skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One Byte to rule them all
This is a feature of remote work, not a bug. I cringe to put on the company themed shirt I am required to wear at the office on special occasions. The esprit de corps at my company is used to justify unpaid overtime and working on weekends. I would rather first identify with something else, like my family or local community.
Strava also does not distinguish road biking from gravel or mountain biking, so you'll also want to check that there is a road in the first place! Been bitten by that at least twice
Studying music will make you better at music. Studying IQ tests will make you better at IQ tests.

I think we put too much emphasis on general intelligence when it's not well defined and easily gamed. It's also a talking point for racists.
OP should have sent an email titled, "One weird fact about the DB driver!"
> Yes, there are ways to answer all three of these questions, but I'm not sure if there's a way that's simple, non-invasive, and scalable in organizations dealing with lowest-common-denominator challenges.

why can't you rely on the existing org chart?

You have a 5-10 person team, and their manager just has to keep that team accountable. The fact that the company has 1000 more teams does not substantially change the nature of checking that every person in the team delivers.

In fact, this is not even different in office work! Either you rely on a punch-in the-employee-is-time model or you will still have to evaluate a person's commitment and competency based on their output.

I mean, sure, maybe employee X has hired a sub-contractor which works in their place while they go to the beach, but as long as work gets done, does it matter?
I've been wondering for a while why it is that market forces haven't given us a printer that escapes the razor business model (low unit price combined with extortionate ink prices and anti-consumer practices to oppose third-party ink solutions). Seems to me that the way for a printer company to beat the competition would be to offer a product that isn't anti-consumer. Is that essentially what this printer is doing?

Can anyone comment on how it compares to a cheap laser printer?
The business model has existed for centuries at this point. People write books, books are sold. Even those who are simply writing for the sake of writing KNOW that there is the potential to have their book picked up by a publisher and sold, take that away, take the hope of actually being able to support yourself by writing and no... even the most obsessive of obsessive writers will likely give up, from starvation if nothing else.
Equally presenting heterodox theories with less evidence to casual news readers doesn't drive science forward so much as it gives people a confused sense of what conclusion most scientists and experts in the trenches believe is most plausible. Which is then used as a lever to promote agendas which very much fly in the face of what evidence suggests that we should do.
Thanks for alerting me to this, I'll see what I can find
So you want stable + cutting edge?
I'm not super familiar with javascript, but this would be very surprising to me? The instantiation of the work should be at the issuance of the promise, after which it would be in the queue of things to be done next time control is returned to the event loop.

`await` should just return control to the event loop (ie. actually transform the remaining code into a callback). If you've issued the two promises before that happens both should be able to start operation.

As far as I know the difference here would be effectively (in very loose pseudo-code:

fetch(first).then {
fetch(second).then {
doThings();
};
};

vs.

a = fetch(first);
b = fetch(second);
a.then { b.then { doStuff(); } };

which to my understanding should do both fetches in parallel even though the resolution is not.

Looking at a bunch of articles about "how Promise.all can be implemented" it looks like this kind of recursive resolution of the promises is one of the methods that's expected to work (if not perform terribly well in the general case)?

See this SO answer for eg. as well: https://stackoverflow.com/a/46348155
Or more succinctly ... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LhZyHIZpzoM
From the beginning this has looked like IA threatening to self-destruct by forcing a showdown they can't win. I can't tell if they are courting another party to bail them out or if this just fits someone's blaze-of-glory narrative.
No, I meant that NASA stipulated that it was the first powered flight, a nod to the Venus mission as being the first extraterrestrial (unpowered) flight.
Ideally papers would start citing using a new format that makes explicit the dependencies between papers.

For example:

refutes: ...
expands on: ...
depends on: ...
alternative approach to: ...

etc.
Naive question: I thought seeing in the dark was easier pre-electricity because there was no “light pollution” and everything was lit up uniformly, so you could see well enough outdoors once your eyes adjusted, based on moon- and starlight?

That is, above some threshold, the main barrier is contrast, not dimness?
There is of course Fedora. The latest is quite cutting edge, but you can choose when to upgrade to the next release. And there are security updates for older releases, so you don't have to immediately upgrade. Still, keeps you in the Red Hat universe.
I am a bit weirded out by how convincingly the argument is being made in favor of remote work. It's a tough road ahead. A lot of things need to be figured out before we're able to crack the code of it.

At my startup vlokit [0], we are helping customers with async video communication. Problem is people don't want to go out of their comfort zones. They want to continue 'replicating' office environment at home. It kind of falls apart pretty soon.

Companies need to realize remote work is a significant investment in getting your culture right. You need to invest a lot in changing the ways of how you communicate.

And even then you're not guaranteed that it would be success. Because we're still unaware of what we're up against.

[0] https://vlokit.com
I wonder if AI will continue to throw Elon Musk name around for no reason just to freak him out more.

My second thought here is that many of these paragraphs basically repeat themselves, but is not unlike how a younger person might write given arbitrary constraints and word length requirements.

Conclusion: AI is taunting Elon Musk and is bored of doing homework.
Kodak Is Relevant Again
> I fully expected the process to take months, and it did — after hitting delays in getting new servers the entire project took about 11 months.

This doesn't sound like it cost $0
I recorded vlogs to show how I built side projects
Back in the early '90s the Sharp 9300 did. Great little machine- totally overrun by TI.
I think you're misunderstanding what the article is claiming.

It's not claiming, "Language started in the hands, but we don't know why it left the hands."

It's claiming, "We can't be sure that language started in the hands, because we don't have an adequate explanation for why it would have ever left if it started there."

Put another way, this article is summarizing the "started in the hands vs. started in the mouth" argument. The article is very much not on the side of "language started in the hands".
There was a time before copyright existed, and we got pretty nice books from it. And now that I’m thinking on it, considering how the internet of today looks, with people creating content to earn money versus the internet of 20 years ago, with people creating content for the love of it, I think I would like a future where books are written for passion instead of for money. Less books, more quality.
Terrible reporting when it doesn't include a link to the publication:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13421-020-01060-2
I don't use it, and I don't respond in the least bit of snark (honestly!), but it DID surprise me to learn all the things it doesn't support.
I’m not sure an IQ test is the best metric when looking at the benefits of playing an instrument.

Music teaches patience, dedication and rewards self-motivation and self-teaching, among other things.
> what is the basis for the dollar being the world's reserve currency?

The origin is Bretton Woods [1]. This was the international system set at the end of World War II, when the U.S. was a global nuclear hegemon and the largest developed country with a homeland unmarred by conflict.

It retains the role due to a confluence of the America's relative political stability (as in no revolutions), commitment to open financial markets, deep and complex financial markets and, most critically, massive consumer base.

American consumers spend dollars globally. That leaves U.S. dollar scattered in various merchants' accounts. They can swap those dollars to their local currency, which incurs a fee. Or they can hold it to spend later. If they're holding it, they--or their bank--will invest it to produce yield. That creates demand for dollar-denominated investments, which, in turn, makes it easier to raise capital in dollars. That confluence underwrites a financial system that offers more products, for cheaper, and in more variety, in U.S. dollars than in any other currency.

Plainly put, America's post-war position put the U.S. dollar in the lead just as computing advances increased the global financial system's connectivity and complexity. It's a story of network effects.

[1] https://google.com/search?hl=en&q=breton%20woods
I have always viewed hard, firm, and soft as a description of the ware's malleability. Hardware is not easily changed or updateable, if at all. Firmware is typically code deployed to stay in hardware like an EEPROM, flash, or FPGA, where it can be changed but not necessarily dynamically or easily. Software is able to be easily molded and changed.
Statistical literacy doesn’t necessarily help. Economists have proven to be “excellent” armchair virologists. They understand the statistics well enough that they think they can give an informed opinion, but because they don’t actually understand viruses and infection their opinions are dangerously uninformed.

Knowing statistics isn’t enough, you also need to know the field those statistics are applied to, because otherwise you can reach statistically sound but inherently meaningless conclusions.
I appreciate your thoughtful response and want to address a couple of points.

I am an author, but I am also an advocate for copyright reform. I would like to see copyright duration changed to something more sensible, such as its pre-1976 length (28 years + optional 28 year renewal). Yet as much as I support copyright reform, I also think it has to be done through legislation, not through the IA deciding the publishers have too much power and thumbing their nose at copyright law.

Regarding your assertion, "There was no taking from authors." One thing that I see widespread confusion about, even among educated people, is what gets taken away from authors when copyright is violated. Yes, loss of potential sales is one thing that affects authors when copyright is violated. But beyond that, what actually gets taken away is the right itself. Copyright gives authors the exclusive authority, for a limited time, to publish and reproduce their creative works. If the IA violates copyright, then even if it doesn't take away sales, it still takes away the right itself. It's important to recognize that the intellectual property right has value in itself, outside of how sales are affected.

I am all for humanitarian organizations helping people during a pandemic. But IA should do so by lending out things it owns and has a right to lend, rather than lending out things it doesn't own and doesn't have a right to lend.
Your re-characterizing of the publisher's claims is as disingenuous as the IA's, since that's not what they're claiming at all.

You left out the second half of that paragraph:
"For these reasons, the Publishers have established independent and distinct distribution models for ebooks, including a market for lending ebooks through libraries, which are governed by different terms and expectations than print books."

Normal public libraries can do digital lending (and have, for decades) because they get proper licenses from publishers or authors to do so.

The IA is claiming that they don't need a license for physical books they own under the first sale doctrine, which is blatantly false: the first sale doctrine means they can sell or lend the physical copy of the book they possess, not that they can distribute the underlying IP of the book without permission of its creator. And even to the extent that the IA claimed it was limited lending on a one-to-one basis, it abandoned those limits and simply lent out as many copies as people wanted.

Also from the publisher's lawsuit:
"Separately, Section 109 of the Copyright Act is clear that, pursuant to the doctrine of first sale, the owner of a lawfully acquired print book may dispose only of her/his particular print copy."

In its response, the IA denies that section 109 [https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/109] in fact says precisely that. It lets you know that their argument isn't premised in any sort of legal grounding.
But you can buy food with the extra money from your tax deduction last year.

Meaning, your problem is only a one-time, short-term problem. You aren't arguing in good faith if you try to use that to discredit his proposed solution.
Quick and easy to set up and integrate with our site [1]

The floating tab doesn't seem to float though. It sticks to the original screen on load but doesn't move when scrolling down the page - see link for details.

1: https://goodhere.org/
Scholars in politically charged fields have to find certain results, or they risk their reputation. Or worse. No surprise there.
> Working from home isolates you. There is no way around this. You lose the one huge opportunity in adult life for making new relationships - and that's at work, in the office.

Since social distancing guidelines in my country have been relaxed and I've still been working from home, I find I have had more time and incentive to cultivate relationships with people that I actually want to spend time with and who have similar hobbies and interests as me rather than those who I am forced to spend time with in the office.
Using OpenNebula + Docker Hub to deploy container-based applications
Yep, ultimately this will become about labor costs (to the extent that it isn’t already). Sooner or later bean counters will realize, hey, I have a great idea that will save the company lots of money!
I know that. I went through it while learning Russian. Nevertheless, the spelling system is close enough that, in my experience, that is in fact the point of view held by the majority of native Russian speakers--if you hear a word and don't know how to spell it, or see a word and don't know how to pronounce it, you need to go back to school. It's not something worth holding national competition about, or an ability worth being proud of, and Russians I have known are consistently baffled by the concept of an English "spelling bee".
ACID properties are not useful here. Unless every single piece of data is required, which I highly doubt, then ensuring that every single log is written correctly doesn't matter. These are traffic logs, so if the server or application is down, how do these logs get written? I'm assuming that they don't. Have these databases never had outages as well, because if they did then the traffic would be lost as well. I would wager a guess that there are probably lots of gaps in their data that they just don't know about or don't care about.

So given that not every single log is required, then you can step back from ACID requirements and find a solution that is easier to maintain. Taking 11 months to migrate a database is not reasonable for most projects.
Companies that depend on underpaid workers will fight this tooth and nail.
Won't work for gas stations which are the last holdouts.
I will never understand why magstripe is still used in the US. Even after EMV became “mandatory” there are still magstripe transactions happening and when you are presented sith a chip reader it’s slow and awkward. Why is it such an inferior experience compared to Europe?
Grub2 is not a bootloader. I'm not even really sure what it is. In Grub 1 you had a configuration file with the operating systems you wanted to boot. Simple, effective. With grub2 all I'm seeing is a bunch of sh scripts that are impossible to write by hand.
In the US, elections are held by the states, not the national government. So it is up to the states where and how many polling stations there are. Depending on the party in charge at the state level, this has been used to make it more difficult for certain sectors of the population to vote.
That was an amazing machine for its day. I remember exploring parameters by graphing equations on a plane on the way to an APS meeting with my advisor sitting next to me in awe.
Right, and so the trade-off seems completely reasonable to me.

If the bank has calculated that extra fraud costs less than the price mitigating it with additional security measures, and it is the one bearing the cost either way, then power to them!
Out of curiosity, do you live in the USA?
The problem is it may be intentional to have the requests be sequential depending on what you're doing. It would be straightforward to identify this kind of code, but the compiler wouldn't be able to tell which was the correct business logic.
> There is a HUGE demand for application security engineers, or more broadly, security folks with software engineering backgrounds

I wish. On the contrary, in my career I met more people that moved from security to development than the other way around.

In many organizations the priority is on churning out stuff and security comes later.

It is clearly proven by the small percentage of security people VS developers.

As a consequence, developers are paid and praised more. Security people end up fighting an endless uphill battle and sometime seen as "party poopers" by the developers.
Sorry, yes, I forgot to include informing them of a workplace injury. And I assume GDPR wasn't in force there and then, just thinking of it as a hypothetical.
What about those unable to work, are disabled, stay at home parents, or otherwise unable to be self reliant?
True, good point.

I have no idea what UBI would mean for low-wage, on-premise jobs. A sufficiently substantial UBI would undermine such jobs, I guess...
Why is that weird? Copyright law for centuries has provided that the copyright owner's rights last the full term of the copyright. (The copyright owner may be the publisher or the author.)

A reader's right to a physical copy only lasts as long as the physical copy. If they want to extend the term of that right, they should take better care of their physical copy.
I don't see what Bradbury has to do with that. Yeah, he wrote a book that involved book burning (which he argued wasn't the main point anyway), but that doesn't make ghosts people have of him in their minds the final say on the subject.
Your implementation is pretty neat.

We recently kind of went down the path of our own scroll bar in one of our app forms because users wanted the scroll to behave in a very specific way. It was impossible to make it work as expected in all the OS and browsers.
We eventually rolled back the change, restored the native scroll bar and instead provided a big optional floating scroll button in the bottom corner of the app which user can choose to use to scroll the way they expected to. Kept everyone happy.
Congrats on the launch! Looks very clean.

There is an unexpected behavior if I search "New York NY". The search box just shows "New York" on the results page. Is that deliberate?

Example: https://newsandrumors.com/?q=new+york+ny
Glad it is working for you now. Thank you!
10% of anti-climate action messaging isn't causing ~30% of people being opposed to taking measures against climate change. It's the other way around.
Hey Taylor,
You should check out actiondesk (disclaimer: I'm the founder)! We're complementary from basedash (not doing the writing to the database, but focusing on viewing and analyzing your db data in a spreadsheet)
Oh god yes. Otherwise it's always the same: try to bargain you down to billing 30 minutes work, then complaining that you didn't do the 1.5h of work they'd agreed wouldn't be done to save costs. The usual "in lieu of paying you more, we'll complain harder" nonsense every client from hell pulls.
I don't expect so.

IIUC, work to be done for a promise is (typically) placed in the task queue when the promise is created, and will be eligible to start running the next time you get back to the event loop, which is part of what an `await` does.
All of that happened after the fact. They didn’t try to work with libraries until after they got sued.

Also being endorsed by a library does not mean giving ownership of their physical copies.
> the cultural norm is that they must be humble then they stand no chance against the many incompetent

I don't think this is a cultural norm so much as just the Dunning-Kruger effect [1] in play. People who are highly competent still realize there is much they don't know, and that makes them humble. I suspect if you go and find someone widely recognized as an expert in pretty much any field, and ask them if they know all there is to know, you'll find no one says yes.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effec...
depends on the 'copyright'. If it covers the book's info and the book physical.

This is similar to a 'digital' copy and a 'CD' copy.
I'm just saying, the current 'movie/film' money corps will push for 1 side of this argument.
>The news is not information and never has been.

Assuming that's true then perhaps we need more journalism & less news.

Journalism here being performance of those duties implied by the 1st Amendment's Freedom Of The Press clause.
> "A Terraform with Heroku-like features".

I think, AWS Amplify (Firebase, I guess, in GCP's case?) gets a low/medium cloud experience engineer almost all the way there, and they're continually improving their offering by integrating with multiple AWS services but there's too much magic and if there's a need to customize anything whatsoever, or if anything breaks, then it quickly becomes a nightmare to deal with, but that's a feature not a bug due to prevalence of the aforementioned "magic". I guess, currently, their support for other AWS services isn't broad enough and mostly geared towards Mobile and Web, so may be they're not squarely competing with your offering, yet.
Perseverance will land using terrain-relative autonomous navigation, demonstrating fairly precise landing.

There are multiple reasons to split the mission. Perhaps the main one is that ~1 ton is approximately the upper limit of existing Mars landing technology which is enough for a powerful rover like Perseverance that can carry several sample return canisters (and live long enough to find really good samples) OR a rocket capable of returning the samples back (with just a small, basic canister retriever rover). Yeah, you could just put a sampling arm on the rocket lander, but that's a lot of wasted opportunity (heh).

Perseverance should have plenty of range, and the autonomous landing navigation tech should have sufficient precision that surface rendezvous should not be a major challenge.
Correct. Proxy baptisms are never considered to make someone a member of the Church, precisely because it is not possible for the earthly Church to confirm with a dead person that they have given their consent. It is merely considered to make the opportunity for giving consent available to the person in the afterlife.
From the conclusion of the published article:

> music may be beneficial for non-cognitive constructs in children such as prosocial behavior and self-esteem ... [though] any enticing and empowering activity may improve children’s well-being
What is the purpose is using the 0.095 figure?