skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it that the door close button never works? Any elevator engineers out here?
The article also suggests using waste from steel and cement manufacturing, which is crazy.

<citation required>

If the production process is happening anyway, and if the waste exists anyway, why is it definedly crazy to re-purpose it? It isn't neccessarily the best at scale economic source of the kinds of rock dust we need, but if you have it, and it worked, then (without citing specifics like cross contamination risks or at scale problems) why is this specifically more crazy than the idea itself?
Not sure I agree. SIMD instructions, vectorized query, and low-level memory management are hard to implement in Java. Plus there's genuine uncertainty about the future of the language. I would not implement a new data warehouse in Java at this point.
Good explanation of the benefits of practicing a martial art. I think any type of activity that involves both coordinated motion and cardio is a good candidate for achieving flow states.

Re: martial arts. What type do you recommend?
For some people completing rings or seeing numbers go up is satisfying. For the same reason completing all quests in an open world game or leveling up a character in an MMO is satisfying and addictive to some people.

This is useful for those who don't find working out in itself to be a rewarding activity and may have a hard time sticking with it otherwise.
Digg's decline began before Web2.0 and any redesign - it was mainly a result of the "bury brigades" killing anything that was remotely interesting through downvotes and leaving it to be a dull feed of mainstream news links, which got progressively worse over time.

Reddit has the bury brigades too in some of the more popular subreddits (the ones which you used to be subscribed to by default), but you can avoid them by only participating in the subreddits that interest you. This is where Reddit is a huge improvement over what digg was, but I wouldn't say it's immune to failure. The more they try to be the arbiters of what people ought to find interesting, the less people are going to put the effort into interacting with the platform as a whole.
The Mirror is literally a mirror though. Does it even have a camera? If it does, you cover it or unplug it when not in use. There's probably 10 cameras in your house right now and you can turn them all off.
Maybe they will remember Shrek's famous speech.
I really hate how every company is trying to become a subscription company nowadays. Currently I have several devices constantly nagging me to sign up for some subscription. It is very annoying. And I certainly do not look forward to a future where I will have to pay a monthly fee for every object in my house.
you know, if you showed us you are a soil agronomist, and cited something we might agree. Or, we might look at the other people commenting some of them who do cite references, who say this isn't retarding natural soil microbiota and isn't going to the at-worst case, making land unusable.

your example of "try this at home" is not actually good. concrete dust before hydration is completely different to the dust made post hydration, or fly ash, or surplus rock dust from mining. The properties of the pre-build and post-build chemical reactivity of concrete (its an exothermic reaction) need to be borne in mind.

That said, aggressive de-carbonisation of industry and agriculture, biochar, wetland remediation, re-forestation are probably vital, and urgent.
If you just want to try for a few hours, you can add GPU(s) onto a GCP CE instance. Along with the trial credits it should get you a few hours poking around with cuda.

Otherwise, get a pre-owned GTX950 (one that doesn't require external power supply) and a TB3 to PCI-E x16 adapter. Not enclousure, adapter. Should cost you around $200 all in IIRC. And it allows you to upgrade the card furthur down the line since most of the cost is the adapter.
Flutter for web feels like going back to the .net "webforms" days, where you could supposedly build a web app the same way as a desktop one and the whole client-server thing was abstracted away. Except it sucked, I still have nightmares about viewstate. Seeing Flutter apps that render everything to canvas feels similar.

Developing once for iOS and Android seems obvious and doable, but extending that to the web is a different game.
Rancher was the last independent kubernetes distribution (that was company backed) as far as I can tell.

There was also CoreOS, which has since been bought by RedHat, and Deis, since bought by Microsoft.

So now it's been turned back into an OS war. RedHat, SuSE, and Microsoft.This is fitting because kubernetes feels like an operating system for container clusters. After all, operating systems are just resource managers and schedulers like kubernetes is.

(For those interested, there are several kubernetes distributions that are not company backed and open source. Two of my favorites are Kubespray[1] and Typhoon[2].)

1: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubespray
2: https://typhoon.psdn.io/
Hard to speak about security when <input type="password"> is handled in a 3-rd party process with unknown telemetry settings.
Java Optimized Processor (2005)
The first graph shows that choosing first does give an advantage, however like another poster has said, the advantage is amplified with how each gender sees each other.
The borrow checker nowadays operates on MIR, it is not done before MIR.
Is this similar to geode/gem fire?
I think you are right - but only for a specific crowd. The hardcore iron types tend to be serious about fitness, but define fitness narrowly. They fetishize the weightlifting basics, and dislike any and all gadgets and tech in their routines.

Always in fitness you have a group of customers who are not into fitness and making an aspirational purchase. However, there is also a group (probably larger than the hardcore weightlifter types) of fitness-oriented people who aren’t trying to lift heavy weights and they use apps, workout classes, and HIIT training with light weights.

Peleton/Mirror suit this group well. Both of my parents - who are older but fit - do almost 100% of their workouts on the Peleton now. My roommate, a former D1 athlete runs and does fitness classes via app. In both cases they were doing this before COVID, and quarantine is obviously causing many others to embrace this as well.
Largely it's up to building choice. It's a tradeoff of throughput (more people in a single car) and rider privacy. If it frustrates you, grab a UTA key [0] and that will let you put many elevators into independant service mode where the buttons should do exactly what they say.

[0] https://www.ultimatesecuritydevices.com/Original-OTIS-UTA-ke...
It really fell off the rails when it became an imageboard moreso than a forum and link aggregator. It was all about the text, and so attracted those most willing to tolerate a wall of text.

Use Archive.org to compare 2008 to 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 and onwards. The addition of thumbnails and gradual shift of the frontpage away from textual content and towards images is almost as remarkable as the increase in high-anxiety, anger and tribalism.

At some point sub-reddits were added, as well, which probably didn't help with the tribalism.
Coronavirus could attack immune system like HIV
Do you have a good system for drawing diagrams and plotting graphs in Markdown? Maybe some hybrid of dot, octave, and latex?
The FAQ addresses this:

https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail-faq.html
They are just "apps". I think you miss my point.

My point is that when an app developer adds the "native" qualifier to describe their product, it means they are trying to emphasize that aspect.

> Are Norton Antivirus, Avast, BitDefender and other are native applications in your classification?

None of these companies call their apps "native apps". They are just apps, and they are not lying. But unnecessarily adding the "native" qualifier when it is not "native" is false advertising, and that's what i'm pointing out.

Companies like Slack don't falsely advertise their apps as "Native apps". They instead own it 100%. If Slack called themselves "native app", a lot of people on HN will probably throw stones at them for lyiing.
The Peloton experience, as I understand it, is based more around the live-streamed workout experience, the accompanying music, and the integrated refined hardware.

People on normal bikes can buy a 'smart trainer' ($400-1200) and already have many options of connected apps (https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/03/cycling-indoor-trainer-a...), the most popular of which is Zwift.
The ADA requires elevator doors to be open for >3 seconds, it's easier to just disable the door close button in general than time it
I've heard it justified as forcing you to politely wait for people rather than letting you close the door on them, but that has always seemed implausible because usually there is either nobody nearby or there is someone close enough to trigger the photo-eye. Shrug.
Cheap gyms exist in the US and I bet $300 gyms exist in Germany and you're just nowhere near their demographic.
Genuine perennial favs are worth repeating every so often --- a year or two's interval seems reasonable, and is vouched by HN.

A marker of aging for me was seeing, a decade or two after I'd first read them in the local paper as a callow youth, repeats of previous features, by topic if not the actual text. Eventually the thought occurred to me that perhaps the versions I'd remembered were themselves not original.

People tell, and repeat, and embellish, stories. Sometimes because the young'uns and whippersnappers and new arrivals haven't heard them yet. Sometimes because they're just damned good stories and we enjoy the retelling.
I work with a non-profit called Ameelio that's fighting against stuff like this. We have a service called Letters now which lets people send letters to their incarcerated loved-ones, absolutely free. Check us out if you're interested in learning more about what we do. https://ameelio.org/
I still think you need a general direction. The highly paid and secure jobs are all ones which need a fair bit of preparation to access (software development aside, but we shall see if this holds over this recession).
Indigenous Americans had contact with Polynesians 800 years ago, DNA reveals
"Shipping is a feature too."
I know the article isn't about this, but I loved this part

the main problem — plain text editing forces us to conflate our model of identity with our model for labels.

The identity you have is not the labels others or you apply to you. But that very notion is advocated by the fake left thought police to tell you you have to conflate the two, in fact, your identity is nothing except the labels they proscribe you, and they demand you act in conformance with the rules they invent for that label.

It's funny that their idea hits a wall in this practical expression in coding. And I wonder if illumination will strike more generally
God, what a good idea. Why doesn't Chrome do this the way Android does?
GNU units is available through Homebrew, and does.
Is there a good way to spoof screen sizes and fonts?

... asking for a friend.
Not much information about the actual mechanism at work here. Why farmland specifically? Why basalt specifically?
I think the difference is that the OP (and I) are into resistance activities (barbell sports) and you are more into cardio and aerobic exercises.

As a powerlifter, I completely agree with the OP. When I first got into resistance training, as a techie, my inclination was to try all the apps and gadgets. 3 years later and I realised that the old timers had it right, the best tool for resistance training is a pencil and a notebook, maybe backed up by a spreadsheet to track long-term progress.
Line Android Covid-19 tracking app for the USA
I had the idea to set mine to the Digg logo as an act of protest
I'm protesting by not using Reddit. Ruqqus has so far been an OK alternative, though it's a bit slow both in terms of content and site speed.
History's Worst Software Bugs (2005)
You could get an Nvidia Jetson Nano for $100 USD

https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson-nano-developer-...
China suffers its second launch failure in less than a month
Is there any tech teardown of Mirror anywhere? Does it run Android? Has sensors or anything? Can I watch large-format Quibi on it?
I deactivated my account of 13 years, 4 weeks ago. As far as I'm concerned, its a propaganda machine the Soviets only could have dreamt of.

Its a shame because I got to briefly meet Alexis Ohanian in person and he's a great guy. I remember when redditors used to speak of the hivemind, but you don't hear about it anymore.

I was one of the Digg refugees from 2007.
That's actually so sad.
Go programs are not (generally speaking) statically linked, unless you're explicitly doing CGO_ENABLED=0, -tags 'netgo' and the whole variety of other tricks needed to coax static binaries out of the compiler. Try running "ldd" or "file" on your Go binaries -- most of the time they'll be dynamic objects and linked to glibc, especially if you're just doing a stock "go build".

In addition, Debian definitely does package Go programs -- they've packaged some of mine and they have possibly the most ambitious way of solving the great vendor/ issue (which most other distributions have ignored).

The likely issue with LXD is that they require specific versions of various system libraries that they package in their source code bundles (including a fork of sqlite3!). I packaged LXD for openSUSE[1]. It wasn't really fun, but it is fairly doable if you have a flexible enough view on "good packaging practices" (and I imagine Debian packagers didn't feel like going through all the necessary workarounds -- which includes patching the ELF binary in the openSUSE case). And note that LXD isn't even a static binary -- I tried to compile it statically to get around a whole range of issues and it was a nightmare.

[1]: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization:conta...
I'm one of those people that leave it open. I think I instinctively just avoid clicking on any pop up/over on a page.

That being said, I am curious what happens if you don't click "accept" on those ones. I'm assuming you're implicitly accepting by not leaving?
This reminds me of when Google+ implemented an always-visible, always-above-the-fold, animation-permitted profile image.

I immediately set mine to a nausea-inducing (or worse, apologies) red-green-blue strobe. In protest.

That was ... eventually ... fixed. But yes, gratuitous user-specifiable animations are horrible.

Reddit decidedly has problems.
In network engineering circles, this one is second only to the RFC for IP over avian carriers.
CoinTracker is hiring a remote engineer to build a new financial assistant
i havent seen / made one
This is an interesting point. The way Tinder works is a little different than how this problem is normally modeled since both people need to swipe (propose) in order to get a match and therefore proposals are bidirectional. There is still some subtleties because people don't know who swiped right on them (unless they have gold).

A more apt comparison is how Hinge works. People don't need to actively go out and 'like' people, they can just sit and wait for likes to come in and they can choose if they want to match or not.

I would be very interested to see Hinge data for how often men give out likes versus women.
Interview with head of the Mega65 project, a C65 clone
Make websites pay to run remote instructions on users' computers. It'd never happen, but it's a fun concept.
> a simple app called "100 pushups"

Got a link? There are a bunch on the App Store with that in the title.
My firstname.com domain gets renewed by a lawyer every year. Last 12 years. Through a local web host/domain registrar whose customers are mostly the people who where their customers two decade ago (because they were probably one of the 2-3 companies back then) and don't know better to move elsewhere.

He doesn't even reply to emails. Not sure he checks them. The domain is not being used for anything. Mails, forwarding, websites - nothing. Nada!

It's not even his name. Let's say the domain is "johnsonmon.com" and his name is "John Mark". I wonder whether it's for some client of theirs.

Every year it gets renewed for one year at a price that's around twice the second highest price among local registrars here (guessing based on that registrar's current renewal price).
Very cool find, write up, and code. Such a simple and devestating hack. Does it still work or have they found a way to defeat you yet?
Probably around 2011 I was trying to push for XMPP at a .edu for internal chat (they was no current system at all).

Around that time the iPad was showing up everywhere and I found was that there were zero good iOS XMPP clients. Every single one we tried, I'd notice it was proxying the credentials through a 3rd party server to deal with the lack of background connection support and to handle the push notifications. This was a major security issue, and also meant it would have been unusable during an internet outage.

This sort of thing, combined with the lack of server side history was probably what killed it.
Perturbador historia de horror de niebla real – ep.1
About accessibility, you need to find the "Enable accessibility" button and press it first. It's not visible on screen, but you should be able to find it with your screen reader's navigation commands (e.g. swiping left and right on a touch device). Yeah, it kind of sucks that the user has to turn accessibility on, and for that reason alone, I will never willingly develop a web application with Flutter. But at least it does support accessibility.
Hate to break it to you but theDonald.win, where T_D went after reddit imposed its "quarantine", just steamed through the top 1200 spot in the USA according to the Alexa rankings.
Most of the "resurgence" in cases in Texas is from about 3 counties, all in the border, all of them treating individuals crossing the bitter for better treatment.

If course, we could say the rest of the cases are simply from anyone now using the healthcare system who is being automatically tested even if they are being seen for something non covid related.

Of course if you really wanna get in the weeds, you could probably say that the median age for covid is about 36 and the death rate is about .04% for those under 50, well below a seasonal flu. Of course you still have democrat governors letting the bodies hit the floor among elderly nursing home residents. But children who are statistically unaffected by covid remain locked down with their parents, who are also minimally affected.

But hey, i think orange man is bad too..
> Appimages are great but there's no sandboxing or updates.

I know nothing about AppImages, but up above someone said they do have updates: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23773878
Custom README feature on GitHub profiles now available for all
Here's a concrete, practical solution:

Radical affirmative action. Not radical in the rioting / revolution understanding of the word, but in its application.

So, if the issue with systematic racism is such that it endangers the foundational core of American society, it's time to take a big risk: literally pull random people to sit on VC and companies boards, in skilled jobs, etc. (a bit like the Diversity Visa Lottery the US already does for immigration). And train them on the job.

Sure, there will be issues here and there, but it would definitely solve the issue once and for all. It wouldn't even have to be explicitly racial. If it's truly random, you would end up with an accurate representation of the population.

It would also desegregate schools and neighborhoods, too, because with such a disruption people would have to move to match their new jobs.

Now, an exception should be made of course for professions where an error would mean life or death (or injury): doctors, airline pilots, etc. But I suspect 95% of careers at least could be desegregated in this way.

And perhaps an exception for jobs that truly require special abilities: professor of physics, professional athlete, etc.
I can't say anything about this better than Ken White did today; I cosign this in its entirety:

https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1280992193591689221
Can't I just judge it on the basis of being broken?

- being an SPA prevents the browser from remembering the scrollheight of a page so if I click on the margin (why does the entire margin act as a back button closing the comments?) I lose my place in comments. How hard would it be to stick a "scrollheight = localstorage[url].scrollheight || 0" in the 6 megabyte javascript bundle?

- clicking "view more comments" does keep my scrollheight since its not a page reload, but since there's like 5 comments instead of 5000, I'm suddenly at the bottom of the page and have to scroll to the top

- it loads the top level comments before the subthreads, so while I start reading the 2nd or 3rd comment, everything gets pushed down to make room for more comments -- or even better I just get a "something went wrong" for like a half second and then the replies come in. I actually see this pattern a lot - SPA thinks that everyone has a megabit connection and if content.length = 0 then something must have gone wrong !

Or how about when it says "18 more replies" and I click on it and there's only one reply? Can't javascript count?
When I used it professionally it was always a pain. XMPP was very chatty for mobile. Multi user chat and chat history was a pain to get working. Clustering was also dark magic. This was Ejabberd which was considered the best option at the time.

At the time, it felt like every feature was stuck in beta/RFC mode with very poor cross server compatibility. How is a federated protocol supposed to work like that?

I think XMPP just failed to cater to any audience. The Googles and Facebooks could roll their own and for everyone else it was too cumbersome. It's not as "easy" as running an email server and no one wants to do that either. It wasn't even agile enough to woo small communities with whiz-bang features.
I think the LWN article misunderstands what Ken VanDine meant by “pressure” in the following quote:

> By shipping such a key application as a snap it will continue to keep pressure on to ensure we keep improving the experience while also reducing our maintenance burden for the LTS and future releases of Ubuntu.

The article takes the quote to mean that “Canonical … is using [Snap] to apply pressure where it wants to see change” and implies that Canonical is trying to pressure distros like Linux Mint to support Snap. But I think VanDine meant only that using Snap in a high-profile package puts pressure on Canonical to make Snap easier to use in Ubuntu.

That’s a less controversial goal than the one implied by the article. Of course, whether Canonical’s actions are truly motivated by that goal is a separate discussion topic.
> when organizations want to avoid the appearance of IP taint

So we usually try to talk about what they're learning on their spare time, any personal projects, any cool technology they're looking to learn... then follow it up with what have you done so far to start on this, any small toy projects on this new technology.

It's a weird organization because aside from COVID-19, we've had very little turnover (most people are with us 3+ year with an average of 7 years) so we've kinda changed up hiring a little bit over time.
Surprised no one has mentioned that you can change to old reddit styling using the settings menu in the top right. That said, Reddit has become mindless fluff which makes me actively less happy.