skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eventually loss outweighs profits, and the store shuts down.
After being threaten by LinkedIn: "LinkedIn told hiQ in 2017 to stop scraping LinkedIn's public profiles or face liability under the anti-hacking law."

I think it's fair to say LinkedIn is the instigator in this case.
Now I am tempted to share 2D breakout game I built using ClojureScript.

On Slide 3, if you drag piece(cursor) to leftmost or right most side, part of piece is getting chopped.

Great work by the way.
NERC Warns Energy Shortfalls Almost Inevitable This Summer
still, the sheer number of ready made sandboxes certainly will expand such that niche software implementations will be far and fewer.

of course, like moores law, its likely not going to engulf everywhere a programmer touches, so new use cases will keep busy.

but take wordpress, you can basicslly build a whole ecommerce site knowing a couple of plugins real well.
Strategic incompetence is a thing.
Yeah, these supple tires are faster but less delicate than you think.

I do think replacing your stock tire with a supple tire at the same width will be a huge upgrade, and wider would just give you a little bit more.
And such a short edit distance from CYA!
> Not only does Linux have its own drivers, they can unbrick the damaged devices.

Thanks for that. I haven't used my counterfeit FTDI cable in probably 2 years, but I was trying to figure out how I had not encountered any issues with it.

I only happened to find out it was counterfeit due to the fact that I purchased it via a link in a forum recommended by "some user", and later, when I had this stupid looking cable and no idea where to plug the ends into my Pi, I revisited the forum, scrolled down a few replies, and found out that all of the "FTDI" products from the manufacturer of my cable were fakes.

Once I read that, I had intended on replacing it, but decided to wire it up anyway to see if it would work. I run OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on my main computer, and I don't remember having to do anything unusual, or encountering any warnings/errors at the time trying to use it[0], I'm guessing that's why...

[0] I was trying to connect into a headless RPi and that was the most convenient way sometimes.
I would call the Civil Rights Act of 1965 pretty damn centrist considering how many of today's "progressives" claim it did absolutely nothing to seriously free black people or abolish white supremacy.
“the best you can for the next five minutes.” I remember one grueling hike, a 12-hour slog where we were forced to carry filled sandbags, where I found myself dehydrated, demoralized, and exhausted. Blocking out discouraging thoughts of the hours ahead, I focused on doing the best marching I could for the next five minutes. When those five minutes had passed, I focused on doing well for the next five minutes, and so on and so on. By concentrating only on short periods, I mastered my own exhaustion and ultimately finished the hike. Next time you’re faced with a seemingly impossible task, try focusing on doing the best you can for the next five minutes, then repeat until you cross the finish line. I also recommend reading the book "Can't hurt me" by david goggins
And let's not forget that Microsoft probably is using that data when it comes to their own hiring decisions and recruiting efforts.
Actually just requested a 4 day work week for the same amount of money. Wish me luck! Seems reasonable to me tho, I can probably provide the same amount of value as if I worked 5 days a week - but who knows maybe they will just give me more work to do instead!
> Yes there are a few that were not possible back then.

"A few" is underselling it somewhat. I would posit that >95% of popular modern websites contain functionality that was not plausible in 1996.
Should the first one be Google _Talk_, or was there another pre-Hangouts feature called Chat too?
Yeah, the lack of power meter data in their tests is really frustrating.
This is my favorite WordPerfect-related photograph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WordPerfect_for_Unix_Syst...

It's WordPerfect. Distributed on 9-track tape. In German.

Back then, companies made an effort to support as many people as possible. I remember Infocom simultaneously publishing its games for Atari, Amiga, and PDP-11 machines.

Today, if you're not Mac or Windows, you're an "edge case" and not worthy of the effort.
Covid-19 Natural Immunity vs. Vaccine Immunity
Ok. Yes, gold does have those downsides, I agree. The upside is a limited supply and therefore limited ability to inflate the supply.

> why when the average low-income American is in nominal debt at fixed interest rates [0] that HN thinks inflation is bad for them

Many reasons. Monetary inflation doesn't just lead to devaluation of the currency - it doesn't just hurt lenders and holders of dollars. Monetary inflation extract Seigniorage from the people. Prices rise before wages, leading the poor to get poorer. The money is used by banks to extract interest from people they give loans to. Read my other comments on this thread tho. I'd rather not rehash it yet again.
Amusingly, here in the Midwest we refer to the skis that we use for poor snow conditions, where there's a lot of mud and muck, as "gravel skis."
the very idea that we could exit our solar system is indistinguishable from magic, as there exist no technology or testable theory on interstellar travel. hell, even the low rent "generation" ships make no sense since we cant even manage ther earths atmosphere or civil societies.

the existence of intelligent life is meaningless if the currently examined universe holds physically true.
yeah, been using jq for ages, unfortunately jq modifies the dom, not the virtual dom react.js is running on
I think there's a second market: familiarity.

Think of the Cracker Barrels all across the country. Always right next to a major highway, look exactly the same, food's exactly the same. Always packed pre-pandemic.

If you've just traveled 8 hours and don't want to fight with dueling blog reviews or having to decide "do I want 'the best Thai food in Provo' or 'the best cheesesteak I ever had'", a Cracker Barrel or Applebee's has a "basically fulfills purpose" charm.

They can slide a bit downmarket and survive, but a place like Planet Hollywood can't go truly upmarket without actual work on the food.
Cosmic rays are a thing, and wasn’t there just a study linked here a few days ago about how unreliable hardware is at scale?
I would love a feature in Teams that was "never, ever, ever, open a link in teams - use the default browser".

Like you, I can't fucking stand it, and I make the same mistake at least once a day.

Disclaimer: I work at msft etc etc.
This was the movie that finally cured me out of the bad habit of reading the Swedish subtitles instead of actually listening to the spoken English.

I remember watching it in Stockholm's most renowned theater at that time, all seats taken.

When Brody and Indy discuss what would happen if the Nazis got hold of the ark, Brody says: "Any army carrying it would be invincible" the Swedish subtitle read (translated back to English): "Any army carrying it would be invisible".
My sense is that Jevon's Paradox should mean the blogpap business will explode. Google will be filled with even more pithy, business-topic supporting SEO blather as human writers put GPT to work for a lot more clients than they had before GPT3.
I interpreted "the cloud bolsters protection" as cloud hosted solutions tend to be more secure since there is a single company which specializes in that service. They can protect the service better than any single company which develops it in house probably would since that is what they specialize in, it is managed, they have more money to throw at it due to many customers, and they can take advantage of economies of scale.

However that does make the cloud provided service much more of a target for those seeking that data.
I’ve tried four countries and it’s all religious programming.
err.

he could just line item defense spending to offset.

you could say this about any item in reality if you restrict the context.
> I disagree with that SCOTUS decision. It completely obliterated CFAA. Imagine if they said nurses/doctors could do that with their terminals and it didn't violate HIPAA.

I don't see the similarity between CFAA and HIPAA, here, and SCOTUS didn't obliterate the CFAA. Theybsimply said, if you are authorized to use a system, your use of the system isn't unauthorized. That's fairly straightforward.

HIPAA, on the other hand, regulates disclosure of specific data. You can violate HIPAA even if you are authorized to use a system that holds covered data.
Also heat pump water heaters essentially air condition/de-humidify your closet/garage/etc which is great in humid climates.
Most of them are US based, where the concept isn’t unheard of:

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/security.png
Ultimately, if the data isn't on your hardware, parsable by open source software, there's always a chance a corporate move could imperil it.
Wouldn't this be trivial, although maybe a little expensive, to circumvent by sending the dog through a layover to an allowed country? Dogs don't routinely carry passports indicating their origin, although that would be amusing.

I guess if the goal is to statistically minimize the spread of disease, it still works by decreasing the number of dogs coming in, though. I suppose it would depend on the replication rate of the disease in question whether that is effective.
>>That's going to be a condensation fest in there.

Oh yeah! I spent a few nights in it on a gravel bar on Sylamore Creek in Arkansas and I didn't have a campfire because it was warm out. In the morning it was practically a downpour of rain when I got up and bumped the side walls.

On the plus side, when the sun came over us and burned off the fog the tent warmed up fast, and enough, to dry everything out very quickly.

But that was probably the wettest I've ever seen the inside of any tent get.
While I don't dispute this, and I have both kinds of bikes, when I talk to "casual" cyclists who have tried disc brakes, they almost unanimously describe the difference as being like night and day. Perhaps the issue is that they are comparing new disc brakes on good bikes, to old crappy neglected rim brakes on cheap bikes. Still, the difference in popularity is unmistakable.

Myself, I'm not getting rid of my rim brake bikes any time soon, but it's interesting to observe how different people experience cycling.
> My fantasy version of utopia is a peaceful, post-scarcity society where no one ever needs to work, and automatically gets a life of luxury simply because it's available and costs nothing.

Contrast with...
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." -- George Orwell.

Sadly, I think we're still closer to Mr Orwell's vision at this point in time, in spite of have more material comforts and resources available than at any point in history.

To get to your utopian vision, we'll need to permanently break free of our primate instincts. That's not going to be easy.
I have made some spaghetti hacks so far, using this little library I've found
https://github.com/vitalyq/react-trigger-change
, that are able to invoke focus and some input changes calling the dispatchevent.
But it's very unstable to say the least! like a setinterval I have will stop midway and run again, like complete crazy.
I'm trying to put some input text to a component that I suspect is made with draft.js, and sometimes the input will go in, other times it wont, ot it will be just scribbles.
Our lazze-faire(sp?) attitude towards who can have children will come back to bite us, someday. The most "successful" parents are those who invest very little into their offspring.
Same. Annoying.
Well, to be fair, the movie ends by Indian soldiers literally shooting these child-sacrificers to death ...
And yet you won’t be willing to pay a 4-10x premium on your grocery order to make that feasible.
> the HA folk were saying "We're not getting involved with your dispute,

There are two HA folk (excluding frenck) commenting on that thread. The first demands than nixos devs should "Just do as he asks", which seems to me like they are very much getting involved in the dispute.

The second only comments to close the thread, and—while they do include the phrase "it's not our issue" in their closing comment—the rest of that comment accuses the OP of bad faith posting, and goes on to misrepresent the issue completely, claiming the problem is that NixOS are doing things that are unsupported (Frenck's objection was to NixOS packaging his package at all in any form, not to anything specific they were doing with it). So again, that seems like the second poster is very much contributing to the dispute, not "not getting involved".

> one way was for NixOS to ask upstream HA to drop the library as a dependency. It doesn't sound like a friendly heads-up to me

I guess a lot of this does depend on how reasonable you think that request would be. I thought the post seemed friendly as it was phrased politely. And I think removing the dependency should be reasonable if HA wished to remain an open source project given the dependency is now defacto closed source (perhaps not technically in licence text, but the author harassing anyone wishing to avail of the licence would seem to nullify that).

> from the thread title.

Title opens with the word "consider". Seems polite to me...
Most of the time, factories or IIFE would be sufficient. Sometimes the non trivial stuff is non deterministic, requires other sources of input, or gives up cpu control that makes them insufficient for all use cases.

Also, my problem with const pointers is that they don't enforce deep immutability and can cause all sorts of compilation errors if I try to pass them to non-const functions (usually to external libraries). Then I'd end up type casting my pointers which defeats the purpose of static type checking.
Intermediate: OneSignal Push Notification Integration in Xamarin (Android)
You're starting to get it. Paradoxes, contradictions, and nonsense is how these traditions attempt to get the practitioner to overcome dualism. The problem is that you think you can use either-or logic to understand it when the practice is designed to destroy it.
Did Quark Matter Pass Through the Earth? (2002)
Im sure pugs and bulldogs would disagree with you, if only they could breathe properly.
Please don't take this personally, HN downvotes based on disagreement.
Speaking as someone with a hot air rework station and no experience soldering SOICs, I can make a whole bunch of melted crap in 5 minutes all while burning my fingers.

5-minutes sounds insane to me, but I know it's accurate (the key being "experience").

Any tips for learning how to do this sort of thing with proficiency? How long does it take to become that proficient? What kind of coating/weirdness would present a problem? I'm asking for a bit OT reasons -- it's always been something I've wanted to learn/teach my kids.
MicroStrategy vs. Bitcoin
I suspect we met at some point. My friend and I got busted rooting the server at the gifted school (ARC) in ‘97, but instead of calling an authority, the teacher called Mike and we spent the next two years or so playing with SATAN/SANTA, learning Perl and C++, and experimenting with 3D graphics in Java. I can draw a straight line from Logo Writer, through the mag lab, and to my current job.
I relied very heavily on Day One until they dropped most of their local-hosting features. It was painful and I still haven't found any comparable alternative.
Last stable release of WordPerfect was 38 days ago.

Last stable release of VIM was 18 months ago.

I'm not sure you're on the right side of the "let it stay in the past" argument.
Have him sear and wok outdoors, he can continue cooking indoors once the smoky phase has passed.
I'm guessing this would be most useful when interfacing with naughty code that you can't rewrite. E.g. you need to call a function from another library that does something useful and also modifies its argument, and you only want it to do the useful thing.
Excluding embedded video which indeed was very low quality then (although it existed) what things do you have in mind?
TBH, I see it as part of a grand scale project of economic and social organization that would make the Soviet Union look like a middle-school bake sale.
Thank you for this compilation. I think the demos are a cherry on top; it becomes an easy sell :)
Thank you :)
Indeed. The willingness of VCs to fund a big vision is a game changer from companies having to incrementally bootstrap themselves.
Yep. The sun will warm it too.
Spot-on. Literally the only app I have ever recommended to friends, but it’s buggy nature now is so grating.
Cable-pull disc brakes are still a huge improvement over rim brakes in the ways that matter, especially in the wet.
I believe if you're using Gmail on your own domain and paying, you're already using Workspace. I think the new individual plan is aimed at the folks with consumer @gmail.com accounts, using them for business purposes and want to upgrade.
> I disagree with that SCOTUS decision. It completely obliterated CFAA. Imagine if they said nurses/doctors could do that with their terminals and it didn't violate HIPAA.

The court was absolutely correct in their ruling. If you don't want cops using that data for their own purposes, it should be against the law.... it doesn't make sense to use the CFAA as a catch all for stopping people from misusing data they were given access to. If we do, it gives every private company the ability to make breaking their EULA a criminal offense. That is ridiculous.

HIPPA is a good example of how the law should work. You make what you want illegal; it has nothing to do with computers.

Why would the cop using a computer to access the information be against the law but not a cop going and reading a paper file?
I'm talking about things like LSD and MDMA, cannabis is not exactly a psychedelic.
how much effort it was to administer Freenode? They seem to have lots of volunteers doing something.
He said JavaScript developers not software engineers
Free money is a disincentive to work. But the effect is strongest on jobs that pay <$15/hr or don't include health insurance.
If you are not a good enough developer to build monoliths then you are not a good enough developer to build micro-services.
Welcome to Google Synonym[1] - a new Google service that helps you navigate the Marketing Graph of product names and their relationship with each other over time. Think of it like Google Maps if the map was a mind map produced by our product teams!

[1] Will be renamed to "Google Metaphor" in 2022.
It's not trivial to install a 20-year-old program on a modern distro

Meanwhile I have some mid-90s Win32 apps that still work fine on Windows 10, and a bunch of miscellaneous DOS utilities from the 80s that are just as functional. Of course, the same applies to those versions of WordPerfect. As much as people like to talk about "DLL hell" on Windows, the dependency problem seems far worse on Linux. I know of some very expensive software (IC design/EDA) that's very difficult to get running on anything but a specific minor version of a specific distro.
This article is really a summary, as part of a series on myths in cycling. Here's a pair of much more recent article with more data and methodology and nuance specifically about testing and speed:

https://www.renehersecycles.com/how-we-test-tires/

https://www.renehersecycles.com/bq-tire-test-results/
If using Instacart, consider switching to your local grocer's delivery service instead. It's kind of wild how many people in Texas used Instacart and never knew that H-E-B had their own delivery option. There's generally far less markup for similar service, although the real-time conversation Instacart allows with your shopper is nice. Not nice enough to justify the mark ups for routine shopping, though, IMO.
So what the heck did all of this accomplish for freenode? I am not really part of the FOSS community, but this entire thing sounds comically absurd.

They bought something, threw a ton of people off it, and then seemingly wiped everything?
Exploring the natural origins of SARS-CoV-2 in the light of recombination
What do you do when you build an entire business on top of LinkedIn, then they decide to completely revoke your access?

We need DE-centralization, so no-one in the world has this type of power over anyone.
geezus this is old, has there not been more recent versions/attempts at this kind of post?
Great read, I'd love to see a 2020 version of that World in Data infographic.
This is being tackled in the DeFi space
> In 2017 Portland ranked third. Now it has dropped to 66th out of 80.

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/06/12/portland-...

The unchecked progressivism is destroying entire cities, enmasse. No one wants to live in defunded police state, and I would be pretty pissed if I owned property in Portland.

I might just vote for the republican party in the next election. I can't stand this just like I couldn't stand the prior republican administration. But, then I think about all the shitty politicians... America, you're broken. Find someone reasonable in the center that I can vote for.
I honestly have no idea. But it's chaos right now.
Yeah, my pet theory is that English has naturally evolved to repeat the last word of acronyms to disambiguate them.
it's not workin
Another shipping crisis looms on Covid fears in southern China
I remember in high school learning how to build little websites and thinking, “it sure would be cool if we could build a little online yearbook for our school! Everyone could have their own little profile page!”
> Summary

> The lack of an identifiable intermediate host species for the proximal animal ancestor of SARS-CoV-2, and the large geographical distance between Wuhan and where the closest evolutionary related coronaviruses circulating in horseshoe bats (Sarbecoviruses) have been identified,is fuelling speculation on the natural origins of SARS-CoV-2. We have comprehensively analysed phylogenetic relations between SARS-CoV-2, and the related bat and pangolin Sarbecoviruses sampled so far. Determining the likely recombination events reveals a highly reticulate evolutionary history within this group of coronaviruses. Clustering of the inferred recombination events is non-random with evidence that Spike, the main target for humoral immunity, is beside a recombination hotspot likely driving antigenic shift in the ancestry of bat Sarbecoviruses. Coupled with the geographic ranges of their hosts and the sampling locations, across southern China, and into Southeast Asia, we confirm horseshoe bats, Rhinolophus, are the likely SARS-CoV-2 progenitor reservoir species. By tracing the recombinant sequence patterns, we conclude that there has been relatively recent geographic movement and co-circulation of these viruses’ ancestors, extending across their bat host ranges in China and Southeast Asia over the last 100 years or so. We confirm that a direct proximal ancestor to SARS-CoV-2 is yet to be sampled, since the closest relative shared a common ancestor with SARS-CoV-2 approximately 40 years ago. Our analysis highlights the need for more wildlife sampling to (i) pinpoint the exact origins of SARS-CoV-2’s animal progenitor, and (ii) survey the extent of the diversity in the related Sarbecoviruses’ phylogeny that present high risk for future spillover.
Show HN: Rust project – browse OpenStreetMap data in the terminal
Remove one thing or two and this looks like the script of an Apple computer ad in 1985. Google is an Ad monopoly with a searcher tacked on, and many short-lived projects created to justify the promotions and roles of their overqualified work force. Although judging by examples like this one, I dont think all of them are over-qualified,
I like the purity that might come with decorating basically everything in a codebase with `@freeze_params()`, although I wonder/worry about what the runtime overhead might be. I really wish that something like that could be checked statically.