skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What exactly is it? Is it an algorithmic composition tool? Is there a description?
Oh for sure. Though, it would not surprise me if someone has come up with some way to control video playback through Emacs.
This is awesome thank you for some reason last year my daughters school still needed a flash player for a typing program going to try this to see if works thanks!
The numbers I used were direct costs across a number of categories. Much of the discrepancy is housing costs. Others like transportation and healthcare factor in, but are not nearly as big. Pension is a bit more difficult to compare because defined benefit pensions are hard to compare to direct stock or 401k due to volatility of the latter, but a rough rule of thumb is they are worth roughly 8%-10% of equivalent annual salary. They also depend widely on when you join the govt.
Yes, but Boeing (aka McDonald-Douglas) really wants to get rid of the unions in the Seattle area plants.

Prior to the 1997 purchase of MD by Boeing, Boeing’s culture was very engineering focused. When MD came on, a large chunk of MD management were retained and soon after Boeing moved it’s official headquarters from Seattle to Chicago (where the MD headquarters were). Since then, a lot of the business decisions seem to have been more driven by management than engineering.
Your comment sounds like he spent the entirety of his 6+ yrs of his life building followership for the site.
related article from local Seattle newspaper:
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/09/09/44441906/the-dea...

"So, Seattle finds itself where Pittsburgh was in the 1970s and Detroit in the 1960s. The city is about to lose a central part of its industrial base. Today, Pittsburgh, the "Steel City," has no steel plants at all." ... "Seattle will finally become fully post-industrial in the third decade of the third millennium."
Permission requirement should be generalized to all sensors, if not all sources of data such as the file system and internet.
What I've seen most is issues with drivers. Even AMD, whose open GPU drivers make/made the planned included supplier of GPUs for this notebook have said that you're on your own on big endian systems. If you use the PCI Express slots on your 2005 Power Mac G5 to add a modern-ish (<12 years) AMD GPU to your big endian ppc64 system, it will give you a picture alright but 3D effects sometimes get corrupted and the hardware video decoder flat out does not work. The AMD driver simply implicitly assumes their platform is little endian in many places.

And that's not really a surprise. The only big endian system available to mere mortals that can fit an AMD GPU is a noisy, heavy, oversized metal box from 2005 you need to get off of Craigslist. Even the Raptor desktops default option is ppc64le. Most hardware developers never need to worry or care about big endian hardware, as none of their users use POWER, SPARC, S390X or something even more obscure.

This driver case is where AMD has made an explicit statement (though you'll have to forgive me from backing that up, can't find it anymore). In other cases it can be hard to differentiate between regular software bugs and endianness specific bugs.
One of the issues I find is the lack of compatibility across the various mobile browsers.

As I'm building a PWA, I'm finding certain Web APIs that were intended for PWAs to be incompatible on Firefox/Safari, which defeats the purpose of "write it once/works everywhere on the web". For example, the Web Share Target and install prompt APIs have regressed from a W3 standard to a Chrome-specific standard.

I'm looking into Capacitor/Cordova as an alternative in the meantime.
Yes. That's on the civil side. On the defense & space side, BDS is working hard to shut down the storied ex-McDonnell Douglas Huntington Beach, CA facility and move to FL, Huntsville AL, and other LCOL sites. It's now as if certain iconic HB buildings never existed - they've already been razed.
I think there some use cases for internal business apps, eg create some UI elements, open a websocket, write to database, and provide an icon on the mobile home screen. In terms of general apps, the major problems are lack of Safari support (push notifications for example) and access to the hardware/OS level stuff (like can I get the phone number of this phone without a Native App? Can I auto-focus the camera? Can I get the contacts? No, no, no you can't)
I think the concept might be OK, but the examples are mostly survivorship bias. Shame without said examples the article's very lightweight.
Physicists May Have the First Experimental Evidence of a New Type of Dark Boson
Progress is an advertisement-subsidized smart TV in the back of a Dodge Grand Caravan
Four Points Puzzle
If it's "his" vs her", the proportion is more like 50% / 50%.
Seattle is still in a better position than those cities due to Microsoft and Amazon, which will soften the blow, but it will still be quite painful.
Can you explain the advantage of installing both uBlock Origin and uMatrix? I never tried that, thinking that there was too much functional overlap and guessing that I would have to check and uncheck numerous lists to keep one from stepping on the other. Or maybe I'm just lazy and didn't feel like diving deeply into how to make them play nice together.
I think it's important to remember that security by obscurity is not a primary line of defense, but limiting or hiding available information about your system is still a good practice.

I might have the best home security system available, but that doesn't mean I'm going to make the details of that system or the contents of my house easily available information.

Take all of the technical protection measures you can, but then also make it hard for attackers to gain any information as well.
> This doesn't even make sense

Sure it does. It’s a big ‘fuck you’. Imagine if you’ve built a lifestyle business with this.
The 777x and 767 will still be here at least.
I don’t think you “see clearly” at all. Saying that Google and Facebook sell user data is to fundamentally misunderstand their business model. And I see this said all the time.

Google and Facebook sell ad not data. They make lots of money because their ads are effective, because they target them using data. They hoard their data on users. Keeping it a secret is their moat. Data is the golden goose. They will not/do not sell it. (They do buy data in huge volumes to supplement their already massive proprietary data troves and build ever granular market segments.)

I’m not defending what anyone in the targeted marketing space does. But there are data brokers, and Google and Facebook are not among them.
What features are missing? I’ve never come across a web app that wouldn’t work right.
My guess is that Google promotes people based on creating a new service, but not taking over an old service and running it / improving it. So when a manager leaves the organization, their service is orphaned: there is nobody to run it, and nobody to fight for it, so they shut it down. Customers and revenue are more or less irrelevant to this calculation.
My grandma will never use Mastodon, but she uses Facebook. Tech isn’t the only audience you need.
> I really hate the accusation that changing services to uncommon ports is security through obscurity. It's not a security practice, it's a high pass filter.

Well the high pass filter's purpose is to increase security. Therefore it is literally security through obscurity... Even if it's effective, that's what it is...
Ha. This would be great! We don’t need facebook anyway.
Thank you for this. The reason for moving ssh to a different port is not to stop a determined hacker, it is to lower the risk from script kiddies. It lowers the risk from stupid stuff, and is worth doing.
That sound you hear is corks popping in Airbus’s A350 sales office
I'm using GitHub pages:

https://pages.github.com/

It's human friendly to end users, but very developer centric. Its not going to be human friendly to writers.
I am Indian and I am no worried about my job.
Fines like that would threaten economic stability. I don’t see them getting more than a slap on the wrist like before.
LOL!

I know a fake threat when I see one. Facebook acts like everyone really cares if it’s cancerous presence vanished from half the globe.
Most crime is done by large corporations and most money laundering is done by banks. KYC laws aren't about stopping money laundering, they're about preventing people from using alternatives to the crooked banks.
Fith: An Invented, Stack-Based Spoken Language
It is shifting the labor market though. For example, those tech workers are eating out far more often, so there is greater demand for the Indian equivalent of burger flippers (dosa flippers?), which could be considered preferable job compared to the higher risk occupation of coconut tree climbing.
Duke Nukem 3D supposedly has some sort of monster switch case with hundreds or thousands of labels.
My company has completed Teams voice implementations at multiple orgs. Obviously the endpoints and ISPs factor in, so there are many variables. Having good Internet service for team members (however a company wants to provide/subsidize that) is key, keeping latency and jitter under control is key, along with prioritizing traffic on the LAN (or obviously WAN if you can - e.g. MPLS). People try to skip that last step a lot but it makes or breaks a good implementation. IME, Teams voice is fundamentally a stable phone system if the network conditions allow it to be. It's hard to transplant to a random employee's home or a hotel ballroom unless you have some assurance of the service quality there (hotel internet not prioritizing, kids gaming while mom is trying to run calls all off the crap ISP router, etc).
PWAs are still around and kicking!

I have released a few PWAs for Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=746767314934473577...

All the apps listed on my profile are all PWAs.

My understanding is it's still evolving and they are trying to work out ways to monetise from it.
Do a chargeback through the card/bank, they'll have a webform for you to submit it somewhere for contested charges.

They'll ask for proof, just put you paid for a service that will no longer exist and include screenshots of the deprecation page.
Did you evaluate Synthing (if it was around) or MooseFS / similar? If so, remember any comparisons?
For me that intervening sound is a hard 'y' though (as in 'yes') not long 'ee'.

Now I'm confused over whether Kivaloo is '~oo' as I assumed, or (roughly, weaker 'y') '~yoo' as I think we agree 'lieu' is?
Web Push on Safari on iOS (works fine on desktop) https://onesignal.com/blog/the-state-of-ios-web-push-in-2020...

Safari on iOS deletes LocalStorage after 7 days of inactivity (https://webkit.org/blog/10218/full-third-party-cookie-blocki...)
Notifications is the most glaring one. I'm not sure whether background services are available or not.
oh my god. "Words words intellect intellect. Strain your intellect to find another way to twist in another intellectual framework for analysing how straining your intellect is hurting you". Rather, shut up !! and meditate! You try to take a break from intellectual pull ups by doing a different tempo of pull ups! Get off the bar!
I was thinking of the rise and fall of democracy from before the Roman empire and through the present day. Pick any time and look back only a few centuries, and the answer to "What is the natural end state of government?" looks very different. Zoom out a bit and it's clear that if there is an end state, we haven't reached it yet.

Please note: I am being very careful with the claims I am making here. I have a little more than a layperson's understanding of Rome's history (years of Latin classes paying off at last!) but not nearly enough to call myself an authority on governments through the ages.

My point -- my only[0] point -- is that "The Internet started off federated and has become centralized / nobody has gotten federation to stick yet" is not enough of an argument to support "federation is doomed to failure".

My comment does not totally disagree with its parent, which seems to think that alternative approaches may succeed. We certainly agree that it's important to learn from the past.

I'm having trouble wrapping this up, but don't want to spend more time, so I'll leave it on that somewhat unfinished note.

[0] edit: I suppose there is also a secondary point that systems design is, like governance, an inherently social issue. This makes any analysis a lot more complex than if we restrict ourselves to purely technical merits.
>"...Boeing (aka McDonald-Douglas)..."

Boeing subsumed McDonnell Douglas, not a McDonald's franchise, and did so under pressure from members of the Clinton administration.
I don't see the argument for pointers. If you want C++, use C++.

Re checked exceptions: they're great. Document how your code can go off the rails or prevent it.
Given both Cubby, Inc. v. CompuServe Inc. and Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co. we know that courts would have held moderated environments as publishers.
Embrace, extend, extinguish but for games!
I think this is sort of punishment is like job security but at the level of governments and nation-states. If people in charge really want to shut something down, then it drops pretty fast.

Cynical-but-opportunitistic start-up idea: find the shortest path to becoming too big to fail.
Related threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24535241 (524 points/213 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24535903 (129 points/16 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24539132 (108 points/26 comments)
yeah and 737 assuming nothing changes
I think tech is a tiny minority on Mastodon. From what I can see there are far more queer folk and lefty ppl. Your grandma will never use Mastodon because there are no network effects luring her there, but the UX is about as good as a normal centralized social site.
Bobby Kotick is on Jeffrey Epstein's list. He also lost a sexual harassment case against a flight attendant from one of his private flights.

Miss Ukraine 1996 married Bobby Kotick's dad, Charles Kotick (for 2 years, before he passed away).
One of the most astoundingly talented people I have ever had the honor of meeting and learning from.
I think the mistake qualifies as an insult of McDonald's.
How does that work with interacting with other nodes in the federation? Now you have the whole huge userbase to deal with again, and only you to moderate.
All the HomeKit devices I have also support other protocols in addition. You can also add third-party/custom devices using HomeBridge. The authentication chip hasn't been required for a few years now.
The Dying Russians
Mastodon, Misskey and Pleroma are glorified clones of Twitter, and I'm sure there are many more like that. Pixelfed is a glorified clone of Instagram. A few others that I've looked at just don't seem appealing, at least not to me.

People need to stop harping over the technical appeal of the Fediverse, lest they only are interested in courting the technical crowd, which is actually fine with me. If that's what they want more of then they should not be concerned with who's a part of it. I think these federated platforms should not be interested in trying to appeal to anyone at all, because it's resulting in imitations of the exact platforms that we want to get away from. Under the hood they may unique, but all most people are going to care about is the front end.

Personally, my preference for a new social networking service would be very, very plain. Chat-orientated, share documents, comment on shared documents. No hearts or arrows or "Rebeeps, repoots, and boobops". Is there a way to federate message boards? I just want to talk, read and talk about what I've read.
Is there a way to federate Hacker News?
There is a half-decent book that covers this in part ... I enjoyed it.

“Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It)”
This is the point to me, and this is the way I've used it for years. Everything always loads almost instantly, I enjoy not burning my bandwidth for things I don't care about.
I regularly have over 150 tabs, and at that point blocking unneeded/unwanted content makes a very noticeable difference, especially on older machines.

I enjoyed the ride.
If it ain't Airbus, Bombardier, or Embraer, I ain't going.
You can migrate a Mastodon account and the old server will forward on your follows.
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What happens when you load a URL?
Are they trying to put trained monkeys out of the job there ?
I hate what Pinterest did to Google image search
Push notifications are a major one. You can't have PWA Twitter/Slack/WhatsApp for example on iOS because it won't be able to receive messages when it's not the active app.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Push_API
Yeah the Everett plant only employees 30k according to the Boeing site which is 1% of Seattle's population even if the whole plant went away. It'd hurt to lose for sure but I doubt it will be disastrous the same way it was when steel and cars left other cities.
https://andrewchen.co - I read a bunch of these when I was learning about growth / analytics at my last job.
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The elusive peril of space junk
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I do not think that is correct. Both Google and Apple _do_ allow PWAs. You can use many of the offline APIs, etc. and publish a web app that can be "bookmarked" to the home screen, have icons like native apps, work offline, etc. There has been some controversy around privacy controls that affect PWAs (https://ionicframework.com/blog/is-apple-trying-to-kill-pwas...) , and of course it won't be able to access ALL native functionality. You can also publish Cordova/Capacitor/NativeScript, etc. based apps to the app stores.

While there may be some incentive for app stores to cripple PWAs, and some privacy controls and technical reasons that limit access to some native APIs from web code, I don't think it's true that Apple or Google "don't allow" PWAs.

For paid apps, I think the issue is discoverability. App Stores remain the main way people find apps, so publishing to those is often preferred for marketing, instead of saying "click 'add to homepage' to install." I do think there is a place for one or two "PWA App stores"

I also think enterprise and in-house apps make a lot of sense as PWAs. Company's internal apps don't need app stores, and can save time and money targeting both platforms with PWA apps users can install from the company intranet.
If you have any IoT devices that you would like to connect to, like security cameras, then a dynamic IP means that you need an intermediary like a cloud service of some kind to be able to reach those.

That's a serious down side. DNS can serve as that intermediary (I use it that way for my cameras) but there will be some time between an IP adjust and the DNS update, so it's a bit flaky.
It really isn’t, but your kind of thinking is definitely driving the way the current administration is trying to spin those riots.
Diaspora* and Matrix are using federation.
Like the EU could not create their own FB and IG replacements.
The bottleneck is the Mastercard/Visa duopoly combined with the modern banking system. At the end of the day no amount of Patreon vs Shopify style business models for adult entertainment work fixes the fundamental payment risk problem. Onlyfans helped amortize the risk somewhat by spreading across multiple payment providers and controlling the UX tightly but even so they still had to change the pricing policy. Mindgeek/CCBill are the Paypal/Stripe of adult entertainment payment processing and it is not an easy field to "disrupt". You can put the best actuaries and machine learning engineers in a room and it would be doubtful if they could come up with a better risk model without fundamentally altering the method of transaction. (Crypto is often touted as a supposed fix for this sort of things but I am not knowledgeable enough about it to comment, somebody else please feel free to chime in.)
Conceptual Game Expansion: Comparing games designed by humans versus machines
E-mail doesn't work too? Federation works, if some walled garden obsessive lock-in freaks (like Compuserve and AOL of old or today's analogies of Facebook and the like) don't manage to mess things up.
How much of that is tech management issues though? I mean, in past life we implemented the whole lync stack of servers, SBCs, etc., and it worked great. We had a few older employees that were highly skeptical of the conversion (a phone's a phone, right??) but completely changed their tune once they got used to clicking on phone numbers to dial, simultaneous ring, etc. We couldn't have done that if the fundamental performance wasn't taken care of. The system took a lot of tuning but I can't but think that implementation poor implementation/management of the stack was a bigger problem for Lync than the actual system itself. I'm blaming the sysadmins. ;)
They're part of that ecosystem as well. In my experience they're all miserable places to work though, LM in particular.
Testing whether passwords are stored in plaintext
Yes i meant it in context. like i mentioned he admits it. admits hes a comedian first and foremost. very successful.
30k Boeing employees, but I'd like to know how many local contractors, shops and restaurants ultimately depend on this workforce.
McDonnell Aircraft was a company with a proud history, responsible for remarkable engineering, including the F-4 Phantom II and Gemini spacecraft. Douglas also has a stellar history including the World Cruisers, DC-3, and A-4 Skyhawk. I see it as tragic that they merged and slowly failed.
Thank you so much fot this! I had already started high output management. So far a great read.
> If you exclude ballistic missiles, I'm fairly certain Taiwan could repel the PLA independently, with predjudice. They have better air, navy, and land equipment.

“Quantity has a quality all it's own”, though, and the PRC has quantity in spades.

Also, “if you exclude ballistic missiles” is a big caveat.
I was not here, but wanted to create an account to thank you for the work you did years ago. Your work was really critical to my understanding of tables and I wish I had found it sooner!

I keep meaning to go back and add in the drawing code, but since I can export the fallback image directly, I just use that for now in the parser.

Glad you liked the article and really glad to see you specifically comment on it. Thank you!