skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm longing for the return of the mailing lists.

Sure, the format is slow and somewhat complex, but then it seems like all the places are devoid of non-immediate conversations.

Companies are moving to the Slack, informal groups to the Discord. I've been using IRC for years and I still love it but with recent adoption of Slack it seems everyone wants to push all the communication there and I don't think it works. It's hard to search for stuff (usually it takes me 3-4 queries to find thing _I know_ is there) and then it's in lengthy conversational format that takes a bit of time to replay. You might lose window of opportunity to provide important info just because you aren't present at the moment and since Slack is perceived as a low impact tool, those conversations can happen in late evening hours.

And yet all the places that (in my opinion) were better to have more fruitful, thoughtful and searchable conversations are slowly winding down. Newsgroup are long dead, mailing lists are perceived as archaic, forums are closing down one by one. It might be me, but I start to get feeling that even on StackOverflow conversations aren't what they used to be. Only e-mail is left - in some places at least, because some organization start to have "why send an e-mail while you could send Slack message". Thankfully those organization usually bless users with capability of installing Slack on their private phones /s

Too bad Google Wave didn't pick up.
Is the answer to (2) just something like this?

If len(word) is even, check that all the characters in it appear an even number of times.

If len(word) is odd, check that all the characters in it appear an even number of times except 1.
All you're arguing, then, is that regardless of whether you use error values or exceptions, you need to write good error messages. Hmm, okay. I agree with you on that. But I don't see how that counts against exceptions. Do you think the error message of an exception cannot contain filenames and variable values? And even in cases where they don't (e.g. you're depending on an external library with poor error messages), do you think it's impossible to add context to an exception's error message after it's been raised?

Also, the performance argument counts against your point, not for it. Exceptions rarely happen (when used properly), and when they are not raised, they cost nothing. Whereas go-style errors require explicit checks every single time you execute an operation which can fail.
The following is a list of countries which, on at least one occasion, have recognized the World Passport on a "de facto" basis, by stamping a national visa and/or entry/exit stamp.

It's a stretch to interpret one-off stamps in various countries to recognition of the world passport as a legitimate travel document. "Passports" based on strongly held beliefs about identity (global, regional, tribal, or otherwise) as opposed to national citizenship and the legal frameworks that underpin international travel almost always run into the cold, hard reality of border-crossing procedures, as holders of passports created by North American tribes discovered some years ago:

"Native American nations debate sovereignty after Iroquois passport dispute"

https://www.deseret.com/2010/7/17/20128594/native-american-n...)

"My six nation Haudenosaunee passport is not a 'fantasy document'"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/30/my-six...
I'll be honest i didn't expect this forum of all places to be so pro-union.

I understand why some people need collective bargaining to raise their position in the workplace but i thought this forum was full of talented professionals.
I am sorry you went through that. I can relate.

Today, we have “jargonauts.” These are folks that key on certain terms and acronyms.

I remember, back in the 1990s, hearing everyone gushing about “AJAX,” and wondering what the big deal was (after being laughed at, for not knowing the term). No one would explain what it was.

I looked it up, and go “Oh, they mean HTTPRequestObject!”

Turned out, that I actually already knew a lot more about “AJAX,” than most of the folks gushing about it, and the reason no one would explain it, was that they didn’t actually understand it.

Lot of that, going around…
Why does it take a span of 1 month to get from Shanghai to Vancouver? At the avg speed container ships travel, that should only take a little over a week.
I wrote this a while ago but it seemed relevant now with what's coming out about Facebook's internal research.
Instagram makes most photography pointless, that's the point.
That language already exists and it is called *Lisp.

In a proper Lisp you can take anything that in a regular language would be a language feature and implement it as a library.
Paying technical debt in the frontend
I find these articles very irritating, it’s always pedantic nitpicking at a narrow definition of a word or process to then pitch some “thought leadership” content that is merely a marginal iteration of the concept they spend the intro criticizing.

Between the need for titles to be somewhat catchy and the need for ongoing content, we are really at odds with how knowledge is actually supposed to grow once a discipline is pretty mature, and this just creates noise to slog through.
Fixing things after we break them is nice, but did I miss the article mentioning not polluting the water in the first place? It seems relevant context that this proposed fix, no matter how effective, doesn't stop the pollution entering the water.
Yeah, it used to be the case until a few years ago that the immigration here was run by the police and a lot of them would pretty much just wave you by if you were a white guy in the Irish citizens queue that took out a passport without inspecting it. At the distance some of them looked, pretty sure anything the right shade of red and right shape would have done. Certainly _other_ EU passports would not have been distinguishable from an Irish passport at that level of inspection.

Nowadays we have a separate immigration staff and they'll at least look at the passport insides.
I agree, higher quality conversations happen more often on forums and they're much easier to search and access if you're not a member.

But forums are also much easier to moderate than Discord - a message or image you might not want posted in your Discord scrolls up quickly (as people react to a troll or something inappropriate), and you tend to need moderators on-hand a lot of the time to react quickly, which can also mean moderators from a bunch of different timezones are required. On forums, yes, a rule breaking message can be posted whenever, but the pace of chat is much slower and the immediacy of effect on everything that follows is lessened.
Wow that's rich. I already thought the purely functional action confirmations of the Google home are too annoying, but Amazon Alexa straight up tries to re-engage their users and people put up with it?
Genius Sells to Media Lab for $80M
IMO each update should be considered a completely different new software, you would need to get again approval to put the shit on the roads. This is not 2020s video game industry where you ship buggy software as done and do monthly patches that fix some shit and break other shit.
Primed for PineTime: Pine64's Smartwatch Review
I just saw this dang and I apologize for my edit. It was not intended to mess up the next person’s as it was to add more context - but I recognize how it messed up their response. Sorry.
Nokia entered into agreements promising not to charge excessive amounts, that’s why their patents were used in all those standards.

If they hadn’t signed those agreements their patents would not have been used, and hence would actually have been worth much less.
I wonder if hiding likes and follower counts would help with this
FCEV needs 2 to 3 times more energy than an EV for the same range.

>hydrogen cars are only half as efficient. If an electric car converts 86% of the energy originally harnessed by a wind turbine into moving the vehicle forward, the hydrogen car has access to only about 45%.

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-11-09/how-hy...

Energy generation is the main source of pollution for an EV over its whole lifetime. So, an FCEV is far worse than EV (however you produce your hydrogen).
"The thought process is so simple a cop could understand it."

I stopped reading there. I have a low tolerance for jerks of any kind.
Interesting, my experience is the opposite. I find various leetcode and "software architecture" questions extremely hit-or-miss, and my experience interviewing is, either I fail at the very beginning stages (CV review or first 2 interviews), or get to the end (offer stage). The very bimodal distribution is inconsistent with both options in your hypothesis (i.e. either the "terrible" or the "good" candidate).
You must include POSIX as part of C, as it is hardly used without it, and also remember that Common Lisp and C++ standards include the standard library.

Had you added Java, .NET or Python, with their standard libraries, C++ would look like a toy language.
We've reached a new low in modern hell if this is where we're going. Old bbs php or what was it's name was way more manageable.
3D Printing, a revolution for the building sector [Fra]
Agreed those are arbitrary point. And so is every hiring process. Pick some attributes that helps you define good people, good business, good tech and that's it. At the end of the day, it is a subjective process. I bet whatever "objective metrics" we come up at the end has some "rating" element in it which is subjective. Acknowledge the arbitrariness within the team and to the candidate in my opinion helps bring more fairness to the table. And also why I think it is worth less to overly religious over the hiring process
It is, also in my experience boards get a conformal coating to minimize baby risk of FOD being an issue with the electronics.
> A two-floors office building was printed in Dubai in 2019, the biggest in surface, 640 sqm. In France [Reims], XtreeE is supposed to build five houses that should be occupied before the end of the year [date of article: 15 Sep]

Dubai: https://chroniques-architecture.com/dubai-apis-cor-impressio...

Reims: https://xtreee.com/project/viliaprint-cinq-maisons-individue...

Article from the pages in French language of The Conversation (it publishes articles in English, French, Spanish and Indonesian, only seldom intertranslated).
Temporary Containers and clicking "I agree to all cookies" works more naturally I think. Also, this way your browsing is separated from your logged in facebook, google etc session too.
Also notably, of that list, Burkina Faso and Togo border each other, as do Tanzania and Zambia (though the acceptance dates don't line up). In the cases of Ecuador and Mauritania, how acceptance happened on one side of each of their border, but not the other, is left as an exercise to the reader (and this reader is inferring that they were refused—but both of those nations have large, porous borders, so there's any number of possibilities, many of which illicit).
It's hardly useful when you want to test how your apps behave under a specific implementation of such API
The search sucks. The new interface sucks even harder. The mobile interface doesn't even work anymore, you have to use an App.
Not only that, they were the PERFECT form of social media.

Then the name got co-opted so marketing peple could push crap around more easily.
Kids do stupid stuff all the time. It's nice to not be chased by your previous mistakes for your whole life. Especially the mistakes you did when u was a kid.
> The last almost fell me out of the chair.

Do you fit the requirements?
I think that the garbage collector in Java is quiet famous.
Turbo-props: Tiny wrapper around styled-components to turbo charge your workflow
- Automatically bake in your theme and design tokens into Typescript. Autocomplete your props based off your theme. Export your theme Types where ever you need them.
- Sensible defaults.
- First class visual debugging
- An API that can fit on a Post-It note.
- Small set of primitive components to build on top of.
- The full power and flexibility of styled-components under the hood.
Strong opinions around margin. We agree with creator of styled-components margin is harmful and didn't include it in the API.
I am curious if you ever worked retail before moving into tech? I did and the experience was very much out of a hollywood comedy sometimes. We had all kinds of labels for the buckets of customers but by and large the biggest one was the chatters. Mostly "old" (though now that I myself am "old" I would reclassify them as middle aged) people that wanted to talk to you. About their family, about their hobbies, about their doctors appointment, about every single possible option for their purchase decision, and then they would MAYBE buy a diet coke before leaving.

It was infuriating as a teenager just trying to get the job done so I could slack off with the cute crewmembers or read the backs of the video game boxes for the umpteenth time, but now that my social circle has dwindled to wife, children, acquaintances, and work I get it. A deep creeping loneliness when you have no one to talk to and in my case all the money in the world that younger me never could have imagined.

It doesn't shock me at all that Amazon would want a way to engage older, generally more wealthy, people and I am sure their expectation is that if successful it would lead to significant sales increases or at least mind share capture for their platform over their competitors. Here's to hoping that they are successful for the sake of the lonely in the world and that they enjoy their 1000% increase in diet coke sales.
Testing prevailing hypotheses, in this sense, is a treacherous game. Number of business starts, IPOs, patents and most attempted refinements of such measures are very crude measures.

For example, Cowen later softened some of his positions on learning how much of the data he commented on was retail driven. Retail is relevant, but he was accidentally modeling the retail market where he intended to model the economy.

Besides crude metrics, there are always implied assumptions connecting new business starts, IPOs or unicorn milestones to the bigger picture.

In short, this is rhetoric. Hypotheses testing is fine figuratively, but let's remember where the pitfalls are.

IMO, it's worth noting where a lot of this is coming from: market caps. These are very much monopoly-related. The bull case expectation for a 2020s Great Company is 25-40% profit margins, double digit growth or potential for such. This is possible because Alphabet, FB, Apple & such do not need to borrow or raise to grow.

This fuels a fire of speculative startup investing at the lower tiers, the only place where capital is required.

The problem is, IMO, that there's almost no relationship between FB's size and gross economic output, productivity, economic utility, etc. Online communication is great, but online communication isn't better because FB is 10X bigger. Google's freeware is great, but we were getting search, gmail, etc when Google was 10X smaller.

Where's the relationship between aggregate revenue (nevermind profit) at JPMorgan, Alphabet or FB and economic utility?

IMO Cowen, The Economist and much of this cohort/generation of economists have an economic worldview that totally lacks an adequate model for market structure/maturity and such. This has led to a lot foolishness.

If you are Ford in 1921, the world is young. You get more efficient each year. Cost per car decreases, but you can outrun this by making more cars. The market is growing in both dollars and number of cars. If you are intel in 2021, same game. The world is young. Moore's law only tells half the tale. Transistors halve in price and size every two years, but the number of transistors produced increases by more than than. The more they make, the more we want. Gotta mine that crypto, train GPT-N, etc. We need more chips every year, and the cheaper they get the more we need.

If productivity keeps goes up, but we don't need more and more cars... the market contracts and this is now a different game.

If $Nbn worth of grocery shopping that once happened in supermarkets now happens on amazon, the markets value this is a net capital gain, because $Nbn at amazon is presumably more profit generative in the long run. That doesn't society bought more groceries, or received much more value.

This is not that hard. Look to the largest companies. What are they outputting? How much of it? How good is it? What changed? I get that it's harder to add up than the number of cars coming out of factories but, it's still less abstract than viewing the world through a purely financial lens.
Interesting, didn’t know that FreeBSD has this feature.

I know of one other operating system which has a somewhat similar feature, but not quite the same. z/OS supports running multiple TCP/IP stacks concurrently on the same OS instance [0]

Whereas this is multiple TCP stacks, but still only one IP stack (or maybe one for v4 and one for v6)

[0] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.2.0?topic=overview-conside...
> It prefers a later sunset, basically. So people can enjoy the evening more. Have more time outside. Spend more money.

Why can't that apply when you have more daylight in the mornings? Seems like a zero sum game to me.
You can build a container house that’s cheap but it won’t be nice. You can build a container house that is nice but it won’t be cheap. I spent a very long time looking into this as I really wanted to have a container house. Unfortunately the more research I did the more I realised what a bad idea it was. A container is great because you have a basic structure and it’s watertight from day one. However, getting to that point with a regular build is actually pretty straightforward. Everything past that point though is a massive pain in the ass when you’re drilling or cutting into corten steel. Adding insulation, windows, electrical fittings, everything else ends up being a pain and/or 3 times more expensive and/or 3 times more time consuming. It gets to the point where you basically just building a regular house inside the container anyway and you realize that you just don’t need the container in the first place. As I said before there are really specific instances where it makes sense but if you look at all the container houses that look really nice, the build cost is always insanely expensive. Often two or three times the cost of an equivalent regular house.
> Not with an exponentially spreading disease [..] remember the lake [...]

Mathemetically that's OK but cases can't just keep on doubling, we'll run out of uninfected people and/or ones vulnerable enough to get a Covid19 infection that puts them in hospital.

As a thought experiment, if tomorrow we were to magically vaccinate in one fell swoop all the under 18 year olds in Germany (or the UK, or the USA), just how many intensive/critical care hospital beds would that prevent from being filled up by those very same under 18 year olds over the coming winter?

Note that at the start of this month (September) the BMJ reported that "80% of young adults in UK are likely to [already] have antibodies"[0]

[0] https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2162
Why Is LinkedIn Sales Navigator Important for Sales Leads?
Australian Navy Goes Nuclear with Future Submarine Force
>Who would have thought Chinese entrepreneurs would be able to successfully market and sell to fickle individual US consumers through Etsy, Amazon, and eBay. Surely someone needed to curate the offerings and account for cultural gaps? Turns out that’s what platforms do.

For cheap trinkets that I do not care about, maybe.

For anything else, I am going to Costco/Nordstroms/Apple/Target/Home Depot etc for reputable brands and reliable supply chains. And that is just for small value home goods. For even higher value goods like construction materials, business equipment, labor, and other capex, no platform today is good enough to offset personal relationships and trust built over many years.
I asked a very similar question on HN about this a few months back related to software support forums going to discord and slack. Total pain for finding answers to issues and problems
Lack of singular identity or algorithmic feeds would be the big two for me.

Forums are decentralised so you are someone else on the forum for game A than on the forum for hobby B, unless you work to link your identities. Whereas the big social media platforms aspire to be a one stop shop.

Additionally forums generally sort by "newest thread first" or "most recently replied thread first" rather than trying to push the "hottest" threads or "trending threads" or similar at you.
I'll try it, Twitter is impossible to browse sequentially.
> I know Waymo tests its software on recordings of public roads, but those recordings were made on public roads too.

Recording a human driver on public roads is very different from testing a novel software product on public roads.
I hate that everyone is using Discord not just because of searchability but also because it's difficult to have multiple identities with Discord. It's frustrating to be looking for help with using some library and seeing in the readme a link to join their Discord server. I don't want to join those with the same identity I use in gaming Discord servers so I usually just give up at that point.
This is dead easy to do in Home Assistant if you use a jinja-based template as the automation trigger.
Any template that will evaluate to true will trigger the automation. Templates are re-evaluated every time the state of the object changes or (if you use a time function, or don't reference any objects) every minute.

Here's a simple example that would send a notification if I left my kitchen LEDs on 200 brightness or more for longer than two hours.

alias: Kitchen
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: template
value_template: ' {{ state_attr('light.kitchen_led', 'brightness')|int >= 200 and as_timestamp(states.light.kitchen_led.last_updated) + 3600 < as_timestamp(now()) }} '
condition: []
action:
- service: notify.my_phone
data:
title: Kitchen lights still on
message: The kitchen LEDs have been on very bright for more than 2 hours.
mode: single
> Anyway, short-term workers are protected by unions, I know for sure at least CGIL has a department devolved to temporary workers

But they are generally less likely to unionise i.e. the percentage of temporary workers who are union members is lower compared to long term contract workers.

I’m not saying this is necessarily the union’s fault, and of course I agree with you that it would be nearly impossible for illegal workers to unionise, however the fact remains that unions don’t generally represent the most disadvantaged groups.

I have to say though that the Amazon deal is a sign that things are changing. The unions that I remember would have strongly opposed the possibility of Amazon entering the Italian market, let alone making a deal with them.
> Life today is better than it has been at any time in history with more opportunities and luxuries more accessible than ever and people still complain.

I think the complaints can be divided into two parts:

- Complaining about how their life is still full of pain and problems;

- Complaining about how the world sucks, is unjust, discriminating, etc.

Humans have infinite capacity for that second type of complaints, but I posit that the first type should go away once life gets good enough.

And note that even for most Westerners, "with more opportunities and luxuries more accessible than ever", the life isn't good because they don't get to make much use of those opportunities and luxuries. They spend almost all their life working in bad physical or mental (or both) conditions, having little time to enjoy those luxuries and opportunities, because they need to keep making money to pay for access. Rents, mortgages and everything-as-a-service are mostly cancelling out the quality-of-life increase from better products and healthcare.
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