skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple has Apple Music, a publishing division, where the head of it has the title Global Director of Music Publishing. It's kind of absurd to say that Apple isn't in the business of music publishing.
Oh man, does that meant he developer version of the browser is on the block? I JUST found out about that too :/
I ran into this early in my career when a senior engineer at a startup reviewed my Python PR for operating on a CSV dataset and insisted I rewrite it in Pandas for performance. It was a very simple program with naive Python (a handful of lines), but the Pandas version was far longer and more complex (I had to have the senior engineer help because it took some advanced Pandas-fu, and he spent nearly a full day on it), and it ultimately ended up being an order of magnitude slower because we ultimately had to call back into Python for each cell.

I actually don’t think “premature optimization” is all that bad in the general case, but you have to be educated about it (and I’ve met a lot of people in Python shops who think that Pandas or multiprocessing will cure all performance ails), and you should specifically think about how costly is a given optimization going to be to maintain or back out of if you’re wrong about the performance benefits.

In general, I’ve never worked on a Python project where we didn’t have to do weird, inordinately expensive things to work around performance issues (though I’ve never worked on a rudimentary CRUD app either) nor has “just throw Pandas/C/multiprocessing at it” ever adequately addressed our most significant performance bottlenecks (usually the solution looks something like Spark, all to do something that would have been sufficiently performant with naive Java or Go). This might just be my experience working on nontrivial SaaS apps; maybe if you’re just doing straight data science or CRUD apps or workloads that aren’t latency-sensitive (mind you, we struggled to keep per-request performance in the tens of seconds, so I use “latency-sensitive” very loosely), Python/Pandas will be just fine. We also ran into other problems with Python, such as packaging and distribution; notably our lambda functions were routinely too large because the pandas branch of the dependency tree was itself more than half of the permitted artifact size (to work around, we switched to Fargate tasks, which have a much larger size limit but take 30s or minutes to boot up).
Well... the anthologies are selected from a much deeper pool of magazines, so it's possible the percentage is higher.
Cool, sounds ripe for some private equity.
Perhaps a web extension that redirects Google requests to include the filter clause could work?

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
Well, it is a good example.
The differentiators for me are: 1) super-streamlined card creation and editing. It lets me quickly capture, then move around with ease. No fiddling with appearance or sizes 2) less structure than traditional mind-mapping. I don't always think in hierarchies. Sometimes I have unrelated thoughts that later coalesce. This tool matches that mode.
Depressurize the tube first.
Some positions have inherent dangers. Spending hours per day on the road is a much bigger risk factor than going into any specific area for a drop-off.

Also nobody is forced to do so. You can decline rides. There might be penalties after too many cancellations but it was a much better system than taxis, which were mandated by law but had no oversight and so pretty much always declined for the slightest of reasons.
It is funny how many people think you have to code your ebpflets in C. It turns out you can use C++, or even Rust or D, just as easily.

I like that some peripheral manufacturers (e.g. Netronome) will compile your ebpflet, in their driver, to the native code of a processor on their hardware, so it doesn't even need to wait to get scheduled onto a kernel thread to start running.
You seem to miss the point of HN, or in fact the very concept of communities in general.

Why do you think the graphic would be printed? If printed, why would it be smaller than 20 feet across? I am confused by these unreasonable assumptions.
It's very irritating talking about whatever hyperloop is, because that the bar for what the hyperloop is keeps changing (Is it tunnels? Is it in a vacuum? If there's no vacuum isn't it just a tunnel? Is it your own car or a pod? There's solar panels somehow?).

If we wanted better transport we should invest in busses and trains, which have better carrying capacity and better failure modes than whatever hyperloop is supposed to have. Oh an over a hundred years of proven effectiveness.

But I think people want magic solutions to things rather than the simple, working solution that we already have.
Why not just physical buttons below (or next to) the screen, like they sometimes do (badly) on ATMs? They used to do this on the old Nokia phones before touchscreens too.

Would be cheaper than separate OLED displays on every switch.

You could even have assignable physical buttons on the steering wheel, with a HUD on the dash that shows what each button will do.

There's lots of different options and a touchscreen is the absolute worst one.
Radical Candor is great!
Solved problem: just use a physical control.

Haptic feedback is like art imitating life.

Looks good, but it's utility value is equal to or less than landfill.
Japan may extend Hayabusa2 asteroid mission to visit 2nd space rock
TuNur CEO Kevin Sara: Why Invest in Concentrating Solar Power?
CA pledges ‘full accounting’ of coronavirus Rhapsody data delays
Industry concentration contributes to job quality erosion, wage stagnation
We have no concrete knowledge so we're both guessing.

But have a look at history and you'll see that not every kid who skinned a knee got some horrendous complication. Chances are he didn't either.

Also, he didn't get stabbed with a broadsword, it was a hatpin. While we don't know, chances are he was fine.
I know it's a bit pedantic, but it's disturbingly ironic that a site dedicated to show love to a free and open web development resource implores folks to express that love via a propritary comment platform (Disqus).

I realize it's an independent labor of love, and perhaps evidence of the broad appeal of MDN, but I am so disappointed with how the pendulum of web features has swung so heavily back towards centralization again.
In the New Cold War, Deindustrialization Means Disarmament
We've banned this account. Breaking HN's rules like you've been doing will eventually get your main account banned as well, so please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Cardboard theft
> Even taxis claim their drivers as contractors.

There has been considerable ink spilled about AB5 changing that, with the taxi industry lobbying unsuccessfully while it was in the legislature for a specific exemption; the B prong of the ABC test, which seems to be the critical and likely insurmountable one in the Uber/Lyft case, seems like it would likely apply to them in a similar way.

Taxi companies are individually smaller and, for that reason alone, probably lower on the direct, self-initiated enforcement priority list for the State, but there's both private action and complaint-based state action that workers can initiate, as well.
There's actually a former US Navy Sonarman who has a youtube channel called Sub Brief and it's amazing. He left the service in 90s (IIRC) but he shares all kinds of interesting knowledge on how torpedos and mines work, all the different kinds of accidents and mishaps that happen - he even analyzes different disasters like the Kursk and how they likely happened. I highly recommend it if you're into subs.

https://www.youtube.com/c/JiveTurkeyCrew/featured
> Many of the benefits and concerns are tackled in their respective chapters. Even so, I want to emphasize that Server-side tagging has the potential to overturn the current dynamic of data collection and governance for an organization. You own and have full control over the server-side environment. You have access to tools and methods to thoroughly vet and validate the traffic between network sources and your advertising and analytics endpoints.

Not quite sure what's so revolutionary about this -- isn't this what Segment and other similar products have been offering for the better part of a decade?
Three words: vacuum expansion seals.
I see this behavior a lot too.

Inexperienced engineers will nitpick about what is often minor “performance optimization”, clearly not seeing the bigger picture. Example, why should we spend precious developer time to rewrite some code using something that is often less readable when it’s called once every 30 seconds?

To the folks who do this: you are better off spending the time making data-driven decisions and optimizing for the big picture. In other words measure first than come up with an optimization that has a large impact on the system. Not this micro-optimization, I-love-to-tickle-myself stuff.

Learn to see the bigger picture.
That's raising money for Loop not hyperloop, as far as I can tell.
That cluttering and dumping of tons of similar indistinguishable products under different sellers really annoys me. Another annoyance even when I do shop in those redundant product categories is that they don't even upload reallife photos of their products but these lowsy idealized CGI photos that give no sense to the quality or actual appearance of the item.
Considering that the Holocaust was committed by a fascist regime where dissent and resistance was punished as treason, where an average citizen would be deathly afraid to question the regime even to their neighbors and children, it's quite a stretch for you to frame the Holocaust as a consequence of free speech.

Eugenics support and anti-semitism had been present in public discussions across the world for decades and decades, but it didn't lead to the Holocaust until a charismatic politician swept into office by convincing the German people that his noble goals - the restoration of Germany - justified any means; absolute power, suppression of dissent, the permanent silence of many people, it's all worth it, all for the sake of a greater German society.

That's how it starts. That's when the stupid and cruel thoughts in German citizens manifest into something destructive. Because these thoughts are no longer opinions, judgements are no longer subjective, disagreements no longer tolerable. Anyone who disagrees with the Nazi party is a traitor to his brethren. Anyone who supports the Jews is destroying the country.

We're obviously right, they're obviously wrong, and we need an authority to stop them! They shouldn't be allowed to talk about P̶i̶z̶z̶a̶g̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶Q̶A̶n̶o̶n̶ the Jewish agenda! The i̶n̶t̶e̶r̶n̶e̶t̶ printing press has made it possible for every individual to communicate with every other individual! The boring truth hasn’t even put on its shoes before sexy Jewish lies have made it halfway around the world and back. This is real, it is happening now and we are simply unprepared to deal with it! And boy, do we have a solution for you.
Fintech Scales Vertical SaaS – Andreessen Horowitz
webplatform.org was a vendor-neutral response to the increasing commercialisation of Mozilla, but it wasn't successful, even with the backing of those organizations and with Mozilla having pledged support, too.
Because “Let’s talk on zoom” is any better? :)
Can you provide any evidence of this claim? A bandana can be any textile and certainly doesn't filter exhaled air. Being made largely of cotten and rarely washed, they also become virus spreaders if someone infected yet asymptomatic saturates a mask and proceeds to aerosol it around all day like a chum trail of plague.

Bandana is the worst option, especially compared to many vented masks actually use N95 filters preventing the inhalation of covid to begin with - and much more securely than your earloop equivalent
Power is a big deal with analog. Power wasted in heating a device is (I^2)R where I is the current through and R is the effective resistance of the device. Power wasted is obviously 0 if R=0. Because I=V/R, power wasted is also 0 if R is very high (because in that case I approaches 0).

Power wasted is highest if R is between 0 and "very high." This third case is where analog electronics like to live. The first two cases are where digital electronics lives. And that's why switching power supplies and Class D amplifiers are so efficient: Their effective R values spend most of the time near zero or "high" but not much time in between.

This is also why even in digital circuits higher clock speed means more power: More transistor transitions between "fully on" and "fully off" mean more time spent in between in the high power dissipation regime.
stuff that I just don't normally keep around my house, or stuff that I'm not sure I'm comfortable putting on my dishes (Borax...

Borax, a naturally occurring mineral, is worth considering as a home staple. It has many good uses. The best laundry detergent I’ve ever used was something my wife made with Borax. I’ve used it for pest control and it worked better than sprays and other products.

Since this is HN I’m sure others will fall down the rabbit hole of why it’s not as popular as it used to be.
Executables from the Python package aren't placed in $PATH because it clashes with the system-provided one. You have to explicitly add /usr/local/opt/python/libexec/bin in $PATH in order to use Homebrew python and pip. Homebrew warns you when you install packages that have these kinds of gotchas at the last stage of "brew install", so you could've avoided all the hassle if you actually read them. Looking at your command history, you've been using the system Python all along, not the Homebrew one.

Install-time warning message:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/087008a4c8cfb...

Documentation referenced in the message:

https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-and-Python

--

Though not mandatory, you'd also want to add the following to your shell config so that you can have things you install with "pip --user" ready in $PATH:

PATH+="$(/usr/local/opt/libexec/bin/python -c 'import site; print(site.getuserbase())')/bin"

This advice would also apply for Linux, but it's even more important for macOS/Homebrew because otherwise you'd end up messing up /usr/local.
Take it from someone who tried. You can use dish detergent in the washing machine (clothes) but using laundry deterge in the dishwasher has interesting results. You will get bubbles coming out all over the place.
This article is from 2017.

It was discussed extensively 8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21699011

Thus, it's too early to repost it based on HN Guidelines (1 year). See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Discussions from 2017:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14287235

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15429067
Evolution of Multiplayer Software: From Games to Tools
How do you think about this compared to something like Dataiku?
From the email they sent this afternoon:

The past 24 hours have been a rollercoaster. The crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter was successfully funded in less than five minutes after going live (some sort of record, for sure) and it’s already larger than the original ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter.

This means we’ve now unlocked three stretch goals already, doubling the Next’s memory to 2Mb, turning its manual into full colour, and ensuring every backer gets a copy of a new version of Baggers in Space. And this is just the beginning.
I love doing this. Often, they'll give a range e.g. 5-15% to protect their 'trade secret', but it gives you a decent-enough idea of what's in there.

Always fun to lookup some kind of expensive cleaning product (e.g. tile grout cleaner) and find out it's made from a few percent NaOH (sodium hydroxide) and water. You're paying $30+ for a quart of water and $0.10 worth of lye.
Based on your experience it seems that #5 ought be first: "Data dominates"
Many of the vented masks come with N95 inserts as they are intended to filter inhaled air of particles - originally for mountain biking in dusty climates
I....I don't even know what to think of this...
This is very neat; appreciate the breakdown.
Oh man, I worked on the software for these systems for 6 years :)

specifically the ones from this image https://www.thedrive.com/content-b/message-editor%2F15972209...

During the holidays we'd pump Christmas music through the sensors. We could do this since that's what the raw data is anyway -- sound. Made for interesting sonar displays as well as background music.
Yes, both time and monetarily.
Why? Because it's one of the few informative sites that's still free and I use it's services often.
You claimed you had some defense against being slandered. I'm pointing out that you don't have much of a defense at all.
This title is sarcastic right? It's doable just not well because there is no way to create a totalitarian panopticon without having your state first be a totalitarian panoply of optics and cons.
We shouldn’t blame capitalism for the obvious outcome of government-granted monopolies held by maybe one telco and one cableco if you’re lucky.
Some dinosaurs could fly before they were birds
75% decline in flying insects is horrifying
I tried to comment on the actual page but disqus is somehow broken for me. So I'm just gonna say it here:

MDN is such an important resource for me! I have never seen any documentation as detailed and helpful as MDN, not just for web development but in general. How does life without MDN even work??
They literally made me do this when going to a doctor apt recently. Took it off and just used their stupid mask even though mine is safer for me when I don't have covid but am forced to go into an place where it's far more likely to be present.
Engineering Porn: Hyperbaric pipeline repair 800 feet under the waves
I would doubt that any company would take such a bet now. If not Google, then why would, say, Shopify stand a better chance? I'm an entrepreneur from Toronto and I won't bet the next three years on my life on a municipal government that has shown a bias against action again and again.

Not even sure that data privacy killed this project. It was probably the bias against action that plagues every branch of government nowadays.
The author specifically addresses this.
What I am saying is that all those are up to the employer.

So it is disingenuous, when the company talks about additional benefits of being a contractor because those are all self imposed.
"Dawdling America" seems pretty unlikely to come from behind or even catch up, which is why we need fantasies.
> Scheduling and routing. Not waiting 10-30 minutes for the next train depending on time of day.

Subway systems are normally run at higher frequency than that. Those are more suburban commuter rail frequencies.

> Not stopping anywhere but your destination.

What if someone else stops in the tunnel in front of you.

> No connections or changeovers.

Only one tunnel depth?
w3schools is plenty good now.

It's not the dictionary in terms of details... but it does have a lot more plain English explanations sometimes.

w3schools has its place alongside MDN, although I feel like MDN has been working hard at being a little more plain English these days / more examples.
Feel free to email me and I can send you the form :) I just didn't have a better way to verify ex-Mozillians than the FB group!
Seems there is a fair bit of non-flying insects in the data, and seems also to be only few sites, so might be hard to compare with European data?

European decline is afaik mostly related to flying insects.

Short on time, but it would be interesting to compare population densities, as that's quite likely a major factor.
I don’t think this is true at all. I often wear a mask when it’s not entirely necessary, just to be on the safe side in case something happens or I encounter someone unexpectedly.

Sure, I’ll almost always be fine in these circumstances, but the “cost” of wearing a mask is really nothing compared to the protection afforded me in the event of the unforeseen.
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> considering that everything that hangs off an insect is basically a modified leg

That is the sort of tantalizing comment I can't ignore. for someone with essentially no background in biology or evolutionary history outside of youtube - what do you mean? Would you include wings and antennae in this?
Most startups that are being acquired are going to US based companies which benefits the US, so this is a moot point, and I already addressed this:

> ...and most of these startups will not exist in 20, 30 or 40 years time.

> These companies were at least all actually profitable (except DeepMind).

I agree with Dyson but we need more of them. Unfortunately ARM and Imagination technologies have a great history that is now in the hands of foreign companies.

Deliveroo isn't profitable. SwiftKey as AFAIK didn't make money (MS bought them for the AI tech), Powa Technologies (remember them?) hailed as one of the original UK tech unicorn went bust, Blippar is dead. Skyscanner is gone to China and laid off 300 people recently [0], Shazam is gone to Apple.

The situation is so dire OneWeb had to be rescued by the UK government, and they don't even have majority ownership.

What is the UK's answer to FAANG? rather than FAANG coming to the UK? [0]

[0] https://layoffs.fyi/2020/08/12/skyscanner-launches-talent-di...
If Apple has actually started publishing its own music then indeed Apple would be a music publisher.

But has Uber done the same? Can you charter a car actually driven by Uber employees? As far as I am aware, Uber exclusively builds a platform to link passengers with independent drivers - who can and often do drive for competing services. Akin to what iTunes was before Apple started publishing its own music.
brew's fault. also, pip not being in the path is also brew's fault -- it installs in a non-default location so it doesn't conflict.
While Vivaldi is not open source, they do provide the source code in tarballs: https://help.vivaldi.com/article/is-vivaldi-open-source/
Heroku CLI checks IP alignment during login
Also, certainly you can vote in a manner that would, if done by a majority, squash ideas you don't agree with from having real power.

But you write with the myth of "rational man" in mind, it seems. The 20th century in particular, with the rise of both psychology and marketing, along with a couple of thousand years of insights from great thinkers of the past, should have made it clear that humans are deeply fallible, highly gullible, frequently irrational and easily manipulated.

You can vote however you like, but if there are forces determined to exploit human weakness by promoting lies and half-truths and hatred, there's a good chance that your vote will accomplish nothing. And not because you're wrong and "truth has won out", but because people are being manipulated, intentionally or otherwise.
> Fletcher’s more substantive aim of exhibiting the “terror” lying behind the “beauty” of the Italian Renaissance is in my view less successful. First of all, although awestruck tourists might marvel at the beauty of Italy’s art and architecture without much sense of the blood and suffering that accompanied it (unless, of course, they watched Showtime’s series The Borgias, in which case they would have a sensationalized view), no scholar of the period would be surprised. In this regard, Fletcher is jousting with something of a strawman, or at least a largely mid-19th-century gossamer version of the Renaissance.

Straw man indeed. As a layperson, I didn’t imagine Renaissance Europe to be an abrupt transition from medieval to 21st century living standards or political stability. Of course there were atrocities and quality of life was dramatically poorer and more brutish than it is today. What would be remarkable to my lay mind is some interpretation of that brutishness as a development or consequence of enlightenment developments (as opposed to an extension of medieval conditions); however, I doubt such a case can credibly be made.