skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"trackcmp.net" keeps breaking navigation for me on roamresearch.com, and that tracker is not even https (classic unsafe warnings from Chrome). Weird. Unfortunately, that makes the whole thing look shady, and I can't even get to the create account screen after signing up. :/

Maybe they'd do better to ease up on the tracking, especially for a "give us all your documentation" service.
Perhaps closer to much of the HN audience, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in NYC has an exhibit as well! I went recently and it, along with the rest of the museum, is terrific. https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2019/10/30/cooper-hewitt-to-pre...
Bummer. Now it will be slightly harder to block these monstrosities and the idiots who want to buy them.
It's harder to believe that there is _no way to leak information_ than the opposite. There is always a side channel, right? Timing is the most trivial one.
Freeze/thaw cycles seem to absolutely destroy the few segments of concrete roads we have around here. They don't seem to last more than 2 winters.
Armata BioSciences and C3J Therapeutics merged in April.

https://investor.armatapharma.com/2019-05-09-C3J-Therapeutic...
That would be William Brodie. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brodie

Edit: I only know this because I recently heard about this guy on the British TV show "QI".
that feels unreasonably abrasive. I know one or two people in the industry who have recently left VR firms and they painted a pretty pessimistic picture for me, so I'm not just going by what I read in the press.
Care to elaborate? You are distributing Qt binaries in one case, you aren't in the other.
> Does anyone involved with enterprise purchasing decisions know how valuable Gartner/Forrester endorsements are? And if being in the unmagical quadrant is terrible?

> I see companies tout them but I can't tell if they're effective.

They are very important; their models shape how enterprise thinks about a domain and their recommendations basically make sales. The contents of their expensive reports goes into countless slide decks within the Global 1K.

So working with them (as with the parallel comment from someone at Gitlab points out): you have to be on these companies' decks, which means you have to do outreach to them and shape the technology landscape for them.

They are cheaper than hiring McKinsey who will write a report for you -- Gartner et al will sell you a report they've already done, and then also come discuss it with you.

===

Oh wait, you were asking for the quality of the work? It's better, but not much better, than those clickbait review sites that summarise the vendors' spec sheets.

I had a college friend who worked for one of the "major" enterprise analyst companies. My friend had a degree in French literature and needed a paying job. They could write well, so in exchange for a low salary plus benefits they wrote reports on laptops, CNC tools, servers, you name it. They never actually clapped eyes on an actual CNC mill until visiting me one day at work.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/mar/28/education.museums

I'm wondering what happened to the ones the director sold to his brother for "altruistic" reasons.
That is so true: “ SHOULD NOT quit your job, if you can help it. Let me explain: Work provides important scaffolding when you are in a rut. “
What’s wrong with computational notebooks?
>Unfortunately Swift is a dud....

Because of some technical argument, or just personal aesthetics?

>I have said, Swift is to Objective-C, what Scala is to Java. Sure, there are plenty of people that like Scala, but its 'academic stuffiness and complexity' doomed it to a niche language.

While Objective-C was really cool, it was neither modern enough, and few people liked it (mostly old NeXT/early OS X guys, but not most of the iOS crowds).

And Swift is easy to use and nothing like Scala in academic-ness and complexity.

>All I wanted is a Python look alike, with some solid static typing*

That's not what the ecosystem needed, or what people in general want (there's Go for that, for one). Swift is somewhere between Rust and Kotlin, features wise.
Gee, I thought she was a Perl programmer ;-)
Obviously this is a very back-of-the-napkin calculation, but it puts things into perspective.

You're comparing an all-inclusive capital budget versus simply repaving roads. How much does DC Metro spend on track maintenance annually? How much does Cedar Rapids spend on lighting and signage?

How much do Cedar Rapids residents spend on their cars? The average used car payment runs in excess of $4,800 annually. New cars run around a hundred or so bucks a month more.

The DC metro is a bit of an odd duck since a large chunk of its users don't actually live in DC. The Census Dept. puts metro ridership at about 21% of all commuters commuting into DC, and overall about 34% of all DC residents use public transit (of all modes) as their primary means of transportation.

So even though you're including the cost of things like stations and vehicles, I think the overall cost is much closer (if not slanted in favor of transit) than you're letting on. That said, rail is typically one of the most expensive modes of public transit.
To not give a fuck, like anything else is something that you can train yourself to get used to.
The "unconscionable amounts of electricity" is exactly what prevents 51% attacks.
I'm working extensively on it, but I can´t give so many details yet.
I’m sorry but you don’t understand what number base means

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix

Nothing to do with starting number. And base 0/base 1 makes no sense.
I suspect that by “in 9 months” they meant “by having a child”

Edit: whoops, didn’t see the other reply
That's a lot of generalizations and stereotypes to make.

If someone aspires to develop positive relationships - I know I do - casting such hurtful and negative inferences about potential attachments isn't a good foot to start on.

Because frankly, if someone spoke so negatively of having a characteristic - which frankly - I didn't bring up, the author did, and acted as if I somehow deserved to be a target of such vitriol, as this author does, I'd be very far away from them.

That leaves you in a situation where the only ones left to speak to are the ones you seem to not want to be around. Because no self-respecting person wants be a punching bag.

Maybe people such as this author would be best served by forming some personal and professional friendships with men, rather than viewing them as adversaries. They may be surprised to see kind people were in front of them all along.

It may involve a temporary hiatus in writing posts on the internet insulting people.
I take it you live in the US? :-(
The extensions were temporarily removed from AMO, but blocklisting was not enacted, so around 1 million existing installations have remained operational while Mozilla was waiting for weeks for Avast to submit an update.

The initial update for one extension was also approved despite the extension not respecting a declined consent and resuming data collection after browser restart [1].

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1600600
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well, people in suburbia get their infrastructure subsidized by everyone and in addition are destroying the planet, people in cities are paying artificially super-high rent to the landowning class. it seems like we could solve both these problems at the same time and change the value proposition here.
Thanks for the explanation.

It's funny to see history repeat itself with "Unsafe" hooks. JAVA has a number of projects which also do this for speed and it always freaks people out.
I was surprised to read this in the California DMV driver handbook:

"If you can choose among
three lanes, pick the middle lane for the smoothest driving."

When I learned to drive (in the UK), the official guidance was to stay in the left-most lane except when overtaking. And then, after overtaking, to immediately return to the left lane.
Does your team have set WFH days each week to better that practice and be prepared for sick days that are WFH days?

Is there a policy for sick days and their usage and minimal if any retaliation for regular use? If sick days are part of vaca days or general PTO but make up a small number then I'd say that doesn't count.
quite awesome! i like writing python but i don't like setting up infra / stuff around it to make it run

will have a look!
This is an old one.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/polished-off/
The reason is GDPR, plus whois privacy/proxy services.

How do you possibly know which domains were registered with that intent? That seems like it'd require mind reading. And who would be doing the enforcement? National governments? Good luck with that. Squatters would just operate out of the countries that don't care.

I own roughly a dozen domain names. Most aren't in use. I didn't register these with the intent of reselling them, but if someone contacted me offering me a thousand bucks for almost any of them I'd take that deal. I suspect most other people would too. Does that make us all squatters? Should we be arrested and prosecuted?
UI-Driven State Increases Accidental Complexity
Bad management will find a way.

Allow all guests, even announce all times. People will learn to attend where it matters, and simply won't have time for many standups. Format should cut off bad management and time-sinks too. Harder to contain democratization (the opposite of every other suggested model!).
Apple just finished closing down (pretty sure) all their stores in the East District of TX so all these suits can no longer be filed there. Might help conclude a bunch of these...or not...it's a ton of money we're talking about.
Ask HN: When is a good time to raise capital?
If a founder has an idea but lacks the technical chops to implement & build, should s/he raise a seed round to get started? Will anyone invest based on the idea alone? Are there any other options?
Good point--I forgot WMATA is in the middle of major rail car purchases. The 6-year plan for rail systems, track rehabilitation, and stations is $600 million annually. I've updated my numbers above accordingly.
The mtv.com thing is correct. He was working for MTV at the time, then left and kept building the web pages. There wasn't then a precedent about domain names being connected to trademarks. I don't remember Madam Furry.

WAIS has an interesting connection to the Internet Archive.

Long before the Internet Yellow Pages, we used Scott Yanoff's Internet services list. That's how I found out about the WWW. Also there was a big list of sites that allowed anonymous FTP.
> We want a * (a/b) + (a%b) = a.

> Don't you mean we want "(a/b) + (a%b) = a"?

No, they mean "b * (a/b) + (a%b) = a". (Also I'm not convinced that's actually useful, but that's a different discussion.)
is it the default to everyone or just o365 customers with intranet search content indexed?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_de_Orellana

"The name 'Amazon' is said to arise from a battle Francisco de Orellana fought with a tribe of Tapuyas. The women of the tribe fought alongside the men, as was the custom among the tribe. Orellana derived the name Amazonas from the mythical Amazons of Asia described by Herodotus (see The Histories [4.110-116]) and Diodorus in Greek legends"
I feel I need to disclaimer what I'm about to write so here goes.

Disclaimer: It's not my intention to offend anyone or brag or trivialize this. This is me asking a question out of curiosity and concern for my wellbeing.

Ok so, everytime I read about someone having a burnout or taking 3 months off to recover from burnout etc, I immediately think "oh here we go again, another crybaby". I know that everyone is different and everyone has their limits and that is ok. But I can't help but compare with myself and then I end up in the same question:

"Are all these people just weak, quick to complain, taking advantage of an employer, bad at managing their feelings and time OR am I just too hard on myself?"

While reading the OP's text, I have had some of the things they had, not everything. Reading other people's burnout stories sound familiar. I've had big breakups, I've had long steaks of overwork with little return in the expected results to be generated, I've had days where motivation was lacking for anything, not just work, I've had days where the lack of sleep causes lack of focus and motivation which causes more lack of sleep etc, and the list goes on.

What I find myself doing is just powering through. It might take a week or a month or three, but I end up fine or better than before. I don't know if that means I am stronger or better OR just not as burnt out as these other people. When talking with family and friends I have often said that what I want/need is more free time from work. That way I can relax and feel less stressed, and hopefully in due time work on some of my projects and ideas, yet so far I've been doing a normal 40 hours/week job with extra times often. I have tried to change my times to 4 days a week or 6 hours a day unsuccessfully so far. I sometimes feel I'm wasting this time.

How do you actually know is you are burnt out?
How do you know if you can overcome it alone?
How do I know if I'm not burnt out or if I'm strong enough to overcome it or if I'm stupid enough to ignore the signs or if everyone else is weak or if everyone else is doing the right thing?

That's all. I wish you best of luck and hope you feel better soon. Work is always better when it can be something you're proud of, and excited to go to. Again, I mean no disrespect to you or anyone else. This is my brain dumping all my thoughts and concerns in the hopes that I might get some interesting advice or food for thought. Thank you.
Is there a Primer / tldr for Strong Towns? I kind of get the basic idea (maintaining town infrastructure sometimes exceeds revenue) but I was looking for "start here" but don't seem to be able to find it
"Although there is no reason in theory why men could not become nurses or care-home assistants, few do."

When it's women in tech, it's obviously discrimination, but when it's men having a rough time breaking into female-dominated fields, the cause is a mystery.

"Most schools would love to have more male teachers to serve as role models for boys, but not many volunteer."

When women refuse to join tech companies despite the demand, the cause is obvious - harassment and a hostile workplace. When the same thing happens with men, it's again, a mystery.

The article goes on and on like this, laying down stereotype after stereotype and wondering why men "just can't make it", oblivious to its hypocrisy. The crowning moment is when the author proudly proclaims that men are failing at school, that maybe they're just not good enough? But when it's women that don't do well, it's obviously the Patriarchy weighing them down.
My Grandpa Nearly Bombed the Ludendorff Bridge in WW2
Hey guys,

Last week I was at my grandfather's funeral and learned that during a bombing run as a tail gunner, his team failed to hit a target in Nazi Germany. The bombs were using up too much fuel due their weight and they needed to be dropped.

They came across a bridge and decided it would be a good spot to dump their bombs. They missed; again. That bridge was Ludendorff Bridge and was later critical during the Battle of Remagen.

Although this is talked about with quite some humor, I believe this is a serious footnote to the history of the Battle of Remagen and more importantly, the Ludendorff Bridge. To whom would I contact to help get this in the history books or at least cemented enough to earn a small Wikipedia reference?
Yeah - I'm still a bit confused how not much has changed in more than 10 years. Seems like setting up a rails app with your typical gems — devise, stripe ruby, puma, carrierwave, sidekiq, railsadmin, etc. is still by far the fastest way to build a functioning, production ready SaaS app.
9 months - got it. But you're missing the point of what it would mean to have machines sort out cause and effect - not merely like humans, but like billions of humans, simultaneously. And if sentient at all, at least not objecting to their "awful working conditions" (which would probably be far better than those we subject humans to come to think of it).
It's interesting that AlphaStar was "only" able to get into the top 99.8% of human-level play for StarCraft 2, though. By contrast, AlphaZero was able to surpass human-level play for Go quite easily.

One wonders whether the inherent approach in AlphaStar (supervised learning) can only ever hope to imitate the best, but surpassing the previous best seems to still be a human domain for now, at least in SC2.
Seeing people freak out over this, it's typical Qt Company: Really, really bad at communicating changes properly. Yes, it's annoying, but far from the big deal people make it out to be.
I didn't...I accidently log myself out of my account every now and then and have to make a new one. The only problem is I can't remember all of them :)
Legitimately curious what the ZFS bug was. I’ve not heard of a TFDL bug in zfs for a Loooong time.

The reason Synology btrfs is mostly solid is because they refused to ever use the btrfs raid layer. But the second you move to btrfs on LVM you lose a large portion of the supposed benefits.

Having used both, never lost data on zfs and I’ve been using it since it was released and have had it save me from silent data corruption. BTRFS hasn’t ever lost me an entire file system, but I’ve definitely lost files.
This is my experinence too. Works great with lots of free space, as soon as space gets tight, performance deteriorates really fast. Nevertheless, for me it has been worthy.
Not the gp, but I used Duolingo quite a bit, and recently learned Spanish to an upper intermediate level. In my opinion, Duolingo is just as weak with pure reading as with spoken language. You'll learn some vocabulary and be introduced to ideas, and that's valuable, but not enough. Just like spoken, to learn to read, you have to read a bunch of stuff you can understand. I jumped straight from Duolingo to children and young adult books, and it was a difficult transition with lots of intensive looking-up-every-other-word study, but, I mean, you do that long enough, and eventually you're just reading.
In Germany we have a probation period of 6 months in which both partys can resign at any time, no questions asked.
So do you think that the true laws of physics are uncomputable, or that even if a perfectly accurate physical simulation of a person were simulated, that while it would be entirely accurate in predicting what such a person would do if they were physically real, that they would have no internal experience nor moral worth?

Edit: alternatively, perhaps you only mean that any AI that realistically speaking might eventually be made would not be a person, not that no AI that could in theory be made would be?
A very unpleasant article, sadly.
We don't have DMVs here, we are required to have national eID cards, which we can use to log in to government sites to do tax returns and stuff. It's government, so it would cost a lot, but it shouldn't be too much to implement limited per-person domain registration. In USA it would be harder.

Administrative costs - additional domains can and should cost more. You can collect fees from companies that don't want to be reliant on that one guy, or just call it a day, give a domain for free to companies and call it administrative expenses. How much does it cost to run a ccTLD?
Assuming you can afford 2 machines this setup works pretty well for me.

Primary DB-Server -> XFS on LVM with a LVM caching SSD

Secondary (write-only) mirror DB-Server -> ZFS

The DB is replicating automatically to the secondary server by the database internal replication features. At the secondary I am then able to lock the DB temporarily, doing a ZFS snapshot and maybe could do a ZFS send/receive afterwards without affecting the primary server.

ZFS is great for doing snapshots and archiving of huge amount of data, but it's very very bad for production databases in terms of performance. Most database aren't designed to deal with the CoW feature of ZFS, which leads to a very bad write performance and database fragmentation in the end.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blosxom ... I got started in 2004 with that setup: http://www.robertames.com/blog.cgi/entries/bloxsom-started.h...

...a bit contrarian compared to the WordPress and BlogSpot frenzy at the time, but I've been happy with it.

[rames@...:~/blog/entries]$ find . -type f | wc -l
331
[rames@...:~/blog/entries]$ find . -type f | xargs -n1 cat | wc -c
574481

It's been very stable over ~15 years, but I think it might be time to adopt SQLite, at least as a caching layer. ;-)
Lattner initially elaborated on his departure from Tesla on his website but later removed many of the details.

IIRC, he and Elon had some disagreements on software things.
The answer to this is a universal jobs program, lasting at least until society adjusts more fully to gender role changes and these old attitudes die out, in order to satisfy both the financial needs of these individuals and their personal belief that they need to be a good provider. (Something that UBI would never satisfy, by the way.)

If you think this accommodation is unnecessary, just remember that all of these people can cast votes.
Idk. I haven't done any web dev in years. So that's kind of what I'm asking here. If Rails is still the answer then I guess that's it. I would have assumed there'd be something new by now.
I haven't done enough "fluid" applications to give domain-related suggestions. That's not really an integer "count". I'm only saying it doesn't fit well in typical business applications as I see them. Each domain is different.

Many of our existing conventions derived from military, science, and academic applications. Business applications came along later, emphasizing discrete counting and categorizing things along the lines of set theory, such as in the set or not in the set, not half in. (Money has decimals, but you don't typically increment through it with indexes.)

(Although COBOL was published around 1960, it took roughly 5 years for computers to get powerful enough to make it practical and widespread. The earliest COBOL compilers were dog-slow resource hogs relative to the hardware of the day.)
the grey you picked is pretty hard to distinguish from the black. The italics are nice though. Maybe add a little icon like this "no power" one: https://thenounproject.com/term/no-power/632253/
> it's again, a mystery.

According to the article it's not a mystery, it's because men are deficient.
Could be the whole thing is faked by an other country. Could be all the logs were misread. Could be the west trying to make Erdogan look bad, or a plot by Gulen or maybe UFOS.

But more likely is a regime spewing conspiracy theories so the people can no longer tell truth from fiction.
This certainly applies for me personally. My theory is that it ties in with the sort of 'geographic' memory where when you think of something, you might not be able to remember exactly what it is, but you can remember pretty precisely that it's in the middle of a certain notebook, on a heavily marked-up page, in the bottom left corner. By tying things to a location which you can remember, placing it in a bit of a context, its easier to hold on to. I also find, and for this I have no explanation at all, that I can remember sequences of numbers and code very well, better than anything else. I couldn't tell you the date I started or left my job 2 employers ago, but I could rattle off my 7-digit numeric security code for the door no problem. The brain is weird.
Since you used the word "mum," I'll assume that you're British. In which case, 67 million Britons disagree with you†: https://www.barb.co.uk/tv-landscape-reports/tracker-uk-house...

Perhaps you should meet more people?

(† There aren't 67 million Britons. But TV viewership in the UK is 28.1 million households, and the average household in the UK is 2.4 people, so we end up with an impossible number.)
Can this be CAPTCHA instead of goddamn crosswalks? Asking for a friend…