skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might be a case where perfect is the enemy of good.

People overestimate how much and how hard they have to work to make a positive impact on their fitness. You don't need to join Crossfit, run ten miles a day, or lift for forty-five minutes, five days a week.

For someone who is sedentary, jogging a couple of miles with a stroller is a huge improvement. So is twenty minutes of yoga.

Consistency is more important than going all-out, all the time.
That still doesn't turn on many warnings. Clang has -Weverything for this.
ACH is used either to get paid by an employee or to move money between accounts, neither of those things are that easy to do with Venmo, in fact zelle was created to compete with Venmo and it addresses that competition so nicely that many of my friends have moved to it.
If you want lightweight browsing, use Firefox with NoScript.
Maybe just a personal thing, but going to a github repo and seeing "build failing" and low test coverage icons are usually turn offs for me to continue reading.
Surely the technology exists to get all the things you mentioned without an insane spec that Adobe allowed to bloom out of control.... I mean... right!?

Please remember that PDFs are absolutely capable of running code and do to deploy the advertising / tracking you listed as an issue with webpages.

If you are part of Adobe's premier advertising / tracking club (whatever it's called), and the user is viewing with Acrobat, you can see what people printed, where they highlighted, how long they stayed on a page, where they accessed, etc etc.

That's more of a problem with Adobe than PDF itself (never use Acrobat!), but that's hardly a rare theme when it comes to Adobe.
Definitely not my experience. I was going to the gym regularly before: lifting weights and cycling. Post pandemic I've lost 5 pounds thanks to cycling outdoors, swimming outdoors, lugging heavy bags camping in the wilderness, Ring Fit, Just Dance, Box VR, Audica, Beat Saber, yoga and pilates TV shows, and first one set of resistance bands and now a second more advanced set. Started doing acroyoga with my girlfriend, which is a blast.

Similarly, one friend is double my level in Ring Fit and we send photos back and forth egging each other on, and another friend is constantly sending me YouTube videos of how to do perfect plays in Just Dance and showing me her score and has hacked the group play mode to work remote by streaming the host screen by video call.

How could someone not find a schedule that works for them now that they just need to turn on YouTube whereas previously they had to go visit a gym or a trainer? It's way easier now, as the Forbes article states.
I remember listening to my TRS-80 that way -- easy to monitor outer/inner loops, different sounds for Basic vs. asm code, etc. The downside was that often people had no choice -- the TRS-80 was so noisy, that nobody in the house could watch (OTA broadcast) TV if I had the computer on.
Identity politics is just a way to co-opt and divide left-wing politics by ignoring how oppression of women, immigrants, LGBT, etc., is always inextricably tied to economics.

It's a way that corporations, the Democratic Party, and others, have been able to keep the 99% distracted from the real source of their oppression.
I could see a flag indicating whether you want to include archived content in the search index.

But more generally, archived content would be where you’d browse for content you know used to be available. Anything that you know should be searchable is the content that should be migrated each time bankruptcy is declared.
Sure, let's let the decision makers off the hook because they're untouchable anyway thanks to the system they created - a system we keep agreeing to everytime we buy their products and vote for their puppets.

But it's not the decision makers who should be targeted. The workers told selling the product aren't a problem. The workers marketing the product aren't the problem. No. The workers told to make the product.

These workers have such easy, stable, and wealthy lives that they cannot be pressured in any way to make something harmful. They are so intelligent, so smart, so perceptive that the truth can't ever be hidden from them. In a world governed by relative and fuzzy morals and ethics, with few absolutes and a plethora of grays, these guardians of the righteous should take an oath to be better; to take responsibility; to uphold these virtues; to lead by example; to let no more evil pass under their gold hands as they type in the language of the creators (perl).

All you have to do to become one of these divine creatures? Take an online programming course and tick a box stating you read and understood the ter... uh... oath. Yeah. Oath. Because that's what's gonna solve the problem.
ITT: everyone pretending they've never burned hours troubleshooting only to find a stupid `=` instead of a `==`.
4G phone to tower latency is about 10 ms.
Yes. That's the "simultaneously too fast and too slow" that all distros have to grapple with.
This. Goodwill's policy is, AFIK, a "reasonable measures to wipe" so once they saw it fail to POST and no obvious HDD caddy they just listed.
seems like its reasonable only if you take corruption and cronyism as a given
Yes that is really helpful
Reflowable PDFs were the Correct Answer. Since the beginning.

IMHO Adobe has been a terrible steward of PDF. I have no idea why. (Source: Used to write print production software in the 90s. Some of my team went to Adobe. One was bored so banged out a PostScript clone hooked up to the newer image library in a few weeks. They all said the PDF libraries were garbage, everyone was afraid to breathe on them, no one was motivated to do anything better.)

Re NNG: Agree. +1 Don Norman, whereas Nielsen and Tog haven't said anything interesting in ages.
I deleted my older comment.

For many "nice problems to have" I really disagree.

A nice problem to have can be a real problem. It's nice you are in that situation but it's still a problem.

Your site offline because of demand is a nice problem to have. It's absolutely one to solve right now.
This would be insanity in a mono repo. A developer would have to look over every PR to make sure some critter from the marketing department didn't accidentally change an important bit of code.
I hate to say this, but what he went through is reality. :(

HOWEVER my friend, if there is a will there is a way. ;)

Is “bribe” the only way? It is one, but not the only one. Maybe you can rent space, maybe you can buy a land already classified as “NA”. Maybe apply under several “Special Economic Zones”.

I still would have preferred if I could start on my own land.
Definitely not, but they could probably convince the public that the reason their airplanes kept crashing was one of their competitors.
> If you have to leave in a hurry and are not able to empty your fridge, and it is hot, and you are not able to return for a few days, then yes, your fridge will probably never be usable again.

That's much more useful, nuanced advice than "if it's been more than 24 hours, tape it shut and throw it away".

My experiences have been in more moderate climate, probably temps in the 15-25 range. That said, it also depends what's in the fridge - I moved into an apartment where some beer had exploded in a left-behind beer fridge, the entire inside was coated in green mold for several months. Treatment with succession of soap, bleach, and oxiclean, and it's still in use to this day - so contents of the fridge matters too.
They truly do want government employees (and citizens) to be informed about security.

But let's be real, if you truly can evade them, you've probably already received a job offer.

Defense will always be harder than offense. The best you can do is make it extremely EXPENSIVE for an attacker. But can you outspend the NSA on your defense? (the answer is NO)

Not even Snowden thought it wise to reveal secrets related to ongoing operations. That would have been TOO expensive for him. We would not have known his name if he had done that.
I must say, this is a brilliant manual GC process.
So would you agree that it might be a useful thing to use for local development, but not for code you want other people to compile?
Do you eat eggs? If so, how would you feel about a mob of vegans publicly demanding that you be fired from your job, or otherwise cancelling you because your beliefs are not far enough to the left?
For those in the crypto world, one real-world use case I hear sometimes is faster inter-bank settlement, in essence providing a tech solution to a (semi?) regulatory problem. Does the Fed's actions meaningfully impact your value proposition?
America's window of opportunity to beat back Covid-19 is closing
>>process is designed to prevent new competitors from being able to compete ^.^

No, the process is designed to limit fraud and prevent fly-by-night companies from squatting resources for the real businesses.

One can argue that the government must place trust in citizens, but then in India time and again we see even reasonably sized businesses defaulting on loans, and squatting land resources. You also need a lot of regulation and inspection, to ensure people are not drinking fertilizers with Cola. Such situations are actually common than one thinks.

The problem here really isn't law or law maker. The public in India in general is corrupt, and even honest sounding people become corrupt when offered an opportunity. There's only that much you can do when there's that much lies and corruption, you can have laws to limit them, but then these kinds of side effects show up.
The nature of any size corporation is to have one person in charge. In terms of assigning responsibility I'd think that works better than the alternative you'd get by breaking it up. Namely a bunch of cooperating smaller firms only doing part of the job each, and able to point the blame at each other.

We heard the "too complex to understand" excuse a lot regarding the pricing of subprime debt. Except a lot of people did understand it was a problem. It's basically the "I'm too stupid to know what I was doing" defense. If we accept that defense and try to make regulation to protect them from failing (as was done in finance back then), we basically allow stupid people to continue to be in charge rather than being replaced as they need to.
Could there be multiple "collapsed" paths which consistently converge at the current or future measured state?
> But there are software engineers today, including some on HN, who do things more harmful and unethical than medical malpractice...

I'm having a hard time trying to find examples of this, outside the field of armament development.

And in those fields where a software failure may result in death, e.g. aircraft development, proof of a software engineer willingly causing it, would likely result in jail time already.
Why train when your organization only hires the best of the best, ninja, gurus? When everyone is too busy knowing everything to ever learn something new. That way they're be so scared that someone will find out they don't know something that they'll secretly spend all their free time trying desperately trying to stay ahead and all of their work time treating each other like crap all while I play another round of golf.
int* a, b; /* wrong */
int *a, *b; /* also wrong */

/* correct */
int* a;
int* b;
Both pdfs and modern js webpages can be bad for online reading at the same time.
D's betterC mode is very good. It's slightly above C in abstraction (i.e you still have generics) but you get all the metaprogramming too (no more macros!)
> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2310.pdf

That link seems to be broken.
There's a neutral way to do this. They could pop up a surprise dialog that says something like:

These apps used your location.
* "Popular near me"
* Maps
* Google Maps
* Chrome

If I saw that dialog, I'd probably be tempted to disable the Popular Near Me feature, which I've never heard of and therefore I assume provides me no value and, at a minimum, might be cutting into my battery life. But Apple doesn't present me with that dialog because they don't want to impair their own advertising business.
I'd like to see you try to have a conversation on a tech & startup news aggregator built in PDF, see how quickly your reader loads it then. You're talking about PDF like the only documents you've seen are printed from LaTeX / Chrome, but PDF supports forms, javascript, 3D models and more.

PDF is an atrociously bad format, and I don't know what "multi-hundred page PDF loads in the blink of an eye" for you but even a 100 blank page PDF takes nearly a second to fully load on my beefy rig (I did the test a few months back to prove a point). [Edit: Other commenters made the clarification below, but single page render time is not the same as document render time]

Clearly extracting text from a PDF is nearly as difficult as extracting it from a photo. Digitally extracting information from PDFs in general is awful, which makes the format awful for the various things it's used for.

Not to mention that many uninformed users today still install the garbage / malware PDF readers such as Acrobat because they don't know any better.
The allocation of a PRN to identify patients is an explicit requirement of HIPPA which was introduced in response to the exact problems you discuss, which were common prior to the change.
Cheers :) I do a lot of reactive programming, that is I react to people's problems and hack up quick and dirty solutions :D
It may not be a good idea considering that those seeking bribes could be connected to goons. There have bee attacks on whistleblowers in rural Maharashtra in the past.
> An iPad with a keyboard running on an ARM chip might honestly be a great computer for the vast majority of users, but I don’t see my requirements fitting into that box - at least for the next five years.

I’d really like to know more about what you mean by that.

How does a developer’s or power user’s experience depend on the CPU architecture?

Looking forward to the follow-up article in the hope for a little more background.
Actually it does, and always has.

When you set up iOS there is a full screen permission request to allow location data for Apple’s apps.
And more wasted humans. Wait, but all the labor in the world can become machine learning experts and earn $500K pa by working for Google while circle-jerking here on how tech companies are evil.
Facebook has this. Tasks are autoclosed after 6 months of inactivity, unless specifically flagged. It's sort of nice as a way to close things you were never going to get to, but it's also terrible if you actually have a long backlog but do want to get things done, because the auto closer adds a lot of noise.
The moat is still gonna be there. Austin TX went through this when they banned lyft and uber and had some "in house" startups launch rideshare apps. They didn't fare that well after uber/lyft came back in.

You can make it difficult for everyone at the "national" level of operation, but then how does a smaller company ever get there from a "local" start?

What even constitutes a "small business" when it comes to gig economy? Most of the workers don't even count as employees.

There's going to have to be a -lot- of legal changes to constitute something worth while. And legal stuff moves slow on purpose (so that it doesn't bork things before they're understood... and also, it's just slow).
Key principal taught in business school: pay people what it costs to replace them. Which in Uber's case is very low.
Your younger self would have been fascinated by these: https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_335...
It seems very unlikely they'll be able to resist burning it, though.
There was a golden age of fittness?
In my experience, food in self-defrosting freezers doesn't outright spoil quickly enough to be a practical concern, though I'm sure it does technically allow for stuff to grow faster.

What it does do, though, is get freezer burned very quickly.
It must become simple for a bribery captured in evidence to be prosecuted. This is anarchy otherwise.
Researchers Find Flaws in Security Protocols Developed by Major Crypto Exchanges
I never understood why Uber existed, until I tried to get a cab in San Francisco.
System apps are right there with every single 3rd party app in terms of control though. They have an explanation just like Apple requires in general, and you can turn off location or whatever else usage. If I go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services, "Camera" is right there with the standard indicator for that it has been used, a "While Using the App" set, and "App explanation: 'Photos and videos will be tagged with the location where they are taken.'" The options for Never and Always are there.

The only complaint here seems to be that the bootstrapping for granting permission is part of the initial device setup screen and location services, but that seems perfectly reasonable in line with user expectations for default system services on fresh system. I strongly disagree that "fairness" somehow is a valid complaint here in the way GP suggested. On the contrary, insisting Apple is equivalent to 3rd parties is itself "unfair" as well as wrong.
This is a good idea that opens you up to the attack.
If browser running in 'safe mitigated mode' was compromised then it itself could try to disable the mitigation that was on for it.
Since home exercise equipment is so hard to find, I’ve been doing a lot of bodyweight exercises.

I found a book called Convict Conditioning that requires no equipment (except a pull up bar for some of the later exercises, but there’s a park nearby my house), and has real progressions designed to build strength. So far, I’m enjoying it a lot.
We've been using Rally for our happy hours, and internal meetings where there are more than ~5 people. It's great being able to easily hop between tables as conversation topics shift. It brings back a lot of that serendipity that we're all missing from in-person events.

In fact, I find it allows for more serendipity than a lot of in-person events. In person, once you're sitting down at a table it's socially awkward to get up and move to another table. Mostly you just talk with whoever you're sitting next to or across from. With Rally it's much more fluid. I find myself hopping around all the time.

In our internal meeting this week we split into groups of 3, and then took turns jumping on stage to report back to the group.

Disclaimer: we invested
XSL-FO withered on the vine and we still don't have a suitable PDF replacement.
Similar issue if you cancel your GSuite account.

I cancelled my account and was still billed for it, but now there's no way to contact support since I don't have an active billing account.
once you outsource manufacturing all the engineering and technical skill quickly follows.

This is obvious to any trained Western engineer who knows that manufacturing is a sophisticated engineering discipline in its own right, and once you master it, the other branches of engineering naturally follow.

Western managers however, believed that the Chinese would be content to do just manufacturing forever, and were incapable of doing design. A classic example of how racism bites you in the arse. Having said that none of those managers will suffer, they've already cashed out.
Cory House’s Analogy Between Writing Code and Writing Prose
They are discussing nice problems to have relative to the status quo, so problems that are really only potential problems right now, but could become actual problems if good things happened. So I think even with the rewrite, your comment misses the mark.

OTOH, I think that it's still a bit wrong to say don't solve them now: if you have a problem that is potentially a business-ending disaster that you won't have time to fix before it destroys your business if it manifests, it doesn't matter if the conditions which would cause it to manifest are otherwise an improvement over your status quo conditions. It still needs fixed before that happens.

Otherwise, yeah, YAGNI applies.
EFF Joins SPLC Letter to Georgia HS Expressing Concern over Students Free Speech
Ask HN: Whats is the name of this phenomenon mentioned regularly on HN?
Every so often in the discussions under an article someone will bring up a phenomenon where a source will be wrong about a topic that someone is knowledgeable about or an expert on. But then when they source speaks on a subject that the individual in question knows little to nothing about, they will accept and believe it.

Does anyone know what the name of this phenomenon is called?
Agree with a lot of what is written in the article but the dig at socialism was bizarre. The author speaks of Ballooning college costs and socialism in the same breath.

Yes I know he did not say they where related. But it is odd to see somebody slamming socialism while failing to see how these ballooning college costs is a feature of capitalism.

Socialist inspired countries don’t have expensive education. It is cheaper in large part because there isn’t a profit motive in trying to squeeze as much money out of students as possible. Rather education is driven by the desire of the state to get as qualified and well educated people as possible.
Just to push back a tiny bit on this, sometimes nice problems can turn into nasty problems very quickly.

"My customer data isn't backed up", is a nice problem to have when you're just launching a new service and don't have any customers. But it's still a problem you'd probably like to solve relatively early. There won't be a moment where missing backups are an immediate problem but also still easily solvable; they're either a future problem or you're unavoidably about to lose a large number of your customers.

As a less on-the-nose example, sometimes when I'm building software, I can anticipate that something will be a problem two or three months from now. In those cases, I have a decision to make. If the code is disposable, I can ignore the problem and solve it later. But if I'm working on core architecture, spending an extra 2-3 days to solve the problem now can save me 3 weeks of refactoring in the future.

Many businesses start agile and become slow and cumbersome over time precisely because of this reason. They can't keep up the pace they started at because the technical debt, compliance issues, and future problems end up weighing them down over time.

I think there's just a balance to be had here.
OnePlus has promised system updates for several years (we'll see). The 7 pro main camera is on par with the pixel 2.
I think in the US it GREATLY depends on what is going in that location.

"Light industrial", at least in my area is a pretty easy thing to rezone by the local authorities. At least it is in my area in suburbia in the twin cities MN.

Granted that doesn't mean a town couldn't just say 'no'. On the other hand there's plenty of land already potentially rezoned land you can buy and it's no big deal.

Now bigger scale industrial is a whole other story. Nobody wants a smelting plant company to just show up at the city council meeting and announce they bought a bunch of farm land on the edge of the town...
Override union laws ? Do you have examples of that ? You mean ignore them ? Ignoring laws , orders has happened and either the union government has not sued the state for various reasons or cases are still sitting in court.

There are some powers in the shared list , where the state can specify its own rules etc.

Over time it’s trending towards union control for example removing VAT and replacing with GST etc
> taught in business school

The school is ethically wrong here.
Like I said, Kutuzovsky avenu was (and probably still is) under massive state surveillance. English MI6 agent with diplomatic (under)cover will be spotted in minutes and their engagement and eye contact with highly ranked GRU officer will not pass below radar.
What do you think about Prisma? It has typescript support.
GP commenter here — I assume you re-read my comment and realized that this was in September 2008 .... :-)