skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also worth checking Vitamin D levels - inside all day at the computer, especially with lockdown, can lead to a deficiency which has direct physiological impacts.
I've lived it. Maybe religious thought is addictive.
Seeing this here, I can't help but feel that there were some good stuff in the vision for the future of xml. I'm not saying we should bring back xml, but maybe a few of the ideas should be salvaged.
'Quad' group seeks to set security standards for global tech industry
You still got caught in the rhetorical trap. You have a purpose, you just had to provide it for yourself, and it goes beyond altruism.
>Name = name;

This is so wrong, why not use newname for a new name value?

Being clever like this is exactly why I stay away from C/C++ and other case sensitive languages. They encourage pendantry.
Exactly. If you are going to ask a company to review its own products you could save yourself some time and write the glowing review yourself. Even if its a lie, they'll still say 'our product good'.

If they don't, that spokesperson is fired and replaced by someone who will say the thing correctly, after redacting the earlier statement.
Down voted,really? explain
Yea, definitely feels like there needs to be regulation around social media. Fb almost feels like the new Philip Morris. They may not give you cancer, but they have a product that affects the mental health of millions.
Introducing PartyTown: run 3rd-party scripts from a Web Worker
No, everyone, everywhere thinks lockdowns suck. They have them because they thought it was better than the alternative. Not sure if it has though because they have gone on so long. The other states have done everything they can to keep kids in schools, businesses open and people getting incomes.

We had 10 days total lockdown in my state since this started which I think were probably 10 more than we needed but they went on the information we had at the time. I have complete freedom of movement within my state and with most other states. See lots of active construction and people working and I can go to the shops, restaurants, bars and sporting events though they have some restrictions on density. Condolences to the families of people who have died from covid everywhere.

Can't blame people for doing whatever they could to protect their local community but happy most of Australia avoided both covid and the hardships that went with fighting it. We were very fortunate.
There's room to have pride in your job and still erect those boundaries. Maybe not doing the literal "bare minimum," but recognizing where your duties end. If you're constantly going beyond your duties, there are likely structural issues that are not being addressed.
> Tough luck for whom? It seems like nobody wins in that scenario. What do you think would happen?

> They would immediately announce that the old API is deprecated and will be removed in two years and then have high server bills for two years.

What if they are a startup who can’t afford that?

More importantly, what if they can’t realistically operate both simultaneously because there is an impedance mismatch between the implementations?

> Also, you can provide the new API in parallel and publish good documentation for it so that other implementations use the new one immediately instead of waiting the two years and then only some small minority of clients will continue using the old one.

What if the service is operated by a startup, and the clients are the incumbents like Facebook, or competitors, who don’t have any incentive to switching to the new api immediately or even quickly?

> Also, how are two years and "permanent" in any way equivalent?

Because it’s far easier for a company with billions in revenue to afford the costs of keeping many parallel APIs running, and crippling for a startup which needs to iterate fast. Forcing this expense on services would be the best thing to happen to the incumbents.

> It's two years to give interoperable implementations enough time to be switched to the new API before the old one is discontinued, nothing more.

You might like it to be that, but that’s not what it is. You seem to think this would hurt Facebook, when really it just creates a giant impediment to newcomers that Facebook never had to deal with as it was growing.

> The problem right now is that the first party service will discontinue the existing API and roll out a new client using the new API on the same day

Yes, which is exactly how an evolving new service must operate in order to be competitive.

> Right now you can create an alternative messaging app all you like but nobody will use it unless other people are using it. It has to be a lot better to dethrone Facebook.

We deserve a lot better than Facebook. There is no point in dethroning it with something that is only slightly better.
Yes, this is correct, I was referring to colorette's maintainer. Sorry for confusion.
This is a hilarious comparison because it really feels that way. Why would you as a company need to defend yourself of accusations like this if they aren't true? Why not sue WSJ for libel? It's not like Facebook doesn't have the cash to do so. Oh wait, that would mean that they have to prove damages and have the spotlight shown further. So they don't do it.

Responding to the allegations is almost worse than remaining silent. It shows they are aware it's a problem and the government stepping in is the only way it'll stop.
The problem with digital discovery is lack of good curation. Physical objects can be curated by your parents, friends, etc and are easily accessed.

Whereas most digital discovery algos just chum my recommendations with what's overall popular in a category. I don't want the "latest smash hits", I want to see a respected curator with excellent taste uncovering new gems.
Plenty of staff got rich from the Uber / Airbnb / snowflake etc IPOs though.
Having an SO and/or kids can involve more than just tendency and personality issues. Even with the healthiest of boundaries some constraints are non-negotiable and possibly outside ones control.
Somewhat related: this idea of adding a "digital waiting line" on top of a normal one is horrible, the author mentions this in ATT.

Disneyland has done this with food, and it's really really irritating. Here is an example of what it is like to get Blue Milk at Star Wars Land in Disneyland:

1) order it in the app and pay for it.

2) it tells you when to go there

3) wait for your phone to turn green, with a group of other people staring at their phone. A person is there to make sure people without green screens don't get in line.

4) you are now allowed to get into a line and wait.

5) you get to the front, and you repeat the order. Someone makes it for you.

I get the desire to replace cashier's with an app. But just let people place an order, give them a number, and let them know where they are in the line.
> Like so many things, it only seems awful in retrospect.

No, it seemed awful at the time as well. Table layouts were already long obsolete by the time Hacker News was launched. Here’s a discussion from over a decade ago on the subject:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2019950

Quotes:

> If this were anyone other than pg, you'd all be excoriating the developer for living in the 90s.

> The big benefit is to accessibility through screenreaders or other alternate clients.

> Look, do what you want. You want to write bullshit markup, be my guest. But there isn't a single web dev in this community who would code output like this for their own site. They're just too chickenshit to tell you.

And here we are, a decade later: nothing has changed, we’re still having the same discussion about the same flaws, and it’s still causing problems for people with disabilities. It doesn’t “only seem awful in retrospect” – it has been awful all along and people have been pointing it out for over a decade.
If you wanted to you could draw some correlations between IP laws and innovation throughout history. You could observe that the start of the renaissance coincided with what was (likely) the worlds first patent system. You might also notice that no jurisdiction that has lacked IP protections has ever achieved signifiant levels of technological innovation. It could be reasonable to draw some inferences from that, but it's not exactly conclusive due to all of the other influencing factors that history failed to control for.

A more reasonable approach would be to look at how resources are allocated today. R&D investments are made in areas where IP protections can be maintained. For technological innovations, this is largely through patents, or by not actually disclosing your IP to the public (by offering your innovation as a service rather than a product to your customers). There are examples of business that have attempted to operate without IP protections, but they've frequently been massive failures that have reverted back to asserting IP protections in order to survive (Mongo, Elastic, Docker...).

There's examples of innovation resourced by non-IP related means, but this is obviously not a very successful model, because the level of innovation it produces is tiny compared to the innovation resourced by IP protection. I can't think of any company that has managed to replicate the RHEL model recently. The give something away for free to drive sales of something else model is quite limited in the ways it can be applied, and often times it's back by selling something with IP rights attached to it. Do you think Intel would put so much effort into contributing to Linux if it didn't have other IP that it wanted to sell you to run your Linux on?
In principle it's not necessarily that bad; does an app store really gets better with 1,000 hangman apps? Probably not. And let's face it: there's a lot of "app spam".

The problem is that 1) it seems enforced unevenly at best and this doesn't seem like "spam" at all, and 2) it's hard to bypass the Apple-curated app store. Apple can have all the rules in their app store they want – I don't really care – as long as they don't prevent me from running the software I want. It's that part that I find far more objectionable.

I don't agree with all the takes the Debian people have on their Free Software guidelines either, and that's not a problem at all because Debian isn't trying to prevent me from running any software I want! Even the more hard-line Free Software-only distros aren't preventing me from installing non-free software (they may not facilitate it or make it easy, but that's different from actively preventing it).

Or more eloquently: It's my bloody phone and I want to run whatever software I fucking want.
The last good business move I think ATT made was getting exclusive access to iPhones in 2007 for five years or whatever it was.

And that is why I’ve been paying them around ~$40 per line per month since. Actually, it was also due to them being the only big network with SIM cards I could pop out and use another country’s SIM. Verizon took forever to get SIM cards.
Is there any evidence mindfulness as taught and practiced by, well, those who teach and practice it, is good for anything?

Keep in mind (no pun intended) - if your example is someone who was already successful, and they remain successful, that's not terribly good evidence.
How funny - you must be a little younger.

When bitcoin mining first became a thing, it felt like they'd found a way to make distributed computing (like the seti and protein folding projects) profitable.
I would guess it’s been eaten by newer seismic design. A skilled framer can put nails in fast even with a regular hammer. Hammering enough nails to hold up the house by hand may well take the same amount of time as nail gunning enough nails into a sheer wall to pass modern inspection.

Also, framing is generally quite fast and accounts for very little of the labor involved in building a house.
That's not plastic, is it?

Not many people have access to a metal powder 3D printer.
It was almost certainly a grandfathered cost reducing measure.
I'd expect Codex style AI generated code to be everywhere. You think about what you want to do, define it, define the tests it needs to pass.

More effort would be focused into understanding the actual project requirements and dealing with architecture. There will likely be no more tasks that need less than an hour, because these can be solved instantly by AI. You're left with the hard problems or the problems that need design decisions and/or meetings to resolve.

AI will likely still have trouble doing more than a screen though, e.g. the entire flow of an app or site.

Programmers will resemble architects/PMs more. They're there to explain whether a job is doable, or what changes need to be made and how long it would take.
I believe it does allow OTA, though when I tried to, Jellyfin seemed to try to transcode the video regardless of what "please don't transcode" settings I had on video transcoding. (And the RPi4 couldn't keep up with transcoding video via software)

Still working on getting that sorted out but in the meantime I've got VLC that I can point at my HDHomerun.
"Code Complete" by Steve McConnell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Complete

For many years we gave this book to all new employees on day #1. Even the most experienced developers will find something in this book they will find very useful and it will help you to take a step back and evaluate your programming. This book is true gold mine.
My take-away is that Tesla is selecting for drivers with easy roads.
I want to buy a Sony Xperia unlocked so I might be in your boat too.
I think social media is fine, but it should not take precedence over physically meeting and interacting with people. Not to mention legal issues where it's been argued that it's your presence on the web and can be used as a means to serve you (hasn't been truly tested yet, but has been done and upheld before).

The weird thing I've noticed since growing up with the internet is that the internet used to be a destination (and still is), but it has transformed into a a place where you presently interact instead with livestreaming, discord, and whatever else along those lines. It's causing people to believe these forms of interactions can legitimately replace physical ones when that is not the case at all.
Generally Subreddits only have the most recent episode threads pinned, while this give full lists by episode. So, saves you a search. Decently useful if you want to check out multiple episodes threads, I guess.
A fairly balanced account, if a bit dated (July), if you are further interested: https://ayjchan.medium.com/a-response-to-the-origins-of-sars...
I have the $45 Unlimited (22GB) since my WiFi in NOLA is not much better than 25 down, 10 up (and since the recent hurricane not even that consistently although Cox promises things will be better than before this week) and had to buy a bunch of topups which annoyed me.
Parsing arbitrary titles for season/episode numbers was a mess of regexes ... 95% of threads are simple "S1E1" or "Season 1 Episode 4" patterns, but a few are hokey:

```
EastEnders discussion 2020-09-07 - episode 6125 (or series 2 episode 1!)
```

That was parsed as Season 1 Episode 6125 :)

My regexes grew gnarly from occasional tweaks, so I ripped it all out and changed up my process a bit.

At some point mid-collection, I decided to default to season 1 if not mentioned (as many first-season subreddits fails to mention season number), but failed to re-run the parsing on everything.

Just reparsed everything and deployed a new version. That resulted in ~1000 changes, but a cursory glance shows that it's all good changes, so should be much better now!
https://archive.is/tKsUN
> Rather than turning every app submission into a legal dispute I suspect it's easier for them just to say "don't use our trademarks without permission".

Sure, it's definitely "easier." But given all of the bad press they've been getting about how they treat developers on the App Store, maybe it's time for them to stop just doing what's easier for them and start sometimes doing what's better for developers. Now this can't come from individual reviewers, so I don't fault the reviewer for enforcing their policy. I fault their policy for having limited nuance.
It's one of the biggest killers of young people (e.g. looks like it's at least 25% of deaths of people aged 20-24?), so in terms of years of life lost it has a big impact.
Virtual aperture synthetic focus was my obsession for a while... a series of photos are taken from slightly different positions of the same still subject. The images are then aligned using hugin into a virtual focal plane, then averaged into one output frame.

The net effect is that of a virtual lens the size of the grouping of photos. I had a lot of fun with it, but rage-quit the flickr account that had my best examples half a decade ago. 8(

Here's a few things I have posted in a flickr folder: https://flickr.com/photos/---mike---/albums/7215771858512354...
There are 3 networks in the US. Verizon, ATT, and T-Mobile. T mobile is good in urban areas, but breadth and depth wise, I think it is pretty established that Verizon > ATT > T-Mobile, and the prices reflect that.

My solution is to simply never deal with agents at the mobile companies, especially not the minimum wage ones in stores and reseller outfits paid on commission. And I always just buy from Apple, although Best Buy is probably fine too.
I would like to look up Polaris but my searching skills seem to be lacking. Might you have a web site for it that you could share?
I'll guess that this simulates moving quickly through the inside of a donut with a bend in it that follows the mouse. That would explain why the pattern repeats and why the far end always curves down.
I have an iPhone SE2 for the singular reason that it's the only phone that vaguely approaches a reasonable size (although still too large for my liking) and isn't the most budget of budget phones. I kind of hate it though :-/

I think it's a bit unfortunate that the GNU page mixes some good points with hyperbolic nonsense, and I don't care much for calling them "tyrants" either; seems a bit much...
Yes. And to add to this, afaik a living emperor is not to be referred to by his era name.
I’m afraid of ageism too, and I’m 39. I’m lucky to work for a company that looked beyond this and saw my skills as a self-taught programmer, and took me on with a freelance contract.

My main concern is continuing to find work whenever this current job ends. It’s a good field, and I enjoy it because it’s helpful to society ( nursing related software ) but I know I’m not the greatest programmer out there.

My current gig should last a few more years at least, and I have no plans on leaving this company. Still, ageism and staying current is always on the back of my mind, and a part of me wonders if there’s something I’m missing regarding my career
What's the point of "Full Self Drive" if you can't eat and drink or write something on your laptop while driving
The show you're thinking of is That Mitchell and Webb Look. The subreddit is for the actual comedy duo and covers all their work.

The website definitely isn't set up to handle multiple shows from a single subreddit, however. The first couple shows listed as Peep Show there are just some new show that David is in.
> Is there any evidence mindfulness as taught and practiced by, well, those who teach and practice it, is good for anything?

Well, the 26 centuries of Buddhism, and all those monks and laypeople. I'm not sure if you consider all that they've said and written to be evidence, but I think you should.
Just an estimate but I think this key in steel would be less than $50 on shapeways.

EDIT: I just uploaded the model to shapeways to get a quote and this key is:

$26 for steel
$44 for aluminum
$75 for brass

The brass would probably have the most dimensional accuracy.

I have a small company that sells custom jewelry, and some of my customers want steel rings. They usually cost me around $15.

On possible downside is that due to cooling shrinkage steel only has about 5% tolerance. This can be accounted for in the 3D model. What I usually do for jewelry is order the ring in 2 or 3 different sizes and then choose the one that fits best. In terms of this key, I am not sure how much 5% error would affect its functioning.
> that removes the burden completely.

In practice this gives you improperly constructed objects with bad state, returned from code some random person wrote in a hurry. Yes, it is bad code but so is most code in existence you have to interface with.
I was going to say, he has proven time and time again that anything with a keyway can be picked quickly and discretely by anyone with a little knowledge (and the sometimes the right tools). Really amazing watching him work but it freaks out my wife when she watches his videos.

I have one of the crap locks from Amazon he featured on my storage locker. One night someone tried to break in but spent so much time trying to take the door off the hinges that they had to run away empty handed. Bet they would be kicking themselves if they knew the lock could be jiggled open in under two seconds!
Is AT&T the new discount carrier now that T-Mobile has been buying up spectrum for the last decade? I just moved my whole family off them just to consolidate on a carrier I like a lot more, and in the process noticed that they actually had the cheapest per-meg data rates, by kind of a lot. It wasn't enough to keep me, but it was interesting.
Ask HN: What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?
I bet that a lot of tools have been good for productivity, but that the additional drag over the years has more than soaked it up. But I do think you've hit the nail on the head (har har) of the class of tools that have been the most beneficial: small-to-medium power tools.

Modern angle grinders with dust collection systems, cordless track saws, torque-controlled drills with tool-free chucks, the PEX plumbing ecosystem, 3-plane self-leveling laser projectors, brushless demolition hammers, etc. All this stuff is great.

In practice I think modern construction is (by time) about 70% paperwork, 20% pipeline stalls while waiting for some tradesperson to show up, and 10% actual work happening. Or at least that's been my less-than-deluxe experience.
UK Farmers warn of Christmas turkey shortage due to lack of staff
It has “like” and “dislike” keys! Way ahead of it’s time.
Plato wasn't translated into Latin until the middle ages?