skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not disputing that there might be some bad ecological impact of road construction projects. I bet such issues exist in every part of the World where development is taking place. Here is a list of all the Highway revolts that took place in United States alone for various environmental violations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_revolts_in_the_United_...

The numbers are staggering in comparison to what violations happen in India. But still I am not justifying it by saying that it should continue to happen. I am just saying that these issues exist everywhere and there is no point singling out India for this. And those 20,000+ kms highways are not built in Himalayas alone but in the entire Country. But yes, I understand and share your concern that ecology must not be affected for any project whatsoever and will 100% support you on that point. I just wish that people take things holistically when it comes to any project that happens in India in the same way you would take projects that happen in your own countries. After all, India has to develop and for that to happen you have to clear out land, build roads, construct buildings, dams etc. It can't happen on virgin soil. Something has to be removed for the development to happen. Isn't it? If you have an alternate way of going about it please suggest.
Building a Realtime Photoshop
Mental note (more relevant to Lisp general than this particular piece): I need to write a note on the comparison between Lisps and code generation. They are obviously related. But while I haven't seen large companies where Lisp would be widely adopted, I bet most large companies heavily employ code generation (ours certainly does).
Heh. I really like this description. I'm not sure what's the reason for it looking like that.

Back in the days of Windows XP I used a program called "Free Download Manager" that made things significantly faster (due to multiplexing) over dial-up and DSL. And the interface was quite good. Pretty sure it might actually be harder to make a UI look this bad, these days.
So what facts did you glean from that comment?

> Comments like these give proper context to foreigner like me who don't know how inclined the Indian government is to follow through on their promises

You do realize that India is a Democracy and that there is no one "Indian Government" but successive Governments that set their own policies right? Just because it was the case some 10 years ago doesn't mean it will continue to be so in the present or the future. Governments change. Policies change. That is Democracy for you. What promises are made by the Government to the people, if not kept, will be voted out.
Wow, not one from Arthur C. Clarke. Great algo...
Snaps running in secure sandbox is better than installing apt package as root.

Automatically updating Snap package with latest security and bug fixes is better than old vulnerable deb package.
Is the other character you hint at ㎉?
As a millenial. I'd much rather just have a 3.5 day working week.
On the opposite side, I'd wish to make some large scale positive blips. Like facebook street cleaning challenges, or bike delivery day, or 1min cold shower week.
> They made ONE switch to a superior and standard extension model

No, they made TWO. The original model was the XUL-based one. Then there was the Add-on SDK:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Add-ons/Add...

THEN WebExtensions.

So some extensions had to be ported twice, within just a couple of years. This alienated a LOT of add-on developers.
It is very much NOT limited to public figures and is pervasive in large companies. Individuals get effectively blackballed because of disagreeing with the mob
Don't strain your back moving those goal posts. ;)
Draw.io/ diagrams.net runs locally according to the documentation. E.g, you download the JavaScript app when visiting g the page and everything from there on is handled in the browser.

You can also install it in a rocker container.

https://github.com/jgraph/drawio
I'm not surprised by this. The Butterfly Effect only applies to nonlinear chaotic systems and at the quantum level everything is linear. Nondeterministic, but linear.

You can easily build macro-scale nonlinear systems from micro-scale linear quantum systems; a double pendulum for example.

I rather dislike that the word "chaotic" gets applied to all sorts of things. It has a specific meaning, and it refers to nonlinear systems with sensitive dependence to initial conditions. It does not imply some vague connotation of "random."

Chaotic systems are nonlinear and thus theoretically deterministic but practically unpredictable. Quantum systems are not even deterministic in theory, but they're linear and thus they do not exhibit sensitive dependence (the Butterfly Effect).
No, actually is more complex: banks may share data so the amount moved can include several transactions, across several banks and time. I triggered the system once, just for moving my own salary to another bank and then to another account in the second bank.

To be safe, the employee must give the bank a proof of be hired: contract with amount, certificate of salary, proofs of service selled (it depends). Asking the bank before the first payment can help too.

In summary: it's perfectly fine to receive sums greater that $10000, but the employee have to justify it, and the company must provide documentation.
It’s only taken the last 25 years to add 30% to the human population, and the rapid increases of the last 50 years owe a lot to reduced infant mortality and people living longer.

So a rapid decline might come from a reversal of those trends.
Why are families so obsessed with Disney in general? Aside from the classic animations, the rest is mostly crap. A "Disney movie" when I grew up meant soapy, bland, family friendy movie.

Then again, I never liked Pixar either...
huh. when did this happen with manchego? i remember noticing a number of years ago that it simultaneously became a lot more common and not as good.
They changed name, but other than that, they never hooded your data (to my knowledge)

I still use it
The pricing looks very straight forward to me.

The lifetime option is less than $20 for either windows or Mac.

Mipony and jd shouldn't be compared with IDM. They don't do the same thing.

Mipony's reason for being is downloading from file sharing sites like MediaFire, mega, zippyshare, nitroflare...

If you don't download from file sharing sites, mipony is useless for you.

For torrents, a dedicated torrent downloader would be better suited to the task.

I'm however finding JD's ability to download YouTube videos quite useful, better than paid YouTube downloaders.
I agree with the other commenters that this is totally against my professional experience. US companies do not need to set up an entity outside of the US just to hire non-US contractors.
Is the fungus edible?
hum isn't it more efficient to divert it into "productive" chemical active than average heat (then used for whatever) ?
Largely you can't; while Anglosphere jurisdictions generally have easy company formation, it can get increasingly difficult and complicated in other countries, and there's usually an ongoing filing effort to maintain the company presence.

Some countries like China simply won't let you incorporate there without a local "partner".
Hence the ambiguity.
> and people who collaborate & have a holistic view on software development, and as a result actually get stuff done in a solid way (engineers).

Part of "holistic view on software" is recognizing how much garbage and reinventing the wheel there is out thee. Part of being an engineer is recognizing trade-offs: dependencies come with costs of their own, so it only makes sense to use them if you expect to get more from them than you're going to pay for them. And pay you will - dependencies have to be understood, managed, upgraded and deployed.

Rachel writes from the POV of reliability engineering; in her story, her problem is as much with a shitty dependency being used as with in-house people who consider vetting their dependencies and collaborating with dependency vendors to be outside their job description. But both are, in fact, a part of good engineering, and are a part of the price you should be paying when you link against a third-party library.
Recently I hired a graphic artist on https://dribbble.com/ and paid him $150 for a page design. It was only when it came time to pay that I realized he is located in Bangladesh. Are there any legal issues here?
I get the exact opposite point from the article...

Anyway, if you want to serve low-margin customers, optimize your business against them, and be happy with those low margins, because you won't get any of the high margin ones.

Also, publicize your low-margin focus (tell up-front that you won't do non-billable services, and what service comes with what item), otherwise you'll be full of annoyed customers wanting reparations after a bad interaction.
Xiaomi (mi.com) privacy policy is a nightmare
In 3 NY restaurants won’t open after lockdowns
The long hollowing out of the American middle class
It's possible that 'years in the future' Elon Musk will have a public profile similar to Howard Hughes today.
Do you mean they are not nice political views or tjat they don't fit in the category? Political thought generally has top level values and then more detailed plans drawing from the top level ideas. Discrimination and hate are examples of these high level political values.
Maybe... Just maybe they need to let those "shiny things" engineers leave if they don't like keeping things running and continually improving them after v1.0. If you only hire people who get bored with a project after a year or egotists who want to start from a green field on every single project, then this is the effect it will have on your products.

I think that's only part of it though. I think that the only way a company can let products wither for years without a single new feature or improvement is if they don't have a product manager to represent the users, and bring a vision to the engineering team.
This very long article doesn't describe even a single instance of anything GCP has deprecated.

It's a long rant with a bunch of f-words, and the claim that he gets deprecation e-mails "about once a month".

Can someone who is informed point to actual GCP services that have been, or are being, deprecated?

From the article, I have no idea whatsoever if this is some huge actual problem with core services... or pulling support for ancient versions of Linux... or sunsetting experimental/beta services that never had guarantees to begin with.

I'd find it pretty surprising for a platform as relatively new as GCP to already be deprecating anything meaningful, so I'd really appreciate if anyone has actual facts here.

(Also I know a lot of people who use GCP, and I've never heard anyone complaining about services being deprecated, so to hear someone complaining about it happening monthly is pretty surprising.)
One-Third of New York City Residents Have Lost Their Jobs, Report Says
Here are the rules for the .sa TLD https://www.iana.org/domains/idn-tables/tables/man_ar_1.0.tx...

I suppose other TLDs could have different rules. But in general you'd want to have a canonicalization step so you don't have two domains that are just different ways of composing the same thing.
Unit and Integration Testing with Buddy
Children are excluded, but the elderly are not. Prime-age (25-54) employment rates are quite a bit higher than 60%.
Very interesting link.
It remembered me the BeOS icons! Nice job, btw.
As one of the generalists, I'd like to add to this comment. I see two kinds of problems: open and closed. Closed problems are sort of "traditional" engineering problems. They're math heavy, they have a precise, indisputably correct answer, and they probably require some kind of algorithm to solve. These are very challenging and interesting problems to dive into, and I certainly have some interest in them, but they are not my primary interest. I like to use software to solve business problems, which sometimes involve a closed element but more typically are open. They involve human beings and have fuzzy definitions of correctness. I like understanding my users and the weird little worlds they inhabit and how I can make their day a little better. To do that, I need the sorts of tools that the closed problem engineers provide. Now you can absolutely be a great open AND closed problem engineer. I'm studying some more math and algorithms to try to improve at that. I'm also willing to dive in and debug some complex messy library code when I need to, and I do agree it's my job to evaluate the maturity and reliability of a library before I add it as a dependency. All that said, I take issue with the notion that I'm not a good engineer if I choose to outsource some of my problems—especially these closed problems that require a lot of work and experience and attention. Software is not special. In business, every decision involves tradeoffs and opportunity costs. It's completely unhelpful to take potshots at engineers making a conscious choice not to tackle some problem when they can have it solved by someone else.

All of that said, you're obviously correct that some people just paste together unstable things they have put forth zero effort to evaluate, and that's a problem.
We get it! You don't use or like Twitter. Maybe this isn't the discussion thread for you, then.
Adobe Sued for Sending ‘Bogus’ DMCA Notices to Take Down Genuine Software
Well what I was driving at (and again, by this person's self-assessment) is that you wouldn't learn all the meta of a language like C++ in a couple of months. I do believe anyone who can code is capable of learning it eventually, but I have never seen someone ramp up on that language from an interpreted one quickly. Which is not to say it's a badge of honor to code C++, it just is what it is.

I think if you talk about the narrow scope of learning a language's syntax for greenfield projects, it might be true that people who know one language well can quickly learn any other language. But some languages force you to learn so much other "stuff" before you can be professionally productive in it, and I think there's some danger in just repeating that any good developer can pick up any language quickly.

My bottom line point: if I saw a developer who I knew to be very competent fail to quickly ramp up on a very different language in a professional setting, I probably wouldn't revise my assessment of them being "good."
It's much simpler to convince people to just burn down their infrastructure: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/4/21207927/5g-towers-burning...

See also convincing people not to take simple public health measures, do unsafe things in defiance of nonexistant conspiracies, shoot up pizza parlours etc.
Tax authorities are not going to chase you around the world for $150.
Author is Cosma Shalizi

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosma_Shalizi
>Even in 2015, surely they had spellcheck?

Well, eduction is a word, so it would have spelled ok.
So, the smallest measurable change?
One squirrel shouldn't be able to bring a whole grid down. Grids are supposed to be resilient and have a couple of safety features

A squirrel could bring power to a street down, or maybe a neighborhood. In the same way falling trees do
well, being forced to adapt your system because a service provider is not allowing you to keep it running can be a significant drain on your resources. especially when you can't control when you do it.

sure FOSS needs to be upgraded too, and sometimes there is change that you need to adapt to, but you are in control of the schedule, and if you are busy you can delay the upgrade work to when you have time for it. a service being shut down won't give you that flexibility
Introduction to Terraform
In other words, it's probably much worse now...
They already exclude children from that number. Except if you mean 18 and over 'children'.
How are 3 million HK citizens not going to be "immigrants taking our jobs"? When you are thinking about something like the economical impact of immigration then lower numbers always mean lower impact.
I agree with this.

Most of the criticisms of the US have merit, and are serious.

The part I think is problematic is this piece of hyperbole.

I honestly believe that when people say things like this, they are contributing the problems we have as a world, even if they make a bunch of other good points.

The value of an argument is not judged by then number of good points that are made.

It is judged on the conclusions.
It took me less than a minute to debunk this, finding [0] listing six shootings since December 2019. School shootings are about schools, not about guns or shooters; as long as we run schools like preludes for prisons, we're going to continue to have the pattern.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th...
I wasted 2000 hours for this game. Highly addictive.
Pre Covid prime age employment rates were 80% or so. The remainder is mostly stay at home moms and grad students.
This is unfortunately extremely widespread. I'm in middle of a case against tp-link currently, prior comments at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

And I've tracked similar cases against other major brands, I have a database of over 100 lawsuits against a brand for a false complaint on Amazon/eBay/other marketplace. And I've talked to many sellers who've received false complaints but don't have the resources to sue or feel it wouldn't be worth it. Something needs to be done to fix that.
... but to very different degrees. Like somebody calling another person an asshole and them pulling out a gun and shooting them in response. Yeah, don't go around insulting people, but let's not pretend that it's anywhere close to equally wrong.

People are getting trained by Google and other SV companies that you only get support if you can get x retweets. I don't like it, but I understand why people react to that by tweeting out their issues with companies. And, of course, opt-out upgrade is shady.
Really, they can’t offer stock?

That doesn’t sound right. Maybe they don’t feel it would align the motivations correctly or something?

If I write some software for you and you pay me in stock, what’s the issue? I saw this done quite a bit during Startup Boom 1.0.
Found these:

SVN repo:
https://svn.jdownloader.org/projects/jd

there's also mirrors on Github:
https://github.com/mirror/jdownloader

I'm not sure which parts are not open-source
Why wouldn't they be able to offer stock options to contractors? I'm an EU based contractor for a US (only) based company. I have stock options, as do other contractors and employees. No problem at all, just a bit of paperwork.
>I also would venture this will further marginalize people in tech who are already marginalized.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I'd venture that if you're going to say, "suggesting this marginalizes people," you should back it up with why you think that. It does no good for anyone to say something like that (and in doing so, heavily imply that the person making the statement is some kind of icky paraiah) and leave it at that.
This area definitely needs deeper investigation. It is compelling from an intuitive sense and we see tons of practical evidence of chaos being handy in the real world. I’ve been using EoC initialization for Transformer networks in RL recently and look forward to try it in the helmholtz machine adaptation of the same. One thing I see (anecdotally) is it can easily break, but if it doesn’t, it works better (in terms of performance), so these approaches are probably a lot more useful in systems which do have some homeostasis, such that they can robustly pull themselves back from the abyss
Maybe this is a dumb question, but if you are able to maintain a certain state by maintaining a certain energy input, how is this not an equilibrium state over time? It feels like the distinction between non-equilibrium and equilibrium is semantic.
Is it still done like this? I feel like there's a lot riding on this one guy clicking his mouse. Surely there's a way to automate this?
World’s oldest camp bedding found in South African cave
Can’t blame you for missing it given the length of the article, but there’s this paragraph towards the end:

> I know I haven’t gone into a lot of specific details about GCP’s deprecations. I can tell you that virtually everything I’ve used, from networking (legacy to VPC) to storage (Cloud SQL v1 to v2) to Firebase (now Firestore with a totally different API) to App Engine (don’t even get me started) to Cloud Endpoints to… I dunno, everything, has forced me to rewrite it all after at most 2–3 years, and they never automate it for you, and often there is no documented migration path at all. It’s just crickets.
> They're inserting themselves into every transaction as a middle man.

They’re not inserting themselves into every transaction. Instead, they’re allowing users who don’t want to have a direct relationship with every app on their phone, to substitute their pre-existing relationship with Apple instead.
Ongoing Challenges in Computer Science
Net neutrality was/is solely about content.

I'm talking exclusively about pricing and profits.

Totally different things. How old are you?
That Guardian article helped me understand why I’ve heard Americans say ‘French Champagne’ - I thought it could only be called Champagne when from that region but apparently not in the US.
cox has a monopoly in My area of California. The download speed of 50 mbs we have is fine but expensive. The upload speed between 2.5 and 3mbs is what’s painful.

I’d have to pay around $70 or more to get those starlink upload speeds with cox. I’d much rather pay starlink.
I don't have the same issues as your colleague. I've been using Azure for 8 years and rarely run into any issues. Maybe his issues isn't with Azure.
I’m glad you made this point, because it allows me to issue a cautionary word to those dualists who think that somehow the mind is something disjoint from the brain.
> It's a computer program, so it has to be deterministic.

Turn up the gain on a cheap sound card with no mic plugged in, and you've got yourself quantum tunneling noise.

If you've figured out how to make that deterministic, go collect your nobel.
Funny things happen sometimes: french president Emmanuel Macron speech on TV on april 13th 2020 was followed by an estimated 36.7 millions people and led to 2.5 Gigawatt lower electricity consumption in France between 20:00 and 20:30 local time. Grid manager RTE lowered production by 1.9 GW for nuclear and 0.6 GW for hydro to match demand.

https://www.rte-france.com/actualites/allocution_president_c...

" L’allocution d’Emmanuel Macron, retransmise sur les principales chaînes d’information ce lundi 13 avril, a été suivie par 36,7 millions de téléspectateurs selon Médiamétrie.

Ce record d’audience se voit au travers de la consommation d’électricité des Français qui a chuté de 2 500 MW, entre 20h et 20h30, soit l’équivalence de la consommation d’électricité de Paris."
It's fascinating that from the 1950s to the 1970s employment was hovering around 57%. Formal employment has actually increased 1970-2015 as workers in our economy became more productive. It's interesting this correlates to the decline in real median wage gains, which have plateaued since the 1970s.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
There's a movie plot that's fairly adjacent to this and even has pretty good ratings: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt7425298/