skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Old English – Can an American, Australian, and Non-Native Speaker Understand It?
Desktops are cheaper, more powerful, and more comfortable than anything portable. But you need a laptop for live meetings or running errands while on-call, so most companies just get you one big one to use for everything.

Rather than making a half-baked desktop by adding peripherals to a laptop, I wish I could get something like a Chromebook that just has LTE and an X server to remote into some Real Computers™.
I can tell you as someone who sells products to the public that price is one of the primary drivers of sales. If there was a way for the higher quality manufacturers to cut their sell price in half, they would do that. But that they have decided to go into the market with a price that is 2x the cheapest competition tells you that they have very good reason for doing so.
I've had luck with https://thanos.io/ for a big (~1 billion timeseries across all our DCs) Prometheus scale out project. Horizontally sharded Prometheus that can be queried and alerted on in a unified view with object store backend.
If you search on Amazon for wifi power strip there are several inexpensive options to choose from, starting at about $25 for a four outlet model with individually controllable outlets.
Check out Rhasspy for voice control. IMO it's the best FOSS solution available for this atm.

https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
The kernel sources are available.

https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-6153.81.5/
https://css-tricks.com/making-charts-with-css/
They likely have to use the number of customers who are inactive and probable to request a refund, then use that estimate to calculate the size of a liability account which must be held on the balance sheet.

As it grows, that hits the pnl anyway so from an earnings perspective it doesn’t matter too much. Couple that with the cost of customer service calls etc. + the inactive customer count + the goodwill and the decision seems rational
Hmm, I wonder how hard it would be to do something like this to get some use out of all the unused POTS wiring in my house.
They can still count these customers as having active accounts when they talk business.
I guess grilling vegetables is off the table, then?
Sure. But as Brendan Gregg pointed out in his comment - doing this at the level of exec() on a UNIX-like OS is ... a questionable technical choice to say the least.

What’s the Linux equivalent of “notarization”? I’m not sure. Of course there’s probably more than one answer to that - let’s just taking signing packages as an example.

In theory Apple could put their weight behind vetting some of the popular open source packages perhaps? Or delegate that to the maintainers of those repositories and make them trusted? Like homebrew, for example (maybe a poor example, but you see how I’m trying to compare this with Linux...)

This is after all, what actually makes macOS useful to people on the command line 99% of the time, anyway.

So anyway, I agree on the surface it seems like this might be beneficial to Apple, but it doesn’t appear to be well considered.

They could invest more time in better sandbox and/or container type features that let people define some of their own more granular security boundaries. But they aren’t I guess? What are they doing here?
search for Pranayam, it is a very popular Indian technique and closely related to Yogic exercises as well
It's an argument with a lot of merit. I think there's a chicken and the egg situation, but I think you're right in that the prime mover is probably the culture rather than investment. That goes along with another saying I think I've seen a lot of mileage, which is that politics is downstream from culture. Seems to follow that investment would follow too from there as well.
> Whenever I have heard someone saying that there will be "consequences" for your speech, it is usually a threat.

At the risk of being a little flippant: yes. It is a "threat," in the sense that it's an explicit communication that someone is going to be displeased if you say the thing that you've been telegraphing. The "threat" is that you might not be able to rely on their (or their community's) implicit social approbation in the future. In the context of things like racism, this feels like an awfully mild threat.

> If someone threatens you with targeted harassment for your speech, they are a criminal. Someone coercing you and trying to induce you into silence is not a legitimate consequence of speech. It sounds like you are excusing online hate mobs.

I'm not excusing anyone. Freedom of expression is symmetric: anybody who belongs to an "online hate mob" is going to face the consequence of me not wanting to interact with them. For all I know, that's what they want too!
> Wouldn't a sandboxed Zoom downloaded directly from them be equally secure?

More relevantly, wouldn't a sandboxed Zoom downloaded from Apple's store be equally secure even if you could install different apps from developers you trust more outside of the store?
Not just IBM PC, but also hobbyist microcomputers. Few people could afford to have the real thing at home... but they could afford Spectrum or Commodore. And then those BASIC skills would readily translate to PC.
Show HN: Fluxmath: Train your mental math skills with this competitive math game
Don't forget:

"Does it support cookies?"

"Welcome to the World Wide Weber"
That would be what is required for an ideal display. Current VR displays get closer to 0.1 degrees per pixel so it would be a ~3x improvement to be competitive with existing tech, as I said.
PPC was ok, the killer was that you had to write code specifically for the Cell (co)processors and their limited memory addressing if you wanted the promised compute performance.
NASA SpaceX crew mission cleared to launch
So what we do is importing Jira issues to a Miro board using the Miro Card for Jira plug-in. The development team orders them by difficulty/size horizontally. PO orders them by value vertically. We use that every couple sprints to visualize the overall shape of the backlog. Stories are updated from Miro directly, if necessary.

We are currently thinking about keeping Jira issues permanently on a board and then update them, rather than pulling them in just for ordering
I’m pretty sure that most TSA employees forgot why water bottles aren’t allowed a long time ago (if they ever knew), and now are just searching for water bottles directly. That’s the consequence of hard and fast rules — people stop using their brains.
Kubernetes is an application that manages virtual machine configurations. While it's a system in the sense of a collection of parts that work together, it is not a system in the sense of the original meaning of systems programming.

That tended to mean a language designed to compile down to processor instruction sets the way C, C++, or now, Rust do.

Go was intended to replace C++ and C for many of the things that Google programmers did, but it wasn't intended to aim at "bare metal" if I recall Rob Pike's design talks correctly.
And then in America, a drought of high schoolers running 4 minute miles for what seemed to be two decades.

Whoa, it was actually over 30 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_high_school_s...
Major drawback mentioned here is that make breaks when used with filenames with whitespaces, which is a big blocker for some uses. Anyone know of a similar alternative which handles this?
Zuckerberg's failure to graduate and build his enterprise via his former ivy league institution is showing.

Most of them have the same perceptions of their workforce: that employees are indentured servants who owe the company their time. The difference is Zuckerberg is willing to 'mask-off' admit this disregard for everyone but himself.
Most new cryptocurrencies are moving away from PoW because a.) it's a massive waste of electricity and b.) it's not actually secure anyway, because we've seen a consolidation of mining power with major ASIC customers who have cheap power costs (notably in China). Ethereum's moving to it in 2020 or 2021, and EOS, Stellar, Tezos, Cardano, etc. are already PoS or derivatives.
Yeah, it really feels like that. Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/651/
It results in more support requests.

For example, often you hear angry customer who is like "can you refund me, I didn't use it this month, you can check your records"

Then request is passed on to some other employee who confirms that they really didn't use their account.

After that you issue refund.

In most cases, you end up issuing refund either way while in some cases customer forgets but he doesn't forget he got charged. So it counts towards negative experience even if a customer didn't complain about it.

If your company is here for long term then every negative experience matters.
We do this at my company, and it is purely for altruistic reasons. If people aren't happily making good use of my service, I don't want their money. That's the entire calculus.

Netflix is vastly bigger, granted, so who knows what machinations are afoot for them. But it is certainly believable to me that a company could choose to do something explicitly anti-greedy.
Yeah I appreciated it a lot. They also prorate by active users, so if you're paying for 50 users and only 20 were active, you get a 60% discount. Super solid as a way of doing business.
Being aperiodic should mean there's no well defined grating lobes. Basically each emitter pair has a different spacing and thus different grating lobe location, so across the whole array they get smeared out to an even sidelobe level. But yes, wondering what the mainlobe contrast is.. it's also >lambda spacing so the efficiency is probably poor.
if gruber wants to dictate what i run on my computer maybe he can pay for my computer instead of me.
http://archive.michigan-terminal-system.org/mts-d60A
I’m getting 6fps on my iPad Air 2 in safari...
4.5 definitely had a compiler in it, as did later versions (after the first time I found 7.1, I stopped using the others). I should note that I'm not up to speed on the difference between QBasic and QuickBasic, though--so far as I know they're the same product, but there might be differences.

My favorite program for autoexec just had an infinite loop until you hit Ctrl+C.
My preschooler does that whenever I’m working with a tool that requires me to bend my wrist backwards and the watch-Siri activates.

“Sorry, could you say that again?”

Nobody asked for you to interrupt my chopping, Siri.
Those with Mac development experience. What's the earliest way to make a screenshot app?
Yeah, if anything, C++ is getting less serious about safety by piling features over features. Just write Rust instead.
> I don't think this was a cynical marketing ploy designed from the top down either, it was a very natural thing for the company to be customer obsessed and trying to do right by them.

It's trying to do right by the legal and finance departments, not by the customers. Going after someone for anything less than a mid to high five figure AWS bill is never worth it because the legal costs are astronomical, the defendant probably can't pay in the end, and the cost of defending will drain the customer of any more resources that could have been spent on the cloud.

It's the cost of doing business. The choice is between trying to bleed a rock or a safe bet that LTV will be higher than the marginal cost.
I read this earlier today and was hopeful that fatality count would be low. Just shocked to see a final count of 2 survivors total.
BioTech definitely counts haha
Depends on how you quantify data a human processes from birth to adulthood.
My least favorite android UI feature is the "clear all" option on the list of notifications. Every time I use it, they randomly show up again hours or even days later.
Trio is a much simpler design that's just as powerful as `asyncio`. It has exactly one way to wait for a task: await it.

https://trio.readthedocs.io/

For a group of tasks, use a nursery.

Edit: correction
This Trick Works With:

Android 7.0 through Android 9

I run Android 10 on a (Google) Pixel 3a.
Elegant Variations and All That (1996)
Editors’ survey of the English language as it’s written and spoken, and its wonderfully workmanlike idiosyncrasies: descriptivism & prescriptivism; British, American, and other regional variants; political (in)correctness; sexist and racist epithets; corporate and business jargon; opinion, wit, advice, and history.

I found this gem especially relevant to this community.

Burchfield has his own idiosyncrasies (he devotes an entire page of a six-page preface to a description of the database of examples he set up on a personal computer, for instance), but although he has a far better understanding of the English language than his predecessor, he does not have the style and wit. Rewritten, this book has ceased to be Fowler. Those who still want their Fowler must acquire an original. This is as it should be, for Fowler, with all its authentic interest and appeal, is now a period piece, to be read and enjoyed for what it is. Burchfield, in his new edition, has succeeded admirably in producing a sensible, practical, up-to-date, sometimes controversial, and altogether excellent guide to English usage, and it will be welcomed by those seeking a prescriptive usage guide for this generation.

The book is The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, 3rd Edition, edited by Robert Burchfield and H.W. Fowler.

[Original title was vague and lacking context. It was: Elegant Variations and All That]

For those who have trouble with the link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200107142207/https://www.theat...
Is it still having issues? I manually wrapped a <pre> tag which was causing issues for some people.
Absolutely. I enjoy Bubble - should have put it on the list.

Any other platforms that have caught your attention?
Self driving cars can't rapidly move their cameras in multiple spatial directions like humans do on a continuous basis.

Also we have a pattern and object detection computer behind our eyes that nothing on this planet even remotely comes close to.
Really the only valid reason to do this is that the goodwill will help them make more money in the future. Strictly losing money with no upside in the future is in violation of the "duty of loyalty" that all corporate officers have toward shareholders.
Try Python with Thonny.

Python itself is great because it has all the right batteries included. It's easy to get started - you don't need to explain "import" or functions to write a basic hello world type app with console input and output. Then you can gradually build it up from there, introducing turtle graphics, databases (SQLite), and finally GUI (Tk) - all of which are present in the standard library.

And Thonny, well - it's self-explanatory once you see it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwIgxrXP-X4
That’d actually keep me subscribed longer I think. Right now I’ll batch stuff up and binge it all in a month and then cancel for another how ever months it takes.
How to Make Math Easy for Kids
Galilio said, “Math is the language in which God has written the universe”. But most students have a fear of math. Most kids are not afraid of math when they learn to count but over time they start developing a fear of it as they progress. The problem is not in the children. Instead, the problem is how we teach math to our children. Here are 5 ways to make math easy to kids:

Discuss Practical Applications: Most teachers lose kids when they teach math as an abstract subject. Like teaching fractions, decimals, exponentials or calculus but never discussing the practical applications how it affects our day to day lives. We at WhizSmart make Math fun and meaningful by making it relevant to day to day lives through examples of practical applications.
Simulations and Real Life Models: What better way to show the power of Math than to show through simulation or real-life models. Whether it is game theory or differentiations integrals, our tutors make sure the students understand the concepts through simulations and real like models.
Multiple Ways to Come to the Same Answer: Most teachers instruct kids a particular way of solving math problems without explaining why. Our tutors at WhizSmart are not interested in just teaching kids how to solve the problem but also on why we took that approach and how we could have come to the same answer by taking multiple other approaches.
Gamify Math: One easy way to teach math is to make it a game. Our tutors at WhizSmart do just that. It makes for a fun, engaging, and learning experience. We use multiple games and competitions to pique your student’s interest and keep them engaged.
Make Math a Way of Thinking: Last but not least, this is the most powerful method to make your child love math. We work on critical thinking and logic ability of your child as we think in future the key skill sets needed to compete in the workforce of tomorrow would be critical thinking and creativity.
It often feels like if Godot hired one really, really good documentation specialist, they could run away with things, especially in the mobile, indie, and lower-spec spaces.

Unity's documentation is bad, but unlike Unreal's, it exists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrenza ? That got any real world use, ever?
I'm amazed how many SaaS users are zOmBiE uSeRs, this is from working on client SaaS apps. One had about 20% of the users paying and not even logging in for months or even a year.

Props to Netflix for unsubscribing users who don't use the service.
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An unsolved database latency issue of a 1-man Ops team
https://hash.ai/

Hash is a platform for simulation and I think this kind of stuff will become increasingly important.
Probably ever since 'The Poseidon Adventure'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Poseidon_Adventure_(1972_f...

<grin>
And for people wondering why caring about on-premises hosting when you have the cloud, a few weeks ago there was a thread about why would you do the former in favor of the latter. It puts on display that actually a lot of people are still on-premises, and for good reasons, which makes a good case for a company like Oxide to exist.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23089999
seriously, zig is so amazing. if all zig was was https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replace... it would be unbelievable, but it's so much more than that.
Once Google realizes that people are willing to work for 250k, there really is no reason for them to continue to offer 500k. The salary inflation in the Bay area is at least partially fueled by a shortage of people willing to move there. There really is no way of extending the hiring pool while keeping salary at Bay area level.
Yeah, I've tried, but third-party keyboard apps on iOS definitely feel second-tier, and iOS will revert to the stock keyboard app for certain things, and it's just too jarring to get punted to QWERTY whenever I need to enter my phone password.
Unplug from the internet.
I was in a similar situation except I didn't use it even for a single order. They kept charging me after the free trial period. After a while I realized this, and cancelled. I reached out to them requesting a refund, at least partial since I haven't used it even once. But they did not refund any.
Any democratic government is simply a body elected to represent the wishes of the people.

If the government isn't righting its wrongs, it's because you (not necessarily you specifically, but "the people" as a whole) have explicitly put in power the people who are doing the bad things.

This is everybody's fault. Yours included. We all enabled this to happen.

That's the beauty of a democratic system. It clarifies and cuts through to the core of our culture. Americans fear the idea of foreign terrorists more than we fear privacy encroachment, and thus, we were delivered the results of that belief.

The system worked! It represented our wishes perfectly. The problem isn't "them" (the government). It's us.
The people who cut my grass are in my phonebook, under, let's say "Lawn Cutting Corp".

If I say "Siri, call lawn cutting corp", she'll say "I'm sorry, I can only call a single person at a time."

If I say "Siri, call lawn corp", then it immediately opens the phone and says "Dialing lawn cutting corp."
Show and tell is pretty fucking gay, and that's why scrum is dogshit. Just tell me what to do, and I'll fucking do it.

When you trot me out like a show pony, or force me to share, like this is group therapy or something, it ruins my day.

Every fucking day.

The emotional labor of collecting my thoughts for a 15 minute public speaking engagement, particularly on days, when the project was planned too poorly for me to have anything worth sharing for days, or even weeks on end, means that I hate myself for the lies and theater and hoops I must jump through, simply to seem like a good sport.

Sorry, but you just have to portion out work better, which means actually having a clue about what you're going to try and do before you do it.

Most teams and projects are not under the impression that there is blue sky investigation required to explore certain subject matter and areas of interest. Feature factory assembly lines with cookie cutter operations get impatient, when confronted with stalls due to clueless planning. Whoops!

So, whatever the fuck. Who cares. Stick your hand up my ass so that I parrot buzzwords like a good little puppet, and see what you get for it. Somehow, most teams lack the ability to write down what they want. You get these one-liner task assignments: do the thing. And then expect no blockage or derailments? Okay, have fun with that.
Can you point me to where it says resource limits were ever an issue here, though? That seems... questionable.
It’s a dirty business, no cost is too great for eyeballs.

In Turkish whatever, you search the first few pages of results is from the Turkish largest news outlets because the SEO’ed for everything and Google doesn’t care.

Do you want to learn how to renew your driver license? Good luck with that because your search results will bring you a wall of text articles that are almost the same for every search term.

“Lately people started to ask themselves how to renew their driver's license. But do they consider the risks of renewing drivers licenses? Experts agree that renewing the driver's license can be a complicated thing. Now strap on and get ready to learn how to renew your driver's license”

Think to have pages like that on CNN, BBC and others. They are the top result for so many searches.

Plagiarism of news, on the other hand, is more nuanced IMHO. There’s nothing stopping you to say “NBC reports that” anyway. As per the article, you can not use their assets but you can create or even generate articles about the news based on the news.

The ad business is dirty. I’m almost proud of blocking ads.
Microsoft did that with eXtensible MIPS: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/emips/
http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/emips/
If you already have a PL, why not re-use it as a shell? Those environments were very memory and storage limited, so it made a lot of sense.
Indispensable Command Line Tools
Volumio’s pi OS is a pretty easy way to do this. There’s a Snapcast plugin on github along with instructions. Pair the pi with a hifiberry amp and some speakers and you’ve got your own custom networked audio client.

We’ve got sync’d audio running in 4 different rooms at home and control via home assistant. Not as easy as Sonos I’m sure but I like that I can use whatever speakers I want.
> 7 years later, hardly any policy change has been implemented as a result of his leaks.

Maybe not government policy, but private companies have gotten serious about encryption to reduce the amount of passive surveilance. Private networks are no longer assumed to be private.
There are lots. `requests` is the most famous.