skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully we'll put the CO2 back into the wells [1] and stop opening new wells :)

I was quite livid when they opened a new major oil field last year but it takes time to change things.

https://www.regjeringen.no/en/topics/energy/carbon-capture-a...
Honestly, the time for that was long ago. Cruises have always been wasteful, floating Petri dishes.
I’m sorry you felt that way because for me a huge proportion of the value was the human stuff, not just “networking” which wasn’t even called that back then, but doing pests with others (learning) talking to profs, being exposed via meatspace serendipity to hints I would not otherwise have seen or done, and the like.

I did skip most of the big lecture freshman classes (I was in ESG) which would not have worked for me (my HS graduating class was 39) but apart from them the classes tend to be relatively small.

I’ve never really noticed the value of the brand name but perhaps that’s a sign that it works so well :-(
>What reason

Benchmarks. It's faster if you don't push all the scanned data through a process boundary.
(And keep doing so even after covid-19 blows over, so that we can maybe start reducing the influenza body count, too.)
Are you seriously trying to suggest that everyone benefits from these innovations?
Fundamental stuff that can go wrong with ventilator patients who don't have ventilation:

Death.
The idea behind the more general movement of slow news is

1. Given time to read and write proper investigative journalism, one doesn't have to resort to copy-pasting descriptive "news" from wire organisations.

2. With hindsight, it is easier to pick out which stories turned out to be significant, and which did not.

3. By revisiting past events, one can begin to unwind what greater consequences they had.

Essentially, slow news is a way to better understand what matters in the world. It won't let you talk about the latest soap opera star in the breakroom, but that's not news anyway, in my opinion.

I'm not sure the author agrees with this, but it's an attempt at answering your question about the value of slower news.
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It depends on the nature of the article. I've dated a national award winning journalist that was also the senior editor of the most prestigious magazine in my country (our version of The New Yorker, essentially) and there is a balance to being scooped and really nailing the reporting.
Object-oriented Haskell surprisingly appealing
High-income people in the US keep marrying each other
While I generally agree with your comments, I am currently working on a project with a React front-end in Typescript and a Node back-end in Typescript, the first time I've ever had the same primary language everywhere. It is a HUGE productivity boost, and most importantly makes it much easier for anyone on the team to review and understand pretty much any area of the codebase.

Folks should not underestimate the benefits of having a single primary common language everywhere.
Because comparisons without baselines are silly. Boeing's 737 Max is compared to the industry average, which is amazingly good.

Tesla is compared to the industry average that is so bad that it kills a 737 load of passengers every hour. Tesla is better than average in that industry.

It is fair to debate why and whether or not Tesla could be even more above average, but that is the baseline.
The closest things really are distributed operating systems from the 70's and 80's, and cluster operating systems from the 90's, and 00's.

Unfortunately, all of them were either research projects, proprietary products, or patches that never made it into the mainline kernel. Nobody has since tried to get the functionality into mainline, so people keep hacking together these non-standard pseudo-operating-systems and jumbles of disparate applications.

You could eliminate 80% of the need for K8s by adding OS primitives to connect and operate namespaces and control groups between nodes, as well as native i/o (block, file, "N-way pipes") between nodes. Once that was done, systemd (or something like it) could manage services across an entire cluster. Applications could communicate between arbitrary nodes without any added functionality. Virtually all of the complexity would be in the kernel and systemd, so apps could be simpler and we wouldn't need 100 layers of userspace junk just to keep an app running on 3 nodes.
Why would recirculated air be a concern on cruise ships? They're not airplanes. Also COVID-19 only seems to be airborne in the sense that you can get it from coughed/sneezed droplets directly from a sick person, not aerosols that can be widely distributed.
Is it immoral to go to Disneyworld
Is it immoral to go to Disneyworld (fly to Florida and go to the parks) when it increases the risks of spreading the virus (none of us has it and we are traveling from an unaffected area).
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
Well, there is. You infect them and keep them isolated until they recover. If you do that before the problem becomes rampant, you will have more healthy doctors available. However, if the virus mutates significantly, they may just get sick again.

It's possible, but probably not ethical.
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Why not point out that they were right about Corona being a sham basically? It's flu season and that's it... As a Norweigian you're as conformist and appealing to authority as I expect.
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I think that most of the changes in Unicode 13 are not from the evolution of human written language. I don't know anyone who's ever written "blueberries" by drawing a picture of some blueberries in the middle of their text.
Is it? I can name other companies that have released successful new products.

If you're just aqui-hiring or buying successful products what does that say about your internal culture? Are you super focused on only your primary product, or are the people you've hired kind of not "new product" innovative?

I guess a lot of people think Google/FB == innovation, and they are without a doubt highly innovative, but when it comes to products I'm not really sure that they are. I think most of their innovation comes from improving what they currently do, not really expanding into new markets or with new products.

Maybe I'm wrong? What do you think?
Oracle implemented similar technology at a time when organic growth was good for both companies. More technologist adopting SQL meant more sales for both companies. Oracle implementations on IBM hardware were and still are pretty common. I think IBM had no good reason to shoot a competitor that likely was helping their bottom line via adoption and popularization of database technology. The industry and the technology were evolving. Squashing it would have been a bad move for them at the time.
> As far as complexity goes, I would much rather have a nodes where a single application is running and using 100% of resources (instead of having containerd or k8s services running) and do simple autoscaling, having access to host-level metrics that I can map back to applications easier than use Docker, k8s & co. Maybe is it only me, but I care about efficiency. Why waste energy?

Hallelujah! I'd imagine inefficient containered architectures do more for the cloud provider's bottom line rather than help the customer.
A lot of countries have a "Ministry of Tourism" and a Tourism Minister.
That's fair, however the python language is two orders of magnitude slower than it's static brethren for a variety of tasks. Pretty much any time you need to use the native language in the interpreter. https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

It may be worth looking at how this performance gap has trended over time. Anecdotally I recall the performance gap being much narrower 10 years ago.
Ah yes, the "No True C++ Developer" argument
And the US state of California is the first government to discover cheat devices in German cars, and the FAA is last to ban Boeing 737 MAX from flying. That's no coincidence. Countries are often very biased towards helping their own industries.
Indeed. But have a very strong preference for tools written in your main language.
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This kind of selection bias applies to everything, e.g. you don't see the news stories media doesn't report on.
Check the proposal dates for that, it's 2013 well after the infringement IBM would be suing over.
His point is that all in-person communication includes elements that cannot be translated over text. This includes things like facial expressions, non-verbal body language. You responded with "learn how to read the manual" which isn't addressing the point that the comment is making.
Of course not. Why would you imagine that?
That's borderline criminal. To blatantly lie about the risks - especially elderly passengers - people are taking should be actionable in some way. These emails will come back to haunt them if family of future casualties sues them. I sincerely hope they go out of business.
I am from Rome, the cheek kiss is common amongst people who know each other, and sometimes it applies "transitively" (e.g. a friend's partner which you don't know), but it is definitely not done when meeting random people at work.

You could be kissing someone on the cheek coming in your restaurant if you are familiar with them, but it's not very common.
Followed promptly by the rubber hose, because technical tricks are not a solution to jack-booted thugs.
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Except that Google can essentially track individual Chrome installations and all the activity that happens on that, so blocking third party cookies doesn't necessarily mean that Google can't track you...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22236106
It's about damn time? I, for one, do not like having to deal with shared library hell, conflicts, and compiling from source because some unpaid repo maintainer is responsible for integrating code into my system. Not to mention the security enhancements.

The only thing that would make them better is if we stopped over-complicating them and made them portable [0].

[0] As in, could be moved to different disks and run from there without a bunch of hoop-jumping.
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You can have the best performing software in the world and it is still worth exactly nothing if you can't sell. The reality is that cheaply developed software that sells well is usually good business.
Interesting. On [0], it seems like people on that ship were not tested for coronavirus though, because they weren't meeting criteria that the CDC had laid out for who could be tested. Let's hope it was really just the flu!...
> One of the Model 3’s big selling points is its autonomous driving software

Is it really though?

It's not something I would ever want to use in its current form (which I understand is not safe enough to leave 'unattended', as it were, so so it seems to fall into a dangerous valley where it's autonomous enough that I don't have to pay full attention but also inadvisable not to)

I'm pretty sure the main selling points are all around the electrification - superior range to other electric competitors plus the running cost benefit of electric vehicles in urban areas with pollution taxation.
Your point in your other comment about overwhelmed with InMail totally resonates with me. Many low-quality offers out there, offering below-market wages. The signal-to-noise ratio is low, and it's an unfortunate part of the job seeking process.

I've tried a platform similar to this. Indeed has a product called Seen. I'm going to share my experience with Seen to provide insight.

Seen emails me saying employers want to talk, and included salary range in the e-mail body. Unbeknownst to me, the salary range was based on what I self-reported (many months prior), but based on the job title, it seemed too go to be true. Support had confirmed that the employer never saw my information, even though they sent me an e-mail saying the opposite.

Given the types of companies it tells me about, it's clear the product targets mid-market talent and not the top quintile. Which probably makes sense, since there are less people there. But it ended up having the same problem as InMail: an undesired signal-to-noise ratio. Sample size of 1, take my experience with a grain of salt.
I use https://www.photosync-app.com/home.html
On my phone and transfer photos when on home wifi AND phone being charged to my NAS. I have a private static photo gallery generated from my nas.

For static gallery generation, I use a project called sitelen-mute.

https://github.com/kensanata/sitelen-mute

No affiliation with either tools.
What if bash scripting is your main language?
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hey guys, ever heard of meteor.js? It's pretty cool too!
https://github.com/meteor/meteor
https://www.meteor.com/
First I thought it was the country then the airline. Never the cruise line.

But this is a Miami based news source, so I can forgive the lack of clarity as my impression is that cruise ships are very significant there, so for their audience the cruise line might be what they associate first.

It is not their fault it gets linked to a worldwide audience on HN...
Most likely you'll have GZIP enabled on all your HTTP request. Your bandwidth will be a bottleneck way before GZIP CPU load become one.

I just took a quick look and they do compress their queries, using Brotli, which is even more efficient than GZIP. They are behind Cloudflare, so it's probably from them.

I just tried with https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos and I get this:

Raw:

JSON: 24,311

MessagePack: 14,704

60 %

With GZIP:

JSON: 3,965

MessagePack: 4,063

102%

With Brotli:

JSON: 3,495

MessagePack: 3,704

106%

So essentially, MessagePack compressed is WORSE than JSON, and not compressed, is at least 3 times worse than compressed.
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Isn’t it possible that if everyone had their mapping feature on on the google account, and you had become infected with covid 19 you could indicate this and google could overlay anyone you had crossed paths with? Maybe send a warning?
> They slow down all patient care that doesn't involve the head.

That's an understatement. The entire body is in a pressure vessel and is inaccessible. You can't even easily give medication or draw blood. I wouldn't say iron lungs are "superior"; they're no longer used for good reasons that don't just boil down to cost/bulkiness reasons. Also, modern ventilators aren't that cheap anyway.
Unfortunately, they're over-complicated as a means of application packaging and distribution, at least in my opinion.

Now AppImage, that's pretty great. It doesn't really bring any of the security benefits of containerization, but that can be tacked on separately.
Yeah, I worked near MIT from 2008 to 2012. It's almost a completely different place now. There weren't a ton of options back then, you had the MIT foodcourt, Rebecca's cafe, a sandwich place that was also a convenient store above a dry cleaner, and maybe Sebastians, but at least they weren't super expensive.

It doesn't even seem like the lunch options are better today, just more expensive. And dinner options, forget about it, way too expensive. We used to go to Tommy Doyles after playing corporate softball, and at least you could get a cheap burger.
That’s scaremongering. You may not know all of the syntax, but you can certainly write proper C++ code.
> Somebody has already linked an article showing that people in these cars are taking their hands off the wheel and playing videogames while 'driving'.

That guy died in a car crash while doing that.
can this be used to run windows VSTs on Linux.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Studio_Technology
As for the 'linux picture viewing application', I've started using the mpv video player[1] for showing a local gallery of photos and videos. Text is added as subtitle files, such as SubRip .srt files[2]. Image-specific options can be configured in mpv, such as the "image-display-duration"[3].

[1] https://mpv.io/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubRip
[3] https://github.com/occivink/mpv-image-viewer/blob/master/mpv...
How do I flag something on HN?
>One person at a company with a compelling blog noted that a downside of having only one approver and/or one primary approver is that if that person is busy, it can takes weeks to get posts approved.

One way around this would be to have 14 stakeholders arranged so that any individual can approve the post. That would do as much to speed it up as a 14-person unanimous/veto system would do to slow it down.
Is U+130D8 not good enough for you?
Good point in Miami the Norwegian shorthand probabbly is as obvious as it gets.

Outside of port towns where they visit, we've got no clue.
The CDC already called out cruises specifically https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/covid-19-cruise-ship
Correct! Or you can spin up one of the AMIs we've already built. You can find current AMIs via public SSM parameters: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/blob/develop...
> Medium requires an image

Is that why so many medium posts have an irrelevant and distracting image that has to be scrolled past? What an idiotic requirement.

Medium claims to have awesome presentation but I always read their articles in “reader” mode to get rid of the pointless distractions.
The Internet of Things Without the Internet
Ummmmm I love the smell of sarcasm in the morning.
That is a really bad take.

Executing code written in any language -- dynamic, static, compiled, interpreted -- would be problematic here.

> That service loads the low level antivirus engine, and analyzes untrusted data received from sources like the filesystem minifilter or intercepted network traffic.

Forget JS. Do not load or execute code from untrusted sources in an unsandboxed environment with system permissions. This is about capabilities, not syntax. If your main takeaway is, "they should have used a C interpreter instead", then you have entirely missed the point.
> Last week, 3/4 @taviso reported a vulnerability to us in one of our emulators, which in theory could have been abused for RCE. On 3/9 he released a tool to simplify vuln. analysis in the emulator. Today, to protect our hundreds of millions of users, we disabled the emulator.

https://twitter.com/avast_antivirus/status/12376853435807539...
NIST actually defines most of these standards and definitions. "Antivirus Software" has two:

A program specifically designed to detect many forms of malware and prevent them from infecting computers, as well as cleaning computers that have already been infected.

A program that monitors a computer or network to identify all major types of malware and prevent or contain malware incidents.

[1]: https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/Antivirus-Software
> If you are introduced to someone (a stranger), it is normal courtesy to shake hands with him/her (and that's it, no hugs, no kisses), as well, unless the other person is an old friend the normal shaking of hands is the normal means of greeting.

In northern Italy, most of the times. In southern Italy, kissing is much more common and it's often used even in formal environments. Shaking hands it's seen as polite but cold.

The stereotypical Italian is, for many reasons, the southern Italian, hence the kissing meme and other exaggerations that really do not apply to northern Italy.
Was useful to know, tnx a lot!
Actually my point was that focusing on situations where there is not an employee-employer relationship is a tedious digression. Of course only employed people get sick time from their employer, that is what it is.
> proving that a Tesla autopilot caused an accident and the regulators are grumpy isn't evidence of anything. Humans frequently have accidents and regulators are typically grumpy.

Don't be shocked if they[1] do write guidelines for driver attention monitoring that Tesla has to adhere to. Also, don't be shocked if they apply across the board, even to cars that do not have autopilot like features.

[1] By "they" in this case, I do not mean the writers of that report, as that was the NTSB. The NHTSA will likely investigate the concepts more holistically.
This is the funniest comment I've read in a long time. I wish I could come up with a comment like that.
Hey guys I built this to greatly simplify hosting. All feedback appreciated.

Here's a common question I get:

Q: How is this different to github pages, netlify, surge.sh etc?

A:

- No knowledge of git or cmd line required (great for beginners)

- Sites you upload disappear within 7 days. Great for prototyping and temporarily hosting stuff to share.

- Unlimited subdomains (not the case with github pages)

- No registration required (you can remain anonymous)
It does allow both of those.
Then use bash scripts for everything. Good luck.
The comments on the Pepys diary website, especially on the spicier entries, are absolutely hilarious.
On the other hand, 98% of their domestic electricity is renewable (95% hydroelectric). If other nations followed Norway's lead by nationalizing their respective oil sectors, it could be an important step towards curbing consumption.
WebGPU

https://webkit.org/blog/9528/webgpu-and-wsl-in-safari/

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/08/get-starte...

https://doc.babylonjs.com/extensions/webgpu

Basically, the Web version of Metal, DirectX12, Vulkan, LibGNM, NVN.
> Black Cat: a combination of Cat and ⬛ Black Large Square

I predict that within 10 years, some group will start a new simplified text encoding standard which is just for text.
The article states that the country is on lockdown, and there are fines for violating that. I assume a very significant portion of the workforce cannot work from home, and I didn't see anything about pay being continued if you can't work.

I don't know anything else about the state of things, but I'm sure automated systems and things that can be done remotely are allowed to continue, so if you want to pay your mortgage, I'm sure you can continue to do so.
> "Scientists and medical professionals have confirmed that the warm weather of the spring will be the end of the Coronavirus," a second says

That wasn't a "scientist", that was the President of the US of A.

His lies are going to get people killed.
It is stuck in a OpenGL ES 3.0 subset.
The question on how to utilize social networks and platforms like blogs and connected to that Twitter etc is a recurring theme of all my employers so far. And it's an unsolved problem. The core question is who should create a text (or pretty much anything not resulting in a product), when and why? Obviously it would be a red flag if a company expects an employee to invest private time into something like this. But how much time is supposed to be dedicated? I have been blogging on data stuff for a while and a sound, well-written and non-trivial article takes longer to write than a work day. And that is an investment that most managers shy away from and instead compromise on quality or just ditch the idea. Writing shallow articles for a while will be demotivating, boring and not worthwhile in the long run.
They're on Hacker News pretty often, so maybe they'll see it if you comment here.
There’s a flag button below the title, but you need a certain amount of karma to see it. Is this flag-worthy though?
Borderline? How isn’t it criminal?
TBF, Prisma2 also includes a sql breakout that allows you to run whatever Postgres-flavor sql you want in your code.