skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course not. It's the same as with the Docker hype a few years ago. I don't get it. Still today everyone seems to think an app is better when it's "dockerized". Now with Go everyone can write buggy, memory leaking programs. I prefer apps written in C whenever a I can.
I would love to (and I am a senior python dev), but I have zero experience in this area. Is still possible to get a job?
It is a frustrating experience. My market is starting to develop into this, in large part because of Seattle buyers flooding inland. That said, it is better than some of the alternatives. There are other highly-competitive markets where houses just never come on the market - instead they get sold in pocket listings and the only way to buy a house is to canvas a neighborhood or be in tight with an agent who is farming neighborhoods. It's ideal if houses actually come to market, the market can decide the value, and it's supply / demand that is making it possible for houses to be sold on such a short time-table. It's a better dynamic all around though than having houses sit, potentially vacant, for months and months and/or increasing the challenges where buyers want to move and may even have a house under offer but can't get their current house sold. Liquidity in the housing market is ultimately a good thing for buyers and sellers.
Let's go directly to the person who was trying to get the story published:[1]

>Giuliani told the Times he brought his documents to the Post because "either nobody else would take it, or if they took it, they would spend all the time they could to try to contradict it before they put it out."

The entire reason the story ended up specifically in the NY Post is because "the media" refused to publish it without attempting to ""prove that this evidence is in any way authentic".

It sounds like you really don't understand how journalism works if you think they will just publish everything regardless of the levels of supporting or contradictory evidence.

[1] - https://news.yahoo.com/giuliani-gave-hunter-biden-story-0547...
I absolutely think what’s on the laptop is real. I absolutely don’t think the origin story of the laptop is real, and that’s what the man whose credibility you’re appealing to is trying to defend.
built with Bubble, i see ;)
I think Samuel Johnson (author of the first modern English dictionary) put it well:

"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
When browsers default-trusted one CA, others companies, quite reasonably, wanted a piece of the action and asked to be included too. Time passed and we, the general public, are no longer part of the conversation about who should be default-trusted.

What if the browsers (and OS) didn't default-trust anyone? The various CA companies would have to include the general public in their public relations. We'd see CAs advertising for users to trust their roots. If a CA ever screwed up, they would feel it.

Another part of the rot is that TLS certs can only have one root CA. If I decided I don't trust DigiCert, I would effectively cut myself off from Hacker News, because a site can only have one root CA. If a site could have multiple CAs, I would still be able to connect so long as I trusted one.
OK, but then almost no professional or Olympic athlete has won anything in the past 30 years.
Apologies, I was thinking of the spamhaus list, which I'm also not sure now is crowdsourced in the sense most people would use.

But most email providers build spamfilters using 'crowdsourced' techniques between their users (if enough users mark a sender spam it might be marked spam for all users).

And while that may be controversial, it's also highly effective.
This story is as fake as the 'fake reporter'. Maybe we should also call the police for this
You're an idiot if you haven't realized the relationship between QE and US treasury interest rates across the curve. You're an even bigger idiot if you don't understand the relationship between UST interest rates and every other interest rate.
Working from Home, the Good Things
With so many of us working from, what has your employer done to make your worklife a bit better?
It's hilarious you think this after such blatant scandals in cycling coming out.

If you ever competed at a high level or spent enough time researching commonly available drugs and how testing is conducted it becomes obvious of what's really happening. This isn't even mentioning people with large budgets who have completely undetectable designer ones
Know a guy who introduced SharedLaTeX at a security consulting firm. Apparently they all liked it.
> Partner A needs to chill the fuck out and remember that partner B is a functioning adult that can survive multiple hours without the observation and worry of partner A.

Partner A can survive just fine, but partner B is hungry and wants to have dinner.

Partner B isn't responding to queries about whether Partner A should eat. Is this:

a. Partner B is on the way home and so can't respond

b. Partner B is engrossed in work/a meeting/shopping and so can't respond, but won't be back soon

If a -> Wait

If b -> Eat food

What on earth does that have to do with separation anxiety?
The best thing about HN is being downvoted to greyed out when factually correct. "You're opinions offend me Sir, your facts run counter to my views on what the facts should be, and I desire you to depart."
I've seen similar abuses with global maps in other languages (essentially the same). This is an architecture fault rather than a language fault.

As you say, that is a problem with any language and project with a revolving door of developers. Perhaps those companies should learn their lesson and hire at least one or two good, permanent senior devs to keep things on track.

Like always, the human factor outweighs almost everything else.
This is a really cool idea :)
“How to date yourself further in a persistently youthful tech workforce.”
Where are your numbers from?
This review suggests that a passive heatsink should be sufficient to prevent throttling (probably with a caveat that it's not in an enclosure):

https://downey.io/blog/raspberry-pi-4-heatsinks-and-fans/
Any power consumption info for Idle?
What to Do When You Can't AB Test
As one of the GMs on their site, I can say it works very well. I use a combination of already-existing technologies to host my sessions. Every GM has a slightly different approach, but as with all things D&D, that's really true in many areas. For the way I have it set up, it is fast and simple for the end-user to set up an account and be playing by that evening or that weekend.
Agree. And I think “with care” is the important piece here. Using a simple Bezos like “?” is the opposite of that.
OT: this blog could use RSS.
Google is so shady when it comes to trying to push you to use their platforms. Ive noticied a few "bugs" in Android as of recent and its maddening.
NASA to build lunar 4G network
It’s not exactly the same, in the first quote there are some nebulous ‘folks’ saying something while in the second quote the Swedes are not saying that thing.

I don’t know what to call this fallacy. The ‘folks’ are unnamed and unspecified so I don’t think stating that they think anything is a useful argument at all.
Two funny stories about it:

1. Was looking for a place to rent near tech companies here in brazil, one house was obviously heavily modified to withstand floods, all doors were made of aluminum, there was in multiple places tubes to get rid of water, raised platforms for expensive objects and so on. Asked realtor about it, he said the area used to flood often, but all that stuff was a relic of the past, because there was no flood last year so he was sure it wouldn't flood again.

2. I rented another house, place didn't look like a floodable place, it flooded anyway because there was river channeled under the house, when there was rain in another town upstream the river managed to gush out of the drains and become above ground along its original course, cars on the street even floated away. My stuff got destroyed so I asked the realtor why he didn't warn me, he replied that last flood was 20 years ago so he didn't think it was relevant because he believed it wouldn't ever flood again...

EDIT: just to make clear, these was two different realtors, also although both places was in same city, they were in wildly different areas.
Urban Flight Seeded the Covid-19 Pandemic Across the United States
Icon2code: Figma plugin for generating JSON from icons set
A contemporaneous review said it was budget-priced ($30 usd)
Reserves sure, but at the start you dont know how much is needed so to just assume reward for whatever show up is comically naive. It could take months for real demand actually using a significant portion of the storage. Pay everyone else anyway is literally trowing money away.

Just imagine if one of the large cloud storage player would have set this up and simply offered all their reserves which they could do as there is no way anyone would use it.
If they would get paid for that It would be very lucrative.
Read a Paper: A Time Leap Challenge for Sat Solving
You’ve got about three levels of ad hominem attacks in this post.
What stress did your old job have that your new one does not?
Like the Steele dossier?
At 38 (almost 2 years ago) I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. I lived a relatively healthy, "normal" life until I woke with extreme joint pain one day. The diagnosis rocked my world. I went (and am going) through the usual stages of grief. Before I was diagnosed but after the symptoms appeared I went to a bad place. After diagnosis I still mourn for my old life. When I have a "flare" (joint pain) I dive into depression, not knowing if my medication has stopped working, my condition has gotten worse or some other factor (diet, stress etc.)

I think about my disease every. single. day. I worry about my kids, and my wife. I don't want to be a burden to them, and I don't want my kids to have this horrible disease passed to them (there's a genetic factor). I worry about my future. When the pain is bad I have a hard time working (typing, using the mouse, sitting etc.) which has me thinking about what happens when I can't work at all.

I could write a novel, but I just wanted to say that in a nutshell ... life goes on. I now have a greater sense of empathy for others dealing with pain, and also realize that even your loved ones can't fully understand your pain - it's yours, and yours alone to bear.
The care and thought you put into your writing, regardless of medium, says everything about how (and how much) you care and are thinking about your audience.
Ten Anti-Principles of Good Design
Try finding an inspector who actually enjoys the job. They do great work.
It's frequently claimed that the average Irish male just prior to the potato famine ate well over 10 lbs of potatoes per day:

On a typical day in 1844, the average adult Irishman ate about 13 pounds of potatoes. At five potatoes to the pound, that’s 65 potatoes a day. The average for all men, women, and children was a more modest 9 pounds, or 45 potatoes.

https://slate.com/culture/2001/03/putting-all-your-potatoes-...

While there are people who doubt these figures, eating 10 lbs of potatoes per day is definitely more plausible than your comment indicates.
Bugatti Speed Record Surpassed
I didn't think Tea of all things would be brought into this discussion, perhaps British?

Coincidently, my ancestors lived in tea plantation estates, worked under British longer than most of my country men until the estates were bought by the Tatas and Birlas.

So here are my two cents for good tea in India - You can get good tea in plantation estates at almost any outlet, but obviously great tea like anything else is of export quality and it's fairly easy to get if you know the right person in the tea factory at the estate. Fun fact, no tea sold in the market is 100% just tea, they are the mix of tea and lot of other stuff which shall remain unknown to enjoy a good cup of tea.
s/Weather/Whether/

I think this post highlights something important - programming and automation have a very broad applicability, and it doesn't matter what industry you work in, there's likely some aspect of it that would benefit from some understanding of what computers do well and being able to take advantage of that.

Generalised, industry agnostic versions of examples from the article.

* Applets that integrate with your tool of choice.

Practically native to the world of Finance, showcased here with modelling and animation tools, but the principle could be applied to any industry tool with an API. Video editing, CAD, Word Processing - every industry has their boilerplate or composable tasks which could have some assistance from scripts and extensions that fit your use case outside of what the programme would natively support.

* Workflow automation

We see here the 'pipeline' of storyboards becoming assets, becoming scenes, becoming films - however every job has processes, documents to review, authorisations and oversight that needs to occur.

A friend of mine once said 'Just use JIRA'. It doesn't matter what it is, track with JIRA. In contrast. a colleague of mine once opined: "having a system that passes documents around is the easy part. Having a system that allows all the right people the right access at the right times, enforces all the restrictions you need it to and asserts that all requirements are met and tests are passed is hard. And I believe him. He's currently the architect on a £20m project that is essentially just a workflow/pipeline system.

* Tiny one-off tasks

One of the key parts of why I recommend 'Automate the Boring Stuff with Python' [0] to beginners is the books central thesis: anyone can program, anyone can benefit from programming. It shows how creating small, throwaway scripts can greatly reduce some manual tasks. I think the world would be a less stressful, more efficient place if more people knew about shell commands, regular expressions etc. I've seen people spend hours, even days painstakingly doing tasks that could have been done in seconds by a well placed `sed` or a short perl script. To that end:

* Applying programming concepts to everyday life.

Notably here we have dependency trees shown in the form of the workflow tools, but 'compilation time' checks could be useful in so many industries that currently don't use a lot of technology. Change a part of a document that is depended on by other documents/sections? Flag that the downstreams need review.

In short, this article gives a good answer and some excellent examples to the question 'why should I learn to program' or, even, 'why should everyone learn to program? why should we teach coding in schools?'.

[0] - https://automatetheboringstuff.com
> SOLID makes it easier to modify programs (in predetermined directions) without understanding the whole.

In my experience, in predetermined directions is almost never the direction the piece of code needs to evolve. Maybe I'm bad at reasoning about the future changes, but I'd guess that most people are utterly bad about this.

This makes OCP more like an ideal to be aspired to, and beaten with when one inevitably fails.
That was an EXCELLENT read, thank you.

I was a math major in college, and somethings you learn how to work out mechanically and understand intellectually.

I dont do anything remotely close to academic, undergraduate mathematics, but it's interesting how now that I'm older i seem to understand things better, to internalize them beyond something mechanical or simply accepting them because they make logical sense.

Wish I'd had that type of understanding in school.

This explanation is very intuitive - and the author makes a good point. There might be better ways to introduce pi other than the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
Http verbs which can be sent from html
And this is why the stores are so problematic.

At 10MB and $0.08/GB (which is really high FWIW, cloud providers overcharge for bandwidth like crazy), the cost per user is $0.0008. Meanwhile with ads on your own website you can get paid something like $0.002 per user. So if you could distribute the app on your own website and put an ad on it, you would get paid $120,000 for having a hundred million people download it for free. Even more if you use P2P distribution.

But by forcing you to use their store, you lose money.
Concrete materials come from somewhere as well. But yes, if the material would cost more, it would be used more sparingly.

Maybe I come from a country that has plenty of solid rock to go around.
I think that's smart of IKEA if they can get the economics to work, but they might be way late to this game.

We just "upgraded" our house with a bunch of second-hand IKEA furniture, buying their typical drawers and bookcases for $20 each using Facebook marketplace.

Considering that buying a new piece would be $200, and a used one is $20 and already assembled, and I had to drive 1 mile down the road to pick it up, it was a win.

Now say I am a seller though. I have a bookcase for 200, and it is gently used so I'd get 40% credit back. That's $80, which is of course better than 20, but it would require me loading the fully assembled case into the car (on top of the car?) and driving it to Ikea, all for an additional 60 bucks gain. If I have the car, and able to move it, and have the time, 60/hour is still a good "income" for a lot of people. But boy that's a lot of work for a one time benefit, and most Ikea pieces that can be car-transported when assembled don't even cost 200 bucks.

It's hard to imagine a lot of people going through the trouble, when they can just sell it for a few bucks to a neighbor and forget it.

On the other hand, if you get UHAL, grab 10 bookshelves, pickup and deliver them all to IKEA on the same day, now that's $500 in profit. Someone could make a good side hustle out of it.

Anyway, we shall see.
I already own a star, but it's been ages since I've fired it up. Should I spend the time to get up to speed? Last time I touched it was when Ethereum somehow got into the mix and made it even more confusing....
The crisis is really that humans are desperately trying to "compete" at a game that computers have soundly defeated human players at. The answer, endorsed by leaders like Kasparov, is abandon competitive human chess. Embrace the computers for competition, and use ELO for entertainment matchups. I don't care if I'm playing a "cheater", as long as the cheater is playing at my level.
Stress will eat you alive. I didn't realize how badly a situation that was subjecting me to a constant amount of low-level stress was affecting my health until the source of said stress was removed.

My tolerance for toxic people and employers is pretty low these days, I know better than to try to "suck it up" anymore.
Chamath Palihapitiya – Knowledge Project #94
Gotta be hush hush with these comments, I think most long term listeners who have a science background will agree with you here, but before you know it you'll be banned by him
This is going to be blunt and a little depressing.

For me, it's all about reducing expectations and accepting more disappointments. Not as many doors will be open to me. I tend to think less about what I can do and more about what I will be able to maintain later on as my situation deteriorates. Just as as most adolescents accept that they won't be astronauts or Presidents, I have had to accept that far more mundane things will simply be out of reach.

As a life, it is smaller than most, not quite as brightly colored as that of a you who would have been healthy.

I try to be prepared to do things when I have that energy available to me, but I make sure that those things are important, because I cannot fritter away the few times I am capable.

You also have to develop some patience: patience with explaining things to strangers who may or may not be well-meaning with their questions, patience with friends who do not "get" that you won't be able to make it that night, and finally patience with yourself for not meeting your own expectations.

This all sounds very Zen when I put it that way but I am keeping much of the sadness and bitterness out of my description.
Nvidia Driver not yet supported for Linux Kernel 5.9
Conker's Bad Fur Day came out in 2001. There were a few last minute games.
https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/master:n...
Why is UV sensitivity a problem for something that's going to be embedded inside the concrete?
Why New Zealand rejected populist ideas other nations have embraced
Sniffing device boot SPI flash signals
Uk Gov. Statistics gives 9 tons per hectar, which is like 2.2 acres. Are we measuring different stuff? Surely yield in Uk can't be 3 times higher.

As for diet: yield of carrots and many vagetables is usually higher than for wheat, but yes getting any real variery from that hectar would be unrealistic.

http://www.farmbusiness.co.uk/business/2019-farm-output-esti....
Productionizing AI at LinkedIn (Transcript)
It's so funny, we see a lot of forever DMs using our service for this exact reason! OHHH, play by post could be so fun! Thanks for that suggestion. I'm sure we have some GM's who would enjoy that.
To be clear, the authenticity of the emails is not the only part of the story that is questionable. The whole story about how these emails were acquired is important too. A lot of the seemingly "comically" fabricated details are related to that. It is important to known if these emails were recovered in a legal way or whether they originated in some Russian hack like the FBI is currently investigating.
From the WaPo article you linked, regarding a period at the end of a sentence:

> that's an indication that the text message period has taken on a life of its own. It is no longer just the correct way to end a sentence. It's an act of psychological warfare against your friends.

It's so bizarre that people perceive some nefarious intent because a sentence ends with a period.
I've tried this out a few days ago. I have some basic theoretical Haskell knowledge, but not much practical experience. However I do have some significant Nix experience.

Ended up not even going through the beginner tutorial, as the installer/scaffold process required me to do things that I didn't like:

- forced scaffolding of projects with some quite blackboxy generated shell scripts inside

- use of nix, yet requiring me to install 'make' and 'direnv' system-wide (why? just let me use a shell.nix)

- required me to use cachix.org as a system-wide nix substituter, which I don't want to do for security reasons (just allow me to build everything myself)

All in all this looked promising, but ended up being too magical for my taste. I'd like to be able to start using IHP 'from scratch' instead - with my own Cabal/Nix/Bazel build machinery. This is a critical requirement for libraries/frameworks that I use.

Your mileage may vary though - if you're okay with RoR-like scaffolding and blackboxness, then you might feel at home here, and at least you get a nicely typed language in return.
Gartner predicts resilience and customer experience will top technology trends
Thus speaks someone who doesn't know anything about the difference between computer programming and software engineering. They may be able to program circles around everyone else, but they can't software engineer their way out of a wet paper bag, and they're going to produce a disaster. But they'll be on their way to the next place before it becomes clear how much of a disaster they created at this place, so they'll go cheerfully on their way, basking in their own smartness as they create destruction.
As someone born in the late 80s I've only heard about it from the press. I really sometimes omit periods in one-sentence text messages, but sometimes I don't, and it wouldn't come to my mind to ascribe any semantics to this.

My personal nitpick is people writing a stream of one-sentence messages without punctuation instead of a longer structured message - that definitely carries the connotation of unstructured thinking to me - but it doesn't have much to do with full stops per se.