skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I relate to this deeply as a creative person. I'm in the middle of trying to bootstrap some businesses this year, and the act of creating these things is such torture sometimes.

Which is weird right? I've left my day job, I'm doing exactly what I want to do, working on exactly what I want to work on, so it should be great all the time right? And yet the daily emotional sensations I feel while actually doing the work is usually a mixed bag. Every once in a while I'll have a fantastic day where I feel great about what I'm doing from start to finish, but sometimes just defeating the resistance within me and getting any trivial amount of work done is the best I can do.

A lot of it comes down to basic quality of many creative endeavors: starting is easy, and finishing is hard. You can start anything, but if you work for long enough eventually you arrive at this ugly middle place. The part of the journey where you start to notice all the warts and imperfections of what you're making, when your limits start to show themselves, when the picture of the thing in your mind starts to diverge from what you're realistically capable of doing. Seeing that, knowing that it was you who created all of that "crap," and _still_ pushing through it to get to the flawed, imperfect, compromised final product, THAT is tough.

I suspect this is what Adams was expressing: "Arthur Dent is a burk. He does not interest me." Or expressed differently: "This character I've created is starting to become ugly in his imperfections, and I feel like I'd rather throw the work away than continue with it."

If you're curious to read more, I write about these kinds of ideas in this part of a recent blog I wrote: https://startupinamonth.net/month-two-week-three/#flying-on-...!
I'm not sure what it does to their methane output, but can't you feed legumes straight to cows? You definitely can to chickens and pigs.
You still have to manage how much storage you have allocated, instead of just using it and paying based on how much storage you actually use.
Isn't that true of most things, one can't farm pigs with an oil rig, those facilities really only make one thing. Certain facilities could be retooled/repurposed and this is maybe a bit easier in agriculture for certain things (plant soy vs corn) but you can't just plant an almond orchard overnight.
Just curious why you mentioned the Jan 6 riot, where the only person killed was a small white female that was shot by a black trigger happy cop, and not the 40+ people killed, billions of dollars in business and personal property damage, thousands of injuries and violent attacks caused by the BLM and Antifa riots?
Google "alternatives to Jira" and there are hundreds of articles with titles like "33 Best Jira Alternatives". It's a massively crowded market.

I thought clubhouse was that audio chat thing, but it seems they don't own an actual domain name for their company.
In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click
And I'd like an airplane, please. Or a spaceship. Talk about "remote."
In that case, please correct me! I would like to know more about your thoughts on the failure modes of centralization vs democratization in the arena of artistic production and resourcing.

I understand if you consider such questions condescending and presumptuous, though.
Is anyone doing a smart guitar with ads already?
I don't know Zig, at all, but I do know Rust and C, and I know what a UAF bug looks like. What does a UAF bug look like in Zig? That a modern memory-safe language could be vulnerable to the C-language UAF pattern is a surprising claim.
I really like how GitLab is shaping up. I hope they start getting a bit more mind share from GitHub, but I think they really shot themselves in the foot with that recent pricing change. [1]

Having to pay the same amount per license, for folks that just want to create/edit or even just view issues, as a full blown developer is simply not tractable. There's a lot of value in the platform and all else equal I'd probably pick GitLab if I had to choose between GitLab, GitHub, BitBucket, JetBrains Space, or Shudder Azure DevOps.

But the price. Damn, it's just impossible to make that argument to yourself, never mind your CTO.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25918717
> A language that makes code reviews easier

So much this. And also keep in mind the way that we typically do code reviews, we typically are looking at github diffs. So if you are in a situation where changing code is ill-composable, for example, if something looks safe in place A and something looks safe in place B but when you put them together it's not unsafe... Then you could be in deep trouble with the async way that we do reviews.
Yeah, we (Azure AD) got a couple of "login is broken" escalations when Chrome made this change. A couple vendors use it to validate a request is coming from the upstream IDP, to block drive by attacks I assume.
While I agree that an individual should look at it as a lottery ticket, as a society we should be careful about macro trends towards new lotteries.

Many big tech companies arise from disintermediation plays--finding some market that has high overhead and figuring out a way to transact it more cheaply. This is great: it lowers barriers to entry and liberates a new surplus, but it's not clear who then captures this new surplus, the market participants or the marketplace?

I would posit that the lottery system is a mechanism to enable the excess surplus to be siphoned away from the market participants towards the marketplace. Humans are _terrible_ at estimating the expected value of low-probability high-impact events, and dangling a few rags-to-riches stories lets your participants imagine they're going to make it. In reality, it bifurcates the market and drops the median outcome (presumably, this surplus is captured by the transaction fees of the marketplace).

As an example where this could play out, I might look at restaurants--if delivery apps and shadow kitchens lower the clearing costs for me to find a dinner, does that then mean the "best" restaurant in town can now scale up, to the detriment of the second or third best? (On the other hand, the physical limitations make this story a harder sell than purely digital goods.)
Okay so you don't want to spend time learning new stuff but at the same time you don't want to be left behind.

You want a stagnant field. Sorry if I come across as too blunt, but you chose the wrong line of work if you don't like change. You'll still be able to work with the same old, boring but proven tech for the rest of your life, but face the fact that you'll be more inconvenienced by the reality you live in as time passes.
What are you trying to argue here? All pins on the connector are rotationally symmetric. They may not be useless, because they still increase overall bandwidth, but they are indeed doubled. A non-reversible connector would not use this design and there would be fewer pins as a result (as much as half).

Also: USB-B micro connectors might have 5 pins, but the cable itself has 4 wires. The OTG pin is grounded in the connector. This is actually why I said "4(ish)" in my original post.
> Sometimes we might also just choose the bear the cost. For systems with low risk profiles (eg internal software that is never exposed to hostile input) we might decide that debugging the occasional use-after-free is preferable to adding development friction.

Zig vs Rust vs C aside, this cannot be a serious position for a software developer to take in 2021 CE.
Monochrome adapters (Hercules) indeed had a DB-9, but it was a different gender than serial (COM) ports. Monitor output had a female DB-9 and COM ports had a male DB-9.
JavaScript – filter array of objects with multiple conditions
It is also that and there was quite the rumble on Twitter a while back where the CEO of Clubhouse the issue tracker was getting hatred targeted at the CEO of Clubhouse the audio chat thing.
IMHO any plant debris that gets buried in the soil is - in the long term - also composted, only its breakdown is slower.
> Both these questions are related in the sense it reflects how large the audience needs to be to a viable business.

But as long as the unit economics are positive, why does the audience size matter? AFAIK, Substack's OPEX looks a lot more like traditional software/SaaS businesses and a lot less like Uber's or Amazon's.

You're right that Substack's functionality can be commoditized, but loads of successful dividends-paying businesses operate in commoditized spaces.
You may well be correct, technically (I'll admit, I've not got a clue) but it seems that late May was essentially when an agreement in all but the finalised signing was made, with the UK government investing £65M in the Oxford/AZ vaccine effort.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-05-18-funding-and-manufacturi...
Legitimate question: how do they measure how much methane a cow produces?
Throwable Online JSON API
> but the whole concept of “progressive” web apps is to be resilient to these variations

Your confusion comes from your personal definition of "Progressive Web App"

For sure the confusion starts from their name, but in short «A progressive web application (PWA) is a type of application software delivered through the web, built using common web technologies including HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It is intended to work on any platform that uses a standards-compliant browser, including both desktop and mobile devices.»

Emphasis on any platform that uses a standards-compliant browser, in this case Safari is not standard compliant.

A Progressive Web App (or PWA in short) is not the same thing of "progressive enhancement" or "graceful degradation" for regular Web Application.

Those are just some of the features, but it doesn't stops there.

Some of the fundamental charateritics of a PWA include being

- App-like — Feels like an app to the user with app-style interactions and navigation

- Re-engageable — Ability to use push notifications to maintain engagement with the user

As you can see being able to notify the user is a key feature of a PWA.

Which is not possible if some vendor refuses to implement the standard features that narrow the gap between Web and Native, like Apple is deliberately doing with Safari.

It's not too hard to make them work without those features, that's not the point, the point is it's impossible to have the same feature set on every platform because one vendor in particular doesn't want you to, they want you to develop native applications which is vastly more costly and it feels like wasting effort and money on something that should have worked with almost the same capabilities on all the major platforms with little or no modifications. It's true everywhere, except on Apple mobile devices, where you can't even chose the web rendering engine.
Repetition is powerful, repetition is memorable, repetition is persuasive
* https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2016/05/look-militarys...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SilentHawk
This is getting off topic. Stating facts about the world is not discriminating. As an employer, I can choose not to hire stupid people.
This matches my anecdotal experience. Last week my parents, who live outside a big US city, got a letter out of the blue from a buyer’s agent asking if they’d want to sell their home. They don’t; it wasn’t and isn’t listed for sale. They’ve lived in the home for decades, and never before received this type of solicitation. I see it as a marker of a tapped-out housing market.
Hey,
We made this tool for front end developers who want a quick and easy way to create an API that will be as close as possible to something in production.

We've seen people using it for tutorials, teaching and more ! Curious to see if this would be useful for you.
Which incentives are you referring to here? As far as I can tell, all of the small Youtube creators are there because they enthusiastically want to make videos; I've never seen anyone say they wanted to do something else but Youtube tricked them into thinking they could get rich and famous.
Nice of you to leave off the only remaining sentence in that paragraph:

> (Some of these features are work in progress)

But seriously, there's nothing inconsistent here. All the major headings on that page are about distro-agnostic app distribution, build environments, and portability. The fact that flatpak has mechanisms for sandboxing that go largely unused on flathub doesn't mean that flatpak misrepresented itself as secure.

In an alternative universe, on a private flatpak repository, flatpak (as a technology) facilitates secure sandboxed desktop applications. It just didn't turn out that way in our universe, or at least, not yet.
How has Covid-19 transformed affluent travel in the South of France and beyond?
Indeed, and if we use the Snowden revelations as a guide it would not be surprising if they have used or will use this against its own citizens.
Bummer. The actual linear application is ridiculously fast.
The Yosys FPGA stack building RISC-V cores natively in a RISC-V computer
Yes and yes. GP's point is that the distro's package manager is already an ultra reliable way to get non-sandboxed software.
She only cooled off when Pedro sent a complaint to NVIDIA. Apparently the threat of cancelling works.

A quote from PD:

> I have reached out to @NeurIPSConf, @Caltech and @NVIDIA about curtailing @AnimaAnandkumar's disgraceful behavior. Let's see how they respond.
Why isn't the what's new section in Gitlab updated for 13.10? It still says "13.9 (Your Version)".

EDIT: That is, the one under the help tab in a Gitlab instance on the top right.
Being an SRE is a little more of this and a little less scheduled work. You still have standup and plenty of other meetings, though
Incredible that this guy is building is own electrodes and sending electricity to his body, but what you are noticing is that he might, potentially, get a head injury because he was standing!

I'm sure some injuries were to be counted on in this case.
That's obviously not true, in every country I lived in there was this thing called "inheritance" which a lot of times means parents who happen to have done the grinding and leave the house to their kids.

Its instant double salary in real terms most of the times.

It's very different from being wealthy, it doesn't come with the "elite" stuff but its more like "premium economy" that creates adults of same productivity class with drastically different consumption style and degree freedom.
Makes sense when a large chunk of the country is unemployed and you can get a real estate license online relatively painlessly. Filter down to agents who actually have a client and/or have bought or sold a single home and the number will be very different.
Where we live the market is especially tight. We ended up selling our home by saying we would not sell if you have a realtor and this is the price you will pay and you will not have an appraisal contingency. The very first people to come and look at it bought it. The market is very much a seller's market right now.

We also purchased a new home without having a realtor involved. These days, the Internet makes things so easy that there isn't a need for a realtor like there used to be.
Yeah, but the "true" Porsche, if you will.
probably missing /s tag
it's about context.

Suppose you just document "please take this into account" because it's a low-level FFI library, that's being called by a high-level PL, which will make sure that your memory management is sane.

An analogy: "non-threadsafe" code; typically you just tag 'non-threadsafe' and if someone misuses it, it's on them.
You don't have leverage. You know they couldn't get software as good as yours in a short time, but they don't know that.

Companies always drastically underestimate the cost and duration of software projects. They'll see your 2 years of nights/weeks and turn it into 3 months in their minds.
The next step is not knowing where your visitors are coming from and having to only buy google ads rather then creating affiliate relationships. It is too bad FireFox is playing into this, it is not helping anyone's privacy. It only lines Google's pockets.
Once upon a time someone here was explaining how to set bash to use the first history file in the ancestor folder of the current working directory. I do not remember how, but it sound similar to what you are asking.
> I don't think I understand what is meant by "type confusion".

Accessing a memory location with one type as if it's another. In C or C++ it's usually because you accessed a union without checking a tag somewhere else.

One classic way this happens is in an interpreter where you have a big enum for all the different possible data types:

https://github.com/MaterializeInc/materialize/blob/1b9b3cfab...

And then in various builtin functions you expect particular types:

https://github.com/MaterializeInc/materialize/blob/main/src/...

In rust and zig this code will produce a runtime error if you screw up, but in c it's easy to forget to check the tag and then you get UB. Similarly unwrap is checked in rust and zig but the equivalent in c - dereferencing a pointer that you are pretty sure is not null - is not.

Of course rust and zig both have support for c-style unions too, but they're not the first thing people reach for.
https://storybook.js.org

It spromotes atomic design system
> Style points for bravery

It's only bravery if you know the risks. :)
That is the hard truth that we are reluctant to accept.

Countries in the global north consume way too much energy, and countries in the global south consume way too little. This what Jason Hickel suggests in his book Less is More [0].

[0] https://www.jasonhickel.org/less-is-more
What is up with everyone posting techrights all of a sudden?

It's a conspiracy blog, and most websites actually paying attention to FOSS news have ignored them for years.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4541p6/can_we_not_po...

Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat. TechRights claimed that there were massive layoffs last year, which is total BS. They literally just make stuff up. The other day they claimed that "Fedora is being outsourced to Microsoft and to AWS" on the basis that some Fedora repos are on Github, and some build infrastructure uses AWS. And mind you the claim was not "Fedora project infrastructure is being outsourced" but actually "Fedora is being outsourced". And that has been the general way they approach "reporting" for years, as you can see from the /r/linux thread.

Then when I and others pointed out how ridiculous this line of reasoning was, and the post got flagged by admins, they made an entire new post claiming they were being censored by HN.
It definitely won't by default, after the lease most Connected Drive features are disabled pending reactivation by the next owner

I still feel like something is missing though.

The truth is BMW stretches their service interval insanely long because they're giving "free" maintenance with leases

So if you drive any significant amount of time longer after the interval, there's a real chance of damaging the engine

But the liability issues of disabling a car remotely outside of asset recovery seem like something BMW would not want to mess with

Maybe it was an initial service? Some engines require an initial service immediately after break-in or suffer catastrophic damage, I could maybe see an exception in that case

Edit: I did find someone saying if you go 5k over the service limit, the car will not start immediately, flashing Service Required, but still allow starting normally from there

No one should be going 5k over a 15k interval when maintenance is free
> Anti-discrimination laws, human rights, and democracy are also historical aberrations. But I think they're kind of worth keeping around.

Nazism was also a historical aberration, but that's certainly not worth keeping around. Just because some "good" things were historical aberrations, doesn't mean that all historical aberrations are "good".

> Perhaps getting accurate facts about the world is also important?

I don't think anybody disagrees with this. The central question is: is journalism the institution that should be responsible for getting accurate facts about the world? That's almost never been the case, and even today, isn't the case in most countries (including Western Europe). We typically use other institutions to suss out facts, including academia and peer-reviewed research. News articles published by mainstream outlets aren't peer-reviewed, and bias has existed in journalism since time immemorial. That was the point of my original response. Substack isn't "good" or "bad" for the future of journalism, it's "neutral", since it doesn't change the status quo all that much.
> A standard USB 3.1 type A connector has 9 pins. The reversible type C has 3 extra pins (SBU, CC, VBUS)

Not precisely. The type C connector has four distinct USBSS pairs; the type A connector only has two. This allows the type C connector to be used to carry DisplayPort or other high-speed data alongside USB.
This has been relatively common for me in Southern California during the 8 years I’ve owned a home.
I live in an upcoming area in Columbus, Ohio and get calls for cash offers of my home every week for a year now. It is infuriating.
This is true, but honestly I have almost never seen an IoT device getting updated for security reasons - instead they seem to update things OTA to just add more crap to it.

In any case, a CA lasts ~20-30 years. Hopefully the IoT device will be dead by then
> I don't want to believe that Firefox is the only browser that cares about user privacy.

I don't either, but I don't believe HN users praising Chrome is going to help with that situation...
Would have to disagree here. Just raising the bar higher for publishing at all doesn't increase quality of libraries available. Consider how open source in general really became much more the norm after Github made it trivially easy to publish and collaborate on code.
For Finland 3 months is bit special, mine is 1 month and previous job was 2 weeks(up to 5 years). From employer side legal minimums are: under 1 year 2 weeks, under 5 years 1 month, under 8 years 2 months, under 8 years 4 months and over 12 years 6 months.

Penalty from employee side seems to be monthly wage, so in this case 3 month salary. Ofc, seeing how company is probably doing I wouldn't be too worried of them coming after him...
Extortion? Wow, you have no idea what you're talking about. Good luck with that attitude.
> the plurality of way to install application, plus manage their own dependencies, was a nightmare.

https://xkcd.com/927/
Cryptographic watermarking and validation will become increasingly necessary for all AV capture and distribution in the years to come. Want to be the next multi-billionaire? Solve this problem at scale.
I tried to repair some electronics on a modern car and it was impossible for me to buy a new SIM card holder of the same sort. The dealer would happily take £3k off me for a new unit.
I’ve now got a salvaged waiting to go in
Indeed. HF causes life-long disfigurement and can be fatal. IV calcium gluconate is the antidote in question, often prescribed until ECG changes become limiting. It is a small ion and literally eats your bones. I'm amazed you can buy it in a product from Amazon in the US.

That warning aside, this article is amazing --- very insightful. I've no idea how to begin reversing an unknown architecture's firmware. I'm still not entirely sure I know the point of this, but it's definitely fun...
We use the certs automatically issued by GCP, which are also letsencrypt issued.
The expected rate of return for movie tickets is lower than lotteries.

Yes, lotteries are bad investments. But also yes, many many people play lotteries as entertainment not retirement plan. The people who are addicted, gamblers, or spend more on (any type of) entertainment or luxury good than they can afford have problem. Some psychological, some educational. But those are the problems, not lotteries. If lotteries went away, those people would still have those problems and just manifest them elsewhere.