skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So no football games with friends, and no friends abroad?

PCR test cost around 100eur in slovenia, and take a day or two. Fast tests (HAT) are free, but the waiting lines are 1-3hours, because of all the groups that have to do mandatroy testings each week.
Running with a heavy wallet is dangerous. You're more likely to lose your balance and any fall would be that much worse due to the added weight. Peloton is helpfully making your wallet lighter to ensure a safe running experience.

Seriously though: if something doesn't really need it, any form of Internet-enabling is something I see as an anti-feature and now avoid at all costs. Internet enabled features or apps means "it spies on you, will change or break needlessly due to an update, or will find a way to extract rent." I will pay more for something without Wifi or (worse) a fucking cellular modem.

I'm worried about the ability to buy a non-Internet-enabled car though. I have a 2013 Nissan Leaf and am looking into upgrading its battery. The car is otherwise absolutely perfect. It just needs more range per charge.
> they can't afford to waste money

satoshi has a million BTC. He can spend it in 500 BTC increments once a day for half a decade (about 14 million-dollar outlay per day at the current exchange rate). It's true that that BTC won't automatically refresh... Unless, of course, he's spending it on mining equipment and is dominating generation. If he owned enough computing power to generate about half the hashes, then at the current generation rate he would almost be replacing his 500 BTC a day. Later, his ability to generate new currency dies out in the mid-2100s, but of course, if he's controlling the majority of the infrastructure he can just change the rules at that point.

BTC as currently constructed doesn't have theoretically infinite coins, but in practice, the only functional difference between it and fiat currency is the power rests in the hands of a digital oligarchy instead of a government monopoly. The fundamental principle that money is power applies to both scenarios.
NASA Goddard's searchable database of radiation tested electronic parts
This isn't manipulation of GPS. Anyone can send a spoofed or manipulated AIS signal, it is quite common in the wild and trivial to do.

Most military systems, and certainly all US ones, rely on inertial navigation systems, not GPS. GPS was considered unreliable for navigation when it was built, which was fine for its intended purpose.
>It does contain a bit more information than required, such as the specifics of the vaccine.

between eu member states, the acceptance of e.g. sputnik-v (the russian corona vaccine) varies. having the name (or id) of the vaccine in the code allows countries who don't recognize a given vaccine to validate codes issued by other eu nations, who are more open to such a vaccine. (what a horriblly worded sentence, i hope you get what i'm trying to say)
Thanks for the reply.
We initially thought this would be harder for malicious parties trying to hack our smart contract.

But then again, I guess we should have coded it safely in the first place and let people feel comfortable with the openness.

One possible solution may be going through some auditing and uploading it afterwards - I wonder if you could perhaps take a quick look and teach us what could be improved?

Thanks for the suggestion though and I'll definitely discuss this with my colleagues.
That's rather my collective experience. Cannot tell if a certain airline is simultanously having headrest entertainment system and charges extra for the little luggage. I'm certain though that easyjet and ryanair tightened spaces between the rows and were putting printed ads on the headrests, 40-50cm in front of almost every passenger's eyeballs.
That's not really how it works. House prices are high because of very low interest rates, and even a (by historical standards) small increase would mean people could borrow less, causing prices to decrease sharply. Also we're not actually short of land except in the most densely populated countries like HK and Singapore which are exceptional for other reasons. The US has plenty of land to build on.
Passengers claim Ryanair flight left Toulouse without them
Java and its various GUI toolkits (again, especially if Electron's performance isn't bad enough that it's off the table). QT. TK. Wx. Delphi and some others if you didn't mind paying.

Obviously none of them include the Web as a platform (unless you count Java applets, which you shouldn't since they're basically dead, even if they'd seem high-performance and quite nice compared to what we've replaced them with).
My neighbor has this and she said that she can still eat Chicken and Seafood.
> People who pay money for products and connect them to the internet are stupid and have money?

If you can buy a $3k treadmill, you have money (although about $3k less of it, in fairness).

If you think your treadmill needs to be connected to the internet, you are not particularly intelligent.

Neither of these are controversial takes. We've had enough experience with IoT devices being absolutely god-awful to know this.
Packaging and distributing a Node.js CLI app via Homebrew
It is mind blowing that we can't guess private keys easily, although probably depends on how the wallet is made. Good idea for an app.
Why don't we have this with computers? Surely we're depriving Lenovo and Apple of such revenue if we use the computer and don't pay a monthly fee? This whole sub thing is nuts.
> Parent comment’s question seems genuine.

Why are you assuming genuineness when the parent mentioned this:

'an app with some basic functionality'

'I doubt that all of their staff is doing DevOps or maintaining servers'

'Is software dev in such a sad state that you can't deliver'

'what the heck are they overworking on?'

This is enough to know that the parent is dismissing the effort and work of others to the point that they are expressing a reductionist viewpoint of the entire app and company, which is not ok.
Said another way, why would I reach out to K8s or ECS if I can handle all that within the runtime?

In my experience with Elixir, bringing everything into the code reduces the surface area of complexity and makes it much easier to model in your head.
It is a bicycle for the mind. Remember back when if you wanted to learn about a topic, you had to travel to a library, spend a couple hours looking up books in a card catalogue, and then find 1 book, that maybe answers your question. I'm constantly using the internet to learn new things, to learn about all kinds of things (e.g. Californian urchin galls, best way to process small branches for firewood, the use bison horn fire carriers among Plains Indians, the grub hoe, etc. etc.; I'm constantly using Google Lens to identify plants in my area, which ones are native, which ones invasive, etc.)

The problem is something else. The problem is that the internet is more than one thing. It is a couch for the lazy, a distraction for the procrastinator, a massive entertainment delivery device; and most of the monetary value of the internet doesn't come from it being a bicycle for the mind, but for the other things.

Not everyone chooses to ride on the bicycle. Instead of, say, reading Wikipedia, they read Infowars. The world would be a much better place if a lot of people spent their time reading Wikipedia (with all of its faults) instead of scrolling Twitter, Facebook, and slanted news sites like Breitbart, CNN, Fox, etc. etc. etc.
As a left-ponder, I must say: be careful what you wish for. Alerts are so over-used and even abused here that a lot of us have turned them off. The final straw for me was a series of "silver alerts"[1] for somebody in a county 150km away..

[1] Silver alerts are intended to help find elderly folks with dementia who have wandered off.
A Qt install with all the bells and whistles is about 500 megabytes, so it’s very comparable in size to Electron. Qml is a lot easier to develop in than Node+browser though.
Vaccine passports are dumb.
Investors are starting to value companies exclusively off recurring revenue. Non-subscription revenue is not even counted.

If your company has $100000/month in MRR but manages to make $100M in a year, it's a $1.2M/year company.
I suppose that's always a risk but Peloton is in a strong financial position. They're highly unlikely to go out of business within the expected lifespan of a treadmill.
Perhaps they mean functional in the sense that it works? ;)
The author completely misunderstands the value proposition of both gold and Bitcoin. Neither of them is valuable because of “intrinsic value” - both derive approximately all of their value from monetization. If gold was only valuable for its physical uses, it would be worth a negligible fraction of its current value.

Also, comparing the price of gold to the rate of inflation doesn’t make any sense. The derivative of the price of gold should be compared with the rate of inflation, or the price of gold vs some adjusted value of a dollar.
As someone that did my degree during the 90s,

I had hoped desktop development would be native compiled RAD tooling similar to Delphi and C++ Builder, the Web would have stayed as interactive documents, all computers would be improved Amiga like experiences and the depency on the CLI would have long been replaced by REPL based environments.

Ah and all modern OSes would be written in memory safe systems programming languages, following the footsteps from Oberon and Modula-3.
Linux on phones. I waited and waited. Bought every single gadget with anything resembling Linux on it (remember the Sharp Zaurus)? Got hyped with the Ubuntu Touch system.
Yep, As my company slowly starts going back to the office, I decided to move to a remote/rural area because I wasn't willing to go back into an office everyday. I expected to have to find a new job, but my current employer offered to let me continue remotely, so I suppose it has worked out.
> What don't we make more of (with rare and expensive exceptions)?

Land isn’t made, but more land becomes legally available all the time. The scarcity argument is overestimated given the immense surface area available and the actual limiting factor being zoning laws (and logistics).
I wish I did not see this video. Knowing that the plane I'm flying in relies on an actual server room is super scary...
These are competing with fitness studios like Soul Cycle- which charges $40+ a class after shoe rental and water. The bike is more like $2000 at least for the standard bike, not $3000.

My wife bought one in November 2019, and both joined the "century club" (100 rides) by the middle of 2020 and she takes the Yoga classes as well and I have done a few strength classes- its not just about the bike. We had never previously had a gym membership, though I would use the one in my previous apartment building, and my wife was into both Yoga classes and Soul Cycle.

I hate group fitness and cycle studios, and am currently on a 65+ week streak on Peloton. The value is there for me, and even outside the pandemic, my wife hasn't stepped foot in a cycle studio since it was delivered.
Ask HN: What could a single company do with 1000 developers hired in a year?
In a recent StackOverflow podcast[1] a guest mentions a conversation with a recruiter who is trying to find 1000 Ruby developers in 2021 for a single client. It was not really discussed, but if anyone has any insight I am very curious:

1. What kind of company/project can benefit from 1000 developers being added to it?

2. What kind of onboarding process could handle 1000 new developers in a year?

3. Are there really a thousand Ruby developers in the world who are likely to change jobs in 2021?

[1]: http://stackoverflow.blog/2021/05/14/podcast-338-why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-ruby-developers/
I can imagine those dancing robots being used to replace workers in an auto assembly plant.
> The Sun xterms and workstations were great, but crazy expensive.

My dad has told me so many stories about how amazing those Sun workstations were. I think his university got them his junior or senior year, and they were the killer machines. Sometimes I wish I could've been programming in that era, but other times I think about how awesome it is that I can compile my code in under a minute.
I think that will be a big topic that government will try to solve. I think they will offer policies that help inequality directly in housing, giving away homes to those that qualify, further pushing up home prices ultimately.
> Why would a resistor bank be better than mechanical brakes?

Resistors don't wear out like frictional brakes do.
We're getting back the 90's in terms of performance, when they decided to cut corners on security to get this extra performance. Now they're taking it all back.
Probably "Molecular Dynamics".
Like in medical gear, avionics also has a lot of redundancy and "useless" circuitry to allow for assurances. I've opened some hardware designed for unsafe environments that was absolutely packed with fuses, for seemingly no purpose other than to assert that limits were being followed in the design. I don't imagine avionics is any different, but I've only seen the inside of 60s-70s aircraft gear.
But we're striving for the prepandemic way of life, not some alternate reality postapocaliptic videogame world.

And, does this "EU Green Pass" work in UK or russia? Because the "EU" implies EU only and the webpage[0] says that directly [1]

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/info/live-work-travel-eu/coronavirus-re...

[1] The EU Digital COVID Certificate will facilitate safe free movement of citizens in the EU during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yes what is "required" is controversial. What I meant to say is that they could have chosen to go for a yes/no type of verdict but instead they chose to let the reader decide if they consider the protection acceptable. Both decisions have pros and cons.
There's also a supply shortage: http://www.freddiemac.com/perspectives/sam_khater/20210415_s...
There is this misconception that software development can be ultra lean and only really need a team of few handful of people if they're just sufficiently capable.

It's knowledge work that is almost always in the complex domain, and as such it's far from simple. In fact it's the domain of unknown unknowns. So to have a product with millions of users with an online attack vector, that takes security and uptime serious, you need the following lead roles as a minimum:

* Architect
* Security
* Test
* Agile
* Developer
* Operation
* Owner
* UX

Security, Test, Agile, Operation, Owner are at the very least full time posistions in their own right for a single service, then you need to add developers. Add requirements for new documentation and maintenance of old. You probably need some support roles too.

An app with millions of users are likely to have multiple teams that have a subset of the full application. For every feature you want to develop or any significant refactorings, you need to involve at least architect, security, test and operations. My experience is that teams around 8-10 people can be really productive and run a service. If you really want to accelerate and be best in class you assign teams to specific parts of the service that makes sense. Could be signup, search, chat, ect.

Then you probably want teams for analytics, ads and marketing, legal and before you know it, you have 50+ people working directly on a "self-standing product".

All that said, if the code base is crap, and the organization of the employees are similar it's highly likely that alone is responsible for creating the additional workload compared to a better codebase and organizational structure.
Both of these hits home. Working at Sun in the late 90's, Java was a big thing, and while Sun was clearly way too early in their push for a universal virtual machine that could run anything, at the time people were complaining that Java could never be used for real software because of it not being natively compiled and using a GC.

Well, now everyone are using Javascript and Python, and no one seems to be complaining.

The second point is true as well. No matter where the pendulum is at the moment, there are always going to be people trying to push it in the other direction. Sun was again ahead of the time by pushing the Javastation, which was trying to do what the Chromebooks are doing. Then there was the Sunray of course, which was really cool, but a bit too specialised.
At a (perhaps generous) average of $120K per employee, a week off would cost $1.5MM - given how broadly this will get picked up and circulated in the media, it'll get more eyeballs than 1.5MM spent on mobile or search ads most likely.
You’re missing a lot! In the case of a simple request/response web app yes it doesn’t do a whole lot. Imagine you’re building a complex system with lots of different behavior patterns. Let’s say a backend that fans out to 100 different 3rd party APIs, like a shipping aggregator that needs to talk UPS, FedEx, USPS, Canada Post, Royal Mail, etc… and you want to be able to carefully control rate limits, batch sizes, etc.. to those endpoints. An actor system with supervision trees is a very good way to build a system like this.

Also... the rhetoric here on HN about Erlang/Elixir vs. Kube really needs to stop. People are misinformed. They are not mutually exclusive, you do not need to choose one or the other. We need to reconcile that because the discourse always goes to this weird war in the comments.
>The term misconduct is used usually in the work environment when one party is in a position of power, like a boss of another. This is not the case here.

Says the author

>Don't decide for women what's best for them. They are grown up adults and engage in these relationships voluntarily.

I'm not deciding what is best for anyone. I'm saying the author doesn't get to choose.

> Victims are those who were assaulted against their will. My understanding that there was no violations like that in this story.

Says the author.

I encountered a situation similar to this a few years back. Large group of friends 20-30. Lots of partying. 5 different women report experiences with the same guy. Waking up with him in their beds. Sometimes more overt behaviors.

His recollection is quite different. He remembers it as a much more innocent affair. A mistake. Something embarrassing.

I don't believe him.
> You are arguing that vaccines don't work to protect people from infection but do work to prevent transmission

> You believe the vaccines don't actually work, or rather, that everyone should act as if they don't

No, and no. These are extremely twisted re-interpretations of what I wrote, and do not reflect my argument or belief.

All I'm arguing is that in the current climate, where the vaccination rate sits at ~45% across the US, it's reasonable to be cautious about situations that involve close indoor contact with unvaccinated folks.

This is a position that I can see changing as vaccination rates and global COVID rates improve.
There's a free 1000+ lb steel heatsink - the chassis of the car.
The Russians know as well as the rest of the world does that AIS is totally unauthenticated and wildly spoofable. Any indication by a navy that they were provoked by an AIS track is therefore probably just theater.
Ads for machines?
My concern is that there really isn't much left to 'turn on their heads' anymore. When Gmail came around, webmail was mostly hot garbage. Things just have matured since and well... I can now almost understand the culture issue that Google has now: Needing to reinvent something new instead of making what exists better. (And that's also entirely the problem)

Can't wait for Project Back to the Basics. If it ever happens.
Browser automation using Selenium for Moodle
The suffering from income inequality seems to be mostly psychological from the realization that others have more. This is why they don't care about improving their own bottom line as much as they do about preventing others from having so much more.
Maybe it's because I already got a lot of PTO (7 weeks a years, which is standard on this side of the Atlantic), but mandating time off for all the company seems a bit much over letting employee choose when they want to take some PTO
> Only by giving the affected people a voice and real political power can it really be averted.

I'm not sure what this means concretely (are you suggesting the poor Chinese worker need representation in western politics, or does the west need to topple the CCP and install a suitable democratic government?), but if we in western countries hold our business partners accountable to our own worker protection standards (and environmental standards) then we can solve lots of problems at once without toppling the CCP or giving non-citizens voting rights in western countries.
>And, I didn't expect web applications to be the norm for most people.

Which is at least one reason why Windows
kept its crown. By the time there were real alternatives (increased popularity of Macs--albeit mostly higher end of the price range--and Linux as a fairly viable option), the desktop OS just wasn't very interesting for a lot of people. And Chromebooks were a reasonable alternative for many, especially in K-12. For those who did still need a "fat client," Windows just tended to win by default.
I work in telecommunications, back in the 90's fibre optic transport for plain old telephone service. Think back to how reliable your phone was before VOIP.

Then we hired a guy from an Aerospace company and he thought we were a bunch of reckless cowboys who didn't care a thing about quality.
>Let's say you have a lemonade stand, and your capital expenditure is mostly lemons. In the first year, you buy 1,000$ lemons to produce 1,100$ worth of lemonade that you sell.

>That's a 10% margin on regular days. Next year, you can choose to reinvest and expand your business, buying 1,100$ worth of lemons to sell 1,210$ of lemonade.

>This is an oversimplification

Of course it is!

haha, what the ... 10% margin on lemonade?

I'd say that lemonade margin (in restaurant) is closer to something like 700-1000%
The Google Image search isn't reflective of an actual car factory.. There are of course hundreds of workers there but final assembly facilities produce something like 1 car/minute. They're heavily reliant on robots - most of the parts move around the floor on autonomous transports, the stamping is all robotic, all of the frame welding is robotic, paint is of course robotic.

GM is of course tied in with the UAW, so they're going to be as favorable to labor as possible in their promo videos, but take a look at this video of one of their production facilities, this is reflective of the amount of manual input into modern automotive production:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ow7gmZTIpo
That's wild - so glad you guys figured it out in time.

What was the process like of narrowing it down first to an allergy, and then to beef (?!)? Was there a protocol in place or was your doctor pretty much improvising?
Why not both?

Resiliency of a cluster with k8s or similar orchestration, AND resiliency of the individual nodes within that cluster, taking advantage of supervision trees.

(Also, to complete this picture and provide resiliency of the service as a whole, add load balancing across multiple availability zones.)
Every service, or product that relies on a service can either be taken from you, or have its terms changed. You'll have no recourse, or else your recourse will be a lengthy class action lawsuit, which may still result in an unsatisfactory resolution for the consumer.
What Is the Difference Between Simius and Normal Anti-Virus Software?
The legal minimum is 20 days for the London office, 22 in Spain, at least that in Moscow. (This is in addition to public holidays.) Bumble probably offer a bit more.

In the UK and Spain, that's also the number you must use, I don't know about Russia. (In other words, if you've not used any days by December, you'll be taking all of December off. Or whenever your year wraps round.)