skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And a purple one which has a sweeter and earthier taste, which is my favorite.

There are also many varieties of passion fruit, some of which are very sweet. One time I had a batch of an heirloom variety of yellow passion fruit from a small farm in the provinces and it really was unlike anything I've ever had since.
> As for Google Maps. The biggest tell is that there’s almost no geospatial capability in the software. They don’t want you to analyze and understand. They just want you to consume “where is X”. It’s a standard Google vector for ads approach.

It was never meant for that. That is/was Google Earth Pro.
Google, Amazon, and Facebook all make devices that do exactly this. A big screen that sits on a side table, essentially a digital photo frame, that you can dial into. In the Amazon Echo case, you can even “Drop In” and connect with no need for grandma to even accept.
Have you tried the yellow/golden dragon fruit? They cost around 20x more than the normal white/purple type.
Angle brackets are easier to parse for humans.
It does, if you use e.g uBlock Origin. Twitch is actively trying to circumvent adblockers but so far hasn't been able to topple the more advanced blockers, even though they released SureStream[1] almost 4 years ago which is supposed to "weave" the ad directly into the source stream.

In the announcement[2] they mentioned:

> We are well aware that many dedicated Twitch viewers use software that bypasses ads, and the rollout of this technology will reduce the efficacy of such software. As a company we are agnostic when it comes to the use of this software. You are free to use it, or not, as you see fit.

I suspect that either advertisers or streamers aren't using SureStream or that it's quite resource expensive to "weave" ads into the source stream so Twitch simply isn't using it when the cost of doing so is more than it generates in ad revenue.

[1]: https://twitchadvertising.tv/ad-products/surestream/

[2]: https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2016/11/02/introducing-sure-stream...
If the counterexamples are so trivial and obvious, the author must be a complete idiot, right?

But of course they're not a complete idiot, so maybe there's another explanation, that you could have arrived at with a dash of charitable thinking.
Believe it or not, Peoplesoft was way better than what it replaced at my school.
From the article: "Beginning in macOS 11, the track of a slider with tick marks aligns with the center of the thumb."
so if human lives are priceless, then we are prioritizing it over other life on the planet. This may not have been a big deal until now that we have ~8 billion people. This worldview will eventually kill everything to preserve humanity, which will ironically kill humanity.

You aren't evil for saying human life is not infinitely more valuable than all other life. There's a point where the scale tips.

I enjoyed reading a book by the late Finnish conservationist Pentti Linkola, who said that to achieve healthy levels of biodiversity that the value of a species should become less valuable as it becomes overpopulated. (e.g. house cats are not as important as tigers right now, given tiger endangerment). It applies to humans.
What's the issue with x86? Genuinely asking
Conspiracy, but I don't think the US ever stopped researching nuclear propulsion. There's too many advantages. They built a few working and miniaturized test engines in the 60's but never put them on planes? I don't believe that. They put nuclear weapons on planes all the time and thats not much safer. More likely, they never told anybody they put them on planes, for obvious radioactive reasons.

An aside, the strange craft reported recently with the famous jet fighter videos had "impossible performance" and were all filmed over the ocean. The ocean would be the only safe place to test nuclear drones. And their performance would be quite unmatched by anything else. The pilots even reported that they submerged, sounds like a great failsafe if your super secret black project gets seen. I doubt you would submerge a jet turbine, but nuclear propulsion could easily work under water
> Internships that want to be converted to FTE needs to try the H1B lottery also.

This is not true in general, assuming you're a student (since that's the usual situation for an internship). You can rely on CPT during school (with some bureaucracy), or OPT if you run out of CPT time.
I don't think anyone's in favor of rampant money supply expansion like we've seen over the past decade or so, but I think you have to ignore or disagree with some pretty basic conclusions to be in favor of returning to the gold standard. Despite the potential negative effects, printing money seems to be effective in staving off the most severe effects of economic downturns. Evidence from 2008 and the coronavirus stimulus seems clear - you can fairly effectively prop up employment and demand without driving up inflation too badly.

And yes, I'm aware that the way that official inflation is measured is bad - but is it really terrible? Technology is definitely under-measured but it's also still relatively cheap. You can get a decent laptop that will last a few years for a couple hundred bucks. You can get Netflix or other streaming service that's very arguably better than for $100 a year. Healthcare and real estate are super jacked up (and maybe education) are super jacked up, but that's arguably due more to terrible policy and a fundamentally limited supply (God isn't making more land in Manhattan).

In theory MMT[0] sounds like this shady conspiracy to force the working man to buy more Coca Cola and Ford Trucks but in practice it turns out that unemployment is very painful and inflation isn't.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory
This google "feature" is really annoying. I have a private firefox window cookies specific for google searches to mitigate this effect. Yet it is still there.

While the visualizations are cool, I'm a bit afraid of how much of the displayed word cloud is a visualization of the "bubble" that the author lives in. It would be cool to see how different these graphs are on each of our computers!
From time to time there are discussions about how nearly all low hanging fruits are taken and startup founders are faced with a desert of really innovative opportunities.

SpaceX demonstrates, that if you move into an emerging market - pass that barrier to entry which admittedly rather high in SpaceX case, though not forbidding in any way - you're actually flush with opportunities. For some time SpaceX looks like a company which takes an existing product - be that a rocket, an engine, a cargo spacecraft or a satellite - makes an optimized version of it and along the way improves it in just some aspects. For example, Dragon was able to bring payloads down. Or Starship is able to be more easily reusable than Shuttle. Or the Starlink - it's almost the same, only low-flying sats and phase array.

When it's only some, rare truly innovative parts which your company is facing - and all the rest is rather predictable and "safer" from business point of view - you can really focus on those innovative parts, instead of being overwhelmed with all at once. SpaceX solves problems one by one - and they can afford it, being in the market (or market area? Space is pretty big) with relatively rare competition.
> i like it cooled from fridge

Me too, more so than for other fruits. Maybe that has to do with all the water content.
My understanding is that this is the same reason why there are many more varieties of banana available in Thailand vs. the U.S.
They pay similar _at the levels where they are hired_. That's what the letter of law requires. They just hire them at lower levels to pay less. And where they _really_ want to save costs, they hire the typical Indian sweatshops which are full of H1Bs who are overworked and paid peanuts. That's why the overall number of people working at e.g. Microsoft or Google can be nearly double their FTE count.
Yes, I gave up on Linux for anything desktop related about 15 years ago.

Still have an ASUS Netbook with Ubuntu LTS, which allows me to validate the "progress" of Desktop Linux on laptops.

Naturally I occasionally get to deal with it via VMs and server deployments, however for my choice of languages the OS hardly matters anyway.
Hi stickfigure, this is Joe from the dumb long form twitter thread you just wrote five sentences critiquing. Thanks for your feedback, I really appreciate it.
I don't care, I only got some apps opened and i switch between the screens, what do i care how an icon looks like or other OS stuff, I don't even see it or know how it looks
If Gmail or Twitter can do it, so can you. And hey, plain-HTML Gmail is actually vastly faster (noticeable even on my gaming PC, and much more so on my banking laptop) and basically as functional as the "regular" one.

Javascript is unneeded for vast majority of use cases, or is needed as an optional extra (like client side form pre-validation). 99% of existing Javascript on most websites is garbage that actually detracts from user experience; and it tends to grow like cancer - where one could get away with some nice enchantments on an otherwise Javascript-required website, one tends to instead end up with a slow, bloated monstrosity with pointless animations, sliding, etc. that cannot be used in multiple tabs, doesn't have capacity to link to a section of itself, etc. (see Chase banking website, for example)

And that is why I personally think no-JS should simply be an ADA-based legal requirement, like handicapped spots.
That would force the usage patterns to move in the right direction.
As someone on linux I've never run signed software ever in my life. Guess I've lost all my data and haven't even noticed!
FYI clicking the link redirected me to a medium link. Is there a non-medium link for this article?
They are too busy banning memes and legislating encryption backdoors. I wouldn't be holding my breath.
For hundreds of years people have been describing it as smelling like various unpleasant things, like rotten onions, rotten meat, pig feces, socks, etc.

In some countries where the fruit grows you aren't allowed to eat it in public in enclosed spaces, such as public transportation.

Some people hate the smell of roses. My wife can't stand the smell of honeysuckles but to me its one of the most pleasant smells in the world. Perhaps Durian smells good to some people. Its obviously got a controversial fragrance that many people find unpleasant. Its hardly a modern day media conspiracy.
From everything I've seen I'm actually most excited about the tvOS updates. They're really turning your TV in your central control system of your house but also make it the central point for entertainment, in-house exercise and gaming.
> If the counterexamples are so trivial and obvious, the author must be a complete idiot, right?

No. Smart people make simple mistakes all the time. Being wrong doesn't make one an idiot. Fortunately for me :)

Also, the realization that "lives vs. other-resource" is unnecessary to model because it's either dominated by other uncertainty or else results in deontology is not at all an obvious conclusion. It took me a decade to arrive there.

What I was pointing out in the above comment is how choosing extreme values for one resource or the other effectively gives you a deontological ethics that strictly prioritizes one thing over the other. You can solve the optimization problem if you want, but the solution is obvious. deontological ethics is the subset of utilitarian ethics where you don't have to do some calculations because you just max out the value of certain objectives.

> But of course they're not a complete idiot, so maybe there's another explanation, that you could have arrived at with a dash of charitable thinking.

Maybe. Can you explain why I'm confused, then? The plain meaning of the author's quote, even taken in context, seems like it has some trivial counter-examples. What am I misunderstanding?

BTW, I'm not being coy. I am being charitable. When I say "I'm not even quite sure what is meant by that assertion", I mean it. The thing I think the author means has trivial counter-examples, so the author must mean something aside from what I assume. Or else hasn't thought about the extreme values. Which would also be possible.
> Languages like Go with supremely simple cross architecture support might get a boost here.

Go's crypto libraries are heavily optimized on x86, not so on arm (see Phoronix Graviton2 benches).

We will have to wait and see how much of Apple's halo effect will contribute positively to optimized arm code.
Those are some serious mental gymnastics, and as far as I'm aware they didn't say that anywhere up front.
The dock can have the extra storage.

(And the GPU, and maybe even more RAM etc).
German was his real original language, as much as standardized German is anyone's real original language.

Edit: Also, if you want to check out something short, engaging, relevant and easier on the German, give Ödön von Horvát's Jugend ohne Gott a whirl.
Yes but when was the last time you ran WebEx on Linux?
What's a simple way to benchmark based on allocator?
As a mid-career software engineer who would be interested in getting into the "geospatial industry",

A) What technologies should I learn to allow me to get my foot into the industry? I have historically focused on being a UX focused web engineer. I'm sure that experience could surely transfer, but am interested in learning the technologies and/or understanding that is more core to geospatial problems.

B) As someone who loves maps and imagery, but does not want to work for the military industrial complex, how do I avoid point #3. "In geo, you either die a hero or live long enough to make the majority of your revenue from defense and intelligence."
>Dragon fruit can be grown in California, Florida, and Hawaii and is not "bland mush with tiny seeds that can require floss to dislodge". The author must have had a bad one. They can be extremely sweet. The seeds are so small that they go down without noticing and I've never had to use floss. My favorite is a variety with deep red flesh.

I've been trying to find a good one in the states, so far no luck. I've only tried ones with the red flesh. The ones I had weren't bad, they were just flavorless. Not sweet at all. Kind of refreshing, but nothing special.
I write and maintain some OpenLayers API (OSM) Javascript, used in a product.

OpenLayers was selected after Google started charging 10x for their maps API, grayed out the existing tiles, then required a credit card on file. Since the API key can be "view sourced", that was totally a non-starter, along with the always-changing ToS. Way too many moving goal-posts.

(Part of the reason non-free is a problem is that any testing ends up costing money, and the more testing you do, the more $$, which is a disincentive to do testing. But just staying on top of lopsided ToS gets old fast when you can just replace it.)

Using a combination of OpenLayers and SO sample code, I've been able to do everything I wanted to do and am happy with the final result, but usually it's some of the toughest programming of the month.
Maybe it's because this isn't actually political flamebait and you simply misevaluated the intent and effects of this post.
Is there an ADA angle to sue people (especially various govt agencies and stuff like banks) for discrimination based on inaccessible websites? I'd donate a lot for a credible push for bloat-free web.
Humanoid robots have been on the drawing board for thousands of years.
Apple's market share is still low enough for this to be a relative non-issue.
They are imported here, so that must be it. I have tried them many times, because the skin is so cool, but yeah they were always so dry and never tart.
Not all of the celebrities are necessary down on their luck - many are current actors or hosts or athletes making millions a year. That begs the question why they'd both with a short video for a couple hundreds of dollars - perhaps they actually enjoy it, who knows.
to get to the other side of the road?
At its end, the article suggests a wonderful question.

What is Zoom's Yo?
Even the, now official, merge of UWP with Win32 is planned to take years as they don't want to introduced hard breaks for those that decided to bet on WinRT.
Well, you have to remember than another game sorta like that was Duke Nukem Forever :)
Generally speaking, if you are going to offer criticism, try and offer a solution or ask a question that would address that criticism.

All I see here is "The value of human life is incalculable, so just give up."

Am I wrong? What am I missing?

We don't have infinite resources or infinite capacity to distribute them. That means we need to make hard decisions about things like medical care. That is reality. If I get some kind of crazy-aggressive brain cancer that costs a billion dollars to treat, I fully expect to die.

The best way to make those decisions is to have some kind of model that can (a) be readily understood; and (b) helps us make those decisions fairly and with as little unintentional bias as possible.

There will always be bias -- it's part of the human condition -- but if we can be transparent about our biases and willing to discuss them, we open the door to improving our decision-making systems later on.

With that in mind, what would you suggest as a model for determining, say, how we budget for healthcare?
The design you propose is stateful, and if you read the chapter closely, you can see we spend a lot of effort to make things stateless.

The main thing I wanted to respond to in this thread about a single bad server destroying your yearly SLO is described in the first paragraph in the section on load balancing at the virtual IP address.
Hey, this is Joe from twitter thread linked. I didn’t post this to HN but it’s nice to see it on here. I was wondering why a weeks-old tweet suddenly started popping off...

One thing I’d like to note—-I have learned a tremendous amount from other people responding to the opinions enumerated in that thread. Some things I’ve even started to question. So I’d love to hear your ideas—-especially if you disagree with me. Just please do it constructively. Sometimes seeing your ideas thrust onto HN without being prepared for it can be a harrowing experience and I’d rather this time around be a productive one.

Much love to the brilliant minds of HN -Joe
Whoah. Thanks for the warning. There's a squirrel that keeps trying to stash custard apples in my mother-in-law's planter in Thailand. They're tasty (and delivered by squirrels!), but I didn't know about the toxicity.
I think you're distinctly overlooking the many problems that come with 'easy to look up someone'. There are already massive harassment and stalking issues for some people with decentralized platforms like Facebook, let alone a central government registry.
My knowledge comes from immigration lawyers, sponsoring companies, and H-1B holders themselves, all of which spend tens of thousands of dollars on these things. They would have had to miss something, which I doubt, so it's a bit presumptuous of you to say it is incorrect. I am talking about the re-stamping process in which you are able to leave the U.S. and come back, so maybe I used the wrong words. As far as I understand, if you never do this stamping process, you can just stay in the U.S., never leaving while your H-1B remains valid.

The process is so overly complicated, it's hard to track. I am not aware of any process in which you can re-stamp an H-1B inside the U.S. You meed to do an in-person interview, and these are done at U.S. Consulates and Embassies, none of which are inside the U.S.

Of course, it's difficult to quickly find the information on the official U.S. websites, but here are sites that explain it.

http://www.greencardapply.com/question/question17/H1B_Visa_S...

https://www.h1base.com/visa/work/h1b%20visa%20stamping/ref/1...
They will be forced to stop when it becomes more popular anyways, unless some sort of lottery systems gets introduced or fees get bumped up into a $1000 range. But even then I think most will pull out of it after a while, especially if it gets popular, hard to imagine it is an exciting activity to do hundreds of such video messages every day.
500 dollars for a 1 minute happy birthday? That's a cool 7.8m per year doing it "one hour" each day during the week.

Just in case anyone wondered why these celebs would "debase themselves" thus.
Could you explain how NAT is relevant to the growth of walled gardens to someone was born after the development of the World Wide Web?
Postman Collection: I Give You Best Price
As a developer I cannot care less about UNIX, I see lots of interesting features.
According to https://rachaellappan.github.io/pigz/ pigz did about 360MB/s on a 96 cores machine, though that was 3 years ago.
H1-B and L-1 are dual intent and it matters to travel with a pending Adjustment of Status.
> "The real power of digital communication is that it is searchable"

The Library of Congress has ~38 million books in it. Imagine you could search it, it's easy to say that would make it more useful. And it probably would for some people - but a human has very little processing power and slow reading speed, if you got 38 million books reduced to 1,000 context-free paragraphs, that's still too many to read through.

This leaves "search" as a tool for limited situations such as: You remember roughly who put the content there and when and close-enough exactly what it said. Often in this situation that's still not enough to find it. Or, you want something popular like "iTunes Store Login" or "$Restaurant opening times". Or you are a researcher/archeologist.

Outside those kinds of usecases, "it's searchable" is more of a tragedy of the commons style problem - people who are best placed to do it (those making decisions) don't want to do it, and offload the problem to everyone else saying "it's searchable". This leaves decisions, documentation, and history scattered over an ever-increasing wasteland and intermingled with countless book-equivalent-volumes of chat, jokes, memes, flamewars, "donuts in the breakroom" trivia, outdated status updates, and all sorts.

Slogging through 1,000 paragraphs from the Library of Congress search results is still possible. Increasingly, every move is dogged by the weight of "search the 10,000 GitHub issues and read all the screens and screens of backlog" and "search the mailing list archives", the Slack archives, the IRC archives, the email threads, the forum threads, skim-reading junk and junk and junk, only to have to do it again 5 minutes later when your boss says "what was the status of X project?" and 20 minutes later when your coworker says "any reason X was changed?" and 10 minutes later when you want to know if X library should be behaving this way or not.

"Do nothing and let the search be our panacea" has always won over "big-organize up front" but it should be clear to everyone by now that Google search results get worse year on year. Nature lets things rot, unless you put maintenance effort in to keep them. We burn some money and a LOT of people's time keeping junk by default, on the "it might come in useful oneday" principle that leads to hoarder houses.

We act as if data can't cause disease and can't attract cockroaches, but ignore the fact that it piles up, clutters things up, gets in the way, it's the arterial plaque, the drainpipe sludge, the rust, of computer systems.

The power of digital communication is space travel - it's possible for people far away to be involved, and time travel - people who weren't there see what happened. "Searchable" is the Siren's call, that's not its power, that's its road to Hell paved with good intentions.
Indians are running an Organized Mafia in America https://archive.vn/XTZ5f
Well after I just got to experience the Oculus Quest, I'm going to say, after a few more VR generations, Zoom with VR avatars
> How close are we to a feasible space elevator?

Perhaps infinitely far - at least I suspect the law against elevator on the grounds of danger to orbital assets will get passed as soon as somebody will get too close to the ideas to actually build it.