skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It certainly was an issue, folks didn't understand then.

But today I doubt you'd find many ecologists argue you should remove a native species wholesale outside some very strange situations.

Like all science you take the mistakes, learn, and keep doing better.
Prior to the Essential acquisition, Newton was shut down. I assume Cloud Magic (Newton creator) was pretty dead in the water, and the acquisition was the best chance they had at resurrection.
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Having been down this road, yes, it does take time, but you can save some time by using SVG and some DOM library. Although canvas is faster, most diagrams don't really need it, so I use SVG unless I really need to switch to canvas. SVG also adjusts for screen dpi automatically.

The things I like:

1. Reactivity (ObservableHQ, Vue.js, hyperactiv.js, etc.). There's usually some underlying data and then a corresponding visualization. These reactive systems let you modify the underlying data and then the visualization updates automatically. You don't have to figure out which diagrams to update when. Even easier: just redraw everything every time you change anything.

2. Some easier way to write the DOM (d3.js, jsx, vue, lit-html, etc.). Since I'm writing a blog post with html, I usually prefer writing my js-in-html (vue) rather than html-in-js (jsx) but try both directions and see which you prefer.

3. No build step. This is especially important when I want to update a page years later and don't want to figure out which build tools I was using in 1997 or 2007 or 2017. I want my pages to last for decades, and I still update my pages from 25 years ago.

I tried recreating one of the gear page diagrams in ObservableHQ https://observablehq.com/@redblobgames/unwind-circle-example . It's not a lot of code. There's a slider, there's a loop to generate the lines, and there's the output svg. Whenever you move the slider it recalculates the output.

I admit that I'm not using ObservableHQ much for my own projects because I want more of a "hand-written" style. I used d3.js for my older pages and vue.js for my newer pages. Vue's reactivity and templates save me probably a factor of 2 or 3 over d3.js.
Because in China is the power is indeed in the hands of the government. Not sure this is the case in the west anymore I'm afraid
There are breeds of dog that are larger than wolves and were bred specifically for the purpose of protecting herds of livestock from wolves and other such large predators. They're not necessarily cheap to own though, and a fair number are needed to protect against packs.
Which milk alternative should we be drinking?
Someone already having bought the domain you want and now you having to pay market price for it is not reason enough to force me to pay additional money to verisign every time I reg or renew a domain.

Instead of me and every other .com domain owner having to pay the verisign availability tax that only potentially benefits you, why don't you just pay fair market price to whoever owns the domain you want.

If I was a verisign stock holder I'd be all about your plan.
The problem is that every app thinks that they must run in the background. Every app must have millisecond push updates for their social media network that another Like was just received. Worse yet, most of them don't know how to do so in a symbiotic way. It makes complete sense that OS manufacturers have taken a stand to protect users from bad developers. They don't want the blame and they want to keep selling devices.

It is a tough spot. How do you have open app stores and not have them filled with malware? Android hasn't figured this out yet. Users are dumb and will just click on anything. They need to be protected from themselves sometimes.
If you really want to lock in your long mix/specific moods, check out di.fm. Its all hand curated and the genre's all have a particular mood about them, many of which are just the right amount of vocal/nonvocal to push you through a day.

Also just a warning - SiriusXM doesn't just let you leave. They have some of the most aggressive "winback" salespeople in the business, and they will NEVER stop mailing you offers that look like something else, calling you, and emailing you offers once you manage to leave. Their skeevy tactics have put me off the company as a whole forever.
It is possible for some people to cross some borders.
Well yea, it's a joke...
Drawing Is the Best Way to Learn, Even If You’re No Leonardo Da Vinci
>I'm going to try reading it again, but the first time didn't go well..

All history is viewed through the eyes of the author's politics. I accept that, and set my personal politics aside and considered his history. One of the major positives of this book is its ambitious scope. The narrative spans millenia of history and I respect that ambition.

I don't agree with everything Graeber says but he proposes new ideas (to me at least). Those new ideas are fun to consider and think about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb#Death
This is useful info and should really, really be in the FAQ. Like, right at the top, because I don't think it's clear right now at all what happens to regular domain holders using them for email, their own services, intranets and so forth. If those in the current registrar system have a reliable path to transition/try it out at some point that's a good start.

Edit to add: your namebase.io FAQ seems a lot more useful than the handshake one. For starters it clarifies that there is a confusing terminology difference, where I guess the handshake people are using "domain" to mean "TLD" and "subdomain" to refer to what everyone typically calls a domain. So a core offering of this system appears to be a blockchain based replacement to the $150k+ (or whatever it is these days) "get your own arbitrary TLD" thing ICANN did, "anyone" gets to register their own TLD. But that raises more questions, like where the actual hardware behind all this goes particularly for existing TLDs which are blacklisted.
Maybe thats why I have not purchased a phone since the Iphone SE came out. Can't stand large phones. I must be alone in this thinking, because so far, no manufactures are going back to small form factors.

I want my phone for music, driving directions, calls, a pocket camera, and occasional texts. I do not need or want my phone to be my primary media device. I have an ipad for that.
Time.

Airplanes reuse and refine, reuse and refine the same system, more so with elevators. Software is often greenfield.

Realistically, software projects get budgeted for half/third of the time they actually need to be anywhere near complete. Then following the "delays" that should have originally been budgeted in, you might be over or under that more realistic estimation, but the software is worse for it. Why? Because the engineers were stressed/crunched/whatever into performing worse under the false pretense that "we're almost there," when that is not the case.

If companies put a greater emphasis on correctness and budgeted time/money/testers/etc for it, things would be better. This low grade output is what the industry wants and that is what it is getting. People in charge of scheduling may say they care about correctness, they never really do, they care about fast and the appearance of some facsimile of function ("it looks like it works").

Imagine if you went to your higher up and said that the 6 month greenfield voting app, would actually take 1.5 years and require more resources just to ensure correctness. You would just get taken off the project. "It's just a voting app, one screen and server." But that misses the point, because it's a voting app, it needs to be hardened, just like an airplane.

So you learn to shut up and either produce worse output, or work overtime to make something halfway decent. Either way it basically goes unnoticed until something blows up.
Went through the FAQ's, but still didn't understood much about how this is supposed to work alongside ICANN/current DNS system. Well, I didn't got Bitcoin the first 2 times either.

1. "Browsing the web with human readable names is what Internet users have gotten acclimated to." => give me an example of a "handshake" domain name in this case

2. I have some domains/sites not so popular (not in the first 100k Alexa domains). I will only hear about "Handshake" in 5 years time when Handshake completely replaced what we are using today, by which time, someone else might have "registered my domain names". What do I do? Obviously I can prove I own my .com/.net.

To site failed to answer some basic questions/concerns or give some real world use case scenarios.
In addition, his page lead me here http://archive.is/S01gX
Start at "The little gears that couldn't." section

PS: had to archive the link because of SSL errors prevent direct access. my guess - my browser had old number of gears :P
We wouldn't be without a ballot initiative anyway. The article clearly states that hunters and powerful lobbying interests are fighting tooth-and-nail against re-introducing wolves. So, this isn't just down to biologists, there are interest groups coming in from multiple angles.
> Since 0 is about 25 standard deviations from the mean, the probability of seeing 0 heads is on the order of 10⁻¹³⁸.

Note: the above figure comes from the normal approximation to the binomial, which loses accuracy towards the tails. The exact probability of seeing 0 heads is (1 - p)^n = (1 - 2⋅10⁻⁶)^(311⋅10⁶) ≈ 10⁻²⁷⁰ [1].

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%281+-+2+*+10%5E-6%29%...
Newton actually was shut down, then acquired, then resurrected.
We run repair shops, so I get to hear all sorts of feedback about Android phones from customers. The Pixel 3A is definitely the most popular and budget-friendly "clean Android" phone out there right now. Pixel 4 is out as well now, but less popular thanks to the higher price.
I am starting to think that maybe monopolies are bad.
I've used Haskell (more than trivially) at two positions where I was working for someone else.

The first time was at Uber, where a side project I had started in Haskell proved to be something we needed, so I spent a year building on top of that.

My second time was at LeapYear, whose stack was (and I believe still is) predominantly Haskell.

Both good experiences - happy to elaborate on either.
No I don't, I rather be productive doing what I am supposed to do in first place.

Some examples, DriverKit, COM/UWP, WinUI, Metal Shaders, CUDA, SYSCL, Treble, Unreal/Unity.

For all of those I already have a good mix of Swift, .NET, Java/Kotlin and C++, as they are the official OS SDK languages, writing in Rust would just slow me down in its present state.

Bad UI toolkits?! Best that Rust currently has is Gtk-rs and that is being nice versus what those toolkits and GUI tooling are capable of.
As my wife said "They are about to find out that no one wants a cable remote".
May have to install CentOS just so I can use this. I love the look of this.
I wonder if there's no genetic correlation, but rather a brain input correlation. There is more brain input from vision than any other input possible. Since the brain is mostly a device that builds connections based on prior input, a condition like schiz may not develop simply because of the type and amount of data going in may not be enough to trigger the autistic, multiple personalities, and other depression related conditions.
The Peugeot 1007 or the Renault Avantime did explore the two doors minivans concept, without much success.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot_1007

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Avantime
Out of curiousity, what's the alternative?
They require a "diversity statement" for many positions. Presumably that screens out a lot of ideological diversity.

Hard to say whether it has much effect on the diversity I assume you mean, as this place has about the same race/gender/etc composition it would have 30 years ago, IMO. It's certainly easier to be "out" than it was back then, which I'm very happy about.

But not in a viewpoint sense, which I'm not so happy about. I kind of miss being able to talk openly with my freaky hard-left, hard-right, and generally nutty colleagues. Everyone's gone quiet.
Big Poo doesn't agree with Wiess's assertion that people not scientists should make large wildlife decisions.

Big Poo thinks most people are stupid and uninformed. We should definitely take into account what reputable scientists say about this.
The standard doesn't give advice about how to break features of the standard, so disabling exceptions is a non-standard feature of the implementation. If you're planning to disable exceptions you'd better read the docs that come with your compiler.
It is too bad they don't release all the source code.
I think there’s a further subdivision of “hard” which is the fundamental research stuff that pushes the boundaries of CS. Then there’s business problem stuff that’s hard because of scale, surface area and general messiness of the real world. Although the IC salary peaks might not be as high, there is more money overall in the latter, and it’s not as much about raw intellect as it is about moving up and down the abstraction layers, thinking things through and translating technical trade offs to laymen.
> Software Engineering is new.

I believe one of the examples for extreme reliability used in the XKCD cartoon included in the article is air travel, which is about as old as computers.

I was told once that the reason air travel is so reliable is because they have mechanical backup systems for when the electronics inevitably fail. Is that true?

How reliable are electronics as a whole?
$2,000 each for 128GB LRDIMMs, 48 of those will be $100,000 and then you'll need another $20,000 to buy the rest of the server it goes in.
The scales here are extremely different. Millions of uighurs are being detained en masse for their race and religion. Guantanamo has 40 inmates who are related to national security. It's a false equivalence and disrespectful to uighurs to compare them to terrorists.
Only half-joking here: inflatable kiddie pool, bag of softener salt, and a tarp? Total < $100, brine should keep much from growing so I wouldn't think it would need too much maintenance.
Mad guy speeds across London streets with a highly customized vehicle. Also, tanks. I see no difference.
You are making a scientific, ecological claim: "The ecosystem has evolved around their absence."

Zero evidence, zero citation. Where is your data that this is going to harm the ecosystem? I could spout off an opposing view easily, that apex predators enhance ecosystems by culling herds and allowing balance between herbivores and their plant-based food sources.
Congratulations on shipping!

Just installed it on fedora using dnf and tried my usual git commands using hub instead. So far so good. I haven't tried any hub specific features yet though.

It is nice that I can just dnf install hub
Oh, that's wild...I had no idea they still existed. I was a paid subscriber of theirs for many years back in the day. I'll check it out again; thanks!
This is a really awesome article and brought me back to intro physics class, saving it and will return to it in the evening so I can fully digest :) Thanks!
Just wanted to say I really like and appreciate this, great work!
Back when I used it as Cloud Magic, they did auth through Google. I'm pretty certain there's middleman processing going on.
Memo is really cool, I'm sad it seems to not be worked on anymore.
I don't know. In most of the civilised world, diagnosis unlocks options that were previously not available.

In what part of the world would you rather be sick and undiagnosed than have your illness acknowledged?
https://www.unihertz.com/jelly-pro

edited for better link
Wow. On the way up and down. What a time.
You're not tied to appereances, you can animate transitions. Animations provide a valuable thing as feedback.
>> Yeah. As the company, you don't want emails like that coming out

Which, honestly shocked me they were sending emails like that in the first place. Talk among yourselves at the lunch table, complain in private and try to talk to someone in management who will listen.

It was 2018 for god's sake. Do these engineers still not know how stupid it is to be sending emails like that around the company? Maybe it just highlights how out of touch the culture was there to begin with? It just seems reckless and these people should be smart enough to know better.
It's not about not eating meat, diet has nothing to do with this question. Who are we to enter an ecosystem and kill/exterminate its inhabitants just so we can do whatever we want there? Why must we bow down to an extremely small number of cattle farmers so that our entire ecosystem is skewed away from its natural state?
> Because the fact that China has not engaged in non-local applications of violence

Yet.

The PRC has been internationally relevant for a few decades. The US has been internationally relevant practically since its founding.

And for whatever reason, people don't think the PRC has continuity with pre-Mao China -- which has been internationally relevant since long before the US existed, and which doesn't have a very nice track record.
How do you know nobody else wants it? Someone has my real name registered, it would be nice to have, but I've never tried contacting them about it.
What is more dangerous for an American (or even European) citizen? The US or China spying at them? Even if China is more evil in its domestic affairs a western civilian has much more to fear from the US.
You’re not thinking like a Silicon Valley startup
Blind people can read though. Many who are born blind learn to read and type Braille. So it would have to be specifically about visual literacy?
The can only work if there are already lots of trains - or will be. Which is to say it can only work if you can use the train to get other places you want to go. If you ensure the train goes to some sort of existing mall, a couple different modern grocery stores, a nice park, and a large job center: you have a chance.

Grocery stores are very important to this. Everybody needs access to them. They are also a low margin business that seeks out locations with low rent - the railroad probably needs to have a special deal on commercial rent if you put in a grocery store to ensure this is met. A proper business plan should consider what other things get a special rent rates as a loss leader to get people on the train.

Note that in no case is zero cars the goal! Everybody will get their stuff delivered on a truck, and the trash goes out the same way. Likewise there is always a need for plumbers, both as residents and day workers. Some couples will find the train doesn't work for one of the pair. So you make sure it is possible to drive - you just ensure the train is so convenient and cheap that most people don't.
They used to send me a ton of letters, even phone calls. You can opt out of that, as I did, and they will stop it.
I thought the first paragraph of the original article (from essential.com) explained things pretty clearly:

> Given this, we have made the difficult decision to cease operations and shutdown Essential.
I used Haskell for about eighteen months on a contract, but the project had chosen Haskell before I was brought aboard. Haskell was used to implement a novel programming language with strong guarantees of security and data integrity implemented in the type system. The language was both statically and dynamically typed, with static types checked at compile time and dynamic types supported by tagged hardware (the tagged hardware was still under development when I was working on the project).
Prince of Persia as VR Escape Room Game
So the force generated by the torque is completely unaffected by the mass of the lever? Then, why does applying the force on a longer portion of the lever create more torque? I had thought it was because there is more mass acting on the point of rotation (longer lever = more mass).
This is a great idea with one easily correctable but nonetheless fatal flaw: it's an all-or-nothing preposition. If users choose to use Handshake as their DNS roots, they will no longer be able to access websites which only exist on ICANN's root zone.

Assuming I'm not mistaken and that really is how Handshake is set up (someone please correct me if I'm wrong), then IMO the whole project is essentially dead on arrival. There's no chance they're going to be able to convince millions of large websites to register on a new DNS root overnight. And even if they did somehow managed to convince 80% of websites move to the new system, users _still_ wouldn't switch over because doing so would effectively break 20% of the internet for them.

It's a real shame, because this problem would be trivially avoidable if they simply allowed the existing TLDs use the ICANN roots and confined Handshake domains to their own TLD (.handshake maybe). That way, adoption could happen slowly over time and users could switch over to the Handshake roots with no downsides. As-is though this is simply unworkable.
Turn off your data and disconnect from wifi, then try again. I believe that will force it to send via SMS. You might need to go through your client's app settings.

The Google Android client is nice because it displays what protocol it is sending over. It is important to confirm that it is sent over SMS. Also, it is important that the words "secure communication" are sent in all lower case which I see that you did.

Thank you for taking the time to test this. If you are sure it is being sent over SMS then I will add your entry as an example where it can be both sent and received
Tesla should pay for time spent in autopilot in these cases. It’s clearly not a finished product. That could incentivize attention paying as well.
That would clearly have unintended consequences (like all discussion of a candidate happening in person or over the phone).
I'm curious, what evidence do we have that the FAANG type companies are significantly better at software engineering than anyone else?
It can't be much worse than the smell of the blackwater being treated
Well not exactly. Snowden was extremely vocal about NSA going around encryption and stealing keys from the endpoints. I've collected those statements here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3euYBPlX9LM

PGP uses RSA which means it's not forward secret. That means, when the agencies hack endpoints to steal PGP keys, they can use them to retrospectively decrypt all PGP-encrypted emails that user has received from their contacts, even if the user has deleted the original message long since.

So no, NSA can't break RSA (assuming it's at least 2048 bits) or AES, but they can bypass the encryption by hacking endpoints. PGP's algorithms are not weak, the key management is extremely weak.
Not automatically, but it can help.

I was in this very situation at the top of Pikes Peak. A storm moved in and the park rangers closed the place and sent everybody away. They knew the statistics of being hit by lightning in that very place.
Show HN: Mixing canvas with other DOM elements – collision detection
Apparently it’s more subtle: although the article begins and ends by talking about Bozeman (and saying even Bozeman doesn’t actually use this method), it turns out that Havre is the city that saved some money and is in fact using this method successfully.

However it hasn’t actually saved $1M, only saved a small amount over the alum that probably would have otherwise saved them from the $1M upgrade :)
You saw it here first: interactive stories on the web
> If users choose to use Handshake as their DNS roots, they will no longer be able to access websites which only exist on ICANN's root zone.

This is not true. You can setup Handshake to be your resolver, and it will resolve both domains on handshake, and legacy domains from icann.
The parent comment that a coin of lead and balsa wouldn't be biased, but to clarify, the linked research paper states it can't be biased unless allowed to bounce/spin. Maybe your weighted cylinder flipping is not biased if you throw+grab instead of letting it land?