skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A search engine can be much better than google. All shopping websites of any significance have better features. (Is google treating links as competing technology?)

Denying the search provider a page view might work. Have them return xml. Use the OS, browser or custom theme. Build a search extension platform on top of it, sit back and watch what people come up with. (I would filter out websites that need more than x requests besides images and video, have more than y kb js, z kb css, make big news websites into a check box in the side menu, I can think of 30 extensions right now)

I made a search bar for Opera one time (widget) that had a row of submit buttons (icons) with different targets. It sat on top so one could just click the next button. It is hard to explain but it can be quite surprising to re-send your query some place else.

MyIE use to be able to open X search results in background tabs. A mouse gesture would close one and move to the next.
Using GitHub Actions for MLOps and Data Science
I think having flags like isGreekAndSafari could also possibly be a sign of too many engineers. I never really understand why large scope and/or scale business rules require more engineers. Why do companies program all this stuff directly into the app with crazy flags like that instead of building configuration systems so that lower cost employees can fill in and expand the business rules?
I’m not sure but isn’t the etymology of “attack” and “deployed” in those cases based in US culture which was GP’s point?

When people use certain terminology, it doesn’t mean they “embrace” the cultural phenomena that led to its development. They could use it simply because it’s the conventional terminology.
So, they're announcing a feature they've already said they had but didn't?
A union?
yeah 2013 called and wants its controversial revelations back, everyone knows what parallel construction is.

and really the only reason thats an interesting public service announcement is by thinking this kind of googling in this article was complicated at all.

the "forward construction" is so easy that you should just assume anyone in any agency is competent enough to do this.

anybody that has looked up a friend from high school, or a potential date, or needed a way to contact someone, should have been inspired enough to do this before. and if you weren't, now you are.
I should probably have been more specific in my critique, as it sounds like I think GitLab has major problems. It's just regarding the web interface.

On every other Git repository manager, we can browse source code, view replies to both issues and merge requests without Javascript enabled. But not on GitLab. I don't expect anything advanced to work without Javascript, but these simple operations definitely should and I think it's very bad design to have this requirement. The result of this Javascript overuse is that GitLab is both slower and a bigger pain to use than the alternatives. Use Javascript in small amounts were it make sense for functionality, not just for showing text, pictures or other simple things.

There, my two cents. So, what I meant was that Microsoft should look at GitLab and NOT copy the web interface. GitHub has a nice web interface, with Javascript in acceptable amounts and where it make sense, even the language details bar works without.
Of course it sounds ridiculous. Boolean algebra says the validity of a statement's converse is independent of the original. P → Q, tells us little about Q → P.
You don't need to look past the cause they're protesting to see how stupid they are.
Ninety-Five Theses
I think it's probably safe to say that more Americans have been killed by nuclear bomb tests than by nuclear powerplant accidents. It's hard to say for sure, but John Wayne may have been one of those killed by it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downwinders
Scientists find way to pollinate plants with soap bubbles as bees decline
Reproducibility is the biggest value in my opinion. A Dockerfile encapsulates all the messy dependencies in a single isolated environment. This also makes deployments easier too.
Massage therapist lol. Bet she has a PHD too.
Right. Or where it matters less, VirtualBox or KVM.

And where it matters more, hardware compartmentalization.
More than resolution, it is aspect ratio that I want. I love my 1920x1200 monitor. I wouldn't trade it for a 2560×1440. The 16:9 ratio is simply too short.
Hopefully you’ll forgive this potentially obvious question- is LoC (still?) generally accepted to be bounded ar 80 col?
Because of COVID-19, I assume there should be less traffic. With traffic it will give taste of 3D driving experience of Bengaluru to all our global friends :)
Of course, it's difficult to a/b test that…
How does it compare to industry average today?

Those numbers are highly tied to an independent event (your first salary, you could be a better negotiator today) and have been changed by inflation
What kind of language and configuration system do you suppose would be viable for doing this? What kind of system would let "lower cost employees" fill in and expand the business rules?
How to land a job at SpaceX, according to their software team
huh, I always wondered what those little loops of what looked like a "life saver" lolly was when I was pulling shit apart as a kid.
I think what you’re seeing is exponential growth. Meaning, after crushing the curve, things start all over again with slow growth and then pick up again in 2 months. We are beginning to see the exponential growth explode in Arizona, Texas and Florida now I think.
I tried to track down that converter for a retro computing project about 10 years ago and failed;
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2038929/where-can-i-find...

A few months ago I returned to the project and completed it this time;
https://github.com/billforsternz/retro-sargon

As I should have realised the first time, you can write your own converter in an afternoon or two :-)
I would say that's portability rather than reproducibility. Docker increases the extent of, but doesn't guarantee, reproducibility.
It sounds like it might be clever, but then I realize I don't know what it means.

If you had values not in opposition to reality, then they wouldn't be relevant to reality, would they? Because in not opposing reality, they couldn't guide you in changing it.

The most you could really say about values being objectively wrong is if they are inconsistent and could not be fulfilled in reality in any possible universe. But what is a possible universe? And what if all value systems are impossible to completely fulfill?
Sure, it's not trivial, but it's not a startup-solves-it issue, at least over here. Even without a lot of NIMBYism, the local administration isn't getting the permits done and doesn't open up spaces. In the metropolitan area I live in, we "need" about 50k flats a year. We're getting 6-9k. The bottle neck is in the government, and unless you replace that government with a startup, you're not going to solve "the problem".

The other problems with housing are solved pretty well by coops, even though I'm thinking of moving out of mine - providing affordable housing is nice on paper, but it also gets you neighbors that are socially challenged.
Very nice! I love projects like this that return to first principles, and rebuild the core without the cruft. It is refreshing.

The dependency on netlink adds a little to the code weight. Some of this also feels like it could just be a shell script (sh, unlike Go, ships with built in Linux support for netlink, and sticks with dotted-quad-string types for IP addresses instead of mixing with int32!)

I did not realize cgroups were this simple to manipulate. Thank you for the enlightenment.
The joke that I think actually explains it pretty well is that it eliminates the "well it works on _my_ machine" problem, by not just shipping the code, but shipping the machine.
Why does user interface rendering care about pixels and DPI instead of field of view?
Another day, another company back peddling in a hurry after a predictable PR snafu, only to discover that they burnt good will for nothing.

You’d think they’d learn, but alas.
Every time there’s a thread about React Native the RN fanboys come in droves, the reality is that RN is an abstraction over Native Mobile and will always be inferior to it.

You will end up debugging issues for supporting multiple platforms via one codebase.

I like React just not for Native Mobile, nowadays stick to native Swift or Kotlin and wait for SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose to make Mobile development seamless
Are they going to use that information for marketing purposes? Free but only if you give them info seems too good to be true.
The problem is that the action condemned by the "virtue signaling" label is real, widespread, and destrucive. Always someone obnoxiously coming out of nowhere with some usually inconsequential moral high ground. I think where we will disagree is how destructive and common it is, and how much it needs to be called out. I personally think it's one of the worst traits of modern social media discourse.

Maybe some people are too quick with the term, there always will be people like that for any label. But just consider all the people just as tired of real conversation being shackled by "virtue signaling" as you are of being called a virtue signaler.

Also, you could write your disgruntled comments about any label. We are certainly way too quick to find racism where there isn't any. Yet there are also real racists out there complaining that the charge of racism is really getting on their nerves. Does that mean we stop charging people with racism when we see it? No, we're trying to call out unacceptable behavior.

If we're getting into pet peeves, mine is "gaslighting". Everything is "gaslighting" now. Accidentally spread a small inaccuracy? Gaslighting. Tell a public lie? You're now "gaslighting the world". Sharing my disagreement with you, like this comment? I'm gaslighting you.
Update on T-Mobile Network Issues (postmortem)
Came here to say the same thing. Awesome app. Great to be freed from the shackles of Audible and the likes :)
I expect China to lose to itself mainly from oppression and the friction that puts on meaningful progress. China has major problems it keeps kicking down the road. Here, we can at least talk about police brutality while there you go to jail or worse.
Sergey Brin's Home Page (1999)
I found that a 14" circular saw with the guard removed was a great tool. It demanded a lot of respect - much like some tools in Linux.

./run-saw --yes-without-the-guard
I think that was the point. It seems quite implausible that in 8 years the size of the maximum attack would only increase by a factor of 2.
> At least V1 of Starlink, there needs to be a ground station visible to the satellite

At an altitude of 340 miles a starlink satellite has line of site up to 1800 miles so conceivably a ship at sea could be 3600 miles from the nearest land station and still be able to bounce off Starlink. Of course that's ideal conditions, but it wouldn't take too many ground stations to ensure 99% of oceangoing traffic is covered.

Of course even with line of site, the antenna may not be oriented in such a way as to cover more than a couple hundred miles of surface even if there is line of site.
I worked at Airbnb during this time, and basically it came down to the fact that it just didn't make sense to invest in RN.

The company already had 50-100 native engineers already productive and passionate about iOS/Android with internal tooling, large code base and support from Google and Apple (like you could contact Apple when there was a performance problem on Swift and they would sometimes come over to diagnose). Most native engineers didn't want to do React Native and most web developers didn't want to deal with native mobile both on iOS and Android. There was always some edge cases, navigation quirks or performance problems, where in order to fix it, you had to know the platform somewhat well. Most engineers are not that familiar with both iOS, Android and RN. So who would want to do it? Also just to support RN as a platform, you needed 1-2 engineers full-time just keeping it working and resolving issues with the platform (which is not that different from iOS/Android).

To get it fully adopted, you would have to basically restructure the mobile teams, recruit new people, rewrite the code base and tooling to make the switch. RN was experiment to see if teams would be more productive and make sense for the company but it didn't since the company had already invested so much native.

There is also something to be said about building a new app in RN vs trying to build an performant app that has over 10 years of functionality, runs both Guest and Host experience in the same app, is internationalized to 30 languages/locations (each city in the world has their own regulation which affect taxes, what data needs to be collected etc), is run on wide range of devices and runs hundreds A/B tests and gradual feature rollouts. It's classic "I could build X in a weekend" if you only focus on the very common surface level features.

With many frameworks or languages people often love the experience of building a new app. After maintaining the app over years with several developers, platform upgrades etc the feeling might change. I wonder what are largest, most widely used and longest running RN apps out there?
I love this story.

Wild/forgotten cultivated crop seeds are fascinating to me.

I pick, taste and save as many different wild foods that I can find.

I have found wild chives growing on an island in northern ontario, they're flowering in my backyard right now actually!

I have sampled hundreds of different mulberry trees and saved the best tasting and largest berries to hopefully one day create a mulberry farm.

I have even found a very rare (in my neck of the woods at least) red mulberry tree that flowers and produces fruit all season long. (Whereas most mulberries produce berries once en masse, which ripen towards the end of june or early july). This mulberry produces fruit from june all the way into october/november for some reason.

I found an italian plum tree growing near my house that I picked clean and saved hundreds of pits from last year.

My white whale is a local pawpaw tree that I have yet to find growing anywhere in the local forests, despite many other foragers fruitful finds.

There are delicious fruits all around you. Rosehips are actually quite tasty fruits as well, surprisingly!

Go take a look the next time you're out for a walk and try to figure out what that bulbous berry or fruit is you're looking at. It probably tastes better than you think!

(But don't eat it until you are 100% sure what it is of course!)
How much EMI does it cause?
Their arguments for not giving it to free accounts was awful and the same trite which has been regurgitated for twenty years.

The real reason is they want to be able to hand data over to China / NSA / marketers.
In some circles yes. Linus recently weighed in against the 80 limit.

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2005.3/08168.html
The only reason I would feel sorry for her is that she got fooled by hate and rage on social media. People need to realize that the main purpose of social media rage machine is atrracting clicks. No one really cares about your feelings when they post more and more horrific videos on twitter, they just care about themselves. Mainstream media is not much better.
They'll sell less oil than there is currently sold in total at lower price, sure, but if competition from US is out, they'll sell more than they sell right now, at prices higher than now.
Ah, but you left out the first paragraph which clarifies the second entirely!

>riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend
of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to
Howth Castle and Environs.

And you'll just have to read to the end of the book to find out how the sentence begins.

Joking aside, I actually love this style of writing even though I get virtually no narrative from it. I read it almost like some sort of abstract poetry, letting my mind wander as the words go by.

Also, I find it reads a lot better out loud than silently: easier to notice some of the strange dream-like word mixes. Like `venissoon` kind of sounds like `very soon`. I only saw `venison` until I read it out loud.
> It’s too bad George Floyd (a drug addict career criminal) wasn’t shot and killed by an armed homeowner when he committed his home invasion.

So this justifies being killed by police, while not resisting, without a trial?

> BLM (domestic terrorist organization)

Got a source on that? Sounds almost like Fox Entertainment.
Seccomp is painful, you need to fork a 'seccomp' fork as you cannot seccomp the parent and child to differing permissions, With pledge this is simple.
People are fleeing unstable liberal cities. No surprise.
Easily.

* A Docker image normally contains all the dependencies of a program, or a set of programs. You can run libraries and other software of whatever versions, not necessarily available on your host system; they are already baked into the image. Usually a Docker image only needs a compatible kernel (this is a very lax restriction). It is a damn easy way to distribute software, especially such software which is not trivial to install and set up: tired of wrangling with Grafana installation? just pick a container from their site. And of course you can mount whatever you need inside the container when you need to, so it has controlled access to your filesystem(s).

* A Docker image normally runs with its own firewall. That is, you explicitly say which IPs / ports are available ("exposed") from the container; everything else is blocked. This helps isolate containers from the internet and from one another, and also helps build private networks between containers not exposed outside the host machine. Since containers already talk to each other via a network, it becomes easy to distribute them across many machines when you need to scale.

* A Docker image is built out of layers, and they can share layers. If you are reasonable enough to put common stuff to the bottom layers, then you can have multiple containers with a lot of common software installed inside (like a Node runtime, a JVM, etc) which stored on the host system only once.

* Docker images / containers are the standard for many cloud management systems. AWS can run containers directly. K8s operates on containers. Docker itself offers a simple but rather reasonable orchestration tool called docker-compose. It's great for small deployments and for things like running your setup locally, for development and integration testing.

Containers are not always better for everything you can think of. But they solve a number of common problems; some of these problems might be ones you'd like to have solved, some not.
Man you really hit the nail on the head with this. I’ve never been able to articulate why the term bothers me so much and you just absolutely nailed it.

It’s like the derogatory “social justice warrior.” What? It’s bad to give a damn about people and advocate on their behalf? If having empathy means I’m “an SJW” then I’ll gladly wear that moniker.
The Wall Street Journal and René Magritte, Front Page with Art
It's also a great way to make sure your build artifacts are owned by root so you don't accidentally delete them.
When things that people need to do fail entirely, people will develop hacky, under the radar alternatives.
Dam failures can be truly horrific. When the South Fork Dam failed and flooded Johnstown, the floodwaters smashed a bunch of people, a barbed wire factory and various other debris into a stone bridge (which still stands today.) The debris, a tangle of wood, people (many still alive), and twisted metal, then caught fire and burned for days, killing dozens. They had to use dynamite to clear the wreckage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Bridge_(Johnstown,_Penns...
You leave the Yubikey in your computer, at least for the duration of your session, so you're just moving your hand a couple of inches to tap it. Contrast with fishing out an entirely different device, waiting for the push to arrive or navigating to the Duo app, etc. Push 2FA is also subject to the vagaries of your phone's current network connection and its latency.

For the specific combination of Macs with Touchbar and U2F and Chrome, you can already get this experience with onboard hardware. I expect most client devices will converge on having some kind of hardware-backed U2F credential built in. But Yubikey is more general right now. OTP is easy to implement and eminently compatible; it just presents as a keyboard and sends keystrokes. HMAC is great for not just authenticating but signing specific transactions. The GPG applet is just another GPG key, and the PIV applet is just another X.509 cert, so a number of applications can be upgraded to hardware-backed credentials with little or no change.
At some point we are just circling a drain of nonsense when we make points like that.
Police brutality shouldn't be protested?
It was always dismissive. Serious people used already existing terms like propaganda or yellow journalism.
> Someone running away from you with a loaded incapacitating weapon, in a state of altered consciousness, unresponsive to any commands, and uncooperative with any protocols that govern interaction with authority after you just got done fighting with them, so under the influence of an adrenaline spike.

But again, this isn't a deadly threat because they're running away. If they turned around and aimed it at you, then sure, you could claim that they are a threat to you–though still not a deadly one. If you shoot someone running away from you, you're not doing it because you're threatened, you're doing it because you don't want them to get away, and that's the point that was being made.
So if you wound a 1:1 transformer on a coil that has additional windings to ’preload’ it, could you use this as a speed controller/voltage regulator?
Einstein's core idea about gravity passed an extreme
They can protect them. In fact, they can just take them out of Sevastopol. They weapons aren't tied in any way to Sevastopol, the Russians can keep them somewhere else.

Now, of course they want to have base and weapons there, but this is just back to "furthering geopolitical goals".
Chris Sacca returns to venture capital with clean energy firm
Not by a long shot. You read that in India English is sort of an official language. But in truth, a big chunk of the population still doesn't speak it, and the ones that do often have a thick accent and not a very rich vocabulary. Source: been to India ~25 times.
TBH, all network utilities I ever saw accept the int32 form of IP addresses. E.g. ping 127.0.0.1 can also be written as

ping 0x7f000001

Try it; it works.
Beamo – Laser Cutter Review
Where is the link to the source code?
The third option was to have no one die or get shot.
People have access to actual, lethal weapons all the time! (This is especially true in the US.) That doesn't mean you can just go around shooting people on the off chance that they might go using them against others.
Really impressed with H. G. Wells here; he manages to:

- imagine (correctly or incorrectly) a system of values/upbringing that might result in Finnegan's Wake being seen as good or worthwhile [not his words, but for example: valuing “artistic” / “creative expression” over pleasure or illumination for the reader],

- articulate his own values and why as a result he considers it not worth his time,

- yet remain humble [you may not think so but this is how it appears to me] that this is just his own point of view and for others with different values, this “extraordinary experiment” may be worthwhile after all — or not.

This ability to imagine another point of view, another system of preferences even, and come with a plausible explanation of it.
Good save.
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