skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes, that's a pattern that we saw as well! Teams migrating to webflow or wordpress to give back the autonomy to marketers. We also saw teams willing to migrate to the Jamstack from squarespace sites or webflow sites but not doing it because it would mean that marketers would lose their autonomy on the front-end. We felt these pattern should be broken and that Jamstack should be "marketer friendly" as well :)
Day one as in bought on release day or that you’ve had it for one day?
My mental image of a steamroller is slow, so they're dodgeable. I don't think I've ever seen one in real life, come to think of it, so maybe that's just me.

I would have called it "Russian roulette". High reward, high chance of an unavoidable catastrophic loss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2LTdslZSMw
Pessimists Archive – Archive of fears about old things when they were new
Agreed, even if he was conscious during that nose dive, pulling 9.1 G’s would send him right back into GLOC before fully recovering.. and likely into the ground as he was already so low...

Only this computer system could’ve pulled off such a save. Awesome!
Your third footnote is no good. It's about a Cold War backed military exterminating "communists." While that was a common thing for a large portion of the 20th century, there's no evidence presented in that movie that the characteristics of the mass murderers of penis-stealing witch-communist students are universal.
Female Fund Manager Opposes Gender Quotas for Startup Boards
If that was the concern they could just solder a plain NVMe drive. Blocking user repairs doesn't require the creation of a whole new purpose-built storage controller interface, so that can't explain their rationale here.
I only skimmed the article, but it had me wondering about the same.

There's been talk before about trying to form artificial clouds over the ocean in order to reduce warming. I'd be very curious to hear how this might relate to that. Is it possible that man made clouds could drift to the poles and make everything worse?
I guess if you’re a maintenance mode company, sure whatever a couple weeks delay can’t hurt.

If you’re in the growth stage of a tech startup, you need engineers and support ASAP.

HR making their life marginally easier on themselves at the expense of growth is unacceptable to me.
If there's a way to reduce costs, it will be done. This is why we have laws to protect baseline rights because they would otherwise be whittled away to nothing.
I have never been involved in a hiring process (going either way) where the HR department had any interest in hiring the right people.

They're literally paper pushers to make sure contracts are drafted correctly, salary payments arrive etc..
As a student I learned Turbo Pascal around 1991. Most of the problems with the original language were fixed and Borland provided enough extensions to use the language to program hardware drivers under DOS.

Then on my first job I learned C++, again in its Borland incarnation. The slow compilation speed was a big issue. We were forced to use carefully structured precompiled headers and tried not to touch headers included in the core compilation set. And all that after very fast compilation and linking even on big projects with Turbo Pascal. There was even discussion to switch the project to Pascal to be more productive. But C++ were considered cooler and we stayed with it.

And at my current work almost 30 years later I still have to wait hours for full recompilation to finish. C++ modules that do roughly what Turbo Pascal had with its unit files are supposed to fix that, but we are still few years from using that in production.
It’s from the official studies they did. Pfizer was 95% effective, with some severe cases. AZ and Moderna had 0 severe cases, hence the 100%.
That's just because the above code is in Pascal. You see, it would be much more complicated if written in C++ or distributed real-time Java.
It's the palmitic acid content of the butter that's usually responsible for changes in the melting point.

Palm oil feedstocks do result in increased palmitic acid content of milk, see e.g.: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002203020... ("As the intake of palmitic acid increased with the PALM diets, milk palmitic acid concentrations were increased (P < 0.0001). When 1,500 g/d of PALM was consumed, milk palmitic acid concentration was increased by 50% compared with the control.")
Writeln is certainly in Wirth’s “Silver Book” Pascal standard, hot off his horrible line printer in 1974: https://dl101.zlibcdn.com/dtoken/78641b52ce049f6f7825c9e8f81...
If I don't remember how to use some function it's a sign that I have to read the documentation. The documentation can have important tips around performance, security & recommended usage patterns that I need to know.

And if you don't remember a lot of methods it means you might be out of your league and need to read the documentation and go through a tutorial to understand what you are doing.

Keyword, method and variable completion is ok, but overzealous completion encourage churning out code on "autopilot".

If you are not Torvalds it's better to write code good slowly than the opposite.
I’ve seen an analysis a while back showing that compared to US and EU, Canada subsidized agriculture to a lesser extent by a few multiples. Quotas might effectively shift the cost of subsidies to consumers, but they’re still lower. Now, if I could find this now.
Native same language communication skills and same time zone are a big deal for some companies/people.

Similar to why there are a variety of options for most services.
If you want to cite the Declaration, you should probably quote that entire passage:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
The PS2 OS is truly a work of art, such beautiful sound/graphics and ui design.
My school had a classroom of BBC Micros which were connected over a primitive network to a "server" which I guess must have had a hard drive for saving files too. I can't take the credit but a school friend worked out how to view the memory of another machine over the network, from which we made the first remote keystroke capture I had ever seen, which got us the teachers' passwords.

Our first hack was born - with their password we could get onto the server and print out the password file (in plain text of course). The teachers started to realise they'd been hacked but I think thought it more likely we'd observed their typing when sat nearby and so changed their passwords. Of course we could just keep watching their passwords being entered at a distance.

I think we were caught in the end red handed with the password file printing out and unable to stop it printing when they came in the room. Luckily back then it was seen as experimentation not criminal!
HTTP_PROXY is not transparent. The application has to opt-in.
It's one of those things that if you think too hard about it, you laugh, until you realize that it's actually real and you live under it's nonsense and then you cry instead.
>You're making a claim equivalent to saying Microsoft holds patents on operating system technologies, other companies can't improve the same technology.

No, I'm stating the fact that other companies can't improve the same exact technology (as defined in the patent).

If Microsoft has patents on aspects X, Y, Z of filesystems, other companies can still make filesystems, even improved ones.

But they can't make a filesystem that also leverages X, Y, Z (or any combination of them) unless they license, and also can't make a filesystem with an improved version of X, Y, or Z lest they infringe on the X, Y, Z pattent.

So this isn't about other companies still being able to make improved eg. OSes in the general sense, but if they can build improved OSes that also leverage the same patented techniques where needed (and they can't).
American Airlines not denying possible UFO spotting on flight 2292
I would have hoped its obvious.

Your metadata database needs to be the fastest and most reliable store out of everything. It can't be eventually consistent without partitioning your datastore. Even then you'll end up partitioning your data neatly into the same failure zone.

Cassandra has basically one usecase: high volume writes, with a few batch reads.

Cassandra is not really optimised for high reads.

Most of the time postgres will do fine.
Climate change deniers are not the problem. The problem are people who admit that climate change exists and is a serious problem but then do nothing substantial about it. Very few of our politicians are climate change deniers, but all of them fail to implement appropriate measures to reduce CO2 emissions quickly enough.
Bitcoins, Blockchains, and Botnets
Engineering doesn't typically work this way. There needs to be a tolerance because you can't account for all variables. The question really is, at what probability of likelihood of a crash do you want to attempt to avert it?

Averting 99.5%+ of crashes probably eliminates flexibility beyond what is appropriate for a fighter pilot.
What a pointless discussion you’re bringing up. Your question is not debatable because in the end it’s all a matter of personal preference.
If you're going to park 600 military planes wingtip to wingtip, you might as well just program the software to purposely crash them all into the ground. Didn't we learn anything from Pearl Harbor?
This is my response:

> How many entities do you trust?

I think this question is missing the point.

Trust is how humans sense risks of a relationship they are in.
Risk can be described as a set of potential events, characterised by amounts of damage and their respective probabilities.

What matters is the total risk they have running a given system. Like, “what is the total amount of damage from security breaches per year, which covers 90% of the cases”?

When we take this, probabilistic and economy-centric, view, it becomes obvious that actual performance of the suppliers is what matters. By performance I mean defect resolution and upgrade timeliness and reliability, and don’t even get me started on the Total Cost of Ownership. This is why the arguments from the Linux distributions side, including this fine article, are confronted by so much rage: the actual performance of distributions in delivering many valuable, modern, developed at fast pace, software tools is just not competitive in a large fraction of cases. You’re never going to dissuade people from short-circuiting distros. Not going to happen unless it becomes an economically sensible choice for them.

I really liked this HN comment to the previous mgorny's article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26218464 (pasted verbatim below). It's really time we FOSS folks turn our attention towards economic aspects of our relationships.

It's hard because underneath is a battle of who bears the maintenance and testing costs that no one wants to bear.

Asking a publisher to qualify their library against a big range of versions just means that they need to do a lot more testing and support. Obviously they want to validate their code against one version, not 20, and certainly don't want an open ended > version which would force them to do a validation each time a minor dep is released.

Similarly when publishers say I will only work against version X, this puts a bigger burden on the user to configure their dependencies and figure out which version they can use. They would like to push that work onto vendors.

What's a bit depressing is that these economic concerns are not raised openly as the primary subject matter, but the discussion is always veiled in terms of engineering best practices. You're not gonna engineer your way out of paying some cost. Just agree on who bears the cost and how you will compensate them for the cost, then the engineering concerns became much easier.
65F (so about 18C) is my standard during the day when my heat in on in the northeast US. (Goes down to about 55 at night.)
Writing programs that run systems
I didn't do any benchmark, but the performance hit should be minimal since all the heavy work are done by kernel cgroup and iptables. They are very efficient in most cases.
Amnesty Move to Strip Navalny of 'Prisoner of Conscience' Status Sparks Outcry
source? Do they only do this to @gmail emails?
How anyone but rag-tag groups of friends get anything done in the United States is beyond me.
these are definitely real life example we experience every day. It is hard to draw the line between simplicity and customisability.
For this our biggest inspiration is Figma. It's amazing to see non-designers drawing things in Figma without getting too many frustration together with designers doing complex and very precise designs & design systems without feeling limited.

Their interface feels easy to start with but can take you very far if you need customization and scalability.

We are far from what they achieve, but that's where we'd love the end up. :D
The vast majority of people are not the next great sociologist, philosopher or artist. The idea that you create a super individual by ruining the lives of thousands of people is really destructive. Is that genius really productive enough to offset the productivity loss of thousands of people?
>That's the biggest problem on being Canadian, it's hard to find something to bitch about. When you live in a nice country all your dramas become pathetic.

Utterly clueless.
> It is sad the idea of a greater good now looks quaint.

It doesn't look quaint now and it didn't look quaint 2,000 years ago when Romans believed that going to war with anyone and everyone around them in order to unify everyone under Rome's banner was for "the greater good".

Justifying the stripping away of rights of individuals for society never results in a "greater good", and the reason that it won't, and not only that - can't, is because as soon as you justify stripping away an individual's rights, then you start looking at the stripping away of a group's rights, and before long you end up with an increasingly larger Venn diagram with an overlap of "groups that hinder society" and "extermination for the greater good".

No thank you. Keep your goddamned "greater good". We've tried it enough. "But that wasn't real <Communism / Socialism / Marxism / Right-wing Authoritarianism / Benevolent Dictatorship / etc.>!" has been and always will be the mantra, because there's always someone dumb enough to think they're smart enough to build the "perfect" society.

And they're all wrong.
They should be imprisoned as well. The Earth does not belong to us, rather we belong to the Earth. The Earth is more important than we are, we should put the Earth's needs ahead of our own needs. We must stand up for the rights of the Earth, or else human rights will be impossible to maintain. Anyone sacrificing the Earth for profit is committing genocide as well as ecocide.
The sheer amount of bugs that could be avoided by using := in let's say C!

if (a = b) c=1;

oh boy... :)
That’s nice. I wish I had stayed mining longer in 2010. Back then it was mostly losses when taking electricity into consideration and I stopped at 1btc with my pleb ATI card.

I am feeling the same way. Not really about the value but I feel like I don’t want to be part of it anymore
Have you ever actually tried using the low-cost option on Fiverr? They results are, quite frankly, un-usable. The good ones know their worth and charge accordingly.

Simillary, I worked for a Swedish-based multinational that nearshored some of their dev-work to Poland. Well guess what, so did Hertz and Deutche Bank and Ryan Air and a bunch of other multinationals and suddenly the 50% cheaper dev work was down to 10% cheaper.

People won't settle for peanuts just because they're living in a low-COL area, they'll want to get paid what they're worth as well.
You are conflating two issues: supply management and pasteurization.

For raw milk, it is illegal in plenty of places (Nordics, Scotland, England requires license, Australia):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_milk#Legal_status

As for supply management, the first question to ask is: does Canada want a domestic dairy industry? If the answer is "yes", then it becomes "how will it be supported?"

Because both the US [0][1] and EU [2] subsidize their dairy farmers out of general tax revenues: tax dollars are being sent to them regardless of whether you drink milk or not (lactose intolerant, vegans).

In Canada's supply management system, dairy prices are higher, but if you're not a dairy consumer, you don't pay anything. The cost of supporting farmers is borne by those who buy the farmers' products.

If we Canadians want "cheap" dairy, we can have it: but let's not fool ourselves that it will not come with some kind of cost.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_subsidy

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-02/farmers-a...

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/12/best-way-...

[2] https://www.politico.eu/article/eus-milk-scramble-for-africa...
Soundex is cool, we’re using it for a game app I'm working on.

It’s a trivia game app based on a TV show. In the TV show candidates try to guess the right answer just by saying. How it’s written is not relevant (in order to score points). However in the app users need to write it down (voice support coming soon) and can make spelling mistakes. For a lot of stuff the Levenshtein distance just doesn’t cut it.
I've never seen a bigger sacred cow than the united states public school teacher. No wonder quality continues to go down as prices go up.
It would make sense that it depends whether the clouds have a higher or lower albedo than the surface they cover
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And what people remember, in a number of cases, is linked to their biases.
> IDK, I’ve never seen HR add value to a company.

That's a shame. I have. And absolutely love them, and wouldn't trade them for more engineers.
Sorry to hear that. I write/preview on desktop first and typically like the legibility that comes from the line spacing, etc.

What would you change to make this a better desktop experience for you? Less of the full-width photos? Text that spans wider, or just lest line spacing?
serious question: if this lets you connect physical devices, how is it 'virtual' and an 'emulator'? seems like an HBA to me...
Interesting, the world (the first world at least) is well stocked with Pulmicort and it's dead simple and quite safe to administer.

Guess I'll take this one upside over no upsides of having asthma. (I'm on Symbicort, which is basically part this and part formoterol).
I enjoy messing around in the Owlet browser-based BBC BASIC editor. 8-bit graphics still has a place in modern web design ;)

https://bbcmic.ro/

Related doc on youtube:

"Birth of BASIC"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYPNjSoDrqw
I disagree. This is making a significant UX downgrade to a core workflow while making the tiniest blip on tracking. (Oh no! You lose cookies every 30 days)
When you’re starting you need people with experience who you trust, be they male or female. At early stages you don’t have the luxury of venturing with unknowns. If it’s a big behemoth, who cares, inertia is at play already.
2^50 meets the definition of "complex", if you ask me
Oh God, I know, but it really is the perfect fucking word for Eric, whom I do admire, but find to be occasionally frustrating...

If Eric's brother Bret is as naïve about politics as Eric believes, then Eric is as naïve about word choice. Probably more so.
I can't reproduce that behaviour on MongoDB 4.2.x using Python and the Shell client.
Deterrence with Imperfect Attribution
As long as it is restricted to dairy it's funny, but whats really sad is that a majority of people want ever more of this kind of centralization and regulation. I have a feeling that many western countries are on a slow downwards spiral to become "shithole countries". Let's see whose constitution is strongest and allows the people to buy the f*ing dairy they want. I bet this will not be our EU, the protectionist mastermind
Use whichever stack you know best. This is always the answer. Learning a new stack for a new app is a great learning experience, but not the most effective way to launch a product.

Likewise, if you are concerned about mobile usage, that has nothing to do with the stack - you can code responsive design and accessible markup on any stack.
> So lay users will get used to just clicking through and blindly granting the permission.

Does it break anything else besides cookie based SSO? Because for those, people will probably just login into the site, and ignore the permission.

Firefox is also adopting the policy of not showing those permission windows at most cases, just showing a small notification. It's not clear on that page if this is one of those cases.

Anyway, I agree that limiting the permissions to 30 days is bad. The users should be entitled to make permanent changes, and revert them themselves when they want. Firefox should at least give them the option, even if it's not the default one.
They are down earlier today so I think that was the reason. https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/23/22297620/linkedin-down-ou...
Yep, crisis galore.

Keep those bastards on their toes...
I think the big 'Americanism' comes from the somewhat two faced nature of HR culture in the States - HR are (generally!) the people being super friendly and coming up with "the company is one big family aren't we so happy together" events and whatnot. They're also the people who, in my experience, have mostly bought into the MBA-isms about maximizing value in all things, which includes screwing over said employees as much as possible through legal, yet sketchy methods that make a lot of sense if you're treating employees as resources, not humans.
Why do you say great idea when you didn't even get the pain point it is solving?
Shortage of lab monkeys has revived talk of creating US strategic monkey reserve
Seems like they took a page from non-digital money laundering... art auctions have always been a vessel for hiding cash, and only recently have been targeted by AML laws that seem to be ill-fitting for the industry, seemingly by design: https://www.natlawreview.com/article/art-and-money-launderin...
Pagesize is now 16KB in ARM64 archs, not 4K anymore (intel).

Maybe the SMART tools are miscalculating?
If you're referring to XUL extensions being given the elbow, the small proportion of users using those does not correspond to Firefox market share loss.
Soviet gas? It comes from a time machine?
I think Cassandra is a better fit for interactive use cases, not for reporting. Also, basically it's super heavy duty and it should start to shine when you're really serving entire Internet (on the scale of Reddit, Expedia etc.) and your Cassandra cluster is distributed across DCs across the world.

I haven't really worked in this space for a couple of years so I don't know if the cloud offerings have already completely matched Cassandra's features and robustness.
Not joking, my friends and I have discussed the idea of actually smuggling Kerrygold into the country illegally. Buy it in bulk and freeze it until needed.

None of us have the nerve to do it.