skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to see a measure of criticality that takes the following into account:

* Critical projects may have very little activity/maintenance. For example, Bash 4.0 to Bash 5.0 was only 123 commits over 8 years. But, Bash is a absolutely a critical project (ask any org about how much work they had to do when affected by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellshock_(software_bug) ).

* A measure of criticality should understand _as many of the various forms of dependence on software_ that may occur that it can. Dependencies can take many forms, such as:

a package manager resolving a dependency

a user purchasing a mobile phone with software pre-installed

a user visiting a website (react/jquery/etc)

etc.

* Criticality should understand if, how, and when dependencies are updated. For example, fixing a bug in Chrome and distributing that fix to 80% of users in 1 week is feasible. Fixing a bug in Bash and distributing that fix to 80% of users in 1 week is not so feasible.
I haven't experienced lip-sync latency with bluetooth watching video in years. Appletv, iPhone, iPad, MacBook - all sync video and BT audio up properly to account for latency.
Writing this on a System 76 laptop running the latest PopOS and I wish I had the same experience. Sleep/wake works if I explicitly put my machine into sleep, but not if I just close the screen.
My only proof from personal experience was when my wife got it, and lost her smell. Never having heard of that symptom for flu before, that was my personal proof.

Until a colleague told me he lost his smell 2 years ago after a serious flu.

I still do believe the virus exists, but not having the equipment to look at it myself how can I be absolutely certain?
Functors and Monads already exist in Rust, you just can't talk about them in the trait system. Option, Result, and Future are all both Functors (map) and Monads (and_then). You've probably used them without even knowing, because we didn't give it some weird, unlearnable category theory name.

If someone were to create an explicit trait for them and RFC it, they'd probably name it something like Map and Then rather than Functor and Monad.
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That's a fair point. Thanks!
This is state dependent. In some states, voting in person after sending a mail in ballot is a felony.
Just for completeness sake. In the EU a bachelor's is 3 years, a master 1 or 2 (2 being the standard) and a PhD 3-5 years. It depends on the country, so it's possible to get 3+2+5.
I didn't make the equivalence of iOS to XP, the commenter did. I did pick iOS 12 to make a point, but you're right it is apples to oranges, and that's also proving my original assertion.

The original comment was that Apple should charge for iOS versions, to which I was saying that is a bad idea. By your comment, (I think), you would agree with my statement.
Might be worth mentioning that you do not have to resort to printf debugging in Rust or python; both languages have good ide debugger support. I use python and rust together professionally.
The plastics chosen for lenses are incredibly resistant to UV light due to many additives and often powder coatings, and in general incredibly dimensionally stable. This is actually when even very expensive lenses often use plastics inside, because those plastics don't expand/contract/deform as much because of heat as metals, leading to more precise optical alignments and higher image quality.

Ironically, since these lenses often need much smaller adjustments and don't need as much to be readjusted after taking them apart, I find it easier to repair them than some complex metal lenses.
>So if you're a plumber and you're looking at two parts that don't connect but need to

then you force it together with whatever you have at hand, and wrap it all in a thick layer of duct tape. That's exactly like software engineering.
I misread this as how I got my $9.99 MIR (mail in rebate) after 7 years.
> but rather because you can't actually acquire a Windows for ARM license

You'd still have to develop all the device drivers required for this custom SoC. After all, Linux doesn't need a license but without extensive documentation and support from Apple it's like saying you're free to challenge your boss openly, it's pedantically true, but it is impossibly impractical for most.

Unless Apple provides extensible documentation for 3rd party drivers to be developed for their SoCs it's just cheap talk from their side.
Depending on your area, new taxes are hard to implement and new taxes on old infrastructure would cause a riot.

It’s well known that our water infrastructure is woefully underfunded, not to mention the plethora of bridges needing important maintenance.

These issues aren’t being addressed because of the legions of anti tax, pro free stuff Americans. We’ve had it so good for 70 years no one ole at to accept that “great again” will require a lot of taxes or money from trees.
Germany already pledged to shut them down. The problem is that the timeline is stupidly long. The country is also in the process of introducing a minimum CO2 price that is going up year by year. Hopefully that will convince the operators of the coal plants to turn their plants down because of economics instead of a direct ban.
I imagine that not using web browser for authoring blog posts would make most sense. Maybe something like "post by email" would work better? https://wordpress.com/support/post-by-email/
Yep this is why I'm also weary of people who suggest to "just learn COBOL" for a job.
Also did lots of things that didn’t scale!
Configure-Cloudflare-as-a-Service ^^
The Volkswagen scandal was only indirectly about CO2 emissions. Volkswagen cheated regarding their NOX emissions in Diesel cars which are not relevant to climate change but potentially dangerous to those living near streets or in big cities.
Exactly. This should all be under an extension that if you haven't selected won't be installed and won't be updated.
> no one should spend his life picking up shitty code left by his elders decades ago.

Would you say that to a civil engineer who works on infrastructure maintenance?

Computing is critical infrastructure in many areas of government and business. The solution to all problems cannot be “screw it, we’ll just rewrite in Go with a React frontend.” Some things should be rewritten and some should be maintained.
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It’s very odd way of talking on this site. People are excessively polite for no reason. It sounds like two bearded man are having organisms by talking with each other. What a disgrace!

Why you weird people are acting so nice to each other? I get basic politeness but this is too much. WTF uses expression awwww thanks bud as a man?

Did most of you not have manly figures in your life? It’s so bizarre way of writing and acting here.
Silicon Valley operates on a constant influx of 22-year-olds.
> Its fine for you doesn't mean its fine for other.

True. I mentioned that disease which causes actual pain.

That is a legitimate reason.

However

If your reasoning is "It's uncomfortable" you are being ridiculously childish, and risking the lives of others.

I literally cannot understand the "I would rather risk killing someone than having this piece of cloth on my face for a few hours" mindset.

EDIT: Spelling (that -> than)
I can understand it if you place a high degree in your own government to look out for your interests and distrust the foreign power.

However if you distrust your own government it makes little sense to put all your data eggs in their basket.

I don't understand where principles come into it. Privacy is about risk avoidance.
This is how I feel about Linux on my laptop. Haven't had any sleep or dock issues in a long time. I think that PCs are much better overall about power management than they used to be. I think most of that has to do with the hardware vendors, and less to do with Windows or Linux.

Macs have always nailed it. When I worked at a computer store like 15 years ago, people would bring in their Macs, open up the lid and it would wake instantly after being asleep in someone's bag for 2 weeks and still have a 90% charge. Any Windows PC in that era would have run until it overheated and melted, or ran out of battery, whichever happened first.
Are your projects still up? Can I take a look at what you've built?
Sandy Munro opens up more about the Tesla 4680 cell and the new battery pack
Slack has some pretty weird blind spots as a business, too, like that one where all your hundreds or tens-of-thousands of employees must be part of the same general chat channel, where anyone can ping the entire company.
10 seconds to boot is 10 times longer than 1 second to wake up, and after waking up all my state is back, vs extra seconds required to start apps and restore them to their previous state on boot.
I'm not aware of any plains with bountiful mammoth and fruit trees that I can colonise with my hunter-gatherer tribe, but then I'm not an expert in Google maps ;)

Nonetheless, i'm not sure that the last ten years of my Dad's life (suffering from vascular dementia) were particularly good for him (I know that they were super hard for the rest of us).

I think the general point is that it's hard to trade-off the quality of those extra years, which is the point I was trying (unsuccessfully, it appears) to make.
So really two things happened as a result of the internet. One, there are now many more places to buy advertising. People are seeing more advertising than they ever did before, and there is more competition to provide space. Two, demographic targeting.

Suppose you sell widgets at a margin of $10/customer. You buy an ad in the newspaper, 10% of the readers are prospective customers, 5% of the prospective customers buy the product because of the ad, so showing the ad to 50,000 readers is worth $2500. The newspaper knows this, and the market lacks competition, so that's about how much they charge.

The internet comes in. Now you can target based on demographics, so the percentage of people who see your ad who are prospective customers is now 40% instead of 10%, and showing it to 50,000 people is now worth $10,000. But there are also many more sites competing to sell advertising, so the ad network doesn't get $10,000, it gets e.g. $1000.

Then the advertiser says holy cow, we can make $10,000 by buying $1000 in advertising? Buy more until diminishing returns causes the marginal value to get back to breakeven. Go buy $5000 in advertising. They end up spending twice as much as before even though the price is lower. (Remember though that advertising is mostly zero sum. The advertiser isn't actually making a ton more money all of a sudden because their competitors do the same thing and it cancels out. They're only buying that amount of advertising because that's the amount of sales they lose if they don't.)

So the advertiser pays twice as much as they used to in order to get more value (or avoid losing more value) than they used to. But most of the money is going to Facebook and Google and diffused out to a million random kitten blogs, when it used to go to local media outlets.
> "haha, semi-automatics are normal guns and not assault weapons"

Specifically, the assault weapons ban has nothing to do with banning semi-auto weapons. It has to do with banning things like bayonets on weapons.

Thats the point. The only definition of assault weapon, that has ever existed in the law, has been regarding banning mostly cosmetic features of a gun.

> without having to engage the substance

The substance of the assault weapons ban, is regarding mostly cosmetic features. It is instead other people, who are trying to ignore talking about the actual substance and specifics.
> Now emulation I can get behind because when you are completely fed up of the idea you had it's easier to dispose of it than getting rid of it on ebay :)

Attaboy. I went the other way and realized that I wanted to buy some very modestly priced emulator-on-a-SoC for an old gaming console near and dear to my heart. That gave me the best of both worlds -- form factor and tactility of the real console with cost, speed, battery life of a present day android device. I must say, for a $40 Android device, I use it a lot more than I thought I would.
Do you have an example of using it in C or C++?
> If you don't have a bloated OS, there's no need for sleep/hibernate..

What are you talking about?
Sleep and hibernation can keep the state of the computer on next use.

Glad you can boot quickly but that's not the point.
I'm old enough to remember when Apple was marketed as different. Because they were niche - to choose Apple was to signal that you're different from the masses.

That's still somewhat true - they do not yet dominate laptop or desktop markets, and outside the U.S. they are not (as) dominant in smartphones.

But they do dominate some of the newer product categories, just as they dominated portable music players - tablets, smartwatches.

I'm unsure how much of the headphone market they harvest.

My point of all this is that many got the pleasure of feeling unique and "smarter than the rest" by getting the novelty Apple items that most people were too ignorant to value. But it evolved over time and now maybe it's something else?
My question is how someone can justify paying $550 dollars for headphones from Apple. I can get mid-range studio quality headphones for that price, from a company that is actually focused on producing the best headphones.

Apple has a huge R&D budget and I'm sure that they could make some very nice headphones if they wanted to, but up against a company that's been making really good stuff for 40+ years, I'm skeptical. If it were an innovation thing, I'd be down to get the hot new headphone experience, but these are just wireless can headphones with some noise cancelling, a product that's been around for quite a while now.

(I've had Bose QCs for ~8 years now (the same set, mind you), I'm pretty happy with them. I'm also pretty happy with the earbuds that came with my phone. so it's not like I'm allergic to spending money on stuff I think will be worth it or I'm some audio snob).
I'm sure there will be 3rd party knockoff pads. Just look at the "fancy" Apple Watch wristbands with clasps that are IMO way more expensive than they have any business being. A plethora of 3rd party replacements exist, many much cheaper than Apple.
It's one cut and two bolts, less than five minutes. Mine was taken at 11am. This video isn't mine but shows the time and skill required; https://video.nest.com/clip/a6f2fb329b1e4cfb9a51f5436c74bfa7...

Source; fellow 08 Prius owner.
I'm afraid of SF links not even because the malware thing from a few years back, but because there's a 50/50 chance "the project that looks like it will perfectly solve my issues" is just straight up abandonware.
Art for arts sake I guess. That’s what is best about Ross. Paint because it brings you joy. Learn and hone techniques and find yourself improving over time.

I’d say he certainly was an artist. If he was a good artist or not is a matter of opinion. Certainly from a technical and conceptual point of view there’s good argument he wasn’t exceptional. But certainly his work, or the labor of his work, has been appreciated by many.
Or perhaps we only hear about the failures because they make the news?

When a policy works, it's what is expected so it's not notable.
So there are some noted problems with doing so. Namely, reset starting -when-? At a time of large scale inequality? I.e., millionaire owners of much of NY get locked in as owners for all future generations, and are unable to sell the land, only lease it? Does that lack of salability reduce their economic power sufficiently?

Likewise individuals; for anyone who doesn't own land at the start of the system, is there a path to land ownership?
No problem - Intel’s marketing hasn’t helped at all. I notice this mostly for cryptography- we do a lot of data validation so spending up SHA is a nice win.
If you can't figure that out from TFA, I'm not sure that I can help you.
Nobody has engineered a checkbox to disable that yet?
Honestly, I get that HN and startup culture glorifies one-hit-wonders and survivorship-biased unicorns, but articles like this just feel like pointless cynicism. It's not even that funny.

There are plenty of people out there that make a comfortable living with one-person online startups. The weird idea that only the "super-privileged" can do this is just flat-out wrong. In fact, the internet has allowed many people outside of typical Coastal/SV/yuppie bubbles to make much more than their immediate circumstances allow.

Instead of ragging on Slack, or AirBnB, or YC/pg for being proud of them -- yeah, yeah, with a lot of hyperbole and rosy hindsight -- just close your browser, open that terminal, and build something. Isn't that the whole point?
Yes, they are not literally already obligated to do so by law or economics. But GP is clearly using it as a rhetorical device to express their manifesto: we (society) should 'need' Apple to do X (for the good of society), or whatever.
This is probably a result of the headphones being connected in headset mode, meaning the microphone is enabled. On Windows when you pair headphones which have a built in microphone you'll usually see two devices connected in the audio switcher, one for the headphones in headset mode and another for the headphones in listening mode only. Headset mode switches to the highly compressed SBC codec so it can transmit both input and output, but listening mode will usually switch to a less compressed codec like AptX, depending on your Windows device. Try pairing again and clicking on the volume button in the systray and see if you have another option for the headphones to switch to.
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That's true but you have no power over the actions of other countries. They can always decide to "defect". It's better to work on the problem domestically instead of pointing fingers.
Pretty sure 3rd party will step in here.
>>> One. Wearing Mask can be uncomfortable, and it is real downside (at least for me)

>> I'm sorry. Grow up. I wear a mask 8 hours a day. Surgeons do for longer. Is it really that much to ask? I honestly don't understand this mindset.

> Its fine for you doesn't mean its fine for other. Not everyone the same. Whether its too much or not can be different for different people. Its not hard to understand right?

Some people aren't fine having a DD or getting a taxi after a night out, and would rather drive themselves home drunk. Those people have a far greater likelihood of getting into a crash that kills themselves or others.

Your decisions and actions can have real consequences for others, it's not just about your personal preferences. Reflect on that and take the GGP's advice.
Brain Stimulation via Earbuds: Unobtrusive Tech Could Treat a Range of Diseases
At room temperature, yes. At the range of temperatures this needs to operate at, stainless is actually lighter for the required strength.

Keep in mind that this is a tank for cryogenic propellants (almost-solid liquid oxygen and methane), that needs to survive atmospheric re-entry from interplanetary speeds, so it needs to be strong in temperatures around -200°C to +400°C.
> Secondly it doesn't solve any problems and challenges. The incentive here is to profit from making market predictions. No more, no less.

For many people, it allows them to get price stability. It means that, for the length of a growing season, they can have water at a known price and not be vulnerable to price swings.

IMO, that does address a real challenge or problem faced by real people. Especially in agricultural places where water markets already exist, like California.

I think you're right, though. There must be a better way to handle this. I'd love to hear about realistic ways to reform California's water rights system!
The biggest advantage to sleep/hibernate isn’t time to first work. It’s being able to resume exactly where you last were.

I came from Linux laptops to MacBooks 6 years ago and that was such a big improvement. Not having to think about where I’m pausing my work. Even with the Linux laptop only failing to wake up about 20%. Although sometimes it’d fail to sleep and empty my battery and heat my backpack.
Waiving down a taxi costs a billion dollars. Now I know where my bailout money went.

Anyways, I can solve all your problems:

Market crashes. Not just Apple and Uber go down, but their investors, and where they have their deposits.

All the bad stuff that ruins your life, the hoops you need to jump through, the idea of have to pay money first to work a job in the gig economy, goes with them.

Everything costs nothing, or they pay you to take it. We get all the good stuff.

.taxi is just there. The local name servers are just there. No one thinks about messing around with it, or using it to hurt people. If they do no bullying attorneys are there to protect them.

If you need a ride, and can't make a data request to .taxi in 2020, you are effectively banished from society and deserve what you get. Walk home. People have been doing it for millennia.
Nothing is certain. It helps to be a likable and outgoing person. It helps to make a huge family.
Agreed, these efforts are great to hear about and push forward, but to be properly net zero we'll have to have DAC.

There will always be some level of emissions that we need to offset.
Big man Chad, comin' through.
Indeed, it seems the post you replied to is using a flawed argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature
Germany prefers to shut down nuclear instead
Reading that as a teenager is what got me interested in psychedelics in the first place. It's great.
Depends where, but in western Europe for the last thousand years, probably not.

I think the best data is for England, and centuries before the industrial revolution, the pattern is very strongly not multi-generational. Young couples expected to set up new households together, not to live with their parents.

(The royal family & such of course were different, and still are.)
They should try to outsource to Amish communities then.
And how did you review the room?
They've been spending their their effort giving you their third version of a message-composition "block API" that still doesn't-quite-work as documented.
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It's Friday, I made this, thought I'd share.
> I saw Scala taken over and destroyed by the FP fanatics

I suspect that the above reflects a very personal experience rather than something general. I have been using Scala for 10 years and never used monad transformers. I find Scala code usually easy to write and to read. At this point I wouldn't trade it for any other language.

From where I stand, Scala was neither "taken over", nor "destroyed by FP fanatics". It is not Haskell, and the upcoming Scala 3 is not going in the direction of being more like Haskell. Scala has always been about supporting both object-orientation and functional programming. It's still the case with Scala 3, and it's getting better and better.
This is interesting; I use Netlify for a Gatsby/Contentful website, as well as for a Netlify CMS one. I don't pay for any of it, so it's hard find a reason to move away. What are some of the problems you've seen people have with Netlify? Other than not being in control of the infrastructure of course.
> I hate stuff like that hostility between Hopi and Navajo people though. If anything, learning a neighbor's language tends to bring people together!

I tend to agree, but I also respect the wishes of the various groups. They've undergone experiences at the hands of colonizers that I can't begin to imagine, and if they want to try to preserve something of their culture so that it stays in their culture, and not just let any outsider with a passing interest learn it, I support them in that. Though I do wish more were like the Cherokee Nation, which offers free online courses for anyone across various levels of Cherokee, also integrating culture and such.