skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You can see how shaming has helped the cause of open source, black lives matter, pollution...

I think there's a stronger argument to be made that shaming has hurt each of these causes more than it has ever helped. If you want to make people antagonistic towards you, belittling or demonizing them for not holding ${belief} is a great strategy. Public shaming is a threat-by-example to the broader community that certain behaviors and beliefs are forbidden. It doesn't encourage individuals to seek the truth, whatever it is, but to conform to safe beliefs (and if you're playing the status game, evangelizing those beliefs is a great fast-track to power).

Semmelweis may well have succeeded if he hadn't shamed people with an air of absolute certainty (an attitude which seems to be increasingly in-vogue for any kind of popular issue today) but had acknowledged the complexities of the problem and focused on ascertaining the truth.
For anyone else experiencing something similar, try the 'Avoid potentially unsafe roads' option in the settings menu. This tells the routing algorithm to always avoid 'secondary' and 'tertiary' roads without explicit sidewalks (these are OpenStreetMap road classifications).

This isn't on by default because in some countries/regions, such roads are very reasonable to run on.

Clearly there's a better middle ground though, which might involve highlighting potentially problematic parts of the route in the UI.

Thanks again js2 for your email and all your feedback!
Trakcare [0] electronic medical record system.

As far as I can tell this is a demo EMS from Intersystems, they provide Cache [1] to companies developing real EMS with modern user interfaces. They don't sell this product in the USA (so not to upset their customers), but have dumped it on the rest of the English speaking world.

I suspect here is some sort of NDA with those unfortunate Hospitals taking this pile of stinking £%^£" as I have never found a user group or trustworthy review.

I get to use it at ground level (talk about poor UI), at management level (no coherent db integrity, very poor reporting) and have seen a complete inability to reconfigure the system to cope with COVID.

When ever we see demos for new clinical system I always ask "Would those coding this system accept this level of quality/usability in their daily software tools?". The marketing guys look at me like I'm from another planet.

I know "you get what you pay for", but for something hundreds of thousands of Hospital staff will be using for patient care (we don't bill in the UK), there should be a floor below which no company should offer half-baked dangerous products. Trakcare is in the sub-basement.

[0]: https://www.intersystems.com/au/products/trakcare/

[1]: https://www.intersystems.com/products/cache/
Canvas is for sure much better, but has its own issues. It marketed itself as the anti Blackboard, but it's begun sagging under its own bloat, and feature development slowed way down. It doesn't help that Instructure just got bought by a private equity firm, and fired a bunch of their employees.
I've heard many people complain about OSX in similar ways but in 15 years of intensive usage I've experienced only a handful of annoyances.

Compared to Windows it's an absolute dream. I left Windows because it was a mess and applications constantly crashed and also the OS crashed and the multitasking is thoroughly crap. I have a Windows machine and every now and then I think "maybe it's all better now", and I give it a try and instantly the same crashy problems and really bad multitasking.
No-contact pickup works for school-provided meals, too
I'm sitting next to one of those to-go carafe boxes of coffee right now I ordered yesterday. 8-ish cups. It's empty now. RIP.
Exposing misleading argumentation techniques reduces their influence
Being able to read schematics and have basic electronics equipment is likely tested because getting a license gives you the legal right to build your own radio equipment that can transmit on amateur radio frequencies, potentially worldwide. They make some effort to ensure you know some of the basics so you aren't stomping around on the frequencies and ruining the airwaves for others. Plus it's a good way to introduce some of the necessary concepts to tinker in the amateur radio space. When I was trying to pick up signals from as far as possible, I used the knowledge I gained from studying for a license to inform how I needed to alter my setup (knowledge of antenna construction, impedance and basic circuits like a balun for example). The license studying material actually provided an excellent starting point which helped me know exactly what I needed to search about online :) I think the overall point is, if people don't grasp those basic concepts, they are probably not well-suited to the world of amateur radio and will cause trouble when they buy some expensive radios and misconfigure them, or start making seriously questionable DIY radio equipment, or so on.
Jira is bad, but Google Doc and Google Drive are so, so much worse.

Knowing it is not Jira is what makes Pivot tolerable. Knowing both are coded in server-side Java, though, is oddly satisfying.
Indeed. I don't imagine games that are designed for two thumbs, like Fruit Ninja and Flappy Bird, are going to contribute significantly to the Mac's gaming experience.
I just moved to a new university that uses Canvas, and while it is not perfect, it actually does not cause physical pain when entering data.
Hah nice, I thought I was the only one who did this!

I've noticed that in the more extreme edge cases, it lets me through anyway. Maybe other people aren't paying enough attention to notice that there's actually a difficult-to-see street sign in that particular square.

Sometimes I feel bad that one day, a Waymo car is going to miss a stop sign because of me. But then, I also resent being used as a free mechanical turk, and they should know better than to rely on random people from the internet to build safety-critical systems.
Looks interesting. It missed the multi-use trail that wraps around the area where I live - though its not on google maps either.
In this configuration you aren't extracting the mechanical energy, instead it's being converted into alternating current through a linear solenoid coil. The energy leaves as electricity.
Ok, changed from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-11/the-world.... Thanks!
> Apple discontinued the use of PowerPC processors in 2006

To be a little more specific, they actually both released the first Intel Mac and discontinued the last PPC Mac in 2006, over the course of 210 days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_transition_to_Intel_proces...
So what is like Jira but good?

I use jira at work and I like it.

But our use case is maybe more limited/liberal. For us it is:

1) list tasks to do and how tasks are linked

2) archive discussion about issues and integrates with butbucket (so in commit it will link to ticket to read about why something was done; similarly from issue discussion I can see the relevant commits; this also goes well with history either by looking to linked issues or blaming in git and getting issues that resulted in the commits)

3) enables pointing other devs to something (I did some partial task, need help, I assign or cc someone else, they contribute to the issue as appropriate and then hand it back). Helps ensure all relevant discussion is centralized and persisted.

What we don’t do is use it as an explicit performance/formal sprint tool... there is no middle manager questioning me about something I wrote/didn’t write in jira. is this where people start to hate it?
Garmin have an import API (I’m just setting it up with cycle.travel). I’ve suggested an “open this URL to get a polyline” intent to the Osmand devs and they’ve built it but I’m not convinced it’s live yet.
The entire AWS web console.
Have you read Eliezer Yudkowsky's April Fools' Day confession? https://yudkowsky.tumblr.com/post/81447230971/my-april-fools...
> Computers and the software they run today enables us to do far more than we used to.

This is true in the broadest sense -- certainly calc.exe is better than an abacus! -- but I'm not sure it's true on the 10-to-20-year timescale people are usually thinking about when they say software is declining. I use exactly zero features of my computer that were not available in Windows Vista, released in 2006.
Microsoft Windows.
Followed closely by Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Teams, and...god help me...SharePoint.
Imbens and Rubin’s book “Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences: An Introduction” is an excellent reference for the Potential Outcomes approach. There are also several summaries online done by Rubin which do a great job of explaining the core concepts and how they apply in concrete examples. Rubin’s class in grad school was a large factor in my decision to focus my PhD on Causal Inference, and that book is one I return to frequently.
I was thinking through how you might do this, and my brain dredged up User-Mode Linux. A UML wrapper around those docker containers would behave almost exactly like you describe. You should (if I remember correctly) be able to nest them, too.

I'm pretty sure this is doable today. It's a monstrous hack, and I've got no idea what the performance overheads would look like, but as a way of hiding a mess behind a clean facade, I'm not aware of any reason it shouldn't work.
Every time I complain about ServiceNow someone pops up saying "You're just not configuring it correctly". A service that relies on the user to configure properly (or rather, have an in-house expert) is not a good service.
What I meant is that it is the only one in the region big enough to stand up to bullying and sustain a short term war.

The Chinese withdrew from the recent conflicts only because they knew that India wouldn't back down and the Chinese would get a heavy bashing.

It would of course not have happened without the support of the Indian allies on the east coast of China and the US.

In Kargil Pakistani troops had captured all the strategic high locations, and fortified bunkers. There are some answers here, https://qr.ae/pNKfPI
I can say many things about BitBucket but it isn't slow. In fact it's significantly more reactive than GitHub and GitLab in my experience.

Also your posts are hard to read if you systematically writes it's when you mean its.
Inversion: The Reframing Technique of Top Thinkers
Is there a way to do this easily on S3 if you’re hosting a static website with custom domain? Last time I checked you still needed to put a CloudFront instance in front of it.
I've been pretty happy with Formik (https://formik.org/docs/overview) for the past few years. Any comparison to this library?
I also appreciate the response, and I certainly agree that no one except the NYT reporter knew what would be published (and not even they knew what the ultimate consequences would be for Alexander). But since the only way for Alexander to know for sure would have been for him to wait and see if he gets fired, I can't blame him for acting speculatively.

Maybe people respond in proportion to their self-assessed risk that they themselves would end up in Alexander's predicament? That probably explains some of the left/right split on this and similar topics. I just can't help thinking that those with views broadly similar to an average NYT reporter's are underestimating that personal risk, given that: (a) the boundaries of acceptable thought may change quickly and unpredictably; and (b) a much greater fraction of their personal and professional network is likely to come along with the mob, increasing the risk that public censure has consequences to their daily life. "Cancel culture" poses much less risk to a Breitbart reporter (who's already beyond the pale) than to a broadly liberal writer who misses or disregards the latest change in that boundary.
Ok, but, regardless, it corresponds exactly with the CDC's own assessments. Reopening schools is among one of the highest risk things for spread of the disease:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/us/politics/trump-schools...
Dropbox may be unwieldy, but the document version history has been a lifesaver.

I'd love to find something for an environment where there are many people (many uncomfortable with technology) sharing a folder full of code, documents, and media for a project -- something that acts as a robust safety net. OneDrive is ok but has failed us multiple times (failed to upload, failed to sync, filed to notify).

Can Syncthing handle anything resembling an enterprise (ok, enterprise-light) setup? The last time I tried it on Android (~2 years old), it was painful, and that was just for my own personal backup, not a shared environment.

Thanks
I’ve yet to find a good intro doc that explains how git works conceptually. There are too few visual examples with authors assuming that users already understand the basic concepts like commits. To people who are completely new to version control, git can appear nonsensical.

Funnily enough I think Atlassian/Bitbucket comes close to a good intro doc to git on their site complete with a visual guide. I still found it inaccessible to people totally new to the basic concepts though.
Very nice.

I would like to be able to collapse entire thread by clicking on its line, even when I scrolled. For that lines should be visible for entire thread duration, not only original comment (like new reddit).

I would also like to see autorefresh on topic itself.
To me this seemed to get easier as I encountered more "languages of the mind", i.e. more ways to think about things. This, is very much tied to the "nurture" part of our lives, as foundational experiences are more by the very definition of "experience" subjective and unique.

Solving a problem within mathematics in a new way can be made much easier if you have grasped multiple fields (for example, algebra vs. geometry). I've seen people understanding chemistry well because they enjoyed cooking, and could sort of use either to get to a given explanation to solve a problem. I've definitely started to grasp chemistry only when I reached a decent level in theoretical physics.

Here's my assumption: everything has a likelihood of depending to some degree on other things (examples: can you do mathematics without a language or writing? can you do physics without mathematics?).
Therefore, "thinking laterally" could very well be thought of more as "thinking with an interesting combination of previous vectors of thought". Perhaps the "genius" is to create nonlinear combinations of previous vectors.

So in short, this ability to come up with another solution, and another, and another.. I wonder how much it is tied to the richness of experiences you've had since your birth, and particularly the foundational ones (at the very least I would assume to be more testable than later on, if my hypothesis about dependency of "thought vectors" is true).
That time to switch depends entirely on the target demographic, though.

It might be fine for your web developer type or casual user.

Professionals, however, have a lot invested in certain platforms. Be it the ability to publish their work (e.g. Apple's Walled Garden requires you to use a Mac for publishing to their app stores), workflows established over years, or investment in hard- and software that are tied to the Mac ecosystem.

Switching to something else entirely is of course always an option, but it's not always a realistic or sensible option...
I agree about threading, but how is filtering and compose broken?
All I am hearing from this is, "We must reopen the economy."
Sorry but that example code looks confusing as hell. If I saw that code without any context, I really wouldn't be able to tell you what it's doing.

Seriously, this is why I hate modern web development. Absolutely everything seems stuffed full of incredibly over-the-top complexity.

Libraries like jQuery get a lot of hate because they're not trendy or supposedly impact performance too much, but unless you're serving thousands of visitors simultaneously you really should care more about code readability and maintainability than any of that.

At least with something like jQuery validation you can actually understand what the code is doing:

$("#myform").validate({
rules: {
name: "required",
email: {
required: true,
email: true
}
},
messages: {
name: "Please specify your name",
email: {
required: "We need your email address to contact you",
email: "Your email address must be in the format of name@domain.com"
}
}
});
99% of git usage seems to involve one or fewer remotes. Maybe multiple remotes is just not that useful.
30ms is the video refresh latency with a typical 60fps monitor and a double framebuffer, without any latency from the application itself. Most videogame players have a similar setup and they evidently don’t find it “extremely annoying”, ot they would have stopped playing a ling time ago.
> I recently started using Gitkraken which allows you to pull changes WITHOUT needing to commit locally first because it uses stashes. It basically does the same option. Why can’t git be smart like that?

This is not being smart, this is trying to be too clever for one's own good. Git does what it does because it wants you to know what might happen and to decide explicitly.

If I do a 'git pull' without remembering that I was doing something and that just goes through and stash my changes automatically then I have lost the exact state I was working in and I need to work to recover it.
Now, on the other hand if git stops and tell me that I have changes pending then I can think and decide. It only takes a few seconds.

Trying to automate too much can be a false economy.
I don't know about Redfield, but Fauci has gone on the record on this particular subject in his recent interviews.
Wow, thanks for that link! Great stuff.
That's highly dependent on the parents. A lot of homeschooled kids end up normal, but the stereotype of homeshooled kids not knowing how to behave in a social setting exists for a reason. It'll be even worse in the current situation where you have parents that are working full time and don't have time to also organize social activities like the parents who intentionally did homeschooling.
32bit armhf is still the “supported” way of running Raspberry Pi OS. I believe the 64bit build is on the horizon, but still considered beta.

If the consensus is its stable enough to give it a go though, I’ll give it a go.
It's true that upvote count and comment counts are the best way we have to quantify the quality of a submission. That's why I still browse the top posts page and will still upvote a post that I think is high quality.

But for me, upvote and comment counts bias my perception of a post. I'm choosing to hide these counts so I can read articles uninfluenced by the number of points they have relative to other posts on the front page.
Same with Slack
Man thanks so much for your work! Been using it for some time now especially for planning long distance routes. That's where cycle.travel really shines (plus I really love the 3D altitude visualization ;-)).

I usually tend to export routes and navigate with komoot. Komoot for long distance planning is terribly slow as soon as you hit ~200km+.
Not all two-strokes have "total loss" lubrication --- only crankcase-scavenged ones do. Larger ones, and notably two-stroke diesels, don't.

That said, this one may need minimal lubrication since in a free-piston generator, both ends are combustion chambers, the only place there is sliding friction is between the cylinder wall and the piston, and the "secret" to their success may be some sort of ultra-hard-wearing material for those surfaces.
Mountain biker here. Google used to have a great app that was able to record the trails I went to. After that, I could share with my friends and they could do the same circuit just following the directions given by the app. That was a great way to discover and explore new routes. Like everything that works, google canceled the project. If you add this option, I can guarantee at least 20 news users to your platform.
meanwhile i laid in a 15 pound supply in late February when it was starting to look scary, Just In Case.
Its not just simplistic, its unusable.
> one of them is dead

So almost nobody.

I rest my case.
This sounds like fun tech.

But isn't this dead before it really lifts off? Intel 1588 is not supported by every customer-NIC, and far from supported by most switches and such.

So if i have to build a "special" hardware environment anyway, why use AES67 and not some other proprietary solution without IP which may (? or may not) deliver better latency and jitter?

Last time i checked (which is a while back), the same support-argument would apply to multicast.

Am i missing the point here? Please enlighten me.
Thank you!
b/w laser printers ftw
Thanks, I understand, both parents working and no one to take care of the children at home must be the most common case in the US.
I moved to Spotify in order to get my feeds synced across devices. It’s mostly been a better experience, but for some insane reason you can’t add a proper feed to Spotify.
$15 is a tad bit much for repackaged open-source imho.
Do you have a blog? (I checked your bio, but your personal domain seems to redirect to your work now.)
> how do I know it’s important?

This is an interesting topic. I’m working on a new discussion site (sqwok.im) and I explicitly opted to exclude voting. Instead to determine importance I’m using a combination of signals like live activity, publish date, etc, with plans to include further ones at a later time. I echo the sentiments from other commenters and even pg himself in regards to groupthink, and I feel that there’s room for exploration on other alternatives.
Considering its sheer complexity its is indeed well-executed. I just wish I didn't need something that complex to read a document on the internet.
Thanks for the tip about Osmand, I'll check that out. If you're referring to the Garmin Connect Courses API (https://www.garmin.com/en-GB/blog/garmin-announces-garmin-co...), that's exactly what I've just got access to and plan to integrate with fairly soon...
Netsuite trumps everything, I have fond memories of JIRA as well
A Starter Guide to Building Real-Time Applications with Node.js
They can't opt apps in automatically. With the current scheme apps from the App Store can be offered without developers needing to submit a new build.
Same here with the boycott, caved and got some NC headphone and they live up to the hype. Said company have always been masters of audio.
Passively used a few others, didn’t find them compelling either to switch. Why is FireTV OS the lesser evil?
OP may have a different answer, but the Internet Archive[0] and the /r/DataHoarder[1] communities are really obsessed with digital archival and preservation. The latter has gone to great lengths to, well, hoard anything and everything imaginable that they can.

[0] https://archive.org/

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/
I was planning on mentioning Zoom as well. The Linux client especially is insanely bad, iirc it also drew itself on top of everything.

My suggestion on Linux at least is to use the web client. Just get the url, do a 's#/j/#/wc/join/#' to it and open it in browser of your choice. You'll need to copy the password manually, sometimes it might require captcha etc, but at least it's somewhat usable.