skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked for large and small companies, and I've never understood the outsourcing/robot-ting of your phone customer care people. First and sometimes last line of defense in gaining or keeping a customer.

Best Buy was probably the most egregious example of this.
There is no danger in storing LN in your garage. Your container won't be tightly sealed (a tightly sealed container full of LN likely is a bomb); gaseous LN will continually leak from your dewar. It's nitrogen, who cares?

The major risk with LN is storing it in enclosed spaces, as it can quickly asphyxiate you. So, like, don't take it in an elevator.

I'm not sure I understand what the ambient temperature has to do with LN safety.
I would be very impressed if that was more accurate than turnaround time, but interesting approach, hadn’t thought of that.

But I’m guessing that adjusting for bunkering is tricky since they might fuel up more in ports where fuel is cheaper, so you cannot assume they will be nearly empty close to every port they call. Would love to know if guessing based on this is actually being used though.
> notification queues ... which can add to an employees distraction load and decrease productivity when compared to a more basic code-host.

If you think your employees would be less productive if they didn't have a queue of work items to address and co-worker comments to look at and respond to... let's just I wouldn't work at your shop. You running a room full of air-gapped code production units or something?
>depending on the whims of Shopify and BigCommerce.

Conversely, by becoming a subscriber, you gain all the downstream development funded by every other customer. There are strength in numbers benefits to investing in a tool that has momentum and growth.
I think that's the reality, that most/all consumer and enterprise services can provide only a "reasonable" and compromised level of security and privacy.

If a nation state and/or corporation that runs the infrastructure decides to exfiltrate your data, legally or not - the power dynamic is totally asymmetrical.

Individuals and smaller businesses can only do so much within their power to protect themselves, and at some point accept the compromise that "perfect" security and privacy are not possible.

(Although, I can't help but think that there may be technical solutions as yet unimagined, which could level the playing field.)
Yeah, it might be hard to sell a robot that can do a, b, and c as long as you already have set of devices that meet it halfway. OTOH, if it can do a sufficient set of useful things to get some traction, then you might start to see some integrations.

The thing about examples like the washing machine is, I haven't looked but I would be surprised if there isn't already a networked washing machine, less the powered door, that is meant for smart homes.
If you're somehow locked out of your account you usually have to call to do all of those things. There's also still people who don't use the internet much, if at all.
"every hour I work extra, my salary per hour decreases"

It amazes me that more people don't realize this. I work for a financial company and most people don't realize this. My company also expects people to be happy with a 7% raise when being promoted, but they expect a 15% increase in hours.
> I don’t know that I’m particularly enthused about either country’s ideology, hence my more skeptical view of the idea that any of the major US social media networks are “better”.

Could you go into more detail about your thoughts on "[each] country’s ideology" and why you think that makes their social networks (which IMHO are a form of media) roughly equivalently desirable?

IMHO, the US does have faults and does do bad things, but those bad things are usually domestically controversial (to some degree). Since it's a liberal democracy, that controversy is tolerated, which means there's a path to something better. China's government, on the other hand, is pretty unrepentant about the bad things it does, and explicitly rejects and suppresses the mechanisms that could lead positive change in those areas. If the OP is correct and China's government sees itself in an ideological war with the West and its ideas of liberal democracy, then I'd expect that Chinese social networks will be drafted to serve in that war, either now or in the future.

If I dislike beef, I might not be enthusiastic about eating a steak, but I'd still prefer that to some chicken cooked in motor oil.
This is a good one.
Couldn't you just switch registrars?
> but they contain archetypes and language patterns that were foundational for works that came afterward.

So what? Other works lack these archetypes? No, they don't. Literature at school isn't supposed to be courses on comparative linguistics and theory of literature. A short intro is enough. Then move on to modern works.

Bible is better suited to history lessons on history of religion alongside other religions.
I did not really took stand on the post. More that I don't think that particular tweet was super crazy, althrough it was phrased in a way that baited angry reaction.

For technical people it is easier to learn and search pretty much any technology by themselves amd a bit harder to do the same with ux or psychology related things.

And it is much easier for us to distinguish crap from good resource in psychology related things, making self learning harder.
Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad
Instagram has other uses as well. I use it mostly to follow artists, so for me it’s primarily the world’s most interesting (constantly) changing exhibition.

I see maybe one selfie a week. I also know people who use it for home workouts. I’m sure there are a bunch of other, non-shallow, non-bland uses I haven’t heard of.
"the Chinese Communist Party very much believes that Marxism is the means by which that must be accomplished"

This is BS, the economic system in China is in no way Marxist, nor is it going in that direction. It's worse, lol. This sounds like someone is simply rehashing propaganda he heard somewhere that was intended to either smear Marx or China or both.
Fair :-)

I meant, nothing to do with Github's acquisition by Microsoft.
Tesla has been selling level 5 autonomy since 2016. I can see nothing wrong with that. Definitely not vaporware /s

https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now...
Yeah, not just costs, but also scheduling concerns. The amount of spaces in shipyards is not elastic. The amount of labor needed for the repairs is not elastic. How will deferring the maintenance of other ships that are operation impact ship availability and how much will deferring maintenance end up costing those other ships in additional repairs?

Unfortunately, the military is run by MBAs now. There's no excess funding available for emergencies. Every penny is allocated, and it's still not enough. I was on a smaller amphib class ship, we routinely ran out of budget for replacement parts. Every quarter was an exercise in prioritizing what was going to be fixed and what was going to not get fixed because we simply didn't have the budget for maintenance.

Another concern is the crew. You've now got 200 or so sailors with nothing to do. Are they supposed to just mill about and wait for the ship to be repaired for a couple years? The crew will need to be rotated to other assignments. Now, you have a ship with no crew, it's going to have to go basically through the entire commissioning process again, sea trials, etc.

It's all a logistical nightmare.
It's important to remember that "beyond a reasonable doubt" means exactly that: no "reasonable" person would doubt it. (The definition of reasonable is left to the jury.)

Some people seem to think "beyond a reasonable doubt" means the same as "beyond any shadow of a doubt" - but they are very different standards!
You're missing my point. Generalizing any one instance of one school district and one Christian sect's objection to their curriculum to all of the US just doesn't work. While I was of school age it was still the TX state curriculum to teach creationism as equally scientific as evolution. Saying "It hasn't happened in [this place] or in [my town]" is not evidence that it happens nowhere.
I have long felt that almost all SLAs are completely toothless and thus certainly not worth paying extra for.

A few comments on this topic from 44 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23362073

Now insurance, that sounds like a much more promising facet for protection. But still I wonder about the incentives: SLAs are offered by the original company and mean that they have skin in the game. (Well, they already have skin in the game as you’re a customer and if they mess things up you will look less favourably upon them as a provider, but the SLAs should in theory provide more direct financial incentive to avoid breaking things.) Insurance would be offered by by a disinterested third party¹, and thus lose that SLA incentive.

¹ Insurance in general relies upon this for scale and safety; I can’t imagine trusting any provider offering first-party insurance: they’d likely go bankrupt the first time anything went wrong.
Then how do I know when my Mustang hits 88 bald eagle wingspan per Budweisercan?
Too often? Those "strong unions" for teachers are deeply, painfully localized.

In fact, you saying that? Is specific enough to narrow down your siblings' workplaces to ~5 states in the US. Not exactly a dox, but certainly a good start.

That's the reality in the rest of this country - we dont have these nice things. Our teachers are not paid like that.

My high school physics teacher? Made more money delivering pizzas as his side-job. Two of my high-school math teachers had to live as roommates in a studio apartment - they didnt realize how much they talked about it in front of a small group of students.

I've watched at some of my peers went to a leading state-school for Education degrees. Those had to have an entirely separate degree, on top of their teaching curriculum. Those who went for science or math degrees? Put in the work for a STEM degree, but got a piece of paper that said "education."

(This alone is a partial dox I lectured you about... It doesnt offer direct info, but narrows it down. I guess meaningful communication sometimes requires giving up total anonymity!)

More than half of those Stem-education graduates? Do not work as teachers anymore. The poverty wages, the lack of respect from management, the utterly degrading interactions with parents...

Some became mechanical engineers. Most became quant/data science programmers. Others went into banking.

People who had a passion for teaching children bailed, for their inability to do so as teachers. And that was before covid-19...
In spanish it's cousin
My father started his career as a software engineer in the 1970s. He worked at places like Raytheon and DEC and a few others. He started his career using punchcards, and ended his career building websites from a laptop. I am grateful that from a very young age he let me ask about and use anything he had in his home office, starting with a kit computer in the late 1970s which I learned BASIC on.

My father died in 2011. I flew back home to be with my mother during that time. It was a really hard time, made much harder because my only son was one month old, and my father never got to meet him.

In that week at home, my mother asked me to go through my father's computers and help her figure out if there was anything she should know about or do anything with. Going through his computers was a profound experience. I got to see all the projects he was working on; the ones we all knew about because they were his professional projects, the ones I knew about because we always had technical conversations, and the ones no one knew about because they were just little side projects for fun and curiosity.

I spent several days going through his computers, because it was like lingering in one last conversation with him. In the end, there wasn't much to share with my mother, for the reasons the parent comment mentioned - most of the projects had too much personal context for anyone else to pick up. But that experience had a huge impact on me. I realized that if I died that day and someone went through my computer, they'd find all kinds of projects that would never see the light of day. I was a hobbyist programmer at that point, and going through my father's computer motivated me to stop working on so many different hobby projects, and pick one or two to really build out. I realized I had developed meaningful programming skills, and I could probably build something that others would find useful.

Since then I have done that with a number of projects. If I die today, you could still find many little projects that won't ever see the light of day. But you'd also find some highly impactful projects, which I am really proud of. I miss my father every day, but I my life would also be on a very different trajectory if I hadn't learned what I did from his passing.
Figures your boss would win it...
What a Year of Learning and Teaching Accessibility Taught Me
Sure, but to the point of not even having a local copy of your source code? That just seems irresponsible.
This is looks like a different approach to a tool I also tried to address to answer 'how much time should you invest in training'
https://kerryjones.github.io/sharpen-the-saw/

Had a whole article that went into this:
https://medium.com/hackernoon/how-much-time-should-you-inves...

I like the idea and it's certainly more detailed than mine, but I think some explanation of how this should be used and context is important.
It feels depressingly long ago when "On the internet nobody knows you're a dog" was both funny and true :-/.

Btw, I checked your profile and I was sad to find that your blog doesn't seem to exist anymore. I'd love to read more about accessibility and the particulars of being a blind developer. I can't imagine what that's like, but I have at times wondered how I would approach it. I imagine many of us web developers could benefit from more awareness when it comes to accessibility in general!

That said, your Twitter appears to still be operational and relevant to the topic.
We're implementing Manna [1] one little step at a time.

1: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Valid points for sure. I can't say how much, or if it is worse at all than Facebook and others. Good reasons not to use any of them in my opinion.

The issue for me is where the data is going and who has control of it. A quote from the article about TikTok trending today (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23832183)

All Chinese Internet companies are compelled by the country’s National Intelligence Law to turn over any and all data that the government demands, and that power is not limited by China’s borders. Moreover, this requisition of data is not subject to warrants or courts, as is the case with U.S. government requests for data from Facebook or any other entity;
Good question. If you want to get into the Chinese market, you must comply with its laws and not get in the way of angering the CCP. China is one of Apple's largest markets due to its access to over 1B+ people and it now has its hands tied and anything the CCP wants removed, Apple will do it. [0][1][2]

Like you just said, TikTok already compiles with this security law and censors/bans whatever the CCP requests. By moving outside of China it can either lose access to the Chinese market and get banned by China or still comply with its laws and get banned by the US.

The thing is, TikTok has offices out side of China due to the Musical.ly acquisition (Located in the US) so can still operate there whilst Bytedance being headquartered in Beijing.

A takedown request can be made to the App Store owner. Apple and Google.

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2017/01/04/new-york-times-apps-removed-i...

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2017/11/21/skype-china-app-store/

[2] https://9to5mac.com/2019/10/10/protest-app/
think this makes the paper less interesting (regardless of political views held)
"Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at [the New York Times]: that truth isn't a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else."

This is a very key point, and what are the consequences of "informing everyone of a truth" that doesn't accurately reflect -- of even contradicts! -- reality? Harm to the reputation of the NYT is the least of the problems that accrue from such a situation, in my opinion.
It was painted on the wall in the school office. The part where my memory is hazy is the number of additional adjectives used on "consumer".
Is that not heavily distorted by how tests are distributed, as not everyone ends up getting tested?
Are you hourly or salary?
can you please explain this.

the article says a debit is a loss and a credit is a gain. if you pay for cotton, you've "debited" your cash amount... your cash balance would decrease.

but now you say cash is an asset. ok. so? why does saying that now mean that "debiting" cash increases the cash balance? you certainly don't have more cash on hand... you have less.
Yes, you're so right to the point that I can't keep a post without being flagged within the first couple of minutes because HN is filled with liberal SS thugs like you.
> Something obviously happened in early June that drove new cases up.

It's likely secondary infections from people who caught it Memorial Day weekend.
> Does living in them reduce the cost since you're not just storing it somewhere, paying for it to float empty in a harbor?

It massively reduces total life costs, seeing as you're not paying rent. Living on boats is very popular in London for this reason.
You can still get a supported, paid version of BBC Basic for Windows at http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcwin/bbcwin.html.

A couple of years ago a shop I was at had a dev that used it to construct test frameworks for the apps he was working on. Said he'd been using it since the 80s and it worked for him. The dev leads said OK and the tests were apparently extremely well done. Got bought by IBM, so I don't know if they're still doing testing that way :-).
Yeah, somehow they are able to keep the heavy ads and influencer heavy stuff out of my feed. Probably, it will eventually creep in.
German Court Bans Tesla Ad Statements Related to Autonomous Driving
Yes, this is the trade war everyone is talking about.

Note: TikTok doesn't write Chinese law, so they're not the ones being anti-competitive, even if they benefit from it.
> trying to do remote learning

My wife actually wondered why they don't just "skip" this year - let everybody stay home and pretend this school year never even happened, and everybody who would have graduated in, say, 2023 will now graduate in 2024. I'm not sure that's such a bad idea - maybe better than remote learning.
Intelligent Automation Week Digital conference 2020
Ask HN: Allow Gemini URLs to be sumitted to HN?
When I try to submit a Gemini URL to HN, I get this error: "That's not a valid URL."

Can the HN submission form be modified to allow Gemini URLs? There are Gemini to HTTP proxies for those who do not have Gemini clients installed:

https://portal.mozz.us/
I agree with this wholeheartedly, even as a Tesla owner. Tesla goofed from the beginning by calling tech like "Autosteer" and "Traffic Assisted Cruise Control" under the moniker "Autopilot" while shifting everything above that to "Full Self-Driving". They should have called it "CoPilot" since that infers that you're still the driver in charge of controlling the vehicle and it would have had exactly the same reception (possibly better) than what's happening now. As it stands, it's misleading and, frankly, disappointing to get into a Tesla for the first time and try "Autopilot" only to realize that you have to keep your hands on the wheel, navigate the accelerator and brakes, stop at lights and stop signs, and basically drive the car while it keeps you in the lane and stops you from hitting other cars. That's not "Autopilot", that's "CoPilot".
Many colleges ran this way in the 90's. I am familiar with several that had flat /16's, no subnetting.
Couldn’t you say the same thing about any social media algorithm? That’s the “scary part”. Not the fact that it is Chinese.
Cue the "it's not a monopoly" crowd.

I think we need another word for these companies that are way to big and "monopolize" certain online spaces/communities.
Dynamic linking provides no process isolation or higher level constructs through the ffi boundary.
Okay I really like the idea. I think the bottom line whether the SaaS is worth the cost with the premise is that the SaaS saves time. However, time saving (item 4) is pretty difficult to gauge. Therefore, I suggest having a version where time saving is the output.

So then the question become, I have to believe that this SaaS will save XXXmin per employee for me to consider buying it.
Cardiac abnormalities observed in half of all Covid-19 patients
I use Gnucash that automatically translates accounting terms to more user-friendly ones depending on the account type (e.g. becomes Deposit/Withdrawal for current accounts, Expense/Rebate for expenses accounts, etc).
I don't think many people would consider GitHub a monopoly though.
There's several layers of irony here, chief of which Bari Weiss headed a very vocal campaign to fire anyone at Colombia who didn't exist on the far-right on Israel/Palestine - and of course, falsely painted several professors as racist and anti-Semitic:

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/08/the-nyts-bari-weiss-fals...
>(available online)

Try loading a modern web form over 3g. Try loading a modern web form on an Android <6.x device. Try loading a web form on a feature phone. Try loading a modern web form in BFE over a landline. For any transaction where you don't need a human and it's painful to use the internet walking through phone menus is a pretty good alternative. They only make it painful to speak to a human. For routine transactions they're basically like using a slow CLI where they give you the help without you asking.
I think it would be nice to see a TOC or something similar on the main page. I found the TOC by looking at the gumroad link and going through the slide show.

Minor nitpick: I feel like the links on all those company icons is unnecessary (alt text on hover would be fine).

Interestingly taking the first letter of each company leads to the acronym - GAGMASS.. A bit catchier than FANG :)
> Are you actually concerned that the Chinese government might get access to your data or is it a matter of principle?

Both.

> What do you think they want to do with it?

Absolutely no idea. Much like I had no idea what Facebook was doing, or planned to do, with my data back in the 00s. I think we've been down this road enough in the modern era to be distrustful of any entity, especially a government, especially my own government, and especially the Chinese government.

> If they really wanted it could they not acquire it by other means?

If they really wanted to target me as an individual, I am sure they could dig up $THINGS. That doesn't mean I want to do their job for them.

Your line of questioning here, as I've read it, boils down to: "What are you afraid of if you have nothing to hide?"
I had to teach online during a weather emergency decades ago(back when you used powerpoint and a RealPlayer product to make movies). No live lectures though- all we had was dial-up so it was all asynchronous.

One thing that it seems to me would be very helpful would be an instantaneous feedback channel where you could have premade questions (say, multiple-choice) and ask students to answer them in real time. This would allow you intersperse formative assessment into your lectures more like what happens live. It would go a long way toward helping the class be interactive. They would have to be graded automatically for large classes, of course.