skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, those prices are still not massive if your team is using Postman a lot. I don't think they won't lose much business over this move and overall it's understandable when you look at the expansion of the software and the probably much bigger team behind it.
I am moving my business away from them. Even if I didn't care about the backup situation, the PR response is stupidly immature and not worthy of reward.
I remember reading somewhere that the Soviets _did_ suspect it, but finding the bug was non-trivial due to the mechanical complexity of the machines.
Employing a euphemism to make something sound better is always fun (corporate "missions" and "visions" are often good examples) but that doesn't really change the underlying reality.
Also, the the familial relations of MacOS and Linux made it possible to share code fairly seamlessly between both (providing not talking about hardware integration).
In a world where we there was 3 separate universes: Windows, BeOS, and Linux it's possible Linux would've become more isolated.
Measuring software developer productivity is a hard problem. But I totally agree that the biggest production drain in any software team is bad management and bad direction. Building the wrong thing faster is not going to help much. Not wasting time building the thing that the marketing manager thought would be cool while on a night out with the CEO would help more.
The concept reminds me of https://jermolene.com/cecily/ - open source, own your data, hackable..
Good point.

To my mind, this list is very much like the "how to make more entrepreneurs (in the VC sense) more successful" articles that show up often.
Depending on your email volumes, mailgun could be a viable alternative
There's also PostWoman for free (no affiliation):

https://postwoman.io/

https://github.com/liyasthomas/postwoman
Well it wasn't as simple as "killed off by better competitors". It was actually both much better than Windows 98 and Mac OS at the time.

But ultimately the deathblow came from Apple which, after struggling with low sales and poor quality software, almost chose to buy BeInc's tech but dropped it so they could bring in Steve Jobs. So it was more like vendor lock-in (Windows) and corporate deals (Apple) as well as failing partners (Palm).
Replication covers durability (and availability) in face of system or media failure but does nothing whatsoever against software bugs or human error.
I also noticed some slowness on Windows, especially in the fuzzy search. Will test later on my private Linux machine for comparison.

Overall though, great tool!
Either that or they were using it. Possibly towing it behind. Maybe it's some sort of sonar scanner.
> Only a police state can totally stop crime entirely.

Only if that involves a complete overhaul of the police itself. Currently we have body cams that just fail at convenient times, policemen stalking their ex girlfriends and whistle blowers that get the short end of the stick. Giving the police more and more power is more likely to reach a turning point where it inherently starts to attract the corrupt and power hungry, increasing the abuse well above what we already see.
When I worked at the WordPress hosting division of Copyblogger, we always had issues like these with Digital Ocean. They would email us saying that the node had a problem, and we had to recreate the server on our own.

Good thing we only kept caching servers in Digital Ocean, so those were easily recreated, but that always kept me away from DO, personally.

In fairness to them, though, DO do not claim to keep backup of the servers, as far as I know.
I think BeOS was the only OS that allowed smooth playback of videos and work at the same time, something Windows was capable 5 and Linux 10 years later :D
Makes me think we need to have a national leave your phone at home day.
In the 1980s, full-screen TUI programs did significant work to optimize terminal output. A complete redraw of an 80 by 24 screen at 300 BPS was not quick. So applications normally only wrote changes to the screen, only performing a full redraw when requested by a Control-L input (or some such).

Terminals have sped up, but the amount of terminal I/O to draw a screen has increased, too. Nowadays there are lengthy SGR 38/48 sequences for 24-bit RGB, plus the other SGR sequences for attributes, plus of course characters that are now commonly multi-byte UTF-8 encodings, including box drawing characters.

So the old considerations of optimizing terminal output still apply nowadays to full-screen TUI applications. Optimize out cursor motions that move to where the cursor currently is; replace absolute motions to nearby positions by shorter relative motion control sequences; optimize out superfluous attribute and colour changes; replace onwards horizontal cursor motions by just rewriting the relevant characters; skip unchanged cells; and so forth.

* https://github.com/jdebp/nosh/blob/79b1c0aab9834a09a59e15d47...

The Rust full-screen TUI code in Broot (and common Rust libraries) does not do any of this.

* https://github.com/Canop/broot/blob/d8ba179946ad10d777f93b4a...

* https://github.com/crossterm-rs/crossterm/blob/41ff73e3d3763...

When it is a Win32 application, it uses console I/O and this does not matter quite as much, although it's still a waste of system call context switches to overwrite a console screen buffer with what is already there. But when it is using terminal I/O this matters significantly.

The Rust terminal handling is actually fairly poor overall. This list, for example, is in reality a lot longer. The terminfo database records a lot more terminal types that understand these escape sequences. "putty" for one egregiously missing example.

* https://github.com/crossterm-rs/crossterm/blob/41ff73e3d3763...

* https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.ti.html#tic-pu...

Personally, rather than treat lack of capability as the norm with a paltry list of exceptions, I prefer the opposite assumption that (except for "dumb") the world has nowadays reached 1976 capability levels. (-:

* https://github.com/jdebp/nosh/blob/79b1c0aab9834a09a59e15d47...
In this case I think it should be ok because !this->tasks.empty() is part of the predicate, and will be true after a new item is enqueued (and before notify is called). So if the producer is interrupted between releasing the mutex and calling notify, the consumer would not call wait.

But yeah, in general I agree with the advice.. I'm pretty sure I've made that mistake before.
Why should different rules apply to foreigners in this context? An American billionaire buying a few condos and keeping them empty has the exact same effect as a Chinese billionaire doing so.

Rules around vacant homes are good, though, and I strongly support them.
Maybe they should build something other than luxury condos. But that would require SF to change their insane zoning laws. And SF cares more about zoning laws than they do about people.
>that the cognoscenti proletariat should be empowered to confiscate all property and redistribute it as they wish

Or we could, you know, build some cheap housing.
Worth pointing out that postwoman is free and opensource. It is not quite as full-featured as postman, but for quick mocking without requiring registration, it is a great option.
https://postwoman.io/

https://github.com/liyasthomas/postwoman
It’s not that just MMORPGs changed, but the whole internet culture
> I love this line of thinking because it always shows someone has just guzzled from the gutter of ideology.

I somewhat disagree with zozbot and I agree with your material analysis (I'd add something about the rising Gini indices in the mentioned developing nations), but this sentence adds nothing to the conversation.
State of the World 2020: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky
> “The census’ annual American Communities Survey defines a home as vacant if there is either no occupant or a temporary occupant—temporary meaning “people who will be there for two months or less.”

I wonder why they didn’t mention one simple explanation - many of these are Airbnbs or other short term rentals.
This is pedantic, but RADAR relies on photons as well - radio waves are just a different frequency of EM radiation vs visible light. A RADAR system emits photons that are reflected and hit a sensor like LIDAR does (or like a camera with a flash does). I think your point that having more diverse sensors is safer stands though.
> QA: I can write a lot of tests, run fuzzers, but actually proving that A == B is undecidable!

A == B is undecidable for some choice of A and B. It's may very well not be for the particular A and B that you've handed to QA.

In a practical sense, though, it's worth noting that the excuse doesn't really derive from theoretical undecideability.

What we really care about is "can the benefit here be worth the cost". Depending on how you look at it, when it's undecidable there's infinite cost or no benefit, so in that case the answer is clear. But there are probably arbitrarily hard problems shy of undecidable. We occasionally solve math problems that people tens or hundreds of people have been working hard on for decades - those weren't undecidable.
Looks like cost calculations were done with "NREL ATB low"

https://atb.nrel.gov/electricity/2019/changes.html

Example for wind:
"The Low cost case was updated to reflect recent bottom-up analysis regarding the potential of R&D to enable significant cost reductions."

So basically we made a model based on vaporware. I am not sure how much I trust the idea that we can mine enough rare earth elements for PV cells to make it cheaper than coal. Not to mention the cost of energy storage needed for renewable sources.

We all want green energy- but I really find it hard to believe the claims made in this report. At least right now.
It doesn't seem they're questioning the data, they're questioning the motives of the title, and the implication that the housing should be redistributed to the homeless. I absolutely disagree with their position, but I can see their point of view.

Personally, my (rough) idea would be to increase property taxes dramatically for unoccupied residences, which would encourage them to be put on the market for rental at least, and drive prices down a bit.
> Things that come from economic growth

Things that come from actually building stuff. Purely economic growth, as represented by banks and brokerages and economics departments, doesn't put food in anyone's belly or a roof over their heads.
Sorry no, trademark law does not require companies tirelessly censor internet

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not...
As a product, I am sure it is useful or tasty or whatnot, but I don't think it is milk.
At least an American billionaire pays some American taxes. If a foreign speculator makes a lot of money they aren't even paying any income or capital gains taxes here.
Just curious, but is there a reason why you didn’t just use a single lock-less queue? Per-thread work queues sounds like a perfectly serviceable solution but I can imagine it an advantage to hide that added complexity behind a lock-less queue (which could in fact be implemented using multiple queues internally, but I think that’s just one of multiple ways to implement such a thing)
Mine have quite small power bricks. Which one do you have?
It looks like a caravan without the weels, they are cheaper than that and they come with weels.
Ten simple rules for structuring papers [pdf]
Meh. It's Twitter. They lost data but arguing on Twitter circularly forever with these people solves nothing.
You can't build yourself out of the housing crisis when the problem is one of distribution, not one of supply. The idea that housing should be treated as an investment is, itself, the problem. How can you want housing to be affordable while also wanting housing to gain in value, i.e. increase in cost? These are completely contradictory aims.

Zoom out for a second and consider how wild it is that we turned a life necessity (shelter) into a speculative plaything.
I used to be instinctively against stuff like this, but I actually think it’s pretty reasonable now. People outside of a given city/country/etc. have no inherent right to participate in that place. Local residents should only allow outsiders to participate if they derive some benefit from it. Now, that said, there may be unintended consequences to eliminating foreign purchases of real estate.
Good for them if their customer base is so strong that they can do this.
If you only had a domain you're likely not affected (metadata).
If you also have a website hosted there (data), you may be.
I've a similar question about auth[orization]!

On an internal work project, we outsource our authentication to Auth0, but stuff like user permissions handling and locking down our APIs has been something we keep pushing back on. We have this worry that, because it's security related, we'll "get it wrong" somehow if we do the authorization stuff ourselves. I've found it nigh on possible to find a nice third-party generic user-permissions web service though. Do such things exist? Libraries that don't have super tight integration with frameworks like Django and Flask? Stuff oriented towards a microservices architecture?
So, that admin dumped his database but didn't know that the data was using a custom locale which makes recovery troublesome.

How is it a copy if it can't recover the original in some cases?

We're not talking about a compressed archive here, it's a (incomplete) step-by-step instruction to recreate the data. If anything out of norm happens, it's gonna fail-possibly silently.
You are thinking of FUTEX_*_REQUEUE (see the man page for details). It will move (some of) the waiters from the condvar futex to the mutex futex. IIRC, the optimization is called wait morphing.

IIRC it is so hard to get it right in practice (the number of races and corner cases is staggering) that recent libc versions might have stopped doing it. I might be misremembering though.
I would have agreed with you. But I live in Berlin, which is "poor but sexy", and I'm watching a culture of artists and creativity get destroyed by increasing wealth. I don't have anything else other than this observation, though. I'd love to know why or how, and what we could do to preserve the culture in the face of rising wealth.
What are some of the barriers to reducing the costs of CBD products?
Yes, my expectations are based on my experiences of people prioritizing their family's health above all else, assuming they have income security. If I was in a situation where my children are breathing in air I thought was harmful to them in the long term, and I had the ability to move somewhere where they weren't being harmed, I would prioritize that above all else.

I would be shocked if I met someone who would sacrifice their family's health if they had a decent option where they wouldn't have to. This probably doesn't apply to most people, as they might have to weigh trade offs such as moving away from family and whatnot, but the person who wrote the article is obviously earning far above most, and can afford to easily move.
Really? I may have just found myself a new hobby. Search for incredibly unique (and worthless to me) domains to see if I can get people to squat on them. Heck, it could be a game ... I could get all my friends to make bingo boards ... or maybe see if I can think of some scrabble like rules.
Oceanographic sensor array of some kind — they may have been sampling ocean characteristics near the coastline for research purposes.
as some of the comments on the article note, you've got natural churn in residency, uninhabitable structures, renovations, etc.

also it's not like you can let someone live in a house for free and just call it a wash. anyone who has ever rented a home to folks knows that tenants can be _extremely_ hard on a rental property.
AWS has tools around this (lifecycle manager) that you can easily leverage for simple site backups. Or you can roll your own, honestly it is not that hard to take rolling snapshots.

Obviously hosting providers do not make it easy to extract your data because that's their vendor lock.
The narrative that ads, more than actual voters, were what got the president elected is missing the bigger picture. Did ads help? Sure, but in the end, a person with a pulse and their best interest in mind made the decision in the booth, not russians or facebook. If you think there is a problem, and I would agree, start with the people. This open assumption that anyone who voted in a manner contrary to your view is "under informed" only widens the devide between people who all want nearly the same outcome. No matter who you voted for, or will vote for, you are already doing the right thing by voting. Everyone who takes part in the process deserves our love and respect, no matter how contrary it may seem.
Australia's severe wildfires were predicted by the government over a decade ago
> To retreat to imagery, I feel like a forest is being missed for the trees, but with a hint of violence.

oof. Yikes, thanks for letting me know. I'm softblocking him right now. sorry but I saw a joke tweet of his and followed, didn't know that by being curious about research into highly effective people and institutions he was committing or advocating actual, physical harm to people.
An idea from physics helps AI see in higher dimensions
I certainly avoid people who speak too loudly. The foundation of politeness is to not make other people uncomfortable. I think there’s an important difference between someone like Asimov who did know that what he did was wrong, but might not have understood the gravity of it, and someone like Biden who (presumably) just behaved in a way that was natural to him.
I'd be interested in more on this claim.

- Was this mostly a power loss or a data loss?

- If data loss, did this affect EBS (which has had a claimed annual failure rate of 0.2% - 0.5% or so if I remember) or S3 (much lower failure rate). Remember, EBS WILL have volumes go bad - that's in the docs, they recommend snapshots, aws backup manager etc if you need higher durability.
> It didn't say there was no way to channel the information about the surroundings into any photosensitive device.

No it specifically said

>"This is why you can’t see things in dark; no light means...".

Not sure how to make the distinction any simpler, maybe you can follow:

If there is no light, then it is dark (true) - thats what you claim is being said, but thats not what is said, what is said is

If it is dark, then there is no light (false) - any time you have been in the dark, there has always been light.

>Probably much like looking at a solid object embedded in colored but not opaque glass. The ability to see things inside other visible things is not foreign to the visible light spectrum.

Sure the non-imaginative approach is to say just superimpose 3 images on top of one another with each image having some transparency. And sure that may make sense for objects like bone inside the persons outer skin...but emitted heat is not a solid object inside another solid object, it neither embedded in the object (its emitted) nor solid.
I knew Gary for 31 years at Apple and Microsoft and after. Here is a tribute I wrote. https://www.greenm3.com/gdcblog/2020/1/6/gary-starkweather-p...
This is the expected result of prop-13. It's true all over california.

You can make money on capital gains without any continuing investment/income or significant tax... why bother with tenants. Just sell out to the developer who wants to put in another high-rise apartment complex when the price is higher. In the mean time... screw the neighborhood.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/09/san-fr...
An vacancy tax deals with both domestic and foreign buyers keeping homes unoccupied. Here is the link to the city of Vancouver’s Empty Home Tax: https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/empty-homes-t... .
No, it's not like that at all. You have to not just enable it but also select inaccessible areas of the screen. Every time. And they get greyed out which makes it unusable for watching videos while disabling inadvertent interactions (accidental pause/resume/rewind etc).
The one I've been keeping an eye on for a few years is https://www.aseprite.org which unfortunately I have not yet needed for anything, but hopefully it helps you.
Ah the memories! Had no idea Haiku was an open source implementation of BeOS. Port Electron to it, and I commit to writing tools for this OS in my spare time!
We should really just repeal prop 13 for commercial and non-primary home real-estate.

edit: forgot to add non-primary home.
Farming hard drives: how Backblaze weathered the Thailand drive crisis (2012)
Why would that be the case? It's trivial to separate identification from content.
You're right, it's not possible to eliminate the need for testing/fixes. I didn't say it was. It's a tradeoff; compiling to a stable older set of features reduces bugs but doesn't eliminate them.

Part of the work has to be on the developer. There are certain properties that will screw up positioning when used with flex elements in IE, for example, and knowing what those are and how to avoid those combinations is part of the cost of skillfully using flexbox. The compiler can't always do the work, but we should let it do as much as it can.
CES 2020: Cyrcle Phone is round and has two headphone jacks
Show HN: Detect DOH and Other DNS-Less IP Traffic
I feel that we need a new app called postperson :)
I'm not convinced but even if we accept that explanation, why do all the atoms along the way emit the light in the direction it was travelling and then the ones at the surface suddenly emit it in a different direction?
Apple began to re-kick ass when they made an amazing laptop (tiBook). This was the first truly viable Unix laptop, with promise to be a cut above the competition (there was none) in terms of style and usability.

tiBook was bonkers. Suddenly, I didn't really need to sit in the room, surrounded by boxes, but rather could go to the park and access the room from under a tree.

If Be had managed to capture that, I think it would have been an amazing time. Imagine if SGI had pulled off the first titanium, unibody laptop, designed specifically for 3D. Would Alien-ware?

If there had been a BeLaptop, things might have been a lot different in 2000/2001, when things started to look very, very interesting.

I mean, the fact that Apple shipped a Unix laptop when all the other 'super-' vendors were unable to pull it off.,,
Definitely! You'll get no argument from me there! I'd add a bunch of apps to that list as well.
Specifically in mathematics, Grigori Perelman abandoned the field due to political favoritism by Shing-Tung Yau.

In more *systemic terms, a cabal of researchers focused effort (and more importantly, limited funding) to only one aspect of alzheimers research: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21911225
If anyone is looking to switch, I've far preferred using Insomnia to Postman
https://insomnia.rest/
"No bullshit" works when it's an SME talking, but once a company reaches a certain size then all bets are off
I imagine that for pretty much each and every one of us, a full year of data will yield something actionable by law enforcement or at least by traffic law enforcement. Who didn’t speed once (even while flowing with the rest of traffic)?

If we include dhs, then who, knowingly or unknowingly (go ahead and prove that) did not spend a few moments in proximity with persons of interest?

“Give me six sentences written by the most honest of men and I’ll find a reason to hang them” is more relevant than ever and I’m just imagining how much more can be found in the full surveillance trail of google services.
"...marginally more than rolling your own or another cloud provider."

And to "trust marginally more" simply means:

gandi_cost_per_month + P(gandi_fails_per_month) * cost_recovery
<
alt_cost_per_month + P(alt_fails_per_month) * cost_recovery
Repeal it for everything except owner-occupied residences. That's the way homestead works in Florida.
How to Think Like a React Developer
It also has 2.9k stars on GitHub for some reason.