skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely had this issue with the first generation Raspberry Pi. It wasn't just a corrupted filesystem. The SD card was completely ruined. When I started over, I followed instructions to make the file system readonly, turn off the tmpfs, turn off atime, etc. And never had another issue. Eventually I replaced the Pi with a newer one and haven't had any problems even though the file system is read/write. I think this issue may have affected the earlier models more, or maybe SD cards are better now.
If curious, past thread:

Raylib: a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy game programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18932206 - Jan 2019 (29 comments)
You know, I never checked. It’s a newer model. It has never struggled with 80 GiB movie files.
Apple sues former employee for stealing trade secrets, leaking information
In addition to freeone3000's problems, having the CPU in the screen also means you need a sturdier way to keep it vertical, instead of using the tiny hinges that normal "bottom heavy" laptops use.
What exactly are we afraid will happen if someone uses an emoji instead of typing :) ?
Not halon any more, but instead an ozone-friendly fire suppression gas such as argonite
It might make sense for certain Internet resources to be made available only to citizens of some political region. It might make sense to revoke access to such resources if an individual renounced their citizenship or loses it due to their own actions (like, say, treason). But it really doesn’t make much sense that I could lose access to an arbitrary Internet resource I legitimately possessed because of large-scale political changes unrelated to my actions as an individual.
And not even a super custom language. Get out of the bay area and you'll see tons of job postings that ideally want Go or Scala experience, but will gladly teach you if you have the right fundamentals. That's the only way to get their hiring top of funnel large enough to fill seats.

I really think big iron's customer's problems are that they don't want to pay for quality engineers, but for some reason will pay those higher rates or more for some overpriced consultants. Literally just accepting that the outsourcing dream of 2000 was not a great move and using that money on internal engineering would go soooo far. You see even .gov getting the hint with 18F and the US Digital Service building and supporting non contractor government engineers.
I agree, however if the interviewer is late to the interview, they have started on the wrong foot for planning and getting the data they need
I'm not sure it's so much time to consider as time to tell any others companies you're also through some part of the process with (especially if you're already through interviews) that they need to make a formal offer to you now or you're going elsewhere.

Maybe it's just me but if you just have one offer letter in hand and have probably already thought about what it would take to take an offer, I can almost certainly make a decision in an evening.
This is why a lot of scientists prefer the term "climate change" over "global warming"--the expected result isn't a uniform "everyone experiences warmer changes" but rather more severe disruptions in climate patterns.

One of those predicted disruptions is a weakening of the margins of the polar vertex. This results in cases where the front of vertex pushes deeply far south. As a result, cold polar air can move deep into the US interior (so, say, 0°F or less in St. Louis) while Alaska is baking in 50-60°F.

In other words, one of the predictions of global warming is that the US will see an increase in extreme cold events in winter even as the average Earth temperature is increasing.
Not a technical problem, it's just that long term projects with large upfront investments end up costing a lot within the socio-economic system we have. These are societal choices. Do we collectively want low-carbon electricity, with proper regulation and independent safety authorities, or do we want neoliberalism, small government and free markets...
https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Hinkley-Po...
I was in complete agreement until I got a car with a built in screen. At night I really do need it to be dark. Even dimming a white screen doesn't do the job. I use it almost exclusively via Android Auto, and in particular Google Maps. It's a Good Thing that it has a dark mode.

I dislike modes of any sort, but day and night are modes in the real world, and the device might as well accommodate that.

I would definitely be grateful to never again hear "When is X going to introduce dark mode?" for every single app and web site. Outside of that very specific instance where I'm required to have an app in my face while maintaining night vision, I'm perfectly happy to use "day mode" with the brightness adjusted.
I've seen that happen, and I sincerely HOPE that folks heed this guy's advice, read the words written by Tailwind's creator, and try and understand the problem it's trying to solve. While I can agree that folks do tend to read negative things on the internet and then turn around and say, "see, I heard it was bad, don't use it", I also like the freedom of this guy to break out of the cargo-culting and say, "nope... this is why I don't like it". It gives me some things to pay attention to when I'm auditioning new libraries/frameworks/etc.
The temperature difference from the last ice age is only 5°C. Most of northern Europe was under a glacier all year long.

Forecasts are telling us a 2°C increase before the end of the centuary is already inevitable. If we do not change anything, a 4°C increase is really probable.

It is easy to imagine that a lot of place will become not be suitable to human life.
(For context, I lived in Hong Kong from 2014 to late 2020)

I'm not sure why protestors would take tips from the HK protestors. After all, they were not at all successful.

I attribute this problem to two things:

1) Hong Kongers are culturally mostly British.

2) Modern British culture has no martial tradition whatsoever, and therefore no practical ability to mount a successful resistance to any kind of even moderately-equipped state actor that is willing to use force.

If you're dealing with a polite government that's strictly constrained by voter approval, then the HK strategy might work.
Ah, thanks! I think I'll stick with rand(indexable_collection) in Julia since anything else just doesn't feel Julian, but I'll remember that for other 1-based languages if I come across it.
Apple sues 11-year veteran MacBook designer for allegedly stealing trade secrets
+1 to SQLBolt, which is a nice quick introduction you can do in an hour or two. The automatic feedback of execute-as-you-type is great.
This 50% isn't compared to the Intel's Xe-graphics CPUs, it's comparing to the old Gen9. There's a huge difference between those two, with the Gen9 having 0,44 TFLOPS and TG ones (Xe-LP) have 2,46TFLOPS (which is about equal to what Apple is using in M1).

It's just that Apple never used the newer CPUs. Maybe that would have spoiled the M1 launch?
Keep an eye out for this subtly anti-White dogwhistle trend among many mainstream media oulets: "Black" is capitalised in every use, "white" never is
Try to find a job you enjoy.
It is? I avoided it on my Linux laptop for ages since I assumed their flat pricing was a lot cheaper.
It's really sad to see novice developers rediscover and revisit arguments from decades ago, but that's really the curse of software development, isn't it? Why does Tailwind CSS even have some kind of brand name? It's just bad CSS. It doesn't need a name.
How do any of these, beyond the cameras, improve the work-from-home experience?
No, because your home is your home, and your desktop might be located somewhere where other people are around, e.g. spouse, roommates, parents or children. That's not really workable for video calls.
https://archive.is/lJirU
The "eating out" line here (https://thedeepdish.org/2017-spending/) implies the blog author is (or was, as of Sep 19, 2018) living in India.

It is likely easier to live on 10k/year in India than in the US.
> Or if you are working from home nearly all the time, a desktop will be a better and more economical choice.

If I'm not doing something that requires huge wattage, the only thing a desktop computer does is to force me to sit at a desk 100% of the time I'm using it. Hard pass. Tablets are nearly all toys, and the ones that aren't weigh more and cost more than a good laptop (but with a cumbersome UI). If you want to sit at a desk to work, a laptop still has you covered.

Desktops are a very impractical, niche product these days, they're a Ford F-350 when most people just want a decent hatchback.
What is this?

This guide appears to be advocating poisoning people over prolonged periods of time. Wtf? I'm not sure how that is a 'protest guide' versus just ruminations on murder or general harm.

On page 68:

> There are classes we never tried but probably should have...

> Poisoner. Dictators and their troops need to eat. Chronic poison that takes weeks to take effect is an interesting option.
You have to take it on a case by case basis. I think the important thing is to have a candid conversation between the candidate and the employer.

"I have a final round interview in two days with another company that ends a 3 week interview process, and I'd like to compare offers"

is a very different response to

"Thanks for the offer, there's 8 or 9 more companies that I'd like to apply to before making a decision, can you give me 2-3 months to get back to you?".

Having a conversation gives both the candidate and the employer another data point. How serious is the person about wanting to work for your company, and how much does the company want to hire you as a candidate? It also just feels like a healthier way to start the relationship.
Came looking for this comment. 100% agreed, and it seems like the author didn't even try?

My site https://www.listenaddict.com/ is 5.6kg for all the core/layout, and then another 1.6kg for the color theme (I have 12x themes and they're all separate, so the user only has to load one of them).

If anything, Tailwind is the opposite of bloat.
Disorderly Escape
SLAs for manual reviews on mobile app stores
"It does little good for a society to legalize drugs without also rolling out that public medical infrastructure."

That's what I was referring to. I think legalising drugs would do alot of good even without the "public medical infrastructure"
I don't think it's just Graham though. I see this kind of thing in every comment section on hacker news. That would indicate to me the the cause is something different than this particular writing style.

People here LOVE to take statements and search for contexts where the statement doesn't work, then act like that was what the author was arguing.
Dashlane is giving its one-click password changer a big upgrade
I'm not sure what your question is. In brief a mixer could works like the following:

Multiple people put money into a pot, in return they get an voucher that anyone can redeem.

At some later point in time someone redeems some money from the pot.

The anonymity set for this mixer is the number of people who put money into the pot. The more people that use this, the more anonymous.
[x] Merged Pull Request 224: Implement retry logic
Yup, a lot of the conversation around energy and electricity feels like we're not at all talking about the same things. A book worth reading on the subject: https://www.withouthotair.com/
Not everyone who wears glasses wants to stop wearing them.
Good point. The internet is weird.
Exchange email hack: Hundreds of UK firms compromised
I think I didn't properly communicate.

Resource forks let you put stuff outside of files that can and should go inside them. Now people have to look two places, or even be aware there are two places.
> Like really though, what would software do to control a compressor unit that would be expensive or difficult to do on a PCB?

On a refrigerator:

Software can choose to run a compressor at a lower, more efficient power setting for longer when the temperature just needs to be maintained. It can automatically time a defrost cycle based on when the doors are most often opened. It can tell when the door was opened and kick in the compressor at high power to quickly return the internals to the target temperature. It can debounce the door openings, delaying the cooling cycle until the door has been closed for a while.

It's also far easier to iterate and experiment with software.

> Especially given that a little microchip to run that software likely is far more complex and expensive than the PCB itself.

Active analog components like op-amps are often more expensive than an MCU, especially if you can build up a single package with all of the components that would have been on the PCB.

Control systems with negative feedback etc are just great tools, so it's not surprise that software systems also make use of them.
Could you please explain HJ, NS and SA?
Please don't put "Show HN" on reading material. That's not what Show HN is for: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
Million-year-old DNA sheds light on the genomic history of mammoths
Mentors from top companies donating their time
That's fair. I also struggle to understand why people buy cosmetic upgrades in games.
> I don't understand what is impossible about this.

Agree, and as someone who's done these conversions both ways I wanted to just say that you don't have to use complex tools to do what you're describing really. Those things are definitely in my toolbox, but simply just going by-hand and duplicating applicable styles from one site to the other with Chrome/Firefox devtools is a breeze.

I say this as a developer who embraces/studies CSS
OVH fire still has websites offline
Looks like many of these sites are still down now almost 48 hours later. Not looking good if you have not recovered stuff yet.
> and therefore no practical ability to mount a successful resistance to any kind of even moderately-equipped state actor that is willing to use force.

Culturally Ireland has more in common with Britain than differences and the IRA were at very least at it for a while.

I vaguely agree with the conclusion however.
I've been doing mindfulness meditation for around 7 years now (I also have ADD). It helps my focus a bit, but comes with diminished returns over time. I meditate for other reasons but I wouldn't recommend it just for focus. The amount of time and effort it takes isn't worth the marginal benefit to concentration. I still struggle with the same focus problem OP does.
I actually was going with the nitrates because I thought Fritz would be too obscure and not in line with the pattern established above. The breakthrough from Fritz furthered the ability to create nitrates in mass and pack more nitrogen to molecules, thus making things more explosive.

I'm glad Fritz was brought up though because it really shows how complicated science is and why when doing it we have to think hard about the ethics. As I said before, it isn't hard to argue that Fritz saved more human lives than any other single person in the entire history, even if we make it a percentage. But he is also known as the father of chemical warfare (he developed and weaponized chlorine gas). It is easy to call him a hero. It is easy to call him a villain. Truth is much more complicated. And while we're talking about nuclear I think this conversation is extremely important. Cheap nuclear power plants (which would require significant research and funding, and a modification of bureaucracy) could change the world but the same technology has created some of the most destructive weapons we've ever seen.

> Solar power will be used to support war and atrocities, somehow.

Without these a lot of satellites wouldn't operate. The reason we have a Space Force isn't because Trump, it is because our space assets are so valuable that it was necessary to break them out of the Air Force (as has happened with other branches). This is where a significant amount of the intelligence comes from. Information is arguably one of the most valuable components in warfare, arguably more important than actual man power.
Apple sues former employee Simon Lancaster over device leaks to media
As an interviewee I wish the resume sites had an indicator when a company is interviewing excessively or indiscriminately so I don’t waste my time.
How is this a good question? The only acceptable answer is "yes" otherwise the interview is over.
"In a million-line codebase, you can add and remove classes from a specific element with 100% confidence that you are not breaking anything else."

I sometimes wonder if people even understand what technology they are using:

CSS = Cascading Style Sheets

Go read some history, as to why exactly they were created. What you are describing is not CSS at all, that's properties on a design grid.

Which goes back to the author's point - if you want or really need that, don't use CSS. Just use components with standalone properties.

Use CSS when you want to be 100% sure it will change everything else.
You can still have personal budgets, even if they are very small. Heck, when things are tight, even having 10 Euro personal "fun money" a month for each partner can give a bit of freedom.
"Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that.""

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, can you please make your criticisms thoughtfully rather than as shallow dismissals or snark? Your comments in this thread are rather on the wrong side of the line, starting with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26427684. You obviously know a lot about this topic, which is great, but the thing to do with that knowledge is share some of it, so the rest of us can learn, and leave out the putdown aspect.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
> If, like me, you’re curious enough to give Emacs a try...

So curiosity rather than conversion. Six year later is he still using Emacs? Went back to Vim? Moved on to something else?

I have enough years invested in muscle memory of Vim itself and various plugins that what curiosity I have about Emacs is well controlled. I doubt I have runway left to get to the same productivity in another editor.
> ... to believe this silly narrative.

:(

I interpret that as a personal insult. Let's disagree without insulting each other.

> > So a Japanese or Korean person who feels a little under the weather will opt to keep their mask on when attending a maskless gathering, but an American in the same situation will likely take theirs off.

> This is a great example of stereotyping and asian exceptionalism.

Yes, we're talking about millions of people in aggregate. This requires stereotyping. Stereotyping is only bad when you expect an individual to behave like the aggregate.

> If anything, Japanese people are immensely aware of social pressure, and won't go against obvious social cues.

That's what I was trying to convey with my statement that wearing a mask is expected like wearing clothing over underwear. Your point about people sniffling on the train is compatible with a social expectation of wearing masks when sick. Every society has some non-conformists. The difference is that sick-no-maskers in Japan & Korea are outliers and in many parts of USA they are the majority. This is what I meant about many small differences adding up.
6.3 PeV - that's crazy! Wolfram Alpha tells me that'd be about enough energy as work to depress a key on a keyboard.
Social media algorithms are 'dangerous': author Walter Isaacson
The great thing about Google Docs is that it just doesn't have 99% of the features for which Ribbons were invented.

MS Office had accumulated thousands of features, most of which were beloved by a tiny fraction of users, and completely useless to the rest. That tiny fraction wanted instant access without having to memorize keyboard shortcuts, but no two wanted the same one.

Ribbons are about the best way I can think of to accept that premise. Aggravating at first, but you and it gradually learn what you do most often, and reach a steady state.

But better is to reject those features, put up a simple interface that captures the things you do 99% of the time, eliminates the .9% of fancy flashy stuff that some people use occasionally but everybody else is grateful to have gone, and just tells you to suck up the remaining .1% of stuff that you might actually use sometimes but can't have.

There are still days when I have to boot up LibreOffice or MS Office for some document that just absolutely positively needs something extra. Today, it's edit marks on a document, and being able to switch back and forth between the original and edited form, restoring old edits. But that's a special use case and I'm just as glad to not have to be ignoring that feature most days.
Ah I get it, because of a different part of Amazon being a competitor. Interesting!
It's a matter of trust; my wife and I don't sweat the small stuff, but if we're spending more than £100 on something, we'll probably discuss it first - that doesn't mean she gets to say no to the top of the range MacBook Pro, just that she knows what's going on.
I made an advanced bookmarking / curation tool for Twitter
The Infinite Dial 2021 [pdf]
Nuclear doesn't need pumped hydro storage so much. France has historically been doing load following with its reactors, and the rate of modulation is of 80% over 30min. (so 24MW/min for a 900MW reactor). Sure, having a bit of pumped hydro to help for really steep spikes can't hurt, but its role is minor. Storage for renewables on the other hand...
> not wipe an entire city burning everybody alive, and don't create billionary debt in the process for everybody and for decades.

Like chlorine gas? Land mines? Phosphorous weapons? Sarin?
Weather is so complex that a nearly chaotic system, the butterfly effect comes from the idea that the flapping of a butterfly in south africa could be the thing that start a tropical storm in the caribbean a couple of weeks later.

It is so complex because the amount of things that play a role there. Some of the components you have are i.e. sea currents (like the Gulf Stream, making England warmer than it should be) or the polar vortex, a more or less stable cyclone that runs in the upper atmosphere. Global warming affect those components, and in particular was the polar vortex what caused the cold weather in the US the last months.

But when you talk about climate in the context of global warming, you are talking about yearly global temperature averages, not what happen in only one region or in a few days/months.
I'm very curious about this, what were the reasons for changing between all those databases?

You can't be using any advanced features if you're supporting SQL, NoSQL and even Excel, so if you only need basic features why are you bothering with switching so much?

I know of one good reason to support multiple databases, when you're writing software for several enterprise clients and each of them wants to use whatever databases their teams are used to managing.
I once used a new hire process where the insurance card was mailed when the user clicked next on the insurance page. Problem is when someone clicked back and changed something another card was mailed. We received a bunch of ID cards.
Agreed. But as somebody mentioned above: It's good to maintain a (small) personal budget for each partner that they can spend as they please.
"Added RETRY_MAX parameter, set initially to 3F. (I think 3 Failures is enough to give up.)"
I can imagine someone mistakenly adding a 0 and then sending 2*60 cards instead of 2*6

> Bank proceeds to buy drilling companies to fulfill the necessary plastic demand so customer 8789 with $2.86 in his account can have all the cards he needs
If you ever need those backups, your company will fail from the receipt to receive them.

For Digital Ocean, please look that their pricing is higher in both bandwidth & storage.