skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About a year or so ago I realized that I cannot pay attention to English dialog shows (I speak English as my native tongue). I would either look at my phone, or even worse, start doing work on my laptop.

I made the switch to International Shows (that are not in English) where I am forced to read subtitles. I am forced to pay attention. If I don't, I have to rewind or pause.

It's actually a great system b/c:
#1 - Netflix has a pretty solid international library b/c they've been making the global push
#2 - Every country has some good shows (at least a few)
#3 - It's pretty interesting seeing how the other half lives

Also, to a lesser extent, Hulu and Amazon Prime also have good international shows, often licensed from real studios operating in foreign countries.

Occasionally I will watch an English speaking show, but it's an exception now.
not much changes in terms of money. Unlike land and houses on that land, ships (and trailers, vans, etc) typically don’t appreciate in value: upkeep costs are just costs, you’re not usually “paying into” something which you can “get your money back on” later. Arguably that’s true for property too but we like to believe it’s not.

there are many factors beyond monetary value that ought to influence decision-making.
The comments on the quoted OSX Daily article suggest that News hasn’t supported RSS since at least 2017, so not sure why this is news now.
Actually, LOC isn't that bad.
Studies have shown

- that complexity metrics are highly correlated with LOC.
- people can produce & maintain software at about 10 LOC/h. This seems to be a constant of the mind.

It means you're better off doing 10 lines of python than 10 lines of ASM as the 10 lines of python will do a lot more.

Both facts are discussed at length in "Making Software" (Oram, Wilson)
As long as mentioning big projects like this, I'm a fan of givewell.org. Originally they just measured various charities effectiveness, though now they also offer to operate as a (fairly transparent) pass-through. I'm sure charity navigator is pretty good too, but I have vague memories of some issues that made me prefer GiveWell... if anyone else has anything more concrete to say for or against CharityNavigator, I'd be curious to have recollection refreshed/updated.
Why did you leave? (I am just curious) I am considering applying for the company in the coming months.
Humans don't like to see things that they don't like / want to belive. Sometimes to the extent that they even harm themself.

That's just human nature.
Doesn't really seem that difficult. The patterns of picking up a phone, running with it and having it just lay on a vibrating surface are very different. It would be particularly easy to spot panic during a usual running routine.
So, they (reportedly) commissioned Pininfarina to do the design work, as a "joint design team" with the TOGG folks, but based on the fit/finish of the interior (and the design choices) it kind of looks like Pininfarina did the actual manufacturing of this concept car.

I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but it might be a bit early to call this a "fully homemade car".
How often do these defaults happen usually and what happens to a company when it defaults?
Not when it comes to labeling an EPA listed product.

Now, there's an argument that if they discovered something that contradicted EPA findings, that they should have reported it to the EPA and/or published their findings, although I'm not sure if that stands as a legal argument or just an ethical one.

But re: labeling: imagine we're talking prescription medication. One generic lists different side effects than another generic of the same type. Or even benefits. For selling a product that's chemically identical. It would be the stuff of dreams for homeopaths, who could list whatever benefit they wanted, as long as they could find a study to back it up.

Uniform labeling is sort of the (a) purpose of the elevated regulation of such products.
I disagree with you on some points, and therefore my story is made up and I don't have concern about abuse of power.

I'll halt my comments now. I'm arguing with an ideologue, obviously. Nice how you didn't debate my points, you just doubled down on your blind, juvenile tribalism, and positioned me as being partisan to the enemy. Ideological possession personified.
You can think whatever you want but riddle me this: In what other country do large businesses get to dictate the contents of government websites, in what country is the head of the environmental protection agency a lobbyist for the oil and coal industry?

The effect of money in politics is tremendous and if not for the degree to which corporate profits dictate government policy through lobbying and outright corruption has no equal other than in the one country where 'the market' is given free rein to abuse the country to whatever degree they can get away with.

I was all for harsh punishment of VW execs because of the diesel scandal, at the same time everybody was up in arms about that and this sort of thing gets a free pass without so much as a raised eyebrow.
In some cases they did pave the way and "resolve" legal challenges, which makes it a lot easier for an open platform to come in and take over.

All of these companies are following the ridiculous 0 to 1 monopoly model of growth and are wasting a ton of money trying to capture any market that they can get their hands on. It's not sustainable and the gig workers are paying the price. There's no doubt that they're providing a valuable service that could have spurred growth for the middle class, but instead they're using VC money to undercut existing businesses in hope of building the next Google.
A decent wysiwyg website builder.
Perhaps they might want to know what argument you are trying to make? It is not immediately clear from the link you posted. In what way does that thesis have anything to do with Marxism. If anything, it shows Hillary as a "work within the system" standard centrist liberal. Perhaps I am missing something?
High level multiphysics, RF, and CAD tools and simulators. Autodesk, Ansys etc. still dominate the field. The state of tools like OpenFoam is like the early days of Gimp and KiCad; theoretically possible to use but only if your background is in software engineering and/or if you are really, really poor and desperate e.g. a grad student on a tight budget. If you look at software like open source FTDT sims, almost all requires specifying layouts, project settings, and designs in ridiculously long config files that would put JS build tools to shame. If you are lucky, you might be able to design your model using a proper GUI e.g. Gmsh. If you are not, be prepared to start drawing out your model with a text editor, point by point. Imagine creating SVGs by hand, that's how ludicrous it is. Most of the "open source" stuff are grad projects, more of an exercise in show and tell than anything serious. Sure it is perfectly possible to specific the cross section of an airplane wing by hand. By the time you are done with that your colleagues using proper GUI tools have already ran their simulation and published three papers.

For those who are interested, one promising project is SU2:

https://su2code.github.io/
The truth is that he doesn't know why he was banned. Could have been a bug. Could have been something he did. Could have been the host knows someone at airbnb and got the guest banned. It doesn't really matter. Amazon does the same thing. Google does the same thing. Uber does the same thing. Yeah, people can argue companies can do business with whomever they want and blah blah (blah blah because the argument simply boils down to everything legal is fine) but the reality is that many of these services are essential for some people and we as a society need to start treating them as such. We should require clear explanations from such businesses at the very least. Otherwise, how do we know they are not breaking the law? Maybe they banned the author because they didn't like his ethnicity or gender or some other protected status. I do not see why we should give corporations such rights of refusal when we cannot police them to make sure that the rights are being used properly. I don't understand why we as a society don't make the corporations work for us rather than making us, the people, a slave to the corporation. In theory, we can do either. Reality is another story, of course.
Even traditional car makers have a long list of suppliers, for many key components including entire drive trains.
I'm not surprised to hear this considering what an out-of-gate unquestionable home run Apple News has been.I mean, it's been such monster success that Apple knows even its dumpster fire of a UX and god awful search functionality aren't enough to keep away the literal dozens of users it has. With no where else to turn for news the Apple faithful will just have to accept that Apple's decision to not support RSS really is the best decision for everyone one involved. I for one welcome this brave new RSS-less future!
You can leave out the first three words of that sentence and it would be factually correct, more compact and less qualified. A win on all counts imo.
I consider almost all charities to be scams, it's an easy way for a few people to make a lot of money and everyone else to get shafted.
- keep a daily journal, to be able to look back on the elapsed year

- write more blog posts

- learn, learn and learn new technologies

- try to raise correctly my newborn

- read books
With all its engineering mighty it can't even produce quality appliances (BEKO) and we are talking about cars here.As someone commented here, it all looks great on paper but as soon as you start making it, you realise it ain't that easy.
Maybe the new "open" Microsoft will put it up on GitHub. Probably not though. I imagine the code base is a mess at this point
The number of people switching to BSD because of this is exactly 0.

Further, as an avid user of Ubuntu, who reaps the benefits of millions of work hours of Debian &/or Ubuntu employees, I'm ok with advertising whose source code I can audit, and modify even.

And to think that the majority of dissenters are commenting from their closed source Macs & iPhones, or their equivalent commerical competitors, on Google funded browsers tracking their every click, is all a little ironic
I think the definition of "good" matters a lot here.

Consider Adobe's Photoshop and Lightroom. Many people (including me) would love to see those supported on Linux, or even better, be out-classed by open-source software, e.g. Gimp and Darktable.

Gimp and Darktable truly are wonderful pieces of software. But they aren't yet compelling enough to cause a mass-migration by professional photographs. Another example would be Microsoft Office vs. LibreOffice.

So you may need to refine your goals a little: Do you want to (a) fill a gap where no viable OSS exists, or (b) help OSS dethrone proprietary software in some category, e.g. Photoshop?

> So a person who is thinking about creating a new open source project can get the idea and start making a alternative?

I cringe when I read that, because I've asked that question many times for myself, and I never ended up following through. I think there's some wisdom in the notion that the best OSS project idea is one that solves a problem you have. Otherwise it's just too hard to really see it through.
"housewife panzer tank" if anyone is wondering.
Show HN: PicCOLORS by PrinterPlug- Cost Effective Printing of Color PDF Document
their shirt quality has gone downhill. they cut too many costs.
Why? Unless you check "don't ask again" it will always ask...
#1: Rapidly climb corporate inner social circles.
It wasn’t me that made that comment! You’re getting me confused with another poster.

“Frankly, most people find accusations like that pretty insulting.” ;)

Like I said, I’ve been open minded. I don’t feel others have shown the same respect in return.
attempting to use nextcloudpi on a pine64 rock64 with a mounted data directory (NFS share from my NAS). The data directory must be brtfs and I can't resize down / add in a partition on my NAS software. So i'm stuck for the moment.

I'll likely use a spare 1TB USB hard drive as data dir and backup regularly, i'm unlikely to use more space than that - or otherwise just host the whole thing on AWS instead of at home.
We Learned to Write the Way We Talk
You dont have to burn the books, you just remove them.
I lately saw presentation of VW also claiming how EV is several times “simpler” and “less parts”, and then the next slide was that their next gen similar size car is “only” about 2 times more expensive than ICE. 2 times simpler should convert to 2 times cheaper also, or what I miss here? Lithium is so expensive nowadays?
India’s Muslims and activists face mass arrests, beatings|citizenship-law unrest
Republicans just lowered taxes for the working class and increased it for the management class. How is that typical capitalist right wing? It was basically tailor made to hurt the coastal elites since only there do a significant number earn enough to get the extra taxes.
strong agree.

This isn't a nuanced or deeply explored post on the topic of moderates. Same as the previous post that was on here this week or last. Name brand carries a lot.
Decentralization cluster (featuring Monero), streaming at:
https://youtu.be/Xu_QH6oi7oA
There's tons of highly specialized vertical market software that will basically never have open-source alternatives. Every industry has a few examples. I at least know of the high-end CAD, FEA, and CFD software used in certain branches of engineering. See Ansys, Autodesk, etc. The reason why is that building this type of software correctly requires an immense amount of domain knowledge. That type of knowledge doesn't come together in a useful way without a lot of money.

Such software also doesn't get used enough to be trustworthy as far as results without some other big companies using it to do things with and testing the results. What company is going to trust their product designs to the results of a bunch of open-source code with no company standing behind it?
Tribes, religion, monarchy and communism all failed to greater or lesser extent before they could take the planet down with them. Their built-in faults were such that they did not need to be reined in before they self destructed.

But capitalism is so successful by the one metric that matters to it - money - that it has the potential to destroy everything else whilst still maximizing for that one metric. The concentrating effects of wealth make this even more likely. After all, people will rarely bite the hand that feeds them, guaranteeing docility whilst marching them right into the abyss.
I wouldn't go so far as saying you're an outlier, but nuanced individual motivations for retaining a subscription are hard to measure at scale. Lots of people would love to cut $10/mo from their budget, and the thing you barely use is one of the easiest candidates, so keeping hours-viewed/subscriber up is both easy to measure and likely a very high-quality signal of subscriber retention.
I know a lot of people that proudly says that virtue is in the middle. They think that the middle is a definite entity and extremes are caused by some flaw in character or interests.

I'm usually uncomfortable talking politics because I have "radical" ideas from both sides. I believe in public healthcare and education for good reasons, mostly experience and observation. For most everything else I could be defined as libertarian. I'm also pretty skeptic of decentralized power: municipalities tend to create idiotic regulation and pork barrel politics, I'd rather have laws passed by national parliament.

So I can tell you exactly where a conversation with intentional moderates go astray, wheter they call it that to themselves or not.
Falling back to SMS is an option in Settings. I personally have it disabled - when disabled, it spends longer trying to resend the iMessage rather than sending an SMS rather quickly.
If you think there is nothing wrong with your boat, there is something seriously wrong with your boat.
hausfrauenpanzer This needs immediate adoption in English, it fits perfectly!
This is great. From the video, a Deliveroo representative states that the "hygiene inspection" is not a blocker for the "Italian Stallion" to begin accepting orders. That is flabbergasting.

> https://youtu.be/k47u9tduwb8?t=128
I've been thinking about making a language since 2004 or so but never actually made a serious attempt. I worked on XXL by myself for about four months with the support of my employer. I'm kind of an idiot so I had to learn a lot of stuff to make any progress at all.

The hardest part was figuring out how the execution mechanism would work - what exactly happens when code is evaluated, etc. There is obviously tons of prior art to look at from other languages but I wanted to take my own more minimal approach to the problem and not design an entire virtual machine with bytecode, etc.
How to Get a Job Using Open Source
I'd love to hear what your liberal and conservative leanings are and why they make you so brave.
I switched recently from Vim to Evil after more than two decades, mainly because I prefer proportional fonts these days, and also because of Magit (I’m really annoyed by “free” Git GUIs going the subscription route after building up a big enough user base).

The road has been bumpy so far, but I’m slowly getting used to Emacs’ idiosyncrasies. The journey has been worth it.
Great stuff, looks very nice and good addition to the django community.
> still leaves C exactly as many levels below "high level" language as it was before

And the levels below assembly are inaccessible. Assembly/machine code is the lowest level you that's accessible.
> no mention of U2F/FIDO

I came here to say this. U2F is my authenticator of choice, as I believe it is the most secure of all the alternatives. The only downside is having to manage multiple tokens on each account, but it is worth the trade off for the security it adds.
Could reddit be also consider as a brain which can do filtering and sorting of content.
This is my pet peeve. I'm already working in a relational language (http://tablam.org) to use as the core.

My dream is to have not only an Access/Excel(in the role of pseudo-table programming) alternative, but one that could work great in a iPad/mobile device.

Also, in this space, most "options" are fully on the cloud.

Thats cool, but will never be a real challenger to Access or Excel if depend on cloud 100%. I need it to work fully standalone.

My first programming language was FoxPro. I know what it look like to "live the dream". One single language and environment and you TRULY code ALL the app: Db, logic, forms, reports, web services, etc.

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BTW: why start with a relational lang? The MAIN power of the dbase/fox family above access was to have a truly tailored language for the task. With office, you MUST work from a paradigm (Access:Relational, Excel:Reactive functional) and become an inferior procedural maybe OO developer (VBA) to finish stuff. The dissonance is heavy.
More, I'd imagine you could look for a signal common to many devices. Unless you are picking up all phones in your household with the same signal, any signal common to them all is likely more global. Could detect if folks are in the same car?
In fact there's plenty of saying no and choosing what to let sit idle happening in my portfolio, so I concur that's just part of being a mature manager. In fact I could point to at least two places in my organization that are somewhat "idle" at the moment where I could actually put additional attention. However creating that bandwidth would break other things.

FWIW, I'm the only one on my team working these kind of hours because we're still establishing our whole organization and my roles are sundry. I also recognize it as an outlier position, so I don't expect anyone to work anything more than the 40 hour week they are being paid for.

I guess rather than talking though specifics though, it's better to ask - when is it reasonable to expect a work schedule like I describe to exist and for how long?

There's no single answer to this, but it's probably a solution to the inputs of product/business maturity, funding and number of personnel with the right skills. If any of those three are "out of balance" people will need to be putting in more work than their pay and job descriptions provide for.

I'm sure being an engineering manager at a FAANG is probably pretty reasonable from a lifestyle perspective.
It is impossible to predict how your child's life is going to turn out. I know a bunch of people who are making great livings with degrees in supposedly "low earning potential" fields like art, English, etc. Some are web developers, some are medical professionals, some are social media experts, some are entrepreneurs, etc. Who knows what the future of the economy will hold.

IMO it is better for parents to stick to logistics and standards, like "this is how much we can spend on college" and "this is how hard I expect you to work."
This is true, but i doubt it was just 10$ piece - they did many of these shortcuts that probably didn't matter. They probably didn't use the _best_ material on your kitchen countertop, because the marginal value over good enough is not there.

In a similar analogy to yours, most of these systems tend to cause outage somewhere, which are then usually patched on the fly. Depending on a project, shipping fast is usually more valuable than not shipping it for a year. From my pov, i used to be in advertising, and not releasing a billion dollar feature for a year would, by definition, cost a billion dollars a year. If it explodes after releasing, you are still better of by a huge marging because outage would cost much less. Once you have the business going, you can spend money and manpower on the problem, too.

I think this is key: "Hard way not being harder". This depends. Engineers like to overengineer, and without proper supervision they tend to favor technical excellence over business usecase - it needs to be a balance.

On the house example, i bet the value of your house still increased, and the 1500$ you paid is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. Just like business & rewrite.

Overall, don't get me wrong, I like to use my best skills and put a shiny design out, but i don't do it because I favor doing "good enough".
Not many options. Move to SF and tough it out, really.
Not assuming, just anecdotally telling what works for me.
No, they’re not.

I retired last year.

I deployed to Afghanistan multiple times.

I’m literally someone who experienced the life you’re trying to tell me about. Your studies are mostly bullshit written to drive an agenda.
Ghost kitchens are nothing new, because prepared meals that cannot be bought from the kitchen by retail consumers predate the "internet age". For instance, who does the article author think produces airline food?
I consume most content via RSS. It certainly doesn’t feel dead to me.

There are ways to get Facebook, Instagram and Twitter content into RSS too if that’s what you need.
Give a shot at krita it's good for digital raster art. Not for image processing.
> In 1969, $(person) wrote a 92-page senior thesis ...

A real moderate would be immediately suspicious, regardless of political stance, of any claim that a thesis paper written 50 years ago was somehow relevant to the same person's current political position.

Besides, I thought colleges were supposed to be a bastion of free ideas where people could say controversial opinions?
Interesting. Why wouldn't there be an opposite corporate side that would make money off the stuff being removed. For example, there are a LOT of companies in the U.S. making money from environmental and alternative energy that might benefit from information the corporate interests had removed.

Maybe that _does_ boil down to just the political parties in charge at the time. If so then does politics trump capitalism?
Most of us are not actual engineers (registered, and with a seal). We are software developers.