skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might just be that older children learn faster. And same results might happen in any subject. Here they started to teach a foreign language from grade 1. After 4 years kids usually reach the same level the would have had end of grade 5 when instruction started at beginning of grade 5.
Won't fit within the stated budget and too risky. Better to stick with something safer like bombarding yourself with gamma rays.
Most businesses don't pay corporate income tax. Income is passed through to the owners/partners and it shows up on their person income. C-Corps (where corporate income is separate and taxable) account for only 5% of businesses in the US.

Also, the Medicare for All proposal (which seems to have gotten the furthest) would require ~ $4-5 trillion dollars a year. Completely taking Amazon for all it's worth would fund it for 1/3 of a year.
I'm really sorry- I don't mean to come across as negative, but I think you're asking the wrong question. You know what you want to learn about but don't know what you want to learn.

You say you're "Looking for a project that teaches me something".

You need to figure out what that something is, then then look for a minimum viable experiment to work your way toward it.
Grocery stores are retailers in the traditional sense rather than a consignment shop or marketplace like Amazon. I think the person you’re replying to is alluding to “slotting fees” for new products and perhaps the more controversial “pay to stay” fees which are far more secretive and, from my understanding, are more of a grey area. Technically I believe the “fee” is considered a type of advertising expense: https://home.kpmg/content/dam/kpmg/pdf/2015/04/revenue-leafl...
Ask HN: How to Perform a Maturity Assesment
I've just started a new role at a company who hired me to bring in a bunch of new and exciting technology (IaC, containers, CI/CD). The issue is that they need to make a lot of changes to be able to support all this new tech (To give you an idea, they are still using subversion with one branch for multiple applications).

I was wondering if the great hive mind of HN is aware of any existing maturity assessments, lists of questions or anything I can use to support my case that we need to make some fundamental changes to process (and probably org structure as well) before we can start implementing all the shiny new stuff.
A long time ago somewhere I read that the entire game's AI system ran through a function called kick_ball() or something like that
Louis Rossman gave an example which I believe really happened. A surgery chair that cost tens of thousands of dollars needed a new riser motor. Just an electric motor to move the chair up and down. But the company that makes the electric motor had an agreement with the chair manufacturer not to sell replacement parts. So the only recourse instead of replacing a $500 motor is to replace an entire surgery chair for tens of thousands of dollars.

Given the cost of medical care in this country I think it would be a very good thing if that agreement not to sell parts was against the law. Surely an electric motor to raise a chair up and down could be replaced with the correct part without compromising anyone’s safety.
Dunno how sterile "gene editing" techniques need to be, but doing kitchen lab work that's sterile enough to grow only the fungi you want is possible. I think the difference between real labs and kitchen work becomes a matter of error tolerance, prepare for failures and you can reach "good enough."

Tormenting small things with short life cycles in hopes of finding interesting adaptations and mutations is certainly doable in a kitchen, or in a closet fermenting tank and drink some of the byproducts. Its an interesting argument was a new sourdough culture or brewers yeast "developed" or "domesticated" or just "caught".
As I commented above, from the practical introduction, it says, "Wildland is a collection of protocols, conventions, software, and (soon) a marketplace for leasing storage and in the future compute infrastructure. All these pieces work together with one goal in mind: to decouple the user's data from the underlying infrastructure."

This would seem to make a user not dependent on any one platform to hold their data. So it improves data availability, platform lock-in risk and some censorship-resistance.
Holy shit, my mind is blown at this. I had seen this channel's works before but not this series.

Was this ever reported anywhere? This is crazy news.
My wife puts on some of the investigative TV shows where the anchor has a droning, monotone voice. (Using earbuds)
How is that even an issue for the HN-folks? This clearly takes power away from amazon, as for example this helps with growing business relations outside of amazon (you might start buying directly from the seller at some point).
That's funny, they think they'll stop supporting Windows 10 in 4 years, when 16% of Windows computers still run Windows 7. In 2025 I bet there will still be almost 10% of all Windows computers running Windows 7
It's the scale!

A lot of things that Big Tech is doing is usually fine if you're a company with a small market share.
You don't think that the huge start up acquisitions market has a negative distorting effect on tech entrepreneurship and innovation? I feel like it prioritizes growth at any cost and deprioritizes the disruption of the established tech players.
> There definitely needs to be regulation, but its not at all easy to see what shape it should take.

How do you draw the conclusion that there definitely needs to be regulation if you have no idea what you would be regulating?

Everything about this pan-societal debate has been disappointing because it boils down to: “how do we draw up Bills of Attainder without calling them that and without completely wiping out the free flow of money and capital in the Valley?”
Physical placement within a store makes a difference* and it's something that stores will manipulate to negotiate deals with sellers.

* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2741065/
NASA hacked because of unauthorized Raspberry Pi connected to its network (2019)
> You don't have to assume anything is true if you don't want to, but if you want to consider whether we're living in a simulation, it's probably worth considering.

Which, for me, is a dead end. It's the same as assuming there's a God, except the moral implications are worse.

> First, it's billions of years in our time.

So, if billions of years of our time fly by like your average simulation run in "their" universe, the simulation can't be very meaningful to them. And it makes the distance between our and "their" physics even larger.

> what's the point of Conway's Game of Life?

None, and that's why nobody runs one with 10^120 cells for billions of years. And if somebody did, the result would be incomprehensible. The gap between us and our creators must then be incomprehensible for us. All this is so outlandish, that the word "likely" shouldn't be anywhere near this discussion.
Are we past the naming phase for Windows X or Windows One?
Pentagon renews effort to withhold more unclassified records
Does it work both ways?
Given the costs, I don't think this is good enough. Medicare cannot afford to subsidize things are inconclusive especially given how 6 million Americans have Alzheiemrs.
Engage with my evidence or admit that you can’t.
I'm not, your ellipses abbreviate too much. I'm seeing, among a group of people who would theoretically be predisposed to not want to stay at home, people still electing to stay at home. This contradicts the OP's glib remark that less women nowadays want to stay at home.
Inflation is no more stealing than the dynamics of supply and demand are, which is to say, only as much as society permits and ostensibly finds desirable.
Less than 10 000 lines of code. But let’s say we accept it as an exception — it is most definitely not the “standard way” of writing C programs.
Bill Gates is now part of the tribe

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/11/bill-gates-bullish-on-using-...
MtGox really hammered home the "not your keys, not your coins". China bans and unbans it every other week, people learn to ignore it.

It's difficult to know what would have happened in a counterfactual world, but most bad news also had silver linings so far.
A Pivotal Mosquito Experiment Could Not Have Gone Better
The classic Mac interface is a couple of years older, although most of these seminal works were published in the late 80s.
This sounds a little like the big sites I've worked on that spent immense amounts of money on being database-agnostic, "so we can switch from Mysql/Postgres/Oracle to $other if we want".

Nobody ever wanted to switch; the expertise in using one provider created immense inertia. And even when a few folks (fans of $other working side-of-desk) tried to make a proof-of-concept swap, it turned out that the code was anything but agnostic and dependent on the first provider it was built for in pervasive and fundamental ways.

So, too, with service providers and partner businesses. Spending time/money on being able to switch suppliers and keeping all your eggs from being in one basket is a waste of time: you won't switch voluntarily, and if you ever have to switch involuntarily it'll still be about as difficult as it would have been if you hadn't prioritized redundancy/diversity.
Microsoft marketing is totally schizophrenic. Never believe a fucking word of it for a second and your life will be good.
bingo..
What about /proc ?
Yeah, I’m not complaining and it’s entirely fair to sell your work, but I’m always wary of relying on a closed-source (+ licensed) tool for things as critical as backups. I may be partial though, having interacted with the Borg author in-person a few times at Congress, which convinced me I could trust it to not shred my data.
The "safety!" argument against RTR is disingenuous. Just as the "landfills!" argument in favor of RTR is also disingenuous.

Nobody on either side actually believes those things (regardless of how passionately they claim to). They are both fallacious appeals to get disinterested people emotionally wrapped up in the topic.

RE: safety, people getting hurt trying to repair stuff happens already and will still happen post-regulation. Right to repair will not result in more injuries.

RE: landfills, most people don't throw stuff away because it breaks. They throw things away because newer models are more powerful, faster, smaller, more efficient, or aesthetically "cool." Right to repair will not result in less landfills.
BuzzFeed News won its first Pulitzer Prize for exposing China’s Detention Camps
It’ll be Windows 364 or something. I’d say 365 but it spend a day a year at the update screen.
FPC doesn't sound right since you can have a react component for just a single part of a page, it doesn't necessarily need to take control of the whole page.
Most marketing is.
From GP:

> It is not possible to remove ub from the spec

did not say "it is not standard to remove ub"...
This was discussed extensively on HN and has been rolled back: https://www.docker.com/blog/volume-management-compose-v2-ski... (scroll down)
I think it rather had to do with microsoft selling compute time rather than licenses with Azure, and stop caring that people run their workload on windows or linux, as long as they run them in azure.
Append-only garbage-collected storage was used in data center even when hard disks were (and are) popular because it's more reliable and scalable.
Not disagreeing, but there is also a drastic cost reduction from less commuting.

Now I’m also in a state where a 5 bedroom house costs less then a studio in SF. So home space isn’t a big concern.
Icy dock makes an entire range of hot-swap docks for m.2 NVMe drives.
Have you ever lived outside a major city before, ie. a town of <200k?
Depends on the service. If the company sells to developers, or requires developers to extend their customer base (e.g. Stripe) they will put more effort in. If developers seem incidental to their service and customers they may not (e.g. Zoom, Google Drive).
It'll be XP all over again.
How do you (and most other people, especially Americans) not realize how unrealistic this is? It’s such a common refrain to say “break `em up!” but it seems as if nobody stops to question why it never happens despite it’s popularity...

These corporations control the government because the same people demanding to “break `em up!” have also been demanding “small government!” for decades on end, which in practice simply means a government that works for the corporate private sector.

The morale of this story is that your solution is no solution at all, and to the extent that it is a solution the means to implement it are nowhere to be found.
It would be nice if there was standardization for such things. No doubt most counties will have on file somewhere blueprints and drawings that were submitted for building permits but most likely haven't been digitalized. I'd hope that newer homes could have their blueprints submitted digitally by the architects but I suspect most places are still using paper centric processes.

About twenty years ago I worked for a big box store's corporate headquarters. One of my tasks was to add new stores to MapBlast so they would show up on the "Find a store" section of our website. Problem was that often stores were built in new sections of rapidly growing sprawl so the streets weren't in MapBlast yet. I'd have to make educated guesses as where to put the store on the map. Sometimes I could call the store and get some help that way but for our international stores, that was difficult because of the language barrier. We knew that there was some department somewhere in the company that had detailed drawings of each store, including precise location coordinates but the company was so large, we had no clue where to even begin to find that department.
Eddie Shore's blog has a true cheat sheet sized "Big Font Math Reference".

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1h_B0QG2_xeki58q-Y2ubcmmwvr...
Pick up Axiomatic, try the first story (The Infinite Assassin) and see if it grabs you. It's got the best parts of something like Snow Crash, which drops you in without much exposition, and lets the visuals/action lead. Learning to Be Me from the same collection really stood out to me, it's a unique take on the "uploading your consciousness" trope.
Why do humans get acne? A hypothesis. (2020)
Onset of SelfStorage Startup – StowNest – Decluttering Lives
Yes, it's a two-way street. Businesses do tend to benefit the most though
I don't think anyone would make literally write-once drives with flash memory; that's more optical disk territory. But zoned SSDs and host-managed SMR hard drives make explicit the distinction between writes and larger-scale erase operations, while still allowing random-access reads.
Thanks! fixed
> But if you need to implement popcount or many other bit manipulation algorithms in software

Power9, ARM, x86 BMI, Nvidia PTX, AMD GCN, and AMD RDNA all have a popcount instruction.

Yeah, all mainstream CPUs and GPUs made in the past decade...

Unfortunately, there's no system I can think of where you'd need the software solution anymore... Maybe if you wanted popcount on an Arduino??
I didn't read this article, but I really hate the tag line "done right". It expresses such a poor sense of humility, which is one of, or perhaps the most, important traits in the world of software
That kind of makes sense for mobile OSs, and perhaps to a lesser extent MacOS, but Windows versions have always been pretty big shifts. 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 10 are all quite different from each other.
I have similar feelings to others here but not necessarily disagree with most points, my problem is more that the author does not really explain enough why his rules are true. Even if some problems he states are understandable i would expect to also give examples why other alternatives are bad...
A Description of One Programmer’s ProgrammingStyle (Revisited) [pdf]
This is very true. I worked at Traders many years ago and at least back then the store brands were often made by the same name brand company.
> And with STL, it still took another 5 years for the compilers to be good enough.

This is under-stated, IMO. It wasn't really until 2004 or even later that we had high-quality support for C++98 in GCC. LLVM wasn't available, yet. Heaven help you if you wanted to develop in C++ on OSX, since Apple's packaging of GCC was a total disaster. Step zero for developing C++ on OSX was "install GCC from FSF sources" for many years.

Even MSVC support was lagging. It wasn't until the Microsoft tools leadership got involved with C++11 that MSVC took standard support seriously. They were already prioritizing .NET in that timeframe.

Meanwhile, the big open-source desktop C++ libraries (Qt and WxWindows) still don't fully take advantage of the types and features in the standard library in 2021.
The sale of contaminated beef has happened many many times in my lifetime, leading to massive recalls, even lettuce has seen contamination and outbreaks. The liability has not been on the store, rather the supplier/manufacturer of those products.

The local ford dealer wast at fault for your pinto exploding of the tires blowing off your SUV.

You didn't get to sue the store that sold you cigarets or round up that gave you cancer...
You have to first fight the battle that you do not own the software, but that you only have a license to use the software. If you win that, then you can fight for repair.
We have everything in place to run from AWS if needed but do not operate from there because of cost.

This goes both ways -- there have been many AWS outages which have not affected us. I hear what you're saying, but we've had only one instance of extended (hours) downtime in the last 20 years.
Louis Rossmann is more skeptical:

Right to Repair bill PASSES in NY state senate! What now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX6BVQe6Tq4

TL;DR: Low probability than anything will happen before next year
Lyme Disease-Carrying Ticks Are Turning Up on California's Beaches
Start me up … dah dah dah … you make a grown man cry.

Another marketing disaster.
"Growth Hacker News"
Phone menus only exist so you can spin your wheels while on hold
Customer service phone menus are just there to get you to spin your wheels while you’re on hold.

I used to work as a CSR, for a company that shall not be named, and I picked up the line with the same line every time: “Thanks for calling **, how can I help you?” Every once in a while, someone would respond with, “I just spend ten minutes going through menus and punching in account numbers, why don’t you know why I’m calling?”

Folks, the fact is, none of the information you punched into the automated system makes it to the representative. I didn’t even realize we had such a system, having never called into our own office from an outside line. Every call was just dropped to us without context, because it’s just as quick for me to just ask you what you want as it is for me to look it up on a computer. The real reason those systems exist, ours at least, was just to get the customer to spin their wheels for a while while they’re on hold. That’s it. So enjoy your next interaction with the $megacorp computer system! It means nothing until you get a real human being on the line.
More critically, "tech" is concentrated into a small set of voting districts. Whereas traditional industries are spread throughout the country.

Amazon's warehouse network is their most valuable political commodity. They are often the highest paying entry level jobs wherever they are put, represent a huge local bump in payroll and property taxes, and they are being placed in voting districts all around the country.
Well, if you had all that cool stuff, I would certainly come in to work to enjoy it on occasion.

But I'm still going to need to come back home whenever I need to get work done.
Well, I know my part of bad stories, too.

But I think, with removing barriers, the repair industry should improve and rather decline.
Ah, today you would set MaxIdleConns on the client to avoid this. Even back then I think there was DisableKeepAlives but I would totally believe there was a leak hiding in that ca. 2013.
I think he was joking. Windows 7 is EOL
Greta Thunberg to receive respective honorary degrees from UBC
> If you want to understand the anticompetitive structure of the tech industry, you'd be better off analyzing switching costs, not network effects. Switching costs are the things you have to give up when you leave a service behind.

> Today, in a new appendix to "Privacy Without Monopoly," EFF has published "The GDPR, Privacy and Monopoly," my analysis of how the GDPR makes interoperability safer from a privacy perspective.
The tax code should be much simpler than it is. Instead of call this crazy schemes, the tax rate should be lower and flat a la sales tax. Your revenue/income is X, you pay 10% of X without allowing any deductions. This will bring a lot more money in taxes, make taxation simpler and fairer. Also, with the recent COVID-19 stimulus - how can the income brackets be the same in metro areas with vastly different cost of living? Trying to be "fair", often government create new types of unfairness.
Does the file chooser show thumbnails yet?
> the problem of "Why do you want to do that? You should do this instead

IIR, there's a word or idiom that describes this kind of solution, I can't think of it and now it's going to bother me until I do. It's a stackoverflow issue, someone asks "How do I do X?" Someone will counter, "Why do you want to do X?" and upon receiving additional information, answer, "You don't want to do X, or this other thing you're doing before doing X. You want to start this way and go down this path and that way you don't have to do X." Maddening!
Easier sure, but Zero downtime migration is a fun engineering problem (albeit stressful). Just need an employer who is willing to pay for it.
Airbags vs. speed bumps: how to get DevOps to want security vs. need it
I'll plug these guys - took their 101 and 102 courses online a while back. I agree with koeng's comment that what you can do and what you can do are different - lab technique is a steeper learning curve than concepts for those of us who didn't do science degrees - but it's fascinating all the same and the closest thing I know to guided experiments.

https://www.the-odin.com/all-products/
Employment contracts are very rare in corporate employment for most positions, whether tech, accounting, etc, with the exception of course being Collective Bargaining Agreements and some 'reputational' positions like the CEO. Such contracts, like at-will employment, balance interests and are too 'double-edged swords' themselves.

So offers for at-will employment can be rescinded, though they do cost an organization - time wasted, restarting candidate search, loss of productivity, etc. Usually not done flippantly at a competent and prudent organization.

Stripe may be neither or it may have had a great reason that made a lot of internal sense. We'll probably never know.
...unless you're using LTSC, in which case you're good until 2029.
Replication also replicates mistakes.
It would be more Tclish, more similar what other Tcl packages (third-party and core ones) do.
Into Darkness was another great one from Axiomatic. Also great action, and a seriously intense brooding atmosphere.
Was probably true until macOS "went to 11," a la Spinal Tap.
What exactly do these new bills do that the Sherman and Clayton antitrust laws don't do already?
The rich have large leveraged loans, mortgages, and lots of assets - ideally situated to benefit from inflation and are not impacted by the price of food or rents.

In contrast the poor typically have small loans, rents and rely on wage inflation, which usually trails price inflation by some way.