skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love awk, but I'm still waiting for the structural regex awk: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/structural_regexps/se.pdf
We Need iOS TimeCapsule.
That's a pretty good overview of a good amount of things, Germany exports a lot of things, including their own problems imo. Germany has not held their own when it comes to demand growth. People seem to love Germany's fiscal discipline, but they don't realize that they pursue it to detrimental extent, if not for their own sake, than that of their neighbors. The schwarze null is kind of a cynical joke at this point.

The problem with being like, a systemic export nation, is that your shifting burden to someone else. It sounds okay on paper, but what you see is that can hide a lot of your own issues. If you aren't getting better, your sustained welfare is vampiric, it's coming from your counterparts.

And like you are saying, a personal pet peeve of mine is the outsized amount of private companies. Look at any global etfs, Germany is behind the UK, France, Switzerland (lot of multinationals tbf) and Canada (though not European). That's mainly the work large amounts of private companies. I'm sympathetic to the fact that its their companies, they don't have to sell them. But when it creates a fairly significant skew in sort of a capital picture, you can end up with stuff like this, where your capital class is even more walled off than elsewhere, since you can't build equity in a large portion of their economy even if you wanted to.
Elements of Scheduling
Meaningful moments don't exclude symbolic ones. You can die in a heroic way (that some might find stupid since symbols are subjective) but my personal opinion is that the quality time you spend with the people you leave behind counts far more than an single act at the end.
I’ve dealt with this as well, particularly with programming. At least with programming, what I usually wind up doing is raising an issue on Github about the feature I’m trying to implement or the bug I’m trying to solve. It helps me actually start working, keep track of my thoughts, and define the problem well enough that I can ultimately begin working on it.

With other things, usually it’s best to run to google, or send an email to your boss or professor, or just pull out a notepad and start jotting things down. Sometimes it also helps to take a quick break - exercise, take a shower, etc - and then come back.

Although the irony is that I’m typing this comment out as a form of procrastination when I should be pulling out my laptop to do some remote work...
Seems quaint now, eh?
It’s only a matter of time before easy-to-use open source technology becomes available to everyone to host and they won’t need Apple to manage their data.

Unless you mean Apple should be actively trying to siphon off private data via their OS and hardware and index it for the feds?

I would then say Apple’s “trusted computing base” isn’t so trusted.
>I also think firms should be able to buy "blank space." For example facebook or amazon could pay NOT to have an ad above their result. Maybe they already do, I dont see an ad when I search facebook, however I do see an ad for amazon above the top amazon result.

Backblaze had a competitor who bought ads for the search term "backblaze". The CEO successfully contacted the competitor CEO and they agreed they'd be in a pissing match throwing money at Google if the practice and retaliation (backblaze buying on their search term) occurred. The competitor promptly stopped the ad campaign.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/save-marketing-money-nice/
> Someone with a regular job can not afford a house close to a major city any more

Germany allows foreigners to purchase property, and as such prices in very desirable locations (Munich, Dusseldorf) have gone up. But not everywhere. Furthermore, it is really not necessary to own a house, as the rental market is well developed - many people choose to rent. Lastly, looking at The Economist data, affordability in Germany is better than, say, UK, Canada, and the US. [1]

> People dress cheaply, buy used cars and many live in frugal appartments

Yes, it is considered impolite to show off, and people don't really care about appearances, so they can be shabbily dressed. But then, they don't have to worry about healthcare, they travel quite a bit, and have time to read or follow their passions.

> buy in stores that many American or Canadians would consider third world

Aldi sells good food at excellent prices, by foregoing the eye candy and marketing found elsewhere.

[1] https://infographics.economist.com/2017/HPI/index.html
or https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/06/27/global-h...
For comparison, Google end-to-end encrypts Android backups with your lock screen PIN/pattern (which isn't known to Google).

Source - https://security.googleblog.com/2018/10/google-and-android-h...
Understanding Spark Streaming with Kafka and Druid
> They can grant access to a key, but they cannot themselves be the key.

My assumption is that device recovery is such a special case, that it can use very different algorithms than those used in phones today, they could be very computationally expensive and turn fingerprints into usable keys. And of course there is no need for anyone to store them or being able to match them individually or even just tie to an identity of a person.
If you can pull it off and restrain yourself, there is this trick of leaving one easy bug (or task) open, to get a nice start of the next day. You could start looking out for that task or bug half an hour before quits, maybe?
I didn't a search in Indeed and found jobs like:

- machinist

- maintenance worker

- crater/packer

- painter

I wish there was a better name, still better than go, although they successfully adopted golang so now it is easier.
With a Platinum subscription, Audible books work out to $11.50 each, which is sometimes cheaper than even the e-book version let alone a physical copy.

Narration quality is a big deal. I am pretty impressed with the latest TTS but if I'm going to spend 10-50+ hours listening to a single audiobook I will be happy to pay a few bucks for the best narration.
(tangent) i really hate what browser extensions have become.
The reason isn't that bizarre; it's a POSIX utility and must conform to the specification, which you can read here:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/c...
No, the current buyback madness (at least at these levels) is a very recent invention of the past decade and quite abnormal. We can go back to reinvesting in companies and employees and research tomorrow if we want to.

But this would require boards and executives who didn't want to just grant themselves huge amounts of equity while buying back stock. So far not many boards are standing up for this.
I always used to leave myself a few simple tasks at work ready for the start of the next day, so I could ease myself into the day.

Nowadays email has helped with that, at least reading it. Learned best to draft reply and then after lunch go thru and edit/rewrite before sendings.

Worked well for me. Though the biggest issue (and gift) I have is actually over-thinking and with that, seeing the bigger picture can be darn depressing on so many issues that I often find my zest for life lacking that anything else struggles to stand a chance of having a shot. But, just one more day has worked for decades.
Yea it is hilarious how Comcast thinks rebranding to xfinity etc is going to help. To be fair to them, the internet service mostly has been excellent where I live. The issue is the predatory pricing/cost and ever decreasing TV channels for existing customers.
As West Coast Transplants Pour In, a Small Idaho Town Has a Big Dilemma
But a corporation is a person.
> * without the union Italian and Spanish and French banks would long have gone bankrupt*

If you think sick institutions should die, that's not a benefit.
It is fast, robust, and frequently far more performant than a lot of modern tools that can be overkill for most data manipulation. I use it all the time in our ETL processes and it always works as advertised.
thank you for that. reminds me of the end of The Wrestler (2008): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_Yn2xOGNhI
If you're 'speaking truth to power' only when it suits your already formed opinion, then you're not really speaking truth.
Fascinating, but there exist already htslib [0] bindings for Python (and many other languages). htslib truly is the standard library with respect to high-throughput sequencing data file access, and with high level bindings, we can already write something like:

```
for seq in bamfile:
print(seq.pos)
```
or whatever.

[0] https://github.com/samtools/htslib
I have paid full price for items, and received counterfeits. The listing claimed it was the vendor, it was fulfilled by Amazon.

Easily detectable fakes, typos, misspellings, etc. that aren't on genuine items.
Show HN: From attachments to trackable microsite in 60 secs
There's a workaround to point the local folder to anywhere via a symbolic link (in my case, a NAS).

https://reincubate.com/support/how-to/change-itunes-backup-l...
Agree, the way should be instead how to make myself feel like starting that task. Ask yourself why you are not feeling it, but obviously it’s because there are more fun tasks, so you need to solve why it isn’t fun, and devise a way to make it fun for you. As opposed to treating the task as torture.
I did and I'm sorry about that. I shouldn't have treated you that way. I do think internal corporate propaganda is a real thing from FAANG employees on HN whether intentional or not, but how I commented isn't the way to handle it.
I understand that monitoring and keeping people in check, and perhaps you're right that there should be a physical barrier between certain systems, however there's still nothing stopping bad actors from infiltrating in these systems. I personally think ads should be obliterated, as they're simply shallow and cheap methods of manipulating people; Presidential candidate Andrew Yang's plan is to tax ads higher in his VAT strategy than other things, progressively increase it over time, basically as a mechanism similar to a carbon tax countering pollution that's bad for us. Tesla spends no money on advertising, the word of mouth and media attention they get is all earned - meanwhile other vehicle manufacturers compete through emotional ads spend money which increases the cost of the vehicles, perpetuates the ad industrial complex, and to some degree limits people's depth of critical thinking for their buying decisions re: the emotional manipulation of ads bombarding them to build a good, relatable feeling, familiarizing them with specific products to make it feel like a safe, good choice.
google did NOT build the web.

too bad you cant talk to Berners-lee and the original DARPA crew about this
Why not just use Emacs for simple scripts and text manipulation? Way easier, lots of one liners as well, just as expressive.
> Medium provides nothing of value to me as a consumer.

The value is that it's providing a platform to authors who want a platform where they know they'll get readers. I personally don't choose to use Medium anymore, but it's very easy to get people to read your content on there. In the past I've used places like Wordpress, Blogger, my own webpages, etc., and it took a lot more effort to get people to see your content. Whereas on Medium, it didn't take long to get people to look at my content. Few things I wrote went into a black hole.

> I say this as someone that pays for about a dozen online newspaper/magazine subscriptions but will never pay a penny to access a site like Medium or Scribd or Quora or any other site that does nothing but make money off being the middle man.

They make money by being a platform to voices you might not otherwise hear because newspapers and magazines pick and choose a small set of authors to write most of their content. If that's not your cup of tea, then it's not your cup of tea.

I choose not to use Medium as an author, but I understand why people choose to publish on it and why some people would choose to pay for it.

> Anyway, it’s all moot as Medium will inevitably shutter or pivot.

Like every other business conceivably?

> If those views are killed off by requiring a paywall, then Medium itself becomes defunct.

Is that actually happening?
This isn't paywalled Medium content so you can simply find the close button and click it, be it on the sliding banner or the modal.

That being said, that action does require an extra click.
Nope, tradable goods don't just become "more expensive" because of currency shifts. The prices of tradables are set in a global market and tied together by cross-trading (arbitrage) considerations. What happens when supplying a desirable product is that the industry seeks to expand and that might increase costs overall. The Dutch Disease is an extreme version of this, in which having a single dominating industry sector leads to e.g. bad governance, etc. But these are real effects that are unrelated to currency shifts.
With an open hardware design, periodically de-liding and examining a random sample of available consumer hardware would probably sufficient to protect the general consumer population, and targeted attacks become very difficult if you purchase your hardware from a store rather than order it by mail.

Even so I agree that examining all hardware in that manner is impractical. A better approach might be having a small, simpler core of secure open-source hardware managing your root of trust, and trying our best to mitigate the impact of compromises in the more complicated components (like the motherboard, CPU, etc) with approaches such as requiring open source firmware, sandboxing individual components by filtering their external communications through open hardware, and limiting their access to sensitive data like encryption keys. Obviously there's only so far you can go with that, but I don't think it's an entirely hopeless battle either.

It's a very interesting problem for sure.
I've heard that the "Max" name doesn't appear on FAA filings and the like, they use the name "737-8". I'm guessing that they'll be switching to using that name once the issues are ironed out.
> Economics in a nutshell: "There must be a single number that explains all of this!"

My experience of Economists is that they love a lot of numbers!
scripts are the antithesis of modern software development. No Unit testing, No CI, no monitoring, no consistency, often no source control. Appeals to me as a hacker but only my scripts are intelligible - which is a bad sign. :)
Disclaimer: I'm from Lithuania, little eastern Europe country.

There has been a lot of talk about eastern Europe being a junkyard for german cars (or old european cars in general) in recents times, not the least locally, especially by politicians trying to justify weird decisions. Most of the time one vital factor remains overlooked, people don't have money for anything else here. German cars are valued by most the people, whether that is deserved or not is a different question. There are plenty of mechanic shops for repairing those cars and cars itself are cheap. Public transport is mostly horrible, so a car is a must for most people. If a family has a budget of ~€1500 per month, how can you realistically choose anything else but an old imported car from western Europe (majority from germany).
While reading low level API stuff is interesting, give us the meat. Is there a list of which games did not work in 4.x that do work now, or worked in 4.x but are improved now?
I agree. If death is compulsory, why not have fun?

Some others in this thread have brought up the point that sudden death is more difficult for those who live on. I agree with that, too, so I suppose I don't know what I think about this.

Dying mid-code doesn't sound as great as dying after having just completed a coding project or task. The feeling of frustration and confusion changing to pride and accomplishment is a powerful one, at least for me.
Not necessarily, you can filter the backlinks to [[Red Wine]] from within the Red Wine page to only include other tags, like Super Tuscan.
Problem with reviews on Amazon is, just like any other review system - it can be gamed.

Reviews can be "bought" - sometimes literally, sometimes "under the table" (reviewers are supposed to disclose things like "I was sent this item by the seller for feedback and review" or similar - but do you think all reviewers are honest?).

What also happens (far more often than you'd believe - but if you look close, you can find it) is a product will be sold and gain a large number of great reviews, then the seller will turn around, and mark the item's cost up to some insane amount (an item normal selling for $5.00 will be marked up to $99999.99), only to later put a different item (description, pictures, etc) in it's place (keeping the SKU the same), drop the price back down to something reasonable, and now "new item" has "old item" 5-star reviews.

I see this all the time on Amazon when I look at my purchase history over a year or more time-frame. I purchase a lot of stuff on Amazon, and I mostly see this kind of thing on the hobby electronics and stuff I purchase, but I have seen it also on regular products. I'll look at my past purchases, and the name and picture of a purchase I made will be changed to something I know for a fact I didn't purchase (because it was something I'd never purchase, due to non-interest, my purchasing patterns, or not marketed for my demographic or such).

Of course, this is with "hobby electronics" - a lot of which are drop-shipped out of China/Hong Kong, or were imported to the USA for "Amazon Fulfillment" purposes. But I have no doubt this same thing happens with other, more general products. If the seller doing this plays their cards right (like selling RAM sticks with the reviews for flash memory cards), it can sometimes be very difficult to tell that a swap was made, without reading every review very carefully. Imagine this being done with products like clothing or fashion accessories...!
the internet for dummies is a start
> Anyway, I don't find this a compelling argument against allowing mechanical failures. Manufacturers these days understand the trade-offs between cost to manufacture, part reliability, and tolerance of failure.

I fully agree - my point was not to anthropomorphize machines. However, as you said, manufacturers understand the trade-offs, and for "industrial-grade" products, they prioritize having longer Mean time to failure compared to consumer goods. MTTF is sometimes baked into the contract/warrantees since any downtime is money lost - McDonald's can't take the fry machine offline and continue serving 95% of their meals
Grosse Fuge. This piece is 100 years ahead, and almost 200 years old today. I can't figure out how he could envision it in his time. That kind of music is more like Shostakovich than the Beethoven we know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmIr-7z3XdY
Aircraft type is even a filter option on some travel sites, like Kayak.
> Germany is a very new country (1871) and still comprised of markedly different regions.

Interestingly, this is apparent in the genetics of Germans. You can distinguish, say, Frenchmen from non-Frenchmen fairly easily -- they form a natural cluster. Germans don't form a German cluster; they break down into three clusters focused in the north, south, and east. Northern Germans may look more like Danes than they do like Eastern Germans.
Adblockers are mostly useless, companies pay them to whitelist and the browsers manufacturers (other than the little guys) seem more inclined to make it less functional. I try at home to use a hosts file (ie a manual pihole) but it breaks so many websites I can't find some combo that blocks ads but doesn't break functionality (I still can't comment on reddit any more).

With Google putting ads inline coming from them it gets really hard to filter without causing even more issues (and most people use Chrome so they can figure out things out from both ends).
man the russian bots are awfully quick to downvote this stuff
Here's some userstyles I made for myself to help get rid of some of the visual clutter. I use it combined with uBlock Origin though, so it's likely not perfect. I use the Stylus extension for Firefox.

https://gist.github.com/keb/8a51c42daeb4c230e7f76664e62f9f42
Getting Started with Machine Learning
We can look today at Germany as a mature, stable partner in the world but at the time, the argument that there might just be 'something in the soil' of the primary belligerent of the last 2 world wars was not entirely insane. Gratifyingly the world saw that the nation's contrition was sincere and we enjoy the fruits of its labour today.
I haven't run into any trouble backing up to spinning rust.

>How to move your iPhone or iPad backups to an external hard drive

https://www.imore.com/how-move-your-iphone-or-ipad-backups-e...
Proof Assistants at the Hardware-Software Interface
Distinguish yourself from the competition by adopting a four-day workweek.
Cool site, but for myself, I will stick with Audible because of the convenience. I have probably spent about $1000 on Audible books and I feel like that has been a good value, over many years.

Some advantages I have experienced:

When I read James Joyce "Ulysses" several years ago, it was somewhat difficult to follow the narrative. I then listened to it as an audio book with a half a dozen good actors reading the parts and the book came to life for me.

I have some arthritis in my hands, and any time not using a keyboard, holding a physical book, or an eBook reader helps.

When I am working in the yard, cleaning up the kitchen, etc. it is good to listen to a book.

The one thing that bothers me is the possibility of losing a large investment in Kindle and Audible books if I ever lost my Amazon account. I mitigate this somewhat by buying some eBooks and audio books on Google Play and on Apple's store. --> don't put all of your eggs in one basket.
Alex Honnold and the Rock Climbing Boom
New Version of SapphireDb with Node.js Support
I might be mistaken but I thought Backblaze doesn't backup external drives?
Any additional reading on the Qt-KDE treaty that you would recommend?
The Limits to Growth
I'm always reminded of The Onion's prophetic sketches:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
Unironically switch to Bing
I was under the impression 2015's all still had removable hard drives but after looking at the iFixit I guess I was wrong. At this point I'd think about contacting Rossmann Repair Group [0]. I've never used them or been in your position but this is the guy who is famous for repairing logic boards and other "un-repairable" components from Apple.

[0] https://rossmanngroup.com/
I cannot agree with this assessment, because you're talking about a key industry from the 80s. Germany's strengths is not just in cars, but also in tangible b2b products that require a high degree of know-how and engineering. Southern Germany is plastered with such companies, they deliver products to the rest of the world you and I haven't even heard of unless you're working in some specific business. These companies are very competitive and innovative.
> None of the Rust complexity leaks over into the LLVM IR it generates

The leakage even triggers performance issues in compilers: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/5-hours-to-compile-macro-what-...
"Evil is also subjective."

Yes, it's 'evil' when you're a poor disruptive startup trying to change how ads work, it's 'not evil' when you're a behemoth incumbent trying to maximise revenues.
That's what people get when they take promises of any kind seriously. I'm not excusing Medium, but at the same time I'm not going to hold some kind of false expectation over their head.
I think its time for mozilla or another provider to launch their own fully open sources web search. its been a while google has has a serious competition.
in other words they carry and deserve the blame for sabotage of the web toward thier own end