skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, again, you're confusing services (and desperate desire) with legalities. This idea that words shouldn't have definite and finite meaning is the biggest problem. Freedoms are legal concepts, not services.

I am for universal healthcare. But, universal healthcare is not a "freedom" anymore than electricity or running water is.

Getting a service for free is not a freedom. It's a benefit. A vital, important, necessary benefit. Absolutely. But, the same goes for water and electricity. How many people recently IMMEDIATELY died due to lack of water and power from those winter storms? I would argue free water and electricity should come before healthcare. You cut off 3rd party provided water and 3rd party provided electricity to the country, more people would die faster in 1 year than cutting off 3rd party provided healthcare. Of course it's a compounding problem at that, but you get the point.

But just like taking your freedoms for granted, you take your standard of living for granted. Why not start making more services for free? It's not a bad idea at first, but where do you actually draw the line? Healthcare is important for life expectancy and general living for a population, but the exact same can be said about running water or electricity... or natural gas if used for heating. I'm not going to argue for natural gas services to be paid for 100% by the gov for obvious reasons. But you know what, if I argue that electricity is vital for heating/cooling and basic living standards to keep people alive, thus must be paid for 100% by the gov... well... why can't natural gas say the same? Arguing for free running water is even easier than electricity.
Yes. Weird effects in the stock market just reflect consumer interest in the stock market. If you think Michael Jordan is cool, you express that by buying his shoes. If you think Elon Musk is cool, you express that by buying his stock. But that's not a comment on the value of the stock. It's branding.
Found linked in this equally interesting article: https://blog.map-projections.net/an-equal-area-projection-in...
> Just say no to filter bubbles.

But then...

> newsletter, selected based on your interests

Maybe I misunderstand what a "filter bubble" is? Because this seems like a type of filter bubble to me. Perhaps a little looser (and less rage-inducing) than Facebook but it still seems designed to keep people reading content only within their bubble-of-interest while filtering out the rest.
preventing filter bubbles (so to speak) is an explicit design goal of recommender systems.

Of course it's a goal. They're just not very good at achieving that goal. I wouldn't expect someone who makes their living building these things to be unbiased on the question of whether or not they're currently a bad thing.

If I search incognito youtube for "Trump Speech" and select the first video, 3 of the next 4 "up next" are also Trump speeches, and the other one is "McCarthy SHREDS Pelosi". If I click on of those 4, the next "up next" videos are different, but also 3 of the first 4 are Trump speeches. The other one is a Trump-Biden debate. This is a filter bubble.

Sure, human psychology plays a part, that's why algorithms like this work in the first place. But compare this to the opposite extreme pre 24-hour news networks and there was simply much less opportunity for playing into this. That's what algorithms provide: The ability to "instantiate" filter bubbles much more readily than content that is passively delivered without consideration for past choices, and the consumer has to make all of their choices without that outside influence.
It’s worth remembering that Flash was in fact extremely successful. I think we’d still be using it today if not for some combination of (1) Steve Jobs and (2) Adobe mismanagement.

People say Flash was bloated but try running Slack on 2008-era hardware and let me know how it goes. And there’s no reason Flash couldn’t have been adapted to use responsive breakpoints and such for mobile friendliness.
There's gotta be a way to crowd source this. Like a subreddit for people interested in apps/software that isn't subscription based.
Likewise. What's dismaying is that there's no practical way on Facebook to have civil discussions about politics, it just doesn't work.

I don't think it'd even be all that hard. What you'd want to do is have a mode for contentious topics whereby personal identities are hidden, so there's no personal investment and only ideas are presented.

And you'd want to be able to cite problems with a claim, i.e. you select some text to flag "this is confusing / inflammatory / unsupported," so that people don't go in circles because they don't understand each other or can deal with something that's insulting by having the person tone it down.
"We have come to the conclusion that you shouldn't feel insulted by this, so we're going to force you to take a break on reduced pay and talk to a psychologist."

Repeatedly going back to HR with this issue clearly indicates that Cruz felt uncomfortable working in this environment. It's unfortunate how this would be enough to trigger a sexism claim (which is backed by law), but not a racism claim.
Do you have the inconvenience of switching between channels in order to find the desired discussion after a while, especially if this is not the root post, but which is in the thread?
repo for the GPU: https://github.com/dougallj/applegpu
Unless the first step by the union is to forbid the use of robots. A union's first mandate is to protect jobs. Any technology that replaces union members with machinery is open to direct attack.

I have seen this in the entertainment industry. Newsrooms wanted to replace camera people with what were effectively industrial robots that moved the cameras around the studio as needed. Unions put up all sort of barriers, as is their mandate. Similar fights happened when projectionists were replaced by digital tech.
GPLv3 with a commercial exception

Thx. Do you mean GPL + my custom addendum ? How do you write it if you're not versed in `legalese` jargon ?
One time, I had a work-issued laptop where they filled out my user account. They used spaces in my username. This meant that I had a space in every single path.

It caused so many issues. But mostly with developer tooling, like Make, that assumes these sorts of things. Most programs worked just fine.
Of course it "works", there's been multiple countries run on it and continue to run on it. What you mean to say is you don't like it.
That was the comment being responded to. That it takes an app to find stuff. Which is onerous and presumably takes more than a couple of minutes.
People complain about lazy workers and favoritism in every workplace.

The boss is only interested when they don't have unilateral control over who gets fired and why.
Probably roughly the same.
That's kind of misrepresenting what the South Sea Bubble was, with meme stocks the public are at least in on the joke, the South Sea Bubble was a private conspiracy/social phenomenon of a different fashion.
> These three buttons are at the bottom of the Google Meet videoconferencing app. The left one temporarily mutes and unmutes the microphone. The right one controls the camera similarly.

I have had this bite me SO many times; hanging up on calls without meaning to. That misfeature, all by itself, is enough to make me want to avoid the entire app.
Are you using the term 'algorithm' in the mathematical and computer-science sense of "a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations", or are you using it in the SV-marketing-hype sense of "an ML trained to produce the answer we want to see"? It can be very confusing switching back and forth.
Wow, I didn't know the term Intellisense is that old. Thought that was a Jetbrains thing.
they are entirely based on fake news
I actually think that optimizes for those who come from a place of privilege. More elite schools have classes that teach this stuff, regular colleges don't. Also it's hard to put in the time for that when all of your free time goes toward merely surviving. I can promise that a lot of tech's diversity problems stem from things like this.
Dr. B: Standby list for leftover Covid vaccines
Don't miss the "Rants" page. Its most recent post is dated august 2020.

"Microsoft is really going down the toilet." - april 12, 2018
I know you’re being downvoted but wouldn’t this be indicative of an unstable economy not an unstable marriage?

E.g., both parties may have to work and do household duties because a one-salary household is much harder to manage financially now due to wages, lack of employment stability etc.
what about other tech units in the IDF/IAF
But... “the markets will remain irrational longer than you will remain solvent”
Except Paxos, no man understands that.
I definitely believe that for the first N years of gcc the policy was absolutely necessary to drag vendors into actually contributing back.

Whether that's still true in terms of the trade-offs being worth it to maintain the policy in the current day, and if it's no longer true what value of N accurately describes when that changed, is something that I think people can reasonably disagree about.

(my extremely boring take being "there's so many counterfactuals here I'm really not sure")
Even then you usually needed a letter proving your identity (personbevis) from the government, right? So the bank was not the arbiter of "who was who", but issued the ID cards.
I seriously doubt they are cost-saving. Small volume, expensive electronics, remote location == higher prices, not lower?
A good time to buy tickets far in the future because of Covid prices? (03/2020)
"As an airline employee, working with higher management currently, I can safely tell you it's a gamble.

The aviation business is like a poor handyman in some poor country, whatever money he makes that day is barely enough for food. If the day goes by without work, no meal that day. This is true even for the best of the airlines. Most of the best five-star world-class airlines out there are living off government support! The rich uncle.

Therefore, unless the airline is supported by the rich uncle, do not buy the ticket. The aviation business will eat dirt in 2020 if the COVID situation stays around for a few months, and it's expected that most of the small/medium airlines will bankrupt or get merged with the bigger ones unless they get some serious government support or take serious measures to cut down cost, the support that most governments are using now to fight the COVID-19. Or, some magic pill comes along in the very near future and COVID-19 becomes past in its infancy."
But then inevitably you have either overlap or conflict between these small teams, because one of them needs something that's within the other's responsibility. Larger structures necessarily form.
I'm just finding the healthcare example among the weakest.

To be a bit US specific (this varies worldwide); the FDA publishes a ton of information on what their expectations are. You absolutely should be reading their guidance documents, filing process, etc. That gets you past the "is this something we should do" phase.

You'll likely get to the point you have a conformance plan for 13485 or similar, at which point you have a real project committed so the small fraction cost thing applies.

The most impactful healthcare standards aren't about "here's how you build a device", they are about "here's how you build an organization capable of building, shipping, and supporting a device".

Once you've got your head around that, you're off and running. On the R&D side of things, there is actually little bureaucracy for it's own sake, mostly it's about implementing good engineering practices in a traceable way.

I guess my response is to your "Healthcare startups are struggling with this" is that I know a lot of healthcare startups, and they struggle with a lot of things, but this typically isn't one of them.

To me ISO-8601 not being freely available is obviously counterproductive. ISO 13485 or 60601 not being freely available is more "well, not optimal but doesn't make much difference"
Why Dropbox’s Exascale Strategy Is Long-Term, On-Prem Disk
“This time it’s different”

Nothing has changed except central bank policy encouraging rampant speculation. The bull market won’t last forever and every generation thinks the fundamentals don’t matter anymore, until suddenly they do. To be fair it is extremely hard to build wealth incrementally these days because of central bank policy, but it’s way better than yoloing life savings.
Thanks, but need more info on this topic. It looks like not sciense for me.

Our body is wierd thing :)
Sugars taste sweet but it hurts you.
> which is more important than the actual thing.

When you can already buy the best possible thing then the story is what matters.

> “Even the dog wouldn’t—” “But humans will, Mr. Bent,” said Moist. “And therein lies genius. I think he makes most of his money on the mustard, but there’s a man who can sell sizzle, Mr. Bent. And that is a seller’s market.” - Making Money - Sir Terry Pratchett.
Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine neutralizes Brazil variant in lab study
That's a strawman argument. Seeing filter bubbles as bad doesn't mean the only approach is to remove all filter bubbles in all of existence. You can lessen the number of and ease of making filter bubbles and still have a positive impact on society.
There clearly is a spectrum though.

A professor at a research university is almost certainly more specialized than a science writer, at least insofar as the science is concerned.
IE5 for Mac was very great! The first version to implement tabs if I am not mistaken.
I don't know why, but this is in the css, it appears to be intentional

a {
word-break: break-all;
}
Bitcoin mining has also become the lifeline for the likes of Iran and Venezuela, where the power is priced cheaper in local money.

Iran has been moving towards an official legal framework for Bitcoin.
Libraries are better for end-users, services are better for the businesses building them. When a service could just as easily be a library (which isn't always the case, to be fair), it's not a question of best-practice, it's a question of power-balance and incentives.
New Wikipedia article about criticism of Tesla
Ask HN: What skills are invaluable to you for your career?
Let me kick it off with some skills of my own which have enabled numerous promotions and opportunities.

Linux Admin
- The benefits of learning command line basics in a linux system and finding my way around the infrastructure quickly has helped me become one of the most productive people on my team.

Powerpoint
- Knowing what to put in/not put into a presentation to my peers has promoted me twice in the last 3 years.

Python
- The language I have most used and debugged in all my roles (automation).

People management
- Becoming a team lead was a hardcore version of "How to make friends and influence people".

Writing
- I started a blog 2 years ago and have been writing on and off. It has impacted all other parts of my work. Anyone that wants to improve their skills overall should start writing.

Things I want to learn in the near future:

- Business management (I'm trying to kick off a particular side hustle).

- Advanced SQL (Most recommended programming skills I have heard of).

- Remixing shanty songs (Add a beat to any shanty for a guaranteed banger!!! :) )

Those are my two cents! What kind of skills do you know that have been invaluable to you?
Its not the milk and eggs its the condoms and birth control.

Its the data on why you suddenly stopped buying alcohol after buying a pregnancy test a month before.

Who works at the store? Your former teacher? A prior fling? A neighbor? Does it matter when it can all be leaked with everyones data by a hacker anywhere when the ransom isn't paid by the store?
Yeah, that's be part of what I meant by online medical systems. It'd be required for booking any type of medical appointment online.
It is an issue that digital identification in Sweden is run by a single private company. The drawbacks are not clearly seen from a consumer standpoint, but they do charge service providers for each login, and can set their prices freely since it's a monopoly.

They also have rules against being logged in for too long, and against identity transfer (directly or indirectly using BankID to authenticate for a different login method) [1], since that would result in fewer BankID logins and less revenue for them.

One result of the latter restriction is that any letters containing authentication codes need to be sent by physical mail, since all digital mailboxes such as Kivra and the government-run "Min myndighetspost" support login by BankID. The University Admissions service (antagning.se) were forced to stop sending codes through digital mailboxes due to this [2].

[1]: https://twitter.com/antagningse/status/1178957770978140160

[2]: https://computersweden.idg.se/2.2683/1.643894/skatteverket-s...
There’s also WASM that might pick up where Flash/Flex/Java left off.
Democratizing making software comes at a price

Now everybody can and is trying to make a living off of it
wrong, you can have both, several successful open source projects have libraries that are released under friendly open source license. SaaS comes in to provide added benefits over DIY approach, both realities can happily exist and in fact open source growth drives SaaS business models.
Agreed, any links (or references to books) about the subject matter would be helpful!

At this point i feel like a lot of e-mail related topics are full of "unknown unknowns" to me and many other developers. It's hard to say whether we're missing bits of information that are considered common knowledge or maybe e-mail related development doesn't have enough discoverability (like blog posts, tutorials and so on) to make it easier, like configuring HTTPS in Apache2/httpd would have.

Or maybe the whole domain is just full of inherent complexity due to its history (SPF, DKIM, DMARC etc.).
Please forgive my pedantry, but the suffix `-oid` means `-like`, i.e. not a fact. I should start calling minor-facts "factlets" lol https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Diminutive+suffix
OK, what does that even mean?

They are a physical store that sells physical games.

Physical stores are in dire straits.

Some new game consoles don’t even use physical games, namely the base PlayStation and Xbox.

What do you even transform into? A dedicated amiibo shop? The future is pretty obviously download-only for games.
It's more likely that folks who claim to not have these associations simply haven't identified their unconscious biases yet.

There is always a reason associations between mental traits and physical features exist, even if you're not consciously aware of it.

EDIT: And to go a different direction, if someone truely doesn't make such associations... Now that they know some people do recognize those associations, just be polite and don't make such comments about people's appearance - be it skin color, hair color, height, weight, etc.
The point is that it kills everything that isn't an engineering project with some funding secured. It kills exploratory work by individuals or small companies. It kills education. It kills popularization of standards.

And in case of standards in computing, like ISO 8601 - a lot of them are of interest to open source developers. If they could access them for free, they could make their code compliant. Software companies use a lot of open source, and often whether or not a product follows some standard somewhere is entirely dependent on whether the OSS component it uses follows the standard.
This is supreme nitpicking, but the author being quoted about the term "metaverse" is Neal Stephenson, not "Neil Stephensen".
More than half of Israel's land area is desert. It's quite hard to develop a nation in the desert.
> Maybe some of you have experienced a good product/project manager [...], but I stand by my assertion.

What would it take to change your mind?
As a disclaimer I haven't read CODE, even though it's been on my list for a while (sounds like I ought to prioritize it!).

From my understanding of the style I believe The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee is a similar take on genetics.

It stays fairly high level as it doesn't require a molecular biology degree, but Mukherjee gives a fantastic primer on many of the concepts in genetics in a deeply interesting and human fashion. It's always refreshing when non-fiction books manage to weave a narrative throughout in a way that feels natural.
Well, the reasons I see for being POSIX-compatible would be:

1. Distributions could adopt rg as default and ship with it only, adding features at nearly no cost

2. The performance advantage over "traditional" grep

Number 1 is basically how bash became the default; since it is a superset of sh (or close enough at least), distributions could offer the feature set at no disadvantage. Shipping it by default would allow scripts on that distribution to take advantage of rg and, arguably, improve the situation for most users at no cost.

If one builds two programs in one with a switch, you're effectively shipping optional software, but in a single binary, which makes point 1 pretty moot. If you then also fall back on another engine, point 2 is moot as well - so the only point where this would actually be useful is if rg could become a good enough superset of grep that it would provide sufficient advatages (most greps _already_ provide a larger superset of POSIX, though). Everything else would just add unnecessary complexity, in my opinion.

But it would have been nice :)
There is an interesting example of this in Robert J. Sawyer's The Neanderthal Parallax, which has an alternate world where the Neanderthals became the dominant human species.

In the Neanderthal world, red means "good" or "go" and green means "danger" or "stop".

This is because red is the color of good meat and green is the color of bad meat.

In a remarkable HN coincidence, I was trying to remember the name of this series when I ran across kleer001's comment on "At Home with Our Ancient Cousins, the Neanderthals", also on the HN home page right now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26381829
I love those modifier-less keyboard shortcuts! But maybe you're right that in a web browser, it can easily go wrong.
Ah, I hadn’t thought of that. Several of my credit cards have that same feature and it never shows up until I leave the US and don’t have connectivity and get locked out of my card.
Ah, good question. First instinct says 'success' should be statistically 50% each way. Right in the middle of the bell curve.

But on second thought, being behind estimate half the time would be pretty sucky. So I'd like to bring the peak of the curve onto the early side of the line.

I guess ultimately it depends on the question being asked of the estimator & the implied confidence interval.

What do you think?
Please stop opining on what you have zero knowledge on. The Apple devices in Iran are never sold jailbroken (in fact, I have never seen a jailbroken Apple device in my life). They can usually connect to all the Apple services without a VPN. There are apps that use Iranian payment processors in the App Store itself (e.g., https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fidiketabi/id1464658470 is an app that sells ebooks and audiobooks, its real name being Fidibo), and others have apps as direct installs that need the user to accept their profile, or use one of those Iranian app stores. There was a brief period after the Facebook VPN scandal that Apple did make a show of blocking these Iranian certificates, which caused a surge in web apps (which I liked a lot), but that didn’t last long. What is super clear is that Apple gives not a single fuck about privacy, security, US laws, or anything except PR. They do exactly what generates the most money for them, and have no principles. Every single big stunt they have done costed them nothing and further consolidated their monopolies. It is always others who shoulder the costs, never Apple.