skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that is much better comparison than New Zealand.

Though there is one massive difference Germans hate having freedom and are not willing to die for it from Covid.

On a more serious note, this looks like a symptom of some fundamental crack in a fabric of US/UK etc societies where the baseline trust is almost non-existant (towards government, science, institutions).
I've used ffmpeg to convert from that format. If your CPU is fast enough it could probably handle re-encoding just in time for streaming (there are cli flags to do that).
Yeah, it's true, it's not like egress is a completely separate thing from storage.

But I guess it also depends a bit on your use case? E.g if you upload big datasets for heavy computation and then only download small results (≈ machine learning) or have a cheap(er) CDN in front of S3 with a favourable usage pattern, the storage and egress would be somewhat separate.

Still, something like Filecoin is obviously not a resonable solution for the run of the mill "cheaper than S3 file hosting and network" problem?

(I've been on the lookout for something like that, for personal use where I don't all those nines and other S3 benefits. The best thing yet seem to be Wasabi [0])

[0]: https://wasabi.com/cloud-storage-pricing/#three-info
I'm not really sure I understand anything you are saying.

Fresno only gets 11 inches of rain a year and there's a lot of farming around there. Fresno County also has an amazingly rich history of water development, both technologically and in terms of hashing out state laws for water rights.

California uses two different and competing standards with different historical roots. They use both the standard of "first come, first served" and also the idea that you can't just completely screw people over down river.

Most water in California is shipped in. Fresno County has more water security than most parts of the state and its rich history of water development means that in some years, it is actually raising the local water level while most of the US is draining underground aquifers that will never recover from it, resulting in land subsidence.

I considered remaining in Fresno permanently if only because of climate change and the expectation that water is what future wars will be fought over. Fresno has better water security than most of the state, and not due to rain.

It's also like closing in on 3am here and maybe I should shut up and get off the internet. (shrug)

Edit: Some old comment by me about books I have read about water in Cali that anyone into water in Cali might enjoy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19782650
Here is where the spill occurred on an interactive map:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Wakashio_oil_spill#/map/0
Well... your choice is:

- windows 10 - no privacy, hello telemetry, cortana, etc.

- mac os - no freedom to do anything not allowed by apple

- Linux - polish / ui issues?

At least with Linux once I configure it right it works without issue and does everything I want.

Currently that means kubuntu 20.04, AMD GPU (or intel integrated) and laptops that say they support it (Dell/Lenovo) or self built desktop. (I used gnome until I hit your NM issue too and it did not allow me to move top bar to the right... switched to KDE)

I no longer have a fear of upgrading distributions/packages causing problems, nvidia drivers causing black screen after upgrade...
I think you underestimate American willingness to tell authority figures to go fuck themselves.

I don't have a better way of phrasing that.

This is, perhaps, both the best and worst part of our culture.

On the one hand, it gives you rebels that challenge the status quo. That don't take "no" or "that's impossible" for an answer.

On the other hand, it gives you a population that would slice off their own noses if the government told them that having one was mandatory.

I think our best course of action would have been to just... ask.

Across the board.

Republicans and Democrats, carnivores and vegetarians, people that understand that the toilet paper needs to go over the top of the roll and inhuman monsters bent on the destruction of all that is good in the world... all of them needed to agree that Masks Probably Couldn't Hurt And We Should Just Wear The Damn Things.

Do everybody a solid, and wear a mask. No, we won't fine you, or shoot you.

There's nothing to rebel against when people just sort of shrug and go "okay, whatever".

Also, work overtime to make the masks cool.

I think we'd have a higher rate of mask use with the Carrot and the Meh, as opposed to just the Stick.
Reckoning with Our Mistakes
Would you use web scraping to save time? Do you understand what to use it for?
So we've seen that many small businesses can save a lot of time and money by using web scraping tools. It offers a lot of functionality that you would otherwise spend a lot of time on monitoring every day.

My understanding is that a lot of smaller business don't understand web scraping. What do you think web scraping can be used for? Would you use a different term to search for this?

Some use cases we covered in the past with our ai scraper are:

- Monitoring your SEO rankings

- Getting automatic price updates

- Monitoring user reviews

- Automating specific business tasks (real estate list monitoring, crypto monitoring, stock monitoring, news, articles, ... basically anything that changes and you want updates on)

- Generating sales leads

and many more
Three quarters of people in the UK now do at least some online grocery shopping
I taught kindergarten for five years and am just starting as a secondary school teacher. Primary school is mostly childcare. The only important skills we assume a child who has just finished primary school can do are reading, writing and arithmetic. You can teach a nine year old to read in 40 hours. You can teach a 12 year old the primary Math curriculum in 40 hours. It takes three years to take a child with fluent Chinese who is illiterate to grade level in writing so that’s a hard upper limit on the difficulty of teaching writing.

Children learn how to communicate with others just fine in actual childcare, without being in quite so artificial a situation as age ranked classrooms where their primary occupation is pointless busywork.

Honestly glorified childcare is too kind to primary school. Glorified childcare until at least age ten would be an improvement and have nugatory effects on long term learning outcomes for the overwhelming majority of students.
Lives are at stake for every single large scale event or decision. McDonalds changing the price of their fries, in either direction, has lives at stake.

If you can't calmly and dispassionately discuss "lives at stake" situations you have no business in any conversation of importance.
I think it could work, we haven’t tried it for a conference, but email me directly (first name at company name.com) so we can make sure you’re setup right.

To answer your question, not only is every single string of text customizable, but so is every icon. So you can rebrand and redesign it however you please and the interface will update.
Yeah I get that, it's a fair reason to choose serverless stuff before a VPS and I understand why people do it.

In fact, I understand it enough and have felt the pain enough that I am actually working on a project that will help solve several of these issues for traditional server hosting. The only thing it won't have is a global cdn but that could potentially be added in the future as well.But I think a CDN is not needed for most projects actually and my service will focus on smaller to medium sized projects.

https://deployjs.com/ - but it's pretty far from even reaching an alpha release :)
When you’re talking about wage prices, definition 1 is the relevant definition.

Definition 1 includes both supply and demand. You have a worker willing to work for $50/hr and someone willing to pay them $50/hr.

Definition 2 is only taking into account demand. You have a supplier who has set their price, but no buyers at that level.
Emergency doctor with coronavirus who was put on ventilator speaks out
(this isn't really a .pdf link, it's a pdf viewer link)
or iCloud or Google Drive which are even cheaper IIRC with more plans. But people commenting here for this post, probably care about services that support Linux.
Rust will generate a lot of guarding code similar to what ada does.
I'm still against inline CSS and what are essentially inline css helper libraries (tailwind etc), but a big part of maintainability is co-location of related code, which inline CSS provides at the cost of readability and control. I feel you can get most of that benefit with well organised SCSS, specifically something similar to the components/contexts model.

For components, you have no styles outside of your component partials, so nothing influences a component except what's targeting it. All targeting is via BEM naming, so no inheritance even for nested components.

So that's components, however sometimes things change depending on their context, which is really messy if you're using inline styles. You end up introducing logic, or you end up with different kinds of components for different contexts and having to maintain them all.

When using components/contexts, if for example a product-card on the checkout needs to look different in some small way. You just have a _checkout.scss file, and in it you target .checkout-page .product-card, and that's it. Simple, clean, no weird inheritance/overriding issues, just hygienic scoping of CSS and one level of inheritance available if needed.

The product-card never has to concern itself with checkouts, and the checkout knows it has a product card so it makes sense that it controls any changes it wants.

I've been using this method for a while now, the majority of the time you end up with ~10-20 small component files, and then 4 or 5 context files with maybe 20 lines in them. You know exactly where all styles affecting your component live, it ends up really clean and easy to maintain.
Communism implies a society that has gotten rid of the very concept of state. There is no leader.

Communism also implies getting rid of currency altogether.

You mean socialism.
More than teaching I discuss various aspects of life with my elder kid.

Introspection, philosophies, why we do what we do, what we struggle to cope with, death, governments, wealth, consumerism, corruption, business, summary of books I read, movie details.

There is no teaching or schedule. It is a casual talk whenever he gets curious about something. So when he questions or wants to know more the discussion continues.

And it makes me happy when he is able to recollect or relate something discussed in a different event.
I'm not sure she has much appeal. As the first comment says "Most of these people Idk. I’m just watching because I’m bored".

If you're willing to expose your private life and you have access to parties of actual celebrities, then you're going to get some amount of attention by people scrolling their feeds and auto-playing YT recommendations.
As someone who's returned their 2020 XPS 15, I can say that it hasn't gotten better. I can't speak for how well the hardware endures but it does have various flaws. Also didn't find the speakers to be good. Sounded worse than the SB2 I was replacing.

Running an MBP now, but if sticking with Windows was important I'd have chosen a ThinkPad.
How can D use so little memory despite sporting a GC?

Go Memory usage: 13mb
Rust Memory usage: 9mb
D Memory usage: 7mb
Millions of people are searching simultaneously at google.com or youtube.com but servers are not crashing. Issue is not traffic overload but something else.
I wish Apple would apply this sort of security protocol to code which wanted to fingerprint my browser and identify my kids’ habits on the web.
I'll believe that CSS+HTML is the "assembly of the web" once I have to touch them as little as I have to touch the output of my C++ compiler or Java bytecode. Right now, any web developer has to be very comfortable with debugging HTML and CSS issues, whereas it's entirely possible for a competent Java developer to know literally zero about bytecode.
I wish that was so :D Seems that quite a few people think software shouldn't use too much memory.

I asked something similar on reddit, and people think 16GB is enough (which I quite disagree :D)
Yeah, and it is IETF standard since 2018 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8478
At some point people should care because most applications delivered over the web perform by the rules of entertainment meaning that if it takes too long to load or render people leave and look for their entertainment elsewhere.
I worked on a project powering Hikvision cameras over solar and a big battery, I don't know the specs of the panel but I know it can be done.

It's using IPTimelapse to grab photos and generate time-lapses (however we've found the software to be buggy, and we're gonna move to ffmpeg for time-lapses and probably a small script to grab photos).

The website is fully staticly generated which I was happy with.

See: https://cmcameras.net.au
> All targeting is via BEM, so no inheritance even for nested components.

If you use (S)CSS modules, then you don't even need to worry about BEM.
Not sure how reasonable that really was, a good majority of my Steam library went unusable in one upgrade. There should have been some virtualization option available

still the real concern many have is, with the switch to ARM based processors will MacOS effectively inherit the restrictions of iOS
As far as I can tell, you want to make some kind of false equivalence between gay people who are opposed to incestuous marriages and straight people who are opposed to gay marriage.

I hesitate to engage because anyone who does this is unlikely to be interested in having a serious discussion. But here's a point you might have missed. Over the past hundred years or so, there has been a huge shift in the perception of the rigidity of gender roles. The expansion of the legal definition of marriage to include same gender couples is a logical continuation of this trend. If men and women are fundamentally equal, it's hard to justify gender restrictions on marriage. In contrast, attitudes to incest have not shifted much at all. Indeed, if anything, cousin marriages are less socially acceptable than they were previously. Why is this? I think the answer is obvious. People have seen many examples of normal, successful, non-abusive long term gay relationships. But they have not seen similar evidence in the case of incestuous relationships.

This being said, I think you'll find that most people don't actually care very much whether incestuous marriages are legal. And indeed, around the world, the extent to which incest is legally prohibited varies greatly. Do you even have any evidence that most supporters of gay marriage are opposed to the legalisation of incestuous marriages (in jurisdictions where they are not already legal)? Or indeed, can you point to any concrete evidence of gay rights advocates campaigning to impose additional restrictions on incestuous relationships?
App development RFP: how to write it correctly?
What does provide an offer mean in practice? A link or instructions somewhere?
Always have a back that is write once! Storage are cheap now days. If this is your core business get your act together.
This definitely leads me to believe that you don't have much experience with modern web frameworks. The meaning of "component" in modern web development is pretty consistent. You can think of a component as a custom HTML element (though they can be much more complex than built-in HTML elements). In fact, if you are using HTML Web Components, then your component literally is a custom HTML element. But the metaphor works even when generating HTML server-side: If you can reference a piece of UI by name, and pass it attributes, and it packages up some HTML/CSS/JavaScript in a reusable fashion, then it's a component.

Your question is slightly nonsensical, because components are not a design language, and it's not something you can see by looking at a rendered web page. To know whether Hacker News is using components, I would need to look at the source code, because components are a programming paradigm.

If you're asking me to comb through HN's JavaScript to see if they use that paradigm, well, no thank you.
These are not the same products nor infrastructure
Maybe a plane can be 737 MAX or 737-8 depending on the point in time it is observed or upgrades it has gotten or paperworks associated with it?
I get that it's fun to conjecture about things, but no serious scholars debate his authorship. You have to do some serious mental gymnastics to get past all the evidence that he wrote his own plays.

> he owned no books

No, we don't know that he didn't own any books. How would you even prove that? We just don't have a list of which books that owned. We also don't have lists of books owned by the vast majority of people who lived in Elizabethan England. I find this a particularly weird argument for someone who lived over 400 years ago.

> he was not contemporaneously referred to as a playwright or poet

There are literally 18 published plays during his lifetime, numerous editions of which list Shakespeare as author right on the title page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Shakespeare_plays_in_q...

Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Shakespeare_plays_in_q...

In 1592, "Greenes, groats-worth of witte" refers to him famously as an "Upstart Crow" and makes fun of the fact that a mere actor thinks he can write. What better evidence is there than that?

In 1598, Frances Meres wrote a book about English poets called "Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury" that talks about both Shakespeare's poetry and plays. It says "Shakespeare among ye English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage" and then goes on to literally list his comedic and dramatic plays by name. I'm not sure how anyone can claim he was not referred to as a playwright or poet in his lifetime: https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/life/early%2...

Numerous other contemporary mentions of him in documents are collected and available online: https://shakespearedocumented.folger.edu/resource/playwright...

What is definitely true is that plays during this time period were often collaborations between multiple writers. Different authors might add in lines or scenes. Two authors might co-write a play (The Two Noble Kinsmen) or numerous author might 'punch up' a work. Shakespeare primarily wrote his plays, but other people definitely contributed bits here and there, just like he contributed bits to other plays that don't have his name as author (like "The Booke of Thomas More").
Also, the offer is open to any person. This is so that other people with copies of the program can fulfil their obligation by passing on the offer too. So maybe you make one GPL program specifically for Bill, you give it to Bill, and you write Bill the offer, never expecting him to care about the source code.

Six months later a teenager from a country you didn't know existed sends you an email - and the teenager would like source code please. They are legally entitled to that source code because of Bill's offer.

The written offer rule is deliberately the worst case. You should never choose GPL "written offer" with the expectation that this is reducing your work load or whatever, if you want least work just ship the source code with your program and fulfil the purpose of the GPL up front.
Yes! A comment box is a component. The tree view you look at comments in are components. Usernames and scores are component. A shared „link“ on the frontpage is a component. HN is not rendered on the client side, but its backend uses these „components“ via a templating framework. Components are just templates for the frontend.
Usually the students would run their programs on an emulator instead of the original hardware (this also means they don't need to be provided with a GBA each).
A relevant factor for countries that have largely controlled covid, or back in March when it was uncertain what direction which countries were going in. For ones that have just let it rip though, the people who were going to get it from you are just going to get it from someone else if you isolate.

If I as an Australian have covid and go to a gym and infect a bunch of people, I've given covid to people who otherwise wouldn't have caught it. If an American does the same, they've given covid to people who would have just caught it next week or next month. They've also given it to less people because a lot more people in that gym have already had it than in my Australian one.
Unfortunately your risk of dying is 100%.
I'm just waiting for the HN response to a news article in a few years where this practice has expanded to the point that an elderly couple dies of dehydration and heat exhaustion after the city cuts off their power and water for failing to properly maintain the sidewalk out front.

This power & water cutoff thing was originally introduced in 2019 to combat unauthorized commercial cannabis farming as an alternative to criminal charges (which is not terrible because no human basic needs are being withheld in a commercial context).

Now suddenly it's being expanded to combat residential ordinance violations, which is a quantum leap in bad ideas. I'm surprised that nobody sees the problem here, especially the enlightened HN crowd. It's not like there haven't been sufficient tools to deal with property nuisances & safety violations for hundreds of years in ways that are effective against both rich and poor, and especially not tools that can lead to such terrible consequences for the poor as we slide down this slippery slope.
I remember when we loaded xml into a buffer in c and replaced template tags with search and replace.
More importantly, it means those same employees probably have unaudited access to the data in your cloud SQL database.

If SRE can write a file to the filesystem, they can totally copy the database files out too.

I completely support SRE being able to log into instances for debugging, but them being able to do that without leaving an audit trail visible to me, the data owner, isn't up to modern standards IMO.
They can do that if they’ve obtained a copy of the specific binary with malware. But with notarization they can proactively scan for things that look like they might be malware, and follow up with either automatic rejection, or approval followed by manual inspection.
the existing component needs to be styled slightly differently in this particular context.

See my other comment in this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24221241) for how I'm tackling that sort of problem at the moment. tl;dr Work out what the dev should be able to override in the style at runtime and make it a CSS var that's set inline in the component. As I said there, it might not be the best approach especially in very large apps, but it does seem to be working well for me.
There is also the AWS CDK (https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/) which is essentially lets you use your favorite language like Typescript or Python to generate CloudFormation, with an experience similar to Terraform. We've been experimenting with instead of TF, hoping it's here to stay.
Can you tell a bit more about your startup? I'm really interested in what people are doing in these nontrivial fields. Let me know if email is better.
Big Teachify crowd here!

I will say, Epihub was really the byproduct of Epigrammar (as Mike highlighted above) and us just using the term “hub” a lot. It was hard to mispronounce, we had the .com, it felt like an homage to our previous work, and we didn’t think about it too much afterward.

I do like Teachify though. It’s a pretty great name; I can’t lie.
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Yeah same w/ hotel internet.

Especially because Teams status notifications seem funky today too
You have to really try for that to happen.
Pacific as in Pacific Time (PST/PDT) ? It's not even 3am there currently.
This is a very specific claim. I don't doubt you but something like this should always be backed up with sources or people will dismiss you immediately.