skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because he isn't complaining about it? You felt like making him a member of the "denier" tribe. See how easy it is to fall in that thought pattern to try and silence and ignore someone you don't agree with.

Some things that certain greens push are ridiculous, many are not.

Ridiculous include:

- rage against nuclear power

- rage against GMO

- rage against pesticides that are better than alternatives

- trying to force everyone to go vegan

Non ridiculous include:

- blocking road building projects through nature preserve

- trying to convince others to reduce their carbon and energy footprint

- promoting renewable energy and electric cars

- trying to save bees

- outcry against oil spills and burning off gas from oil wells

- increasing awareness of climate change

- getting people to eat more vegetables and local foods

- fighting for unpolluted water

Irrelevant include:

- strains of antiglobalism
I personally prefer buying FLAC from Bandcamp. It's the most artist-friendly option I'm aware of (and the most environmentally friendly too!). Some of them even include the same artwork in PDF that would be printed for the CD/vinyl edition.
You're discounting the value of physically experiencing the media you're consuming. Pretentious or not, it really is a different feeling, something that streaming can't replicate.
I just use KeePass, and Syncthing to automatically sync its encrypted password file (and other files I care about) to my android phone and all my windows computers. No cloud needed.
There have been some successful projects in Israel! See http://www.kkl-jnf.org/forestry-and-ecology/afforestation-in...
>always talking about how awesome their company is.

no need for "always talking", or pretty much talking at all - a new over-the-top-packaged Model X and the second home in Los Gatos do all the "outreach", and the casual mentioning of 500K+ total comp and an FB 600K+ offer not moving you because it is much more heavier on stock than your current comp is all the talking needed to easily convince me that my friend's company is awesome (even though i had thought that it is a pretty crappy one until i learned of the money they pay, and they happen to be more awesome even than Google who gave me pretty low offer
) and to make me sorry for failing to get into such an awesome company :).
> Ruby’s Nokogiri, Python’s BeautifulSoup, and JavaScript’s Nightmare are powerful tools to begin learning web scraping

For .NET developers, the Html Agility Pack library is a great HTML parser written in C# to read/write DOM and supports plain XPATH or XSLT:

https://html-agility-pack.net/
Where did you camp at >26k feet? I was pretty wrecked “sleeping” at 13k feet—mostly tossed and turned the whole night—and then climbing to 15k. Can’t imagine sleeping at 26k!
TRAC is dead. (Now I hope to hear from people using Mooers' TRAC in production code. Or CART or SAM76. I have talked to people who used TRAC back in the 1980s.)
I used LastPass specifically because 1Password does not work on Linux. At least up till a year ago, which was the last time I checked, the 1Password extension doesn't run on Linux.
They tested it to 100% DOD (Depth of Discharge) over 5000 cycles;

https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/09/Scree...
How about a FLAC rip of the first playing of a vinyl disc?
>This article is bad. Instead of focusing on the actual topic of the book, it immediately jumps into an absurd comparison between the fall of the Roman Empire and today's America.

It's a coatrack to justify a claim that "Trump is destroying America, and maybe that won't be as bad as that sounds". Which, in turn, leads to Fallows's related article (linked at the bottom), "Trump is so bad that he is destroying America, which is justification to actually destroy America (in terms of dissolving the Union)".
> Um, that is cheating. Running any battery at less than capacity will extend its life. You could put two batteries in the car, run them at 50% or alternate between them, and get double the life. No prizes for that.

Don't phones already do this? (IE: 100% is not really 100%, 0% is not really 0%.)

I don't see it as cheating, it's akin to the practical limit vs. the actual limit
25 Years of PHP [video]
.."APAP" is brand name too.
> It is just semantics, but everything in our life is semantics, so words are important.

Only if you don't understand the meaning that someone is intending to impart by using those words.

And I'd say that in this case, there should have been zero confusion, and that it was perfectly clear what people were trying to say, so the words used don't matter.
Is this actually so simple?
Shameless plug: Here's my take on building images with images. It uses a genetic algorithm. https://github.com/iver56/emoji-art-generator
I work on BMC Software’s ITSM module and the most time sensitive application is Service Level Management.

For obvious reasons, SLA’s comprise an integral part in IT services industry, and if I am not wrong, BMC Software’s SLM module is still written in C++, at least that’s what the documents say.

So far, I have never really seen any C++ stack trace in any of the log files, but some day hope to. Furthermore, I have never even seen any C++ related file in any of the configuration files.
Is anyone working on a reasonably priced turntable to play vinyl discs without degrading them? In the mid '80s, Finial Technology announced such a turntable, and had a working unit at CES in 1986.

It had a stylus that contained laser interferometers that could very accurately and precisely measure the distance from the stylus to the grove walls. It kept the stylus near, but not touching, the groove, getting the audio signals from the variations in the distance to the groove.

In addition to not causing any wear, I remember reading an article back then in one of the audiophile magazines that said it also made records that had already been played many times on regular turntables and were degraded sound new, because the Finial could use a part of the groove farther down than had been used by the regular stylus, and so was not worn.

It was going to be pretty expensive, around $8000 at today's prices, so was probably only going to be affordable to radio stations, archivists, and high end audiophiles. Then they got hit with the double whammy of a major recession and the rapid replacement of a large chunk of the vinyl market by CDs.

Finial was liquidated in 1989, and their patents ended up at a Japanese company. Development continued in Japan, and eventually resulted in a product [1]. They seem to be around $15000.

The Library of Congress and a couple of other places have a system that can recover the sound for vinyl records and old wax cylinders what works by photographing the grove through a confocal microscope. The thousands of photographs are then analyzed to figure out the audio signal. This is still research level stuff, I believe, not aimed toward producing a commercial product, and so would be even farther out of reach for consumers than the laser interferometer turntables are.

[1] http://www.elpj.com/
With the current government, you should from now on. It's becoming "non-patriotic" to report on displeasing truths.
As the saying goes, haters gonna hate.. best to ignore and carry on the process.

Extemely proud of ISRO.
Vinyl is 90% nostalgia and 10% logical. Modern recording methods are far superior and have much better fidelity. I much prefer my flacs on amodern high end system
Sure :-) I guess by "CD" I should have said "digital format" or "digital stream". Having said that is there even a streaming service which would play an entire set of piano concertos? This thing must be 8 or more hours long. I've been listening to it in fits and starts over several weekends.

Also for the doubters, here's a photo: http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/20190908_183833.jpg

As you can see I have CDs and a Squeezebox so I'm hardly opposed to digital :-)
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20910974
> >> Controlling the charge to less than 100% state-of-charge also helps push the longevity.

> Um, that is cheating. Running any battery at less than capacity will extend its life. You could put two batteries in the car, run them at 50% or alternate between them, and get double the life. No prizes for that.

I imagine the idea is that by going to X% instead of 100% fill, you extend by more than 1/X. So at 95%, perhaps we gain 20% life instead of the expected, 1/.95 ~= 1.05 -> extra 5% life.
That's excellent advice too. It should apply to other things like youtube videos that are educational too.
How would word count not be part of a minimalist WP? Did it have cut-and-paste capabilities? A spellchecker? Aiming for 20% is fine, but the final product must still hit the basic features everyone expects.
Time anxiety: do I need a purpose?
Very cool! Thanks for sharing.

Many years ago at a ham swap meet (used to be a thing pre-E-bay) a guy was selling an old record lathe that had come out (years earlier) of one of radio network affiliate stations in SF. It was used to record the network feed so that it could be time shifted to West Coast time. It had been hooked up to a leased telephone line and the live shows from the East Coast were cut into vinyl, and later played back over the air.

Obviously, tape recording evenually obsoleted that equipment.

Luckily, I had earlier that morning burned through my ham radio budget getting a HAL ST-6000 RTTY modem and associated goodies, so I was saved from the fate of adding that particular boat anchor to my collection.
Actually it's not as much as enemies of India. I have seen fairly negative comments about India's accomplishments from neutral folks.

My own understanding is that India's rise makes people uncomfortable because they can no longer think that there's this mass of people who's worse off than them. India's accomplishments challenge their worldview and their place in it. I have indeed noticed this trend amongst people who aren't well off themselves. They are extra vocal and vicious in their attacks.

Earlier, this used to affect me. And I would try to correct them, even have arguments. But I have accepted this now. India and others should just ignore them as it's not really a constructive criticism and double down on all growth attempts
> Are you aware that Pinker has flown on the "Lolita Express"

(1) This happened in 2002, (2) Pinker didn't know Epstein personally at the time and the ticket was booked by his literary agent, (3) the flight was to a science-related event in California and included other scientists who were also booked by the same literary agent.

Simply saying, "Pinker has flown on the Lolita Express" and leaving it at that is an intentionally misleading attempt to create a false image of what happened in the reader's mind.

> Pinker… helped with Epstein's legal defense

Alan Dershowitz, a professor at Harvard alongside Pinker, represented Epstein in that case. Pinker is a linguist. At some point Alan asked Pinker for his opinion about the semantics of a law, Pinker gave it, and that opinion was cited in a court document.

Again, it's intentionally misleading to simply say that Pinker helped with Epstein's legal defense that led to him avoiding a prison term.

This is one of the worst things about the Internet -- people happily joining in on witch hunts intended to destroy other people based on no more information than a misleading soundbite, headline, or tweet.

You're proving the OP's point about overreactions.
Of course each organization should have their own threat model, mitigations and the like in place. Those organizations also know not to take a CVSS base score as a gospel.

However I'd suggest that many organizations are not that sophisticated and that many many organizations take CVSS score base scores as objective measures of vulnerability, and that that is dangerous.

Also the point about things like "difficulty to exploit", well that's often subjective and there's no way the analyst assigning the score has a good picture of the real-world likelihood in every case, so the idea that they can assign a universal number to that is incorrect.

If an organization wants to use CVSS internally and assign their scores for their environment, with a consistent set of scoring criteria, that could work (although I'd argue high/medium/low would work just as well)
> Some local police forces

60 MILLION gun owners... and they All have more than one gun. That's enough guns for Every Man Woman, and Child. Good Luck beating us ;)
unless you're a closeted bald man, I'm not sure why aerial photography would be worse than the standard smartphone variety.
Not comfortable at all. I use KeePassXC on my GNU/Linux machine and my mobile device doesn't have any of my passphrases because:

1. I don't trust my mobile device

2. I don't like the odds of it being stolen or lost

3. I don't need the constant distractions anyway
Twenty years later, my feature request has been implemented
Audio quality on CDs is better than Vinyl (especially over time), but it’s not great. If you care about quality you’re downloading music anyway.

But if you’re going to get something physical, you want it to look cool, and Vinyl beats CDs by a mile.
Don't use a regex to do it. Most of languages have a way to catch runtime errors. Stick regex to a variable, create a dummy input and run that block with a catcher around it. If catcher throws a runtime error, you have a bad regex. If it does not, you have a valid regex.
That's why I decided to trust a commercial password manager (in this case, 1Password). Rather than trudging some unknown third party developer on each mobile platform, I'd rather trust a more official provider on all platforms (which also gives me the increased usability and larger feature set).

Since I absolutely need a cross platform password manager, especially on mobile, I felt this to be the most logical solution.
I'd contact Richard D. Wolff about what to do next.

https://www.rdwolff.com/contact2
I mean, nothing is truly free, but I'm not the one paying for it in this situation, so for me it is free.
I would say passing data back and forward from the GPUs
What does "promoted" look like for an software engineer at large tech companies? In my company you're either an individual contributor or tech lead. There aren't really any other rungs on the ladder without going to manager.
They do, but they don't claim this as any sort of advancement of battery technology. It's batteries 101.
> Not be within 5 miles of most airports, or 1-3 miles from most helipads. (Didn't we convert to metric before I was born?)

Aviation uses imperial units (feet for altitude, knots for speed, and nautical miles for distance).
Where Dollar Bills Come From
> The reason you aren't enslaved or tortured isn't because you have guns.

Of course Not... but it Is the reason We never will be.
The robo-taxi connotation is even worse.

Any robo-taxi can be programmed to drive like a grand-ma to improve battery life. The cost of a x2 battery size is easier to amortize. Its life time can be managed and optimized with ML.

And yes - it can get the greatest and latest battery chemistry.

At this stage - we just dont need a "battery miracle" or a Musk-moonshot (trade-mark?) for passenger EVs.
Followership (2018)
I have few vinyls that are from late 70's and it keeps playing like the first time. And I don't have a great turntable.
These are good years for listeners of classical music picking up the occasional vinyl in charity shops and flea markets. In my experience, classic big name rock records get cherry-picked from everywhere by the proprietors of upmarket vintage stores, but classical music is left alone.

Demographically speaking, lovingly collected vinyl collections are steadily entering the market due to the generation that bought them dying of old age. Lots of great recordings available for bargain prices.
In addition, vinyl's cover art looks great. So many album covers are legit works of art. It's awful shrinking them down to a 250x250px image or a CD cover
I assume the two FAANG you are referring to are the F and G. The rest of the letters aren’t like that. At least no monorepo.
Mwhat are you talking about, almost all are released as flacs these days. Superior to CD and tend to have better dynamic range as well.
You could draw a distinction between nimbyism that infringes on people's ability to do what they want with their own property, and nimbyism in regards to what the government does with its money.
The better design for a scientific calculator is Maxima, or some other keyboard-driven system where the primary UI is a command line. Why? Because you're communicating information-dense messages (equations, arithmetic problems, functions) and text remains the only way we have to do that.

The command line is also the least discoverable UI imaginable. It has absolutely no obvious affordances beyond typing something into it and hoping you typed something the program understood. Even the error messages are going to be opaque unless you have some prior knowledge. There is no "just pick it up and go" with this.

On the gripping hand, however, a command line is the most fluent UI short of the Emacs/ITS affinity for keystroke bindings. Once you know how to do something, you can get amazingly fast. It actively rewards muscle memory and familiarity, as opposed to menus and progressive disclosure, which are precisely as clunky on day one thousand as they are on day one. Speaking as an HP-48GX owner, a good button array with shift keys and some context-dependent buttons can be nearly as fast as a command line, but it's inherently more limited.

My point is this: Discoverability is in tension with fluency, meaning that designing for experts is inherently different for designing for newbies, or people who use the software so rarely they're effectively always newbies. Removing functionality to unclutter an interface is newbie design thinking, as a command line is never cluttered.

(Which isn't to say you can't do both. The Emacs GUI is newbie-friendly unless a newbie is in the habit of jamming odd key combinations at random.)
Shit like this happens more often than one might think. My last job we had one magic disk image that worked and anything else we tried to handroll didn't. (The app itself was written in an ancient version of Django.)

While working on other things I discovered modifications written directly to cached versions of the Django instance itself, which were not committed to any source control. He simply edited the instance of Django in the disk image, which was then replicated to our various deployments.

The worst part was the mods this guy made were perfectly capable of running within our project, from code in source control. Why he took the approach he did was a complete mystery to us.
Look at Audio Technica's LP series

If you have a higher budget, check out Pro-Ject or Rega Planar
I advise against selling your collection. I sold almost all of my vinyl in the late 80s and really regret it.

Also, one of my favorite vinyl albums ever was a cutout Flying Lizards record that I got for a dollar at some very un-hip store. Provenance has nothing to do with it, it's the album itself.
An old boss of mine worked on that beast! From the sounds of it, it barely worked in the lab. He told a story of getting so frustrated one day that he literally shoved his ‘scope off the back of the bench in frustration and walked out for the day. In his opintion, it is a good thing that it is dead and buried.
Some say hiring is as complex as life itself
I didn't intend to say the site should be inspired by HN, and that's not what I mean. I just wanted to say, since this is HN, here comes the drive by well intentioned but shallow critique. Good luck with the site. I hope it gets a more engaging first experience, and I don't hope it ends up looking like HN ;)
Interesting. I forgot how fast the newest iPhones are. 7 seconds on the Xs.
Write your dev blogs quickly using this tool built with react
Positional Scarcity
In the age of treating servers (or containers) like cattle instead of pets, the "Back up everything" mantra has fallen by the wayside. In order to get away with selective backups you have to know exactly where long-term state is stored and you need to have the infrastructure in place to manage re-provisioning everything and restoring snapshots. It's not something you can tack on later. Iterate, test, integrate, document, audit, review. It ends up being much more complicated than periodic wholesale snapshots on a server.

There's a certain elegance and assurance you get from this that has been lost with the times, akin to how monolithic server software with all functionality natively available in the code has gone away in favor of microservices. Now you have message queues, k/v stores, caches, search engines as a microservices that are tacked on to the core services and rarely fully understood by the engineering team and containing more functionality than the codebase ever really utilizes. Ends up being more complicated in manage in a lot of ways. I think the emergence of microservices is one of the driving forces behind selective state backups, because you can never back up the entire state at once, everything is too spread out. You're not going to back up the running state of the k8s node, or whatever
Doesn't someone have a patent on this? I vaguely remember this at one point.
This or direct download, I want the artist to get as much money as possible. The bug companies run off pure breed and don't even give the artist 10% of revenue unless they are in the top 0.0001% who can afford to demand it or walk.
:) I think it's a quite an innovation to have automatic sine tables or whatever the button could be described as, and that the sine button is indispensable - if you do geometry or similar.
I can't answer to all of those points but, at least in Post-Roman Britain, life expectancy increased after the fall of the Roman Empire.[1]

[1]: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/114150...
Yes exactly! I've also been collecting prog rock on vinyl for many years, but that is usually so expensive that getting CDs or youtube rips is far more practical. However classical/operatic box sets are the sweet spot of well preserved (incredible sound quality) and cheaply available. For example I have a second hand box set of Verdi's Aida which has probably bought me more joy than virtually anything else I own, and I'm not even really a huge fan of opera.
That's actually a pretty great accomplishment to find it so quickly. When Apollo 11's Eagle was on the moon no one could figure out where it was. The orbiter couldn't spot it and mission control had all these detailed maps and telemetry and couldn't get the right spot based on data and descriptions from the astronauts of what they were looking at. Seeing something on the moon is hard.
I was born in 1960, and I think I became a hipster when I graduated college (Berkeley) in 1982. That was when I moved to Portland because the only San Francisco jobs used Cobol. I didn't like SV and car culture.

But I always had trouble with vinyl. I lived in buildings with creaky wooden floors and the needle would jump when I walked by. I welcomed CDs.

My dad, however, was more hipster than me. And so I've just inherited 1000 vinyl albums.
Windows calculator is annoying me. I've frequently have to switch to and from programmer. It's not powerful enough to do anything useful, but can convert between number systems. But any switch clears the current input. And certainly doesn't move data over if I've already did a calculation or (, more often then I'd like to admit,) already inputted a number before noticing what mode I'm in. Another issue is hotkeys... sure, there is a way to switch between planes by keyboard. But the dumbed-down interface for mobile just doesn't provide any way to tell you.
I'm not sure whether this still holds, but for quite a long time, vinyl was a surefire way to avoid the loudness war [1] — the physical medium simply wouldn't allow for such extreme transformation and still play well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war