skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Blackadder: Did he have a large part?

> Baldrick: Depends who was playing Macbeth.

This sort of made up for the Crew Dragon launch being scrubbed.
I'm not convinced by your argument that since nothing evil has happened in the last 20 years, we are safe in the future.

It's about power dynamics. If you get a consolidation of power, that's going to be open to abuse. Maybe not now, maybe in the future, who knows. Democratic systems have checks and balances in the public domain. Google doesn't have this.
I bought a 2017 MBP and figured that surely it can't be that bad in practice.

It was, to the point where I could barely type sentences without having to correct double-letter inputs. And that's without anything failing.

Thankfully the laptop was insured and I got the 2019 16 inch model now (with the escape key and a working keyboard). Touchbar with BetterTouchTool has proven to be much more useful than I expected.

But man was this a massive fuck-up. There's no way a 2000+ product should be able to malfunction in such a fundamental way!

EDIT: also, pain. I'm pretty flexible when it comes to getting used to changes in input, so I expected to be okay with less key travel and whatnot. But a day of using the new keyboards /felt/ different. My hands/wrists would hurt. This was only with the MBP with the new keyboard. Whenever I used my old MacBook Air or even the new Magic Keyboard I had no issues.

I can't tell for sure, but while it feels a lot better, even the new 16 inch MBP leaves my fingers a bit more sore than the mushier 2013-era Air.
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That's actually (sneakily) not the case. Gboard does have voice transcription, but it's triggered by pressing the microphone button at the upper right corner of the keyboard. Apple's voice transcription is still triggered from the bottom right button, even if a 3rd party keyboard is being used.
Beautiful all right, but why do this?:

* {

box-sizing: border-box;

-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;

-webkit-user-select: none;

-moz-user-select: none;

-ms-user-select: none;

user-select: none;

}

No text on the site is selectable but this is a terrible thing to do. Not cool at all.
But the curation of lifting it out of youtube and into "mainstream" has a major discoverability effect - if youtube is just pure anarchy, selecting and promoting off youtube is ... feudalism?
Ask HN: How do you do accounting as a consultant
I recently incorporated a business and started consulting for a company. I have been a full time employee for the last 10 years and followed basic rules to keep my account in check.

As an independent consultant, I feel I need to keep track of all my expenses somewhere in case the CRA decides to audit my company. I had a few questions;

- What tools/spreadsheets do you use to do this?

- How do you balance paying yourself around salary and dividends?

- What expenses do you usually write off?

Thanks you
Self-interest is only a conspiracy theory as far as all economics is a conspiracy theory.
> So while this isn't supported yet, the people working on it do ant that.

Good! For what it's worth, I'm slightly pro AMP based on the idea, I'm just not entirely happy with the current implementation. Fixing it to be less dependent on a Google resource is a good change, IMO.

I use copious Google services, such as Gmail and Drive, and Hangouts (or whatever it's called this week), and Android, but I'm leery of becoming more dependent on Google. It's to everyone's benefit if there's healthy competition between all parties, and to my personal benefit if I don't find that someone's gotten access to my google account and literally everything is open to them (which is why I always use a username/password combination for sites I create accounts for instead of linking my Google account... even if I know my email is @gmail.com so it's of limited use, for now. Baby steps).

> I'm unconvinced by such slippery slope arguments, given that the pushback were Google to do something like inject nefarious js would be swift. They've had the ability to do so for, well, 20 years now. They haven't yet.

First, it doesn't have to be nefarious. The bar for Google deciding they deserve analytics for content they "serve" is much lower than the bar for actually doing something illegal. I prefer not to place options to do what I consider the wrong thing for business gain in front of companies when it can be helped. Hope for the best, plan for the worst, and all that.

Second, that was a single one of the scenarios I listed. The others notably did nt rely on Google doing or not doing the right thing, because the decision is no longer in their hands. If Google is no longer the authority deciding (because they are gone, or have a new parent, or the data was taken), what Google would choose to do is irrelevant. That's why it's important to some people to reduce the information being collected. It's impossible to know what it will eventually be used for in the long term, so the prudent thing is to limit it, and/or compartmentalize it (that is, maybe I'm happy with nytimes.com knowing where else I clicked in their article, but I would prefer Google only know I loaded that first article).
You're eating raw meat? Like high quality beef carpaccio? Or supermarket meat you don't cook, or?
> "It's important to understand that the reason OneWeb filed for so many satellites is that it will make others' efforts more difficult, especially [for Amazon subsidiary] Kuiper, and thereby potentially enhance the value of OneWeb's first gen license. ..."
This is not just some random schoolyard humor, this is a whole generation of internet citizens' common childhood (adolescence, to be more precise). If you don't find anything of value in them, it's okay. Not everyone has to like punk or hiphop either.
What's your own argument then if measurable aspects don't matter?
Thanks! I actually don't work in streaming/OTT, I manage a data science team for an auto insurance company. We end up thinking a lot about these kinds of questions from different business units that aren't quite sure what they want to be optimizing for, so I'm somewhat used to making the connection between high level strategy and measurable objectives. And as you might imagine churn/bundling/LTV are also very important concepts in the insurance space, which probably gave me a leg up in my response. The revenue model is at least superficially similar.

Thanks for the podcast link, it looks very relevant and will give it a listen. I see insurance is even explicitly addressed @ the 23 minute mark.
> Paying normal prices for bruised apples? No thanks.

And because arranging different pricing for all the foodstuffs that look less than perfect costs more than profit on these items, into the bin goes perfectly good food.
They substituted veggie soup cubes with chicken ones.

I am a vegetarian. :/
It's been about 12+ years since I've regularly dumpstered food, but my experience is that more food was being thrown out before (but maybe not much before) the sell-by date than after.

I think the issue is that of given the choice between something with a sell-by date a few days in the future or 10-15 days in the future at the same cost, nearly everyone is going to take the food with the better date. Which means the arrival of a new batch of inventory makes the older inventory barely salable.

Technical solutions could help here: it is taxing on humans and most POS systems to have to adjust the price of older inventory, but if that could be done automatically (or the labor pushed onto the customer to identify the condition in exchange for a discount) people looking for deals might help reduce this type of waste.
Adobe users do prefer the UI to GIMP, for example.
Have you tried HDMI to USB video capture? If you computer has enough power you may pass-thru USB3 and audio into VirtualBox with Windows guest running Camtasia. To avoid extra hardware maybe even VNC would be enough.

That is just a hack idea and I am not Camtasia user yet.
The Jony Ive years will be remembered as that period when Apple made products thinner at any cost.
https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=macbook+pro+crashing

https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=macbook+pro+coil+whin...

https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=macbook+pro+battery+s...

https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=macbook+pro+overheati...

https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=macbook+pro+killing+y...

Not sure what this proves...
No, because in 90 minutes the cryogenic liquid oxygen would have warmed up too much. The Falcon doesn't have an onboard refrigeration unit; it relies on loading the propellant shortly before launch.

However, "shortly" is also relative, and 90 minutes is not long enough to purge all the fuel from the rocket and refuel it with cold oxygen (it took close to an hour today to de-fuel the rocket), so it can't be cycled in that window.
Hi there! Sorry it's our first time doing a license like this.

If I understand correctly, licenses are usually written more strictly for legal purposes, but in my opinion your use case sounds like it should belong to personal use.

If anyone has pointers for us to make the license text more clear, please let me know!
I get it. Funding saving life on earth isn't predictable like some $10/month SAAS like this. Doesn't make the pain that humans choose money over earth every time less painful.
Cooks Illustrated rocks. If you want to go deep on modernist stuff, of course this is a classic: https://www.amazon.com/Modernist-Cuisine-Art-Science-Cooking...
Maybe any CLI that's complex enough to have subcommands should have an "apropos" [1] subcommand to help with discoverability...

[1]: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/apropos.1.html
> That's frighteningly out of touch.

Interesting how differently the same phrase can be perceived. Somebody would say it's a perfectly reasonable, well balanced utterance, but there always will be someone else who thinks the opposite.
They could use better messaging on this so people who are on firefox precisely for this reason don't think that something has fundamentally changed.

A statement along the lines of "We're working with the most popular Extension creators to get up to speed on the mobile extension API" (which could mean anything) would have been better.
I mean, if you're in a software job, sure. But in total for a year, it's almost 1 month worth of rent in the city that's close to me.
> they (correctly) observe that freedom of association (i.e. businesses get to choose their customers) only seems to apply when it benefits progressives

This can be mostly likely summed up as self-selection bias. Discrimination laws are not being applied unequally to people of differing political opinions. It is much more common that people's political identities are self-chosen based on their own personal identity and experiences.
> It would not be illegal price collusion if every auto maker came to the same conclusion: raise prices

No car company raises (or for that matter lowers) prices independently without considering what their competitors are doing. All of them raising their prices together in that context is collusion.
Came here to say how good freshdirect is. Been a happy customer since 2008 if not longer.
I grew up during the Earth First! movement which started in the late 1970s on the coattails of various other forms of environmental civil disobedience and tree hugging.

I think what's changed today is that due to the national debt etc, most of us know that things are going wrong but we're so disenfranchised/disempowered that we feel helpless to do anything about it, even if we wanted to or knew we wanted to. It's not just that we haven't had a raise in 20-40 years, but that our bosses haven't had one, and neither have their bosses. We've reached chronic, systemic ineffectualism.

It changes things when we go from a "how do we stop those guys" perspective to a "how do we start helping society fix things" perspective.
You still need to actively persue the healthcare even if your country pays for it.
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Assume every website would use AMP. Like on mobile. How often do you get redirected to AMP already when you just click a random link? I sure do!

From then on, every asset it loaded via Google servers. Google now controls the entire internet. Google does this so it can serve its ads and track all users. It's as if I would only use Google for my internet surfing.

I don't use Google because I strongly believe it is an evil company, but if websites use AMP, then I am forced to hand over my data to Google even though I don't want to.
Right now, I can block Google servers entirely. But if the entire web is served via AMP, I can't do it.
And that's the whole reason AMP exists. So everything I do (or at least as much as possible) goes through Google servers.

You really do not see our concern?
Really?
> as we don’t have proof that google did not do nefarious things

We do have proof that they don't do the specific nefarious things being discussed here: injecting nefarious js into otherwise useful things. That's easy to determine.
And Apple could literally do this faster than Google due to much better onboard hardware. They're just years behind at AI at this point. It's getting embarrassing. Some _individual researchers_ can do a better job than their entire speech-to-text team is doing here.

Although to me, neither example is useful without:

1. Automatic punctuation

2. Robust recognition in noisy environments

And neither system is capable of that yet, although Google's system is better at #2.
> 20 years of experience people to be principal engineers and only 5% of roles are principal jobs, then after 20 years 95% of engineers need to leave the industry.

I'm not sure I follow your math. 5% of roles are principal jobs, but devs with 20+ years are not 100% of the talent pool. This doesn't hold up if devs with 20+ years are are 5% or less of the talent pool.
I'm checking out Joplin on this suggestion. Couple of questions - In what way did you use it? And what were your problems with it?
> Would you bat an eye at Google acquiring CloudFlare?

Not anymore than I already do bat an eye at cloudflare.

(It's probably worth noting here specifically that I do work at Google, so my risk profile is probably different than yours, for me personally and speaking solely from a trust perspective, I'd probably prefer it if Google acquired CloudFlare since I would get a net increase in transparency, but I can understand why that isn't a general position, and there are other reasons I don't think Google acquiring cloudflare would be good).
and ironically, these changes make it harder to sell used gear. a site like crazyguyonabike.com had (has) excellent bike-touring focused used gear ads, but who reads that stuff now? i have some touring gear that i've been trying to sell for 4-5 years ... it was never going to be easy, but it's now a lot harder.
The Myth one was particularly infamous because it’d wipe your entire C or D drive if you installed to root, and because Bungie (doing the right thing) spent nearly a million because they found it literally a day or two after shipping final copies to stores and did a recall. I don’t think it actually had any significant field impact.

As far as especially prone, custom installers were popular in the 90s (not even sure the windows MSI framework was there yet for the classic examples) and games get installed in weird places.

Weird stuff gets overlooked in testing. Nobody ever tried installing it somewhere than Program Files is a reasonable guess, saying this as an expert in software quality. Totally plausible an entire org would have that blind spot.

...in the 90s. But anyone involved in old school PC gaming knows these examples and should be planning for them in test. This was a noob mistake at a business level, no lie.
What you're missing out on is information asymmetry.

If you're insuring against a risk, and you have more information than the insurer, you may be profiting and the insurer may be running a loss.

If you're picking out your own groceries, you can select the pristine fruit and vegetables, and the grocery store takes the loss. With a disinterested picker, you take a portion of the loss.
What future? What is there to be excited about? Can't actually spend money at the federal and state level aside from tax cuts and the military without being met with resistance and a subset of politicians and economists screaming bloody murder about super dooper hyper inflation that's totally going to happen any day now we promise (but don't worry about the last 40 years of us saying it, this time we're sure we're correct).

We have low interest rates now. We had low interest rates in 08 through the early 10's too but the ~i n f l a t i o n~ boogyman and super serious debt hawks said we couldn't do it, all while passing tax cuts and giving the military essentially unlimited money, while continuing to erode our rights.

American infrastructure is beyond saving and will require new deal levels of spending to even get it to a shape resembling the amount of wealth this country has, and we are never going to do it because we live in an oligarchic state and the billionaires are fine, so why do we need to do anything more?
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MPW Commando still hasn’t been beaten, IMO. See my earlier comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22499855

It may not scale to meta commands such as docker and terraform, though.

You’ll also need something to figure out which commands might help you do whatever you want to do. Apropos and locate help a bit there, but IMO need improvement.

https://pypi.org/project/howdoi/ is an attempt at that. I’ve never used it, so I don’t know how good it is.

In some sense, I guess stackoverflow is the best we have to make the CLI more discoverable.
You can have a whole house surge protector installed at your electrical panel. These cost about $50-$200 at a home store. When I did, I had an electrician install it while I was having other work done on the panel.
Software happens to repeat the same bugs all over again. That doesn't imply that it's caused by the same mechanics: more like "who would have thunk that leap years/app installs/usernames are hard?"
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Haha, but is it the case that maybe those people (or perhaps even everyone) tell everyone else at some point that they're weird? i.e. one problem with this is that if someone calls lots of people weird, their calling you weird isn't significant. And I'm certain everyone has been called 'weird' at some point in their lives, so merely having been called weird is insufficient to actually be weird.
Some of your facts are wrong. The basic 16-inch MacBook Pro has also an i7-9750H, not a years-old processor like you said. Additionally... the screen on the MacBook Pro is leaps above gaming laptops for working with photos and video - I know that, since I actually recommended one of those to a friend who wanted a laptop for some photo editing, and he ended up returning it because the colors on the screen were all wrong, and it didn't appear to be fixable.

That's not to say that the MSI may not be a better deal... But you can't just compare the specs you said, there's more at stake.
> But we do. Any facts that cast certain religions (but not others!), or certain lifestyle choices (but not others!) in a bad light are considered _____-ophobic. Bad.
Facts are routinely politicized and made out to be evil.

So true! People should consider why we call politically correctness that. We don't call them facts or truth, but that they can be said and not hurt "feelings".
there is not the day you buy it. you are absolutely correct. it got bruised being dumped in the bin in the morning, and when you buy it in the afternoon there is no difference in nutrition and taste.

You should buy milk and meat that expires the next day when you shop. I still get the same nutrition and taste, most other differences being unimportant. just like dense and purposefully dense to get that much needed confrontation is the same thing, to everyone around you.
This could also be a different quality of the microphone.
To some degree, it depends exactly what the topic is, how much detail you're willing to go into, how you want to format it, etc.

If you're writing a comprehensive tutorial for a new framework or design pattern and including tons of code samples and resource links, that could easily take a good few hours, days or even weeks. Same goes if the topic is kinda niche and you're writing for experts in the field, like how to program an in browser VR experience using the canvas element + multiple libraries and frameworks and cutting edge ES6 features.

On the other hand if your post is a bit more modest and mostly deals with a fairly familiar, limited concept, it could probably be done in an hour or less depending on your personal expertise.
I don’t see a chilling effect. If anything it’s a heating and dividing effect, but certainly this isn’t making people quieter about the debate.. see this comment thread for proof.
I was referring to not protected classes of people.

For example, I have the right to refuse to serve someone who has written bad checks at my establishment, for example.

Or I have the right to refuse service to someone who has caused harm to my clients.
I’ve met all three of my former managers for lunch at least once since I left the company where I worked for them just to keep the network warm. I also try to meet former coworkers for lunch when I can.

One of the questions I ask them when I turn in my letter of resignation is what do they need me to do so if I need to call them for a reference in two or three years, they will give me a good referral.

I don’t think I would have any problems getting hired by but one of my former managers.

I’ve also met local recruiter for lunch and always respond to non shady recruiters.

But as far as your wife, I would hope that most of her female former coworkers would be able to relate to the fact that some mothers take a break in their career to be caretakers and that most of her former male coworkers wouldn’t be knuckle draggers and understand too.
One single intelligence agency? And what if the Germans are interested in gaining better understanding of Viktor Orban? Or if the Italians want to know just how far Germany will really go to help them financially? An intelligence agency is a means of acquiring answers to intelligence needs - I'm not sure Europe is of one mind with regard to what questions merit answering.
Is there any way to get the url out of an image search anymore without going through AMP?
Speculation:

As far as individual acts that's hard to gauge but IMO in the US we don't have a great deal of folks doing that sort of thing, not at scale.

As far as government action, the real risk is the POTUS taking unilateral action, and he's unpredictable but also prone to a lot of talk followed by no action.

Congress has been pretty passive on that topic and I doubt is likely to do much for now.
Yoel Roth who? Oh, after some googling it looks like Fox News has picked the target for the latest Two Minutes Hate.
used gatsby for my portfolio website and recently wanted to add a p5 sketch into it and went round the houses for about 2 hours as i did an update which broke everything.

ended up sacking it off, creating a static html/css/vanilla site text right in tag and boom done in about 20 mins.

ridiculously over-engineered. use react if you want the madness, plain if you want to just do something normal
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Dynalist doesn't have the first class local markdown support like this!