skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a big fan of the modular monolith pattern. I usually make domain modules as independent as possible and invert dependencies for web and persistence layers. If you design well you can break off domain-based services whenever the advantages warrant it.
Great job!!! open some eyes on video world. Would start to hack my video camera.
Is anyone doing a WASM flash por
Years back a coworker was telling me his scheme for buying a video card and returning it with an older model in the box. Only thing was when he opened up the box his card was already swapped with an older one by a previous customer. So he had to go back to the store and plead that he was the victim. They eventually accepted the return if he testified to the police officer (probably for an insurance claim.)
Are you suggesting that just because there's a protest or mob, that they must be right, or that the expression of the mob's force is actually aligned with contending the overarching issue justifying the existence of that mob?

Everyone agrees police brutality is a problem. Not all of us think attacking speech, undermining important institutions, and destroying people over opinions is the way forward.

No one here is against protest in general, the right to march, or the right to complain. A lot of us are against this particular protest which is ostensibly combating police brutality and racism, but manifests in undermining universities, attacking, controlling, and suppressing speech, and establishing doctrine based on anecdote and emotional reflex.
Every time I've seen methanol burn it's blue and the flames are almost invisible in daylight.
Google Makes Email Identity Indicators Part of New Gmail Security Updates
reminds me of this rather horrifying article i read recently: https://www.rand.org/blog/2020/01/artificial-intelligence-an...
Certainly would like to see this also;

Would be quite good content to let other places know too - hackaday for example.
That is often a futile exercise on team dynamic platitudes. What do you imagine would be a good / actionable answer for that question?
I don't think that's actually true. Lots of stuff gets published that could (and if the bean counters had their say _would_) be "hidden". But NONE of it is published by commercial labs before all the patents are filed. MS Research cranks out an amazing number of patents. As does Google Brain and Deepmind. Then they have this Mexican standoff and "license" patents to each other.

But _some_ select stuff does not get published. I know of at least two examples first hand: one at MS, one at Google. This is usually the case when publishing a paper would help large, direct competitors to partially or fully close staggering competitive gaps. As you can imagine Google doesn't publish a whole lot on the subject of search ranking, for example.
Yes, looking at the technical differences is missing the point.

Newsletters tend to have a regular schedule, are easier for consumers to get started with (everyone uses email already), and have revenue models that can make it sustainable for the creator.
That's an interesting idea... but think that's reversed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/chemicalreactiongifs/comments/5cw7z...

You're more likely to detect metallic or other organic contaminants which are likely (moisturizers etc) in sanitizers of both sorts. Even the effect shown above only shows up in an oxygen restricted environment (like the bucket above) due to the extra O2 the ethanol carbon needs to burn clean. You won't see that if you put it in a spoon where there's plenty of air. Any other carbon/sodium compounds are likely to show up and orange/red.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jfXjG9q19Y

Even dangerous metals like Lead (Pb) are hard to detect with simple flame test and a very pure flame.

https://images.app.goo.gl/k8rSHZ4QtGR57Ca47
Why I quit Google to become TikTok Famous
> Ursula K. LeGuin had an essay in her collection Languages of the Night (can't remember exactly which essay) where she said “Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.”

Maybe that's because they weren't in the position to make the choice and change the outcome. You can't be a hero on the battlefield if you never leave the barracks.
Great channel and much more than smart watch.
This is almost exactly me, as well. Still need a car, but I don't have to commute at all, entirely WFH. It saves so much time, and like you, the familiarity of _my_ work area, setup exactly as I want and need it, makes me so much more productive.
People who shop Amazon really don’t care about the people who work there. Only they stuff they buy.
You seem to be conflating "democracy" with "libertarian" or some flavor of anarchist or some vague notion of "good"
Democracy means "the people rule"
Counterpoint http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/fishoil.shtml for those who like to be contrary.
You can't always find everything with a search in a dynamic language. Some things are resolved at runtime. In our Perl code base, finding function calls is difficult for this reason (you can eval a string name to get a module or function and call it, based on a configuration setting in a file).
Well, now that I’ve literally just now returned to this mess of a planet I would sure hope so!
A system that structurally disadvantages minorities based on race is racism. Why do you think that this one school had more black students? Legacies of housing discrimination.

There was resistance. My mother was hated by other parents for this and two other pieces of local activism. People in church told her that she was hurting their children straight to her face.
This looks super neat! Love the animation styles, just looks so satisfying!
But what if you're the one who's wrong?
Not saying that you're making it at all but there is a very common error people make when looking at the poverty stats.

"The official poverty definition uses money income before taxes and does not include capital gains or noncash benefits (such as public housing, Medicaid, and food stamps)." (https://www.census.gov/topics/income-poverty/poverty/guidanc...)

After these programs, the poverty rate is reduced by 53% (https://www.nber.org/papers/w24567.pdf)
It's always been the case. We linked the world via trade in search of making a rich man's food taste better. I don't think it's sad. I think it's wonderful. The rich 'subsidize' progress for everyone.

All of the things you mention (except the 3-point seatbelt, perhaps) have a story just like this one with some guy saying things just like this guy and a veritable shower of lament with no effort behind it.
This falls apart when you care a lot about availability and therefore want a particular service to be stateless. Then you add some feature that needs a tiny bit of state and suddenly you can't scale up and down as easily and need to start paying attention. This rolls forward into a big ball of mud - a monolith can be tricky too at scale
Of course but the problem with updates is that you can never only get security updates... You have to get "feature enhencements" too... It would be nice to have 2 branches.
The change from CPI to “Chained CPI” back in the 90s (?) has been a bit of a con IMO. It was designed to reduce the amount of inflation reported. Making it the official inflation metric used for social security meant that SS cost of living adjustments went down screwing people on social security (that they had already paid for). It also then started to get used later on to set the tax brackets. Which again screws people by slowly pushing them into higher tax brackets.

I prefer the older CPI system. It’s still imperfect but it was fairer.
I think the Yonatan Zunger had the right solution to this: Verify Facts Not People.

Replace the checkmark with a Verified Badge that says their position if they're an elected official or major organization leader, or just Real Name if they've verified their ID.

He wrote this in response to the Jason Kessler kerfuffle, well before the "factcheckUK" stunt, but it would have actually solved that too! Imagine seeing the username "factcheckUK" with the Verified Badge "Conservative and Unionist Party, UK 🇬🇧".

https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/the-hard-lessons-of-blue-c...
I thought the Strava rant was appropriate in demonstrating that bunnie was aware of and tried alternatives before he wrote his own software.

As for "unsubstatiated": part of it is _well_ substantiated: his screenshots clearly demonstrate Strava's questionable interface choices. :-)
I don't see how that invalidates the original point. Taking a federally backed mortgage loan doesn't mean the government can now take your private property for public use, which is what is happening here.

If you personally buy a house using a federally backed mortgage, does that mean the government can show up and take your house and give it to someone else without compensating you? You would be OK with that if it was your house? That doesn't make sense.

This seems like a pretty blatant violation of the takings clause and is likely unconstitutional.
If you care about the latency of a single row update or delete, Clickhouse is definitely the wrong tool for the job. First, it doesn’t really have deletes(afaik). Second, you need to batch updates aggressively to get good throughput.

But you’re right C* and CH are designed to do different things. I just found the difference in general performance across everything (startup, schema changes, throughput, query performance, optimization opportunities) to be quite pronounced. One feels like a race car, the other not so much.
Isn't it just defensive ? Is there any instance of anyone using or licensing an ML patent ? Mostly people like IBM, MS, etc. were doing patents anyway for decades, and they continue to do so. So everyone else has to play the same game. I don't think there has been any big case involving patent infringement over ML/AI.
What does any of that have to do with democracy? A democratic government can still kill people in various immoral ways. A democracy can have slaves, apparently! Why can't democratic civilians be violent?
NO, NO, NO. You're timing is wrong. We all need to get behind Biden despite his advanced age. What's at stake is way too important to divert the conversation away from our goal: to save the Republic.
For California, it seems like the SF Bay Area Chowhound refugees went to Hungry Onion, but the LA people went to Food Talk Central. It's pretty unfortunate, since CH really was a good resource back in the day, and now neither site seems to have critical mass.

These days (well, not the past couple months) I tend to get more recommendations from industry people. I sit at a lot of restaurant bars and a server who isn't too busy is usually happy to chat. As a bonus, I get way more than my fair share of free drinks and tastes of interesting things.
I don't share many of the views in Paul's essay, but there was one point he made with which I emphatically agree: like Paul, I too believe anyone who disagrees with me is just too small-minded to understand my argument.
It's worse than that, it's a nasty insult for disabled people from "spastic" (also used: "spaz" which may be familiar to US readers and is much more derogatory in the UK).

It's got terrible connotations in the UK.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spastic
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Multiprocess can work, but you may want to develop an intermediary process that is exclusive owner of the database for performance reasons and then delegate to it. I.e. you could have:

database.db <=> SQLiteAgent <=> localhost HTTP JSON <=> MyPythonWebApps

This exercise would also encourage development of a concise and generic schema for storing your business data (presumably because changes to the above JSON contract would be time consuming).
Strava turned off most of their free features and is now pretty much a subscription service.
Technical Writing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_writing

Google Technical Writing courses (1 & 2) and resources: https://developers.google.com/tech-writing :

- Google developer documentation style guide: https://developers.google.com/style

- Microsoft Writing Style Guide: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/welcome/

Season of Docs is a program where applicants write documentation for open source projects:
https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/

Many open source projects are happy to accept necessary contributions of docs and editing; but do keep in mind that maintaining narrative documentation can be far more burdensome than maintaining API documentation that's kept next to the actual code. Systems like doxygen, epidoc, javadoc, and sphinx-apidoc enable developers to generate API documentation for a particular version of the software project as one or more HTML pages.

ReadTheDocs builds documentation from ReStructuredText and now also Markdown sources using Sphinx and the ReadTheDocs Docker image. ReadTheDocs organizes docs with URLs of the form <projectname>.rtfd.io/<language>/<version|latest>: https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ . The ReadTheDocs URL scheme reduces the prevalence of broken external links to documentation; though authors are indeed free to delete and rename docs pages and change which VCS tags are archived with RTD.

Write the Docs is a conference for technical documentation authors which is supported in part by ReadTheDocs:
https://www.writethedocs.org/

Write the Docs > Learning Resources >
All our videos and articles: https://www.writethedocs.org/topics/ :

> This page links to the topics that have been covered by conference talks or in the newsletter.
I agree....

here's https://phys.org/news/2017-01-universe-trillion-galaxies.htm... where it's 2 trillion. Which is 1 galaxy for every dollar in the US Coronovirus stimulus package or 256 galaxies per person. Which makes it also feel like an approachable number for the amount of galaxies in the universe.
The implications aren't automatically "there's nothing out there", more "this was the wrong tool for the job".
Yup. Very often. In fact every system I ever saw being outsourced was being done so in the knowledge that it was going to die. It's a face saving gesture that allows executives to sidestep the sunk cost write-off.

In a couple of large retail examples it was obvious that they knew their entire bricks and mortar business model only had a decade or so of life left in it and they figured their godawful legacy ERP solution would stumble on until then.
Carlos Ghosn Escaped Japan According to the Ex-Green Beret Who Snuck Him Out
> Being born white isn't some ticket to a silver spoon, and with so much emphasis on purely race there are negative repercussions.

This is also not new information. Again, this is the basis of intersectional analysis. Activists have been talking about this and working on this for decades, yet people use this as some sort of argument that modern analysis is broken. "White Privilege" only means "being born white is a ticket to a silver spoon" to people who haven't been involved in this discussion before.
Here in Brazil we have a very popular eBay-like site called Mercado Livre, which I use a lot, and I record the unboxing of every single thing I buy through them and I don't even try to disguise the fact I'm doing it for safety (scams are very common here).

My recordings start from the closed package, showing tracking codes, names, addresses, etc. to the object inside and its serial numbers (when applicable), all in a single take and always keeping the object in frame.

Luckily I never got scammed, but I sure it will happen with the first package I don't record.
That was pretty unconvincing. Some people think writing makes your memory lazy? Well even more think it can serve as a tool in learning and as a tool for memorisation. Now what?
You're operating under the assumption that hundreds of millions of people in the Third World could not possibly have raised their living standards in any way whatsoever rather than the offshoring of the First World's labor-intensive industries as part of a decades-long political program of wage repression in the First World.
They're still being made by Foxconn, so all that manufacturing expertise is still there. In the long run my guess is that this knowledge will start to trickle to more local manufacturers.

This seems like a great deal for India: threaten a 22% duty, and then you bring in jobs and know-how.
Tech Ingredients has made a couple of videos on stuff like that, so you might find your answer by looking at his vids:

[1]: Masks, Gloves and Making Disinfectants! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLWBG_fbJR0

[2]: Obtaining Alcohol and Treating Masks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ1PNXa_LaI
Which is actually terrible and not examples to copy.
The key criticisms throughout the comments seem to fall into these quite legitimate categories:

1. Privacy concerns of an always on device in the home.

2. Removing the benefits of remote working such as flexibility.

3. Increased company/management control over employee actions and movement.

4. Overcharging for an existing device plus an app and calling it "new hardware".

Not sure why any of these are not valid criticisms. In fact it seems you are the one taking an extreme position simply because you don't like the criticisms.
TikTok’s Chinese parent is scrambling to hang on to its hit app
Maybe I am wrong, but isn't it the same?
I mean, if everything is shrinking (excepted the distances between galaxies), then it is exactly the same as if the galaxies were spreading in the universe... only the point of view changes right?
Space whales!
How to verify uniqueness?
In addition to membership fees, Strava also gets revenue from marketing partnerships. Brands pay them to set up custom "challenges" which Strava users join to try and win prizes or contribute to charity. They also have sponsored integrations with several device vendors so that every activity you record with one of those devices is a clickable ad.
Yeah but there are also senior people whose heads are so far up their butts. Definitely a situation at Apple that gets cargo-culted elsewhere.

The line they walk is in the service of their own egos. Senior people are rarely in possession of the sort of detailed knowledge that is actual valuable IP to steal - that's like, in the documents and code. They want to get chauffeured in a Bentley. [1] They want everyone to hold their breath when they talk. And by the way, Valleywag turned out to be spot on about how good Tim Cook would be and how bad Johnny Ive has turned, based entirely on their attitudes and not their past performance, which was a serious refutation of the entire way that R&D org was oriented and is reflective of the positive shifts Apple is doing today.

Senior people just have ideas, which honestly anyone can guess that Apple is working on an head mounted display, or that they are experimenting with a Siri that can see through the HMD's camera, working on their own bank, etc. etc. So what is there to keep secret? Google is literally working on everything all the time, even and especially ideas that have failed in the past, so there is literally nothing of value you can learn from "What is Google working on?" So the actual economic value of the head of R&D's secrets is very low, their job is to go and recruit and in that case they should really be talking quite openly about what excites them.

What are the odds any of them are like Shigeru Miyamoto, whose body guards brought around shrouds because last time he turned one of his day to day activities into a video game, it made billions of dollars? Slim. Some VP at Apple is not Shigeru Miyamoto. If you were Shigeru Miyamoto you'd go start your own thing. And that's really what I mean by ego, what 55 year old, at the peak of their seniority and career, is really as great as their paycheck and ego says they are, if they aren't you know, telling their amazing ideas to everyone and recruiting people to do their thing?

[1] http://valleywag.gawker.com/apple-design-boss-jon-ive-gets-c...
Further, I think it's likely that these are not empty campaign promises on Biden's part. From 2011:

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15124510/what-id-do-d...

JB: I would have, just because I don’t accept this proposition that somehow the U.S. cannot handle a heavy-duty manufacturing capacity, that we should shift our focus to service industries. Look at Japan and Germany—their labor costs are as high as ours. Big countries have to be able to make big things. Have to.
Cambridge researchers create a touchscreen you don't have to touch
> How do you handle input that does need to be dismissed?

Hierarchy. You need someone to make the calls and the team to follow them, even if it's going to be wrong. That should be enough to break any perpetual design loop and move forward. Ultimately this hierarchy will exist anyway, the person paying you gets to decide what you're going to do or delegate that decision to someone else. Soliciting feedback along they way is important, but ultimately you need some decision makers.

> There are also times like when attempting to find product-market fit when pointing out all the possible problems is close to useless

This is building solution and then finding the problem which can be entirely avoided.
Specifically: Local production saves Apple 22% import duty.

That's a huge savings! If "Made in India" is anything like "Made in China" then it just involves bringing parts from other countries for final assembly, not even necessarily the highest value-add part of manufacturing.
Lots of innovation has happened in aircraft electronics. The powerplant? Not so much. Most light aircraft engine designs are four or more decades old, and the only ones cheap enough for a moderately-priced aircraft have carburetors. I don't think you can even buy a car these days with a carburetor, but with airplanes they're still standard, even though fuel injection makes a lot more sense in an airplane than in a car. You can get airplanes with fuel-injected engines, but a fuel-injected Lycoming IO-390 engine (like you'd find in a Cirrus) will cost about $27,000. Used. Just for the engine. You can get a decent car for $27,000, and it will absolutely have a fuel-injected engine. Likely a turbocharger as well. And the car's engine will produce a lot more horsepower.

Oh and you'll have to fuel the airplane with avgas which costs $5/gallon and contains lead, and you have to wonder WTF??

There's no technical reason aircraft engines cannot be turbocharged, fuel-injected, fueled with regular unleaded gas, and cheap. Aircraft engines should have followed the innovation advancements that have happened in car engines, but they haven't. This is probably because of regulation, monopoly power, liability, and a host of other reasons, but as an engineer I find the situation ridiculous.
> The real trick is that caring about anything in the modern corporate workplace is a mistake

If I could go back 20 years and give myself one piece of mental health advice, this would be it.
Fair one but rather a lot of that list of maritime disasters has white and red ensigns (UK) next to them. We obviously haven't quite got the hang of the big blue wobbly stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(steamboat) is well worth a read. It is well written in my opinion and the Talk page only has the usual nonsense "controversy" on it. This time it's whether to worry about SS as a naming prefix!
Disregarding that they have a lot of free "Goodwill" replacements - their post-warranty maintenance costs are about $0.17/km - my ICE Ford is at $0.09/km over the past seven years post-warranty. (And I think I've included more items in my spreadsheet, since I've got the cost of things like windshield wipers and fob batteries, which they omit.)

edit: I thought looking at entire lifespan of the Tesla might be unfair since that includes a much longer period when it's significantly higher mileage than my car, but taking only an equivalent post-warranty period is even worse, it's about $0.24/km in maintenance over that time frame.
Social Animals Have Two Modes of Being
Researchers 3D print the smallest flexible scope for imaging blood vessels
But if you don't have the source, isn't it magic?