as companies with seemingly transparent pricing that A/B test so often that everyone is paying something different.
How many of your tvs have you actually needed to repair though?

My 14inch CRT broke, but then I had given it to my parents because I had a flat screen. I replaced the flat screen because the hdmi was out of date, it didn't have digital, etc, etc, etc. So I'm on my third tv in 25(?) years and none of them have broken (for me). I could see a nes being different as that's attached to a library of games and aren't made anymore. I would guess if they were still being made, and there was competition, a nes would be very cheap, and not worth repairing.

You only appreciate the easily replaceable units because you have to replace them
Taiwan has also put together a pretty dominant position in industrial automation, with companies like Hiwin making the robots and components that go into those factories. They also are very close to customers in Japan, Korea, and China.
Bert for Coreference Resolution: Baselines and Analysis
Big difference between making general purpose software like MS is and making software specifically for a specific purpose...
The original article:

> Each dot represents one tracking resource (like a script, tracking pixel or image), which would be blocked by an ad-blocker

[emphasis added]

Immediately after excerpting that, the critique:

> This strikes me as an overly broad definition of tracking; as best I can tell, Manjoo and his team counted every single script, image, or cookie that was loaded from a 3rd-party domain, no matter its function.

Ad blockers typically don't just indiscriminately block all third-party resources. I suspect that the author simply isn't aware of which things are and aren't tracking users, and assumes that they don't track users unless that's their explicit purpose.
The parent comments were about civilization collapse and hunter-gatherers, so I was staying on-topic
@BeeOnRope Regarding comments on the blog, have you considered using https://utteranc.es/? It stores them as GitHub issues. I think https://staticman.net/ does something similar.
i worked in an HIV research lab for three years. we were trying to find a vaccine.

in the lab, many of the things we did might have been considered "gain of function" research because we were artificially creating viral particles which had properties which we either assumed were already in the wild (but we had no sample of) or directly scientifically fruitful to explain some facet of the disease. the chances are good that the viruses we made would be somewhat more dangerous to a person than a wild type virus, but really we did not care about that beyond the confines of the cell culture dish.

to be honest, the added threat of the viruses we made was never something on our mind because with a virus like HIV, the risk of a containment breach and exposure that goes beyond one person is very very low. after all, HIV isn't airborne, and if you notice you've been exposed, you can get treated quickly and not contract the disease. for the sake of reference, to work with HIV, you need biosafety level 2+ facilities.

for something like influenza, however, i cannot possibly imagine working in conditions more permissive than biosafety level 3, even before performing gain of function research. maybe a construct which could lend some additional peace of mind would be to force gain of function research with highly infectious and easily aerosolizable diseases to use a higher biosafety level than default. it'd make the research go much slower and be far more expensive, but it's an additional barrier to the public being exposed -- which is already very unlikely.
FWIW you get the same on Linux by installing stuff in /usr/whatever/wherever, /usr/local/whatever/wherever or /opt (which is the closest to Program Files-like place) and making symlinks to the "global" binaries (those meant to be accessible via the shell) while keeping everything else in the application-specific folder.

It isn't very uncommon to see binaries inside /usr/bin being symlinks to binaries in other directories, even if you stick with distribution-only packages.