skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is skewing off-topic, but prohibiting alcohol is not going to stop people from drinking it, nor is it going to stop people from doing silly/gropy things at the office. A ban only conveys contempt and mistrust of employees. Focus on toxic culture that makes people feel like they need to drink or are entitled to grope.
Aye, a bit part of my push this year has been de-googling my life. Along with de-facebooking and de-microsofting.
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SendGrid's website is entirely unusable without zooming; often the fonts render as less than a pixel wide at normal zoom. Combined with light gray on white color scheme it makes the site a headache to use.

More amusing was the advertised blogpost last time I logged in that said using a dark theme for your email promotions was modern and would attract more interaction.
> So, no, I think it's the same level of accessibility as mainframes, you can't work against an "old" cloud provider that you picked up for almost nothing. You have to put your money where your mouth is, and experimentation has a financial cost.

I don't agree at all with this. You cannot simply buy an hold mainframe. And even if you did, transport costs alone would be higher than the cost of a free(!!!) cloud account. Plus you likely wouldn't have access to the required documentation.

You're basically comparing old PC hardware with cloud accessibility, which is something else entirely from mainframe computing (I can tell from first hand experience as I worked with mainframes for many years).

> Only people who can help you foot the bill (university, employer) or who can clean down environments properly (tutorial labs) are going to make it even remotely more accessible, but it still wont be as accessible even then.

WTH are you even talking about? You can limit the potential costs of cloud computing by sticking to the free offers (every major provider has them). I'd argue that if you can foot the bill for buying, transporting, and powering a used mainframe, you can easily afford a few bucks extra if you accidentally went over the free limit with a cloud service.

The only point I agree with you on is the credit card requirement. The rest is ramblings about a completely different topic - i.e. not related to mainframes at all.
Another nail in the decentralized web coffin. The big steam machine is working at full power.
Yes, posting the date for 2 months before Tiananmen Square is clearly going to rile the Chinese.
1. Agent was designed to solve a larger problem; ProxyJump to solve a specialised subset of that problem.

2. The issues and disadvantages claimed with Agent Forwarding don't actually exist anymore: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22753590
Maybe VCs are just jaded because they've been riding the
internet growth wave, and don't know anything different? I do believe we're running out of "hyper growth" internet companies, at least in the short term.
Sudoku at its heart is a graph colouring problem. When you add the new constraints, it changes the connectivity of the graph. This sudoku, with all of its extra constraints, becomes a highly connected graph which greatly reduces the number of possible valid puzzles. Throw in the fact that the grid is already symmetric about both axes of reflection and rotationally symmetric about the centre and that further constrains the set of valid puzzles.

I'm sure you could write a program to take all these constraints and generate a ton of puzzles and then scroll through them to find ones that look great. It also wouldn't be too difficult to sort them in ascending order of givens.
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Good to hear. While I noticed Java as the example here, I feel this does speak to a general issue about how to handle multiple releases and some of the decision-making the Package Manager team is going to need to have in place before this leaves preview. For winget to be not just useful, but trusted, it needs to make decisions, not just be an open dumping ground for package installers.

The decisions the team chooses will end up informing the community on the reliability of it as a platform. And I'm definitely excited to see what happens here!
The effectively-infinite copyright length that was introduced in the 1970s (yes, that recent!) definitely belongs in the same discussion as the burning of Alexandria. We haven't even begun to realize how much culture we've sacrificed at the foot of Disney and other copyright maximalists.
> ... shove Ubuntu into a VirtualBox and run it on their Windows box in seamless mode

Given that the WSL2 rewrite is essentially this, without even the niceties of a VirtualBox GUI wrapper to control the settings, I keep wondering what all the fuss is about.
Model3 is more like a 40k car, and you can replace the battery in 10 years for a lot less than 40k I suspect
Wow! I'm amazed that the Tesla onboard charger is that inefficient. Anyway, we are not using Teslas, we are using Nissan Leafs. And, we are using DC charging. Our (single phase) inverter is >95% efficient making the round-trip >90% efficient. It is possible that there are some battery losses that are neglected in the calculation, but it is about right. Regardless, even 80% efficiency is comparable to pumped hydro, so I am not sure that 80% efficiency would be damning.
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Exactly. I'm not a libertarian or Hayek fanboy by any means but these types of companies are what you would expect in a world of shrinking investment opportunities and lots of excess capital (as evidenced by the falling interest rates). Add to that a few oil rich countries which desperately try to diversify their economies and therefore put lots of their petro dollars into various VC funds.
Government procurement is an opaque mess.

He very well could have made an stupid but honest mistake at some point prior to coming over to his current position (it looks like he was hired last October), and it finally caught up to him.
> Elizabeth Warren's campaign focused on tempering the powers of Facebook and other tech giants

While she made that point, I would say that was more rhetoric than serious intent. That's not only because of Ms. Warren's strong party-establishment loyalties, but more significantly because of her stated intent and practice of being financed by large pro-corporate donors (albeit not Facebook) and her disinterest in combating the political influence of the tech giants on the donation-recipient side.
Shopify will be the loser here.

FB will use them, chew and spit them out.

FB only wants shopify now because it has all the data, inventory, categorization, etc.

The next logical move would be to buy a company like wix, then target smb with their sales and marketing team to help them make digital storefronts on FB, integrate with their social platform and then ditch shopify.

Edit : Also, there is no way to tell if your competitor is paying to get your data and costomer info.

This will lead to an overall weakening of the mom and pop store operations, where they are disrupted ever more easily by the competition.
Very well stated.

People should be much more concerned about EEE from Google, as we’ve been seeing more of all the time with Chrome.
> The tooling they make for developers has always been top notch

I have to emphatically disagree there. Up until recently Windows didn't even have a decent terminal app. As a developer I tend to shy away from Windows precisely because the *Nix alternatives offer a better development experience, from cli to package management and more.
so, clapping not working?
I think this also happens because traditionally, people become loyal to a brand because they gain something intangible from it. Reducing prices is not a way to ensure loyalty - as soon as they find a better deal customers will bail, as you exemplified. What does Uber do so well that you'd prefer it over a cheaper Lyft? Nothing. There may be virtually no difference in quality of service (sorry I have never used Uber or Lyft).

I remember when I was in college doing an enterpreneurship class we were constantly added what was the value to our products - what does your product do so well that people would flock to you instead of the competition? Being cheaper was not an answer my professors allowed.
It seems strange that this person goes way out of their way to be moderator for many busy internet forums and then complains that internet forums are icky and gross. The issues are real, but focusing on a small number of forums with direct interest might help to avoid overload and trauma.
I'm curious, how many machines have FB?
In Norway where chargers are a lot more common, it's not an issue. Of course if I want to charge at 4pm at a popular place it may be a queue but most of the times many chargers are available and functional.
The distribution model of podcast has always been peculiar. A podcast is a radio show live or not distributed on the internet.

Its distribution model mimics that of radio shows archives, that for the internet means RSS-like
Follow-up: Had a bee in my bonnet, and think I have some ideas as how this might need to work.

First, the "prebate" is the right idea. Every adult citizen or permanent resident gets it, no need to do anything special. Direct to your bank account, every month. Adjust tax brackets as appropriate.

Enforcement for the "must work" provision would run through the tax system as well.

You need to be able to show yourself as working for an organization which has a tax ID, which should include nonprofits, churches, government agencies, co-ops, startups, private companies, global megacorps, all of them. That organization also (already) has to report you as an employee, so no major change there.

And while groups of people could form co-ops and nonprofits that claim to "employ" each other, that's probably fine. If you're willing to go through all the work to handle the tax filings and related compliance, and do so without committing fraud, I don't see a problem there.

Basically, hippie communes are fine as long as you do all the relevant tax paperwork and meet the legal requirements for being a non-profit/startup/what-have-you. To me, that sounds like a lot of work to do nothing, and probably just easier to work for the city government, cleaning up trash in the park.

Allow a decent amount of time to change jobs on an annual basis -- maybe a month?

Work requirements are waived if you are disabled, elderly, or a student (university, trade school, etc.), although the latter comes with a hard time limit (this is similar to how things work in Germany right now, by the way).

You can also elect to stop or restart UBI payments at any time, and the above work obligations are suspended when not receiving UBI.

Paying for this is a question -- would need to run the numbers on corporate tax receipts, but I suspect a combination of corporate income taxes, tariffs, and the savings from no longer needing to run a large chunk of economic aid programs (social security, etc.) would cover it. Not sure, though.

VATs tend to be regressive, so I'd be pretty strongly opposed to one of those. We'd also need to get rid of minimum wage laws (covered by the UBI), and public-sector unions likely also need to go into the fire -- they'd fight tooth-and-nail against UBI-paid "volunteers" doing work for the government, because those people wouldn't be paying union dues.

Modulo the numbers working out, and that there are plenty of special-interest groups that would rather maintain the status quo, I think this would probably work...
Given that edge is just chromium now, I'm curious as to how an edge headless runtime would differ from node or electron
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The theme for the virtual conference is World of Data with its pros & cons.
This is much less of an issue for people who live in cities. At least in Europe, you can probably walk wherever you need to go.
I believe Perl is not part of POSIX. So while you'll see it most places, you won't see it everywhere. For example, you'd bump into strict POSIX compliance in containers that are kept as small as possible. You probably won't find Perl on a Busybox container installed by default, but I believe that container would still contain awk. I can't verify this myself at the moment.
> (if I put a 3 here then it reaches here and here by knight’s move therefore it can’t go here)

A possibly-simpler way to look at it is the inverse. Putting a 3 here or here (where it must go) both block this other place, so we know this other place is blocked either way.
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I feel the same way about VI. In college, a professor forced us to learn it. I still remember him saying, "VI is on all Unix systems. If you learn it, you will always be able to edit a file."
It is fairly straightforward to extend gawk since they added the gawkextlib functionality to regular gawk (vs xgawk).

Here's the readfile extension, for example: https://github.com/gvlx/gawk/blob/master/extension/readfile....

But, you're right...there aren't many extensions, and little activity around adding new ones.
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it takes a lot of time for enterprises to buy software, so if they start that process now after the announcement, by the time they are ready to actually buy, microsoft will have released it. Bonus for microsoft is that can already start competing with airtable for a commercial perspective, even if they don't actually ship the software already.
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This sounds like it's cut from the same cloth as Wall Street Raider
Magic has the unfortunate downside of preventing people comprehending what's happening. This isn't an issue exclusive to str, and having it silently autocorrect for only that one case will teach people the wrong thing.
> The British Museum was disappointing to me. I don't know what they're doing with the space, but if someone had told me that the British Museum was the same size as the Art Institute of Chicago it would have turned into an argument. Meanwhile the Louvre is so big (>2.5x the size) that you have to pace yourself.

Whaat! I visited the British museum for the first time a couple years ago. I spent two whole days there and still didn't see everything I wanted to!

> But that's not what was really disappointing. I had a vague comprehension that the British Museum contained artifacts that other countries wanted repatriated, and then I walked in and I knew. I knew exactly what they were talking about. It didn't feel like a museum. It felt like I had wandered into a pirates treasure cave.

However this, I get. I can definitely see that point of view dampening your experience.
Well, it has become standard on the chargers (more or less by law in the UK). Not all energy companies support it, yet, but there are those who do.

https://www.indra.co.uk/smart-charger
I always download JRE as an MP3 rather than use a podcast platform or streaming service (or Youtube). Is this going to change that or is the MP3 still available? Joe must be making a frickin mint!
I think they are more expensive, but I’ve had a Bosch small drill driver that I’ve used regularly for over 10 years now. Still use the two original batteries although I do have to switch them on the charger more often.
At work we use Bosch battery tools too. Our chief electrician just bought his own set because as he pointed out, some of them have been in use for years and oil field roughnecks aren’t known to be kind to their tools.
Whatever you buy make sure it comes with two batteries so you can use one and charge the other.
Not sure what you mean because it uses dot.net regex. Sure, its way more generally resource hungry then awk but again, it does tone of things. Its also good to know that you have that power ASAP on Windows and without any extra toolson *nix such as awk or jq or sed.

I regularly handle 100MB files with Powershell regex , yeah, I wait few seconds here and there, but nothing except ripgrep handles this fast.

Verbosity is nonsensical arugment for anything as you have alises. Bash is equally verbose if you use long parameter names.
I love how z3 code looks like magic! Seems like a good library to start getting the hang of
> what I am trying to say is that if someone believe he was transphobic, then it would be enriching of the conversation if they took care not to use the fact that he is making that distinction as an argument for that statement

Yes, I think I'm definitely not understanding you correctly. It seems like you're objectively stating that conversation would be of higher quality if people would construct arguments more like you do. But what if people do want to use that argument for their statement that they find JR transphobic?

"Don't use this argument; it's wrong and devalues the conversation" reads very strange to me when discussing something as fuzzy as "does this person exhibit transphobic behaviour?"
That's Wordpress.com or Tumblr
I'm aware. But the point is that it highlights how old Java 8 is: The original developer has moved it from being a free version to something you have to pay them for fixes to. This is similar to how Windows 7, an 11 year old operating system, gets patches at this point.
Is this true? I thought DoH used a JSON format of DNS messages, not the DNS wire format?
Compared to US-scale farming, I'd guess most Norwegian farmers are "small".
I wonder if there is a name for this sort of behavior, which seems common to evangelical Christians, where older folks are coerced to question their earlier works in life in order to try to effect some appearance of "deathbed conversion" or similar. Famously, a similar happening occurred to Charles Darwin while he was in decline [0].

There may be no good antidote for this. If Roe could not be unwavering in her convictions, or could not maintain the optics of being unwavering, then who possibly can? How could we better prevent evangelical Christians from lying about these false recantations?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth,_Lady_Hope
>They can measure temperature, acceleration, and magnetic fields

There are cheap bluetooth tags that have a thermometer, accelerometer, and hall sensor built in? How much do they cost and where do I get them?
A reactor scram is basically just an emergency shutdown. If I were a nuclear engineer, it might give me a heart attack to hear the scram alarms, but I would be plenty happy knowing the scram works.
Not sure if Mongols are -entirely- responsible for the decline. We should also consider the shift of international trade from land to sea, and subsequent loss of contact with external world, as the possible culprit. (Consider the Ottomans, for example).

That said, here's a famous quote:

O would that my mother had never borne me, that I had died before and that I were forgotten [so] tremendous disaster such as had never happened before, and which struck all the world, though the Muslims above all . . . Dadjdjal [Muslim Anti-Christ] will at least spare those who adhere to him, and will only destroy his adversaries. These [Mongols], however, spared none. They killed women, men, children, ripped open the bodies of the pregnant and slaughtered the unborn. - Ibn al-Athir (1233–1160)
No. He was talking about monoids. The content in the link you are talking about aren't monoids.
That's just automatically saving your work in the background as a draft. Nothing insane or particularly difficult about that.
> Zizek

50% of what he says is him talking out of his ass.

> what people in the 60s used to call a somewhat similar group: Champagne socialists. For me, at least, using my conspiracy hat this is a big big victory for the dominant class, because the existent cries for stricter corporate oversee, dismantling of the lobbying system , unjust labor conditions are totally drowned in a sea of political correctness

Absolutely. That's the point. Talk a big game about tolerance and blowing the progressive dog whistles... but keep data mining the fuck out of people and racking up insane profits.
Supershuttle which offered shared vanpool rides to and from airports all across the US was shuttered partly because of competitions from Uber [1]. I personally find it a useful service given you can schedule it for early morning flights (6AM or earlier) without worrying about availability of drivers.

1. https://www.latimes.com/travel/story/2019-12-12/supershuttle...
Relevant GitHub issue: https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/695

Also, a related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21357638
For the spacex engineer my first thought is not that he has something to hide but that he is taking on a new challenge with potentially much larger returns for him personally if relativity scales up than being part of the by now huge spacex team. Also the 3d printed approach is i think just an interesting challenge in itself :)
I feel like canvas tag plus image maps work really well together
There are web services to add accessibility checks to your CI processes. https://tenon.io is one, Deque has services. Deque makes axe-core, an open source library of accessibility checks that's used by Google's Lighthouse and Microsoft's Accessibility Insights for Web.

This code from IBM uses their own accessibility checklist, I'll be interested to see how it compares to axe-core.

https://www.ibm.com/able/checklists.html
$400 generators cannot run large home appliances as the initial wattage surge during startup will overload them and cause the breaker to fire.

For example, a fridge-freezer might need only 600 watts to run but will also need up to 2000~2500 watts to start. You'll struggle to find a $400 generator at 2K+ watts capacity, even if that load is only for ten seconds. Maybe "own-brand" generators from e.g. Harbor Freight, but would you trust it?

And that's just for a single appliance, large space heating/cooling systems are even more problematic/spikey. Buying generators for your home is actually more expensive and complicated than many people realize.

You'll quickly find yourself looking at $5K Honda inverter generators w/7K watt capacity even if that seemed overkill at the outset.
As mentioned, not by me, elsewere in this thread, people seem to have trouble separating businesses from the kinds of blogs that are sorely missed. They were not the kind that tried to sell you anything.

I only checked two of these, Food52 and Serious Eats, these are businesses, not personal, quirky blogs. I am 100% sure that these are not the kind author of "If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs" miss. And if the author of "Blogging Is Not Dead," think so, he too, has misunderstood.

I guess many, especially the younger crowd, is now just so inundated by these types of websites that they have no idea what we are talking about.
This is just brilliant. For someone who has little working knowledge but has massive interest in this field I found your guide exceptionally well written and newbie friendly (the way you've mentioned on how to setup this and that and left so many tips throughout is indeed very useful).

I'm going to have a lot of fun with this and this is going to be my starting point about learning more about colab notebooks and ai (always loved doing practical things instead of reading theory to learn something new).

Kudos to you for all this amazing work.

p.s. sorry if this is a lame question, but can this be used like how gmail recently has started to autocomplete my email sentences?
Thanks, that makes sense.

That the functioning of awk was part of POXIS was something I just learned from this article, and which surprised me. That POXIS includes specifications of entire languages within it! I guess it makes sense, but wow.

But I guess the extensions and advancements to awk being discussed in OP would not be part of POSIX-awk, so not necessarily to be found on a POXIS system, true? Would people using awk for it's POSIX-reliability avoid using new fangled awk innovations?