skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to think the same thing, but what about the situations where people don't sell out and just see their features copied by the corporate behemoth, wholesale? That scenario seems to play out often as well (g---le+ and diaspora always come to mind).

I suppose if the goal is to just see some technology or technique or idea become more broadly adopted, this isn't a bad thing. But what about poor-implementations of a good concept (UI/UX bloat, user-hostile business models, etc.) Honestly, I'm not sure. Is this analogous to the trends that drive consolidation of firms in general?

I guess this is a round-about say of saying that selling-out is probably the most rational thing to do, but please prove me wrong.
I'm not sure

I am. Spend some time in the desert southwest, particularly on indian reservations. You'll find that NWS temperatures are regularly off by 10-20°. But that's still better than Weather Underground, which can be off by as much as 50°.

One thing I will give the NWS credit for is the wind forecasts. Those things are spot-on at least 90% of the time.

I've lived in 15 cities in a dozen states, and what I've noticed is that if you're in a large city, or east of a large city, the forecasts are great.

But if you're west of a large city, or in a smaller city, it's hit-or-miss. This makes sense, as the better forecasters tend to end up in the larger markets.
Voice controls are worse than texting:

"Undistracted drivers typically showed a one-second reaction time. Those who used the voice-controlled Apple CarPlay saw a 36% increase in their reaction time, which rose to 57% when they used the touch interface."

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/03/20/new-study-shows-u...
> I'm still having trouble believing anyone who isn't a frothing racist can pass off "many" getting called racial slurs on the job as just business as usual.

I don't think it's business as usual, and looking back on my comments I never wrote this. Again, the first one of us bring this up was you when you justified discrimination in hiring as a means to offset discrimination elsewhere. What I wrote was,

> But is the perspective of a white or asian man pursuing a coding boot-camp to try and break into tech going to have the same opinion on policies that greatly reduce or eliminate his chances of getting an interview as compared to if he was a woman or URM? Many see getting called slurs as a small price to pay to get a chance to break into tech.

that many white or Asian people struggling to get into tech see the employment opportunities conferred by diversity status as outweighing the other forms of discrimination that diverse workers may face - not that the latter is justified as "the price of admission".

> The whole "minority free pass" idea is what grates on me. Plenty of hiring managers have unconscious biases against women, minorities, older candidates, people with disabilities, etc. So, it's throwing more diverse candidates into a situation where diverse candidates are going to be disproportionately rejected. But the employers who actually incentivize diverse candidates are also frequently over-emphasized despite it being an uncommon practice. The boilerplate EEOC "we encourage diverse candidates to apply" statement is usually just that: an empty boilerplate put there for legal purposes, backed with zero action behind it. It's just usually nothing close to what you described above

First of all, it is a common practice at least as far as what I've experienced. Some companies, like Intel, went so far as withholding unless diversity quotas are met.

And second, if the hiring managers have biases then eliminate those biases. If a company suspects that biases are causing women, minorities, etc. to not get offers then excluding white and Asian men to pad the former's representation doesn't create an equal hiring process. It just creates a hiring process that discriminates against both women, URM and White and Asian candidates. Furthermore, while it's common to see people cite unconscious biases against women and URM candidates in tech hiring studies trying to actually measure this often don't find this suspected bias. In fact, they often find bias in favor of diverse candidates. Interviewing.io experimented with blind hiring and actually found a slight preference in favor of women [1]. Studies in university STEM faculty recruiting found a 2:1 bias in favor of women [2].

1. https://blog.interviewing.io/we-built-voice-modulation-to-ma...

2. https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/04/08/1418878112.abs...
So I got contacted by Facebook London about 2 weeks ago. The job description sounded quite interesting, but when the recruiter described the interview process and actually sent me a deck with resources for preparation for coding interview he lost me.

The reason is that I am absolutely satisfied with my current job and decided that I don't want to bother at this time with preparation for an interview. Maybe I would pass it without prep, but I would not feel comfortable showing up without putting any time in.

I get a feeling that process as this somehow does not select for top performers that are already working on exciting stuff.
It's easy to slide along in an awful relationship as the water slowly gets hotter and hotter, hoping that your spouse will somehow come to their senses rather than boiling you alive. A sudden shock that makes you realize you're long overdue to get out can be a very good thing. (Highly recommended.)
The first two features listed on the README are "service discovery" and "load balancing", which is probably where the question is coming from.
The Weather Company (which no longer owns The Weather Channel) is part of IBM and also owns WeatherUnderground which has a pretty extensive personal weather station network. I'm skeptical that DarkSky's data is that much higher quality even if weather.com is a mess.
According to the original article, the governor's order did not state that virtual schools had to close. Rather the state superintendent interpreted the order to include virtual schools specifically so that the brick and mortar schools don't lose funding.
wait wait... that can't be correct math. You must be getting far far more of your calories than 50%.

The normal estimate is that it takes 1 acre of land to feed a person for the full year. One acre is 43560 square feet. Your 10 beds are 640 square feet.

Somewhere the math is very very wrong.
Suggested replacement: Some Amazon Prime deliveries are delayed & it’s running out of household staples

Not a huge deal as if you read the article it's apparent right away but I was very confused by the headline alone as I couldn't figure out how Amazon used "staples" or why there would be an uptick in that particular product.
That’s completely false, guy is clearly just trying to sell his own starters.

The taste of the starters comes from whatever you feed it and environmental conditions.
There are different strains of yeast going around that can have different flavors but, in general, you can start a yeast culture on your counter and get good bread. You can tweak how you feed your starter (and build it up for use) to control how acidic the end product will be but you don't need to know much about it to just bake bread. This sounds like a marketing ploy or, possibly, something you would say if you were really into sourdough and had a discriminating palate. Source: worked in kitchens from 15 - early 20s, attended cooking school, been baking bread since I was a small child (including using sourdough which I fed as a chore to help my mother).
That's weird. The WASD keys work for me in Firefox.

Do you have shortcuts bound to those keys? Maybe I need to preventDefault() on keypresses, or something.
This was posted in a HN comment not long ago: https://github.com/hendricius/the-bread-code/blob/master/bas...
> Moving ssh to a nonstandard port is a security best practice

For whom? Could you please cite this?
I don't think you can use a scale to weigh the outcomes of technology, there WILL be positive and negative impacts.
It's also useful to think about how a technology changes our culture, way of life and way of thought.

There are many positives that can be said about plastics, but it has shifted us into a "throwaway lifestyle", i.e. packaging, containers. Many plastics are used in a very ephemeral manor, which is great if you want to consumerism. But i suspect this obsolescence is baked into plastics.
You should add it to the compost, spreading it to ground will probably don't do much as it will oxidize away.
I believe you could add the -t /some/path option (--target) to your pip install and avoid some of your cleanup steps.

Also, if there are binary build steps, you may want to consider using an ec2 instance for the build. (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/lambda-runtimes...)
Amazon has also made some changes for third-party sellers, many of whom lost income when Amazon stopped inbound shipments of non-essential goods a few weeks ago and extended order fulfillment of many such items to April 21. This announcement appeared on the Seller Central website yesterday:

In light of the evolving COVID-19 crisis, we will waive two weeks of your inventory storage fees for products stored in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, and the Czech Republic. This is in addition to the previously announced updates including:

- Waiving the April 15 long-term storage fees for inventory stored in the US and Europe.

- Pausing repayments and interest until April 30 for sellers with direct loans from Amazon Lending.

- Waiving April fees for those using Seller Account Management or the Launchpad program.

We are also making policy adjustments to proactively mitigate the impact of the crisis on the health of your Amazon seller account and you can now use the updated Restock Inventory page and Restock report to check which products are eligible for shipment creation.
You can always come up with a ludicrous policy; it doesn't detract from the potential of regulation. Would you accept General Motors buying freeways and not allowing others' platforms on it? Competition must be regulated.

Also, isn't the barrier between iOS and Android devices artificial? I don't see a veritable technical reason why the two platforms can't be compatible.
I think that’s partially why the market for handheld game devices didn’t get crowded out by smartphones. Tactile inputs let the player’s muscle memory work as a more direct shorthand into the product for a lot of video games. It helps the repeated interactions of a video game be more accessible over a “look, then touch” method of input.
SeLFIES: A New Pension Bond and Currency for Retirement
https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/03/20/new-study-shows-u...

Using Apple Carplay is more dangerous than texting.
...which is why you would say it's for your mental health - not your physical health.

A home garden provides a trivial amount of food.
"biodegradable" plastics are chains of polymerized lactic acid. Proper disposal requires heat and time, but the chains do break down in nature, and lactic acid is everywhere, unlike many other "plastic" materials which are much more exotic. (talking about polylactic acid PLA)

It is also true that many plastics are active biologically, mimic hormones, etc. etc. BUT to temper this fear you have to realize that nearly everything is. Many foods, "essential oils", and natural plant and animal exposures have the same sort of hormone mimicry or other biological drug-like interactions which are poorly understood at best.

The point I am trying to get across is that your body is not an impenetrable fortress that new and evil synthetic compounds are attacking. Instead, biological interactions with small effects are everywhere, and while concern about some of them isn't unwarranted, it should be tempered by the idea that these influences abound.
Maybe this has been improved in the Model 3, but in older models: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/how-laggy-is-your-to...
Just email Michael Gove and ask for it... because his personal email is also in the screenshot.
Don't worry, just open the ("related") article about Dalgona coffee[1] and enable reader mode to get the sourdough article. Obviously!

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bvgbk8/people-all-over-th...
Why, when I replied to this, was it flagged? Should I have posted it in the original German?
I don't understand why I would use this over Helm? I am even further confused when I go to the docs and it has guides for creating a kpt package from a helm chart: https://googlecontainertools.github.io/kpt/guides/ecosystem/

If you are going to introduce a new tool into an already crowded ecosystem the least you can do is describe why anyone should use it.
I have no idea how, but my smartwatch touchscreen remains responsive underwater, in a bathtub or swimming pool. It was with on every workout, and it both endured the energetic movements and sweaty hands were not an issue. The thing has more RAM and CPU power than my desktop in first half of the 90s, runs Linux, and is programmed with JS (well, there's gotta be some faulty part in every design). Anyway, if I can buy such a thing for a few hundred dollars, then - unless there are some physical limitations I'm not aware of - it should be possible for people who build the planes.
Nah, it depends on the building rules. There's no such law. In my building you need to give a deposit just to install curtain rods, for example, or hang a TV.
Don't you literally make sourdough starter out of thin air? Why would you get it from somewhere in the age of social distancing?

I would have assumed that the answer is people are leaving flour and water out (and I'm sort of thinking of doing so, myself), so I'm surprised that the conclusion of this article is that they're actually getting it from somewhere. My goal isn't to make the tastiest sourdough, my goal is to have bread at home without leaving the house. (And I don't have any yeast.)
That would not prevent the overflow from actually happening, which would be technically UB if the sum is a signed type. It is possible to catch overflow in the last instant like this (in the last instant before executing the addition instruction) but the test is more involved. It's a pity that there are no standardized tools (AFAIK) but it's not possible to write a substantial piece of code in this way, anyway.

What you would generally do is assume that x and y can't be overflow. I.e. you need to have a rough idea what quantities you will process. And put a few checks and assertions in strategic locations.
Here's a google slides deck I put together for how to make good-quality sourdough for a fraction of the effort that the "bread hipsters" go through:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UoH_BhRWUi0nnGj3uGp4...
Old starters are good enough that no one has given up on them because they suck.

Personally, I’ve tried sourdough a couple of times, never gotten the starters to really work (despite having done tons of other bread). I’m trying it again now, but I’m kickstarting the starter with pickle brine (not vinegar, the actual lactic fermented brine). There’s some bacterial activity, but it’s too soon to tell if it’s going to work.

But in the meantime, I’ve got a yeast starter going from my last commercial yeast, because I’m out of yeast and so was the store. It’s been going a week now, and it’s working reasonably well, and even getting a bit sour, with none of the problems of weak rising that you can get from a more pure sourdough culture.
Not always. The best code is no code. Sometimes you can clarify requirements (and realize the request is redundant with existing capabilities), adapt workflows, combine existing features, etc.

If someone has a request, the first instinct shouldn't be to write more code, it's to clarify what they are trying to accomplish.

"How do I get the last 3 letters of a file? I need a feature for that."

"Are you trying to get the file extension? We have that in the metadata."
The original claim was also a bad and misleading comparison. It doesn't make sense to compare a single country to an entire continent of 44 different countries, which are quite different from each other in a large variety of salient ways.
Yeah, that's a huge exaggeration. I've thrown out and started multiple starters over the years and they have been great after a month or so.

Worst case, you can augment your rise by combining your starter with a portion of industrial yeast when baking. You get the best of both worlds. Flavor from the starter. Rise from industrial yeast.
Still a phone though - I guess you might get an important call on the road :D
> Literally from the yeast in the air?

Exactly, yeast is the original opensource technology.
Be a ‘hand Nazi’ and other COVID-19 thoughts from an NY doctor’s viral Zoom call
Mikro ORM [1] is the new hot sauce over TypeORM and it is fantastic.

[1] https://mikro-orm.io/
Harold McGee's book "On Food and Cooking" has a chapter on bread making.

My favorite bread recipe is the No Knead Bread recipe that I saw in The NY Times many years back:
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/11376-no-knead-bread

I've never had much success getting a sourdough starter up and running.
Since the encryption is typically asymmetric, you do have per-SP encryption keys, since you encrypt using the key specified in the metadata provided by the SP. On the other hand, the SP verifies the signature using the public key specified in the metadata of the IdP. So, to have per-SP signing key, you need per-SP metadata, which is an additional complication.
Oh yeah, I see that too. It seems to be because of the "infinite" scroll they have where more articles are below. I wonder what it is about reader mode that misses the main article but sees that one.
Google wants people to use their software, Apple wants people to use their hardware.
This is sadly fairly standard verbiage for most privacy policies.
My employer has used Teams Live for all-hands meetings from home the last couple weeks and it worked great for ~350 attendees.
Voice control still isn't there yet. Siri frequently thinks I'm talking to her when I say "hey [kid's name]" — despite the fact that my kid's name shares zero letters with "Siri", either in English or in IPA.

This is pretty surprising/disappointing, considering that the /s/ sound is pretty distinct, and considering that I did the "hey Siri" training when I got my phone.
Managing URLs and endpoints in Swift [video]
> I get a feeling that process as this somehow does not select for top performers that are already working on exciting stuff.

Nope; but it does sound like it selects for people who are obedient and willing to do a whole lot of extra work. Which might be the point?
If your SP supports it, you use SAML attribute assertions to model group/role memberships and only grant access to users in the appropriate groups.

Or you have your IDP (say ADFS) only permit issuance for authorization requests which are appropriate, again by reference to (say) AD group memberships.

If your SP doesn't even validate the audience for the assertions, then you're definitely going to be in a bad place - but the question there is "how do I limit the damage this braindead SAML implementation can do to my enterprise and how do I make sure I never buy software broken like this again?" rather than a screed suggesting authentication and authorization are the same thing.
Ah. That’s perfectly user hostile,
Oh they were collecting data from phones? Sounds like a good excuse to delete the app before they spike it anyways.
> Embedding Python 2 inside of Python 3 (or vice-versa) is not very hard to do on Linux. Simply `dlmopen` the .so in a new linker namespace and write a little bit of bridging code to interface the two object layouts.

Where can I pip install this from?

Or is there a reason that none of the huge numbers of python users delaying their transition as much as possible until all their libraries were updated built it?
I built a little greenhouse, and working on a chicken coop. Trying to spend more time outside in the garden. It's a good "social distance" escape
That is delightfully ridiculous.
Microsoft Releases PowerToys 0.16, Details Future Roadmap
The previous center coalition that had ruled Poland for 8 years was pretty bad, but they did nowhere near the damage to rule of law as is being done now by right-wing populists (crippling the judiciary, outright propaganda in state TV, open oppression of minorities such as LGBT people).
I remember when that happened, pretty shocking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(airline)#2008_incident_an...
You could defend him in just the same manner if he was talking about witches casting spells on people or Jews poisoning wells. I mean, if there really were people who did that stuff, it would be bad. And quite possibly he would be cautious and skeptical within his worldview about accusations and contemporary due process. Doesn't make him a modern person and I'd hope you would not defend a modern person who acted similarly.
Yeah, I've been making the "pain de campagne" recipe from Flour Water Salt Yeast that takes this hybrid approach.
They already are unionized - at least in my neck of the woods (Ohio). If the Whole Foods employees are not, well, then that should be their first order of business.
If I run a query that tells me X hundred thousand users have used feature Y, have I violated anyone's privacy in your opinion?

If you haven't asked them to specifically opt-in to data collection, then yes. And Microsoft does not ask for permission. There are some programs that do a very good job of asking before they send any crash or problem reports. Microsoft is not one of those companies.

non personally identifiable user information

No such animal.

at the expense of quality and stability of product?

One does not necessarily cause the other.

I'm not in the software field, so I'm sure your experience and mine are different. But I work for a multi-billion dollar healthcare company, and the legal department won't let us touch any sort of telemetry with a ten-foot pole. Somehow we're doing just fine, and have a huge satisfaction rate with our user interfaces, according to the studies that have been done for us.
How parallel viralities of Covid-19 and information overwhelmed the world
They have till 2021 to figure it out.

However, based on Apple's historic decisions and the current market conditions, I won't be surprised if Apple buys DDG before the end of 2021. So maybe DDG will not need to worry about switching from DarkSky.
I got natural yeast from my local bakery. People buy less bread and such so they still have a lot of yeast they won't use and the shelf life is only 20-30 days so they started selling the yeast they buy wholesale. Huge 2kg brick. Used a bit but put the rest in the freezer.
Malware masked as textbooks and essays
The Comprehensive Timeline of China’s Covid-19 Lies
probably just small loaves. so they always have nice fresh bread...
To Catch a Failure: The Record-and-Replay Approach to Debugging
Yeah, I wouldn't expect them to already know the way to do it, more of a "walk-them-through-it" question.
DuckDuckGo already uses Apple Maps, so their relationship with Apple exists today.
Even if we had 100% recycling, most if not all forms of recyclable plastic can only be recycled once into the "Made from recycled materials" type of plastic which cannot be recycled again.

So the Oil industry will still have massive demand for new plastics if every piece of existing plastic got recycled only once. For recycling to work, we need a solution that makes it easy to re-use many many times.

This is why recycling really isn't the answer to solving the plastics crisis anyway
Shutting down the economy and reduced pollution that resulted will far far outweigh increased medical supply disposal. Just go look at the skies in India and China.
I think you know better.
Sure, that’s exactly what an internship is and it’s why these companies offer it. If you gave a similar opportunity to people who are already in the industry, you would have a major adverse selection problem where the better candidates would never pick a “probationary” job with second-class status over a normal job.