skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it might be worth comparing with google search growth
thanks for the feedback. I was previously using sites like airtasker to handle dealings with service providers and subcontractors but was also having more in-depth exchanges with them about the work via email. So I tried to build a site that can handle task management but can also facilitate payments once tasks are done which is not something I have seen widely used.

I've also added the ability for service providers to put their offerings on the site like a listings page for people to review and accept.
In my case I failed at fizzbuzz because I was interviewing after spending a full day merging 2 versions of dbdumps into one, while getting rid of duplicate entries/foreign keys, etc. I could still do a pseudo code version of it, but I couldn't remember modulo function. At all.
Or you could realize that your "mission" would be to break the chicken-and-egg problem, write more end-user-facing software in an open platform so that non-developers can actually enjoy the same benefits that developers do.

Someone has to do it. If you have the skills, why not you?
Are there any good studies on it? Seems like the tar can have bad effects due to buildup, but from a very brief search creosote in and of itself seemed fine.
I guess the International Bar Association calling the hearing a "serious undermining of due process and the rule of law" and having Amnesty International denied access to monitor it isn't all that surprising or newsworthy.
Everything you're saying is true. It's something I really worry about which is why the inquisitiveness is very gradual.

If someone shows discomfort then you stop, if they were just caught off guard and want to continue to be friendly then they will instantiate the next conversation.

Just be friendly, don't be needy.
After using Go, I always felt the need for something like this in the Elixir world.
I've been using DDG for a long time. To date, my most common bang usages are still:

!g maps

!g <obscure programming error>

I still recommend it to everyone though.
DDG is the default search engine I use on the desktop and in iOS Safari for more than a year. I'm glad to see them growing and hope their privacy centric approach becomes dominant across the web, but the reality is that their search results can be quite poor except for simple queries. I used to use bing in the past and I don't recall having as many frustrations. I hope DDG are able to invest more in this area as they grow, because for most consumers the compromise in search quality may not be worth the privacy gains
My kids are 14 and 8. The rule is simple no phone/devices in your room after 10pm - yes the 14 year old whined and protested when we implemented this rule last year. Now it's just the norm (kids adapt) and she puts her phone on the charger in our bedroom every night.

I don't expect this rule to change regardless of their age. In our house being 18 doesn't mean anything - our house, our rules.
> Or do you believe standalone VR headsets are doomed to being closed forever?

I think they're doomed to being closed until quite a few patents expire.
Big corrugated culvert and Quonset huts have been buried as temporary military installations. Steel rusts and aluminum and stainless are expensive.

If you want a waterproof container I'd look into used plastic or fiberglass industrial process tanks (preferably ones that held something not too nasty, so likely from the food industry), dig a hole, do proper compaction and gravel base then plop the tanks in (fill them with water or something so they don't float away) and then pour concrete around them for strength (leaving holes for your vents and doors and whatnot). You're going to have to become well versed in chemistry and construction to prevent all your "rooms" from leaking at the doorways where you have cut holes to join them together.
5 benefits of using microservice architecture for your software system
New thunderbird is not working with our current mail server and doesn't show any helpful error message, is there any way to check what is not right? and probably I am not alone with this problem...
Scepticism in this case is closer to "My mind is suspiciously open and my brain has fallen out onto the table in front of me", he questioned that they were poisoned at all let alone by the Russians.

Murray also said that he was approached with DNC emails, which means that unless he was lying someone has sounded him out as a source (and we know where they came from)

edit: mouthpiece not source.
Did you try a recent clean Android like Pixel or Oneplus or was your last Android experience some bloated 2016 era Samsung?
I'm getting downvoted, but the fact is that up until like 10 years ago I vastly preferred Calc over Excel. It had a lot less stupid built in causing me to lose my work. Excel would clear my undo history on save, or close ALL worksheets when I tried to close one (completely different behavior than Word) and I would miss which file it was warning me about.
This is why the MIT license is more problematic than it appears on the surface. Freedom that doesn't defend the rights of those without power (end-users) is only going to reinforce the status-quo and give the powerful more leverage.

End-user friendly technology requires a better approach than laissez-faire software production even though it seems simple and innocuous enough. Perhaps we need to revisit the debates of the past in the context of what we know now about how influential and manipulative technology can be?
Is it that easy?

If the company pivots around for some time it could very well be that some early employees are doing co-founder work.
Founders work for free prior to investors/revenue to pay salaries. Employees get paid a salary.
No, the point is I think that they could reduce the risk further, they are currently maintaining their network, the question is what benefit would be gained by increasing the cost of their maintenance, or whether they would be absorbing the risk from someone else's lack of maintenance (e.g clearing forest debris/making fire breaks). Remember, power lines are not the only source of fires, lightning being a much more frequent cause and power grid maintenance isn't going to alter that risk
Mapping services are all a work in progress. Even Google Maps has been giving some strange responses lately. Say, a location deep in south west Germany shows up as Denmark on GMaps: https://twitter.com/geolytica/status/1300544359004336129
You can redirect a search in DDG to google maps with !maps OpenStreetMaps with !geouri and Bing Maps with !bm
In .NET we have a very similar tool for creating such packed binaries, dotnet-warp. I used it in one of my projects and quite liked it, since it's also quite easy to cross compile (cross-pack?) for the 3 major operating systems.

I like the general idea, your independent of the system wide framework version and it still has this "one-click" install procedure (dropping the binary in your path). However, I guess this is also the negativ Part. Users don't expect that a single binary extracts itself to somewhere --> uninstalling the binary leaves traces on the system.

Definitely looking forward to try it out for elixir, wondering how fast the erlang/elixir startup really is.
On a related note, it is illegal to take a picture of the Eiffel Tower at night but NOT during the day[0].

It's the lighting system and its 'likeness' that cannot be reproduced. A brief search and I don't think anyone has been prosecuted[1]. There are plenty of pictures everywhere that probably don't have proper licensing. Perhaps those who want to use it commercially can get permission relatively easily?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M16CGK1T9MM
[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/photographs-of-eiffel-towe...
Mac is not immune to this type of crap, I tried Corel Painter demo version and the updater it installed put up random windows with ads after a while until I figured it out and removed it.
Remembering an Incomplete Nuclear History
When I can set my alarm for Airport or $VERY_IMPORTANT_MEETING and I know it will surely ring in the morning.
> Jokes aside I think not needing to connect a PC has to be the future, but I would expect the device to be able to run a conventional OS.

Why, given the opposite has proven true in the mobile space?

I wish they did, but consumers clearly do not value this.
Sounds like a trustworthy guy, not afraid to go against establishment, something we need in our journalists, thanks for pointing it out.
How I think I want to drop modern Python packages into a single program
I wonder- if I need to pay royalties to share a picture including a building, can I sue the owners of the building for popping up in my pictures? If I am an instagram influencer, can I ask owners of buildings to pay me for the space they occupy in my pictures?
I would not say mice work “fine” without engine software. You need engine to set DPI etc, which you want to do, if you want to get the most of it for gaming.
Really nice idea, great execution. Also great to see an Edinburgh company :)
Just a heads up, you can actually use !m or !gm to access Google Maps directly.

There's also !osm for OpenStreetMaps.
TL;DR: London will chew you up and spit you out unless you live so far out that your commute is measured in 1.5-hour increments, or unless you're already rich. A young person is sentenced to renting.

My personal story:

I lived there up until about a year ago, not far from the center. Being a young person, I earned the usual entry-level software developer salary. I tried to live a relatively frugal lifestyle, which included not going out and spending not a whole lot on personal entertainment costs.

The rent was £1500, so I had to rent a flat with my friend. Travel was expensive, and a fixed cost in my circumstances. Bills were not included, so we had to pay those as well. I tried to cut costs as much as I could, and in retrospect maybe I could have cut £80-100 a month from my grocery spending by shopping in cheaper stores, or perhaps even another £50 on top of that if I was willing to trade off some of my sanity/time for the savings. I had some savings, but not a whole lot.

The whole time, I was cutting into my savings each month and literally losing my money by staying in London. Even if I tried to save harder, that would get me nowhere nearer to saving up for a deposit for the next few years.

I eventually decided to leave the city behind and move to Scotland. Instant quality of life improvement, and I actually got the chance to start building up my savings rather than chipping away at them.
> They can rebuild that whole datacenter a hundred times over and still not feel it in their wallet.

Agreed.
The features i mentioned, are solved 'out of the box'. I'm not seeing a huge stretch here at all.

Its costly and risky to run 100 VMs, maintaining them and keeping them up to date, monitoring them and knowing when they are no longer needed.

It is cost ineffective to have security audits on 100 VMs, maintaining access to them, auditing whats happening on them.

It is a ton easier to allow someone only access to one namespace, limited ingress domains (which get provisioned automatically) and allow them to only run non root containersl

The question is not what the actual benefit is (its clear and i mentioned it in my paragraphs before), the question is will kubernetes ever become so lightweight, stable, easy to use so that its feasable for normal people to run it on a 3-5 node cluster in small companies.

And please lets ignore all those small companies where people log into their VMs by hand and maintaining them by using snapshots and cloning existing VMs. Those small companies might and should just migrate to cloud managed services completly.
I found AWS's autoscaling offering be better than GCP's, in that you could use custom CloudWatch metrics as a basis for scaling logic rather than just the standard metrics (CPU usage, latency, etc)

GCP does offer custom metrics, but I couldn't figure out how to tie them to the LB scaling logic.
This is awesome. For my part, I've generally set the goal on "Can I make them laugh?" A genuine belly laugh. In order to do so, you often have to build some camaraderie. You also have to be creative to discover what discursions may make them laugh. It's really been enjoyable for me, and hopefully others as well!
I don’t know why you would be surprised that you cannot randomly call people up to testify during the proceedings. You have to submit your witness lists months before a hearing.
> for most consumers the compromise in search quality may not be worth the privacy gains

This is exactly me - I moved back to google for search when I realised I was subconsciously adding `g!` to every single search
If 65 cents is the actual cost then it should be the price. You can't be charging people 20 cents or whatever, but then they also have to pay to have their homes rebuilt every few decades, pay for insurance, and pay for firefighters.
Introduction to End-to-end encryption in Thunderbird
!wbm wayback machine (urlencoding issues but still)

!yt

!cache
DDG has a direct bang for google maps

!maps

The have a searchable list for every bang they support.
https://duckduckgo.com/bang
One thing I've never understood is polarity. To my understanding, positive types are defined in terms of their introduction rules and negative types are defined in terms of their elimination rules. However, don't types both have introduction and elimination rules, making them positive or negative based on how you choose to define them?

Also, how does polarity (emphasis on introduction versus elimination rules) relate to variance, as this article presents?
You can also use !gm directly!
I've been using DDG for a long time and it really seems like the results have gotten less accurate and informative in the last year or so. For a while I was very satisfied and typically could find what I was looking for, even in the arena of obscure technical knowledge.

I'll keep using it because at this point my brain is wired to !g when I can't find something, and the benefits outweigh the lack of results, but I do hope they can improve and continue to grow.
Anyone thinking of getting it for Linux should buy it via Steam now because it will only be available for PC through Epic Game Store when it goes FTP next Wednesday. I got my kid his own copy last week because he was loving playing bots and doing training mode on my account. He's only 4 and there seems to be enough players at his level to keep queue times short.

I really think it is the best competitive game (video or otherwise) ever made.
I love the idea of DDG, but after using it for about a year, I realized that I'm redoing most of my searches with !g. DDG seems to be quite bad at searches that are in my native language and somehow also often doesn't find good results for programming related queries.

I ended up switching back to Google. It was painful from a privacy standpoint, but what good is privacy if I don't get useful search results.
What if your content is deemed too controversial or "problematic"? Will any company host it? Any domain registrar? Many topics now considered unpublishable weren't, not that long ago. And that's a slippery slope I wouldn't dare to test. The free flow of information must prevail if we want to preserve our freedom.

I don't think anyone's capacity to publish anything online should rely on trust nor gatekeepers.
Indeed it isn't, as there is a long history of such absurd hystronics in commentary on the Assange case. The thing about "monitoring" is particularly stupid. It's a public hearing and any organization can "monitor" it all they like. What AI can't do is appoint itself to a position above the British justice system.
[complaint] The title of this post is misleading. The article is a 100% promotional for a paid-for solution promising to make websites fully accessible.
I wish there was a search engine that dedicated the first X results to Stack Exchange and Reddit.

Neither DDG or Google are very good at that, but those sites are consistently the best and most honest results.

On Google many searches give mostly affiliate blogspam articles unless I append "reddit" or "forum" or "stack" to the search, at which point I get great results.
Vented gas heating is fine. We use it and combustion gases (which do have a lot of water vapor in then) are vented outside via a chimney in our case but powered venting in other cases. (In our case, we take in outside air throughout the building but the humidity in the outside air in winter is low anyway. It is also possible to directly supply outside air for combustion and this is the most common arrangement for new installation [for temperature efficiency rather than humidity reasons].)

Unvented gas heating (think a construction "torpedo heater" or a camp stove) does dump a lot of humidity into the space of course.
Watch out then. BattleEye has started banning VMs: https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/hts1o1/be_is_banning_...
>REDESIGNED COMPOSE WINDOW

While you were at it you could've align UI elements.
The Third Edition of Elements of Style (1979) is the most faithful to Strunk's great rhythm and style:

>Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.

By the fourth edition (1999) mother modernity knows best. A crock of editors resort to neutering his rules to skirt around them easier, sacrificing all rhythm and possessive clarity:

>This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.
The fuel load decays over time, so a long enough wait period and the next fire is independent of the last fire. Thus, fewer PG&E fires just means less fires rather than there being some independent amount of fire that’s always going to happen.

If anything they need to have more responsibility in such areas not less responsibility. If they can’t detect a tree is at risk or not then either cut down more trees or use underground power lines in that area.
This is a failing of engineering reliable systems:

A part is tested to a point of failure, based on the quality parameters you specify. I'd put safety pretty high on a 115,000V line. Choose your sigma level based on your goals. I'd wager 97 years is out of the ballpark of "Yes, this might fail". And to save on cost, don't come back every year "OK, it's still OK." Replace it - it saves cost (and in this case, potentially lives).

So yes, I'd assign them blame. Be it an engineering part, an asphalt road, a power pylon.

There will be outliers, but this was an outlier of systematic negligence, with no (recorded) documentation prior to the year 2000.

Scheduled replacement saves costs in the long term, if bottom dollar is the aim.
Tip for mobile users: remap "ggg" to input "!g" to make the Google shortcut much easier to type.
If one despises Google, buying a Google phone would be the least optimal solution.
Just some random ideas: Media server / file server / Pihole
The central bank cannot distribute money evenly among the population. Congress however can and they basically did albeit selectively based on need with the CARES act which gave citizens direct cash handouts, massive increases to unemployment, and indirectly by funding payroll for small businesses and airlines.

However, they are supposed to maintain a budget and the CARES act alone cost over 2 trillion dollars so they finance deficits by selling US treasury securities. If you look at the outstanding debt, it has grown by about 3.6 trillion dollars worth of outstanding treasury securities from january to august [0]. If you look at the federal reserves asset sheet trends [1], you'll see it grown by up about 3 trillion since january [1] with over 2/3 of that buying those same US treasury securities our government sells to finance the deficit [2].

My point is that if congress had simply decided to pay for all deficits including those direct and indirect payments to citizens this year with printed money and the federal reserve did nothing, we would be basically in the exact same position. Congress is spending to put cash in citizens pockets and the federal reserve is buying up most of the treasury securities that congress is selling to fund that.

[0]: https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/mspd/mspd.htm

[1]: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...

[2]: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/current/h41.htm
Yes, I use 81.0b3 (64-bit) which has OAuth2 support for Office365 authentication (the other authentication methods are switched off.
I use a Google Calendar tab plugin for the calendaring, it's not builtin, but it works.
It's not beta software any more. The official public release was yesterday.
From my memory in the mid 2000 version control and automatized deploys weren't ubiquitous for the audience Coda mainly targeted: web site development.

I started my career at around that time in a company using Python for web application development and everything was in SVN but already in the progress of being moved to git and while there wasn't a CI/CD server, all deploys were done running a single cli command. On the other hand for years to come I have seen e.g. people and agencies doing websites in Wordpress making changes directly in production.

In that circles, which often included people with no heavy technical background like designers that learned some php/html/css Coda was quite a relevation I think.
Murray sows mistrust and conspiracy like thinking towards everything he sees as the man he is fighting against. He has uncritically trusted Kremlin sources because they have common enemy.

For example Kremlin dismissed photos of Salisbury suspects as fake news, and Murray jumped right into it without critical thinking or distrust against Kremlin as source. NATO chemical weapons exercise taking place on Salisbury Plain seems like better explanation to him.

For these and other reasons I can't trust his reporting to be factual. We should find other sources.
This seems like a problem we solved a very very long time ago, but today you're never really sure you'll get woken up on time.

The amish have the right idea.
It still wouldn't make them co-founder. I'm not sure there is such a thing as co-founder exlcusive work.
iOS 14 gets support for the Unicode Power Symbol
I exclusively use the bedtime alarm and it did not disable itself for me. I only learned that it moved from the clock app to health app after it woke me up and I wanted to change the wake up time.
The line between Sceptic and useful idiot is subtle sometimes.

I read some of Murray's doubts - some of them hold weight (as in they are noteworthy), sure, and it's almost certain that SIS cleaned up the story (They aren't the police - the only material that gets published is published because it's useful) but Murray has _zero_ insider knowledge here. If you are questioning that it was a poisoning at all you better have something to stand on.

He has consistently been pointing in the opposite direction to the western line for years, and never correct in any case I can see. He claimed he had spoken to the "person" who leaked the DNC emails - if he actually thinks that he is either unbelievably naive or acting in bad faith.

"The US and Saudi Arabia have every reason to instigate a split between Germany and Russia at this time. Navalny is certainly a victim of international politics. That he is a victim of Putin I tend to doubt." Make your own mind up.

edit: -2 but no counterargument, wheres the fun in that