skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No shippers besides USPS cares. UPS and FedEx will happily ship those and their competitors’ boxes.
Very bean counter thought process here:

Yes, they covered home users, and probably decided to take the hit on the few tens of thousands of small businesses buying a $1k or so of subscriptions a year (and not via Dell/HP/etc). Which probably wasn't even a hit once they factored in the weight of having account managers, and the like looking at a tiny $1k a year deals.

But it completely ignores the "build our product on centos" appliance market that existed. As well as a few others that might have shipped fairly significant volumes, but never wanted/needed support or did their own product+linux support as part of their general support channel. Yes, various hyperscalers were doing that and rebranding their own modified versions but that was more an error on the part of RHEL to fail to listen to those users anyway.

Basically RH has consistently failed to understand that centos was the "OEM/toolkit" version of RHEL for a lot of pretty serious organizations.
Someone should create a website for all the things you need to learn, to start and run a side hustle.
I've seen bounding box code that uses PCA and, by extension, eigenvectors. I think inverse kinematics code uses eigenvectors too. But yeah, transforms easily make up 80% of the use cases.
Well, they’re not so committed then, are they?
>The majority of Mozilla Corporation's revenue is from royalties earned through Firefox web browser search partnerships and distribution deals. Precisely 94% of Mozilla revenues came through royalties received by search engines to be featured on its Mozilla Firefox browser.

So much freedom.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3600206/mozilla-report...
Precisely.

And the fact is, enterprises seeing to make every support transaction a positive ROI are, in fact and in deed, penny wise and pound foolish.

They will see an opportunity cost due to missed sales opportunity.

They will see greater load due to people using an inferior process and poorly empowered people, repeatedly.

They will see a diminished overall market perception.

Their products will provide less value due to a greater misalignment with both exiating and potential users needs, which drive perception of value, which drives more dollars.

Personally, having been on all sides of this matter, I rank what we are discussing at the very top when considering who I will buy from and or work with.

Flat out, when I see enterprises putting seriously crazy amounts of money in the bank, I accept zero excuses in this regard.

It is not necessary. Lives are short, money hard to come by. Best get solid value for the dollar.
> To Google engineers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VImnpErdDzA

Love that piece!
Ok, great, I like the new name a lot better!

It was just funny when I read it first, I thought someone else had the same idea :)
In Japan the go light is called blue. It is bluish, but definitely green to my eyes.
> Why do we have bike lanes on most bridges, but only half of the bay bridge between SF and Oakland?

The general unspoken idea I've heard for that one is simple racism: the Bay Bridge terminates in West Oakland. Same reason BART doesn't go to Marin (the folks in Marin don't want SFians invading.) The limit is reached in the town of Bolinas, who infamously removed their highway signs so not even the rest of the Marin folk (let alone lesser Californians) could find them.
> You also suppress freedom of speech indirectly when you put someone in prison

You’re confusing suppressing an individual’s ability to speak with the general notion of the free exchange of ideas. Arrest one person and free speech activists aren’t concerned, arrest everyone that says something, now they are concerned. The notion of trying to suppress topics is the problem, not the limitation of a particular individual.

> Saying that freedom of speech can't ever be limited is a very ideological point of view, so far away from reality that I wouldn't consider it worth debating at all.

You built a shitty strawman and then attacked it. Bravo. If you actually want to debate people who advocate free speech, the concern is when speech is suppressed because of the contents of the speech. Not because the person is dead, in prison, in a coma, or some other contrived crap.
Yeah, when Java 8 introduced the Function interface I started to program this way as well. I get push back some times from the those not initiated to the functional style because I have a ton of little function that do one thing. Unfortunately in Java this means a bunch of class files.

The other thing I noticed when I started using this style is that I was able to ditch unit testing mocking frameworks. This made me realize, when the Function interface was introduce it was a backdoor way to get folks back to coding to an interface, which we should have been doing all along.
Word

I should have included that. Glad you did.
Get a PinePhone then.
Antifa actively attempted to block media from photographing rioters, looters, and arsonists, and attacked numerous photojournalists ho refused to comply.
Wow, so cool that you did this and
are looking for feedback on HN!

I have worked on some projects inside
big organizations with a lot of red tape
and politics and I have to imagine that
this must be a real challenge for you as
well right? What have you found worked
in terms of being able to put users first
instead of higher ups in the chain of command?

Search:

- I tried 3 search queries and no results.

- It looks like the entire corpus is only 97 entries.
I would suggest considering removing search all together,
and instead just putting the data in a single packed
table. You can fit 100 rows of data in 3 scrolls.
Then someone can "search with their eyes" or even ctrl+f.

- As a rule of thumb, I try to wait until I have over 10,000
rows before I add any type of search to a page. At the very
least, I never add search when I have less than 1,000 items.
Measure the time it takes people to find things and you'll
see probably a 10x speed up if you go to a single page.

Information Density:

A general critique I have is that there is
very low information density on this site.

You could fit 1,000% more information on these pages.

A book I highly, highly recommend, that you can buy used
for only $1.49, is New York Times Page One:

https://www.amazon.com/New-York-Times-Page-One/dp/1578660882

NYTimes has been serving the people of America for over a century,
and so you'll see the patterns they've evolved over the past 100+
years. One of the main ones is high information density.
I would try and cram more and more on the page. People that need
bigger fonts and more accessibility have a range of tools on their
devices to transform sites into accessible version for them. Now
I've been in places where leaders pushed back against this, but I
can tell you for a fact that your numbers will skyrocket if you
go to higher information density which will increase the odds
people will find the info they are looking for in a shorter time
period and eventually come back to your site.

Visualizations:

I would put search in a corner, and one of your
most interesting visualizations front and center!
What are the top 10 coolest stories you've found while
working on this site, with this data? Bring some of those to life!

Great stuff! Thanks for your work and for sharing here!

(Source: I work on software at Our World in Data, and
am also a medical researcher and work on various related tech)
CryptoArt.wtf
UK manufacturers angry as EU customers cancel orders due to Brexit red tape
I haven't jumped to the brave bandwagon just yet, but their native support for IPFS is very enticing.
Beeper people: I filled out your Airtable form... how do I give you money?
The thing about titles is that they often give a summary. Of course it does not tell the whole story--but I don't think it's misleading nor do I think it's crap.
Thanks! I see it as unlikely that they will release the code, because castlabs also seem to have a business of auditing implementations for consideration for the widevine program: https://github.com/castlabs/electron-releases/wiki/EVS#3pl
I respect your effort. Out of curiosity, do you have a partner / children? If yes, how do you balance your family with work/entrepreneurship? If not, do you think people with family commitments can/should use their free time on side projects?
(As for me, I work similar hours to you and have a wife but no kids. I think my side projects will have to stop when the kids come along; my wife is already sad that instead of spending time with her I choose extra work that is unpaid in the short term and may never result in a financial reward for our family.)
You can call Lisp from my language, and call my language from Lisp. But it will still need a lot more work before I start using it for tasks I currently prefer Lisp for.
I started a business to make a gadget for a niche market, while also working another sideline as a part time musician.

One thing is that my day job did not demand heroic hours, and I have a very short commute. I live in a cheap region, so I have plenty of space in my house for all operations.

Another factor is that the market itself is such that my business will never grow beyond a certain size. I make and ship a few gadgets a week. I'm successful inasmuch as the business adds a few thousand dollars per year to the kitty. Playing music has also produced a net income if you don't count what my parents paid for lessons. ;-)

An interesting nuance is that my product contains no Code. My market doesn't judge my credibility by the sophistication of my web page. It is not technically passive income, but semi-passive in the sense that the baseline attention it demands is utterly predictable from month to month.

The lack of Code is by intent, to provide a contrast with what I do all day.
I generally agree with your arguments when the customers are medium to large businesses - and I assume that’s where your experience is. In the consumer and small business space the dynamics are very different.
The most haunting for me was when Picard was stunned and spent 40 years in a few real minutes in a different culture. It's s5e25.

Don't read this wiki page if you don't want spoilers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inner_Light_(Star_Trek:_Th...
it's nice not having to constantly lift my hand to use the mouse when i'm just looking through files and making small changes. i can keep my hands on the keyboard for up to an hour and get stuff done, so long as the task at hand only requires a command line interface and a text editor.
Unlike native right click menus, Firefox's don't let you type to select an option after right clicking. Right clicking text in Firefox also displays a different set of options from the standard textual right click menu which is pretty annoying if you're used to the standard one that appears in literally every other app (for instance, the native one lets you right click a misspelled word to select a correction).

This is one of those rare instances of "no, it's not just different, it's actually much worse".
Just anecdotal evidence, but I do think the author is wrong in suggesting YIMBYs are open to affordable housing.

My neighborhood in Chicago had a controversial affordable housing complex get built. It was a mix of affordable and market-rate units, with a priority for veterans, seniors, and those with disabilities to take the affordable units. This was not section-8 housing, or government housing.

The prospect of its construction ended up fracturing an unofficially YIMBY neighborhood group, splitting it in two: Those who wanted 100% market-rate units and felt the affordable apartments would "end up like the next Cabrini green". It culminated in several individuals, one YIMBY-aligned individual launching unsuccessful lawsuits, and ultimately culminated in the alderman who approved the project losing in a massive landslide to a neighborhood that had reelected him twice.
I was thinking that European bison were smaller than North American bison, but according to Wikipedia, not really. European bison have less variability in weight (800-1000kg) but American bison can be heavier depending on the individual (400-1275kg). I wouldn't want to be trampled by either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bison
Seems like a reasonable, uncontroversial decision. I'm fine with that. Good on them for putting effort into accessibility and multilingual access.

In addition to the message from USDS, the site’s source code includes
a link to the US government’s analytics program at analytics.usa.gov.
Tim Lowden, who manages the federal government’s aggregated web analytics
initiative, said this data has been made available for the first time
since late 2017.

... neat.
I live in a Bay Area suburb with mostly single family homes. One would think that people would form communities but you would be surprised. Many of the newer tech people just treat it as a bedroom whereas some parents and older residents treat it as a community.

I think much of new tech is mercenary. They aren’t from the area. They came to make money. They don’t care about the neighborhood. When they can make more money elsewhere they will leave. In fact, with COVID-19, many have and are.

Even if you build a bunch of tech fish tanks, the surrounding area will still become very expensive. Yes, building more tech fish tanks can make it less worse, but it is still be untenable for existing residents. An artisanal coffee shop replacing a donut shop just made coffee unaffordable for the less wealthy.

I think that a much better connected transit system is actually the answer. It will allow new communities to form farther off but still connected to the whole. It gives everyone a place at the table and increases the cultural richness. NYC feels much more culturally rich than SF and I think that is why. Instead, in the Bay Area, you had the black community moving to Sacramento.

Also, those fishtanks were folly. It would have been much better for the city to have more mixed housing in those neighborhoods. By mixed, I mean having some larger units that allow families to stay. In a way, in the SOMA, you replaced the original SROs with tech SROs. The irony.

I think the transit villages were also terribly designed. Most are aligned around the track. That makes no sense from a noise pollution standpoint. It makes far more sense to build either perpendicular to the track or at least a block away.

Stepping back even further, government had and has an issue with attracting talent. It was hopelessly inadequate at addressing the challenges and taking advantage of the opportunities.
Confused by the thesis, which is that modern capitalism owes itself to Protestantism turning away from predestination. But Catholicism had never embraced predestination.
GitHub has reversed the takedown of nyaa.si code repository
I think I found the palace on maps:
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.4193687,38.2052689,844m/data...
So the only argument we have against that proposals is that 96% people/pitchforks voted for it. That's the only argument I found in the post and the comments.

Is there a well written article that describes what PING is and formal specification of this proposal?
It's also possible others opposed the idea, but knew, for sure, Google would veto it. So they let Google take the hit.
I don’t quite understand the point about building more “yuppie fish tanks” as a way to bring down rent. Having lived in Portland, I did not see a correlation between the construction of market rate housing or luxury housing and the reduction in rent in other neighborhoods.

I also don’t understand that “if the government says something is designated as being affordable housing then it will be affordable” is suggested to be a possibly unreliable assumption. I’ve lived in affordable housing and market rate housing. Affordable Housing was uh, much more affordable.

Maybe I’m completely misunderstanding this post but the general tone comes off as “anything associated with ‘the left’ is actually diametrically opposed to truth”
I already have one (BraveHeart edition).
It works similarly to calling someone "mister" and "sir", as in "excuse me, mister" and "excuse me, sir".

"Mister" is generally used for someone older and "sir" is usually used for someone around your age. The equivalent mapping in many Asian languages is "mister" = "uncle", and "sir" = "brother".

In the case where you are speaking generally, as in writing an article about some people rather than addressing them directly, then it is sort of subjective and not relative to the speaker's/writer's age, but "older" people (~50-60s onwards) are referred to as "uncle/auntie" and "younger" people are referred to as "brother/sister". What is "older" and "younger" here is a very fuzzy line, and it's possible to offend someone by using the wrong term, but this is pretty universal and not exclusive to Asian languages.
Orange isn't unique. Pink and violet are derived via the same process. I'm always amused by reports on languages with limited color terms because their speakers can always fall back on "color of foo" to describe colors without a dedicated word.
The thing is affordable housing is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

If a city creates a million new jobs, they need a proportional amount of new housing to avoid a housing shortage.

But what happens is the NIMBYs clamp the amount of new housing to a fraction of what's needed. Obviously developers, if limited to building a fraction of what's needed, will go for the more profitable segment first. But that's not the underlying problem! The problem is that the total new units are too restricted. If we build a tiny, restricted amount of subsidized housing, there will still be hundreds of thousands of workers lacking housing, because the overall amount is too small.

What we need to do is first focus on the overall shortage and commit to building a huge amount of housing. Then it won't matter as much whether or not it's subsidized, because with an excess of housing, some will end up priced for every segment.
Imagine spending 5+ years in prison over copyright. I've seen news about violent criminals doing less time for violent crimes with actual victims.
Hmm, I'm not sure that's accurate. No disagreement that the "homeowner-aligned conservatives" are progressive by national standards, but NIMBY's in general are progressive by national standards, because most NIMBYism occurs within progressive cities like SF. Cities are progressive enclaves even in conservative areas, so almost by definition, NIMBYs will be more progressive than average. So when I say conservative vs progressive, I mean relative to each other, or the center within a given city, rather than to the national average. I admit this is probably a confusing way to put it.

I think in this article, Noah is referring specifically to this far left. For much of the article, he references Current Affairs, for example, which is a far left magazine. In the replies to his tweets about this, folks also mentioned Sunrise, which is a far left environmental org.

Regarding your original point, re: the progressive left in Seattle, I think the far left is more in coalition with YIMBYs, while the business-oriented politicians are in coalition with the NIMBYs. This isn't to say there aren't NIMBY leftists, just that they don't really have a lot of power at the moment, because they have to work with the YIMBYs.

As far as actual conservatives in Seattle politics, there are very few (maybe none?) remaining.
That is strange. Until fairly recently my daily driver was a low end ex-lease HP machine from 2013 or so with an i3 with 4gigs of RAM. Never saw much issue with Defender or the updates. Not unusual for updates of any kind to be all over and done with in <5mins from clicking update to a fully usable desktop. Win10 has improved a heck of a lot over previous versions even on old hardware. My work-supplied Mac on the other hand, even with much better specs than my lowly home machine, usually takes at least 30mins to do updates (with most of the time spent during the reboot which means I can't use it at all). One of many reasons why I moved away from Apple for my own hardware.
If you make housing scarce, then housing will be more expensive.

I don’t have any sympathy for neighborhood groups that are anti-transit, anti-road, anti-development, pro-rent control, and pro-prop 13. All of those things helped turn bay area housing into a giant pyramid scheme.

Now that housing is expensive and scarce, the people that voted in those changes are worried they might have to move, forcing them to pay the bill like the rest of the marks.

The reality is that demographics are shifting towards people that did not grow up here, and that are tired of paying out the nose for housing.

Eventually, newcomers will manage to vote in a massive redistribution of wealth. The longer it takes, the more painful it will be.
> First of all, I've never heard of PING.

Doesn't surprise me given how neutered it is. I wonder whether google considered the alternative (government intervention) when the vetoed this.
If I recall correctly, even the posthumans in the culture were gatekept by their servant/master AI.
... even with countries who are committed free market economies, social institutions are wisely tolerated.
What on earth is DESRES spending all that money on then
Been there. They aren't. Some of the mechanics vary, but good service does not.

Right now, I am in the small business space and rock solid support is how we are killing it.

Been there, very large, small, medium, consumer, b2b...

Don't tell me it can't or should not be done when billions land in accounts free and clear.

It can. Should.

I spend with those who get that first and foremost.
Since gun ownership and the number of guns have both been rising continuously for years, you can correlate them to anything you like. Since the number of guns was over three hundred million when the murder rate was lower, we can also correlate a large number of guns in circulation to lower murder rates. Or rising rates, or dropping rates. No matter where the trend moves, as long as there are over three hundred million guns in the US, guns are basically as available as milk and gasoline and effectively a constant. Or do you honestly believe going from three hundred million guns to three hundred and one million guns is worthy of measure for correlation?

All of this is irrelevant in any case. 99.95% of guns are benign in the US. This isn't conjecture - its a clear ratio of total guns in circulation vs gun homicides. A law-abiding owner of a gun should be as concerned by a gun used in a murder as a chef would be concerned about someone being stabbed with a pearing knife.

If you want a more realistic answer, I would suggest both economic desperation (unemployment, inequality, need) and pressures due to a new and unnatural mode of living enforced on the population (lockdown). Or if you want to get political, all of the cities in the infographic are blue cities that moved to lax policing policies in 2020.
Can you type Lisp into a node?
I appreciate these public comments on logistics issues like exchange rate and the sharing of service providers very much. As a freelancer in Viet Nam, this came up multiple times whilst I started out and even though my rate delta was only about 20-25%, that was already something.

Best of luck to you two.
> No, it doesn't. Facts, which are subset of universal truths, need to clearly outweigh falsehood.

Yes, but that’s not the problem. The problem is that both sides of the political spectrum base a bunch of bullshit based on sets of facts they deem important.

There is no set of facts that indicates wealth should be taxed or corporate rates should be cut. Each side trots out “facts” supporting their view but the conclusions are completely different.
Haha - I like your thinking!