skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taking the time to learn the basics of cooking pays back exponentially. In addition to the health and costs benefits, I find it extremely cathartic. And anecdotal, but I love the look on my friends and partner's face when they are enjoying a dish I've made.

With a few basic skills you can whip up so many tasty dishes.

My little secret: a homemade white sauce seafood pasta. It's embarrassingly easy to make, and wows my guests every-time.
Two similar stories for a distinct group of stars seems like reaching, though. Hundreds of different human civilizations and they found two with the same story for the same constellation. That could be sheer coincidence.
Just from your replies people can see that many people can code with music, and many only with silence.

I think this is something CEOs don't realize when they push for ,,open offices''.

For me a group of 5 people in a room was the optimal number of people for coding enjoyment: just enough people that I feel the pressure and don't feel alone, but not too much noise, so I can work well. For people who can work with music an open office is still kind of OK, even if they don't like it that much.
>Xcode development, the Apple Developer Program, and the whole experience of trying to ship your application on the Apple ecosystem is the fucking plague.

That's because you're a developer that works in different platforms ("Apple, Android, Windows, Linux"). So you probably spend most of the time working in some other platform, and doing macOS work for you is just an annoyance, having to context switch to another process, etc.

Apple tho wants macOS developers (and users prefer apps from people dedicated to macOS). That's because such vendors (e.g. Panic, BareBones, Omni, and so on) won't do lowest common denominator apps, they keep up with the platform, they understand it, they hook in to new platform-only capabilities, etc.).

>Apple's desktop market share being what it is, I cannot comprehend how they're generally getting away with this.

Apple's market share is what it is, in part because they enforce things like this. This means they can add new OS/hardware features and devs will add support for them fast (instead on relying to 1000s of half-ported apps, with shared functionality on Windows and Mac, and horrible cross-platformy UIs).

That's also why (forcing more people to use XCode, and thus the official APIs, BitCode, and so on), they can introduce a whole new architecture like AS, and have macOS apps support it from day one, or old x86 apps running smoothly translated.
John McPhee is an amazing writer. These articles eventually became his book, Assembling California, which in 1998 was republished as part of a collection of his books on geology entitled Annals of the Former World.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals_of_the_Former_World

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374518734
"Try the Editor" functions poorly on mobile. Might want to double check the responsive design with more screen sizes
HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know
The thread is referencing Ethereum devs, when the bitcoin dev(s?) are where?

Lot's of folks riffing on the original implementation, but ultimately just a fork.
There is a similar organization called FreeCycle: https://www.freecycle.org/
The technical and product requirements that Signal is solving is drastically different to anything attempted before in the open source community. Signal is only looking to generate a movement to guarantee e2e encryption across all chat and social stacks. They don’t care who ends up owning the social wars, as long as that becomes the new standard. Think of it as an attempt to strike at the heart of the capitalistic forces that have diverted that kind of research away from production. It’s a brilliant strategic play they’re doing so I’m more grateful to figuring out how to do that because it looked like it had repeatedly failed in the past.
You can buy prechopped onions either fresh or frozen. Also there’s the smashy oxo onion chopper thing but it works better for garlic really.
>camping equipment

There's a lot of variation. Materials change. Stuff wears out. I have old gear and I have gear I've replaced because what I wanted wasn't available 10 years ago.

As for boot. I have custom boot that I've had for a couple decades (and have had repaired). But they're heavy and I don't wear them for everything.
The key to D&B is understanding that they have two very separate businesses. Think of it like the TurboTax free filing division and the paid division.

D&B make buckets of money off of paid services which are like credit counseling and business reputation rackets. If you want to borrow money as a business you’ll probably have to pay their tax along the way.

Their quasi government mandated monopoly is handing out the number you need. God forbid you try to get one from the former however. Also don’t try to update your registration through the paid side either. They’ll try to charge you even though they can’t get it done any faster than you can yourself through the correct link.

The key to getting one quickly is making sure your corporate registration is updated with your state. And the officer getting the Apple ID is listed with the state as an officer.
I've created a series of templates for different types of documents (passports, driver's licenses, receipts, insurance policies) and I want to be able to scan the document and have the OCR 1) determine what template it should be on 2) extract relevant information to fill out the "form" aka template so the user doesn't have to
At one point recently, the founders tried to very mildly promote their book and all the admins of all the Buy Nothing chapters gave them a lot of backlash for trying to hawk stuff in the Admin Hub group.
It seems like things like Jabber and Signal are going to become more and more prevalent as Facebook and other suppress voices outside the mainstream ... in an entirely ham-hand fashion.

The thing I miss with non-facebook stuff is threaded discussion. Earlier comment just get lost.

Is there an XMPP client with threaded discussion?
> ...which will result in inferior throughput in actual world benchmarks...

You're telling me that Go's garbage collector, which is optimized for low latency, has worse throughput than the JVM's default allocator, which is optimized for high throughput?

Most garbage collectors are either designed for low latency or high throughput. You cannot optimize for both. The choice for high throughput makes sense for batch programs, like compilers, command-line tools, generating analytics reports, etc. Choosing low-latency makes sense for web services and the backend services behind them.

As fanout increases, the GC latency in backend services becomes much more important.
Ted Talk: The End of Globalization
Believe it or not, the "boring titles" often times get better attention. I found that out a couple weeks ago, when I posted my open source project using just the title of the website and it not only made it to the front page, but stayed there for several hours. Whereas I tried for the last several years with more descriptive titles, and it would get at most 1 - 3 upvotes before disappearing from the new submissions queue.
Only ~5% of California's long-term care facility residents have been vaccinated
> What if it also required understanding the internal architecture of the operating system’s dynamic linker to diagnose runtime problems? I hear you responding, “That’d be insane!”

Uh, I hate to be glib but has the author ever built something of consequence?

At least once a week I see some team running into this stuff, if you don't understand it then you're stuck twiddling your thumbs as soon as you hit any problem with your classloader or linker.

Analogy aside service connections seem a heck of a lot more complicated than virtual address spaces. I just really have a hard time buying that you are going to make all of the leaky parts of that abstraction disappear.
Top Tier Investments 3-1
SEQUOIA CAPITAL
(1) BukuKas / B2B software that provides digital bookkeeping application for SMEs in Indonesia
$10 mn Series A

Enables micro and small businesses to easily record sales, expenses, and cash transactions using smartphones.

https://www.bukukas.co.id/

Key Points to Note: In Indonesia, due to the pandemic, small and medium-sized businesses are turning their attention to digitalization, including online sales. One of the challenges they faced was that they also lacked mobile-first tools to manage their business. This is what Bukukas is trying to solve.

(2)Xentral / B2B software that provides ERP and CRM for small and medium-sized businesses in Germany
$15 mn Series A

Many companies provide front-end systems for SMEs in online sales, but few provide back-end systems.

https://xentral.com/en/

Points of interest: SEQUOIA is attracting attention because this is the first investment since the company officially started operations in the European region.

(3) Bitcipher Labs (CoinSwitch Kuber) / Provides a cryptocurrency platform in India B2C marketplace
$20 mn Series A

India is the second largest bitcoin market in Asia after China, and the sixth largest in the world after the US, Nigeria, China, Canada, and the UK.

https://coinswitch.co/

Points of Interest: The cryptocurrency trading volume in the market, India, has increased by 500% since March 2020 and is attracting attention from investors.

(4)Outer / Provides D2C for outdoor furniture B2C Retail
$10.5 mn Series A

The company has grown more than 10 times in the second year of its launch and word of mouth is rapidly increasing.

https://liveouter.com/

HIGHLIGHTS: Despite a retail slowdown due to the pandemic, Outer is increasing sales, driven by areas such as backyards, decks and porches.
Not if measured properly. If the government hands out $2000 checks to everyone, funded by increased borrowing, individual bank balances do rise by $2000, but Americans will eventually have to pay the interest and principal of government bonds. What fraction of the national debt you should subtract from your personal net worth to get a realistic estimate of your financial position is an interesting question.
Top Tier Investments 3-2
SEQUOIA CAPITAL

(5) Hive Box Cayman / Provides package pickup stations in China B2C Logistics
$400 mn Series C

Based in Shenzhen, designs and develops 24-hour self-service pickup stations for express delivery companies and e-commerce logistics.

http://www.fcbox.com/en/pc/index.html#/

Highlights: Losses due to property acquisition, operation and maintenance costs, coupled with insufficient consumption penetration yet.

(6)Ironclad / Provides a digital contracting platform B2B software
$100 mn Series D

Flexibly handles all types of business contracts, including sales, procurement, marketing, and human resources.

https://ironcladapp.com/

Highlights: A pandemic at one of our clients required remote negotiations in contracts. Ironclad has solved that problem.

FOUNDERS FUND
Carbyne / B2B software for emergency communication platform
$25 mn Series B

Enables live video, images, chat, voice, VoIP, NLP, and content sharing between callers and emergency call centers.

https://carbyne911.com/

Points of Interest: The pandemic has made it difficult to use conventional offline communication during emergencies. In this context, Carbune has become one of the world's largest providers of rich data in emergencies.
Apple cannot justify their transgressions against the modern development workforce as "a matter of platforms". The future cannot be segregated by platforms - that's part of the goal of a private and secure web. We need to work together to create secure infrastructure that everyone can trust, not huddle away and say that "Apple isn't looking for people like you". I understand that you're probably pretty impartial on the topic, but even you can acknowledge that their treatment of developers is unhealthy.
It's quite different to switch between tasks when one task doesn't need your attention for a moment but quite another to switch in the middle of the tasks.
I absolutely agree with cleaning while cooking. Sauce has sputtered on the rage top, go ahead and wipe it off while it's still liquid. If I'm done cutting on the cutting board, rinse the board and kind off while things are cooking.

That said, I suspect that ability to clean and cook at the same time comes with experience and comfort with the cooking task. If imagine the same goes for socializing while cooking. Some meals I can do on autopilot and have the connotative capacity for other tasks, while others I ask the family to give give me some room to focus.
You're kinda pointing I think in the correct direction.

There are different kind of facts. In this case the fact is a legal fact. One generated via the electoral process and subject to rulings by the courts, and certification by the legislative branch.

The electoral system and the courts have ruled universally that Trump lost. That system is made up of offices held by all the various factions.

So the legal fact is Biden won the election. That's it. Saying otherwise is lying, saying it's debatable is also lying.
Phil Spector Dead at 81 – Caught Covid-19 in Prison
Always comforting to hear that a cesspit is not, in actual fact, bottomless.
I had a {troll} account on there - so I was there everyday. I disagree with your assessment and certainly saw posts calling for violence with essentially every comment on the post supporting it.

When you first signup you get connected for a few big names like Hannity, and the content is like what you'd see on Fox News (or really, News Max to be honest). Once you get past that layer it quickly spirals.

Regarding reddit...they did take down /r/The_Donald (and prob others, don't know off the top of my head)
>As it turns out, people have differently structured brains.

Or maybe some just dellude themselves (and e.g. lose congnitive capacity with music, but conflate their hapiness boost for increased productivity, etc.).

This "differently structured brains" was the once popular idea behind different "learning styles" (visual learner, etc.) who has been discredited since.

Evolutionary it's more probable we have quite identically structured brains when it comes to main functions, and just have different e.g. cultural tastes on top.
But will get you virus/bacterias
> This kind of living has pros and cons, but I guess not everybody wants to live like that.

I suspect that if you gave everyone a choice of what products they want, they would gravitate toward the better made, longer lasting ones. However those often cost considerably more for incremental improvement, or for improvements you may not need (eg massive service interval for something rarely used).

Up front cost is a massive consideration.
Music is the only thing that saved me in an open office. Without it I would be hard pressed to ever find flow. I’ve been distributed for almost 2 years and the combo of music and no one else in my office has improved my output a ton
I don't think "political" or "anarchist" are the right labels here. Anti-capitalist maybe? Unorthodox?

Just because economic systems are politicized in our society doesn't mean it is inherently political to change your own personal economic system.
I've used XMPP and OTR for about 15 years. I'm not a cyber criminal. It's efficient and secure. There are lots of open source clients to use as well. That's why I use it.
Jim Simons Proved the Textbooks Wrong – Almost
You are right to feel uneasy about Signal, because there is a possibility (I don't know how big) to snoop and is centralized. Checkout Session, forked Signal with decentralized infrastructure.
I'd say a good amount of reddit users use their mobile browser rather than us the app because the app is terrible. So to me, the answer is yes.
It's really easy to scrape Instagram from outside the browser as a non-user. No API or Access Token needed. Two steps: 1. Get the profile ID, 2. submit query via GraphQL.

For example, if the username is "fish" and we want the first 36 entries.

1. x=$(wget -O- -q https://www.instagram.com/fish/?__a=1|grep -o "profilePage_[^\"]*" |sed 's/profilePage_//');

2. wget -O- -q "https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/?query_hash=e769aa130647d2354c40ea6a439bfc08&variables={\"id\":\"$x\",\"first\":36,\"after\":\"\"}"
I agree — the auto-updating nature of Snaps are a problem without an easy solution: https://askubuntu.com/questions/930593/how-to-disable-autore...

But I would also point out that on stable Debian it’s near impossible to deploy Certbot because the versions available are too old, especially the plugins. I’ve been routinely installing the snap instead because it’s a quick and easy way to deploy the service at the latest version.

The only other alternative to suggest is to request the Certbot project deploys custom deb repos or similar. But can we expect that of every project? Perhaps we need a new standard to replace snap, if so the only folks I can see large enough to promote it would be GitHub...

Since that’s unlikely to happen, maybe just noting the auto-update “feature” more prominently in their is all they should need to do?
How would you suggest handling password resets?
I hope someday stores like Amazon will rate based on expected lifespan. I just had a receiver die. It was 8.5 years old, not really outdated... But those kinds of things should last a lot longer!
> At stake is a share of the estimated more than $2 trillion global market for rail infrastructure projects.

I could be wrong, this spending is mostly in domestic China, right? Japan is that foolish to believe they have a chance there?
How much of that is just because it’s not spinning/ no gravity? That plus better shielding should help right?
And if all that wasn't bad enough - snapd also purges package change history after something like 72 hours so you can't even tell what updates were applied and when to your system.
That's not the case at all (thank god). Most of the posts I see on the federated timeline are LGBT-related and silly Twitter-like jokes.
Biden's budget is a wish list. He can't announce budgets for NIH or NSF. Only Congress can do that.

Even when a president's own party controls both houses of Congress, the White House budget is almost never followed precisely.
Would love to add them, and love the site! I’ll definitely reach out once it’s ready
You compared it to open-sources databases and having a full-time engineer (while overlooking managed solutions). If those problems were unsolvable by other systems then what exactly were you comparing?

Spanner isn't magic, it's just a proprietary distributed relational database that is strongly consistent (CP) and relies on Google's network and infrastructure to make up for availability as much as possible. CRDB solves the same problems. It was founded by ex-googlers who are familiar with Spanner and the product is production-grade enough to achieve a multi-billion dollar valuation with impressive customers. Plenty of "new-sql" relational datastores have been created that compete and win on both features and cost, because the reality is that the vast majority of companies do not have a scaling problem; certainly not one that can only be solved by Spanner.
Not sure a paywalled article with just a subtitle is a great submission
That's just bitcoin mining with extra steps.
I'm in one reading group that uses signal primarily for its communication. We have not been able to figure out what we're going to read next because suggested texts get lost as people make random comments.

I hope that post Facebook messages gets to the level of threaded messages. Sometimes pure chat is enough and sometimes chat is really annoying for accomplishing things.
A better hypothesis would be that Russia was one of the only countries that would accept an arrival with a cancelled passport (and could provide a reasonable degree of protection against rendition by US agents).

I don't believe it is possible to fly from HK to South America without passing through the US or New Zealand, whereas Snowden probably could have travelled from Russia to Cuba if Putin didn't find it politically advantageous to keep him as a trophy.
The original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl-HPIu5kcs&t=29s
Twitter is definitely a bastion for the left, that's why Steven Crowder has a blue checkmark.
You can tell what kind of pressures the local distribution systems (or lack of) are under, but the missteps are still shameful.

You have people over 75 years old who were waiting and registering on whatever reservation system was cobbled together on short notice, and then because the public health authorities now risked throwing out doses for want of people to inject them into, they just opened the floodgates to everyone over 65.

So what happens to the people over 75 who were waiting, and now are swamped by the crowds? If they keep on opening up bulk tranches of the population (instead of in small slices) before people of priority are reached, when will the most vulnerable ever get their turn?

This is a known problem. Multiple queues of priority and people on call to be given turns the next day if it looks like there's capacity.

Instead you have people wondering if they should walk in, visit a county next door, or wait around in case some mistake is made and there are actually extra doses at the end of a day. Or try to scheme/figure out the system however they can, out of desperation.

If it can't be done right, let everyone know that it's up to their willingness to wait wherever they can, according to some basic ground rules, and don't make a meaningless (or worse, deceptive) reservations system that gets bypassed at the last minute.

What a shameful clusterfuck.
>it’s extremely easy to game this metric.

This reminds me how companies used to rate the performance of programmers based on how many lines of code they produced and why so many companies eventually abandoned this model. All it did was incentivize programmers to quickly hammer out superfluous, inefficient, bug ridden code that would just bite them in the ass later rather than concentrating on writing quality code. I think that's all that would end up happening with MS Teams tracking. Once employees figure out the game, they're just going to spend as much time as they can chatting, posting messages and scheduling pointless meetings rather than doing actual work.
I agree, I really enjoy music and find it helps me get into a good flow. However, for me at least, it needs to specifically be music without lyrics. Downtempo electronic is usually best, but I can make pretty much anything work so long as it’s not music that one can “sing along to.” In that case I often end up humming along to the lyrics and getting distracted.
Oh sorry about that. I didn't notice it since I'm registered and logged in, but I didn't have to pay to read it.
> Do you automated this or are there manual steps?

Manual for the time being.

> Maybe your extension isn't impacted here? There's no guarantee the next update won't get trapped in the review queue either,...

Mine does need all URLs, though it is possible the next review could take days or weeks. Yet it's all still so much simpler a process than Safari.
We usually call this an RCE exploit.
Russian history is just brutal, particularly during the Soviet era. A meaningful portion of its citizens were deemed criminal and the definition of criminal changed with time. All sorts of things got you dead or imprisoned: your class, your region, your town, ethnicity, religion, friends, family, profession and everything else.

There will be loads of good books about it, but Simon Sebag Montefiore has done a few - Young Stalin and The Court of the Red Czar come to mind immediately.