skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If grain bins are dangerous to go inside, maybe there's a low tech solution like safety lines attached to a belt similar to mountain climbing or high rise construction.
That is a very misleading claim. Cattle are raised in arid climates where there isn't enough water to grow water intensive food crops, so that the cattle can eat scrub and other vegetation inedible to humans. Basically cattle are machines for turning grass which doesn't require a lot of rainwater into protein, which is why cattle cultures arose in deserts and other dry climates while things like rice-based cultures arose in wet climates.

We need more, not less, cattle in arid climates and it is pretty irresponsible/wasteful to adopt vegetarian based diets in arid climates. But it should be grass-fed cattle.
Thanks for posting this intriguing link. A glance at the Jupyter notebook on this site will bring a smile to a Julia user who grew up on (or has somehow encountered) APL.
Nice Article JOhn!
Their conclusion is a bit off. The WBS and GANTT charts are used for resource planning. I don't work for a unicorn so resource constraints mean that I actually need to plan, prioritize, and schedule work. If I do a bad job of that then my developers get laid off, we don't get paid for slack.

One thing they miss is that managers manage expectations both up and down. People only get angry when you step outside of their expectations. I work in a PMP setting and I am up front in my project plan about how we're using PERT estimation (so they always look high), that we're dedicating time to testing, automation, and documentation, and explain why. Its straight up in scope. The client signed it. The CIO signed it. Problem solved.

The one thing I find is that developers chronically underestimate. And that's something that I found going from a programmer to a project manager. I always thought about my code and never the back-and-forth communication with stakeholders, and the change requests, and all the little BS that inflates estimates. That's why I teach my programmers PERT estimation, because it forces them to think about what the doomsday scenario is. We've gotten pretty darn good at estimation these days, which is good because we are a consulting shop, so if we underestimate we don't get paid, or have to get a change request.
Yes, it's not "good" in general terms but it's a lot better than Python or Ruby, and that's still a win.
Retype v1.6 has been released. More control over input configuration has been added. The release has introduced a new feature of tagging documentation pages and generating nice looking tag summary pages.

https://github.com/retypeapp/retype/releases/tag/v1.6.0
There is no evidence that Cambridge Analytica was "highly effective". How many voters did they convince to change their votes? Please provide a number backed by reliable data.
This seems like something else I won't pay for. Like smart TVs, meters, or any other rubbish like that. I'm not renting stuff I should actually own.
> And if that does not work, it is better to release a different library

Is that really a solution though? You're just going to end up with an unsupported old version and a supported yet breaking new version which probably doesn't even have upgrade guidance... Not sure I see it. I think libraries should work hard as you say to not break backwards compat, but I also think the library author has the right to change some function signatures when they change major behaviors too
I don't think so - I got burned precisely by this -> people that work with danger regularly are actually used to it and do not faint or fall to you lap if you offer some marginal mitigation

Sometimea even to their own detriment
I feel like the people that need these changes are the least likely to turn then on. In general addicts don't want to dilute their drug of choice.
Applicants must be USC or Green Card holder.
No C2C
They removed it because they claimed Google was sending substandard markup on purpose.
Less design and engineering, sourcing and manufacturing of all that hardware too.
I remember seeing either the original Reddit post or a reference to it and thinking it was a really neat idea. I collect typewriters and had a slim portable Royal Hermes that would have been perfect for that kind of job, but I wasn't (and still am not) brave enough about my writing to share it in that way.
Wire Signal
I've really grown to hate link shorteners. They get used to obfuscate the real URL, so of course my pihole and other adblocking software blocks them. But even the local gov't insists on using shorteners in the links they put in e-mail. Instead of just making the URL of the website sane. So I have to jump through hoops just to get to the site they link to.
> The obvious trigger of this dream was the Senate vote preventing an investigation of the domestic insurgency of 1/6. The proposal was modelled after the 9/11 commission

While it's terrible that the GOP doesn't want this kind of investigative commission (there's possibly some GOP complicity in 1/6), I'm not sure that a bipartisan commission would've worked anyway. There's a lot the GOP doesn't want to talk about here and doesn't want aired during the 2022 election year. The House should just create a Select Committee with subpoena power to investigate 1/6 like was done for Watergate - I think this likely will happen. The DOJ could also name a special prosecutor to investigate and should do so.
How to Add Push Notifications to a Webflow Site
I've got no feature requests or questions, I just want to say I'm really excited about this. It sounds like a really thoughtful attempt to be better than the standard approach to eng analytics, e.g. "how many points did CodeMonkey complete this sprint"
What are you on about? The TF2 Source leak has not revealed any new vulnerabilities, and is not the cause of the bot infestation. Valve's inability to maintain a game, sure, but it isn't related.
Maybe some time in the past the Republican party had principles but now Republican state legislatures overriding municipal mandates and that of health experts is hypocritical. The Republicans would rail against the Federal Govt overstepping its authority and interfering with states' authority and now they are doing the same. The Republicans are a joke, taken over by Trump cultists and Tea Partiers. The only thing important to them is the almighty dollar. Who cares if hundreds of thousands have died due to COVID? Gotta hand it to the Republicans who all toe the party line. Is that what freedom is to them?
Presumably you could “realize” gains upon transfers due to death, as you do with other transfers. Does it make estate handling a little more complex? Maybe a bit. But it mirrors other transfers, avoids punishing inherited earned income disproportionately, and avoids complex record-keeping requirements.

(In general, brokers and similar institutions track basis, so I don’t think the death of the owner makes determining the basis especially difficult.)
> The terrorist attack of 1/6 raised deeper questions about how our country is governed, and who we have become as a people.

Are we talking about the rioters or the guy who left the pipe bombs?
Dacia has a new car in that bracket, but the range is a bit limited.

If you live in the US, Dacia is basically a Romanian company under Renaults ownership (which is a famous french brand) whith focus on cheap cars with proven tech. The use proven engines, parts from Renoult cars, etc.

A pretty good philosophy IMO but until now they had horrible designs, now they are improving, in the sense of adressing more general-public apetences, which means generic-looking SUVs.
Few cents from someone who moved into Engineering Management from Software dev in a high growth organisation.

30% Hiring for my team but also helping out for other teams. This also includes optimising our process etc.

15% Maturing and coordinating the tech org getting things like oncall routines in place or what forums do we need (or what should've just been an email)

20% Growing individuals through coaching and mentoring as well as finding opportunities for them to shine.

20% hands on teamwork usually being the one who asks stupid questions to ensure all uncertainties are brought up.

15% putting out fires

I'm pretty happy with this division. I'm also very happy to also have a product manager and a tech lead in my team to avoid one person wearing all those hats.
There is Arcimoto, an operation based in Oregon. I think in some places their vehicles are grouped with motorcycles or something along those lines. I've seen them zipping around San Diego and other places.
> They would either buy or not buy the poem

Why not just allow them to set their price?
> How much money do you have in dollars?

Not much, in fact I try to remain leveraged via debts to hedge against inflation.

But my salary is measured in dollars. I fought hard to get the salary I have today, but I must continue to ratchet up as my employment deal looks worse every year.

I believe the Cantillion effect is largely why the average peasant's wages have not kept up with asset prices.

https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/the-cantillion-effect

Inflation means wealthy (with assets) get wealthier.

> A little bit of inflation means more economic growth in the long run.

When you play tricks with the CPI it does look that way. It's easy to say there's growth when revenues grow beyond a poor measure of inflation.

Inflation discourages savings and thus makes money look easy. As such, it actually encourages bad investment. Further, the business cycle that Kaynsians say are just a natural part of a large economy are really caused by over leveraged banking credit bursts.

If half of the dollars in circulation are just debts owed between banks, then that bubble bursts, it's no surprise that asset prices would fall--there's literally fewer dollars in circulation.

It's no big deal for those involved in fed policy making as they are usually the first to see it coming (and or instigate it with higher interest rates) and generally move their positions back to dollars just prior to a credit bubble burst.

But for those of us that leverage ourselves to hedge against inflation (buying a house), we get caught with a heavy loan on an asset that's no longer worth as much as the loan on it.

One should be open to viewpoints external to those provided by the people in charge of and profiting from the system.
The key is to hunt for commercial-grade appliances. In some cases, they can be found and offer similar form factors to consumer devices, and in others you may be out of luck.

Commercial kitchen appliances, washers/dryers, and flat panel displays can be sourced to your expectations. Just prepare to spend 1.5-3x as much right out of the gate.
Article does not mention President-for-life Xi Jinping or his local Chinese Communist Party boss Chen Quanguo who carried out the mass detention and other abuses, against the advice of local officials. This 2019 NYT article, based on leaked documents, shows more details:

President Xi Jinping, the party chief, laid the groundwork for the crackdown in a series of speeches delivered in private to officials during and after a visit to Xinjiang in April 2014, just weeks after Uighur militants stabbed more than 150 people at a train station, killing 31. Mr. Xi called for an all-out “struggle against terrorism, infiltration and separatism” using the “organs of dictatorship,” and showing “absolutely no mercy.” ...

... The internment camps in Xinjiang expanded rapidly after the appointment in August 2016 of Chen Quanguo, a zealous new party boss for the region. He distributed Mr. Xi’s speeches to justify the campaign and exhorted officials to “round up everyone who should be rounded up.”

The crackdown encountered doubts and resistance from local officials who feared it would exacerbate ethnic tensions and stifle economic growth. Mr. Chen responded by purging officials suspected of standing in his way, including one county leader who was jailed after quietly releasing thousands of inmates from the camps.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/ch...

The most striking sentence in the NYT report is this one, describing the alleged motivations for the leak:

Though it is unclear how the documents were gathered and selected, the leak suggests greater discontent inside the party apparatus over the crackdown than previously known. The papers were brought to light by a member of the Chinese political establishment who requested anonymity and expressed hope that their disclosure would prevent party leaders, including Mr. Xi, from escaping culpability for the mass detentions.
That was 15-20 years ago, integration today has evolved, of course...
A farmer I knew had run the numbers on the cycle time for unloading grain wagons at harvest time; paying neighborhood kids $3/hr (in 1982 or so) to dance on top of the grain as it drained paid off. There were bars to grab on the top of the wagons so it wasn't deeply dangerous, but it certainly got exciting.

His kids were the ones driving the wagon trains from the fields to the silos. That was even more exciting. No insurance, just "if you break it you have to help fix it"
I went to generate a QR code the other day for a URL, just went onto some random website from a quick Google search.

The generated QR code had the URL rewritten to a short URL, and buried in some small print was a limit to how many times the URL could be “scanned” before you have to pay.

I guess these sorts of sites _really_ count on people missing this and spending thousands on print before realising.
I feel that hackernews readers need the blunt reminder once in a while.
Sure, but that's just a bug in an application introduced by accident, and fixed when they found out about it. That is going to happen no matter what. The same thing goes for libraries. That is the best part of this tool, since they control the library and all the clients they can automatically run their tests across everything. Which would help you catch more of these types of problems, but it will never be perfect.

My point is that if a user of your library is failing after a change, you should treat that as a bug in the library. Backwards incompatible changes should only be on purpose, and only when absolutely necessary.

Of course, it's only their own code they're affecting here, so it doesn't really matter as much as a library for users you don't know. Plus it is a pretty cool solution, I just don't think it should be necessary.
Google, Reddit, and Facebook also have sufficient first-party traffic to just gather data, target, and sell ads the "old-fashioned" way. The independent and small sell-side is also hit hard by this.
Ya I read PG's article on getting a publicist recently. Now I wnat to know who is this company's publicist.
Reality here is lucky to have 50MBps down and 7MBps up and I am in the fourth largest city in North America. More likely 30/3 with actual throughput being 20/1.
> The scenario then goes like this. The Republicans win back the House and Senate in 2022, in part thanks to voter suppression. The Republican candidate in 2024 loses the popular vote by several million and the electoral vote by the margin of a few states. State legislatures, claiming fraud, alter the electoral count vote. The House and Senate accept that altered count. The losing candidate becomes the president. We no longer have "democratically elected government." And people are angry.

This is preposterous. Donald Trump, a former POTUS, has been completely defanged and deplatformed by Silicon Valley and the broader media infrastructure. Any suggestion that the officially reported election results were not legitimate was banished and fact-checked into oblivion -- why should we believe things would go any differently in 2024?

This whole "attack on our democracy" narrative of the Jan 6 riot is being used to buttress some truly histrionic fears. For the sake of argument, let's say that the people attacking the Capitol on Jan 6 had successfully made it to the Senate chamber and torn Mike Pence limb from limb (I have to put it in these terms because they didn't bring any lethal weapons to their "insurrection"). What then? Is there a clause in the Constitution that says "if you kill the VP while the electoral vote is being tallied you get to pick the new POTUS?" No -- they would have been gassed and gunned down by the military and the vote would have proceeded with Nancy Pelosi as the new chair. Whatever the motivations of the people in the crowd, their "coup" lasted all of 4 hours and didn't even cause enough mayhem to prevent the Senate from resuming its normal business that same day. Let's chill out a bit maybe.
Stolen... for a meaning where stolen doesn't actually mean stolen, right?
except louder does not _MATTER_ at all, all vacuums are too loud for comfort, I just put on headphones and over-ear hearing protection, like I also do when mowing the lawn or doing anything else boring and noisy..
Sure, they are 3x as expensive, mine is more like 10x more expensive than a cheapo crap one from the store, but it will outlast 10 of them easily, be servicable, and be 100x nicer to use all of that time.
People like some beetles. Weevils are always bad.
The issue with Greece is that they aren’t very productive and live beyond their means against the savings of the Germans and others. So no, you cannot use that as an example. As for Japan, they have had massive population drop and inefficiencies from closed borders that probably reflects a greater reason why there has been a deflationary period.

For a better idea, you could look at say the cost of a loaf of bread from late 18th century to 19th century and it remained flat in the US.

In the late 1800s-1920s, was the greatest growth period for the US and AFAIK the cost of living fell from increased productivity and technological improvements.

Inflation destroys savers, which leads to reduction of investments.

savings = investments

People forget that somehow.
I love my '99 Cherokee (XJ) for this reason. Hopefully it never dies.

Doug DeMuro explains why people love the XJ for its simplicity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3STMfI_PS4Q
This is super cool! Wish I’d had it all these years that I wasted browsing different platforms for their content
Kodi has a plugin for Plex, so you can do both.
For not being transparent with consumers. What will happen when one day you turn on your Tesla and it relays a message to you that FSD is disabled because you are missing hardware required by the new version?
It's kind of hinted at somewhere in Wayfair that this is really kind of about the defaults when Congress declines to speak.

Congress has extremely broad powers to regulate interstate commerce which would let them decide if and how states can make sellers in other states collect for them. So far, Congress has declined to weigh in, and so we get the default.

For some things the default is that states cannot do them unless Congress says they can. For others the default is that they can do them unless Congress says they cannot.

With Congress remaining silent, it is up to the courts to figure out what the default is for a given thing. Wayfair is essentially saying the older decisions picked the wrong default.
My three-year-old said yes to all questions
I feel like gladly is overstating it a bit but I take your point. Users will put up with ads with a lot less resistance than a paywall. But that logic still doesn't really follow unless you think that businesses making money by literally any means they can get away with is an end unto itself.

If you have a service like YouTube that provides so much value and is such an economic multuplier that we can't possibly imagine society existing without it then why don't we just pay for it? The fact that we have no system to fund public goods that aren't ads and taxes is a huge failing. You're basically just describing a tax system that is paid in consumerism which sucks because it's inherently regressive.

If you have a product which is genuinely useful to hundreds of millions of people but that the value only materializes when it's available for 'free' to everyone then we should have ways of getting you funded that isn't attention or convincing individuals to pay you a subscription fee.

You're hitting on an important economic function that ads are currently doing but then twisting it around and saying that there's possibility for anything but ads to perform that function.
"Don't change the function signature" and semver are things that are absolutely hammered into devs who work on library code. I'd be hard pressed to find somebody even tangentially involved in software development who doesn't understand this.

Semver doesn't cover changes in behavior. What a "breaking change" is when it comes to behavior changes is up to the person who implemented it.
Safety lines in this context help retrieve the corpse.
I think it is possible to be exposed to the virus and never need to build antibodies. Innate immune response, if robust, can fight off (or block) infection quickly enough that the adaptive immune response, never kicks in. Adaptive response takes time, and antibodies don't show up until a few days in, IIRC .
Parent here as well. I see so often people or unfortunately the grandparents just using youtube for a child song to play. I am very happy with my children playlists and avoiding the kids beeing expose to ads and unlimited consumption/ endless scrolling modes.
Very fun story, thank you for sharing! Small question of clarification:

> I took a professor’s 300 line APL program translated literally from BASIC, and wrote a ten line program that was much faster.

The professor translated BASIC->APL, and you translated APL->more concise APL?
I gave Emby another shot earlier this year, but abandoned it after a couple of days.
I'm convinced Plex is going to be looking at some kind of lawsuit from rights holders[1] in the future, so I'm not keen on investing time in that platform.

[1] https://www.inputmag.com/tech/copyright-lobby-calls-out-plex...
I didn't know you could do it on a comment. It's not on the normal UI. Thanks.
The topic's getting you downvoted, but this perspective suddenly makes a lot of what my wife's observed among middle-schoolers in the last 3-4 years make a ton more sense.
Five lives were lost on 1/6. There could easily have been thousands of lives lost on 1/6 - we got very lucky, it wouldn't have taken much for it to have gone to a very bad place.
> saying I have to watch a 90 minute marketing presentation

It is literally nothing but an explanation and demonstration of new features.

It’s obvious that if you want new features to be demonstrated to you, you are going to need to watch a demonstration.

If you don’t, then you can read the documentation or ask your friends.

The complaint that nobody is telling normal users about these features makes no sense.
Or... managers could do this translation themselves, by first learning how to do the technical work. My personal gripe is how much we have to chew and digest things for the non-technical people. The managers that know how to solve the problem technically would not ask this as much, but maybe then they would also be writing code as that is always needed.

I feel like managers that can't understand the technical part are the one to ask for this "translation", and because of that the technical people get a significant overhead in work, and because of that more people are needed to do the work, and that in turn creates more need for more managers. It's like a vicious cycle that could be mitigated if everyone knew how to do the technical part, and for this to happen I think companies should start making programmers the managers as much as possible, but I guess that won't be happening anytime soon (but I'm sure it will in the future once programming becomes widespread enough).
It isn't about profit at this point. It is about training data. Of course they don't expect to have 3 people on board forever. Furthermore even if you have people on board it is still an achievement if they don't have to intervene, or only need to intervene rarely.