skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't only snowflakes in the government mistreating their power.

Government procurement is also complex and long-winded to ensure fairness and abuse of power, at the request of taxpayers and companies alike: Everything (with very rare exceptions) must be procured via a bidding process, so you first need a formal "call for bids". Leaving out the bidding process instantly leads to accusations of nepotism, legal consequences, or dismissal. The decision after the bids must not include interactions or refinements of the bids, because that would be favouritism and invalidate the process. So all the requirements must be known and laid down in the call for bids. So if you need someone to gather requirements for you first (because most government people actually know they would be the worst PM ever)? Have another bidding process first with "requirements gathering and CFB writing" in the CFB, taking another year, just to write the actual CFB for what you need. The eligible bidders and the bidding time is clearly defined by law, so e.g. around here you need to allow all EU companies and have to wait for 6 months before opening the bidding envelopes to decide. The decision itself must be objective, so you need to rely on a scoring system that might later on be attacked in court, therefore usually the only score that is used is the price. Using anything else will lead to a lengthy court battle about the scoring criteria, preventing you from making any progress during the proceedings. Make any mistake and bidding will have to be restarted, leading to another 6 to 12 months of delay, more if courts get involved (which they will).

Oh, and to use public money responsibly, you may only pay after execution and delivery of the contract. And only after formal verification and acceptance of the criteria laid out in the bid. So there is another few weeks to months after you are done before payment can even be ordered. If you left that out, the public would metaphorically hang you for paying for the occasional shitty job. Being informal about it would invite lengthy court battles from loosing bidders. Additional pain comes from bids where there is more than one contractor, e.g. in buildings where the electrician has to wait for the plaster and paint. Any delays in painting will lead to delays in the electrician being paid for work and material he already delivered ages ago. Lots of small companies go bancrupt in those situations.

So I actually thing a bit more flexibility, less fairness and a little more power to some government snowflakes could make everything go far smoother.
"100s of requests per second"

dns works fine at those rates or higher, and you'll use caching dns servers of ISPs, scales like no other, geo support etc etc. I think its great idea for public data.
Amazon is reportedly planning to open department stores
Watchtower runs the images if they update, but AFAIK it doesn't pull if the base image changes.

Then again, Harbormaster doesn't do that either unless the upstream git repo changes.
If you can afford it, Dell Precision 7xxx is by far the best linux laptop with official support.
I didn't have any worry about "indecent things", but I did feel like those particular shorts gave it an ultra-casual feeling. Like a day at the beach.

But perhaps that's the idea. This isn't some stuffy business-only thing, it's a system that could be used by anyone.
It wouldn't be easy to secure a printed part, especially without adding slop. Also, is there any overlap between materials you can 3d print with in this thing, and ones you can mill (or even polish) without shattering the part?
I think they meant to say that BSD-based stuff is common but unknown to most, and that the same goes for VxWorks and TRON, in that both open source BSD and proprietary solutions have licenses that make their inclusion in other software products not noticed by many people.
The problem I've always had with that story is that most people are struggling just to live on what they make. Saving 50% of your income when you are trying to make rent is a pipe dream. Even making decent money, if you have a family, saving is tough. The idea that we are poor because we buy lattes is over-simplified, and borderline insulting.

Life is more complicated than a blog post with some arithmetic.
They were simply building on the strength of the electrical socket ... or is it the petrol station ... or the rechargable AA's
Tom Morgan – Curation in the Age of Information Abundance [audio]
> As to whether we'll ever discover it - I wouldn't have predicted the Snowden revelations

Snowden paid a very high price not many people can afford, especially when they have a family. So I highly doubt we could know it within a reasonable timeframe.
The paper derived results for stellar mass black holes, but why not do the same for super massive black holes at the center of galaxies?

Yes, this would be constrained to ultra-advanced type III civilizations. But it would let us search for ET civilizations across the entire universe, not just our own galaxy.
First of all congrats on the $1m ARR!

Does sound familiar, even with less than 20 people..

I think a product manager like person might help in this situation. Basically someone (on your team/or new hire) that understands both business and tech and has enough buy-in and trust from everyone to facilitate the communication between the silos and get everyone on the same page.

Besides managing, filtering, and pushing back on feature requests, they can create a solid product strategy so everyone can focus on achieving the same goals instead of just building features.

It's not perse a position of wielding power, more negotiating, balancing objectives and finding ways to keep things moving in the right direction.

But yeah, it's hard, scaling software development is not easy. But well, as long as you keep trying things you will find ways forward. Good luck!
I have been in and around the IT industry since the 1980s and I still can't discern a pattern as to what lasts. My only advice is let the market sort it out by always being slower to adopt something until at least it gets to the edge of mainstream. Cutting edge and shiny is only for when you absolutely have to have some feature nothing else provides. Plus when you pick something, figure on staying with it until it becomes a PITA.
>> Microsoft files are still based on the proprietary format deprecated by the ISO in April 2008, and not on the ISO approved standard, so they embed a large amount of hidden artificial complexity.

> Why isn't there an anti-trust lawsuit against this artificial monopoly on office formats?

What? You want it to be illegal for Microsoft to use a file format of their own design when implementing their own software?
Not really life changing but still my favorite blog post of all time

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...
Celebrating Gene Roddenberry's 100th Birthday
I've previously posted my experience with that - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25121668
Sure, but when two objects collide and transform into 1000 objects, a lot more than two of them will find semi-stable orbits. And by semi-stable I mean it doesn't have to be stable as like with satellite, it just have to stay up there for years to be a problem.
Decentralized ETS Counters for Better Scalability
I love the execution. The business idea? Not so much. I just don't think there's a big market for video conferencing from 6ft away.

My .2: find a way to generalize the applications. It's common to start a business focusing on a specific niche and then expand, but I have a feeling this would work better as something that can integrate into many different other applications or workflows rather than a standalone product.
> has less catastrophic failure modes

Given incidence of dam bursts like the 1975 Banqiao dam failure[1], with an estimate death toll of 26,000 to 240,000 people and flooding of over 12,000 square kilometers, I'm inclined to disagree with this assessment.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure
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Braille and wheelchairs are the equivalent of a cure for autism, as I envision it. Why do these not count as "avoid[ing] our shared responsibility of accommodating for differences, by erasing the differences"?

> They're not aborted to avoid accommodating, but to prevent suffering
You don't think people who want to "cure" autism are also motivated by this?
Maybe not a life-changing thing but something that truly unlocked a lot of things: https://milan.cvitkovic.net/writing/things_youre_allowed_to_...

HN discussion about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25513713
no. anything that is strong enough to, say, CNC will also be very slow for 3d printing or laser. different processes demand different designs.
Mining Zinc, Nickel, and Cobalt from Plants: “Phytomining”, the Future of Mining
Can you elaborate on your minuses - I don't understand what you mean with "at once" in that context.
I recently experimented a bunch a ended up simply using a set of composition notebooks[0]. These are cheap, classic, and they prevent pages being torn out (which I was prematurely doing when I thought I was done with a thread).

[0] https://unsharpen.com/composition-notebook/
Voron0 – Open-Source Compact 3D-Printer
I agree but I would say that any advanced enough civilisation will even be able to eliminate the need to grow their population and energy requirements.

I don't see any requirement why an intelligent civilisation would need to grow its population forever. It seems far more intelligent to attack the cause of the energy need instead of building crazy structures like Dyson spheres around black holes.
The Illusion of Privacy Is Getting Harder to Sell
I could list more than 10 people I personally know who have probably permanently stunted their lives via credit card debt from door dash and uber eats.

The the world doesn't owe you a standard of living. If you want to have more money, spend less money. Or don't. It's your choice. Nothing insulting about it.
Mmm. 40 years ago is 1981. So, if you do have a 1981 API it's completely incompatible with how you'd actually write C++ in 2021 and will need a wrapper, putting it squarely in the same situation as Rust where you would also want to wrap this 1981 API.
Great to hear that you made good experiences with user-defined allocators. It would be great if you could provide a pointer to an example, because we always fall short in testing the allocator usage. So if you had a small example, you could really improve the status quo :)
You'll find that most community members (including the staff) come from a wide/diverse background. Unlike some other groups that have more of a "FOSS or else" atmosphere, Fosstodon has members (and staff) that are hobbyists to extremists to pragmatics and everything in between. It's really a great place to discuss and support the FOSS movement without being chastised if you're not "all in".
Golang wasn't designed in the 1990s.

I'm sorry you're bored and also annoyed in the possible universe where GoKart is your project. But it seems like this is a thing people want to talk about in a post about Go static analysis tooling.

I don't see why you're trying to police HN conversations.
It wasn't a blog post, but CGP Grey's "This Video Will Make You Angry" has been a tremendously helpful tool in understanding the behavior of people online and in controlling my own behavior.
Unless hocking productivity advice online makes you good money. Check Ali Abdaal channel on Youtube.
I hope most would be okay with it due to the forced (by the browser) muting, i.e. images may animate but they may not make sound, even if they are displaying what is in reality a video stream containing sound.

At least I would be fine with that, and I can be quite annoyed with auto-playing video.
You might be right. On the other hand, all their past controversial ideas were reasonable from the financial point of view: introduce non-standard connectors, remove the minijack, make the hardware non-upgradeable and so on. All these things were bad for consumers, but good for Apple's bottom line. This one is bad for everybody. Apple's management is not stupid, they must have a good reason.
Facebook's Metaverse for Work
The type system knows about it and you're forced to check it
> The most important thing to note is that cutting your spending rate is much more powerful than increasing your income.

I believe that part isn't exactly right, because you can increase your income way more than you can reduce what it takes for you to live. If you're a software engineer making let's say 70k, you can find a job where you make 150k, 200k or even more. If you currently spend 50k every year, it's way more effective than trying to spend less. You also have to take into account that once you retire you can live somewhere where the cost of living is lower.
> whatever will eventually become the standard, will be lossless, as it became with audio

At least ony bubble, the standard for audio is still lossless: I'm fairly sure 99.9% of all audio i consume is using something lossy:streamed over Spotify, in movies like Netflix, clips like YouTube, video Chats... Is that just my impression and technology moved to FLAC without me noticing?
this is nice, this should help a lot of people in that in-between space

i just recently decided to graduate from just `docker-compose up` running inside tmux to a more fully fledged system myself...

since i know Chef quite well i just decided to use Chef in local mode with the docker community cookbook

i also get the nice tooling around testing changes to the infrastructure in test kitchen

if this would have existed before i made that switch, i may have considered it, nice work!
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I think it would be interesting to have progressive decoding (and, for those who want it, autoplay) of videos, too.
Yes, if they use it unfairly against the competitors while being a monopoly.
Intel Shutting RealSense
who will benefit the most from vacuum created by Intel Real Sense?
This part I’m unclear on: is anybody actually profiting? And is child abuse actually growing? Or is it just photo sharing that’s growing?
Ask HN: Does FAANG code pair? How much?
The development started in 2013 when C++11 was still modern. Since then, the term "modern C++" is, to my understanding, a synonym for "C++11 and later". Of course, some code may look dated compared to newer C++ constructs, but the main goal is to integrate JSON into any C++ code bases without making it look odd.

The string_view lookup is nearly done, but I did not want to wait for it, because it would have delayed the release even more.

I'm also working on supporting unordered_map - using it as container for objects would be easy if we would just break the existing API - the hard part is to support it with the current (probably bad designed) template API.
I used to think this way but I’ve come to suspect that it was a viewpoint attractive to me and others because it was soothing more than right.
Is there an environmental argument (reduce waste, save the planet) to be made at some point? There are many, possibly exagerated, pieces about the energy savings from something as simple as 'dark-mode'. These small changes if scaled to billions of users and hours represent a meaningful impact.
The article is about kids. Kids, don’t care about these semantics
Which, again, has always been the case. It’s a very new phenomenon where an individual can deliver speech directly to thousands of people. The media were the gatekeepers of information and influencers of mass opinion, and they would frequently run stories with counterfactual information that suited their purposes.

Companies have always tried to run parallel, unelected governments. Whether it’s “company towns,” banana republics, or social media restrictions doesn’t matter.

No, I think the root of the problem is that the ability to disseminate information widely across a population is not a good thing. I do think there should be real regulation on mass speech that is proportional to the audience size. If you have 100k followers on Instagram, that should come with some responsibilities.
You can provide alternative collections if needed by templating basic_json; std::map is just a default. Personally I like using a flat_map which is an ordered map built on top of a vector, which provides nice cache locality and is generally even faster than a hash map / unordered_map except for extremely large objects.
That link didn't work for me but the links off the main page did for anyone else interested: https://winworldpc.com/product/dan-bricklins-demo/ii-v2

If you want to run it, DosBox with the "imgmount -t floppy" command works with the img files.
Good point, which is why wages have to go up.

Eventually everyone will make six figures and a loaf of bread will be $16 but housing will be rationally priced again with starter homes at $500k.
There is also a SAX parser.

But to be honest, I have not yet played around with PMR.
The UK surveys the population regularly.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...
You can follow some links on the page you linked to and end up on one called "COVID-19 Infection Survey: methods and further information". This is a direct link to the section "Sampling" there:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...
It's “terrifying” because hot honey is hot.
Haven't seen proof microservices are necessary.
I love the point about how much smarter it would have been to invert the palm island by bringing the water inward as opposed to the land outward.

I never thought of that. I'm not an engineer but that sounds about 100 times easier and more cost efficient.
Ha! I work in the restaurant industry and I feel the same way, but about the pop up online ordering platforms and POS providers.

I had an argument (via email) with a POS provider whose time and attendance system were used by my client. I said I need SOH report (in NY you get special pay if you work more than 10 hrs in one day).

They said they don’t have this report, but we could switch over to their payroll service, where they do offer this report.

Adolescent companies just won’t step out of their lane, even when they collect data which is necessary for compliance with the law.

Hmmm. What’s going on? Young and impervious to reason. Old and careless.
As I tried to describe earlier: "modern C++" is not necessarily "using the latest standard", but rather "C++ since it was updated with C++11 (and later)".
Can you identify any intrinsic property of General American other than media, business and language school familiarity that makes it particularly intelligible? Its pronunciation is as divorced from phonetics as most English dialects, it elides some consonants and vowel clusters that are distinct in most other English variants and it tends to be spoken more rapidly than some English dialects.

And yes, I have considerable experience of speaking English abroad, and whether I think the listener will understand me better if I exaggerate my British diction, adopt more General American-sounding syllables, pick up quirks of pronunciation and phrasing used in the local ESL lingua franca or pronounce a particular problem word as it is written is entirely situational, and generally based on what the person I'm speaking to is most exposed to.
Yes, I did look into Nomad. Again, specification of application to deploy is much simpler than kubernetes. But I think operational point of view you still have the complexity. It has similar concepts and abstractions like kubernetes when you operate a nomad cluster.
API-first world, graphic novel
Yeah, that's annoying, a lot of new accounts get locked instantly and asked to provide a phone number. Technically you can appeal it, but you have a lower chance of being accepted now than in the past. However, you can use Google Voice, or a site like getsmscode.com (that one is confirmed working on Twitter, just sometimes a bit flaky, may have to try multiple numbers).
Amazon Plans to Open Large Retail Locations Akin to Department Stores
Currently I'm using blank A7 index cards, with a fold-back clip. A bit like the Hipster PDA.

I'm not sure I'll stay with that, but so far it looks good. I like the thick paper, the wide availability and the low price. I can reorder stuff, I can take single index cards out, and I don't regret throwing cards away.
Honestly I find the whole movement quite dreary if taken too seriously.

Of course, don't spend on frivolous things. Do you really need the designer bag, instead of just a bag? Do you need that road-trip with your friends in your 20s? Do you really need to impress that boy/girl by taking them to a michelin restaurant for a date?

OTOH what is the opportunity, and life cost of being frugal or too frugal? Perhaps the designer bag caught the attention of the boss, and 'earned' their respect, which ultimately translated to a promotion. Perhaps you ended up finding your life parrter in one of your road-trip friends. Perhaps you didn't get the boy/girl because you cheaped out on the date. Etc.

Life is to be lived. Some moderation is required. Not too much though.
What is your perspective on multiple docker compose files, and you can do docker-compose up -f <file name>. You could organise in a day that all the files are in the same directory. Just wondering.