skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d argue that suffering from water intoxication (what “overdosing on water” is called medically) is no worse than most other forms of ODing. Common symptoms are headache, nausea, cramping, and drowsiness.

For those wondering how much water it takes, it of course varies based on body weight and how much salt is in your body, but generally speaking, drinking over a gallon (~4L) of water in an hour is at high risk.
Doesn't really matter as long as the filters are in the correct orientation. However it would be beneficial if the air is clean before it goes through the fan.
Ah yes just like when I was inexperienced and was paying 2.5% for a closet tracker from my bank.
So, what software/app do you guys use to consume audiobooks? I haven't found a decent one that works with external downloads.
Cost prohibitive doesn't mean there's no money, it means money used wouldn't be worth it. The Dallas area has the longest light rail system in the US, yet it barely covers the sprawl. Same with buses. There are too many people, living dozens of miles away from each other, going in all directions at all times which makes public transit often cost prohibitive. Of course they try anyways to service their citizens. But without a mind shift change _and_ a recentralization of people _and_ a significant increase in expenditure, it's a real waste to grow the barely used system. Especially since most of the people we're talking about with the sprawl don't live in the city anyways.

As for road expenditures, in both Houston and Dallas, a large amount of new money towards them use private money on toll roads. This includes joint ventures for toll lanes on public highways which is of course regressive, but keeps at bay this kind of comment complaining about public funds.
Do you have a link where I can read about this?
Compared to the US, Germany is more regulation heavy in general. Many of those regulations seem fine or even great, there are definitely ones that weird me out a bit as an American living here though, like legally enforced quiet hours on Sunday, days where it's illegal to dance, and really just the large amount of government-religion interaction.
Please please please let it not become a thing! We have real jobs we need to take care of instead of homework!
I use Bear (https://bear.app/) for all my note taking, and use that to organize any links that I might want to come back to later. Its search is effective enough that I'm always able to find what I'm after. Evernote or other apps would also probably work well for this, but I really like Bear's design and ability to manually tag things while writing.
Too bad DEC didn't live out the 20th century so that we could recognize how wrong they were.
The successful rewrites I've seen are usually because the requirements have changed so much since the original was written that the original code just isn't the right thing anymore, and refactoring it to be the right thing amounts to a rewrite anyway.

Depending on what the software does and how it works, you can often have the original software running along side the rewritten software, and gradually move users over to the new software, giving you time to iron out bugs in a fairly safe way.

Of course, that doesn't work for everything. It's easier for applications that are used internally by a company vs external customers.
I guess it depends on the quality of filter. If you're rocking a high merv filter for smoke the pressure drop can be significant.
I'm guessing they are only thinking of raster images, like excerpts of photos or videos.
Yeah, after they mentioned he was made king of the village and then he just left without any other detail, I also stopped reading.
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Just make sure you don't move the epic to "Done" status.
In android I use Voice
That's why I try to be as out as I can stand about my tubal pregnancy - awareness of what it likely was prevented me from having to be rushed to the hospital but instead being able to choose where I wanted to go and prepare to be there for a few days, and being in a country (Germany) where there was no question that the pregnancy needed to be ended and the only question was which method I preferred after being given information about all my options made it a lot easier to deal with long term.
> When I have a problem the documentation is... IDK, consistent?

Yeah, it's almost like developing the OS as a singular entity instead of a kernel with random bits tacked-on has some advantages...
>then you’ll see it’s just like real politics. You don’t get to only vote for the parts of a candidate you like, you vote for the whole package.

Well, that's the problem with politics as well, and the reason that modern democracy is a sham (compared to ancient Athenian direct democracy [1]).

[1] obviously for those it included at the time. After all, modern democracy didn't include slaves, women, and even poor white folks (the extension of voting rights to non-property-owning white men happened in 1828, and it was hampered in the South until the early 20th century) until well into the 20th century.
Ongoing discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22106536
everyone has conspiracy theories about what is "really going on here", this is to stamp out a competitive threat in google, or whatever, but I do think this story probably is just that hospitals (and "traditional enterprises" broadly) are not using GCP for their cloud infrastructure and are instead going with AWS or Azure.
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If you have a decent test suite to lean on, you can work miracles this way!
Yeah, it was pretty bad.
Ah, but how often is that law enforced? And is it easily enforced? This seems ever increasing in importance nowadays.
True,

It was probably bad wording on his part when he said “rewriting from C# to Angular”. If he meant, “we created an API in C# and decoupled the MVC rendering from the business logic and rewrote the front end in Angular”, that’s different. Since he didn’t mention rewriting the back end, I can’t assume they rewrote the backend.
Maybe this will help Mastodon and other FOSS social networks to become popular in Germany.
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You would need to live in an indoor rainforest (approximately 680 plants for a typical house) to see an effect on air quality, a spider plant in the corner isn't doing anything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmeiXikh0v8
If that is proven for the use case in question, by all means.

If not, then there are better places where to spend money.
The bans are much less permanent than amazon makes them seem - next day: new name, same product, same listing. Banning is quite ineffective on actually removing counterfeit items.
Start sloppy works well for people who have perfectionist problems.
I figured he has plenty of followers to ignite some kind of larger discussion about policy, just a few days after tweeting about it. I guess we don't reply to disagree these days, just downvote.

Serves me right, I'll keep it to myself rather; might as well have made a troll comment about Trump or something, didn't expect that at HN.
(A few minutes after posting this, morning rooftop construction started. Sounds of saws and drills buzzing, large objects and beams being dropped directly overhead. Air purifier just kicked into high gear. Yes, I’m definitely into this thing.)

https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-air-purifier/
Look inside 100s of surveillance experiments along the US-Mexico border
Firefox Quantum isn't a rewrite of Gecko. At one point, Servo was going to be a rewrite of Gecko, but that petered out. They pivoted to a strategy where some parts of Servo would be integrated into Gecko, and other components of Gecko would be rewritten in Rust. The most significant of these was Stylo, Servo's CSS style (but not rendering) subsystem. However, despite the rebranding, the core of the engine and the overall architecture is still Gecko.
I find this post on Wisdomination applicable to this scenario. It changed the way I approached tasks.

http://www.wisdomination.com/screw-motivation-what-you-need-...
A lot of the "wealth mangers" are just young inexperienced guys/gals and you end up with a closet tracker an pay through the nose.

Good mangers are not cheap
iPhone/iPad backups stored locally on iTunes (or Finder, in Catalina) are end-to-end encrypted.

iCloud backups always were encrypted based on a key derived from your iCloud account credentials, since the beginning...
They do when accounting sees the cloud renting costs to scale those js/python apps.
Here is a nice write up on different examples that either work or fail: https://medium.com/@herbcaudill/lessons-from-6-software-rewr...
There's a natural push-pull here, though. Big cities have the best, most high-paying jobs. People move to Houston for the earning opportunity and then put up with the traffic because they have to (not realizing how much it's costing them). Small cities with less sprawl and less traffic don't have those same job opportunities. The network effect is very real for companies.
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Where do you think those zeros come from? The kernel demand faults that mmap, and on each fault, has to find a page containing zero. Sometimes it has to make one.
Arguably making it harder for enforcement agency to do their jobs. I believe this is their burden to bear and work with, since privacy for every citizens is also important.
Why would you think it was end-to-end encrypted? Did you never use icloud.com where you can simply access all your icloud data with a usernam+password?
Ask HN: What Happened to Firefox Nightly News?
Firefox Nightly News blog hasn't had an update since November 13, 2019.

It was the best medium I found to follow Firefox development news, always with a bunch of great links and brief descriptions of the varied works in progress.

I wonder if HN knows what's up...

Link: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/

Last post: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2019/11/13/these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-68/
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I would agree with you, with the caveat that I think that I would much rather live without typing to people online if I had to choose one or the other.

Typing is great, theres a certain density of information and shorthand inherent in how we write and use punctuation (much like how a lot can be said with gestures and facial features) as well as a sort of shared purpose (we all came to this website to have a particular kind of experience, everyone present is in a particular sort of mood)
Thank you for articulating my point better than I could myself about the 'cascade of dependencies'.

It seems to me that these platforms/packages are essentially trying to build something almost-as-complex as a genome from scratch, and that trying to avoid those cascades is paramount. However, is this possible in practise, and if so, what would help streamline the process?

Would a generalisable package solution help with this, and what's limiting development of such a solution? Is it because we don't know what such a solution should/ought to look like?
> Just like in Joel's post, where Netscape took years to rewrite its already working code, rewriting code because Coldfusion was “dead” or “inferior” would have served little business purpose.

I understand there are plenty of counter-arguments to be made here. First and foremost, it gets harder every day to find a Coldfusion developer. Those who know the platform are most likely looking to give a facelift to their skillset, rather than prolonging the inevitable drying-up of the proverbial job pool. More, it may be harder to implement functionality in Coldfusion, particularly the kind we were dealing with, than, say, in .Net, Ruby on Rails, or even Go.

Even so, there are other, better ways to move toward new technology without rewriting an entire codebase.

Interesting that the author doesn't provide any real suggestions to this specific case, only the other examples, which are not similar.

The facts are the following:

1. The Coldfusion community is dying.

2. Adobe is actively making it more difficult to commercially pay for the software. They are now seeking compensation for use of CF as part of "SaaS Revenue". You have to submit a form that says what your revenues are. I kid you not, thats what the sales people are saying to customers.

These two situations have serious economical ramifications on a company running CF.
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That's the thing: you can both live in the present and prepare for the future. It's all about budgeting.

Saving money does not mean you have to live below poverty line. It means you have to "live within your means" => "balance in all things". The hardest thing in life is to deal with "change", in this case, "changing your lifestyle". Those who are not used to "live within their means" will absolutely struggle to do so down the line.

Nobody suggest anyone to put away as much money as possible and live miserably. If we go back to the simplify calculation above given the situation where one cannot afford to travel abroad _right now_, investment can help them with that problem! Nobody say not to touch your investment before you retire. You can withdraw occasionally for reasonable splurge.
I use 3 levels of "importance" for them.

The actual browser bookmarks, with stuff that has proven itself useful and I end up searching for it at least a handful of times a year.

Notion Web Clipper to dump everything else on a "need to organize" file on Notion.

A couple times a month I go into the "need to organize" file, read anything that was there as a "read later" and remove them, simply remove anything that looking back doesnt seem like will be useful on the next year, and move everything else and then categorize/add tags to a "useful links" file also on Notion.

Before Notion I've used Pocket similarly.
I don't see why you'd need a new law to prevent the unlicensed use of a copyrighted work in an ad; I'm pretty sure that's been illegal for quite some time now, including in Germany.
> Not many people looked like they ate a lot of vegetables.

Do you really believe NYC hipsters have a monopoly on eating vegetables?
2/3 I buy, but for 1 I think you need to decouple the syntax from the underlying array-programming model. K-level terseness and the semantic structure that makes K well suited to vector programming are pretty much entirely orthogonal.

You can implement the core of K's array manipulation in other languages and ends up with similarly terse code if that's what you want. But you can also produce something that will be far more readable to most people without losing the expressiveness by e.g. opting for naming some of the operations etc.
When I benchmarked that a few years ago, I found the overhead of a syscall made mmap much slower (assuming the C or C++ memory allocator had already received some memory from the OS it could dole out).
> I have also noticed that in Agile teams refactoring is generally not rewarded and sometimes is even discouraged

As a long time Agilist, the spread of Fake Agile is a sad thing to see.

Constant refactoring is a core Agile practice!
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/OpportunisticRefactoring.html
Let's assume Google pulls a "gotcha" five years down the road and meshes its medical data into its advertising data.

What incentive do doctors and patients have to keep vending the data to Google at that point? And what incentive would other Cloud customers have to trust their data wouldn't get aggregated?

The GCP business model is different from Google's other business models and they know it.
Sometimes when you feel the worst when starting, your performance is best. And professional athletes have documented the reverse, ca. a fresh pitcher getting knocked out in the 1st.
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I still don't see why they have to be tied to a single provider. Seems like a major weakness of large customers in this space, that they're unwilling to demand standards or protect themselves from exploitation in this way. Obviously there will be new APIs for services which are not yet a commodity, but there are some highly standardized offerings from every major "cloud" vendor which should be configurable in roughly the same way; many of them even have similar limitations, like AWS and Azure (last I tried) not having the option to expose their VPSes directly over IPv6.
Can you link to any examples?

Nobody links to any examples when they say they're everywhere.
They can’t be; users lose their devices, then forget their passwords and need to reset and restore.

Also, all your photos and notes and email and other stuff in iCloud are available to Apple (and by extension the FBI et al) as well. Even Apple CSRs have a ton of access to the contents of a lot of iCloud services.

The situation is a lot better if you have all recent devices and 2FA turned on, then it can use iCloud Keychain for some stuff which is trust-circle based. You can read more in Apple’s latest platform security doc released late last year.
100% this.

Buying counterfeit items unintentionally can create huge problems for the consumer (eg [1]). Why is the onus on the consumer to look at a listing and decide if it's counterfeit or not?

Amazon is probably taking the stand they're no different to a search engine and Google isn't (mostly) responsible for search results. But that analogy is not apt.

The comparison to banking is far better. Banks can be held responsible is they fail due diligence with customers. Amazon should be held to the same standard.

Like how drop shipping fraud can even exist on Amazon is amazing. This should be so easy to detect (ie lots of shipments to one address or cluster of addresses).

No one should be able to sell branded products on Amazon without being verified. Period. And Amazon should be wholly responsible for any counterfeit that occurs as a result.

[1]: https://www.racked.com/2018/1/8/16849298/amazon-counterfeits...
Good idea. Never assume the jack is enough.
You are basing your entire review of a city off of a single Uber driver? Bad times lie ahead...

Dallas has the best bbq, it’s a little podunk restaurant near the Cisco office. Dallas has an entire jazz nightlife scene in their hipster district. Dallas has tons of American history with one of our favorite presidents being assassinated in that very city where his Vice President was from... Something tells me you were not trying very hard to fit in with the Dallas culture (as weird as it is)
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That was a coordinated PR move between Apple and the government. The US administration went into heavy damage control mode with the large tech companies after the Snowden revelations about PRISM et c.
My feeling is that rewrites simply don't scale well.

To make them work you need resources, good planning and motivation from everyone involved. As the number of people increase the probability that any of them made a mistake estimating how long it will take or how well their part will run explodes. That's why refactor tends to work better, rewrite with a scope.

I worked at a company were we build small embedded devices (EM dataloggers). I was supposed to take an existing code base shared by several products and modify it to build a new one. The code was beyond ugly. As an example:

delay_ms(5)

Would yield a 5 milliseconds delay, as long as you weren't in a variety of modes, the GPRS connection wasn't hang up, and GPS had a lock. It was painful to think about it, let alone work with it.

I convinced everyone that a total rewrite was necessary, and then I let everyone keep working on the old code base while I worked on the new one to add the basic functionalities. Then we started to move product by product, adding the "extras" each device required. Now the new products are built with that skeleton, and refactors are way less scary and faster, and can be made across devices easily (one of the improvements is that "business" logic has automated testing now).

To this day I'm convinced that the only reason that could be made is because we started with the new product, and then moved upwards. Trying to build a new ecosystem for all of them would have failed hard.
i have often thought about that,even limited isa on ram could help imo but people say it won't work. that said a company made some pr not long ago about a smart memory module so who knows.

maybe a future of memrocessors arrays waiting
https://raindrop.io
I agree that the resopnsibility is on the FBI to do investigation, but transitioning from a world where private documents are irretrievable without a warrant to one where they're structurally irretrievable because of mathematics and computational limitation would fundamentally alter the balance of power between society and individuals within that society in ways that society hasn't had to explore. It's something that's worth thinking deeply about before leaping upon it.

Part of the FBI's responsibility of investigation is to surface this concern to companies that have the power to make that world a reality, and it appears Apple has agreed with them on the risks.
Then tell your brother that they need to work on cheaters because my company uses Squadeasy and every year it's just a disgraceful experience.

I know it's tough, especially when a giant like Strava that gamifies the hell out of sport barely does anything, but for the sake of giving an example, a cheater from my company basically took a tcx from someones marathon and uploaded every other day with shifted timestamps. I know it because they used Strava and with summit I saw the gpx from their workouts and the lat/long data was always identical. Also from averaging like 10k a week, he shot up to 200k, magically.

At least I managed to get some people's points revoked because they tagged each other on Strava for every workout even if only one/two of them were actually working out.

Now if I couldn't stalk on them on Strava there's absolutely no transparency on Squadeasy and I wouldn't have been able to point anything out to the team. These guys for sure are setting their profile private next year to prevent people from calling them out (since they did mid competition last year, actually).

> Typescript

So frontend, it certainly needs work too. If there's any work foreseen in backend, especially crushing cheaters, let me know.
What policy do you believe would prevent new sellers from selling counterfeits while still allowing legitimate sellers?

My understanding is that Amazon basically does everything they can short of inspecting every unit, which is infeasible.
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Hasn't that been partially debunked or at least conditions placed on how effective they are? I lost the article that reviewed it.
Since I can find groups of people who share the same beliefs, values, hobbies, and interests as I do online, I don't have to mix with icky people from different backgrounds in real life just because they're all that's available to me in my local area to hang out with.

I can stay in my bubble now. Thanks Internet!
Or Sid James (a very famous UK comedian/actor). He died onstage in my home town

https://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/night-sid-james-died-sta...
> I suspect that those who develop GUI on Linux don't use themselves what they produce, as a lot of GUI is often unusable, or, even worse, was usable once and then completely degrades, even with newer... compositors, or even some other kind of "improvement."

I'd agree with that. I'd go so far as to say most GUI developers on Linux may never have actually used a GUI in their lives and rely on second-hand descriptions of how they work. Basic drag and drop often doesn't work, clipboards are all over the place, window behavior is super inconsistent... at least PulseAudio, for all its many faults, finally solved the sound server problem.