skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I wonder what ever happened to the common-sense idea that culture flows outward from the people with the "power." Maybe it's by example, or maybe it's by unintended consequence. Maybe it's caused by some moralistic / idealistic sort of policy, or maybe it's through ignorance of the unconscious biases that people have.

To that end, Slack, being a communications enabler, merely accelerates the rate of these things happening. You can turn it off, but then you can turn off the company too. You can try to make everything out in the open open, but then you quench creativity as well as meaningful 1-1 interactions between people.
We should come up with a grassroots cloud service measurement system. You know how lakes and reservoirs sometimes have an "N deaths so far this year" sign.

Something like, "N cloudfails the last 3 years" for us cloud software users. Kept in a nice table so you can sort by least-bad records.
I ran the math a while ago. If Uber CEO worked for free, the salary saved amounts to 1 or 2 cents per ride.
Pricing from the article:

CPU Type|CPUs|RAM|Price/mo

Shared|1|1 GB|$12

1. Buy a $5/mo droplet

2. sudo apt-get install docker

3. run your Dockerfile

is that worth a $7/mo (140%) premium?

I would use it if it was the same cost as the underlying droplet.
> Unless Adobe can be shown to have been criminally negligent

Not having multiple site backups isn't criminally negligent when running a paid cloud service?
37.2 million less jobs seems crazy. What does that mean? That's not in line with BLS data which has much smaller peak job loss and quick recovery

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12000000

Maybe employees with multiple employers?
I think the OP meant it as sarcasm.
That, and on the other side of the equation, there’s not enough time to read the stack of papers I already know to be deeply interesting. I could read in my subfield of neuroscience 24/7 and never catch up with the deluge of new, interesting, and high quality work. I agree that negative results should be publishable, but the whole incentive system in science must change to accommodate that.
https://imgur.com/a/0Pj2lex

Weird. I just did +1EV exposure and filmic rgb as is recommended, and it looks just fine to me.

What version of darktable are you using?
It wouldn’t make much economic sense to ship stuff back down a gravity well if you could make it locally.

On the other hand it might actually become cheaper to ship stuff to Earth orbit (even LEO) from Mars, simply because of the delta-v cost.
> If you want bulletproof software with guarantees (like the medical industry or aerospace or traffic light systems or banks) you'll get extremely conservative, boring old tech with no flashy new features all the time.

If users could actually evaluate the guarantees and have reasonable assurance that they would be upheld, I suspect this is exactly the direction the industry would take.

However, because it's unreasonably expensive to verify that those guarantees hold (relative to the value the software offers), end-users have no reason to prefer products that offer them to products which merely claim to be secure.
What prevents you from writing a patch for Firefox then? After all, it is one of the great advantages of FOSS. At this level of power you'd likely have to change the addon every upgrade anyways.
Thanks for the great read! I enjoy your style and I can see you’re also a big fan of Ted Chiang and Ursula Le Guin. Are there any other authors you’d recommend who’ve been big influences for you?
Well said. I don’t understand why public institutions at the very least aren’t required to share their research. And considering that the majority of higher ed public or private wouldn’t last a day without federal backed loans, I’m not sure only public institutions should be held to this fire.

I take actual pleasure in pirating research papers.
The best thing to do is to closely and carefully document their inappropriate behavior.

Anybody can do this, not just HR. If you have overwhelming evidence of job misconduct and provide it to your company, it gives them ammunition to defend themselves against those sorts of legal recourses.
From what I gather, this only affects the new Lightroom app, and primarily the iOS apps.
I don't have strong evidence for this but at one point it seemed strongly like those camera-vendor-locked editions were actually subsidized by the vendor(s) in question. Said vendors have generally been the camera underdogs. Once upon a time Sony cameras even came with a bundled, vendor-locked Capture One license.
Yep, and it’s not really how authorship is supposed to work.

The hard part here is that communicating any idea clearly to an audience takes massive effort, and usually null results, unless quite interesting in a specific context, are naturally a lower priority.

I’m currently working on a paper built around what I believe to be a fascinating null result though...
The fire is also still 0% contained, so it's not over.

But, if the surrounding fuels have been exhausted, likely the worst of it is over in that area.
Friture – Friture is a real-time audio analyzer
My impression is that Uber fulfills a niche for drivers who want a certain tradeoff between flexibility and job security. There are people who fit into that niche and people who don't, but forcing the company to change its value proposition is going to make some people start or stop driving for Uber depending on how well the new contract suits them. This could be a net economic win or loss, but we don't know the numbers.
In the long run, if there are enough drivers who value the flexible arrangement that Uber provides, then either another company will fill that niche or these people will find similar work elsewhere.
For the sound. If kids don't wear headphones it's impossible to hear. Also, this really helps with younger kids who already might be learning to pronounce words correctly
In another story, I needed Lightroom for about a week to do some photo work. I started with their subscription for the month and I wanted to let go if I'm done in the first month.

While trying to cancel my subscription, I realize I can only do that after paying for the remaining 11 months (rough calculation).

With no other option, I paid my penalty and left Adobe for good. I have deleted my 15+ year old Adobe account.

Alternatives and to serve nostalgic attachments, I bought the whole suite of Affinity[1] Products. I've also bought Darkroom[2] for photo editing on iPad.

1. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/

2. https://darkroom.co

P.S. (edit/addition) I ended a 25+ year relationship with Adobe. I paid myself through my school and college with PageMaker, and other softwares (both open source, free, and paid).
You get an obstruction charge when it seems easier to convict or you can't make a solid case on the crime being investigated, and you don't have to be guilty of the investigated crime to be guilty of obstruction.

I could imagine crimes being committed might include securities fraud, money laundering, bribery...

Most states have data breach laws. for California:

>California law requires a business or state agency to notify any California resident whose unencrypted personal information, as defined, was acquired, or reasonably believed to have been acquired, by an unauthorized person.

https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/databreach/reporting
LibrePlanet 2021
I agree with both sides to a degree. The tendency to use monster truck wheels on a shopping cart or vice-versa (because reinventing the wheel is considered evil) makes software a mess, but so does throwing out years of debugging subtle/rare conditions.

Code reuse however also tends to add tons of bloat and potentially bugs caused by things that aren't even relevant to the current usage. Not to mention all the added complexity of having to add another layer over to translate the current terms into the terms the re-used code understands and then override what it does and translate the output.

There are some cases where it would be preferable to preserve the embedded domain knowledge, but in many cases the cost of 'reinventing the wheel' would be less than adapting an unfit wheel.
Interesting he's a former federal prosecutor himself (currently the CSO at CloudFlare).
If you know it so well, why do you still think we have the highest tax burden?
Hi there, I wrote a blog (with you in mind) on the devices we use to support online group learning. Thank you for inspiring it. Hope it's helpful. www.modulo.app/all-resources/hardwardsoftware
If the issue you're referring to are the ethical problems of farming, they are in no way limited to CAFOs. Some of the worst practices I've personally witnessed have been at small farms. Size is no guarantee of treatment and locality has absolutely no bearing on ethics.

You're also underestimating the impact of modern animal breeds on the price of animal products. Broiler chickens are slaughtered at about a third of the age as chickens a century ago. All farms benefit from that kind of decrease and it's one of the things that turned chicken into a daily food. Without CAFOs, prices would certainly go up, but less dramatically than you thibk.
But you see crack, coke meth and benzo addictions turn people to a life of (violent) crime, meaning more people for the cops to assault and arrest!
Psychedelics don't do that as much...
Whoa, I’m really sorry to hear that. Your story is fascinating and reminiscent of Michael Gazzaniga and others’ work with split brain patients.
Amazon Support vs Google Support
I don't how you go from "we cannot be certain" to "no basis to think so".
I used to run Coherent back when I was in high school. I ran it on a 386SX with 3 megs of RAM (yes, odd number.) I later installed SLS Linux on that same machine.

The Coherent documentation was amazing. I still remember that huge book...
Ask HN: Do you run canaries as part of your production deploys?
We have recently started running canaries in production and I was wondering how folks ensure that their canary is healthy enough to roll out to the entire production fleet.

What kind of metrics/signals do you look for and are humans involved in the process?
ScholarMe (YC S19) Is Hiring a Front End Engineer – Toronto/Remote
I'm in the same boat and slowly realizing that the one-two punch of managing assets and editing may have to be split into separate apps.
If you were to have a separate contract for every Jira ticket that would be your call to make. Unusual, but fine.
Viruses and antibiotic resistance as well
Tips on Acing the Analytical Writing Section of GMAT
because what you are purposing is fork a browser which is only slightly less complicated than fork operating system and involves a major investment in time/money to maintain.
> You can run months behind and be fine in most cases.

Out of curiosity, what's your coronavirus take?
Probably it's something in EULA that Adobe grant user licence to use the software that might be revocable under certain permission like this one.
I've thought about this as I've read the book Coming Home: Reentry and Recovery from Space. The fixation on a space plane probably set back the US space program by decades whereas a more boring evolutionary tree descended from the Saturn program would have been interesting.
You typed the compile/build command and it compiled/built. Then you had an executable you could test and/or deploy. Or you got errors, which you resolved until it did compile.
Are you in Europe?
Michigan college is tracking its students with a flawed app
> I was very surprised to see that, years after it happened, some community members still felt hurt by this choice.

Actually, it shouldn’t be surprising at all since people lost a lot of useful functionality that still do not have replacements today. Users were not stuck on XUL as a technology. They cared about functionality and power user functionality!

I’m using mainline Firefox and not some fork that still supports XUL addons, but I still miss not having good replacements for:†

* Tab Mix Plus (I haven’t seen any replacement for this; and if you haven’t used this in the XUL world, you wouldn’t know the value of it)

* Lazarus (form saver)

* Session Manager (no, other session saving extensions still feel iffy to me)

For reasons I haven’t delved into, these extensions cannot live in a WebExtensions world today. So yes, I’m one of the people hurt by the choice not of removing XUL, but not providing alternatives even several years later.

> The main drawback is, of course, that WebExtensions do not give add-on developers as much power as the promiscuous extension mechanism. I hope that all the power that add-on developers need can eventually be added to WebExtensions API but that’s something that takes engineering power, a critical resource that we’re sorely lacking.

I don’t have a lot of hope since years have passed with progress in making some more addons work with WebExtentions but not really close to being there for other addons. Though the Firefox team has said it’s currently not planning to implement Manifest V3, if and when it does (and depending on how it does), that could potentially make uBlock Origin obsolete. That would be a much larger blow to the users.

†: Please let me know if you have suggestions for great replacements for the first two extensions.
I'm cautiously optimistic. Old growth redwood forests like Big Basin and Muir tend not to have highly dense brush.
> "Similarly, Uber argued that the industry at large had become more adept since 2014 at protecting private data in the cloud, and that Uber should not be judged for “what a company did then (back when the company was much smaller and the technology at issue was evolving) according to the standards that the agency thinks are appropriate now (given the current sophistication of the company and current industry best practices).” Uber made these arguments via letter in April 2017, approximately five months after the 2016 Breach."

I've been hearing this argument for decades, and every time it's been earnest but transparent blame-shifting. "The industry didn't understand security risks back then." "No one could have predicted this." The risks were well known back then by anyone who cared about risks.
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I love Affinity publisher and hype their products up as much as I can.

For Adobe, could you not have issued a chargeback or in some other way dispute the cancellation?
> Sometimes logical fallacies get a point across

A fallacious point. That's the point.
What about GitHub and GitLab?
Show HN: Manool v0.6 is Out
MANOOL is a dynamically typed homoiconic programming language with functional core and value (copy-on-write instead of reference) storage semantics.

News:

+ All values, regardless of type, are now totally ordered, which implies fewer arbitrary restrictions and more generality, useful to construct general caches, etc.

+ Parallel `for`-loops can now iterate over views of different sizes, useful to iterate over unbounded and bounded views at the same time.

+ Symbols starting with underscores and uninterned symbols are now excluded from the set of symbols that denote themselves by default, which means better diagnostics but implies lesser generality (a tradeoff; this required a few fixes in the standard library code).

+ Those undefined symbols are now actually bounded to a special "error" entity instead of being reported directly, for consistency with the overall language feel.

+ Internal cosmetic changes.

The current release should be regarded stable and still has less than 10 KLOC in C++!

As always, I am providing pre-compiled binaries for 14 combinations of OSes/ISAs/ABIs:

https://github.com/rusini/manool/releases/tag/v0.6
> Also, why should a bureaucrat tell me what the appropriate work-life balance is, as an independent contractor?

Because otherwise it tends to be a race to the bottom.
https://www.engineergirl.org/2939/Ann-Syrdal
These aren't kids, they're adults. Some countries do allow voluntary organ donation for kidneys, pieces of liver, etc and it works fine (so yes that should be a choice). Slavery is clearly not free exchange of value.

Who's looking out for drivers? Do they have any experience of driving? Why do most drivers want flexibility and say they're against these changes then? Why don't the existing unfilled driving jobs suffice for those who want jobs? If drivers are clearly choosing to be rideshare contractors instead of other open jobs, why should they no longer have that choice?

If you're going to remove people's freedom then you better have an absolutely perfect explanation of what they're supposedly suffering from. If the best you can think of is that some people don't make as much as you want then that's just not good enough.

If CA wanted real change, a new 3rd classification should've been created, or offer public health and benefits pools that all contractors can pay into. Instead this is the same state that fines tax-paying citizens for not having health insurance but offers it for free to illegal immigrants. So no, I don't see how CA govt represents the people or has any idea about the common good.
Isn't the database in SQLite?

So, you can open it in a SQLite GUI (eg sqlitebrowser.org, which I'm a dev member of) to see and/or screw with stuff?
A lot of desktop software has in recent years moved to assume always-on high-bandwidth internet connection and/or moved to a subscription model.
How do all of these "confidentially" filed IPOs end up on the news right away?
How about the folks who gained $1,000,000+ in wealth as their houses appreciated over the past decade or so?
Here's something I don't understand though, if we put a blackbody in deep space, would it eventually be cooled/heated to the temperature of the cosmic background radiation?

The space around us is filled with photon coming from Sun at ~5500K, but it doesn't heat anything to anywhere near that. So given the current density of cosmic background radiation at 411 photon cm -3, would it be sufficient to place a blackbody to the equilibrium temperature?

I am not a physicist by training, and this is a genuine question.
It has charm. Emoji reactions, animated GIFs, pleasant notification sounds, etc. Makes a big difference.
I think there are two ways to understand that. One is that the total number of stars probably won't ever be much higher (which is iffy, given that I'm not clear if average stellar mass is going to stay the same) and one is that there is very little formation of new stars, so the ones we have right now are all that they're going to be.

I think they were going for the former interpretation and I'm not clear that this interpretation is actually supported by the paper.

Thanks for pointing this out.
It's time to move on from Agile.

https://jeffdoolittle.com/2020/05/22/dont-disrupt-agile-drop...
Other states are able to do without it. It's also responsible for California's homelessness problem. Why in the world do you support it?
How to Be an Anti-Intellectual
They also made lots of promises about supporting these popular addons in WebExt era in particular, you should still be able to find plenty of meta-bugs about them on Bugzilla [1].

Of course, most of them never happen, and people are disappointed.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1226546
I was recently shopping for an AC unit and had to get a portable one because I have bars over my windows. Having seen the Technology Connections video I naturally tried to get a dual-hose model, but after seeing the specs (and the prices) I ended up getting a single-hose model anyway.

If we go by the DOE SACC ratings, this single-hose toshiba [0] has a 14% higher SACC rating than this dual hose whynter [1], for the same BTU/hr rating. If we go by the wattage ratings (note: these are usually peak rather than average), the toshiba does use 13% more power than the whynter, so let's assume it cancels out and they both have the same energy efficiency. The toshiba is still $144 cheaper than the whynter. That's hard to justify for "dual hoses seem like they should be more efficient" without any actual evidence.

Please prove me wrong, before it's too late for me to return the single-hose one.

[0] https://www.toshiba-lifestyle.com/us/Room-Air-Conditioners/P...

[1] https://www.whynter.com/product/whynter-elite-12000-btu-dual...
That strategy of "web applications on the desktop" was actually pioneered over 20 years ago by Microsoft:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application

Even in the Windows world, they were never all that popular.
How can I choose a clingy kitten when I buy a cat?
If your property is worth that much more, you can sell it and get a smaller place in the same area and pocket a nice profit. Prop 13 discourages new development in much the same way that rent control does.
Except that youtube’s recommendation engine It terrible and getting worse. I am on youtube all the time and all it ever recommends is things I already subscribe to.
And it seems to be steering further into things I have already watched.
Shocks me when people don’t know how east heroku is.

Okay I get it doesn’t work for all use cases. But it is such a gold standard for simplicity.

I moved an entire company from a falling infrastructure to heroku in a month. No downtime. Multiple environments and pipelines.

Now a company is a year into Kubernetes with no end in sight. Developers can barely function
Because they were told by BoA?
If you're an independent contractor, then joining together with other contractors to demand a higher rate is price fixing. This is generally considered illegal, whereas employee collective bargaining is immune from anti-trust laws.

For more of the legal perspective, see page 9 of: https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU05/20191029/110152/HHRG...
Maybe I'm overthinking it and/or maybe the article is using an idiosyncratic meaning of "foundation". The article says "The foundation of the Tiny House uses cantilevers, seesaw-like joists that help save wood and concrete and actually make the house stronger than a typical foundation would." Which might be a fancy description for basic techniques[1] used to build countless old houses in Alabama and elsewhere, some of which I got to crawl under or around when working summers with my Dad, who did remodeling and other contractor work in Alabama, Florida, and Louisiana. Not all those houses had footings directly underneath the permitter; the joists and walls might cantilever, while the footings were still basic and not tied together like with the cantilevered footing system. Although the cantilevers might be more extreme in these new designs.

Unfortunately, I can't find any technical material on the school's website. Here's the page for the various homes: http://ruralstudio.org/project_tags/20k/. Notably, some of them do seem to use modern concrete slab foundations, and at least one of the pictures shows a bulldozer in the background. Looks like they have a bunch of different designs.

[1] Basically just like people build decks today. Of course, lots of decks are dangerous, shifting and collapsing, precisely because the techniques aren't very forgiving of mistakes or poor siting.

EDIT: Here's a blog post with a better description, which seems to be discussing the same house(s) depicted in the Fast Company article: "Siteworks are a major cost item and cantilevering the floor joists past the foundation piles reduces the area of siteworks. ... Cantilevered floor girders act more efficiently as beams, making smaller and less expensive timber sections sufficient. Floor joists are cantilevered from the girders for the same reason." https://misfitsarchitecture.com/2016/08/31/architecture-misf... So it seems the usage of "foundation" in the other article was misleading. And these definitely aren't new techniques, not if you count the stock of 50-plus-year-old homes built in poor, rural America (i.e. not simply the stereotypical New England farm house). So presumably what's innovative is that the students have done the proper analysis and testing to refine them, ensuring they behave as intended as well as meeting modern standards of safety and reliability.