skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: no real experience.

I would also say that I suspect it is much easier to ensure and test quality of steel. Ensuring every square inch of compound material like carbon fiber meets all requirements is much more difficult.

Steel can be made pretty uniform in large quantities, shapes and sizes. On the other hand carbon fiber can easily have local faults ingredient imbalances, etc. that will be difficult to detect but might significantly affect strength of the material.

In case of a huge rocket it does not matter how small part of it fails, even a single substandard square inch of it might cause entire rocket to fail catastrophically.

I also understand that steel fails in relatively predictable ways compared to compound material. Carbon fiber has different properties in different directions which depend on how it was layered and that is probably going to cause any calculations to have potentially very large margin of error. As building the rocket is very much about calculating how much can be shaved off, unpredictability in material performance might be a huge issue.
> By giving them a dialog that clearly describes what they are opting in to, with a clear "I do not agree" button, that does not degrade the user's use of the website.

And what if your cat walks across the keyboard and accidentally consents, but you never even realized it? Should there be a consent banner across the top at all times? Or what if you are drunk when you are surfing the web and didn't understand your rights when you accidentally consented (drunk people can't consent - the website raped your privacy)?
Don’t accept a “no” from someone who doesn’t have the authority to give you a “yes”.
I worked with Brad and I know he's got good judgement and ethics. But he missed the point: Tim quit because he could not make Amazon understand that taking the chickenshit way out by firing union organisers is bad business and bad for society.
This is amazing. I've been using VS Code Server ( https://github.com/cdr/code-server ) to self-host a browser-based editor I can access from my tablet and code on the go, but it's been a hassle to keep it all running smoothly..

As long as pricing is reasonable, Codespaces seems like my future solution.
A new wave of hiring tech talent – GroupHire/Acquihire
I'm under the impression that WIMP uses "massive" in the sense of "not-massless"?
> if we are probabilistic systems, we presumably can't actually do things like rationalise, or design things like legal systems.

Why not? Computers can reason and have constructed proofs. Probably a computer could construct legal arguments too. They might have some probability for errors (e.g. cosmic rays) that need to be accounted for and corrected, just like humans.

> But if we want a picture that lets us keep some of our current view of human life, it is not clear that bringing probabilistic systems into the picture helps any.

It might help people understand why people murder, or commit crime. Criminals might have errors that need to be corrected rather than focusing on a crime that needs to be punished.
Passive income. Or recognizing at least the goal of increasing your income/time ratio.
I agree. The GDPR would be necessary. And it's a useful instrument (if still somewhat underused). The "cookie law" is what drove people to add cookie banners before GDPR was a thing. GDPR admittedly made them worse and more prevalent.
“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” ― Terry Pratchett
'Batched' orders are very common in the US. With some very popular restaurants on Grubhub, they'll batch 5-10 orders for a single apartment building, have the courier bicycle to the building and go door-to-door delivering them, sometimes multiple on the same floor.
What happens legally when I don't consent to cookies, and just zap the cookie wall with my adblocker and proceed to the content?
Spotify should pay musicians more? Let's talk about how
Affiliate marketing is the best way to go. You have full control on how you advertise products.

For my website [1], I have build close relationships with local experts. They provide services my readers need, and I know they can be trusted. I get a commission from resulting sales. I like that model because advertisers have zero access to or control over the readers' data. Unfortunately, it's simply not applicable to all websites.

- [1] https://allaboutberlin.com/
Not to be afraid of taking the road less traveled by. It is not going to be easy, but needs to be done.
There is no universal "right" for websites to force cookies on me or for a website to force me to run 3rd party JS.
Am I the only one who finds it ironic being faced with a cookie consent wall while visiting the website?
The OODA Loop [1]

Air Force Colonel John Boyd came up with the OODA loop as a simplified way to explain a very complex system of observability and feedback that he developed. I read about this in the early 2000s and ever since I've been totally obsessed with the concept of learning, iteration and optimization - and it's the prime mover in my research and work motivations to this day.

There are many parallel theories and concepts in Reinforcement Learning and Control Theory such as Sense Plan Act, but the fundamental system is the same.

The OODA loop is often abused and the depth of Boyd's contribution to decision science has been underserved in my opinion.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
My favorite thing about "Finite and Infinite Games" by James Carse is you can yadda-yadda the whole book:

"There are two types of games. One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play. [...] There is only one infinite game."
> The "opt-out" is just another cookie. There's nothing special about them either, they can be used to track return visitors just as well as any other cookie. I'm sure they're not, because that would be against the spirit of the law ..

How is a opt out cookie the same as tracking cookie?

Isn't there a clear difference for a cookie:

is_opt_out: true

Compared to a cookie:

tracking_id: 374739585483292

Sure the first one can tell server "this is a user that had visited the page in the past". But this is nothing compared to the second one which tells server "this is this specific user"
It might be worth revisiting the Windows 8 interface. It was maligned at the time but it’sa very fluent, intuitive interface now that people are used to iPads. The multitasking is exactly the same as iPad now, only difference being you pull down to close apps instead of up.

I pulled out my original Surface RT yesterday and was surprised to find it has aged incredibly well - perhaps better in 2020 than it was in 2012, because it was well ahead of its time.
News == entertainment.

Originally by Aaron Swartz http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

Although I have slightly different takes from his and the level of avoiding the news might be different too, but the core idea that I follow these days is there.

I used to think following the news was a mix of my duty as a citizen and important for my life, personal and professional. Now I believe it's quite the opposite, I better understand the world because I avoid the news. These days I think it is as much entertainment as Netflix or comics.
A very cool project, but this author is much to blase about safety IMHO. UV lasers can blind you -- or, even more to the point, other people -- in an instant if you aren't careful. And they can do so across long distances. You should treat them with the same respect and caution that you would a firearm.
And all for what, some feel-good legislation that accomplishes nothing but making the web less profitable and entrenching big companies that can afford the wasted resources of their legal team navigating it. Nobody has ever been hurt by a tracking cookie in the history of the internet.

It reminds me a bit of legislation in other areas that aims to make something so inconvenient people give up on it, like the death by a thousand cuts to American gun owners with state laws making magazine limits smaller and smaller over time, banning this and that cosmetic feature that has no bearing on anyone's safety, etc. What is Europe's vested interest in doing this to the internet though, information control (regulate a few conglomerates instead of having to deal with a bunch of little sites, by stamping out the little sites) and spite towards America's much more prosperous tech sector?
Yes, it’s all the more galling that they ruined the desktop experience without providing a good tablet experience. Yes, things are bigger and more tappable, but there’s more to a good tablet UX than that. They have only done the relatively easy part. The hard part requires redesigning behavior and workflow, which will take far more time and effort than just adding some whitespace and increasing widget size.
It's smart. Give people freedom of choice for their OS and earn most money with services.

I'm using .NET on Ubuntu and it just works perfect. So as a Linux user I am now connected to the Microsoft ecosystem.

Balmer maybe made a fool of himself while dancing the 'developer developer developer', but he was right.
Well, maybe legislation like GDPR will incentivize Google to build a less intrusive analytics suite. Or force the industry to innovate to create a new form of analytics.
Yes, and lot of Software and UI element are coming back. I am glad despite the massive changes, those quality were not loss.

I cant help but think Jony knew he was getting burn out without Steve. And he wanted to get those last design to be perfect before he left.
That seems like a fantastic idea. This way, the car's internal battery can be smaller and lighter for day-to-day use (and therefore more efficient), and whenever longer range is needed you can just rent a fully-charged tow-a-battery, which you can swap out like propane tanks, or recharge yourself at home. These tow-a-batteries would work with any electric car with standard secure hook-ups.

Since these batteries would be rather expensive, I imagine that you would have to pay a refundable deposit to the tow-a-battery network (Shell, Esso, etc.) that covers the full cost of the tow-a-battery in order to rent one.

The biggest down-side is that a rear-end crash could be rather dangerous. I don't see a way around that without making the tow-a-battery a vehicle in itself.
What is the reason to not putting Thunderbolt 3? I still prefer the XPS 13 with 2 TB port + 1 USB Type-C.
Machine Learning Engineers Will Not Exist in 10 Years
Ok, so are you saying you could find a control cohort for the patients in this study?

Or are you making the much less useful statement that a proper study is possible?
Slice started in 2010 and won an Inc. award in 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slice_(app)
"exclusive to google stadia" :/
Cyberpunk 2077 Rating Summary
Microsoft scaled back a lot of their tablet functionality because consumers didn't like it, and of course Apple started to copy Microsoft's tablet functionality shortly thereafter. I think maybe, Windows X will be more touch based instead of them trying to meld them into one OS. Only the core will be the same, but the UIs will be split on the OS level. I think...but who knows, Microsoft often changes directions. All I know is that the Surface hardware is on par, and in many cases better than Apple.
Compounding, growth etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O133ppiVnWY

Taught me the logical impossibility of the stock market to go up by x% per year, forever.

Taught me that getting better today (however small) can give resources to getting better(er?) tomorrow.

Taught me that many "experts" just say whatever to get voted in or to get a budget without regards to the absurdity of their own statements, and that many people eat up this kind of absurdity without fact checking / validating it.
Understanding is a poor substitute to convexity.

There is no such thing as rationality of belief, only rationality of action.

both by NN Taleb.
hitting his enemy.
Migrating to Biff, a self-hosted Firebase alternative for Clojure
Spaced repetition. It's a method of learning where you only get a reminder of material when you're about to forget it. I've found a way to use spaced repetition to self-learn maths without forgetting processes between obsessive cycles. I memorize names, birthdays, dates, locations, and anything else I want to remember much easier than before because of it.

https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition
If you head to youtube and lookup a channel called something like: JomaTech you will find a guy who just recently quit Facebook. He was a Data Scientist Analyst as they call it there(according to him).

It seemed he liked working at FB but he mentioned several times how your impact is your tracked metric and if you didn't have impact then who cares what you're doing.

I think it can be flawed because if your team doesn't like you and youre a Data Scientist? Well now they aren't going to listen to your compelling data and your impact is a 0. Or if they have some other motive, it could even be one person with power on your team!

Obviously I'm describing the worst, but it seems a flawed system.
I would be interested in how the US mobility fared if the metric was not %, put purchasing parity. I imagine it is better to go from the bottom 10% to 20% in the US than bottom 10 to top 10 in many counties.

After all, an income of 15k (ppp) puts someone in the top 10% globally and 30k is the top 1%
What's the story with NeoVim exactly? I am trying it out on Linux because I got some recommendations that it's better than Vim, but I've run into some problems because for instance with setting up plugins and things, lots of times the documentation seems to be geared toward Vim, and sometimes I've gotten errors it's hard to figure out because of this.

It kind of gives me the perception there just aren't that many people using it, so it might be one of those tools which is technically better but doesn't have the critical mass of community to really be useful.

Am I off base there? I mean what are the tangible, user-facing advantages of NeoVim over Vim?
I hope everything will corrode into Rust soon.
Codespaces is very cool!
I find an aggressive ad blocker solves most issues with the modern web. Haven't seen an advertisement in years. Any facet of any website can be selectively blocked. You can pare anything down to plaintext if you really want.
Disclaimer: Don't know if the point argued is, or will be true, or not; but the article is interesting nonetheless...
That's interesting considering it sounds to me that he approaches songwriting like work rather than something he has a lack of control over: "He gets up early, goes to work in his office (a flat connected to his house in Hove), does an honest day’s work, returns home in the evening to his wife and kids, and starts out again the next day."[1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/feb/23/popandrock.fea...
Reddit's even worse, if you visit the site from iOS it asks if you want to open the app 'or continue with Safari', whatever browser app you use.
That sounds like a great idea. Why don't you do it?
I don't understand the appeal of these food delivery services at all. For those occasions where I feel lazy enough to have a pizza or Chinese food delivered instead of walking or driving to pick it up, I don't want a middleman company contracting the job out to some random person. Who thinks that's a good idea? How many layers of profit-taking do people think is acceptable to have random people touching their food along the way?

That's setting aside the ridiculousness of all of the one-off trips I see in my building and my neighborhood, burning gasoline to hand-deliver a sandwich.
> This is the rocket that could make a lot of science fiction come true

The irony is that those 1930s scifi stories with silver rockets landing vertically on distant planets, which looked so ridiculous in the 80s with the Shuttle being the future, look like that's exactly what the future will be.

Seeing the 2 boosters landing side by side after the first Heavy launch was something out of a scifi film.
I haven't seen anything big in WASM on Textile yet. It should be done for sure. We use Slack because it was there and worked when we needed something. Onboarding is easy, our chats are open to the public already, and we didn't need anything fancier than there free plan.

We've been considering a move to Keybase but haven't made the move yet. Matrix is also the jam so we can just be everywhere at once... but we don't have the demand yet.

Where would you like to see us?
The idea that simply opening things back up means economic activity returns to normal is, in my opinion, ridiculous. People are going to continue to stay at home. People are going to continue to get sick. Acting like there's an off-switch for this that magically sets us back to a time where we're BaU that we can flip solves nothing - without actual policy makers making new policy, those people most affected will continue to be impacted in a huge way, but political leadership has no interest, especially in the White House. We're on a long, trying road, and the poor leadership is the _main_ reason.
My new mindset to documentation: save cognitive effort, document every function
Cross-signing and End-to-end Encryption by Default is HERE
The manager replies all praising seems more like what a bunch of underlings to a dictator would do to praise the dictator. Or cult-like if they really believe that - but I have to think many of them are doing it for "points" in the political game - and really understand that the warehouse people are treated like complete crap.
You may be right but:

1.) The Hyper-V component isn't installed on my Windows 20H1 install. WSL 2 may use Hyper-V technology, but the full thing does not appear to be installed.

2.) So far, VirtualBox is working just fine. I haven't noticed any issues yet while using several virtual machines. Nothing seems amiss at all.
before with a frown, and after with a smile though?
Amazon literally has a robotics competition where the goal is to replace their human workers: http://amazonpickingchallenge.org/
Vulkan is very successful as standards go, most never get near the coverage.

But from the early days it was clear that MS and Apple will bet on their own proprietary APIs so the current situation is not news.
is it different on vim? I always just use :wq when I'm using vim, but then, i've never used plain old vi.
Drones are being used in Ghana in the fight against Covid-19
The live coding set from Sam Aaron was awesome. I'm looking forward to tuning in to his set again once the people stop talking. Lots of other acts in the schedule---looks really interesting!
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We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.

Confucius
I'll second this assessment. I used a ton of Corel Draw in the 90s thru the early 2000s. Inkscape feels like a spiritual successor. I was productive with it almost immediately.
I pulled out my Surface RT yesterday and it is almost exactly what iPad multitasking is.

It really is mind boggling that Microsoft fumbled that so bad - great tech but some really user-hostile business decisions cost them dearly.
It would not be easier. It has to be implemented in addition to the consent form.

I have a website. If I wanted to support DNT, I'd have to take an hour or two to figure it out. To be honest, it wasn't even on my radar.
You'd be surprised how hard it is to internalize the first principle. The mind can become very attached to the feeling of being attacked / rejected / overlooked / snubbed / etc.
> Swapping cellphone batteries means you need to own another battery which few people did once capacity increased.

That doesn't make sense to me. Sure, maybe you can't get an OEM battery, but I've owned cell phones in the last 5 years that I easily swapped out the old battery with an aftermarket battery for about $12. I think people have the ability to buy batteries.

> With cellphones people that want a swappable battery can just get an external battery pack but most people can simply recharge daily.

My OG Pixel phone is on its last legs in terms of battery capacity, which means it will probably get scrapped(even if I trade it in somehow or get it "recycled"). I would have swapped the battery with a new one, but I don't have that option. At least without risking damaging the phone on disassembly. Recharging daily isn't a solution because it runs out of power in about 5 hours without even using it.
And the people who could rectify the situation get the message that their opinions/judgement aren’t valued and give up or go to work someplace else.

I think perhaps people don’t realize that “you get what you measure” has deeper layers to it. You get actions, you get people who are comfortable with those actions, and then you get friction to change this new status quo.
Company: "User clearly consented. See? Here are the logs, here is the dialogue they were shown."

Person: "I swear I didn't consent! I didn't even see the dialogue! My cat must've walked across the keyboard and accidentally consented"

Ok, you're the judge, what's your call?

Should the dialogue force you to have to type: "I've read and consent to the terms ..." ?
Why do you need to adjust the colors in Illustrator?
I've solved this problem to myself by having a dedicated Wintendo.
Ask HN: Developing Vanilla JavaScript/DOM PWAs, is this a marketable skill?
Native web has continued to improve in feature and compatibility where one can make applications using Vanilla JavaScript direct DOM manipulation and the various native WebAPIs. Though it's a bit more verbose, doing so feels to me cognitively lighter than using common frameworks and development chains and feels more likely to be around years from now. I've come to enjoy and perhaps even prefer making progressive web apps this way. Are we to a place where primarily native web development makes sense?
> simply to be a keyboard interface to the rest of the system

Can you expand more on what you mean by that? It's never really clicked with me what the exact value prop of vim is.
> It needs the stand because it doesn’t support itself with the keyboard (like a laptop).

Yeah it's primarily a tablet form factor and doesn't come with a keyboard. But that makes it a tablet that stands on its own with the built-in stand. Then, plug in one USB-C cable and it's a full computer with access to all my peripherals that can drive my 3840x1600 monitor. Add the keyboard cover (which is fantastic for how thin it is, the trackpad works well, etc.) and it becomes a laptop.

There are lots of problems with the Go. It's slow! Battery life is mediocre. Windows itself is a mess. Because it's a tablet that's a full computer, it's bulkier than an ipad. But it's such a neat little device.
GitHub Codespaces lets you code in the browser without any setup
Will do!

Conversely, you are an awesome HN Admin! Keep up the great work with HN! <g>
"Less is more"

Applicable to programming, applicable to life. Covers everything from device convergence to PR reviews to retirement planning.

I discovered that spending less on personal happiness brought me more personal happiness. Try it sometime, give yourself permission to give away half of your stuff and see if you don't feel better.
When your first instinct is to defend those with all the power and privilege, you've already lost the debate. Especially at a moment like this.
In the US, "discrimination" only applies to protected classes. This includes sex. race, religion, nationality, skin color, age, or disability status. Unless one's stance on accepting cookies is enshrined in a widely acknowledged and mainstream religious text I'm not sure it would apply.

Even sexual orientation isn't really protected in that way FWIW, which is why a lot of anti-discrimination rulings surrounding LGBT rights can often feel a bit convoluted.
Integrating Cdk8s with Argo CD
> Writing something in Win32 will ensure it will run in 10 years from now and chances are it'll also run 20 years from now.

This, so much.

And they will likely work on Linux and macOS through Wine, too!