skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get the mass closure thing they talk about in the article.
Where are the journalists based ?

In here, in France, merch in almost every bike shop is easily sold out, as people rushed to transition from car and public transportation to bike, to avoid crowded trains without generating hellish traffic jams and pollution.
(and roads were even closed to cars, and became the most enjoyable bike routes,like Rue de Rivoli in Paris, that connects the Louvre, le marais, les Invalides... now without cars)

So they don't suffer from anything, and I haven't seen a single shop out of business.
If you want a messaging app that’s easier to hack you can always download one. See: Jeff Bezos‘ WhatsApp hacked
GT is to minecraft what angelbobs is to factlrio IMO.

A good entry point for GT is, I'd say, Gregblock.
Ctrl+F "globalist" is an absolute cesspool of this kind of thing.
>> I believe that a viable strategy for them would be to instead focus on making Firefox better than Chrome on everything else but the Google Stack. If the Firefox experience is better on all other sites, Chrome will be gradually marginalized.

Quite difficult when every developer I see is testing and verifying their product on chrome
Apple and Google would be happy to have everybody in the world as their customer.

Stanford and Harvard, while offering some non-selective continuing ed / MOOC programs that leverage their name, are not looking to increase their enrollment for traditional degrees. Their exclusivity is part of their appeal.
I tried. Tab switching was - for me - horrible compared to Chrome (chrome:swipe down, swipe address bar down, select tab you want from carousel).

I kept looking if i missed this obvious feature. I tried to live without it, but Firefox mobile's tab switching just turned out to be a deal breaker for me.

If anyone had some tips: please!! I'd vastly prefer using FF on mobile.
Can you share your company ?
Not yet, I'm afraid... we'll be free while we're in beta (which could easily be a couple more months). From there we'll keep a free tier, and introduce paid individual plans and a team plan.
> What about the plant agriculture industry?

Animals eat plants. So in much the same way that a subsidy on meat is a subsidy on hamburgers - which require meat to produce - a subsidy on plants is also a subsidy on meat.

We should also keep in mind that it takes many calories of plants fed to animals to produce one calorie of meat. Thus plant agriculture subsidies consumed per calorie of meat are likely much higher than plant agriculture subsidies consumed per calorie of plant.
Can you please produce a link to any of the "fair share" of studies you allude to? And can you please refute the points in the link I shared above, the ones implicating red meat with health problems?
YYYY-MM-DD formatted date strings also sort better when sorted as text.
India's Genius Plan to Be the Future of U.S. Higher Education
> What is the distinction between a chef trained at a vocational school and a lawyer trained at a law school?

One is considered by society to be a 'tradesperson', while the other is considered a 'professional'. Society considers law to not be a 'trade' because it is a 'profession' instead and society sees these as mutually exclusive by definition.

I think what you really mean is you don't agree with society's definitions. That's fine - it's an interesting discussion and I didn't express any opinion on it myself. But I don't think you were ever really mistaken about what the original comment meant - you were feigning confusion as a rhetorical device, which is why I think other people down-voted you.
Darktable is fantastic, if a bit of a beast to learn. It is what finally let me sever ties to Windows/Mac for Adobe software.

I put together a little guide [1] to FOSS for photography a couple of years ago that I think is still pretty relevant (happy to hear about anything I should update!), including resources for learning Darktable.

[1] https://9bladed.com/post/foss_photography/
Maybe monit works - i like something that’s not the system init so you can use the same config on macos that you use on linux...
MrWong's Soup'Partments (users crowd-build a pixel art building ca 2002)
Yes, GCC intermediates are quite nice. Lispy and readable. And indeed, you can take a look at every stage. But LLVM intermediate code is basically just another assembly language. And as for MSVC, I'm not sure if it's even accessible. So it's not always an option.

Disassembly is either way our end result so unless you're looking for something particular, it makes sense to browse that first just to check that the compiler gets your intention just right.
That's a great idea! Although I did work with a person once who would use anything that looked helpful regardless of "deprecated" being all over the place (Eclipse would even yell at the method calls but he didn't care). Granted that's Java and at that point in time APIs were being deprecated without workable replacements, so it's hard to fault him.
maybe replenish "brain juice" by drinking it from another brain?
How is the best experience to listen to a band live? I have had literally the exact opposite experience in life. Concerts are lots of fun, but when its comes to listening to the actual music at the concert, unquestionably not even close to the quality of a sound booth.
Pair programming anything as urgent as a hotfix works really well. It takes some pressure off of the developer working on it and turns it into a team event.

We will even sometimes keep the video call open until deployment is done and production validation is complete - the devops guys get the information they need, someone else is keeping an eye on the checklist and calling out items if necessary, etc.
This article is placing way too much weight on Covid changing the world. It will accelerate some trends, sure, but it's not a seminal change.

100k or 200 or 300 sounds like a lot of people but when a normal year sees 3 million dead it's barely a blip. Especially since many of those dying were likely to die within a couple of years anyway.

The US has not done worse compared to the rest of the west. Our deaths per capita are in line with France, Italy, Spain, and the UK. Germany is the only outlier.

This sentiment is entirely because of the dislkke of Trump. I don't like him either and think he sucks, but he's not ruining the country. The US will survive him and continue to be the strongest nation in the world.
I <3 Zenodo. My societies don't require open data, but that's a generational shift.

Also, if you do bio-type research, you can use Data Dryad too!
Out of interest why do you think it's ok to lock the iPad Pro down and not the MacBook Pro?

What's the difference between those devices that makes one ok the other not?
businesses go through these challenges all the time.

the fat that gets trimmed is what makes them better.
Very strange, bicycle shops in the DC metro region are booming.
Please be kind and add something to the discussion or don't comment at all: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Very cool that you are generating fictional cultures! This resource only structures Western food cultures (probably because a lot of ancient Eastern & African histories relied on oral traditions rather than written, which has been harder to capture and structure pre-voice tech.) As a result, the patterns you detect and stories you generate will be limited to those Western sources; maybe that could be interesting, but I imagine combining those with other traditions around the world would lead to far more novel fictions.

Have you been able to find good structured data about Asian/African food? If not, it would be cool to figure out a way to start building that sort of database so that your stories draw from a fuller set of information and traditions! I think voice tech and the improvement in transcriptions + gpt3-like tools will help us start capturing and structuring oral histories much more effectively and quickly than ever before.
Starlink isn’t visible in the night sky. It’s satellites are in such low orbits they spend Tye night in the earths shadow, where they are invisible. They are only visible on the horizon at dawn/dusk, where there is actual sunlight to reflect.

Lastly the latest version of Starlink satellites has a shade visor that reduces reflection enough to make them invisible even at dawn/dusk.
"Such an algorithm is useful, because ever since "A Bug’s Life" in 1998, there is usually at least one scene in each Pixar movie that exceeds the capacity of even the most memory-rich node in the render farm. The scene usually appears well after R&D has concluded, so ad hoc solutions must then be employed, e.g., manually trimming the scene until it barely fits in-core."

Reminds me of Hofstadter's Law.
The market also offered better services eventually and AOL simply couldn't keep up in every area. It slowly chipped away at their user base. Messaging was one of their killer features and apps like ICQ slowly ate them up while AOL tried to ride the same strategy of being everything to everyone into the future. I do agree it was a great experience for what it was, back in the day.
For now, and you're looking for it.

I remember when cellphone cameras first came out going "ffs, who'd want that? it's a tiny, low quality photo".
Anecdotally, it seems computer literacy is actually dropping over time. I taught an entry-level scripting course aimed at medical graduate students for several years, and each year the number of students who did not comprehend even the concept of files and folders was higher than the previous year.
Thats when you pay your own way on distribution.
Is John Romero informed?
Since education loans are legally protected from bankruptcy, good luck getting the school of hard knocks financed. It is, I think, a great idea if you are self motivated, but butts up against current reality.
How to Escape the Tyranny of Expectations – By Larry Cornett, PhD
I more or less beat (I escaped but haven't gone back to do stuff in the "Real world") Compact Claustrophobia recently and one of the things that ends up teaching you is a 3D composability that wouldn't really apply to the real world.

Compact Machines are pocket dimensions of fixed internal size (the first one you get is 3x3x3, the last you'll build is 13x13x13) that all exist as a single 1x1x1 cube on the outside. From inside you can reach any of the six sides of that cube with a "tunnel".

So if you've got, say, a simple basic Minecraft furnace with fuel flowing in the left, and stuff input to the top, output from the bottom, you can replace that with a 5x5x5 Compact Machine, with three tunnels inside, and any amount of complexity that fits. Maybe inside the 5x5x5 machine you turn fuel into electricity, you run four electric furnaces, and you parallelise the processing. Externally though it behaves just like the furnace... except both faster and more efficient.

The limited space in Claustrophobia (before you escape) means you feel compelled to actually solve problems in place this way, whereas normally you'd be tempted to just be lazy and add a few extra pipes here, an extra hopper there and soon it's a vast sprawling mess. When 13x13x13 seems impossibly large you cut that sort of nonsense right out.
reading/writing mail is the easy part. Switching the 10's/100's/more? accounts that use email as your username, with no manner to switch that other than starting a new account from scratch (which for medical, financial, etc. accounts is way more than a nuisance) is where a lot of pain will lie.
I'm pretty sure data center workers were considered essential workers.
I said this because I heard it referenced on one of my favorite morning shows. I looked for the source and found the CDC director's webinar.

"We’re seeing, sadly, far greater suicides now than we are deaths from COVID. We’re seeing far greater deaths from drug overdose that are above excess that we had as background than we are seeing the deaths from COVID." [0]

I can't tell from his wording whether he's talking about just young people or all age groups, but the context suggests he's talking about young people.

Unfortunately, neither the CDC nor any other agency has published the nationwide suicide totals for 2020 yet so I can't cross-reference the CDC director's statement.

Searching for anything related to "deaths" on Google or DuckDuckGo within the past month (which I am increasingly seeing as a front for Google) only returns COVID-19 death information.

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[0] https://www.buckinstitute.org/covid-webinar-series-transcrip...
I bought a car less than a year ago and actually had a surprisingly easy time. I don't if it's a Hyundai specific thing, but a most of the dealerships around me advertised "no hassle" pricing (I forget if that was the exact term). I knew the car and trim and color I wanted, I could see which dealerships had it in stock and requested a quote online from 5 different dealerships near me. Within less than an hour I got back a price quote from most of them, they were all kind of an expected amount below MSRP, but one was a full $1000 less than the next best price. I texted the salesperson, went in, test drove it, and left with the car an hour and a half later (the process of registering it and getting all the paperwork sorted out was still painfully slow and annoying, but at least I didn't have to go to the DMV I guess).
Isn't that something. Looks like we can't get rid of our past.
Yeah, I don't usually include "this" when calling methods on the same object, but it's not like it enrages me or anything. I totally get why you would, and it's fine.

I generally agree with "consistency is good", but for an issue like this: honestly, who cares? This is SUCH a small difference that even if you're inconsistent, I doubt I'd even notice it or pay it a second thought. If you're going to work with other human beings, you can't be this insanely dogmatic, you'll never get anything done.
I was confused by the B in BIPOC. I thought African-Americans were people of color?

I'm trying to be earnest here because if that's the term that should be used I will use it, but I'd like to know its genesis. It feels wrong to refer to entire, disparate groups of people (indigenous peoples and Latinos in the Dakotas probably have very little in common) by an acronym that seemingly double-counts a particular group seems odd.
If it was incorrect, the compiler, or at least the linter, would throw an error or at least a warning, no?

Developers would be wise not to mistake reified opinions with correctness.
Sure, and this is the consequence of living in a digital world. In the days of yore, all of your private information was sitting in paper ledgers in every business you ever interacted with. Even back then, you were susceptible to receiving promotional spam and marketing, and law enforcement regularly perused a business's books during criminal investigations. It's perhaps a bit easier today, in the digital world, but in principle not much has changed.

Even in the digital realm, your financial data is mostly safe on account of PCI-DSS compliance requirements. So even in our connected world, a company isn't going to (legally) get your credit card information unless they're storing it in an HSM. Your personal health data is mostly safe on account of HIPAA. Even though a business you interface with might have a BAA with Amazon to store your healthcare data in an S3 bucket, Amazon is prohibited by law from actually doing anything with that data. Any serious digital business that wants to grow beyond a certain size needs to be SOC-2 Type 2 certified, which all of the major cloud providers happen to be.

The implication of being unable to "live without tech giants" as extending to being unable to prevent others from living without them is a bit of a stretch. The fact that you can't prevent others from interacting with "Tech Giants" (be they individuals or businesses) has been true for forever, and for any type of business. The idea this necessarily means that one ought to be able to prevent other individuals or businesses from interacting with them also is a more recent, but flawed idea.
Digital Experiences
Maybe not those accessories in particular, but what of the rest of the bike? Tons of bikes are clearly getting stolen.
Reminds me of ps/kill/renice built in Doom: http://psdoom.sourceforge.net
In the US we pretend that class doesn’t exist here. We have risen above that, you see, anybody here can become anything they want. Much the same way we pretend that racism doesn’t exist.
That's fine with me because I favor the trade direction. I tell my mentees to make things in good taste that they're proud to show people, like a cabinet maker.
The data center operations team is probably still in the building. But the software engineering teams which is what I’m familiar with are all working from home. We don’t have to go to the data centers anyway usually.
How I Learned to Stop Fighting the Borrow Checker and Love Dirty Structs
Economist Tim Harford has been running a small and occasional podcast series, Cautionary Tales. It opened with an episode discussing Perrow, produced immediately before, and releasing just after, Perrow's death last November.

He's looked at risk, may be thinking of technical debt, and I've suggested Beruit.

Recommended.
This is hacker news, and you're talking about apple.
We created our first web development course
Neon is Switzerland-based (not EU).
Top of the google search.

https://www.worldwildlife.org/industries/sustainable-seafood....

From a website that's trying to support sustainable fishing practices.

(I actually thought the number was 2 billion until I looked it up before making my previous post. It shouldn't be too surprising considering how much of the world's population lives on the coast AND fish basically take care of themselves, so it's an easy to way get your food.)
Cryptocats: The automated cat photo tool
Apple blocks xCloud and Stadia from app store because it can't review every game
SRE Podcast on Glue Work
It's not that simple, some of these companies have tech stacks that are run-a-way trains written by people who had good intentions but wrote their code and built their infrastructure in a way that was meant for 1/50th of the traffic they currently have. I don't know anything about instagram's infrastructure but what I can tell you for certain is that every one of these companies has legacy infrastructure and code that keeps them from being able to meet all legal requirements. You can't just make a blanket statement that they don't have an excuse.
Starlink satellites are only visible on the horizon during dawn/dusk, because they are in the earths shadow the rest of the night.
That's a huge loss in my opinion.
>but it's interesting Microsoft has been going hard on evangelising Rust.

Microsoft put a report out a while ago that memory safety issues account for over 70% of security bugs in microsoft products[1] which they attribute to unsafe languages in the codebase so it seems natural that they're interested in Rust.

[1]https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se...
I don't think most of the people angry about signed exchanges necessarily want a distributed web (everyone hosts), they want the old decentralized model (many servers with different content). They want Google to stop telling them how to format their website, and they want Google to stop rehosting their website as a condition of search-engine access. That last one in particular isn't a centralization issue as much as it is a copyright concern. If people are angry about technology that makes it easier for Google to proxy their content, they sure as shit aren't going to want technology that lets randos do it too.

Not to mention, the decentralized web also means more privacy concerns. In the old model, the only entity that knows you downloaded a particular file is the server you talk to. With AMP, Google is now involved with that data flow. This is a third reason why people hate AMP, but it could be worse. Google is at least still a moderately trustworthy entity for a lot of people. However, what about Archive.org? What about Amazon, Facebook, ByteDance, or Brave Software? Each entity has far different trust implications compared to Google. You may trust them more or less. Just signing the web content only validates that the content itself hasn't been tampered with, not that the place you got it from is going to have your privacy interests in mind.
should
See RFC 2119, "should" usually denotes something as "optional"
But really, almost zero companies build software around data in such a way that the data could and will disappear at any moment.
The queuing was based on 2007 metrics on load and usage.
It now seems this needs updating. Preferably making if full client-side javascript.
Yeah but Factorio lets me nuke space bugs.
Apple has it's own goals of hiding technical information from the user.
Maybe because they wouldn’t have gotten the deal renewed otherwise?
IIRC the supposed "burden" of lowering Cxx suite salaries played a non-insignificant role.
I could be completely off the mark, but would an animation make it difficult to spoof. I can't now just use a photo of the cloud? Of course it could be that it just looks cool :D
Has something positive came out from the world of IT in the last 20 years?
I agree they are, but from watching the several local social media groups in my metro area which are trying to keep track of stolen bikes, everything that I see stolen, if it were road would be Tiagra level or lower components, or if MTB/city bike would be deore equivalent or cheaper.

The main exception would be downhill bikes that are occasionally stolen from garages.
ONI has me super frustrated but without the challenge and success part. I reached the surface once when setting the map to super easy and discovered that there was nothing fun there, either. It's fun for a little bit to get things running, but you can't make it a closed loop system (at least at first) and you'll run out of stuff fairly soon. I thought that with enough research you'd get there, and you might, but the way of storing liquids or gases for processing, the heat it creates, the meteors that destroy anything you put on the surface, the crappy power generation methods to pump it all around... I just didn't get that game. Factorio I played for thousands of hours and I'm still not tired of it.
There are a lot of comments about hiding the URL "because the user doesn't understand" -- has there been any research into user education directly in the address bar?

Like, fresh install page points @ google.com. Why not A little browser popup highlighting the parts of the URL and explaining it, with a link + tutorial on how to understand parts of the URL?

Rather than dumbing the interface down, why not inform users so they can use these platforms more effectively?
Except where absolutely necessary, we've been WFH since March. We were allowed to expense some things for setting up a home office.

The few physical workspaces that are still active out of necessity have a ton of sanitation measures in place. Regular cleanings, temp sensors, etc. I knew someone was paying attention to detail when those "foot handles" started appearing on the bottoms of the bathroom entry doors.

A lot of my colleagues and myself have been busier it feels than any time prior. There is honestly a real sense that a lot of people are suddenly depending on us more than ever. It does give the sense that we're critical infrastructure, and the leadership communicates and appreciates as such.
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