skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two of my neighbors raise chickens. They both regularly drop off eggs as their supply exceeds demand.

They are visually distinctive (they tend to be smaller than a supermarket “large egg” and dirtier for sure) but after cooking are entirely indistinguishable from the eggs at the store.

Of course I’m very grateful for the eggs, but even they will admit it’s not for quality and quantity, but mostly a fun hobby and something to help get the kids involved with.
Why Shiny New Tech Companies Love Old Industrial Buildings
I have JS turned off and still have plenty of other factors that make me unique so it's not just JS. My question is why is the rest of the information available / given, especially the user agent? The other headers mostly make sense. I can see the argument to turn 'do not track' off. But user agent? I've been making websites and apps for almost a quarter century and have never even read of a good use for that outside the tracking industry, let alone seen a good use of it.
holy shit, this is not even the worst spot... this one appears to be more dense: https://goo.gl/maps/9YZrP4of97tDgQmH6 .... I think I found out where they dump all those waste products: https://goo.gl/maps/ZkfDDKM26gfmtQTL6
Yeah I get the same from: en-NZ,zh-CN,zh,en-GB,en-US,en
The poster above you is why I decided to just work as a software engineer instead. It was such a depressing and bleak field. Thank you for having another opinion!
I didn’t get a chance to read the article because there is a malicious ad being served from the CBC website that re-directed me to a fake SHAW Cable web site.
Some will disagree with such a glorious assessment of BBC. Often they don't even pretend.

[1](https://bbcwatch.org/)

[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC)
The Text Editors Wiki
I don’t like my data used without consent. I don’t like my data passing through extra companies forever and dna is or will be always identifiable since it’s like, my dna.

I also don’t like the idea of companies making money off my data without compensating me.
Actually, it's exactly because Republican law makers by and large don't give a shit (especially the Senate)
The public at large will pay for it as well… but the public already pays for it so not much will change there ;)
Meh. An analysis of Github projects. Concluding that people more experienced with the codebase make less bugs. Full of caveats (that the authors mention in their paper). Fake news about fake research by people getting their fake PhD.
in Germany Vodafone deployed DOCSIS 3.1 partially and while still not symmetric i get 100Mbit/s down and 50Mbit/s up more or less consistently with DOCSIS 3.0 where i live unless something goes wrong (it does sometimes interfere with LTE here). DOCSIS 3.1 is also available with lots of [0]channels using the newer 1024QAM. they offer up to 1Gbit downstream and 50Mbit upstream for about 70€ a month. i also made a [1]screenshot of the channel usage and stats page of the modems web interface.

[0] https://helpdesk.vodafonekabelforum.de/sendb/belegung-11.htm...

[1] https://gist.github.com/mercora/ef66f5bcd95b060ac25269b17cc6...
Ah, so we're moving the goalposts.
Who knows, could be a global optimum. Plausible theory could be - extreme frustration promotes memory formation ;) Or something ;)
I guess I don’t understand this point. This is exactly what ios mdm backup is for. Relying on users backing up their personal icloud accounts for work seems highly problematic. If they are work icloud accounts... usb should not be a problem since you are probably provisioning the devices, and the itunes backup approach over your intranet seems actually ideal.
Flutter is a GUI toolkit, it's a different use case entirely with some small overlap (flutter can run on the web or could be used to build the front-end for a new browser)
The media spin of and your account, while different, are both very different from what I hear from my partner the environmental engineer.

The media would lead you to believe farmers have stock piles of 50 gallon chemical drums they're waiting to pour into our lakes and streams.

My partner's take is that a wetland, natural or otherwise is a protected habitat that can't just be destroyed. Farms have such wetlands and land developers are finding they can't just buy up farm land and plop developments on it due to wetlands.

That seems to make the most sense to me being that Trump is a developer.
TFA goes into this. By the time it’s at Whole Foods it’s way too late to test for pesticides.

GMO is a different story. The fraudster in this story got caught early on co-mingling GMO with non-GMO.
> "Gate length" referred to the width of the sandwiched semiconductor band with different doping, (i.e. the "N" part of a PNP CMOS transistor).

Something doesn't feel quite right.
Was going to ask this myself...
This is the kind of emergent property Santa Fe Institute lives for. It is thought that cell walls originally developed because of the initial interactions that occur between fatty lipids and water.
I think the main issue is that the program should never reach a state where you're in a position to dereference a null. If it does, that means you didn't handle an error condition earlier in the program. Sure you can handle the null safely but that doesn't handle the real cause of the error.
Ah - my mistake. I was operating on the assumption the Blink and WebKit teams were exchanging patches regularly.

That's a dang shame then :/

Apple's a big company - but we saw how they mishandled their own first-party Maps service after divorcing from Google - I can see Apple's Safari potentially falling behind badly if they can't keep-up with Google's work on Blink.
Seed-Stage Investing in EdTech with Graham Forman of Edovate Capital
It’s fascinating that the quotes supporting the idea of open plan offices all come from executives or people seeming to have a public relations role. Take this for example.

> “ A loft is “a more collaborative atmosphere, and that’s the kind of creative space we want to build,” said Alan Harker, chief financial officer for VaynerX, the parent company of VaynerMedia. “It encourages people to get together.””

It’s egregiously wrong, perhaps even to a physically dangerous and negligent degree. But it’s quoted with such certainty from an executive that it rolls past the eyes and almost feels like evidence instead of the reality, a sound bite from an executive who utterly knows nothing about what knowledge workers need in a physical space.

The whole piece feels almost like sponsored content to try to promote the utterly failed concept of open plan offices, since executives plan to enforce them despite the very real physical and cognitive harm they do to workers and the reduction of productivity that more than negates any real estate savings or employee density stats.
Wuhan is a modern city.

I've never been to Beijing but I have visited two of the other tier one cities and I can assure you wet markets still exist there.
How does it compare with an iPad Pro?

I had the choice of going with a Surface, or with an iPad Pro + a macbook air.

I chose the latter option because:

1. programming sounded better on the macbook air. Maybe it is different now with WSL? But I didn't know enough at the time.

2. airdrop, and all the cool stuff you get when you stay within Apple's ecosystem (I already had an iPhone).

I'm not too happy about 2, because honestly I'd rather have devices that can all work well with each other no matter the brand, and I would have rather had one device like the surface that could be both a great tablet and a great laptop.

I'm super satisfied with the iPad pro though. So I'm wondering how this compares.
While having a very long, complete answer is interesting, there's a very simple tl;dr that answers the question just as well.

You only have N bandwidth available to the house. Cable companies have a tradition in providing content; content can be very complex, and very rarely was content ever coming back from the house. So, instead of doing N/2 upload N/2 download, they did, lets say, N/4 upload 3N/4 download. Why haven't they fixed it? Legacy systems. We've all been there.
“Into the Deep” Chronicles the Monstrousness of Danish Inventor Peter Madsen
I do quite a bit of DOCSIS consulting.

There are both technical and business reasons for the gap between upstream and downstream speeds

There are a few technical reasons. There is less upstream frequency available in the upstream. 42 MHz is the standard upstream/downstream split, 85 MHz is a midsplit, 200 MHz is a high split, and the downstream goes up to 1Ghz or even 1.2Ghz. The upstream modulation runs at 64 QAM (~27Mbs) and downstream modulation runs at 256 QAM (~38 Mbps). The upstream is also more sustainable to interference and impairments. So the technology is inherently imbalanced.

From a business prospective it is very difficult to cost justify. Moving the upstream/downstream split and/or upgrading to DOCSIS 3.1 is very expensive. The reality is that the typical customer use very little upstream bandwidth. It isn't uncommon for me to see a node with 24 or 32 downstream channels at 80% usage and 4 upstream channels are at 25% utilization or less. We see a downstream to upstream usage ratio of about 15:1. If you move the US/DS split that means you are taking away from available downstream frequency which means less DS data bandwidth or fewer video channels. It's hard to make a business case to invest in increasing upstream bandwidth when the data says people aren't going to use it.

Newer technology like DOCSIS 3.1, Docsis FDX, Remote PHY and modern plant designs like N+0 or N+1 (which means fewer customers per node) will bring higher upstream bandwidth, but it will be awhile before we see anything close to symmetrical speeds.
This is not a case of consistent logic through ignorance. The same friends who will literally go out guns blazing before letting law enforcement take their AR15, believe Snowden was a traitor and the intelligence agencies would never abuse their power ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
No link with seafood market in first case of China coronavirus
One thing that shocked me was that no one ever tried to connect "cognitive dissonance", one of the most successful social psychology theories of all time, to actual dissonance in neural oscillations.

Consonance results in greater periodicity, meaning that the action potentials are more likely to line up, whereas dissonance has less periodicity, so action potentials don't line up. It feels better (there is pleasure) when the action potentials align because of hebbian reinforcement (synchronous firing). This assumes that reinforcement would be pleasurable, but pleasure is the main reinforcer at a cognitive level.
Dark Grains...there you go Hollywood now go on and make a movie about it.
I have both a Surface Go and an iPad Pro, and while using the pen on the iPad Pro on its own offers a satisfactory experience, I find that it's not nearly as good as the Surface Go when it comes to accurately recognizing the correct input method when quickly switching between pen and touch inputs.

My iPad Pro very often would treat my finger as a stylus and start drawing when I meant to use my fingers to scroll around, while on my Surface Go I honestly can't even recall that happening even once, and it's a night and day difference in terms of ergonomics for me. I think Microsoft's much longer experience in handling hybrid pen & touch input in OneNote for Windows still gives it an edge at the moment.
I have to agree (ignoring the whole C doesn’t throw exceptions).

I have been looking at our bugs, logs and exceptions recently of the past 6 years and an enormous amount of bugs are caused by methods/functions that have multiple parameters with the same type (Java).

This happens because (my theory) we use java and java doesn’t have type aliases or value types as well as easy destructuring. It also doesn’t have named parameters (well there is a compiler option to retain the parameter name but it’s not like ocaml label parameter or python kwargs).

So often times in boring business programming you are dealing with methods with 5 to six strings so it’s very easy to mix up the parameter order.

Very few “hard” bugs were caused by NPEs where as the previous problem caused serious pain.
The misdiagnoses sounded pretty frustrating but the unnecessary gall bladder removal is appalling and galling. TLDR - a bump on the head caused pituitary gland malfunction that no doctor recognized for years.
The real victims are the people paying higher prices for 'conventional' produce and grains because farmers are chasing higher prices and lower yields for organics. This includes most of the developing world.
> Congress should be updating these laws to address new types of issues, but it’s not. It’s not because Republicans don’t care about these issues, and Democrats aren’t willing to spend the political capital to make these issues a priority. Whatever the reason, however, that doesn’t mean it’s okay for agencies like the EPA to creatively interpret statutes to expand their powers into new areas.

I read the GP's post as "It's not (updating laws) because Republicans don't care about these issues", which I have to agree with. (though with the caveat that Democrats don't care much, either)
With a very large property like Wikipedia it's probably unavoidable that it'll be possible to determine that you contacted Wikimedia, even just from IP addresses. If that's too much you'll need TOR.

But far from "the only thing" being page content, almost everything is "kept private" with HTTPS, the request itself including any body provided, and the response to that request.

So while "visiting your request" might well get them their own copy of the content of a particular encyclopedia page you looked at, they're stuck with not knowing what that request was.

And eSNI plus DPRIVE is the final dash to a finish where the ISP doesn't even know which Wikimedia host you visited, assuming they all share the same IP ranges. Italian Wikipedia? Simple English? Wiktionary? Wikivoyage? That's suddenly an ocean of possibilities.
Apparently: "poly(A) tails at the 3' end of RNA are not an unusual feature of viruses. Eukaryotic mRNA almost always contains poly(A) tails, which are added post-transcriptionally in a process known as polyadenylation. It should not therefore be surprising that positive-strand RNA viruses would have poly(A) tails as well. In eukaryotic mRNA, the central sequence motif for identifying a polyadenylation region is AAUAAA, identified way back in the 1970s, with more recent research confirming its ubiquity. Proudfoot 2011 is a nice review article on poly(A) signals in eukaryotic mRNA."

Edit: A more recent (2017) study than Proudfoot 2011 offers the perspective that the process may be more tissue specific. From Tian B., Manley J.L. Alternative polyadenylation of mRNA precursors. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 2016; 18:18–30:

Alternative polyadenylation (APA) is an RNA-processing mechanism that generates distinct 3′ termini on mRNAs and other RNA polymerase II transcripts. It is widespread across all eukaryotic species and is recognized as a major mechanism of gene regulation. APA exhibits tissue specificity and is important for cell proliferation and differentiation. In this Review, we discuss the roles of APA in diverse cellular processes, including mRNA metabolism, protein diversification and protein localization, and more generally in gene regulation. We also discuss the molecular mechanisms underlying APA, such as variation in the concentration of core processing factors and RNA-binding proteins, as well as transcription-based regulation.
Oh so then I'm pretty sure they use http to reduce CPU load.
Trying to keep an open mind here about this - but what does Haskell offer on an _arduino_ aside from developer preference?

Surely C/C++ will be the better performer on such a tiny board... And usually you want to squeeze every drop of performance out of tiny boards
Possibly, they shot themselves in the foot by creating demand for pushing everything "into the cloud"? If the telco demands monopoly prices for hooking up your servers on premise, chances are you move your servers to a datacenter where there is actual competition, or use services of someone who does.
Yup, that's what the link says
Choose your own definitions... but SQLite is not serverless by common parlance.

Author creates two definitions for serverless which don't match the common usage. Serverless is more about DevOps / deploy experience than how the program leverages OS processes internally.

Apparently MS and AWS are ISPs?

Maybe SQLite could be serverless if you defined it as incapable or running as a server on its own?
For $100, you could do thrift store arbitrage. There are thrift stores around my neighborhood that sell items for under $1 or $5 that could easily go for $10 to $10 on eBay or Cragislist. You could buy $100 worth of items, and sell them for $200 online. This works for small dollar amounts but is harder to scale because you will spend more and more time shopping and shipping.
How much of the internet still functions with JavaScript turned off?
Regarding the list of fonts, they don't get that info (they could with Flash, but not JS). What they do is have a list of font names in the JS source, and they set a text element to each one, comparing the resulting size of the element to a baseline (the size when the element is set to the font "sans-serif" or "serif"). If it's different, the font is installed.

Regarding the list of devices, it should be noted those IDs are site-specific, so they can't really be used for cross-site tracking, and clearing cookies also resets them (at least in Firefox). But there are discussions pointing to a consensus around disabling the enumeration before permission is granted. As in other cases, the browsers will probably have to lie to avoid breaking sites.
Kudos for an all-around outstanding effort. Really beautiful. One thing to think about, from a professional perspective, is the million dollar problem for all these resume editors--providing an MS Word version. I prefer to do my reports generation in rmarkdown/latex but am forced to use MS Word for my resume clients. There are word templates you can use with rmarkdown and markdown (pandoc) but they take time to setup.

As a noob on Gatsby, I really look forward to studying this code!

throwaway account
It’s common for people to feed chickens the same basic diet as industrial chicken farmers do. Otherwise you need quite a bit more land per chicken. A good rule of thumb is unless their walking on grass they need feed.
How do you inspect grain for "organic?" The label is meaningless and honestly this is kind of an intended side effect — charging people more for the same product. This guy just got even greedier than the original creators of the term and the government agreed was acceptable.
I've been remote for 4 years, having some crypto is like having a free international checking account. Sure its not accepted by some vendors, but its getting better as time goes on.
No, the article is misleading. Those radioactive elements aren't just deep underground - they're literally everywhere. The soil is naturally full of them. They've got this damning-sounding quote from an internal report that “almost all materials of interest and use to the petroleum industry contain measurable quantities of radionuclides”, but again, that's true of ordinary soil and all kinds of things. What the oil industry and its regulators mostly seem to worry about is their production processes inadvertently concentrating them in places like pipes.

(Incidentally, rare earth production is particularly nasty because it involves taking feedstock that's already quite high in radium, thorium, etc and intentionally concentrating them.)
I have to wonder if they're spraying them with flat black Krylon?
WASM does seem to be on the road to eventually being a better JS.
That made me want to see whether the calculations have some assumptions about variables being independent: it seems unlikely that the default browser on an OS shipping in 7+ volumes has various headers, fonts, etc. which are so identifying. I could believe some hardware variation with canvas/WebGL but the iOS font list wasn’t even customizable until 13.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is the only other one that I can think of.
You’re right. Shouldn’t have had a question mark at end. Mimicking how I would have said it versus how it should have been written.
Azure Pipelines doesn't host arm yet, but you can run a self hosted pool on a Gravitron2 VM pretty easily.
The list in the article you linked indicates that eating undercooked meat is a mode of transmission only for parasites, prion-based diseases, and a couple of bacterial diseases.

It doesn't seem plausible for a viral disease, especially a respiratory one. On the other hand, capturing, keeping, butchering, and preparing bats could present a risk. With Ebola, butchering of bush meat was cited as a likely vector.
this is such poor logic i dont know where to begin.
https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news2/newsid=54422.p...

Please make this a URL submission of you only post the link anyway
It’s the gene of The Fonz.
> However, your customers also don't want to hear that you were hacked and all their sensitive data is now in someone else's hands. We offer easy-to-use protection from that increasingly common scenario.

Generate an escrow keypair and ask the site owner to provide their own long passphrase for encrypting the private key. If a user needs to reset their password, they can contact the site developers who will need to key in the passphrase temporarily to generate a password reset link.

Yes, this leaves various avenues of attack involving caches and whatnot to get to the private key while it's briefly decrypted, but it's still way more difficult than hacking a MySQL database, which is what you're trying to beat. (And it retains the property that I don't need to run a MySQL database.)
Everything produces radioactive “waste”, including granite counter tops and bananas. Please look that up before down-voting.

There are legit problems w fossil fuel production, but radioactivity isn’t the devil.
It's fertilized with manure; eating fecal bacteria is bad for you, too. Wash your produce no matter where you get it from.
While an exception might be marginally better than undefined behavior, its actual occurrence can still leave your database in an inconsistent state or have other random detrimental effects. By the time you see the exception reported the damage has already been done (program flow interrupted unexpectedly). Due to the large amount of possible program states you would have to do an impossible amount of testing to make sure such surprises won't happen once the software gets into the hands of a user.
> Stop acting like there's only one extreme or the other.

I have accurately described your views, which is how most of the US votes.

Hand waving in denial, is not uncommon. Good luck with that.

> It's a simplistic world view that ignores that most things exist in shades of grey

That's why it takes MULTIPLE steps to get to that point, which I went through. Take another look at my post.

"Do people need to be protected from other people's speech?" Yes, to some degree there needs to be watchers.
"who gets to decide what is 'acceptable'" The watchers are those with the most resources to watch the people.

> defaulting to an extreme just shows that you lack imagination

I present that you lack comprehension of your own viewpoint.

My "failure" is that I have not given you a solution that you find acceptable, which meets your expectations.
No, have a ridiculously handsome farmhand as an undercover agent, a hot daughter who is torn between loyalties, and a helicopter chase to stop the villain from escaping on his private jet.

"Field of Schemes" coming 2021 from Michael Bay.
Something something engineered bioweapon
Big fan of Solus. It's one of the nicest options off the beaten path of arch and Debian-based distros. Great gaming support, and Budgie is very nice too.