skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would much rather this be when tab close rather than browser close.

I rarely close my browser except for updates, or when I'm spe cifcally taking advantage of delete on exit. However, delete on tab close would be dreamy.

I don't really want it to be an extension. I don't like the power given to extensions, so the less I use the better. Sorry decent extension devs, for me the bad guys have tarnished the trust to just not want to use any.
That’s very good resources! Thanks for sharing :)
For me macOS design peaked when they moved from the super readable Lucida Grande to Helvetica Neue because it looked hot on retina displays. I'm not sure which version that was exactly.

Purely from a visual standpoint I like the Big Sur redesign way more than I expected. It looks like it was made for dark mode, unlike previous versions where dark mode was kind of an add on. The whole material/translucency thing is really coming together. Not so happy about the non-visual aspects though, like all the unlabeled, barely distinct line icons.
The pay and the perks can definitely make it more pleasant, but the thing that stands out is all those companies are operating at global scale. Working there, you will likely be routinely confronted with the awe-inducing scale and impact your work has on the daily life of almost everybody. In my case, for the people I already knew and cared for, I felt a sense of stewardship, and for new acquaintances, because they had already interacted with my work, they already provided me with a baseline of appreciation / professional credibility.
Both of those have kids around more often than you'd think, even if it's just visiting grandkids during the summer.
Within minutes you say? You must have not used it very recently. My fastest time has been like 25 minutes with the recent lack of drivers.
> If the answer to that is, "because then demand would die", why doesn't that apply to taxis? Taxis make money.

Taxi licenses are an artificially constrained resource, which keeps prices high. As a result, taxis are typically only conveniently available in high-demand locations (among other ills).

There probably is a niche for ridehailing services as public infrastructure (or perhaps using a co-op model) running on open source software, but that excludes VC-fueld behemoths like Uber.

It isn't so much that Uber can never be profitable, it is that Uber could never be profitable enough to recoup the sunk costs and operate as an attractive publicly-traded company.

Plenty of companies show a profit and remain privately owned. They aren't hypergrowth companies. VCs don't invest in them, except accidentally.

There are, ironically, business models that would have justified some VC investment and led to decent outcomes with a market cap around $1-5B, but they are shaped completely differently, and would have produced much more modest returns.
This disconnect between one's labour and the value it produces has been known for a very long time (Entfremdung). marx, hegel, Feuerbach all talked about it.

I think the main issue with modern corporate america is that too few people see the direct impact of their job. especially in pure office jobs without any technical inclination.

Doing boring work isn't bad per se, but it should lead to something that improves thanks to your labour.
I agree its uplifting, but not especially surprising. Biotech is a fairly hot sector.
Facebook removes Russian network targeting influencers to push anti-vax messages
I've found the following to be free of negativity:
r/bread r/oatmeal r/RICE r/nutrition r/velo r/Zwift
Vine didn't fail in the conventional sense. Rather its Twitter that failed to make any use of Vine despite that was doing well on its own. As a result Twitter slowly killed it. Periscope suffered the same fate.
Google has been scanning everything in your account for kiddie porn for the past decade.

>a man [was] arrested on child pornography charges, after Google tipped off authorities about illegal images found in the Houston suspect's Gmail account

https://techcrunch.com/2014/08/06/why-the-gmail-scan-that-le...

In the case of a false positive, that information lives on Google's server where it can be subpoenaed and misused to incriminate you.

We've seen it before with location data.

>Innocent man, 23, sues Arizona police for $1.5million after being arrested for murder and jailed for six days when Google's GPS tracker wrongly placed him at the scene of the 2018 crime

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7897319/Police-arre...

With Apple's system, a single false positive would never even leave the device. Multiple images have to be found to match known kiddie porn images before a human review is triggered.
also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
Not doomed to fail. Just doomed to not deliver what you're asking for, true car-free living.

I moved to the nicest part of my city and drive twice a week, on weekends. When I go into the office, I walk. A neighborhood like this with cars evicted to the periphery would be miles better than this. It's already possible to commute without a car. You just have to plan your life around it. Which you're already in for if you're considering moving to a planned community like this.

Going completely car-free is always going to a tough thing to ask for for a country as spread out as the U.S..

I expect in the next 20 years we'll start getting streets back into urban centers to replace the stroads*.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzNZUeUHAM
What possible upside is there to the company or its employees from letting these surveys run? Conducting statistically meaningful surveys is a complex discipline that requires an expert's training. The only thing these naive surveys can lead to is accusations and grievances.
I would not classify it as great, but somewhat below par. I made a list of things I did not like about the book, but it would spoil many things. Not spoiling bits:

- All characters are two-dimensional. The further from the main protagonist, the more 2D.
- Dialogues go from wooden to cringe-worthy, with few exceptions.
- Protagonist swings from super over- cautious to careless and back.
- Alien with deus-ex-machina syndrome, always having the perfect tech, material or skill to fill in the lacks of the protagonist.
- Tired trope of amnesia to make the protagonist remember stuff progrssively for the reader.
- Extreme over-usage of flash-back, linked to previous point, but oh boy! Half the book is flashback. Waaay over-used story-telling tech.

The science, outside of the magic fuel and magic alien material is mostly correct. That's the main strong point of the book.
right here: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-0oGwb4N6jRcUF1b3laOExLeVU/...
There was not that much context to the story to begin with, so it is unclear how awful he really was.
We tried in BC multiple times and it's not what people want unfortunately.
I was going to say the same. It looks like the googleplex or Facebook classic campus
Imagine being this condescending and unaware, and asking for the world to be explained to you by the person you're insulting. Good lord.
The pandemic was the nail in the coffin for Uber.
How is Lyft doing?
Crux Development Diary #6
This looks worse than many of the suburban neighborhoods in and around Atlanta, GA.

There are no trees. (Granted, I live in Atlanta and we're spoiled af with marvelous tree cover.)

There's no clear demarkation of where to walk or bike. It's not safe to intermix the two without indications of direction. One elongated dog leash (ugh) or elder person and there will be problems.

There's little privacy from neighbors. Maybe that isn't a problem, but yards are pretty dope and provide ample opportunity for gardening, customization, and dog/kid playground/activities.

Again, I don't get the anti-car, anti-yard, anti-suburb meme. And I say this as I live in a densely populated condo in Atlanta city proper.

Cul-de-sacs (the "old-school" car kind) have their place.
You're totally right about the mic + speaker icons. I wonder why they did that, if clicking either of them apparently opens this shared menu. A speaker as a representation of "Sound" with both mic/speaker settings inside doesn't strike me as too abstract. Or if they really want separate symbols, maybe they could be visually joined somehow.

And none of the other screenshots show the microphone icon, it's only in that one. Only shows up with a mic connected I assume.

Or could the mic be there to give a "something is currently using your mic" indicator?
PinePhone? https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/

I'm frustrated, too.
We spent so much time worrying about government planned economies that we never saw the danger of economically planned governments. If a government will not do anything that might harm the economy, then they are mere thralls of the invisible hand. Some supreme soviet may be incompetent or even malicious, but at least they are mortal.
pretty much yes.

i used to live carless, and would need late rides on a regular basis. i was taking the fancy black lincolns in the days before uberX was introduced and pay ridiculous prices for them because uber was the only game in town - taxi services didn't need my money. it's not just that they were smelly or whatever - they were literally unavailable.

quality of service matters. having to sit in a filthy car - if you can even get a hold of it - and help the driver navigate is not good quality service.

there's demand for quick, convenient quality transportation, and uber fills it.
> Grand-German-Workers-Collective-Where-All-1-Million-Employees-Are-Also-Shareholders (German probably has 1 big compound word for this :-D ).

Google tells me its Arbeitsgenossenschaft
Thoughts on Span Smart Panel?
https://www.span.io

Surprised not to find any discussion here. I'm replacing a very old electrical panel at a new house. Span looks like an interesting choice. Curious to hear what others here think.
I agree, but I don't want to give up 5% for something I could potentially do myself.
I'm making a wild guess here, but I think the missing context from this web site and other comments is that this is intended to be a college town community. If you look up the address (2025 E Apache Blvd, Tempe, AZ 85281) it's a walkable/bikeable distance to Arizona State University which (from my understanding) is the prominent college in the Phoenix area.
Giuseppe 'Bepi' Colombo: Grandfather of the orbital fly-by
For me, the value of ingenuity has not been the fact that it flies but rather that is designed to be operated in a far more risky way than a traditional rover. A mission that consisted solely of a single larger helicopter would be far more risk averse. It would travel shorter distances, move slower and have so much redundancy built in that there is likely to be little mass dedicated to the scientific instruments.
https://archive.is/2vgTB
> I have some highly engaged coworkers who are in the process of burning out.

This is a real problem. I'm consistently encouraging my team to take time off as and when they need it, and to make sure they're only working their contracted hours: everyone running themselves into the ground is the last thing we need.

Also, if everyone's running on the red line the whole time you actually lose the ability to plan effectively because you have no idea what the world looks like when everyone is simply doing a "normal", healthy, sustainable workload.
Nah don't get your hopes up. "Treat a cancer" is very different from a general cure for cancer, which is simply never going to be possible with a generic injection or anything like that. These approaches will fundamentally ever work.

Life extension in the sense of average lifespan marginally increasing is possible, but in the sense of reducing aging is a very very different problem.
12B, though. What about 1.2T?
> While true, that's the lesser of the competitive advantages. China's companies are locked in a highly restrictive CCP control box, which they're not allowed out of. That box will shrink further, suffocating the companies as it goes. It heavily limits how they can compete, what they can do, how fast they can move, and those restrictions will keep getting worse....The purges will get worse, the controls will get worse. It'll make it far more difficult for China's big tech companies to operate, they'll be increasingly hamstrung.

Is that insight or reassuring complacency?

I don't think China will be a replay of the Soviet Union. It's clear that the CCP wants remind people it's top dog, but it's not clear that will make those companies uncompetitive failures in the world market.

> The fake cover reason was data security. The real reason is that Xi and the CCP want China's tech giants pulled back home and away from foreign listings (foreign ownership, foreign influence). China ideally wants those listings to be domestic-only in the future.

How is this bad for the PRC? If anything, embrace of foreign ownership and foreign influence has weakened Western economies.
A smart person could have figured it out, but it was extremely unlikely.

The economics sub-discipline of economic geography was being developed at about the same time as Eternal September.

The key insight (one of the key insights) from that research is that as the absolute cost of transport goes down, previously insignificant differences in cost become important. This leads to to the development of "hubs" - centralization.

(Here we're talking about information transport, and the cost being time per bit.)

But as you say, at the time the tech world could never have believed that centralization was the default expectation, nor designed things to compensate.
To the reader: if this is your first exposure to finding things that aren't supposed to be exposed to the internet and you're finding it interesting enough to want to learn more, there's a tool commonly used among security practitioners called Shodan that enables a much more tunable search for exposed assets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shodan_(website) - deeper reading. I'm not affiliated.

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It's also a super basic intro to proper google-fu (which you can google to find others' takes on how to become somewhat effective at, erm, googling). Back when I used to blog on Microsoft-related topics, it was common to construct extremely narrow queries to find exposed confidential documents in Skydrive accounts which we could then sift through to find bloggable material.

e.g site:[skydrive domain] filetype:.pptx "Microsoft Confidential" etc.

Or one which still works:

https://www.google.com/search?q="Microsoft+Confidential"+sit...

lmao I'm going to have some fun tonight.
I don't understand. What point is being made here?
So you witness the heat death of the universe at ~50 years. Yet you and your spaceship are still intact then, and at times exponentially beyond it. Weird.

Though perhaps the amount of energy it would take to accelerate that much exceeds the available energy in the universe? So maybe that's what balances it.
Sweet, we should connect. My email is in my bio. Feel free to ping.
California, Fire and Plants
Very similar situation here. Master planned community with meh build quality, but our neighborhood is designed to be transit oriented. We don't have a lot of amenities within the community, mostly just a bike trail, and a light rail stop. Hopefully some retail and a grocery store open up nearby soon, because about 500+ units are all being built within a quarter mile. And well over 1000+ within a half mile.

The bike trail is my favorite part. It connects to the major bike trails in my city, which allow me access to all the major sporting venues, downtown, major shopping centers, and job centers. I used to ride ~7 miles per day traveling from the office, and about 20 miles each weekend just going to do things I would have otherwise done via car. It allowed me to sell my car.

The light rail also makes things convenient if the weather isn't so great.

The odd thing is that nearly everyone in the community still drives everywhere, and some own multiple cars. Parking is a disaster and everyone complains about it, but these were all new builds and the buyers all should have known that parking would be limited.
I'm happy to share more too, if you have questions about other things I've looked into and tried. I didn't even dive into nutrition, digestion, exercise, dealing with emotional trauma, etc. as I didn't want to overwhelm OP. It really frustrates me that we have these mysterious "diseases" like CFS, which in my opinion is really just your doctor throwing up their hands and saying they don't know what the hell is going on. I simply refuse to accept that management of a condition is the best we can do for people.
I agree with most of your points. But the distinction between null and undefined is an important one. Its absence is a legitimate complaint about SQL.
The company was recently valued at over $6 billion.
> The only real hurdle is having an oven that can go hot enough (900+ deg F)

While that's necessary for some pizzas, there's plenty you can make with an oven at 500-550F + a pizza stone/steel. And then there's deep dish/sicilian/etc. at 425-450F.
I didn't say that this case is not an outage. I was just trying to explain why Github were not reporting an outage as an outage.

Let me try again:

The reason sites report "performance degradation" in these cases, is that what can usually be detected immediately and automatically by metrics is the underlying performance degradation; while the fact that some process got unexpectedly wedged due to the performance degradation usually goes undetected for quite some time, until customers start reporting the outage. And, before the dashboard can be switched to "suspected outage", it has to first be determined whether any of these customers' reports are of a real "outage", and not just of "my own client is programmed to give up on the request after 100s" problems.

Each of these weird edge-case distributed-systems failures is usually fixed — stopped from ever happening again — after the first time it gets triggered. Which means that every time one of these happens, it's the first time the system has failed in that particular way. So there's never any automated monitoring in place to notice that the system has failed in that particular way — as that would imply that the failure was in some way predictable.

As such, while yes, the outage is real, I don't blame a company for not reporting the outage as such immediately, or for quite a while after it happens. Sometimes it's not clear right up until the root cause is resolved, that it actually was a partial customer-facing outage. Sometimes all your third-party downtime detector apps just aren't doing the right things to hit the code path / get routed through the middlebox that's failing for some customers; and all the real-customer reports getting through to you are vague and muddled.

(One thing that can be immensely helpful to a SaaS's ops team, is to have at least one highly-technical company as a customer who reliably only reports "upstream fault" problems, rather than PEBKAC problems. If that canary customer is complaining, then the outage is likely real. They're better than any downtime detector service — and, surprisingly, often faster, too! Sadly, most SaaS businesses have literally no single such customer.)
2 of the biggest benefits I see are:

- leveling the playing field with an open interface that anyone can build on top of

- allowing true ownership of assets
i listened to a preview of that book and couldn't even get to the end.

i kind of hate audiobooks for this reason, my internal voice is just so much easier to listen to.
I think a good book can be more engaging than a real sunset. High fidelity renders not required.
How do you handle PRs that are for release trains/branches?
> This seems very inefficient due to the high energy cost and the long timescales in the proposal.

This is efficient for what the paper is about: A solution to the sun's gradual evolution towards a red giant. So long timescale is not a problem, since we have 1B year before the sun becomes too hot for where we are today, and 5B years before being engulfed by it.

Space sunshades works well to reduce incoming radiations by a few % (e.g. for current climate change problem), it won't work so well when the earth will be within the sun's corona.
People are exposing their routers to the internet. This is not a good idea.
> The real question is how would you know if it did?

Rigorous statistical studies?
Hahaha you too? Saw this at a previous employer. Suddenly the Gallup scores became the sole responsibility of your direct manager. So guess what? One year later, everyone briefs their reports to make sure they don’t get in trouble, Gallup scores were through the roof, trebles all round for HR!
I went to a high school where the running track was part tar and part ground up auto tire. It was by far the best track I ever ran on.
> Yellowcab actually makes their own app.

I would never use this since i have the uber app first.
I read that article back when it came out, and I read it again, and I don't think it supports you like you think it does.

"Research by James Hansen shows that reducing global CO2 levels requires both a drastic cut in emissions and some way of pulling CO2 from the atmosphere and storing it."

CO2 does take a long time to get pulled out by natural processes. The paper you keep linking literally talks about needing to finds ways to pull it out via other methods. That's what we need to find.

You are saying, "nope, can't do it", a very black-and-white term you claim to avoid.
What if the EU had a tech team which produced widgets that were mandatory to be used by companies rather than every company creating their own custom cookie prompt filled with dark patterns?
Kind of like the standardized Facebook like buttons which used to be so popular. But instead it's a JavaScript snippet or web component provided by the EU that Google would be legally mandated to integrate into their site?

Alternatively, could we just go back to using the DNT header? I liked this solution a lot better anyways, just set it once and forget about it. The problem was that sites would just ignore it, but if the EU adds some legal weight behind this functionality it could actually be meaningful.
There are thousands of TP-LINK routers whose WAN port 80/443 is exposed to the Internet, allowing access to their administration interface if you know the password (or a vulnerability is present).
Having lived down the street from this site, I'm also skeptical. Tempe has some bike infrastructure, but the high temperatures four months of the year and the spread-out nature of the larger Phoenix metro makes a car a priority for most people, and cities (including Tempe and neighboring Mesa) design around that. There's a bike path to the west of this site that runs north-south but terminates after only a couple miles, at one of the many highways that define the larger metro area. And to the east is ASU's main campus...but it's two miles east, which is a long way to walk in May and September, at least.

There is a low-end grocery store a mile away (on a divided stroad) and nicer grocery stores within two or three miles. The main virtue is that it's along the Metro light rail line, so if you're really committed to using that, you're not in bad shape.
Github issue link? They seem to have a solid ci setup, and I know several large enterprises using. But I found a bug for my usage != bad code quality.
BMW was/is at the essence an Airplane Motor Company:-)
They put some car around the motor...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_BMW

That is why the logo looks like a propeller if you look carefully.
The future GOP will poo-poo the solar growth myth and complain about the effect on the economy.