skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same: My manual expresso machine at home has always been better than the fully automatic in the office, and I usually have an extra cup because I enjoy it more.

Stocked up on extra beans as well the other day in anticipation of it all going to hell soon in Australia.
Why? As in, how would their lives be better if they did?
Write great/interesting content and share it within communities and you shall see the results.
LinkedIn Jobs (as an employer) - lots of bugs, constant work-arounds and clunky to share it with anyone else.
> they're expensive

Not here in California. All big-box lumber is always less expensive than any lumber yard. I've never seen it otherwise.
This is not 'freedom' it is excessive complexity.

`ls` wouldn't be better if I had to pass a flag to see the output as today, and another flag to print one character per line, and another flag to print each character in a different color etc. (even though that would give me 'more freedom').
Yeah, hard to believe without URL, sources or anything. Also, was that just a feeling you had or had you done some kind of measurement?

Source: You know, I have been to Mars back in 2005.
I think the real problem (and the one that doesn't get much attention) is that the current standards for TV OS' are not as high as those set for other platforms like the web, etc. After spending the day using more superlative platforms such as a rich desktop/mobile OS, the evening experience on the TV and connected home is not quite the same and it somehow feels like a minor but a noticeable downgrade, one which is constantly improving but isn't quite there yet as marketed.
Assuming the COVID-19 IFR is 0.2 (as discussed earlier), then it's on-par with seasonal flu. In which case, we should continue taking normal precautions like widespread wearing masks and social distancing, while especially vulnerable persons should continue sheltering in place. Closing "non-essential" businesses or shuttering medically-necessary surgical procedures again (such as tumor removal operations) are still extreme measures.

Stanford University Epidemiology Study: The infection fatality rate of COVID-19 inferred from seroprevalence data (the SF Gate article originally covering this study was taken down):

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.13.20101253v...
For some other projects that more or less explicitly try to approach this challenge from various angles, see e.g.:

https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/

https://github.com/akkartik/mu
Selecting the file and using Shift + Z should do the trick. Though it's been a while since I did this.

It's really annoying how you can't easily make copies of directories anymore. They just create "Shortcuts" instead which act like symlinks. People though they were copies though and damn did we have a lot of accidentally deleted files these past few weeks. Also, their file recovery UX sucks.
The difference between security thinking and free-floating paranoia is the threat model. Are you protecting against an actor with goals and capabilities, or are you trying to make yourself feel better? In the first case, you can make it harder for that actor to use their capabilities to get what they want than they're capable of justifying. In the second case, eat some chocolate. It won't make you any more secure, but it might help you feel better.
My only complaint about Rust is terminology.

"Immutable variable" what an oxymoron!

That's what is known as a constant!

A variable is mutable, a constant is not. Was it that hard to understand?
I agree that there are conceivable circumstances where this kind of maneuvering is useful. One thing to consider: fights are rarely 1v1, and even if it works perfectly against the guy you're fighting at the moment, one of his buddies will almost certainly have at least one shot opportunity against you. Energy is easy to give up and hard to get back.
As I read it, this letter isn't about the problem of shyness. It's about feeling unsuccessful and unknown ("nameless") because of the small scope of what you're working on.
We will all thank you when Waymo will be stuck at an hydrant thinking it is a red traffic light lol
Yes, and it is a choice to not support any of them due to complexity. And as a result, you don't get operator overloading.

Zig supports C ABI, not C++ ABI.
That's what he wants you to think.
I think you are on to something with the need for combining compassion for all parties with nearly every emotion in a relationship. If she wasn't always like this maybe she is feeling now like she is in over her head and doesn't know how to admit that to a world she feels is expecting her to perform flawlessly. Sometimes, always needing to be right can be a form of frustration and criticism an expression of helplessness. In that case, maybe talk is less helpful.

I am not a psychologist. I'm only speaking from my own experience, but it is helping me in a situation something like yours to look carefully at circumstance and hear criticism gently, less personally. I am finding that "a little less talk and a little more (compassionate) action" is key in my situation. I wish you the best of luck finding the key to yours.
Well any interesting facts would be useful.
Personally I am quite familiar with configuring JIRA - and I agree it is very customisable... but, as many have said - it is far too slow.
It's a critical problem, there are three key areas to prioritize to continue to deliver computing speed-ups:

- better software
- new algorithms
- more streamlined hardware

The performance benefits from miniaturization have been so great that, for decades, programmers have been able to prioritize making the writing of code easier rather than making the code itself run faster.

The inefficiency that this tendency introduces has been acceptable, because faster computer chips have always been able to pick up the slack.

Now, If we want to harness the full potential of these technologies, we must change our approach to computing.

The researchers recommend techniques like parallelizing code. The multicore technology has enabled complex tasks to be completed thousands of times faster and in a much more energy-efficient way.

we will have to deliver performance the hard way.

For algorithms, the team suggests a three-pronged approach that includes exploring new problem areas, addressing concerns about how algorithms scale, and tailoring them to better take advantage of modern hardware.

..many others will need to take these issues seriously if they want to stay competitive.

Performance growth will require new tools, programming languages and hardware to facilitate more and better performance engineering

computer scientists being better educated about how we can make software, algorithms and hardware work together, instead of putting them in different silos.
I'm in my late 30s - does that make me gen-z?

Not a fan of King of Random either. Some of his videos look like interesting subjects, but I just can't get past the presentation. Something about it seems like he's trying really hard to be entertaining or cute or something. I dunno, but I guess it works for many people, because it seems like he gets plenty of views.
Anything from Microsoft really
It took me a while to realise that following Dijkstra's dictum "do only, what only you can do" not only means tackling intellectual problems that one is uniquely suited to address, but also means being the husband and the father.

(the latter being unique up to isomorphism, but if we're not willing to accept a strict equality, it leads us into Ship of Theseus questions about personal identity...)

TIL Al was not only Feynman's student but also a possible inspiration for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaemons , upon reading the wonderful:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/10/24/dres...
> How do I know its important?

How do you choose books to read or topics to study? Sincere question
Ask HN: How do you Contact Large Corporations?
I would love to get some advice around this. We are a 4 people company, rather small and we want to acquire a defunct business unit for a large corporation (think IBM, GE, etc).

I've thought about a few options:

1) Write a letter to their corporate address

2) Call their corporate office

3) Get an M&A attorney and have them contact their legal councel.

4) Find someone from the executive office or VP on LinkedIn, stalk them and get their attention.

We want buy the rights to their IP which is no longer been used for over 20 years. We'd first like to investigate if they possess documentation and the relevant code/diagrams/drawings/blueprints for the IP and then put an offer on the table.

Thank you very much and I hope it also helps others who are in the similar situation.
It's basically had that's fully reduced to its utilitarian function, with any fashion aspect being an afterthought.

And there are fancier (more expensive) ones that have better airflow, or are rainproof, or fast-drying etc. These are usually made by companies that make outdoor recreation gear. E.g. here's one that can be easily converted between a mesh sun hat and a waterproof rain hat:

https://www.outdoorresearch.com/us/ghost-rain-hat-243519
While a variation of that statement is used in defense of the Second Amendment of the US Constitution, some people have thought of how the second amendment might apply to cryptography[1]

[1] https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...
Let me explain my position a bit more. Articles by definition can't analyse you. The entire medium is ill-suited to the task. They won't be able to take a look at you and give their interpretation, which is what you really need if you're trying to figure out this problem. Anything else risks being mental masturbation, but the less obvious implication is that articles have an incentive to be mental masturbation. They're much, much more likely to feed your ego than deconstruct it.

Commercial resources from major publications are obvious garbage, but look at non-commercial ventures. Look at the kind of people who read LessWrong - do they become easier to talk to? Less arrogant and obtuse, more receptive to nuance? My experience is they're extremely dense & hard to talk to. Why is that? The content of the blog is fairly direct in telling them the risks & flaws in assuming they know better, right? IMO it's because the blog primarily acts as an identity reinforcement device. The content is irrelevant, from a psychological perspective it ends up being used to reinforce & defend the identity of "more rational than others".
Probably not what you’re looking for but, the internet. General internet usage has become tedious for many reasons.
I'm not sure survivalist types will be happy with having to register with the Federal government to do something.

Plus, last I checked, I can look up ham callsigns online and find real names and addresses. (Just did: Popped callsign into Google, name and address came out, straight from the FCC.) If you're looking side-eyed at Facebook for invasions of privacy, I cannot imagine consenting to that level of utter public exposure.
In the sense that the advantages you get from using it could be outweighed by the risks you incur by using it. All else being equal, supermaneuverability is great to have, but when you start looking at design tradeoffs (e.g. canards being great for maneuverability but poor for stealth, the added weight and complecity of TVC) it's not necessarily an advantage.
The isolation stuff is a bit arcane and confusing, but also not that hard to figure out or implement as a wrapper.

I think the biggest reason people like Docker is that Docker makes it so easy to distribute containers.
Just Too Efficient
I think it depends on the store. Big box lumber racks are often rummaged by buyers who want the better stuff and an employee who loads it for shipping is left with junk. But a lot of pro lumberyards either don't let people rummage or all their lumber is better quality. I ordered 40 4x4x8 pressure treated boards from a pro yard last year and only one of them came with any problem (a split).
A reasonable use would be for checking out a slow little biplane or helicopter, presumably a foolish civilian, who is violating restricted airspace.
Nonsense. The difference between ham radio and most other telecommunication technologies is that all you need for ham is al allocation of spectrum and a couple of radios. ISDN and other legacy telco technology will disappear because they require a bunch of expensive, obsolete infrastructure - copper pairs to the exchange, the exchange gear itself, and the inter exchange trunks all cost real money in terms of support and maintenance.

Spectrum is shared and costs nothing to maintain. There is certainly an opportunity cost of assigning spectrum to ham versus some other use, but that’s very different to the cost of maintaining obsolete physical tech to support a few hobbyists.
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." - Dijkstra
So will internet articles, but they're designed by professionals. You think that's easier to see through?

But look, at least with friends there's a genuine understanding of you that you can try and dig out. An article by its nature has no insight into your presentation. It can't react to you.
because the reason matte is matte, is that it scatters light hitting the screen. from either side of the screen. you didn't notice how blurry your screen was when it was already blurry from the low resolution. now screens have high resolution.

feel free to put a matte transparency on your high density screen to make it a low density screen. everyone else would rather have glare.
I’m a millennial (35). I’ve been a ham since I was 15. It’s what led me to be an electrical engineer. I’m primarily a CW (Morse Code) operator, and have been since I started. I love the hobby, and it means a lot to me.

That said, I was basically always the youngest regular member of the local ham radio club, and most of the other members are/were old enough to be my parent or grandparent. That’s a little disheartening (which is not a knock, the people I’ve met and befriended are great, and have always been incredibly welcoming to me). I’m not sure how to change things, but I do think there should be less of a focus on chatting with old guys, and maybe more on the tech, the challenges, and the opportunity for learning.

FWIW, I sell a ham radio app, and have for 13+ years. My sales have increased ~4x during the pandemic. I guess a lot of people are returning to activity in the hobby while stuck at home?
I absolutely agree. Routing using a phone is loads of fun. I do have the paid version and I highly appreciate their open source-ish character.

Besides large response data and a slaggish planning interface @ komoot: try routing from northern Italy to Sicily: Komoot doesn't seem to know the ferry departing in Villa s. Giovanni to Messina. Komoot will always - no matter how may vias you place - route you back north and send you on a ferry in Salerno. Yes, I know, I could split my route and such. Yet, I love the idea of my planning tool to show me the complete route - including official transportation ;-)
The uninterned symbols don't fail EQ if they are the same identical symbol.
Oh my god. WTF has the US Patent Office done to itself?

They must have been asleep at the wheel, and granted them this patent. They must have gotten starry eyed with all the wizardry of a web browser back in 2000, that they thought, this was a new and compelling technology.

The description of this patent, is just for a web site application, that will distribute assignments to students. The idea behind it is really not any more different than the GUI programs that were written on Windows 95 like the AOL program. They just splashed some fancy new words like "Uniform Resource Locator" and "World Wide Web".

This is another valid reason why software patents should be abolished. This is pure insanity. This is government and bureaucratic corruption of the highest order.
In the meantime I'm still hankering for a full-sized North American THEC64...
> The above quote is a bit misleading. Google Analytics by default uses first party cookies, the data associated with which isn't used for targeting.

My understanding is that in Chrome all the GA data from a browsing session is sent to Google over the same HTTP/2 connection, which means activity can be correlated across sites by the unique TCP connection.

So they have the motive and the means to do this tracking, are you saying that Google does not do this? Seems like some proof is in order here.
With Ada you can't use dynamic memory allocation and pointers safely, unless you buy into SPARK, which is heavier-weight than Rust (and also post-dates Rust).
There are handheld and car ham radios.
Actually, TFA says:

> ... Gordon notes the aircraft flies at altitudes from 60,000-65,000 feet.
Perhaps I’m somehow mistaken, but to me it seems like a very meaningful act to take down statues celebrating those who fought to keep people enslaved
He seemed to be remarkably charming - so I'm not sure how annoying such behaviour actually would have been.
An agreement to disagree consists of each party agreeing to let it go. You can just let it go unilaterally, but that means the other party continues to harass you over whatever it is.
> Real nerds read the whole internet every day.

Hey, they have their AI read it all, and prepare a precis :)
> People "can" do that but that's not what either the commenter or Apple is doing.

It’s not even remotely fair to pretend that HN commenters and Apple share the exact same interests. It’s not anyone besides Apple’s fault that they are doing what they’re doing in the AppStore.

> So if you choose to force native UI holyness on others, at least take the responsibility for what else this brings as well.

Again, what responsibility? The idea that anyone who dislikes PWA has to take “responsibility” for Apple’s actions is plain ridiculous to begin with.

Another thing I’d like to mention is that there are also reasons for disliking PWAs other than worshipping “UI holiness.” Honestly, I don’t care as much for that.

The main issue I have with the pro-PWA agenda is that it’s pushing for browsers to expand access to their underlying platforms. If browsers keep on doing this, we’d have to give websites the same trust we give to apps when we install them on our devices. This would mean the end of browsing as we know it because we’d have to think twice before choosing to click on a link.
I can’t speak for many technicalities between existing engines and Source 2, but from the bit I’ve been playing in Alyx, it seems to
be more optimized than any other engine I’ve ever seen, especially with VR. It’s multithreaded across 3-5 cores, and runs better than a lot of games that look worse. I have no doubt that Source 2 offers performance (especially in VR) that existing engines cannot easily match.
Could the title be more descriptive?
I first expected this to be about politics.

Perhaps:
Changes in phytoplankton concentration now drive increased Arctic Ocean primary production

The title from the original research publication, https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6500/198
That makes sense.

I'd say either talk to dang about it or use the support link in the footer: hn@ycombinator.com
Curious, how do charging stations figure into what you are saying?
You can stall with lots of energy, up in the coffin corner. The U-2 pilots commonly fly there. Going slower or turning too much will produce a stall, but going faster can hit never-exceed speed limits.

Supermaneuverabillity would make that portion of the flight envelope much less hazardous.
Hosting your entire web application using S3 and CloudFront
The problem with power tools is that even if you know how to use them, a momentary lapse can lead to permanent disability. My father has been using them for decades. He got stupid with a table saw once recently and severed the tendons to half his fingers. A few tens of thousands in reconstructive surgery later, we're still not sure if he'll ever be 100% in that hand. Statistically, some kids are going to do the same. I can totally understand why people don't think the marginal utility of being able to use power tools outweighs the risk without safety measures like the sawstop.
Yes, we should be happy as long as these words are not cursed.
Daniel Sterns got a pretty cool website. http://www.danielsternlighting.com/

I was using his advise when I upgraded my 240z headlights, a huge difference.
You can't mention UX in Atlasssian without mentioning bamboo. It's the pinnacle of random placed ui elements. It's faster to navigate by remembering URLs and typing in the browser address bar
which headphones do you use to sleep ?

I have NE headphones but they are too big for me to comfortable sleep with them (I tend to turn in my sleep)
Rust makes it easy to write code that's very expressive (dynamic memory allocation etc) and has strong safety properties. Certainly easier than having to verify with SPARK or Frama-C. Rust's type system, especially traits and affine types, lets you encode a lot of important properties (e.g. typestates).

Rust does need tools to verify Rust code correctness and especially to verify unsafe Rust code. There is a lot of work going on in this area: see https://alastairreid.github.io/rust-verification-tools/ for a sample.
Second that, please - the analogy went over my head, but sounds interesting
Interesting read, would say a lot of good product managers have polymath traits... Software design, understand how to sell , commercial, legal, marketing...
Are the swift parts needed for the UI work, or platform specific functionality?
> @theshawwn: [dang] has had a habit of silencing some long-standing members of HN: yummyfajitas, mtgx, myself – for what seem to be inconsistent reasons. He also applies penalties that last for years, and people are too afraid to say anything. I feel bad saying this, but when Dan retires, I'll feel relieved. It's hard to overstate just how authoritarian he is, underneath that disarming personality. He reads every comment. You can't say anything without speaking to Dan, indirectly.

Can some explain/clarify?
This made me smile. I really don't recommend actually doing this in real life for a number of reasons, but how totally epic it would be is very much not one of them.
I too felt touched by this. It's sound advice for a sadness I feel sometimes.
All of this is extremely wrong.

First of all, there's no guarantee that you will be able to use BVR. A stealth fighter using its radar is the same as a man in a camouflage at night turning on his search light. Everybody will know where you are. There might also be rule of engagement restriction, as has been many times that forced within-visual-range.

For WVR, the ability to supermaneuver is useful. It can give you that extra edge to get the angle on a target. You have to give up a lot of energy, sure. But you do have >1 TWR, and your buddies to cover you. It's not a magical tool but another one in a toolbox.

Also, in WVR, the advantage goes to the side with fewer planes. There was a study from the korean war to show this. The reason is because if you and your buddy is fighting 20 bandits, you can shoot at anybody that flies in front of you, while the enemies have to visually identify. And the speed of jet combat makes it impossible to verify before you lose your opportunity.

>So it might, might be useful if: both sides empty their long/medium-range radar-guided missiles at one-another, only two combatants remain, neither decides to bug out, the aggressor empties their IR missiles unsuccessfully, and the defensive craft is imminently going to be within the weapon employment zone for the bandit’s cannon

Yup. Just like in vietnam. We are gonna fly up there with our f4s afterburning to mach 2, then we will launch all our sparrows at the bandits, who would fly straight into our missiles because they are dumb, and then we will land just in time for lunch.