skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Helm was something that I ultimately decided to avoid at my last job, and I was happier for it. Upgrades that get in dirty states, often as a result of bogus post-install hooks. Having to fork charts to customize the deployment minorly for our mundane requirements. Reading doubly or triply templated files and dealing with bullshit indentation mismatches. I hated things that expected me to install with Helm.
Anecdotally, I see the same. No relations in the home improvement business or anything related, but the number of small contractors moving through the neighborhood doing all sized job is insane.

We're no different, my wife completely redecorated the main level of our home. It was all things we wanted to do but were putting off. I guess being home 24/7 pushed us to action to improve the space.
At least share something everyone can read (even if the content is garbage), is that too much to ask?
I accept that fact when it comes to some of their products, just not their ear buds, and I'm sure not these either. Apple is a fashion company, it's time to wake up to that fact. Think back to their old iPod ear buds (if you're old enough), the white wires were a statement that you were affluent (why do you think they had them so prominent in their commercials with the dancing silhouettes?) Those earbuds were horrible. That was fashion, this is the same.
Not my experience at all. I'm working at a company that makes a great product while avoiding SQL RDBMSes for its main datastore; some of my previous companies did the same thing as well. No datastore can save you from having to understand your dataflow, but if you skip the RDBMS and the SQL you can avoid a lot of unnecessary overhead.
Not that this point is made in good faith or deserves a serious response, but the different patterns expected in early vs. late ballots was well known and reported in advance of the election, based on well established patterns from past elections.
very weird to have this as my most upvoted post, but eh. If there is a time to shill out, it's now:

A game inspired by Nuzlocke Challenges + Slay the Spire

discord: http://discord.gg/u64Mg4X

twitter: https://twitter.com/_ldd

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If Trump runs in 2024 and wins by 8M votes I wonder how Republicans will take it when his opponent disputes the results using the exact same tactics he's using now?

If I were the Dems I'd have Giuliani on retainer and ready to go.
Lumber prices are nuts right now
This is an interesting technical hack, but I have to ask what problem this is aiming to address?
Your comment is 100% correct and valuable.

I think we need to embed accessibility and accessibility audits as a basic and essential aspect of all tooling and standards. It shouldn't be up to diligent people like yourself to notice these issues as a matter of expertise or personal interest, but something we notice by default because it hasn't complied with standards.

SVGs are a minefield for accessibility and tend to be either wrapped in a container with accessibility info or have nothing at all added. It's a mess.
Just typing 'propaganda on tiktok' yields many results, youtube videos showing it, articles.

https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-parent-company-byteda...

That's from last year...
Yeah, I thought about using XML/XSLT too, but I think JSON would be more aligned with today's tools. Also, the render could be written in React or Vue, and add all the functionalities of a modern web app, for example, not just HTML.
I always wonder about non-customer-facing workers at small businesses. Who tips them?
Is there a whitepaper?
Just follow the HD and LOW tickers. They had an incredible volume ever since the pandemic started.

Which makes sense. Many people still have their jobs and income. But now are spending more time than ever inside their own houses. Not traveling, and for the most part, not dining out or otherwise spending money elsewhere.

So it makes sense that, if you are in the home remodeling business, you are seeing lots of activity. Also why USPS, UPS and Fedex are overloaded. And the reason PC parts are rarer than gold. TVs flew off the (virtual) shelves on Black Friday. And so on.

The problem is: many people did lose their income. So on one hand you see an incredible influx of customers remodeling homes and spending money on superfluous things, on the other hand you see people becoming homeless, or relying on food banks for the first time in their lives.

This is not like a recession. Some activities have essentially stopped, other are on overdrive. This will create an enormous imbalance, which could bring a recession (long predicted) even after COVID is done. Assuming we can get rid of it.
When i was young my doctor would repeatedly sternly talk to my mother that she must clean my ears out, as the doctor thought she was ignoring me and/or my ears.

She cleaned them regularly. I was a ear wax machine, to an absurd degree.

Luckily as an adult they're pretty normal...i assume. But i still clean them after i get out of the shower since i dislike the feeling of water in my ears.
I hate to say this, but he doesn't even detail their level of intelligence. There very well could be life around Venus in the atmosphere for instance: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03258-5
How intelligent are they? What is their physiology?
If they are in fact tiny insects or microscopic, then a subterranean base on Mars would be trivial. Our participation could simply be logistic in nature. Nothing was said in detail. If we can make 7nm bitcoin miner ASICs we could certainly do that. He's being very intentionally non-specific for a reason here. Like it's a less-than spectacular life-form? With less than spectacular space travel?
U.S. lawmakers ask Intel, Nvidia about sales to China used against Uighurs
Orientalism, Cyberpunk 2077, and Yellow Peril in Science Fiction
All the bose, sony and misc brand wireless headphones I have seen have had an analogue jack on them.
You raise an important point. The proposed solutions are too many to enumerate, but if I had to pick just one currently I would go for "Rethinking Attention with Performers" [1]. The research into making transformer better for higher dimensional inputs is also moving fast and is worth following.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14794
Why do blobs cause transactional problems? Create the blob. GIve it an ID. Give it a path/URL. Do all that before going anywhere near the database, at which point the blob is all settled an immutable. Then, stick the tiny record into the database which identifies the blob. Done; the blob is now live, from the POV of the database consumers.
An observation about SCOTUS (not) taking state-versus-state cases:

> 5. One of the factors the Justices look to is whether the issues in the case can be resolved in other cases in the lower courts, even if not between the same parties. Thus, the Court usually denies leave unless it's a uniquely state-state dispute (again, like borders/water).

> 6. Among lots of other things, that's almost certainly fatal to this crazy new Texas suit. As we've seen, these claims are already being brought in private suits in each of those states. Texas offers no explanation for why the issues can't be (and aren't being) addressed there.

> 7. And it's not for nothing that the Justices don't like "original" cases, partly because they don't come with a well-developed record and set of opinions from lower courts.

> Indeed, the "original" docket has shrunk to an average of <1 argued case per Term in recent years.

> 8. The other reason they don't like these cases is because they're worried about opening the floodgates. If Texas can sue these states over how they conduct their elections, what's to stop Vermont from suing Texas over how it regulates the oil industry, or other permutations.

* https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1336329907400425488

Another case against PA was dismissed today:

* https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/08/supreme-court-rejec...
Another commenter referenced a programmable roomba from iRobot - see above. I agree that might be ideal. The RVR might not be stable enough to haul around a tablet sitting atop what amounts to a big lever, but a camera mounted (low) on an RVR could be a lot of fun.
Anyone who thinks that Texas has a shot of winning is either high or knows nothing of law.

The basis of the case is that PA, GA, WI, and MI erred in enacting unconstitutional election measures, and therefore their election results should be annulled. And this must fail for several reasons.

First, Texas doesn't have standing to sue. Texas isn't injured by Pennsylvania's laws. Texas argues its standing on the basis of--wait for it--it makes its electoral votes meaningless. However, the electoral college has a fixed number of votes, so Texas can't even make a "vote dilution" basis for its votes, which is how the usual basis for standing. Therefore, the manner of which any other state chooses its votes literally has no effect on Texas's vote, although this would theoretically change if Texas adopted the National Popular Vote Compact.

Second, jurisdiction. These are challenges of other states' laws, other states' practices, and sometimes against other states' constitutions (the claim against PA in particular for the latter). The natural forum for this would obviously be the relevant state courts, although states can't sue each other in state courts usually--which brings back to standing, as Texas not having the ability to sue for these claims strongly suggests that Texas doesn't have standing in the first place.

Third, these claims have already been litigated, and already lost, and sometimes those losses have been repeatedly reaffirmed. That horse is well and truly dead, so stop beating it.

Fourth, election procedure claims that arise after the election are strongly disfavored. You usually have to justify why you couldn't bring the claim before the election, and waiting a full month after the election to bring the case does not look good (of course, see point #3 for why Texas brought the case).

Fifth, for SCOTUS original jurisdiction claims specifically, SCOTUS really doesn't like original jurisdiction. So states really need to show why they couldn't bring the claim up in other forums. Such as objecting to electors in the House, which is how the Constitution explains it is supposed to be done. (Of course, there is a law that says that votes certified by a specific date will not be questioned by the House).

Finally, relief. It's established in SCOTUS precedent that, even in election procedure claims arising after the election, the votes that are validly cast under the procedure are still to be counted. Asking the state legislatures to select their electoral slates as relief is not only literally unprecedented, but it is the exact opposite of what precedent specifies for relief.

This is the stupidest of the election cases I've seen so far, and I thought the legislator arguing that he couldn't reasonably be expected to know the law was pretty bad.
It's frustrating. My airpods pro had an issue where they'd make a crackling sound with every step I take (but were fine when sitting). Apple replaced them in warranty and it's been fine since, but they now have a replacement program for these out of warranty as well.

I hope they're doing diagnostics on defective airpods they receive from customers.
Has anyone here read the books in his recommended reading list in Code Complete v2? I'm curious which ones are still relevant.
A virus doesn’t “push” anyone to poverty.

The reaction to the virus by the government does that.

It would be more honest if predictions like this were mentioned alongside articles in the press that claim lockdowns are the only option we have.
You should compare that number with how many people would die if there was no lockdown, not with how many died.
Ask HN: How do you get domain expertise in less technical industries?
We have bootcamps for hard and soft skills, but there appears to be a gap in getting domain experience in various industries that could benefit from more technical expertise in their space.

The fields that are top of mind are medicine, non-profits and governmental services, construction and agriculture.

If I were interested in starting a venture in one of these fields, I'd cold call and reach out to any and all contacts to try to get an understanding of the environment. However, there's likely only a few people who have a full grasp of what tech exists in the space. Reputation-wise, the largest companies in these fields often aren't as "sexy" and aren't known to have the career trajectory or compensation of more mainstream firms (regardless of whether that's true), so I don't think we're getting as many strong applicants into these vital fields.

I'd love to hear from folks in these industries on how you got into it, and how you recommend others do so?

Thank you!
The lockdowns could.
All people have to do to turn it around is stop complying.
Fedex explicitly dropped Amazon as a customer earlier this year.
I think too many non-musicians believe this is a case the population being comprised of a small number of professional musicians and a huge number of untalented hacks.

The reality is that there is while there are a lot of hacks and untalented musicians alongside the professional musicians, there are also actually a ton of talented musicians that are working very hard to write, record, and release music, and just simply never get heard. They submit to pandora or Spotify or wherever and it never makes it into the algorithms. It's up to them to do all their own marketing. We're influenced by survivorship bias and it's easy to say "they should just tour and play out and submit to music blogs!" and it's difficult to communicate just how hard it is to find any traction at all.
> and excruciatingly slow permitting process.

I'm seeing a lot of municipal and state services and even private sector license-like approvals exacerbating the demand for people that are already approved.

Yeah it is really hard to see what the market is really signaling, because the market can't correct itself with more entrants because pandemic restrictives absolutely have slowed down the gatekeepers.

But yeah, after a certain while you can't put your life on hold. Look up the top killers in the 1600s, all sorts of phantom and misnamed ailments that could get you at any time! Note, this isn't a post about ignoring the pandemic, only that the idea of people being poor and twiddling thumbs in their homes until the bread line opens up again is just completely wrong.
There's a lot of hostility on HN towards web developers.

Why shouldn't there be, when they're the ones breaking things that used to work perfectly fine, and then reimplementing them half-bakedly while consuming an order of magnitude more resources than before?

Should Github explicitly support terminal-based browsers like Lynx as well?

Why does it have to be "explicitly support"? Whatever happened to using the simplest technology possible for the task? That way you'll end up with a page that will work to the best possible extent for any given user-agent. That is ture accessibility.

I'm not asking for them to go out of their way to try to show images in Lynx or whatever. I'm asking for a sane approach to making sites that does not require running arbitrary code on the client just to show some static text that should've come along directly in the page, something that literally all browsers would be able to, but is being needlessly restricted.

Plus, you can avoid 99% of the github website just by using git from the command line (or your favorite client) and using their CLI tool for repo creation/etc.

That is true, but beside the point.
I almost feel guilty that this year has been too positive for me so far:

-- Spent more time with family; went out on daily walks with spouse.

-- Got better sleep due to freed time from commute.

-- Participated in a COVID-19 related research and got an award at work.

-- Dabbled into financial markets and made little profit. More than profit, learned a lot about markets.

-- Setup a 4-node Raspberry pi cluster at home and played with it.

-- Taught my 15-yo python programming and Linux.
It's a great place to escape taxes, as long as you don't need any services like public schools or Medicaid.
If Fedex and UPS have suspended their on-time guarantee how is your company providing value to customers?

Can you point me to any good resources where I can stay up-to-date on the shipping industry?
Not true they can say the prosecutor has provided no reliable evidence their client is guilty so the client should go free.
Politicians are cynically deciding they’d rather not be blamed for deaths even if they’re categorically failing to protect the most vulnerable. So they’ve decided to obliterate small business and the working class by essentially outlawing work.
I can't figure out if your posts here in this thread are in jest or are serious. Please excuse me if they are in jest...

> I'd be willing to pay more taxes to help the economy, but most people are against this

They are against this because paying more taxes does nothing to "help" the economy. Where do you think tax money goes? It doesn't go to people's bank accounts to pay for rent, groceries, car payments, utility bills etc. or any of the places that would directly contribute to the economy.

> In the mean time I do my part by eating out more often and visiting small businesses.

And as already discussed below - you are also screwing over the employees at those businesses. Quite literally costing them money they could make by serving someone who will tip... so they can, you know, pay for rent and contribute to the economy.
Uber Gives Up on the Self-Driving Dream
It's a worthy statement, but at the same time, this is not the same thing.

If we didn't provide special protections for judges, 1/2 of them would be dead.

Organized Crime is a very powerful thing, they kill people all the time for a lot less and witness intimidation is rampant.

Judges take on a much greater responsibility than most others.

If there's an opportunity for 'equity' in this special equation, it may be for those who provide testimony in the courts protections. Because they are not protected nearly as well, they are easy targets:

"a study of witnesses appearing in criminal courts in Bronx County, New York revealed that 36 percent of witnesses had been directly threatened; among those who had not been threatened directly, 57 percent feared reprisals" [1]

Imagine if people weren't afraid of retribution against gangs and organized criminals, the world would be a different place.

[1] https://cops.usdoj.gov/RIC/Publications/cops-p112-pub.pdf
https://web.stanford.edu/group/dlab/media/papers/chenNBT2020...

Deep brain optogenetics without intracranial
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> tips exist because small businesses grossly underpay their workers.

Tipping culture exists as an excuse for service workers to not only be grossly underpaid, but also to be compensated unequally in ways that would violate nondiscrimination laws if employers did it directly.

There's nothing special about small business, it's not like big chain corporate table-service restaurants (or, say, massive gig economy firms) don't underpay just as badly as any small business.
Reading this comment makes me a bit sad because I wrote a really good incremental tile based renderer for leaflet that could easily be adapted for vector tiles.

Unfortunately that whole business unit got canned and the code is now gathering dust somewhere :/ would have loved to open source that one
My possibly incorrect read of GP is that it started as effectively a retention project until someone realized they really wanted it.
Yeah I'm a MacOS fanboy, but it really irked me when they got rid of the (hard to find but extremely useful) log output during OS updates a few major versions back. It saved me a lot of time once when it showed that it was backing up files that I didn't care about. Now there is no option to view the log during installation.

I've been fortunate to never run into any failed updates (and I've done many) but as they remove features like this and 32 bit support, I'm looking at other options for my next machine.
they grew up
It's a neat trick using the Browser's Quirks Mode to load JSON that can bootstrap a framework, I'm not sure I really understand the benefit though. In order to actually get to the point of bootstrapping, the server has already transferred all of the content, plus the bootstrapping Javascript in a single payload. It seems like this implementation has the weaknesses of using a Javascript framework, without the benefits. Together with all of the weaknesses of static content, without the benefits. All the while depending on a quirk of the browser for support, which not all browsers may support.
I am not sure if DoorDash's IPO price is more than it should be, but value creation (which is "real" in my view) need not always result in immediate profits and the stock market tends to be forward looking in general. How exactly are Apple, Google, Tesla and for that matter even Uber vaporware companies ? Some of them might be overvalued (by a large margin), but they still have real value in this world.
This is absolutely true in my experience. Early in life I would go on to avoid obviously manipulative people and that mostly worked.

As you get older you run into people who are more skilled manipulators. These people realize that in order to be good at it you need to be able to hide your intentions and seem like you’re doing the opposite. This fakery can get so elaborate that sometimes it can turn into a quasi genuine relationship. The contradiction only comes to the fore at crucial moments when you realize what’s truly going on.

The first thing skilled manipulators realize is the need to mask your true intentions. If you’re ambitious you need to seem like you’re the opposite. This means an insane amount of attention given to charm and appearances. An extremely charming and soft spoken manner can go a long way in concealing ambition / motives.

The next thing one can do is to use moralistic principles to stymie your rivals instead of open opposition. This can mean using arguments about morality, code quality, loyalty. The point is that it should seem like it comes from a concern for the greater good. Which it might be but people won’t notice how this is wielded selectively.

The best tell for such people is usually an obsession with power. They will usually spend a lot more time networking with the powerful than their peers. This is often done discreetly.

Another tell is how they treat their friends and family though it’s hard to find out.

The next thing that is often done is to find people who are emotionally vulnerable because of what’s going on in their life. Some people have a very good nose for this.

Dark and Light are just labels for the extremes of the spectrum.

In general be very careful in your dealings with people who are high up in the world / extremely popular. There’s a reason they’re there and it’s not just their aptitude for the job.
Why is this being downvoted when it’s demonstrably true. The people being hit the hardest where the ones already in economically precarious situations
a (neat) solution in search of a problem tbh.
It's definitely true that the label gets the majority, and Spotify in this case, but there is (usually) a per-record cut for the artist in the physical album version of this transaction.
If pumping and dumping for the robin hood chumps is far more profitable than years of dividends, which is the real product?
Starlink offers fast internet connections to rural Canadians. But it's not cheap