skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be nice if the real world was as rational as this.
However, this is America. We always find someone to pay.
I am working on a device, where the initial code was written in 1995-1997 on a pre cpp98 compiler, the code has recently been updated to cpp11, I am sure we will move to cpp14/17 soon. So this is slowly but steadily moving, even if very conservatively.

On the other hand, Hell would freeze over before you could convince the business to throw the cpp codebase and replace it by anything else, without necessarily a lot of things to show to the customer. And as much as we like to criticize business decisions, here it is probably the right call.

However, if you are startup starting today, it would probably be a good idea to consider other options, that could be used as an advantage against incumbents.
> There's zero real feedback

That's why Return Link Messages in the Galileo network are so interesting. Basically, there's a super low bandwidth message channel embedded in the GNSS data stream. Its sole purpose is to tell beacons "We saw your beacon and we're responding to it".
I've converted most of my friends to Signal. Easy switch.

[edit] The native desktop app is even better than WhatsApp's (doesn't stream data from your phone).
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In the context of any given project, that's, if anything, a subcategory of Essential. The software is a tool to do something, and the functional requirements are what define the purpose of embarking on the project. You can't escape the business logic that needs to be enabled. It's like the old service industry joke "this job would be great...if it weren't for all the customers". There would be no software if there weren't a set of requirements.
> private sector with their habit of saving money and squeezing out more profits every year

Bingo. I have no issues with nuclear power. I have an issue with the human component. Safety regulations have been continuously changed and been made more relaxed to keep up with the crumbling nuclear plants that are way past their design life and coming up on another extension.

Have a crack in the concrete? Increase the allowable crack tolerance. Have leaking radioactive water? Change the way the test is performed so it allows you to still pass.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/climate/nrc-nuclear-inspe...

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/07/17/insanely-bad-mo...
I watched that one back in the day. It's been as while but as far I as remember it was fairly decently done on the space physics/what can go wrong aspects.
Laravel Elixir is the abandonware. It was introduced in 5.0 then unceremoniously dropped in 5.4 being replaced by Laravel Mix.

Today it is essentially unmaintained: https://github.com/laravel/elixir
While true, you'd think state sponsored terrorism wouldn't care about sacrificing a few people.
Hi folks,

We’re super excited to launch LifeWork Calendar today.

We’ve already been hard at work building out a broader calendar management platform called Reclaim[1], and we wanted to start by solving a problem that nearly every busy professional experiences: the pain of juggling personal and work calendars, and missing out on life because of dumb scheduling snafus.

There currently is no easy way to make sure personal events show up on your work calendar to prevent your coworkers from booking over them. If you add your personal calendar to your work calendar, it only shows up for you and no one else.

If you create a team calendar for your personal events, it still only shows up to others if they make sure to add it to their calendar. The only “solution” that exists today is either creating duplicates of personal events on your work calendar or inviting your work calendar to personal events, which is both onerous and unreliable.

LifeWork Calendar solves this problem by automatically blocking personal events on your work calendar, creating “copies” of the work event without showing all your coworkers your personal details. Even if someone deletes or updates the event, LifeWork Calendar will keep the copy in sync. We even add some cool emojis and color-codes to the event copies so that you can easily distinguish them from work events.

In addition to solving this pain, we show you some basic but important stats: how much vacation and personal time you’ve been taking, how many hours of meetings you’ve attended, and how much free time you have on a regular basis.

It’s easy to setup in under a couple minutes, it’s free, and it’s secure. We don’t store any of your personal calendar information and we don’t sell your data to any third parties. We also have a self-service delete option that will undo everything we added to your work calendar. Try it out and let us know what you think!

[1] https://reclaimai.com
A better question is how you use or create an alternative to X without becoming X in the long run.

Facebook is kings because of its market share which is why people use it.

There are ways of communicating with a close group of friends that don’t involve social media but for people who want to keep in touch with a large social circle there is really no alternative.

And far as the gmail replacement goes then it’s by far the easiest thing to find an alternative for and also probably the least important one.

I have a feeling that people who rely heavily on emails to stay in touch also probably don’t use social media so Facebook isn’t an issue for them.

However the problem is that due social pressure it’s a most impossible to drop from a platform without having it affecting your relationships.

Sure people switch as groups and slowly migrate from one platform to another but overall trying to drop X for Y tends result in you using both or quickly switching back.
asdf-vm is the best-named project ever.
lol. This comment is total projection
Also having just a week spent in customer support might create biases because your customers had this time these specific issues. Analyzing those issues and understanding what is actually important requires a broader view and analyzing all the tickets etc
But there's no money in enterprise support contracts for things which are simple and effective.
Yes, Google is definately not a keyword search engine anymore, and not a great "question answering" engine yet. Uncanney walley?
Flu shots aren't necessarily free in Canada.

They were $20 or so in Quebec if you weren't in an at-risk group. https://www.quebec.ca/en/health/advice-and-prevention/vaccin...
The "incentive" to produce most shocking content is mostly due to the video sharing websites being free and open; even if there were no recommendations or subscriber feeds on YouTube, they would need this content moderation job since the same people would be uploading the same stuff.
>Unemployment + GDP are probably the wrong things to optimize for. Personally I believe Unemployment is overloaded as our optimization function for economic health, where median wage increase is more representative of livability.

This is likely well known, it'd just be awful if the official measure of QOL put pressure on employers to raise wages. Better to measure something more abstractly valuable.
IKEA and Teenage Engineering launch co-developed speakers and party products
In both, visitors can see the skulls and bones of people who died in the 1600s—a century full of devastations, including the Black Plague and the eruption of the Vesuvius volcano—and didn’t receive a proper burial.

The Black Plague was in the mid-1300s. There was a bubonic plague outbreak there in the 1600s, though, which probably caused the confusion.
> What's the alternative here?

Not a popular one, but another alternative is to fundamentally change the service. But that involves possibly losing YouTube.

Assuming Alphabet/Google (and most others) won't even consider that option...yeah, you're pretty on point.
Or it is both...

Honestly speaking, whether it be videos of extreme content or fluffy rabbits. I will feel absolutely terrible after a few hours of having to watch it. I can't imagine doing that for months.
> This is equality of opportunity

It would be, but it's also an impossible standard. Who's going to fix inequity in health, education, and other factors that start at infancy? Certainly not a hiring company at the very distant other end of the pipeline. It's not only impossible, but it's not their job to such an extent that they'd get sued for devoting too many resources to the attempt. Systemic discrimination can not be fixed without the involvement of employers, providing good jobs to people from under-represented groups and letting those people bring the benefits back to their communities.

Waiting until those problems are fixed "elsewhere" before employers are required to do anything but turn a blind eye means waiting forever ... but the people exaggerating concerns about "equal outcome" and tokenism usually know that. After all, they're usually the very same ones opposing any of those "elsewhere" efforts too. "Divide and conquer" is the name of the game.
He mentions Brave browser, but Vivaldi browser combined with uBlock Origin (and uMatrix if you're savvy enough) works best for me as I want nothing to do with ads. Telegram is another fantastic messenger.

Concerning social media, you don't really need it: https://www.quitfacebook.org.
I miss the days when I could search with AND, OR, +word and -word. Now if I search google with more than one word it no longer searches the internet. Instead it searches for ads that are somewhat similar to my query and features those. Any useful links on the first page are accidental.
The colour and the gruesome images[0] didn't faze me at all, I was addicted to what was inside, so the package was just an aside, although I did prefer the "smoking will harm your unborn baby" packaging because I'm not pregnant, and it had a cute baby on it. I hope it would make smoking less glamorous for teenagers, but I've no idea if there's research on that.

[0]https://i.redd.it/np95errspxb41.jpg
Note: I only have limited experience with ATC Radar (small number of models in the US).

Based on my experience, ATC Radar have no difficulty seeing commercial aircraft with a high probability of detection and low probability of false alarm.

Source: completed a performance assessment of several such systems in the early 2000s against their legacy counterparts using aircraft beacon systems as a source of “truth”.

If I remember to come back to this later, I’ll write a little post showing the theoretical detection performance of such a system. If you’d like to try the exercise yourself, the relevant worksheet is a Blake Chart and you can look up surrogate parameters for the Radar via checking the ASR-XX pages on Wikipedia (e.g. ASR-9 or ASR-11). Finding Radar cross sections (RCS) for commercial aircraft models is similarly straightforward. The system is logarithmic so as long as you’re in the ballpark you’ll be close.
I’m excited by the https://planetary.social/ announcement this week.

“We’re building an open and humane alternative to Facebook”

https://mobile.twitter.com/rabble/status/1220075601337315328
Stellar fusion like that which occurs in our sun is effectively aneutronic, but is also relatively slow, because the limiting step is the combination of two protons into a proton-neutron pair.

You need to keep a lot of hydrogen at plasma-hot temperatures and very high pressures for a long time. So you can't really do it with masses smaller than Jupiter, because smaller bodies can radiate the energy away faster, and produce fewer events from the lesser mass.

So the only technologically effective way to leverage solar is to deconstruct larger stars into red dwarfs between 0.08 and 0.35 solar mass, perhaps with a ferro-platosmiridium core to increase the overall density and make the reactions viable at lower overall mass. Then surround the whole thing with a Dyson shell and Shkadov/Caplan thruster.

It's a bit beyond our means right now.
The ACA mandates the maximum [maximum out-of-pocket] that an insurance plan can require. There's no such thing as good or bad insurance when it comes to extreme medical events. "Good" or "bad" depends on how much of your premium your employer covers and how expensive it is when you only use a little bit of medical services.

The worst-case max out of pocket for any insurance plan in 2020 is:

$8,150 for self-only coverage

$16,300 for family coverage

In America, it is important to have liquid savings to handle life events like losing a job or a serious health issue. We get taxed less, have fewer safety nets, so we need to build our own safety net. You can argue that one way is better than another way as a big picture, but many people misconstrue the individualist vs. collectivist societies as a serious moral issue instead of a choice. Some of the details of each can be serious moral issues, but the big picture is simply a difference in priorities.

Bottom line: If you can come up with $16k/year to cover medical expenses for a serious issue, you won't go bankrupt.
Not cost-prohibitive. Just cost. Devoting 5% of the mass to an ion deorbit thruster wouldn't be particularly hard.
The $350 Device Promising to Help You–Finally–Meditate
I did the same thing in 2016 and had the same experiences.
I would love to move to Signal and send anyone reaching out to me on Whatsapp an auto-reply with a Signal invite.

Couldn't find how to achieve that. Anyone knowing if this is possible?
Hey you're not wrong there. It's atrocious what Google has done to Linux on Android. We badly need an alternative smartphone that's actually built to be a tool rather than an ad optimization platform. Apple is better on that front, but they also want to ram their vision of what a computer is down your throat.
"under economic duress"

So basically if someone needs money, they cannot give consent because their judgment is clouded by their desperation?
I'm in the same boat. Left Facebook years ago and realized I was naturally going to keep up with people in my social circles anyway. Email, text, and group messages make it a little bit harder, but the interaction is so meaningful instead of an all you can eat buffet of "social interaction".
They're kind of a real thing. Look up Generic Brands. I remember seeing them in the early 90s. The one I remember most was "Beer". White can with just "BEER" written on it.

I think they've started to eventually jazz up their packaging so they just look like rip-offs now.
I don't know a lick about the book mentioned or literal references you have been silently recommended to study. Obviously the implied message that you've yet to pick up on is that you should try and research your own ideas before profoundly postulating positive platitudes that are .... full of P?

anyway, i suspect your "idea" is bad from the start... you say tax consumption... AND THEN tax the (just?) born... do you even darwin bro?

You are giving the disenfranchised the shaft from the outset.. who do you think would like this? who do you surround yourself with to get to this line of thinking? Rhetorically, I'm done.
The terrorist attack that is going to take out 1000s of square kilometres of solar panels? Surely they'd just attack a city if they had that amount of firepower? Or in the more likely case that they don't it's easier to attack power transmission than generation.
There’s no technical guarantee of such a threshold though
Install it on a VPN?
Agreed. These designs are serving their purpose, to deter children.

The general theme in these comments is that these designs look too modern or up-class. The reason it looks like this is because its a product for adults, children generally don't appreciate this kind of design so I would imagine this works pretty well.
I'd say that the military places a massive externality on society as well, so, yes.

I guess at least enlisting gets you better benefits than sitting in a mod-farm in Phoenix will.
If you do need google Startpage.com is anonymized google.
Space colonization is only viable for a small handful of people who produce at least a million dollars in revenue per year.

Programmers and CEOs.
> If gas went to $8/gal you'd see people change in a real hurry.

Gas is already over $6/gal in Europe and there is no great change in the air.

Edit: $7.5/gal in the Netherlands according to https://autotraveler.ru/en/spravka/fuel-price-in-europe.html
I'm consistently surprised that this comment comes up here so often. I've tried DDG at length, many times, and I always go back to Google because I find it SO much better for programming-related questions. Maybe the denizens of HN are accustomed to using SO's built-in search? But that's still only a piece of the larger puzzle. I get a lot of mileage from blog posts as well.
I agree that the DDG results, especially for software development related searches, are often worse than searching Google or StackOverflow directly. So here's my workflow:

1. Search DDG. If I find a decent result, I stop here.

2. Append !so to the end of the search. This searches StackOverflow directly. If this works, I stop here.

3. Append !g to the end of the search. This searches Google directly.

This way Google becomes a last resort.

Also worth noting that you can actually navigate DDG search results using vim keybindings without the need for a plugin: something Google dropped support for a few years ago.
I use Duck for most searches now but I find if I'm trying to ask a question or search weird error codes or something Google is still better for that. I still use duck to input but use the g! command.
> but if you actually pay attention to what your child is doing, screens can be a powerful tool.

I related elsewhere how my parents, long since passed away, read to me from physical books and encouraged my education.

I don't have children, but I think you have hit the nail on the head; ultimately everything is just a tool - the important part is the parents interacting with their child's education, using the tools they have available.

I have no doubt that had my mother had access to an ipad or whatever, that she would have used that as well to teach and encourage my learning. As it was, the only other media besides books was television - and so PBS and "Sesame Street" was on, and she'd watch it with me.

But other shows she liked were also educational to an extent - such as game shows; Price is Right can teach a lot of things about money and counting, and Wheel of Fortune can teach words and letters. But it wasn't just plopping me down in front of the TV - she was there with me, asking me questions, teaching me how to figure out things on my own.

Which is what you are also doing with your children, but using the tools that are available today; but I think even if you didn't have access to those tools, you'd still find a way to interact and teach your children, and that's the best thing they could ever have.

They'll also remember it for life.
Nuclear waste recycled into diamond batteries
Bank of America has functionality to add external accounts.
“you won't have many to build your video platform left.”

I’m not building a video platform. It’s already there. I’m just, totally hypocritically, fixing the company that operates it.
What about making the financials radically transparent, and billing users for their actual cost + some reasonable markup.
> I would think the police and prosecutors that follow up would have to see and document that stuff in way more detail, and nobody's talking about their PTSD.

Uhm, it's actually super well known within law enforcement that law enforcement is emotionally exhausting, so much so that specific units are separated out and the officers rotated to avoid burnout. (Special victims Units, you may know them as)
For one, they’re farming the job out to a third-party: Accenture. Hoping to put themselves at arm’s length from any problems that arise. This is standard “late stage capitalism” shit, but I doubt Google would be willing to bring their moderation team in-house and let them interact with their precious engineers - the people who could actually help alleviate some of the stresses the moderators are facing.

Conway’s Law[1] applies. In terms of product priorities, the design needs of “contracted moderators” are somewhere below IPv6 support in the product roadmap.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law
I disagree. If one generator fails, it's not a big problem. If you have a failure in a large reactor it's a biggie, so you have to use very expensive materials and design to avoid failure.
I used this all the time. Sad to see it go.
It's a very good question, because for the longest time, paramedics/EMTs/firefighters -were- expected to just "suck it up".

Now, with increases in the protection of our PPE (bunker gear, etc.) and other knowledge, there are less line of duty deaths due to accident or illness (typically cancer, though that's still a big one) - now the biggest cause is suicide, mostly as a result of PTSD.

There's a documentary that was funded in part by Denis Leary called "Burn: A Year in the Frontlines in the Battle to Save Detroit", talking about fire departments there. One of the veterans says "I wish my mind could forget what my eyes have seen".

Around here, the PNW, at least, there's a huge movement toward handling it proactively, access to counseling, therapy, hotlines, and as importantly as anything else, active efforts to remove the stigma associated with things.

We used to do CISDs (critical incident stress debriefings), which are now largely discredited - essentially "put everyone in a room and 'make' them talk about how they feel after a bad call, whether they want to or not", but now, more and more departments are hiring full-time mental health professionals. One near me has someone who specializes in PTSD, and another who works with sleep regulation (all those alarms in the middle of the night), and alcohol/drug use.
It'd be possible, I think. You'd need to run WhatsApp web, which is an Electron app. Get into the dev tools and set it up directly from the JS console.
Here's a thought. Maybe it's both, first off. The shit hours and disturbing content.

Also, your sample of experience, n=1, is not great. And genuinely, if you can look at child porn, murder, and other awful, genuinely terrible things all day, every day, and not be impacted, you 100% need to speak to a therapist. That is not the normal human response to trauma.
Tetris 99 isn’t just a great twist on a classic–it’s a gameplay revolution(2019)
Automate it away? Or 99.5% of it?
The Cambridge Analytica situation wasn't a founding cause for the GDPR, it came to light after the legislation was already finalized. It just happened to coincide (roughly) with the GDPR enforcement date, and helped illustrate why such regulation was necessary.
Wonder if they are using the Graal JIT compiler that comes with JDK 11...
That's incredibly depressing that there is a whole class of people who are doing perfectly fine, can even afford to pay ahead their mortgage or their retirement plans if they want, that are one illness, with all it's impossibly insurmountable debt, away from bankruptcy.
Because unconscious bias is a thing

That idea is a victim of the psychology replication crisis actually:

https://www.thecut.com/2017/01/psychologys-racism-measuring-...

So not really a thing, no.
I disliked that twitter thread. It's rife with rose-colored views of the past, and misunderstanding of what they are referring to. The two main ones are a) library computers weren't always fast, and they definitely weren't checking as much data. We're a few orders of magnitude higher in what things are searching, and Amazon is still really fast, and b) Google maps is a very specific use case of mapping, not analogous the general purpose map you would get previously. There are plenty of online trip planning services that do most or all of the interesting stuff that was mentioned. I've used a few of them.

The whole thread is analogous to a person that grew up on a farm complaining that their Honda civic doesn't deal with rough terrains as well as the tractor on the farm they grew up on did, to which the only response is either duh or no shit sherlock, depending on how charitable you're feeling.
What email provider do you use? Do you host your own?