skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took OP as implying this is more than simple public policy. I sort of suspect the same thing.

But even if you're right, social darwinism can do measurable amounts of damage. Added to the levels of stupid we already exhibit, this certainly is not helping things.
Abolishing DST (or rather: switching time twice per year) in Europe is planned as well.
Thanks for making me laugh.

This is by far the most Microsoft comment ever.
I counted as well, pedant that I am, and I still believe that 2 is an unusually high number of times for hners.
>can't trust the LED to always light

You can on recent Macs. If the LED fails the webcam won't work.
Clip: Connecting Text and Images
This is such an underrated point. A lot of the lucrative “real” jobs are quite destructive and counter to the problems that many charities and NGOs try to solve. Also, if everyone thinks this way it’s going to be very hard for these charities and NGOs to find the skills they need at rates that they can manage to fund. A skilled worker can potentially generate a lot of value that might not directly flow back to the organization they work for but to other parts of society - that means the organization has no business case for hiring them (the economics don’t exactly work out) but in the bigger picture it can still be a net benefit.
> Activism cannot “move the overton window”.

The “Overton Window” is a concept developed initially and further elaborated subsequently by a policy think tank, largely as a tool for activists (specifically, that think tank itself) to understand how they can move the social consensus to drive policy.

https://www.mackinac.org/OvertonWindow
I agree with search being dominant. My interface to files on windows is 90% through Everything search.
Is there a service like Shopify for SaaS products?
Shopify offers everything I need to sell physical goods, but I'd like to sell a piece of software I wrote as a subscription. Based on experience and a cursory google search, it seems like Shopify isn't a great choice for SaaS products. On top of the website/marketing/payment/analytics services Shopify provides, I'd love to get subscriptions, cohort analytics, API docs hosting, signup/cancel webhooks, and an endpoint to query a customer's subscription level.

I realize that I could bundle together a few services to get these features, but it would be nice if they were all in one place. Do you know of any products that could do this? Thanks!
South Africa, among others, have had large changes in direction prompted through sanctions. Cuba has also gradually allowed more economic freedom over the past decade.

I agree, cooperation is what is needed not blackmail. That's what the sanctions are doing: if Iran wants to cooperate economically with other countries, it needs to stop trying to blackmail other countries with threats of nuclear strikes.

As far as why, Iran regularly threatens to wipe other Middle Eastern countries off the map - including the nuclear armed Israel, which would easily trigger a nuclear war in the middle east. The simple reality is that there is not an equivalency between the possession of nuclear weapons by China, Russia, NATO, versus North Korea and Iran. The former don't go around threatening to wipe other countries off the map on a regular basis. Nor does Israel, they don't even officially acknowledge nuclear capacities. The latter do, and in North Korea's case it has created one of the most infamous geopolitical catastrophes of the 20th century. And Iran stands to become a much larger North Korea in a much more volatile part of the world.
I dread the day they change Windows Explorer for the one with a new "modern" UI
DeFi and the Future of Finance (2020)
Quarantine Brain: How ‘The Internet Became More Internet’ in 2020
I look forward to a redesign of some, but not all, of the system preferences, so that there are three distinct styles of preference pane with different partially disjoint sets of options, that you have to go hunting through to find the setting you want.
99% of the “learn programming language” literature is written by people who likely couldn’t do your job because they haven’t ever been programming.

This is why languages need good documentation.

It seems like it’s a booming industry though. I mean, there are entire sites like udemy where amateurs teach amateurs things they’ll never use in a real job, and that place, and others like it, seems to be doing just fine. Hell, every PACKT book ever written was worth more as blank paper.

Why do I care? I’m an external examiner, sometimes I need to read some of these god awful books to see what students are expected to know. I’m not sure why professors ever stray from the true CS classics, but they unfortunately do. Especially at the academy level.
He was also a guest on the changelog podcast where we talks about his process as well, well worth the listen:

https://changelog.com/person/sirupsen
Yeah I saw that comment too. We had to search for two weeks to find an affordable non Surface touchscreen because it was my 16 years olds preference for school work.
Bloomberg's Masters in Business is a great podcast btw...
Not the OP, but I'd say noisetorch already works pretty good for that use case. Especially with the recent additions of pre-selecting the last device and stuff like that, I really appreciate those minor QOL improvements.

If I compare it to how RTX voice works, it's _slightly_ more complicated to setup (currently no distribution through standard package managers/simply downloading a file and clicking it to start everything) and it doesn't autostart like RTX voice does on windows startup. But jugding from your issues [0] I understand the decision and I'll set it up manually.

It might be an idea to allow for autostart for users who don't care about the CPU impact because their CPUs are big enough or whatever.

Nevertheless, your solution is actually very close to what OP is describing: "install an app and click a button to turn on". So thanks for maintaining, I use it daily!

[0] https://github.com/lawl/NoiseTorch/issues/6
Canada is a part of NATO, and NATO militaries have strategies for the sharing of nuclear weapons. In the past nuclear weapons were stored in Canada.
Nice ! Native debugger :)
> protesting copyright laws isn’t the solution

Why not? We're supposed to just accept this? The US imposes these laws on the entire world via trade agreements and the world is supposed to simply go along with it?
Its pretty sad at the end of the page it talks about other resources, the first few are 2008 ish. I'd expect them to be obsolete, but is that just become the industry standard now? FAANG SD interviews are such a mystery and the we never comment response doesn't help.
These sort of data bundles can't work without this type of logging. Thankfully here we don't have that.

And of course ISPs should track what ASNs they communicate with, but that is on general level, not per user...
Please stop posting flamewar comments, and definitely please don't create accounts to post flamewar comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So I didn't read the piece, but that money may belong to the shareholders but not be reflected on the stock price. When a company tanks stocks can be kind like "not really that liquid", because to get back the "true" value of the assets you own via your share of the company back you need to wait for it to go up again. If you sue you may get your money sooner and put it back to work on a functioning company or lower risk investment. Does he tackle that? Skimming the article it doesn't look like it, and the motivation to sue on some of this cases is to get the ROI shareholders were hoping for in a timely and less risky fashion after a company collapses due to malice or incompetence.
I know I'm out of my league here, but it seems to me like a good thing that we sanction countries would would hand out a 10+ year jail sentence to a instagrammer for showcasing their hobby?
As a person who "hires people", would it be a good idea for a 50-year old guy to openly state in their CV that e.g. between Mar 2016 and Sep 2017 they were fighting testicular cancer? This wasn't my reason; I'm just asking for a friend.
I have been doing this since age 13, so I see no problem assuming decent transportation links to take advantage of.
I have no issue with it as an option. I have an issue with Microsoft prodding me to make it my default. OneDrive is permanently listed ahead of my local files in Office for instance and you need to really put effort into disabling it from linking to your PC when you first set it up. Many non tech oriented people probably cant even figure out how to do that. Further, its really the direction that's concerning. Where will we be in the next 3 major releases.
Well, see the AV1 codec? They made it because they were sick of patents and license costs for H.265, preferring to fund the development of a completely new one, primarily to avoid the fees.

Or see RedHat and their Linux development/support. They don't rent-seek via copyright. And no proprietary programming language has a large user base. The closest is probably Microsoft Excel, I'd guess.
W/ all 65 eligible, FL counties are using Eventbrite to schedule vaccine appts
Howdy! I'm the author of PhotoStructure.

The next release (I expect alpha builds to be available in a week or two) has album support: including automatic album importing from Google Takeouts.

https://forum.photostructure.com/t/support-for-manually-crea...

This next release is a biggie, btw:

https://photostructure.com/about/2020-release-notes/#vnext
The problem is that Tesla is also another Kodak. Companies need to start investing in fuel cell technology or face another disruption.

The future might be companies like Hyundai or Toyota, who are investing in "all-of-the-above" technologies rather than betting everything on one idea.
But per the article, a Ticketmaster employee has pleaded guilty to a criminal offense related to the hacking
I am reminded of this guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shields_(diarist)

Robert Shields was best known for writing a diary of 37.5 million words, which chronicled every five minutes of his life from 1972 until a stroke disabled him in 1997.
Basically all space companies (oldspace, newspace) hire software folks. Some specific jobs might require PhDs, but most don't. Flight software sometimes has requirements for certain experience (e.g. Embedded). However, flight software is a surprisingly small sliver of all the space related software that gets written. Even though it's outer space they still need GUIs for ground systems, CRUD apps for handling downlinked data, WebGL people to build fancy visualizations, etc
Then you are using the wrong windows version. If you need complete control over updates for a machine that runs 24/7 you need the windows server edition.
> Huh, to be honest I feel like I've only ever seen halftoning when printing onto paper -- I've never associated dithering with printing at all.

Yep, sorry about my sloppy terminology. I always use "halftoning" and "dithering" interchangeably. Yet, notice that today's printers are often matrix-based, i.e., like a high-resolution binary screen, with a bit of ink smearing depending on the type of paper/plastic.

> I've always assumed were hand-drawn by an artist.

Maybe some are still drawn by hand, but most printed stuff is at some point dithered automatically (and a lot of critical information can be embedded on the dithering patterns).
Title should say "all 65+"
That... is a good point. Actually, suing a company for securities fraud seems kind of strange when you put it that way. How could a shareholder derive net benefit from suing a company for a share of the assets they already own? Unless they've already sold the shares and they're suing to try and recover their loss? Is that allowed?
It looks like they are reading hacker news :)

https://github.blog/2021-01-05-advancing-developer-freedom-g...
I though APY is just APR with interest compounding.
I'm aware of the insidious nature of governmental encroachment upon our electronic freedom, but part of me feels that we should just pay Uber and Lyft to set up an app for scheduling at-home (front porch) vaccinations by nurses in a van.

There has got to be SOME allowance for information tech to help solve problems in the gray area between government surveillance and personal obscurity.
Here’s another one, with a similar conclusion: https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.8780
No one is being censored. The government is not stopping these TalkRadio folks from hosting and distributing their own videos. A more concerning scenario would be if YouTube were forced to host any and all crackpot videos under the oft misused banner of "FrEeDoM oF sPEeCh".
Here's a video from inside: https://youtu.be/SqhMhJ-uFGY

There are a couple more like this on YouTube. Dead mall videos are a genre.
Would you please stop posting ideological flamebait to HN? You've done it repeatedly, and it's not what this site is for. Taking threads on flamewar tangents is particularly destructive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: actually it looks like this account is being used primarily for political and ideological battle. We ban that sort of account, and eventually people's main account as well if they keep doing it. I've banned this one. Please don't create accounts to break HN's guidelines with.

If I've misread you and you actually want to use HN as intended, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
Feel free to argue that your employer should have different hours in the winter. Don't make the rest of society alter their schedule and complicate timekeeping for that though.
Thankfully git is a distributed VCS. You just push the latest version somewhere else.
How was your government today?
There's no deal on services because there's no single market in services for there to be a deal about.

One of the sad truths about the EU, and one reason the UK has left, is that the much vaunted "single market" was always first and foremost designed for the purposes of France and Germany. Their economies are more goods export oriented. Once goods rules were made uniform (always to the benefit of those two), the EU mysteriously lost interest in creating a single market for services. There has been very little progress for a long time in even basic things like mutual recognition.
I wasn't talking about writes but as an aside: I wouldn't bet on that.

SQL databases are complicated and writes can happen for many reasons - if you manage to bloat the working set by reading more stuff concurrently (old rows, etc) it's not hard to imagine something having to be paged out as a consequence.
I'm not an SRE, but for SWEs at that level you may expect a deeper discussion in:

* Addressing scaling bottlenecks with a large focus on reliability and fault-tolerance.

* Concepts orthogonal to the core ask (ex: security, privacy, auth n/z, compliance).

* Cost. Ultimately the most scalable architecture may not be very cost effective; the 2nd best option might be much cheaper and merits discussion.

These are for large scale design questions. Questions to L6 candidates are posed (deliberately) ambiguously to see if they can tease apart the important/finer details.
>"Four out of five dentists recommend Marlboro cigarettes"?

I don't see how that's any different than when congressmen get interviewed by the talking heads and say "the research is clear, there's been study X by Y and P by Q that show that what we need to do is enact <insert some asinine extremist legislation that that congressmen supports>". They're both lying in a plausibly deniable manner in order to market something to the public. Anyone who bothers to verify either claim will find it's all crap.

The problem isn't the research. It's that we blindly trust "the research" and people know this so the research gets manipulated and cherry picked and whatnot. Two hundred years ago these sorts of people and entities all invoked gods name in order to peddle crap. I have no idea what the solution is but I think whatever it is will involve the public being more disapproving of parties that behave in a slimy manner like this.
> Gutenberg was just too late to the game. Automattic sat too long, let third-parties come in and solve a critical user experience problem

Estoy en desacuerdo.

La experiencia que he tenido con plugins como Elementor, WPBackery, Divi, etc que apuntan a cubrir las mismas necesidades que Gutenberg, la considero muy mala, ya sea por performance, UX, o accesibilidad. Además de que constantemente te insisten con upsells "Go pro". En cambio Gutenberg está en el core de WordPress, no es una dependencia de un tercero que si deja de existir tu sitio probablemente se rompa, y si bien Gutenberg tiene un largo camino a mejorar, hoy en día ya es superior a los plugins existentes.

Sorry my English is not good enough to write quick and clear.
Can you elaborate on how this amounts to telling Iran to "shoot itself in the head"? The 12 demands as per your article are:

> Declare to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) a full account of the prior military dimensions of its nuclear programme and permanently and verifiably abandon such work in perpetuity.

> Stop enrichment and never pursue plutonium reprocessing, including closing its heavy water reactor.

> Provide the IAEA with unqualified access to all sites throughout the entire country.

> End its proliferation of ballistic missiles and halt further launching or development of nuclear-capable missile systems.

> Release all US citizens as well as citizens of US partners and allies.

> End support to Middle East “terrorist” groups, including Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

> Respect the sovereignty of the Iraqi government and permit the disarming, demobilisation and reintegration of Shia militias.

> End its military support for the Houthi rebels and work towards a peaceful, political settlement in Yemen.

> Withdraw all forces under Iran’s command throughout the entirety of Syria.

> End support for the Taliban and other “terrorists” in Afghanistan and the region and cease harbouring senior al-Qaeda leaders.

> End the Islamic Revolutionary Guard corps-linked Quds Force’s support for “terrorists” and “militant” partners around the world.

> End its threatening behaviour against its neighbours, many of whom are US allies, including its threats to destroy Israel and its firing of missiles at Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and threats to international shipping and destructive cyberattacks.

This really amounts to 3 things:

1. Stop pursuing nuclear weapons development, and actually give inspectors the ability to verify that Iran is staying true to it's word.

2. Stop supporting terrorist organizations, and other proxy wars.

3. Stop threatening to destroy Saudi Arabia, Israel, and other countries.

Sure, demanding the release of US citizens is superfluous and unnecessary. But how does this amount to telling Iran to "shoot itself in the head"? How would fulfilling these 12 points kill Iran? How does Iran somehow end up dying if it stops fighting proxy wars in Yemen and Iraq?
Mamba is a reimplementation of the conda package manager in C++. (quote from README at https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba, linked to in original post)
Useful Terminal Commands for Devs
We're not there yet, but at some point we will be. It probably won't be within the next 5 years, maybe even 10. All that matters is that the # of deaths from automated driving ends up less than the # of deaths from human driving.

If 1,000 people a year die from software glitches, that's still a 30x+ improvement from the current situation.

I really don't see how people focus so much on "potential glitches" and not the current reality: drunk drivers, angry/hostile road-ragey people, people on the phone, people texting while driving, people on medication, people driving while sleepy, etc. A few glitches here and there is objectively superior to the current state of affairs.
Travelling to Haiti to building homes on the surface may seem like a very inefficient way to build homes, however perhaps the experience helps them truly understand the local needs and come up with a much more efficient solution. At the very least they could become a lifetime advocate that donates to more efficient programs.
UK government currently rated as 95.7% terrible.
There's a property tax of 1% for home values up to around DKK 3M, and 3% for the value above 3M.

That is the based on the "official estimated value", however, which is typically conservative and lagging and therefore somewhat less (like e.g. 60%) of what the property actually sells for.

The 3M is set so that the vast majority of homes will not exceed this value.

In addition to that we pay a "lot tax" which varies by municipality between 1.6% -3.4% of the value of the lot without the buildings.
At L6+ you also need experience and war stories during the interview process. And a significant number of wins with broad impact that can only happen if you have the soft skills to make large change happen.
> The main goal of such sanctions is to Iranian government to not have resources for war and terrorism.

Maybe against other countries, but they just end up using the resources they have to do that anyways... just against their own citizens. Sanctions are nothing more than using civilians with no choice as a pawn to force a revolution because we couldn't do it ourselves. It's kindof disgusting considering how many uninvolved bystanders turn into "collateral damage" in these situations.
Understanding Ruby on Rails in 10 Tweets
I follow a few people who make stuff and show the process:

- Ben Eater: https://www.youtube.com/c/BenEater

- Mark Rober: https://www.youtube.com/c/MarkRober

- Primitive Technology: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA
Apps must be specifically authorized by the user to do so, otherwise they cannot. This process is detailed on the FAQ page.
Even more than that, as long as one person has the repo cloned you can bootstrap the entire project again, any single clone has the entire project history to the most recent point it was fetched. Git is neat that way.
Great thread! Hoping we can keep this going in future months as it's great to see what everyone is working on.

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> leaving them alone

That is not possible when Iran threatens our allies and provides material support to organizations with the stated goal of causing mayhem to Americans and their allies.

Let’s be realistic: Iran and America are enemies. Keep that in mind when offering solutions.
Business hours. I'm at work from 8AM to 6PM five days a week. Near the winter solstice, the sun sets around 4:30-5:30.

Getting up earlier would just make me have to go to bed earlier. It's dark either way.
Unfortunately, github is 50% git, 50% proprietary code that you don't control and can't neatly export your data for other platforms. All these git hosts are walled Gardens. It's a sad state of affairs but not really limited to git (Gmail walled Garden despite email standard, messaging apps, etc).