skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought RSS simply fell out of majority favor. Are there legal reasons behind it as well?
Yup, except only since the advent of systemd in my case, I don't recall ever needing it before that xD
I saw that happen in a team whose OKR was stupidly tied to story points. They went from 20 points per sprint to 70 overnight, by splitting stories as most as possible. It was hilarious when they reached their quarter OKR in less than a month.
The Fracking Decade
If you're like me and forgot to look at the publish date, the article is from mid 2018 and not recently.
Dropbox No Longer Follows External Symlinks
Fantastic. Now let’s see if they can figure out a way to keep their shelves stocked.
Neoliberals like PG love to pretend that their ideology - neoliberal capitalism - is not actually an ideology. It is ideological framework, just as much as Marxism.

The notion that neoliberals are above the fray of ideology and independently minded, might be comforting to them, but it's a lie. Across the globe, PG and his ilk fit squarely in the various right and centre-right parties.
July 1st 2018...
Microsoft Office because as soon as OpenOffice succeeded in supporting the formats Microsoft updated to pptx, docx, etc. because they know it’s one of the few things keeping people stuck with Windows machines for business.
That is more a case of gui configuration

Here is a real keyboard hacker: https://spritesmods.com/?art=rapidisnake
Nitpick, but the Dow Jones is not representive of the market. 30 equal-weighted large cap stocks is not what the market is. What you want would be market-cap weighted and enough companies so there is no idiosyncratic risk. Examples would be: S&P 500 or the Russell 3000.
> The act of wasting time on trivial details while important matters are inadequately attended is sometimes known as bikeshedding.

Never heard that term before, but it does, in fact, seem to describe a lot of Canonical's issues in the past decade.
It's a nice benchmark, and it's always refreshing to see it included in GUI library tutorials. Small note for the title, the page says it's from 2014, not 2018.

And if you're a fan of Lua and need to write a quick CRUD app, IUP isn't on the list of implementations but:

https://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/en/7gui/7gui.html
Honestly, more states need cottage food laws. I know Washington and Idaho, and minosotta for instance have what are called cottage food laws to allow such food. Certainly, other states I am missing, but I think that more states should have them.

Less Strict (Paper work not required but recommended)
https://cdhd.idaho.gov/pdfs/food/CottageFoodsFAQ.pdf

Paper Work Still Required
https://agr.wa.gov/departments/food-safety/food-safety/cotta...

-Edit-
I do find it funny that the NPR article calls the bill "the first of its kind in the country". Washington (although much stricter than other states), and Idaho have allowed it for quite some time. Idaho even longer before being formally codified.
Jeremy Corbyn is only one player out of many in the British Labor Party. He's a pretty divisive figure for other reasons, and many Labor supporters are even starting to acknowledge this.

In fact, if anything positive can be said about the shift towards favoring globalizing crony capitalism, is that it happens to be somewhat less divisive than the old-fashioned Marxist alternative that Corbyn favors. As strange as it may seem, this was very much a shift towards intentional moderation.
I'm not convinced it's an abuse of power; it's a feature any developer can take advantage of. Your apps get their own protocol, so you can deep-link into one using a URI. But you can also register them to open certain contents natively.

I'm not sure how it works, maybe there's some metadata in the HTML. You can see the same thing in action with the Jira app on Cataline now - any Jira link you click will load up and render in the native app.

That said, it's definitely a problem when you're redirecting these links to things you don't actually support any more, without any way to opt out.
Please open a bug for this. I want to see canonicals reasoning...
> Alternatively, stop supporting companies that covertly slip spyware like this into their software

covertly.. in a shell script anyone can read.

> I'm on an iPad

stop supporting companies that covertly slip spyware like this into their software
Are there any technologically illiterate banks? Between banking and insurance where did technologists operate at scale pre-internet (WWW)? Even with the rise of the internet banks were quick to adopt online features. Even my small credit union in Idaho had online banking in the 1990s.

If Facebook, Google and Amazon are technology companies banks definitely are.
Well, when comparing languages, sure. 10 lines of python gets a lot more done than 10 lines of assembly, but as a metric of how good your code is or the developer is, it’s not so great. Usually 9 lines of python is better than 10 lines of python (assuming lines means code points or statements or whatever rather than physical lines, otherwise 10 lines could be better if it’s visually laid out clearer)
Were these open-source projects result of academic research or someone's dissertation? If so, then yes, many niche packages, for e.g. from CERN are open source even though no one has the ability to go and build their own particle accelerator.

Another exception is public works paid by taxes such as Government open source projects.

And yet, in commercial industry where I've worked - it is hard to find anything that's useful and can replace internal software because there are no free alternatives. I don't expect these things to be out and open!
I might be wrong, but I think that one should be able to utilize JavaScript engine within native iOS app which will use fast implementation.
Truly disgusting.
90 minutes of movie in 8 MB with AV1 codec
Root zfs isn't worth it IMO.
The Week in Tech: What 5B Means to Amazon
Just a cheeky term for my life partner :)
A link might help: https://www.scmp.com

I often stumble across their articles, and often they are quite good. I'd be interested to hear more about their politics and biases so I know better how interpret their coverage. Is there a Western source they would be considered to be aligned with, or are they unique?
And that route is pretty much closed today. If you want to go and re-do the Japanese path starting with motorcycles and then working your way up through simple cars and then more and more luxurious and complex versions then today's 'simple' car is much more complex than the simple cars that Japan started out with. The barrier to entry is much higher than it was in the 50's and the 60's, this goes for any manufacturer. Witness the amount of crap leveled at Tesla for fit-and-finish when none of that would have even been a footnote for a new car launch several decades ago.

Just for a reminder of how bad it really was: at the end of the British Leyland body assembly line men with large hammers would whack the doors from below to make them close properly. Body panels were simply not made to the same standard that they are today and people didn't care that much about such stuff.
Sounds like you’re being a facetious but there are plenty of companies that do pay you if you do end up getting paged. Not for being scheduled on call. Plenty of companies also do 12 hour shifts during the day if you’re on call and have SREs handle the rest for the most part.
He's conflating "think for yourself" with "averages to 50". Sure, it's silly to think one side is absolutely right, but it's also silly to think that the "average" rightness is right in the middle between the two sides (even if you grant the use of a linear model).
A keyboard is not strictly required either. You can use an on screen keyboard with a mouse, text to speech, etc. And on anything that doesn't require text input, it's easy to avoid the keyboard.

The key is flexiblity. On Linux, I could avoid my mouse or my keyboard or my entire graphical desktop if I wanted to and still be productive. Macs don't have that flexibility.

I single out a mouse because it is a very low information density device. It doesn't really do much, so it is the low hanging fruit. Whether a mouse is required by an OS is like a litmus test of "can the user configure the OS the way they want, or does the OS dictate how the user will use it"
Experimenting with Outlines
>Statistically, you still earn way more with a degree than without.

You don't actually. Among non-hispanic white individuals the college premium is at a historic low, for all other groups it's indistinguishable from zero.[1]

And as for realism or pragmatism. I am German and in Germany the majority of people still learn trades and do not go to university. They start earning a paycheck at 17 or 18, they contribute to their social security from the same point, they have good chances of taking over a business given the demographic transition, and they do not have to participate in the competitive hamster wheel that is the American college system or the overrun white-collar service sector including dozens of applications.

And while I can't speak to the crafts and trade sector in the US, in Germany being an electrician is not particularly dangerous, there are strict safety regulations in place and you don't overwork yourself, companies painfully pay attention to it. This isn't the 1920s with people balancing around on steel beams.

When I see the constant anxiety in the US of the millenial generation, the debt driven barely sustainable lifestyles and the constant competition I can only say I am thankful to have grown up in a country where there is a path for normal people to take on jobs that guarantee secure income, without largely useless academic training for a population that is frankly largely unsuited for it.

[1]https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/12/is...
If you have enough work experience you can get onto a distance education Master’s from a UK university without a Bachelor’s.

For example

https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/msc-softwar...

Oxford M.Sc. Software Engineering

A typical applicant will have at least two years' experience in a professional environment, and an undergraduate degree in a related subject. However, more extensive experience may compensate for a lack of formal qualifications, and a strong, immediately-relevant qualification may compensate for a lack of professional experience.

There are others but that’s the best I know of for Software Engineering without a Bachelor’s.
Can you do better than guessing? Hint: Automobiles and trucks have had steadily tightened regulations for a long time. Ships burn much worse fuel than cars and trucks, and have only recently been regulated. And they aren't regulated in NYC.

> “The oil that ships use has a lot more heavy metals in it that have a negative impact on human health,” said Adam Freed, who was the deputy director of the Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability in the Bloomberg administration. “We understood how important of an impact it could have.”
Indeed, and wait until you have to buy and maintain tooling, including cutters, fixturing, etc. That stuff adds up quick.
The basic premise behind AI is to capture human intellectual capabilities with computation. If that's not the goal, then it is just algorithmic research by another name. And if we're talking spandrels that result from AI, why not look for spandrels while researching something that is feasible?
Why is that not incredibly illegal?
Well yeah, obviously. But they don't need to be the vast majority of business on the platform. They just need to be on the platform in the first place.
I am interested in getting these three as rss feeds, not that I use them very much, much getting them into a reader would help others very much.

a quick search shows some things saying public pages can be made RSS, but nothing like a bot that can suck in what your wall or whatever would be and push it into a feed that can be read otherwise.

Here's to hoping the twitter open api thing and the few stories about portable data and standard export for social etc come true.

Or maybe I need to dig deeper, but my gut feeling is/was - finding a way to pull these feeds would lead to the method being killed off by these walled gardens at some point so don't bother. I'd love to be wrong on this.
I only know they don't know now because it would imply you would know what is important in the future.
I agree with your general take, but I want to expand on what I think you were getting at with (1) some. Polarizing issues is a very real phenomenon where by disagreeing on one issue your positions on other, entirely unrelated positions is assumed. I've had people assume I was pro private-prisons because of my view of tax rates, or assume I was against marijuana legalization because of my views on second amendment rights.

The problem with polarizing issues is that it acts to reinforce the tribal mentality. The truth is that most people have relatively complex opinions when they get to genuinely think about them and they almost never fit in clean political tribes. Yet it's to the benefit of a given group to try and lump-sum everyone in or out of it.
The prototypes were indeed made in Italy.
Also note that semi trucks aren't allowed to idle in NYC.
Different bindings are like entirely different variables that just coincidentally share the same name.
Not sure I can agree that shared storage shouldn't exist, just because it could be misused by any given app. Some things simply must be shared: your camera and gallery apps both need access to your photos.

It's like, if a Unix program made private files world-readable by default, you wouldn't blame Unix for providing permissions in the first place.
I'm so thankful for R, it's community and their great libraries! I've built a eight year (so far) career in data science using R to model data and perform experiments. I love R's functional programming style / dplyr which makes manipulating data a delight. ggplot2 is such a great plotting library, well worth the investment to learn. Then there's all the stats tools like glm, MASS, through brms for advanced Bayesian analysis (https://github.com/paul-buerkner/brms#brms). With R and Python, it's a great time to be a statistician-programmer!

I recommend folks looking to start with R check out: https://r4ds.had.co.nz/
The Dow's correlation with the market is well over 90% and it isn't equal-weighted.
> strive for compatibility with the master implementation

Usually the compatibility is not great and thus the lead implementation is mostly used.

> Java, Haskell

Both have standards. Java has extensive standardization.
Ri7laty – School trips in one place
Getting things like wifi and GPU acceleration working on laptops can be problematic with pure Debian.

You _can_ do it but on Ubuntu it just works.
iMessage does MMS for group chat with non-iMessage clients.
Why can't the metaphysical interact with the physical and be detected that way? Most of science today is like this, indirect observations of reality we cannot perceive with the naked senses. If the brain is the metaphysical mind's antenna, then my EEG experiment is observing the mind's operations through the waves it generates in the brain. What remains is to determine of those waves can emerge purely within the brain, or if the waves are beamed in from elsewhere, i.e. the mind. Analogous to looking at my TV antenna and determining whether all the TV channels are being generated by the antenna alone, or whether the antenna is receiving them from elsewhere.

I honestly don't understand why these sorts of ideas receive so much friction. I cannot think of logically coherent objections to them. They seem very scientifically testable to me.
What you've written is largely hogwash.

Most fields are not so competitive that you need a degree from an A-list school simply to get your foot into the door.

But you will need to get your foot into the door. Several or perhaps many doors throughout your career. Your network, even if it is not a blue-chip list of Ivy League studs and studettes, can help greatly. Particularly with your first position.

I went to a rather unprestiguous school thousands of miles away from Silicon Valley and the network I established before graduation has directly and indirectly resulted in a lot of work for me over the years.

Anecdotal, sure, but I've heard enough similar stories to be sure that this is a commonplace experience. Not that I need to prove anything. The burden of proof rests with anybody who makes a statement like yours.

Even if the networking one does at $SOME_UNIMPRESSIVE_SCHOOL results in only a few thousand dollars per year over what one would have earned sans networking, over the course of one's working life that can easily equal the cost of a college education.
I had a friend who went to Academy of Art. He was from very humble beginnings. He now runs a 100 million dollar fine art studio in SF. He made all the connections and learned the business of high end art while in art school.

The article reads like the “crabs in a barrel” only applied to family circumstances. Despite obvious talent, the father doesn’t want his child to succeed and has systematically destroyed her dreams. It’s very sad.
What can we expect from the 2020s?
> Someone recycled five of these Sonos Play:5 speakers. They're worth $250 each, used, and these are in good condition. They could easily be reused.

Then the owner should have sold (given?) them as-is, rather than trying to double dip by telling Sonos they were going to recycle them for parts (for which they pay you $120) then not doing so.
It's still in effect and the most recent example would be banning software monitoring usage after Apple replicated the functionality themselves.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/27/tech/apple-screen-time-ap...
They touted the network but I didn't get any meaningful business connections out of it.

1 year of working in Silicon Valley got me dozens of quality connections that turned into meaningful long-term projects.
> OSes could implement the instruction decoder layer in software, transpiling binaries from a standard bitcode like WASM, JVM bytecode, LLVM intermediate code, and/or even pre-existing instruction sets like X86 and ARM to the underlying instruction set of the processor core. Each new processor core would require what amounts to a driver that would look not unlike an LLVM code generator.

We already have that; the bitcode is called "source code" and the instruction decoder is called a "compiler".
Ask HN: Any good essay on midlife crisis?
Since early ages I have this recurring paranoiac feeling that somewhere in the future a grave is already prepared for me. (which is true for all of us). If you imagine your life like a movie and you scroll to the end then ..

Not sure if it's midlife crisis though. (couldn't find a better naming).

With ages this theme comes more often and more deep, previously I managed to force myself to ignore it. Tried to find some answers in philosophy books/essays, but it always leaves me with the feeling that I'm just building a house of cards that blows away as soon as I close the book. The last couple of time it came my body started to shake. Previously I was somehow convinced that it's just me imagining the wrong thing, it wasn't affecting me physically.

Do you have it? if so how do you handle it? any good reads on the subject?
What about Godot?
I can imagine earnest reasons for being intentionally moderate. Wanting to be a mediator, trying to fight back against extremism and partisanship from both sides.
Can you distill some of the sage advice this man imparted to you, without rocking the boat, oar is that something you keep to your self?
I came here to say this. The Seattle Public Affairs director said:

"They are showing up to verify everyone is safe, not showing up with the assumption that this is Point Break"

Why would they ever show up assuming that this is Point Break? The implication is extremely concerning. That kind of event happens so rarely it should never be an assumption. And that movie was even about a bank heist, not a response to someone's house.

There is a severe disconnect between US police officer's view of their job, and the reality (queue that grid meme, what other people think I do, what I think I do, etc). Their on the job fatality rate is half that of sanitation workers picking up trash from the curb. It is one tenth that of logging workers. They're tied for the 14th most dangerous job with electrical power line installers. From https://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-dangerous-jobs-in-a... which uses Labor Bureau stats.
They need to test one more aspect: styling. The power and complexity of the web comes from the fact that things need to look pretty and feel "slick", not just usable. The 8th benchmark could be to implement pixel-accurate Material Design (any design language works but Material is quite complete and pushes the limit on performance).
Godot is what you are talking about. It seems to be doing very well. It's MIT licensed, and has official support for C#, C++ and their own Lua-like scripting language.
Turkey and Europe uses the same crash tests and those tests are done in Europe, not in Turkey. In other words, if a car is safe to be sold in Italy, it’s safe to be sold in Turkey. If not, it’s not sellable in either. Turkey does not have its own crash crash testing rating system and legislates based on European tests.

The comment you’ve copied from YouTube demonstrates a lack of basic understanding of economics. Turkey’s debt load is typical of a country its size and furthermore debt itself is not a bad thing, it is a financial tool like any other. I do agree with the political aspects mentioned, however, the fact that it is also a political tool doesn’t necessarily mean it’s actually not being built.
Al Jazeera https://www.aljazeera.com/
This sounds like the classic bait and switch: give a minuscule tax break to those without much ability to pay, and a simultaneous order of magnitude larger tax break to those that are swimming in cash.

Other states have homestead protection on property taxes. This is what would have been passed if there was actually any concern for low- or fixed-income homeowners, instead of a system that reinforces wealth inequality.

The harm done by Prop 13 by restricting access to ownership to only those with more money, and by further weakening services in historically disinvested neighborhoods, has surely outweighed any possible benefit for those in gentrifying neighborhoods. Property taxes are such a small part of a mortgage payment that the gains in property value far offset any increase in taxes. The idea of “getting taxed out of your home” is not as bad of a red herring as talking about not wanting to get more income because of getting bumped into the next tax bracket (taxes don’t work that way), but it’s a similar misunderstanding of finances.
Hella hate. Personally I found grappling with what they were initially difficult but then I finally dug in and watched howto propaganda...great job whoever did that at amazon. It’s the one thing I don’t hate about the company. [1]

It’s a ton easier for on boarding and giving contractors temporary access to resources.

*former worker at 3rd party merchant

[1] https://www.aws.training/LearningLibrary
How is that an error? Other people might not interpret "in general" the same way you intend. CO2 is much less hazardous (per ton) than nitrogen and sulfur oxides.
IIRC Logitech used to do this with warranty replacements on Harmony remotes—don’t know if they still do. It made purchasing one used risky.
Italy Follows France in Levying a Digital Tax