skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been told aggressively by members that I am no allowed move my monitor or computer without scheduling it through the union

Requiring permission to move the computer doesn't seem nonsensical. Computer placements may have been coordinated with IT for maintenance and access reasons of the employee using the computer and all employees that may need to service the device or access the area in which the computer is located. For example, in a quad-style arrangement (common in many open-office arrangements with cubicles), the PCs are usually located in the center of the quad to minimize cabling so that maintenance can vacuum under the desks without accidentally snagging power/data cables.

One guy even said that we were not allowed to plug in cell phone chargers in without approval.

At my last job, people used to plug in a bunch of crap into the electrical outlets all the time. The building, which was an older building converted into an open-space office, did not have the electrical wiring to support everything that was plugged in, and consequently many fuses were blown. One cell phone charger might not seem like a lot, but it might be the one straw to many for that particular part of the building's electrical grid.

I also look at teacher unions as holding back vital innovations such as longer school days and shorter breaks, which disproportionately hurt the most vulnerable in society.

Teachers unions are fine with longer school days and shorter breaks. As long as they get paid for them. K12 teachers (in CA) start their workdays at 7a, so the "standard" 8 hour day for them ends at 3pm (4pm if including an hour break for lunch, which is common for hourly workers but not salaried workers). Requiring them to work until 5pm, i.e., when parents get out, would effectively be adding 10 hours a week of overtime to their schedule.
I like Themer. I think Themer is awesome for creating less-detailed but still great 'umbrella' themes that you can bring with you to lots of different programs. This is for creating more detailed / robust VS Code-specific themes.
Would you recommend switching to Rust from C++ when working with Intrinsics (like SSE, AVX)?

There is support but there is not too much information about it. Anyone had good/bad experience?
What if strong programmers tell you how they become strong? [Article inside]
I asked 11 strong developers from Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, JetBrains, Avito, ok.ru, drom.ru, and Farpost about how to become a strong programmer, and distilled all the nuggets in the article below
I know about litestream, it's not the kind of "setup and forget" I have in mind. But it's nice that it exists.
https://dmitryshvetsov.com/tools-of-strong-programmers
> We have to make some sacrifices, and I would say many of the young understands it and is not joyfully, but willfully do their part and stay home.

Maybe that's you, and that's your choice. But what about all the young people who do not want to stay home and make sacrifices for the sake of older people? My sympathies are with them.

> perhaps the many who will not have place in hospitals due to the flood of COVID patients

One solution to this is to triage COVID patients away from intensive care, so that those beds remain available to the bulk of the population. This is the approach that Sweden chose, for example. So, no, I don’t see this as a reason to place limits on the lives of young people.
The good old Vector<T, N> from C++.

For all the pain points C++ has, template metaprogramming was always so satisfying when you got it to work. Satisfying in "I feel really clever for solving this so generally and with no runtime overhead" way, but also being completely aware that another person reading the code and having to maintain it migh order a hit on me over darkweb.
Big citation needed on the 'movement across Academia'. Most Academics I've ever worked with, and folks who are serious about their work invite critical thought.

I do see some folks dress up intolerance in the trappings of criticism and then feign injury when the academics or others refuse to engage with their 'critiques'.

A concrete example is how many folks will use the expression "gender critical" to dress up intolerance towards trans and non-binary people. There are legitimate discussions to have about gender, and there are legitimate critiques of positions that can be levied against different viewpoints. But that doesn't mean that all criticisms are valid or brought forward in good faith.

Some of those criticisms are bullying and harassment and it's important to understand that criticism is a nuanced topic and we can't just say, "All criticism good" or "all criticism bad" and be done.
We recently built a tool for this trend:
Our tool analyses travel times in cities from different points of interest like super markets, parks, doctors etc.

For now our tool is only available in German but you can take a look at our translated front-page and explore our tool in one german city:

Front page [google translated]:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

Demo [don't use the translated front page for navigation]:
https://15-minuten-stadt.de/cities/Frankfurt%20am%20Main/

If you would like to get in contact, shoot us an e-mail at nils.seipel@flux-impulse.de
All this time I've been launching calculator and I could have just done it in spotlight...

Why don't they tell you that after you've launched calculator for the 20th time in an hour.
People love the idea like they love the idea of getting in shape or learning a new skill. The vast majority who love the idea hate the slightest inconvenience and effort required. You'll get excuses by the bucketload why it just won't work for them.

People say one thing and do the opposite. It's just the way of the world.
Men's handbags exist. I have one which I am happy with.

It is roughly 22×16×10㎝ on the outside and made out of black, tightly woven polyamide fibres (like backpacks) and is water repellent. It has a single broad strap, quite similar to car's safety belt in appearance. It is worn over one shoulder with the bag on the opposite hip. When I ride a bicycle, I adjust the strap to make it shorter and wear the bag on the back or under the armpit.

The bag contains mobile phone, face mask, key-bundle, wallet, hard plastic glasses etui, earphones, pack of disposable cellulose tissues, small notepad (shopping list) and a biro, sometimes detachable bicycle lights.
It was also one of the first times I heard doublespeak from Google and stopped loving them.

Saying “it’s expensive to maintain” and killing it because it competed with, and was better than Google+ without giving them control, was such BS. That so many smart people built and run clones as one man shows proves that Google could have maintained it for next to nothing.

I hope they never kill Google scholar.
Thanks for sharing this. Do you have the timestamp for that particular bit?

Edit: Looks like it's from 6:00 to 6:40
How I Came Up with the Discrete Cosine Transform (The Father of JPEG) [pdf]
Does mainstream cinema production portray anyone as a _normal person_ ? It doesn't stop to academics. Every single profession has its tropes, and it's quite uncommon in my opinion that there's much deviation on it.

Police officers end their phone conversations abruptly, academics are lone genius, managers consider their employees as slaves, chefs dedicate their life to their art...

Cinema has its codes, good or not, so you shouldn't really expect them to not be there I think !
Its an interesting product. For someone using Aurora Postgres though, it leaves lots of unanswered questions about compatibility. This page they link to is basically a landing page with no details: https://fauna.com/postgres.

My read on this is "if you already use postgres don't migrate, but if you want to use us for a new application that is a good fit."
From the home page:

> Dqlite is a fast, embedded, persistent SQL database with Raft consensus that is perfect for fault-tolerant IoT and Edge devices.
Looking at the archtecture page [0] on that same website the second heading is "Embedding".

[0] https://dqlite.io/docs/architecture
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26571968.
Why wouldn't CloudFront be quite as quick, out of interest?
Marketing is hard for me because I've hired a few folks to do targeted ads and it ended up being a big cost sink. Beyond that, I try to blog regularly and use big screenshots for new features, which helps a bit with SEO and discoverability. But getting NB onto lists? I'm not sure what that requires.
Would love to hear feedback on a few ideas in here:

1. "Loose" search that promotes learning and new connections
2. Narrow search that gives you a reasonable number of results (5) instead of 1.70 Billion like google.
3. Paying to remove ads from search.
What makes you think I said it did?
Agreed, going to explore this, thanks!
Not by Emacs, but locally storing backups and autosaves means it only matters when you're actively reading or writing a file via Tramp.
Glad you overcame it all in the end - we're happy users, especially given the outstanding uptime for the past few years.
They are measuring compile time, not runtime speed.
Is there a way to donate to the chiselapp effort?
Replace COVID with climate change, your comment would still be just as true.
Or in some cases the ~40%. Democracies often have rules in place to prevent that "tyranny of the 55%", but those rules can be leveraged to let certain minorities dominate.

For example, democracy is often tilted towards inaction. That sounds like a good thing, until a majority loses its advantage. Then the rules that they put into place become permanent, and can't be changed even by largish majorities.

It's still generally better than the others that have been tried from time to time, but it's far less fair than its high-minded abstractions make it sound.
His wife might disagree: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-forgotte...
True I remember visiting Pittsburgh and staying in this gentrifying neighbourhood across the street. It was an odd mix of upscale bars, luxury cars and run down shops and homeless people everywhere. I had to go into a hospital to have my eye looked at and was shocked at the appearance of those there. I’d never seen such bad teeth in Canada or disheveled people in the waiting room. Of all races I might add.

And it was definitely unsettling, I had a man follow me from the bridge back towards my neighbourhood at night.

But, I also note that Pittsburgh has relatively few such walkable neighbourhoods (though it is much better than the Us average!). If it was more like NYC or Montreal the homeless population would be more diffuse.

I’ve been to NYC a bunch and it always feels much safer. Not only were there fewer homeless per street corner, but there are always large amounts of normal people walking around, so you feel safe with numbers.

(To be clear, other than the one person following me, I felt safe in Pittsburgh. The ones in the neighbourhood I was in were not aggressive. But it was different than Canada or NYC in that they were much of the foot traffic)
A Large-Scale Study on Research Code Quality and Execution
Ask HN: Has anyone else been banned from Facebook for no reason?
I haven't had a personal Facebook account for several years, but recently made one so I could post ads for the business I recently started. The only thing I've done on this account is 1) create a page for my business and 2) attempt to create an ad for my business.

First my account was blocked from advertising; this was resolved by 1) giving Facebook my mobile phone number 2) uploading picture of a photo ID, and 3) filing an appeal. The appeal was granted, and my ad started running.

Then last night I was locked out of my account entirely; I'm getting a message that I did something which violated Facebook's community standards (which is odd, given I haven't done practically anything at all with this account).

Facebook asked me to upload a photo showing my face and said they would review my appeal. Now the only screen I can see when I attempt to access my Facebook account says "We Received Your Information. If we still find that your account didn't follow our Community Standards, it will remain disabled. We're always looking out for the security of people on Facebook, so until then you can't use your account."

Has this happened to anyone else before? Anyone have any tips for what I can do here, other than just wait? Honestly baffling considering I haven't done anything that I'd imagine an automated system misconstruing as violating any community standards.
Ah, right, I should have looked deeper!
That is deliciously vile.
> So many of these nonprofit software orgs seem to be run like small town churches. Board members are selected through some combination of ideological purity, zeal, and nepotism rather than any sensible measure of competence or efficacy.

This is somewhat less surprising when you realize that that's pretty much the way virtually every human organization, and especially political/advocacy/ideologically-centered ones (not just “small town churches” but also global churches, national political parties, small-and-large issue- and service-oriented no profits, etc., and even very many businesses, governments of all scales, etc.)

On the specific issue of ideological purity, there are also very good efficacy-related reasons why both purity with regard to the ideology of an organization with an ideological purpose and overt consistency outside of that with the ideology of the target population is an important selection factor for people in prominent public roles with organizations focussed around ideological advocacy.
I'm not entirely sure how the Newsblur youtube feeds work, but here's an older blog post on switching to API v2,

https://blog.newsblur.com/post/117767869761/a-real-solution-...

I have about 20 youtube channels in Newsblur and watch them almost always within Newsblur itself, so it works well enough.

For regex filtering, Newsblur has training features. You can curate a feed based off specific attributes, like author, topic, keywords, etc.
Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN, and especially please don't take threads further into nationalistic and ideological flamewar.

Comments like this point discussion in extremely predictable, tedious, and nasty directions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Also cloudflare
what does this even mean?
The problem is that modern surveillance tech has imposed so many layers that observing them all isn’t realistic for even the most privacy-conscious people: you not only have to wear a mask, you have to change your gait, you can’t carry around a mobile phone, you have to somehow elude cameras being able to track you from wherever you started off that morning (i.e. likely your home) etc. So what is the point of being happy that you can now wear a mask in public?

Public surveillance isn’t like, say, private communications where a person still has the option to install Signal and keep their conversations relatively private. Preventing the authorities from recognizing you in public is already a lost battle.
They probably were negligible. Billions of links, maybe some content cache that they already had since Google indexes and caches most of the web. Bandwidth was born by the user and content server. Checking RSS feeds is mostly a bunch of 304s.

The newsblur dev is in this thread and he runs a good reader and could probably say what the storage and bandwidth was.
Weren't all of these issues quickly fixed by the developers after being reported?

E: oh whoops missed the dev post above mine
The point is these elites' lives are so comfortable they expect everything to be effortless, familiar, and bad things should be relegated to the realm of other people.
I think they're talking about the setup/configuration time. Netlify is pretty much one click.
Beatles remasters were exactly what I was thinking of actually. I want to hear it like the people heard it when it first dropped.
I think the issue is that there are "economically liberal" politics (= free market above everything else) and "socially liberal" politics (e.g. pro gay marriage etc.). In the US, these are split between the Republicans (more economically liberal) and Democrats (more socially liberal). The party which is radically liberal in both senses is the (very small) Libertarian Party.
> I'd rather he'd announce his MTA & MUA so we can reinstate the fossil mailing list.

It's demonstrably become impossible to manage spam in such an environment without the resources of mega-corps, whereas fossil aims to be a entirely SCM environment in a single binary hosted from modest hardware (e.g. a Raspberry Pi).

The inability to manage spam was the driving factor for the forum. It is somewhat quirky, but it works well and our spam rate has been literally one single spam in nearly three years of operation (and that one was subtle - hiding an ad link inside a markdown hyperlink which enclosed only a single period). Similarly, the sqlite forum (which was migrated only relatively recently) is also spam-free.

If you have found a way to develop a fully spam-proof, mailing-list-based solution then, by all means, show us the code. Until then, the forum has proven to completely solve the problem it set out to: provide a spam-free communication channel for fossil and sqlite.
Plus, how did one find anything out?

Even when telegraph, the phone, and wireless first existed, how would you transmit thousands upon thousands of scientific papers? News?

And who would pay the incredible cost of doing so? Imagine transcribing by hand, via Morris code, or reading/writing, via phone?

How would Bob in Asia, know what Tom in the UK was working on? Even mail often did not exist reliably.

Some stuff could be shipped, sure, but it isn't as if sail was speedy.

People have been in the dark for most of history.
I don't mean simply buying/selling, more that the profit opportunities are in the process of overcoming the new trade barriers: finding ways commerce can flow through, or around, the blockages.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/20001598/843116

Looks like it since 0.7.64 or 0.8.23.
Did it really? Or is this a bias in favor of private investment. There has been a lot of investments to government programs such as NASA and NOAA (as well as the military for better or worse). Also universities continue to innovate with plenty of new innovation to show for it.

Perhaps it is more accurate to say that the American private sector has moved from being led by...
It is the default because it is deemed the most feature-complete and stable. Unfortunately not being too stable is all-around true of linux desktop (though I really like the recent trend with wayland - many previously hacky parts just work now!)
You can’t buy this NFT
I don't know about rugby, but with skiing/snowboarding I always knew when the season started by just looking at the colleagues.
It's been tried but never achieved any significant commercial success.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Memory_Systems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-RAM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperOs_HyperDrive
Not bad. Unfortunately he's inconsistent with a few key terms that could cause confusion.

Use of repeater instead of hub (although he does use repeater hub in the collision domain section) would probably cause confusion with many since the term "repeater" is very rarely used (except for the EARLY days); hubs had far greater usage than repeater.

More problematic for me is liberal use of bridge, especially when there are multiple connections. I think his diagrams would be more useful if he established early on that a switch is just a fancy multi-port bridge, and then just use switch for bridge from then on. I get where he was going, but if you are trying to reach more of a layman audience then sticking to more "trade" terminology would probably be less confusing to potential readers.
If you can increase your stock and not have to spend from your stockpile, is there really scarcity?
Or you can activate a local project in a directory, add packages and the Project.toml gets created for you.
D is close to "That can't possibly be a $20 bill on the street; if it was, somebody would have picked it up", isn't it?

It's often talked and complained about, I don't think "nobody tried so nobody knows" is plausible.

E isn't convincing either. Why would "Big Jeans" conspire to keep large pockets from women? Are they trying to save a few cents by reducing the amount of raw materials? What powerful force is there to keep everyone in check so no manufacturer just gives women what they so desperately want and eats the other companies' market?
Indeed, Google's launch validates a market, creates enthusiasm, and once they shut it down you can be there to catch the users.
Joan Baez?
I was one of those people who switched to Feedly. And I'm also one of the people still using the Feedly Classic app, which they had to launch because of the uproar after they radically overhauled the app. I'm just hoping they decide to keep it around, since they never update it it's not like it's costing them anything.
I am a founder even though not venture backed so probably not your target but I couldn't resist. What is the purpose of this research ? I think you need to be a bit more open before any real founder would be interested in talking to you (being blunt here but not trying to offend you personally). Your post seems like you are asking for a lot but not giving much back in return yet. You also said "future opportunity for you" but you don't clarify what type of opportunity ? Why would a busy/real founder who has raised funding would talk to you ? You need to make this more interesting and valuable. My 2 cents.
Another issue with Base is the required JRE. Installing the JRE may be trivial, but it means that an error message is the first experience most people will have with Base.

As for Access, it's access is limited due to the much higher price point of Business/Professional versions of Office. In terms of office suites, that version is about two to three times more expensive than an equivalent office suite from the mid-1990's (adjusted to 2021 dollars). In other words, people will only have Access if they feel that the additional cost is justified.

That additional cost may be fine for business use, yet it also means that people have less exposure to databases to start with. With respect to exposure, there also appears to be an absence of general purpose databases for home users these days. (By that I mean in terms of cost and ease of use.)
Texas,Austin officials discuss outages amid record-breaking winter storm impacts
How do you arrive at twice as expensive as AWS glacier?

AWS S3 Glacier is the same $0.004/GB/month and requires the same minimum of 90 days, but retrieval takes "from 1 minute to 12 hours". They also have large retrieval costs (on top of the regular egress to the internet) and API call charges.

AWS S3 Deep glacier is only $0.00099/GB/month, but requires it to be stored 180 days and also have operation/retrieval fees. "For long-term data archiving that is accessed once or twice in a year and can be restored within 12 hours"

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

We feel like the immediate availability of our offering is compelling and a competitive advantage over glacier.

> Is there a forum/discord where the community can discuss/learn?

Not yet, we will have one created soon.