skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried scavenging expensive brands of clothes from Goodwill to sell to a consignment shop. I wasted bus fare, only sold one pair of jeans, and ended up with a bag full of clothes that didn’t fit. 2/10 don’t recommend.
Ask HN: Could Hacker News become a search engine?
There is a search bar by algolia at the bottom of the page, but could there be a way to directly offer hacker news with a different interface like that of a search engine - a/b test?

HN already has an index of curated articles for over 13 years... and it has better sources and vetting than Google without commercial interests.

Just curious, what will be the interest for this prototype? I care about truth without monetary influence and I am tired of ads in my search results because there is no better alternative...No, DDG does not cut it.
Ask HN: What is your New Year's resolution?
> The Flash runtime itself is not particularly interesting, and in fact it’s full of undesirable problems. If you ignore the tooling of Flash, very little about it is appealing.

The runtime and the tooling go together. The reason why tooling doesn't exist for HTML5, SVG, and Javascript is it's just so damn complex and fiddly that it's impossible to paper-over and abstract with a robust authoring tool. Both sides of Flash were designed for the ease of this kind of development.

There hasn't been a good high-level authoring tool for HTML in decades and the situation is getting worse, not better.
https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/previewgenerator

This builds the thumbnails in the background. I think it used to get triggered on upload but says it needs a cronjob now. Works OK on a folder of 40GB of photos.

What I still find irritating about photos in nextcloud is I keep mine in high resolution but nextcloud won't downscale them to fit the viewing device screen, so I use 20mb a photo with all the UX impairment one might imagine when actually a few kB would do. It'd be nice if it cached light, fullscreen versions and offered a "view in full resolution" button.
I've seen it plenty of times too, I think it's just because it had shiny gloss panels which is very easy to do in CG so it felt more like something I'd normally see in CG.
I remember fearing for the life of Linux when Adobe Air and Silver light or whatever started appearing. Whole websites started popping up that simply only worked for Windows users. Adobe was totally part of the EEE.
Nuce business. I didn't see an English version of the site.
You do realize that the bull run is back again? Might be a good idea to look into this again.
Arguably, those workers aren't paid below typical levels and would not earn more elsewhere. Not being extra generous is key to Amazon's profitability, which ensures those workers have job security. You could argue that Amazon should let workers benefit directly from the profits, but by going public, they let anyone who wants benefit directly by buying shares.

I'm way more concerned with Bezos' political ambitions (as oligarch with his own, pretty terrible and partisan, newspaper and who knows what other sorts of lobbying).
It's more about keeping the line running. The line has a fixed throughput, and if it stops, it's hard to catch up. It's a stupendously expensive thing, staffed with a similarly-expensive complement of workers.

Rework in the yard, on the other hand, is "soft", it can can be parallelized across as many workers as you can deploy, and they're usually contractors so you only bring them in when you need them.

So if cars can be finished enough to roll 'em through end-of-line and then into yard hold, that's what you do. Clean it up as soon as possible of course, but whatever you do, don't stop the line.
Piracy was easier and rampant back then. Adobe (and Microsoft, etc.) knew that the kids who learned on pirated copies would lead to legit sales later.
It is likely that a part-time assistant can be hired for much less in low cost-of-living regions.
There was a fantastic article by one of the frontend engineers at Google about how they built the UI for photos to be scalable: https://medium.com/google-design/google-photos-45b714dfbed1

There's no reason why the lessons learnt here couldn't be incorporated into an OS project.
I'm a little surprised no one has mentioned CheerpX[0] in this thread. It's supposed to run any Flash file flawlessly, because it's running the Flash runtime. Just through a x86 emulator in WASM, so it re-sandboxes everything.

[0]: https://www.leaningtech.com/pages/cheerpxflash.html
I love your webpage design,
but i dislike your products design.
Absolutely nothing at all, but it is not a 'more secure choice' than an LTS distribution of a mainline distro and while this guide can't really decide if it's targeting local or server usecases, I can't imagine a worse existence than being responsible for a fleet of servers running Gentoo.
> https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey

Now that is great
PWAs are DOA until Apple adds proper support and they’ll never do that, since they’ll take a huge chunk of Appstore profits out of Apple’s hands.
Well, actually, Earth isn't just an oblate spheroid either. As you say, it's bumpy. On top of that, it has nonuniform density, which means the gravitational field on its surface isn't that of a perfect sphere (or an oblate spheroid). If we imagine how water would settle if nothing except Earth's gravity and rotation were acting on it, the complex surface that water creates is called a geoid. That surface reflects the nonuniform density of our planet.

Here is a pretty heatmap showing the diffrence between geoid heights and oblate spheroid model:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoid#Undulation

All of that seems like it doesn't matter, and then (like me over the past month) you want to do something in the GIS space, and then suddenly it does. It is important for accurate mapping and measurement.

Of course, nobody has time dealing with this crap (and the shape of the geoid wasn't known until recently anyway), so we cheat - we standardized on a large bunch of region-specific coordinate systems, where one or more points are carefully referenced to geoid or ellipsoid (oblate spheroid) models, and everything else is measured in this local coordinate system.
The title is truer than the article. The M1 will kill Hackintoshes- but only because one of the main drivers was the superior price/performance, which doesn't really seem to be an issue going forward- the M1 will provide equal or better price/performance to cobbled together home build's, not just HP/Dell's premium lines.
Awesome. That's similar in concept to Zipline's recovery system. The vehicles have a tiny tail hook, and a motorized ground based system snaps them out of the sky. The engineers that work on that sort of thing must be really smart, cool people!
If you forward SSH agent, anyone with privileges to your sockets can use the agent. So for example when you log into some production machine, a process waiting on that machine connects to your agent and has access to... everything. (If you're agent caches key password you won't even get notified)
I don’t get it.

“Uber points to a study from Cornell University’s Industry Labor Relations School that found the median driver made about $23 an hour after expenses”

Then they raise the price by 25%, because minimum wage adjusted to $17?

Uber, just admit that you faked the study.
> Flash was fundamentally to resource intensive for mobile and arguably still is.

Flash run on PC's hundreds of times less powerful than your smartphone is right now. For the original iPhone, sure, but this resource argument is decades out of date now.

In the years after, all we've done is made HTML/JS/SWF as powerful as Flash and even more resource intensive.
Isn't there an easy solution for this? A varint representation does not mandate that you use its variable length. Just pad with leading zeros and you have a fixed length.

If I understand the varint format right, its groups of 7 bits, stuffed into one byte each. Alright, so let's just always use 4 bytes, which gives you a value range from 0 to 2^28-1 for the length, that's up to 256M which should suffice if you are that concerned about telemetry speed. Now your length field is always 4 bytes. Even if you could shrink it to 1 or 2 most of the time, but since you care more about encoding speed than size on the wire that should be fine. Nothing forces you to encode value 42 in 1 byte. Just use 4.

Am I missing something? Honest question.
This brings back memories of flash decompiling and trying to sift through the output to do the deed.
Two tomatoes were crossing the street. One of them was run over by a truck and the other said: "Come on, let's go ketchup."
tl;dr: I really love Diet Coke and there’s no scientific evidence that it’s bad for you.
So an unsupported use of the macOS software gets unsupported... surprise?
I did some calculations because it seemed strange to me.

Gross | Gross New | Net Delta | Total taxation
2000 €2600 €155 31.00%
3000 €3600 €262 38.00%
4000 €4600 €253 42.00%

It is possible to pay more for an increase on the lower levels, but you will still pay a lower tax rate overall. Yes, taxes are high in Belgium but to add some nuance, you get a lot in return. (Free healthcare, free university education, pensions, social services, no capital gains tax)
I am putting together course aimed at Python beginners in enterprise, I too have experience in Finance. If someone is interested I would love some early feedback, you can contact me my email is in this profile bio.
The problem is that using CD such as Codepipeline/Codedeploy it wants to use CloudFormation and SAM. I don't want to use either they are both terrible. So in the end I end up making a pipeline to build Lambda and deploy in CodeBuild. It would be nice if Amazon scrapped SAM and did something better.
Did you read the whole answer, including the bit at the end?

>...So the major reason the oceans look blue, if they do look blue, is indeed that they mirror the sky.
I do agree with everything you're saying about what's been lost, and I feel that loss because I went through that same loss. I'm not commenting from the sidelines, I lost Flash as a development platform too. I think my big frustration is that there's this tone that often comes up underneath threads like this that's, "look what the web took away from us", and I just think that's really harmful and inaccurate.

All of the APIs that are necessary to replicate Flash exist. The only failure of the Open web was assuming that the games industry was going to be competent enough to author new accessible tools. Heck, I was critical of Flash deprecation at the time, but even I thought that Adobe was eventually going to seamlessly export to HTML5. I don't know what to say beyond that. On behalf of HTML5 advocates everywhere, I'm sorry we thought Adobe might be a competently run company.

So I wish more of these kinds of threads were subtweeting people like Tim Sweeney, or Unity devs, or Adobe itself, rather than trying to blame the web for what is arguably one of its biggest success stories: the evolution from being only suitable for toy interactions into a generally accessible application runtime. The web succeeded at that, beyond almost everyone's expectations.

Almost everything that the web can provide to replace Flash it is providing. But web advocates can't build an IDE. Somebody in the games industry has to do that. So maybe those people should be the target of this ire instead of HTML5. I get why people are frustrated, but web advocates can't fix any of this. Somebody who builds game engines needs to fix it, the industry needs to actually make tools.

Like, to be kind of blunt, I wish people would stop criticizing the web for the problems that the games industry created.
> Learning to distribute Python code

Found pyinstaller very handy, in fact that's what I use to create releases for my side project[0]. And if you're creating CLIs, a sibling comment mentioned Gooey.

0: github.com/rmpr/atbswp
Because of material inconsistencies that are hard to get rid of (sheet metal is rolled to thickness out of a non-uniform billet, and cools non-uniformly as well due to edge effects, so you get small hardness and thickness variations) the material will deform in unpredictable ways during stamping. This causes very small deformities but over the size of a whole door it adds up leading to door being off by up to a few mm even when using exactly the same tooling during manufacturing. Welding then further deforms the door, even when it happens robotically and in a jig. The chassis typically suffers from the same effects. When the chassis warps one way and the doors warp in the other you can end up with poor fit.

So manufacturers will do what they can to control for this but it will always be an issue as long as the input material is as inconsistent as it is.

Unlike software, the real world is messy, and while of course it is technically feasible to mill a whole door and a chassis out of a billet it wouldn't be economical. So we adjust during manufacturing to cover the variations.
In theory, a Common Lisp implementation is not required to be image-based. The standard permits a Common Lisp compiler that can e.g. be a batch file compiler that turns files into binaries, and then those can be executed without lots of live-programming, image-based goodies.

No CL implementation I'm aware of follows this paradigm.
Woah. I wish people like you replace the sales people I deal with almost on a daily basis. It’s like a bunch of vultures trying to rip into my wallet. This is in B2B context with $1M+ sales accounts.

Sales people need to get the fuck off of my lawn. I hate every single one of them on a personal visceral level since they’ve ruined the quality of my professional life. I am forced to deal with these half-baked professionals because we have no choice. Stop aggressively trying to sell shit. Your metrics are probably better, but you’re a nuisance to otherwise kind, calm business conduct.
I’ve never used Terraform, but isn’t it “intelligent” enough to apply only the changes necessary?
I love my home nextcloud instance. Came for the Dropbox replacement, stayed for solid apps on android/IOS, Notes, 360 image viewer, good sharing, face ID, and extension ecosystem. I back up to Azure Blob, but there's nothing quite like having 10TB available on all your devices on a gigabit line at home. Also I really notice the absence of the creeping sense of unease I had when keeping all my everything on Google.

Maintenance has been zero, aside from when I want to add functionality.

My only feature gripe is that gPhotos has a wonderful "archive photos" feature to delete local copies of media already uploaded. You can still see uploaded photos (thumbnails stay local) and any interaction with them stays "as if local", there's just a delay while it downloads a temporary copy. I wish nextcloud had this capability.
His friend is only paying 30% also:

Gross | Gross New | Net Delta | Total taxation
2000 €2600 €155 31.00%
3000 €3600 €262 38.00%
4000 €4600 €253 42.00%

It is possible to pay more for an increase on the lower levels, but you will still pay a lower tax rate overall.
Woolly Rhino from Ice Age Unearthed in Russian Arctic
"SAT solvers became a billion-dollar industry"
Does anyone have a reference for this?
I thought they had this but it was called formula.
That sounds like terrible advice from a hedge fund interested in short-term profits, not a good plan for the long-term success of a company which depends on technology and engineering.
It's opened and free now
https://openlearninglibrary.mit.edu/courses/course-v1:MITx+8...
We have a 1997 e class station in the family that just won't die. It will probably become a heirloom at some point.
At this point all my searches on Google have reddit(wallstreetbet for anything financial)|hacker news|stackoverflow|wiki tacked on.

It may be hard to index all of the internet, but if someone just reduces the scope of the problem down to very particular sources, it would be good enough for me.
It was the era of serials and cracks. Astalavista.box.sk. Activators and subscription software came later. Simpler times :)
Launching My eBook on Product Hunt: Developer Wisdom
someone has to pay to keep machines running and urbit's game theory is the only tractable one. you could either be a chattel slave farming sponsored content clicks in perpetuity
(a la fb and twitter) or you could be mooching off someone running a site out of generosity (a la activitypub). urbit is an alternative to both of those.
When you hover over the name if the user provided it it will display names origin - poor UX sorry.

I see that you are very conscious about pronunciation so for you it won't be a big problem most of the time.

I suppose saying the name as close as possible is the aim of the page, nobody will expect foreign people to say it perfectly but it helps, like try saying as close as possible Grzegorz without hearing it first... I though about it like an aid for new starters, for preparation before zoom meetings etc.
Jeff was one of my favorite teachers. He made algorithms and proofs fun, even if you didn’t get an A.
Or just use FreeBSD if you really care about secure by default.
https://readr.tidyverse.org/
> What exactly does make Tesla a tech company

In asking that question, my guess is that you’ve never experienced being a Tesla owner. And that’s fair. I’m a Tesla owner myself, for full disclosure.

I’ve found that a Tesla is truly a computer on wheels; not unlike an iPhone is a computer in your hand. In many ways, Tesla is a software company that makes their own hardware. Unlike every other auto manufacturer, their software has full and complete control over every aspect of their hardware. Their hardware-software vertical integration is for real. They also have single software releases that deploy OTA to their whole fleet of in-service “devices.” From a software and release engineering perspective, incumbent auto manufacturers are decades behind.

> Nearly all car manufacturers have adaptive cruise control somewhere in their lineup

I’d argue the difference is that _every_ vehicle Tesla sells today is cable of being upgraded to the latest state of autonomy—just by an OTA software update and/or flipping some feature flags. While the claim of full Level 5 autonomy without lidar is controversial, it’s possible that most Teslas on the road today will be capable of being upgraded to L5 capability via a software update.

All that said, the QA issues in those photos are pretty jarring. No excuses there.
Yes, they do. There is obviously some guesswork involved, but after several seroprevalence studies, these arguments can be laid to rest. There is no giant iceberg of undetected cases, we’re still in the beginning of the pandemic, and IFR is frighteningly high. Especially in older populations.
“In 10 years ok. Morning or afternoon?

— In 10 years what difference does it make?

— I have the plumber in the morning.”

(Russian jokes told by Reagan)
Stockholm syndrome? Author expresses how evil it is what Apple is doing, at the same time being totally in love with Apple?
Inanimate things without preprogrammed social behaviours are neither good nor evil. There are lots of alternative inits and you can use all the same namespacing tricks yourself with unshare and ip. But you'll have to maintain them for each service yourself and that's A LOT of work.
What do they give each Elmo doll before it leaves the factory?

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Two test tickles.
I agree that a manager like that is better than a micromanager, but ultimately what I want (and what they deserve higher pay for) in a manager is leadership. Leadership means that they make some of the tough decisions and fess up to them later.

I've worked with managers who only asked questions and let the team decide everything. The problem is that the team is generally already stretched really thin and isn't really free (in terms of workload) or equipped to make decisions. When the manager essentially delegates all of the ugly and messy work to the team (i.e. decision-making) I end up wondering what they're actually doing.

It's one thing to ask and field questions about what everyone thinks about a subject in order to make decisions (and maybe that's what you meant), but in my experience the second part rarely happens. Maybe it's just me, but I feel overwhelmed with being asked a bunch of questions when I actually desire concrete guidance or direction. Granted that's a case by case thing but I feel that managers who do the former aren't that good at the latter in times of need.
Corporations in general just like to own and control everything. Just look at the mess that is intellectual property rights. There's essentially no limits to what they will delude themselves into believing they can own.
How do you do key exchange if no pw login in ssh (here helpdesk prints random pws)
> But I don’t care about the poor

Ah, well, that's definitely a position.
You've changed the argument. Both issues can be tackled at once, they're not mutually exclusive.
It is, you only haven't realized it yet.

there's zero chance mass transit can accommodate people's needs, even if you somehow solve the shopping issue with local markets and fixed item prices, the job<>house graph will always look like a fractal set of overlapping stars.

cars is one of the most important social equalizer of this and last century. it allows people from basically all social status to move themselves, their family and their belongings at any time in full autonomy, enabling them to find houses and jobs in the most economical and convenient places.

private cars win over public transit because it's a better product. the only way for public transit to compete is to mandate laws to make cars comparatively a worse product, which is fundamentally anticompetitive - once public transit become monopolistic, once the company owns a tract, they can abuse their position deciding pricing and timetables.

even in traffic, private cars offer a better experience: people are in their own space, under a roof from start to finish, with their preferred temperature and away from both obnoxious or influenced people.

forcing mass transit trough legislation will surely have some short term benefits, but also:

- more class divide between the richs, that will always be able to afford a car, and the poors who won't

- massive gentrification of well connected areas, while the poors get pushed out to where service is of less quality

- dependency of the poors to expensive third party services on any occasion they need to move themselves or their goods across a non serviced destination. rentals is not an option: rentals need a credit card, and guess who don't own one?

- dependency on public transit times. have an unusual work shift or need to visit parents? get prepared to wait in the open under the cold or rain. need to get your child out of school in a down hour because he's suddenly ill? too bad, transit only gives peak service at peak hours.

of course there's situation where mass transit gets convenient, like large cities where a significant percentage of the population shares the same source/destination points, at which point people will use it naturally on their own.

opposing private transit is going to destroy an important achievement of modern society, the car has been a great economical equalizer and still is. market, after all, need customer flexibility not to be captured. Safety is something to be solved with more safe cars and better technology all around.

it'd be like discovering tomorrow that soap pollutes: some will want to force everyone to smell, some will create a better soap.
I have trouble understanding how autopilot could be relaxing. You have to be constantly vigilant lest it drive you into a concrete barrier or parked truck—yes those events are highly unlikely, but that would just make it more difficult to stay focused. And if I have to be entirely focused on the road anyway, why not just guide the car myself?
I love my Kobo e-reader. Syncs perfectly with my library and Pocket, and using the natural light feature hasn't hampered my ability to fall asleep.
What sorts of things in particular?
To pay the bar tab.