skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, not all melamine boards appear to be the same in this regard. I covered a wall of my office in 4x8 sheets from Home Depot. It held up great. So a few months later I covered another wall, but bought the melamine from Lowes this time. The stuff from Lowes was borderline useless after a few weeks.

Dunno how useful this is as I have no idea how to identify the actual brand/manufacturer of the "good" ones...
There are 30(!) different animations on this one blog post alone.

The work he put into this is admirable. A great education tool.
I think for defect estimation you are right, but for feature estimation (new code, not fixing bad code) the correlation is positive.
TSConf: EU – A TypeScript Conference in Europe
Benchmarking a 5 TB Data Node in NDB Cluster
Slightly off-topic, but here's what I would've done: just build a website.

No real client-side code; lean on the HTML platform for everything it can be used for. HTML is the simplest, most stable, and most battle-tested client-side framework ever created, and it's stateless and runs on all devices without even an installation step. Toss some CSS on there to make it look pretty; CSS is stateless too so it won't introduce any real bugs. It doesn't have to look perfect; you're not marketing it to anyone. You're just collecting input from users who don't have a choice of product.

For the back-end use something dead-simple like PHP or NodeJS. The business logic can't be that complicated; I assume it's really a very simple CRUD app. Just accept form submissions, authenticate, validate, drop it in the database. Done.

Spin up a couple of hand-managed VMs on DigitalOcean or the like for hosting both the databases (probably just one database?) and the web servers. It's not a small user load, but it's much smaller than the typical internet company, and it only needs to run for a few hours. You don't need automated scaling and restarting while you sleep. Sit a task force at their desks during the event to repair any outages as they happen.

Use the right tool for the job. Your stack should be exactly as complicated as the task demands, and no more.
Oasis Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (Tosca)
It's interesting that you chose that example, as I'm very familiar with the location. For what it's worth, that area is undergoing massive development and change. Not sure if you've been by recently, but they're adding hundreds of apartments directly in Main Street to finally complete the original plan of mixed residential and commercial. This is in addition to the hundreds of other apartments/condos being built within a 1/2 mile radius of that location.

The township (West Whiteland) is very aware of the issues with walking paths and sidewalks to nearby areas and train stations, and there are active plans to address it. You can check out their master plan here: https://www.westwhiteland.org/DocumentCenter/View/154/Lincol...

The other thing you might not have noticed is that the beautiful Chester Valley Trail (biking/walking) runs directly through the Main Street center, and connects to many corporate parks (e.g. Vanguard) and shopping locations in Malvern, KOP, etc. It will ultimately connect to the Schuylkill trail that runs to Philadelphia, as well as Valley Forge Park. https://pecpa.org/wp-content/uploads/3-Trail-Itineraries-Bro...
On-call, where the stakes are high
I don't know but I don't like it, at least for a long form article.
Not going to happen, considering djb vs US declared code free-speech; E2EE is implemented in code so you can't ban it without violating the constitution.
PCRE 8.44 Released
I am absolutely sure this was posted due to the IndieHackers newsletter
On the linked page, it says:

"Inspired by this tweet" which links to https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/600783770925420546
While we are talking about obsolete UNIX desktops that have been revived, somebody was doing similar for the IRIX desktop:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/05/maxx_interactive_de...
Rogue Amoeba’s 2020 Status Report
There is, but you won't find a station for every genre everywhere you go. I doubt you'd find that anywhere to be honest.
Straw man? There are many phases to testing a new piece of software, short of deploying everything to the field indiscriminately.

Some of us believe (perhaps wrong but there it is) that the human error rate will be trivially easy to improve upon. That's not sociopathic. It would be unhelpful to dismiss this innovation (self-driving cars) because of FUD.
Since the phenomenon itself does definitely exist and there is no single word for it (that I know) I am all for using tsundoku for it :)
> May also apply to videogames

Made particularly easy thanks to the Humble Bundle. Probably half of my Steam collection consists of games I got from bundles I bought just to get a particular title, and I didn't have anyone to give the rest of the Steam keys to.
The popular “Learn How to Learn' course in debuting again on Coursera today
> but "good enough" is the gold standard in engineering

Your post does a dis-service to the 350+ who died.

Nobody agrees that using one external sensor on the 737 MAX that is subject to weather, bird strikes and ground handling damage was nearly good enough.
The problem is DRAM price hasn't drop one bit.

The lowest price floor per GB has been similar for the past decade. Roughly at $2.8/GB in 2012, 2016, and 2019. And all DRAM manufacturers has been enjoying a very profitable period.

And yet our Data size continue to grow. We can fit more Data inside memory not because DRAM capacity has increase, but we are simply increasing memory channels.
You can view connector APIs at https://stdlib.com/search/ -- if there's something we don't offer, you can build your own Connector APIs as well. Expect this list to grow substantially: part of our model is that we work with large API companies to ensure they're supported on the Standard Library registry.
Correct, Uhlenbeck was given the proper recognition in the mathematical community, but people outside that community don't know her. She is not an icon for Women in Science and neither is someone like Emmy Noether, or even in the world of cryptography, someone like Shafi Goldwasser -- they are all unknown.

But instead an actress with zero scientific research publications, no PhD, and just this one piano roll patent that she sent, unsolicited, to the Navy which rejected it -- she is high on the marquee for "women in science". That's a shame.
This is a great idea. Can we think of any examples where this has worked? Famously, it didn't work at Kodak when they invented digital photography.
I guess we might find out over the next few years.

The new DA in SF isn’t pursuing shrinkage/theft under $950 (due to Prop 47). Of stores shutter due to losses at least we can say it contributes to the desertification.
How about an Apple Watch with Cellular option? That's as small as it gets.
right, I'm not even sure if this the first group is statistically accurate, there seems to be too many small companies bought and shut down to really assume this. It would be an interesting study to see what percentage of products last after purchase, for how long, how many are incorporated, and so forth.
The news is this:

"CIA owned CryptoAG in collaboration with the intelligence establishment of West-Germany"
The same author wrote about this place three years ago.

He seems to like it.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/5/31/baldwin-park-a...
You mean like the room right here where you're literally providing negative feedback right now?
There are plenty of QA-related requirements [1], [2]. To a certain extent, the incentives (cost, schedule) may align with contractors trying to skirt as many requirements as possible as long as NASA doesn't catch them:

>Mr. Loverro acknowledged that NASA failed to identify the weaknesses in Boeing’s work. “Our NASA oversight was insufficient,”

[1] https://snebulos.mit.edu/projects/reference/NASA-Generic/NAS...

[2] https://snebulos.mit.edu/projects/reference/NASA-Generic/NAS...
My point was meant to be more general, in that people try to implement the "google-scale" version of any given conceptual model even when they don't need to (i.e. this is about "choosing the right tools")

For example, one can do a CQRS style database setup just fine with a single API server, a single worker process system, and a single postgresql db - and given all changes are already driven by command objects, building out other datastores later if you need to tends to work out well.

Though I would also point out that on average, communication within a process is easier to reason about than communication outside because there are fewer failure modes, and sync is easier to reason about than async because there are fewer failure modes.

Admittedly, a monolith does make overly tight coupling between components easier to not notice as you're doing it ... but then again it's depressingly easy to accidentally end up with what's essentially a distributed monolith even with a theoretically-microservice-based design (googling "distributed monolith" will provide a bunch of articles with disagreeing definitions of the term ;)
Paid SoundCloud listener here. I value the service they provide and I am happy to pay for it. They could improve discovery options, so greater collaboration with Pandora would be a very good thing.
It's UN Human Rights Office, not UN itself.

UNCHR is an odious organization that focuses on Israel to the exclusion of pretty much anything else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Co...
If you enjoyed the article, check out others by the same author which are done in a similar way. For example https://ciechanow.ski/color-spaces/ and https://ciechanow.ski/earth-and-sun/
Dev1: "Is that in stdlib?"

Dev2: "Yeah"

Dev1: "Then why isn't it working?"

Dev2: "Because unlike EVERY OTHER THING called stdlib you need to install this one because it's not actually a stdlib"

Dev1: "..."
That's essentially technocracy. I think some amount of technocratic decision-making is good in a government, but at the end of the day you still need that government to be informed by the needs/desires of the people (democracy, more or less). Democracy should be informed by the technocrats, not replaced by technocracy. In this case, I think voters should be listening to ecologists to understand the effects that reintroduction of wolves will have, but it's good that it's still up to the voters to decide whether to prioritize restoring the ecosystem versus making life easier for those in the agriculture industry.
I didn't know that: great info which I will use.
I had the same feeling, hoping to receive an epiphany, perhaps on the bevel of the gear teeth, but nope. Then I thought, ok, surely there's an insight to be gained regarding helical gears, but it was never discussed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gear#Helical
Sounds like you are moving the goal posts. If you said "less than average amount of middle class families per capita" then that is obvious. You said "almost no middle class people with kids" which is in my experience misleading and almost certainly false. Given the massive population of Manhattan, even if the percentages are as skewed as heavily as you believe they are, that means there is still a significant and visible population of middle class families. Certainly enough to support a large number of businesses specifically for them.

One of the surprises I had when moving to NYC was the amount of families. I didn't expect it, thinking most of the population would be young single professionals.
It's so weird that the title has only 3 companies from that entire list. And none of them are companies under Booking Holdings. Almost feels conspiratorial in some way.
The scenario you mention is an illegal anecdotal failure of the system to work as intended.

If we're still comparing the US and China, I'd say it's working a great deal better than whatever system is currently (not) protecting Uighurs from systematic unjust search and seizure.
Some years ago, an acquaintance was going to go with a group to Central America to do repair or construction work at a remote town. The acquaintance was an office worker, and I imagine that most of the rest of the group were office workers also. Now, a pretty large percentage of the construction workers in the metropolitan area are natives of Central America; the whole thing seemed curious to me, though I didn't say anything.

But I suppose it might be for the volunteers to get back into the US than it might have been for a randomly selected group of construction workers. A back problem intervened, and the acquaintance didn't go.
It is part of the UN. See this BBC article for more: BBC News - UN lists 112 businesses linked to Israeli settlements
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-51477231
Average rate of return is 7% accounting for inflation, actually. That assumes you're doing dividend reinvestment and such.

Vanguard's predictions of 3-4% over the next decade mean that if you do a straight dollar calculation you'd be closer to ~7%, because that 3-4% number includes inflation, once again.
I'm frustrated by this logic. On one level, you're punishing an entire company because of the actions from one guy. Wouldn't it suck if your CEO committed some offense, and you personally had to pay for it by losing your job?

Second, I simply do not feel it is my place as a consumer to punish a person for his behavior. The legal system is in place to deal with this, and that should be more than sufficient, and it's important that is the system used to deal with the issue, because everyone has rights. The legal system is designed to allow both parties to exercise their rights. Cowboy boycotts by consumers are emotionally driven mobs. That's not justice.

Finally, we as a society used to believe in second chances. Once someone commits an offense, usually they pay some price (maybe losing a job, going to jail, paying a fine etc) and then we give them a chance to participate in our society again. They don't always get all their previous privledges back. If you commit a felony, you won't be able to own a firearm for example. But you do get a another chance to be productive.
I live near Santa Fe, NM and I cannot possibly agree with this characterization. Most modern (i.e. non-tourist) commerce in S.Fe is on Cerrillos Road. While I support this arrangement to a large degree, Cerrillos is a 4 mile long strip mall, in essence. In a car, it's convenient. On foot, it's a nightmare. There is a bus running up and down, but the bus rarely seems to have much ridership.

The old core of S.Fe contains almost none of the basic essential retail outlets for day to day life. There are no supermarkets, no hardware stores, for example (Kaunes is about as close it gets). You see very few people walking around other than tourists. It is true that the Rail Yards is a moderately successful (re)development of a downtown area that was previously ... well, rail yards. But it hasn't really done much to change the retail/hang out situation other than adding an REI, a brewery and a movie theater. All good things (for me) but they don't change the fact that living in S.Fe without a car will remind you constantly that you don't have a car.

One great thing here are hundreds of speed bumps on residential streets. These do provide a distinct message ("Slow the F*CK down") when driving in those neighorhoods, but they do not change the car-centric nature of the city.
I gave up after my second Nexus 4 died and now use an 8" tablet with a sim card in it for everything.

I've no particular desire to go back given current phone sizes for anything with decent oomph.
> We spend a great deal of time learning on the go because it would be nearly impossible to truly be an expert in a field where the tools and goals change so rapidly.

Could we make the tools change less rapidly?

I have a larger theory of the tech world right now that there's way too much change, in every corner of the industry. Computers don't have fundamentally different capabilities than they did a decade ago, so outside of security patches, why do so many software projects release major feature updates more-or-less annually?

Make no mistake, most of these updates contain legitimate improvements—it's just that change itself has a high cost, for both developers and users. Most of the time, I don't think the improvements are worth the change.

There are numerous cultural and business reasons for the rapid pace of change in the software world, but I don't think any of them are inherent to how software is created.
Excellent. It works for me too. From now on, that will be my paywall buster of first resort.
I don't quite understand this.

Is the problem that you can book a hotel (or bnb) within the occupied territories?

Or is it you can book a hotel at something which is an "illegal" (as set by the UN but not by Israel I assume) settlement?

Does the UN want the booking services to check the ownership of the hotel to see if it is Jewish or Palestinian? Or just not have any hotel bookings there at all?
I use less or sass. Both have even more goodies in them.
I'm more curious how a 12 year self taught programmer can make 6 figures.

My Engineering job pays too well to jump into software
Scientists find evidence of 'ghost population' of ancient humans
Wire transfer. Fee is capped at $35.
Id wait till they start encroaching on human habitat and start attacking their pets, before accepting those results.
> The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC; French: Conseil des droits de l'homme des Nations unies,[2] CDH) is a United Nations body (...)

I know some people dislike it, but lets stay with the facts here. It is "the UN" as much as the security council is "the UN". Both are relevant parts of it and if we choose and pick which ones we like things get very messy, very fast (even more than it is already).
Hoist by my own petard!
It surprises me that GSMA's site would go down like that
Firefox has the ability to customize shebangs. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/assign-shortcuts-search...
If you're interested in the machining/making of gears there's a youtube channel where a person makes clocks and other timekeeping devices (some of ancient designs). It's fascinating to watch, and makes me want to get a metal lathe/mill someday.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCworsKCR-Sx6R6-BnIjS2MA
It's on our roadmap! https://github.com/cli/cli/issues/217
What exactly did those three companies do?

I looked around the links on that page but I'm not getting a good feel for what happened.
So, fun fact: our organization name is actually Polybit Inc. -- we do business as "Standard Library" because the registry we've built is pretty much core to everything we do.

I expect the easy way to get around this is for folks to refer to us, when speaking technically, as "stdlib.com" ("standard lib dot com").
That paper is not good support for your pedantic argument. (More pedantically, any coin without uniform density is "weighted" by definition, regardless of toss bias)

In fact, most methods of coin toss will be influenced by an unbalanced coin in some way. The paper only demonstrates that if you flip a coin with a certain precisely specified method (and catch it midair) - can you be reasonably assured a weighted coin will be unbiased.

See their own referenced book Jaynes, 1996 pp 1003-1007, which I think gives a much clearer explanation of the possibilities.

Note that the NFL for instance does not catch the coin, so there's at least a real world where a coin could be biased.

The important part of that paper is this:

"Examples of how others have flipped and tossed coins show the students how essential it is to carefully describe the experimental process."
not just the one detail about angular momentum and CoG.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22311618 was posted a bit earlier
Ah real estate: the rent keeps going up and there’s no easy way for individuals to benefit from it.
>you have to cross 8 lanes of traffic coming from the east

I remember I was once staying in Tyson's or somewhere around there. I could see a number of restaurants in the shopping center from my hotel but there was literally no way of crossing the 6-8 lane road between me and the restaurants. I had to get into my car to drive the few hundred feet.
Yes, they were building an amazing product with top-of-the-line UX that any other company could only dream of building.
Please be aware that there's many countries for which $9 is not a negligible sum. Essentially what you're saying is that anyone not willing or ABLE to pay more should be squeezed out.
i'm working on a solution to this problem. it's called .mixtape - https://mixtape.ai currently in beta but targeting an end of february launch
With all due respect, that is just as likely to happen with human drivers as well.
Good suggestion. Is there a convenient (for the end user) approach to handling wire transfer on a web page?

(i.e. the polished Stripe checkout version of wire transfer)
This may help provide more context: BBC News - UN lists 112 businesses linked to Israeli settlements
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-51477231
Yeah, I snapped up an SE just after it was discontinued figuring it might be my last chance at that form factor.
Software is built like crap because when it fails it doesn't kill anyone. Except the software that does kill people when it fails, and that's engineered properly -- not perfectly, but in line with other things like airliners and elevators.
not to mention recent revelations about how the FBI is gaming and outright misleading in the FISA court process.
That's fair. On reflection I suppose I was reacting mostly to the title and the fact that comments like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22311295 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22311297 were showing up in the thread. Perhaps a title change would have sufficed in this case. When I said that the genre of official corporate announcements tends not to have a great track record, I was speaking generally.
> People want it all: ....

what many of us want is a change to ... Legal zoning rules.

Along with the racism that they've been used to enforce, zoning rules in the US have done more to contribute to the creation of hollowed-out communities than almost anything else. Residential-only neighborhoods, total segregation of retail from residence, parking requirements, exclusion of large scale, quality rental accomodation, focus on single family lifestyle, lack of sidewalks ... bit by bit you go from towns that work to towns that are just dormitories.
Hobbyists use GAS for a similar practice. It stands for Gear Acquisition Syndrome where you buy much more hobby-related gear that you can use. Photography, electronics and electronic music are some hobbies particularly known for this.
A former Professor of mine published a paper on a very related topic.
He interviewed 54 software developer at the International Conference on Software Engineering. I found it a very nice read.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.09971.pdf
'Like Git, but for Data'
Yes. I wrongly remembered (and even checked the out-of-the-box output of ":i Fractional"!) that it doesn't include Rational, but only different flavours of floats. The original point stands: Python's Fraction defines arithmetical operators in the same sane way, and the bespoke money type is about as free as in Haskell to define them in whatever way seems useful, like throwing exceptions on adding dollars to euros.

(And also throwing exceptions on adding dollars to generic ints — that one would be a compile-time error in Haskell, which is of course a good thing. Is this not only a good thing but a critical one in financial context?)
I'd rather have a wolf surtax added to the bear patrol tax.
I hope you're kidding but don't think you are. This guy doesn't need a second chance - he has hundreds of million of dollars.

Anyone working at this company is smart enough to get a job anywhere else with relative ease. I'm hardly worried about highly skilled people "losing their job" - at this point the ones that choose to stay are doing so for some reason, not because they just need any random job.