skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even though the overall space is small, during the workday the logistics really boil down to us just sharing a table. If you're able to work at a desk with someone directly across from you it's not that much different. We've both a got a trait where once the headphones go on we're pretty well zoned in. You're right though, sharing a table is probably not viable for folks who need a private office to focus!
Agreed. I've fully changed over to DDG on my phone and rarely add the !g to get a google search.
This!

Mechner pioneered doing that from VHS when doing his game Prince of Persia.

Something like Bad Apple would be a heavy lift.
i guess. for the person paying the tax it makes little difference though.

I think the predictably and up-front nature of the fee is better.
I read both, as much as I can.

I'm currently reading fiction and essays written by Mia Couto (portuguese is my mother tongue). It's been a long time I don't read a book which thrills me right at the first page. Highly recommended.

English translations may be also very good, although you may loose a bit of the delighment of his beautiful use of the language.

I read a book about the formation of Brazilian peoples and I'm about to begin one on the history of the United States. When it comes to non-fiction, I've recently started the habit of taking notes. Now I go through the book fairly slower, but the experience gets more pleasurable and constructive overall.

I've already read a lot of books on Kindle but since some years ago I've focused on traditional, paper books. It's been a great way of getting offline and the smell of a new book is priceless. It's like the smell of coffee to me, it immediately makes me feel that I have a good couple of hours ahead.
Strange pattern found inside world’s largest atom smasher
Won’t debate the other critiques, but one thing I would say for any HTML to PDF solution, is that you need to properly encode or sanitize any dynamic content. As an additional layer of protection, dig into the options for the tool in order to limit the features supported. My recommendation would be to restrict local file support to a pre-determined directory and to disable JavaScript (if possible).
>However, that sort of search used to (most times) lead to a visit to the airline web site.

I don't think that's correct. In the old days you'd either call a travel agent or use an aggregator like expedia.

Google muscles out intermediaries like Expedia, Yelp, and so on. It's not likely much better or worse for the end user or supplier. Just swapping one middleman for another.
Nice website but it looks like a collection of articles

Is there a list anywhere listing clothing manufactures with a good track record?

Everyone's got brands they like, but if 1 brand is better than another in the same category (say Express vs Gap) might sway my shopping choices...
The definition of what "human rights" isis being played by all sides in the grand disinformation game.
> How one treats intelligence activity or law enforcement activity driven under democratic oversight within a lawfully elected representative government is very different from that of an authoritarian regime.

The Snowden files tend to show there's not a lot of oversight.
Not sure if you are sarcastic or not. But if you look at how you develop windows app (vb, winforms, wpf, uwp and now maui) or Mac/iOS (from mvc, mvvm, and now mvu) and not forgetting Delphi. I find it far from stagnant.

With React you just switch your complexity. I don't feel more productive with my functional components than with my class component. I even more scared to introduce a memory leak with my useEffect than I was before.

But I do feel more productive with svelte or Blazor. That make me realize that OO vs FP is the the real vector. Reactive programming with good design is.
Like the SOLID post I feel like I somewhat agree with the sentiment but disagree with a lot of the specific points. This seems like a pretty opinionated prescriptive.

For example, in my mind microservices is just SOA with no lower bound on service size ...and no upper bound for that matter. IE we're not wasting time arguing services need to be split or merged just because of their "size." (units aren't even specified) OP seems to think we should be worrying about what frameworks are used...

This post seems to really beat the programmer with "just try harder with tests and you'll get it!", or "your app cannot crash". Oh sure. No crashes. Why didn't I think of that? Then it pines for magical tools that don't exist.

I really don't understand what learning there is to get out of this article. It doesn't even touch on the biggest problems of "how do you separate services into logical units with minimal cross talk" and "When you do have cross service communication, how can you deal with that distributed computation."

"Just write tests" isn't helpful.
The Darkhad, the soul guards of Genghis Khan
Are there any actual repercussions for just ignoring robots.txt?
I like factorio because I don't have to have 17 meetings to get alignment on changing 3 lines of code. "I objectively need more electricity, so I will refactor the nuclear reactor" is the only agreement needed
Not really. It serves the same function. Either you pay this hypothetical company or ??? pays to keep up the public one.
Going to implement an "import from json" feature soon... that would let you do this
Money has a huge affect, up to the point that your needs are met. Yes, if your needs are met, and you have time to pursue things you enjoy, you do that, but first, your needs must be met.

If I didn't require an income to cover a family of five, I would be retired, and doing whatever it is that I love at any moment. But instead, I work for a living, for money, to meet our needs.
Sorting by reversed string is not totally uncommon.
So let me get this straight. I make a theme. In order to actually use that theme I must sign up with azure DevOps create my own organization then get a personal access token then publish it to an open marketplace with my information on it then and only then can I get it into my IDE.

Does anyone else see that as ridiculous?
> It's fascinating how he was writing around 100 years ago, and how around 25% is super old-timey cultural references or things that no one would think today, but how much of it is still pretty relevant.

Perspectives from the past are super interesting. In "Teton Tales" by Paul Petzoldt, he describes chopping down a tree and tying it with rope to a car to use it as a brake going downhill, back in the early days of cars where brakes weren't so good. Crazy stuff! I need to finish that book someday.
I am sure "legal" might want it but is it not better for society in general if they where discoverable.

A bit like when investigating police/government misconduct and a lot of files turn out to have been destroyed - but of course our data gets kept forever
"Currently reading nonfiction: Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog."

Which edition? And why read it?
This is art. I mean that as a compliment.

It's beautifully executed and, as a finished consumer product, completely useless. Hell of a thing to have in your portfolio when you're looking for jobs, though!
That has major issues with immigrants, who wont apply in a fire quickly scenario.
> Objects map neatly to records

FP data items (also, often called “objects”, but with different meaning) do so at least as well as OOP objects. Better in many ways.

> which pushes global state persistence and all the hairiness of locks to a good RDMS like Postgres.

OOP obscures whether an entity is an immutable data item extracted from an RDBMS or a mutable local thing or a mutable thing which mutating also effects an external resource like a database, but there is nothing about FP which prevents, compared to OOP, pushing “global state persistence and all the hairiness of locks to a good RDMS like Postgres.” In fact, the opposite; there's a reason no one talks about a Functional-Relational Impedance Mismatch.

> It's naturally normalized

No, OOP is not “naturally normalized”.
Congrats, you made me switch (back) to FF!
Sadly this one messes up rendering of many more complex pages.
Pages like nyan.cat are good way to test such tool and sadly the output is nothing like the website would render in a modern browser.
I can't prove it was that way, but I spent a lot of time in the space. For a long time, the airline's site used to be the top organic result, and there was no widget. Similar for other travel related searches (not just airlines) over time. Google has been pushing down organic results in favor of ads and widgets for a long time...and slowly, one little thing at a time. Like no widgets -> small widget below first organic result -> move the widget up -> make it bigger -> etc.
I don't think you're quite clear on what the words "public" and "private" mean. "Public" is not a synonym for "run by the government" and "private" is not a synonym for "closed to everyone but the owner". Restaurants, for example, are generally open to the public, but they are not public. A restaurant owner is, with a few exceptions, free to refuse service to anyone at any time.

If it's "exactly the same as a public cache" then it's public, even if it is managed by a private company. The difference is not in who has access, the difference is in who decides who has access.
It doesn't say "US government", it says "the hackers in question were working for a US ally", which makes it even more complex.

It was likely if it was counterterrorism this is about a Middle-Eastern ally, such Israel or Saudi Arabia?

Neither of these are always US allies, only sometimes.
No. I used to, but then I completely stopped for years. When I tried to read fiction again, I rarely found much pleasure in it. I just did not cared about finishing to read it in majority of cases. Once in a while I run into a fiction book I like based on news review or something like that. So I am randomly trying them once in few months.

I have periods when I binge read some history topic through. Modern history can engage me much more then fiction. But my interest in it is not regular.
> which happens at least a couple times a week,

Citation needed. Last time I looked the pricing of octopus agile went negative for like 15 minutes a year...

EDIT: just crunched the data... It looks like this only happened frequently in 2020 (not in 2018/19/21), and even then, for a typical 1 kilowatt household, it would only save £2 per year, and even if you deliberately maxed out and used the maximum current limit of your AC supply (100 amps, 24 kW, for most households), it's still only a saving of £50, which doesn't pay for the effort really...
Traffic analysis and monitoring will detect detect signs of intrusion almost in real time but also exfiltration. The network never lies.
The good and the bad with Chrome web browser's new security defaults
From the wiki article:

“Juno initially had an equity structure that planned to give drivers fifty percent of the founder's equity by 2026, but this program was discontinued in 2017 when Juno was acquired by Gett.”

So I doubt much equity was in the hands of drivers at the time of the sale. Certainly doesn’t sound like it was first and foremost a co-op model.
Yes a lesson has been learned, not particularly hard to mitigate though. I'm sure sales of generators, battery storage, and software/hardware capable of disconnecting from the grid when prices are insane are brisk in Texas.
> "Creation, creation, creation" said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

Microsoft knows its mantras well.
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Aren't there anti trust laws to prevent this kind of thing?
Mostly non-fiction, about an audiobook a week for years now. Love memoirs, biographies and anything else that's stood the test of time.

Every couple months I try to read a fiction book but never seem to be able to finish. If any other non-fiction snobs have advice on how to broaden my horizons, I'm all ears. As a kid I'd devour encyclopedias so starting to think I'm just wired this way.
This is not at all my experience (except CFO which has responsibilities not only on paper but in real life, where blame can’t be transferred) but I’m willing to chalk it up to culture differences.

Basically the more you see yourself as a “manager that facilitate work” the easier it is to go higher and the less expertise you need (social expertise exempted). Need something done? Hire someone to do it!

Is there a specialist under you that isn’t replaceable? Better keep him in his position!

I really wish we had what you seem to have though.
You can API google search results to make a meta-search engine if you want to but it's like $5 / 1k requests.
> Amazon argued yesterday before the Texas Supreme Court that it should not be held liable for defective products sold through its site.

Is this east Texas, where patent trolls can buy judges? :)

> The toddler’s mother purchased the knockoff Apple TV remote from a third-party seller called “USA Shopping.” After the battery burned her daughter, she sought to find out who was behind the Amazon storefront, discovering that it was run by one “Hu Xi Jie” out of Shenzhen, China. Neither the mother nor Amazon has been able to locate or contact Hu Xi Jie.

Amazon 150% liable. They know they have this problem and have had it for years, yet they continue to allow foreign operators to pose as local, and to misrepresent their origin and the authenticity of products.
I love this story and the owner is exemplifying the moral behavior I'd want to if I were in that place... However,

> Never saw the guy again.

It doesn't scale. If you have the knack to build a company like that, eventually you won't be able to touch the front lines of what your company is doing. Hopefully, having that type of leadership at the top creates emulation all the way down, but still, it rings of "die a hero or live long enough to become the villain"
"Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If it's jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels. [Reply to the government bureaucrat of one Asian country who told him that, reason why there were workers with shovels instead of modern tractors and earth movers at a worksite of a new canal, was that: "You don't understand. This is a jobs program."]" -- Milton Friedman (probably apocryphal)
This. You can see in the design of the f-35 the massive space in the middle of the body for the lift fan that partially obstructs the pilots view behind them.
Having had some absolutely horrible managers in tech the worst usually are the ones with lower technical expertise. The reason being is mainly related to understanding scope of work and the complexities of said projects.

That being said I also have had other really bad managers who were star IC's that were promoted to mgmt as they really had no where else to go in their career. These managers usually are clueless on dealing with people and other teams.
The way to resolve this particular tragedy of the commons, like most other such cases, is to privatize the commons: make people pay for the disk space they use. If you want a nice big balloon.txt file to reserve space for the future, fine, but you're paying for the space you reserved. How you use it is up to you. In return, the administrators get both the money and incentive they need to buy more storage capacity, ensuring that running out of available space will be less of a concern.
Cold War 2.0 multicultural rap music piped in public places is sick, awful.
I believe C++ has "Runtime Type Information" (RTTI) that allows you to do this. Although I also hear that it's not great.
Pay no taxes, take no responsibility, move all jobs to China. Pollute the planet with ships and planes bringing the junk to the rest of the world.

The kind of company progressives love.
> In OO, the object exposes what services it offers.

In modular, especially statically typed, functional programming, modules identify what services they offer, and what data items those services consume, and the concerns of specification of data types and provision of services are decoupled.
My guess is so that they arent over harvested causing the leaves to die eliminating the shade quality?
Mouse dragging is perfectly fine. Drag to the left to see what’s on the left. It’s things like street view that are counterintuitive.
For reselling original products - I'd say manufacturer is more liable.

For peddling fakes and knockoffs - amazon first, then reseller and manufacturer of crap should be liable.

Everyone knows that amazon is peddling fakes, cultivating fake reviews and ratings and takes zero-to-negative effort to remedy any of that.

Amazon gets the full legal bill and they can settle it with their respective source entities and "partners"
That's interesting. Is anyone working on this already? SV startup? And: don't you think Google is in the best position to build such a thing?
I started on an emacs inspired editor Epsilon in the late 80s. It allowed for multitasking and I could do compiles in one window whilst editing in the other. It was a total game changer for DOS development. I had forgotten about it, but they're still going strong! When I switched to Unix I switched to emacs. I'm on Visual Studio Code now and load up the "emacs" plugins. Over the years I've seen so many emacs features get reimplemented elsewhere, my favorite being file/variable/name/etc. auto expansion/suggestion.
The issue I'd take with "take a relevant MOOC course" is, what if actual work picks up and you need to drop the course to meet some deadlines? You've failed to meet your "goals" by focusing on the company's "goals", and that red mark may stand in the way of you getting that raise/promotion. The incentives are misaligned.

As I've said, I totally get OPs frustration. We were hired to achieve a "goal". Why are we inventing other "goals" that are often misaligned?
Is seems to me the top five software companies are on a never-ending quest to buy up every other promising software company. GitHub, Twitch, Mojang, Instagram, WhatsApp... I'd love to see a few smaller software companies refuse to get bought up and instead cultivate an independent mindset. Otherwise, we end up with a world completely dominated by Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook.
In the Thai system the distances between the stakes are measured and recorded on the registry document.
With that metric the length of your comment should be zero as well. Probably mine also :)
Who was the ally? UK or Israel?
Perhaps the dev culture I am in is skewing my perspective. There have been developers that have changed private methods to public just so that they can access them. You make a good point, it's a code review problem and by extension Architecture teams not communicating effectively with Dev Leads.
Only if Google stays around long term. I wouldn't be surprised if each free product on its graveyard took down a dozen of competing products before it was killed of.
Perhaps there could be some kind of 'Crawler consortium'?

Under this consortium, website owners would be allowed to either allow all crawlers (approved by the consortium) or none at all (that is, none that is in the consortium, i.e. you could allow a specific researcher or something to crawl your website on a case-by-case basis).

This consortium would be composed of the search engines (Google, MS, other industry members), as well as government appointed individuals and relevant NGOs (electronic frontier foundation, etc?). There would be an approval process that simply requires your crawl to be ethical and respect bandwidth usage. Violations of ethics or bandwidth limits could imply temporary or permanent suspension. The consortium could have some bargain or regulatory measures to prevent website owners from ignoring those competitive and fairness provisions.
For information your property tax (council tax) for the most expensive house in Central London can be less than an average 4 bed house in a mid ranked US state.
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>>The USG is somewhat nicer inside of its borders if you're not poor or exposed to crime, but is directly or closely responsible for over ten million deaths abroad, and nothing China has done in living memory abroad comes close to that amount of death,

LOL. You obviously have never heard of the Cultural Revolution:

"Mao launched more than a dozen campaigns during his rule, which began when he founded Communist China in 1949 and ended with his death in 1976. Some are well known while others, such as a bloody campaign to "purify class ranks" in the late 1960s, which involved army units, have received little publicity.

While most scholars are reluctant to estimate a total number of "unnatural deaths" in China under Mao, evidence shows he was in some way responsible for at least 40 million deaths and perhaps 80 million or more. This includes deaths he was directly responsible for and deaths resulting from disastrous policies he refused to change."
Sometimes a lot, 10 or more?

Other days, zero. I talk to people and use an Android phone for everything. A note 8 can do a crazy amount of support, pre sales, and other soft type skill work tasks. Can input on a good touch keyboard, augmented with voice almost as fast as I can type. Who knew? I just kept at it. Wanted to maximize touch like I have every other input method. Turns out voice is powerful when used in tandem.

When I am doing service, hardware, new product test, dev, a few hours of computer time tops. Sometimes zero. This time ranges from light duty Powerpoint to coding.

On desktop / laptop for design, I use keyboard, mouse, sometimes spatial controller.

Most times I use keyboard and trackpads on laptop.

On phone, it is touch + voice, and on occasion bluetooth keyboard + track pad.

On many off days, I am on a computer for a few hours, but mostly am doing stuff outside, with the young one, etc...
True. However, reading between the lines, the exfiltration "project" was targeted (i.e. one-off), skilled and long. I would put the cost anywhere between 1 megabuck and 10 megabucks. Given risks and dubious monetization, I would assume the "sponsor" demands at least a 10x ROI.

Is medical data really that valuable?
They're expensive though, and basically unaffordable to retrofit an existing home, which would typically be already using a gas boiler.
Well according to the thesis put forward here you aren’t a developer they’d want to employ .

As a job seeker you need to identify these companies fast so you can avoid wasting your time on them.
I'm a big fan too, it's my daily go-to and a great "glue" language for all sorts of tasks webapps, APIs, batch jobs etc, all admittedly web-related as that's my job too.
I recently moved over lots of Adobe CF code into Lucee and really enjoy the more modern language elements not to mention the lack of expensive licenses.
...speechless. Like one of the posters said this is art. The technical acumen is amazing, but the production value for this video is incredible! So well done.
I swear something like 50% of those digests are totally incorrect as well. It's amazing they have kept the feature because it has never had a very high signal-to-noise ratio. I never trust what's presented in these digests without double-checking the source page.
You're absolutely right, it was far more common last summer when I was switching, looks like this year the negative prices are very very rare:

https://www.energy-stats.uk/octopus-agile-north-eastern-engl...
Ok I am not clear then, but I’m less clear after your comment! In a public cache, who would you want to decide who has access? Is simply saying “anyone who pays has access” enough to qualify as public? if so, then I agree and this was my (possibly poorly phrased) intention in the original comment.

But imo the restaurant model is also fine; in most cases people have access and it works.
That's all very nice, but it isn't wit.
Yet. Nobody has been jailed for too much sugar yet.