skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree! And I am convinced that now that I will give the Orville a shot. I am kind os disapointed with season 7 of DS9, the focus on the spiritual aspect was a little bit too much on the nose for me.

I like your theoretical story arcs, it would make for great stories around the federation and the moral superiority, assumed, percieved or actually true, compared to other entities. I guess after having a narowwly avoided a coup by star fleet and having fought an intergalactic war, that alone should have had a deep impact. maybe even a change with regards to the rpime directive. Why would you leave all these new worlds and civilisations upt for grabs for an adversary, right?

It is quite striking, so, how the way tv series told stories changed from the episodic approach from TNG to a more arc driven approach in DS9 and VOY. Both of which sit somewhere between the episodic style of e.g. TNG and things like Breaking Bad and the first seasons of prison break.
China, Russia and Cuba Win Spots on UN Human Rights Council
Pretty funny from someone holding multiple apple products, and doing some trading.

https://www.reddit.com/user/MrC4meron?count=25&after=t1_g7cc...

Yet another case of what I don't like is toxic and must stop.
Most of those products do not run on Linux (or other) FOSS platforms.
GP was talking specifically about the approach in the article, which requires massively high pressures to sustain, not superconduction in general. I don't think the required pressures are really practical for any of the things you listed.
It is a diamond press, the diamonds have to be cut to shape and they also have to be transparent. Industrial diamonds aren't transparent enough.
Gamification is always gamed.
What a great comment. I'm sure it'll get flagged into oblivion, though - thus directly proving Dijkstra's point.
Not necessarily GMO, but there is some research into seeding corals with more resilient Zooxanthellae - the algae that is symbiotic with the coral itself. Often it's the Zooxanthellae that dies in the higher temperatures and that causes the coral to die because it derives nutrients from the algae.
Less than 5 people die a day from Covid-19 in the last 30 days. 220 people total people die a day in Sweden. Average age of person that died with Covid-19 is 84.
How is it a disaster?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Sweden
I can't believe no-one has yet launched a "PayPal killer" rival service.

Everyone I know who uses PayPal absolutely despises the company and the vast majority only have a PayPal account for buying things on eBay. I'd close my PayPal accounts in a nanosecond, if there was a viable alternative.

It's also long been a source of puzzlement to me why the charade that eBay & PayPal are two completely separate companies with nothing to do with each other has not been challenged in court before now.

It's not that long since eBay actually banned sellers from accepting other online payments systems like Amazon Payments, Google Wallet, etc. on the grounds of 'security', whilst at the same time insisting they accept PayPal.
The Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
I shed my Yahoo mail 15 years ago. It was easier back then, especially since I was moving to Gmail, which was miles ahead of Yahoo's interface at the time. I don't even remember when I stopped checking my Yahoo account, nor when it was automatically disabled because I didn't log in for too long.

About two years ago I started moving away from Gmail, and that was a lot harder. I kept checking but eventually had to just set up a vacation responder. I still check it about once every couple months, but to truly move away from an email address, you have to really stop using it.
A politically correct author referring to the United States of America as simply "America". The same title could be used by someone from Mexico, Hondura, Chile, Brazil, but, who cares? :=D
It's easy to move quickly when you do not care for quality control.
Complexity is complexity, and a lot of it is irreducible. Pushing complexity up into libraries does nothing to ameliorate. In fact it makes it worse, as have to work with libraries with different idioms makes the language a hodgepodge of slightly incompatible conventions.

In Python the complex machinery is in the language and the stdlib. All additional libraries that work with the language generally use stdlib constructs for data interchange, or at least base their work on it. That makes for an extremely pleasant programming experience.

Learning a different macro per dependency is going to lead to catastrophe. I know it's in an exaggeration, but I see this in macro-based languages all the time.
Because the way MySQL does other things seems has been troublesome. IIRC, MySQL essentially generates incremented integer table and column ids, so rebuilding tables relationships meant that you had to manually regenerate the table schema, then update all the old table files with the new table and column ids which were incremented on from what they were previously.

With Postgres, you can just drop the binary table data files in, restart the database and pg rebuilds the indexes and relationships.

From a quick google, it now looks like MySQL is now more robust in this regard.
> The IARC process is only open to full time employees in good standing.

I wonder who Google considers to be in bad standing while also not fired. Flight risks? Maybe people who want to work on side projects?

Still pretty greasy
I am from the UK and think the opposite Your just used to the slower pace of the Uk media industry and to be blunt the gifted amateur pov.

There is no actual reason that Dr Who could not do longer seasons for example they had to commit to hiring better writers and to develop them.
Bringing a Power Tool from Math into Quantum Computing
> I don’t think your comment has any kind of negative intent, but I feel like the idea that grouping any consequence of civilian experience with those of military combat certainly cannot be a reasonable association.

... even if we've since established that said consequences exist along the same cognitive spectrum? From the perspective of a clinician (whose use of the term PTSD is scientifically driven), does it matter whether the conditions that caused the disorder were military or civilian?
The number one advice should be to use a linter. The number two advice should be to use an image security scanner. These tools combined will prevent most issues. Integrate them with CI to enforce a common set of best practices across an organization and to prevent security bike shedding.
You understand what you did here, right? You're complaining about not having your views taken seriously because people consider them ideology driven. Then, you immediate dismiss anyone who disagrees with those views because "fear has made many too irrational to actually listen to this group of scientists."

Just like there are good faith arguments for the proposal, there are also good faith arguments against it.
Worked in recruiting most of my career. I've never seen a system that auto rejects anyone. In recent years I have seen systems that puts cold applications into some type of qualified or less qualified bucket.

Easy solution: Ask your recruiting team/hr department if your company has something like this in place. There are only 3-5 major ATS's that are used by ~80% of companies.
I wish they provided some functional web version that worked on Firefox.

E.g., as much as I dislike Zoom, they offer a fine web app and SIP endpoints to join calls from your favorite IP phone.
> his top priority is managing complexity and limiting surprise

Zig doesn't do either of those things. There are a fair amount of criticisms of the mental model of the author that I've seen voiced - some including security.

What's worse, the community surrounding Zig (in particular, the Discord community) operates more like a cult - any negative questioning gets you shunned.

I was personally a huge fan of Zig until a number of questionable design decisions and dismissed bug reports lead me to believe it will forever remain a toy language. I can't imagine Dijkstra approving.
Salary benchmarks for London tech companies
> Hey looks like you're based in United Kingdom. The below prices do not include VAT.
Use the code VAT20 to offset the VAT rate of 20%, if you want to.

But we don't pay VAT on books do we? And the item doesn't include it, as it says. So what's being offset? Is it just a general 20% discount?
This is pretty cool.

I am working with a partner to create something similar in a different vertical.

What is your tech stack? What payment processor are you using? Is everything automated, from payment to payout? I imagine as an MVP, some parts are manual. Love to hear more.
How old is too old? You're too old when you're dead. Not until then.

How? Well, there are many ways, but in your position... what is your position? What do you currently do? In your current position, are there programming jobs you can take on, kind of around the edges of your current work? Or, are there programming teams/projects where you could apprentice? The easiest way to break into it is not "Hi, I'm some random guy who has some hobby experience, will you hire me?" The easiest way is "I didn't have the title, but here is the value I delivered at my current job."
OK this is not an appropriate comment for HN

edit: or anywhere else
Why cashiers ask for your postal code when you pay using a credit card
I suggest you read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_Party_(United_St...

A significant number of Libertarians have held and do hold state legislature positions and governorships.

There is also currently 1 Libertarian in the US House of Representatives.

Libertarian presidential candidates have received electoral college votes in the past.

See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_third_party_and_inde...

And

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_third-party_performa...
How about running it from firefox/chromium/google-chrome?
Reminding this on HN is kind of taboo. And for good reason.
Using intermediate container to build and copy over resulting binaries should work.
It has to do with the implementation of the networking. The DOCKER chain in the nat table gets hit by inbound traffic on the PREROUTING chain before UFW's chains on the filter table. IIRC, can get around this by directing UFW to write its rules to the DOCKER-USER chain.

Firewalld is implemented differently and will exhibit the expected blocking behavior: traffic targeting docker ports will encounter firewalld before it encounters docker.
The two systems have very different approaches to audio. The SNES is completely sample based. This was novel technology at the time. The MD/Genesis instead has a more traditional solution consisting of an FM chip and "sound generator" or "noise" chip. It's hard to say which is "best" in this regard. They are fundamentally different approaches and each has it's own limitations.

You can't really create sounds on the SNES. Instead, the chip is fed samples of recorded audio and then the chip allows for different actions to be taken on that sample (e.g. adjusting the EQ, Envelope, Loop, etc). The major limitations with this approach is bit depth for the samples (quality) and storage (sample length).

On the MD, the chips themselves create the sounds either through direct manipulation of the waveforms (FM) or by selecting a specific waveform and performing various modifications such as pitch or frequency (sound chip). This is like having a synth built into the unit. It's only going to sound like that particular synth and with some clever hacks, you can get close to realistic sounding audio, they are still hacks at the end of the day. The MD isn't capable of playing samples using the built in hardware.

The SNES was capable of producing a near limitless array of sounds and could even reproduce realistic sounding instruments as it was just playing audio samples. Something the MD simply couldn't do. That said, for the sounds the MD could produce, it would sound "better," if that makes sense. As an analogy, playing a song on a YM2612 based synth and the MD, which uses the same FM chip, would sound identical. However, playing a song on a YM2612 synth and then playing the same song on the SNES (via samples) would be noticeably different, or may not even be possible at all due to the limitations of the hardware at the time.
Why do the diamonds need to be transparent?
Well, how likely is that we even exist to begin with? And how likely is that we are alive because of a ball of hydrogen and helium really far away?
Almost every major CA problem is connected to Prop 13 in one way or another. It's remarkable how much it has screwed up state and local governments.
I though that episodic tv was on the way out and that arc's and mythology where more important.
> But you have to come up with something, otherwise you'll never cancel anything, by extension, never have room to invest in shows that could drive your subscriptions.

Well, positive reception is probably a good indicator of something at least. Many of the cancelled shows were received positively by both fans and critics. That's hardly a given for television shows, and re-rolling the dice is likely to leave you with a show with worse reception. And you do this while cutting the legs out from under a show that had good reception.

People being unhappy with the amount of cancellations is probably a good indicator of something, as well. And you have to wonder about the long term effects, and whether people will stop getting interested in new Netflix shows in general.
What could you do with a Google Home or Amazon Echo without connectivity? The physical product is premised on being able to search the web and stream music.
I don't think this is a good analogy. FT is like changing the reference frame. Similarly, the movement of planets are more easily described in an heliocentric model than in an Earth-centric model. You can write the transform between those two models, but this does not increase the complexity of the solar system itself: you don't add features, which is exactly the issue with software.

A slightly better analogy would be the shift from Newtonian physics to relativist physics, that describes more accurately how things move. However, you still don't add complexity to the described thing, you just discover more of its complexity and get a more complex description as a result.

What we have here is simply the effect of something we know one expect of as Parkinson's law [1], which is a specific case of the Induced demand phenomenon [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
Thanks! I added Purchasing Power Parity the day before yesterday [1]. I'm originally from Hungary, and $15 there feels closer to $30 in the US.

I am now thinking of building a service to enable integrating PPP easier for creators [2], as I had to build everything from scratch, including calculating the "right" amount of discounts for 140 countries.

[1] https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1315699026445074434

[2] https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1315768527895302144
I dabbled with building personal websites for 20-odd years before getting my first "professional" gig back in 2014 at age 49.

The key difference between hobbyist and professional web development, in my opinion, is not so much programming knowledge but rather knowing the tooling that surrounds a project (git in particular, testing rigs, etc) and learning to work as part of a team (how to estimate work, what to do when you blow up the git repo, etc).

On qualifications - there's companies out there that insist on some sort of qualification before they'll go further than your CV. There's other companies that care nothing about such paperwork, but want to hire people who are good at solving problems and eager to learn (quickly!) from colleagues about all the stuff needed to do the job beyond the code base itself.

PS: don't leave the career change too long - ageism does, sadly, exist in the tech industry. It took me over 800 applications to land that first gig!
Do not stay away from Oculus.

The Quest 2 is amazing and an important leap for VR. If you care about the state of VR, it must sell well.

Frankly, this is not the hill to die on. If you plan to own a smartphone or really use any kind of service or internet browsing in the modern world going forward you’re going to be faced with these kind of privacy dilemmas. Better to just accept it and move on with your life than to basically live like a Luddite for the rest of your life. Facebook will not be the first or last corporation to ask you to relax your absolute anonymity.
“I Want a UX Job” – new book about switching careers into UX Research
I'm shocked that the supposedly smart HN crowd has fallen for click-bait, echo-chamber, filter-bubble article
K. J. Ray Liu Is 2021 IEEE President-Elect
Azure AI describes images as well as people do
As a massive fan of Dijkstra myself, true but up to a point.

About programming languages I don't think there's any question he was right. Sometimes we agree with him even without realizing it, for example, the original argument of GOTO considered harmful was that GOTO statements decreased "linearity" by having the control flow jump to random places. The recent trend in mainstream PLs to adopt functional-style control structures (JS array methods, Java streams, etc.) is predicated on the exact same rationale.

I'm also in broad agreement on his stance about natural language being just flat out wrong in the context of computing.

But the man made an exorbitant amount of claims, many of which are just provably wrong. The bits about BASIC and COBOL are particularly egregious examples of his at times cavalier attitude. After all, arrogance is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Show HN: Omnifollow, a Site for Following Anything
We Open Sourced Docs.github.com
bruv this some gamblers fallacy shyt
That's part of my point ;) It's updated very often.

I check for base image updates every day, and it's one of the most oft-updated ones -- hence my preference for using it as "the" base of all others.
How to migrate your legacy user data to a centralized auth system
CVE-2020-16898: “Bad Neighbor”
Ouch! I do! Fixed now. Thank you!
Voyager was on UPN. Maybe in some areas where there was no UPN station, the local Fox station picked it up.
Hi all! This was a side project I worked on over the last few months while learning to fly in South Dakota. I learned a lot about working with Widgets and SwiftUI, and I hope to do a writeup on those soon. Feel free to ask me anything, and if you're a pilot I hope you take it for a spin!
I think Facebook is in kind of a sticky situation since their recommendations algorithms function similarly to a newspaper picking which stories to run. So on the one hand, if this story turns out to be garbage, they don’t have any obligation to be promoting it to their 2 billion users. But also, I’m pretty sure that hasn’t been established yet—someone at Facebook merely thinks it might be garbage, possibly because of their pre-existing views of the people involved. I think their concern is that, if a story is possibly garbage but takes time to fact-check, then there’s no way to avoid promoting garbage stories to people while waiting for the fact-check to be completed (perhaps “fact-check” should be in quotes here, the fact-checkers also have opinions of their own).

The thing that bothers me is this doesn’t seem more obviously garbage or likely to be garbage than a lot of other stories that I don’t think got the same treatment, and they’re choosing a very partisan story to start applying this precedent to.

Also, disturbingly, looking at Andy Stone’s employment history:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-stone-7575b34a

we see employers such as:

- John Kerry for President

- Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee

- U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer

- House Majority PAC (at a time when the House was controlled by Democrats); this was his job immediately prior to Facebook

Stone’s listed title at Facebook is “Policy Communications Director” so presumably he’s just communicating the policy rather than actually setting it, but not only does he have political opinions of his own (which is essentially impossible to avoid), he has an extensive history of engaging in partisan political activism for a living.
I have to agree. Much of the trouble in the industry is because Google embraced the idea that writers and artists were people to be fleeced by selling advertisements without sharing anything. The approach in the Google books project was especially egregious. They just went ahead and made free copies of someone's hard work all without permission. The engineers got rich. The lawyers threw up endless pettifoggery and the writers got nada.

The Google News project was another example. While Marissa Mayer was telling shareholders that the project was worth $100m to the corporation, the journalists who were putting their butts on the line were getting nothing. Google just kept the revenue.

What is also shameful is the way the company has funded, often secretly, non-profits and academics that undermine the intellectual property rights of hard working creators while celebrating the pirates who contribute nothing.

Journalists should have nothing to do with these leeches.
San Francisco is not meaningfully a one-party city

Republicans have been run out of town (for good reason)
Healthcare seems like it is a pretty big problem in the USA. The USA spends ~20% of GDP on healthcare, while the other advanced economies spend around 10%.

For whatever reason, American love to malign things as socialist, and confuse communist totalitarian with socialism.
Indexes are up because the wealthy were bailed out with the “stimulus”, which was free money printed by the fed and given to people who don’t need it, lead them to just put it in the “market” since again there’s nothing to spend your money on currently other than stocks and real estate, this only leads to higher assets prices.

The fact that the us government took zero equity positions despite bailing out the wealthy will be discussed for decades.

TLDR money printer go brrrrrrrr
> It drives me nuts that the "opposition" party is not responding to this with calls for mass action to demand fair elections, including occupations and strikes if necessary

Whether or not that is justifiable by the level of offense (which I think it is), I don't see any indication that it would be tactically smart in the current context, and actually a lot of reasons to the think it would be catastrophically counterproductive.
It's sad but this is just one part of the overall very broken hiring process. Eventually technology will be able to match publicly available data about ones background with open roles well but that seems to be a long way off.

The nice part is most of the time your resume just needs to be good enough. Not having any major red flags is enough for a conversation if you have some experience under your belt.
The root cause is that our country is a hegemony founded by rich slave owners. The “decades of decency and abidance to a common good” is a myth that erases the ongoing plight of marginalized people, spun by those who want to keep that status quo. We have always been a violent and oppressive nation — the caste system is enshrined in our national DNA, and we have never in our 250 year existence truly reckoned with it.

If only the issue were as shallow as the media dividing us! I’ll make the same request of you: that you direct your gaze a little further back to discover what’s truly going on here.
Yeah France doesn't have 'any' fascism (eyeroll): https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/french-bar-owners...