skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here in southeast Alaska, I usually hear people say "drive". For example if people are talking about a somewhat sketchy or tense return from a trip, you might ask them "Who was driving?"

I never hear anyone say "Who was captain?" or "Who was steering?" "Captain" seems to imply a title, and "steering" sounds like you just took the wheel for a moment.

That may be different for people who spend a lot of time on commercial boats. When I've been in formal settings, say on a police boat while doing search and rescue work, we will talk about the person who is filling the role of captain. But we still say that person is "driving" the boat.
Ryzen vs. Apple Silicon and why Zen 3 is not so bad as you may think
Having spoken with someone today, at length, that thinks any improvement in the current situation is “socialism”, I think common ground won’t be found with some folks (and that’s okay, as long as you can get a majority onboard). You have to do the right thing regardless (go to the mat for overwhelming fiscal policy stimulus firepower short term, and driving towards improved policy long term, increasing the minimum wage, universal healthcare, etc).

With recent political events, I’m hopeful (and it has been some time since I’ve had hope). Just have to keep up the momentum.
HTTP != browser always
and the article is specifically talking about australia, which doesn't have specific tax buckets for a purpose.
Australia does plenty of forest management. The problem has been in recent years it's been more dangerous to do controlled burning and the recent bushfires were so extreme the fire was jumping between the tops of the trees skipping the undergrowth completely.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/media-reaction-australias-bushfi...

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/12/is-th...
The poorest American, who earns 0 dollars in his lifetime, is absolutely not in the top 10% of world income.
That is insane. I will remember this for life now.
Ask HN: Have you ever thought of getting out of software?
I'm 27 and been in software for 10+ years. I've been thinking about this for some time now. Not really wanting out, but more thinking about what it's like on the other side.
Did you do it? What did you switch to?
Meat is considered separate from fish in the language.

For the most part, 肉 (niku: meat) refers to mostly land animals and in context, the ban was to discourage the consumption of domesticated animals and game which would invite pestilence and strain on limited space for agriculture. Eating meat in Japan is still kind of impractical, there just isn't that much space, and it pollutes a lot. Lookup how much water, alfalfa, acreage and methane output is required just to breed a single cow.

Fun fact, English and Latin is kind of similar in the meanings of 'meat' and 'carne' with regards to religious diet.
Something like Anki becomes useful when you've gotten to the point where the new vocabulary you are encountering are so rare that you only see them once every few months. I've read somewhere that it takes about 10 exposures to learn a new word. I was seeing certain words once a year (I track how often I look up vocabulary), it would have taken me a decade to learn those words naturally, and those obscure words are likely to be the most important words in the sentence, which means that if you don't know it, you miss the point of the sentence entirely. Anki exposure isn't like real in-context exposure, so it might take more than 10 passes to learn the word, but it should take less than a decade.
Why COBOL will never die
... or as I've recently taken to calling it, iPad plus Linux.
> American capitalism has led the world to the brink of destruction by climate change

This sort of alarmist language makes it really difficult to take anything you said seriously. I'm fairly confident most people think climate change is concerning, but not "on the brink of destruction"

"American capitalism" is also responsible for the greatest reduction of poverty globally in all of human history.

> Nothing else pales in comparison to the destruction that's coming as a direct result of USA turning a blind eye to climate change.

Interesting, because the United States has actually been lowering carbon dioxide emissions, and total output absolutely pales in comparison to China which has seen nearly exponential growth [0].

This may be completely wrong, but it seems like a majority of climate change talk always revolves around how the US can be doing more, and rarely about what other countries can do.

Interesting how America is always to blame for the world's problems. I'm not saying America has been perfect, but it certainly does more good than bad.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_...
What is that almost a 100 million people?

Seems like a lot. I wonder how many have families and kids.

Such a bummer.

At least Granny is safe!
This will give people with smaller hands an advantage until the people with larger hands start playing the smaller piano.
"By comparison, the October jobless rate stood at 6.9%, down from 14.7% in April as workers regained jobs or gave up searching for work."

I love how the hopeless are not counted as jobless.
> I frequently oscillate between thinking "This is amazing, it truly is a joy to work with SwiftUI" and "Holy FUCK this is the most infuriating thing I've ever experienced in my life".

Definitely, but I'm more on the side of "This is amazing."

Most of the things that I find really frustrating are just me misunderstanding how it works and now that I understand it better, everything goes way smoother.

Even going back in time, I'd make the SwiftUI choice. It's the clear future and it's so much fun to build stuff in.
Finally, I can play Rachmaninoff properly! Definitely not because I don't practice enough.
A new iPad is around AU$500, a replacement LCD is around $35, a replacement digitiser around $25, and the tool set around $15.

The expensive part is labour. If you're willing to risk some time and money on failure you can have a go yourself, there are excellent guides online.

I have an iPad 2 that I bought new long ago and have since given to my young children. Unsurprisingly one of them dropped it and the screen stopped working. I ordered the kit, opened it up, and reseated the LCD. Would have gone flawlessly if I'd been more careful while opening it up, as it stands I now need to replace the digitiser, but it's still much cheaper than a new tablet, especially while my elder daughter is in a phase of thinking she is smarter than us and can ignore warnings like "if you balance that on your knees it will fall off and break."
What I don't miss about working from the office:

- the commute

- paying for parking

- paying for lunch

- wearing "business appropriate" clothes

- inability to multi-task while sitting through meetings I'm forced to attend

- inability to listen to music via a speaker instead of headphones

My employer, a Fortune 200 company, allowed us to take our machines, monitors, chairs and whatnot home. I have a great setup. My team is more productive than we've ever been and in a way we've been closer as well. This is preferable to sitting on top of each other while wearing headphones so we can maintain some personal space.
A quick search suggests that a semi truck without trailer weighs between 10 and 25 tons[0]. Those are usually 3-axle, so that's between about 125 and 4800 units of damage. That's still a massive amount when compared to the 1 unit of damage for a sedan.

Add an empty trailer and you get 35 tons (5 axles, 2400 units of damage). US max allowed is 80 tons, for a whopping 65,536 units of damage.

I don't know how full they are, but I see 5-axle tractor-trailers on highways all the time in the US, and also locally doing last-mile deliveries to larger businesses like supermarkets and home improvement stores.

I guess the differences in allowed weights might account for why US roads are often in worse shape than many in Europe, though I assume vastly different maintenance schedules play a large part as well.

[0] https://www.tcsfuel.com/blog/truck-weight-classification/
Given what they’re paying in salaries it seems like a silly thing to try and save on.
I went from a manual machinist, meaning working with lathes and mills from WWII, to a career in Cybersecurity. During that transition I was also a plumber.

The 'simple life' jobs are also taxing, but just in different ways. Bosses yelling at you to get work done ASAP, union bullshit, and reletivly low pay (unless you own your own business).

While there are some days I wish I was doing some head math and watching a lathe make cuts on a electric motor shaft, in the end I'm happy with where I ended up.

Just posted this so you know that the grass isn't always greener 100% of the time!
That photo picker scenario is definitely no good!
Ask HN: Best way to implement user sign up/ sign in for a website?
I am looking for a simple and secure way to implement user sign up/ sign in for my website. It should have basic features like "forgot password?". In the future, I also want to allow things like "sign in using Gmail".

I looked into things like Cognito and Firebase Authentication, but they seem a bit overkill for my goal (I don't need stuff like two factor auth).

What tools/libraries do people recommend? Should I roll my own solution for this? Thanks!
Reddit is slowly killing the old interface? native image galleries are invisible
It's a more plausible scenario, to me, that browsers will become more strict w/ CA verification. Non-technical users will be permitted easy access to resources secured by third-party-signed certificates. They'll be forced to plumb into the confusing depths of their browser / OS to make changes that would allow access to resources protected with untrusted certificates (assuming they're even allowed to make such changes, which I think will also eventually be taken away).

Nobody in the industry wants anything locally-hosted by end users to work well. Locally-hosted means not "cloud"-hosted. That means no sweet, sweet recurring subscription revenue stream or centrally-stored user data to "monetize".
This has sadly been the case for a long time. Some people try to defend it for various reasons and keeping track of this figure isn't a problem for me personally, but calling it the unemployment rate and acting like it's representative of reality bugs the heck out of me
There is a bit more background on the approach and toolchain here:

https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/postgresql-benchmarks-appl...

https://github.com/gregs1104/pgbench-tools
Poverty is about having difficulty meeting basic human needs, not an income percentile.
Autonomous Green Robot Cars Deliver Medicine Around London – IE
American news is the WWE of news. Nothing wrong with his position.
The 3 suggested sizes are large (current standard) and two smaller keyboards.

I would like to humbly submit a 4th change. The large keyboard, but with narrower black keys. I have the hand size and range to play well on a large keyboard, but my biggest struggle has been my wide fingers being unable to fit between the black keys (only by a few millimeters).

I have large hands and I used to be able to play very well, but in college it began to get harder and harder to get my fingers between the keys.
Conflict generates more attention.
I solve this problem by owning a TLD only for internal use and using letsencrypt’s DNS challenge method:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24543434
If you're making the case to Apple users to upgrade to M1, the other Apple products are the relevant comparison. If you're hoping to entice Win/Lin users then AMD has more relevance.
Very weird article. Company does not do gifts. You either get paid X or Y and company wraps that as "gift".
I tried an online speedreader app on Kafka's Metamorphosis and I remember a fair amount of it and a lot of what Kafka was trying to say (I think).

I really want to use it to crank through a bunch of classics, when I have free time. Oh, that lack of free time.

Anyone done anything like that? I was using 2-4 word groups to increase bandwidth, and my brain seemed to chunk process it pretty well.
I don't think this is specifically to give anyone an advantage, more like how there are differently sized guitars/violins/cellos for differently sized people.
You know, it’s not a dichotomy. It’s possible to implement temporary restrictions while providing support to help people remain employed.

Your attitude kind of glosses over the fact that the current unfolding catastrophe in the US is a result of a series of deliberate policy decisions and does not have to be like it is.
“Some folks” is approaching near 50/50 split of the population of the US who have been led to believe “socialism” is worse than death. I know so, because my friend goes to church and they are now talking about this in their sermons...God is a Republican apparently.
Given that a huge number of the current unemployed were made so by government fiat, I don't understand what political philosophy has to do with it.
Relative economic standing != absolute economic standing.

Statistical measures of poverty are set in terms of being able to afford the basic necessities of life, such as food, housing, medical care, transport, education and communications. Relative standing is irrelevant.

Further, having 10 times more income (or wealth) than subsistence farmer in sub-Saharan Africa is meaningless if your cost of living is 1000 times higher than that of a subsistence farmer in sub-Saharan Africa. Poor Americans aren't paying sub-Saharan African prices; they're paying American prices, and that means their income does not go very far.
Not much of that happens in Victoria, and even less in South Australia.

In South Australia we get temperature below zero maybe once every 10 years.

Victoria has some snowfields, but they are a relativity small area.

Bitumen damage from melting is a real issue though. See the pics on https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-05/melting-road-in-far-n...
I love the Instagram and Facebook ads. They're always well targeted for me. And sometimes I go back to look for one I saw earlier in the day.
See the pics on https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-05/melting-road-in-far-n...
Yeah, it’s really unfortunate the situation has become almost cult like. I have no explanation for these incoherent belief systems. No one said staying ahead of the ignorant and malicious was going to be easy, but it’s necessary for a democracy to function. The most conservative folks are the oldest cohorts, so they will age out eventually. [1] Millenials are also leaving behind religious affiliations due to perceived intolerances [2]: “A majority (57 percent) of millennials agree that religious people are generally less tolerant of others, compared to only 37 percent of Baby Boomers.”

“Apathy is the glove into which evil slips it’s hand.” Stay involved. This isn’t a call to a particular party, but to compassion and empathy, regardless of whom champions it.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/20/a-wider-par... (first graphic)

[2] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/millennials-are-leaving...
“Unlike a collection view, all items will be loaded into memory at once.”

I recently had to rewrite a UIView where the dev implemented a 3 by 30 scrollable image display only using StackViews. Despite image disk caching it took forever to load, the table was a veritable forest of spinners for 30 seconds. Re-Implementing as CollectionView only partially improved the display, eventually I had to add a memory cache to make it snappy.

I’m at start of switching to SwiftUI right now for a new project and these are the kinds of edge cases that worry me. But as long as I can build UI in UIKit too I’m okay with it. Build the 90% that is easy on SwiftUI, and the 10% performant pieces in UIKit and I should still be much faster.

So far it reminds me of a version of React not crippled by JavaScript. I once spent a year on a React Native project as iOS frameworks lead, and it was a nightmare. Terrible build problems every time they added new libraries, and debugging problems that crossed the Swift/React boundary was at times nearly impossible.

Nothing like being blamed for endemic updating problems for months while pulling your hair out trying everything to solve them. Then to have the React lead quietly say “oh, I found the problem” during an offsite. The rest of the company never remembers that, just the months of the iOS team looking incompetent.

This is so far a piece of cake by comparison, with far higher code quality.
If you are wondering why the analysis ends on August 23:

> August 23, 2020, was selected as the study end date because most Kansas counties had already started or were about to begin school the week of August 24, 2020. The implementation of in-person schooling would have signified an important change in events influencing COVID-19 incidence rates after the executive order.
Huh, this is cool. I can barely reach an octave, and then not at all comfortably. Wouldn't mind narrower keys, though I assume they take some getting used to. (Then again, I'm a terrible player who never practices and wouldn't even consider calling himself a "pianist" at any level.)
While windows 10 nominally has the same requirements as win 7, it is in my experience unusable without an SSD, whereas win 7 was very usable. YMMV
American news is really bad, across the board — and doubly so for coverage of issues around and within America. If you want to find out what’s happening I recommend some combination of NPR, some Canadian news (I like the Globe and Mail) and probably Al Jazeera English.
iPad 2. Also had an iPad 3, both are no longer supported by Apple.

Hurts, because the hardware still works.
Yeah this is vile nonsense from a charlatan who should be living in a cardboard box.

Book of Job soundly rejects prosperity gospel. Job has everything. Satan makes a bet with God, that the only reason why Job acts righteous is because he has prosperity. Take it all away, Satan says, and Job will reject or blame God. God agrees, and takes everything away from Job: animals, wealth, home, family. Job predictably complains, insists he did everything right and proper and didn't deserve such misery, and demands an audience before God to explain himself. God never addresses Job, the speech is basically a major fuck off of the entire premise that man even matters at all.

From an ethical and sociopolitical standpoint, it's soundly rejected in the Magna Carta, and of course is incompatible with democracy. The idea rich people are better than others, that it is their right to pay a little extra to cut in front of the line, that all things are products and not rights - so that education, justice, health care, are all purchasable on a free market alone with inferior or non-existent public versions - is surely embraced by aristocrats and oligarchs. But it's not consistent with equal justice, equal opportunity, and elected leaders. It's the sort of thing you expect from folks who believe family name and bloodlines matter, and primogeniture is a good idea.

But of course quite a lot of people prefer the lies, and are willing to pay for them, because the truth is just too dreadful for them to handle.
Remarkable 1 & 2 come with ssh and root access. Whilst they're more eReader than tablet, they are decently powerful, with an active community around them.
Google can treat other news agencies as preferred suppliers by giving them a higher ranking in the graph. France should have done this with a European initiative because they are to small to do this.
Let's not forget Uncle Joe, weighing in at 326 lbs, who never missed a donut or Big Gulp in his life.

At some point we are going to have to have the painfully honest conversation regarding the obligations healthy people have to the morbidly obese.

Its too late to have this conversation in 2020, but with global obesity rates set to mirror US rates (40%+) by 2040, we're sure to have an opportunity again in the next ten-fifteen years, when people will be even more obese than they are today.
I can relate, and I guess the same holds true for any other knowledge work that requires such intense concentration.
Except we need trucks. We don’t need private cars.
>>The people who designed your car don’t have to change the oil in it.

If the people who designed the car don't care about oil changers' requirements because "its not their job", than a 2am call is absolutely the best kind of feedback they should get, even if they are not on-call.

If they do care, that means they already got that feedback and/or they listen.

So the fredback from the production should be there and it should be ongoing.
You're being downvoted because people on HN don't like being reminded about how good they have it. Sorry, you don't deserve this.
It takes a couple of pages to get there, so for the lazy: the vice is constructing languages.
Your finger width will put a damper on this. Large hands generally go with wider fingers.

The problem is that keyboard width is a function of soundboard width. Shrinking the keyboard likely also means shrinking the soundboard which has engineering tradeoffs.

For electric stuff, though, I don't see an issue.
yup, my 2 still works passably as a youtube watcher though
How can a prohibition on "text-based browsers" have anything to do with MitM attacks? The browser's chosen rendering method (text or GUI) is irrelevant.
Seems like a good place to start with this world be semi-weighed MIDI controllers. Far cheaper to make and the market could be tested to get the correct sizing and guage demand for each size
Yes, that’s right.

In Citus 8, the coordinator node would run stored procedures. Citus 9.x introduced changes to push down stored procedures to worker nodes. So, if your stored procedures mostly touches local shards, Citus 9 significantly cuts down network traffic.
I agreed, but, when you zoom in there's something off. But to my eye, its something about the texture's texture? Ex. the wall/plant look a lot more smooth than I'd expect
With respect to road damage via heavier vehicles, as other posts discuss, I won't. Not because it isn't real, but because the debate has been going on for, oh, 50+ years. Thus, conflating that issue with this, will result in an utter and relentless logjam.

So back to your post, one thing I'm utterly against is taxing per distance driven. Why?

Privacy. There are already talks all over the place, discussions in government, of having a GPS tracker counting distance. Some even discuss real time uploads to the government, others monthly dumps.

Sorry, no. No, no, no. In fact, not sorry. :P Because talk about full time surveillance! I realise that in some nations, like the UK, who have RFID/TPMS trackers, and license plate trackers all over the place, this might seem normal.

But I do not want that here.
Welcome to Google's private World Wide Web. Please ensure that you use the one and only official Google WWW client (others exist, but they are just for show). Unauthorized alteration of its configured operation will result in user termination.

One might wonder how that can accompany all the talk about open standards, and multitude of devices implementing different subsets, and responsive/adaptive/semantic design, etc. Then you realize that you don't really need, say, user-agent sniffing if you are already in position to dictate what browsers will and will not do, so into the trash it goes. You don't need interoperability hacks if you've stopped having interoperability problems.
Vibrant isn’t really the word I would use. “Lots of fixes” in the title is overly casual, and the first sentence of the article is completely incoherent:

> It's been seven years since the release of libX11 1.6.0 for this central X11 library while on Friday was replaced by the libX11 1.7 series.

Like GP, I’m always surprised to see a Phoronix regurgitation-with-errors do so well on HN.
Leather Balls and 3k-Year-Old Pants Hint at an Ancient Asian Sport