skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that iPad isn't a good coding tool not just because of Apple, but because tablets in general aren't ergonomic. Does anyone use android / surface pro w/o keyboard / some other touch screen for app development?

Kind of like how pen/stylus and paper/tablet happens to be ideal for drawing, it seems like keyboard and monospace happens to be ideal for programming.
anyone have examples of how to write documents in this style?
Quite a while.

Think of the strength available of the active ingredient gradually dropping from the date of manufacture till it "degrades to nothing".

That length of time is a lot longer than the time period from date of manufacture to the expiry date which is the expected date that the active ingredient degrades to (say) 90%.

On that date there will still be that 90% strength of active ingredient. Sure, it won't be the full 100%, but I would willingly take that 90% rather than go without.

In the old days, adrenaline injections used to gradually discolour from transparent, colourless (full strength) down through straw-coloured (still pretty good) to orange (not so good) to light-brown (pretty poor) to dark-brown (chuck it away, already).

I haven't checked any EpiPen for several decades, so I can't remember whether they change colour or not over time.
Also, people are more likely to benchmark a brand-new machine, but run firefox regardless of how new their machine is.
I’ve worked on multiple projects where, at the early prototype stage, we limped along with off the shelf generic heatsinks, or even no heatsinks, for a phase or two because for some reason, it was long lead or high expense or low priority to fit a custom high performance heatsink. It sometimes seems like thermal work is as eschewed by electronic engineers as mechanical engineers often avoid HVAC.
Fixing a Bug in the Firmware of a “ThinkPad Compact USB Keyboard”
No western nation is building homes at an appropriate place, many downstream consequences.
I read an article some time back, maybe a link from here, talking about how the up tick in population of AZ/NV were during an unusual wet period which people thought was acceptable and normal. Now, it seems the area is going back to its more natural dry period. Mother Nature's perception of time is very different than human's.
Well they went public right after I started but I still consider them a startup.
I stated this elsewhere, but with some sports data, you don’t gain anything with a uniquely generated game ID. NBA teams will only play one game at most per day, and only play one other team, so if you make a key of the date and the teams playing, you uniquely identify every event. You can create an arbitrary ID for a game if you want, but it’s not actually giving you information you don’t have, and therefore is entirely redundant.
with hardware raid, if you have data corruption that doesn't bring down a whole drive, you have no idea which data copy is the correct one. (at least not in an automated way that doesn't require manual work)

With zfs, it has checksumming so it knows which data copy is the correct one.

As drives get bigger, the odds of bit decay, while being low on a per-bit level, become great enough for the drive in total, and is a concern.

File systems have had checksumming, but if there is no exposure into the raid layer, the file system can't use this checksum to recover from bit decay errors since it can't control which drive processes a request.

This is why zfs operates at both layers.

zfs vs btrfs is harder, and i'd guess its the zfs layered read and write caching systems enticing people in.
Puerto Rico’s HDI is .845, the same as Argentina. The highest HDI for an independent Caribbean island state is .814, which the Bahamas and Barbados both have. Cuba is at .783 and the Philippines are at .718.
>BTRFS is frequently not considered stable enough for production usage.

I'm not sure this is still true, especially after Facebook deployed it on millions of servers.

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Production_Users

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Production_Users
Where? This is the current Charter:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170806225843if_/http://downloa...

I've only skim read it but then it's only 40 odd pages long.
Shifting the Curve: Why Climate Matters More
And where does your water come from?
Finding a comfy chair got to be a bit of an expensive obsession, ended up going through a lot of them, including things like the Aeron and Steelcase Leap 2 before ending up with a ErgoHuman Plus which is tolerable when used with a layer of padding over the back.

By the end of the search, I came to the concluson that for extended comfort:

1) Unless specifically designed for it, chairs with mesh seats are best avoided if you are bigger than the average person (say 90 kg + ), as the mesh distorts too much causing the frames to dig in (Aeron had this problem).

2) The chair must allow the spine to move easily while still offering support:
- Back reclines separately from the Seat.
- Back's lumbar support is not solid, but instead has plenty of flex and give in it (where both Aeron and Leap fell down).

3) Trying them in stores is a waste of time as a plank is comfy for five minutes. If an extended test is not possible, then the best bet is to look for one that works for someone with the same physique as yourself.
A lot of hot air:

People move to these cities because of PR and marketing? It seems like it is the author who is divorced from reality. Is there study on marketing dollar to population growth? Do mega cluster exists because of superior marketing?

A more convincing argument would be that policy attracts talent and business, and locations with bad weather is more likely to have better policy.

That and serendipity - Michael Dell and William Shockley come to mind
Anker and Pluggable have also been good brands for me.
Do you really think the political content of, say, Facebook is enriching?
It was 102° F in St. Louis today. Not hard to imagine 20° hotter on some roofs.
Left to rot? Their product sucked. Dumping more money into it at the time would not have been very smart I think
Another paper on this structure was from a highschool student in the MIT PRIMES program[0] back in 2018. I couldn't find much else besides other Ethereum-related sites

[0]: https://math.mit.edu/research/highschool/primes/materials/20...
Brave Ads/Rewards is definitely OFF by default in Brave (I just double-checked, https://imgur.com/UIASmf4). You're invited to enable it during the Welcome screen, but it's off by default. If you install Brave today (make sure you don't have an old profile sitting around in %localappdata%/BraveSoftware/ already) and observe otherwise, that's a bug (please let us know).

I think you're misunderstanding how Brave's anonymity works. We don't rely on something like k-anonymity where we hide users behind some common cohort ID. Suffice it to say, we're not big fans of FLoC: https://brave.com/why-brave-disables-floc/. Brave's anonymity is based on the inversion of the flow of data. Rather than collecting information about users, Brave transmits data from advertisers to the user's device for local scrutiny.

Google is in no way moving towards the Brave model; it they are far too dependent on user data, IMHO. Brave, on the other hand, was born with a Can't be Evil mindset; every step of the way we have built the application and service to preclude abuse and overreach.
SF MUNI arrival time system set to get $89M upgrade
It wasn't the best example. Here's a better one:

CREATE TABLE siblings(personA text, personB text);
CREATE TABLE owners_pets(owner text, pet text);

Under structural identity, both of these would be just considered to be (text, text) tuples.

Even in the grittiest of real-worlds, I think you'd agree that there's no place where you'd want something that explicitly says it operates on siblings rows, to implicitly accept and operate upon an owners_pets row instead. (They aren't even the same shape of relationship. One's symmetric, while the other's directed!)

And, to be clear, if you just wanted function on a generic (text, text) tuple-type, you could declare such a type, and explicitly cast your other types to it to use such a function on them. So no, that's not a good reason.

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Mind you, in some places in SQL, structural identity is used. Mostly when you explicitly "ask for it" to happen, by making use of some destructuring or 'restructuring' operator. Even when it makes no sense!

-- ridiculous, but legal
SELECT * from siblings
UNION
SELECT * FROM owners_pets

This is mostly because it'd be really inconvenient for the "temporary relation types of projected result-sets" case if UNION didn't use structural identity. It'd be the same sort of "now forced to give all your temporaries names" issue that afflicts Java's closures under checked exceptions, and Rust's lifetime annotations under lexical-capturing garbage-collected self-terminating actors.
it all depends on size. some larger (typically older) companies with smaller engineering teams will make the tradeoff you are describing. But the big players today, who manage hundreds of thousands to millions of servers are not going to pay per machine / per core license counts for support. They build and maintain most of their own software for their own needs.
A fire steel is probably the simplest low-tech way to start a fire. You still need some expertise like finding a mouse nest or other flammable material even if it's been reasonably dry.

But friction methods are tough, even if you have a well-made spindle and fireboard--which of course require tools. You're not easily creating those without tools to make those tools. And, even then, it's not super easy especially in a non-optimum environment.
> Where can I find these streams now?

I'm asking the exact same thing. For some reason at least the European national tax/license-paid broadcasters that I have direct knowledge of only serve a very small portion of their back catalog. Even when there are no third parties to worry about.
The difference with emailing money on PayPal is that the recipient is notified. Brave was collecting currency on behalf of people without even notifying them.

Just because someone can collect the money/currency at a later date doesn't make it fine. If I collected money on behalf of charities yet only gave the money to the charity if they explicitly asked me for it, I doubt that would go down well with donors.

I could even use the situation to my advantage by gaining interest on the donations in the time between it is donated and I pass it on. I suspect Brave was benefiting in a similar way - all the donated money would not be traded while Brave were holding onto it, creating a scarcity which would benefit BAT's prices.
Right, like, suggesting people move to Albany or Pittsburg or Worcester, without mentioning that the winters are incredibly tough and that colder climates are another aspect of global warming, strikes me as incredibly naive.
Right...and isn't the reality that a country as rich as America can afford to have people live in places which aren't directly compatible with life?

Power and water seem to be the most important aspects regarding quality of life. I'm not worried about power because the southwest has tons of solar power available. And I'm not worried about water in the southwest because, yes, the Colorado river is oversubscribed, but only about 10-15% of it is used for residential use. The bulk of it goes to agricultural uses who are greatly underpaying for their water access and using it to grow ridiculous crops like cotton in Arizona. If there ever really was a crunch, those water rights would be obtained to let people drink and shower instead of to grow those crops (either through buying out, or just straight highway robbery).
How are you encountering YouTube shorts? I use YouTube everyday on both my phone and TV but have never seen them. Where are they?
Was thinking the same thing. The Nintendo designers were always so meticulous about the design of the levels, especially what’s visible to a player at any given point.

To get a sense for this, watch this video [1] (from 7 years ago) walking through the design of level 1-1 of SMB. It’s crazy what (likely) went into planning the design of each level of the various Mario platformer games.

But like OP, this is strictly looking at it from a gameplay perspective, ignoring the impressive technical feet that this is.

[1] https://youtu.be/ZH2wGpEZVgE
This may be an impossible question to ask: does anybody know of organizations running entirely dark copies of infrastructure possibly using an entirely different stack up to the application layer? Rather than redundancy, which is an announced component of your infrastructure available for failover and thus known to attackers, this dark infrastructure exists unknown to all but a select few employees and can be engaged during a ransomware attack. Throw the old infrastructure away and rebuild new dark infra. I have heard at least one story of something like this earlier today when discussing this headline. Curious how common it is.
Well, if you go down to the machine code all functions are data, no?
I'm talking about radio/audio. Sorry if that wasn't obvious.
Why can't these designers set up their experiments in a country that has lax or no regulation? I can understand security concerns but surely there is some part of the world amenable to these kinds of experiments
> The Navy had a knack for teaching nuclear physics & math to bright people with a high school education.

From what I’ve seen, this is still true.
if you only count the amount you have driven in the drivers seat sure, but you have used far far more. You were inevitably a passenger be it in a car, bus train, plane, ship, etc... then there is the fuel used to transport everything you have ever bought. Starting with raw material extraction involving heavy machinery and then at each point on from there in transit between factories and warehouses until it ends up as a finished product at the store or delivered to your door. every step involved a internal combustion engine burning hydrocarbons.
I would second this. My last company had these in their office. Indeed the 4 way adjustable arms are a game changer. Besides the comfort I think the build quality and comfort of these are on par with both Steelcase and Aeron.
still better than the gtk3 one
San Diego (the city) barely escapes the semi-arid/arid designation, placing it slightly within the CSa / Mediterranean climate[0] designation. But it is surrounded by BSh areas (the Sonoran desert and California chaparral) - by area, I'd guess most of San Diego county is BSh. So unless you want to live right next to the coast (and can afford to), Southern California is mostly desert.

San Diego itself really does have an amazing climate though.

[0] See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classifica...
This guy[1] put his non game playing wife in front of a bunch of games, one of them being SMB. He noted that she never learned how to sprint, and that the game doesn't tell you how to do it either. If you can't figure it out on your own, you have to be told about it, or read the manual.

NES games (and other games of that era) were in general pretty bad at tutorials. Players back then were expected to figure things out for themselves, mostly by trial and error.

The video has a bunch of other interesting observations. A common theme is that games often assume that the player has some base understanding of game play that might not always be there.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax7f3JZJHSw
An argument some have suggested is to make it illegal to pay ransoms. But with crypto, someone could pay it for you (maybe the hacker), just to have charges filled on the victim.
Fair enough. I personally found it a macabre and funny yet unoffensive little quip - something to bring a bit of harmless levity to a fairly sober context. It made me chuckle anyway.
I don't think they are misleading. They just show different things.

Firefox shows total CPUs being used. By new and potentially very old computers. My own desktop CPU was made in 2012.

Cpubenchmark.net shows new machines being built or bought.

So, think of the latter (this month sales) as the rate of change for the first (total CPUs being used).

I see no reason at all to benchmark an old computer, just new ones.

Therefore, if current trends keep, Firefox reported AMD market share will grow. If.
> I'm asking the exact same thing.

Lol well then why give it an example of the BBC backward if nobody else was doing it?

Nobody else had a time machine either. Why are you giving them a hard time over it?
I just posted a dup of this article to be able to make the same point.

How come no one ever slips a good thing into legislation when they can?
Wasn’t it standard practice to just record shows over old tapes for a while, leading to the loss of a number of episodes of Doctor Who?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_missing_episodes
Yeah the defrost cycle limits the heat pumps heating ability, but AC units have a similar limit wrt how much they are able to lower the temperature of the air. AFIAK they can do about 20 F. At this point you need to do some math and add additional units and run them 24/7 nullifying this benefit.

Geothermal heat pumps and good insulation solve both.
Can't wait for WebAuthN to proliferate.
Adding a few quick thoughts to some of the already good responses below:

- Directors are commonly the first level of 'executives' in a large organization.

- A good director builds the environment, managers, and other leaders for the organization to succeed.

- A good director grows the organization's capacity and output by growing its managers and leaders, as well as recruiting others to join.

- A team manager's focus is on their team and individual's success; a directors's focus is on their organization's success, which often requires additional knowledge and greater attention to business factors as well as relationships with other organizations (e.g. "political capital").

Going in the other direction:

- While the director layer is the common next level of organizational abstraction above managers, or manager-of-managers, there are significant behavioral differences; from lead, manager, and manager of managers to director there is a significant regime difference in the role's responsibilities and area of concern.

- A director that acts in the same role of a manager without fulfilling the organization's other needs (e.g. growing the organization's capacity through its managers and teams) will end up becoming the organization's bottleneck.
- As with managers, directors that end up needing to be too technically involved with specific technical issues or projects will end up depriving their people of the opportunities and challenges needed for their growth and limit the potential capacity of the organization.
- Directors generally should be concerned more with the organization's and functions and capabilities (e.g. ensuring the right teams and people are available to successfully solve problems, versus being directly involved in problem solving, or allowing the organization to require their direct involvement with its day-to-day problems)
Americans Flood Biden’s Pistol Brace Ban Proposal with Negative Comments
It's just the way things are when it comes to speakers. What you are suggesting would be really expensive, unreliable and have all sorts of downsides.
It's like asking how comes cars get stuck in traffic, why don't they just make cars fly when the roads are busy...
How to Learn Advanced Mathematics Without Heading to University – Part 1
the most import aspect of a diet:

whether or not you stick to it and it reduces caloric intake

whether or not it deprives you of necessary nutrients.

the efficiency of it only matterx if you have some very specific timelines, which most people do not.
The same extension is available on Firefox... but when you use the "old" or "ns" sub-domain, there are some reddit features that don't work like surveys
The difference is that what people think of as LA includes a huge number of suburbs that push out quite far east into the desert. So if you are in Santa Monica or Malibu, the climate is very comparable to coastal San Diego. If you drive out on the 10 for a ways, its going to get brutally hot and arid quite fast.

Water-wise, San Diego also gets a lot of its water from the Colorado river, but it has a desalination plant as well. I'm not sure how much impact that has on the water situation there.
Audio, not video. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealAudio
Surprised by your downvotes. Getting into the club is a very social activity usually.
> A phishing email which can pwn you without user interaction is basically unheard of.

If you extend from "email" to the other communication tools that companies use today (and do use for inter-company communications too), there actually have been a number of these in the past year.

Outlook [3] had one that didn't require downloading the file, exactly - the "Preview" window from just clicking the attachment once, was enough.

Microsoft Teams [0], Jabber [1] and Slack [2] were all hit by real 0-interaction RCEs.

[0] https://github.com/oskarsve/ms-teams-rce/blob/main/README.md

[1] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-3495

[2] https://hackerone.com/reports/783877

[3] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1349
Rest In Peace, John. I was lucky to know you so deeply
Given the question is still being asked after 43 years since the paper was published, my guess is the answer is “no”.

I would not be surprised though if this paper is still posted in the HN equivalent in 2078.
Those kinds of full stack ML engineers feel increasingly rare to me. Partly because people from academic backgrounds sometimes lack software engineering knowledge, and vice versa. Partly because it’s just a lot of stuff to do well.
Eh, I'm not sure I agree. YouTube is manifestly the wrong platform for serious discussion of anything. All their incentives are are geared toward engagement volume, not quality.

The very best you could possibly expect from them is to include "science our advertisers don't hate" in recommendations.
The article repeatedly calls out Miami for being the hottest city in the country. I've never been to Miami, but it looks like averages in the 70s and 80s year-round. I'd take that any day over having to put up with the blizzards, shoveling snow off my driveway and car, etc. that I did in Omaha.
Obviously 7 million people didn’t move there over the course of this year. If that’s what you thought I was getting at, I’m not surprised you were confused. Conditions have changed, but are people reconsidering their own decisions?
Sponsored by the Google Maps team.
> but if I’m going to have to live in a shithole, I’d rather be in Michigan or Minnesota

That's as crass as when the 45th president of the US described entire countries like that.
Metamine looks interesting, thanks!

Here's a tutorial video I found demonstrating programming the game Snake http://web.archive.org/web/20201014024057if_/https://www.you...

Found from a Reddit discussion http://web.archive.org/web/20201130115327/https://www.reddit...
We're certainly still in the early days of reinventing UI primitives here. AR is another example where UX in an unsolved problem.
I recently bought a $1,100 Haworth Fern Office Chair[1] used it for a few weeks and returned it. The armrests didn't lock, it started squeaking and creaking and for over a thousand dollars was absolutely not worth it.

So instead, I bought the Staples Hyken Mesh Task Chair[1] which has a cult following. For the price I paid on the original Haworth chair I can buy nearly seven Staples Hyken chairs. The Hyken built quality is plastic and yes it feels cheap, but so far it's been very comfortable and no issues with sounds. Again, for the cost, I'll just throw it away and buy another.

[1] https://store.haworth.com/products/fern-office-chair
[2] https://www.staples.com/Staples-Hyken-Technical-Mesh-Task-Ch...
To be clear, I hope Tesla fails in everything they do. That wasn’t really the point I was making though.
So what you’re saying is, btrfs works if you can afford an ops/sre team on par with Facebook’s?