skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we're going to see more and more work being done in the cloud on dedicated SaaS platforms, even if your work is technical. The idea that most businesses will be running and maintaining a complex network of powerful VMs isn't realistic. Once this shift starts, the hardware you're working on starts to become irrelevant and replaceable.

Examples:

Github recently announced Codespaces (https://github.com/features/codespaces) which will allow developers to write and test code in a cloud IDE with repo dependencies preinstalled. This will replace local development in VSCode, Atom, etc.

Bigquery and Snowflake both allow direct querying of the database in a cloud UI. Tools like Redash (https://redash.io/) allow analysts to do the same, but across multiple databases. This will replace SQLWorkbench, DataGrip, etc.

Data scientists can use tools like Mode (https://mode.com/) or DataBricks (https://databricks.com/) to run exploratory notebooks and dashboards in the cloud. This will replace running local Jupyter notebooks.

Data teams can use tools like Shipyard (https://www.shipyardapp.com) to orchestrate complex workflows and automate any scripts in the cloud. This will replace Cron, Windows Task Scheduler, Airflow, etc.
Your argument sounds a lot like "This COVID vaccine has been in development for 9 months and still does not support being stored at room temperature for more than six weeks. I'm not looking forward to it".
Remember when the outbreak just started and China aggressively closed off all travel (including by road) to/from Wuhan (and this was all going on near the Chinese New Year). It's a somewhat similar situation now in the US with a holiday that historically involved travel and large family gatherings, but I'm afraid that many government leaders have downplayed covid for so long that it'll be hard to get any compliance at this point, especially in the worst hit areas, which at some places are in full-blown collective denial.
MacOS / iOS apps are not garbage collected
> I'd be extremely surprised if our intelligence agencies didn't give them stolen tech.

I'd be extremely surprised if any tech that is stolen is better than what they have / are working on. There is lots to criticize about America, their funding and continuous innovation in war tech is not one of those things.
When it comes to family deep rooted historical cultural traditions, I'm sensing that an advisory is not going to make much of a dent upon impact. Maybe better to advise how to have thanksgiving safely - pre isolate prior to meetup - whole scale of what you can do and outline the risk reductions each one has. Give people an educated choice in the risk as like crossing the road - we all make educated risk choices each day and they won't stop the holiday, but can manage it better with better advice/approach I feel.
This is a funny comparison since BMW actually builds the Supra. Its basically a rebranded Z4.

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/comparison-test/a310046...
Juggling a screen-based job with a hands-on hobby, or: Juggling two jobs is hard
> Its like paying a restaurant not to harass you and then going to it when you could just go to the restaurant next door without the protection fee.

No, it's like paying the restaurant for the damn food. YouTube hosting all the world's videos forever is not a god given right, nor is being able to watch content people create for free.

I despise ads, absolutely despise them, but gladly pay YouTube the $15/mo to remove them because I know good content needs to be paid for one way or another. There's still a few channels that I like that put in ads during the videos and that's still annoying, but otherwise I never see an ad.

And this is fucking fantastic! Imagine if the web as a whole adopted this. (I know there are efforts including Google's) If I could pay $10/mo to get rid of all ads (explicit and implicit) and have that go towards the creators that I consume content for, then we'd be in a much better place. (imagine if FB just got a cut of that for example, how that would change the dynamics)
I miss .qwk readers from the BBS days. Web forums suck for high volume message management. Maybe it's time to revive FidoNet and the BBS's of the 80's and 90's :)
Whoever owns the server can serve you whatever content the want. They can change it even, depending on the user.
Depending on where you live or work, you might be wearing a mask and other PPE during your working hours. You wouldn't be wearing a mask or PPE during dinner (and likely any other time during the visit).
Icici Bank debuts cardless buy now, pay later facility
Impressions on using a Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop replacement
That's too bad; glad I got a chance to visit a couple years ago.

If anyone is wondering what's next: as others have noted, there's China's FAST antenna. That's a dish format telescope similar (but bigger) to Arecibo. The politics of this inevitably makes some scientists nervous.

There is also the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) coming online soon. This is phased array format, similar to VLA, and covers a similar frequency band as Arecibo (unlike VLA). I have to wonder if this factored into the calculus to let Arecibo go.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Kilometre_Array
The number of videos that now have sponsorships and ads embedded in the video (which to me is 100x worse than pre-roll ads - especially because I pay for Youtube premium) is probably a significant cause here. It has made Youtube a far worse product for me. If you watch anything DIY or car related then most of the content you're consuming is just a long-form advertisement.
I'm actually on firefox. It also loads very slowly right now so I'm not sure if that's what's being loaded on our end or on the servers end either. I have tried it from the falkon browser as well and the slow loading existed there also.

I enabled workwithindies.com, have ajax.googleapis.com, gstatic.com, vimeo.com, vimeocdn.com, and youtube.com enabled when I encountered my highlighting and clicking issue.
We should also lock people in their homes. Except the technocrats and politicians, they get a free movement pass.

https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/11/18/...
+1 on that last issue. I don't understand why Google doesn't include ad-free YouTube as part of a perk for using Google Workspace. Also I wish I could tell Chrome to open some links in other profiles at all times, and only those links, kind of like Firefox might do. Actually, come to think of it, I probably use Chrome too much and should try alternatives instead.
The defense budget is tiny compared to the US's welfare state programs.
The one in January? It was probably closed. The earthquakes did some damage.

Glad to hear you at least where able to explore other areas of the island and not just San Juan and metro areas.
Slightly more informative article:

https://www.theonering.net/torwp/2020/06/23/108207-the-natur...

That's very exciting. It's not, as I first expected, just a re-edit of material that's already in History of Middle-earth. They describe it as if it would have been one more volume of HoME, if Christopher were still around.

Tolkien's thoughts evolved considerably after the published books, and what Christopher cobbled together to make Silmarillion ignores a lot of the later work in favor of stuff that's more consistent with The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien was an inveterate reviser and re-inventer, and he never settled on definitive answers to a lot of questions -- and changed his mind even after publication.

So you need to keep a kind of cognitive dissonance when reading this material, and in re-reading LotR in the light of the new material. Still, it can be incredibly exciting to see where he was going, and his truly superhuman ability to retcon as he did so.
You misread my comment, which fair enough the wording wasn't great.

What I actually said is "anyone who can get away with it"

And obviously they would be doing it for partisan reasons.
Taiwan grounds entire fleet of F-16 fighter jets after crash
As others have said, I'd be curious what plug in you use. The state of things is pretty good. I'm using the IntelliJ Rust plugin and love it. It also provides pretty good inline annotation of inferred types which I find to be a big time saver.
Cradle Agent 0:34

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGrFfQpY0Zw
The electrons are moving millions of miles.
How about WebAssembly? Whats your size limit for that?
You can tell this is a calculated, science-based, and sophisticated plan, because of how short and quippy is.
Speaking with absolutely no expertise in the matter, I would guess it’s on the verge of collapse due to lack of maintenance or fatal design flaw. It’s probably no longer a matter of fixing more like a total rebuild would be required?
I'm honestly not sure we're in the trough. The value of Youtube is pretty tightly correlated to the amount of content on Youtube. While you could argue that the signal to noise ratio is worse, it's very hard to argue that there isn't significantly more 'good' (however you define it) content on youtube that makes it more valuable.

I find paying for Youtube premium an pretty great value, because it has some of the best content for any hobby I may be into. It doesn't have the pure depth of hard core educational content like udemy/coursera/khan has, but I'm really not able to consume that type of content enough to run out.
I also used Google Music, endured the switch to YT Music, and now just gave up and use the source MP3s playing locally.

I listen to a lot of Indian music (film soundtracks), and Google was annoyingly consistent in changing my songs to different language versions because their acoustic fingerprint training models are shit.
See: r/homelab
Fortunately r/homeserver seems to have at least partly taken its place
> Arguably the most successful recent effort on array based scientific programming language is Julia and it is still very much dependent on some Fortran based libraries for speed.

That is because some libraries (e.g. BLAS implementations) have many developer-years of careful optimizations. These are not trivial algorithms to implement. Implementing them in Julia, nonetheless, has been a long-standing goal of the Julia community.
Russia can't compete with any Western country in open warfare.

Cyber warfare and nation destabilizing by propaganda campaigns however? That is way cheaper, and the Russians have quite a history of such actions with the KGB. The side benefit is that, in contrast to a Russian airplane dumping Russian bombs on a city, the Russian government can easily deny that they are responsible for a group of hackers or an oligarch's "donation" to a far right party.
Laws restricting investment should be about promoting investment diversity, and restricting risk concentration. This would actually allow small investments from mom and pop (a good thing with other safety rules), and prevent the moderately wealthy from losing everything (a la Lloyds “names”). Most people are 100% exposed to their job and perhaps their home, and I think it would be good if they would also invest small amounts long-term in businesses directly (rather than indirectly via bank savings).

> Employees of investment funds can be accredited for purpose of investing in their employers fund

This is a bad precedent. The biggest danger with investment is lack of diversity. Investing in your employer severely increases your risks (albeit increases rewards if you win). A great gamble when you win (startup unicorn) but a terrible gamble when you lose (company bankruptcy => lose job and lose retirement fund. Game over: play again?)
If you have Android and you are interested in occasional mapping then I really recommend StreetComplete.

Registering for OSM account is the biggest hurdle, mapping with this app requires no tutorials/learning how to use it etc.

dislaimer: this is partialy autopromotion, this app is allowing to make some predefined edits adding detail - it is not a full scale editor
"It's not as bad as it seems because it doesn't affect me personally". Thanks for your input mate.
I think in many countries content that is an ad must be clearly marked by law. Should be easy to skip.
> Cable TV started as paid ad-free TV also.

Not true. Cable TV started by simply sending a copy of broadcast TV over coaxial cable, giving the user a more reliable signal (better picture and sound) compared to a "rabbit ears" antenna, and access to programs from distant cities beyond the limits of good radio reception. That broadcast TV, of course, was a live signal which contained ads in the signal that could not be removed.

Cable TV also offered the end user a convenient box with a digital channel number display and remote control for changing channels. The user was able to flip among dozens of channels without having to fiddle with the UHF/VHF tuning controls of their TV: they tuned the TV to channel 3 (or whatever) and could just leave it, letting the cable box do the channel selection. Cable TV was a major upgrade to the TV set. In particular to a basic model or old TV with only knobs for channel selection, no remote.

Cable TV did offer premium programs also, requiring a "descrambler". Those channels were collectively called "pay TV"; separate from regular broadcast TV. These channels were satellite channels; the user could have obtained them alternatively by installing a dish, and paying for the descrambling.
Can you guys stop spamming the guy's github issues page?
If you live that close then you probably already see family semi-often so 'traveling' for Thanksgiving makes little difference. So the probability that you/one group doesn't have the virus and the other hasn't is already low since both groups live in the same region and would have already transmitted it to each other.

If you live far enough that you have to fly then you most likely have a completely separate social sphere where you live plus traveling by plane means being close to 100s of complete strangers. So the chance that one person/group is coming from a region with an outbreak to a non-outbreak region is higher and the risk of catching it during travel is higher.

It's just like ring security theory. Level 2 > Level 1 vs Level 3 -> Level 1.
Nate is amazing and I can't say anything but good things about Work With Indies. Hack Club posted a job with them and we've gotten so many great applicants.

It was also one of the best experiences I've ever had posting a job online. They took my GitHub gist, formatted it, found our logos and pictures of students online, and put together a beautiful page to spotlight the job.

I couldn't believe it. One of the best experiences on the internet ever.
Considering the White House has been doing daily COVID tests long before Trump caught it and has still had multiple large spread events, I'd say it doesn't tell you much.

If you could all get tested a week before, isolate completely for the next 7 days, and continue to test negative the day before or day of, then you can be confident.

Otherwise, with the 5-7 lag where you can be infected and spreading the disease while still testing negative and having no symptoms, a single test isn't a guarantee. Depends on your group's specific risk factors.
Just a few weeks ago I found a guide to computer education for children at https://github.com/xsuchy/programovani_pro_deti (sorry, Czech only) which mentioned GCompris. So I tried it and my children love it! Thanks for a great no-nonsense no-ads educational tool!
> held hostage by google... Its like paying a restaurant not to harass you...

This level of entitlement is just staggering. You can pay for YouTube in two ways; watch adds or pay for add free.

Now, I get that the price for watching adds right now is too high. It simply ruins most content. But your metaphors are still just way out there.

In reality there are now 3 "tiers".
- Premium. Pay with money.
- Get a free taste. Choose if you want it.
- Unwatchable content.

I don't think that is going to work out for YouTube in the long run. But shaming people for being willing to pay for actual loads and loads of quality content is not constructive.

On the other hand, I _am_ glad if this means that random, prudish advertising companies will hold less sway over YouTube at some point in the future, where subscriptions make up a bigger part of the revenue.
CLion with the Rust plugin is pretty great.
vscode can be run outside of electron as a website. https://github.com/cdr/code-server
Yes. Two things might be conflated: innate attribute (ie, biological gender) and awareness (ie, type of cancer). A mother's day#, aunt's day, or a men's day seems to subtly poke at how a group is taken for granted; that doesn't mean they need a day or special help.

I get every PR means can help as part of a holistic strategy for awareness.

# Maybe mostly commercial inventions.
The Era of “Update Automatically” Is Over: A Rant
Computer software and hardware used to get monotonically better. Due to a combination of marketing imperatives, lack of respect for customers and testers, and ignorance of tradition, we are losing that; traditional test planning has become deeply unfashionable, and new hardware and software may take features away. Once users liked us and paid us, and we deserved it: Software got better and added features; hardware got faster, thinner, lighter, and better. During the golden age of Silicon Valley, we put a dent in the universe. Now users hate us and we deserve it.
We didn't have an Easter celebration this year. In fact, for the entirety of Lent, the Catholic Church in my area said that mass was not necessary due to the pandemic.

Some things are more important than tradition. Easter is the most holy holiday of the Catholic Church (Christmas has more secular importance, but is still only 2nd most important).

If you were willing to sacrifice Easter back in April, then Thanksgiving / Christmas is no different, at least to those of us who are religious. Its important to take this situation seriously.

And yes, the Catholic Church definitely cares about tradition. In fact, people criticize it for caring too much about tradition at times.
I tweeted about text.npr.org this morning. Excellent resource.
No, making YouTube free, and then deciding 15 years later to adjust the policy for ads is not 'illegal'.

The amount of narrative promoting here on HN is distressing.

Google does some nice things, some not so much nice things.

Because they adjust their advertising policy doesn't make them either illegal actors or pariahs.

There's no evidence indication that this is 'predatory pricing'.

Again - if there is an issue, it's with their ownership of Search, Mobile towards prioritizing other products.
Excellent point, many insurance covers would have certain criteria and CDC announcements would certainly qualify in many instances. Though might be case that advisories are less credible than an announcement/alert. They advise people use sunscreen to reduce skin cancer and yet if you get skin cancer the insurance company don't get out of cover as you missed using sunscreen one day. So from that analogy perspective, I'm wondering if an advisory is enough to help some policies insurance wise.
> But creating two extreme positions, and then lumping everyone into those positions, is called politics

American politics. The amount of bipartisan countries in the world can be counted on one hand. But I get what you're saying and I agree completely.
Not to be crude, but the whole sexual education debate is fairly analogous here.

We can teach people to abstain completely, or we can teach them how to do things safely.

It's pretty settled on which works better to prevent unwanted consequences.
This is already here, Apple[0] can report to a MDM whether or not SIP is enabled, and then Microsoft's Intune[1] can use this to allow or deny access to corporate resources (similar to some stuff that Google had in the BeyondCorp paper).

0: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/s...

1: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/protect/complian...
I see where you’re coming from with that. Especially if someone has already booked flights that may be non-refundable, they are likely to go anyway.

But people feel intense pressure to follow the norm. In the absence of clear messaging from some third-party authority, that norm is generally “what we’ve always done.”

Messaging like this can change the perceived norm to “it’s okay to stay home this year.”
I got a lot of flack for cancelling plans with my family, this honestly is a god send in terms of relationship management.
It also affords the US a position as the world’s reserve currency which itself is worth trillions of dollars.

I’m not sure the ROI analysis is particularly straightforward, all things considered.
1MB in size feels like an attempt to define “performant” without considering... performance. A speed test from an “average” connection that also measures first paint etc. would be much more meaningful: not all megabytes are equal.

I love the idea, just needs a better measurement.
It's more about the communal traveling, or even isolated traveling, and mixing diagnosis from different areas, exacerbating local transmission.

Not silly at all.
Are tests so easily available now that they can be "wasted" on people just using them for convenience, instead of reserving the testing capacity for better use?

The test may anyway be worthless if you take it and then anyways have been exposed during a flight or so.
Thanks for acknowledging your mistake. I also have a tendency to conflate rsync.net and tarsnap as I believe I learned about them at about the same time. This is despite having 2 clients to whom I have recommended rsync.net and whose backup I check each and every day.
There is no quality discussion that will come from this submission.
Not a comparable situation because you are now potentially spreading it to people in your family whom you have not seen since.
I have posted tutorials and art on YouTube since before they were Google.

I am also glad that this move has finally given me the push needed to delete my channel entirely. I don't try to make money off it, I have no interest in Google getting to.
looks very impressive! any plans for a non-chrome / standalone version?
> Yes, but you don't really build "communities" on reddit.

Reflecting on my forum days, I don't think this is true. It's plain and simple to see subreddit members have STRONGLY held convictions that their subreddit is a unique and important community, just as they used to. I grew up on forums of < 100 people had made similar stupid arguments about the norms and salience of the forum to whatever topic it was aligned to. Yes, now there's karma farming, but it's not like people didn't make zounds of forum posts for the intended or subconsiously intended purpose of accruing social credit by demonstrating in group mentalities.
The recommendation engine was intentionally crippled because it was radicalizing people who were into conspiracy theories, militias, terroristic acts, etc. It sucks but I assume there's some work being done to get a new engine out without sending people down a rabbit hole.
Aren't people stuck working out in public exactly the people who should think carefully about passing that risk on to others in their extended family?

It's a horrible position to be in, but I don't think it's silly.
M1-powered Macs can run Windows apps, with some help from CrossOver
Facebook Joins the Blender Development Fund
Yes but those types of people are not looking for truth, they're looking for information that supports their bias. So if you tell them to shut up and take it, now they internally fabricate a conspiracy theory. What's worse is you have no idea what they're thinking or planning now.

The only people who care about "truth" in capitalism are shareholders and affluent individuals. It binds them to the culture and when a bunch of lowlifes and poorer people tell them "fuck off" essentially, they get pissy and upset that the people don't like the status quo.
Dude, do you really want more HN posters on SA?