skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the link to that site. I expect I'll waste most of this evening looking through it.

It brought back memories of my SWL days. My favorites were Radio Sofia, Radio Habana (when playing music), and RNZI. I even sent away for an RNZI t-shirt, and was wearing it in Pennsylvania one day when a Maori recognized it and came running across the room to ask me about it.

I still listen to RNZ Pacific online, but it's not the same.
I doubt that, with that many users they would probably need to build their own stuff, around the globe. their servers have such a low latency, that this would be impossible by just going "colo".

peope who say that they can just save money in their colo are probably never even working in the scale of discord, which is fine.
> With GraphQL it involves writing one (or two) straightforward queries, while with REST it would require more thought or code.

Aren't you just pushing the work to the back end? The GraphQL resolver is a new layer of complexity while with REST is more straightforward.
> despite the constant “plant native species” drumbeat from wildlife advocates, hawks don’t really appear to prefer them

Raptors might not have a preference, but pollinators do, and in the US that counts for a lot. Planting native species gives native pollinators a better chance against their more generalist invasive cousins, the European honey bee (A. mellifera) and paper wasp (P. dominula).

It's a good idea to do that, too, since there are a lot of species which native pollinators can pollinate, but invasive pollinators can't, which means these plants rely on native pollinators to reproduce. More than that, some native insects are closely enough coevolved with native plants that, in the absence of the latter, the former fail to thrive or die out entirely - monarch butterflies, for example, are struggling for this very reason.

Audubon's native plant finder is a good place to start - the email address is optional, all it requires is your ZIP code. https://www.audubon.org/native-plants

That said, being from Audubon, it's focused around serving bird species, rather than insects. For insects specifically, look to the Xerces Society, which is a conservation society parallel to Audubon but interested in invertebrates: https://xerces.org/publications/plant-lists
While there absolutely are (great) artists in the dance music world recording their own acoustic instrumental riffs or vocals, I'd feel comfortable betting that a majority of the tracks we know and love that feature recorded parts like that are sampling someone else. Its part of the art form, and certainly anyone who has ever DJ'd is familiar with the idea of making something new and great from someone else's initial creation.

Dance music is samples all the way down - sometimes even samples of other tracks that sampled some other genre.
I don't have an answer, but I'd look if there has been some related humble bundle in the past. You can either try to "find" it or take a look to the individual books.
Many of the numbers we use day to day are more like strings than actual integers, though. What sense does it make to divide by a zip code, or two add two zip codes together for instance?
So are you the type I see blasting through red lights on your bicycle wearing a mask and no helmet? Are you the type of person I see who blindly steps out into a busy street to maintain "proper social distance" when somebody walks by you?

Because risks are everywhere. Overestimating your risks from covid by 1000x results in making some really, really poor risk tradeoffs.

People joke about dudes drinking bleach and stuff but that behavior was because they vastly overestimated their covid risks... so much so they completely disregarded the very real risks of... you know... drinking bleach.

Much more serious examples of bad risk tradeoffs are how many parents are handling their kids. Some of the stuff people are doing to their poor children is downright deplorable. For example keeping them completely isolated from outside contact. All of it is because their perceptions of covid risks are incredibly wrong.

The media and these "experts" have created a huge shadow pandemic of unchecked, irrational fear. Absolutely nobody seems to acknowledge it and we have to tackle it at some point in order to move past this. Unfortunately, it will require these experts to "tell the truth" about the risks of covid instead of hyping every outlier all the time.
“ to exclude the NT family by mentioning "consumer OS" ”

Sorry missed that.

Games: I wasn’t much of a gamer by then. But Age of empires worked well :D
This feels like a lot of noise. If we can't use our github profiles to show code that isn't meant for production, and we're applying to junior roles for people with less experience (and presumably few, if any, examples of production-ready code), what's left to publish? Should I unlink my github from my resume because it might detract from it?
https://www.whosampled.com/
This is a profoundly inefficient way to make money. Since you can’t really serve multiple people simultaneously there’s no opportunity to apply leverage to your work, every dollar you earn has to be 1 to 1 effort, and because the rates are so low very few skilled devs will spend focused time on this.

You must raise the rates.
Other people have already pointed out how common these techniques are. Here's my personal favorite video about the construction of a sample based track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ndtwj1byII
Did ZZT allow consumers to use other programmers' programs on their programming system so that these other programs could be run within ZZT or was the ZZT platform an unethical and walled garden? Was the walled garden an antitrust violation? Why were other "app stores" not allowed?!
Must be some subtlety here that I'm not getting. Seems some pretty straightforward chopping to me (do appreciate the viz though).
Thank, wasn't aware that was in the spec.

Makes sense, unfortunately allows for businesses (generally SMEs) to be relying on very sketchy setups.
I rewatched listening to all that and it helped but only in an abstract way. It's like there needs to be a penny in the shot or something to get a sense of scale.
I'd guess that the people at Stack Overflow might have an issue with someone using their name in this way. It should probably be clearer that this is entirely unaffiliated.

100+ reputation on SO is also a ridiculously low bar, it's almost meaningless. Not that any amount of reputation by itself is a sure indicator, but 100 really doesn't mean anything at all.

This kind of site also requires a pretty large critical mass to work, you don't just want a bunch of random SO users willing to participate, but you need the right users with experience in the right tags to match to the requests in a reasonable timeframe.

There's a good reason Stack Overflow doesn't allow people to pay for answers, people already cheat enough for meaningless internet points, this will get much worse with real money on the line.
This reminded me of watching some Kenyan runners at a local race. I had never seen people that good run in person.

I swear they just floated by... Their heads and shoulders just don't look like the move up and down at all. I'll never forget it. A thing of beauty.
Good point. If, hopefully not, it was something like a sudden health issue, sampling that movie scene would be the single most awesomely daft punk way to announce it.
The names listed here pay more taxes than anyone.
How did you answer the question? I would hope that something like the following would've been an acceptable answer:

> Oh, that was a learning project (or prototype code). If I were to write this code again, I would do $X

...where X is something like "use a unique ptr" or "assign ownership of this object to this other object instead".
Nextcloud 21 arrives with ten times better performance
Well I have an oddly specific contribution to this thread: My first boss was absent all the time. He'd show up to the office and lock himself away, leave and then not come back for another 6 months. He hated software and computers and didn't want to be a part of the software product we were building-- which is self evidently strange.

He used to race experimental cars. He was in a horrific crash on one of those salt flats and his personality was permanently changed. He went from being pleasant to the person I knew him as-- cold, strange and reclusive.

Turns out he was coming in to the office just long enough to use Excel to run a calculation. He was designing a helicopter where the jet engines were on the tip of the rotors and you stood in a can above the whirling blades. We called it GarbageCopter.

Anyways, he eventually gave up and bought a gyrocopter. He flies that thing all day, every day. Just circling in the pattern at our airport at 1,000 feet and 20 knots.

He is very old and blind on one side. I have no idea how he got his health check. I am pretty sure he will be a statistic someday, but at least he's doing something he likes.
Are there any nicer interfaces for gitweb? The basic functionality (just browsing a repo) is perfect but it's not the prettiest.

Edit: this looks like what I mean, just so happens to be github style but that's not a requirement! https://github.com/kogakure/gitweb-theme
I disapprove of that unnecessary lawns and hoa sterile “gardening”. Like they mandate planting rules or hire “gardeners” to maintain a landscape in a sterile, generic state but there is no thought or reason to it. What hoa had their landscaping designed by ecologists with the environment in mind? It’s hoa boards who don’t care but just want something standard and cheap and to put as little consideration into it as possible. All for the “Maximize/maintain house value” lie. Minimum effort at a cheap bland environment harming aesthetic does not maximize value.
How/where do you manage to charge this kind of rate? Are you contracting clients directly or through some agency? Also, is this for on premise or remote work? You take on full projects or augment existing teams?
Why do people keep using it if it's so useless?
Proposal for an Internet Service: The Eternal Home Page (1996)
I've been using Joplin for note taking in the terminal: https://joplinapp.org/terminal/. Joplin is great since it also has mobile apps, and you can sync with multiple backends (Dropbox, OneDrive, S3).

But it's anything but simple though, it brings along 579 dependencies.
U2F is a specific type of 2FA/MFA.

They are not congruent.
don't forget economic illiteracy, that has a component too
Protoactor for golang: https://github.com/AsynkronIT/protoactor-go#state-machines--....
The process itself might be simple, but they are skilled artisans of it. "Anyone can do it" ... but very few do it as well as them.
From a layman's perspective, it's impressive, but more importantly, the transformation is surprising, especially considering the specificity of the choices that apparently have to be made. Maybe he was speaking from a layman's perspective?
Ways to Reduce the Pain of Deploys
How do you buy them?
A (backtracking-aware) parsing table for expressions of the C language
This is a table I created to aid me during a rewrite of the Psyche-C project's parser (and underlying grammar). I'm not sure whether the table's "encoding" will be clear to everyone, though — if not, please comment on the document. Another reason for this post is to invite you to check out the project's website (the link is on the document) for it's being renewed. From a usability standpoint, the interesting changes are a new Roslyn-like API and a much more refined AST (closer to that of LLVM's Clang).

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oGjtFaqLzSoBEp2aGNgHrbEHxSi4Ijv57mXMPymZEcQ/edit?usp=sharing

I hope you enjoy it!
FYI this was most likely posted as a result of their just announced retirement: https://pitchfork.com/news/daft-punk-call-it-quits/
Totally agree. HATEOAS is a PITA.

Never overcomplicate things. Never add metadata if you don't have to. Just K.I.S.S
Whatsapp was cross platform and free.
And there you have it--the hiring algorithm in a nutshell.

These “quirky” decisions are the perfect cover for underlying reasons that the interviewer might not want to put in writing.
Is it really due to a particular media corporate hub/gang ? not to sound victim blaming, but I think humans on average likes to babble in front of medias / rumors or similar too much. The medias are born in it and simply reinforce the bubble.. using our own validation bias.

It's hard to be aware, hard to criticize, hard to know and integrate all..
"Work from home
Be your own boss
Set your own schedule"

I've heard this one before. Next you'll get the state of california to classify me as an employee.
GitHub is there so you can present your code to the world in an organised, documented, and personalised way. Part of that includes a short bio and profile pic. I don’t expect a professionally framed headshot with nice lighting, just upload something that’s not the default, to set yourself slightly apart from the crowd.
Ah... thanks for the answer. I also did not know that the physician has to prescribe the plan. Makes sense now.
>try it out using this neat HTML5-based emulation

Click on the link and get met with an "Unable to load Adobe Flash plugin" box. Not HTML5 so much I think. :)
> To the point where I'd consider them core partners in my journey of building the business.

The startup ecosystem in Brazil is probably in a time lag and perhaps this is why my experience might not be as insightful here. Still, I agree with your comment 100%. The majority of our early investors held some relevant experience in our field or offered tangibly valuable networking opportunities.

In fact, I think that the abundance of venture capital has the effect of flooding the ecosystem with "regular-value investors" (those that only have cash to contribute with), so these "extra-value investors" that actually partner with you are harder to find. And taking the authors suggestion of intentionally starting a bidding war further exacerbates the problem.

Instead of finding someone with experience and maturity in the field you're going to venture into, it increases the odds of picking investors that don't really know much exactly because they won't realize the bid was getting too high. By design you're trading knowledge for higher expectations.
DC-X Flight 8 – The Swan Dive Test
Article summarizes to:

"high gas fees are ruining ethereum for me. Other people need to quit using it for things that I personally don't get value from, to free up block space. Or the devs need to scale capacity. I'm a dev, but I don't like contributing to projects which have grown as large as ethereum, or I don't want to do that work. Somebody else please do it for me."

Sure, there's truth to it. And if the author reflected more before writing their rant, maybe they could have gotten to some interesting ideas worth discussing:

- How do you design a base layer which is general enough to do all the things author enjoys doing with Ethereum?
- How do you make this base layer capable of scaling as more people want to use it?

These are the existential questions that blockchains like Ethereum have been facing for years. Ethereum has some paths forward: rollups and sharding, and there's a lot of active work on both of these right now. Maybe there's room for useful discussion around why these are taking relatively long to ship, and how can we ship them faster or avoid hitting these same limitations in the future?

But I feel like these discussions are already happening, every day in this space and in a hundred different forums. There are hundreds of people all working to address the author's pain points across dozens of different projects. These things are being worked on. It just takes time. Nothing happens overnight.
https://museumofzzt.com/article/500/closer-look-z-files-v251
> Meh. No one thought the USSR was "unsustainable" in the 80's when they were an evil empire.

Actually, both the guy who coined that phrase and others did:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2011/07/predicting-soviet-col...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_of_the_collapse_of...
Almost zero.

And normal only in the sense that many people don't care that much if very few people are allowed to enter the country.
That's an excellent observation - very challenging to fish that out of the numbers.
ISO 8601 does not contain timezone information, but offset. Timezone info needs to be specified separately, likely as IANA names. It is a common misconception to time zones though, and in a way demonstrates why it’s best practice to always use UTC. When sending/receiving a datetime, no timezone info is available; if timezone is needed, send it separately (and keep the time value in UTC) to save misunderstandings for everyone.
You mean like every religious and mythological belief system since the dawn of civilization? I'd even argue every individual wants to and does (albeit in small steps) reshape society from the top of whatever rung they're on.
I'd like to ask a fairly specific question as a ZZT archivist/researcher; it's okay if you don't remember the answer.

Based on interviews with Tim Sweeney, it is said that he would let other people playtest pre-release versions of ZZT. What wasn't clear from the context is if anyone else ever had their own copy of these pre-release versions, which have been for a long time - due to some features and traits present in some of the pack-in worlds which were not possible to achieve with the editor as released - a source of speculation in the community. Do you happen to have any recollection of that?
IFTTT doesn’t seem like the best solution to something that costs you an enormous amount of money if it fails. especially in a situation with potential power outages killing the box you were using at an inopportune moment.
Not quite, the sky crane method was also used for Curiosity rover back in 2012
I am doing some part-time consulting, dev work only. Would love to network with other part-time consultants. DevOps is my weak spot and would love to send that work to someone who is better at it than me. Maybe, we need a forum targeted towards part-timers.
Perhaps it will be for the judge to decide what the sentence should look like.
I said almost exactly that.
Happens in Czechia and Slovakia too. In Slovakia the russian vaccine is championed by prime minister, despite there is no information at all about the vaccine side effects, efficiency, etc... in short, no certification process at all.

I think EU is in for a rude awakening about the extent of Russian hybrid warfare in these countries and whole Balkans.
I haven't had to run large workloads, but for smaller workloads, having a zone file in version control is so much nicer than fiddling with a database.
FWIW, I think that's terrible interviewing on their part.

Literally looking for their wallet under the lamp post because it's easy to pick nits in your homework assignments, but difficult to determine whether you could be a productive team member today under completely different circumstances with complete different incentives and forces on your choices.
Why aren’t autogyros more popular as drones? It seems like they would have a lot of advantages for photography and package delivery.

And they could be cheaper to build and easier to operate?
This sort of reminds me of Airpair. Does anyone know what happened to them? Any learnings there?
Depends on if the computer has taken away phone privileges. I suppose a good lawyer would already know the release date and take action without being contacted? But I have no idea.
I was actually talking about Democrat administered election facilities since they have a well documented seething hatred toward Trump and instituted egregious and well documented restrictions on election observers, forcing them to stay far enough away from election workers that they could not tell what the workers were doing, and kicking them out of facilities entirely under any pretext imaginable with absolutely no recourse if they did anything other than sit silently in their designated corner. I am not aware of any such egregious restrictions that were placed on election observers in Republican strongholds.
I do think there are some scary indicators (Value/GDP, CAPE, MAPE, calls/puts) which indicate we're farther along than that, but yes this could take years to reach a top. The GME escapade and the massive rush of retail investors into risky assets with perfect indifference as to whether they are investing or speculating indicate to me we're reasonably close. I have also been ridiculed many times over the last year for expressing hesitation about current valuations of Bitcoin, TLSA, GME or ARB.

Perhaps you're right though, and this has a long way to run... I'm afraid I just can't bring myself to invest in things which are overvalued due to FOMO rather than actually making money or having a prospect of making money. Old-fashioned I know.

Re pulling out of NASDAQ, I'm not sure that's a good example. You never made it back implies you lost something. You might have had indifferent returns in other assets, but not a loss. If you invested in 1999 on the other hand, you made a loss till 2013, over 10 years later, after another bubble burst. To me it is more important to avoid risk of extreme loss than attempt to chase extreme gains.

The Shiller book on Irrational Exuberance is better than the Greenspan movie IMO ;)
China went from having a serious outbreak to essentially zero new cases in just over two months. Australia, Vietnam and New Zealand also brought new cases essentially to nil.
Not unlike codementor, though the landing page maybe has a bit different value proposition. There they offer mentoring, this one looks more like specialized problem solving. But, of course, the two overlap strongly. E.g. on codementor quite a few of my sesssions were about looking into and helping to solve specific issues.

Those are actually pretty high adrenaline situations, at least in the beginning, because you only have a few minutes to grasp what's going. Or at least it feels like so and at least you need to start showing signs of understanding the problem. It was pretty fun (and stressful, in a positive way) in the beginning.
Yes. Most of us are not working towards society changed stuff can easily afford half hour a day and sometimes more on making another member of society productive and contribute to the economy. That you also get employees that are very grateful to the company for the initial chance is just a plus.
First hires should be people with strong SAE-ARP4754A and SAE-ARP4761 experience. Get your safety assessment correct first. Understand how to build a FADEC function with appropriate development assurance and hardware reliability. Then build your extended team (or outsource). Good luck!
i'm very fond of iOS/macOS Notes app. i use it heavily every day. one breakthrough for me was to stop trying to organize. i just write everything down in bulleted lists. and i create a note for each day with the date at the top, ex. 2021-2-22, which helps when scanning the list of notes. if i have something coming up that i want to prepare for i just create that note in advance, with the upcoming date at the top.

i find the search feature works well, except i have had an occasion where it stopped looking further back in time for some reason. that was actually pretty frustrating to discover.

why is it ugly? i think it looks good from the minimalist perspective. the one thing that would make me happier is if i could run it vim or have a subset of vim keybindings
Depends on why OP doesn't like Electron.

To be clear to everyone: Electron and React Native are not alike. Electron is a big web browser. React Native work completely differently: It neither renders, computes, or runs the same. React Native uses the Hermes engine, puppeteering native components.