skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> By use I am referring to people directly using NOAA or other government apps/websites to directly access it without intermediates. Other companies repacking that same data bring very little to the table.

Huh? Did you even look at the links I provided above? They are literally what your talking about. One is a free government run website that any person can use to get a weather forecast, the other is a free government run website where any person can download raw weather data and use any way they like. So no intermediates or companies required.
As a user, what I really want is just high-quality information. No click-bait headlines, auto-play movies, or hijacking standard browser scrolling. Images are fine if they actually help to convey useful information, but beyond that less is more. I'd also prefer to see less opinion-based content out of Google News and more factual reporting... and a lot of times I feel like these "story" type articles tend to cherry-pick the facts to fit into whatever narrative they are trying to tell.

I understand that other people might have different preferences, and I'm sure Google has a bunch of data that proves this stuff improves click-through rates and engagement. But I have been checking Google News several times a day out of habit for years now, and I think it's time to break that habit. Much better I think to just frequent a small number of high-quality sources than to try to drink from the firehose of crap on Google News.
Cerno! What are you doing here?
To be fair, this worked out for some companies (Target.com was originally Amazon run)
Three Signs a ‘New Arctic’ Is Emerging
What happens when the velocity of money picks back up?
I think I would find it great fun to take a Clojure codebase like this one that you inherited and refactor it to something workable and maintainable! I agree it's probably not a job for a Clojure newbie.
Most busy sites have to put Redis/Elasticache in front of Dynamodb, or do app caching of hot keys, to save money. Typically 90% less.
OT: “The Web has evolved. Finally” - proceeds to open several modals like the popups of the 90s.
China's first chick hatched without an eggshell
So maybe I am just not familiar with the jargon but is this basically the idea of libraries and universities giving them donations and then they make their journal public for free?

Either way I'd be interested in signing up for it.
I'm fairly sure that Pop!_OS is Ubuntu based rather than Debian based.
> It made like 1 dollar a month.

Linus of Linus Tech Tips talks about this. His old employer wasn't interested in his YouTube channel because it was raking in somewhere in the neighborhood of $1, but it was 1000% growth over the previous year or something like that.

Growth is growth.

And congrats, your success story is awesome to read. I've got a similar long road ahead of me.
It’s unclear how it could have been anticompetitive from day zero.

Are you suggesting that all devices capable of running an open operating system must have a way to allow one to be installed?

If so, I can get behind that as an actual law worth supporting, but it doesn’t seem like an anti-trust issue.
> firmware updates for BIOS among other things

There's a growing distro-agnostic solution here, LVFS fwupd https://fwupd.org/
this is my shocked face
Sure. Contact information in my profile.
Heh, yeah. It sounds like you prefer Debian in general, and so do I - not only am I a Debian developer too, I'm typing this on my personal laptop running Debian. That said, sometimes I pick Ubuntu in a work context to be less of an oddball, since my work contexts tend to be the trendy cloud-focused tech startups where Ubuntu is comparatively common and I want to direct my day-job sysadmin energies toward my employers' infrastructure instead of my laptop.

Despite that, at the company I'm helping to found as CTO, I may need to set a default of Windows in the short term: the story for using MS Office and screen sharing / other fancy features of Zoom on Linux isn't great, web dev on Windows is getting surprisingly good with things like WSL and VS Code, we don't already have a fleet of Intel-based Macs to use, and for now the new M1-based Macs are likely to demand workarounds for the CPU architecture on which we can't spend the necessary time at this extremely early stage of our corporate lifecycle.

Macs will probably become a viable option for us again in a couple of years, and Debian / Ubuntu will probably be viable from day 1 for any technical employees who don't need the commercial software I listed above.
The algorithm this ex-googles came up with is hilarious, hard to believe this guy came out of google. I thought they were big on algorithms in their interview process? Maybe I should consider putting in an application. If I was interviewing an applicant and they put down the marker after producing that in a whiteboard session they would have quite a bit of work to do in order to get to the next interview phase. Not only did ex-googler not catch those mistakes, his team of 7 actually sat down and coded it without spotting the problem.
What did you guys use on Android? Was it painful to have to maintain both apps?
I'm curious if you'd say the same about Republicans repealing Obamacare dozens of times, knowing the bills would go nowhere.

To me it looks like a bad-faith effort and a waste of everyone's time.
Oh I agree with you. When I say 'candid', I mean they conveyed the sense they were sharing some internal opinion that it was entirely about Apple playing commercial games, when in retrospect I don't think that was correct – there were technical issues that made it a non-starter on mobile (battery, smooth UX as you say).
I think the libraries/standard collections having the functions they have is a _huge deal_.

Some other example, Python and JS are both similar languages in many respects. But even something as simple as not having list comprehensions makes JS more fidgety when you're writing simple code.

Python not having great utils for stuff like "give me this dictionary, but without these three keys, but keep the original dictionary intact" (Clojure has dissoc for this) also makes it a bit fidgety compared to Clojure.

"You can write all of this" maybe, but at one point you're really going upstream from the base language.
With the shift of logic from the backend to the frontend (with the rise of clientside frameworks) it feels one thing that simply hasn’t matched the pace of transition is tooling for frontend testing.

It’s a tricky problem. We just started using Percy/Cypress at our company.
I wonder if they've actually only replaced letters with X's. It seems like a poor decision to leave spaces in place, as people can attempt to guess the words based on their length. It's probably randomized, but why bother doing that instead of just "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"? Odd.
I’ve mostly given up on tech stack automation for my daily life. But I live and breathe on Reminders.app.
I'm not going to suggest the back end environment because that will ultimately be what works for you. But where to start, would be something that you know or that interests you.

If you do front end work and have access to the back end of it you might start there, because then you don't have to learn the elements and how data is collected/presented just how its organized and processed.

If its something you like or are interested in then dream up how you would do it. You can start with sketching out your front end screens and then think of what needs to be stored and what needs to be done to get whatever you want from it.

Of course there is a lot more to back-end databases, data schema, use considerations, etc. If it something you know and like then you have got something to keep you interested as you go about problem solving and learning.

Depending on the subject (mapping, games, stock market, whatever) and method of how/where the data needs to be accessed/stored/retrieved will go a long way to help you determine the best back-end environment.
The single person is avoiding tax in the same way and to the same extent as any shareholder in a limited company. If they wanted to fix the "loophole" they should tax dividend income the same as employment income for everyone in the UK. Singling out individual contractors is arbitrary and complicates the tax system for everyone.
I kinda feel like this is the equivalent of quitting my job to focus on my garage band to make it big. Good luck though!
Your config language being turing complete doesn't work if you need to accept/validate config files from untrusted parties
It's a stretch to say that Apple copied Spotify when they had already cornered the online music market years before they released the iPhone - Apple Music is just a subscription to that library of music (of course, licensing prohibiting some songs from being on it).
Yeah agreed it's too fast. Back in 90s there was way less demand on resources.
This non-Turing-complete language space seems like it should be useful for UI themes and other user scripting in particular:

- hard to write exploits, can be shared/installed without warnings

- easy(-er) to predict behavior of themes so they won't break in new versions
I was thinking either thermal or power throttling. That's the biggest hurdle for high-end graphics cards on laptops.
If these are Linux kernel drivers then it sounds a bit like they might be GPL violations?
best buy has also greatly improved their selection in inventory. about 10 years ago when i was building a pc the best buy store by me in NJ would only have a couple options for RAM, hard drive, gpu, and they would generally be no-name or low end brands marked up.

fast forward to this year and when one of my ram modules died, i was able to get the specific model i needed next day pickup in store, and their return policy is excellent. they also have basically been the exclusive seller of nvidia 3070/3080/3090's in the US. really impressed by their turnaround
> Apps aren’t really that more expensive on iOS

Some are. [0] And because of the 30% cut many popular services simply aren't available through their iOS apps.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-app-makers-break-their-apps...
Yes, plenty stream.

https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/wiki/streamers - Jonathan Paulson is one who makes the leaderboard.

and look in the big daily answers threads like https://old.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/k9lfwj/2020_d... (make sure to load lots of comments, Reddit doesn't show all of them), and search for video/stream/twitch/youtube.
Sounds a lot like those game streaming services are just an end run around the App Store.

In any case it seems like the point is moot now because streaming games will be delivered to iOS via the web.
> I was in Beijing five years ago

China is ahead of everyone when it comes to electric cars and solar energy. They've fully embraced that this is a technological change that must and will happen. Precisely because of how aware they were of the air pollution issue.
Pretty much the last thing I want to do every time I step off a plane is download, install, and sign into a new app before I can get into a car to go to my hotel.
"Arbitrary recursion" is the correct claim; e.g. Coq allows recursion, but has restrictions so all programs terminate.
I use to spend a lot of time on Reddit looking for conversations that were relevant to my business. Promoting our products in the context of those conversations usually resulted in sales leads.

I built a tool earlier this year that streams comments from those forums, analyzes them, and pings me when a relevant conversation is found. I generally keep it running throughout the day in my local Terminal.
I question the accuracy of this article. I'll have to poke around for notes from the I2 TechExtra a couple of months ago, but NOAA was there and talked about what they have in the works.
Journaling.

I have a shell script that that creates a new markdown file for that day, which I write my journal entry into.

Another script compiles a year's worth of journal entries into an epub.

Another workflow I made is similar, but for tasks. So every day I run a shell script that copies the last day's tasks to a new file with the new day's date, forcing me to evaluate what was done the previous day (if anything). Some days are great, some days not so much.

The tasks also show in my browser's new tab page to further reinforce.
I thought this could be solved with a privacy wizard-style add-on, but WebExtensions aren't allowed to modify Firefox settings.
That lawsuit you're so excited about is a complete fraud, and you should feel ashamed for falling for such a transparent pack of lies. It's just recycling bogus claims that have ALREADY been disproven in court. But of course you believe it because you want to. Prepare to be sorely disappointed by reality. Texas has again made itself a laughing stock, and an embarrassment to the rest of the country.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-electio...

>Battleground states file fiery condemnations of election results lawsuit as 106 House GOP back Texas

>Officials in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia have filed ferocious condemnations of the Texas lawsuit in the Supreme Court that seeks to overturn election results in the four key battleground states won by Joe Biden.

>The Pennsylvania filing describes the move by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, and supported by Donald Trump, as using a “cacophony of bogus claims” in support of a “seditious abuse of the judicial process”, resting on “a surreal alternate reality”.

>State Attorney General Josh Shapiro wrote: “Texas seeks to invalidate elections in four states for yielding results with which it disagrees. Its request for this Court to exercise its original jurisdiction and then anoint Texas's preferred candidate for president is legally indefensible and is an affront to principles of constitutional democracy."

>Mr Trump lost the four key states, and the action by Texas is an attempt to invalidate millions of votes, thereby potentially swinging the election to him. The states’ court filings come as 106 Republican lawmakers signed onto the Texas brief in support fo delaying their certification of presidential electors.

>The Pennsylvania filing continues: “Texas's effort to get this court to pick the next president has no basis in law or fact. The court should not abide this seditious abuse of the judicial process, and should send a clear and unmistakable signal that such abuse must never be replicated.”

>In her state’s filing, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel described the challenge as “unprecedented” and “without factual foundation or a valid legal basis". She wrote: “The election in Michigan is over. Texas comes as a stranger to this matter and should not be heard here.”

>Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul called the lawsuit an "extraordinary intrusion into Wisconsin's and the other defendant states' elections, a task that the Constitution leaves to each state."

>Attorney general of Georgia Chris Carr concurred and argued that the case does not meet the standard for the court to hear it: “Texas presses a generalised grievance that does not involve the sort of direct state-against-state controversy required for original jurisdiction.”

>He continued: "And in any case, there is another forum in which parties who (unlike Texas) have standing can challenge Georgia's compliance with its own election laws: Georgia's own courts."
Off the top of my head I'd say that if you're budgeting for storage, the max you can afford for the time period that you'd need to recover data in the event of a budget overrun taking into considerations the delay time for notifications would be a way to calculate that. And that sounds like something that is reasonable to put on the customer to calculate.
It sounds like app developers would still have to deal with the problem, and pray that the OS gets the location logic right
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Ah true, the alternative would be six right hand turns or try to circle back trying to find a parallel road from which you could make a right turn.

In any case, a left turn in this situation is preferable in suburban and semi rural areas.
And the consumer experience isn't great when jumping between games during the day means opening 3 different launchers and having them constantly run in the background if you don't manually close them.

I've said this before: if Epic wins the lawsuit, you're going to either see the Epic launcher show up on Xbox, Playstation, and Switch or Epic's going to 'negotiate' with those publishers to get an extra 15% (or more) cut of sales.
I have something to tell you about CS researchers and whether they are actually good software engineers......

Seriously though, there are loads of papers out there that use ML variant programming languages (and not _about the language_) that I really wonder what papers you have been reading.

Let's not even get to all the older expert-system papers with stuff written in Prolog.

And yeah, loads of seminal CS papers are effectively just math.
> Their social media trails... everybody.

While it still existed, Google+ was far better than any other popular social media site around. I'm sure I don't need to offer any critique of Facebook, and Twitter's UX was an absolute disaster before they implemented usable threading.

Sure, our grandmothers weren't going to start using it, but I've seen what they're posting on Facebook and as far as I'm concerned that was an extreme positive.
Greece is around 37ºN, roughly the same as San Francisco. I wouldn't call that equatorial.
creator of TS was a maintainer of F# at microsoft when he created it. I see lots of parallels in the type systems.
Pnom Penh is one of the most boring and ugliest cities in South-East Asia
Looks like hell. I wonder if they ever thought of trying making the app into a kind of dumb terminal to a computer with a little bit of guts.
Today I learned bee dances appear genetic in syntax, but the bees appear to evaluate if the dance “makes sense” before acting on it. They also have a “mental map” of the area.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_learning_and_communicati...
> Still, if it is not the case, and people don't care, who is Apple to decide what is good and what is bad for people?

I have relinquished that decision to them. There's obviously no market research in this topic but the fact that people only go to the App Store to download apps and need an iCloud account to do so makes it pretty apparent that Apple is running things on their phone. People don't see that as a problem but only because it hasn't directly impacted them, or it has only impacted them in a way that is, in itself, disingenuous (ie piracy) or otherwise not something <society> would back them up on (the break from that being Epic Games' lawsuit where they were removed for offering direct payment - society/their player base is indeed going "yay Epic" and supporting them).
What do you mean python doesn’t have good tools to select what you need from a dictionary and keep the original intact, you just use a dictionary comprehension and boom you’re done...

new_dictionary = {__k: __v for __k, __v in original_dictionary.items() if __k not in {‘key1’, ‘key2’, ‘key3’}}

(written on my phone without a repl to double check but the technique is sound and i use it all the time)
Great response, thanks for taking the time to share your perspective, and the reminder of Stage3D development.

The rev-share licensing controversy was around the point I'd started moving away from the Adobe world.

As you illustrate, the web won and many of us in the Adobe community moved on (who weren't involved specifically in games etc).
Shovelling the real estate to a REIT does make the books better.

Pension plans will pay more money for real estate in a REIT than a Corp because pension plans don’t pay taxes, and REITs don’t either (when the recipient is a pension).

Sometimes the “sale” is a separate fund and they simply give each shareholder a REIT unit for every share they have.

Big corps with high family ownerships like these anyway because it helps isolate the RE from getting dragged down by the retail division. And it provides this diversification via tax-deferred spin-off.
Thanks for the information. Something I've wondered with these sorts of things is what's meant by "used" with water? I can understand measuring the input into the system, but there's a lot of outputs, & some of those outputs should flow back into the system sooner than others, causing variance of how much impact that input of water had on the surrounding areas' drought

Since you're saying 99% evaporation, I assume for most everything most water follows air flows which through the pareto principle collect to places which don't need water? (& may actively not want water in the case of flooding)
Is there a source for that one? because it seems like the whole problem is predicated on the phrase "not deformed by perspective".
1. They disrupted the hospitality industry, which used to be much more powerful than it is today, as it now weighs less in tourism numbers.

I don't necessarily think this is bad, disruption is often a sign of optimization.

2. Then there are markets where airbnbs have caused apartment buying and rental prices to go up much faster than what they should have, bringing millennials further away from home ownership. (not going to go into people getting evicted for landlords to open airbnbs, but deserves a quick mention)

This one is more tricky, as it is not strictly bad, but definitely not good. It tends to be good for some sectors of the economy (i.e. tourism, restauration, culture, etc.) As a whole(and in theory) it should drag -with some delays- the construction industry into building more housing units at a faster pace. Now, considering the economy as a whole was very good pre-pandemic and we were near full employment, construction companies likely had trouble finding more qualified workers to fulfill the demand. Government incentives were also either not present or not strong enough for new 'affordable' housing to be build in cities.

I know I went up fairly quickly over these issues, there is so much more going on, I strongly suggest reading/researching more about the various issues as there are definitely valuable startup ideas hiding in there.

Overall, I have no doubts the balance will be reached in the following decades:
(i)Regulations to limit the numbers of airbnbs, coupled with permits and taxes.
(ii)Strong government incentives to build more housing as I doubt people leave the cities for good following the pandemic, let alone remote working remaining the standard.
(iii)Airbnb modifying it's business model. i.e. keeping the actual airbnbs, but potentially acquiring hotel chains amongst other things.
> This seems to be more focused on the distribution. The screenshot makes it seem like it'll be shown on Chrome's new tab page.

Yes, the point of AMP is for Google to control content distribution on the web, and they entice you to give up control over your content by offering you exposure, for now, just like they did with the Top Stories carousel in Google Search.

The irony of Top Stories is that it forced publishers to use AMP in order to regain the search results placement they already had, before Google took it away by pushing down search results to make room for the new carousel that featured AMP pages.