skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know you are right, I was just looking for advice on a more concrete strategy. But, maybe Nike’s adage of “just do it” is best after all.
Jeremy Konyndyk's (key figure in Ebola fight) comments on reopening
Some places are super locked down when it comes to what software you can install. For example it took me a month to have pandoc, vim and a few other tools (GNU Tree) and a few other pieces of software installed by IT because it had to be approved by 2 layers of management, approved by IT Security and then it was installed on my PC.

If you are working remotely they will give you a machine that VPNs into another machine.
I saw TablePlus first time again in HN, (circa 2016) since then it is go-to tool for databases.

Many DB connection UI's (except MySQL Workbench and Sequel Pro I think) requires some kind of purchase.
Besides My company uses Sequel Pro it always had either crashed or having slow import/export speeds etc.

Even TablePlus can import/export between engines using CSV files, which is IMHO awesome option to have.
Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace - https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/untangling-the-t...
Is there a way to figure out if your machine does this? Is there a list of process names to look for or similar?
UpCloud new data transfer pricing: $0.01 per GB
Just one minor thing, if your employees are salaried, it's worth finding out what the actual rules are for clocking time. If hourly, then you've already got it figured out.
> There's no reason to even think that the CDC considered recommending masks - surely the default position is to leave pre-existing recommendations (don't wear masks) in place. You speculated that they did an analysis, which is not in evidence, and made a conclusion based on factors that may or may not have been important even had the analysis happened. That seems pretty weak to me.

You're right, there is a hidden assumption I have here that I did not document. I believe the CDC is, within human limits, a capable organization of experts. I assumed that it was more likely for an organization of experts to perform a cost-benefit analysis than simply reiterate advice given in the past under similar situations. If you disagree with this assumption, then that's where we disagree.
I use the same format, but I write everything in Tiddlywiki which has a search function.
When you look at abandoned towns over the last century, it wasn’t due to overbuilding of roads but from some local employer moving away. In this case it doesn’t matter if you have 6 lane highways or dirt roads if no one is being payed to live there anymore.
This is called "early return" and the parent already mentioned it:

> if you're gonna punt, early-return
Yes. Without viable debt being possible, barriers to entry to all markets skyrocket. When barriers to entry increase, competition breaks down. Thus, viable debt must be possible. For viable debt must be possible, there must be an opportunity for the lender to realize real interests. In order for the lender to be able to expect real interest on average, there must be growth.

Thus, growth must always exist for the current system to continue.
This is really cool. I dig the API and mechanisms to exchange data. I've been working on a DBaaS (like Firebase) that works via message passing between users and now I'm thinking Scuttlebot could be great tool to integrate with it.

I wish there was more info on how the replication worked...
Health and wellness, an online diagnostic tool
The unrealistic hypothetical seemed to be essentially that a city or a farm town was moved to an island on its own or otherwise barricaded. The city would suffer a big population loss and have trouble making the land usable for growing food again, while the farm area would have an easier transition to a frontier-town-like lifestyle.
Corporations work by providing a product or service that customers believe to be worth more than the dollars and cents they're paying for it. It's inherently consensual. The only way a corporation begins to generate revenue is literally by attempting to please as many customers as possible.
Would this also imply that even today new mass could be created? Similar to how Hawking Radiation assumes virtual matter/antimatter pairs getting created all the time would it be plausible for neutrinos and their antimatter counterparts to pop into existence without fully annihilating each other?
What about it?

Primarily the CLOUD Act amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) of 1986 to allow federal law enforcement to compel U.S.-based technology companies via warrant or subpoena to provide requested data stored on servers regardless of whether the data are stored in the U.S. or on foreign soil.

The key distinction here is “via warrant or subpoena”.

Being able to challenge the legality of a warrant or subpoena means the government does not have a free hand.

Big distinction.
No ads in Setapp.
Still isn't RTM.
I was thinking of using Tiddlywiki for this.
In my experience employers only tend to look back at things like this once they have a “reason” and are trying to document/justify performance issues. Although I agree it doesn’t seem too far off to have a system that proactively analyzes the screenshots and alerts a manager when Facebook or gmail seems to be open a disproportionate amount of time.
I think newer aarch64 allows misaligned access to regular memory.
Business Chat – A whole new way to talk to companies
Taleb as a popularizer of Mandelbrot is good, the rest not so much.
> Humans want better lives. More living space, more free time, faster cars, whatever

More free time implies translating productivity gains into less time working, rather than the current economic policy of pushing everyone into working full time such that productivity gains just create more waste.
On the other hand Return of the Living Dead 3 did switch genres.
Workers from Boeing 'built' the suburbia that Microsoft moved to, most of the housing in Redmond predates Microsoft.
The introduction to Clean Agile from Bob Martin has a history on software processes as he personally recounts it.
call your congress critters and tell them that they need to legislate the executive branch spinning up their own activitypub-compliant social implementations on government-funded infrastructure rather than continuing to relay messages through third-party commercial services.
Yo dude al-queda has certainly tried to get their hands on precursors for making a Nuke. You can thank Obama for making nuclear prolif hard but a single shipping container nuke in the wrong place going off will make 9/11 and coronavirus look like a walk in the park compared to the existential shitstorm of a Nuke on a populated city.
I just wanted to add that SMR drives' performance is a bit more nuanced than you described. In most SMR drives, there is a PMR portion allocated as a cache. I've read the cache is usually in the range of 20-50G, depending on the size of the drive, but I'd love to know how accurate that is. So write performance is generally pretty good until you saturate that cache. Then, as you said, it becomes pretty atrocious.
But they could argue the reverse: it's amazing how there can be so many experts plus hard figures, studies, papers all saying that this is hardly more dangerous than the flu, and all that is strictly ignored by those who insist that the situation in two or three places is the only data that should be used and everything else should be ignored.

there are more and more places on this planet that simply show this is not true.

But there are far more places that seem to show it is true. So whose data do you believe? At some point it boils down to the same way people make decisions in every other area of politics.
Whether this benefits the employee or employer more is very case-specific. Without any rules, even productive people are tempted to work longer hours. They may feel guilty about not being more productive, since this has more to do with emotional state than a realistic idea of how your work compares with others.

Setting limits on how long people work could have a better impact in terms of work-life balance than being able to quit early once in a while.
The simplest strategy I have been using successfully since forever is one that I found on some device I have repaired.

For most devices it is enough to just probe the switch periodically.

Nobody is ever going to notice couple of milliseconds of lag. Other debouncing strategies also introduce latency as they need to observe the signal for some time.

It is important to set the check period to be longer than settling time.

Assume the switch is in stable state before the check, then there is check and then it is in another stable state. It does not matter which state the check finds as long as the state changes from one stable to another stable. Even if the switch is bouncing at the moment of the check it will be either interpreted as previous state before the switch or the next state after switch.

If you have delicate switch with good (for example gold plated) contacts, to extend the life of the switch it is then possible to only apply potential for a brief period of the check which means that during actual bounce the contact is very unlikely to see any sparks, extending the life of the switch. This does not work for some switches that rely on spark to remove oxides to get good contact.
thanks for writing this out. Good bot!
> A significant portion of the population won’t stand for it

Having worked as a US Census Enumerator, I can confirm this. A surprising number of Americans will call the cops or put a dog on you to avoid being asked how many bathrooms they have.

You can say this is foolish, but policy makers have to deal with what is, not what should be.
You should read Marx. In general, he explicitly separates accumulated capital (wealth) and value.
Historical Egg Preservation Techniques
> There is no such thing as privacy anymore, at least with respect to anything electronic.

There never was! I was there for Scott McNealy telling us, "You HAVE no privacy. Get over it." As the CEO of Sun, he knew exactly what the federal government was doing with all those computers they were buying: running Larry's database, and archiving absolutely any-and-everything they could. All Snowden did is show us how well the tools running on top of that infrastructure work, 25 years on.
Tax Increment Financing. A city designates a geographic zone and all property tax money collected in that zone above a certain baseline amount goes into an account that is separate from the city budget account. The city then spends that money on development as they so choose. Some places allow it and some don't. Some places abuse it and some don't. But in general you can expect TIF money to be given directly to a developer to encourage them to build something within that zone.

One of the big problems is that that extra money is diverted away from the city budget for 20-30 years. The area I live in used to be inside a TIF (it expired). During that time, only about 10% of my property tax money went to the city. We had overcrowded schools getting 10% of the money they normally would have received. The library got 10% of the money it normally would have. Some of that TIF money went to build a basketball stadium. In a final gesture of goodwill (I guess), when the TIF expired they spent the final ~$40 million in the TIF account on an elementary school.
Vote for Biden? Sanders Supporters Say It’s ‘Up in the Air’
hey,

not by itself a general resource but it's the best book on postgresql i have read recently. (i have read 2 or 3 but this stood out).

learning postgresql 11: https://www.amazon.com/Learning-PostgreSQL-beginners-high-pe...

i have also subscribed to the following newsletter to keep myself up to date with what is going on in the community. keep in mind that postgresql 12 has been out for a minute.

postgres weekly: https://postgresweekly.com/

in my mind postgresql is one of the most interesting projects out there in the open source community. and that newsletter sometimes includes articles that compares it to other big names like mysql/maria, oracle, etc. this helps expand your sql scape a little.
“ There is no way I want the end user to feel spied on by the tool, that would totally kill the acceptation in the market.”

Are you selling to the actual user? Usually stuff like this gets bought by the employer.
I think "simple shapes and a pared-down color palette" is actually a better descriptor than I used. Even though the palette drawn from in both styles is limited I think there's still a heavy emphasis on color, if that makes any sense.

I wouldn't describe either style as dull or muted, I think in this sense the "pared-down" palette refers to the lack of shading or gradients in many of these designs.
The need for multiple servers kinda depends on the application, no? I'm interested in the single server story.. many of my apps are internal and used by 50 people at most.
Or if you're going to use packed structs, pass around a pointer to the full struct instead of to a member.
Twitter has no interest in doing that. I would recommend people start asking their lawmakers for better rules around putting government messaging on public infrastructure rather than use of accounts on third-party commercial services.

We live in an age where open web standards can create software that looks and feels a lot like the existing closed/commercial platforms (ActivityPub/Mastodon et cetera).
The Case for HTML Word Processors (2016)
And, in many cases, it appears that those folks also gathered names which were either made up or didn't belong to people who were affected. (Some examples in the article included "victims" who were dead, working abroad, and family pets.) A major question in the resulting lawsuit was whether the liability for these errors fell upon the people collecting names, or on the law firm for ignoring the problem after they recognized it.
Well, you can't make everyone happy. Personally, I've started with the C family of languages (C, C++, C#, bit of Java), but after going through Python, Ruby and Elixir I never want to go back to curly braces. The other thing that puts me off is mixing types into the declarations - I treat types as comments and only reach for them if I need to dig deeper; in most of the cases the names of the arguments are self explanatory and types make it really hard for me to parse the function declaration. So instead of this:

pub fn any(tree: Tree(a), check: fn(a) -> Bool) -> Bool

I'd really prefer something like this (preferably with a syntax highlighter that would grey out the types):

fn(Tree(a), fn(a) -> Bool) -> Bool
pub fn any(tree, check)

For some people, including myself, type annotations in Python are killing the spirit of the language. For me, there's no way to format those declarations to look reasonable, except for doing it like in Haskell or Elixir (@type).
so, neat article would love to read it except that besides showing the first sentence in hard to read light grey font, for whatever reason, i don't have access to the rest of the article. terrible experience, i'll be passing on medium.com articles.
>Taking 3 hours instead of 6

Current airplanes travel at Mach 0.8-0.85. Boom is supposed to travel at Mach 2.2. That's a factor of 2.6-2.75x not 2x.
> It was important to show one's dueling prowess, but also that one was capable of taking the wound that was inflicted.

The modern day engineering equivalent to this is HackerRank.
Ask HN: Whats Your Biggest Weakness?
Anything which prevents you in achieving more in professional/personal life.
SSB Protocol Guide: https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/
In MacOS, the software probably requires screen recording permission in System Preferences.
No it isn't! :-)
And yet that's not - even remotely - the kind of problem that was being projected and which justifies pushing the world towards a global depression of the sort that is known to kill lots of the poorest and most vulnerable.

You can find isolated reports of sub-optimal care in any hospital system in the world, at any time. Especially now when so many people are incentivised to paint Sweden in the most negative light possible.

Just a couple of weeks ago world leaders were fighting over every ventilator that existed. Now the biggest problem is that someone, somewhere was given an old one? When many doctors are already starting to argue that forced ventilation is the wrong therapy and switching to simple CPAP anyway? That is not a sign of a system in crisis.
Have you seen what Firestone has done to Liberia? Dude come on. The banana wars? Talk about not being charitable to history

They're responsible at least for the oppression of millions of people. 10 million deaths can't be directly attributed to them but they can be attributed maybe 1/10th of that. The issue is that there are a lot of corporations for which the case is pretty good that theyve left a lot of people to die and far more oppressed.
So we could make the build process pause until the drive resumed responding, or have the ZFS/whatever filesystem drivers recognize the difference between a dead drive and an SMR drive that's working on its cache?

I'd want the drive statistics or benchmarks to include a complete rebuild process, though.
It's been a while, but I used to be an active SSB user.

I hosted SSB pubs and used to post on patchwork semi-regularly.

I thought it worked pretty well as a social network. I discovered new and interesting ideas from folks that I don't see much on mainstream social media.

I haven't followed the space much recently, and I'm curious about how it has evolved over the last year or so.

My favorite memories on SSB:

Someone promoted a book that they had written, and we arranged for a sales transaction by talking purely over the network. I sent them some amount of Bitcoin, and they sent me the PDF of their book. It felt very personal to work with the author directly, and side-step payment processors.

I loved taking my laptop out on the train or to a coffee shop, and replying to threads and publishing a post to SSB while offline. Something about reading other peoples ideas while disconnected, and then writing my thoughts, and having them automatically sync to the network when I got back on my WiFi at home, gave me a different perspective on ways to use technology.
Using N1QL with Couchbase Eventing Functions
I think the real answer here is to demand that disk manufacturers publish performance specifications. This leaves them free to change implementation details (which consumers usually don't know or care about) as long as the published specifications are accurate.

Then again, drive manufacturers are also known for changing what the definition of a unit of measurement means. Some of us remember when they arbitrarily changed the definition of a gigabyte nearly 20 years ago from 1<<30 bytes to 10^9 bytes - a nearly 7% difference! (See: https://www.zdnet.com/article/attention-hard-drive-manufactu...)
If you consider those reasonable, then it's pretty hard to argue that the one they picked isn't reasonable.

But "unintuitive" isn't the right word for picking one out of three reasonable options. It's not like you can avoid picking one.
Scuttlebot is a pun on scuttlebutt, which is the cask used to serve water on a ship, and the protocol was invented by a guy who lives on a boat.

Think of it as “water cooler”: a place where people can meet and smalltalk.
Is the title a spoiler for the book?
I think the real answer here is to demand that disk manufacturers publish performance specifications. This leaves them free to change implementation details (which consumers usually don't know or care about) as long as the published specifications are accurate.
Just tried it and my oh my, the design is amazing and it really makes the whole experience much better. I really love both the idea and the execution and I can’t wait to see what’s coming next. Amazing job! :)
I've been using ssb for about a year and a half, and love it. The ideas behind the dweb do not get the credit they deserve, IMO : p2p data sharing where your data is sent directly to your friends rather than centralized on a know-it-all server is what the world needs, for anyone concerned about privacy.

If I had to say what I don't like about ssb, it would probably be that it's not easy to write an application for it. After trying for a while, I turned to Dat and the Beaker browser, which let me write frontend applications the usual way, with just an api to manage the p2p archives.

Both dat and ssb are javascript projects, so if you want to write your dweb applications using an other language, you're out of luck. I heard there is a rust implementation of dat being worked on that will allow to access an ABI, and thus write bindings for other languages, if it gets to conclusion.

Also, for all dweb stuff, the main current problem IMO is privacy. You can make private discussions on ssb, you can add an encryption layer on top of dat/beaker (I made myself a library using libsodium, that's good enough), but the main focus is about publishing things for the world, like you publish blog posts.

All in all, on my free time, I'm now more interested to work on the dweb than on the web, so I can only encourage people to toy with it.
I wonder if an Altair could use Gopher over serial<->ESP wifi.
Being a island nation?
You might have a mistaken idea of how HN works, which is maybe why you've been finding it frustrating. On HN, it has always been ok to downvote a comment because one disagrees with it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314

Sure that's controversial, but the controversy is perennial. People have been making exactly the same arguments about it for a dozen years now, and that's just on HN—the debate goes back well before that. Different takes are possible. HN has its take. It's stable, we're not going to change it, and in my opinion it works relatively well. Moreover, the problems with it are not the problems that the users who post complaints about it are complaining about.
I hear what you're saying. I'll say that the "compelling" I'm looking for is content that entices you to want to give some kindness. If it's not doing that, I'll work to make it better!

A feature I'm hoping to add in shortly is better scaffolding for better content, such as:

1. examples of good requests and responses
2. a brief tutorial that gives you a better sense of what's good/bad
On Android, JPG decoder lib may or may not use a DSP on Qualcomm SoCs, WebP doesn't have any hardware decoding support.

Any size gains will be much more noticeable in the context of network transmission.
This is really fantastic and well executed. Congrats on the launch and on making this.
Overall I like the UX. But I was a bit confused by the “flag” button being on the left. I usually think the back button is there.

I think it would be better to go back to the previous message instead of scrolling through all the messages and then starting from the top. Also the reply button looks like what I’d consider a back button to be.
I haven't tried it myself, but there's a bit of info on the /g/ wiki with a hardware database linked at the bottom.

https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/PCI_passthrough
Wasn't it Bradley at the time of the leaks?