skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you! I'm finding sites that would never come up otherwise. I'm finding small user sites that had just disappeared from the internet.

MoJeek, where are you based?

edit: UK. Thanks. I'm giving you all a try as my main engine.
Completely detached from the more serious matters described in the article, I thought I had read that we should refer to they/them the same was we refer to "you". But this is the first time I've noticed this formulation:

>[...] whose pronouns are they/them, [...] Simonis, who is also [...]

I guess my brain had trained me to expect "who are" rather than "who is". But apparently "they is" is acceptable? Or was this a mistake in the article?
What reaction is appropriate when police use lethal force inappropriately and then get away with it? That's already an extreme if you ask me.
QR code inventor relishes its role in tackling Covid
NLP and Named Entity Recognition
I wonder if this will get us any closer to the famous short cipher that was mentioned in the video
A fast and safe way to store natural gas
The cocktail of pollutants like 6PPD and platinum from highway rain runoff is devastating to salmon not only for the aquaculture industry but for the cultures of the ancestral peoples of those areas now called Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska. The impact goes far beyond the pros-and-cons of automobile use. I don't have quick and convenient solutions in mind, but I hope for recognition and analysis of this devastation amongst political leaders.
Partial parse state and recovery are critical. You don't want the entire bottom half of a file to lose semantic analysis while the programmer figures out what to put before a closing ).
> Do you yourself believe Joe Biden won the election

I refuse to answer on the principle that I don't submit to religious tests. You can call this bullshit if you like, you've said you're not here for mutual understanding and so I understand that you're not interested in my point of view.

> there was not any meaningful “election fraud” or whatever?

Of course there was meaningful election fraud. Any fraud is meaningful because it challenges the idea that free and fair elections are possible.

> Anything other than a yes-or-no answer to my question is bullshit.

Those were two questions, a yes-or-no answer wouldn't have even explained which one I was answering.
Best Books of 2020 are about giving power to the user
I was mildly curious what that'd look like:

https://ibb.co/qnx2Y4H

Or, another way, % change compared to the average:

https://ibb.co/5T5dMZk
I thought the Nat guard was already mobilized to put up the barrier to the courthouse?
Agree completely, no way to live. It was not sustainable, and only required after my job switched locations. I was working on alternative arrangements, but COVID gave me that.
This seems like a particularly inflammatory characterization of events. I'll just say that I think Kenosha was a tragedy, ideally Rittenhouse shouldn't have been there. Ideally there wouldn't have been riots in the first place, and failing that, the government should have effectively marshaled the police and national guard to keep the peace so (largely untrained) private citizens didn't have to do the job. I can understand why police viewed those private citizens as "help" in keeping the peace, but obviously that's problematic (bringing us back around to the rioters creating the situation and the government failing to adequately manage it). And of course everything Trump says tends to do more harm than good.

As for Rittenhouse's "victims", by all appearances Rittenhouse was acting in self defense--maybe he was instigating the conflicts before the cameras started filming, but there's no evidence to support that; on the other hand, the footage does show Rittenhouse being chased and physically attacked before firing. I'm inclined toward the presumption of innocence, but I also understand that this is very controversial.
Yes, exactly.

Making a working reactor is as easy as disoling a critical mass of uranyl nitrate in a bucket of vodka.

Making a lasting reactor that will work non-stop for years is not so at all.

This is why I am sceptical about this. Solid fuel is by far more troble free, even if it doesn't last that long.
Make a non generic game then. Players don't care how you coded it.

My point is, if you want to make a game, make a game. Making an engine is the ultimate distraction. You should only be considering an engine after you have a few similar games under your belt and know there's a market for it.
> In some ways, AirPods Max feel quite a bit like a premium Aeron-style modern desk chair — the mesh canopy atop the headband, the telescoping steel stems, the general sturdiness.

In some ways, possibly.

Here's what's nice about Aeron chairs: they last essentially forever. I got a second hand one for cheap. It's easily a decade old, possibly more, judging by the armrest mechanism (which had a redesign, mine is old). Using it every day for two years, on top of what it already had. Still looks brand spanking new.

In case something breaks, I can easily replace any component. There is a healthy replacement parts market. In fact, the person that sold it to me was essentially living off "flipping" Aerons - they would get them wholesale from companies, and then refurbish them.

If you are buying them new, they are covered by a 12 YEAR WARRANTY. Parts and labor.

The AirPods price would be totally justified if they were even remotely like this. Make the battery user-replaceable (even better if they are swappable, for more run-time) and provide user-replaceable parts, plus a healthy warranty, and this could be potentially the Aeron of the headset world.

It isn't, though. The battery is the most egregious issue. Sure, we can understand why Airpods don't have replaceable batteries. Not that it's impossible, but at least it's understandable - they are tiny. It's also possible to understand why Macbook batteries are not easily replaceable - they occupy most of the internal space and are rather fragile.

I don't know what Apple's excuse is, this time.
Well that's the thing. Regular ephermal news is essentially a commodity, and while I do love some privacy preserving edge computing, but it's hard to figure out how to monetize this. If you have a browser, you can, but if you don't have the browser, you can't really, unless you can get people to install your extension, and that seems like a very limited business model.
Is there any research on the distribution of personality types in the entire population and analysis whether traits that might seem annoying in a particular individual are, in the aggregate, an evolutionary benefit? You often hear studies (quality unknown) that whether someone is conservative or liberal is at some level (epi)genetic. It might seem annoying, but maybe there's some societal advantage. That or we'll self-annihilate - :-)
Maybe it is just Oklahoma and New Mexico, but most of the MBAs I work with have engineering or other technical backgrounds. Endless MBA bashing is like making fun of liberal arts students half worth a damn do both anyways.
This seems unnecessary when all you need to do is define a key for org capture (I'm assuming here that Cmd-N is mapped to org-capture), which effectively drops you into its own keymap interface. Then the keys for each template are easily defined within template. Or is there something I'm missing here?

EDIT: Also, the user's reference to Cmd+N leads me to believe they are still using C-n for navigation but has a Mac, which has an additional key called "Command".
I talked to Century Link, and realized that they install a Mcafee "anti-virus" tool on their routers. I disabled this on the router, and the problem went away.

You might want to talk to Mcafee about their classifying your site as dangerous, or just curse them out like I've done when they listed my software as malware. For what it's worth, they do the same to emacssurvey.org so it's not just you :)
Jason Fried says you cannot validate an idea
Open FaaS – Serverless Functions Made Simple
Self-taught engineers of the old fashioned sort typically is a fancy way of saying really good with CAD & some intuition about what will fall apart. Credentials are more important for design engineers compared to software engineers.
Thanks for the feedback. I agree there is risk of larger technical improvements not happening enough if you only measure the number of changes.

Maybe a few things are happening:

1. Some large technical improvements can be shipped in multiple changes that add value.

2. Most companies do more large technical changes than is optimal.

3. Engineers are motivated to make the large technical changes since they are interesting and make their future work easier so they will prioritize them despite the measure.

4. GitLab is having fewer larger technical improvements than optimal.

5. Our dual career structure ensures that there are engineers who can do these larger technical improvements without being below average themselves because they are more productive than others.

6. We are not pushing very hard on this metric since we do it in a group setting instead of per individual.
> We do have most people looking at their phones while driving. We do nothing to prevent this.

What? If you're talking about the US, we absolutely do prevent this. It's banned in many states, and cause to be pulled over and given a ticket: https://www.findlaw.com/traffic/traffic-tickets/texting-whil...
Michael Reinoehl
> Honestly, I don't even get what ROS is about?

You can think ROS as a framework aimed at developing robotic applications (similar to what a REST framework would be for developing a web API). With it you get access to a lot of open source packages and tools out of the box (simulation via Gazebo, native process communication using pub/subs, autonomous navigation, joint transformation, etc.). There is a lot of dependence handling to make a robot work (component drivers, real time comm, planners, SLAM, the list goes on), if you are able to abstract something of the pipeline, it's worth it.

The whole thing might not seem very concise, but looking back, it was released aiming to facilitate research development, all these packages are maintained indepently. ROS2 is an attempt to tackle some architecture and scope issues brought up by the industry.
It's not intended to be sleight of hand. Confidentiality is the gateway drug. The argument is that, once you're using TLS for that, the incremental cost of adding client certificates and doing mTLS to reduce blast radius is lower. It's not zero. It is lower.

I'm also not arguing that some active mechanism to immediately remove attacker access is unimportant. Of course it is. I'm arguing that active certificate revocation is not the only way to achieve that. I gave two examples: remove access at the perimeter or push new policy to revoke access for the compromised entity. Most microservice systems already have tools here: they're typically adding mTLS on top of a perimeter model with decent privileged access management.

This is a bit of an asymmetric argument, in any case. I have all of my cards on the table. The opposition isn't really proposing any concrete alternative, so it's hard to make a meaningful comparison. If you want active revocation, implement active revocation. It's not easy, but OCSP and CRL exist and they do work. I even suggested a way to do it well: push a CRL to a cloud bucket, which is scalable and highly available. You can call that "cargo culting all of the idiosyncracies of the WebPKI", but I still haven't heard a concrete alternative. So where does that leave us?

The only concrete thing that's been proposed... that I had to propose myself, since no one else would even answer this very simple question, is macaroons. Which I've said repeatedly I think are a good idea. However, it's abundantly clear to me why people, in practice, are choosing client certs over macaroons. Macaroons can't layer into an existing system the way that mTLS can, and if all you want is "blast containment" you can get that with a fairly simple client certificate setup and a bit of coarse authorization.

Regarding CA availability: if you can't remediate an availability issue with a shared-nothing web service in 8 hours (the downtime you'd need for a cert to expire in a default step-ca setup) then you've got bigger problems than certificate management. The 24 hour default is long enough for people to remediate an outage and short enough to get people operationally comfortable with the idea of short-lived certificates. If I were to use shared secrets instead of asymmetric keys, and I created a system that rotated all of my service-to-service shared secrets automatically every 24 hours would you say that's a bad idea?
Has anyone taken Compilers course from David Beazley: https://www.dabeaz.com/compiler.html. I'd love to hear your feedback, please
Is _this_ the point where everyone and their grandpa has finally figured out that Austin is cool, and therefore it is automatically not cool anymore?

What's the next hip town?
Love Loebs but I'm a little sad I first read Hesiod and a few others in these translations first. There's something endearing about the rather academic, literal versions but having since read others and seen the value of a good translator, I wish I could go back and read them for the first time understanding in something approaching the fluidity and tone of the originals.

Another thing, you know something is a classic when you can sell the same book for a century and still never find a cheap copy anywhere! I feel like I never see Loebs below $10 unless they're trashed and noted up.
I just came to Hackers News because I suspect there's way less mobile dev jobs than any others and found this post on algolia search. It's exactly what I wanted! Great little site. And just as I thought, Kotlin and Swift are near the bottom.
Dude, your mention of ResEdit just gave me major flashbacks! I remember first using ResEdit to "hack" games like Escape Velocity so I could gain more resources, make my ships more powerful, and so on.

God I loved their games SO much. As a kid that was not allowed any consoles and only had a Mac IICX, Ambrosia games were a lifesaver!
Until reading through TFA, I hadn't noticed just how mainstream QR codes seem to have become. In my head I was still kind of thinking of Pictures of People Scanning QR-codes¹.

¹ https://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/
I think you're missing their point

They aren't saying people should go after wine makers for wasting water. They're saying going after almonds is scapegoating. Calorie density will tend to come up in that context because the premise is that vegans are increasing demand for almonds which is squandering water on poor nutrition. This plays on memes about vegan diets being insufficient nutritionally

As it turns out neither almonds nor wine are really to blame for California's droughts. So yes, ferment some alcohol & be merry
Ross' attempt at realism fails. The paintings are neither realistic, nor an appealing stylistic take on realism.

I would apply the uncanny valley dynamic to his landscape paintings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
> Brave’s shortcomings

What would those be?
I’ve been also hearing a lot about Miami.
Despite having the great leadership of CEO Andy Grove Intel got MBA-ed, anti-engineering leadership and now we have Apple building far better performing laptops than the current Intel machines, even though Intel's mission is to build computer chips.

With next years Apple M1 replacements, and 2 years from now, expect that almost all of Apple's processors will not be Intel-based. Other firms like Dell will be selling ARM Windows machines which promise much better battery life (and perhaps a light machine with a smaller battery) to displace a lot of Intel in the laptop and desktop.

Boeing was MBA-ed as well which explains the resulting 737 MAX fiasco.
So ... what’s the other way? Getting the degree and then realizing the same thing?

Observation doesn’t speak loads?
This post originally pointed to https://www.remote.io/, but that domain has changed hands and the new owners asked us for a fresh start. I think it's reasonable in such a case to take the company name out of the title and the URL on the submission, so have done that here.
Reason is well known right wing propaganda. No place for it on HN.
The ones in white robes and cars. That happened in Charlottesville, if I remember correctly.
There is a middle ground to be found here.

Musk is managing his companies as pure hype-machines. This can only successfully work for a couple companies that operates as cult.

If there is one thing that made Tesla successful, is the charismatic leader personality of Musk. Tesla is only a success on the stock market. They are not profitable, and the coming years will be the turning point for EVs. I don't see them coming out ahead.
It is a misconception that when a company IPOs and the stock pops, that the delta is money left on the table. The vast majority of the shares are sold to institutional investors. There are explicit or implicit lock-up periods in place. And most of the pre-IPO investors will typically have a 6-month lockup. So if 10% of shares are sold in the IPO and 10% of those shares are actually trade-able, only 1% of the total stock is liquid. That can lead to very large price swings (i.e. the pop).
Yeah, it would be good if Apple fixed it, I'm as hurt as you.
>People are being (unknowingly) manipulated and the sheer quantity of misinformation is being mistaken for evidence of truth.

This is something you said that I originally replied to. We don't agree on what constitutes truth, so we can't have a reasonable conversation, and we also can't fairly judge what is and isn't misinformation, because we don't agree on the basics.

This is the point I'm making. I don't believe that climate science is nearly as valid as everything that goes into making my computer work, because my computer works. I have evidence in the real world that my computer works, so all the physics that went into it must be pretty solid. I don't have evidence that climate science works, because climate scientists can't run their models 100 years into the future, see what happens, then change a variable and run it again to see what changes (with the same accuracy that you'd have if you ran the experiment in real life). Their models are fundamentally less powerful than anything that went into making my computer work by the very nature of the discipline.

Most of politics falls way closer to climate science in terms of its power as a science than it does to the physics that goes into a computer. This, fundamentally, is why "truth" and "misinformation" when talking about politics is generally pointless. There are very few discussions in current day politics that are about truths as solid as what makes a computer work. Most of it are around fields like climate science, economics, social science, which are all softer (and thus more corruptible) fields.

The reason I said we won't be able to have a reasonable and logical discussion about this is because you probably disagree with everything I just said, and you likely won't really change your mind about it. I certainly won't change my mind about it, so we're forever stuck not being able to reconcile our different views of the world in regards to the relationship between politics and science, and thus we'll never be able to reach 'ground truth' from which we could then work up towards stopping the spread of misinformation. A general notion of truth itself has to be agreed upon before we can have reasonable and logical discussions about this subject, but that likely won't happen.
Off topic, but do the programmers you know that can't read English struggle using programming languages and libraries where the keywords, class, variable, and function names are primarily in English? I'm curious how beginning or ESL programmers manage. Are there ecospheres where they can manage using only their first languages?
> Also, isn’t it possible if there was fraud that it was discovered later? Shouldn’t that be “allowed”?

No, a finding of fraud isn't allowed because all the results of the election have been certified as not fraudulent by authorities beyond question.
>I would say Bob Ross is more famous for being an art teacher than for being a great artist,

I agree. You summarized my point much better
But not musicians (the latency makes it unusable), so the target market for extreme audio quality will be elsewhere, buying conventional analogue wired Audio-Technicas or Sennheisers; and not people exercising (they'll fall off your head), so the target market for that will be buying smaller earbuds.

I have a pair of AT's that happens to have Bluetooth and the only time I've used it is when mowing the lawn as a sort of ear protection with podcasts as a side benefit. Shitty audio quality would have been fine for this situation!

The market for this is the same thing as the market for a Gucci purse, basically, and that's fine, who cares; let it be for those people.
Daily. And it wasnt 12 on 12 off, it was 6 on 6 off 6 on 6 off, so you couldn't get good sleep
We are (and have always been) a fully remote company. Incorporated in UK with most of our team of 7 there.
It seems to me that it's a bit more nuanced than that and likely that Apple has more smarts in there than you describe.

They have on-head/off-head detection and pause playback when you take them off, so that immediately reduces power draw. Presumably they also have an accelerometer and can go to sleep when they don't move for a few minutes.

The case induces a deeper sleep mode that preserves more power, turning off bluetooth, and the processor that's monitoring movement detection.
If that is the case, then the governor is supporting the federal government. Has anyone received a statement from the governor?
This would make huge waves of distortions around these events. Who is going to be able to get a 30 year mortgage to buy a house if the debt reset is in 15 years? Now only people who can afford 15 year mortgages. As you get closer it gets worse. Then it all resets after.

I think the problems you’re trying to address with this need to be addressed in a more fundamental and continuous way.
We try to not go below the level of a group when making productivity assessments. So measure the team instead of the individual. This is indeed to encourage helping each-other out as you noted.
How is Porsche stealing the limelight? With the Taycan? Which starts at >$100k, with half the range and slower 0-60 numbers than a lumbering $70k base model Model S? (I know they're not direct competitors, I expect the Porsche to have significantly better fit/finish and handling, and the Taycan doesn't really sit 5 comfortably). At the top end, it looks a bit better, but then it's priced in the range of the 2021 Roadster, which seems likely to be a monster.

VW's offerings are obviously more affordable, but they don't seem to offer the same range per buck that Tesla does?
I can still remember his voice saying something like "ahhh pain" when you got damaged!
Is this also an OSHA case for the law enforcement personnel assigned to the protests ?
It wasn't the state. The governor and mayor were complaining. What I don't understand is why the governor didn't call up the national guard to kill the federal bully boys.
I haven't done exact measurements, but I don't think the cost of enabling TSO is anywhere near as high as 20%. On the contrary, I don't think I have noticed a real difference; perhaps it is but a couple percent slower.
There is circumstantial evidence to indicate that the 1889 pandemic was actually caused by another coronavirus and not influenza.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7252012/