skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if we need to start treating failover systems more literally like insurance.

Your insurance company pays part of your premiums to another insurance company to cover them in the case of truly catastrophic events. It's called an underwriter. It's why State Farm didn't go under after Hurricane Andrew, despite the fact that State Farm had a wide majority of policies in the affected areas. They weren't just writing checks, they were cashing them too.

Instead of signing up for 3 different Clouds to make sure my data is safe, maybe my Cloud provider should be doing that for me. But that does nothing to address another concern (lock-in) and could very well make it worse, unless the "underwriter" also facilitates data transfer between clouds.
I have been to excellent public facilities in the US. Excellence is not evenly distributed anywhere, but the discrepancies of available public services between rich and poor neighbourhoods, between predominantly white and predominantly black neighbourhoods have been stark in my (n=1, granted!) observation of the US.

I think that the reality for the underclass in the US is that in theory, public services, voting, parks, community centres, education, jobs, and so forth are equally available, but that is not how it works in practice.
+1 - I see this around me all the time.
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24491909.)
"Written in C" should be considered a warning
> I would like to add that one of the reasons I’m a paying subscriber of Dropbox is because it’s independent of all the major other providers.

If I remember correctly, it's using Amazon in the backend. So how exactly is it that it is independent of all the other major providers?
Yep. And EVA-23 almost became another catastrophe 10 years later.

I'm not making a claim they are perfect, but they may strive to be. Columbia instituted more changes, including a completely separate safety technical authority. This is a separate signatory who must approve operational decisions and (in theory) doesn't face the same schedule pressure. I'm still somewhat personally skeptical if this will avoid such further incidents because much of these are rooted in humans inability to understand risk in a statistical manner.
C'mon stop bragging, nobody likes a show-off. /s

I knew roads in the US were dangerous, I didn't realize they were nearly as dangerous as Bangladesh or Egypt! No slight against those countries in particular but they are comparatively less prosperous (meaning older, less-safe vehicles, more pedestrians), have worse roads, and presumably not as advanced healthcare systems. I'm amazed the US, with all its advantages, does so poorly.
It was the massive surge of cold air that spewed into Colorado last week. The same surge that caused the massive winds in CA / OR / WA to churn up small fires.

Those birds left CO for the South - probably don't normally get that in the middle of summer.

There's very little smoke in NM. Some but not enough to kill the birds or cause them to fly a billion miles. That was the summer cold snap that did it.

This is a classic case of not enough Ornithological Meteorologists or Meteorological Ornithologists. Or maybe because the Ornithological convention and Meteorological convention (which are normally hosted in the same hotel in September) were both cancelled this year due to Covid-19. (this last paragraph was a failed attempt at humor)
Is Happiness at Work Attainable?
Yes, I had similarly naive thoughts about that too. They want ludicrous sums for the deposit in my case, and also I haven't worked at my company for more than a year at the moment so I failed that too.

At this rate, I'm considering moving out of London to somewhere else (perhaps with fibre internet), renting be damned.

As an aside: how strange that we have a number of mutual professional connections (couldn't help but check out your GitHub).
Rendering the Hellscape of Doom Eternal [pdf]
> If you like it, keep it forever

What year is this. :)
I think it's been heavily bought up by foreign real estate investors [0].

[0] https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-chi...
https://xkcd.com/303/
These things are bizarre. I can't imagine wearing one out in public since it doesn't actually seem to be a medical device. It's more like an over complicated umbrella/raincoat. I'm shocked this isn't an image from The Onion
Yeah, I believe it is a B.V.
Indeed, there must be some reason no such thing has materialized from the market, despite ongoing problems caused by its absence.

I'd guess it's one of those things where network effects make it hard to get off the ground, and given the nature of it, especially hard to get off the ground without government buy-in from the beginning, as so many of the ways it'd be useful for saving time and money and reducing risk are tied to interaction with the government. If a market-based solution for it were desirable, for whatever reason, defining some clear and interoperable standard at the government level would probably be necessary to make the market viable, no matter how much latent demand there may be.

Further, imagining the user experience of a non-heavily-regulated/standardized ID market, it seems like it'd necessarily be so hellishly bad it'd never gain adoption. Having 5 different IDs and sometimes having to get new ones or drop an old one seems no better than using credit cards and our social security numbers as IDs, like we do now. It seems to me the epitome of something that can't possibly be any good as a market solution, unless it's so monopolized or regulated that it's indistinguishable from a government solution, except somewhat less straightforward.
> This is definitely something we're talking about. We're aware there are a set of users who want just sync and we're figuring out how to ship that while making our other features discoverable.

Excellent. I would go a bit further. I not only just want sync, but I'm willing to (mostly) give up the hosted mirroring in order to get unlimited user friendly device-device file synchronization[0]. On top of that, there are plenty of scenarios (largely around collaboration and/or mobile) where I would like to selectively opt-in to cloud mirroring, for which I'd be quite happy to pay a modest amount.

So this folder of personal documents and ebooks[1] synced across these devices (potentially including another user's, if/when they are on the same local network) but no mirroring in the cloud, and that folder of photos synced only between my laptop and my phone, including cloud storage backup and mirroring ($).

[0] Yes, I'm aware that there are plenty of solutions, starting with rsync etc., that I could cobble together, but most of them aren't particularly user-friendly.

[1] BTW, have you thought of selling a Dropbox-centric e-reader?
Those apps were not broken between beta 8 and the GM, so this has nothing to do with Apple’s release schedule.
Looks like Language Server Protocol [0] support is on their list of features - awesome. Will definitely check out, I have a soft spot for native.

[0] https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/
Yes, £500k doesn't get you much here. This is why I champion remote working and possibly relocating to more affordable areas of the United Kingdom, thus spreading the wealth around a bit more.
Somewhere on this site there's a comment from me stating that HN is pseudonymous and has a faux small niche appearance due to its UX and its lack of emphasis on interpersonal connections or any expected features of social networks. To me, everyone is more or less the same person (or really there are a billion of different people but since I can't keep tracks of what they said before they all just exist in a vacuum). I just know about dang, percival and another one I forget but recognize when I see it (alathorn ?).

That doesn't feel like a community to me. Every new submissions/feed is filled with new people with new advices, there is no continuity on HN.

Not saying it's bad or a good thing though. That's just how I feel.
Back when chemistry was just getting started and scientists were still trying to figure out the structures of molecules, benzene was a tough issue, probably because folks could not make yet the mental leap to non-linear structures (closed loops).

And then one night Kekule dreamed up the benzene ring, and the rest is history.
The DRM on the Audible downloads is so easy to remove, then you can have it in whatever format you want:

ffmpeg -activation_bytes <your magic bytes> -i inputfile.aax -vn -c:a copy output.m4a

You'll need to search around for how to find out your magic bytes, but it's not difficult.
I wouldn't say it's not a big deal. It could very well be a big deal to them.

Is it the end of the world? No, I don't think so, but it is very clearly causing a lot of developers pains today, you should at the very least acknowledge that and understand that just because you can shrug it off doesn't mean they can.

Something that is severely missing from the world of software, and I suspect engineering in general, is empathy. Hell, it's missing from the world today. Look at the political climate in the US for another big example.

So maybe that's what your takeaway should be, show a little empathy to those who are struggling today and understand that. On top of a global pandemic, on top of possibly having their kids at home and being home schooled or learning virtually, having maybe lost a loved one, maybe even had to abandon their home due to fires, that on top of any or all of that they now have to deal with the pains of an iOS release with no warning. Empathy. Try it.
Holy SHIT than's nice.

The starfield background also moves based on your cursor position, dang.
Show HN: How many U.S. cities can you name?
>Hardly any projects use strict semver in the real world

Part of the appeal of GO is simplicity: get some things down in a minimal yet complete way then consistently do it on the strength that it's a net-win: less complexity to learn that takes you further in most cases. This isn't the only game in town, but it is a good game. C++ is different: we've got 21 million ways of doing things, but you only pay for what you use. That's fine too if you know what you're doing.

Back to GO: The fact that the real world is wishy-washy here sometimes in the mood, sometimes not, sometimes I like blondes some days I like brunettes other days isn't the go way ... is a sometimes depressing part of DEVOPS: not formal. It's not the GO way either.

So I think GO's standpoint that changing something to explicitly ask for a breaking change isn't out of line. It can't be that tough of an ask to mean what you say and say what you mean when we label code with a semantic version.

Both this post and the other V2 problem GO post fail to better get at the crux of the problem: In GO there are two names:

- the path we import in code

- the actual GIT URL (or vendor ref) down to tag/commitId in go.mod that the previous item ultimately resolves to

The module name in code is ambiguous. It's desirable to some that code is unchanged ever wrt to imported module name. If true, then we must turn our attention to what's in go.mod. Here the ask is for hints that there's a breaking version available ... and it'll be up to the DEV to use it or ignore it changing go.mod as they deem makes sense.

If false, then you've gotta change the code to reference the breaking version if that's the desire ... realizing it's still ambiguous because it doesn't resolve down to a commitId or tag ... so that leaves go.mod on the table for change too.

Nobody debates that code must change to reflect breaking changes if the breaking change is included in go.mod. The questions are: did we ask? Where? Did we know there's a breaking change, and can't we get some help knowing there's a breaking change since GO hits GIT anyway?

At it's crux then ... there are two names. Leaving the code unchanged and changing go.mod with some tool help is better IMHO.
Agreed. Web standards exist between the server and client. If you break the standard (eg. by disabling JS), then it's your responsibility when things stop working.

It's great that you have the freedom to do so, but you have no right to claim the website is "broken" as a result.
It's a great time to learn FreeCAD!

It's a lot more user friendly than it used to be and still rapidly improving.
Yes, I moved it too. Then cancelled the subscription altogether. I just cannot stand how badly everything sounds on it (everything is so "flat").

With Apple One now being announced, I am investigating if I can move everything there, but keep my Android phone for now.
Isn't that a bit like saying I can technically get into your house from an open window? Even if it's physically possible, I'm quite sure that I'm not allowed to.
Interesting -- I wonder if depressurization masks could be used (and retrofitted if need be) during covid for safety
Wood smoke itself is surprisingly toxic; all sorts of nasty combustion products.
32 GHz would be fun. We'd have multiple clock pulses flowing around because the chip is larger than the clock's wavelength.

And I'm not counting the circuit paths - this would be on a straight line of copper.
I use OpenSCAD for all parametric functionality.
People who abuse the word monopoly should be educated (first offence) and mocked or shunned (repeat intentional offenders).

It's almost impossible to have rational discourse these days because accurately describing things is no longer required (and if you care to try you are "mocked and shunned") so everyone is arguing without a common set of understandings or facts or even language that is consistent.

Kind of pathetic.

Your water company may be a monopoly. You may have no choice but to use it (in cities you cannot even drill your own well or in some cases are banned from collecting rainwater). That is a monopoly. As someone who grew up using a well, this is a clear difference and impact.
Thanks for telling me, I'd totally missed it by not hovering. That actually is amazing graphics.

And the fact it's smooth-as-butter without even getting my laptop fan to turn on at all is even more impressive.
> Unconscious is either hyperbole or gross exaggeration.

No it isn't.

> you can survive and be conscious for minutes in this state

No you can't.

You are not going to remain conscious for more than a few seconds at 35000 or 40000 feet. You could potentially be between 15000 to 20000 feet but there's a reason oxygen supplementation is required above 10k feet in unpressurized cabins.
> Why live in Palo Alto and waste lots of money on rent because of stupid housing policy when you don't have to? When you can't go out and do stuff?

I hear sentiments like this a lot lately, and it feels short-sighted to me. COVID restrictions are not going to be around forever. There are financial, professional, social, and other costs that come with moving somewhere else.

For people who genuinely don't like it in $HCOL_AREA regardless of the pandemic, and see this as a way to get out permanently, then that's great, and they should do that. If it's more like "it's expensive here and I can't go out to my favorite bars/restaurants right now", the latter half of that situation should fix itself by next summer, and hopefully earlier in some fashion. Sure, that's a while to wait, but isn't much time when considering that an alternative is to uproot your entire life.
I love that all the names of these places sound to me (as an American) like they could be mythical places out of Game of Thrones or something. Magaluf and Wetherspoons at Lands End? Amazing
App Center is a beta distribution platform. I guess the prod version still includes its library.
Depends on what you are doing - and what you value.

I have VSCode and SublimeText both running all day. VSCode competes with Nova, not as much SublimeText. If your priority is beautiful Mac apps, at perhaps the cost of the more mature plugin/code support from VSCode, then maybe Nova speaks to you. If you are just slamming through tons and tons of text files, and just need a really high-performance text file tool - SublimeText beats out both of them.
Eli Lilly reports first, promising results for an antibody against Covid-19
I think part of the disconnect is that many people today assume that life will be, or should be, pain free. Life is hard. It's always been hard. It's hard today.

I think the reason we want to believe otherwise is because of the tremendous wealth we have experienced recently, so we expect that trend to continue indefinitely.

To me, it is the lack of gratitude for what we do have and can afford that galls me.
Yeah, 75 was probably all the fees, and I might have been thinking in $USD
I don't understand that business decision. One problem is certainly the low spread of devices, the other is that there is a limited amount of software available for VR.

I doubt too many devs would want to develop against Oculus if the market is reduced in favor of store lock-in.

Maybe VR overall wasn't a success and they just want to fortify a niche.

I think VR could really be used in quite a few applications like modeling and animation, but I don't see that happening outside a PC environment. Not that the cable to the device isn't a huge pain.
Really easy to see how it can be unconstitutional if it's motivated by racial bias which is exactly what the ACLU is arguing.
Both.

There are multiple selves, and each one of them is not as set in stone as we think.
I understand, but surely someone with an actual stats background could do a basic calculation on number of recent plane crashes vs. some estimated probability of N people out of 100 on a plane having COVID * the overall mortality rate, etc.
The average cadence, over the lifetime of Java, is actually something like a new version every 2.5 years. They have really ramped up.
Am I the only one who thought Autodesk was very generous with Fusion 360 for years? It was basically the best software for hobbyist and it was offered for FREE.
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Life has it's ups and downs. Things seemed bleak at times during past recessions, the 70s energy crisis, the cold war, etc. But life also has it's ups and they will come sooner or later.
Nah fam. He sold the Sonics.

He sucks.
It is. I hope it comes back in the photonic form.
When you click download it moves to warp speed!
Though I agree that it's not wrong or abnormal (at least for most of the world), in this context it represents a pretty large economic step backwards. There was a time in most middle aged people's memories where starting a career, affording a house and starting a family were all realistic goals in your twenties. Now that's not possible for many, even as economic indicators like GPD, the stock market, inflation, etc. improve. This statistic simply reflects a growing income inequality and corresponding quality of life decrease.
Because thats where the money originally came from.

Why should the single billionaire get to chose?
Similarly: town landfills, school districts, etc. No access is available to non-residents at any price.

Which is not to say that Palo Alto is being reasonable here, just that there is a lot of precedent and I'm not clear on the distinction.
And how likely are you to get a job that lets you afford said house?
There is a middle ground I would be okay with. A website is only allowed to ask you if want notifications if you added it to your home screen. If you delete the web page from your home screen, it automatically disabled the notification. It falls within the same paradigm that people are accustomed to.
https://kosmos.antonvolkoff.com - looks like some screenshots there.

I think a video might be more useful to explain this. I wonder how it handles composition of and the common thread-first, thread-last or comp pipelines, but the repo doesn't even have install instructions.
There are lots of well-known people who narrate audio books. I have listened to books narrated by Hugh Laurie, a household name by any definition of the term.
The numbers I used are roughly derived (I rounded to the nearest quarter for simplicity of example) from the top-level poster's Pew link [0]. Splitting the 18-29 year old cohort, 18-24 year olds increase from 63 to 71%, while 25-29 year olds increased from 26 to 28%.

Pretty much, there seems to be a natural gradient pre-existing, where the age-in group seems to have a much greater natural affinity to be living with their parents even prior to the pandemic. We can all probably generate reasonable hypotheses for that, but that's the root of the mathematical assumptions.

[0] Here's a re-link of what I'm referencing: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/04/a-majority-...
I can vouch for the gate with a guardhouse. Was turned away by the guard because I am not a PA resident (I live in Mtn View).
I really like their pricing structure here. If you want updates forever, it's functionally a subscription (which makes sense - constant updates require constant dev work). The key difference is that if you stop paying, you keep everything you've paid for previously (the app and all past updates).

That's a _great_ way to do a subscription.
Unconscious might be overstating it, but there is a concept called "Time of Useful Consciousness" - which is basically the time frame where you are still able to function.

At 40,000 feet, time of useful consciousness is 15-20 seconds.

See https://expertaviator.com/2012/04/19/oxygen-requirements-tim...

Basically the partial pressure of oxygen is low enough at altitude that the oxygen is driven out of your blood instead of in.

There are some breathing techniques that can offset that somewhat, but only if you are prepared and trained, which is unlikely in a sudden decompression event.
Yes my comment was ironic.
No, it's not. Napkin math is utterly useless here, and I think you don't understand utility.

Ultimately, all utility functions (strategy space to R), when integrated over the rest of time, produce either a finite value, or an infinite value. Trying to figure out which, for a given strategy, is in general undecidable.

Numbers sort of break down at this point. Or at least numbers as linear constructs. Humanity lives in a dynamical system, and as long as that dynamical system is stable enough (eigenvalues all near 1), we know from observation that evolution (in the biological sense) is capable of maintaining the invariants required to sustain human life and civilization. I will call this the flight envelope of life on earth.

This is an extraordinary gift. If I can prove that Humanity's strategy preserves these invariants, I can count on evolution to extend our presence more or less indefinitely, at least up to the point where the sun runs out of hydrogen or we are struck by some very large celestial object.

The squandering of this gift, by failing to maintain these invariants, has a literally incalculable cost. If we voluntarily exit the flight envelope of life, it is impossible to tell what will happen as a result, but it won't be as good as whatever we can get by staying in it. So my back of the napkin math says that the correct price to place on disposal of plastic into the ocean is "don't". There is no world in which the marginal utility of 50 trillion plastic bottles is greater than staying in the flight envelope.
I know you specified local-install but I've found onshape better than any of the alternatives I've tried. It's web-based but I've never had performance issues and having easy access to my designs from any computer is an added bonus.
> money shouldn't be used as a proxy for success

Money is a proxy for a lot of things, like ability to afford the things needed to survive on a daily basis.

I don't think we can wave away huge global inequity by saying that we shouldn't even compare countries.
This is what happens when you use desktop applications that live in other people's computer's instead of yours.
Fact check... TRUE!

https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/using-the-library/your-l...
Bill Gurley is not happy
https://twitter.com/bgurley/status/1306012664582361089