skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amazing how government comes around in a circle.
There was DERA(Defence Evaluation and Research Agency) which the government pretty much privatised by spinning it off as Qinetiq

For me the issue is they intend to invest into 'projects', why phrase it like that? If it's research, then you're finding out new information, proving theories etc, so to deem it as high risk project is strange, just treat it as research, it's allowed to fail!

Another one is the FOI. This is just stupid, we should know what the money is being spent on, what the outcomes, things learnt etc. It doesn't have to be the costings down to how much a tea bag costs. Just the top level stuff. I'm happy for top secret projects to be exempt if there is serious national security concerns. But if the public aren't allowed to see it, then who is getting the benefit? Could very well be private companies (which isn't a bad thing, but we've paid for them to gain advantage...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_Evaluation_and_Researc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qinetiq
I think you misunderstood. I don't have anything against fireplace as a completely decorative element. Just don't expect it to perform the function of heating the house.
I actually discovered this myself a few days ago. Quite surprising... I assume it's safe to remove?
We've only been able to do so for a brief sliver of geological time. That earth would go billions of years without advanced intelligence only to have two such intelligences emerge independently within a few thousand years of eachother seems improbable.
Power down at home in west Houston before daylight Monday.

Lost water before daylight Tuesday.

Power came back on just before daylight Wednesday, off just over 48 hrs, not as bad as some hurricanes.

Water service unlikely for a few more days, worse than any hurricane this century.
RetroForth 2021.1
his weather app adds toys and thats about it, and its min $15 a year to even use those...

collector skins? $70 a year for weather and a calculator?

pass.. sorry. they look nice but i'll stick with the boring apps for this kind of functionality.
You're assuming the rest of the world is different but it isn't. There's a massive amount of companies where working pace is very slow. A large percentage of employees do barely anything and these companies exist forever.
Thank you, Jenny!
SA is still a fun place to hang out. I've been a member there for 15 years now.
I can understand that, but I see a couple of suggestions in the thread that are more considerate than tracking pixels. Tracking external clicks, double confirmation, etc.

I consume most of my email in plain text format. Like me there are others. Your solution is not working for us.
Well PIM or Processing In Memory or Computational Memory [1] isn't new. The Question is what exactly did they put in those memory or what are the target performance speed up in that specific domain. This PR provides embarrassingly little details.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_RAM
> Newsletters are plague.

That really depends on how you use email. I always have a very empty email inbox and newsletters stay there until I read them (I'm talking about newsletters from people, not the latest deals on some ecommerce website).
Imagine the same choice on a PC.
Microsoft doesn't allow a ceeatin software just switch to MacOS or Linux.
All the software you previously bought is useless and you have to buy it again.
So because multiple AppStores is too much of hassle you need to keep multiple smartphones or buy the same software twice.
No sorry, I first noticed it today around 16:00 UTC. But that's the first time I have visited the site for months.
Corporations have been known to hire out for content, from time to time, when communicating via emoji limits their range of expression.
This looks really cool, I would love some way to integrate it with a program tutorial.

Anyway you can use some type of cloud IDE to run these examples. For JavaScript that should be pretty easy
Not really, because asexuality is not an inheritable trait, as far as i understand. It wouldn't have lasted this long in humanity if it was (maybe there were asexuals who have been forced to have sex? I don't know).

It can also just be a lifestyle choice. We wouldn't call this asexuality probably, but nevertheless if someone chooses not to have sex it's kind of a spit in the face to say that everything from work to relaxation is undertaken because of some sex->power pipeline.
> And if there were people misunderstanding what he was saying, then it's pretty clear that he was either deliberately provoking in his speech or just clueless about the impact words have on people who are not him.

I mean, I've heard stories of someone reported to HR for using the word 'baller' (as in 'That new car is so baller, David.') who clearly did not understand the meaning of the word and I can only speculate as to why they thought it was a vulgarity.

That said we can always strive to communicate more clearly, and someone publicly blogging about how they quit because of it probably doesn't get the same benefit of the doubt.
> does Epic have consumers back?

Of course not.

In principal, in a capitalist society, no firm is on the consumers side—all are trying to extract maximum value from the consumer and give back as little as possible in return. But, ideally, this is constrained by robust competition between firms.

To the extent Apple exercises a practical monopoly, Epic fighting against their ability to leverage that monopoly to dictate terms is fighting in the interest of consumers even if it does not come from a pro-consumer motivation, because it means that competition which benefits consumers will continue for other services dependent on the space monopolized by Apple.
No. The solution to the problem of evil m̶a̶i̶n̶t̶a̶i̶n̶e̶r̶s independent software vendors is maintainers.

See http://kmkeen.com/maintainers-matter/
The photos on the Wikipedia page are breathtaking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machapuchare
Fun to play with. Most surprising is the auto-indent when typing Clojure code.

The #1 missing feature is the ability to select a different typeface. #2 would be the ability to serve up an image from a URL like a pastebin or a-la speedtest.net speed test (https://www.speedtest.net/result/10946633415.png)
This looks like an app I've been using to see what my friends are listening to called greymatter.fm. I haven't been able to try out Humit yet as I'm on iOS. Waiting to see what it looks like.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/13123626/923847

Can force a refresh when the page us navigated back to. Or use that event to fix whatever state your in.
This is by design. The p2p.riot.im demo is a closed system and isn't connected to the rest of the Matrix federation. It speaks a different protocol.
Why not both?

Some people have good control over their email inbox. Some don't.
"If you're running a mail newsletter, this tracking is pretty important. You're supposed to stop sending emails to someone who's not interacting with them, or you get an extra point towards being flagged as spam."

How about measuring interaction as the user doing something like logging into your site, buying a product, posting a comment on your site, sending you an e-mail -- those are actual interactions. By not counting simply opening the e-mail as interaction, you can satisfy your worries about bothering people without spying on them. You can use the lack of logins or e-mails from the user as an indication of disinterest.

The profit incentive that's built-in via collection of user data makes any "it's for the user's best interest" argument questionable.
I would argue that removing the App Store as a single point of failure for free speech [1][2] would be a pretty big benefit.

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/apple-bans-vpns-from-app-store-in-c...
[2] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/pakistan-forced...
I don't need an alarm clock, but I still set one. Without an alarm clock, my sleep schedule tends to drift and conflict with other obligations.

Some things can only be done when there is sunlight or when businesses are open.
BrightID is... interesting. The idea is to ensure that each physical human has at most one Bright ID account by using social verification, right? I can't figure out from a quick skim of https://brightid.gitbook.io/brightid/getting-started how they prevent you from getting multiple accounts by getting verified through two or more disjoint social groups.
I’ve gone without an alarm clock for years, with the occasional exception of needing to wake at an unusual time or being sure to catch a flight.

I do wake with my puppy which according to the article is not “natural” but I don’t think it’s anything like waking to an alarm. We both wake gradually, have a little snuggle, say good morning and then start our day.

I also drink coffee through the morning and I object to the article putting that down. I don’t drink it for its stimulating effect, if anything it’s calming (then again I have ADHD and take amphetamines which are also calming).

Anyway, I will say to anyone who has the option, do try going without the alarm and adjusting your sleep schedule accordingly. It’s absolutely a more refreshing way to wake up.
Well, the difference is that with Steam EA gets the choice whether they like the "extra marketing" for that price or not. If a customer wants to buy something from EA outside of Steam, EA is permitted to sell it to them without ripping up their Steam distribution channel - which is not the case for Epic/Apple.
Then why hasn't it happened? Android has always had sideloading and this is not the case. Just asserting it to be false isn't convincing.
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Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software
What "reality" are you referring to? Statistically speaking, just about everyone who isn't self-employed (and many of those who are) are in it for the money. A boss complaining that their employees have no passion for their job and won't work overtime sounds like an out of touch awful boss regardless if those employees' lack of passion is for a software product, making pizzas, teaching, driving a truck, or whatever.

Are there awful bosses in every industry? Probably. That doesn't mean that has to be "reality" - it just means that such opinions need pushback wherever they're found.
The USD also had some difficult beginnings, and through luck and force of will has been established as the de-facto world currency. Saying that no-one will ever challenge the king is foolish, short-sighted, and naive.
I totally understand that but from my POV, I don't see Apple losing the App Store's position as a positive for consumers. Let's compare Android's eco-system to iOS's. Android's app ecosystem is terrible IMO, piracy - viruses - cloned apps - and general very low quality apps. I'm a mobile developer (both iOS and Android) and I use both in my daily live. I know some people prefer Android but MANY don't. To me it's VERY far from obvious that Apple's walled garden is worse for consumers. In fact I'd say that Apple's App Store is the best example of a platform eco-system we have had in the history of computing. I could see the argument if iOS was the only real choice but it's not even the most popular by sheer numbers.
This is a very charitable reading of the comment, and the examples stated seem somewhat unrelated.

A closer analogy will be: "He was lost in New York City. Later, he cursed at all the Blacks who robbed him." Or "He had an intense negotiation with the financiers. He later cursed at all the Jews who were scamming him."

As you may note, the term "jews" or "blacks" or "Indians" (in the original comment) is not merely stated as an adjective to describe the individuals, rather it is used in pejorative sense to denote a cultural trait within the group that makes them act in a particular manner. A child comment by the original poster makes his prejudice quite clear: "Probably because Indians are the ones that are leaders in scamming? "

I get your whole point about talking about individual, subset, and group, but it looks like just a defence for calling Indians "world leaders in scamming.", rather than some data based, dispassionate description of the situation.

Edit: grammar
I'm saying that in a company like Google in the mindstate of Silicon Valley, they've invested millions into the system and they start from an ideal image that the system is unbiased and "fair" and good.

Even if it goes to the highest levels in the company, they aren't playing the game "prove why the system was wrong", they are are playing the game "prove why the millions of dollars we poured into this system were right". Especially if they are at fairly high levels of the company removed from the day to day maintenance of the system, they have more personally invested in assuming the system works right, in believing the system to be an unbiased and "fair" black box (because their personal reputations get tied to the company's reputations get tied to the system's reputation).

I think the "something else" is just general mistrust in broken "guilty until proven innocent" systems. I believe people have noticed, but the system still wins because the system is usually "right". It's the "benign" AI bureaucracy "utopia" Google (and a lot of Silicon Valley) keeps saying they all want and keeps trying to build doing exactly what it was built to do, absolve humans of human decisions and blame it on the "fair" black box. But maybe I'm just a huge cynic about human nature.
One quick detail on the Trino description is that not only are some of the initial developers but all of the creators and the majority of contributors (https://github.com/prestodb/presto/graphs/contributors?from=...) and still have contributed the majority of the code in both Presto (https://github.com/prestodb/presto/graphs/contributors)/Trin... (https://github.com/trinodb/trino/graphs/contributors).

To really jump into this, take a look at https://trino.io/blog/2020/12/27/announcing-trino.html.

A few more stats and info:

Trino commits: 22,383
Presto commits: 18,582

Trino slack members: 3,603
Presto slack members: 1,575

Trino supports iceberg: https://trino.io/docs/current/connector/iceberg.html
HDP3 Support: https://github.com/trinodb/trino/issues/1218

Trino has addressed a critical security vulnerability that still exists in Presto: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-1508...

Give our repo a star if you have a sec:
https://github.com/trinodb/trino/blob/master/.github/star.pn...
Looks great!

I know it should have been more obvious, but I didn't realize the text was editable. I was looking for an 'upload your code' button. Maybe put one of those "Try Me!" badges with an arrow pointing to the code like on toy boxes?
Usability is horrible. Middle element follows scroll for a while and then stops. Background color changes on scroll. Blocks are placed everywhere. Spacing between elements is inconsistent.
We use this to force a refresh: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13123626/923847

Or you can use that event to fix what's wrong on the page without a refresh if possible (remove a modal, enable the button again etc)
No I mentioned something very specific i.e. DARPAs challenges
One solution is Apple could add a feature where you voluntarily pay $50 to not be able to use other stores, and you could purchase it.
> No - it’s not going to add anything at all for users except being forced to deal with a bunch of shady app stores, some of which will be deeply hostile to privacy.

It means lower prices for those who are smart enough to use the cheaper store and those who cannot will stay on the official store that takes its 30% cut.

In fact even the bare existence of other stores would mean that the cut probably goes down, since Apple probably will prefer to stop the outflow of users.

If someone is inept to use other store than the official apple store, then I guess they have to pay the higher price. Your post sounds comical on a forum called "hacker news". You sound as if using a second app store is some secret knowledge...

You also seem to ignore the fact that even computer inept people try to reduce the amount of money they pay for stuff and money is a big incentive (app costs 1 dollar less on other store is a great motivator to learn how to use it).
> those newsletters can go to hell and fully deserve to be marked as spam.

I tend to agree. Also, newsletter that try to track me with invisible pixels can go to hell, too.
You won't have a choice when some critical service you use moves to a third party app store in order to avoid Apple's new privacy policy.
"Do not load remote images" boom, done.
Thats like claiming Isaak newton was a great scientist because he stayed a virgin.

People buy iPhones and tolerate lack of sideloading.
The OP is 100% right here. Sometimes the needs of the company change as the company grows, and people can’t keep up. Or people change and they can’t give what the company needs from them any more. This is one of the hard aspects of being a manager in a startup that’s growing quickly.

The easiest example to grok would be if you had hired a VP of sales who is an expert in B2C selling, then you pivot your product to a B2B offering. Or say you pivot into being a data-heavy product and your CTO has no idea how to build a data pipeline.

In these cases you could say “they will figure it out”, and sometimes that works. But sometimes you need to recognize that through no fault of their own, your employee now does not have the skill set they need to do their job, and find someone that does have those skills.

This is most pronounced in hyper-growth startups because bigger companies seldom pivot dramatically or change their scale rapidly enough that a motivated and smart employee can’t grow with the role.
I think the one weakness of text is context. In 2,000 years, if someone finds an inscription reading "Thanks Obama", what will they make of it? They'll might know that Obama was a president of a country. Without context it would be hard to tell if this was 1) genuine sentiment 2) snarky criticism or 3) ironic. Good luck with "Covefe" or whatever.

My point is that context matters a lot, and (I assume) that it can only be reconstructed through a lot of text.
So you prefer the console situation?
A game is PS or Xbox exclusive so instead of just another store you need a completely other hardware for hundreds of dollars.
Identifying and flagging Trump supporters! After the 1/6 I see the need for a robust security state.
> ... as a lowly engineer was I wanted a role model to learn from and help upskill my career.

There is no reason this has to be your manager. Your managers job was to understand that this was something you needed, and find a way to try and provide it for you; it's unfortunate that didn't happen for you.

> It's my goal as a manager to be that manager

Can I make a suggestion? As a manager it's important that you respond to what your team actually needs, rather than your perception of what you would have needed in their place.

There are a number of ways to do this well, and a much larger number of ways to mess it up.
It’s not the drive that is unshared, it’s the incentives. He seems to vaguely understand that his employee’s incentives at Google are different from his own, and seems resent them for it even though his pay is probably an order of magnitude higher than theirs.

When he talks about perfect alignment between employees and investors in the start up world, he is believing his own sales pitch. In reality the same divide exists there too.
Or, as several countries did, you could actually pursue elimination and "avert the devastation" without miraculously creating millions of doses of untested vaccine, injecting them into your population and then crossing your fingers that nothing goes wrong.
I think we should go the opposite way. I think we should push more onto email. email is pretty ubiquitous. Nearly everyone online has email. It's as close to universal as anything else for accessing people. Instead of having a dozen different chat apps, push chats to email. Instead of a half dozen Slack wannabe apps, push all that to email. We should expand the email protocol to support that.
Your misunderstanding of bitcoin seems to boil down to your lack of understanding of what "decentralized trust" is and why it's useful. Maybe start there, but you probably won't because you sound extremely angry.
Perhaps unpopular opinion, but I find that website too disorganized. Buttons are all over the place, rather than organized in one (or even more) location. Take the first page as an example: "About us" is by itself on the exact opposite side as "Contact". The phone outline on the first page also has no content except the 3 lines on the bottom and is just awkward whitespace, although you can click on it even though that isn't shown. Also, why do all the circle buttons rotate when you hover over them?
But email clients let you set “do not load remote images”. I set it for the Mac app. How can a best practice be one that conflicts with easily toggled options and not weird settings.
It's a good point, Labour did a bunch of PPI deals that didn't seem to benefit the public as much as the private collaborators. So it's not exclusive to one party, but the Conversatives have been in power for a fairly long time now.

Long term we need transparency from whoever is in charge.
in my personnal experience, the only kind of companies that are really comfortable to employees (in terms of perks) and adopt a slow rythm, are benefiting from some kind of monopolistic, regulatory situation.

Either public sector companies, or banks & insurance whose business model can't be disrupted that easily because of regulatory pressures.

Giant IT companies from the valley that successfully built a way to lock down users are the other example.
It's hard to make that call when you're making life-changing money every day. Alternatively, you could completely change the company's focus.
I follow a couple friends via the RSS feed created by nitter.net: https://nitter.net
Edit for funniness:

It's like the wheel that took a self-help course on how to reinvent oneself.
I think every email newsletter should offer an RSS feed as a matter of course. With all of ours, you just stick /rss on the end of the URL and off you go :-) e.g. https://javascriptweekly.com/rss

With that said, I think there are some interesting opportunities for turning certain types of email into RSS feeds generally. I think it'd be really cool to have all of the random and very low priority emails landing at the 101 spare domain names I have to turn up in a single feed somehow rather than be forwarded.
Reflections on Using Haskell for My Startup
Go ahead and apply and talk to the recruiter about your situation. They'll be the best person to talk through your visa requirements. Good luck with your application!
> like Office Depot

Which doesn't exist here. Guess I should've specified austria before.
They launched a website to register Covid vaccinations, it only lasted one week
'Up' is one of the best films of all time, followed by an additional hour and twenty minutes of pretty-decent movie.
> From the outside it looks more like a chain reaction of copying what another popular site is doing at the time

It's probably a non-designer manager telling a designer "We want it to look like this" and pointing at the popular site.