skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say all of these problems have answers in CUE.

> I want to be able to write a "generic environment" module for each application and then parameterize it accordingly for each environment.

This is pretty solidly in the target use case range, i'd say - managing variations of the same "object type" over some dimension is a lot of what's targeted by the way that CUE treats directory hierarchies when loading files: https://cuelang.org/docs/concepts/packages/#instances

The main thing you have to consider in designing a layout is that you have to take a compositional approach to how you define individual config instances. That is, you can't start from prod's config, then override a value or two for staging.

If i were to do it - i have not, this is not how i currently use CUE - my first approach would probably be by defining defaults at the "policy" level (per the above link), which effectively allows you to get exactly one "override"-ish behavior.

Lots of possible approaches to this, though.

> but you can't quite emulate functions as far as I can tell

Function-like capability is present, just in a form that's less familiar. I think of them as "function structs." This post has a bunch of examples https://github.com/cuelang/cue/issues/139#issuecomment-55677.... It seems there's a plan to add a more comfortable notation (https://github.com/cuelang/cue/issues/943), but it's fundamentally possible now.
Here's an old-school socialist vision for this (say, something along the lines of what Noam Chomsky would advocate):

- society (through local community funds etc) would ensure that everyone, regardless of anything else, has access to basic livelihood (food, shelter, clothes, transport, healthcare)

- society would ensure that everyone has access to the same educational institutions, including required resources (manuals, computer access etc.)

- people would strive to evaluate others based on actual aptitude, rather than class markers (e.g. someone speaking with a heavy "uneducated" accent or wearing low quality clothes wouldn't be looked down upon being evaluated for a professorship or top management position)

- inheritance would be heavily taxed; this would be set up in such a way that people would have a right to the human elements of inheritance - e.g. the home where they grew up, their parents' memories etc. - but huge transfers of wealth, such as inheriting your parents' Amazon stock would not be profitable.

Better off parents will still be able to give a better life and resources to their children, but the impact of that care on the ultimate outcomes will be much less. A "perfectly meritocratic" system would likely be horribly dystopic, such as entirely separating children from parents at birth, Brave New World style.
Even Juicero raised money.
Yes, except there has been a concerted effort by monied interests in the upper strata of society to convince those below that organizing to demand better wages is useless at best or un-American at worst. It's an uphill battle.

> Startups were you get equity. Large companies where you can progress to high salaries if you are able to rise. Starting your own business and being competent at it. Working on commissions in an area where the commissions can be large -- true sales, or real estate. Being a professional, e.g. doctor, accountant, lawyer, has traditionally had high wages and you often run your own business.

This is all great if you have an aptitude for participation in the knowledge economy. That's not everyone. There used to be much more high-wage blue-collar work available to those who didn't fit that mold, but that has been ebbing away over time as America's manufacturing economy has been hollowed out.

Stronger unions and collective bargaining in the dwindling blue collar work that still exists is my only idea for how to improve things, but I'm not an expert.
Pretty good, and you can make notes & highlight them too
It's that or stop using Chrome
Can we have democracy without political parties?
She sounds lucky to have someone that would take the time to understand her experience. Good job man.
Most third-party antiviruses cause more problems than viruses do in my experience.

They tend to hook into system calls and slow down the computer in hard to diagnose ways. Sometimes they don't implement the hooks correctly and cause subtle bugs on top of the slowdown.

I only use built in ones (such as Windows defender) which at least have the pushback of some other teams that own the APIs that are intercepted and tend to strike a better balance.
They had no credibility to begin with, just an old man yelling at the clouds.
WiFi beacons are extremely important for good geolocation in buildings and in cities. Are you saying we should get rid of this functionality just to ensure nobody has a database of the physical location of hardware addresses?

Phones already have random hardware addresses, so it's not like your movements are being tracked because of your mobile hotspot.
Are you uncomfortable with the idea of someone monitoring the ISM band and collecting information about what is being transmitted and by which stations? If so, maybe you should stop using wifi, since that is actually part of the wifi standard (your phone is literally monitoring transmissions on your neighbors' wifi networks to avoid interference).
Change the name and keep the douchebags? Let's not sweep this under the rug, lest the rug become a hill.
Can one make a GPS spoofer with software-defined radio such that Google/Microsoft/Mozilla store the wrong GPS location for your SSID, while not being powerful enough to influence GPS users outside your premises?
All of the reporting is ignoring this fact because everyone who's commenting on this issue is ignoring this fact in favor of their own assumptions about how the platform works. "Opt-out for testing, opt-in for production" has been the design from day one, but a lie can run 'round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

(And while the author does say "Best guess", this isn't just an empty Google promise—if this changes, it would change the entire tenor of consensus-based standardization discussions that are happening here, and significantly lower Google's standing in the web standards community, which they care a lot about)
Isn't this fairly typical? I had an emergency visit when I visited the USA once and was flat out told that the insurance bill was about $3000, but they could take $600 if I paid right away. I had out of country insurance, so had to pay upfront anyway, so I chose the $600 option.

I was flat out offered the cheap cash settlement.
Ha! Glad to see the interest... In fact, I just resigned and am firing my blog back up. Sounds like my first post will be this!

The short answer is that each movement is a whole body movement, using kettle bells, slam balls, or barbells.

Almost every workout is a "super set" which means I either go back and forth between the 2 several times, or go down a line doing 3-4 movements.

I almost never rest more than 2 minutes between sets (big timer on the wall). Sometimes after a very hard set I might rest 3 but that's rare.

I can see this will be too much for a comment so I'm going to write this up. Thanks for the interest!
This was one of the reasons I hated my work IPhone.

Sooooooo many updates.

Apologists will say it's fir new features and security, but it was just an annoyance. I don't even notice if my pixel gets updated.
I'm no expert, but I will say that I see All-Clad pop up everywhere. I bought myself a bunch of their copper-core pans as a college graduation present and they have been worth every penny. (And it was a lot of pennies!)
Well, those are 2 different PCs, so it's hard to compare them. Anyway I'm sure we all can come up with opposite stories as well, so to continue with anecdotes: unlike back in the days, blue screens (well, the ones I encounter, like 1 a year across 50+ machines of all ages) now are most often caused by actual harware failures the OS (be it Winows or linux) cannot cope with. Pre Windows-7 every stupid driver manufacturer would cause it instead. At least that has been fixed now.
Amazon has a pretty big advertising platform too , I think they’ll try to spread this header on all the websites that use their ad platform.

So they might be trialing it this way because of that, to help boost their ad platform and hinder floc , so that google cannot drop third party cookies that easily , as floc’s on browser processing makes google the defacto judge on what information do they add into floc identifiers and what they do not , meanwhile themselves getting all the unrestricted data from their browsers separately.

By hindering mass scale adoption of floc , they’re trying to delay dropping of third party cookies , to slow down google from getting an advantage over them.

Atleast that’s what I think , they might be testing it for other reasons, only an Amazon exec can answer it specifically.
Interesting tidbit from the first person account linked as a reference

>Some years after the incident, my hidden fears of high speed flight came to the surface and I had to spend two periods in
hospital. I had not come to terms with the emotional side of the event. To return to my wife and family, after five close
encounters with death, was indeed a miraculous experience, but I had not been honest with myself, to accept it as such,
so I needed psychiatric help. I could recall the technicalities of the flight without any hang-ups, but was unwilling to talk
about that emotional side of the ordeal until I was placed under medical drugs and to bring these emotions to the surface.
That was a rewarding experience and it gave me a much better understanding of people who might need that kind of
help, after similar unfortunate occurrences

http://www.nzrafaaa.dx.am/Halton%20Wheel%20Issue%2021%20Sept...
i hear that this is going to consume more energy that the entire country of Argentina
I’m terrible at it, but I enjoy fountain pens. They make me slow down enough that it’s at least legible, where my biro-scrawl is very much not. It is hard not to let my brain race ahead though, as it does when I’m typing.

Also fountain pens are shiny and you can get all sorts of inks and accessories!
This equation's better but you need to factor in "starting point" as another poster put it. Consider person A and B, with the same hard work, opportunity, and luck. If person A starts out with a $10M trust fund, he will have more success.

Success = (Hard Work + Head Start) * Opportunity^2 * Luck
Deaf and Incarcerated in the U.S.
I dunno.. these are loose definitions but i make enough that i'm confident i can pay off my mortgage, make meaningful contributions to my retirement and not be afraid of money (outside of job loss, at least). I also significantly budget for things like home repairs, car repairs, medical expenses, etc. I could lose my job tomorrow and be safe for 6 months, 12 if i needed to. I have no financial concerns outside of job loss right now.

My view however is that this isn't wealthy. Instead this is where the middleclass should be. I don't make enough to retire early (though i could probably extreme FIRE, but that doesn't sound enjoyable to me). I'm not by my definition wealthy, just safe, satisfied, happy. No fancy cars or homes, just a stable honest and predictable living. These are traits that, in my mind, America should strive to bring to all people.

Unfortunately i've not seen this spread. I've only seen it decrease. People far more and more on the edge of collapse, with no safety net in their bank, no budget for emergency expenses, no possibility of retirement.

Relative to the current state of America i am wealthy. To me that is very, very sad.
You want to ban.....the BBC?
AFAIK the "force feedback" aspect is almost totally lacking. We've got no way to make it feel like you've touched something yet.

If you've done a driving game with a force feedback wheel vs without, its amazing how much the haptic feedback adds. Now spread that out to all those sensations that make up any activity; "VR" hasn't done much more than nod to the desirability of more complete feedback.

IIRC Neal Stephenson had some hard lessons when he tried to develop a VR fencing game; you can't do much to simulate hitting things without actually hitting things. see https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/260688528/clang
Maybe this is an American thing, but the trucks in my neighborhood have a big mechanical arm that grabs the trash can and dumps it. The guys only get manually involved if there's extra, or a loose bag, or something else unusual. I'm worried they wouldn't notice an envelope taped to the top under normal conditions
NIH study offers new evidence of early SARS-CoV-2 infections in U.S.
Ask HN: What are your favorite serif fonts?
What are your favorite serif fonts that have a clean and modern look? Some of my favorite fonts are Dubai (sans serif) and Cascadia Code (monospaced) but never found a good serif fonts. What is your pick, HN? Highly prefer free but open to good premium suggestions.
"Remember when you wanted what you currently have?"
How do you counter/defuse these views?
“If you want NYC salary, work in NYC” – Morgan Stanley CEO
Safari is the red-headed stepchild of browsers. The dev tools are weird and different, the bugs are obscure and it's pretty much impossible to do anything on it. I love browser diversity but I wouldn't be sad to see it go away.
Improving Video Encoding System Efficiency - Netflix
A "normal" business doing this at scale would be investigated for fraud. Yet somehow it's normal when it's a hospital.
No it just exposed you as a member of atrocity literature cottage industry.

Perhaps connected to a church or left organisation
The doctor recommended that I tried Strattera first and see if worked before trying stimulants. Atomoxetine is one pill per day and works 24 hours. But doesn’t work for everybody and some people have some undesired side-effects.
I had some of the “undesired side-effects” in the beginning but they went away after a few days.
Also, in my case, it took 20 days until I felt that it was working. I noticed it started working one day after a looked back at one situation where I would normally get stuck and dread and it had gone as without any issue.
I'm never using Airbnb again after they deleted my review for mentioning bed bugs because it was "irrelevant information".
Agree, it also doesn't help that we haven't been building enough new housing to keep up with growth.
Complete speculation - they operate multiple properties and were short a bed in another house. They may have had someone checking in and balking because there was no bed. Since you had already checked in, it would be much more difficult for you to claw back your money. So the incentives are to short you in favor of the new money.
How so? What prevents you from making new functionality available incrementally and in a backwards-compatible manner on the newest version of the API?

Besides, this would reduce e-waste from perfectly functional devices that are not longer functional because the cloud endpoint went away. So it would be good for the environment too.
Is it, though? OTOH I cannot think of a single service or provider thereof that makes any guarantees about the trustworthiness of the actual calculation being performed as suggested by the GP.

While trusted computing could be used for such verification, I'm not aware of any commercial real world implementation. I'd be genuinely happy to be made aware of one, though, so please feel free to point me to one.
Today, what we provide is a way to handle code review without context-switching between Github and Slack/calls. Axolo helps to unstuck dangling pull requests in centralizing notifications in one place and let them be top of mind as a "to-do list" in your Slack.

> Where do you see the difference in a private message to someone that says "hey, can you check out this Pull Request?" and a Slack channel that automatically says "hey, can you check out this Pull Request?"

In case 1, you need to write in dm to your reviewers and ping them again if you did not receive any news. In the other case, Axolo will do it automatically and remind them about it. We believe it's easier to have specific channels because if you're requesting a review at the same time as your reviewer might, different conversations will happen in the same dm channel. And that's only regarding someone asking someone else for a review, there are other informations that have importance in your worklfow regarding pull requests (Github actions, comments & reviews)

Referring to the lack of time, we think that might be addressed in motivating engineers do more code reviews. We try to foster better practices with our "leaderboard" but we're still iterating to find the best answer.
I find Patents evil the same way hardcore racism is. Exploitation and profiteering are their motivations under the guise of fear and protection.

From all of my work experience, it is finding product-market-fit that is harder than filing a bunch of patents or better yet buying them up in bulk. Yet startups can be hugely liable to patent trolls.

Did not realize how much the Universities themselves are perpetuating this problem.
I replied https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27516973 - curious what your thoughts are on it. But no, i have literally zero fancy expenses. My car is 10 years old, my mortgage is not paid off, i don't have retirement, but all of those things are being worked on, and i am quite financially stable.
I'm pretty sure there's even pieces of the broader system that they don't have source to outright; pinball was an example, and that one piece of Office... equation editor? Anyways, right; even if they absolutely wanted to open source everything right now, they certainly don't have ownership of everything needed to do that, and while they probably have the actual code for most things it's not necessarily guaranteed.
University of Washington Reearchers Can Turn a Single Photo into a Video
I've been an early user of AirBnb since they first introduced themselves on this site. And prior to that I was a couchsurfing host, and occasional guest.

I've had relatively few problems with Airbnbs. Usually the worst I'd get would be the host flaking out and cancelling the reservation days prior to my trip. CS reps were pretty good about rebooking me in similar places for the same price. If you don't know events the price goes up the closer the date arrives. A host that cancels on you can cost you hundreds of dollars in higher charges. I've never had a hotel cancel my reservation to upcharge me down the line.

A memorable one was where we booked a Airbnb for my family. The hosts lived there with her pets and I'm allergic to cats and dogs. I reached out to Airbnb and the host and we were basically sent packing. Since it was a small town there were few places to go except a small, 1-star hotel [0] under partial renovation.

One of the things I found was even with its billions in valuation they didn't have anything in place for these delivery problems. When Airbnb ran out of Airbnbs they couldn't fix that. When Hyatt runs out of rooms they send you to Hilton.

[0] they have 2-stars now! post renovation
>Hotels are more reliable and organized

I'll often stay in B&Bs in less urban areas, but especially for urban business travel, the hotel is not really a big part of my experience and I just want to keep things simple, maybe have a place to leave my luggage after I check out, a usually 24 hour desk, etc.
The US has one dominant language and one dominant culture, but the legal system is complex. There are national laws. There are also 50 states, each with their own sets of laws. There are also laws at lower levels (county, city, etc). There are similarities that hold true, more-or-less, across the nation, but also differences that are relevant to businesses.

For example, the recent battle in California over how "gig economy" workers are classified:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_California_Proposition_22

Or, the problem of figuring out where you can sell your micro-mobility vehicle:

"The classification of ebikes and other forms of transport is a complex matter in the US. There are federal rules and lots of different regulations at state and city level."

https://www.mypodride.com/faqs (see the "PodRide for USA and Canada" section)

The US may be better than in the EU in this regard, but it's also not that different.
I have an RM1 and RM2 and love the device.

My kid has been doing remote learning during the pandemic and using my RM1 for her school work. Wrote some scripts that sync the handouts her teacher posts online to the RM1 and she can work on them as if she was drawing on paper handouts like she would in school. This is much better than what the teachers were trying to teach her to do: using Adobe's PDF reader and marking up the PDFs using all those menus and buttons and typing things in.

I enjoy writing long-form especially when I need to think. I find that I get a lot of subtle anxiety and distraction using a modern computer these days that I can't just sit and think deeply about a problem anymore while using one. Instead I can take the RM2 to a quiet place, take my notes, and I can use the transcribe features to email myself plain text later or send a copy of individual pages where I've scribbled diagrams, etc. I then refine and edit my thoughts down later on a computer.

I want to be able to do more of my computing this way to be honest. Document-oriented, using long-form writing, being able to step away into different physical spaces without missing anything.

Overall though I am really happy with my RM2. It doesn't replace my paper journals... I still prefer those for longevity/archiving -- but it does great for ephemeral notes, books, marking up papers, etc. It's great for capturing the seed of ideas and letting me work without distractions.
Probably, but it would "trash which "cohort" Google thinks I belong in"; there's really no reason to fool Google into putting you into a specific cohort as opposed to just a random/"broken" one; either way, your true cohort is obscured.

Unless you were studying the impact of ads you receive based on cohort, like https://their.tube.
It is true everything is normal:

> CNN reported Framatome wrote to the U.S. Department of Energy ... accusing Chinese authorities of raising acceptable limits for radiation outside the plant

Radiation level was withi acceptable limits before and it is now as well.
Neat! I can see few use cases, where it would make sense in our case. Is it publicly available?
> backed by French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission Vice President Margrethe Vestager, Qwant was designed to become a rival to U.S. search giant Google and bolster the EU's tech sector

How embarrassing is this? This is like playing with rocket bottles and claiming your aim is to rival SpaceX. The level of wishful thinking here is worth of a not too smart 12 yo. It's appalling to hear it coming from a major country and even the EU. Really, it's cringe worth.

The EU, France, need to swallow their misplaced, ridiculous pride and understand one simple thing: if you want SV results, you need to fucking copy SV. Otherwise just shut up and don't make an embarrassment of yourself.

(European here, just in case someone takes this for some nationalistic rant from the US).
Containerization does help with immutability(images being specified in deployment specs for k8s as an example), which does help in reducing the drift in infrastructure states.

Managing k8s in itself is a hard problem. And having done that before as part of a team which used to manage self hosted clusters, moving on to a managed k8s service does free up a lot of time from the team managing the infrastructure.

Shameless plug: Wrote down a piece which goes about self hosting and going with a managed solution based on past experiences https://tasdikrahman.me/2020/11/27/to-self-host-or-to-not-se...
I suppose you can just rerun the function? Most cases I know don’t have a large nested set of operations.
I’d be surprised to hear successful startups with all these regulations