skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A cron job that runs on a server and sends me a daily digest email. It’s composed of a number of modules that each check one thing and report a message and a “severity”. The glue code then orders them and send the email. Currently it checks:

Twitter follows/unfollows for me, my wife, and my Twitter bot

Stock movements for the few stocks (RSUs) I have

Confirmation that several daily backups (db dumps etc) were successful

Upcoming SSL cert and domain expirations

New GitHub stars

Disk space left on my personal server (running out tends to make it crash)

I know that looks like a lot of stuff, but the goal is for the script to programmatically determine which ones cross the threshold into being actionable/important and to hide/de-prioritize the unimportant ones for me so I can confidently ignore them and focus on any important ones.
You do realize how laws are being made and how loopholes find their way into tax codes? States are not individuals, you cannot treat them like a person, just being to dumb to do what's good for them. They are run by many people everyone of which having their own profit motives. So it is very easy to lobby them into doing stuff detrimental to the general public.

It is much easier for a company run by its founders to act morally. Airbnb does not, which to me is not the end of the world, but worth pointing out in thread about how great those founders supposedly are.

Suggesting that it is just the state's fault is a naive view.
Many crops that are water intensive are exported. Almonds, for example. There’s no need to import food due to water shortages, only to prevent farmers from exporting our water by way of these (very profitable) water intensive exports.

To your point, municipalities are most definitely going to need to buy out farmers to prevent water resource depletion. They should do so whenever market conditions value these rights at a discount (“buy low”).

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/07/22/425392169/epis...
There are lots of ~$150 meters on Amazon. (e.g. https://www.amazon.com/GZAIR-Temperature-Relative-Humidity-0...) I've used some of these meters and the quality you can get for $150 is surprising! I've basically just held meters near filters, windows, and fans to understand air quality.
Maybe mods will make it a reality in cyberpunk soon enough. I know that I,ve been planning on trying a witcher 3 playthrough with the first person mod.
>- specialization. M1 offloads oodles of compute to hardware accelerators. No idea how their code interfaces with it, but I know lots of the demos involve easy-to-accellerate tasks like codecs and neural networks

that wouldn't help in benchmarks, would it? Only in the most dishonest benchmarks would they compare x264 to a hardware h.264 encoder, for instance.
> If you're open to a real example, the "pronoun police" at my workplace suggest that when writing about hiring candidates, we use singular "they" instead of "he" or "she", in order not to call too much attention to the gender of that person when those evaluations are read by decision makers. The intent is to reduce any possible gender bias in hiring.

I am, and I like that. Like the example of hiring musicians after a blind listening. Kind of the whole schtick of that music show where the hosts spin around only after listening to the artist. fwiw, that's actually not considered progressive anymore because it amplifies the homogeneity of choice. Because of this or that factor, many cellists are one sex, or the QA department skews heavily towards one demographic. Without active HR grooming you don't get those SV pleasing diversity numbers where you have a numerical microcosm of the country. But yes, the idea of a meritocracy and blind hiring is always refreshing.

> To my eyes, in this thread, the person who is harping on pronouns the most, seems to be closest to having a mental breakdown over them, who can most accurately be described as "pronoun police", and who shows the greatest explicit tendency to control others' use of pronouns, is also the person who in the first place corrected an in-the-wild usage of singular "them" to "him".

Have you cared for groups of children? Like all bullies, SJWs try to make the victim appear the aggressor. As a current example, Letitia Wright got taken in by pseudo-science, but people attacked her (viciously!) for retweeting it even though she had been victimized by the "hoax". "You're pushing a message that KILLS PEOPLE! F you, cword", and so forth. Presumably if they found anyone taken in by Letitia's post they'd attack them too. Simply put, none of this is what you'd do to actually fix a problem, or if you actually cared about people.

In our case, look at how the person who used "them" responded to the criticism. They went straight to trying to ideological slander.

>> It seems like you dislike trans folk. I'm not sure what they did to hurt you, but I suspect your fears and hate are the result of conditioning.

Accusations of transphobia. That's not the kind of allyship that anyone needs. In fact, that's almost exactly how a troll who wanted to make people hate each other would act.

Yes, this is obviously a non-problem, but by their own rules, the OP assumed someone's pronouns. And when called on this they didn't respond reasonably but lashed out with essentially accusations of hate. If they intend to be helpful they should check themselves before they wreck their allies.
Looks like Microsoft PowerPoint got an upgrade
Apple's Backwards Compatibility Failure in Big Sur Sours Developers
I did some research a year ago and in terms of reliable quality Faribault (faribaultmill.com) is comparable. Not quite as old (only 1865), but by all accounts they still maintain the same quality product as ever. There's also Pendleton (pendleton-usa.com). I forgot why I chose Faribault over Pendleton for my purchase last year, but I did end up choosing Faribault, FWIW.

There are plenty of other quality wool blanket makers, but few if any in North America have maintained or even achieved the same impeccable reputations as these three.
Same as any other business: you raise capital for technology improvements through secondary stock offerings or bond sales. There's a surplus of investment capital out there available to any company that can sell a good story to investors.
> Also, most people only listen to some of the talks

Which is why I explicitly mentioned small conferences. The one I was talking about has 90 attendees total, only one session at a time in the same room, and in snowmass Colorado so if you're outside the conference hotel we can literally see you from up to half a mile away. Almost no one skips a single session in these conferences, especially the professors. For the most part they're paying attention as well, no one's on their laptops or dozing off.

Again, I spent a decade in academia, and if you're in fields such as biology and in some top institution, it's very rare that professors up to doing something meaningful have anything less than 60 hour weeks at any point in their career. This is more or less what me and my roommates actively discussed most of the time all through a decade, so I'm not just talking about anecdotal evidence. From what I understand, academia in other fields especially tech related can be less stressful than this. Being a oroefssor in a competitive field is really back breaking - You have to juggle a large number of roles and are constantly responsible for the lives of numerous people and lack many of the protections one would normally expect from any regular job in some ways.
Actually Linus studied the heck out of other codebases. For example, linux itself was inspired by UNIX and it is said that he studied MINIX (minified version of UNIX used for teaching) before he started developing linux.
It kinda feels like someone is paying you for this hot take. People needing food banks and food stamps is bad. It's obviously not Yemen bad. This is so obvious it's not really worth mentioning. We have moved on from pointless comparisons of degree to feeling empathy for these people and fear for what this instability will bring about.
wow! what do you think made them standout so much?
Recovering from thyroid cancer. Have interviewed at a few places and have been unsure what to say in the application. Also, have been insanely tired and unable to deal with the stress of interviews. The prospective employer didn't know about my situation. I completely tapped out in one of the interviews and was unable to focus but to the interviewer, I probably appeared like I struggled to answer their question. It's been life changing going through this.
I've heard about cypress and testcafe both being better alternatives to selenium, but then when I looked into it they both seem pretty similar to selenium. Is there some killer feature making cypress better? Has anyone tried all three and can clarify the differences?
Does this mean your entire desktop environment is a Docker container? Or are you using the docker container to setup on the host?
Raid on Florida Covid Whistleblower Shows Risks of Over-Reliance on IP Addresses
I've found playwright more useful: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright

It's an alternative to Cypress and from what I remember, it has a much better API.
While I was having a home built I made a script that monitors the local council building consent website and email me every time an inspection had been completed.

During a friendly weight loss challenge I wrote a script that pulled my weight from a smart scale and inserted a rolling weekly average into my column in our shared spreadsheet.

I made a website that scrapes motogp to build my own No Spoilers website with absolutely no Javascript and a far better layout than their silly horizontal scrolling cards layout.

I wrote a script to pull data from John's Hopkins and give me daily coronavirus updates in a more digestible way (since deprecated because I'm in NZ and would rather put it behind me).

Probably a bunch more I'm forgetting about.
I also work at a large bank, I can see why clojure wouldn't work for a bank. I would blame the bank for being incompatible with clojure more than the other way around though.
Right the M1 is based on A14 - the iPhone/iPad chip. It’s just the first PC one based on that architecture. Making top of the line mobile chips has given them a huge efficiency leg up. The SoC also gives big gains compared to a traditional separation of memory modules and CPUs
I imagine part of it is vertical integration. If you make the hardware that the CPU integrates with, and the OS that runs on the hardware, you can do a lot of optimization.

Intel CPUs don't know what memory they're talking to, i.e. they have to support a variety of memory. Likewise they don't necessarily know what OS they're running; how it context switches, etc. If it's virtualized, etc. Sure they have optimizations for those common cases, but the design is sort of accreted rather than derived from first principles.

To make an analogy, if you know your JS is running on v8, you can do a bunch of optimization so you don't fall off the cliff of the JIT, and get say 10x performance wins in many cases. But if you're writing JS abstractly then you may use different patterns that hit slow paths in different VMs. Performance is a leaky abstraction.
Yep, they're both pretty comparable in their API surface, and more general purpose than Apple Geo Anchors, as neither are tightly coupled with GPS. Rather you create an anchor and then save it to the cloud. On your own you can tie it to a GPS location if you'd like. Though Azure Spatial Anchors does have more functionality than Google Cloud Anchors (Coarse Relocalization + find nearby anchors in the anchor graph).
I feel like I should point out that tmux is quite happy to take commands directly on the command line: `tmux new-window -n srv` will make a new window named "srv", `tmux next-window` will move you forward one window, etc. Hit prefix-? to list the commands bound to each key when you're running.
The most simple and obvious explanation by far is that demand has outpaced supply. The thing your analysis is missing is that this mismatch is entirely artificial. It is more or less illegal to build new housing. It is structurally and legally impossible to construct enough housing to meet supply. Zoning prevents most of it and excessive regulation takes care of the rest. The cost of housing is astronomical because it's illegal to build enough of it.

I'll turn your phrasing around and say show me a city that makes it legal to build as much housing as people desire for 30 years that still has high prices and I'll consider your point of view. But until then, it seems to me that you're going to have to make it legal to build housing if you want more housing.
> But what we have seen again and again in recent years is that even when we lower the bar down to the floor, they still manage to trip over it.

Correction: slither under it. They don't get over it, even by tripping.
https://hndigest.com/

I receive the top 100 HN links by email every week.

It reduces the amount of time I visit HN. Of course this time is an exception.
Git diff by line in Sublime Text
I very dislike Cypress as well.

This even model is sooo confusing, clumsy and error-prone that writing any non-trivial test is a challenge. Whole product uses async/await or Promises and suddenly you have to switch to this baroque model just to write a test. Reusing logic between production code and tests is pretty much impossible.

Dynamic pages etc. often confuse cypress. I'm actually not a frontend developer, so I don't have a lot of insight while exactly that is, but I just know that it has been a huge drag.

Other than that, it would be OKish. Being able to test the UI is great, but I would advice everyone not to base the whole testing strategy on it. It's just too heavy, slow and unreliable. It doesn't not scale even moderately with the product growing.

e2e testing is better done on API level, IMO. You'll want redesigns, changes of UX, and suddenly your changes will require updating tests, which otherwise (if done on the API level) would require no modifications.
You are personifying "the people" or "the state". Your argument does not make sense. Everyone has their ownn priorities, resulting in this situation. Not all politians are corrupt, it is just very hard to change things if all the money is so overwhelmingly against it and the topic is not big enough to really enrage the public.
It's also worth mentioning that Eddie Lampert's roomate in college was Steve Mnuchin, who he put on the board to assist in the looting of Sears'.

Both are currently being sued due to their role in the downfall of the company.
Back in ye olden days, apps either shipped with their own updater, or shipped with no updater.

If my understanding of the history is right, that's how Steam was born. A unified update tool for Valve's games. It was pretty cool that all my Valve games were managed in one place! "I wish every company did this!". While it was nice that there was really only one primary place for games (Steam) for a while. And it's really nice when most games can be acquired in one or two places. I think the landscape has changed and "download managers" and their glorified counter part "app stores" are much more common... at least the worst case scenario is what I once wished... "Every company/publisher has their own App Store"

Just my two cents.
Maybe don't set yourself a "project" (quotes intentional). The idea of a "project" implies busy-work.

Do something completely out of left-field. For instance, learn APL. It's like reading a Jorge Luis Borges short story.

Why? Why not.

Rinse. Repeat. Relish in the non-projectness of it. After a while, joy might come back.
There are employers are asking this question? What purpose does such a question even serve? Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen even to ask.
I disagree. Putting a dollar amount on your free time is a very smart thing to do. When I hire someone to clean my house I don't do it with the expectation that I am saving money, but that the amount I am spending to steal more time away from something I don't enjoy is 100% worth it.
I use email for many automations. Email is very flexible, lots of services directly integrate with email and for all the other stuff there is zappier. Some examples

* mailing something to todo@mydomain will put it in my todo list (i.e automatically forward actionable emails, jira tickets etc)

* mailing a link to videodl@mydomain will run youtube-dl on the link and then upload the video to onedrive. I also have a companion apple shortcut that does this from the share sheet without even opening the mail client.

* sending a pdf to pdf@mydomain will send it to my ereader

* article@mydomain will parse the link, remove ads and reply with the html contents of the article

For the backend i run an instance of n8n.io which can listen for emails via imap and run custom scripts based on the email address
Disney+ drops Andor teaser, announces gazillion other Star Wars projects
1. Read non-fiction. All non-fiction. Everything. If time becomes an issue read summaries of everything. But good summaries...they can be hard to find, but they are there.

2. Realize how broad an undertaking that is. So figure out the major components of human undertakings and make certain you cover all the components. Say agriculture horticulture and food, building, clothing/fabrics, infrastructure (electricity, water, oil/gas, wastewater, transportation, communications, computing), manufacturing, mining, medicine, law and order, military studies, entertainment, visual arts, music, literature and rhetoric, linguistics, education, religion. A true university education, as in learning everything a large university has to offer at some reasonable level. Not just checking off a distributional requirement.

3. Each of these are a human endeavor and are defined by a fairly distinct subculture with vocabulary, norms, values, ways of thinking, cultural code words. Learn them. Don’t learn to be a nurse, but “grok” the nursing subculture (which will involve learning a little but don’t go poking people with needles). Don’t practice medicine, but maybe read the Merck Manual. Empathize with the subcultures...

4. Science and math is the universe (in the form of human beings) straining to understand itself. Learn the STEM subcultures, but then learn what the universe has found out about itself, at a suitably abstract level.

Once you’ve done that, then explore whatever brings you joy. Keep current, but once you have the foundations they are pretty light updates. Then go deep on whatever personally interests you. They become the spice of your personality in this human life.
Show HN: Paperai – AI-powered literature discovery engine for medical papers
I don’t mean to sound snarky, but why? Is this for your personal desktop or something else?
Unfortunately Jon Stokes at Ars Technica and David Kanter at RWT have most stopped doing CPU design articles. The AnandTech one is the best I’ve seen: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...
BM77,BM78
Recently, I found some more popular modules to replace the module, test one, replace BM77, BM78.Feel from the function and sense of use, after sale, this model is better
https://www.feasycom.com/product-Small-Size-Bluetooth-Dual-M...
Probably the most helpful automation in my life is the automatic door on the chicken coop. Swings open in the morning and closes automatically at night.
Missing [Gandi.net](https://www.gandi.net/en-US) for Google Domains replacement. Incredible service.
Cypress is great. We use it at Draftbit. e2e testing is straight forward. We test most of our platform with this (on top of some stronger unit tests). Love it
Lots of other comments point out the vertical integration.

For raw single-thread performance:

1. ARM64 is a fixed-width instruction set, so their frontend can decode more instructions in parallel.

2. They got one honking monster of an out-of-order execution engine. (630 entries), which feed:

3. 16 execution ports.
I feel like hudson bay was already on a declining path even before amazon was a thing
Maybe - but how do you know they are off loading to a hardware encoder?

Example: I run a benchmark for AES encryption - a modern CPU will have circuitry designed explicitly for this task and it's asm instructions. An old CPU just supporting the base x86 instructions probably doesn't have a hardware solution. Is it unfair to compare them?

If the utilisation of the hardware accelerators is completly opaque to the user (not importing special libraries) is it unfair that one CPU has specific hardware implementation for common tasks and one only has the generic circuitry?
Vaccines Herald Return to Offices, but Workers Don’t Want to Go
Insurers also sold "business interruption insurance" which claimed to cover things like business interruption due to a pandemic by SARS or similar respiratory viruses (virii?) and once Covid hit they declined to pay (some cases are being litigated right now but it's likely to take years for a verdict to be reached).
>To say all livestock grown for meat consumption are “tortured” is a gross generalization.

I'm aware, and wasn't trying to say that (hence "trillions" instead of "all").

I just said that, for an average (say) cow, if you assume current trends continue for decades and centuries, with no lab-grown alternatives, it is likely that over time trillions of cows will be raised in cruel conditions and killed for food.

While this is happening, there may also simultaneously be billions (or more) of cows that are raised with a lot of open space to graze on and are treated well before being killed. Relative percentages aside, it's still a high absolute number of animals tortured and killed.
What ramen profitability doesn’t include is health insurance. I did a gig earlier this year. Baby had a small incident and I paid $700 out of pocket. My wife was not happy with my venture, I started looking for a job very soon after.
> it says to me "people who think the network is Facebook and Google accessed through a web browser"

Did you type "Web" in lowercase to make a point? :)
In practice that's very not true. Plenty of room for undefined behavior in statically typed languages like Java, C# etc.
Do you just never cook for yourself? What service/method do you use?

I would love to reduce my cooking to weekends/whenever I feel like it, but I've had a really hard time finding a cheap, healthy, and sustainable way to do this. I always feel like I'm paying a more money to eat something that's not that great for me and tearing through gas/one-time-use plastics doing so.
What did Ford do?
I'm inclined to believe pg more than the wired reporter. The wired article reads like it had been dramaticized.
There is no way to properly refuse those cookies.

I've worked hard to block the HTML div with ublock origin, but recently it's messing with the html, adding overflow:hidden at weird places. I've added a rule to fix it but it's not a silver bullet.

Youtube videos must be restarted because of the consent thing pauses the video or ask to sign in.

I'm wondering if I've been noticed by Googles ad engineers because they must have developed tools related to this rgpd thing.

On Facebook it's even worse.

To be honest it's a fun game of cat and mouse and I'm so happy to have Firefox, containers, strict mode, etc.
Waldemar Haffkine: The vaccine pioneer the world forgot
As a fun side note, the CEO of HBC made more than the CEO of American Airlines! Yay for profit before long term business plans, and looting 350+ year companies
There is a corner reflector mirror on the moon that you could bounce a laser beam off. Of course that doesn't prove that astronauts where on the moon but it at least proves that something visited the moon.

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2004/2....