skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately it doesn't quite feel like macOS. In particular, the keybindings still hijack Control, like usual Linux.

I'd actually really appreciate a theme/desktop environment that _felt_ and behaved like macOS. What it _looks_ like is far less relevant.
I have comcast, signed up for a $70 dollar 80/10 package, now it's 150/10 and 120/mo. I have my own router and basic cable. It would cost more to drop basic cable. I can't even downgrade to save money. Comcast has no competition above 100mbps so they can get away with charging 150 for a 1gbps asym connection that has a 1tb cap. Insane. Just slow me to 3g speeds during surges. The actual cost of a bit traveling through and out their network is infinitely close to 0.
It's not uncommon to have to build things because you've updated earlier than some others. I remember waiting hours for Rust, webkitgtk, or cataclysm-dda to build on multiple occasions. Sometimes just waiting another day would mean a substitute was available. You could also update your current profile with the exclusion of a few packages, such as the ones that have no substitutes. This is nice, but because it updates your current profile, then you can't remove something you were planning to remove via your package declarations, you're introducing your state then. A temporary issue that gets fixed when you can next apply your package manifest, though.
Notion's lack of 2FA, user roles, or the ability to enforce (only) Google OAuth makes it a non-starter for any real use cases in a tech company (ticket/task management, product planning, employee wiki, etc.). We wanted to use it, but their lax stance on security made us go elsewhere, even though the entire team loved the product as an all-in-one solution to product. I found an old conversation on Twitter dating back a couple years of Notion telling a customer that 2FA is on the roadmap, which was unfortunate.
Node's json parser is so fast that I've seen people recommend using it over static initialization of object graphs as recently as last week. I had to check the date, thinking that I was looking at some post from 2016. Nope, spring 2020.

As an aside, have you benchmarked running 1.5x or 2x gcov instances per core? Most old code is written as aggressively sequential, so any stall causes it to sit doing absolutely nothing while waiting for an operation to complete. The throughput curve for parallel tasks often has a peak somewhere the interval of 1 < n < 3. When n > 2 it's time to have a heart-to-heart with the authors.
Caper (YC W16) AI self-checkout cart, is hiring a software engineer
Great timing, presumably for risk taking and now they don’t want risk taking.
How much realism would you say your "solution" has?
Porsche’s newest app lets buyers track the progress of their 911
thanks.. just enjoy sharing this domain name world as I see so much opportunity there for small builders to compete with big corps.
That's only because of naming cadence.

If they really cared they could come up with something. There's countless clones and proxy sites with closer and shorter names but they don't have large audiences because having a 4 (cuil) versus a 10 letter domain (duckdudckgo) doesn't actually matter - only what you put there.
Ask HN: Is there demand for private communities that discuss IT (and life)?
Hello,

Full transparency: I operate such a community. It's tiny right now. 11 VIPs. I'm not going to link it.

I believe there's a need for private, professional communities that aren't too big or aren't too small. I don't exactly know what this number looks like to be fair.

What are your thoughts? How do you feel about the fully open, public nature of communities like Hacker News, certain subreddits, etc?
I already use Linux to rescue broken Windows installation (dozens of times), and Windows to rescue broken Linux installation (once) on the same machine. I appreciate Microsoft making it easier. Maybe easier is not the correct word, rather faster.
I have worn glasses since a child. Eventually I found I need one set of glasses for computer work and another for the rest of my life. Although I do go around the house using the computer ones, I rarely go outdoors with them.

Oh I forgot, I also have black background when doing code.
It may be able blocking ads or not. But I dont think it's about tracking. NYTimes already ran a successful test in Europe where they eliminated all third party behavioral based ads and saw no revenue drop.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/20/dont-be-creepy/

I think they have just concluded that the story being told that sites must engage in creepy third party ad behavior is false and that they can just handle in house.

Overall I think this is probably better.
Spotify gave Joe money for services.
While most people whine: How long before he would potentially get canceled on YT anyway? YT is a terrible place for content creators, and almost all people I watch complain about it, but can't really do much about it since it's a monopoly. I for one am happy to see some diversification and competition in the space.
Less clunky in my opinion if you use it for software development because you can link it to issues / PRs and automate based on that
Unemployment data is only quarterly? It's showing march's data...
This is going to be amazing to see how you can teach a machine to learn.
You mean the pre-existing “Registration lock” feature? I think they are using the same pin. I’ve had that set for years and I’ve been getting pin reminders for the last several months and I now see “Change your PIN” in my settings.
Forget the encryption; alter the protocol to support overfetching. (Instead of fetching a specific site, you fetch blocks of sites). In a naive version, you'd ask for every site from goodreads.com through to google.com, and then the client would actually visit the site it wanted. In a hardened protocol, I'd imagine you'd use hashing, along with a random salt so that there are many different ways to query the same site.

Right now, your DNS provider has a list of every website you visit (just not how many times you visited it). The shorter the DNS cache, the more closely this list matches your browsing behavior.

This definitely complicates the protocol, whether you put the burden at the resolver layer (needs larger cached) or at the level of authoritative servers (where'd they be effectively cooperating with root servers), but it's the only way to truly safeguard browsing data.
Well there is no such distinction with regard to current law, so I'll assume you're discussing what you believe ought to be.

So from that perspective, why should Google be treated differently from Fox News simply because Fox News has a higher standard for publication than Google?
> Can see YouTube introducing YouTube-shop to keep people within the Google ecosystem and compete with Facebook.

Next, Youtube to partner with IKEA to bring you a virtual reality furniture shop /s
Cambridge University: All lectures to be online-only until summer of 2021
I haven't seen anyone that seems confident that she is lying, just a lot of people less than fully confident she is telling the truth.
>The trick is doing a manual entry for each transaction.

I would second this for anyone whose goal is to spend less money. I think some people keep track of purchases just to see all spending and may not care about reducing spending. In that case, importing data can save time.

This article also agrees with your suggestion. She suggests it's th that knowing you are going to have to write down your purchase helps you think before automatically spending: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/smarter-living/budget-mon...
I've been using Signal PINs for a long time to lock the app to my SIM card and unfortunately they are a real pain. This sounds exactly the same.

First off the app is incessant about asking you to enter your PIN to prove you know it; this prompt is supposed to get less frequent and I suppose it does but is still way too frequent. Some of us are competent at storing secrets in a password manager and this is like a punishment for us because it can easily take several minutes to go retrieve the strong password, copy it, paste it in.

It actually reduced the security for me; I started out with maybe a 16 or 20 digit PIN and cut it to a smaller number of digits that I could memorize. (I still haven't memorized them!)

There were also issues with Signal's implementation of the feature. I chose quite a long PIN (>20 digits) at first for security only to find out later from them that it was above the silently imposed limit. Later when I went to verify the PIN it would not work because whatever silent truncation was done when establishing the PIN was not re-performed on verification so it did not recognize the PIN.
Why not ask them?
I forget, probably online. I was one of the many after Trump's election who thought "oh dang! I'd better start actually financially supporting the news reporting organizations upon whom I (and the nation) rely!" I later moved out of the country & I was informed that transferring my subscription was impossible (I'm in Toronto) and that was that.
Podcasts such as his aren't really about his opinion, rather the opinions of his guests and the conversation that follows. I'm not the biggest Joe Rogan fan but have enjoyed a few of his shows.
But did it? There was technological evolution in Microsoft products for sure (Windows Servers actually became viable), but that was going to happen when you run a company with thousands of engineers. Outside of that, what were the strides MS made? They started off with enterprise/desktop dominance, and by the end of Ballmer's term, they still had enterprise/desktop dominance but missed out on pretty much every other tech trend - from digital music, to cloud, to browsers, to smartphones, to search, and on and on.
If this turns out to be as good as it sounds, I might actually renew my NYT subscription.
I have a 10" Harbor Freight table saw. Owned it for almost 20 years.

Still works fine. I think it cost $100.
See:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lii3m4ct_gI
And:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU0L4--Yh28
Keto-Chicken-Enchiladas
Exactly. This is the first time I’ve ever heard the name.

Like the post above said, much of the Jet acquisition was likely really just to absorb the IP and expertise, anyway.

That said, we recently ordered some patio furniture from Walmart.com after comparison shopping on Amazon and Home Depot. And I suppose next month we’ll find better deals on yet another site. Don’t get too cozy with any of these companies and keep your eyes open for price and quality drift.
Python isn't perversely dynamic, no more so than Self which was running within a factor of 2 of C like 30 years ago, and PyPy optimizes Python just fine. The major stumbling block is that the C API unintentionally sucks and requires lots of work to support https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2018/09/inside-cpyext-why-emul...

LuaJIT is a great example of how experimentation and the right tradeoffs can give you a faster language runtime without a huge effort but it's not at all a great example of a highly optimizing compiler.

There's no "map" or "hidden class" optimization in LuaJIT, for example, and getting good performance means avoiding repeated table lookups.
The nice thing about RSS is that it's never gonna die
Blogging isn't dead but blog discovery basically is. Fifteen years ago (through about 2009, I would say -- about the time Facebook demonstrably took over MySpace), there were tons of services and startups built around blog discovery.

And even into the early 2010s, Tumblr was still a thriving community that paid host to many different different subcultures and demographics (whereas today, Tumblr is largely fandom).

But now? The spammers helped murder the pingback/trackback -- RSS is still alive but it is often hidden and isn't even always a default for various static site blogging engines -- not to mention the lengths web browsers go to to deny that RSS even exists -- and the art of finding quality like-minded blogs of any size, is incredibly difficult.

Google had a blog search part of its search engine but shut that down nearly a decade ago. (Frankly, the fact that Google keeps Blogger running is sort of amazing, although I would be shocked if more than one or two full time employees worked on it -- I have to assume all the maintenance is done by vendors and contractors.)

Moreover, we've moved our communications to silos that don't allow for easy syndication (you haven't been able to auto-publish your blog/website to Facebook for years, for instance) or to formats (video), that are reliant on major giants (YouTube, Twitch, and to a lesser but growing extent, TikTok) rather than a user's own platform -- and that require a much higher barrier to entry for creators than blogging ever did. Way more people consumed blog content than ever regularly made their own blog -- but now it's even greater.

But beyond the various platform silos and the move away from decentralized to closed social network behemoths, blogging also never properly embraced mobile. The act of blogging on mobile was too difficult for too long (Tumblr being the one exception), while Facebook and Twitter were quick to become mobile-first (and in Twitter's case, was originally designed for mobile).

Blogging isn't dead but the curation and discovery tools that made it really take off in the 2000s is.

As someone who owes their entire career to blogging, this makes me sad. But it is what it is.
I mean, this is the same state where the governor ordered coroners to not disclose nursing home death counts, so I'm not sure why we need a particularly high bar to believe this lady's story.
ACM: Computing Curriculum Draft for 2020s
Is data removable, do you use?
Forget the artwork ethics, Hobby Lobby owners are notorious.

Forced people to come to work at their stores despite orders to close during pandemic as definitely not "essential". Their reason? "god" spoke to owner's wife and said to stay open.

You also may remember them from suing against ACA for religion exemptions against allowing their employees to have access to the pill under insurance (they oddly won).
It's entirely possible it's both. It could be that attractive people are able to get away with more, and if this is applied towards getting away with bad behavior it will reinforce that, and if it's applied towards being comfortable and getting along with people, it will reinforce that. Predisposition and circumstance probably has a lot to do with it.

> If you know or talk to an attractive young woman you will notice that from her POV the world is usually filled with nice people who smile a lot and have 0 problems in accommodating her.

Sometimes people that live this are oblivious that others do not live this, and that in itself may be seen as, and may be being an asshole. "I don't know why you get speeding tickets, you must just be being mean to the police officer. I'm just nice to the officer and they always let me go, so it must be something you're doing..."
About 15 years ago I was following some small podcast on my new ipod nano. Nothing too grandiose. It was about beekeeping, worm farming... Probably dozens of listeners, hundreds at most

Anyway, the podcaster went dark for a week and then posted something about hiatus. I sent him a "thanks for the content, I'll be here when you get back" type message.

A week or two later an episode went online. He explained that he has periodic depression issues, read out my message and explained how it made him feel better. He'd been dwelling on "everyone knows and thinks I'm an idiot" thoughts that come with the territory. Just a friendly thanks (to someone providing me a show for free) meant something to him in that moment.

Since then I try make a point of little things like that, especially to little guys.

Let them know you enjoy a blog, if you do. Thank them. Be friendly. We all need encouragement, and I now feel that we also owe it.

And I definitely agree on the promotion too.
All of these manufacturers make awesome tools, despite what many people claim, all of the hand tools are better than they were 20 years ago.

There's a couple things you need to realize: most of them are fighting to have a good name, which means they'll do their utmost to squeeze value out of every cent they spend manufacturing a device. If you buy a $80 Makita drill, it's going to be just as good as a $80 DeWalt drill, or a Bosch or Metabo one. It's more about whether you like the colour scheme, the feel of it, maybe some feature tradeoffs.

Want a better drill? Simply spend more. Yes, Hilti and Festool exclusively make $200 drills, and they're worth it to the professionals. But the $150 Makita/DeWalt/Milwaukee/etc drills are also better than the $80 drills those same manufacturers make. More money means more value. You think a carpenter would spend extra to get a $150 Makita instead of a $80 one if it wasn't worth it? Those brands would be nowhere if they couldn't get the pro's to use their tools.

Looking purely at the brand can bite you in the ass. You might lift your nose at modern B&D, Ryobi or Bosch Green, because they only sell cheap tools, but then you'd miss the fact that DeWalt sells crap as well, they just don't switch the color schemes. Bosch has the same brand, but two colorschemes (green being the cheap ones). Makita sometimes sells batches of cheap powertools in big box stores that are bad and seems to be magically missing from their global marketing.

Before buying a powertool, go to the store and grab it. Feel the weight of it, rub the plastic, scratch it with your finger nails, shake it hard to feel its sturdiness. Turn it on and notice the power, and the control. Go on youtube and see what the pro's use. Lots of pro's don't have any sponsorships, and even if they are sponsored, they wouldn't use the sponsored tools if they couldn't accomplish the work at the level they need to entertain their audience.

Personally, I've got a mix of brands and qualities. When I started out everything I had was shit tier, and any time something either broke or annoyed me with its crappiness I replaced it with a better one. If you've got the money, you could skip that step and just buy good tier everything (just don't buy the DeWalt combo deals, they're a scam) and upgrade to S-tier when you start noticing some things that could be better.

(about old tools: the old tools that are better are all the things that get better when they're heavier. That's decidedly not hand held power tools)
> Shopping on the other hand, is a private and individualistic activity.

Not for me. Especially if I'm buying something fun/non-boring.
> There's an internally famous video inside Google in which a particular well-known machine was unracked, dragged out into a field

I really hope the video is edited to strongly resemble this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wsjroVlu8
This is awesome, offtopic would be good to read more about Cubas dual currency system (Pesos vs Convertible Pesos). Why it was started, as well as what merchants will take, for example they would take my USD in place of the same number of CUCs
Funny that TigerDirect is now the solid alternative to Newegg. Ten years ago it was the complete opposite. Sad to see how Newegg have destroyed themselves.
Wow, it's incredible how many people are implying/assuming that she's some sort of nasty liar.
Yeah. I'm sure that's the eventual goal for regular end users. We'll all be fast-ring beta testers with unblock-able ads.

On the enterprise side it's probably a play to shift the market away from on-premise DNS based filtering and logging devices to SaaS based DoH filtering services. Tacit collusion will ensure no one builds a perpetually licensed device that does DoH and filtering.
I think I am using a different definition of "inspired" than the author.

Your inspiration for the love song you just wrote is the special someone you have your eye on. The lyrics are informed by every other case of New Relationship Energy you have ever had, with bits borrowed from friends, books, and movies.

Was Will really studying urban planning for giggles, put 2 and 2 together and got 5? Or was he working on a hunch about a city planning game and what he found cemented his hunch?
Is Spotify a monopoly?
Who decides that the IRS shouldn't have a free filing system and Intuit/TurboTax should be able to rent-seek on the country? Who decides that megachurches are a-okay and tax exempt? Who decides that hairdressers need a license?

Sure, money is always involved, "political capital" is real, but accumulating more of it doesn't increase the capacity of global political system (as economic capital grows the economic capacity), it just consolidates and polarizes it. So fucks it up basically. And in that regard it's more like a market failure of politics. Too little political competition, too much outside influences and forcing factors. (Eg too much ideology. Or a kind of cross-financing props up one side - basically somewhere in the decision making hierarchy that small sector was conceded, sacrificed, so Intuit continues to make big profits, but something else happened instead, let's say some state got some subsidy.)

All in all, first-past-the-post voting entrenches the big power brokers. (Who might not be the elected officials, but quite usually of course are.) Then the emergent two-party system leads to polarization of other issues. Local issues also became party issues. This brings some uniformity and consistency, but obviously does cause a lot of inefficiencies too.

So, how does it benefit them to do X? Probably it makes them good party members. And that consistency makes the party viable long term. Thus even local changes can only happen if the whole country zeitgeist changes.
Not my experience of HN, it highlights both the positive and negatives. There is a lot of critical feedback, often from people who have built successful products, and it can be really useful for those trying to start/grow their product. For some people, Notion will hit a sweet spot, for others, it won't. I did an evaluation of it, and found it had a bunch of shortcomings for our development team and I sent my feedback to them.
I really hope they don't poison that market as well.
This smacks of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma. If we're afraid that people will want to write packages in Blub for some reason, and we refuse to accommodate Blub at all, we're just driving everyone to some other editor that embraces it.
There are a few problems with exporting data... here's what comes to my mind at the moment:

- It's an additional step and unnecessary when you're already downloading PDF statements, which you probably should be doing regardless

- Data is often unavailable for export after a few months or a year or two (depending on the bank), far earlier than PDFs

- If you have PDF scans (especially from earlier days) then you need to parse the OCR anyway

- If you're using official APIs (instead of writing a scraper or or downloading by hand) then you may need to pay extra
A Startlingly Simple Theory About the Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet (2014)
"you silly goose"
any ideas how they will implement this? Telegram? Signal? WhatsApp?
I actually take that as a positive item. He's able to effectively write code using just the terminal and vim. It doesn't get simpler than that. I really hate having to use something like Visual Studio or even VSCode. They're bloated and use a ton of resources. Playing around in Pharo is fun for a bit, but same problem.

I 100% agree that it seems like you can't unwind the stack the same way you can in Common Lisp or Smalltalk though.
Alex Jones is a much less serious threat then 2 or 3 large companies deciding what can discourse can be promulgated.

(not a Jones supporter. nor can I imagine how anyone would be)
Why would Joe want to be a famous podscaster forever? Maybe he's heading into podcast retirement.
I can tell you that a large majority of in-production API docs use Stripe's docs as a template. I did it for my company, and I've seen a ton of other API services do it. Stripe leads in API docs, so it's easier to not reinvent the wheel and just do what works. I know this instance isn't even for a production product, but meh.