skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the desktop, I simply use a separate Firefox profile for Spotify with the web client. The only 'special' thing is that I had to disable ServiceWorkers because they somehow caused some trouble every few weeks (dom.serviceWorkers.enabled = false). In addition, I use KDocker for a system tray icon.

However, on mobile it is a completely different story. The Spotify app requires so many resources that it takes forever to start (like a minute) and sometimes even causes my phone to reboot. For something like a MP3 player that is hilarious...

Does someone know if there is a good alternative mobile app?
I build all the components and get them working with mostly 'vanilla' styling. Then he brands/styles any he needs to by simply editing the .html and .scss files.

He has no idea about how the TypeScript/JavaScript files work. He doesn't really have to touch them, unless to maybe see what extra data the component model contains if he wanted to dig deeper and display other things.
To be fair, it also can get overwrought: it's far from impossible to end up using a programming language to emit a templating language that emits a configuration language that itself describes configuration files.

Sometimes, for simple things, those could have written by hand at the bottom without the extra tools. But even when writing them by hand would have been very hard or not the right choice, the devops stack is a daunting thing to reckon with!

A developer coming from "jenkins invokes a script that runs npm install && npm start", or even the mildly more modern "jenkins invokes docker-compose on a file" has a lot of very abstract and difficult-to-play-around-with context to pick up.

It's hard to learn fully even if you're at a shop with an established approach where someone knows what they're doing, but imagine moving yourself from Rackspace or Heroku onto AWS or GCP, and having to figure out IAM permissions and private VPC networking ingress configurations while also deciding if you really need to use helm. Especially if you're doing this because the team "doesn't have time to spend on ops".

At the end of the day I of course agree that using k8s to manage moderately complex things can melt a lot of toil right off. In the right scenarios, more abstraction can help for more complex stuff too. But there's also a lot of marketing out there for tools-on-tools, and businesses that would love for folks to adopt solutions to problems which few people have, let alone really deeply understand.
Their spam mail and abuse of customers is malice.
We're looking into the option of expanding our network or offering it as a SaaS for others who are wanting to build something similar for other audiences. The software works great for any content-based targeting, and we're excited to expand to other niches to push the vision forward as we can :)
I'm mildly surprised that in all the "AI goes rogue and turns a controlled smart munition into a murder-bot" fiction I've seen, I don't think anyone has drawn the relatively short line of causality along "Drone countermeasures disrupt remote control --> designers build in some basic decision-making to account for control interruption --> the decision-making gets sophisticated enough that it's trusted with kill / no-kill decisions --> jamming drone + scrambling IFF --> murder-bot turned on its 'owners.'"
We can do so much and yet so little. All of this progress may amount to nothing if we cannot overcome our internal obstacles to our collective survival.

Awaiting the downvotes but it's true.
10 Lessons from Early-Stage Startup
We launched https://ownnit.com/ towards the end of January and learned a TON about starting a business. Here are 10 key lessons we learned!

LAUNCH ASAP - We spent a lot of months planning and waiting until we were comfortable with putting our product in the public eye before we launched...In hindsight, this was a mistake. We wasted a few months we could have otherwise spent growing!

FIGURE OUT A CORE OFFERING, IGNORE FEATURES - When you think of your start-up, you're probably projecting where it will be in a few years. All the little features you think will go a long way are probably fantastic ideas...But 20% of your features will get you 80% of your users (your CORE offering)!

NO ONE WILL REMEMBER YOUR LAUNCH - Do you remember the first day of Facebook, Amazon, or Uber? No. No one does...Except maybe like 10 people.

EARLY ON, YOUR JOB IS TO SELL - I cannot emphasize this point enough. If you build it, they will NOT come. No matter how good of an idea you think you have, your job is to spread the word. Direct-to-consumer sales is an exhausting and frustrating process...Get ready for it!

LEARN HOW TO SELL - Early on, we SUCKED. There are lots of resources online to teach you how to approach sales if you're not an expert...But your best bet is just trial & error. You will learn what works and what doesn't. This is why launching ASAP is KEY.

TRIAL & ERROR WILL GUIDE YOU - "Everyone has a plan until you get punched in the face..." Launching your start-up is getting punched in the face. You will very quickly learn what works and what doesn't.

PIVOT QUICKLY - Trial & error helps you learn what works...But you also need to be willing to make changes quickly.

TREAT EVERY USER AS IF THEY ARE YOUR ONLY USER - There are a lot of things you can't control in a startup. There is one thing you have 100% control over...Your customer service! Treat every individual user like gold, and they will notice and appreciate that.

COMMUNICATE WITH YOUR USERS - Early on, your job is sales. But it's also customer support, and marketing, and product development, etc...The easiest way to save time with a million different tasks on your plate is to TALK TO YOUR USERS. Find out what features they want, rather than what features you want to add. Ask them why they use your product. Ask them how they would feel if they no longer could use your product. Your users will teach you so much.

WIN THE WEEK - Having a start-up can be a rollercoaster. Hour-to-hour, day-to-day, week-to-week, etc...Set attainable weekly goals for yourself so that you can take a step back from the daily grind of your start-up. For example, "by the end of this week, I want to add 10 users".
I agree. I think it partly comes down to the extent to which they are apathetic about this though vs being actively aware of the wrong they feel they are doing. If somebody works on something that they personally believe is toxic and bad for society, I would be concerned about that person's level of alienation and what else that might mean about them as a worker and a person I have to work with. However, I'd be interested to know how many people are truly in this category. Are these engineers, enthusiasticly solving hard problems on some nefarious product, genuinely against what they're doing? Maybe most of them are simply apathetic about that part of it. That's not great either of course and it seems like an immature and selfish attitude at the very least. Of course, I would caveat this by saying that we don't all have the luxury of finding companies that align with our values and its probably a "first world problem". I'm very much aiming this at skilled software engineers, especially those in the major cities of wealthy countries, who can probably pick and choose a fair bit.

Personally, I don't want to work with people who don't care about the end goal for practical reasons as much as anything else. For the sorts of companies I've worked for at least, they make sub-standard contributions. I work on a very product-centric engineering team in a complex domain where not knowing the domain well will seriously hamper your ability to plan, refine and execute on features and bug fixes. Sure, we have a product manager but we still need that deep knowledge and you're probably only going to obtain that by being into the product and fairly engaged with it and the company's mission.
Can you elaborate?

I'm comparing the two e.g. on MyFonts:

https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/mti/helvetica-now/

https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/neue-haas-grotesk/

Or specifically for the medium text:

https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/mti/helvetica-now/text-medium/

https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/neue-haas-grotesk/pro...

Aside from the fact that they're scaled slightly differently, nothing whatsoever jumps out to me as noticeably different, in any weight, except that Neue Haas Grotesk has descenders that seem unnaturally short, but I can't tell if that might be a rendering box clipping issue.

What makes Helvetica Now "such a departure" and the name Helvetica just "marketing"? Whatever difference there is seems extremely subtle to my eyes...
Their Co2 emissions from flaring unused methane is also significant. This company has some kind of live map of them:

https://www.flaringmonitor.org/
As soon as these robots are as maneuverable as people and even somewhat affordable for groups of hundreds to be made.

We're DONE!

The ultra rich and the Jeff Bezos of the world will buy them and return us to a world of Kings and Queens. Good luck trying to fight that.
Can't they just make it optional? I don't really care either way, but it's amazing Apple always needs everything to be homogeneous instead of just a little configurable. I'm sure heads were spinning before they decided to allow dark mode.
Foundations of Distributed Consensus and Blockchains [pdf]
The confusion you are spreading is the same as ignoring the difference between HIV and AIDs. If a vaccine was developed that prevented an HIV infection from causing AIDs, you would be the guy telling people it's safe to have unprotected sex even if you have HIV, as long as you're vaccinated. The mRNA vaccine does not prevent the infection from taking place, it prevents the infection from developing into the disease.

mRNA vaccines do not prevent the spread of SARS-COV-2, they are highly effective at preventing a SARS-COV-2 infection from causing COVID-19.
> Yes, those other western countries are 90-99% white so whiteness

I've only heard that word "whiteness" in the mouth of 2 kind of people, neonazis and their racist counter part on the left.
I was quoting the OP.
I can only recognize the most common ones: Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, Calibri, Ubuntu, Comic Sans, Roboto, Computer Modern.

But more than noticing the differences between them, what's important is noticing when there's something wrong in a composition because of the font.

For example, if you show a UI that uses a serif font to someone, they'll notice there's something wrong with it, but most people probably won't tell you exactly what it is.
The same way any company prevents you from copying any computer program and rebranding it as your own. Lawyers. Vector fonts count as computer programs.
Ethically they're the same and I boycott both and encourage everyone else to do the same. Vote with your money for how you want the world to work.
Fires are less frequent in Teslas and other EVs vs. gas vehicles
> WTF are people thinking?

I can understand people just dumping everything in the bin because sorting it properly is an overwhelming task.

I recently signed up for Ridwell [1] and pay them to properly dispose of (sort and redistribute) all kinds of waste I could get rid of for “free”. The problem is figuring out where to take everything and then actually getting there in my car. As far as I can tell there isn’t one single drop off point in my area for plastic film, food containers, clothing, electronics, and styrofoam. At some point just putting everything in a bin for $10.00/mo makes a lot more sense.

Muddy boots are an extreme but I have things like ripped shirts that might be repairable or useful as rags or some thing I just can’t think of.

[1]: https://www.ridwell.com/
"Don't be snarky."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Be respectful. Anyone sharing work is making a contribution, however modest."

"When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is, but don't be gratuitously negative."

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Probably need to use more fuel for a sustained reaction?
So, the redirect is working for me in my firefox. Can I ask which browser you have been using?

But I think it was a JavaScript redirect, so maybe it was blocked by your ad blocker.
By default, we have Liberation Serif and you just have to drag in TTF fonts into /res/fonts to make them usable for the system font. So it's not hard to change many parts of the visuals if you don't like them.
Tell your teenager the world needs more people like him if we’re going to save the worlds insects. We need more entomologist.
From Neal Asher's Wikipedia page [0], you may consider starting with "Gridlinked" (2001). I've read 3/5 of the Agent Cormac series set in the Polity setting, starting with that book, and thoroughly enjoyed it. (Now I need to go read all the rest, apparently...)

The AI-ruling-humanity idea took a bit to warm up to. They do seem to be presented as benevolent overlords.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Asher#Bibliography
> Just design the streets differently and prevent the cars to drive so fast…

... and then be ashamed of the lives lost because emergency responders couldn't get to the scene in time. :(

Everything is tradeoffs.
I’m not advocating for getting rid of the institutions that apply physical violence on behalf of the population. I’m advocating for more fairly distributing the strings of power. You still have to force the manufacturers to implement the check. But the fewer places that you need to enforce physical violence on, the better.
It's delegation or specialization, more or less.

The people in the mine don't have time or space or desire to process the boulders, but they can source them. Etc.

Vertical integration would increase the amount of total margin accruing to any one business, but at the cost of turning a focused business into a sprawling one, and increasing the time and risk between aquiring the materials and selling them.
> As the Associated Press notes, Walensky cited data from the last few days, still unpublished, taken from 100 samples from vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals with COVID infections. They found that the amount of virus in the noses and throats of vaccinated infected people was nearly "indistinguishable" from what was found in unvaccinated people, confirming what some experts have suspected.

https://sfist.com/2021/07/27/cdc-confirms-that-viral-loads-i...
Heh, there's some overlap between the terms but foment is likely the right one. For others curious:

> When change is a brewin', remember: to ferment is to cause a chemical change to food or drink, like turning grapes into wine, but to foment is to stir up trouble, like turning a group of people into an angry mob. [1]

[1] vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourwords/ferment-foment/
E2EE is meaningless with a closed client downloaded by individuals from the service provider.
> I really like that for returns, they'll come pick it up. AMZ charges extra for that.

Oof, not in the UK. (At least not with Prime.)

Perhaps not quite as easy (for small enough items) as when I mostly commuted, and could print a label and leave it in an outgoing mail pile, but certainly from home I way prefer that than going to a post office (even in the absence of coronavirus restrictions).

I actually bought a printer for that purpose. A direct thermal label printer, because that's all I needed it for (and it was cheaper, has no ink to run out/dry out during a period of no use, etc.).
I am envious of people who can deal with such problems. The problem is defined clearly and can be measured easily.

This is so much more fun than figuring out why some SAAS service is misbehaving.
If you don’t like terms don’t pay it. They wouldn’t do it it if it didn’t make money. If the terms are not appealing use a free font.
https://archive.is/YVitX
> The United States' belief that its laws apply to everyone in the world is one of the most insidious ideas of our modern world.

That's not a modern thing. Countries with power use that power to get what they want, whether through military force or though other forms of influence and/or coercion. The Sumerians, the Egyptians, the Assyrians, etc.--pretty much every country with military or economic power over other countries.
I've stress tested Jitsi's E2EE (both on the official server and on a self-hosted instance, with was a PITA to setup, by the way) and....it does not scale. After more than 20 clients joined, there were noticeable problems that made the meeting impossible to conduct (audio drop outs, frozen video, disparate lag times, etc), both on a self-hosted instance that had more than enough bandwidth/hardware kit to handle it (the same self-hosted setup is also used to host Zoom, which runs perfectly), and on their main server.

I would like to hear real-world examples of people successfully conducting large-scale E2EE meetings over Jitsi. What setup did you use?
I screen and read resumes as part of my job. Never heard someone who cared about that. This is just not something people look at in resumes unless they’re looking for non technical people perhaps.
I disagree with a couple of the choices made here, mainly the (apparent) lack of static typing

But with that said, the author has done an amazing job with the website and materials, and it's clear this language has a lot of upsides given that it's already been running in production as much as it has

I am also a big believer in the premise that we need a dedicated Web Language that incorporates client/server and logic/markup/styles into a coherent package (disclosure: I'm also working on my own version of that)

All in all, cool stuff, lots of takeaways to be found here at the very least
My family and I lived on a farm for a number of years in the early 2000s. We raised chickens for eggs and meat.
Blockpoint Releases First Immutable SQL
For context, in wired chip-to-chip communication electronics, femtosecond variations are (statistically) measurable. Picoseconds are rather pedestrian. A 56 Gbaud signal has a single-symbol duration of about 18 picoseconds and perturbations on the order of 1 picosecond are rather large 5.6%.

Not to downplay the achievement of the article or the innovation in fusion physics and engineering in general, just a bit of context for the timescales.
The good news is that the high order terms of the polynomial don't notably affect the error. with fma, horner's method converges to .5 ULP accuracy. The subtraction with pi/2 can also be done without adding inaccuracy by using compensated summation.
Filecoin Foundation Donates $10M Worth Of Filecoin To Internet Archive
I don't understand what the difference is from the perspective of the user.
It will be a review system, like on Amazon. Just kidding. I replied to the same question in a sibling comment.
It's not that Kube doesn't solve problems.

It's that Kube solves problems 99% of projects using it do not and never will have.
AdmiralAsshat's point was that all of the alternatives sucked because they were difficult or flakey to use: they weren't "comparable". Notably, the alternatives being mentioned as non-comparable weren't even trying to be local: they were remote service/ (which if you think Zoom is particularly bad, is still an improvement) built by giant companies that have tons of resources to have an army working on just these tools... and they all still sucked.

You then responded to this comment by just matter-of-factly asserting that you had the list of missing alternatives... but, really, you are simply hijacking the thread to point out that alternatives exist "which allows all the data to remain on your own servers"; but, you provide no evidence or argument to address whether these products are actually "comparable" (to the point where it just feels like you didn't even understand the point being made) in a way that, say, Google Hangouts--which is the product Google created WebRTC for!--isn't.
So does Target, I think. Becoming a shady online flea-market must be incredibly lucrative, since everyone who can seems to choose that over just being, like, a normal store, but online.
This is probably what happened with another similar coronavirus, HCoV-OC43.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7252012/

The initial pandemic killed a lot of people. Now most of us get infected when we're young and build up natural immunity.
Thank you, Audible link for the interested: https://www.audible.com/pd/Prador-Moon-Audiobook/B00F3HVM84
No, what happened to Stella Liebeck was terrible, and it's right that she had the public's sympathy, however her coffee was not excessively hot by modern standards.

Stella's coffee was served within the temperature range that was, and still is, recommended by professional coffee associations like SCAA and NCA [1]. The NCA recommends that coffee be held and served at around 180-185 deg F (~80-85 deg C), which is likely near the temperature at which Stella was burned. This is a perfectly reasonable service temperature, widely used by coffee shops, restaurants, and home brewing machines to this day.

Stella Liebeck took her cup of coffee and squeezed it between her legs in order to fiddle with the lid. The result was tragic, but completely expected. If I spill a fresh cup of Starbucks coffee on my crotch today, I fully expect to sustain third-degree burns. So I take a little extra care with it until it has cooled to drinking temperature, which happens pretty quickly.

Tea is generally even hotter. Any good tea shop will serve a pot of freshly boiled water, at least twenty degrees hotter than hot coffee. Spilling that on yourself is guaranteed to melt your skin. Great care is warranted.

Again, what happened to Stella was terrible. She didn't deserve it, and she didn't deserve the hate she got afterward. But she did something really stupid. I sympathize, because I do stupid stuff all the time, and I have the scars to remind me.

We're surrounded by extremely dangerous things that require great care to use properly. It's useful for coffee to be held and served hot, just as it's useful for knives to be sharp and cars to be able to reach highway speeds. There will inevitably be accidents, but making the world completely safe for people who use these things carelessly would mean depriving everyone of their proper use.

1 - https://www.ncausa.org/About-Coffee/How-to-Brew-Coffee
Boston Dynamics parkour blooper real
You mean the _fantastic_ track record? They are better than most other vaccines in history.
Don't worry pal I gotcha here:

1. Form The High Church of Vaccination

2. Claim vaccination as a sacrament

3. Watch the craven fascist majority of the US supreme court (i.e. all of the ones that fashion themselves as lil Scalias, but have terrible writing that reeks of double standards, if any at all, and dog whistles to their base) try to somehow toss the case for not having standing while trying to not undo any of the religious exemptions that they've blown open in the last decade or so (e.g. from Hobby Lobby to the recent shadow docket thing in NYC against Cuomo)
There's no sustained reaction in this setup, it will be dropped targets and lasers pulsing at the right time.
It's easy to forget sometimes, in the era of cars, how much we gave up when most people in industrialized society stopped riding horses.

It's pretty hard to get a horse to careen off a cliff or straight into a tree. The largest risk for riding a horse drunk is that it'll inadvertently scrape you off on a low-hanging branch.
DO: Doctor of Osteopathy , an osteopathic physician

Thought I'd de-acronym-it for you; and yes, my MD father tells me a DO is just as good as an MD.
And it's important to note that these developments in sensor technologies can be carried forward to future experiments even if the NIF is ultimately incapable of being improved much further. The quest for fusion is not simply achieved or failed, working on tough problems like this leads to technological progress at every step along the way.