skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Earlier this year, for instance, after Yglesias signed a group letter published in Harper’s magazine objecting to cancel culture, one of his colleagues, Emily VanDerWerff, told Vox editors that his signature made her feel “less safe at Vox.”

That's truly pathetic.

Here's the letter: https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/
It’s far faster than the crap ol’ Intel GPU found in current 13” pros.
Screen time at work is not correlated with depression though. The explicitly choose to remove that factor, since many jobs with tons of screen time like software engineer have very happy people.
One of the bosses I had at a big bank told me the one thing she observed about successful people was that they never got hung up on mistakes. If they made a mistake, they just moved on as if it didn't happen, but would apologize if you asked sincerely one on one.

I think that's a pretty good middle ground. Apologizing too readily might also signal you lack self-respect or confidence which may invite even more vitriol.
Wow can't believe that's from the start of Coronavirus outbreak, very prescient. What does this have to do with the topic though
Nothing about REST prevents strong validation of inputs. If anything, the notion that the ends should pass data using well-defined media types should push one towards something that can be validated. I don't think "everything chucks application/json around and we have no idea what the JSON represents is in the spirit of REST at all.

The set of externally standardized media types is somewhat small. When I worked in real estate, there's not really a standardized set of stuff for that problem domain, and we're pretty much defining our own. And, worse, IMO, we did so badly, because we didn't take the time to lay out a good, well documented specification. Some of the schema languages out there can help with that. (Though I don't think they're a panacea.)

Likewise, while I agree with some of the article, protobufs are just not terribly great. The lack of sum types really hampers how you can represent stuff in them. (We had other, more practical issues when we tried to adopt them over JSON in my last org.) But, also, if you want to define application/vnd.foo.bar.baz as "a protocol buf with this definition that contains data representing this" … that can still be as RESTful as JSON.

(And, for the XML comparison… JSON is too verbose. XML is just even worse. JSON was a step in the right direction.)
Stopping drinking doesn't make your other problems go away though
It’s crazy to see this here. I knew Tim in college; it’s crazy because he bought this old cosmonaut suit as a prop for his photography and it just kind of took off on random corners of the Internet and then next thing I know he’s doing this stuff with NASA and now he’s on the front page of HN.
How is it that pizza delivery has existed for so many decades viably, but integrated delivery companies (which I would have expected to be more efficient) are all losing so much money?
In my senior year of undergrad now, every maths student I know shares "Paul's Notes" to people struggling.
Excellent book! Although written with Pascal in mind, it became really useful to me. Always brought it at work along with the K&R 2nd Ed. and the famous TCP/IP networking book by W. Richard Stevens.
I’m confused by your comment. This is about a programming language package manager, not an OS package manager. Or was that just an example?
You may be confusing the actions and strategy of a single Democrat President with the prevailing wishes of the party.
NVIDIA and Mobileye sell to everyone.
And Waymo would launch their own taxi service instead of partnering with Uber.

So who's left? Tesla? (or in this case Aurora)
Many “falsehoods programmers believe about names[1]” are pure implicit bias. Software written before Unicode was an assumed default to handle names in California by a bunch of privileged white guys who don’t know any Latinos is almost guaranteed to be wrong, unless the software authors are particularly focused on inclusion for reasons other than personal or vicarious experience.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18567548
Incident reports such as this one are incredibly valuable for understanding what went wrong and deficiencies that need to be addressed, but also what went well (e.g. point-in-time rollback as effective mitigation).

The full timeline is valuable since you can look back on it and determine what went wrong when, so you can determine what changes need to happen to prevent these same issues in the future.

One thing I find is that incident reports such as these are most useful internally, but when communicated externally, they demonstrate that you're taking the underlying issues seriously and are committed to addressing them.
They didn't change suppliers they changed the chemistry to provide more range [1]

[1] https://www.sae.org/news/2019/12/chevy-tweaks-2020-bolt%E2%8...
Weren't the targets the brits royalty and US billionaires?
I'm thinking less in cost per slide and more what it would cost to hire a design consultant at a day rate. Sure if you have no runway and are looking for seed money you'd be strapped, but for a series A you can probably afford a few grand total for putting together the deck.
List 10 or 20 of your favorite songs or albums and then go look up the producers and writers of them on discogs and see what else they have produced. I have found a lot of really good music that way
Wow, guess he really didn't like tax collectors.
> there's actually a fair amount of understanding and support for the government

You have to thank disinformation and mass brainwashing for that. The fact that there is virtually no opposition in China says how far they have gone to control people.
Nancy Pelosi in 2017: "Our election was hijacked". What has changed since then, and why is it not a possibility that it was hijacked this time?

https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/864522009048494080

This dude got it right IMO: https://twitter.com/astateofEmily/status/1327079491760361472
It's configurable on a Tesla.
I assume this is for general digital currency.

Equity, efficiency, reliability, robustness.

Where in that four-space do you want to live?

Paper/metal currency wins in robustness. Stickier in a positive sense in social equity space too. Less able to effectively support personal equity (justice). Reliability is probably a wash. Probably less efficient by a percent or less, but that inefficiency is already baked into the (today’s successful) system.

Today’s system isn’t broken. The new system can be more easily broken in a big bad way in the short/middle-term. Euro types would love it for political reasons.

If only for interbank, who among us should care?

Five minute take.
It was small from about 1986 till the early 2000's. During that time they had the only undefeated football team in the Southland conference. Population shot up over the last two decades when they started losing games.
Yeah. The problem is, the administrators don't know me. I've got lots of preferences; they don't know any of them. They don't know what kind of chocolate truffles I like, or what kind of pizza, or what kind of shoes. They may get me food, and shoes, but my preferences are much more detailed than that.

The economy is something like a fractal. We have food, clothes, shelter, and medical. We all need that. But in food, we have fruit, vegetables, meat, grains, and candy. Even if they get all of that right... how are the planners supposed to know how many people want Life Savers instead of M&Ms?

So they're likely to choose an objective function that is not what individuals would choose for themselves. How are they supposed to gather the data that tells them that they made too many M&Ms and not enough Life Savers? How do they collect data at that level of detail and put it into their objective function?
I really hope you’re right. At the end of the day, if he doesn’t concede then only the military can remove him on January 20th, which he can try to get sufficient control over. I think people are not taking his disregard of the election seriously enough.
Just noting that this doesn’t seem to have a license, which makes using it in certain settings pretty iffy. Nice project, anyway!
A recent serology study of a large number of Japanese subjects found that about 46% had antibodies to SARS-CoV-2. The infection fatality rate in Japan appears to be very low despite a large number of infections.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.21.20198796v...
I am wary of reading articles about China’s politics written by people who cannot read or write Chinese, and have never been to China.
Ask HN: TikTok's package name is crazy. Why does nobody care? Do you?
TikTok's package is com.zhiliaoapp.musically. Obviously when I saw this I googled what zhiliao meant. Turns out, it's chinese for to cure (an illness), medical treatment, or therapy [0]. Keep in mind, this isn't exactly hidden - it's part of the store URL: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zhiliaoapp.musically. I can think of a couple very generous non-worrying interpretations of why it'd be called therapy (I don't know, maybe therapy from boredom or something?), but "to cure an illess" and "medical treatment" seems very straightfoward. Even though I can really only guess what they're "curing" (capitalism? western ideals? I don't know), I don't really want to use an app that can so heavily, yet silently influence my mood and thoughts when the developers have clearly and openly planned on using it for this purpose since the very beginning (since they haven't even changed the name to TikTok, I would guess this was the original package name)

I really didn't think that was a very crazy take, but I've told some of my friends and family members about this and the response (across the board) was "well that's crazy, and if I knew about this before I'd probably never would have downloaded it, but I really like tiktok so I don't care"

Am I going insane? Are people honestly ok with being openly manipulated like that? Isn't it worrying that they're so addicted they can't give it up when given facts that they admit would have caused them to not use it in the first place?

I really feel like this is going to be a huge issue in 5-10 years but nobody will notice it happening.

[0] https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-english-pinyin-dictionary.php?define=zhi+liao, this is consistent with google translate.
I like to wait a long time so I hit them when they least expect it, then by that time I've forgotten about it and moved onto something more interesting
Or sell her a lifetime plan of size x that justifies the hassle of dealing with a PO.
I never saw how you could make a defensible monopoly though.

As a consumer, my cost for using ten different delivery providers is nil. If there's a constant trickle of new entrants always giving away the store to attract me to sign up, I'd be stupid not to use them all.

As a restaurant or driver, they'd have to offer some very expensive incentives to make me say "DoorDash only, no UberEats/etc."

I feel like there was a large bet made on autonomous vehicles being ready before the music stops. Once you no longer have to hire human drivers, the "big ball of capital" model works better-- buy a million robovans and you can provide a service level or geographic scale no new entrant can match without a similar up-front spend..
Something important about that situation is the power dynamic. You were not in a position of power, your boss was, and you were looking to defuse the situation and take ownership of a mistake. Your point is correct - there was a systematic failure at multiple levels of the operation that led to this being possible and even likely (too many hours, bad practices).

In such a situation, multiple mistakes were made. If that work culture could somehow support honest, open, and humble approaches to understanding the problem, there would be multiple people either apologizing or, better, taking ownership of their contributions and working towards preventing them in the future (the thing you identify that did not happen). Such a culture is, unfortunately, very unlikely due to the incentive structures of company hierarchy.

The role and power of the individual for whom we're setting these expectations is very important and it's very unhelpful that this isn't considered either in that wiki page or in so many comments (not yours, yours is good). Is the person that made a mistake very powerful and do they have a PR team? Their approach will probably be purely cynical. Is it a company? We should stop anthropomorphizing companies. Is it a junior colleague? Was it truly a personal error on their part or higher up or systemic? Was it a manager harming an employee? On a moral and societal level, we have to consider those harms and whether owning a mistake and apologizing is desirable or even sufficient - perhaps they should just be fired or we should consider their actions to be a crime. Or maybe "we" in this scenario is again PR thinking intended to protect the company, in which case the apology is carefully wordsmithed to avoid liability and has no real value.
I didn’t read Greenwald before, and I don’t read him now. I included him in the list because he did attract a large following during the Bush era. I wasn’t a huge fan of Taibbi either, but his interview with Megyn Kelly really made me give him a second look. He’s has kids now (three, ages 2-6) and seems much mellower and down to earth.

I’ve consistently liked Klein and Yglesias. Both very detail oriented. By the way, Jane Coaston who does Weeds with them is a superstar. She’s on The Argument now too. (Both the NYT and Vox are vastly better and more nuanced in their Podcasts than their print media.)
Russia was only good at this after they liberalized their economy.
This actually describes my feelings about all this at the moment. I imagine that now and in the future, the 2 Steve scenario in the "garage" will be next to impossible
Thanks for filling in the specifics. My point still stands in how we create movements based on a tactic and it spreads wider than we can control.

Koch is explaining how _his_ movement got away from him in a similar manner. If you are running self maintaining processes that spread effortlessly, at some point you will be under water.
I'm surprised that only 2 comments mention using iCloud shared album. I myself use that too and I have no complain. Zero assistance required for elder family members.
Aww man, I got stuck with Lauffer. I somehow never got to registration before Dawkins was full. I wanted to take Price too; some people didn't like him, but he's a legend.
Pavlovian Response (Classical Conditioning)
Are you claiming that in a perfect world we would have legal limits on BMI, and totally ban alcohol and tobacco?
I 100% am not agreeing with your position.

I was coming at it from the point of view of the customer.

Negotiating a sale price is not exclusive to independent agents. Some stores and indeed some chains will allow their employees(supervisor/manager) to accept a lower price. That is not exclusive to or indicative of an independent contractor.

Someone who drives for Uber has the agency to turn down work that Uber puts in front of them with 0 reason needed to be given (either to customer or Uber).

Related, if a software contracting firm says: 'hey, there's a gig that pays $x an hour, no negotiations - do you want it?'

I don't suddenly become an employee of the firm I'm contracting for just because I didn't get a chance to negotiate the price. I had agency to accept or decline the contract.

If I'm going for a job as an employee and negotiate my salary, they don't suddenly mark me down as a contractor.
If these drives are just fpgas sitting on the existing interface, so still hitting the PCIe limits, then this is un-impressive. If we start seeing multiples of device bandwidth available to the FPGA, then we can see huge cost savings.
Performative Philanthropy and the Cost of Silence
I adore this site. I’ve taken some time off from Math and have been using this as a refresher for some Linear Algebra stuff I’ve forgotten.

What a treasure.
There's a major difference.

Soviet observers were actually analyzing the signal themselves.

Most people here get that signal after it's been marinated and fermented in the cesspool of bias.
"Now let me address, in detail, why I was fired..."
The promise that people use mobile apps in lieu of desktop apps, not that it's technically possible.

As I mentioned, chrome and chromium have enabled this for android for awhile now.
IIRC (from what I've heard from friends/acquaintances, so I can't guarantee this) the way that (at least some) have enforced "X only, no UberEats/etc." is by putting it in their contract and saying "we control 75% of the ordering traffic in your market. If you want on our app, it has to be exclusive".
Show HN: Blog Reader – Listen to blogs that you don't have time to read
Just wankin' it in front of your coworkers during a meeting nbd cancel culture run amok! If you aren't okay with me wankin' it in front of you, sweetie, you're not cut out for this business.
Have you tried https://github.com/bootleg/ret-sync ?
You cannot fix a chemistry error over the Internet
I too enjoy the tilderadio. It’s a very eclectic mix that feels very organic (because it is).
> cooperating more insofar that it’s no longer literally illegal for gay people to have a relationship, or that black families on vacation no longer need a book indicating which gas stations and hotels will actually serve them.

This is very much aligned with free market (capitalist) thinking. It's only modern politics which have combined fiscal liberalism (free market) with social conservatism (state or locally enforced prejudice)
Jon Meachum boils this down to two statistics in The Soul of America... "Only 17 percent of Americans trust the government (down from 77 percent in 1955), and average household income is $58,000, some $70,000 less than what a family of four needs for a middle-class life."
Dnote looks interesting. I don't quite get how it addresses searching and listing notes on the phone.

I add "topic:...", "date:..." and "keyword:" lines in each file, grep through the files to list all topics or sort by topic and group notes by topic/keyword. I also keep the date I started the note in the filename itself.

I just need a good way to search through them on my phone.
Show HN: Why dictionary Keys are immutable
Why do people write essays on twitter
I'd love to explore this, but I feel I lack the knowledge of finding new, improved or up-to-date PiHole lists.. do you have any advice?
To the extent than names are part of official government records, the government needs to set some limits for what it's systems can handle.

I think emojis and cyrillic alphabet characters should be kept out, for example.
Australia is a huge nanny state.

It’s traditional stereotypical “she’ll be right mate” image is far from reality. Hugely litigious, lots of red tape, if there is a fine for something you will be fined.

The ex prime minister stood in parliament and said “The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia,” in regards to wanting to back door encryption. That’s what you are dealing with.
Ask HN: Data Source for Book Metadata
I'm looking for up-to-date book metadata (for a side project) but have been having a hard time finding anything remotely suitable.

There are some interesting free data sources, like isbndb, but they, specifically, don't seem to aggregate varying editions under a single title.

I'm happy to pay. Ingram content provides potentially suitable web service for consumption, but if you're not a library or physical book retailer access to their metadata costs at minimum $500/month with very strict usage terms.

I've checked out various others, including librarything, goodreads api, and so on but none seem compatible with usage that could be aspirationally commercial.

And ideally I'd prefer to avoid Google or Amazon's Product APIs.

There have been peripherally related discussions in HN comments before for threads such as:

"I Want to Fix GoodReads"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24454221

"Goodreads’ reign over the world of book talk might be coming to an end"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24451428

Themoviedb, rawg, and similar exist for other mediums, why does print seem to be so much less developer-friendly? Hopefully I'm just wrong and folks can provide alternatives, but hoping to open this question up to a wider audience.

Thanks!
>Xi's mind is an open book in comparison to deciphering a fuzzy collective thought ethos of any democratically appointed cabinet.

You can't possibly think that xi is ruling by himself like a God.

Dictatorships have just as much of a fickle, constantly changing hivemind as any other form of government. you might just have one ever running party, but look inside and you'll see a complex network of factions.
I'm curious what the usecase of monitoring ping graphs by themselves is. Other than comparing with the ping graph of another device, or complaining that your internet connection is poor... it seems like other investigative tools would be needed for diagnosing. Maybe I'm just not imaginative enough!
> I strongly recommend checking out 010 Editor.

Thanks, but NO. Because 010 Editor is closed-source/proprietary commercial software.

rehex is fully free & open-source instead.

There are also few other cross-platform FLOSS Hex editors with GUI:

- https://github.com/afrantzis/bless (mostly I'm using it)

- https://github.com/EUA/wxHexEditor

- https://github.com/wxMEdit/wxMEdit
If you don't find the OHI (https://www.conservation.org/projects/ocean-health-index) credible, I'm not sure there's much more I could write that would convince you. Sorry :/

The point is that the oceans are large, there are different concerns, and conditions vary across location and species.

If you want to answer a question like "how healthy are our oceans?" you need to first work out what that might mean, and then measure that systematically like the project I linked you to.
I love it. And it only uses 61MiB of RAM!
I was gold plating a startup for a few years and had the basics of subscription working with what Stripe used to have, but I was painfully aware that I always had a load of work left to go before production with such things as failed payments, end of card life etc. I started to investigate alternatives and it always seemed to me that Stripe Billing was much cheaper than anything else I looked at.
Or he’s trying to avoid the pitfalls of western liberal democracies. You may not agree with the means, but saying that the Chinese market is slowly failing is a pretty grand claim to provide no evidence for.
He did lose his role as a spokesman for Visa, though it's impossible to say to what degree this episode was a contributing factor.

Somewhat interestingly, given the topic at hand, in the immediate aftermath of those accusations, Morgan Freeman issued an "I'm sorry if I made anyone uncomfortable" apology, which CNN used in their defense of the news clip the GP has linked. I don't really have any experience in, or opinion on, public apologies, but I thought that was an interesting thing to share.