skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, thanks!

And I certainly wasn't expecting the customisability of Humaaans, that's great.
> I wish I could better articulate what's wrong with it, but I don't think it's fixable with the ClearType tuner.

This is the frustration. Quite simply, I don't think anyone at Mozilla uses Windows.

I've tried to go to Firefox from Chromium, but the psychological impact that font rendering has on me is too much. I mean, we spend a lot of time reading text in a browser. I want that to be delightful and easy on the eyes.
> The machinery to make this is extremely complicated and takes 6 months or more to build, by which time there may be no demand. No amount of invoking the defense production act would change this reality.

Government certainly can change this reality (perhaps via the defense production act) by agreeing to buy masks off the line for a time after the immediate demand has been met. Or whatever.

None of this stuff - for example, defense contractors being managed by the government and permitted to make a reasonable but not excessive profit during wartime, or the early and middle stages of the cold war - is even especially complicated. It's an ideological prohibition against the government managing a company's profits in a specific area, and of course globalization of the relevant corporations, that prevents us from doing it. I'm not sure about the globalization part - I expect 3M and other conglomerates would be happy to work things out if they were dealing with people in the federal government who were even approaching sane, trustworthy and intelligent.

Instead they encountered this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/us/jared-kushner-fema-cor...
To flesh out my thoughts, there are publicly accessible law libraries you can go to for working through the up to date case law by checking the registers and what not, but from my understanding this is a far slower process than using the tools most practicing attorneys pay rather large recurring access fees to. If there is a lawyer about, feel free to correct me, but I believe Westlaw is one, LexisNexis is another I think? It's been a while since I was deep in this vertical of research. What I do remember is that the difference in efficiency between someone who does have access to one of those systems vs. Someone who doesn't is essentially the difference between someone armed with Google Case Law Edition vs. someone working out of a card catalog. You can get an order of magnitude higher discoverability leading to potential alternate avenues for legal construction with one over the other. You can also get an idea of what approach any defense or counterpart might make by researching what your opponent would want since you're both working out of the same b o st of case law.

If you're just looking to do one case and be done, the law library may work. If you're in court with any regularity, the rest of the profession has made your decision for you, and it's time to pony up for access to the big boy's toolset.
It's important not to confuse individuals with populations.

This is one of the biggest problems when talking about things like this. People make statements about populations and others refute them using observations about individuals. Of course individuals are different, but individuals have very limited control over society. We are not a bunch of unrelated individuals, we are a society. The top level comment is talking about society.
That doesn't seem to explain why the rest of the industrialized world isn't seeing the same shortages.
no, I live in Sweden... =)
With complex minds like those of human beings it can't even be reduced to just genetic survival. Memetic survival is often weighted just as much, if not more.
Why are people always called "proud people"? Are there no people embarrassed of their country?
Perhaps. It is arguable that Mr Assange is not receiving a fair trial in the procedural sense of the word. The appeal court would be entitled to quash the verdict or remand it for reconsideration.

Given previous precedent such as the Gary McKinnon case, I rather hope the High Court would quash the verdict and prevent Mr Assange's extradition.
How could you know that? He was CEO for 2 weeks.

He took concrete actions to damage LGBT people. That's not just an opinion.
They're not "biggened". They're bolder and more blocky. Which from a design perspective appears louder, more brash, and not calm.
I believe the recommended configuration is to run OpenVPN via UDP and only accept connections from trusted certificates. If you're running it on TCP then a scanner would be able to see that you have an open port but still can't see what's running on it.
Intel Launches 10nm Atom Embedded CPUs: Elkhart Lake Now Available
FYI there are lots of different ways to contribute money to a website EDIT within the Brave / BAT system. You can manually "tip" a website a fixed amount of BAT; you can set up a monthly donation of BAT to the website; and you can have a fixed amount that automatically gets sent once a month to the websites you've viewed based on how much time you've spent there.

And of course there are two ways to get money into your account: 1) Upload money directly, 2) Look at ads through the Brave ad network.

So far I've only been doing #2, which for me generates between $0.50 and $1 worth of BAT every month.

For the automatic division -- it's not exactly clear to me what happens. Is all of my $0.50 next month going to be divided between those two websites that are registered? Are they only getting their own little share of a few cents each? If so, what's happening to the BAT for the other websites?
- Supports pre-compiled headers[1]

There are a lot of C/C++ build systems until you need PCH.

1: https://onqtam.com/programming/2019-12-20-pch-unity-cmake-3-...
Judging by the numerous projects Mozilla has launched and then abandoned in recent years, it seems the people running it are searching for new hit products, instead of investing for the long term on development of services and infrastructure that will benefit humankind for years and decades to come. Quoting from the OP:

"In recent years Mozilla has created:

* a mobile app for making websites

* a federated identity system

* a large file transfer service

* a password manager

* an internet-of-things framework/standard

* an email relay service

* a completely new phone operating system

* an AI division (but of course)

* and spent $25 million buying the reading list management startup, Pocket

Many of the above are now abandoned."
A Journey from Hardware Load Balancers to HAProxy at DoubleVerify
Android has a product line called "Go" that enables apps on low end phones by making alternate versions that are...webviews.

Electron is bad because it uses a separate browser engine per app. Webviews don't have that problem.
Increasing prices does restrict availability now, but as a step on a path to increasing availability in the future (because the higher prices incentivize eventual capacity-building, which lowers prices and increases quantities).

Keeping prices low restricts availability now and in the foreseeable future.
> I don't know a single person who likes that Twitter chooses how to crop and format images.

I have never cared nor noticed. Other things to do with life than fiddle with twitter image upload thumbnails.

> Everyone just wants to choose the visible area themselves, and it's not hard to create a simple UX that would enable this.

mind citing?
"The free market will fix it!" - If we're assuming invoking the Defence Production Act wouldn't work because the machines are too complex to prepare in time, why on earth do you believe the free market would succeed?
You continue to make a strong case for not using Comcast's DNS servers. Since I entered this conversation believing nobody should use Comcast's DNS servers, I'm confused why you're making that case to me personally, but whatever, I agree.
A Stained-Glass Gift from God and Gerhard Richter
You can grow by 15% even if you have 20 or 25 users :-P .

I am a huge Haskell fan though. The 'problem' with Haskell is that, because of its roots in academic research the language will not chase success at any price (read hacks); and tends to eventually find solutions to its problems even if it means not being popular for a long time. I like that. Watch out for stuff like linear types[1] coming to GHC soon.

[1] https://www.tweag.io/blog/2017-03-13-linear-types/
The Washington Post actually had an article about this back in March or so.

The issue that you have is that there is a decently large capital cost to building new production, and once the pandemic is over, the budget hawks are going to swoop in and cut purchasing of masks down to below pre-pandemic levels because there's now a massive unused pile of the stuff, why do we need any more? So the guaranteed-purchase contracts are abrogated, and the manufacturers are saddled with a lot of debt and no prospective income.

(This isn't a theoretical thought exercise, it actually happened during the H1N1 flu crisis).
The Great Forgetting: How to Stop Tooth Decay
Mozilla as many other software companies plays with words and their meaning trying to develop newspeak instead of working on a browser, and most importantly wants to abolish meritocracy because it does not suit their needs of diversity, see: https://blog.mozilla.org/careers/words-matter-moving-beyond-...

So please remember: every time you want to say 'meritocracy', you say 'discrimination' instead. Therefore, any your statement about performance is not valid.
I see/hear that a bit in some British panel shows that I enjoy; the host and sidekick will start with "You alright?" as a general intro phrase.
You're fine dude, unfortunately we're coming up on the US election so a lot of folks have put way to many chips on the table in regards to any reference to ethnicity or race being an outrageous thing to say. The list of unspeakable words and topics seems to have been growing rapidly the last few years so you shouldn't sweat it, most people who go out of their way to take offense actually don't care and just want to clutch pearls in public.
> The most powerful thing about words is the power the listener gives them.

Human beings are neurologically wired to biologically respond to communication from other beings. A classic example is nursing women who express milk when hearing a baby cry.

There are many other examples of involuntary responses to environmental stimulus, much of which include human communication. Loud noises cause involuntarily muscular response, sexual display increases heart rates, threatening behavior (including language) floods the bloodstream with cortisol.

In other words, we may (if we're lucky) modulate our actions in response to what people say to us but there is much evidence to suggest we have little to no control over the feelings that words may elicit.
> The sad reality is that the CEO pay should be a relative metric to tech companies of similar size in the bay area, where Mozilla is based. Or at least US tech companies of similar scale.

Or move to Europe or Asia and get 2-5x output per Google Search dollar.
MERS, SARS, MRSA, HIV

Perhaps we use the guns more because we have them available.
What everyone is talking about isn't "not having to write `and_then` over and over" but rather that there is a common interface to "things that are monads", i.e. `>>=`, `map` and `apply`. `do`-notation is nice syntactic sugar on top of that common interface, but it's not the actual thing itself.
> What if I told you that a cheap, effective and painless method of stopping tooth decay had just been invented! You’d be pretty happy. What if I told you that a cheap, effective and painless method of stopping tooth decay was invented over 100 years ago and has been available in other countries for decades but only now is it starting to be used in the United States as a non-FDA approved, off-label treatment? I hope you would be angry. Well, I did tell you this in 2016 in The FDA Versus the Tooth and now the Washington Post has an update
We perform our own crawling/indexing.. Will checkout the link, thanks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_California_Proposition_8
I'm impressed with the downvotes on this. Anyone care to back up your tacit disagreement with pax-americana [1]? Is it because you don't think it is true? Is it because you don't like the geopolitical landscape today? Just curious. FWIW I don't think the US forcing democracy on countries was universally good for those countries. In some cases it was, some cases it was wishful thinking and in the worst cases it was pure self interest. But to deny the world peace that resulted from US military dominance is extremely naive, and also blatantly disregards a trend we've seen throughout the course of world history.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Americana
Any ideology that places blame and responsibility on an entire group based on their race is racist. I believe in individual responsibly, not group responsibility and original sin - which according to CRT, is a form of white supremacy.

I will not further address the comments by the president because they are hamfisted, poorly articulated, and off topic. You are obviously trying to shift this debate to be about the current administration rather than CRT.
An improved development workflow for software teams
I dabbled in procurement in this area. Its a big sad joke. Better leadership could help but only marginally.

Price gouging statutes added an unnecessary distraction to market signals, as they confused consumers and governors and wasted public resources trying to enforce. It is impossible to enforce them because legislatures didn't give power to curb market signals indefinitely and States have zero tools to handle states of emergencies in reaction to a disaster that is larger than their state, continues growing in scope, and that never ends. To allow the market signals to work for increasing production, states could have subsidized over a certain $ price, shielding consumers but allowing market to still function. The ideal result being that other companies took the risk of creating more product until the market was flooded with the masks.

The global procurement game was and still is a joke.
It seems like communication is missing in both cases. It is easy to try to guess the other’s person motivations, but it’s actually hard to be 100% correct, and even if we’re 100% correct, who says our motivation is more valid than the other’s person? sure sometimes our motivation is objectively better, but the other person won’t agree without communication.

Probably after reading “No More Mr Nice Guy” everyone should read “How to Win Friends and Influence People”
How do you know this Haskell system was "Haskell done right"? I'm not trying to be snarky, this is a genuine question. I have witnessed enough disasters (performance or otherwise) in multiple languages to know not draw conclusions from just one or two failures. Of course, consistent failures by multiple teams do point to a problem with the technology itself.

(Then again, maybe you do have multiple examples and/or have strong evidence this system was indeed "Haskell done right", which is why I'm asking).
Fellow Dane here and someone who used to work with Danish musicians: KODA is the enemy. It'd be a more worthy initiative to go yell at them: they are literally the mafia of music in Denmark.
You could save a lot of jobs by cutting into the CEOs salary, jobs of people who actually do something productive.
It is not. do notation is just syntactic sugar. The feature that enables re-use are the type-classes and the structure of the standard library. Interestingly, you do have traits in rust, but I think there is no monad trait yet in the std lib.
This video is one of my favorites for that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyyT2jmVPAk

A couple Brits I work with say it's pretty good.
> isn't `!` normally used after identifiers to indicate macro invocation?

I'm not sure where that's explicitly documented, but the docs for procedural macros call it the "macro invocation operator":

https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/procedural-macros.html#f...

> Also, I tried searching but I couldn't find an entry for `!` in the docs.

Yeah, that's one reason I'd prefer that it had an explicit name, rather than a single character.
That's impressive that you've been able to be independent for a decade; congrats!. As I'm looking at your site, it appears you only focus on Law schools. Why haven't you expanded to include B schools or Med or others?
Feedback for the author:

* In Undoing Your Last Commit in Style, you explain the --mixed flag in a way that doesn't really seem to distinguish it from --soft. As a reader with only a surface-level understanding, I would have appreciated the elaboration.

* In Finding Out How a File is Different in Another Branch, you demonstrate the usage of -- in a command without elaborating on the functionality. I assume this is a situation where we just want to terminate a list of arguments early, but I would like to have known for sure (and I think those less experienced might have been even more confused).

* Multiple sections outline (and acknowledge the relative newness of) recent subcommand additions. It would have been appreciated if you had gone the extra mile to show which git version those features were introduced under. I imagine those on more locked down environments would appreciate it.
Dunning-Krueger effect maybe ?

Seriously, there’s been literally hundreds of blog-hosting websites. If you really thought none of them were backed by a DB, I’m not sure what to say. It’s not like “optimizing DB calls” is an original idea. It’s probably something 50% of all software engineers have spent some time on.
Whether one works for google, facebook, amazon, apple or microsoft, I can guarantee you that if they’ve been on the job for long enough, at some point in their career they had to “optimize expensive calls”

Now, I don’t want to just be an asshole. I think it’s really cool to start something from scratch and push it out there. I, for one, never really got myself to do it. And I think the grit is harder to acquire than the technical skills. Just be careful of not overestimating your real skills, it can be a great turn-off for any half-competent professional who might be considering joining you in a future venture
Lattice Confinement Fusion
I'm pretty sure most Danes are super proud of our country after our PM's deft handling of the outbreak. Finest leader of my lifetime.
Hopefully something can be learned from his experience, but what a tragedy. It seems like a waking nightmare.
Banksy trademark 'at risk' after street artist loses legal battle
Preview of GUI application support on WSL
> If we got it wrong and there is more to it than "Google's attempt at AirTable", then perhaps the communication on what this product is supposed to be has missed the mark.

You say Airtable. Others have said Monday.com. Others have said Asana and Notion, etc.

The fact that there are a lot of products in this space -- in my opinion -- shows that there is a real need. It also shows that no one has quite got it right. Of course there are similarities between our product and others. "Tables of data" is not a new concept. "No-code" is not new.

This launch is our first step. We expect to grow with our users. And we hope we can delight them.
I hope you post traffic statistics here as a comment when you do a post-mortem of the traffic that brought it down. I'm interested testing a site under a load similar to page 1 HN traffic.
This is a really great example that I wish more engineers understood. There are an enormous amount of external factors that play into why that software project must have features a, b, and c and must be done by next friday. Good code costs time and money which are luxuries you don't always have.
What do you mean exactly? Any links?
The said words affect everyone in the room. When someone is offending you and you don't respond, it pretty often affects how other respond to you too.

> even teach yourself to internally process those messages as constructively

No, you need to teach yourself to respond to them. And for that you need to stop pretending they do no harm. And stop blaming yourself for feeling bad after someone insulted you. Really, when someone insults you, feeling hurt is normal human reaction. Not "your responsibility to constructively respond" or to teach yourself to stop feeling.

That is just being doormat and doormats gets bullied. That is how women in 1950 were taught to act while males responded to insults. Males were the ones who had respect.
Christopher Nolan did the screenplay for Momento which was one of my favourite films a few decades back about a guy who has anterograde amnesia[1].

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterograde_amnesia
A good CEO of a charity would be pumping their excess income back into the charity, so there's either no need to worry about pay or clearly the CEO is wrong.
The EU is set to declare war on encryption
When low paid workers ask for a raise we tell them it's not about your need, it's about your contribution.

But for execs it's about their need.

Once again, it's down to rich vs poor. Rules for thee but not for me.
N95 is the best for Dr. working in the closed HVAC env, for outdoor and shopping, L1-L3 surgical mask might be better actually.

The material to make N95 is the time consuming part, I think Houston can do it but not sure if any company created the production line. Without those raw material, there will always be N95 shortage, building it in USA is not cost-effective in the past.
> Free Software is an extremely left wing philisophy

That's revisionist history. Free software, and the greater "hacker" community, has historically been libertarian. It's only recently that authoritarian leftism took over.
I expected to see at least some links to Stoicism. They do not exist, which is why the article does not answer the question in the title. My opinion is that Stoicism answers this question and in general it is one of the most useful directions of philosophy.
Don't the stockpiles help contain outbreaks?
the site seems to be throwing an application error from heroku. now correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't cloudflare supposed to be a caching proxy? and if i am correct, why am i even getting to the actual server? is it this dude doesn't have cloudflare configured correctly? if anyone can explain this i would love to know so i don't make the same mistake in the future.
Ain't my first rodeo: America's queer cowboys – in pictures
Make. It. Simple. Linux Desktop Usability (2017)
Lenovo Launches ThinkPad and ThinkStation PCs Preinstalled with Ubuntu
Twitter mass hacking flashback: Obama's Messenger is released
Library looks like a giant game of Scrabble
>It's important to sit down and decide what we want out of life

I always get my hair up with this kind of statement. How do your goals look? Because the only goals I have are: a) not be homeless, b) not have my family die, and c) figure out how to have someone give me ten million dollars so I can stop coming to work.

People who have specific, 'work-ish' goals in their personal lives sort of weird me out. I don't know why.

Something, something Maugham's The Razor's Edge.