skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say it's certainly more constructive to go actually take a look at Canon's lineup and compare it to Sony. Now is also a good time to start selling any Sony gear you own while it is still worth something before Canon annihilates them in a few weeks.
"Suck" is maybe too strong a term--though it can be the case if most of the team is co-located and there's one person who always has to dial in. A number of teams I work with also have an "everyone dials in" rule even though they're pretty distributed anyway.

As someone who is mostly remote, I never had too much of a problem with hybrid meetings. People in a conference room are pretty respectful that there are people on the phone in my experience. That said, the current situation where everyone is dialing in individually is something of a meeting upgrade overall. People have also gotten better at collaboratively edited agendas etc. not that they were bad to start with.
I've bought plenty of MEAP books at Manning that were incomplete. The difference is that I only had to pay the $30-40 (normal book price) one time and never think about it again, and new revisions would just be delivered to me.

There have been several early access books where the author needed to take a (well deserved) break, or be slow at delivering new chapters because of other revisionary work. This has sometimes meant a few months without new content, which I was OK with in that model.

In this model I could easily end up spending way more than than that, and every month I have to make a decision if it's worth cancelling.

Not only that you have another book on there that's "early access too" so you are juggling two books (and books are not trivial things to write and get finished/polished). So how am I to expect you'll get either done in a reasonable time.

So sorry, I'd be happy to give you a flat $30 for early access to the book and full access to the ebook when it's finished, but I'm not going to subscribe and hope it's in a good state prior to reaching that point in monthly fee.

This is despite I think this book is very much what I'm looking for as I'm wanting to get into 3d graphics, but I'll pass.
Are they really? It seems likely to me that many are simply reacting to being cornered and threatened. Taking the behavior of the police out of the equation makes the answer useless.
The current general model for US companies is to not hire people in Europe at all. That fails even harder.
> we will see a lot more apps on the mac

I agree, but I worry they'll be a lot more bad apps :( Apps that are hermetically sealed off in a little rectangle, apps that make you click-and-hold to bring up hamburger menus, apps that are missing Menubar commands, apps with GUIs that are framed oddly, apps that only save documents to "the cloud", apps that nag you to "sign up" to their service, etc.

I liked Mac apps, especially when they followed the HIG. Too many iOS apps reinvent the wheel.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/23/tech/trump-twitter-violence-w...
We have our recipes in a Trello board for meal planning, grocery list making, etc. I wrote a Python script to extract the data and print out an oft-used subset of them in a nice readable format. I use a Jinja2 template to format the pages with HTML and CSS, then convert them to one PDF document for printing.

I use an 8.5x11 page with metadata on one side (name, description, time to make, tags, dates made, etc.) and the recipe on the other. On the recipe side I have ingredients at the top of the page in two columns, and then the directions at the bottom in two columns.

We put this page in a plastic sleeve and into a 3-ring binder. When we want to make the recipe, we take it out and tape it to the cupboard with masking tape. That way anyone in the kitchen can easily see it and prep their part.
Wildlife Services, a US agency planting 'cyanide bombs' to kill predators
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_John_Crawford_II...
Wow! That's cool. Let's try it

curl() { [ -t 1 ] && curl "$@" | sanitize || curl "$@"; }
That's a caricature. Company directors have a legal duty to act in the interests of the company (as distinct from shareholders), but that doesn't mean they have to "act extremely selfishly and deceptively", any more than individuals do or should.

People and companies need to balance their individual short term self-interest with their reputation and long-term interest.

Like individuals, some companies can act like assholes, but when the system works well, people will stop associating with those ones.

Of course, cronyism, monopoly effects and other issues mean the system doesn't always work well, but that's a somewhat separate matter.
I probably failed to be clear enough, sorry.

Imagine walking up to a group of people at work as your job.

If you're a cop, 99% certain someone in that group, if not the entire group, is VERY unhappy to meet you. Doesn't matter if you're shooting a bank robber in progress or handing out speeding tickets or infinite domestic violence cases, nobody likes you. Most folks can take being universally hated for an entire career plus or minus alcoholism and such, but a microscopic minority will fight back leading to massive unrest and social problems.

If you're in the military, with microscopic career field exceptions, every group you walk up to is your buddies you work and party with, who wanna hang out and have fun with you.

One job field is going to have occasional fatal anger issues, and the other job field is going to have DUI/party-hard issues.
>When recipes say 1tbsp or 2tsp it gets me annoyed because if they had converted to grams I could just pour those ingredients straight in too but instead I need to get out my volumetric measures

Are kitchen scales accurate enough for such tiny measurements? 1 teaspoon is 5ml, so if your scale only has 1g of precision you're looking at up to a 10℅ variance (assuming you're measuring water), and that's assuming its accurate at that range. It gets worse when you need to deal with fractional teaspoons.
Sounds a little Amish. I ended up in Amish country when traveling last century, and it was a little weird. But I went to a house museum, and it was interesting.

One of the things that stuck with me as different: They take a little time to look at a new technology a decide if they want to use it. I wonder if our embrace of tech as being "neutral" is correct sometimes.

"They're more cautious — more suspicious — wondering is this going to be helpful or is it going to be detrimental? Is it going to bolster our life together, as a community, or is it going to somehow tear it down?""

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2013/09/02/21...

Of course predicting where things end up when new tech disrupts is difficult.
"Verizon" isn't the one making the decision here. Probably their marketing people are, and I'm gonna take a wild guess that their marketing department is staffed by stereotypically latté drinking art graduate types - the sort of people who believe academics are always right, and who get conspicuously upset about racism and sexism whilst loudly hating white men. All corporations have ended up with people like that, and even when CEOs disagree with them they prefer not to pick that fight because letting them set up diversity committees or whatever seems cheap relative to cracking down.

Now this stuff is moving beyond hosting seminars on white fragility, I wonder when or if the decision making classes will rediscover their own moral backbones and push back on it. There's really no moral virtue to be found in actions like this.
I love this. I got my start programming in BASIC on my C64 at the ripe old age of 6. While something like this has little practical value, it certainly provides a lot of nostalgia for someone like me.
Yes it works!
The difference is minimal though
(it was intentionally a one-liner)
> Bain is not found in either of those two documents

Bain's deals are covered in the second paper. (Bain is one of those "financials sponsors".)

With respect to your second link [1], "at least five companies eventually [filing] for bankruptcy after being acquired by the private equity firm" is troubling. But it looks like Bain made 68 deals in that period [2]. A 7.4% bankruptcy rate is higher than the industry average, so criticism is warranted. But it's far from the norm.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/romneys-bain...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bain_Capital
He did start out as an academic/scientific programmer, so yeah.
Of course it helps to have a gun if your opponent has a gun, because both of you now have a risk of getting shot.

If I know you don't have a gun because you're one of these unarmed cops, I can completely dominate the situation. I can make you stand on one leg and do a recital.

> By analogy, people are allowed to own rocket launchers as well (it's true!) but that doesn't mean every beat cop should carry one.

Rocket launchers are not anti-personnel weapons and no ordinary criminal carries them or would be expected to carry them. The best weapon to neutralize a threat wielding a rocket launcher is not another rocket launcher, it's a rifle.

Should we arrive at the situation where criminals routinely arrive in armored personnel carriers or tanks, then we can talk about arming the police with rocket launchers.
I've always suspected this and the rest of the conversation confirms it.
I'm not a good programmer by any chance, but somehow I managed to make an app in Unity for people playing Warzone.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.LuckyLoser...
SARS-CoV-2 present in Barcelona wastewater from March 2019 [pdf][preprint]
Can't believe people are citing this data. Comparing homicide statistics of people armed with guns being killed vs armed or unarmed regular people and thinking cops are safer than armed or unarmed regular people? Come on.

How about we account assults? In 2018, 10.8% of sworn officers faced assult. Of them, 30.6% sustained injuries. In 13.2% of the incident, the attacker was prosecuted.[1] But the rate of aggravated assult against regular people is 0.2%. Clearance rate is 52.5%. Prosecution rate is much lower.[2] I really don't care about your ideology or anything, but saying police is a safe job is just stupid. 10.8% of sworn officers faced assult while armed. Let's see how things changes when police is forced not to be armed.

[1] https://ucr.fbi.gov/leoka/2018

[2] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018
> for Bain, the caricature is appropriate

Not mounting a general defense of leveraged buyouts. Just against the point that private equity, or Bain for that matter, tends to guide companies into bankruptcy.

It looks like Bain did about 68 deals in the 1990s [1]. About five of them went bankrupt, a 7% frequency. Even if we double that to 10, it's about a 15% frequency. That's high! But it doesn't suggest a norm.

By and large, private equity-backed companies don't end up in bankruptcy. That doesn't mean everything is perfect. But the facts don't sustain this line of attack.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bain_Capital
Im a Junior dev and I actually have been learning basic Perl over the last year. I think Perl is still useful in shell scripts and most of the time its faster than awk and sed. But I cant justify using it instead of Python for scripts or applications. I cant think of any advantage to using perl instead of python in 2020. Even if there is an advantage, any coder can read and write python without learning python whereas Perl scripts are a liability, few can maintain them. I would love to use Perl I think its powerful and especially I see use cases for it in data munging. But at the current moment it needs a killer app that can offer some clear justification over python.

I do think Serverless Perl could be a good idea though: https://metacpan.org/pod/AWS::Lambda
This article is fake.
No the Internet is the communication technology. Not Facebook. You are free to create a blog and say whatever you like. If it’s something worthwhile, you should be able to get a following. There were people getting their messages out through grass roots campaigns way before the internet was a thing.
curl wttr.in/:help

and the curlable directory is almost there

As an interim solution, you can use this:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chubin/awesome-console-services/master/README.md
How exactly Apple comes ten years late to the party, when the first iPad had mobile connectivity ten years ago? Did Toshiba, or Lenovo had tablets with cellular connection 20 years ago?

Maybe Apple came out with iPhone ten years too late as well: not that's a great reason to make fun of Apple users, for sure.
The Woman Who Warned of WeWork’s Downfall Tells Her Story
This [0]? Or the linked article in it?

[0]: https://chanind.github.io/2019/05/07/best-time-to-submit-to-...
MDX Markdown Components: How to Use and Reuse
Apex Legends Akan Hadir Versi Mobile Di Akhir 2020
I merely used that to show that the error message was tied to `[[` and not to the use of double quotes (which your parent comment was asking about).
Sorry if my comment was unclear, I didn't want imply that Main Street is the street with "most small businesses" but that Main Street itself consists "mostly of small businesses", compared to streets with residencies or mixed usage.
Trust me, there is demand for programming jobs that work night-owl hours. A surprising number of programmers loathe morning work schedules. If Quora wants to create a job for them, there’s nothing wrong with that.

You don’t have to work there. You don’t have to work those hours. But please don’t shame a company for creating an opportunity for the people who voluntarily prefer those hours.

The alternative isn’t that Quora is forced to let European employees work their own schedules while everyone else has to follow the rules. The alternative is that Quora simply decides not to hire in Europe.
Adding your life story into your recipe might make it eligible for copyright, but what's the point? Someone can simply strip out your life story and then they'll be allowed to copy it.
I agree that being a police officer isn't as dangerous as cops would have you believe, but aggregating statistics for the whole profession probably hides some spikes of larger danger.

Lots of cops work essentially desk jobs. Lots of cops work in safe, quiet jurisdictions. They're pulling down the average, while cops who are responders to 911 calls in high violent crime areas pull it up.
Same with downhill mountain biking. If you are relaxed, you are loose, and you flow smoothly which is fast. If you push too hard, you get caught out by dozens of little things you weren't expecting because you are in new territory and that slows you down.

There is a time to push though, in order to move your abilities further and get familiar with the aforementioned edges of your abilities. But race day is not the right time.

On your last paragraph, that happens to me all the time. A week of practice practice and can't do it, put the bike away for a week and then I can do it first try. I think of it as a limitation on how quickly we can change and update our muscle memory, reflexes and intuition.
I would only buy the book if you put the pdf freely downloadable on your website (I systematically do that to support authors, because I love "dead trees").
I don't think the Shapiro is the one signal boosting the whole "own libs thing".

It's very simple. Suppose the following.

1) A man has a law degree from Harvard and was publishing nationally when he was in high-school.

2) He has a set of opinions and schools invite him to speak.

3) Lot's of students ask him questions many who strongly disagree with him and attempt to "take him down".

4) All of this is on video, hours and hours of video.

OK

Now, in what possible world would this person not "own" people at a high frequency?

If he wasn't "owning" at a high frequency then that person should be embarrassed.

You see "Ben Shapiro owns X" and not, Ben Shapiro in conversation with Ezra Klein, or Ben Shapiro telling his audience that their opinions aren't worth anything if they don't spend time reading and listening to the best voices on the other side.

"Ben Shapiro the guy who owns people" is a meme because he's more of a threat then "Ben Shapiro the guy who certainly should speak slower, has reasonable arguments, even when he's wrong" because that Ben Shapiro, that second one is actually scary. People could listen to what he has to say.

The right's loudest voices have never been the brightest, or when they were bright, the most reasonable. Shapiro raises the level of discourse on the right by a mile.

I have yet to hear Ben Shapiro say something novel or interesting. I like him though, because for the first time a popular voice on the right is educated and can reason from premises to conclusions, in steps, and is willing to discuss the validity AND soundness of his arguments.

By consistently doing that alone, he's in the top 1% of journalists. He's the exact opposite of what the right is "supposed" to look like.

And if you look to reasonable then you'll become a "Ben Shapiro owns" meme or a "binders full of woman" meme.
This is fantastic! I'd love it if I could pair this with an RSS aggregator to get new, plain-text recipes in my RSS feed every day/week, etc. Right now I get an RSS feed of my favourite recipe sites but have to get through so much junk to see the actual recipe.

I recently went down the rabbit hole of recipe websites while I built a little side project Shopify app for creating recipes on ecommerce stores[1]. Having a plaintext version has been on my backlog to-do list forever, but it seems the vast majority of store owners aren't keen on it. It's been a massive learning experience for me; and I never realized how... bad the recipe website experience was for so many people.

Question: how do you think we, as in us as the people building the current web, can improve the standard recipe display on the web? Obviously removing the 1300 word novel before recipes is a big plus, but what else do you think would improve your day-to-day recipe browsing?

[1] https://recipekit.app/
Early tocilizumab, methylprednisolone or both may improve outcomes in COVID19
Airbnb Layoffs Expose Inequities in a Two-Tiered Workforce
"Don't let a Pelican shit in your mouth" was definitely my takeaway from this story too
I hoe it is listed at https://github.com/chubin/awesome-console-services
For some games, yes. The graphics in others were designed for CRTs, though – take Sonic.
Washington, DC, has mail chutes in some buildings. When I first saw one, a co-worker, a New York native, said that she'd never use one, that no New Yorker would, because people pour Coca Cola etc. down them.

The building where I work now has them. I don't use them, mostly because it's convenient to use to box in the lobby.
> Seriously, how about just giving control to users?

Have you been living in a cave since 1999? Computing isn't about empowering people anymore, it's about extracting money and data (read: more money!) from them!
Only tangentially related, but if you're looking for a sufficiently challenging development project the iOS MDM protocol is a great one. It's well-documented, so you're not stuck banging your head against a wall. It lends itself to microservices very well, and is explicitly asynchronous for a lot of operations. I spent a week or so writing one in Java (and later ported to server-side Swift) and found it moderately challenging and a lot of fun to write.
I do actually believe that in case of deep sea fishing routine may be the source of many accidents as well, pretty similar to driving.

But there are other factors that I consider dangerous. Imagine you actually do have to shoot someone. Even worse if it is an accident where you panicked because your feared for your life.
Cruz joins alternative social media site Parler in swipe at big tech platforms
> The big difference is that surveillance was localized and didn’t follow the person

That is a big difference. But the big difference is how one-sided the new surveillance is. In a small town, they knew everything about you, but you also knew everything about them.

Today, parking regulations in my town are enforced by cars that circle around scanning every license plate parked on every street. I could probably find out who has access to that data if it were a priority for me. But what's stopping a private entity from doing the same thing? I'd never know it happened. Cell carriers selling my location data? I could easily have never known about this. Ad tracking companies having a record of most sites I visit? I don't even know who they are other than a few major ones.
The military is made up from officers and enlisted personnel with the former selected and cultivated for higher personal characteristics. The police otoh while referring to themselves as officers is almost entirely enlisted-class material.
A major part of their job is arresting people who usually don't want to be arrested. Yes, I'm sure some police over-escalate a situation and end up dead for it, but that's probably not the norm.
> I liked Mac apps, especially when they followed the HIG

Me too, I think there is a niche group of people who will always prefer native (in the UI sense) apps on Mac, there is a small market catering to those people so I hope that doesn't disappear completely.
I've been thinking for a while that the creator of Dwarf Fortress should win. Macarthur award. If any nominators read the HN comments, please consider!
Amazon Honeycode: Yet Another No-Code Contender
>They advocate for members by design so that is easy to do

And in their blind advocacy for members they are advocating for things that are at odds with what is good for the people their members are supposed to serve therefore they are a problem that needs to be solved and cannot be left out of this.
For those curious how Tobashi Schemes work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobashi_scheme
People complain about this. People would complain if they said they only hire in North American timezones. That said, a big window of synchronous communications between US West Coast and Europe is tough. East Coast to Europe is much more doable on a day-to-day basis.

I was actually having a conversation with someone I know in the UK about this a while back. His feeling was that it was a something of an advantage for a company that wants both a large US and a European presence to be East Coast-based for this reason.
> Are kitchen scales accurate enough for such tiny measurements

Yes, and there are lots of recipes that use mass rather than volumetric measurements. For solids, in fact, many sources prefer this because consistency of packing density and other user factors that effect consistency with volumetric measure are far worse than with mass measured with a kitchen scale.
> A trip to Albania ended his blind affection for socialism.

Traveling the world is probably the best way of educating people about human issues. I wonder if we replaced the first two years of college in America (general education stuff) with a trip around the world, what would happen?

I was talking to a friend from a third world country about this and I mentioned that VR has the potential to open people's eyes about human conditions around the world. And he said, "Nope. That's a terrible idea." I asked why and he said, "VR can't convey suffering."

Let's say, for sake of argument, that it costs $50,000 to send one student around the world. That's within an order of magnitude for most colleges for the first two years. Plus, it would drop due to economies of scale (also since we're talking about huge numbers of students, we could use boats instead).
It's not hidden at all.

Most developed economies including USA & UK target 2% inflation. Here you go https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation

https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2019/january/fed-infla....

Actually, top GDP economies now have a major problem since the inflation is way below 2%.