skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting, people have gotten in the habit of hitting the like button because of Facebook (and other social networks have added a version of their own).

As the author of the article says

> When you are writing in the absence of feedback you have to rely on your own judgment. You want to please your audience, of course. But to do that you have to imagine what your audience will like, and since that’s hard, you end up leaning on what you like.

I think if the like button was removed people would engage in conversation, for example if I saw something on Twitter and I liked it and there wasn't a like button I would reply and engage with conversation with the person who posted it.

I really do wonder what would happen if there was no like button anywhere on the web.
IIRC there was a recent article about how VOX was running at a loss and being propped up by certain political actors. I’ll try to find it in the morning.
You think it's literally illegal to fire someone for spitting on their boss?
Yes, note the operational temperature is below 115F as well.
https://www.pckeyboard.com/
Instant.page and Quicklink attempt to speed up the perceived loading of pages by pre-loading pages before a user clicks.

The "Test your click speed" button is fun to play with. Times 50-100 ms for mobile and 150-300 ms for desktop are reasonable long for performing some pre-loading.

[1] https://instant.page/
[2] https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/quicklink
Everyone keeps parroting this same statement because they don’t really understand how commercial real estate works. First of all, there are many creative ways to exit a commercial lease. I won’t go into it, but do some research. Landlords would rather have a paying tenant in the space than go chase a bankrupt company in court. Second, they are charging several times the PSF rate they are paying to the landlords, which acts as a hedge against volatility. You pay a higher interest rate for higher risk credit - this is basically analogous. Third, there’s nothing stopping them from subleasing the space to larger, lower risk tenants if the market calls for it.

Source: I work in commercial real estate.
Thomas Jefferson raped a woman because he was a wealthy slave-owner in a white supremacist, patriarchal society and could do so with impunity.

If you want to understand how to overcome prejudice, it begins with acknowledging historical reality for what it was and not trying to bend your understanding of events to correspond to foundational myths and deifications.
Right, that’s sort of what I was getting at with the word “arbitrary”. Compared to a general purpose db the limitations on what can be joined are pretty severe, if only because of performance considerations.
I like the idea of logging both for a bit! We’ve definitely seen CSS regressions too.
You should have at least two to have critical redundancy. Not to mention making backup testing easier.
fs.readFileSync() blocks the event loop preventing any other code from being run or other events/requests from being processed. Await yields control back so that other requests can be processed while the file is being read.
On the flip side, this will give software makers to keep the bloat to a minimum.
As someone who gave up on Apple in the late 1990s, I experience schadenfreude when they are having these totally unnecessary issues... Year after year after year after year.
Thank God for that.
That's if you are actively trying to do backup.
Also keep in mind the monitoring for the room hit 115F, so the temp inside the tape drive/robot might have been over 115F.

Similar with the drives, but the drives were fine.
Petrol is still cheap when inflation is considered (consider $1 in 1984 is $2.40 in 2018). Also, the first oil shock occurred during Nixon (with a second one under Carter).
I'll tell you why these languages like Lisp or APL or Ada aren't actually good languages.

If they were really good languages, people would not only strongly advocate for them, they would give credibility to their advocacy by writing plenty of great programs in them, even on their own time, because they are very productive in these languages. They would also create best-in-class tooling to further their productivity even more.

What actually happens with these languages is that a certain breed of highly opinionated but highly unproductive programmer gets lost in them, on their quest for a level of aesthetics or elegance or correctness that nobody but themselves actually values. They don't build platforms for others to build on, they build pillars to prove a point.
Are you sure? From what I can find, async [0] causes a function to a return a promise, which then returns the result. Await [1] takes a promise, and waits for it to either be resolved or rejected.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21066539
What's the bet Google disclaim any and all liability for this? eg the time taken to fix this, loss of income, etc.

Seems an awful lot of work related computers (eg Avid systems, and more) have been rendered inoperatable until someone manually boots and fixes each one.
The watch deactivates most features and locks as soon as you take it off of your wrist. You'd need to re-enter your password to unlock it. so it is unlikely that throwing it would trigger the feature.

Also from their initial demo, the fall detection uses more input than just a fast falling motion. Apparently humans fall in a specific way that the watch detects
Might as well use this downvoted thread for my little hobby horse as well: I was done with Fastmail when I realized they recycle email addresses if you stop paying.

They should either lock access to the account until you buy a new subscription (which seems obvious, just hold the account hostage), or lock the account forever if they don't want to store/recv messages for inactive accounts.

Every email startup should learn from this.
What have you done to common household electronics?
Whether it be for fun or for a genuine experiment, what have you done to a household electronic? Surely sticking a fork into a microwave isn't one I hope.
Unfortunately I think we've heard this so many separate times that it's beginning to be the boy who cried wolf.

I've heard "Firefox is better than it was" only for me to reinstall the latest and find it's still way cludgier than chrome.
None, as far as I know
You get that it's super common to await in the middle of something that could be considered a critical section, yeah? And that doing so will result in a different coroutine (for lack of a better term; that's what Promise-driven code effectively is) being executed until control returns to the awaited Promise within that critical section?
> Both are getting absolutely creamed in the market by WaPo’s ARC

Do you have a source for this? Genuinely curious.
> Loving someone from a different category doesn't automatically dissolve all antagonism or prejudice—it might just override it in a specific case.

Well-put. One need only think of how many men love their individual wives/sisters/mothers while otherwise being deeply misogynistic.
Ah yes, the technicalities of our wonderful justice system.
or maybe someone would create an SO alternative as a distributed service where you share and sync Q&A of all the topics relevant to you. Imagine all the answers you looking for are available offline!

SO will still be there but maybe it will start the journey of it's eventual slow death.
That's awesome! I'm excited to see what comes of this! I took a look at the changes and the amount of work here is impressive.

I'm going to guess that there are also major UI changes that will need to come along to make this feature usable. Maybe the release that incorporates everything could be Pi-Hole 5.0?
It seems like median would be a much better metric than mean here.
A friend of mine runs a charity [1] that deals with providing AED (Automated External Defibrillator) devices to organisations. These things save lives. They can deliver shocks to the heart if necessary and can guide laypeople through giving CPR until help arrives (I think many models now actually tell you if you aren't giving strong enough compressions, for example).

I would also highly recommend people go through this app [2] to get some familiarity with CPR. Then take a proper CPR course (I need to take my own advice on doing a proper course, actually).

[1] https://responseforlife.org.au/

[2] https://www.resus.org.uk/apps/lifesaver/
For someone like me who gets really bad poison ivy about once every 2 years these appointments are amazing. I get to tell the doctor exactly what is wrong with me and what protocol works best. I don't have to miss work (remote) and it only costs me 30 min of time. If these types of visits are not right for your situation don't use them.
The same argument applies to DVR ad skipping and previews on movies. If your profit model depends on people not blocking advertisements, your profit model is broken.

I much prefer the way movies and podcasts so it, as in, having the advertisement as part of the content itself. Instead of plugging in ads on the side, podcasts have a small segment where the host mentions a product and gives their personal experience with it. Moves place products in the shot, which is also a kind of approval from the studio. Webpages, however, just throw in ads with no context, and it's completely jarring.

Part of the problem is that placing ads is much easier than working ad placement into an article, and another part is that paying for things online is a painful experience. I don't mind paying to remove ads, but I'm not going to sign up for a subscription service just to read an article without ads. I really hope something like GNU Taler becomes popular to make these types of microtransactions easier to manage. Even better, I would like something like Netflix, but for quality journalism where I pay a subscription for a variety of content.

I want content producers to get paid, I just don't like advertisements and juggling subscriptions.
were pebbles not daylight visible?
Adam seems to be the scapegoat, somewhat justified of course, but the bigger problem of this company being an obvious scam with no way to make money has not been addressed.
Especially since the OS will prevent the attempt from succeeding on most Mac installations. Presumably it is a sloppy mistake, but one in an attempt to do … something … that is probably nefarious.
> Most accusations are real

See, I want to believe that, but I'm not sure there is a way to know whether or not that is actually true. In much the same way that there is rarely evidence of guilt when an accusation is true there isn't likely to be evidence when an accusation is false. I keep seeing people say some variant of "X% of rape accusations are false" but none of the sources I have ever seen have had a particularly accurate way of gathering data... because one doesn't exist. The proportion of unproven accusations that happen to be false is unknowable in practical terms, and I get frustrated by people variously flat out stating it is high/low.
Agreed. I recently gave every Linux DE an honest test drive and... it's clear that nobody really has the resources to perfect them. They all get annoying after a while. I'd be happy with something as polished as Windows 95, but even XFCE has the exact same bugs as when I used it 15 years ago.
Deep vs. Wide Experience
Hopefully it is better at detecting hard falls than my series2 was at detecting the beginning of a swimming workout... I'd be driving down the road at 30 mph brushing my hair and my apple watch would ask me if I was starting a swimming workout. And I had to turn the knob to unlock to tell it no because it automatically locks you down when a swimming workout starts.
A little weird to design this board as an Arduino shield when both of the parts on the board (the FPGA and the ESP32) are dramatically more powerful than the microcontroller on the host Arduino board.
I'm in the process of switching to a 2015 MacBook Air at work because the keyboard on my 2019 MacBook Pro is just unusable. I love the Mac external keyboards. I don't understand why they can't put them in their laptops.
The higher-end tape devices are capable of running at slower speeds to better match the rate you're feeding data to it to avoid this.
Yeah but the impact of race conditions on front-end code (which is always single user) is minimal; unlike the backend where it's catastrophic and not fixable by refreshing the page.
Are you certain of this? It's a common misunderstanding about campus consent policies and it might be true somewhere, but it is far from standard. It might be a part of lower quality consent literature, but that's different from the actual standards determined by school policy.

E.g., The University of California's policy around alcohol and consent is:

>The Respondent knew or a reasonable person should have known that the Complainant was unable to consent because the Complainant was incapacitated,in that the Complainant was... unable to understand the fact, nature, or extent of the sexual activity due to the influence of drugs, alcohol, or medication
#1 starts with not doing the same thing multiple times needlessly (so automate), then it is about mentoring others to do your job (and in general), plus being 100% transparent about what you are doing. Part of mentoring IMO is also raising your hand to help someone else that needs it, but still making sure you deliver on your commitments.

People that hold onto information to try and keep their position are the exact opposite of this idea, probably everyone has worked with someone like this. The dude that "hides" credentials, or says he'll do it cause no one else can etc.

You want to share everything you know and be transparent. It scares some people because they fear they'll be replaced if they do this, but the reality is you can't move on to the next level unless you've made yourself replaceable.

I don't honestly think it is more complicated than that to be fair.

One other nugget to all of this is you have to trust others to do their job, and when things break you have to take responsibility and help pick up the pieces even if you weren't the reason it broke. I think most good people take responsibility, but I know a lot of very capable and intelligent engineers that will never lead a team or be a CTO because they have the complex that only they can do a job correctly. We can approach a problem 2 different ways with tradeoffs each way, but if I am the CTO/director etc and I give you a project to do, along with some direction of course, I need to trust you (assuming you can defend your solution fairly) to do the job. A leader can't micromanage and succeed long term, it just doesn't work. And that is all part of making yourself redundant in my view.
I genuinely wonder what it said when the 911 operator picked up.
Maybe I don't understand your response, but a map of promises to handle parallel in-flight requests for the same resource (which the grandparent pitched) is basically the most elegant yet simple solution to this common problem.

I don't really see how it's a mutex though, you're just returning the same promise to multiple requests. It's far simpler and doesn't use a locking construct.
Has anyone compared this to Wireguard?
I pretty much agree but there is this line "By age 40, the average salary of all male college graduates was $111,870, and social science and history majors earned $131,154 — an average that is lifted, in part, by high-paying jobs in management, business and law." So the GP's prospects are probably better than they look to them right now.
LPG != NG. Natural Gas has to be stored as a gas, and has less energy than propane, so NG tanks have to be much larger.
He literally just finished telling you about how he was negatively impacted by religion when he was a child and under the control of his parents. Children and teenagers have to deal with this stuff whether they want to or not.
Agreed, I went through a similar flow.

Direct link to the image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Pr...

Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500
All the more reason for Apple to do everything it takes to make the Apple Watch work with Android.
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That video card is painful too. I'd be happy enough with 2560x1600@17" as it would be a Linux box... I think. I'll have to take a look at one and see how it feels.
I ordered my grandmother a Series 5 for this feature alone, in fact it just arrived at my door today and she’s coming over later this week so I can get it setup and walk her through the basics.

She has a hard time getting up from the floor if she kneels or sits down as is, one good fall from a cat tripping her or something is likely to be devastating.
I worked at IT for a large university. We had an HP/Compaq SSL2020 with dual AIT drives made by Sony. The issue was never determined (perhaps micro debris in the air), but the drives has to be replaced nine (9) times due to failure. Furthermore, backup and verification is a tedious process, and combined with local and offsite vaulting and tape management, having proper backups is a royal PITA but there's no substitute. Replication isn't a backup because it propagates errors and you can't do disaster recovery without proper software, offsite vaulting and practice.

Backups aren't valid until they're tested.
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Am I missing something obvious, or couldn't they have calculated "percentage less than 100ms" if they were able to calculate percentiles? Rather than collecting just the 100ms figure?
> We have a revised set of commands that fix the symlink more correctly.

Tell your team and your supervisors this:

My computer is not your playground.
Apple doesn't have a 400$ phone, unless you're referring to 2 year old phone. And again, Nexus phones were not made by Google.
Yeah, no.

> As Catharine Mackinnon, the progenitor of the school of feminism from which this movement proceeds, once put it, “Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.”

Plenty of people feel violated after being dumped by a significant other, or feeling unsatisfied by entirely consensual sex (see the Aziz Ansari story). Even getting explicit, affirmative consent is no guarantee that the other party will feel violated.
My father's peer group used to get in brawls with boys from three streets over for the hell of it. See also Achewood's "The Great Outdoor Fight".
I figure the old adage still holds: "If you have to ask, it's too much."
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I think text is more common for casual gaming with strangers. The only times I find myself using voice chat is when playing with friends or playing competitive team based games. If I'm just playing casual counter strike I tend to not bother putting on a headset and moving my microphone.
It takes longer to boil your brain.
Threading implementation was async, not the programming model. Async programming style/model(as far as I'm aware) refers to the use of callbacks or coroutines, neither of which was common at all in C in the 1990s.

Indeed, nginx caused big waves due to its superior IO performance as the first popular async http server released in 2004.

But correct me if you have a different understanding of the term.
I have, back in the day.. both floppy-controller and IDE based... with a whopping range of storage from 220 MiB to 4 GiB.

Since I don't have enough karma to write another comment anonymously:

Restoring from backups is a last resort for very important files deleted more than a few days ago (beyond what hourly/daily snapshots contain) or for business continuity (BCP) / disaster recovery (DR) of an entire system that cannot be recovered via automated configuration management rebuild. Snapshots to nearline storage reduce RTO for most common use-cases, and most users and systems don't generate much churn of data in a day. For recovery of important files, sending a courier out to retrieve a backup tape set from the vaulting provider implies the RTO would accept in a matter of several hours. An RTO of under an hour would imply backups would need to be stored on nearline media (commodity spinning rust) or at a backup cloud vendor like AWS Glacier or Tarsnap, which is more expensive than tape.

The deciding factor of how much to rationally spend on DR/BCP solutions follows from a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) to quantify the loss of a service over a certain time, which drives RTO and RPO goals. (A common factoid of DR/BCP is "about half of businesses who lose their data go out of business within six months.")

RTO - Recovery Time Objective - desire/need to recover within a certain time window

RPO - Recovery Point Objective - how close to the original is the recovery
I bought a used 2016 Leaf with the idea that I could use it for the next 5 years or so and then upgrade to a car with larger capacity (my car is only 30 KWh). Out of curiosity, I asked the sales person how much a new battery would cost in case I had problems: ~$7K. At that price (and assuming it's installed price... I forgot to ask), I might actually be tempted to do do a battery swap after the 5 years if the car is otherwise OK. However, it seriously doesn't look like I'll need it. After a year of use, the battery capacity doesn't seem to have moved at all. In the summer on the slow roads around here I even get about 230 km (~140 miles) range on that tiny battery, which is quite a bit more than I was expecting.

So with all that said, I wonder if they are on to a good idea. There is so little maintenance on these EVs that the occasional battery swap might be fine, cost-wise. You could even sell it upfront in installments -- new battery after x years.
Me too, though it was probably an SMS, not a call. US emergency services accept text messages.

The article says:
"His watch messaged emergency medical services at 12:02 p.m., and an ambulance was there within a minute."

Though this seems to be contradicted by the previous paragraph:
"His Apple Watch had called 911 through the fall-detection feature, which sends out an alert if the wearer is immobile for 60 seconds after a fall."

Edit: It makes a call, according to Apple's docs [0].

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208944
Daring Fireball does this. Charges $8,500 per week.

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Synchronous code blocks the event loop, so in real world code you'd only use the sync-version in some special cases, like when you're reading config files before you "server.boot()" and other scenarios where it's just a one-time cost.

Though the few sync functions in the stdlib become less and less convenient, first when promises came out, then with async/await, and now with top-level await.
Not surprised. IMO WeWork is not bad concept, they have built brand-awareness and a solid real-estate portfolio BUT some actors often magnify what the company actually is ...TBC
Is what you're describing something like transaction time / "AS OF SYSTEM TIME"? From a different starting point, so to speak.
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If all you're doing on catch is forwarding to `console.error`, you could just write:

// code

Outputting errors to console is the default behavior.
Once the housing crash occurred, demand plummeted and the price of crude dropped. So yes?
Database written in not(Javascript) of course, since it has to work and handle concurrency properly.
I agree with you 100%. But it is still very important that your GP gets the records from the service, and to use a service that can do this.
Thanks for handling this so well.

Is there a place I can suggest features? I could have avoided a ban if I had seen your first warning.