skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Github absolutely would not make itself interoperable just because users wanted it to. That would be a terrible business move -- it would lead to Github hemorrhaging users and projects as they left to other, smaller competitors while still begin able to interact with the users and projects that remain on Github.

It's not Github's job to do what customers want. It's Github's job to do whatever will make them money, whether it's good for customers & the broader tech community or not. You're right that it's not a conspiracy though -- there's nothing secret about this at all. It's just business.
This is a non-answer to my question.
Lockhart's Lament [pdf]
The most exciting component of this release is the const fn improvements. With loops and if available, you can now do non-trivial computation in const fn for the first time. It reduces the gap between Rust's const fn and C++'s constexpr to a large degree. Ultimately, the miri execution engine that this feature builds upon, supports a much larger set of features that even constexpr supports. It's been a project spanning years to get it merged into the compiler, used for const fn evaluation, and stabilize it's features (this part is far from over).

In addition to the linked examples, I have some code of my own which is made simpler due to this feature: https://github.com/RustAudio/ogg/commit/b79d65dced32342a5f93...

Previously, the table was present as an array literal in C-style, now I can remove it once I decide for the library to require the 1.46 compiler or later versions.

Link to the old/current generation code: https://github.com/RustAudio/ogg/blob/master/examples/crc32-...
That's a lot of work to make sure every user's experience on their platform is inconsistent.
You have many questions. At first it seemed as if you were curious about what other aspects the CDC had delved into. Now it looks like you are pursuing some agenda. The basic questions can be answered with a bit of research. Here are some more to ponder. Or maybe these are what you are getting at.

What was the CDC's original mission?

Did it execute it competently?

Why is it now involved in areas other than communicable diseases?

Do people in organizations seek to increase their power and influence?

Do they do this by enlarging the scope of their organizations' missions?

How is this notionally science-based entity being influenced by other factors?
That is completely valid HTML5.

https://html5.validator.nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fmeiert.com%2Fe...
> I don't want have kids that continue to contribute to the destruction of our planet by just being regular Americans.

... so that the planet is preserved for the descendants of less environmentally responsible human beings?
He's not unable to receive messages, he just uses a niche messaging protocol that's openly hostile to automation.
The Hindu men I know whose parents wanted to give them names easily pronounceable in English are called Neel and Kiran.
This is definitely the largest drawback of Linux in general - support for peripherals and common communication/presentation software is really lacking. If I had a dollar for every time I had to muck around to get my headphones to work on Ubuntu, I wouldn't be posting here.
Yes, there is, but you need to define what it should be secure against. Then, a proof can be constructed, given particular assumptions. I doubt this will ever be done for wasm.
Even Google engineers are confused about Google’s privacy settings
Most good sounding vintage synth oscillators have waveforms that are far from the mathematical "ideal" that they are named after. This gives them extra harmonics and therefore character that vanilla DSP creations generally lack. Same goes for filters, too. When they are meticulously modelled on these originals, then they can sound very good, but otherwise tend to lack the character of the sounds many of us have grown up with.
TLDR:
"...a founder that doesn’t tell the truth is the one kind of founder that VCs will never fund.”"
A distinction without a difference. There are few guarantees in life, death and taxes are two. And you don't have to look hard for someone willing to take your money.
Thanks for the encouragement.

I selected Harry Potter because I know the stories decently (read the books whenever book 7 came out, saw all the movies at least once each, maybe twice for a couple). But I’m not familiar enough to be able to read the Spanish version and really just be recalling the English version (why I’m avoiding translations of my favorite authors, I know the books too well).

And yeah, I’m skipping the dictionary while reading. I tried that, it was awful. I’m identifying words (sometimes asking my wife) and looking them up after finishing a chapter. I plan to reread the book (possibly restart before completing) to see how much of what’s new has stuck. I already have homework since I’m working through a college Spanish textbook and have signed up for online courses (weekly, but it’s practice and I’m getting to hear the Argentine accent which is the one I need to understand most, my wife is from there).

After this book, I’ll probably continue picking up the rest of the series (we want a bilingual library anyways for when we have kids), and then some non-fiction. Ideally I want to find some non-fiction histories or technical content in Spanish by native Spanish writers. I’m also trying to read Spanish-language news, but I haven’t made it a regular habit yet.
And yet, it validates - https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fmeiert.com%2F...

Neither of the three tags you've mentioned are required anymore in HTML5.
Or Control, depending on which you're used to. Every time I try to use Windows I'm surprised that there's no easy-to-access setting for remapping Caps Lock like there is on every Linux DE and macOS.
The author mentions something about omitting HTML tags and links to another article of his own, which could explain this (I haven't read it yet):

https://meiert.com/en/blog/optional-html/
Problems with corporate SMTP are widespread and configuring your own gets you easily marked as spam. The email ecosystem is very old and not very good and it's better to avoid relying on it entirely.

Fuck plain-text email.
A Warning Flashes for Record U.S. Stock Rally
While this may be true, one is carried on a news cycle for a longer period of time. Weather events are a normal and predictable happening, so the "shock and awe" don't carry the ratings necessary for the news coverage, regardless of the human tragedy.

Unfortunately, our society's attention span for weather tragedy is short and it is very unlikely any federally funded memorials will be built for victims of wildfires, floodings or hurricanes.
And here is where environmentalism becomes anti-human, and frankly cult like.

Nothing against vasectomies, I’ll probably get one once I have a few kids. But putting the environment before the propagation of our species is unique to us, and I think a sinister thought pattern. Oh well, if enough extreme environmentalists share the same thought, then there will be no more extreme environmentalists.

I’m all for doing our part to reduce greenhouse gases, and pollution. But not at the expense of human life.

First it’s “To save the planet, I won’t have kids”. Next is, “To save the planet, you shouldn’t have kids”

Regardless if you have children or not, the chilling sentiment still exists. My fear is when, inevitably, there is social pressure, if not force, to adhere to similar doctrines on a larger scale.
There is an old linguistics joke:

Q: What is the difference between a language and a dialect?

A: A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
Ask HN: Bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway
I have encountered this famous quote and I must say I love it:

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

Now the question is, what the bandwidt is? Speed limitation 130km/h with LTO-8 compressed tapes.

:)
If anyone wants to know more about const fns, see https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/items/functions.html#con...

It is the Rust way of specifying a function as being _pure_.
In other words the output is dependent only on the function arguments, and not on any external state.

This means they can be evaluated at compile time.
I suppose in the future, it could also allow better compiler optimizations.
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> Ths context is that testing is a solved problem.

The only problem that is solved is running multiple browsers in VMs in a cloud. Everything else is anyone's guess.

To come up with an automated test for the problem in the OP you have to be a) aware of the problem and b) have a way to test that scrollbars do/don't appear. Good luck with that.
> I'm more drawn to the fact that the American government can greenlight this, even though it has global implications.

They only need to greenlight the launch, and radio-transmissions over the US.

As far as I know, there is no central authority anywhere to stop you from putting/keeping a satellite in a certain orbit. (aside from someone else moving it out of that orbit by force)

Space border laws aren't super-well developed yet.
These const fn’s are cool, but won’t this also lead to long compile times down the road?
It does not have a button but still a touch sensor, so you have to touch the key to confirm (at least i have to for mine)
That wasn't how they worked on nearly any modern multi-touch capacitive touchscreen device.
Nobody said it isn't. You misunderstood the discussion here.

I quoted "In the long run, the utility of all non-Free software approaches zero."

hutzlibu said the same problem affects all software, not just non-Free software. In a constantly changing computing environment, even free software is affected. Nevertheless, hutzlibu was in agreement with the "spirit" of the quote, because at least the user still controls the software, and it's possible to migrate.

einpoklum disagreed, using BSD utilities as an example - showing how free software can be unaffected.

Disclaimer: I didn't downvote the parent post - Why is my parent post downvoted? There's really no disagreement here.
Even so, it's still debatable, but thanks for the clarification - it seems those are important qualifiers when making a sweeping statement like that.
You are forgetting that the telescope has to work in space.
Big thermal swings, no easy air cooling, no AC outlet to get your power from, no convenient anchoring point for your telescope to push against to point a certain direction, no just bolting several racks full of off-the-shelve electronics to the telescope (none of them work in vacuum), no possibility to repair or upgrade anything, ...

Having to use lightweight materials is the least of your worries (and not even that expensive - and sometimes done for ground-based instruments as well).
The difference between a generalized, customizable solution like Salesforce, and something like Palantir, is that customers go to Palantir because they don't know what to do with their data - they're stuck and need advice on how to proceed in extracting information. Wheras with Salesforce, customers know what they want generally right when walk through the door. At the end of the day, as much as Palantir may not want to give the impression that they are a consulting company, that is what the majority of work will be comprised of.
Especially now that hardware makers are making developer edition devices with Linux-supported hardware (and Ubuntu/RHEL pre-installed)
It works, until I attempt to use "network" when it asks me to register online. Haven't done it, if it was mandatory it would go back as non-functional... Not sure what problems occur if you do it once but then disconnect from internet.
HiDPI is pretty good on a KDE desktop nowadays
It might help to know that the "video" is an interactive, real-time rendered shader.
Is there something in between homepage and docs? Like 30-50 line workout programs?
How Close Are Computers to Automating Mathematical Reasoning?
Yes. I don't have problems with other languages, but it's for my daughter. I want to watch movies with her in my language so that she gets used to it. Audio is cheap, I don't know why they don't include all languages the movie was translated to.
Speaking of title bars, the trend to move content into the title bar is terrible for usability. There is nowhere left to click to move a window. Not to mention each app choosing a different color/style for this region. Do designers assume everyone runs 1 full screen window at a time?
The interesting thing to note is that the "way that developers who have grown up in the last five or ten years" refers to the way of working on GitHub, and that GitHub made it deliberately difficult to interoperate with other development models (like the kernel's, or old-style Bugzilla-and-patches) for business reasons. When you start out with trying to be a social network for developers, you'll happily take inspiration from the way Facebook divides the world into "Facebook" and "not Facebook", which naturally results in erecting barriers between your userbase and outsiders so long as those barriers can feed into your growth strategy of converting the outsiders into even more users.

Having said that, this blog post is foremost not actually a criticism of Microsoft/GitHub, but instead trying to draw attention to Sourcehut. Sourcehut is not a good example of how to solve GitHub's problems; if we were in a hypothetical world where the choices were GitHub or Sourcehut, the skew would remain forever what it is today, and the lead developer doesn't seem capable of understanding why and fixing Sourcehut's flaws.
Stripe can typically support alcohol businesses (assuming they hold the appropriate licenses). Could you get in touch at edwin@stripe.com and we can take another look?
Is post by mail common in other countries? I have the polling station like 5 block away from my home, the election day is on Sunday so I'm free that day, I can choose to go from 8am to 6pm but if I go at 3pm there is probably only one or two persons in the queue. [Hi from Argentina!]
Sorry I should clarify that applies to the fido (not sure about the others)
It’s like sports stars. You se the championship game on TV, but you don’t see the years of practicing, eating the right diet, all the sacrifices...
This is great, but to use it I need to sticky the bookmarks bar to the top of my screen when vertical space is already precious. Does anybody know something else that does the same thing without this issue?
This depends on your threat model.
What is the true cost of your hiring process?
Sisyphus didn't get results, that was the point of his fate. I get results.

OK, nitpick over, I have trouble disagreeing with you. Let's try to answer that.

> what do you trade it for?

Perhaps if companies had to deal with a load of complaints, losing cash at each one, they might start to care? I can tell you that companies hate being embarrassed in public so complain loudly.

But otherwise, on another hn thread a while ago some guy said he'd bought, or would buy, a dumb monitor and link that up.

There's 2 solutions (if the latter works). Don't complain they don't solve everything instantly, they won't.

> Will your complaining and nagging on review sites going to make this a reality?

You'll never know if you don't try.

> This is what makes GP feel powerless.

I know the feeling! But I keep fighting back and I get results. Read that as you will.

Many of you US guys died to separate yourselves from the rule of us brits. Now for domestic goods you can't be bothered to rage. Doesn't seem right...

Like your post though!
Either you're exceptionally dense or you're purposefully ignoring the point.

If you're setting up a homelab, you might as well use industry best practices for it.
You do not even need the opening tags for a correct HTML5
Even thought this is good news, I don't think it'll do much about getting us back to normal life. The high sensitivity rate they report is after "symptom onset."

We really need a test with a high sensitivity rate for presymptomatic and asymptomatic carriers to make a big difference day to day.

Certainly a step in the right direction, but only a step.
Walmart Joins Talks to Buy TikTok
I have zero intrest in having the government control my access to information, no thank you

That the biggest thing Europeans do not understand about the US, many of us hate our government, distrust our government, and the only thing we desire from government is for them to leave us alone..

The US is a individualist nation, not a collectivist nation, though many are trying very hard to change that.
A thing I've seen is a macbook that spends most of the time hooked up to mouse. keyboard and two external monitors, but occasionally gets unplugged and brought to meetings or around the office in general.
Your tone suggests that you think this is inconsistent.

However, I think it's evidence the author read the specifications as recommended.
I wrote a keyboard hook in C for Windows (I was using AHK but it was unreliable). Initially it was modal but I found over time that I would get caught out. So now it's not modal. I hold down capslock and then use ijkl to navigate etc. The only thing left that is modal is spacebar for select/visual mode but I still a have to hold down capslock for that (e.g. capslock down, space bar, ijkl to select text, capslock up). Also I was using hjkl but switched to ijkl to match the arrow keys. I don't use vim enough anymore to justify hjkl.

Holding down capslock turns out to not be a problem in practice. The main benefit of vim style navigation for me is not leaving the home row.
Uh... ever heard of SQL? Here's the "code" you would send:

select s.genre,
sum(s.duration) as total_duration
from listen_history h
inner join songs s on s.song_id = h.song_id
where h.user_id = 12345
group by s.genre
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I remember listening to Start with Why, where the author proposes an example ad for Apple that starts with why:

> Let's look at that Apple example again and rewrite the example in the order Apple actually communicates. This time, the example starts with WHY.

> Everything we do, we believe in challenging the status quo. We believe in thinking differently.

>The way we challenge the status quo is by making our products beautifully designed, simple to use and user-friendly.

> And we happen to make great computers.

> Wanna buy one?

Or, in another paragraph:

> People with Apple laptop computers, for example, love opening them up while sitting in an airport. They like that everyone knows they are using a Mac. It's an emblem, a symbol of who they are. That glowing Apple logo speaks to something about them and how they see the world. Does anyone notice when someone pops open the lid of their HP or Dell computer? No! Not even the people using the computers care.

I don't know. Maybe it's good for marketers. But for anyone who isn't interested in tribalism, groupthink or status symbols, the book is bewilderingly shallow.
You are “blurring” the samples because you know your function is NOT a step-function, essentially. So instead of trying to be “super precise” (you cannot), you “blur” your Fourier transform.

It is NOT that but my explanation is morally what you achieve.
Please try to scroll on your site using an entirely wheel-less mouse, too.
I think the corollary is "consider Ubuntu, but still don't skimp on hardware". Buy a proper laptop that ships with Ubuntu, buy a proper connector cable if you need one, etc.
I think your analysis is mostly correct.

I get pretty annoyed by Sinek's schtick because the terms he picked are so ambiguous (unsurprising for people into bullshit science) that it's hard to know if there's more to his theory than obvious business bromides.

If by starting with the why, you mean starting with the purpose, I think it mostly makes sense. You have an end in mind, a vision, and from there derives a set of products (means to that end), and the target customers are going to be the people who subscribe to that vision.

Couple problems with that:

a) "Why" is also often mistakenly understood to have a causal or motivational sense: why did people start that company? Why are you doing that? Those things might have nothing to do with the purpose of the company itself, if it has any. It could just be that the founders felt like doing something.

b) The vision of the company, and what it delivers, could just as well be described as a "what" than as a "why". The functional benefits of the product are what people are buying. The products (means to the benefit) are the "how".

Basically, every term he uses can be reinterpreted differently and still make sense, which causes more confusion than clarification every time this topic is brought on the table.
The quality of life improvements to cargo look very nice, and I feel that rust wouldn't be remotely as successful without such a tool. I'm very glad I won't have to be manually picking target directories out of my borg backups anymore when I'm running out of disk space.
THANKS! This one stuck/made sense :)
In FEMA speak, preparedness is different from hazard mitigation. FEMA has an entirely separate grant program for hazard mitigation, which is funded with ~$0.7bn for flood and infrastructure resiliency, for example.

Each of these is dwarfed in turn by the actual response budget which goes into the Disaster Relief Fund, something around $15bn this FY.
Seen people doing this exact thing for many years, the only difference each time is the content printed.
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This argument shows up in all these discussions and is way way overused. The EU only has ~2-3x the population density of the USA. It's not even a single order of magnitude and people have already given examples of how very remote places in Europe have very reasonable infrastructure. If you already have telephone and/or electricity poles to somewhere running fiber is definitely an easy problem to tackle for what is supposed to be the world's most advanced economy. Capture by telco special interests is a much more likely explanation.
Insightful article. And worldscraping is a delightful term, with lots of positive potential if there were an open platform.

Unfortunately I agree that big tech will definitely try to own AR-scraped data, and make it even more of a walled garden than smartphones, but I am pessimistic about government regulation preventing that, and keeping data open.

Governments around the world have so far only shown interest in"opening" the data into their own surveillance systems. And centralization of the platform by big tech makes it easier for them.

The only hope I have is from either of:

a) a new upstart that builds on an open platform from the very beginning, to compete with big tech (unlikely due to the significant hardware investment requirements)

b) the loser among FAMANG's AR attempts, who decides to open everything up as a last ditch attempt (plausible)

c) hackers jailbreaking AR glasses and creating an open platform
My favorite is when I use control-L to clear the screen on a terminal and hit Windows-L by accident to lock the entire laptop.
Oops :) thanks for the catch!
I feel like for mastery the recommendation to read specs is a valid one. Not necessarily in their entirety, but they're worth exploring. And the HTML/CSS standards also often are useful as references.
The thing I think is really interesting about this is the implication that efficiency got much worse before starting to get better.

I guess intuitively that makes sense since the first refrigerators were probably upgraded actual "ice boxes", where efficiency is obviously very important.
> All confirmed covid deaths

> SELECT covid_19_july_data.Deaths FROM covid_19_july_data WHERE covid_19_july_data.Confirmed = "covid"