skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We never had Fry’s in my area, but I’d heard a ton about it in online communities growing up. I was spending a week last spring in San Francisco and decided to go check one out. The store was huge, but mostly empty. A lot of the merchandise they did have seemed really beaten up. The aisles seemed kinda dirty, like not horrible, but not great. The employees all seemed like they didn’t want to be there. It was generally a dark experience.

Contrasting that with the Microcenter near my house was stark.

I’ve only been to Fry’s once, and I’m honestly shocked it took them this long to shut down.
C++ build systems: our transition from CMake to Meson
A process like this may work for new grads or entry level roles. With the rise of bootcamps and greater popularity for programming, the trend seems to be going towards "Let's put everyone possible into the funnel and see who makes it out."

On the one hand, this opens up opportunities for people with a non-traditional background who might not have made it through a resume screen before. On the other hand, it can be dehumanizing. I also only think this process applies to entry-level. When companies try to use it for people who have experience they run into pushback since the experienced person is not just looking for any job in the same way a new grad would normally be.
We use it in anger at Splitgraph [0] to let people upload/download datasets and Postgres table snapshots (instead of storing them directly in S3).

Pros:

* Less platform-dependent. By self-managing it, we can also run deploys to GCP / Azure / Scaleway / other providers without writing a separate adapter for e.g. Azure Blob Storage.

* Python API [1] much more pleasant to use than boto3 (and can speak to normal S3). It doesn't do everything that boto3 does, but it supports everything we need (e.g. pre-signed URLs).

* minio server itself supports a large chunk of S3's functionality (e.g. SELECT API / AssumeRole / bucket versioning)

* Don't pay per request and for egress: this was a big deal since people might want to download large amounts of data from us (or make a bunch of small requests to download/upload a subset of data).

Cons:

* Have to manage own infrastructure. We run it on managed VMs so it's semi-managed, but we still have to provision block storage, set up backup policies etc.

* In a similar vein, scaling and availability all have to be DIY [2]. We haven't run into situations yet where Minio would be the bottleneck, but it might be something to keep in mind.

* Obviously not as seamless: you don't get things like Glacier or integration with other IAM.

[0] https://www.splitgraph.com/

[1] https://github.com/minio/minio-py

[2] https://docs.min.io/docs/distributed-minio-quickstart-guide....
Someone just had to attach a gun on a Spot. Great! This would have been cute parody if only we were living in a different time.

What laws can be made to stop these kinds of autonomous actions? Do current laws cover such acts of violence?
Cooley Go Launches NVCA Financing Documents Generator
Infinite versions of Minesweeper are Turing complete [pdf]
Sure, that's the point of language like that. If somebody comes right out and says "Nice to meet you, let's KILL THE JEWS" then they get rebuked and shunned. So it gets toned down enough that there's plausible deniability. Instead they talk about the Rothschilds and Soros and (((them))). And "unseen ones who control them", of course.

I get that the language doesn't bother you. But there are plenty of people out there who lost family members due to pogroms brought on in part by antisemitic conspiracy theories. I, and presumably you, are not at the same level of risk, which makes it much easier for us to blow it off. But if your point is, "The experience of Jews reading something doesn't matter as long as I don't see a problem with it," that's a pretty weird stance to take.
Happy bubbling my friend. Have a great time too!
https://wminecraft.net/sflp-shaders/
Go to Statement Considered Harmful: A Retrospective
I dunno man. Slinging an accusation of "bigot" and then censoring his reply (away from all possibility of understanding or argument) ain't too great either.
Computer History Museum Honors Tech Legend Raj Reddy
From the website

It is not a cure for asthma but a complementary technique. This means that people using Buteyko should still continue take their inhalers as prescribed however research has shown that inhaler use can significantly reduce over time.
that is in terms of the pandemic and masks. this is a different discussion with broader goals.

Calling me a troll is a personal attack designed to discredit me. I have very different ideas and motivations than you do, but I am a true believer, not a troll.
Elon Musk actually commented that he had no idea of this thing's existence on Joe Rogan's podcast
I wold rather pritty printing retain original order. Some JSON schemas I've seen put a version or class type at the top of every object and I wouldn't want that to be ordered elsewhere.
Who do you believe made an accusation here?
IMO this and referrer URL are the only information that ought to be able to be shared between two different domains via the browser. Either put it in the query string so the user can be aware of it or leave it alone.

Of course, there are downsides. Query string character limits constrain what can currently be passed (some would say a it's good thing in this context), and browsers are headed more and more towards showing only the domain in the address bar by default.

The other remaining problem would be tracking via XHR. The only mechanism for limiting which servers an XHR request can talk to currently is CORS, and that config is controlled by the server, not the user.
Investing in Real Estate During Covid19
How risky it is investing in real estate during Covid19?
The World's Energy Problem
congrats on launching!

i confess i struggled to get the value proposition at first. i tend to look for as simple as possible positioning. people can get behind "no code", people can get behind Jamstack/"empowering developers", but pitching the messy middle is very tricky in my mind.

i think where i was swayed is less in the custom components part, but more the integrations with airtable/other APIs. you might have a decent shot of doing that better than wordpress and webflow can (although both are formidable already). as a marketer with some dev time i might find that very useful.

with the custom components piece, i'd lean into more of a marketplace approach so that people can reuse components made by others/pick them off the shelf, and people who maintain components might even be able to make money from the weweb users who are using them!

as for embedding React in Vue - what are the constraints to simply mounting the React component on a DOM node rendered by Vue? are you solving for SSR or something? its not clear from your description what exactly you are struggling with.
Support for Tinkerpop would probably make it possible to support all the major ones, e.g. OrientDB and Neo4j.
There used to be Siemens-Fujitsu laptops with transflective displays for working in direct sunlight quite a few years ago. They were extremely expensive. I had a search running on eBay for several years but not a single unit turned up. They must be woefully outdated by now.
> who among us can recall every place they've worked in the past?

I'm in my mid/late 50's, and I can. Even one gig I had for 3 1/2 hours.

Not bragging here, but I suspect MOST people can remember all their jobs. Am I wrong?
They say because people from India that move to Britain still have low SIDS incidence, that its cultural. How about, genetic?
If you're trying to imply that some language and concepts aren't more common in antisemitic writing, you're definitely wrong. I explain more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26245719
Fry's Closing for Good
The earth does self regulate, the problem is that it doesn’t care if we die along the way

stopping climate change is ultimately about keeping the world habitable for humans, which is why it’s absurd we’re not doing much about it... worst case scenario is that we make the earth a nicer place to live
No,no it's not. Things can be different without being weird. Weird is a judgement while different is a fact.

For example, I could say BBC opinion pieces are weird garbage but that would be an opinion.

I could say "man it's weird this is so high up on hackernews with no comments and six points", that would be an opinion too.
Good stuff!

I did a screen conversion on a thinkpad t430s which I still have (not Eink, just a better LCD). Do you know of any 16:9 eink displays that take eDP as input? Or anything that would fit in a 14” chassis?

Just beginning to get into the eink world so some direction would be super helpful. Would definitely be up for swapping one into my thinkpad.
I look forward to your GWAS results!
How to Make a Pitch Deck on Google Slides
Don't play coy, the sole goal of your "discussion" and account is to provoke and upset people.
I’m not judging anyone’s choices. But I think it’s difficult to think about the kind of world we maybe leaving behind for our grandchildren.

If your lifestyle needs 2 earths that point will be hit for the whole earth pretty soon.

Wars are the most likely outcome. The first world will have to maintain their living standards by force and keep out the climate refugees.
> In that context, they can't be competitive with US milk which has megafarms and can mass produce basically any animal product these days.

On top of that, the US government subsidizes/bails out those mega-farms as well.

US dairy consumption has been going down for decades, and yet production volume is up. Milk is being dumped into the (metaphorical? literal?) gutter because of over-production.

See also EU:

> Multibillion-euro dairy multinationals are exploiting rock-bottom European milk prices to expand aggressively into West Africa. Over five years, they have nearly tripled their exports to the region, shipping milk powder produced by heavily subsidized European farmers to be transformed into liquid milk for the region's booming middle class.

* https://www.politico.eu/article/eus-milk-scramble-for-africa...

AFAICT, the only country that has a completely open market is New Zealand.
> Ierusalimschy

Interesting to see that name appear in that list
From the title, I thought perhaps the article was about FINALLY partitioning California into two states ;)
In the North Atlanta (Georgia, USA), area the local-ish Microcenter has long been the place where the people "in the know" go. Plenty of stock, of good quality, knowledgable employees, ... (At least it was pre-pandemic; haven't been since then)

Fry's... not so much. Still, their demise makes me sad if for no other reason than my now 20 year old son and I really enjoyed going there when he was younger, so I have fond memories of it.
The Fry's in Austin had spooky empty shelves prior to the pandemic. I don't know why they couldn't make it when, say, Best Buy has managed to survive, but for whatever reason they did not, and I don't think the pandemic was really the reason.
They can always pull the main at the breaker.

Unfortunately, that's a terrible option too. The cold is survivable with some gear, but your pipes will freeze and burst unless you drain them (which I have no idea how to do, if it can be done).

We also had several deaths due to people using gas heaters indoors. I think it releases carbon monoxide? Not entirely sure, but those outdoor heaters are meant to be outdoors.
If this follows the lead of their acquihire and is a marketplace for upscale freelancers it could be a neat one to watch. The referenced competition has a very different price curve and tends to be a race to the bottom, while linkedin (despite their best efforts) is (at least for now) a network of real people, like facebook 10+ years ago. Their profile is the resume from which you would qualify and hire, and it's already one of the best ways to find a permanent candidate so it makes sense to push into different work arrangements.
No, I’m looking at Pascal from a 1978 perspective. If there had been a good C compiler for the PDP10, TeX would not have been written in, actually, a macro language on top of Pascal (to help work around its shortcomings both in string handling and memory management; oh and that statement labels have to be numeric).
Actually parent remembers it right. At that time, Fry's in the Bay Area was roughly half supermarket and half electronics.
Seems to miss the point when three of these are the largest cloud infrastructure providers out there. If you could detect the processor and blocked everything that pinged a server using Intel, you'd block 90% of the Internet. If you blocked anything routed through a router owned by Cisco, you'd shut down the entire Internet. Anything that loaded from a disk made by Seagate or Western Digital, memory made by Samsung, fiber backbone owned by AT&T. Every level of the hardware supply chain is dominated by a tiny number of huge companies. If that's really a concern, we're well past the point where we can do anything about it.

Personalized ad profiles and cross-site user tracking we can maybe still stop, but it's looking at the wrong thing to just flag any resource based on the IP block owner.
Hmm, I looked into your history as a founder a bit. This is your company? https://www.gingrapp.com/about-us

I am not sure if you still work there, but... it appears that out of 23 employees, there is maybe one who is not white. I understand that pet management software in Colorado is, sociologically, a bit of an “alabaster” field and that it’s almost impossible to get ‘parity’ with even state-wide demographics. But in my experience, a company with > 20 employees that’s basically all-white is one that made a deliberately exclusionary choice and does not care at all about diversity. It is the kind of thing a competent HR professional can help with if you do care!

But when you say you’ve “never seen HR add value to a company” it occurs to me that you and I have very different conceptions of “value.”
Finally. It has been 20+ years since they were anything like they were reputed to be (and actually were). When failure is inevitable, it's better that it happen sooner rather than later. They've been a sad shadow of their former self for a long time.

I would hope that something new and better might take their place, but it's too hard to be optimistic about any brick and mortar prospect.
Pascal was the first language where programming clicked for me. Pascal also happens to be my given last name, which makes it just a bit more special to me.

Funnily enough I learned Pascal using Turbo Pascal which makes me sound older than I am, because I learned Pascal around 2010 and my high school's CS department was just way behind the times. By that point we were using a nearly 20 year-old 16 bit compiler in Windows XP.
You’re totally right! The difference between these examples and my previous HR example is that yours show employees doing what’s best for the company, while mine shows employees doing what’s best for HR.
Seville is turning leftover oranges into electricity
Can privacy focussed browsers that extend Chrome ( Brave, Vivaldi, etc) provide something similar to this, or is it baked deep within Chrome internals, and cannot be overriden?
The "single click applied suggestion" thing of course doesn't work if you have a policy of avoiding trivial commits (actually a very good policy) and your PR is already about 3 or 4 commits. Then the author has to sit down, figure out which commit a change belongs to & do a `rebase -i` to squash together associated commits...
Looks like someone is bringing Kerrygold into Canada...it will only cost you 10x what it should!

https://www.amazon.ca/Kerrygold-Pure-Irish-Butter-Unsalted/d...
A SoC reality check: Top SecOps team challenges and best practices
"There's an interesting study out that shows X may help with COVID" won't get you banned.

"X cures COVID 100% and the WHO is suppressing it to help Big Pharma!" will. (Might. Enforcement is spotty.)
I'd disagree, my folks who were both working class saved for about two years to get me a BBC Micro B. My dad wouldn't let me have anything less after seeing Spectrums, C64's etc in the shops at the time, he figured they were (in his words, not mine :) ) cheap toys.

I in the meantime pleaded for them to let me get a Spectrum, or basically anything; I ended up going to friends houses for my computer fix :)

But I'm very glad they patiently scrimped and saved for the BBC and made me wait. The built-in 6502 assembler was one of the first things I learned, it was a joy to use. That machine kicked off my career in software development, it was well worth the wait.
>Is following Conway's law a bad thing, though

Is following the second law of thermodynamics a bad thing? I say so jokingly because thermo is a little more rigid, but I still think it's futile to fight Conway. After all, if you change your org structure to try to beat it, you're actually proving it.

It's not something to beat as much as it's something to inform decisions. Code should be architected with knowledge of how the organization is broken up, and orgs should be structured with knowledge of how that affects the technical side.

I guess all this is to agree with you and say...if breaking up modules in a certain way for small teams is effective for your organization, then it makes sense to do it.
>bedraggled

Good word!
I'm going to use it today
The rust plugin for intellij is pretty good and keeps getting better, both in terms of intellisense and refactoring.
I was _so_ freaked out by that one equal sign.

Pascal uses := for assignments, if I remember correctly?
That's the point I was asked in late 1999 to sort out a show stopper problem at one of the exbibits at the millennium dome.

Took me about 2/3 of a day but only about an hour of programming the rest was spent thinking and sketching out the problem and test cases on paper.

Program ran first time and ran with 100% uptime for the duration
We put the crib close to our bed, much easier for mom. Dad got ear plugs.
Unfortunately yes, but seems to be everywhere not just Bay Area.
There are 3 million Native Americans in the US. 10 million people.
... all this and no mention of Scriptable Objects? Not sure about this
I agree this could be a space to watch. With global trends there is definitely demand for quality freelancers that are cheaper than my local network. Linkedin is very well positioned to serve both sides of this market.
>In later revisions of this console, the IOP was replaced with a PowerPC 401 ‘Deckard’ and 4 MB of SDRAM (2 MB more than before), backwards compatibility persisted but through software instead.

Devwiki says it's a PPC 405 and this interview of Tom Reeves, IBM’s VP of semiconductor and technology services, says it's a PPC 440 which is more realistic for a 60 fps emulation of the first PlayStation.

Last question:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060806090854/http://www.reed-e...
I agree. How can it be weird anyway? Isn’t culture relative? I always get so confused by these things.
Thanks for the in depth answer - pretty much what I suspected. I think this sort of thing only even starts to work when you have a critical mass of people on this kind of tarriff (and more than that, willing to pay more and/or switch supplier for it). I wonder what actual proportion of the UK market is currently on a "100% renewable" plan.
Did you read the rest? He can’t get the eviction because of squatters’ rights and courts being shut down.
LinkedIn's network is a massive advantage for the sort of gigs the other sites don't offer. Want to find an mid level executive with expertise in X in the field of Y to spend a few hours solving a problem? They're almost certainly not on Fiverr or Upwork, but almost certainly have a LinkedIn profile, and some of them will have them time and the inclination to do a bit of consulting work if LinkedIn presents the opportunity to them.
I've written about this before, in relation to the 737 MAX, I'll just post it verbatim:

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In 1997, Boeing merged with McDonnel Douglas. This led to some changes in management, and as a result, culture[1, 8:20]. McDonnel Douglas CEO, Harry Stonecipher, became the
COO of Boeing. Stonecipher brought with him a cost-cutting sensibility, which was at odds
with the engineering culture at the company [1, 9:00].

The culture change is best conveyed through two actions made by Boeing top management:

• Pierson being told ”The military isn’t a profit making organization” by Program Manager Scott Campbell after raising the point that the conditions at the Renton factory would not be acceptable in the military [2]

• Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg calling Donald Trump, the president of the United States, two days after the second crash to assure him that the plane is safe, apparently
trying to persuade him to pull some strings

Here is a longer timeline of disruptive events, bad fortune, and questionable behavior:

• In 1998, Boeing committed corporate espionage against Lockheed Martin

• Relocation of Boeing headquarters from Seattle to Chicago in 2001

• Multiple canceled projects: e.g. The Sonic Cruiser

• Boeing lost its market leader position to Airbus in 2003

• An espionage/insider agent scandal in 2003 caused CEO Phil Condit to resign. Harry Stonecipher stepped in as CEO

• Stonecipher was soon forced to resign due to a relationship with another executive

• In the 2010’s, thousands of highly skilled workers were laid off

• At the same time, the company started outsourcing its production

Both relocations and mergers are big turnover events, as are layoffs, obviously. Too much turnover usually leads to changes in company culture and possibly loss of knowledge. The ethical issues uncovered during this time also indicate a culture of profit at any cost.

In particular, analysts cite a ”disruption in the communication between engineers and top
management” as a cause of the deterioration [1, 5:10]. I have no doubt that the distance from the new headquarters in Chicago to the production facilities exacerbated this disruption.

[1] Bloomberg News, “How Boeing Lost Its Way.” Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EESYomdoeCs.

[2] Edward F. Pierson, “Statement before the House Transportation and Infrastructure
Committee.” Available at: https://transportation.house.gov/imo/media/doc/Pierson%20Tes...
Hackers sell network logins to the highest bidder
In this interview Vincent Woo of coderpad talks about how he sold his company.
https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/170-vincent-woo-of-code...

There's transcript so you can search it, he mentioned the company he used and why... "The way I ended up, I sold my company eventually through the brokers, FE International. "
The Democrats know they have popular ideas, I fail to see how that's a sinister motive as you imply.