skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the fundamental issue. If there is a environmentally friendly way to industrially produce something, it is not rewarded by our current system of capitalism. It is a form of green capitalism, still looking for profits to guide us to the best solution (when in fact there are better solutions. Our assertion of value is based solely on profits which is fundamentally at odds with this climate emergency. Would love to hear alternative thoughts.
why is there so little info on their site?

I'm tempted to use a throwaway email to see what is it because from their landing page there's very little that would make me trust them, specially when I know how expensive that data traditionally is.

How can you provide it for free? how "real time" it is? Where is the data coming from? NASDAQ? a broker?

I'm quite curious but the sparsity of the site makes me dubious
It’s interesting to think of the USA breaking up & having the plains riders of Kansaston speaking a different language than the hill people of Coloradona.
Did a Cuttlefish Write This?
Not all of these theaters are profitable. Many of them have special arrangements with municipal government (government secured loans or $1 rent) on the theory that these institutions serve some public good not unlike parks and playgrounds.
There are some massive, incredibly fiddly consequences of using NixOS to run Steam games via Proton. A lot of stuff works, a lot of other stuff is a royal pain the ass.

I moved to flatpak for Steam on NixOS and couldn't be happier, except now the latest proton uses flatpak under the hood and flatpak doesn't support nested containers.

I hear the flatpak-based Proton works much better (and that makes sense) but I still have some titles that are broken with it but work with older versions.
New York City’s new biometrics privacy law takes effect
Oh, for christ's sake, it's been like 75 years if you include the OSS.

They're the department with an image of white-collar intelligence collection and a huge sideline in dirty fighting to maintain American hegemony. That's who they are, have been and who they will be.
I think the thing that doesn't make sense to me about all of these language preservation efforts is the idea that a language has to have people actively speaking it.

That's a gigantic lift, that takes a ton of effort. Even if you teach a new generation they likely won't keep using it in their day to day.

Why not just catalog it? Get the most experienced speakers to record hundreds of hours of audio of it, if it had a writing system catalog that too.

Problem solved. Language preserved. Otherwise you're fighting a losing battle trying to keep a language actively being used when only a few thousand people know it still.
any loop in a few hundred elements is going be trivial regardless of the amount of work you do.

I don't think the web is getting slower because we're using more map() instead of for...of loops. It's getting slower because what is being developed is getting more complex.

Feature bloat and excessive network load are the main reasons that the web feels slower imo.
I'm not very familiar with using Bluetooth with Linux, but looking at the script this appears to be a pulseaudio thing more than a Linux thing.
It's just a different section of journalism. This is from the _Popular Mechanics_ sort of magazine, with an Editor-in-Chief who did her masters work in "digital communication and viral storytelling."
As a guess, the past year or eighteen months has probably been worse than usual. With a global pandemic on, people were stressed and people who feel helpless about very real and large problems often get controlling and nitpicky about anything they feel they actually can control.

When all parties to a drama are equally stressed and handling it similarly, it's a recipe for escalation with little hope of real solutions.
Platinum has ultra low reactivity, slightly below gold. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactivity_series

Ruthenium… edit: ops NN.
The mantra that end users want native app is tired and was always pulled out of one's backside.

Productivity applications like 3Dmax, Photophop, Eagle, Blender and others can take years to master. Even Excell and Word fall into this category.

The last thing a professional needs is to learn the same software 3 times and keep up to date with 3 diverging implementations
I stayed for a night at Furnace Creek and it was "air conditioned" and the cold water was "cold". They're not cranking the industrial ACs here, it's just enough to be on the bearable end of the range for tourists that are not used to the heat. Air temp was 116 at the official station.
Try airism from Uniqlo, I can’t wear cotton shirts without it anymore.
all that chicken must have a death wish then
iptables won't prevent that other chip from using the network if it wants to.
Old skool hacking was so rewarding as a kid as you learned about both hardware and software. Now, I feel like the younger curious minded individuals are primarily software centric. At least with things like Arduino/Pi/etc, you can get back into hardware as well.
I think the best argument for keeping dying languages "alive" is to be able to study the way they make meaning. Some words and phrases are not directly translatable to certain languages because that is not how those speakers think about the world. This is fascinating and possibly useful. When languages die we lose these ideas and ways of thinking and the bounds of consciousness become ever so slightly smaller.
I would guess there are lots of potential reasons. More creative charging, not reporting taxes, better income sharing for the driver, and not having to pay service fees.
Whatever the article linked is about, the top level comment (and thus this thread of discussion) is about how we should shift the ratio of what movie theaters play from 99% new releases to something a bit less unbalanced.

As to whether the industry is actually doomed, it's far too early to call that, IMO. I literally asked my wife last night what she thought about movie theaters now, as I was trying to decide whether taking the kids to one this weekend was worth considering. We both sorta decided "not yet" (and my own personal experience working at a movie theater when I was younger does not make me think they're the cleanest of places).

Additionally, there's going to be slim pickings for good movies soon as I think the pipeline of stuff that was in production or delayed the release to now is used up, and the lack of much new production that happened for a year hits us for a year or so. Does that mean the industry is dead? Maybe if they can't hold on that long or find other revenue streams (and don't get a bailout), but I think it's a bit premature to be all that confident in any assessment.
They’re different databases that do different things with different features and different ways of laying out data. Redis functions as a cache, not a relational database — it’s not merely about speed of response.

Do not use redis as your main database, it will require you to contort very painfully to so things that are normal to most apps. Maintaining Lua scripts instead of SQL queries is a bad idea.

If this is an ad for redis labs then it’s a really bad one.
You're right, it doesn't need to be an average. Meteorologists are interested in outdoor air temperature in the shade, away from local disturbances like buildings and the ground. That way it's not influenced by uninteresting local effects like the color of the walls, direct solar heating (affected by the properties of the thermometer itself) or somebody turning the oven on.

That 70.7 degrees from the satellite was ground temperature, not air temperature, so it can't be compared.
> CMake is a pretty nice tool

It's pretty powerful. It'd be pretty nice if it didn't have such a god awful DSL.
Humans are the dumbest animals.
Yep you have to wonder how many other odd dialects and small population languages have been lost in that last couple centuries that would blow holes in our theories of classification.
I figured something was up, the original author’s post reeked of bitterness.
They’re different databases that do different things with different features and different ways of laying out data. Redis functions as a cache, not a relational database — it’s not merely about speed of response.

Do not use redis as your main database, it will require you to contort very painfully to so things that are normal to most apps. Maintaining Lua scripts instead of SQL queries is a bad idea.

If this is an ad for redis labs then it’s a really bad one.

If anything you should be going the other way, postgres is rocksolid and you could literally run redis as a postgres extension if you wanted. It is the more flexible, battle proven tool.
Or Google, Facebook, Youtube, etc design their products/algorithms to maximize addiction, news organizations are forced to adapt their content to game those algorithms in order to survive, and this has been happening for so long that people don't notice how warped and stupid the whole thing is anymore.
+1 for airism, their v-necks are my go to undershirt for all clothing in warm weather.
FWIW the scoping in JavaScript is exactly the same in Go, so it's not something obscure that only JavaScript cooked up.
Someone claims to have built a machine to do this.

They're also claiming they *figured out how to derive energy from the rotation of the earth*. Which if it were real would be a major revolution in and of it self. Why not just sell that? Nope, they have to attach a gold extraction thing and desalinate seawater.

They're obviously a quack.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19585789
I never heard of either project before today. Searching Debian for anything that seems related reveals only LADI Session Handler. It is not at all clear how Non Session Manager fits into the Linux audio milieu. It does not seem as if I have needed a session manager. But I might be mistaken. It has been a long time since I had any complaints about audio on Linux, basically since PulseAudio and things that talk to it got working.

Who uses this? And, why would anybody do something as shady as to make off with somebody's project name? What benefit do they imagine they could get from that?

I would rather see, instead, an announcement of a new discussion group with decent governance, and clean packages for Debian, Fedora, Arch, Nix, etc., renamed if necessary. Needing to rename an old project to work around malfeasance is inconvenient, but nobody is married to the old name.
That's just so wrong. It suggests to me the 10% kill list can't be done in Europe or Australia for instance, unfair dismissal law would (I honestly believe) empower asking for the list in the court action. Given this list is known to exist the presumption of evidence is really strong and lying or hiding the list would be a serious offence.
I miss this kind of reporting, not all news should be exciting or page turning. Fluff added can reduce the message greatly. Optics and all.
> I live in the PNW and heat dome notwithstanding very few homes have AC because it almost never gets above 90ish degrees in the summer.

I lived in the greater Seattle area in the last 4 years. Let's look at the top temps for the last couple years in Seattle - the bounds of the city, which is literally bordering the bay.

98 August 16, 2020

95 June 12, 2019

94 August 08, 2018

96 June 25, 2017

95 August 19, 2016

95 July 19, 2015

Not counting EXACTLY in Seattle you routinely break 100F in the greater Seattle Area and Washington State.

Let's look at Spokane

102 July 31, 2020

98 August 07, 2019

103 August 09, 2018

99 July 07, 2017

These are hottest days, not the only days of over 90. Remember the forest fires of the last couple years, it generated the WA memes about deciding if you want to cool your house by opening a window or avoid the billowing smoke that comes in.
$ and & using the normally-blank column doesn't render the font "useless". If you want that column to always be blank, then just trim it.
Uber tried to charge me $90 to go 25 minutes away from LAX -- the Uber lot had almost no people waiting (not a busy time, and the middle of the day), and it had a 25 min wait. I took a cab instead, $50 including tip and 3 mins in line.

I don't see how Uber's going to survive if they can't match cab prices...
I created an alternative account the other day and it didn't ask for my identity (within the last two weeks)...
A combination of both perhaps ? :)
Well, you can create your own slack domain, but yeah I don’t remember if you can configure notifications for each account separately.
I have the same pair, they work flawlessly on my Manjaro desktop/laptop. The audio sounds the same as it does on Windows/Android/Apple devices, at least on my machines.
This - https://simplifier.neocities.org/4x4.html - is 4px wide font. Creep would be considered 5px wide.
It's just not mathematically possible to draw a proper "$" 4 pixels wide, since you need at least 2 pixels one each side of the vertical line to draw the enclosed areas.
Looks like the configuration format also changed before publicly released - Actions now uses a YAML file.
you can also wrench open a sodastream canister, buy a 3lb block of dry ice from a grocery store for $4, crush it, and pour the crumbs into the canister. Youtube has tutorial videos.
I visited the article after the title was edited, so I knew what to expect. And it far exceeded my expectations. I hate the palpable feeling that as a software engineer I’m part of an industry that is becoming harmful to society. And we are the ones doing or at least putting up with the excellent examples in the article.
the notion of "The Fall is self-awareness" is ... pretty old.
I don't know if there are any studies on this. Personally it saves me a ton of time and mental energy. I don't have to remember the folder hierarchy when importing a function; I just reference it, ctrl+. (or whatever in your editor), and it autoimports. I don't have to remember or check whether it's SVG or Svg in this variable name. I don't have to remember what the fields of this parameter are, and so on. I don't get it wrong, build the thing, try it out, get a runtime error, and have to go back to square one to fix it. I think intellisence is useful specifically because it lets me stay in the realm of thinking about the problem/code, and avoid having to context switch to manage the details/minutia of coding.
Missteps Like Bad Translations by Google Block Access to CA Pandemic Rent Relief
The same acronym is... a questionable choice. But the matching binary names are standard for projects which are compatible replacements for the other project. You're basically releasing something with a different name, but implementing "previous-software-name" interface. This helps with drop-in replacement distro packages to.

That's why Ubuntu has the alternatives system. And why mawk / gawk / etc. are often linked to /bin/awk.
I use GNUstep on Linux and I generate my main GNUmakefile. They have a preamble file I use that is only generated if it does not exist and it allows me to keep all my settings. The biggest drawback is that I haven’t been able to keep private headers private so everything is public. Would only really be a problem if I was publishing a framework for others to use. I love this system. Makes it very nice to have everything organized in folders as needed and then BAM just run cd/generate/make and done.

How do you differentiate which headers should go where in your script?
Some of the comments against preserving languages sadden me, but I have to accept it--that there are big matters of meaning that we are going to disagree on.

I stand firmly with preserving language, and with that culture. I hope to do my part by learning more of my family's culture, and learning the language and culture of someone else (maybe more). From some of the other comments I get a sense of a line of thought where the primary goal is the well-being of the lot of individuals in the world. And its hard to argue against that. Yet, I want there to exist a diversity of peoples, and those things that come with it.
If you take that common part out, you will be left with more information in the if statement than the function call.

I don’t think this argument generalises well. Once you start working with structured data and more complicated control logic, a generic loop with an arbitrary body often provides less immediate information to a developer reading the code than a function that explicitly names a specific pattern of computation like map or filter.

There are many recurring patterns of computation that are much more specific than a generic map or filter, too. While imperative languages tend to have only a small number of built-in control structures, if we’re using higher-order functions then we can name as many of these patterns as we like.

For example, suppose we want to generate a list of the first few triangle numbers, which is a sequence of the form:

[0, 0+1, 0+1+2, 0+1+2+3, ...]

Writing this in imperative Python code with a typical loop would give us something like this:

triangle_numbers = []
total = 0
for n in range(6):
total = total + n
triangle_numbers.append(total)

Here’s an idiomatic functional version, which is real Haskell code using a standard library function that captures this pattern of sequence generation in just five characters:

triangle_numbers = scanl (+) 0 [1..5]

Assuming you’re equally familiar with both programming styles, I think it’s fair to say that “scanl” tells you much more about what this code is doing than “for”.

The inner function here is just addition in both cases. However, the code within the Python loop is allowed to do whatever it wants, so the reader has to recognise the pattern surrounding the addition. In the Haskell version, the function you pass to scanl must take an accumulated value so far and a next value as parameters and it must return the next accumulated value to add to the sequence being generated, and that is all it is allowed to do. So you just need to write (+), which is Haskell’s notation for what Python calls operator.add or an equivalent lambda, and that tells the reader exactly how the next accumulated value is being derived at each step to build up the sequence.
The article talks around the issue, as others have commented, but I take from it a preview of what's to come in our own 25-person environment: a commitment to continued hybrid work policy, but not a similar commitment to remote-friendly work policies. The owner is most comfortable in an environment where they can wander by and create an immediate change-of-priority at the individual level; there are many middle managers and executives everywhere who also have grown to their positions of power/influence with the same style.

I'd read the various media coverage earlier in the week about Iceland's 4-day-workweek experiment, and can't imagine how you would even start to have that conversation at our US-based company.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, it's true.

Some of the Low German dialects have been preserved by Anabaptist religious community speakers here in North America ("Plautdietsch" among Mennonites). And others (Amish, Hutterites) speak interesting High German dialects.
Your reasoning is right on point!

Its just ironic that Amazon decided to include "Strive to be Earth's Best Employer" in their (in)famous leadership principles recently.

>Strive to be Earth's Best Employer

>Leaders work every day to create a safer, more productive, higher performing, more diverse, and more just work environment. They lead with empathy, have fun at work, and make it easy for others to have fun. Leaders ask themselves: Are my fellow employees growing? Are they empowered? Are they ready for what's next? Leaders have a vision for and commitment to their employees' personal success, whether that be at Amazon or elsewhere.

https://www.amazon.jobs/en/principles
i like to remind people that it’s their time they’re paying for it, but my time starts at 4pm and thats when I’ll be exiting the elevator into the parking lot.
Well, he says that, but then he does answer the question in the title. He says the key is a focused, initial training of the principles of results-based work, and then retraining on a regular basis.
You're not supposed to use `super` or specialization with factory functions, call the functions you need instead.

OOP inheritance does not belong in this pattern, even if you could hamfist it in (which you've already observed as unwieldy).
I absolutely agree with this, been there first hand on both sides of the aisle.

And my experience of those I've worked with, has been that the smaller projects that remove this potential to deceive (not profitable or large enough for bait-and-switch - not enough get-foot-in-door to be worthwhile to take at a loss). And by smaller I mean less than £/€/$ 500k, and not leading to multi-million deal later on.

And go away from the RFP process that sucks and is just trying to get the lowest bidder, for a fixed-end-goal, rather than bringing good and experienced people to support your business/organisation/project on achieving something.

I'm trying to launch this myself, and I feel you can get the best of both worlds: great talented people who you pay fairly with a scale model for (eventually needed) growth, and some cost control for mid/longer term projects as you can't really have a fixed price.

At the same time you have to remove some of the downsides like this lack of transparency (and honesty?), whilst having the needed support in place for projects to succeed!
> It takes easily 5x as long to answer all of it's questions about permutations on the meal I want than to just say "gimme a #2 with Dr Pepper, no pickles" to a cashier.

Try the app on your phone: you can just go into your previous order and order it again. Really, I like the kiosks, but they can't get compare to an app ordering experience because the latter benefits from history.
Uber & Lyft have missed such a golden opportunity for brining cab drivers onto their platform.

GoJek and Grab (SEA Ridesharing alternatives and "super-apps") both have a "Taxi" option when selecting the type of car you want. I'm assuming it's similar to just merging this "FlyWheel" app that the US has into their own.
Tends to happen in places with unmetered taxis. Never heard of anyone modifying a meter in Thailand.
The truly surprising behavior to me is choosing to name the forked project nsm.

Fork the heck out of anything for any reason you like. Say critical things on mailing lists. Fight over who's right and who's a jerk. But actions which lead to less clarity -- like, say, polluting a claimed name in the process of making a fork -- doesn't look like good faith to me.
The knowledge of space-race ear rockets wasn't lost, the money to build them was no longer available or going into other projects.

For the cost of shuttle NASA could have recreated the J-2 and F-1.

We unfortunate don't have good data on Roman private and public infrastructure spending detailed enough to really make a god case for how it changed over time.
I remember much, much fun with graph paper drawing out custom 8x8 fonts on my C64 way back when.
Given the M and W I don't think "mathematically possible" is the criteria here.
Uber has taxis listed as an option in Taiwan. I think they are legally required to do that though.
I agree. I honestly think she deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for the contributions she has already made toward the advancement of science. Among other types of people who can nominate an individual for a Nobel (mostly elected government officials), there's also the category of: "University professors, professors emeriti and associate professors of history, social sciences, law, philosophy, theology, and religion; university rectors and university directors (or their equivalents); directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institute." (https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/)

I do not meet that qualification. But I'd be willing to wager that at least one person frequenting this forum does. If you meet the qualifications to nominate a person for a Nobel Peace Prize, please consider nominating Alexandra. The deadline is midnight CET, Jan 31.