skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not the question here. Rather, it's about which causes contributed to the problem—blaming everything on the most proximate cause is convenient but doesn't reflect the situation.

An extreme analogy: if a car is built in a way that a fender-bender causes a fire[1], how much of that is on the person who cause the fender-bender? Fender-benders are preventable by better driving, but the consequences were massively exaggerated because the car was unsafe.

The PG&E example isn't this clear but if the severity of the fires is substantially caused by poor forest management—an empirical question to which I do not know the answer—then it's clear that PG&E should not shoulder the entire blame. We're still left with the thorny question of how much blame they deserve (certainly not none), but the rhetoric I see around it is using the company as a scapegoat to let the CA and federal government avoid taking any responsibility at all.

[1]: I don't know if the Ford Pinto was actually this bad, but this is a hypothetical example anyway :).
I had this happen as well in the past when researching domain names for a new product.

Pro Tip: Stay the hell away from GoDaddy for everything. I've had the unfortunate task of managing a server hosted with them and it's been consistently awful (ex. I literally cannot upgrade PHP because the VPS doesn't support it and there is no upgrade path without spinning up an entirely new VPS on a different, and of course more expensive, plan). The constant upsells on garbage are basically predatory at this point, too.
You would return the archived page for a 5xx error, not a 4xx error.
> I as a developer want to get work done and I don't care about ideals like "standards".

The "I'm just doing my job" mentality often gets us in very bad situations down the road (be it for Privacy, Ecology, Standards, etc.)

Totally agree that for "getting the job done" and having free tools then yes CUDA is better.

For your REST example, I understand your frustration, but now think what would it be like without standards :

You would have to pay 100$ to use Apple.iHTTP©®™ + implement a version for Google G.HTTP + implement yet another version for Microsoft Visual.HTTP™. For each you would have to get a licence, agree to conditions, you would have to buy both a windows & mac because ofc they wouldn't be cross platform, each one would only work in one browser, they could decide over a night to remove your right to use HTTP, Microsoft Visual.HTTP dev tools would be crap but couldn't use the cool one from another company because not compatible, etc.

Might seems like an exaggeration but when you look at the Epic vs. Apple, Google AMP, DirectX & Metal, Apple developer fees & conditions, Web DRMs, the lack of cross-compability, etc. Well that's what HTTP would look like if people didn't care about standard.

Also standard don't have to always be backward compatible (for e.g OpenGL vs. Vulkan) that's specific to the web, not to standardisation.
godaddy is ran by crooks...
I wonder if they'd allow you to transfer such a domain to them.
The US Navy has been successfully operating Nuclear Reactors without incident for decades in the harshest environments on earth [1]

It can be done safely.

https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/n-america/us/security/fact0604...
Valve is not at all anti-competitive and will even let you sell Steam keys on other storefronts without taking a cut, for one. And they've demonstrated significant goodwill by having their VR platform be open and doing significant work in making Linux gaming viable.
Very interesting read! Thank you for sharing.
> Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

Since this was even uttered by a judge, there's been a lot of discussion as to why this is neither absolute, nor nearly as clear cut, nor does it speak for everyone. Words hurt me (and they likely hurt you too), but the question is not only of hurt but actual harms. The idea that words categorically cannot be harms in themselves rests upon a foundation supported neither by materialist philosophy, nor by what we know of human biology[0].

>Words are just words

In a similar way, aren't actions just actions? Why stop at words? There is no fundamental metaphysical difference between expression and other actions.

[0] http://susanbrison.com/files/B.16.-speech_harm_and_the_mindb...
Snythetic Data Could Help Solve Machine Learning’s Bias Problem
Thanks, I didn't know that I thought it was like the rest.
In Ukraine, which lived through Chernobyl, public is mostly pro nuclear. Turns out solar and wind isn't actually competitive and nobody likes to pay rich "green energy" investors for no reason, so as long as they have no influence in the government and most mass media, it's pretty hard to convince people of the opposite - that they need to pay a lot more so that a tiny percentage of electricity could come from solar and wind [1].

[1] And even that is misleading and not in any way "greener", since solar and wind can't be used on demand it has to replace some energy, which in this case is nuclear energy, but it can replace only a small part of it, the rest will have to be replaced with something that can be generated on demand, like coal and gas.
Or perhaps someone else had the same idea. Domains get registered all the time. For someone else to want the same domain you want on the same day may seem like a low probability event but when multiplied by the number of people and domains purchased through godaddy every day the rate of low probability events happening is quite high. Experiences like yours probably happen to multiple people every day through no malicious activity on the part of godaddy.

tl;dr never attribute to malice that which is bound to happen because statistics
Agree. And on top of this, there's a value to predictability. If I go to my boss and ask permission to spend $10,000 to save $20,000, they can OK that pretty easily since it's simple math... they spend money and save more, so the purchase makes sense. When I go to them and say I want to hire a consultant for $200/hour in order to do a project that'll save $20k, suddenly the math is more complicated... how many hours is this person going to work? What if they go over? People pay more for assurance and predictability.
My impression is that the current owners of Fortify lack the resources that HPE had and the product is suffering as a result. It's best suited for maintaining old code bases.
Interesting article. We use a similar approach for our mobile apps to allow multiple teams to develop their own modules independently.

Can anyone speak to what the advantages and disadvantages to such an approach are as opposed to going full Kubernetes / Microservices? Is it that deploys are riskier and you can't scale separate pieces independently?
DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons reveals they weren’t all Scandinavian
I'm not sure this is the case! In fact, I strongly suspect that its inability to display logs or diffs correctly has contributed to the widespread developer confusion with respect to Git, especially since there are many people out there who think, implicitly if not explicitly, that Git and Github are one and the same.

You know how a lot of people think merge commits (an important keystone in how easy Git makes it to read and write meaningful history) are inherently "confusing" or "messy", and try to avoid creating them? Well, if you look at them in Github's awful log interface, they sort of are! This doesn't seem like the fault of those developers, and it's not Git's fault, since it ships with powerful command-line and GUI tools for making sense of things.
> I had contractors quoting me tens of thousands of dollars to dig up the entire basement to install French drains

That's criminal! Before I bought my first house, my realtor would show me how some of the houses we looked at either already had, or would have foundation/basement issues due to land grading and warned me to always make sure the ground slopes away from the house. And that was free advice from a guy who just wanted to sell me a house and get his commission!

These guys clearly knew better but just wanted to get more work.
Am I the only one who has a distaste for this phrase "component based development"? It just seems like a fancy way of saying object oriented programming without an overarching design pattern.
First intact exoplanet around a white dwarf is far bigger than its star
That's the parent's point! The certification itself is completely meaningless. If a company has their SOC2 it basically tells you almost nothing about their security culture.

I've never been at a company that has taken SOC audits seriously -- plenty of companies that take security seriously but SOC compliance is an exercise in paperwork not security.
I agree, I was confused as there was no url following the title.
Do you run this command frequently enough to do an alias? I feel like it'd be better to just have the muscle memory of typing the actual command instead
I wish this attitude towards planned and unplanned shutdowns was more common.

I'm not an infrastructure professional, I'm in automation and manufacturing, but all too often I come across equipment that must never be shut down and must be functional 100% of the time, but which has been run long past its service life. Windows 98 or XP computers on their 9th resurrection due to parts from eBay, castings full of helicoils, electrical cabinets with wires strung across like cobwebs... If the business was successful before the machine was built, downtime now costs tens of thousands of dollars per hour, and the whole machine cost 500,000 dollars 100,000 hours ago, maybe someone should start thinking about building a replacement (or, better, a pair of replacements) and phasing this one out?

I know the front office likes to write off machine depreciation as a tax deduction. With a 10 year useful life on a $500k machine, you get $50k in tax deductions. In the 11th year, you get no tax deduction, but the machine is still making money.

I feel strongly that there ought to be some kind of financial penalty for operating a machine that's depreciated beyond its claimed useful life - not a direct tax penalty, but some kind of non-cash-expense liability that subtracts from the big positive number on the front page of the quarterly financials which the CEO uses to claim they deserve a bonus.

PG&E's more regulated than just painting them as a for-profit business with $550M in the black would suggest. They have maintenance and capital expenditures that they need to make. But those regulated books didn't show the single-point-of-failure risks and long-past-useful-life liabilities, and they should!
> Masks are common in the supermarkets, etc.

Not sure where you got this information - masks are not commonly worn at all in Sweden. I see perhaps 1 mask per week, unless I go into the city center, then I might see 10 in a day.

The Swedish public health authorities are not currently recommending general usage of face masks, citing mainly the lack of evidence of the effectiveness of general mask usage (wearing a mask can cause you to get lulled into a false sense of security, for example).

See https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/smittskydd-beredskap/utb...

(in Swedish, unfortunately)
We're okay with social media companies regulating free speech, but draw the line at governments.

Ironic, isn't it? And yes, I'm well aware that Governments should endorse and not stifle free speech, but this message is propagated on social media platforms.

The very systems that enable voice and disable voices because it's a violation of "Terms of Services" or in other words, revenue.

But then again, governments grant rights, and social media tech companies, don't. Right?
GoDaddy has been doing this since they have existed, I assume. I first used them after the superbowl ad to search for a domain name and they registered it. Never again.
>(Maybe modern VR headsets with stereo displays would work for me as well; I don't know -- I tried an early one in the 1990s and it didn't work for me, but obviously that was ancient tech)

I have a similar condition, and in fact only VR headsets and IMAX screens work for me. 3DS doesn't :<
(For some reason the semicolon at the end of your reference link seems to mess it up. Here's the working link: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/lifetime-elision.html )
The conventional view is unfortunately incorrect. They proposed an (almost) correct view of how the nucleotides were arranged into a helix. Their proposal included the feature that each strand of the double helix was in fact a "mirror image" of the other, thus could be divided and copied to yield two identical copies for inheritance by two cells.

The actual atomic structure of DNA was not experimentally determined until much later.
It's easier to say in retrospect. If an exit is financially successful, then:

You're a founder if you got rich.

You're a late employee if you got paid.

You're an early employee if you got screwed.
With most sufficiently large companies it all boils down to making money (which usually is why they have been able to grow so large to begin with). It is a very fine line between making as much profit as possible from users and not exploiting them so much that they leave.

Google does not have that much interest in serving new, interesting videos over what earns the most clicks and therefore advertising. A lot of users might also be pretty fine with what is already served. Although I have seen more and more alternatives popping up, several with a monthly payment plan instead. While free content is nice, a paid plan incites different business practices than one where revenue is closely coupled with the number of clicks.
Yes, namecheap is also sketchy had some trouble when I tried to renew a domain I bought with them then I tried to transfer it to Google domains to only have it blocked
> How hard is to build the equivalent of "Affinity Photo" to Autodesk Fusion 360? Maybe this is a good startup idea.

Answer: It's extremely hard to build any equivalent to Fusion 360 or any full featured CAD/CAM tool. This is not a weekend hackathon problem!

There are so many fundamental building blocks, with many requiring teams of PhDs to produce: CAD kernels, constraint solvers, file format interop, sketching tools, assembly support (mating), simulation, etc... Not to mention the manufacturing specific modeling tools for sheet metal, generative design for milling & 3D printing.
I have licensed it under the MIT License like NetNewsWire. I honestly don't mind if someone makes something commercial from this - this app wouldn't have been possible without opensource software and data (from Detexify). I made this app mostly as a learning exercise, and to test my skills.

Thank you so much for the kind words! I don't think Apple would promote it because LaTeX means something completely different to most people haha.
The git command line is very good actually, and constantly improving.
> For example, invoking the Defense Production Act wouldn't help despite how hard the media pushed this idea because the companies literally couldn't make any more masks, so ordering them to do so would be completely and utterly pointless.

That's not entirely true. The DPA would've allowed them to direct the existing production to where it was needed most. Instead, individual states wound up competing against each other on the open market, driving prices up and directing quite a bit of supply to places where it wasn't needed yet.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2020-04-07/...
Unless they added it very recently the Java version does not require an Xbox account.
You can use word processing software like Microsoft Word to create documents or you can write the Postscript code that your printer requires to print documents. Both can produce nice documents but it is much more difficult to write Postscript.

I learned enough of OpenScad to create simple models but if I need something complex (and especially models that move), I used Fusion 360. I knew that it would cost $60 a month to me at some point and will need to evaluate if it is worth that much to me. While it's not pleasant to get something for free and then have to pay for it, it's not the first time it's happened and won't be the last.
You know what they say about meeting your heroes.

(I'm happy to have extracted that audio, though. I wanted to get that done since the night I recorded it but this motivated me...)
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"Browsing the web over BitTorrent" is an interesting problem statement.
Reminds me of React -> React Native -> React Native Web.
How many people are really able to spend that kind of money on Fusion 360? Fair enough if you are one of the lucky few with thousands of pounds worth of CNC equipment in your garage.

I'm afraid this will be one of those clever MBA stories where someone comes in and looks at the number of personal users and thinks, gosh damn, if only we could monetise half of them at $800 we'd be rolling in it.

I guess they are lucky that people can't just do what they did with Photoshop in the 90s; yay for the cloud.
I don't know. I responded to the claim it had nothing to do with music.
I was always expecting something like this to be going on, so I'd never use any Web-based availability-checking tools but then I also tend to be a bit paranoid at times.

Yet now it turns out not only is this established practice, there is even a Wikipedia entry on it.

"It's only paranoia if they're not really after you!"
I've been playing games all my life on many different platforms, but some of the best fun I've ever had has been on handhelds.

Even when I also have the PC or console version, some games just feel more at home on a handheld, and more appealing when you don't have to commit to a whole session of playing them.

On one hand, handhelds take less focus than sitting in one place staring in one direction, so you can play on them in bite-sized breaks, putting them away at any time and instantly resuming where you left off.

But on the other hand, something so close to your face, that you can snuggle with in any position anywhere, also has a level of intimacy not found in bigger screens and bulkier controls.

Nothing can compare to dozing off in bed while engrossed in a game with a captivating story, mechanics, and music..

Laptops are too bulky, and phones or tablets don't have built-in physical controls.

Which is why I'm a bit concerned about there being only one handheld left. The Vita was amazing and I still love it but Sony did everything they could to kill it off, and the Switch's success hasn't inspired them to try again.

If anyone feels like making a new handheld that anyone can develop for, my money is yours. :)
> However, as the situation appears to be largely made possible by regulatory failure, the problem is inherently political, and any lasting solution would also have to be of such nature. Thus, while I wish Purism all the best, expecting them to be able to significantly change the situation is unfortunately not realistic.

I always hate this argument.

The idea that Purism is going to topple Apple overnight is pretty unrealistic. Even if they "succeed" it would be years, maybe decades before they're the dominant platform. That's an unreasonably long time to suffer the status quo and it makes sense to try to solve the problem in other ways before then.

But sometimes the regulatory solutions fail, e.g. because the incumbents pour money into the coffers of politicians. And chipping away at the the problem slowly in the market, over a decade or more, until the incumbents are weaker and a political solution can do them in, is far better than a permanent defeat as a result of long-term regulatory capture.
The PS Vita is an awesome console for homebrew and game development. I've been working on a small cross-platform game, and used my Vita to both implement cross-compiling in my build system (to port to other systems later), and develop the game for both a touch screen and physical controller. Why bother carrying around a controller, android/ios device, and cables to develop a game when a single Vita will do!

If Sony and Nintendo would release their official SDKs for these dead consoles, maybe people would have less reasons throw them away. I don't understand why they're so defensive about it anyways.
> Fuck them.

Your speech is inciting hatred. Present yourself to the police for immediate relocation to a Reeducation Through Forced Labor Camp.
> does this mean that you don't like movies because of the interpretation

Pretty much everyone acknowledges the books are almost always better. Part of the reason is this, yes.
The registrar of that domain is GoDaddy, but that doesn't mean that the owner of the domain is GoDaddy. If you look at who.godaddy.com you'll see that it's not GoDaddy that owns the domain.

In this case, I don't see any evidence of front-running. It's more likely that it's a coincidence that someone registered the domain name a day after you searched for it. In fact, I personally would consider that to be more of a 'premium' domain, so it's logical that someone simply also searched for it and bought it.

Personally, when I search for domains, and it's available, I usually just register it and don't wait. I only wait and not register it right then and there if I'm OK with not getting it.
> To support that you'd have to show that Italians have order of magnitudes higher deficiency than most of Nordic countries, and I don't think it is possible.

Sweden adds vitamin D to food items so I wouldn't be surprised if Sweden has less vitamin D deficiency than many southern countries.

https://www.nutraingredients.com/Article/2015/05/28/Sweden-t...
It's been a decade running and 3 years since the switch has been released.
It doesn't cost them anything to do this. As a registrar they can register a domain name for free for seven days.
Also known as "Astral Projection", "Mind Walking", and "Spirit Walking" it is described as "Stepping out of your corporeal body and moving around the world."

I've never accomplished this while meditating (and I'm not the type to experiment with drugs) but I did have this type of experience while volunteering as a test subject for a sensory deprivation experiment at UNLV. In that experience I got out of the tank (without opening it which was weird), walked out of the lab and got in my car (again by just sort of being outside of my car and then inside the car). I was thinking about how I could start the car without my keys when I realized I was completely naked and in that realization the experience stopped and I was back in the tank.

People are known to hallucinate in such tanks, it is expected, I found the experience very unlike dreaming and much more like I was more literally conscious the entire time.
Non-Docker Local Installation of searX on Linux: https://persagen.com/2020/02/02/searx.html
Installing Carpet tiles in home office with timelapsed installation video
Definitely not High Speed Data. Any Data Transfer will likely go through Wireless.

The Wireless iPhone Data Migration was a step towards that goal.
There is a massive difference between China and India in terms of information flow. India is very chaotic regarding centralized data control and it would be super hard to consistently fudge/ hide the death rates for this long.
But your cited definition agrees with me? It's not being phased out, hence not being deprecated.
Apple iOS 14: The privacy features you need to know
> CAD is just one of those things that is too complicated and niche for FOSS to do well.

It's arguably too complicated for hackers to do well in their spare time, but there are plenty of FOSS projects in similarly complicated niche areas. The most successful ones tend to have companies or consortiums backing them, who aren't looking to make money on the softare itself but have it complement or support their other activities. OpenModelica for one example.

I always wonder why a consortium of big manufacturers (say Ford, Caterpillar, Hitachi, etc) don't just throw their weight behind some FOSS CAD initiative and get something standard that they can rely on forever. I don't think it would cost them more than 3rd party software in the long run.