skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's exactly the point! This post is a generic, pretty universally-recognized point, written by a billionaire, and is only the length of a handful of tweets.

The only possible criteria that a post this small and with this little substance would get upmodded for is the billionaire bit, and possibly that people are just upmodding 'pg without checking the actual content (I've seen a few people talk about how they use upmodding as a 'read later' function).

I don't even mind that it was, but the comment makes a decent point.
I agree. I strongly desire the Go team to keep the language as tiny as it is.
Someone(he) must have just read 'Range'.
Lessons I've learned writing Ansible playbooks
Thanks, I'll reach out.
I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that the data is actually owned by LinkedIn users, and they expressed that they want their data to be publicly available?
Same here. I suspect most of the commenters on this post that are confused about how their data got acquired have the FB app and/or Messenger installed on their phones.

I also suspect that soon Whatsapp will be doing the same sinister activity tracking once they go ahead with their plan to introduce ads later this year.
I want to know because many of his essays are insightful. This one in particular was a bit short, and to me an obvious premise. However, there may be some people who would benefit from hearing that it is good to be in situations where you have to learn new things.
One of the area that can be improved...
It's because previously public information became private. They can't do that apparently.
My career, mostly as a sysadmin, has been defined by shallow and wide knowledge.

One thing I've noticed, as I've progressed into a team lead position is that the shallow/wide is very difficult for the people who aren't as experienced as me. So my initial "just do it the way I did it!" was very, very wrong. I'm changing that attitude in myself to target folks as subject matter experts (sorry for corporate-speak!)

This is relevant because it's actually difficult to try to learn 20+ years of wide/shallow stuff in 6 months. Who'd have thunk it? But people still try to chase that extra knowledge, thinking they have to somehow achieve parity with those much smarter or further along in their careers. (I don't consider myself much smarter, I'm a bear of very little brain)

As they progress in their careers and experience, then the wide/shallow can be introduced.
Pdfstack launches to provide a free and encrypted open source tool for pdf edit
Perhaps Buffett sees that bold action is needed to optimize profits e.g. cutting jobs or asset stripping. He definitely doesn't have have time to be make these bold decisions. And he may not want to cloud his reputation by being in control while the jobs are cut.

A third possibility is that Lee has synergies that Berkshire doesn't have e.g. Lee can give it scale.
Windows, perhaps. Programs? No.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiFinder
There's a large multi-tower project in Toronto that includes a heating and cooling system built by Enwave that incorporates a very large cistern / well, building on their prior success cooling the downtown core: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/climate-heat-cooling-1.5437...
The problem is that I can't afford to not have it for the period of time that Apple normally needs. I will say, the crashes have gotten less frequent lately, so I think they fixed many of the underlying issues.
They are meaningful in at least this sense: a requirement for them led to this disclosure of State Farm's practices, albeit in the small print.
> Lots of sites have ToS preventing such things, are those legally void now? Are captchas on public pages illegal, even if you request the page 8000 times in a second?

ToS are subservient to the law; you can (probably) terminate a service account from a user that breaks your ToS, but if the user does not have a service account (as is the case for HiQ, it doesn't seem they were using accounts for it), then your ToS does not apply, since you've technically not entered a binding legal contract with them.

> This is almost weirder. If LinkedIn wanted to force users to sign in to view profile info, would they be not allowed to do that because some company had signed a contract that implicitly assumed access to that data? If someone writes a web scraper for my site, and I unknowingly change my site in a way that breaks that scraper, can a court force me to revert the change?

IANAL, but I believe that'd fall on intent, and intent is often difficult to prove at a personal level, but not necessarily at a company level. If your intent for putting up barriers that happen to impact scraping, whatever they may be, was indeed to knowingly prevent scraping from a particular company, then you may be liable under this decision. This is the only part of the decision I'm torn on, since it's a bit messy to really prove such things. I'd be much more comfortable with allowing companies to take whatever measures they feel necessary to prevent scraping, and also allowing scrapers to legally circumvent those measures without threat of prosecution, assuming they didn't actually hack into anything.
the joys of a fee for service model! What approach are you taking? As a payer, is capitation better? Outcomes based payments?
Harvard’s Chemistry Dept. Chairman in FBI Custody
Back in 1994, my Grandfather started off his day as always with taking a shower. Now, he suffered from high blood pressure and was in his 60s and he liked cold showers.

Anyways, he ended up getting stroke/brain hemorrhage and died. Whether it was a co-relationship or not, as kids we were told from that point on not to take pure cold showers (at least let it be lukewarm).

I personally want to take cold shower but this one event from my history keeps me from taking it.
I add TeamViewer to your list but Skype doesn't work well anymore on Ubuntu 19.10. I can see only the top left part of the screen of the person I'm talking to. Resizing Skype doesn't help. Luckily none of my customers are using it anymore. MS managed to kill it by making it too business unfriendly. Everybody moved either to meet or slack or both.
> Either they adapt or eventually fade away.

The problem is devs are like, "This is a great language! I wish it had all these other feature from this other language I've been using."

Well, just go use that other language.
They have a free tier up to $50k in revenue that I’ve used successfully. Hosted checkout, strong API, etc.
I'm hoping they will!! For most municipalities, it should be very easy... just submit a url and the site will pull the markup and search it for an address string. More complicated municipal setups, or municipalities with actual data feeds, will be tougher.
IANAL, but I think the US does have something similar. In the US, you can take works from the public domain, and then perform some sort of work, ex: restoration of a film, and then copyright that work. The difference being that someone else can use/release their own version of the same content, but they cannot use the work you did just because the content comes from the public domain.
Illinois governor signs law capping insulin costs at $100 per month
Boeing posts first annual loss in more than two decades
I can recommend Godot for VR. I switched from Unity to Godot a couple of months ago and haven't looked back. I'm developing for the Quest on Mac and Godot is significantly faster in building to run on your device. Plus, the hot-reload feature means that you don't need to rebuild every time (although once your Quest goes to sleep you need to rebuild). Other than that, I love Godot's node system, that it's compatibile with a mulitude of languages (although GDScript is awesome and I didn't need to add C# or something as of yet).

If you're looking at the Quest, Holger Dammertz is doing an awesome job with the Oculus Quest Toolkit[0] where I'm also a contributor.

[0]: https://github.com/NeoSpark314/godot_oculus_quest_toolkit
San Francisco official tasked with keeping streets clean arrested by FBI
When I was a (reluctant) customer, they'd call about three times a year to upsell you on more expensive packages.

Marketing spam calls... from the provider was already paying.
Bringing up two kids.
Can you just put it behind a CDN that protects you?
One interesting recent development in punctuation is the effect of emoticons/emoji. The classic example is the :) at the end of a parenthetical, but more generally, any punctuation mark abutting an emoticon is unfortunate. Consider a winking emote prior to a semicolon ;); or an em dash :|—the adjoining mark causes ambiguous parsing. Personally, I have taken to placing the emote after the period, like so. :D This seems to parse somewhat better, despite the emote "technically" being part of the next sentence. (Also note that, for single-sentence missives, as are common in instant messaging, the period is often omitted.)

Emoji objectively improve upon this situation, because they are pictures, not punctuation. There is no ambiguity in an emote before a semicolon ; nor an em dash —so no sentence-rearranging gymnastics are necessary. As a matter of taste, though, I still prefer the visual look of emotes. :)

(EDIT: apparently HN eats emoji. That seems appropriate.)
Scrapping should either be legal or not. The fact that you have a contract to sell the content you assumed it's legal to scrape, should not matter. Too bad if you lose money
Conclusion:
"A routine (hot-to-) cold shower resulted in a statistical reduction of self-reported sickness absence but not illness days in adults without severe comorbidity."

So less people were sick but everyone still took just as many sick days. Hmm....
State of the Space Resource Industry
Like a Paper town or that time that Genius caught Google stealing their lyrics by playing with straight and curly quotes and writing a tool that watermarked songs by interchanging those quotes on the site. It was brilliant.
Only the included desk accessories worked like that, not normal applications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_1#Desk_accessories
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Folks, if you love Godot make sure to support them on their Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/godotengine

(I'm not affiliated with Godot, I just use it and love it)
> the more of a noob you are locally, the less of a noob you are globally.

> if you stay in your home country, you'll feel less of a noob

> And yet you'll know more if you move.

I experienced this in the US when I was scheduling interviews for an internship with a US company. I had waited for the interviewer for half an hour and shoot them an email asking for rescheduling after they did not show up.

Turns out I forgot the timezone difference. In all my (quarter-century)life, I had never needed to check timezone in the same country. Felt like the biggest noob. I know more in general now but, even for a simple thing like scheduling an interview, I became "locally" noob.
I don't think it's true that users generally want things to be file-centric instead of app-centric. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. The underlying lack of data integration between apps - even simple copy and paste can't be relied on - is a bigger stumbling block. It's also odd that the screen-layout and I/O limitations don't feature more prominently. The author's larger point - that you don't have to spend so much effort telling people something is useful if it really is - rings true, but I'm not sure they make a very good case for it.
Among other things: https://lee.net/markets/ // https://www.agupdate.com/
> If, collectively with other 1000 board members, "own" 1 billion people, you're part of an "elite power structure", and you can do a lot of things to make the lives of those people better - you'll still want your profits, but by having a monopoly on some things you know that no rival can put you out of business so you can relax a bit...

We have a couple elite power structures that rule over ~ a billion people, they don't seem all that relaxed and pseudo-anarchic. I don't see how them having a formal profit interest and being named “corporation” rather than “state” is likely to change that.
It's not the same thing at all. The film is broadcast without re-transmission rights.
1M views per month is a lot. Hey Flavio are you monetizing it in any way?
https://www.forconstructionpros.com/concrete/article/1088605...
Well, in my British home I have one unheated(but closed, with proper double glazed windows) room - without heating, humidity is pretty much constantly at 85-90% and windows are constantly fogged up. It needs constant heating every day to stay at that usual 40-50% humidity.
Wouldn't the solution be to offer a streamlined download (maybe even as a torrent if you're worried about bandwidth) of all the data then?
What's re class
To your points about integrity verification: maven does this too if you pass the `-C` flag.

One of the mayor benefits of maven/cargo repositories is that they are configured to be immutable. No issues with deleted repos or deleted/overwritten tags. Once your dependency is published it's there forever.
Godot Engine 3.2 – advancing this FOSS game engine 'with quality as priority'
Maybe you could contact the scrapper? Just post magnet links on the site that allows them to get nicely formatted dump of what they want.
For similar reasons I default to yellow text on black bg. High contrast but low-fatigue.
In the U.S., for example, three-quarters of adults don’t even know that Facebook’s “ad preferences” page exists

That's just ignorance. It irritates me when a person complains about social media and its data farming, but the person doesn't bother to change some of the settings a website/app has in order to diminish the collecting data activity.
One of the first architectural decisions that Bud and I made for the Macintosh system software in the spring of 1981 was that we were only going to try to run one application at a time. We barely had enough RAM or screen space to do even that, and we thought that we'd benefit from the resultant simplifications. Besides, multi-tasking was supposed to be Lisa's forte, and we didn't want to usurp all of the reasons for buying a Lisa.

--Andy Hertzfeld

In the original MacOS, only one program* ran at a time. You could have multiple MacPaint windows, for example, but if you wanted to use MacDraw, you'd have to quit MacPaint.

From a process point of view, this was single-tasking.

Andy Hertzfeld wrote the first multi-process environment for Macintosh, "Switcher." With Switcher, you could have MacPaint and MacDraw (or any combination of as many as four apps) open simultaneously.

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...

Only one would control the entire screen, so if you were using MacPaint, the MacDraw (for example) windows were hidden. When you "switched" to another app, it was like side-scrolling the entire screen, the entire desktop scrolled horizontally to the left or the right and another scrolled into view.

Later on, MacintoshOS (pre OS X) acquired its own cooperative multi-tasking capabilities, and when that happened, you could have multiple windows from multiple apps visible on the screen at the same time and switch by clicking on another window.

It was quite the hack for its day, and had a cool UX, it was like having four Macintoshes arranged in a carouself, you could "switch" between processes.

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As another comment points out, there was another thing called a "Desk Accessory" that could co-exist on the screen with a full application. But these were not full applications and had very limited capabilities.

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
Tap and hold works, two fingers does nothing though.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if there is a genetic component but that's why I mentioned that these attributes have been replicated in his students. But then again the fact that your body can acclimatize to cold or heat is not exactly groundbreaking news. We've known that for a long time.
Instagram is not the content creator tho
I personally find iPad (or any other tablet for that matter) a big hit when it comes to device usage for small kids as well as using as a interactive screen for customers in retail shops.

But yeah, other than that, it would be hard to be productive with just a tablet I reckon.
One question to those who dislike web scraping as they deem it infringes copyright laws.

Given that Google scrapes LinkedIn public profiles and add data from it to it’d index and when presenting search results, is it then not discrimination that Microsoft tries to block HiQ and not google?
You are completely wrong on your numbers, in France in 2018 nuclear has a capacity factor of 71% and wind of 21,1%

https://bilan-electrique-2018.rte-france.com/eolien/

Also there is currently no offshore wind park, as only offshore would approach the 50% capacity factor, but they won't, they will be in the 43% as estimated by renewables.ninja

The price of the MWh of offsore park will be from 44 to 150€/MWh, where EDF is forced to sell its nuclear at 42€/MWh, average price of wind in 2020 93€/MWh.
Circuits can and do disagree.
and people wonder why newspapers cannot make money
The original MacOS only supported one application at a time. It also supported little apps called "Desk Accessories", which could float as a separate window within the applications space, but they required a small amount of support from the application itself, which could choose not to do so! Desk Accessories internally were coded as drivers, just like any other system-level driver.

It wasn't until Andy wrote "Switcher" that the Mac supported more than one app, which, the first time it demoed made my jaw drop! Andy is a really smart guy. To be fair, Switcher had limitations due to memory and no hardware multitasking support in the original 68000. It was more like cooperative coexistence than true multitasking.
Not OP, but I also have some quarrels there.

For example, I can—to my knowledge—not use my preferred keyboard layout [0] on an external keyboard.
NEO does not come built-in and I haven't found any way to add new layouts except by replacing built-in ones on a jailbroken device.

This more or less kills the device for me that requires any significant amount of writing, including tasks it would otherwise be perfectly suitable for, such as replying to a bunch of emails, brainstorming some ideas, or writing reports.

I also wish it were a more capable development machine without resorting to hacks such as ssh-ing into a server or accessing VSCode through the browser. I previously had a Surface 3 and for some light work on the go it was good enough, but I cannot be bothered to replicate my setup using a mixture of apps that might work now, but break when some requirement changes.

All that said, I'd buy another iPad if this one broke. It's by far the best digital writing experience I've ever had and even if I only use it for note taking, it's still money well-spent to me. But it could be so much more.

[0] https://neo-layout.org/
I don't mean to pile on, but could you please explain this a bit more?

Why should the baby be thrown out with the bathwater, just to chase cosmetic trends?

Can you give a compelling technical reason why this would be good for users, without using superficial UX fashionista platitudes?

Just because something isn't "on trend" doesn't mean it is bad. Some of the most important and beloved software has user interfaces that have not changed in decades.

I don't care if a UX designer would be embarrassed to use it in front of other mail clients. Trying to chase trends will usually just leave your software looking dated, anyway.

Unless you're willing to roll up your sleeves and keep existing functionality with your new trendy UX, then don't bother, because deprecating real functionality at the cost of a superficial fashion statement is really egregious and it needs to stop.

Nobody wants their workboots replaced with tennis shoes. And especially not because a UX designer wanting to stroke their ego and make a name for themselves.
I posted this about David MacKay's book "Sustainable Energy - without the hot air", which advocates nuclear energy, to a discussion about solar panels, and llukas pointed out that solar power development has exceeded MacKay's expectations, and linked to a page with updates, and dane-pgp also posted some interesting criticisms and links.

If Solar Panels Are So Clean, Why Do They Produce So Much Toxic Waste? (forbes.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18751049

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/05/23...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18751049

DonHopkins on Dec 24, 2018 [-]

The late David MacKay's book "Sustainable Energy - without the hot air" is available free online:

http://www.withouthotair.com/

Here's the chapter about solar energy:

http://www.withouthotair.com/c6/page_38.shtml

Here's a 1000 word synopsis he wrote for his talk to the House of Lords:

http://www.inference.org.uk/sustainable/book/SUMMARY

David MacKay also invented the Dasher text input system:

http://www.inference.org.uk/dasher/

llukas on Dec 24, 2018 [-]

Very good book but tech went lot further than David expected in many places (ie. solar power efficiency vs price).

This page tried to keep it updated:

https://www.carboncommentary.com/blog/2017/3/30/l6qcqgoedse1...

dane-pgp on Dec 24, 2018 [-]

David MacKay has done some great work, but I feel I need to present some of the criticism he has received, for balance. In particular, there is a perception that he is biased towards nuclear energy (understating its drawbacks, while also being unnecessarily dismissive of renewables).

People can consider these articles for themselves:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/professor-david-mackay-br...

"Professor David MacKay: Britain ‘must go nuclear’ to control climate"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/03/idea-of-...

"Idea of renewables powering UK is an 'appalling delusion' – David MacKay"

The latter, from 2016, includes the line:

"There is this appalling delusion that people have that we can take this thing that is currently producing 1% of our electricity and we can just scale it up..."

For reference, according to:

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/wind-solar-overtak...

"Renewables’ share of electricity generation shot up to 29 per cent, while nuclear sources accounted for around 21 per cent."

benj111 on Dec 24, 2018 [-]

I think when he was writing, solar wasn't competitive, and neither really was wind. With that in mind nuclear had a place in zero carbon fuel mix, we should perhaps be thankful that other renewables have made such amazing strides.

He isn't around anymore to update his book, but I'm not sure it matters. For me anyway, it was the approach not the specifics that mattered.

Id rather be reading MacKay's 10 year old book for advice rather than those people who think banning straws is going to save the world.