skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More powerful tools don't solve the problem that you still need to understand what you are doing and how to achieve that in a way computers do it correctly and reliably. I don't think that entry to software engineering and development is simple. And it might not even be something that most people are capable of.

Yeah, you can show anyone how to mash blocks together, but to have them make something usable and working that can be expanded or changed is much higher barrier.

Same with AI. You still need to define lot of things to get right output for given input. And some of the cases are very complex.
As a privacy conscious user, I hope one day there will be a "Premium" Google account for individuals, where you pay in exchange for not being tracked and not being shown ads. I wonder if this announcement is Google going into that direction. I'm sure Google knows that for many, perception of privacy issues has changed drastically in recent years.

At the moment, they still have dis-joined paid offerings, for example Youtube Premium, Google Play Pass, Google Workspace, etc. - with many Google products, such as Android or GMaps, there is still no way to pay your way out of tracking/ads (at least that I know of). Instead, there should be a single paid subscription, for all Google services.

I left Google a while ago[1] but if the "privacy subscription" offering became a thing, I would be back in no time.

[1] My main Google account was deleted and replaced with a combination of Mailinabox, Nextcloud, Duckduckgo etc. - but I have an alt account only for Youtube, linked to my wife's Youtube Premium Family plan.
It's good for those that own the protected companies
There’s no partisan divide? You’re having a laugh.
> I do think it performs best using Chrome though.

Or Chromium which is FOSS.
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Economist ran an article on this: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/06/05/once-a-corpora...

We're in the service economy now, and Europe has no real single market for services, due to all kinds of national regulations that differ throughout the block. Nor does it have well-developed financial and labor markets, partly also because they are currently partitioned by nationality. Its stock exchanges are too many and too small, etc. The list goes on.

For many big European companies, an astounding percentage of revenue comes from the US or China. But if you start a startup building for US/China from the start, why would you want the HQ to be somewhere in Europe?

Edit: This also means that the story is very very different for products that can be shipped in boxes. Europe does extremely well in cars, beverages, clothing, chemicals and that sort of thing. Also electrical utilities. No idea why, tbh.
The Fisher-Price PXL-2000 video camera
"The PXL-2000 is a unique machine in many respects. It was the only linear-recording video system (using fixedheads rather than a spinning head drum) since the TelCan / Wesgrove reel-to-reel recorders from the 1960s; it used normal audio cassettes to record onto, rather than inventing it's own media - and it was the only video system to be developed by a toy company!.
The idea was to produce a camcorder which was cheap and simple enough to be used by children. 'Normal' camcorders retailed at the time for around £1000, so the PXL was about one-eighth of the cost."
Since those productive people are supporting the unproductive ones, they'll go with them. I don't think the Earth can sustain 7 billion hunter-gatherers without technology. It didn't seem to before industrialization.
The MediaMachine Runbook for Traefik
It was a fork - so what Google started with was not actually KHTML and the amount of work done after the fork before Google started using it was much greater than that done before.
The model of Day One seems more like Simplenote, which has been acquired by Automattic for quite a while, and not integrated to WP/Tumblr.
Same. I don't have any rational basis for it, but I've been happy with my tires. I think the best thing I learned from that site is even slightly larger sizes have a much bigger effect on puncture resistance than better construction.
It's possible that's what Google wants, but it's also a terrible idea. Browsers should be reducing their attack surface, not increasing it.

If I was to characterize most of my issues with the Chrome team, it'd be that they need to stay in their own lane. They've injected a botched antivirus app into their releases before, DoH basically sidesteps the OS' networking stack because it was inconvenient for them they couldn't change it, etc.

At what point can we tell the Chrome team to stop feature creeping and just try to make their web browser waste less RAM?
This is really cool, I'm going to try it on a few of my own cli programs.
Yes, but the effect is rather small, because the rotating mass is small compared to the combined mass of bike and rider.

Also, a typical trick is to go to a smaller diameter wheel and a larger tire, so that the handling and moment of inertia are similar.

For example, I’ve got two rim brake wheels, one 700c 16 spoke aero front wheel with a 23mm tire on it, and one 26” 36 spoke tandem/mtb front wheel with a 44mm tire, and the difference in weight is 200g. (1200 vs 1400)

Even on the road bike, that’s only a 0.4% difference. (Not that they’re compatible wheels, it’s just the only decent comparison I have on hand)
First off, disclaimer, co-founder of Lowdefy [0] and shameless plug. But feel ok since it is on topic.

I 100% agree with you on this. We’ve built many back-office tools for customers and the bulk of the engineering time goes into understanding the problem and tranlating that into data. Tools like Lowdefy make it a lot easier to put this translation into action, but the real work is done by a data literate employee.

We believe that role will stay with it the IT / dev department, at least for any project / tool larger than a Airtable. It use to be all tools larger than a spreadsheet or access DB, but now that scale has increased slightly but not much.

For this reason we are designing Lowdefy to be a dev first low-code platform. By writing apps in a DSL you get the following advantages:

- No steep learning curve for new devs :: All devs are familiar with DSLs.
- Apps follow a structured schema :: Easy to pick up where others left off.
- Nothing is hidden in a GUI :: You can copy, paste, find, replace, review changes, duplicate repos, etc.
- Create and manage apps with code :: Develop scripts, like a visual app builder.
- DSL files work with all dev tools :: Devs want to use their favorite tools.

[0] - https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy

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With all this said, you can optimize with tools as much as you like - most dev productivity is always lost in building the wrong things.
Or that Europe missed out on the technology revolution in a huge way. The biggest company in the world is Apple, a mobile phone producer. But I don't think anyone would say that the mobile phone industry lacks competition. I can name 10 brands off the top of my head.
The question a lot of users are going to ask. what does the upgrade path look like?
This will be interesting to see how they will react.

Btw speaking of licenses, since frenck said he will be changing it by adding exceptions and making it non-free. Douglas Crockford said in one of the talks that one certain three letter company contacted him and wanted to use JSON format but weren't sure they could comply with "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil." And he gave them that exception by stating: "I thereby allow ** to use JSON for Evil". My advise to Frenck is to adopt some similar proprietary license if he wants his work not be included in distros like Fedora and Debian. And grant exceptions to his fav projects like HA /s
This is the typical bait to attack centrism: moral coercion by framing an issue so that "NO" can never be an answer.

Centrism doesn't mean indifference regarding any topic, nor does it mean "meet in the middle" on any topic.
Interesting. I don’t know about Fox news, but I do know some secular non-Christians that were using it that way.

Edit: Oh, and the Futurama episode. Does that count as Fox?
This is not the conclusion the article reaches.
That sounds like contention you've observed correlates with established, balkanized tribal factions. Perhaps it's most typically bikeshedding about minutiae in order to have an argument.

Argument - Monty Python https://youtu.be/ohDB5gbtaEQ
Yup. Though I'm not sure the NixOS dev was fully aware of that fact at the time.
Most people have already answered you. The problem is anyone in the middle can hijack the page and put whatever they want there. See what I mentioned here in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25123366

Now imagine you combine MITM-ing someone with social engineering. You send them a legitimate inocuous link like http://my-bank.my-tld, but you are MITM-ing them and outright replace the content of the page with whatever you want. Yes, HSTS protects agains this example, but the problem still remains: whatever goes through HTTP can be manipulated and used for nefarious ends. It's kinda like walking around with a car door open waiting for someone to throw a bomb inside it.
Dell not shipping Gaming PC's to California?
I was browsing through the Dell Alienware website since I want to buy a new PC. Naturally if I want a GTX3060ti or better but I discovered that Dell won't sell me a PC with that in it since I live in California. I got a non-answer out of Dell support so I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this?

I feel like a criminal or something; I can't buy something thats perfectly legal...
> Should always do a simple diff at minimum to see what changed. That's just part of being a responsible open source user.

Nobody does this, as this is completely unreasonable thing to expect.
I’ve just started this, it will become more complex in the future with some help from the community
Found the details - I went from 40mm WTB Nanos [0] to these 38mm GravelKing Slicks [1]. If you look at the product pages, the difference is pretty striking. I don't know much about the RoadSports, but at least when it comes to "slick-ness", it looks like you're already starting from a slicker baseline than I was.

- [0] https://www.wtb.com/products/nano-40c

- [1] https://www.panaracerusa.com/products/gravelking-slick-foldi...
This idea gets recycled every generation. I can’t count how many “low code” no-programming-skills-required tools I’ve seen come and go in the last four decades. Both COBOL and SQL got presented in these terms. I’ve yet to see a “non-technical manager” write a non-trivial SQL query, much less know how to confirm they got the correct results.

The various 4GL tools that proliferated in the 90s led to complex amateur spaghetti code apps in Access and FileMaker and 4th Dimension that didn’t scale, with no way to break through the inevitable limitations of the tools. And few people wanted to learn to use those.

As other people commented the hard part of programming is not the language or tools, though those can be damned hard to master. Translating requirements into code is the hard part. If that was easy to automate we could have built code from UML diagrams drawn by non-programmers decades ago.

The most widely-used low-code tool is Excel, for some time now. Easy to use, sure. Not so easy to use correctly and accurately.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/salesforce/2014/09/13/sorry-spr...
Coercing a data pointer into a function pointer is undefined behavior in standard C (they don't even need to be the same size), but at least on POSIX platforms the compiler must do the right thing because `dlsym` depends on it working. Generating and executing native code at runtime is not that special, mind; after all JIT compilers are ubiquitous these days!
And to note, no evidence in double blind tests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_hypersensitivi...
This is actually not really true. Competition bikes have a minimum weight nowadays, and technology is that advanced that it wouldn't be a problem to add some weight here or there because the bike would stay the same weight in total as they have so much margin else to keep in track with the minimum weight. This is why most teams have switched to disk brakes btw, and that they can have all the electronics onboard with power meter, bike computer etc.
I don't think it's strictly true that you only get one shot but agreed this app is too early in its development to receive meaningful feedback and the author should probably come back when it's somewhat more fleshed out - right now it's just a clickable list of direct article links that launch an external browser.
Well I can relate to that kind of story, although I got it mostly out of my system by college.

I took one CS class as well. I didn't read the syllabus carefully, and thus didn't realize that the lab was 10% of my grade, so I got a final score of 89%. I tried to argue that getting 99% of the rest of the course right should make up for the missing lab work, to no avail. This is how I ended up a chemistry major.

Anyway, I think you would get a lot out of this essay. I did at least.

http://www.marktarver.com/bipolar.html
I think Apple was first with progressive web apps (PWA) as in web apps that could be installed to the "home screen". iPhone was meant to only run these web apps. Then Apple made a 360 in favor of "native" apps in order to get more performance.
Also FirefoxOS was and still lives on (KaiOS) using web apps.
When mounting, you must provide the outer volume password and you may provide the inner volume password. If you mount the inner volume, you must provide the inner volume password.

If you are plausibly denying the existence of the inner volume, you mount the outer volume without the inner volume password. The driver happily overwrites the "free space" where the inner volume keeps its data. It is in fact unsafe to modify the outer volume at all without providing the inner volume password (if an inner volume exists).

[edit] VeraCrypt it seems only accepts the outer volume password when creating the hidden volume, but here's more about it: https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Protection%20of%20Hidden%20Volum...
The File object returned by FileSystemFileHandle.getFile() is only readable as long as the underlying file on disk hasn't changed. If the file on disk is modified, the File object becomes unreadable and you'll need to call getFile() again to get a new File object to read the changed data.

This seems very strange. Since when does a File stop being readable when it is modified? What does "modified" mean here anyways? Can anyone shed some light on this?
I disagreed that there was nothing in the emails and explained below.

I also disagree with the notion that a foreign power revealing truths about a candidate is wrong. If you reject a foreign truth over a domestic lie you reject the very heart of democracy itself.

It's all the more ironic given the amount of meddling the US has done in foreign elections, including Russia's.
The USA had a few trillion freshly flushed into the economy, the EU (yet) had not.
Flamethrowing Roomba
The contact patch should be a constant area for a given pressure and load.

A wider tire will have a wider, but shorter, contact patch at the same pressure.
Learn (self-)hypnosis. Your brain is capable of rapid deep thought, but you have to align the unconscious and conscious mind. Then it's pretty easy.

If you poke me I'll add some more information.
My wife (who is pretty far left), observed that Trump was actually many of the things that G.W. Bush was accused of being.

I think a major tenet of post-trump Republicanism is roughly: "We're going to be accused of being racist and conspiracy theorists by the left no matter what we do, so there is only an upside to openly courting those members of the electorate.
> How much did Stalin sleep?

https://www.quora.com/How-much-did-Stalin-sleep

If you aren't already delegating everything already, and evaluating their work, and delegating the evaluation of that work...are your people just standing around watching you work as hard as possible?

Knowing who is working the hardest, and having some idea of what kind of bonus they expect at Christmas...

With all due respect, by now the roles at any organization, especially start-ups, are commodity off-the-shelf parts; SKU given by the bullet points of responsibilities on the job availability advertisement. At start-ups, you are also required to be a wild animal; reading any translation of Gilgamesh I'm sure will get the relevant point across.

This is part of the semi-cult semi-gang status of start-up corporations. Having silly ideas about the leader is part of the experience, part of the allure.

I can't underestimate how thrilling it is to be a part of a cult of personality. It's absolutely enchanting. I'm sure Jung would have a lot to say about this, or Freud. It is part of a natural primal instinct to fight and push oneself to the limit.

Reminds me of this: https://soundcloud.com/studybuddhism/strategies-for-2?in=stu...
The market for consumer devices, social networks and search engines isn't particularly competitive in Europe, no.
That's all fine and dandy, but can I make boring presentations full of bulleted lists? Because missing that would really be a deal breaker for me.
Family sharing of Google Play and YouTube Premium subscriptions are not available for workspace accounts either.

Which makes it a no-go once you have a family, EOT. So now the entire family have Apple services instead for the same price.

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
"Doing nothing doesn’t get boring for everyone. And it’s my time not yours so who’s to say what a waste is?"

You didn't do nothing for 3 years. You enjoyed your time, and you did things, so no, you did not waste it.

Otherwise I very strongly agree with, that you just should do, what you really want and not what others want.

After I decided to leave university, I planned a bike trip from germany to portugal. I wanted to do this. And I did it.
But then, along the way, on the border to spain, at a nice place I stayed for a while ... I decided I had enough. Or I realized, that I had wanted this for a while already.

It was fun, but "accomplishing" my trip would have only meaning for my travel blog and the expectations of other people - but not for me.

I enjoyed the trip very much, but did not felt like moving further and spend the whole winter in the south. So screw other peoples expecations, I am doing what I want, so I flew back home.
Source?? I'm quite certain that it's much harder to exploit something that you can't even send a TCP packet to. If the device is only directly connected to the hub (amazon/google/apple box) and the hub is only connected to the cloud service, how would you even send a payload to the device, even if an exploit existed?

You could exploit the cloud service directly and gain control of the device, but that's like stealing the security guard's master keys - you can't call that a vulnerability in the door lock, can you?
How we've built the Waymo Driver to share the road with cyclists
I've been a cyclist almost my entire life. It's been my main method of transport for several years and I do it as a sport. I don't plan to own an electric bike because I take pride in being able to move my own weight around but I'll take anything that gets more people on bikes. Cars are a scourge and need to be severely limited. Electric bikes lower the barriers to entry for many people and I'd much rather be overtaken by an electric bike than a monstrous car.
It's not a good trend though. I actually prioritize doing business with vendors that don't do this (I only shop at stores that don't generally card for alcohol for instance)
Modern backpacking tents have achieved an exquisite pinnacle of engineering and usability perfection. I am a UX baby (constant whining about almost every tool/service/product I interact with, sorry to everyone who has to be around me) and I love my tent. It is magical the degree to which it has been thoughtfully optimized in so many little ways.

DIY tents like this one are interesting and fun if you are into geeking on that sort of thing but honestly seem like a pain to set up and likely to have severe condensation issues (as others have mentioned) but, seriously, I appreciate the geekery here, just not my focus. I prefer to invest my camping DIY geekery on bushwhacking and cooking.
As far as I remember I first thought it was some weird exclusive blog platform, that impression only turned into a "complete failure to clone facebook ran by a team of brain dead morons" when they tried to force subscribe everyone to it. It was impressive how Google could completely fail at something, of course Google and Facebook made a few deals to stay of each others turfs behind closed doors so that failure may have been intentional.
That's a good point though I think most apps are CRUD and ETL and are very repetitive.
A lot of the developers these days tend to be integrators. The no-code tooling can help actually take that procedure to a higher abstraction where understanding of the system would still be needed but understanding of the low level details of coding can be completely eliminated.

Think languages like JS or PHP. World have been built using these and many of the developers in these languages don’t have understanding on how computers actually work. People can built money making code with these without learning about data types. Both are regarded as low quality languages but both are extremely productive.

Also, many people who don’t know any computer languages are programming in MS Excel all the time.

Sometimes, some tools are simply extremely productive and intuitive when the mental model of the domain you are solving problems matches the way these tools work.
c) is pretty clear based on 10-Ks and performance of tech companies relative to others in the market.

And while I personally do not know people’s financial histories, I can say that the part of my college class that went to tech seem to work far less than the part that went to finance. Even if gross income is similar, I doubt that $/hour worked, or the risk was better in finance than in tech over the past 15 to 20 years.

That isn’t to knock finance, it’s just my interpretation of the reality of how much access to broadband and advancements in certain technologies have underlined much of our economic growth.
While you might not know who your source was, if you're in contact with them after the proposed contact point's death you clearly are aware it is not that person. They played coy when they knew overtly he was not the contact point.
B2 Fireball can import 96TB:

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You can also export B2 data via a USB hard drive, and if you return the drive within 30 days, it's free:

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https://archive.is/HYpNg