skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, peculiar. But ties into my point - there's now "Save to Files" _everywhere_ on iOS (even where it makes little sense) and yeah def a pain when apps that can clearly handle a filetype haven't registered as a target for it.

BUT prior workaround was as simple as a basic Workflow share action accepting any input then giving a list of options - Dropbox/Drive, push to desktop over SSH, try "open with" (? can't remember) which for some reason would have a slightly different list of targets...
So, file manager is good, obviously, but you weren't crippled before it.
That's exactly my point. Most of the readers aren't aware of these nuances in technical terminology, so when somebody pops up and claims something that is technically true (as "plane is not unstable") but practically irrelevant (because the plane is dangerous having its own geometry alone and without some additional correction like a correctly implemented MCAS as it should have been but wasn't as the the deceptions were a higher priority because profits) they get a wrong impression that the Boeing 737 MAX and the managers making it are "less dangerous" and "less guilty" than they really are.
Fine, but don't pretend you care about human rights in any context.
Mouse or trackpad? I wonder which is better for this...
I don't see how any sizable foreign company could operate in China under rules like this. All sufficiently large companies are privy to certain trade secrets of partners, vendors, clients through agreements, technology, information sharing, etc, and will have legal arrangements in place for it. If the government gets carte blanche access to their data, no company could operate without violating those agreements.
You are just throwing off claims like "renewable energy is best in every way" which I find hard to believe. So how solar works in winter and cloudy weather? Better than nuclear? What about windpower, can you build it everywhere? Do people want those massive structures flapping away with their noise on every coastline?

And frankly I'm sure experts have had numerous change-of-minds in nuclear power but the general population doesn't seem to be interested in hearing them. While famous people are not experts in general, they speak to the people because they aren't experts. You see, it's more about having rapport than just believing whatever the so-called experts are saying.

Taking your argument even further; are you an expert? If not, should I then even consider your opinion as of any value? It's the lacking of perception that bothers me in comments like yours, I think you come off as condescending and trying to put yourself above others. I value Brian's opinion, I think it's interesting to see his opinion to change. I have had similar experiences, where I have let go of my ego and thought about a thing in a non-judgemental way. Those moments have been quite transformational to me.
I have to say, reading her prose is an absolute joy.

https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002152491/page/382
> the earliest nuclear powers all got into the nuclear plant game to make weapons grade material

You got that exactly backwards. These five states all used production reactors to make their weapons Pu, which didn't produce useful power. Only later did they build power reactors, which don't produce weapons grade Pu.

Do you honestly think, Germany, Japan, Canada, Sweden, Finland, S Korea, Czechoslovakia etc. are/were also only interested in nuclear power as a cover for their weapons program?
Yeah, this seems like a huge overshoot. The US government does try to snoop on everybody's business but an E2E conversation on Wire or Telegram won't be traced. Could say the same for WhatsApp before they decided to go and comply with the UK's ridiculous request for data.

I do wonder how businesses deal with the snooping because I'm sure there are plenty of CEOs out there who wouldn't use a messenger to do deals or negotiations and many of them might be wary of an app they aren't familiar with. What happens then?
None of the games in currently the archive were orphaned when people originally shared them around either, but for the vast majority of them they wouldn't exist anymore nowadays if it wasn't for that original sharing.

Even GOG had to hunt around abandonware sites for officially lost materials.
That's an I tereting point of view, and I don't want to dismiss it out of hand. Do you have any links re:that subject?
The China AWS region is operated by a Chinese company, with all servers physically located in China, thus accessible to the Chinese government.[0]

The above also applies to Microsoft Azure China[1], and any other major cloud provider with a presence in China.

[0] https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/about-aws/china/

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/china/overview-operat...
I find this happening everywhere. Loss leader, great product, next season the product cost the same and is now crap.

Anecdote: in my country they sell Toppits brand cling film, and it used to be great. Now it’s absolutely useless! Doesn’t self adhere at all.
The lagging updates has nothing to do with users, it's a corollary of Google having strategically chosen to build a fragmented ecosystem, whereas Apple built their walled off garden.

Apple can incentivise updates much better because they control the whole ecosystem. To achieve this, Google would need to somehow _force_ OEMs to update Android, but the fragmentation makes this a herculean task.
Exactly. This is what is not coming out in most of these discussions.
1. Boeing took a great design and by moving the engine forward towards the nose of the plane and on a different position of the wing than what all previous testing had been on, changed how that design worked.
2. Boeing then skipped necessary testing, claiming it was an incremental change, not something that effected the overall design. They did this to keep costs low.

Boeing cut corners for costs and the FAA allowed them, in large part because they don't have the people power to do a lot of this testing. People died and faith has been lost in the US's oversight of airlines. This is a clear problem.
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A thousand ways. One really good idea I read was that you write an empty script, which prints the instructions for each step and you press enter, it prints the next step. It can only print instructions at first, then later, you can write code to automate some (maybe even validate things) steps. Something like this:

def git_tag():
print("1. git tag the repository")
input("Press enter to continue")

def git_push():
print("2. git push the repository")
input("Press enter to continue")

def pip_deploy():
print("3. Deploy, run: python setup.py sdist upload")
input("Press enter to continue")

def main():
git_tag()
git_push()
pip_deploy()

As simple as that! Then later, you could write code for every step as you have time.
They were doing this more when Smart TV features were kind of an upsell. Now that they're standard they don't do this as much.
I do not believe it, as it will decimate all their IT industry.

The communist party is embedded and makes money from the industry. They do not want to see it blow up.

Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, JD, all would just die.
Where do appointment letters fit in here?
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That's a really good summary of the issue. Does your father-in-law have an opinion on if the MAX should fly again and what it would take to make it safe?
> In general, software developers have no problem at all with finding a job (or clients as a freelancer).

I was looking for a job in software development for a very long time (region: quite everywhere in Germany or Austria). As of today, I "only" found a job in a very different sector (which is not a bad job, but it hardly has anything to do with software development). And yes, I know quite some people in Germany who also had lots of difficulties finding a job in software development.
Don't do it on Friday.

On a serious note, I have found that the only way to not fuck up is to remove as much human interaction from the release process as possible, which means scripting. Even with scripting, if the inputs are bad, the output will also be bad.
Putting aside the strong allegations made by No Starch Press for a moment.

This is such a bullshit rationalisation.

If the product is treated as fungible, and it doesn't matter physically who sourced the item then of course Amazon is responsible for selling / fulfilling the counterfeit product because, as you say, it doesn’t matter physically who sourced the product.

Amazon is aware of this issue, but fixing it breaks their enabling-crime business-model.
I think other commenters have answered your question, but I thought I'd talk a little on carbonic acid.

Carbon dioxide partitions into water as carbonic acid. This is the key mechanism in ocean acidification. Of course the rate is affected by pH of the oceans, there's a buffering action going on between carbonate, bicarbonate, and carbonic acid depending on how many protons are available. It's also why pure water sitting open to the air will have a slightly acidic pH.

The oceans at the bottom have a decent layer of carbonate material accumulated from shells, which are also at equilibrium with the ocean, but the other direction (accepting protons). But since the oceans are so big, to increase the pH of the oceans you'd have to send the surface water to the bottom. Mixing the oceans is kind of a slow process -- around 500 years. But in theory we'll get some long term climate help from the ocean floor (well, if the methane clathrates don't get us first).
> I’ve always found climate scepticism strange, because of its emphasis on refusing to accept the connection between rising temperatures and CO2.

The connection isn't disputed, the causality is. Look at this graph:

https://totheleftofcentre.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/400000...

You can see that most of the time, temperature rises lead increases in CO2. This implies that rising temperature increases CO2 levels, but not necessarily the other way around.

If you zoom out even further, the correlation isn't clear anymore at all:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cx5-osJUkAAPkF8.jpg

Lastly, what's even the big issue with changes in global temperatures? Even without humans, this planet would go in and out of ice ages on semi-regular intervals. We can't really control that. Life adapts. In the interest of our descendants, we had better develop technology to deal with a tougher climate, rather than cut down on emissions so that maybe ten or twenty generations can live with a somewhat smaller fallout of manmade climate change.
Yeah, this reminded me of that project as well. What are the differences or USP's when it comes to using this BuzMap?
But often it's not. You can find threads on AV forums comparing Costco only models to their common models. Though maybe this has changed a bit as I haven't shopped for a TV for a few years.
I bought a huge 10,000 lux lamp that was supposed to emit similar wavelengths to daylight because I found myself to be a bit sleepy during winters all day long. That one managed to "wake me up" and I ended up as productive as in summer. Some people also use it to alleviate their seasonal depression (never had that). I have it illuminating my workspace behind my back. I believe our eyes have some special "wake up" receptors that react to sunrise and this type of lamp seems to engage them.
"Computers and algorithms" is just a synonym for people; people implement ideas in code, design the algorithms, pick the weights for training machine learning, etc. No matter how many levels of abstraction you go through it's always people at the top. If anything happens in the society there's always a person who made the decision to make it happen somewhere. Deferring that responsibility to "computers did it" is dangerous bullshit.
Well put. Apple _pushes_ OS updates to OEMs/Telcos. Google _hopes_ the OEMs/Telcos _pull_ the updates.
I worked for a legal startup as the lead dev. When written like this is sounds cool, but in reality I was a fresh dev out of university thrust into a top job with no idea what to do, and with a similarly skilled team we bullshitted our way towards a product that got acquired by a large multinational company (again, non-tech). It wasn't a huge acquisition, but enough to make the directors rich.

I left just after the acquisition went through, because I wanted to work for a company where I could be mentored instead of swimming on my own, but I'm still friends with a lot of the people I worked with, so most of this is from an outsider looking in, but with stories from those still in the company.

The parent company swallowed the whole company, and while the product was still under the original startup name, it was built with the whole parent companies resources. While the product sadly no longer exists, they invested heavily in making sure it was a top resource, and fed into their main business.

Culturally, the place changed considerably. They went from penny pinching to giving generous budgets and perks to their employees. They were still to date the only company I've known that gave software engineers full flexitime - allowing people to work extra hours to build up extra holiday, and allowing people to take holiday whenever they wanted, with a day of notice. It all sounded amazing, but the biggest problems many of their faced was that the dev team didn't really improve. The company itself didn't have any other developers, so the same group of recent grads worked together for years. They've all left the team now, but many of them spent years working on a product without any other input. In this time, I had worked at three different companies with dozens of other talented developers, and I had learned a ton from them. Would you trade in mentorship and peer learning over insane company perks?

The last one is a negative one. The startup had several "divisions", and while the product is what got us acquired, the main money-bringer for several months was a call centre used to cold-call companies to pass on leads. They also dabbled in PPI, and other schemes from that time. We all knew that it was the product we had built that the company had wanted, and although everyone had been given new contracts at our new parent company, it became pretty clear that it was "only" the product. After a year, the owner had left the parent company to start a new venture, and mere weeks later everyone outside of the core product team that hadn't moved into other roles were made redundant. Our core product team consisted of about 8 people, in a company of around 50. A year after the acquisition was complete, only around a dozen remained.
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It's a valuable lesson to be learnt during one's career, especially if one tends to come up with very unique and esoteric solutions, or is heavily into all things novel. Your beautiful system isn't an island, and it's going to have to interface with the rest of the "obviously" much less perfect world at some point sooner rather than later. I've seen lots of middle-of-the-road solutions succeed where more interesting approaches failed because they did not integrate well with the rest of the world.
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If such policies are truly enforced, there seems to be little to stop China from stealing absolutely all the technical know-how of a foreign company installed there and supplant it with one of their own later on.
It really feels like they're pushing how much companies are willing to bear to get access to China's market and manufacturing capabilities to the limit.
Those two don't appear mutually exclusive
Why not stick the spec in a different repo? Give an explicitly permissive license on the spec, so that it's obvious that proprietary software can implement it.
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There are special Gunnar glasses that seem to work well by reflecting blue light - they completely eliminated any eye strain I felt while coding in the night. Coupled with natural light lamp, it's a great combo for a winter coder.
"I know "wild west" is a popular analogy, but I fear people may forget it was awful."

Fair points about the American Wild West and lawlessness, genocide, etc. But I think a better analogy would be the medieval era. The economic similarities between cryptocurrencies and feudalism have been fairly well discussed already, e.g. the privatisation of money creation, proliferation of decentralised currency fiefdoms, the crypto-VCs and crypto-oligarchs the new feudal lords and the "hodlers" the new vassals, etc. But the potential social impact hasn't really been discussed much. If the crypto-lords, supported by their crypto-serfs, do succeed in breaking down the social contract, we do risk returning to an era when life was "nasty, brutish and short". Life in the medieval era, before the Age of Enlightenment, when magic and superstition ruled everyday life, when there was the ever-present threat of plague, pestilence and famine, makes the Wild West sound not so bad after all, and is not something I would have thought many would consider aspirational.
Which market?

https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/files/wp2017-25.pdf
Unfortunately without audio examples...
> This is article is nothing more than a hidden message of praise to migration

That is not true at all. From the article:

the key to dealing with this problem is “cognitive diversity”. In other words, assembling a team of people with different perspectives and intellectual backgrounds.

It is not just about selecting people for teams from both sexes and various ethnicities (though that, too). Hire only Cambridge politics graduates (or Harvard MBAs or Stanford software engineers) and they will have studied under the same professors and absorbed similar world views, regardless of their gender or skin colour.

There are two elements to selecting a good team. First, assemble people with diverse viewpoints. ... A study of over 300 projects by the Rotterdam School of Management found that those led by junior managers were more likely to succeed than those led by senior managers—maybe because other team members were less intimidated about pointing out potential pitfalls to someone lower down the pecking order.

Your characterisation of the article as "nothing more than a hidden message of praise to migration" is completely off the mark, and it makes me think your comment was driven by a strong agenda.
And why would they not? The west for a very long time favoured the CEOs and share holders over general population when it comes to globalisation. China exploits that as much as they can.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikecollins/2015/05/06/the-pros...

It is quite amazing that you cannot voice anything on HN anymore without being downvoted, regardless if you literary quoting wikipedia or basic economics.
Its more prevalent now than a decade ago - also OTC type products are automatically being priced and traded (that's a big change from a decade ago).
what does that mean to AWS regions in China?

See https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/18/china_cloud_setup/
> Lastly, what's even the big issue with changes in global temperatures? Even without humans, this planet would go in and out of ice ages on semi-regular intervals. We can't really control that. Life adapts.

The issue is the rate of change, which is unprecedented. The path we're currently on will devastate ecosystems and cause a huge drop in crop production.
China/CCP doesn't care.
There does not seem to be any ban on companies VPNs. They don't need to and that would weaken protection against external attacks.

I think the aim, if I understand it as it is not very clear overall, is rather than government agencies may access the company's infrastructure (VPNs are irrelevant).
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I seriously doubt many people are catching it otherwise the scam wouldn't be so popular. People probably stop reading after the second or third review and don't check that entire pages are talking about a different product.
The point of the article is that they should want alternate opinions. An army of yes-men is not going to be good at critically evaluating the merits of a project.

To give an example from a completely different field, I think this might be a big reason behind the problems with the Star Wars prequels: when he made the original movies, George Lucas was a young, new director, and people weren't afraid to tell him no and offer suggestions to improve his ideas. By the time he made the prequels, he was a Legend and of course he was right about everything.

It's important to have people who aren't afraid to criticise your ideas. Even if it makes the people in charge uncomfortable. Or perhaps especially if it makes them uncomfortable.
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You talk a big talk about right and wrong, but it’s clear to everyone that the CCP is intent on not honoring the agreement that HK be allowed to elect their own leader.

That’s what this is about: tyranny versus freedom. It’s disingenuous and frankly racist to compare this struggle to what a poor family lives through, and then conflating that with their skin color. I’m sure there are legitimate concerns with regards to the justice for minorities, but your argument is that that’s only the concern of black people? No. Your argument is a very typical CCP stance that the West best keep out of their dealings. No, I say, let’s stand for freedom and democracy when it is truly being attacked.
Well, if you follow the fable, it's actually now that you should see everybody claiming that these clothes are wonderful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes
I mean okay, you could change it from "hatred" to "prejudice" or "animosity", and it doesn't change my point much, does it?
You've missed the point. It is well known that co2 is a greenhouse gas. You can do the experiment yourself with some children using a plastic water bottle, a thermometer, and a mixture of baking soda and vinegar. We understand this physics extremely well. Denying the causal effect of co2 on warming is akin to denying the causal effect of gravity towards an apple falling from a tree.
hi, I really like the attention this project is getting and I'm very grateful to all for making pull requests and opening issues, but since last month I'm working on a full time job. the hours are hell but it's decent pay. anyway, I'm about to go in and I don't think I'll have time to dedicate to this project anymore. it was supposed to be a gag, I made the whole thing in a few hours on my Saturday. I have other things I want to do on my next break, but who knows? maybe I come back to this and add sound and the "finger" collision. sorry if I don't respond comments and github, they don't like us to be on our phones during work hours.
I made Fooder because I needed to keep track of things I learned when cooking a recipe. Still quite early in the development, but hoping to get some feedback. Not mobile friendly yet I'm afraid.
Cross-laminated timber? https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20171026-the-rise-of-skys... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-laminated_timber .

Though from what I've heard, it's difficult to figure out if they are net negative CO2, and of course the timber needs to come from sustainably managed forests.
It's not Apple vs Google.
Google has a second operating system, Chrome OS, and that team does a very nice job at keeping all the Chromebook up-to-date.

It's one of those old early Android mistakes that were never really fixed.
I think the root issue is that they were never even fully acknowledged.

I wrote about this here:

https://dev.to/jmfayard/android-s-billion-dollar-mistake-327...
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When they’re ready to listen, what do you propose instead?