skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TLDR:
We often prepare for a future disaster based on a past disaster happening again, which is rarely the case. This is because of availability bias, I.e. a recent event is more fresh in our minds so we’re more likely to think it will reoccur. We’re better served by more general preparedness.

I don’t fully agree with this, pandemics, wars, data loss, etc. seem to regularly occur. But, it is useful to think about.
> Do we know what the actual penalties are? I have trouble believing that they are of any substance.

So long as the penalty is less than the value they derive from violating the agreement, they will abuse it.
Certainly the biggest expense.
What I perceived as grumbling:

"I absolutely understand what y’all like so much about Rust, but I have to say that as an auditor, my blood pressure drops and my shoulders relax the moment I switch from reading a Rust project to reading a Go project."

https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/1260678152084480008
YAML is a standard for so many different tools now that I don't think it's really considered a DSL.
> The plains states had to kick the natives out

...and the rest of the states...
This really reminds me of good times

I started a company with friends to write games for phones, before they were smart

Our fist breakthrough was at E3 in LA with a game for Nokia 7650, but we worked on prototypes years before

My first mobile connection was with a Nokia 9000i communicator, I was working for an ISP at the time that gave them to us to test mobile connections, and it felt like a James Bond movie

I learned so much developing on Symbian, especially being a diligent C++ programmer on a system that wasn't really using standard C++

Fast forward 20 years, I work on backends in Erlang/Elixir and never touched mobile development again

J2ME was nice, but limited, I lost hope soon after when iPhones came out and it was clear that the mobile platform wouldn't be fun anymore
I checked OP's product page (https://www.functionize.com/) and it got me very interested.

However, unfortunately, there's no pricing information in sight.

If Space X can display their pricing upfront for launching an orbital rocket, why do I have to talk to sales to know how much a product like this costs?

Anyways, I took the time to come here complain about this, but didn't bother to take the time to fill up their "contact sales" form because it would be too much of a hassle. Go figure.
I’m not sure this logic is honest. In the black and white world you posit, an alert is merely a window of information just like a browser window. Of course the devil is in the details. I don’t mind a popup if it’s for SSO but I do mind it if it shows an ad. The same goes for modals, and the differences between modals and alert() are for more significant than you give credit.
As opposed to, say, cigarettes? Which are legal.

Your link does not actually support your claim that 1 in 6 people who drink raw milk get sick from drinking the milk. If anything, it indicates that only 1 in 6 drinkers get sick at all. There doesn't seem to be a control group (or any real kind of science here), but if 1 in 3 people who don't drink raw milk get sick this might merit some follow-up studies. Perhaps raw milk lowers your risk of illness.

It would be silly to make a statement either way from the information contained in your link.
Lol we never did that ;-) As in the Taco thing at Signal. Good idea though
Anything more recent than https://twitter.com/johncleese/status/1254130854462455813 ?
That's surprising to me. I used TeamCity for ~4 years at my last job and thought it was pretty decent (compared to experiences with Jenkins, Circle, and Travis).
Hey.com's Slim Gemfile from DHH
I would wait a good few years to buy an ARM model. So I don't think you should wait to upgrade, the new keyboards are sweet and 8GB is super limiting (for me anyways).
My biggest issue with modals, is that they never seem to be tested with mobile devices in mind.
So when I'm on my phone, the ability to close it is often off the screen.
The only choice is to leave the website at that point.
The Sungrazer Citizen Science Project
The irony of a website with a deliberately terrible and gimmicky UI complaining about a functional UI model that has worked for decades.
and yet

> Then there is the City’s Cash, “a private fund built up over the last eight centuries”, which, among many other things, helps buy off dissent. Only part of it is visible: the Freedom of Information Act applies solely to its mundane functions as a local authority or police authority. Its assets are beyond proper democratic scrutiny.

Tax laws aren't the sole way of ensuring financial transparency.
Mandatory Numberpad in a laptop is shibboleth that shows that a laptop designer has no human factors design or testing, but chases "checklists" of features. If a laptop has a Numberpad, it's going to have a lot of other usability problems. The only thing worse is a seller who pushes a 15" laptop "because it's bigger" but puts a 768p display in it.
Who are Mozilla's customers? Google are to a close approximation the only ones who pay them??
The very nature of policing needs to change.

Unarmed martial arts such as BJJ, with mandatory minimum qualifications, recertifying every few months. The ability to subdue and control an assailant, without using a weapon and without injury to the attacker, should be made a cultural point of pride among police.

Mandatory regular empathy training.

Mandatory training to quickly distinguish between real and imagined threats, and to abort quickly force escalation if a threat turns out to be imaginary.

Clear rules of engagement for use of tools like batons, Tasers, and firearms.

Detective units need punishment for declining to pursue cases when resources and evidence are available. There should never be a rape kit backlog.

Reward good behavior. Officers should be proud of statistics like "greatest % of arrests this month without injury to the suspect."

Police simply don't need to handle everything. Welfare checks, mental health emergencies, and drug emergencies need a social worker involved and on the front lines.

Policing is an extremely hard job. Police academies are not preparing officers for it correctly because police departments have no incentive to actually conduct policing correctly. It all starts with political oversight and breaking down the blue wall of silence.
> The UNIX experience on the Mac is pretty shitty. Ancient versions of all the tooling. Command-line utils have that weird BSD well-water flavor. No package management. Funny Docker quirks.

Very, very true. And Homebrew is actively becoming worse now. A few years back, Homebrew was great - now using it feels like using some weird underground software stack that exists only because Apple hasn't come around to nixing it yet.
Making the tanks strong enough to handle the pressure if the liquid turns to gas is very expensive. It is much cheaper to make a tank that just holds a liquid.
One thing to notice is: Olympus is NOT shutting down the camera business. It gets split off the Olympus coproration and is supposed to run as an independant company. Of course that could mean a later death, but it can also mean that it continues to prosper as management might take new directions.

Also, while still producing a deficit, the camera division managed to improve the balances quite a bit over the last year. A completely new production facility was opened not long ago in Vietnam, and new camera models and lenses were launched, others still in the pipeline and the plans are to bring them to the market.

I am a very happy Olympus user and definitely hope, that their lineup has a long future. I see mFT as a great alternative to the ubiquos "full frame" cameras, which are, if you look at the complete sets, more expensive and especially bigger and heavier. And despite of the "small sensor", Olympus cameras produce excellent results, to no small amount due to the excellent optics.
I think what happened is that larger sensors became cheaper, and companies also realized that people who buy dedicated cameras are willing to pay for them. Personally, I shoot Fuji, and it's fantastic, but when I compare astro stuff between something like a Sony A7sii to my Fuji shots, the result is much cleaner due to the lower noise. It only really matters for astrophotography, but since I don't want to invest tens of thousands into multiple systems, it pushes me towards full frame.
So apple stills controls the entire system if you don't disable that checkbox. This is completely anti-user.
Probably a good thing. Mail falling on top would likely break the dvd
I'm sorry, I don't see the benefit of runc including a small list of headers for me. A small test program like main.c ought to be self-contained and might need headers not supplied by runc.
Disney+ and Netflix have cancelled their free trials
All of that can be done with automated tests, though agreed, they would not be (called) unit-tests (which are only used to prove how we've got our "perfect functions").

Of course, some of them could be unit-tests too (I've written small performance integration tests before, doing things like ensuring a function only ever emits a single SQL query, or timing execution and ensuring it scales in an O(1) manner, or ensuring data is passed by reference instead of being copied... where performance was a critical property of a "perfect function").
There's some interesting choices in there such as MySQL and Resque (over Sidekiq).
I've worked in buildings with these, but I've never seen one that made me feel confident that my mail was actually going to be picked up at the other end. Given some of the examples in the article, maybe that was a wise doubt to have.
That opportunity is certainly extraordinary. We probably disagree on whether it’s normal for wealthy homeschooled children or should even be thought of as part of a school cirriculum.
I read it - I did't find an explanation of what it was that he was building, just how he was building it.
It would be fun to see some screenshots with the evolution of Krita.
I just don't get how Youtube recommendations are so bad. So often it recommends me things I have already watched.

Or the algorithm knows I like David Bowie so recommends me "Changes". The most boring possible recommendation it can give to a David Bowie fan.

I really wish it had a setting to up the daring of the recommendation. It seems designed to just never recommend something that I would really hate but in doing so it never recommends me anything all that interesting.
I also want to add that he emailed me under false pretences. He conjured up an imaginary world in which we were close friends and I cared about what he did at the hackathon and what he’s doing afterwards (I’ve never met the guy). He undoubtedly wanted me to believe that he handwrote this email for me alone when its a copy-paste marketing email that he’d reused many times.

Not only is it dishonest and wastes my time, the execution is so bad I feel embarrassed for the guy (really? You “arrived” at a virtual hackathon?)

Edit: Oh my god and I almost forgot. He sent this to me at 3:21 AM!
Hi - fwiw our main focus is outside the US - our biggest teams are in apac. Email me we’ll help you out. robert@
Cool. The lower is original signal and upper is after band pass filter?
I think this point is underappreciated. The key question isn't "Is a parent a better teacher than a professional teacher?", the key question is "Can a parent teach 1 or 2 or 3 of their own children, better than a professional teacher can teach 25?"

It seems like it should be a close call for the vast majority of parents, so at the very least, the question of whether to homeschool should hinge on other considerations.
Tutorial: How to create a webworkers driven multithreading App – Part 2
Hey there, Fly co-founder here!

Fly's proxy uses a mix of tokio, hyper and rustls. We don't need to use a crate that handles ACME because we're processing all the validation and certificate authorizations from a centralized, boring, Rails application.

We've had to submit a PR to the rustls project a few months ago to handle different ALPNs. Instead of resolving a certificate only from a SNI, the crate now provides the full ClientHello which contains negotiable ALPNs. With that information you can respond to the tls-alpn-01 challenge.
As long as we're clear that I'm not saying "Rust is less secure than Go", which is not at all what I meant. I just meant that it's much easier for me to read Go code.

(I will however miss match expressions when I return to my home planet.)
> I wish I could have my Nikon lenses on my Sony (with no compromise)

I don't follow that stuff, but does Metabones make a Nikon F -> Sony E speed booster?

> Nikon made some of the great smaller-sensor size lenses that you can get for APS-C or micro 4/3rds.

They did make smaller lenses, but for the Nikon 1 system, which was an underrated system. I became a 4/3rds shooter when Nikon cancelled the Nikon 1 line, but I still use my J5 (which is what the first gen Nikon 1s should have been like). IIRC, adapted Nikon F mount lenses on Nikon 1 focus fairly quickly because of the on-sensor PDAF, but you're limited to center AF only.
A CSO/CISO should be aware of what the threats to their environment are. Otherwise how can they effectively mitigate the risk? They should rely upon SMEs who can keep them abreast of changes in threat models.
Better still:

wget https://gitlab.com/dchester/aviary.sh/-/archive/1.3.2/aviary-install.sh
less aviary-install.sh
./aviary-install.sh
Cows are not without their own costs. But it does seem that it might just be possible to find some room for disruption here.
3 weeks is laughable. It takes a few days to get a project properly configured with linting, CI, version control, database on front and back.

3 weeks is the reason that innovative projects usually die on the vine at established companies. PM's and bean counters never want to spend more than a few weeks on a "sprint task" that might not work out. The exact opposite of the mindset you want in a startup
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>Homeschooling typically does not have a cost beyond materials

who do you think does the homeschooling?
>1080p was quite rate in the CRT era.

https://www.lifewire.com/crt-computer-monitor-buyers-guide-8...
I have worked with SPARQL professionally. The biggest problem: Quality if the data. Yes it is amazing, but if stuff is missing annotations, it is hard to get meaningful results.
(Selenium project founder here.) Test maintenance cost is a sane thing to be worried about! Early on, there can be lots of code thrashing and UI changes. Better to keep the UI tests to a minimum at that stage - have them act more like smoke alarms. You only need a few alarms in the right places to tell you that something is wrong.
Other general advice is that in a young product, it's often more important to make sure you're building the right thing. ("Right" is subjective, but could be defined as "has users" or "makes money".) Having a well-tested product that has no users and/or makes no money is an even bigger nightmare than UI test maintenance. Once you know you've built the "right" thing (hopefully sooner than later), you can afford to invest more in all kinds of test automation (not just UI tests).
I use full screen modals for my new project. A list of items. U click one and the item appears in a full screen modal. U close and you're at the same place you started.users love it and i dont see a problem with it.
Mathematical Foundations of Data Sciences [pdf]
Why Brex Chose Elixir (2018)
The Apple Watch first Generation was so slow and I believe was such a embarrassment to Apple that they did a redo (Apple Watch Series 1).
[1]: https://system76.com/laptops/gazelle
> Display: 15.6" or 17.3" FHD (1920x1080) 144 Hz refresh rate, Matte Finish

WHY?!? Why do they keep using outdated, low res panels? I want to like system76 but can't with their bad displays.
And don't get me wrong, I love bash. I automated my first job using bash. But relying on bash just relegates aviary to a certain job description and thus just low value, domain specific tasks. Seems like a neat way for a linux admin to run a homelab, but not something that's easily adopted for larger teams working across OS, network platforms or integrating with external services.
Just got selected by Medium into Javascript & published by "The Startup".

Definitely a new way to create Apps, including complex components, view controllers, routing etc.

Feedback appreciated!
> "Serious operators" probably use a cloud storage solution that supports WebDAV/FTP/SFTP, like box.com or Google Drive - "real operators", on the other hand, have a self-hosted solution (-;

I didn't mean to discredit you for using iCloud - if it came across that way, I apologize. My original comment was meant to be tongue in cheek. I've got to admit that I'm a bit gob-smacked by your reaction... After all, my comment was similar in structure to yours. I even quote unquoted the terms, and the "real operator" part was a reference to the editor war xkcd you mentioned. Taking your post literally, I could accuse you of doing the same thing by assuming that real operators were Mac users. And I'm sure there are many use cases where hosting your own cloud storage would be absurd. But, re-reading my comment, it didn't read like a flame war instigating piece of propaganda "Calling all real sysops to arms against the user threat. Grab your cattle prod, fellow comrades, and crank up the voltage!"

> And IMHO relying on iCloud for essential data storage probably isn't a good idea.

I don't condone gatekeeping (although, to be perfectly honest, I don't see how my comment could be interpreted as elitist. It's not like the learning curve for GDrive or any other solution with a better cross platform support is _that_ high), but I don't see a reason why I shouldn't voice my opinion on a tool, even if responding to something obviously meant as a joke. Of course you're free to use iCloud. Personally, I wouldn't feel comfortable with the thought of my critical data being stored on a platform that, historically, hasn't always been known for being extremely stable. Maybe I'm just biased. If you feel comfortable using it, then use it. I won't stand in your way.
Assange is not a journalist of any sort, real or otherwise.
Journalists don’t actively participate in espionage, they don’t cozy up to ratfucking crooks like Roger Stone. They don’t withhold potentially damaging information because it might harm that align with most closely with their views. And if you believe nothing Wikileaks has ever published has been proven false, then I have a great opportunity for you to buy some waterfront property in Florida.
> and they do what you'd expect

No, they don't. I expect pressing Home to go to the beginning of the line I am on, and I have to hit Command-Left for that, and Home does nothing of value.
I recently had to switch from Jenkins to TeamCity, and while my very first thought fiddling with TC was that it's unnecessarily complex for my needs, I found myself creating the build jobs much faster and more straightforward than with Jenkins.
Jenkins plugins are very often deprecated/unmaintained with tons of security vulnerabilites and a bad UI/UX which results in inconsistent UX when using several plugins.

Also, with Jenkins you're forced to use groovy for pipeline code :/...
Ah, ok, I wasn't sure if you were and oldster like me or a youngling who grew up in the digital FF era.
One parent who does not work. This is typically achievable for middle class and up, depending on cost of living, of course.
The list of reasons why modals are bad are all very subjective. A little more explanation would have helped make the case that modals are bad.

Not to mention that what should be a list is displayed as a table (－‸ლ)
I like having the option, tbh. I usually self host the install scripts, which removes most of the potential issues.
How often do you inspect the code of the open source programs you use every day? How about when updates come out? Do you check again?

Or, do you trust that someone has looked at it? How much faith do you have in someone out there in the community?

My point isn't that open source isn't a good thing--my point is that it's not the silver bullet a lot of people blindly assume it to be. Hence the second line of my post:

> In theory it means something could maybe be safer, but it far from guarantees it.
I'm not 100% sure about that. Are angles between circles on a sphere defined by the angles between their tangent lines? If it were true, you could for each point/meridian combination construct an infinite amount of different circles that would all meet at right angles with that meridian (just vary the circle's radius). That doesn't feel quite right.

According to Wikipedia [1], "in spherical geometry, angles are defined between great circles". Meridians are great circles, but parallels are not. Possibly the angle is simply not defined for circles that are not great circles?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_geometry
In what context?

If you design a desktop application, like say Word then modals are more appropriate than the alternatives in many situations. For a site like Medium, a modal is an annoyance. If I asked for something (click Settings) then I am happier with my modal than if I didn't ask (we're going to stuff cookies on your page anyway, here is our arse coverer).

The underlying message I take is we "use too many things that make it easier for the coder and harder for the user". Sometimes that's a modal, but sometimes that's NOT using a modal!
This is a wildly bad take in my opinion.

Comcast has proven themselves to be uninterested in adhering to their contractual obligations. You bet your ass they are 1) figuring out how to work around their contract with Mozilla without attracting legal attention, and 2) making contingency plans for winning any resulting lawsuit.
Which TBF hints at the reason Sony does have all of this nice image sensor technology.

While they've been a newer player in the Camera industry, they've been doing professional digital video for far longer (SW EP2 was shot on Panavision-modified Sony cameras.) That's on top of their long lineage in the pre-digital-recording TV Market.
The irony of that statement is that Nikon is part of the biggest conglomerate family in the world (Mitsubishi), while Canon is mostly still a camera company.
GPS is a completely passive signal, so it's not really surprising that it lasts a long time. You can get similar battery life with IoT SoCs deployed on the field.

The difference between then and now is that modern smartphones use sensor fusion, combining cellular, WiFi, and GPS signals to generate a location. The end result is more accurate output, at the expense of battery life.
Wow. Having worked as a dev, and as a QA for 17 years, I've never experienced a relationship between dev and QA as you describe above.

Current role is about shifting quality to the left, helping build in quality into the process, and being less a "tester at the end" to which you throw something over the wall (I've not had that in probably 14 years), and someone who helps Quality Assure/Assist.

Have a look at the World Quality report this year. Spending on QA helps a lot in reducing bugs further down the line. There are always exceptions I guess, and looks like you were in that.