skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I use this feature. On a large monitor, Firefox wastes quite a lot of space with the default layout. To be honest, I wish there was an option to make it more compact than the "compact" layout.

Ditto ... I am not clear why we need eight pixels' padding around the location bar and what looks like 15 pixels' padding around the icons alongside. It looks like the location bar is around 32 px on this admittedly ancient 1280x800 laptop screen and I'd be happy with 20 px.
Because I've collected a link here and a link there over the course of ~2 years: which basically is four time changes. There's always a smattering of news reports that link to various places each time that happens. From last fall:

* https://twitter.com/ChronobioCanada/status/13161222923180687...

So the end result may be 'large', but it's only a modest amount of effort that snowballs.

> Are you not at all curious about whether the abstracts and conclusions are actually true?

No more curious than going into the guts of an IPCC report to see if the abstracts and conclusions about climate change are true. In the post-Gutenberg world it's hard to be an expert in everything, so we have to trust others to get the details right in other fields: on this topic I'm willing to delegate.
> I wonder how they require that. Does the manufacturer have to warranty them all for 30 years? That's extraordinary!

In 1986, they road-tested the contract competitors' trucks for 24,000 miles, and the Grumman LLV (the truck that this new vehicle replaces) was the only one running at the end. Definitely not proof that they'd run for the intended 24 year lifespan, but I guess the USPS got lucky with the LLV (they even stretched it 6 years past the original retirement date!).

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/09/business/postal-contract-...
Using the Tuskegee Study is a bad example. The African American community has among the lowest rates of vaccine hesitancy, it’s about half of what Republican males report.

Source: https://www.axios.com/concern-republican-coronavirus-vaccine...
Voip.ms, vonage/twilio, et al let you set up an SMS capable number really quickly and cheaply, available globally... And you'd be fully in control
How does that work with wine? A bottle of cheap wine doesn’t last longer than a bottle of expensive wine.
Google Took Down My Chrome Extension for Using Lodash
I mean it seems totally plausible. Just based on my interactions in Europe (as a dumb non-multilingual English speaker), I'd just have guessed it'd be higher. I've never come across anyone who's had ZERO English skills, while that was somewhat common in Tokyo, for example. Granted, almost all of my time in Europe has been spent in cities so that probably matters a lot.
TIL, thanks. Maybe it's different for rural areas, but here in (sub)urban Canada postal workers hit a few houses at a time (and you can tell because most of them wear comfortable walking shoes too). I just looked it up and it seems like their new electric vehicles aren't RHD either, would be curious to know how that decision transpired :)
Author here. I believe it's kept because at the end of the day, they _must_ get a valid value form it; however, the chances of that loop having to run more than once are astronomically low.
Ask HN: Is anyone an Authy user who can no longer generate tokens properly?
I've been an Authy user for years. As they merged with Twilio I thought good things were in front of me. However, recently they have begun creating what appears to be "Authy Official" integrations. In this example I use Cloudflare. Cloudflare is now an Authy Official site. Instead of my manually added Authy account for Cloudflare I now have a separate official "Cloudflare" at the bottom of my app. Except.... the codes suddenly don't work that it generates. I can't delete the official app. I can't delete the one I added. There is no support despite being a paying customer of Cloudflare.

I can login using backup codes but I cannot seem to even disable Authy as Cloudflare tells me the account requires 2FA through it now...

Anyone have any idea how to sort this out (switching from Cloudflare not an option at this time)?
It's truly amazing that he did all this while decompiling the source code, but for engineers working on a large system it's not that uncommon to fix large impact performance bugs.
I really don't think hawking is deified. A celebrity, sure.

My list of diefied physicists would probably more be einstein and maybe feynman
People were getting five figure debits in Texas because of this. There should be some guardrails in bill pay arrangements.
Networking specific, if using NetworkManager you can set up fallback network profiles which can kick in, in the event the primary connection fails. Could be a secondary ip, last good profile or dhcp.

With regards to bricking thousands of machines, with great power comes great responsibility. Is there no way to test the config before mass deployment? In batches or a canary deployment?
Elon Musk Is the New ‘Technoking of Tesla’ and CFO Is Dubbed ‘Master of Coin’
It said they had a highly progressive land tax and additional tax on vacant land. This incentivizes utilization of land, but also makes it economically unfeasible to create apartments if you must pay the tax and compete with the government housing.

I'd love to see the data for Libertarians promoting land tax.
You can buy right-drive jeep wranglers new in the US today, even. They aren't real common but can be ordered.
Are you referring to taxes on ground rent (what is typically meant by "land tax" -- a tax on the value of the land if it was an empty lot), or taxes on improvements (what's built on the land)?

Conventional property tax is a mixture of pure land tax and a tax on improvements.

And are you talking in general, or do you have some specific insight into Vienna's particular policies?
I don't think it's that hard to use IRC. I've certainly run into some non-tech folks on IRC. But yes, I guess it does tend to be more exclusive and maybe that's not a bad thing.
Seems like more of a limitation of the container than anything. Certainly in recent times, vaccine supply chain has pushed vacuum flask technology forward significantly to reduce the need for cold chain. What I wonder is if further commodification of this couldn't also be applied to food delivery.

Just a decade ago, I would've scoffed if someone told me my phone could have as powerful a GPU as my desktop. And yet, here we are today!
This was my first reaction to this as well. I grew up in a very religious family. The "Science is another religion" take is as problematic as "The republicans/democrats are the all the same".

The #1 thing that strikes me is that any characteristics shared by religion and science only exist because of human behavior, while the fundamentals could not be more different.
May I ask whether your goal is to open source eventually, and you haven't done so yet? Or you intend to keep it closed?

If the former, then how about using Codeamigo to highlight various parts of Codeamigo source? Two birds with one stone.
Yes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Lyne.ai – AI-generated personalized intro lines for cold emails
Does that include all of those sites that include GA/GFonts/etc that I have zero control over? You don't have to use G/FB services to still be a money generator for them. To be a reader of this site and still not understand that, one must either be on ostrich or a new reader.
> Imagine all of the quadratic poorly written code sitting on your code base at your workplace.

Imagine now that 160 Million people use my codebase and have been suffering from this for 7 years.
The fact that quarantine works is a very direct consequence of the germ theory of disease.

You don't have to understand every detail about the virus to know that keeping infected people away from uninfected people halts its spread.

Quarantine measures have been incredibly effective in countries that have implemented them seriously. China, Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam and other countries have essentially eliminated the virus within their borders. Quarantine is low-tech but effective.
What technology helped him stay alive for so long? Everything I've heard about it before said that they didn't understand why/how he was able to.
I know you weren't, just providing some background information.
If you were a local living in the colonies, any of the imperial powers were going to treat you rather poorly.
But in continental Europe, the treatment of occupied Belgium/France would prefigure WW2 behavior of the German troops. In either cases putting entire villages and their inhabitants to the torch and sword was rather normal.
You should only be using an old computer
That would work for 2 maybe 3 meetings, then you'd be asked to make appropriate accomodations to do your work. But if you choose those 2 or 3 meetings wisely...
| In the US, you get to keep your house no matter how much anyone - including the government - would prefer you didn't.

That's not accurate. The US, state and city governments can most definitely take private land and convert it to public use if enough people benefit from it.

https://www.justice.gov/enrd/history-federal-use-eminent-dom...

There are other means as well, a city could purchase something on the open market, or a county could purchase land and convert into a public park, or what ever suits them.
Would that be a good or a bad thing?
Amazon, UPS, and FedEx all have custom vehicles. Amazon started with off the shelf vehicles, but once you get to ordering 50,000 of something, you may as well make the design fit your needs instead of only meeting them.
This is a general issue with GitHub repos - people write awesome software and then their Curse of Knowledge causes them to think people open the repo and immediately know what it does. I wonder how much good open source gets ignored by less than amateur computer science folks like me.
Not sure I follow you. Tons of companies make money from digital advertising - most from ad networks (it's pretty hard for a startup to run their own). Much as most consumer startups would like to abandon advertising and just charge for their product/service, it is extremely hard to get people to pay for things.
Until you get deplatformed. Tech-first MVNOs don't always have the same consumer rights and anti trust requirements as those regulated by the FCC.
Didn't they shave off a couple of minutes?
I heard a few years ago that Canada Post was forcing everyone to use a communal mailbox at a semi-central location close to their house, even in fairly rural areas. If that's the case, it'd also make a lot more sense to just have a normal van, IMO.
Thanks for sharing!

Question:
> has less to offer along many dimensions of quality-of-life.

Which one are saying has less to offer, Munich or Vienna?
The last time I had things randomly break under me due to elisp was a long long time ago. Such that, I really can't remember it.

And as a user of emacs, the stability has been quite nice. The speed has mostly only hurt around things I'd expect to hurt. (Long long long lines, for example.)

I can see the allure of language servers. But, to me they are basically a modern cscope. With json being the transport. Not bad, but hardly magical or unforseen. (Granted, getting the pockets of microsoft has been nice.)

What sort of spontaneous breaks are you referencing?
The Conflic over What the Catholic Church Says About Same-Sex Civil Unions
On all but urban routes US mail carriers never get out of their vehicles, unless they have something too big to fit in the box.
>Amazon use off-the-shelf vehicles though.

Not for long, they even invested in Rivian, an EV manufacturer, who is going to build vehicles to their spec.
Well, basically this is someone trying to implement VSCode in Emacs ...

Ain't gonna get far once the main developer loses interest in the project. Emacs users use Emacs because they want Lisp and don't care about web rendering and javascript runtimes ... Oh yeah and Rust is thrown in too for good measure.

Good 90% of Emacs code is in the extensions which are in Lisp and nobody is going to rewrite them to Javascript even if the code was running 50x faster.
>>$80K would be on the order of half of the annual salary of most developers outside of SFBA.

Lol, I'm a lead C++ programmer in the UK and I don't make that much. It's American salaries as a whole that are completely stratospheric.
Azure AD instability has been a big pain point for us for a while. We’ve had more of these outages than I care to remember. One the one hand the ability to have one central auth between on-prem and other services is great but every time this happens so many services just stop working. Microsoft really needs to fix their stability issues.
I was not talking about the article but the benchmark site linked. Not sure what you want to say with the wikipedia citation.
I have not made a comprehensive list, but the topic has come up when discussing one of the Go benchmarks. The Go language has a build-in hashtable, called a map, and this does not allow to specify custom hash functions. Of course rolling out a hashtable implementation which does allow this is prohibited by the benchmark rules. Probably intentionally, also like your distraction attempts are hinting to.
I think just using Zoom meetings imitates a slow connection. At least, it slows my entire laptop responsiveness down to a crawl, so I'm just extrapolating its effect.
I'm saying Karl Marx himself came up with the metric system, and that's why we need 100% Freedom-certified Tactical Mail Delivery Vehicles.
I tried to set up a Twilio number specifically to handle these services that demand SMS for login.

Weirdly it only works for a minority of services, I expect many use Twilio to send their auth texts and Twilio blocks sending these to their own numbers?
Amen to that.

Some people seeing this advice may be worried about people coming to them with too simple problems or without trying to work it out themselves first, or other similar issues. That happens, but not that much, from my experience. And when it does, it’s usually with new people. In such cases you will want to explain to them what they could be doing better with this process, and avoid discouraging them from seeking help altogether.
Life expectancy for the average Macintosh user in 1983 was shorter than it is in 2021.

But 72 years about sounds right for US 1983 Mac users, who were already closer to middle aged.
I've already commented my disdain below, but to add more: why does Mozilla keep taking away features I use...?! I swear they are trying to destroy themselves. Or trying, very badly, to pivot. Either way, rable-rable-rable,get off my lawn, if it ain't broke don't fix it, etc. Qutebrowser looks interesting...
Doesn't HN run on FreeBSD? It always used to.
I run a community Discord of about 80 people currently. I personally would pay something like $100-200/year for a nice network for these people as the administrator. If the network grew more, I might be willing to pay more. Discoverability is a thing though. This community is deliberately private but is discoverable from two other social networks, and centered around a business which ultimately makes money from the community.

In other words, the meetup model might work for these kinds of communities.
I mean someone probably looked at it briefly and said it was unfixable. Then management said don't waste anymore time on it.
True. I’m glad he got anything at all. Game improvements generally don’t. Think of all the mods that exist just to fix bugs in say Skyrim
TIL HN uses "mirrored magnetic for logs (UFS)". Is there a privacy policy posted anywhere? What's in these logs? Magnetic is for long term storage. How far back does it go?
It allows easilly booting from external media, without involving any existing changeable SW on the phone.

Without HW mods, there's nothing some malware can do to persist itself in the device and prevent you from running exactly what you want and nothing else. You can just insert a known good uSD card, and the SoC will boot from it.

So you can conceivably use an OS from uSD card as an outside root of trust for verifying/reflashing the changeable parts of the phone.

Normally the trust is rooted in some fused keys and hopefully properly implemented bootloader, which seems inherently less trustworthy and much more complex.
> $80K would be on the order of half of the annual salary of most developers outside of SFBA.

If the author of the bug fix is indeed from Latvia (.lv), the median annual income of a senior software engineer in the Baltic states is currently around 30K-40K after taxes.
Webex lets you configure meeting options to allow the host to unmute anyone.

I’ve never tried it myself as the mere concept of doing so is a huge invasion of privacy, but after learning that any meeting could have this option enabled, I no longer assume that my muted mic will stay that way.
Weird RL with Hyperparameter Optimizers
As someone searching for employment in the Midwest, I feel your pain. I saw a position yesterday that wanted 15+ years of experience and paid, I kid you not, $17/hr.

Compensation in the Midwest is a joke. If my family weren’t here, I’d return to one of the coasts.
> In the US, you get to keep your house no matter how much anyone - including the government - would prefer you didn't.

Not true at all. Eminent Domain is a real thing. The controversies have generally been when there is a dispute over whether the taking is for a public benefit, e.g. condeming property to make way for a private business.
The game is played by millions of people, we don't need to wonder if there were a lot of more important bugs, this has been by far the most complained about issue for many years.

> This one escaped, because stuff happens.

No, they mostly just don't listen to their players when compared with other game companies.
i haven't made stuff like this but 800x1000 running in 60fps on cpu sounds really fast, looking amazing! is it open sourced?
The AskAnthro comment isn't great, but has links to much better sources. The sci-hub cite I gave, though, isn't political. It opens by pointing out basic errors in Diamond's work --- his omission of agriculture in the Pacific Northwest, his just-so story about lack of domestication of animals in the Americas being a result of over-hunting. In fact, the Sluyter article seems to go out of its way not to accuse Diamond of disfavored politics, and focuses on its research and reasoning.

You can do better on this, though; for instance, it turns out there's a whole subsection of the AskHistorians wiki covering GGS, with entries observing:

* Diamond's understanding of genetic data for the human disease load during colonization is faulty

* The inability of Spanish conquistadors to hold conquered territory once captured

* That Diamond risibly oversimplifies the naivete of cultures like the Inca, which somehow spent centuries conquering an entire continent only to be left ignorant of the very concept of invaders (I liked this one because it referred to Diamond as "not even an anthropologist").

* That Diamond's understanding of the Inca empire as being absolutely controlled by Atahualpa and thus his overthrow --- which is also apparently rendered inaccurately in the book --- doomed the Incas... where was I with this sentence? At any rate, it's apparently not true.

* That the most important conquests of Central America occurred between native powers, and that colonizers had repeated false starts during them and took root mostly after wars between indigenous people had ravaged the continent.

I thought I might take a stab at summarizing everything r/AA and r/AH have to say about the book, but it'd be like summarizing Wikipedia. I own Diamond's book and have read chunks of it and remember enjoying it, but here am just reporting that among experts in these fields, it doesn't have a good reputation, even as pop science. The criticisms seem mostly procedural (and, to an extent, about turf --- Diamond's training is in hard science, not social science), not political.
Not being able to access your account for 3 days when you need to recover your password is not going to be a viable business decision for most services. I think you are SEVERELY underestimating how often the average user needs to recover their password.
In general and total real estate property tax. I will pay at least as much property tax over the next 50 years as what I paid for my house.
SkyEcc Domain Seized by Feds
On all my home boxes I run vanilla Debian and it’s great. No fuss. I’ve started to dabble outside my comfort zone with a Fedora box and it’s also pretty great, despite the culture shock.
While the organization seems nice, the organization itself may have a cognition overhead. I find myself often abandon an organization scheme after I spending time perfecting it. Lately I am mostly using aliases to manage my personal scripts and commands. What the aliases does may change from time to time, but the aliases themselves can stabilize. Those aliases that failed to stabilize or can't fit into top of my head probably are not worth keeping anyway. I delete them every once a while.
"As she scrolled through page after page of these faces, she realized that most — more than 80 percent — were of white people. More than 70 percent of those white people were male"
Terrible, I'm scared xD
In Australia the Honda CT90->CT110->NBC110 "Postie Bike" was, up until 2015 or so, the best selling motorcycle for decades, so much so that it almost always got left out of motorcycle market share reporting.

Australia Post used to buy ~2000 of them a year, but recently have replaced most of the motorcycles with bicycles and electric bicycles (and the volume of ordinary letters that are suitable for motorcycle/bicycle/walking delivery has also plummeted, these days an enormous (literal) volume of mail is parcels from China/Amazon, which don't fit as neatly/efficiently in a motorcycle pannier an are mostly delivered by contractors in generic white vans.

"In terms of actual numbers, a major contributor to the fall has been the Australia Post ‘postie bike’ fleet. After artificially inflating new bike sales figures for years, sales of the postie bike (formerly CT110, now NBC110) fell 43 per cent in 2017 and a further 52 per cent last year. Australia’s top-selling ‘road bike’ for years, the NBC110 only scraped into the road category’s Top Ten last year and didn’t even figure in the overall Top Ten." -- https://www.justbikes.com.au/news-and-reviews/2018-australia...

and:

"For years, the CT110 was Australia’s top-selling motorcycle, but almost the entirety of those sales went to Australia Post. With the decline in letter delivery and Australia Post’s move to electric trikes better suited to parcel delivery, CT 110 / NBC 110 sales have fallen rapidly in recent years, including a 52 per cent drop in 2018 alone. The NBC 110 didn’t even appear in the ‘Top 10’ listings provided by the FCAI, suggesting less than 500 units were sold last year. That compares to 1,447 sales just two years ago." -- https://www.justbikes.com.au/news-and-reviews/motorcycle-sal...
The human brain grew as a result of the extinction of large animals: new paper
The problem is not that they suddenly hit this performance drop and solved it in some reasonable timeframe, or it was some rare occurrence affecting .01% of users

The problem is that it’s existed for 6 years, affected anyone and everyone, and would have been caught and resolved by basically anyone who attempted to look into the issue with fairly low effort/experience-needed. That is, the problem is that no one bothered to look into it, despite good reason to do so.
Why is rng not handled by a standard library or with a call to /dev/*random? Feels weird to me that average userspace code should even know about CPU instructions.
Like 120k for a senior dev in Houston.

I probably wouldn't make 400k in my first FAANG job. More like 250k to 350k on the higher end if I were really lucky.
Singapore does something similar, with 80% of the population living in HDB accommodations [1]. The other 20% is a free-for-all near as I can figure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Singapore
And that's why you have source in your resume.