skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, having that sort of framework is essential. It is enough work to add all the instrumentation (and ancillary concerns, like authorization/ACLs) that people will not do it if there isn't a framework for it, and of course the interesting bug will be in the component that wasn't instrumented. Easier to get it right once, and then everyone at your org gets it for free.

I haven't really found a way of doing dependency injection that I like. I did a lot of Java in a past life, and the dependency injection framework made it too easy to give unrelated components data they shouldn't have had access to, which ends up making testing (and debugging) a nightmare. (But, I don't miss all those functions that injected a clock instead of calling time.Now. Much easier to test!) Ultimately, I decided to just "manually" do it every time, which is tedious but easy to read. In the future, I may explore codegen on top of gRPC (to unpack things from the context, like the authenticated user, logger, etc. and pass those to handlers that take those as explicit parameters, so tests need less work to setup.)

As for monorepos, I am upset whenever I don't have one. For example, I hate that my open source projects are all in separate repositories -- it means there are n places to collect bug reports, n places to write CI rules, n places to write release scripts, etc. As a result, things get missed, and some things fall out of sync with whatever my current "best practices" are. (Sometimes I fear that we have created a new class of software engineer to manage all these concerns, when the computer could be doing it for us with just a little extra tooling.) The actual code is easy to share, but all those ancillary concerns are a huge time sink.
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> Multinational corporations commonly avoid taxes by keeping profits offshore in a low tax jurisdiction.

That does happen, but many including the biggest tech companies found a clever way around it. Via a combination of ultra-low interest bearing bond sales and share repurchases. It does the same thing but avoids those taxes. So there's no incentive for profit retention on net.

> COVID-19 isn't a rainy day, it's a once in a century pandemic.

Part of going into business is accepting risk, including systemic risk. That's why the corporate veil exists and it's generally positive for the overall economy when weak businesses fail. A strong business would have an operating model that can withstand such risk.

> To expect companies to have saved enough money to survive rare systemic events without that is to penalize and destroy any company lean enough to have been unable to save it to begin with.

Maybe those companies shouldn't have been in business then and that capital would have been better deployed somewhere else. I'm surprised that opportunity costs of capital allocation are ignored when defending bailouts. They introduce market inefficiency and reward complacency.

> Making a worse product in a competitive market has a strong relationship with going out of business.

In principle, yes. In reality, most markets are not competitive to that degree. Perfectly competitive markets don't exist in a modern regulated economy. We can talk about removing regulatory burden to make this true, but that's not where we are now.
One thing I’m unclear on still is the windows VM situation.

Is it just that “right now” we can’t run a windows VM but with some work by Apple/Microsoft/Parallels it can happen or is there some fundamental blocker here?

I thought there was an ARM version of Windows already?
The Bank of Vernal: The “Parcel Post Bank” (2014) [pdf]
This sounds like a cool project, git diff for encyclopedic knowledge
While Apple's Gatekeeper and Windows Defender may improve security, their privacy drawbacks are substantial, and as we discovered recently with Apple's Gatekeeper fiasco, yet another thing that could fail and prevent legitimate programs on the computer from opening. Furthermore, Windows Defender will occasionally quarantine binaries and DLLs that are harmless. For a non-power user, fixing these problems is non-trivial. Privacy vs Security is one argument, but the fact that the systems can occasionally break through no fault of the user is a major concern in its own right.
thats great to hear. these apps dont work anyway but they are a good excuse to install some authoritarianism through the window
Most likely they emulated the cpuid corresponding to a previously existing Intel part. cpuid is used to fill in those “GHz” numbers you see in these reports.
The intelligent monster that you should let eat you
> Microsoft To Do is still better than anything anyone else has come up with

Not really. It started as Wunderlist minus half the features plus a useless “My Day” system. When did they add the “All Tasks” smart list? (It’s at least 2 years by my count, I don’t know the exact numbers.) How did they launch without it (it was in Wunderlist)?

> smoothest full disk encryption

macOS’ FileVault 2 is the smoothest, and it’s available to everyone. BitLocker works best with hardware not every computer has, and you need Windows 10 Pro or better.

(I agree with the rest of your points.)
It's going to be up to Netflix to release an app for this platform.
From the article:

"They were given 12 bottles - four contained a month's worth of statins, four a month's worth of dummy pills and four were empty.

Every day for a year they would score, from zero to 100, how bad their symptoms were.

The study showed an average score of:

8 in those taking no tablets

15.4 while taking dummy pills

16.3 while taking statins"

One could draw the conclusion that statins perform as well as placebos, or are at least their effectiveness is within the margin of error.
I discovered something similar in the book "Lead Yourself First". It boiled down to: give yourself time alone with your thoughts. We've become so used to being easily distracted by checking social media, turning on the TV, browsing randomly. We've forgot how to be bored.

There is a dive bar close to me(in Chicago) that had no TVs, no wifi, and no cell service(at least for my provider). Pre-COVID, I would go there regularly to just be forced away from it all. I would read, sketch, talk to regulars, or just stare into the void.

When I lived 2.5 miles from work, I would just walk to work. Some days I would listen to a podcast, but mostly I was just stuck alone with my thoughts. It helped me level out a lot.
Just out of curiosity, what was the article?
I'm surprised by how small Russia is and how large Africa seems to be.
Perhaps, but there are lock-in effects preventing the encyclopedia situation from occurring.

When tax dollars are still being shuttled to the deep pockets of MS and Oracle, a more proactive stance is needed.
My guess would be that's the base freq it will go to under full load on a fanless MBA. It's like the "official" 1.1GHz base clock of the i5-1030NG7.
> Secondly, there is nothing to feel bad about - Vast majority of people are not suited to starting a company or working in a small startup

There is around here on HN. Entrepreneurs here view you as, at best, an interchangeable cog who deserves nothing above a job and perhaps a bonus if you help a company succeed.

If you're a really good, perhaps you'll even get to keep your job when the founder walks away with "Fuck You" money.

Is it any surprise someone who wants to succeed feels like they must to become a founder to leave the daily job behind?
Or get a globe.
In practice, IME, a good rule of thumb is that if you're programmatically generating any of the rules then the grammar is probably too big for a packrat parser to be fast enough on realistic inputs. If not, and if the entire parser is written by a single person in a time-frame that would make sense for a parser, then things are probably gonna be ok in all but the worst implementations. YMMV
OCSP exists because CRLs don’t scale as you build an ever growing list of revoked certificates
Disclaimer: I love Linux. I also like Windows (it's extremely solid).

RE path limitations. I actively -- and have for many years -- use paths much longer that 25x characters. Including in Windows Explorer. I can't recall the last time I had a issue, though IIRC there is some sort of operation (that I guess I never use?) via Explorer where one can run into issues.

The main issue, and it exists on Linux as well is this in code:

char path[MAX_PATH]; // or equiv

In Linux this generally gives you a 4k buffer so you're MUCH less likely to hit the issue of course.
The ice shelves are getting smaller, but as the ice sheets melt, isostatic rebound should raise the land mass of Antarctica up, increasing the land area of Antarctica.
The killer feature that AirBnB cracked was scaling.

Travel advice inherently doesn't scale -- you saw it with Frommers et al. pre-web.

High investment to develop content, constant need to update, and your success cannibalizes your own business. The sorts of people who want travel advice are typically not the sort who want 1,000 other jackass Americans (said as a travelling American) showing up at "that tiny gem of a restaurant."

I'd say Yelp is the most useful travel-related app, precisely because they targeted a different market: what you want now, here (not the best in the world).
Yes, exactly why there's a Bureau of Overreach Rollbacks.
I think people always acknowledged it, but it's just that the majority was okay with it. Here's what the opposition said about the Czechoslovak law number 117 from 1927 that created a "gypsy ID card" for everyone older than 14 (ID with all the fingerprints, photo, list of kin, etc):

"We are not satisfied with the fact that one nation keeps the remnants of another from birth to death under police surveillance, we know that the vast majority of the oppressed nation is innocent and irresponsible for the actions of their anti-social minority, whose actions are justified by the current social order ... that mud would be slung on the rest of the nomadic nation and that it be made lawless in such a way that all human rights, which, even according to this constitution, belong to every human being, are taken away from this nation only because its members are dark-skinned. "

more details here: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=cs&tl=en&u=https:/...
Really cool, particularly the interpolation of two images to 16 frames on their GitHub here: https://github.com/hzwer/arXiv2020-RIFE
The title doesn't appear to match the text. It seems to be mostly a list of things that might trip up Linux developers when moving to Windows. Which is fair enough but not why I clicked this link.

But to address the list's content, it would be interesting to update it to take into account developments made in more recent versions of Windows 10.
Limited sandboxing? Ever heard of containers?
For those wanting to learn more about this you can read about: Gabor theory.
Research ethics can so miopic... just delaying the inevitable. (Maybe to stretch research over multiple papers muahahaha.)

I agree with the other commenter that we should blue the human intelligence boundary as much as possible to trash human exceptionalism.
Isn't that description completely incomprehensible? It seems to be saying (in a roundabout way) that each participant was part of all 3 groups, with them taking the drug, placebo and nothing for a third of the year. There's a reason studies don't do this, it adds a great deal of complexity and room for error.

It's also not at all clear what symptoms the participants are rating. Are they symptoms of their underlying condition, common side effects of the drug, or side effects they had experienced previously?
It's common for macOS updates to also update EFI and other firmware. My guess is that there's some sort of bug with either the new firmware or the firmware update process… as opposed to EFI state somehow being corrupted while updating unrelated parts of the OS (which is what happened in your link).

These days, Windows automatically installs firmware updates as well. The old PC status quo, where most users would never receive firmware updates at all, does have the advantage of avoiding issues like this. But it also has many disadvantages, including security risks.
Thanks for the heads up and especially putting that tool on my radar – spelling audit tools I’ve seen tend to just flag a lot of properly spelled technical terms and proper nouns, whereas this Pagewatch tool seems to do a good job of flagging actual spelling errors. Looking forward to investigating more and getting its findings cleaned up.
What really surprised me is that the US is three times the size of India! (2.5x not counting Alaska.) I guess I'm used to hearing that the US isn't actually as big as we like to think so I over-compensated in the other direction.
>smoothest full disk encryption

It may be smooth, but it also sends the disk encryption key to Microsoft unless you pay extra for Pro and above, so y'know...

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/finding-your-bit...
1972 Great Daylight Fireball
Why do you need web apps wrapped in their own window, though? Just open a browser.

Relatedly, Electron is a problem because desktop apps nowadays require a huge browser just to display a window, not because web apps are packaged in a browser to get slightly better desktop integration.
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The looping video of the "feet" is one of the most hypnotic and amazing things I've seen in a long time, at least given the context of what they are carrying. Absolutely incredible engineering.
The tragedy of Emmitt Till's murder wasn't just his death, but that it was representative of a corrupt and violent White Southerner culture that lasted despite the horror of what was done to him (and the loss of face the Deep South experienced when it was exposed). She spent 70 years standing by her lie. About 4 years into it, she was old enough to start making it right and didn't.
I've bought multiple access points, they all required rebooting. My HD TV requires rebooting once every couple weeks or so. Also my Roku box. Also the cable modem. My Grace Digital media server. Every damned thing I own that has a computer in it needs rebooting now and then.

Including my Windows and Linux boxen. Or they just slowly grind down, likely from not doing a good job cleaning up unused resources.
The relative stability you want in the next four year, if it comes, will come at the cost of something even worse after.

If you want not to have Trumps anymore, you need to get rid of the factors that lead to Trump happening, and that's not going to be done calmly given the opposition of the DNC and other established interests.

As a non-american, the best shot you had of establishing long-term stability was Bernie Sanders. The way things are going, the Democrats will continue alienating themselves from more and more of their base and the Republicans will continue ramping up fear and instability.
Similar stuff was done in Moscow (in Russian, but lots of photos): https://kak-eto-sdelano.ru/kak-dvigali-doma/
Medical devices and transportation sound like exactly the kind of areas that should be heavily regulated (and are in the USA as well as the EU).
Then put Australia over Africa and be blown away by the true scale of that continent.
Don't people have globes at school these days?

Oh, and get off my lawn.
They both suck. They just suck in different ways. Choose your poison.

Or don't choose and use both.
You'd also expect them to simply fork it and maintain that fork, selectively pulling in changes.
Unfortunately you have things like Discord that require access to native APIs in order to properly function (eg. Push to talk).
"Are any of them arguing for an ethnostate? For shipping non-whites "back to where they came from"? For re-establishing anti-miscegenation laws?"

Don't kid yourself. This is exactly what they're after. Another couple of elections of the likes of Trump and they may get it.
Have you dealt with email in the past 10 years? If there is one thing I do not need more of it’s email.

I also want nothing in the critical part for development to be email, so I can completely ignore the whole email client.
clearly not an arch user
I would say that Qt makes GUI on Linux about as easy as Delphi was on Windows in its day. It's somewhat of a bubble - if you use Qt, the incentive is to do everything in "the Qt way". But it also nicely abstracts you away from all those underlying differences.
I like Slack and similar having their own icon and entry in the alt-tab switcher. Absent ubiquitous PWA support, electron is sort of the least bad alternative.
* Astronomically lower probability of catching a virus.

* No bullshit forced updates when the OS feels like it.

* No phoning home with you being unable to launch an app when your manufacturer's server is slow.

* No shuffling about trying to install drivers for a thousand components before your computer is usable.

How's that?
AirB&B was not easyly funded at first. It seemed very very foolish at the time to rent your place to a stranger.

The did revolutionis the touristic rental market, and as for any revolution, it was very very difficult at the begining to have followers ( finance, customers, accomodations).
Pretty sure if we engineer smart monkeys they will quickly be bred for use as slaves.
I think Google Maps already does this at least
What recent cases?
We're talking about supreme court justices...
> Things like the Patriot Act get passed after 9/11 and are still with us today.

I just wanted to point out that some of the worst parts of the Patriot Act are no longer legal. Just this year many sections were not renewed, including parts specific to surveillance.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/yes-section-215-expire...
As someone in Gen Z in the western world, the left in Gen Z seems to be more dominant and a lot more to the left - as in, I have many friends that saw Bernie as a "harm reduction" candidate.

That being said, this is only one datapoint, and I also know other people that are far to the right.
It does accurately describe Trump's comment. The DEA, ICE, & FBI have documented cases of criminal activity across the border. The left often editorializes his comments however his supporters understand what was meant, and no, it's not a racist dog whistle.

You brought up a non-sequitor, re Judge Curiel. He has provided legal representation for a hispanic-supremacist organization named La Raza (meaning "the race" in Spanish), which has a public political opinion on matters such as the wall on the southern border. Perhaps Trump should have mentioned the group "La Raza", however the point stands that Judge Curiel has racial-supremacist political affiliations, was in-explicitly hostile in the lawsuit, & Trump called it out as a theory.

https://thenewamerican.com/judge-in-trump-university-case-ti...

For many, the "Orange Man Bad" & "all white people are racist" narrative will probably kick in & they will reject what I'm saying outright because it does not fit their narrative; however this interpretation better fits Occam's razor, considering that Trump has also worked with certain people of all ethnicities in a harmonious fashion, while having rocky relationships with certain people from all ethnicities. The differences have to do with political worldview rather than ethnicity. Unfortunately, the political left has a habit of editorializing worldviews according to race, so other explanations are rendered moot according to the worldview of the political left, which views the world according to race.
I like playing Map Fight: https://mapfight.appspot.com/ with friends.
After playing it for a while you get a pretty good feeling for most countries' relative size.
Ah, fair point. Electron is a good fit for web apps that would otherwise live in a browser, I agree.
Why didn’t Australians settle in the closest points to Britain? Why sail all the way to the other side?
Ask HN: How have you found success living in a remote location?
I imagine some of us here aren’t living in tech hubs, but instead in remote locations with little in the way of likeminded people around. How have you found success living in rural locations?
Hehehe, Tulsa Oklahoma. I wonder how many of them visited before applying.

I don't mean to knock the city, but it is a very different place, and SF residents might chafe at the lack of interesting nature in the surrounding area. Probably the closest large park-ish area would be the Ozarks over in Arkansas. It's a lovely forest, but still about a 2.5-hour drive away. And OK's state highways are absolutely littered with aggressive speed traps.
I'd really like to be able to find a sort of virtual Launchpad (e.g., upload my samples, trigger them with a click, quantize/snap to the beat, etc.). Thought this was going to be like that.
The cat feeder invented all their own cute icons, but what those icons are for cannot be divined without the manual. Lose the manual, and you might as well throw the machine away.

It's a freakin' catfeeder, jeez. It should just work.
I really hated the intro. There are less confrontational ways of making that point across.

Then the points being made did not resonate with my own reasons for using Linux.

Microsoft loves Linux and Open source, in paper, but the reason you are not using Linux right now is mostly due to Microsoft.

MS Office, the defacto Office suite, runs only on macOS and Windows, and the OOXML standard was created with obfuscation in mind.

Microsoft bought Corel, and shortly after Corel Office dropped its Linux release.

Microsoft lobbies governments so that they adopt MS Office. Some of those goverments are starving impoverished countries that could rather use that money for humanitarian reasons.

OpenGL was the target of a FUD campaign that scared game developers forcing them to adopt DirectX.
Arch doesn't force auto-updates, so ... try again?
No more blue screens

Not having to reinstall Windows every 6 months just to keep it running fast
What kind of design choices are they making that can get the power down so low? What's Intel doing that hasn't been optimized away after generations?
Sounds interesting, but it’s paywalled for me.
Well, in UK it seems that is either Gypsy or Irish Traveller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Travellers#/media/File:P...
According to Wikipedia she was 21. Emmett Till was 14. Also, the evidence that she recanted is shaky. She was 72 in 2008 when this allegedly happened. If she recanted in the presence of the interviewer, it wasn't on tape and she hasn't done it since.
I expect the user-facing stuff is more subjective.
In Seattle, they just modified buildings to have entrances on the 2nd floor, and raised the sidewalks, leaving the 1st floor as a basement.
Would be a lot worse if performance was 1/10th. That’s what this benchmark shows. Essentially that it’s a lot better than people feared. The question for users like myself is, will things like IntelliJ still be decently fast? Still don’t know what kind of performance we will get from the JVM, but this shows some decent hope!
Texas to Minnesota fits India so well. Ganges just south of great lakes, India's south eastern border roughly following Mississippi and Ohio rivers.
The best recovery option is the ability to snapshot a system and restore a computer or another computer to that exact state which has always been a thing even if implemented via rsync instead of zfs rollback/send. Gui installers offered a full disk encryption option when I started using Fedora 1.0.

If you want a pretty gui Timeshift seems to be a thing.

Power management in addition seems to work fine if the machine is properly supported. At least it seems to be as good on a thinkpad as on windows with more options via tlpui.

Task management solutions are a dime a dozen.