skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“This is the perfect time to top it up: prices are low and we’re engaged militarily in the Middle East. For once, Russia’s loss is our gain,” said Scott Nations, chief investment officer of NationsShares.” [0]

How would Russia’s loss, “For once”, be our gain? Considering the rival interests of Russia and the United States, it would seem that Russia’s loss is usually our gain. What am I missing here?
Agreed, and there's also git restore now, which might be a bit more intuitive.
Super interested in this as well. I switched from Messagebird to Twilio after giving Nexmo a try and it's a lot better now but still get false positives.
Julian Assange still held on remand as coronavirus spreads through UK prisons
For web links I just don't store them anywhere. If I want to go back to something, I either google for it again or possibly search my browser history.

For random thoughts I have a flat text file (4MB currently) to which I just append. I rarely read my past stuff though, but sometimes it's valuable to grep for something I need to recall. There's also something liberating about clearing up your mind by writing stuff that's on your mind down somewhere, freeing up headspace for other things.

For project-related things, and taking notes of book quotes, new words I've encountered etc. I use the app Things. But here again I'm very poor at actually following up on the things I add to it. For some stuff I've added reminders since it has such a feature, but I'm usually just annoyed with my past self for reminding me of something when there's always something more important occupying my time that comes up later.
A few years ago an unknown developer gained notoriety in the Polish IT community by slipping this:

https://youtu.be/Cw7wke_FtuI

past the verification process.
There's no reason operators can't show-up, and a bunch of us do - however, it requires significantly more time investment than posting to NANOG. In some of my professional roles this has been easy to get, in others (especially smaller shops) it's much harder to justify the benefit of spending the time there.
There was a discussion about this a week ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22704051
> For example, I'm not going to listen to your arguments about climate change if you aren't actively curbing your red meat consumption.

As it happens, I've considered becoming vegetarian but I'm literally allergic to nuts, and it's hard to have a balanced diet with enough protein if nuts aren't an option. The validity of an argument is even less affected by whether you think the arguer is a hypocrite.

Also, would you listen to my argument about how individual red meat consumption is a drop in the bucket of climate change and isn't really worth focusing on?
> This perception is exactly why you will get backdoors from Western intelligence services in Western gear, but the Chinese can't pull it off.

Western people go after Western companies for backdoors just as harshly as they go after Chinese companies. See the paranoia about the "NSA_KEY" variable. See people going after RSA for their RNG.

> It's straight up cognitive dissonance. Western companies are the good guys. Western intelligence services are the good guys.

No, it's because Western companies are, generally speaking, more independent of Western intelligence. Heck, Western companies actively work against Western intelligence: how much effort did Google expend in encrypting intra-DC links after the NSA's glass-tapping program went public? How much effort is Apple putting into crypto on their various devices?
> There's nothing I hate more than reading a good article with headers, wanting to link someone directly to the section relevant to them, and then not having an id to use to send them straight there.

Lots of other things I hate more than this, but dagnabit this drives me nuts too!
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It is interesting the article didn’t mention the incident 2 weeks ago when it had problems with a 7-fold increase in volume. Though it did well under the strain. https://status.notifications.service.gov.uk/incidents/jpwxyt...
They are superpowers, but the US is a hyperpower.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperpower
It matters with respect to that person's credibility, but not in regards to the validity of the argument.

>For example, I'm not going to listen to your arguments about climate change if you aren't actively curbing your red meat consumption.

In other words, you don't listen to the likely majority of scientists?

You're confusing rationality with integrity.
For links, Raindrop.io has imho the best combo of features and nice UI. I've been a happy premium user for years. It has:
- tags
- collection & subcollections
- search (includes metadata extraction)
- a really good and fast UI
- a generous free tier
- browser extensions + mobile apps

It has nice extras like
- keep private archives of webpages
- warn you about broken links
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Alternatively I use Are.na for a lot of visual/conceptual/design stuff.
Hoarding is an interesting phenomena... you start with some people panic buying supplies unreasonably. That runs supplies low... now, a person that otherwise might not hoard at the first sign of crisis rationally must do at least a little so since they may not be able to get their supplies as usual... which in turns amplifies it all. If you went to the store and they happened to have TP would you take the opportunity to buy it, need now or not? I probably would unless I
already had few weeks on hand.

I live in the bay area, too... and I have a Target who's front door is about 200' from my front door. I have seen TP and paper towels... but it goes very fast when it's there. Of course, I called our close by friends as soon as I saw the stock and I'm sure others did as well. It was gone very quickly. If that's happening everywhere. Reductions in logistics capacity will also contribute to the slowness of getting some of this stuff to store shelves regardless of production capacity.

Until you start seeing "shelter in place" orders lifting, I think this is only the start of the consumable goods problem.
MacBook trackpad scrolling change since Catalina 10.15.4
Same here, but `sed "s/vim/emacs/g"`
> The thing with Apple though was there were good reasons to believe that their interests were strongly aligned with their users’ and by extension with indie developers.

There were good reasons at one time, yes, for the reasons you give.

But there aren't good reasons now, because circumstances have changed.

Something similar happened in the 1990s with Microsoft and Windows. In the early days of Windows, MS encouraged third-party developers to code to it, because it helped to speed up the expansion of the user base. All kinds of good third-party Windows apps sprung up and thrived for a while.

But once the market was pretty much saturated with Windows, a lot of those third-party developers discovered that they were now basically doing market research for MS: whenever they hit on a killer app or feature, MS would simply duplicate it, ship it as part of Windows, and destroy the third party dev's market.
These criticisms (cost, commuting time, pollution) point to a need for more urbanism and increased density.
I grew up in a place like that where we had neighbourhood shops/cafes/eating places, all almost next door or at a walking distance. They provide the ingredients that make your memories rich and colorful. I have fond memories of the kind of food that I could only get at the corner shop, the barbershop that used to play corny movies while I got a haircut, the very odd place where we could buy coal for cooking AND rent comics. They are fodder for mutual jokes when I catchup with childhood friends.

One only realizes what the writer is talking about when it is part of their experience growing up. You can't universally desire it but only reflect back at what you had and decide how it was for you.
It would give you the illusion of meritocracy but the reality is it would be almost impossible to administer effectively. You just need to look at the problems businesses have interviewing candidates to see how difficult assessing candidates is.
Self-hosted instance of Shaarli - it is simple, fast and reliable:

https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli

You can't embed videos, on mobile the web version works well. Has simple browser extensions and a terminal client. I.e. works everywhere.
This might be overboard for most projects but here is what I recently did. There is a website I use heavily that provides sales data for a specific type of products. I actually e-mailed to make sure this was allowed because they took down their public API a few years ago. They said yes everything that is on the website is fair game and you can even do it on your main account. It was actually a surprisingly nice response.
This. Using doubles for markup removes the need for backslash escaping when those symbols naturally appear in text,
Accusing people of “virtue signaling” tends to be just another form of signaling.

“There’s a problem, it matters, but I don’t personally have the fix handy” is not an unreasonable position. It’s like a non-chef saying “this food is bad”; that they can’t cook isn’t relevant to that fact.
IETF has jurisdiction over Internet standards and ITU has telephones. Any kind of "new IP" falls under IETF but they won't approve any such thing so people take their proposals to ITU.
If Zoom supports stock background filters or modes, that would seem to be another massive source of repeating plaintext, depending on the implementation.
And yet, this "waste" of energy enables a sizeable amount of decentralized positive-sum transactions by actors who don't necessarily trust each other, and cannot always use existing (centralized) systems for this purpose. This is a socially-positive development overall.
Not buying is not an option.

A minority of rich can extract the planets resources.

The species does not have to abide that minorities ideological demands literally.

Avoiding figurative harm of the self righteous is walking the path authoritarianism.

A big number in a bank DB is not irrefutable proof of value to the species.

Westerners and the monied are outnumbered. Environmental collapse from chewing up resources for disposable shit that rots, doesn’t last for the next generation, does not have to be tolerated.

Maybe if we just focused on making sure our biological similarities are cared for as a society, we’d have more time to wank our customized imaginings of our individual importance in private, but otherwise be unable to achieve political leverage to drive us off a cliff, leaving others to stably consider their ideas.

But no... we have to bend over to pleasure the grifter class.
It is not even a typo, both are correct. No?

On topic: James Taylor appears to be brilliant, accomplished and could have produced more for several more decades. What a tragic loss for his family & science.
You raise a good point, but sidestep a good conclusion I feel like. I can agree that it is surprisingly similar. However the root of the issue is that we need to speak in terms of environmental impact to get to Revenue.

I think the (implied) argument that the GP is making is such that Bitcoin is having too large of a cost to the value add to society.

I have no idea if this is true or not. I don't even know how we can quantify environmental damage relative to revenue.
Co-operatives or farm hubs with reliable stream of income.

It is not that CSAs are expensive. It’s that most people pay less for industrially grown food.

Supermarket tomatoes are uniform, thick skins, picked when green and gassed them red, grown in thousands of acres, mechanically harvested, grown broadacre with chemicals and trucked thousands of miles by palletfuls.

How can you compare that to food grown in ten acres, harvested by hand and has the shortest distance from soil to kitchen and usually done by hand because true mechanization, automation tech and economies of scale hasn’t reached small farms.

The consumer has to make a stand and be willing to pay what food is worth. That our food is cheap is what fuels many of the woes of the world.
Do you believe that consumers even know that the W3C exists?
This is the story my two sibling commenters are talking about:

https://marker.medium.com/what-everyones-getting-wrong-about...
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Why Is the Google Live Data Tracking Story Being Covered Up?
I dont' see a single link on the front page about this. This is so incredibly troubling.
Where are the posts by all those people without those phones they're boycotting?

His point is the first part ... i don't believe the reservoir of oil is the issue, but the lack of progress towards a greener future. We have no other choice, and little control over government, beyond peaceful criticisms.

So let it be.

Don't pick and choose, own up. Im sure there’s a latin phrase to what you do, too, but were not here to squabble! Not during these times ..
I'm an immigrant to the US as well.

I chuckle a bit when I hear people say how great my home country is and how they wish they could move there from the US.
Wow, I used to live on Quintana Beach, TX. Never knew there was an oil reserve there!
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Google Engineers Are Unethical Pieces of Shit
This is why I run whenever I hear the word "platform".
Flaws in Coronavirus Pandemic Theory[pdf]
People like Jobs are outliers, for every one of them there are thousands where the reality is quite different.
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I believe he was asking whether an understanding of "under-the-hood" of postgres transfers to Aurora -- that is, does your tuning knowledge transfer as well, or is it just you can migrate your codebase transparently
> Apples standards are my standards.

Indeed. If you want to use their hardware, then you've no choice in the matter.

To be clear, I have absolutely zero issue with you choosing to be their customer. They make fantastic hardware, there are an enormous amount of pros to being an Apple customer. It's perfectly reasonable to look at these pros and cons and choose to be an Apple customer.

However, taking one of those cons and trying to sell it as a pro requires a fair bit of doublethink.

You could be using an Apple device and choosing Apple as your app curator. Lack of choice is not a feature.
It is wasteful because it is expending fossil fuels, manufacturing and raw materials to build the compute resources to perform calculations that don’t produce any intrinsic value, but rather just another way to represent and redistribute the value that already exists. It is as worthless as options/RSUs until you convert it to currency, and no currency is created in that transaction.

It’s like writing an unnecessary API wrapper or similar abstraction layer. YAGNI
People complain about 30%. That is kinda standard in most affiliate style relationships. The subscription is also negligible amount IMO.
Not just in the Finger Lakes. Various firms have set up shop in northern NY near the St. Lawrence River to access cheap power. Two years ago, authorities became concerned because of the impact on residential rates:

“[These] companies are using extraordinary amounts of electricity — typically thousands of times more electricity than an average residential customer would use. While such a significant amount of electricity usage might go unnoticed in large metropolitan areas, the sheer amount of electricity being used is leading to higher costs for customers in small communities because of a limited supply of low-cost hydropower,” according to the New York State Public Service Commission.

https://www.northcountrynow.com/business/blockchain-industri...

After NY state authorities set higher rates for crypto mining, one of the local communities withdrew from the local power agency so it could set its own rates, which has prompted at least one company (Coinmint) to announce plans to relocate there. https://northcountrynow.com/business/cryptocurrency-mining-c...
Oh and since you requested it, Raindrop.io does have an API!
A cow using an internet connected device is better at avoiding scams and malware than my parents. At least the cow won't have the dexterity to click on garbage. My parents will never have sufficient knowledge of modern English nor the concepts around what is and isn't malware.

For them, I need a device that lets them Facetime and WhatsApp and browse the internet and takes photos and videos of their grandkids. They are never going to create anything, and iOS is perfect for them.
Apache Kafka Applications Can Work Without Apache Kafka Cluster?
Gold is quite useful industrially, however. Last I checked, you can't coat wires with Bitcoin to make them less prone to oxidation.
Yep! The only way you get around it is if you 'invested' in something that (a) either gets 'subsidized by law' (rent and other contracts falls into this category, until the law changes), or (b) still can be produced and is in demand during the economic shutdown.
Quickly create a nested folder structure via Terminal
(DevonThink Pro)[https://www.devontechnologies.com/apps/devonthink], on Mac, iPad and iPhone, with a Scanscnap Scanner. It’s the bees knees.

I’ve been living in it for many years now, it contains every document, snippet, Video, etc. In multiple Databases, synced over a WebDAV.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22779696 and marked it off topic.

Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22780144.
If Apple didn't spend billions per year over the last 15 years on research & development, marketing, retail, etc to put those devices in hands of your target market, with readily available payment methods and the trust to buy things online, how would most companies even begin to build a business? If you ship bits and bytes, then I think this is fairly owed.

Whenever I hear these gripes it makes me wonder why developers feel so entitled. Is it because we all came from a previous world where the PC was a more open platform for distribution? Apple is just a business. Do business with them or don't.
Imagine how much pollution Bitcoin would create a day if it became 10x more valuable. Roughly 10x. This is because the cost to mine a resource trends towards the value of a resource. Disclaimer. I invented a cryptocurrency that pays stakers inflation instead of miners.
For me personally it was Messagebird. Two failed demos because of this and the response from them where non-existent. I was even contacted by one of their sales people after I wrote my last "angry I'm leaving" email asking me if I was interested in using their services.
It's okay for you to dismiss arguments, but if you're going to make counterarguments, clearly life isn't that busy.

(But to the actual point - it's hard to infer whether someone "cares enough" about their beliefs. I personally care about Apple's labor practices; I also care a lot about Google's security practices, which are also contributing to serious human rights violations in China. I'm allowed to care about more than one thing at once.)
The village I was born in sits on caverns like than which are used to store year worth of gas supply for whole country. Back in 70s one of the tower blow up resulting in huge huge gas burner/candle (100 meters tall). No damage or lives were lost but it took army two weeks to handle it (blew it by jet engine). This fire actually happened on my grandma backyard, but no evacuation was needed. In case oil behave the same like gas I would say it is relatively safe.
The parent noted a similarity. They did not argue for inaction or acceptance.

Edit: For example, it could be interpreted as an argument to be more mindful of gold extraction externalities.

My beef with the statement lies in "not any different". Having qualities in common doesn't preclude differences. In this case, there are differences.
Certain companies pay 2-3 extra months of salary for each draft or patent.
I wish I had learnt about gitignore sooner when I first learnt to use git. Especially if you are using an IDE and it generates a ton of files.
I love the tool I built, www.minimal.app, for exactly this. Among notes apps, it more closely resembles a real notebook (simple yet powerful).

The big differentiator is the Note Lifetime: after a week or so, unedited and unpinned notes "die" or get archived, keeping the notes list current/relevant.

It doesn't have every feature (by intention), so it's best used in conjunction with other tools. It's not an entire desk – just a notebook.
> Whilst eqvinox's analysis above draws the line at a particular contributing company

Sorry, that was not my intention, and it does very much happen with other authors, companies and countries - including Western ones. It's not spread evenly though, that's where cultural and social differences play in :/.
Rent is normally flat. I've never heard of a landlord taking a percentage
> The processor pipeline has its out of order execution handled by the compiler, not by hardware, so there is some debate about whether this is an in order or out of order processor.

The usual problem with these sorts of CPU microarchitectures for general-purpose computing is that they can't absorb variable cache/memory load latency. How is this one any different?

There is no ordinary compilation scheme that will solve this, even with complete omniscience, since the same function with different arguments will observe different latency. Maybe some magical feedback-driven JIT could do it, but that was tried in the Itanium era and never really worked either.
I didn't know about:

{A..C}{0..3}

"This sequence creates every combination of A to C and 0 to 3—i.e. A0, A1, A2, A3, B0, B1, etc."

And:

echo {a..z..2}
a c e g i k m o q s u w y

"The ..2 bit tells the expansion to only output every second letter."
Yet investments/central bank is responsible for 44% of total gold demand.

https://www.gold.org/goldhub/data/gold-supply-and-demand-sta...
Do you provide apps to non-Apple users? Or do they also have to use the web?
I think the stockpile argument made sense when the US was a net importer of oil. As an oil exporter nation, it's harder to defend.

That said, a price war is of course the right time to bunker up, economically.
While that seems like a good start it seems like you would want to supplement that approach with the GTFS and GTFS-realtime feeds from transit agencies where available.

Having worked for a company that provided transit software I am well aware that GTFS-realtime data isn’t always accurate (especially the ETAs). But it seems like combining their ETA estimate with yours and the scheduled arrival time would be a reasonable approach. Or if you just started building a model of the average speeds of the bus on each link using the GTFS-r speed and location data you could probably build up a pretty good historical model of the traffic flow between 2 stops at any given point during the day.

Yes, I am aware that scheduled times in transit can be meaningless. There are a lot of factors that contribute to that from traffic to poor schedule planning. They can however be a useful baseline estimate.