skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If just one machine is running an industrial system that can’t go down, you have a serious problem. Hot standby predates web servers.
How do they get their luggage back?
Toyota invests $394m in Joby Aviation's flying taxis
Any central gathering point seems to lead to homogenisation.

I've joked a lot about "YouTube Voice" (I didn't invent the idea) where people often seem to talk with a similar cadence and you can see the shift over time in their videos the longer they spend on the platform.
I’ve done ping pong / tennis programming before and it was honestly one of the most enjoyable experiences at that particular job. It helped that I was a junior developer pairing with one of the most senior developers at the company, who also happened to be very enthusiastic about what we were working on.
The Switch controllers have an infrared depth tracking sensor, which has some neat uses in Nintendo Labo. But like the WiiMote, I don't expect many games to take advantage of it.
Because of San Francisco's unique laws, you can sometimes get a much better deal coming in as a new roommate to an existing lease than you might expect. So if rents are running $5000-6000 for a 3 bedroom, someone in an older building with a lease started 5 years ago might be paying $3000 for a comparable unit. As you can imagine, those deals are harder to find but they are not uncommon.
Governments of this planet are not moving quickly enough on climate change with small incremental changes over time. However, people and organizations who champion these efforts can pressure governments to drive faster change.

Climate Pledge

To protect all of humanity globally now and for the future of our posterity I am committing to the following.

I pledge to limit eating red meat. I will restrict intake of cows and lambs etc.
If I choose to have children, I will have 2 or less.
I will try to use cycling or mass transit options whenever possible and to participate in efforts to expand transit.
I will restrict flying to only when necessary and try to limit flying to only when no other choice is available. If I do fly I will try to offset all emissions.
I will try my utmost to conserve energy and minimize use of heating and cooling appliances.
I will try my best to limit energy use to renewable sources when I have the choice. When I cannot choose I will fight for the ability to have this choice.
I will try to help those close to me understand these choices and the need for those able, to also join the pledge.
I will only consume what I need. I will not perpetuate extravagance and will only support companies who champion sustainable efforts.
I will do my best to strive for and support sustainable and minimalist technology.
I will stay involved in the public discourse on environmental issues and stay engaged on efforts to mitigate climate change.
It's possible they had someone monitoring the paths or someone saw you from higher up. I've hiked Nokogiri before and along some of the sketchier areas, the stairs were literally giving way under my step. It was pure luck that I hadn't fallen to my death multiple times over.
Well design of one-to-one relationship between users and shops. Then, they solve the problem that approach has brought. Nothing particular at the article.
Unless you are in first class,.
boarding early is worse -- it's more time on the plane
I used pair programming at a startup with a heavy junior engineering team. I loved it cause I could pair with any one of them and that “mentoring session” would be retaught without me having to do it. Our junior engineers progressed really fast in a short amount of time and I didn’t lose my mind having to reteach the same lessons over and over.
Hey. Do you have the name of the documentary? I couldn't find it here
The article mentions when and how one of the satellites will be disposed of.
The Register rakes a talon over the NexDock 2
We are below 1 degree Celsius. 1.5F is about 0.9C.
Sampling Every Sound a Stradivarius Can Make
Actually, given the current demographics of SXSW, that probably IS good marketing to potential customers. SXSW now costs quite a bit and is often a hipster corporate management perk. That sounds like a good demographic for Mozilla to market to.

Lone gone are the days where SXSW was a bunch of grubby hippies listening to a bunch of crappy bands. Now it's a bunch of hipster drones listening to a bunch of crappy mainstream pop artists.
I made a bit over 800K, at the top. Mitchell jumped to 2.5M. Math, do you do it?
This sounds like a great project. I've found you on LinkedIn and Github but is there somewhere where I can follow this project?
They don't need to listen to your voice for that. The show can have a signal hidden in its sound track that you can't hear, but that the apps on your phone can. Then they can report home that you are watching such-and-such show. No idea what happens after that but I guess google apps share data somehow.

There was an article about this that I read a while back, I'll try to find it if I can.

Edit: here, found something:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/beware-of-ads-th...

The ultrasonic pitches are embedded into TV commercials or are played when a user encounters an ad displayed in a computer browser. While the sound can't be heard by the human ear, nearby tablets and smartphones can detect it. When they do, browser cookies can now pair a single user to multiple devices and keep track of what TV commercials the person sees, how long the person watches the ads, and whether the person acts on the ads by doing a Web search or buying a product.

Edit again: to be fair, not even Facebook and Google have the tech to match the shows you watch with ads just by what your phone hears you say. Speech recognition still doesn't work _that_ well.
I find that most the most common situation where a class component seems simpler is because the component is broken -- e.g. someone took a shortcut and assumed a prop would never change, made assumptions about the comparisons needed in `componentDidUpdate`, or didn't handle race conditions.

Personally I'm at the point were I think hooks have been vetted enough that I'm comfortably recommending functional components in all situations. I teach a short "Intro to React" workshop and at this point I don't even mention class components except for a very brief FYI at the end, and even that is mostly in case developers encounter class components in Stack Overflow.
In general this works but if enough people do it, society suffers.
Well maybe not, it depends very much on your value system. Fundamentalists (not saying that Gerv was one, just using that as an example) don't see anything wrong with fundamentalism, or at least their version of it.

Up until the last sentence Gerv probably would have been nodding along happily. If he did butt heads with the wider Moz community over those issues, the last sentence would come as no surprise.
Could you share the names of a couple of these startups? I believe you but I’d like to investigate what they did since I’m interested in this space.
The relatives of our cellular ancestor
Mozilla's competition is default apps and chrome which I've only seen advertise on google and youtube, on the random day I use a computer without an ad blocker. Not like Safari is putting out any ads, or that Edge has any fans outside of geriatrics who don't know any better.

The competition (chrome) is just enjoying the runaway success of being the household name for over 10 years, simply by being a better product than firefox was 10 years ago when the market shares were much closer.

If firefox wants to enjoy this runaway success that chrome has, mozilla should steal the playbook of being the contrarian option for tech minded people just like how chrome was the foil to IE and Safari a decade ago before it became the dominant web browser. The focus should therefore be on dev tooling, not marketing, and the rest of the user base will follow the devs.
Not the only one, but you are part of a very small group.

Anyway, I also disagree in general. If a person brings so much value, than why not compensate that person adequately?

The "only" thing that is bothering me with the insanely high salary of CEO's etc. is that they quite often seem disconnected from actual success. Like in this case:

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1217512049716035584

The market share of Firefox goes down, yet her compensation goes up.
Why???

(Also, in a ideal world, I think the biggest compensation for a technical product should be for the technical people. And not the lawers.)
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An interesting idea, but even with Markdown it is hardly readable.

Myself, I gathered a few lists, and what worked:

- bigger Markdown files https://github.com/stared/science-based-games-list

- YAML files(s), as in https://github.com/stared/interactive-machine-learning-list (see websites.yaml)

The first one is slightly better for seeing many positions than clicking on every single entry.

YAML was my second approach, and it worked even better - much easier to enforce a schema, a possibility to visualize however one wants, etc.
> I was working on Cranelift, the WebAssembly compiler that is also a plausible future backend for Rust debug mode.

Just curious, but could Cranelift (or rustc_codegen_cranelift, I'm not sure which would be the closest) also acquire a C-transpiling backend, making it a viable replacement for mrustc? There might be quite a few people willing to fund that sort of work, since it could suffice to bring Rust to a whole lot of platforms that people care about.
It's great to hear that Cumberland is working as a venue! I would expect a venue in Cumberland to have trouble competing with those in Fall River (MA), Worcester (MA), and Providence (RI). My impression of Cumberland has always been that it's in the middle of nowhere, despite maps clearly showing that it's not.

EDIT: I'm really glad you mentioned that place. I just looked at their current lineup [0], and I'm actually thinking about catching some of the performances. Thanks!

[0] http://www.riverfolk.org/events-tickets/
You don’t need an employer to by into pairing. Get them to buy into managing work at the team level instead of the individual level. Then you can safely pair with your team mates.
I sometimes lean toward calling it discriminatory, but generally don't - not because I think it isn't, but because I think that doing so weakens any legitimate criticism of the practice by coming across as hyperbolic.

My take: I like it as a training or mentoring activity. I like it as a voluntary activity for slowing down and being careful on trickier bits of code.

But I don't like it nearly so much as a mandatory thing. The social dynamics here are tricky. I'm a pretty severe introvert, and am quickly exhausted by what I experience as socially intense situations. I've been paired with exuberant, highly extraverted people, and the results were, frankly, disastrous. Within no time at all, I would be deliberately letting obvious bugs sail past just to avoid having to have interactions that I was finding to be increasingly mentally and emotionally taxing. And yet I'd still come out of it feeling so worn out that I'd be off my game for days. I guess you could say that that was negligent on my part, but, truth be told, once the cortisol levels in your bloodstream get high enough, you're just not thinking clearly anymore. And, in any case, it would be much easier for me to wait and put a more thoughtfully composed, "Hey, I just noticed..." comment in the async code review than it would to try and clearly verbally explain what I saw to someone who dislikes pauses in a conversation so much that they literally would not allow me 15 seconds to compose my thoughts.

So, don't call it discriminatory, but, still, it can easily end up making people upset and escalating intra-team tensions in return for not much. There's a term of art in some sects of Buddhism that I like to describe these sorts of well-intentioned but poorly executed plans: "Unskillful." Indiscriminately following a prefabricated, one-size-fits-all script often ends up being unskillful.

I think maybe it's a bit like test coverage. More code coverage is good, but, at the same time, I typically see the lowest quality test suites in codebases where it's been set up as an explicit performance metric and measured by some tool. Similarly, when doing Scrum-type-workflows, I find velocity to be a useful concept up until the exact moment when some manager finds out about it and asks for it to be included in a report, at which point it immediately becomes the most harmful thing ever.

That said, and for the sake of contradicting myself repeatedly, it sure is useful sometimes, and I'd hate to work at a place that isn't supportive of developers and teams who want to do it.
Wikipedia is unreliable. Perhaps you missed it, but Verizon bought Yahoo!, realized how Marissa's five year default search deal with Firefox was bleeding money as most users reset their default to Google, and Mozilla and Verizon declared the other party in breach in rapid succession. This will go to court, and my money is on Verizon. There will be no balloon payment of the last two years.

The jump in comp in 2017, as far as I can tell, was predicated on the Verizon payments being fulfilled. I hear it was also a quid pro quo for Foundation board members who demanded (order of magnitude smaller) salaries for their work as board members. Perhaps they do a lot, but in past, board members (including me) worked for no added comp.

Mitchell may be worth it, but I'd want more of a turnaround in market share, new revenue sources, or both. Maybe that is just me.
How much could they have scaled backed their comp to save 70 jobs?
Having another person around helps me stay on task. I have to put off engaging with those distractions until a scheduled break. For that reason alone, pair programming can be more productive.
> Appeal to legality isn't proof of moral superiority.

Then why was it so important for gay marriage to have legal blessing?

> It is also not censorship nor is it illegal to terminate employment with someone based on their political actions.

It is if it becomes the norm (and it has, and it has lead to a Chilling Effect, and the blowback is going to be tremendous).
Paper: https://www.gwern.net/docs/catnip/2017-ottoni.pdf (I host it for a book review I wrote on cat domestication: https://www.gwern.net/Cat-Sense .)
It stands to reason. The low LBAs get filled first and used most. The outside of the disk is where the linear speed is fastest, and it's closest to where the heads park.
Imagine if the fucking phone companies were just disconnecting people in the 50s because some dipshit accused them of being a commie. What a fucking world we've built. Enjoy it.
Well, I don't think I own "a wheel". I own stuff that happens to include wheels. What would those be for the Kinect, besides games?
> only has the destination address in the packets. This improves end-user privacy a great deal.

Does it? If someone is in a position to see the beginning of the flow, then they know both endpoints, don't they?
Also, because first class is smaller, you spend less time standing in the jetway and airplane aisle.

Part of the annoyance of boarding isn't just the total time it takes from when they open the gate door until when it's done. It's the amount of standing up, holding your luggage, shuffling forward a bit, and wondering when the person in front of you will move.

Use driving as an analogy. Suppose you get out of a doctor's appointment at 3pm and are meeting someone to see a movie at 6pm. During those 3 hours, the only two activities you can do are kill time on your phone (either lingering in the doctor's office lobby or sitting in the movie theater lobby) and drive. Do you leave at 3pm and avoid rush hour, or do you wait until the last minute and get in traffic? Either way, you're going to wait 3 hours, so you're not saving time, but one is less stressful.
Not exactly what you asked for, but I have had success with pair programming using VS Code Live Share[1] and Mumble for VoIP[2]. I don't think video is particularly important when you're both seeing the same screen and able to talk about it.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/liveshare/use/...

[2] https://www.mumble.info
> THEN you and your family should start Gettysburg ng ready to leave

Not sure if this is a pun I didn't understand or the most ridiculous autocorrection I've seen in a while.
That's precisely the point I was making: there is no python code which is guaranteed not to throw. If the original author thought that the line of code in question wouldn't throw, they were were wrong and fundamentally misunderstood Python.
> expressing the idea that the dangers of global warming are overstated and difficult to predict

She actually expressed the idea that the effects of global warming are difficult to predict? What is she, some kind of denier? Why hasn't she been canceled yet?
The US isn't the best country to raise kids – by a long shot – survey says
I agree, but I've seen people insist otherwise. s/can pretty easily/may be able to/ is more reasonable I guess, but the point of that sentence is that even if you can perfectly counter it, can you do it perfectly forever?
I know its the trend to say individual effort is useless but I think the best thing about individual effort is it gets you in the mindset of conserving and a population that has made a habit of putting in their part will be extra frustrated when they see corporations and governments not putting in their part.

It also prepares people for systematic change which will result in us having to do most of these things anyway.
Ask HN: What will still be true in ten years?
Jeff Bezos famously said that he looks at what will remain true in 10 years and tries to build a business around that. In the case of Amazon it is that people will always want to order from as wide a selection of goods as quickly and as cheaply as possible.

Looking at the technology industry what will still be true in ten years ?
What's your opinion on China's and India's impact on global warming? I am honestly interested.
What you described is reasonable and I'm fine with it too. Though is it really advertising if you ask for it? To me, ads are the stuff they shove down people's throats whether they want it or not hoping that a fraction of them will appreciate it.
External rather than internal dev support.
i.e. Netscape.

It was a point of nerd pride on Usenet how well your operating system could handle a Netscape crash back in the day.
Yeah I understood that immediately after I read it, but it's not how typical optical discs work, and I'd just assumed they work the same way until now. Hadn't really thought about it before.

What I find a bit bizarre though that some defragmenters have an option to move files to the end of the drive. Wouldn't you want to move files to the beginning in that case?
I moderate a small, low traffic Google Group called Health Techies. You are welcome to join it if you wish.
Nice Golang Plugin for Sublime Text
It actually is opt-in, not opt-out, by default. In order to do opt-out, a business has to demonstrate that their users are all above 13 and able to consent, which is a hard requirement that will force nearly all data brokers to do opt-in instead.

To completely stop collection is difficult. But the legislative will is clearly manifest, so it might happen.
I really appreciate the work put on other plugins with similar goals, such as https://github.com/DisposaBoy/GoSublime, but sublime-go seems much simpler to use and has all the basic features for a reasonable experience with Go & Sublime Text.

Thanks to Amir Abushareb, who maintains it.
I can see that ( finance-wise ). Tbh, I did not know there were this many female bank CEOs until I just checked a moment ago. I was pleasantly surprised.

As for meritocracy, in the 90s no one cared who my online persona was. My persona was about as eye-grabbing as the one I use here. My contributions, for lack of a better term, were dismissed for being crap, which I eventually understood. I think people miss out on that.

As for your point actions and views, I respectfully disagree. You only seem to separate them, because you dislike his views, the resulting words and would like them not to be translated into action. I can understand that, but it sounds .. convenient? You are free to talk about stuff, but the moment you get politically active you get shunned? It seems very backwards to me.
This is a fascinating and detailed analysis of what it takes to raise a seed round. Great reading for all founders/entrepreneurs. Some of the numbers are mind-bogglingly high, and go to show how much work goes into just the fund-raising part of running a startup.
There was a ban on unnatural hair colours. A foreign student was told to dye her hair black.
Even if "trust no one" is good advice, it's certainly not evidence that Facebook or Apple listen to audio from your phone and use that to target advertisements.
Whatever problems IRC created, I really doubt the best solution was an exercise in why we need to be more liberal with the word "bloatware".
Are you referring to Firebase's Realtime Database (often just called "Firebase" since it was the core feature for so long) or Firebase's Cloud FireStore? FireStore is much better (scales more and has more query support) and covers pretty much the same use-case.
Listen: Radio call to LAX tower raises questions about jet fuel dump over school
So stay under 8 physical NVME and it should be fine?
I see no problem here until you also presume the firms are a monopoly (or oligopoly). Otherwise there are still customers served by someone else. There are thousands of stores in the US, maybe millions. As for as I know each may make whatever silly demands they want of me (perhaps aside from some racial/religious/safety constraints)) in order to stick my products on their shelves for their "unique customers". Further I see the prospect of govt regulation of this decision as a bad thing for the customer. Who do you think will end up writing those regulations?
I would rather a planet that is 50% fucked because china and india did nothing than a planet that is 100% fucked because we all did nothing.
Oh, sure, until it ends up in the situation where you have to prove your perfect ideological allegiance to the Party in order to have employment. It's already the case that you can't publicly post things without getting dox'd and fired for a lot of opinions that were 100% the norm not that long ago.

You may call it progress, but the progression is towards totalitarian liberalism; your gay marriage is really not going to make that experience that much better once they find some place where you're not faithful enough. For example, what if you're a white gay male?
This may be different from state to state and depending on the country the other person is from. I'd talk to a lawyer.
AFAIK no Mozilla Corporation employees have been paid to work on Thunderbird for years now, so there's nothing to cut.
If they scaled back their own compensation maybe it would be half of seventy? Better than inadvertently laying off someone you need I would imagine...
Good luck using your math on humans, I'm sure they'll all understand.
Interesting, I did report the issue. Worth looking at again but I don't have a 4k display and it may still be reduced nitrate. The quality difference was very noticeable on something like Lost In Space.
It's more that I feel bad if I don't.

A bit like when my dog begs for food, I'm not happy I fed him some pizza crust but I feel bad if I don't. It's self imposed guilt in both cases.