skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can also turn off sponsored tiles, so this isn’t different in that respect.

Plus, while Mozilla the corporation is technically a for profit entity, they operate under the direction of the not for profit Mozilla Foundation. They are already the best choice for a browser that is free from an SV company’s influence. But they do have to pay their employees and keep the lights on. How are they supposed to pay for things if they don’t do stuff like this? At least they are honest about which things they are making money from.
I really don't think companies should be able to shut down abruptly like this without notifying employees.
> little difference than people walking past someone in an open plan office

> in its worse its little different from having a micro manager in a on-site office experience

That itself is a pretty horrible thing, and I'm glad I don't have to work for people like you.
Avoiding contentious terms is not the same thing as avoiding contentious topics. The blog clearly says he's keen to talk about these things, but tries to do so in a way that doesn't drag in a bunch of baggage that makes it less likely that the people you're communicating with will listen to your point.
I'm surprised they made it this long. I went to the Downers Grove, IL store in December 2019, and it had looked like the apocalypse had hit. I felt downright freaked out as I walked the mostly-barren aisles, and, needless to say, didn't find anything to buy as a Christmas present.

Needless to say, the first thing I did when I got home was try to figure out what happened, and it wasn't pretty. I haven't set foot in there since then, in spite of several trips to Micro Center in that time.
LinkedIn largely is independent. Especially on smaller product decisions like this. We already had something like this for years as a limited release product. It was called "ProFinder".
Do you have an Anki to share?
I wonder how small startups in early phase do it. Anyone has experience?
It's enough to soak overnight, rather than for 24 hours.

This lines up well with cooking the beans in a slow cooker, which in turn lines up well with working from home. Some evenings, i think "oh, i'll cook beans tomorrow", and put a pan on to soak (one minute's work). The next morning, i boil them for ten minutes to kill the PHA (if necessary for that variety), then load them in the slow cooker with whatever other ingredients seem good, and set it to run for eight hours.

It only involves a little bit of planning ahead, and very little actual work. In fact, it's nice to be able to front-load the work, so i do it in the morning when i'm still coming up to speed, rather than in the evening when i'm tired.
BOINC tasks are validated by running multiple executions on different hosts/users and comparing results; credit, and hence GRC, is only attributed to tasks with valid results: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/CreditNew
I bought most of my PC from the Tustin (CA) Microcenter. I'm always shocked at how they manage to move enough custom-loop water-cooling equipment to stock it on shelves.

However, LA and OC have huge car modding communities, why not PCs as well I guess :)

I was sad to see the Santa Clara (CA) Microcenter go. It's now a Walmart. No more Microcenter in Silicon Valley.
Reminds me of this:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/10/20/late-bloomers-...

> Ben Fountain did not make the decision to quit law and become a writer all by himself. He is married and has a family. [...] “When Ben first did this, we talked about the fact that it might not work, and we talked about, generally, ‘When will we know that it really isn’t working?’ and I’d say, ‘Well, give it ten years,’ ” Sharie recalled. To her, ten years didn’t seem unreasonable. “It takes a while to decide whether you like something or not,” she says. And when ten years became twelve and then fourteen and then sixteen, and the kids were off in high school, she stood by him, because, even during that long stretch when Ben had nothing published at all, she was confident that he was getting better.

Just a few months ago I read a blurb (in Scott Young's Ultralearning) about Eric Barone's 5 yr effort to build Stardew Valley. Amazing story. Imagine resisting the pressure to take "a real job" for 5 years so you can work on a game.
I've only just got a new Mac after having my last one for nearly a decade. I've had to replace two windows machines in that same time period. Not exactly cold hard data, but a sample size of 1.

There are also windows machines that make it hard to replace things mind you.
How do I start an online business?
Spain and France are reportedly arresting rap singer. The danger, I guess, is a song going viral and corrupting. The people in China don't have a bullshxx detector as one expects to find in say a savvy New Yorker lawyer or liar.
I can't imagine writing the amount of code Mike has written. The quantity and quality really amazes me. He's all over the internet.
I reloaded a few times with an ad-blocker on, with javascript on and off, and got the eye every time. It was only on disabling the ad blocker that i got the article.
Yeah, that’s my question. I’ll assume someone (whether the US government, Elon Musk, or whoever) was testing a rocket of some sort. Why the hell was it in the same area as a commercial flight? I’ll add another stupid human error to my list of things to be afraid of while on a plane.
Thanks for the correction. The branding obviously works since I would have never dreamed of buying 'basics' or 'value' in their original branding but do sometimes buy the 'farm-brand' veg and 'Stockwell' products.

Wairtrose also have an 'Essentials' range although the labelling is very similar to regular priced products. I buy these without a second thought.
What's the current value of a human life in dollars?
Is+Money+The+Root+of+All+Evil?+|+Good+News+Of+GOD
Not in a thousand years, yes. But eventually all ecosystems on earth will end in a few billion years when the sun enters its red giant phase. So irreversible damage is coming absent some intervention.

With that happening, "pricing" things will also have to account for whether the actions will lead to some sort of ecosystems lasting longer. The really long term will do amazing things with compounding...
I would assume more people in the generation that Simmons is writing for have read him than Chaucer, or at least read and remember him because most of the people who read something from Chaucer do so as a school assignment and generally forget it as soon as they can.

That said more people probably know the name Chaucer as being somehow an important writer than know Simmons name.
The biggest source of endocrine disruptors are plants
What is so different about browsers?

Why can we have the whole galaxy of free software with the various distributions and desktop environments and entire kernel ecosystems and device drivers free of this kind of monetization yet somehow this is impossible with browsers?

I don't think twice about using Debian, Freebsd, Openbsd, or Openwrt.

What the hell is going on with Mozilla and Firefox?
OP is in Austria where it often gets below freezing.

Air/air heat pumps and ventilation heat exchangers tend to freeze up when it gets too cold. So heat pumps often need to run in reverse (to melt the ice on the condenser) and heat exchangers need to pre-heat air with resistive heating to prevent ice build up.

If he can pre-heat the air with a crypto miner that would be better than either of the above.
These HFT folks should really write a book on this. Writing in Java the traditional OO way doesn't work for extreme-performance. And there are way too many tricks that the everyday programmer simply doesn't know.
The suggestion made in the article is to ditch the bid for brevity and just use the more verbose forms, i.e. “people who favor more enforcement of immigration laws” or “people who are present in a country in violation of its immigration laws.”

The idea would seem to have merit as you ended up needing those anyway when the more concise forms were inadequate.
> You can also turn off sponsored tiles, so this isn’t different in that respect.

The point is, I should not need to keep a close eye on Mozilla and disable stuff regularly. I should not need to fight my browser.
The RP400 is all but "deliberality slow, ultra low wattage". It is actually faster and consumes more power than some low-end x86 laptops (Celeron, Atom)!
I "recommend" https://github.com/stewartsmith/libeatmydata :)
How do they record your thinking time, do they take a brain snapshot?! As writing new code represents 30% of all time...
So it’s now after midnight PST and the website is still operating. Is this a false alarm or do we have any new information suggesting that the website and stores will be closing on a specific date?

Because I’m starting to suspect that an unnamed employee at a single store might not be the most reliable source of information about the chain’s nationwide operations.
The biggest source of endocrine disruptors are plants. It's as simple as that. And they're all natural to top it all off.
In the joyful light of the distant future... there is only WASM!
EVs might be the way to go for cities and suburbs. The agent can park the vehicle and charge it while delivering a load of mail and come back in 30 minutes to see the battery mostly filled.
How about assessing their work and thats that. Did they finish the tasks on time? Great, no need to snoop on them. Are they bad at the job then maybe try another person. I personally work in spurts and when im active I run through the work very fast then I need lighter tasks to put the work in the back of my head. Im still working on it even if looks like in not. It isn’t anybody’s business how I use my time as long as the work gets done. This reminds me I had a boss who was nosy and micromanaging. I followed his orders and became a lot less productive. It’s like this, you want control? I’ll give you 0 creativity back, no initiative and passion. I work on task and give 0 thoughts about it when done. Well, Im a lot older and would simply not accept to work like this and luckily i don’t need to.
not really, in my experience on Upwork for 25$/hour you can't really find someone who is a competent engineer and also speaks solid english (no matter the country).
Mozilla's deal with Google gets them a lot of funding for setting as default the search engine most users would have selected anyway.
It is a pretty nice keyboard. The layout is pretty good aside from the small clicky F keys and physical Fn switch (don’t use them much so not too worried), and I like how the key travel feels like Macbook keys. Also totally cured the RSI I was starting to feel years ago.

Mine broke recently (a key cap fell off and I thought I could just shove it back on which ended up breaking some plastic bit) and I looked into alternatives but there isn’t much competition for split layout unless you spend a lot more on one of the custom build ones (extra expensive in the U.K. as they all ship from the US). I needed one right away so I just bought another, it’ll be my third in about 7 years.

The USB interference thing does suck, I have mine on a separate USB 2 hub plugged into my USB 3 hub some distance apart and it works fine like that. One other thing to be aware of is that if you lose or break the little USB dongle the keyboard becomes useless as they are paired in the factory (unless you do this mod I guess, heh!)
The compiler for Teal, a typed dialect of Lua
This advice is spot on. If everyone took this advice we'd have considerably fewer issues in the outback.
I see https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog written in Rust?
It varies in the US. Both in company policy, in what is protected by law per state, and in how people feel about it. I know some people who openly moonlight, and some who keep it quiet because their employers frown upon it.
If my phone or laptopbattery dies on me I could lose a lot more time/money than by simply not wasting precious resources like battery charge. People buy devices for specific needs. If they can't meet those needs the purchase is a net negative.
Despite its advanced and complicated design it was outpreformed pretty easily by more general purpose cpus that where not nessicarily much newer.
The downvotes you're getting here (not from me, mind you) are illustrating the author's point very well. Intentionally or not, you're using so many "contentious terms" (privileged, marginalised group, etc) that a lot of people are tuning out and ignoring what you're actually trying to convey.

Stripped of the baggage, I think you're trying to say that it's hard for minorities to avoid using contentious terms for issues that affect them, and that they shouldn't have do that extra work just to avoid "putting people off-side"? While I sympathize, I also think that's a false dichotomy: if you want to be heard, you need to phrase yourself in a way that others will understand, and that's true for everybody. And if you don't want to be heard, well, then you're just (contentious term trigger warning) virtue signalling to others on "your" side.
That might not be the winning design – that looks like the Workhorse design, whereas the Osh Kosh looks more like Ford Transit van: https://www.hammerlanelegends.com/news/us-postal-service-to-...
Apple buys a company every three to four weeks
My blog is nearing 5 years and some 600 articles. Five books published so far.

If anything, I grew more careful about frequency. I want my readers to know that if they receive a post notification in mail, it is worth reading. And quality seems to be in a slightly inverted relation to frequency in my case.

But I do not feel 'rusty' until the gap extends to two weeks or so. Which it rarely does.
Oh my Posh – A prompt theme engine for any shell
For most of my contract work I use virtual desktops that are entirely controlled by my clients. I presume that they’re typically able to monitor everything I do in any way they choose. I’ve never had a problem with this, and I don’t see any practical difference between that system and this one. If a client ever started trying to excessively micromanage me I think I’d just not take another contract with them. I can’t remember ever getting any unreasonable questions about billing though.
As far as I know, monitoring like this is illegal everywhere in Europe
There is a subtle link between monoliths and microservices: co-routines. You can emulate a service oriented architecture inside a monolithically linked application. That way if you ever do decide you need to break for further isolation and/or to be able to parallelize the execution for more performance it down you at least can limit that to cutting on the dotted lines.

I personally like microservices a lot because they allow you to do one more thing (a variation on the isolation theme, sure), to limit the scope of what you, the programmer have to deal with at any given time. Your specifications, tests and mental activity all focus on a much smaller chunk of code, which is much easier to deal with.

I don't think I've ever built a bug-free monolith, but I'm fairly sure I've been able to repeatedly produce bug-free (or nearly bug free, you can never be 100% sure) microservices. And that to me is the bigger advantage, the scope limitation from the programmers perspective.
> you set a legally binding agreement between two companies or a company and public

What's a "legally binding agreement between a company and [the] public"? Who signs it in the name of the "public"? How can a member of the "public" ensure that the agreement is kept? What does "legally binding" even mean, what courts are responsible?
Not disagreeing with you, but from my perception of economics as a field, biodiversity is not a topic that attracts a lot of attention. Working on biodiversity topics does not lead to a top 5 journal publication or a job in a prestigious institution for an economist. I doubt there is a strong incentive for economists to take on this problem. On the other hand, ecologists have been working on biodiversity for a long time. Of course, a collaboration between economists and people who work on biodiversity would seem most effective.
If it is truly a strain and not a variant, it should get a new name
I think you're mistaken ( or i'm not understanding you correctly).

In a default setup vanilla Kubernetes, you have master nodes which host the master services ( etcd, kube-apiserver, etc. etc.), and worker nodes on the side.

With managed k8s, in most cases, the "control plane" ( what normally runs on the master nodes) is run by the cloud host, usually on shared instances ( Scaleway did a talk and it runs on dedicated Kubernetes clusters, in a namespace per client).

Indeed, then you're subject to limitations ( e.g. the kube-apiserver for you is limited to 1000 MB of RAM and if you need more because you do X, you're screwed), but that's always the case - if you run your own master nodes, they have limitations as well ( based on instance/server size), just usually higher. There's the added risk that another customer might sature an unlimited resources and impact your control plane.

In any case, I haven't hit any limitations with Scaleway's Kubernetes so far and haven't seen anyone talking about having hit one, while this isn't the first time i've heard about Digital Ocean. I don't know if it's due to size or because Scaleway have higher limits.
Regarding your second point, there is this talk by Petri Purho (Noita) about making a bland game feel fun to the user:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy0aCDmgnxg

As for your first point, I would suggest aspiring devs to try to prepare themselves to take part in "game jams". The constraints (including a time constraint) help focus on important parts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_jam
University study finds Covid survives three days on fabric
Odd that there’s no discussion of the fact that case counts are currently plummeting in California.
Normally I would scoff at this, but having had to physically chase down customers before over bounced
checks, I could really
get behind something unreturnable like cryptocurrency.
Yet, Americans still compete at the high end of contracting work. Sometimes it's not the code itself that ultimately matters, it's the solution as a whole.
I think we all understand what it means, it's just one of those words that had kind of drifted off into obsolescence after Richard "I am not a crook" Nixon.
And important details being hidden in very fast spoken, noisy conversations. If it is important, for the love of frick, write it down, and give people a moment to think about it.
I hope the Fry's pyramid in Campbell is turned into something awesome before it decays.
On the business model: are we in a situation where advertisers get to choose to pay to have their ads specifically in firefox, but users can’t donate for firefox directly ?

I feel like with this initiative they can set a price for a user’s attention. One could hope the user also gets the option to pay it upfront and opt out.
What if I sketch out a solution to a complex problem for most of the day and then execute it in an hour?

This will only catch the most ridiculous abuse that will be visible from results as well and harm everybody else.

And, if it's not visible in the results... why do you care?
I think the Australian government pretty successfully turned people against Facebook.

Facebook went far when they removed government information including covid articles and the with a little help from the government most aussies saw that as "the evil corporation is blackmailing an entirely nation".

Which is really what it was, so that's that.
I suppose you can refer to the controversial Ford Pinto case:

https://users.wfu.edu/palmitar/Law&Valuation/Papers/1999/Leg...
Microsoft is killing the JavaScript open source community
Fry's moved in when I was in primary school; I'd go there with my dad a lot. We bought all the parts for my first home built PC there -like many other commenters. Then, when I was of driving age, my friends and I would go to Fry's when we had extra money, and sometimes when we were broke and just wanted to walk up and down the isles and look at stuff. Friday's we'd sit on a curb outside school before the bell and read the big ad. "Ghost in the Shell's only 10 bucks on dvd! That RAM I wanted more of is on sale..."

I know it wasn't anything close to its former self these days, but I'll miss it. I'll miss running in at 8:30pm on a Tuesday night to grab a spool of cat5. I'll miss pooling cash on a Saturday to replace a hub for a LAN party. I'll miss pallets of huge spindles of CDRs next to pallets of air duster 3 packs. Standing out front for hours waiting for the Warcraft III midnight launch. I'll miss the inexplicable amount of snacks in the check out line, and the pointless and lazily adhered to receipt check at the door. No trip was complete without a receipt checker shouting a conversation over customers to his buddy in customer service, absentmindedly hi-lighting and pretending to look in carts and bags.
On the Free Tier with your VMs it's currently impossible to get a cluster (with say MicroK8s or K3s) up and running and responding to requests. Either the free resources limits quoted are wrong or something else is afoot.
Yet now online has no product in stock either, just like Fry's.
every writer knows its notoriously hard to proofread your own writing. you know how it is supposed to read and your brain just kind of goes on autopilot.
It's been a decade or two since I've read the Hyperion Cantos, but I remember thoroughly enjoying it. Wonderful work.

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

> [Dan] Simmons deserves some credit for popularization of John Keats

I can agree with your statement, with a big emphasis on the qualifer "some". As other comments have pointed out, John Keats is a major figure in Romantic poetry, well-known and well-loved in English literature.

Dan Simmons' novels may have introduced Keats to those who otherwise may not have read his works. As for me, they certainly renewed and re-kindled my appreciation, as well as seeing some of the poetry in a new and delightfully strange light.

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I also appreciate that this link was posted by a user named "apollinaire". I think we in tech circles could always use more influence and inspiration from the arts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Apollinaire
Coroutines can have shared memory though and the lack of shared memory is perhaps one of the defining features of microservices.
life on earth dies without enough biodiversity.

What is "enough" though? 30%, 50%, 90%? And how much are we willing to spend to hit each of those targets. We're obviously not going to spend "infinite" economic resources to protect biodiversity and we've long since accepted that we are willing to sacrifice a bit of 'nature' for a bit of 'comfort' and that won't change. We're now negotiating how much we are willing to give up to save how much of nature, and that is, demonstrably, a very difficult problem.
I had and liked the Sculpt, but also prefer a wired keyboard. I bought their new ergonomic keyboard, and I am pretty happy with it. It has a split. And even though the keys probably not Cherry or Topre-quality, they are quite ok.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/microsoft-ergonomic-keyboa...

I only wish they'd make a version without the numpad. I don't use it and it moves my trackball (too) far away.
RIP Fry's, you really shot yourself in the ass. Gonna miss you!
Yes, it is an in-between step, which is why I used it as an illustration. You get roughly the same architecture but without the process isolation. In fact: co-routines will share some memory, whether you like it or not, they are in the same executable.
As a long term investor though thinking 'this too shall pass' is quite a good strategy which means at some point the high prices will fade and you will be left with your dividends and earnings which at current prices are not giving you much of a yield.

Also I've been following Jeremy Grantham who is now preaching that the end is nigh. He has a good track record https://youtu.be/RYfmRTyl56w

He recommends emerging markets and value stocks by the way where valuations are more reasonable.