skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also a question of the there you want to get to. And how fast you want to get there.

Testing can be about a lot more than just catching bugs. It can be about any measure of reality that can be turned into useful feedback to make developers more aware.

Testing is like the headlights on your car - they're useful even in absence of bugs.
10mg: Invading Steam with microgames to make a point
> The Windows Store is meant for a general audience, and the general audience are users that ended up with 10 rows of custom "toolbars" in their browser after a few days of using the internet.

Maybe at one point, but at this point the general audience

A) Just does everything in the browser.

B) Knows enough to do things right

C) Does not yet know enough to do things right, will screw up an install, and learn from experience.

D) Will manage to repeatedly screw things up.

D is a surprisingly small group, and I'd personally rather group C screw up their stuff and learn.

> The fact that you trust your own abilities over those of Microsoft (of course without giving a concrete example to justify your mistrust) has nothing to do with millions of non-tech savvy users that would otherwise just download Krita.Totally.Not.Malware.Believe.Us.exe from webshop24.ru, because they clicked on that cute cat image that told them to...

What's to stop me from creating "K-Dev LLC" and putting "Krita+ Ultimate" on the Microsoft store, of course with my own malicious add-ins?

As far as "Without a concrete example to justify your mistrust". Yes. I do not have a concrete "I installed this from the Microsoft Store and it was malware story". That being said, Microsoft has repeatedly shown themselves to be ineffective at security. To be clear, They have a _massive_ and extremely difficult task in front of them. I just have no reason to expect it to work, and experience suggesting it won't.
I'm sure you know this already, but for anyone else browsing the comments, there is also free version for non-commercial use: https://www.onshape.com/products/free
Why not run Wordpress locally and bake the site out to static files?

That way you get Wordpress content authoring and all the advantages of a static site you mention
VR sucks. The end. See you in 5-10 years when its practical and enjoyable.
Stacking and Twisting Graphene Unlocks a Rare Form of Magnetism
You mean the "Open File - Security Warning" popup that has existed since XP?

I have never seen a regular computer user not clicking the "Run" button in less time than it takes to read anything in that window. One notable exception I can see is people who've pirated games from gog.com, and want to check that they're unmodified.
Another way to see it : cars are parked about 95% of the time.

If you allow V2G for 5 million cars to deliver 7 kW each to the grid, they can power the country for about 7 hours with zero other mean of electricty production - assuming a 50 kWh battery in the car.

A 50 kWh car will power a typical home for a few days to a few weeks for energy efficient homes.

When full electrification of cars is done the grid will look very very different.
Yes, I'd keenly love to see a very beginner, step-by-step tutorial on exactly how to take a stock Unreal Engine installation and produce this video.
Pret a Manger will try anything to survive
I remember chatting for an insufferably long time with an individual who loudly proclaimed early in our first meeting "I prefer art to entertainment"

That person sucked, and I was thoroughly surprised by the oxygen content of their own anus.
There's now this unfortunate catch 22 where people won't bother watching shows for the first 2 seasons in case they get cancelled. Which means there's less audience, so they're more likely to get cancelled...
China’s central bank urges faster digital yuan roll-out
Look into ACF Blocks (it's part of ACF now), they allow you to very easily extend Gutenberg with minimal coding and simple templating.

WordPress core team is still working on the "full site editing" project (that is, being able to edit headers, footers and sidebars in Gutenberg). It's coming probably later this year or beginning of 2021. But you can still edit a lot of things with Gutenberg as-is.

https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/blocks/
air conditioning is one of the smallest issues (somewhat ironically), as the demand from it is the highest when sun is shining, meaning there is lots of PV Electricity available (and with roof PV no burden on the grid either). Heat Pumps in Winter are the bigger issue generally.
It sounds like you only watched the first season of Altered Carbon. If true, just stop there. They made a second season with a slashed budget and also dialed back the sex and violence, making it overall very lackluster. Then, surprise, they cancelled it.
Industry Unprepared for “Airlift of the Century”
As a child I really loved being left at home, preferably alone, for as long as possible. So I can have no doubt there are many children who actually enjoy a lock-down. Introverts are real and introvert children can do even better (than adults) entertaining themselves at home.
From the user's point of view there was a Unix command `rn` for Read News. Could also post.
AIUI there are already regulations requiring that satellites be able to de-orbit themselves at EOL, and have some maneuvering capability in order to actively avoid collisions. This is directly paid for by the owners of these satellites as part of the development cost. Most of the objects at high risk of collision are either very old satellites, or debris from collisions of old satellites, from before these requirements existed.

Tracking space debris and other objects in orbit of the earth is something we'd probably want to do anyway, and it makes no sense to duplicate that effort, so of course that burden will be distributed. If that burden becomes too high I'm sure some tax or licensing fee will be introduced to pay for it (assuming such a thing doesn't already exist) but in the grand scheme of things those costs are irrelevant compared to the cost of launching something into space to begin with... Especially when the satellite is still functioning, and generally aware of its own position anyway.
> but if I have a friend who wants a site and I don't want to ever touch it for them

I did this for a few friends, hosted them on my server, set up Wordpress. Worked for some but most found even Wordpres too complicated. I sent to them to Squarespace and they're happy with that, albeit paying a hefty enough monthly fee after the initial trial period. Not my problem though! washing my hands
And what's to stop national economy planning from distributing decision making in the same manner? It's not like Walmart doesn't do nation-level planning.
Netlify is semi-anonymously creating hype and then offering what they think is the best solution to the problem they’ve created.

The principles behind JAM are platform-agnostic though.

As I see it, Netlify is just dressing serverless in a new hat.
It seems like it's a good time to own a cemetery or funeral service.
I’m struggling to understand your point. Phones are closer to laptops in that in typical use a wired power connection is frequently plugged and unplugged, so mechanical wear is an important consideration. Why are you bringing up Ethernet on servers in this context, when as you say the pattern of use is utterly different?

I know almost nothing about wireless charging. But have fair experience with working with WiFi devices. In my lifetime, I have observed 0 cases of failure on the WiFi client mechanism, and exactly 1 case of a WiFi router failing due to hardware. Meanwhile, power plugs are the most common part I have experienced wearing out on consumer electronics. Have you experienced lots of failures of solid state electronics due to eg. hear cycling and magnetic fields?
That might be more the case if it was a pitch competition, but those kinds of startups wouldn't do well in this kind of game if they're not making real progress.

When you've got good feedback loops in place and clear progress updates, being flashy without substance week after week just wouldn't work.
Hahahaha no.

> Many domains see repeated patterns that are difficult or impossible to express as a library. Macros can allow those patterns to be expressed in a more concise and less error prone way.

choice! single_input:
NEWLINE
simple_stmt
sequence!:
compound_stmt
NEWLINE

This is such a hilariously bad idea. No. Just No. Go away.
On Synology you can install iTunes Server [0] and then just use native AppleTV's music player to access your library.

[0] https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/packages/iTunesServer
I think perhaps this holds for specifically climate science and the politics around it.
Yeah, Low Tech Magazine is run by Kris de Decker, a trained historian. He's pretty good with sourcing his articles :)
I can't commit upfront to that amount of time to something entirely unknown to me.

Why do you have to commit? Watch an episode or two. See if you like it. If not, move on.
I've been wanting to write about my experiences with the streaming services that I've tried (Spotify, Deezer, AM, YTM, Tidal...) so I guess this seems like a good opportunity. This was a bit long for just a comment so I'm sharing a pastebin.

https://pastebin.com/KG5huAnn
A tool to translate Postman API collections into Mocha/Chai test suites
Yep, the way we fix this is to avoid Occulus products for now.
I had thought coal would be in fairly short supply as well, but apparently there are corners of the country more than a few meters above sea level: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_in_Limburg

> "The demand for coal had grown explosively as a result of increased industrialization and urban expansion, but the national governments regarded any form of interference in the extraction and sale of this fuel as unnecessary. Thus it came about that the first concessions for the extraction of coal in South Limburg were granted without hesitation to foreign firms, although most of the coal consumed in the Netherlands was imported from Germany, and Dutch investors preferred to invest their capital in foreign countries, such as in Russian government loans, American railways, and Hungarian waterworks."
Now, if only I could remember my Apple ID...
One of the first things I do when looking at a new show to watch is try to find out if the show ends and was cancelled on a cliffhanger. Wikipedia is okay for this, but I've been wishing for a dedicated website with that info.
Overall great post.

> If you rely on latest you might silently inherit updated packages that in the best worst case might impact your application reliability, in the worst worst case might introduce a vulnerability.

On this one I disagree. Your CI should handle reliability (and if not, you have a bigger problem) and you're more likely to patch a vulnerability than to introduce a new one and it's unlikely that by the time a PR hits production that the version is compromised.

I understand that updating cuts both ways when it comes to security, but I agree with Matt Tait's ultimate conclusion when he spoke on this issue a few years ago: For most medium size and smaller companies constantly updating is safer than delaying. He had real world data and graphs of compromise windows, etc. Short answer was that attackers are more time motivated than defenders.
Thank you for the correction.

Here's an amazon link to the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/159030764X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_btf...
Is there something like Forestry (CMS with Git as datastore) but self-hosted and/or open-source?
> but they just don't want to keep them around for long if they think they are not working, because unlimited airtime does not mean unlimited funds.

This makes sense in the abstract, but watching season 1 of the The Office (US) suggests that if NBC had the same view, we wouldn't have one of the most popular long-term binge-watch shows, for which streaming services are paying $500mm now.

As the article mentions, Schitt's Creek apparently had a low-rated first season, but since the execs in charge didn't have the mindset you describe above, it survived long enough to become the award-winning more popular show it is now.

Netflix may not be doing anything wrong here, but if they're not careful, it may bite them hard in a few years as their reputation continues to grow.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches rocket to edge of space: first time in months
He actually does make this claim very specifically. In his conclusions chapter, one of the main headings is "Chew", where he states: "the bones in the human face don't stop growing in our 20s, unlike other bones in the body." And then goes on to recommend eating "foods that require an hour or two a day of hard chewing".

I seem to recall that earlier in the book he describes some research that documented this effect, but I don't have a reference.
https://archive.vn/gS4K5
The external battery packs (first a wired pack about the size of a 6" sub sandwich, then the battery back) were pretty much a mandatory accessory.
They are not currently plugged in, and I don't have any plans to do so.
I wonder if old Slashdot, Digg, reddit, Hacker News, Twitter, etc will be so available after they die (sadly nothing lasts forever).
You just talked about Twitter buying BTC as important news showing it's viability though... It's mostly a popularity/buzz game.

Also yeah, stock buybacks were illegal up until 1982 and since there legalization we've seen large trades in companies from R&D spending towards buyback spending...
Facebook bans accounts fairly regularly for hate speech, which pretty much means whatever they want. It seems ludicrous to me that an edgy teenager can have their headset bricked because they posted some spicy political memes.
It wasn’t really quite that bad. Seasons 1-4 each had quite distinct “survive zombies” scenarios. The season with Terminus was when it started to get dicey: it was quite close to season 2 in terms of theme (“survive zombies while lost in the wild”). Around the end of the first season with Alexandria (6?) is when it effectively stopped being (mainly) about surviving a zombie apocalypse and more about humans fighting each other with some love drama tossed in, oh and some zombies here and there.
Every single one of those things is easier with the existing money system.
> They look at spreadsheets all day long, and they see that some money losing piece of culture is preventing the business from creating non-money losing piece of culture ... or making payroll.

In this case they're seeing something that they guess is not making as much money as they like (there's no way of telling how much and individual program actually brings in) and rolling the dice to see if something else would perform better.

The downside of this attempt, however, is that they're creating a large catalogue of abandoned projects that a lot of viewers aren't going to watch because they don't want half a story. If you complete a series like the OA, you have a decently regarded show in your catalog forever, and your large catalog can attract people even if they don't immediately watch any one particular show. The current approach may or may not create more big hits in the short run (it doesn't seem to have a ton of success on that front so far). In the long run, though, it's going to lead to a smaller number of evergreen shows in the Netflix catalog.
This is why F-16 Fighting Falcon doesn't work on the MD.
Hard disagree.

First of all, most streaming shows are 10 episodes per season, 12 at most.

But as for the number of seasons, what's amazing about television is how deep and intimate your knowledge of the characters becomes. The kind of emotional depth and resonance you get with characters in the 4th and 5th season of a show is simply unparalleled -- we know their life histories, and the smallest of scenes can shake us with the amount of meaning they convey.

If you think of Mad Men or The Sopranos or The Americans or Breaking Bad -- my god, each season is better than the last because it's like they approach infinite richness. The last seasons get to levels none of the first seasons were able to.

Also, it's a huge rarity for shows to make it to 7–9 seasons. The ones that do are because they're hugely popular and people want to watch them. If Game of Thrones had still had books to work off of, I think pretty much everybody would have loved 3 or 4 more seasons.
Legacy is contextual. It means different things in different context so it might be more helpful to understand what legacy means in this context.
It’s like any other modern growth company - they are a machine optimized to hit a small set of metrics.

TV networks had an incentive to hit 100 episodes for syndication. Netflix wants you to sign up, and knows that the friction of cancellation will keep you subscribed long enough to get whomever their KPI hit/bonus.
World reaction to long queues of voters in US
To be fair those are VERY new and 10TB is probably an accurate estimate of the /average/ NAS user. I have 150TB (I am not average) and the max drive size I have is 8TB right now. Similarly, I'm about to set my dad up with a Synology which I'll be putting 3x8TB for 16TB usable. I even offered to put in 16's but he didn't need the space and didn't want to pay the extra to get it (especially since he can upgrade later if desired)
Why do people put celebrity names on common sense proverbs just because the celebrity said it once?
Great post. Two points:

..If you don’t inspect the wget script you might as while pipe it into bash.

.. How to distribute secrets if not by env? (which I agree! Honest question)
I can't find any links for this off-hand, but I think the last time commercial time was increased was in the 1980s.

"One-hour" shows have been 42 minutes long on US TV for decades now.
I know my comment is not so substantive, but I support you in this endeavor.
Shaky U.S. Hospitals Risk Bankruptcy in Latest Covid Wave
I don't agree. All my questions to Western Digital are answered quickly and personally. Not that I am trying to promote them, but that is my most recent customer service experience.

As another example, 5 years ago, Amazon had excellent and prompt customer service, rivaled by pretty much no one. Although it has gotten worse recently.
- don't talk over women in meetings
- don't ask women to do informal "secretarial work" for the group, e.g. note-taking, summarizing meetings, ordering the Christmas cards, buying birthday presents, ordering furniture
- don't expect all women to have the same personality (warm, bubbly, cold, bitchy, etc.)
- don't say dumb shit about maternity leave (the day I came back from maternity leave, my boss told me he wished he had been on "vacation" for 3 months)
- hire men too for traditionally "women-dominated" roles, e.g. office manager, customer support, chief of staff, HR. Show that gender balance cuts both ways.
- don't make assumptions for women with kids (oh, you probably can't come to that happy hour, etc.) that you wouldn't make for men with kids

I personally think on-campus recruiting is a great way to get young women into tech. I loved mentoring the young women we hired, managing them, promoting them, etc. (before I left to found my own company).
It is sexist to have a male and female version of the sport. Are you implying sexism in this context is wrong?
Yes you should use https://hn.algolia.com !
> I think age is cool patina

Nice, I'll be borrowing this, if you don't mind.

I'm in my 50s, and while my body is definitely not as functional in a raw sense as it was 25 years ago, my overall satisfaction with life has never been higher. I know that over the next 30+ years my body will start to fail in more substantial ways, and if I'm unlucky, so will my mind. But that's fine. There's a whole lot of possible awesome between now and then. And even the 'then' will probably not be so bad as to negate the awesome of that time.
Show HN: I built a mostly uncensored anonymous question-answer website
Anyone have a link where we can read this?
The first claim Dr Gupta addresses is clearly a strawman.

Hancock is clearly talking about herd immunity in the context of getting herd immunity through the spread of the virus itself, and not in the context of a vaccine.

It's also an extremely disingenuous argument. The author goes from talking about a society acquiring HERD immunity through infection, but does not actually find any evidence in the diseases mentioned of this happening, and instead says "In a nutshell, the development of immunity through natural infection is a common feature of many pathogens", switching suddenly to talking about personal immunity through natural infection.

She then posts a bunch of points about how we actually dont know whether we can achieve herd immunity naturally or not, or how far we are from it (which basically affirms Hancock's original point), but says that there is some evidence in the fact that the case rate curve has bent in many places.

However, many (if not all) places mentioned imposed some sort of intervention. Every one of them has promoted social distancing and mask wearing in addition. Further, her link points to Europe, where many countries are now seeing a massive resurgence of the virus, which seems to indicate that the drop had less to do with herd immunity (unless it's extremely short lived, which also makes the herd immunity solution non viable) and people relaxing social distancing rules and other measures as they get more lax, and/or need to congregate indoors more as it gets colder.

The Barrington proposal also defines harm as death. However, there is a lot of non death related issues that people who have survived the virus continue to suffer from. We also don't have any idea what the long term impact may be, and there are good reasons to believe that it may have significant long term impacts on many people in the group that is less likely to die.

Further, we are also fairly certain that the disease is airborne. So how do we ensure segregation of the vulnerable groups from the "non vulnerable" group when theoretically a member of the vulnerable group could be affected by simply breathing the air in a room 5 minutes after someone who was infected was hanging out in it.

Finally, there is a lot of good evidence that the herd immunity process will devastate the economy because people will voluntarily reduce their activity when the virus is spreading, so it won't even help with the problem it purports to solve.

The article does not present a good argument at all, and engages in sleight of hand more than presenting an actual argument (for example, they point out that the immunity is likely to be short term, but seems to think that just pointing that out is enough to now dismiss it, even though it completely undermines the whole herd immunity argument).
If only the reason was hate speech!

This also happened to me, had an account 5 years ago, stopped using it, deleted the account on their website. Last week decided to create it again to prepare to eventually link to Oculus.. Instantly banned. Literally on the "Confirm Your Email" page got redirected to violated the community guidelines. And I'm not even from the US..
Wait?... people still spam there? Figured they had moved on long ago for better targets.... They must make some amount of money from it or they would not bother.
I started explaining that, but stopped as I started asking myself about what the definition of "cancelled" is.
Interesting, I'll have to see whether I really need the AppImageInstaller on my desktop then. Thanks for the note.
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