skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a decent criticism of Rails, but there are things you can do to make it smoother: try to avoid doing unusual things.

A big point of using a framework is to leverage an ecosystem other people's libraries (and stackoverflow questions!), and they will typically only work well if your code is relatively "normal".

If your code looks like "beginner" code in the framework, you're doing it right.

As a point of comparison, I switched to Django for a few years after a few years of Rails. Django was a lot less magical and was more debuggable. But Rails' magic actually encourages a better project structure. Django doesn't care about your structure.

I also found the thoroughness and completeness of the ecosystem surrounding Rails to be stronger. That is the real selling point to me. For most things you want to do in Rails, you will find a library that integrates with the project and DB structure you already have.
PostgreSQL when it's not your job [pdf]
Those are temperate cyclonic storms. And yes, for whatever the reasons, they're strongly evident in the Antartic region.

In the Northern Hemisphere, the "nor'easter" is a classic variant. So called as the weather (wind, rain, snow) tends to come from the nort-east due to cyclonic rotation.
You understand that a contrary ruling on Citizens United would also allow the government to shut down numerous organizations advocating for addressing climate change? If the government can ban a political movie about Hilary Clinton (which is what was at issue in Citizens United), it can ban a political movie about Trump’s effect on climate change.
Sounds like undefined behavior, to be honest. No wonder Apple doesn't update GCC, they might just decide to optimize all the msgSend calls one day.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/07/testing-picture-in-picture...
Kipchoge probably burned about 2500 kcal according to online calculators. Maybe slightly less in reality due to drafting off his pacers and having an exceptionally efficient running form.

Runners can drink anything they want as long as it doesn't violate doping rules. The elites all have customized carbohydrate mixes.
Since I can't edit my sibling post:

I wanted to address your point about the "correct" answer, because it's actually not so simple:

The billboard spec allows for a device to be both a DisplayPort 4-lane and a USB 2.0 device (This isn't theoretical--I have such a device in front of me. It's a passive DisplayPort + 2 port USB2.0 + microSD "hub").

The HDMI adapter I hypothesized in my second scenario is a passive HDMI adapter. You're correct that passive HDMI + USB2.0 is not possible, but substitute a passive DisplayPort for passive HDMI here and the idea is the same.

In the third scenario I am hypothesizing an active 2-lane DisplayPort to HDMI adapter (These are also not theoretical--this is how the Apple "HDMI Multiport Adapter" works).

The hub I hypothesized for scenarios 2 through 4 (which does not exist) is one that would be smart enough to do the following:

1. Recognize the video dongle's billboard

2. Send the host a "fake" billboard for "DisplayPort 2 lane + USB 3.0" or "DisplayPort 4 lane + USB 2.0" (as appropriate)

3. Re-configure the downstream USB-C as USB 3.0 or 2.0-only ports (again as appropriate)

4. Route DP to the dongle (perhaps via an internal DP -> HDMI converter, if the hub has one), Route USB 2.0 or 3.0 to the internal hub, and route the hub to the downstream USB-C ports.

I don't recall if rewriting the billboard is allowed per the USB spec (I think it isn't). But you can see how it would be possible for a hub to support alt-mode routing, even if the spec doesn't formally define it.
If I understand correctly these stats will depend on the text you type, so each natural/programming language (especially programming language) will have a different stats, right? Think typing python vs typing perl for instance...
Believe me, I understand ssh well:) I known you can ssh virtual machines, but you just can't run alacritty on them, even in windows sandbox.

Everyone has their own selection, I respect and also keep mine. So don't worry, everything is just the beginning, I will try my best to create a good terminal, just like what I did in the past.
Different browsers for different tasks. 99% of surfing happens on firefox. Some sites like vimeo only work in chrome.
What a horror show of a response! I would try in the future to avoid making projects that depend on that kind of feedback.
Wonder why `no` instead of `not`.
I think that was Duet Display
https://archive.is/8SPxK
Safari has only weak protections, basically url-level blocking equivalent to Pihole. Last I checked ublock origin does allow blocking elements by DOM selector.

One day ads will start being plexed with content over websockets and the DOM-level protections will be all we have. Firefox is really the only alternative here.
So mind reading is your argument?
Fab-Ulous on GitHub
In general I guess you don't exactly get to choose willy-nilly which state you want to belong to, but you can make a choice to trying to get out of your current one, at least usually.
I’ve never owned one and don’t plan to. I don’t need one more device strapped to my body distracting me every ten minutes...
I use a credit union. No fees. No hassle. I’ve been able to get money and pay for things using my credit union account on 5 different continents. The only exception is China where many places require Chinese credit cards. Solution: carry cash.
> My doctor gave me a prescription

For metformin? Or?
Same surprise, why are 13 people needed for a shareware utility. Maybe that was their mistake: if they made the app free, everyone would use it and apple would acquire them.
They don't want to support charities.
They want to get people that want that to spend more money with them.
They did the math, and the number of people that will say "no" to that permission is significantly smaller than the amount of money they make from forcing that permission in order to get them to give their scraps to charities.
For me, some new-ish books are available via Inter-Library Loans (https://w.wiki/9yP), and it is quite awesome for me. I have to pay for the postage but local government pays 70% of the bill for me so I pay ₩1500 (approx. $1.2).
I'm saying that the arguments are ideologically motivated and are not put forth for their own merits.
Is that really true? I thought Brave was a novel ad sales platform that allows users to bid against ad companies for user time. It's inherently wrapped up in the cryptocurrency ethos (trying to inflate a Token) which will not really lead to profit for users, but for a founder.
I'm not adjacent to that at all, so I'm completely in the dark. What are the migrating to?
I have some sympathy for those complaints: I've been using Firefox since 2004, but for whatever reason I can't use it on my lab computer. It's a ThinkPad t430 running windows 10, and on that machine Firefox will slow the machine to an absolute crawl even with only 3 tabs open. I spent an hour trying to diagnose it to no avail (I can't just install Linux, I have some serial hardware that is windows-only) before just giving up and switching to chrome.

However, this is the only time I've encountered this issue, and I tend to think it's more likely an issue with the windows installation than Firefox. I'm just too lazy to reinstall, this isn't my main computer after all.
90% of the time I search something, I already know what website I'm looking for. For instance when I searched for "Monaco Grand Prix" a few minutes ago, I already knew the result I wanted was the wikipedia page about it. So instead of searching on google "Monaco Grand Prix wiki" I searched in the firefox address bar "wiki Monaco Grand Prix". Wiki is my search keyword for "search this on wikipedia".

By creating search keywords for my 5-10 most common sites to search things on, I have eliminated the majority of the searches I would have otherwise sent to a general purpose search engine.
Firefox is really dying compared to Chrome but I honestly think this is going to cause it to rebound.

People aren't going to be happy without uBlock and Ad Block...

Google has been REALLY dropping the ball in the last 2-5 years. What's a NEW Google product that you actually like (that they didn't acquire)?

They literally CAN NOT build new products that people like.

... all their hardware products suck. New things like Google Allo exist for like a year and then they are killed.

It seems like they give a half-assed attempt at creating new products as a way to keep skilled talent at Google rather than having them leave to work for Facebook or Apple.

They're actually DECENT at large acquisitions but that's the only thing that's saved them.

It's really a shame because Chrome is actually a GREAT browser but I won't use it without ad blocking.

I've already migrated to Firefox on my phone and it's been pretty great so far. It also supports extensions on mobile which is huge!
One problem with this is that's ex-ante, not ex-post. Eg, it asks a bunch of bureaucrats to evaluate a technology before it's deployed, before they and the public get to see how it actually works, as if they have some insight into the relative pros and cons and public reception of an innovative new thing in its formative stages. Not very empirical.

A better ex-post structure would be to blacklist/regulate something after the fact, only after it's evident that its public harm outweighs its public benefit. For things that are quite obviously harmful, like toxic/medical waste handling and stuff of that nature, there are already ordinances in place for that.

But most tech businesses are not that obviously harmful, and strict ex-ante regulation of them will stymie creativity more than protect the public.

It also prematurely shuts down possible systemic adaption. For example, the introduction of Scooters and eBike rentals in SF started a conversation there about whether the city should ban cars for anyone who is not a resident of SF.

Eg, build a bunch of parking garages ringing the outskirts of the city, and anyone coming to SF who doesn't live there, either has to take CalTrain/BART into the city, or park at a garage on the outskirts and take Muni/BART/train/car service/taxi/scooter/bike/etc. into the city.

That was an interesting discussion worth having, but ex-ante blacklisting of new tech will reduce the impetus for that kind of innovative solution finding and public discussion.
Couldn't read that behind the pay wall.

Meanwhile:
https://www.economistgroup.com/results_and_governance/result...
Everything can't be a web app. This is a good example of one.
Even they will develop criteria for when they pay for an intervention or not.

Unfortunately, low-value but worthwhile endeavours often go unfunded or underpromoted because the infrastructure makes it too expensive.

Metformin is cheap and large tracts of the population may benefit from taking it proactively, but once you factor in the cost of MD visits for otherwise healthy people, the public benefit can swing into the negatives.
> I don't understand the Google hate, I don't know where it comes from.

Surveillance, advertising, bloat, ever worsening UX of their software, random product shutdowns, random bans & lack of human support to resolve false positives. I could go on.

What people like is software that lets them accomplish what they need unobtrusively. People like Apple's store to the extent it doesn't let garbage and adware in. But people also dislike Apple for not allowing sideloading.

Perfectly consistent position to have, IMO.
Depends on what you're looking for and how much time you want to put into it. What Rails does, nothing else even holds a candle to. But it's hard-won mastery.

Rails, when learned properly, enables complete and total dominion over the entire sphere of web development. Nothing else compares, nothing else even comes close.

Anything you'd ever want to do with the web, save the kind of scaling that led Twitter to replatform 5 years in, can be done 10x faster and 10x more reliably with Rails. The main bottleneck is understanding. There's a zen to Rails that you have to appreciate before you can unlock its potential.

It greatly saddens me that Ruby and Rails has been falling out of favor.
Prusa MINI: Smart and compact 3D printer
Limiting our creativity and avoiding to take certain routes because Google might disapprove is horrifying. Though in this case the takedown was arbitrary, there is no defense against your project being singled out.
No one here has mentioned the open source alternatives: Mahara and Moodle.
And before Steve Jobs came back, Apple would buy third-party utilities to incorporate into MacOS (System 7.5 WindowShade, MenuClock, Hierarchical Apple Menu were all third-party acquisitions)
I tried several times to use Firefox as my default browser, but eventually I switched back to Chrome, due to some weird issues I got at some sites.

I still hate what Google is doing for Chrome and I'm now using a dual browser strategy... I use Firefox and Chrome at the same time, with a preference to Firefox.
Preparing for a big typhoon is very similar to being prepared for a big earthquake for individuals IMHO (see below). While typhoons are somehow predictable, earthquakes are not. Isn't being always preparing for an earthquake enough? Are you always prepared for an earthquake?

This time the only thing I prepared was not going out today and following the news closer. I prepared for the last typhoon and just left my stash in the same place permanently. I've got enough to live for 1 week with no problem (long-lived food, water, money, battery, etc).

Some exceptions/differences: 1st floor needs extra flood protection, for earthquakes make sure you know where the fire extinguisher is because fires are common, etc.

Same preparation: stay away of the big glass windows, follow the news closely, have enough to live for few days, check on friends and family, be ready to get out of the building ASAP if needed, know where shelters and safe areas are, etc.
I've negotiated with dozens of people who favor vacation over salary increase and I'm glad to give the extra time off to them. It's definitely negotiable.
Well, I'm pretty sure "being a dick" was a bannable offense before, so the change of rules is then basically unnecessary.
Webrender defaults to off in most configurations still.
That’s a good point, without proper tooling it’s a toss up which is better (as in, they are both bad without proper tools).
Do you know just how many users here are also tagged with the scarlet 'A'?
You’re using ban like this was something about the government silencing someone, definitely a free speech issue. But that case was about campaign finance and the ability to control how much money, spending, etc., could be used in an election.

You’re being disingenuous to say the least.

Edit: btw I am not a lawyer, and so this is of course my lay persons opinion.
I think that this hits the nail on the head. That often the bulk of the people who use enterprise software are not the true end-user.

Think of Salesforce which people who use it complain about daily. The end-users are actually all the people who get the reporting and sales management out of Salesforce. They love it as a tool. The sales people are only data entry people... Therefore its optimized towards the true end-users.
Their phones are pretty darn good.
In the same way the Soviet Union supported freedom of expression.
Really enjoyed this. Another interesting building is this hotel in North Korea: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel

I guess it doesn't get much attention due to its location...
Their mobile website works great. The mobile app is superfluous.
How do you defend the article from 2010:

https://www.heritage.org/environment/report/how-the-scientif...

Or the "Climate Change Realities" section from this 2013 article [1]. Let me quote a sentence from it:

> Although there is a near unanimous consensus that the earth has warmed, no consensus exists regarding climate sensitivity, the role CO2 plays with respect to climate change, whether global warming is a problem or a benefit, or how current temperatures fit into the broader climate context.

No consensus on the role of CO2, or whether global warming is a problem or benefit... Words fail me.

[1] https://www.heritage.org/environment/report/congress-should-...
Containers were not supported on Android last time I checked, a few month ago. No containers on iOS also.

One more problem is that containers are an addon and do not sync between Firefoxes on different desktops. Still extremely useful though.
That's good to know, thanks. The descriptions I read only mentioned blocking ad trackers, not the ads themselves. If only I had known sooner. I'll have to correct my previous post: already switched.
Sure, but a lot of native apps could be web apps. What I wrote was a general rule and I added "if possible".

For example, their graphical editor could perhaps be a web app instead of relying on big bad Apple.
My dream future: Lifestyle Platform for the future
Right, I alluded to that in my comment, though it wasn't the focus.
> and there is $250,000 in the current fiscal year’s budget to fund the effort.

Uhm

SF spends 2 orders of magnitude more on homeless and housing annually

Feel free to check I dont mind being wrong, the actual point is that this whole article and thread is about a new office on a $250,000 budget and people think this materially effects the city’s resources at all
No support for Android (yet). Install this Facebook container [1] on the desktop.

A request: I run Firefox nightly [2] as my main browser and would like to request everyone to consider using a pre-release version of Firefox if possible. It helps us make the argument that Mozilla should not run experiments in Firefox stable.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont...

[2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/
Can we please stop posting news from sites that you need an account for?
I'm sure this article has been posted on several more user friendly websites.
Looking at another article on this site I don’t trust it has any journalistic integrity.
Seizing the Means of Knowledge Production
How to have this not happen to you:

1) Have your work patented.
2) Be acquired by a larger firm that can enforce your patents.

If you don't have a patent, then anyone can copy anything you create, and economies of scale are going to catch up to you and force you out of business.

I personally don't believe in patents, but it's the only way to operate today.
>> This is a bad way of thinking about maths.

I don't agree. I don't need formal terms to develop intuition. Formal terms are necessary when speaking formally, and they are only detracting from the point of a discussion otherwise.

And I don't agree with this either:

>> But the OPs argument wasn't that one program would happen to be longer, but rather that it must by necessity be longer, because the problem is fundamentally more complex, which is exactly what the formal concept was created to capture.

The way I understand it the formal concept is useful in proofs of the impossibility to calculate various other quantitites. Its utility is not to argue that this or that program should intuitively have lower Kolmogorov complexity.

To be honest, I'm so confused by the use of the term by the OP that I have no idea what they meant to say with it.
Firefox is a superior product and has been for a few years now even discounting all these shenanigans by Google. I urge anyone who is still on Chrome to switch.
Just found my tweet from last year urging people to migrate away from QWERTY:
https://twitter.com/whyboris/status/1036300736953544704
Provide remote iPad features for Windows and Linux users!
A few points on the state of software engineering
Solid point, if you're academically inclined. For the majority of the world's population, though, it's hard not to think "ALIEN LIFE CONFIRMED" headlines in every major news outlet might lead to some other shifts in public opinion.
I got the impression that the study ranged quite a large amount of time, it seems unlikely events such as "taken by roaming young men" would be as constant as the article implies their findings are.

Rather a social construct would seem more likely to be consistent.
The basic facts are:

1. The earth is warming rapidly.

2. Human CO2 emissions are a primary cause.

3. There will be very significant impacts across the world this century if we don't take serious action. The lives of hundreds of millions of people (if not more) will be radically altered.

4. We have the ability and responsibility to take action and significantly reduce and mitigate future damage.

These points seem pretty non-negotiable to me.
Well being that I was talking about IE pre-2010 I guess the next step would be to reminisce... maybe hope not to repeat the mistakes of the past? What do you suggest?
I dunno, I'd understand a one game suspension or a warning or something. I am sympathetic to not wanting to turn winner's interviews into soapboxes. I'd expect a bit of training for the casters -- here's what you could have done differently.

But 6 months is outlandish.
This blog post has a great detailed description of Operation Black Buck: https://www.navalgazing.net/Falklands-Part-6
you people are going batshit crazy over completely unsubstantiated report.

It even says,

> I don’t know whether these are due to Mail bugs or to other factors such as problems on the Mac or with the mail server.
Hey @codazoda. thanks for the input. in the passage, I wrote how PG's essay connects to listening to end-users and solving problems. Would love your input. Thanks!
I'd first spotted Hagibis around 5-6 October through the Nullschool weather visualiser (https://earth.nullschool.net). I've made a bit of a hobby of looking at the MSLP (mean sea level pressure) channel, and rolling the forecast forward several days. What began as an unprepossessing low rapidly escallated, in the forecast, and it turns out, in real life.

Centered view as of the 5th:

https://earth.nullschool.net/#2019/10/05/0500Z/wind/surface/...

A Mastodon post from the 7th:

https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/102922339150883535

There's also been good, fact-based coverage through the Force Thirteen YouTube channel, which I've appreciated. That follows tropical weather and systems around the world, with conditions and model predictions.

https://youtube.com/user/Forcethirteen

Nullschool is amazing. The current rash of wildfires in California shows up clearly as well:

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/particulates/surface/l...
I use jenkins, they are not cron jobs at the system level, but jobs that can either be
executed periodically (defined with cron syntax)
executed manually
or with a webhook (mainly for executing builds after a git push)

You can see the log of every execution, see what builds succeeded and failed, etc. It works for me.
Try running it on a $10000 iMac Pro. No data loss yet ;-)
what do you use? (genuine question)
I would argue that the ad, as it is, proves her point well. Political ads tend to make claims/conclusions that tend to be believable or within the realm of possibility.
It probably depends roughly on the ruthlessness of the oppressor, the terms of surrender, and whether the populace is armed.
Interesting, am I reading this the right way that the larger YC organization's codebase is an outgrowth of the message board tech? You guys post updates on investments/ideas for what startups should be doing just like news links are shared on HN, but actually on HN/not visible to other normal-HN users?
I like this project!
Can you name anything specific that v2 can do that v3 can't? And how important is that to actually blocking ads?
Drop me a line on twitter @sebastiansteins
Indeed. A friend of mine used to work on YouTube's moderation team. Turns out a lot of the "algorithm" is actually humans, hiding behind the shield of automation.
It's a real shame their funding was cut. They really did some amazing work over the years.
There is a da vinci bridge in Norway that was built in 2001. https://no.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Vinci-broen