skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AFAIK this is not the way Safari works and it's not the main motivation for Apple

They just don't want web apps to rival with the native ones skipping the whole store experience and fee

But that's just speculation on my side, I have no data to back it up
Followup: I dug up some benchmarks. Probably the best quote:

"The unnamed data cloud platform consistently had the highest price-performance4, across a range
of 11.5x to 13.1x".

https://www.vertica.com/resource/cloud-database-performance-...

This was on the Berkeley AMPLab benchmark, and the link I followed mentions Snowflake -- there's apparently a bit of winking and nodding going on here about the "unnamed" data platform.

Basic query latency was also considerably longer for SF.
If DRM enables more authors to earn reasonable amounts from their Audiobooks, isn’t that a good thing? The world in which your life’s work can easily be duplicated millions of times isn’t necessarily conducive to the creation of new art.
Is the university housing really cheaper? At my university it's 2-3x market rate.
As the next sentence says this is a threat model, not a literal description of reality.

To rephrase when I started riding motorcycles I was told "it is better to be wrong and alive than right and dead".

When the risk is my life I won't trust anyone else to make the right decision.

I don't literally think that all drivers are on a murderous rampage but I choose my own actions as if they are.
Sadly that's true of business owners pretty much everywhere. Corporations can have many different ownership structures, so it's very difficult to determine who qualifies as an "owner" or not. To use a ridiculous example: I own stock in Berkshire Hathaway. I'm sure there's a GEICO office or some other Berkshire Hathaway property in Palo Alto. Does that mean I should have access to the park under the current rules? Probably not. It's hard to draw a bright line when it comes to admitting people based on business ownership. Even in the case that the business is a sole proprietorship, how does one prove both ownership and the business address? You'd need to bring a ream of documents. Residency is easier to check and simpler to judge, since it just requires showing ID.

Here's another example: Non-resident immigrants can found companies in the US and pay taxes to the US government, but many of them can't even enter the country.

Again, I think this law is stupid and I'd love to see the city of Palo Alto change it. But I don't see how it's unconstitutional. As history has shown us, the US Constitution allows legislators to pass many, many stupid laws.
> Why can't engineers simply tell managers that it can't be done by the specified deadline

They can. I've had a time where a project manager came by no less than 3 times asking me to re-estimate the same project, tweaked ever so slightly each time. Turned out that they had made an impossible promise to the client. Upon learning that, I just said, listen that can't be done within that budget, end of story. You have to go reduce the scope. In the end, they had to go back, loop in the account manager and have the awkward conversation with the client.
> so I'm not sure what he's doing.

Maybe securing the vertical bars after the entire thing slides horizontally into the tube?

I'm assuming the tube has some rails they use to slide the racks in but then they have to be properly secured in place.
About 15 years ago, I ran a tarpit at my then current job (small ISP for commercial clients and web hosting) that tarpitted all TCP traffic on unused IP blocks. It did slow down network scans and had I gotten around to it, I could have probably set up some way of automatically blocking the IP addresses hitting the tarpit (as no legitimate traffic should hit it).
We as laborers have cognitive bias towards the commodity we sell: our time.
In bicycle-friendly cities, it is a common rule that bicycles are allowed on sidewalks, provided that they respect pedestrians. It is entirely possible to safely operate a bicycle on a sidewalk.

Yes, accidents do happen. However, is is extremely rare that pedestrian-bicycle accidents are serious.
There's nothing wrong with Vanilla JS and jQuery, but if you need more interactivity, it's possible to use modern libraries like React (with htm [1]) or Vue without a compilation step, all with zero dependencies. The size of the libraries is only 10k to 20k bigger than jQuery.

If you need even less bytes, then Preact is also an option (also with htm [1]), and it clocks at around 3k + 400 bytes for htm.

If you're only targeting modern browsers with ES6 support you can even use `import from` statements.

[1] https://github.com/developit/htm
I think science fiction authors never become irrelevant.

They tend to grow in popularity like new technologies - overestimated in the short term, underestimated in the long term.
this was also posted on r/MechanicalKeyboards and the reason behind it was something like “I made a 128 keys keyboard, someone else made a bigger keyboard so I had to retaliate”
No need to implement anything at all, as Amethyst[0] already provides a pretty good tiling WM. It's so easy to setup that even some of my not-so-techy friends started using it.

[0]: https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
Best high speed internet for rural areas?
I recently purchased a new house in a rural area and the only cable/internet provider around is Spectrum. The problem is that I work from home and need high speed internet to do my job. I was wondering what the next best high speed internet option is which ideally offers no data limit plans.
Because for every useful site, there are 99 abusing the feature for advertising. Same as for location.

A friend the other day thought their laptop had a virus because they had inadvertently turned on notifications for some spammy website. Took me a while to work out how to turn it off.
Where do you rest your hands when you pause from typing? Or do you have to go back and forth over the nearer keys all the time?
If this is you, then quit. You’re not cattle, and there are better environments to spend your time in.
This is it. In my head the code file I'm working on is closer to a (geographic) map than to a Table of Contents in a book. There are large islands and small ones, some of the small ones form archipelagos (like grouped up constant definitions at the top). The minimap is good at conveying the "shape" and relative size of these code sections at a glance.
Smarking (YC W15) is hiring Back end/Data Eng to scale tech infra for mobility
The Mac was programmed in Object Pascal and assembly. No C anywhere.

C compilers for the Mac came along later, and even Apple A/UX Unix System V with BSD extensions, and Gcc. A/UX ran pretty nicely in 8M on an SE/30 (512x342 mono CRT), with a MacOS 9 GUI emulator you could run xterms on.
To me that’s a bit ironic. You wanted a sync only product so you left Dropbox for... OneDrive and Office 365?
Some features won't work without an FB account. No one is forcing you to buy this device, but if you do and want to utilize features that require a FB account then it is forced upon you
The mortgage isn't the only cost. Interest is tax deductible. If you make decent money, you're better off with higher interest, lower house prices, lower insurance prices, and lower property tax. Let's not forget that debt does need to be repaid. Interest rates will likely never normalize, but anyone taking out 4-5x their income in debt, should at least be a little worried if they do...

Take Dallas Texas as an example. It wasn't affected very much by the 2008 bubble (probably because of high property taxes). The median price in 2000 was ~$100k and is now ~$240k [1]

Interest rates in 2000 were 8% [2]. They're currently 2.94%.

=PMT(0.0294/12, 30 * 12, -240000) # TODAY

$1,004.10

=PMT(0.08/12, 30 * 12, -100000 * 1.025^20) # 2000 with 2.5% inflation

$1,202.36

WOW! House prices are cheaper today! Not really. Let's take taxes into account.

Property taxes:

=240000 * 0.0208/12 # TODAY

$416

=100000 * 1.025^20 * 0.0208/12 # 2000

$284

Insurance is about $30 a month more today. And since the mortgage interest today is less than the $12k standard deduction, it probably won't get any tax benefit today. In 2000, it'd be about $100 a month.

But then there's the opportunity cost, too. Today your down payment is ~50% larger. The opportunity cost is about $100 more per month.

$1,004 + $416 + $30 + $100 = $1550 # TODAY

$1,202 + $284 - $100 = $1386 # 2000

It's only a ~12% difference. If you're in a more pricier market, the tax deduction was much juicier. Real monthly payments are ~50%+ more expensive. If you're an investor, cap rates are trash. Plus you're taking out debt to income that at any other point in history would seem insane.

The monthly payments aren't the big issue. The real trick is that by lowering interest rates from ~8% to ~3%, the Fed created $14T in real estate wealth out of thin air. That's where most of the inequality really stems from. For most people, their house represents the majority of their life's savings. If you're older and own a home, the Fed doubled your wealth. If you're younger and don't own a home, the Fed make increased your housing price by 5-20%, devalued whatever savings you had, and forced you to take on extreme levels of debt for a similar monthly payment on a house (which you probably don't have, because in real terms you need a ~50% bigger down payment).

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DAXRNSA

[2] http://www.freddiemac.com/pmms/pmms30.html
> If you delivered a result that the stakeholders are happy with, that's a good outcome as an engineer. If you want to overengineer something, consider either doing it on your own time or switching to a job where, for example, more scalability, is actually a requirement.

On the flip side, that sounds like a fast track to making shitty products that cause financial losses to the users (or, depending on industry, loss of life and limb). There are always implicit requirements to balance that stakeholders don't think of (or sometimes can't even conceptualize). Like, "satisfy the obvious safety constraints despite them not being mentioned in the spec", or "don't ship kludges that will slow everyone else down later on". Sometimes, part of being an engineer is saving stakeholders from themselves.

Might depend on the company culture, but personally I do not want to work in the place where the engineering culture is "ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die".
Invisible Science: The Scientization of the Ordinary
For what it's worth, it's metabolically costly to completely stop and then start moving again on a bike. And it also costs some maneuverability. Let me explain.

Above a certain speed, both bicycles and motorcycles are more maneuverable, and more predictable, than they are when going more slowly. Above that speed threshold they're counter-steered. That is, when I want to turn right I apply very slight left-turning pressure to the front wheel. That makes the bike bank to the right and smoothly enter the turn. At lower speeds I turn the wheel in the direction I want to go.

This counter-steering thing is only a factor in two-wheeled vehicles: vehicles with more wheels can't bank, of course. I've been a cyclist for decades, but I didn't understand counter-steering until I took motorcycle driver training. Motorcycle instructors drill it into us because it's a vital part of swerving to avoid obstructions when going at motorized speeds.

As a cyclist in traffic I find I'm particularly vulnerable in the transition between direct-steer and counter-steer speeds. So, trying to keep my speed above the threshold both saves my energy and keeps me at maneuvering speed.

I do this by slowing down when approaching a red light, with the hope it will change to green before I arrive. I also try to stop a few meters back from a red light so I have space to get up to maneuvering speed before entering an intersection without having to stand and stomp my pedals.
> if healthcare workers people can work inches from ICU patients on ventilators and HFNC's that spray virus particles far and wide, and use only masks and googles/shields

Healthcare workers do, in fact, become infected with COVID-19 at unacceptable rates.
One thing not yet mentioned here is that the 'exclusion' ordinance was drafted after the neighboring towns of Portola Valley and Los Altos Hills refused to chip-in when Palo Alto purchased the land.

This park is in the hills, literally across the street from Los Altos Hills, and a windy drive or strenuous bike ride up the hill from most of Palo Alto.

The exclusionary ordinance is really aimed at these neighbors, rather than at the e.g. East Palo Alto residents who live ten miles away.

There's definitely a nasty history of racism in California, the Bay Area, and Palo Alto, but it's not quite accurate to attribute this particular ordinance on racist exclusionary policy. Los Altos Hills and Portola Valley are even more affluent and white than Palo Alto is...
That mail bug is annoying. I don't get why Apple can't push their apps out to their app store and update them separately so it doesn't take an iOS update. The only reason I can think of is to force people to always stay on the latest iOS version, but that's anti-user, so surely that's not the reason. ;)
> Or like a grocery store that'll send security guards into your home to prevent you from eating their bread with cheese you bought elsewhere

If I agree to that, and it's worth it to me... what's your problem with that?
Not necessarily held liable, but they'd probably have to return the money if it was earned from illegal activity.
Sorry dang, my tone is wrong. I'll do better. I agree with what you wrote in your link.
I'm not trying to say what is right or wrong. To be clear here.

I've seen many people ask for a bidirectional delete like in WA. The response always comes back to the lines of "just don't make typos." When I've seen arguments akin to a company nuking a company phone the responses are "well that's dumb because someone can run a custom Signal and save all the data anyways (like that has anything to do with the threat model at hand or changes that this is a probabilistic method of security, but at least doesn't guarantee that the holder of a phone can read confidential messages).

I should note that a "compromise" was created where Signal is introducing the feature but there is a time limit. It is not clear to me why this time limit is there other than because some people think it will "trick" people into thinking such things like screenshots exist (I guarantee you every 13 year old boy with TikToc knows how to screenshot or record). Basically the argument is that this feature will "trick" people into thinking that the message no longer can possibly exist anywhere (I don't think many would actually believe this, but yes there are dumb people. Security is never dumb proof).

Another example is the sticker thing. Just make them discoverable.
Someone please port org mode to vscode
Neutrons do have magnetic moment after all. [1] says it's about 1000 times weaker than electron, so...no idea how much it contributes to the neutron star's field as compared to degenerate electron matter crust (which is very conductive kind of fluid).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_magnetic_moment
Enough that I got bored filling in places in Florida?

I tried to figure out the cut-off for "city". Sopchoppy, population < 500, was there. It is, after all, legally a city.

Oddly, "Los Cerrillos, New Mexico" was there (I only knew it as "Cerrillos" and had to look up the official name) with population < 300. I say "odd" because it's not a city, but a census-designated place.

Ahh, I see " Shorewood-Tower Hills-Harbert" - another CDP - is also included, so that's how they got there.

While Santa Fe's official name is "La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asís" - not accepted, even without the "í". ;)

Then again, neither is "City of Miami", the official name of Miami, FL.

And the unincorporated communities of Miami, NM and Miami, WV aren't included. Which makes sense.
Take a look at vm.max_map_count. A lot of systems have that set artificially low and that will force a memory allocator to fail and return NULL. I can confirm this is the case for jemalloc.

Also, on Linux, only 48 of 64 bits are available for VM addressing. That leaves you with about 250TB of address space. Seems like a lot until you start using VM for disk mmaps. I have actually seen this limit hit.
It's essentially a distillation of underwriting standards, low/zero central bank interest rates, and consumer behavior.

Underwriting standards for mortgages are typically based on loan to value (LTV) and debt to income. In that calculating, value is traditionally defined as "what the market currently values comparable assets at" (aka comps). For debt, providers of credit (banks and the central mortgage agencies) are more concerned with ability to repay, rather than absolute debt. Consequently, monthly payment >> total price.

Therefore, in business as usual (moderate to high interest rates), there are caps on how much individuals can leverage with mortgages (i.e. eventually their LTV or debt to income will exceed standard limits and they'll be denied a mortgage).

Unfortunately, both of those key components are heavily influenced by central bank interest rates. If the Fed decides to plunk the rate at 0%, mortgage rates decrease as well.

Because mortgage rates have decreased, my resulting monthly payment for the same total loan value decreases. Or, conversely, the total loan value I can assume for a given monthly payment increases.

Because it increases, I can pay more for a house. And either I, or someone else does!

Now, a few months later, someone else wants to buy the 2nd house on the block. They call out an appraiser, who turns the crank on their standard process, looks at comps in the neighborhood, and values the 2nd house in light of the 1st home sale. Because that 1st sale was inflated (inasmuch as we can judge), the valuation on the 2nd house is likewise inflated.

Ultimately, both of these have the end result of raising the cap on how much borrowers can "afford" to pay (assuming static income) for the same asset. Whereby the financial system previously capped their effective leverage at one level, now it's allowing greater leverage (albeit greater leverage that "looks" like the same value, because the underlying inputs have changed).

Tl;dr - The financial system used to impose a cap on how much I could pay and qualify for a standard mortgage. Because of actions taken by central banks and consumer behavior, that financial system-imposed cap has effectively been lifted. Now, the consumer themselves is the primary brake on overpaying. And average consumers? They don't math too good.
They're restricting this in 2021 to accounts that are willing to share more personal information
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-CRI_LED_lighting
Nova supports LSP, actually. As orf notes in the other reply to you, that only covers, well, plugins that involve language servers. :)
> Sounds like you need to reevaluate your following distance

If I didn't care, I would not brake, don't you think?

At 30kmh bike brakes are more efficient

At 30kmh every second an object moves about 8 and a half meters

> It is 100% your responsibility as the following vehicle to not rear end someone

So you are betting your life on someone else's sense of responsibility?

I wish I was as optimistic as you are!
Same here. The early betas had a tendency to make my iPhone 7 almost too hot to touch on occasion. That seems to have been sorted.
The authors are starting their own dating service. If (and it's a very very slim chance) they become successful, they'll get gobbled up by the Match Group. Rince. Repeat.
Stupid to Me #002
The main reason engineers work for free is immigration, there is a lot of competition and if you refuse to work they will get a slave from India who is willing to work even double the time for free. Lawyers or doctors also have to do overtime but they get payed for it because they have artificial barriers for bringing too many immigrants into their industry. The problem is that most SV types are pro immigration, legal and illegal. They didn't care when it screwed up the working classes and they don't care now when it screws certain white collar jobs.
yup, they obviously don't know what they're talking about...
Unless it's accompanied by benchmarks; then it's fine.
The videos don't inspire much confidence in their engineering capabilities. Very rough construction and not pressurized.
A lot of the comments on here seem to have missed the fact that this is about _engineering firms_, not tech companies that employee "software engineers" and what have you. It's not the same world at all.
> So there's multiple competing options he can already use? What on earth is the problem here?

The problem is scale: "... if you don’t sell on Audible, you sacrifice about 95% of that income. That’s a decision I’ve made, and it means that publishers are no longer willing to pay for my audiobook rights (who can blame them?). According to my agent, living my principles this way has cost me enough to have paid off my mortgage and maybe funding my retirement. I’ve tried a lot of tactics to get around Audible; selling through the indies (libro.fm, downpour.com, etc), through Google Play, and through my own shop (craphound.com/shop). I appreciate the support there but it’s a tiny fraction of what I’m giving up ..."

https://craphound.com/news/2020/09/08/my-first-ever-kickstar...
Which means Facebook was wrong, since they claimed that.

Yet the controllers are still less accurate, as per Sam's testing, so his point still stands. It doesn't matter how many leds there are, only that they're worse controllers.
They’re going to be descending whether atc gives them permission or not. Keep in mind, Southwest has TCAS and already knows of nearby aircraft to a near certainty. The only real goals are get to breathable air and don’t hit anything. Passengers have minutes before they run out of air.
These "Workspaces" are called "Activities" in KDE (avaible since KDE 4 I think). I use them daily
Robinhood's Fork(s) in the Road
Maybe not for 450 keys (!), but I would dearly love to be able to type all the diacritical marks and at least select Unicode ranges (Cyrillic and Greek).

It's been a really low-priority desire (I won't dignify it with "need") and so I haven't even really worked out a layout or even carefully defined what I'd like, but yeah, the Really Big Keyboard would fill at least a small need.
I think it's fine to not buy a product if you don't want to create an online account
The walled garden has been hugely beneficial for developers, the relative app sales rates between iOS and Android is proof of that. And iOS customers overwhelmingly prefer the walled garden, it’s the main reason they buy iPhones.

If the walled gardens was costing Apple customers instead of attracting them, the iPhone would have failed years ago. Android devices are cheaper, more diverse, and more flexible. There would be scant reasons to buy an iPhone.

That’s the very definition of choice.
I organize them by category and I can tap twice faster than you can swipe, type, tap.

This way is easily faster if you have a reasonable number of apps. Typing to find things would only be faster if you had more than say 220 apps. Even if I have to tap, swipe, tap - that would be faster than swipe, type, tap.