skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because then politicians will rob the budget for whatever their pet project is. Fares should at least cover all operating costs (including maintenance), so that politicians can't slowly kill the system via neglect (they will kill it by others means, but at least budget won't be one)
Domestic air cargo flights typically have 2-3 crew members on board. They're inside the same pressure hull as the cargo; there's no barrier or filter. That's why dry ice must be declared and requires special handing for air transport.

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/faa-issues-dry-ice-alert-t...
> Some divergence is useful for agility, but a lot of it is just waste and actually slows you down when you want two depts to work together on something - or even prevents useful collaboration. An effective organisation will make the tradeoff consciously.

Often an effective strategy for this to purposefully diverge and converge. Allow a new product to strike it out on its own, and if it survives follow back up and homogenize the infra so that maintenance is cheaper.

Takes a lot of labor, but that’s usually something large organizations have in spades.
Mac app seems to be down, but I can connect via the browser version
> Today when you see a home you're more likely to know more than the broker

I don't think that's true.

- First time buyers. As a first time buyer, you are likely to know very little about the process, as well as what to look for. Red flags and such. You'll have seen the photos and read the MLS facts. This is just trivial info.

- Local conditions. If you're not buying in a neighborhood where you already live, you need local expertise.

- Inspection. For states where the seller shows you an inspection report, you want someone who has seen it all, to read between the lines for you.

- Pre-filtering. Brokers get to go on broker tours, before the house hits the market (if it hits the market!). So the good local agents will already be familiar with the property when it hits MLS. This can be a valuable time-saver.

That said, most agents are noobs and provide none of that value. They are worthless. The experienced and good ones are worth every penny. I've done about a dozen real estate transactions, incl. 1 commercial transaction. I know almost all of the things by now. I still use an agent.

I think the real problem is that there is no certification process. I mean, there hardly could be. A real estate license is garbage, easily obtained. Agents get into the field very easily, and new buyers have no idea how to assess their agent. At least for licensed trades, their is the local board and Yelp. We need such a thing for agents as well, because they do provide value, if you have a good one.

This is really coming to a head now, with the super tight market. In this market, the value of an agent seems low to most, because as seller you think you'll get premium price regardless, and as buyer you think you need to make a top offer, again, regardless.

That said, it is definitely a cartel and needs to change.
Supabase looks nice. I’m also using Postgres hosted by https://nhost.io/ which also do auth and storage. It looks like Supabase is focused on REST and Nhost is focused on GraphQL?
The problem is that awk is in POSIX, and perl is not.

There are two common sources of awk for Windows, for example, that drop one exe to provide the interpreter:

http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

https://frippery.org/busybox/

Perl simply wasn't designed to do that.
Yale is forthcoming in admitting that the map is a fake. Not so forthcoming as to admit how much they paid for it back in the '60's.
As a new programmer, I was also seduced by the FP hype, and learned web development in ClojureScript without knowing JavaScript.

This was a really hard way to learn, and once I finally went mainstream I found that the messaging about how bad other languages were was much exaggerated.

In general I think the ecosystem trumps the language quality, and the senior developers who think otherwise generally underestimate the difficulty for a junior developer of working on the bleeding edge. Pragmatism over purity (while keeping enough purity-focus to keep the codebase clean).

I also think JS is absolutely fine as a language and its warts are not that hard to work around.
Have you tried it against something you can control the frequency of, such as a strobe light? If you slowly turn the frequency down or up will your heart follow?
> Do not create your own blogging engine

> This one is for tech folks specifically. Use Wordpress, Webflow, Hugo or whatever you want, but do not created your own engine. Creating your own engine is a lot of work and a big waste of time.

Is this meant in the sense that existing blogging engines have good defaults with regard to SEO, and if you did it on your own you'd spend a lot of time figuring out by trial and error what you could otherwise get out of the box? Or are they just making a value judgment on how to spend one's time?
If it was "game crashed, here's the stacktrace" before and now (or later) it's "player put 20 blocks of gold on server IP 127.0.0.1 with players foo, bar, baz present", it's a difference.
It's excruciating, certain death if you're wrong, though.
I've always felt that OS/2's Workplace Shell was a lost opportunity. Other than NextStep, are there other desktop environments that can do similar things?
I'm not an expert on this exact subject, but my PhD was in computational neuroscience, specifically spiking neural networks, and I became a bit interested in the area of binaural beats. On exposure to binaural beats, neural networks in the brain can to synchronize in patterns that can be observed in EEG recordings (eg, Theta or Beta oscillations). So, while the science is conflicting and not settled there is plenty of actual research into this area. See https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00426-018-1066-8 for a recent meta-analysis.
I don't really mind this. There is no impact to me by having this telemetry in place.
And leading whitespace. Compare:

$ printf " one two three" | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 1

$ printf " one two three" | awk '{print $1}'
one
There are many local grassroots neighborhood groups now from which you can easily find people to take a lot of your items. Look on Freecycle.org, or look for "Buy Nothing <your town name>" on FB, or just post things for free on Nextdoor.

I've used these gotten rid of so many random doodads through these venues, and each time it feels great knowing that whoever picking up actually will likely use it. My impression of charity donations is that they dump a lot of their donations if they don't immediately see things as being high enough quality to resell.
I didn't make any claims.

I am vaccinated + boosted.

Stop presuming I'm anti-vax and demonstrating the exact dynamic I mentioned. If you can provide useful information around either conditional probability functions (positive test, or hospitalization) I welcome it. But you haven't cited literally anything, just responded to try to score points, I guess.
Agreed! I saw Magma in Portland, OR on their 2016 tour. I remember how effortless they made everything look, all the songs seemed to blend in and out of each other, so surreal. It felt like I was watching some intergalactic opera/theater presentation, probably one of the best concerts I've ever seen. Wish I could understand Kobaïan...
Ah I see, you're supposed to actually find the fixed link and then send it along with your own links. I guess that's slightly better.
Seems to be DNS related – Route53 is giving SERVFAIL for their domain.
Show HN: Where Is Maurice?
The impossible dream of USB-C (2017)
If I had to pick one essential profession it would be farmers. Even with peak efficiency it's work that must be done to sustain modern population sizes.
And how exactly is that a problem?
I really appreciate you writing this guide. As a long time Linux user, I've always wanted to learn AWK, but it seemed too daunting. Three minutes into your guide and I immediately saw how I could use it in my day-to-day usage.
> You're choosing to ignore a whistle blower

I'm choosing to be skeptical of a single person's claim. I never said I ignored them.

> because it conflicts with your friends opinions

No, because my friends' expert conclusions based on all of the available data conflicts with the "word" of a single, anonymous source. There's nothing that states whistleblowers are telling the truth or that they can be trusted.

> If you're expecting an organization to just willfully admit negligence or wrong doing, especially if they took actions to cover it up (according to the whistle blower), when has that EVER happened?

That's beside the point I made to begin with. I don't see how it's relevant. The dealings of the CCP do not change how SARS-COVID-2 is structured.

> I don't understand why you're placing your faith in a political system.

I am, expressly, not doing that. I'm placing faith in people who understand infectious diseases more than some random person on Hacker News - and more than myself, at that.
I'd bet more on them using their internal stack/expertise from building workers.
I'm loving it, it's so fast!
Siloed Secrets and Security Theatre: Why We Need Universal Secrets Management
You forget the cost it incurs when someone gets caught (and sometimes jailed!) for chicken-shit like this.

Edit to add some context:

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/haft-nach-schwarzfahren-u...

Consider this article from Berlin where a sizeable number of people in jail are there for riding without a ticket.
The cost of that needs to be taken into account here.
>trying to understand how this extremely contagious virus managed to not infect me while my wife and I shared bathrooms, beds, and car rides together

There are a lot of things people don't understand, that's why expertise is more valuable than intuition, heuristics, and feels.
Oh, I've certainly been worried. But I think such comparisons are hyperbolic to the point of being not only useless but potentially harmful. Because I can think of so many counterexamples that well, aren't like China. For example, during the crisis phase of the second wave, when we were hovering somewhere between a shutdown and an actual lockdown, the Ontario government in Canada enacted a stop-and-present-ID clause in the regulations which was probably unconstitutional as worded. (It seemed to compel self-incrimination if you were breaking the distancing regulations, making it a crime not to answer questions.) Within hours this was all over the media, talking head lawyers are on TV explaining the issue, and the next day police departments were issuing public statements saying they would not enforce the regulation. It was quickly repealed, reworded to fix it, and re-enacted. This would be unimaginable in China.
Yeah, personally I think it looks terrible. Like just aesthetically it’s ugly. Purely personal taste though, and I beat no ill will toward the folks behind Fyne. I liked into using it to build a Go desktop app once upon a time, and was just so strongly turned off by Fyne’s look that I just lost all passion for building that project itself entirely. Never even got it off the ground.

Which is totally my fault, for sure, not theirs in the slightest. It’s just…that ugly.
> But that does not seem so - the outcomes of vaccinated people are way better even when they end up in hospital.

I'd like to update my priors so can you provide any info on this?
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Your argument presupposes that an objective criteria is optimal. It's trivial to refute that, for example a company could hire people based on whether they are greater than 6 ft tall, that's an objective criteria but it would still be terrible.

Objective doesn't mean "good/optimal/solved" and subjective doesn't mean "bad/suboptimal/unsolved". All subjective/objective refer to is how sensitive a property is to a specific context. An objective measure is not particularly context sensitive whereas a subjective measure is.

My company has both objective and subjective criteria. Competency is mostly measured objectively and represents the bulk of our hiring criteria, the subjective assessment involves things like communication, collaboration and professionalism.

Both aspects are difficult and imperfect to assess regardless of whether they are objective or subjective, but I don't think it's particularly appropriate to assess someone's competency based on a subjective measure.

If someone is a good basketball player, or a good plumber etc... they are likely good regardless of the intricacies of the individual making the assessment that day and hence it's something that is probably best measured objectively. However, whether someone will get along with the rest of the basketball team, or whether a plumber can properly communicate to a customer what the issue is and how to fix it, that may very well depend on what team that player is playing for, or the relationship between that specific plumber and the specific customer. That would be more of a subjective criteria.

There certainly are subjective aspects to competency as well as objective aspects to communication, but it's minor (perhaps a basketball player is good only on a specific team, perhaps a plumber is illiterate).
Their level of commitment to The Truth(tm) is awesome:

"Where does that leave us in choosing between buying a SSD or a HDD? Given what we know to date, using the failure rate as a factor in your decision is questionable. Once we controlled for age and drive days, the two drive types were similar and the difference was certainly not enough by itself to justify the extra cost of purchasing a SSD versus a HDD. At this point, you are better off deciding based on other factors: cost, speed required, electricity, form factor requirements, and so on."
Can't imagine the insane amount of memory you'd need for that. Tried neo4j a few years ago, loaded up a small dataset that fit in a 100mb postgres instance and had to stop halfway through when neo4j was consuming tens of gigabytes of memory.
Not having to parse the output at all is even better. I really like the way Powershell can pass structured data like this.

I'm a huge Linux/Unix fan but sometimes a rethink really works out. I hope Linux will get something similar. I know Powershell is available for Linux but without an adapted userland there's not much benefit
In fairness it's xargs that is providing the command parallelization, not awk, but I agree both combined are a good match.
Also, it is very valuable to persist all these videos/screenshots in the cloud. You can re-use them later and maybe it will help you debug. It is neat to auto-organize these files.
Wow, I've been looking for a Mailgun replacement for a long time.
I was using it to receive emails at @mydomain.com and forward them to my primary email. Then they started charging for inbound routes, and I couldn't justify the price for <200 emails a month. So I switched back to my registrar's free email forwarding, and had to give up API support.

MailerSend seems to be a great alternative.
> I suppose it's now corporations stealing market share from each other...

Uhm, what did you think a market is?
They have to usable.
"Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never met, never had no problem with, get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Oh, send in the Marines to secure the area" cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number got called, cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass.

And he comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile, he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And, of course, the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon.

And they're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, of course, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's got to walk to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin', cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat, the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State.

So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure fuck it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president."

Good Will Hunting
This appears to be the pattern of AI development overall: booms and busts of hype and disillusionment that leave behind useful tools that most don’t consciously consider to be remnants of a previous AI bubble.
> This doesn't make any sense.

Sigh...why is it that we can't seem to interact with each other in this medium, without lobbing implied insults at each other?

Try "This doesn't make sense to me." or even "I'm afraid I don't understand your point."

I won't bother explaining it. It's not that important. Be assured that it will make sense to some folks.

Have a nice day.
As someone that mostly shared that opinion for the last decade or more, I recently set up a cluster for work, and everything seems much more production level quality than I remember or what I assumed it was going to be like. I'm not the one using it for queries every day, but I did do a bunch of testing for replication and failed nodes to confirm that I understood (and could rely) on the claims of robustness, and it seemed to be stable and with good documentation of what to expect in different scenarios and how to configure it (which is not what I experienced doing the same testing back in 2010-2011).

All in all, my impression of MongoDB now is that they're one of those "fake it till you make it" success stories, where they leveraged their popularity into enough momentum to fix most their major problems.
Why doesn't the konami code work?
I have moved to allow-list only and have all notifications turned off. Anyone who wants to talk on the phone will need to arrange a time in advance through some other means.

There was a time in which people were not reachable by voice any time and anywhere. That was fine.
Any ideas on the typical delay before its supported in RDS?
See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28705793
Same with Clean Code, SOLID, DD

SOLID is especially funny because majority of developers doesn't understand / can explain it, let alone have read papers e.g [0],

except maybe S letter, yet everybody acts like they do SOLID*.

Or Clean Code's small function craziness or misinterpretation and going into "avoid comments" approach

* - unless you ask for details

[0] - https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wing/publications/LiskovWing94.pdf
> For some reason, public transport is always priced in a way that makes it really expensive for occassional usage. If you go everday, then an annual pass is a good value.

At €1.32/l for gas in Vienna and 10l/100km this trip would cost you €63 in gas alone with an ICE car. This doesn't account for wear and wasted time so it's actually not that unreasonable at all and actually pretty cheap if you're going by yourself. With a family, I agree, it's more expensive. Although I'm starting to see the appeal that traveling by train has with a family, being able to walk around, entertain the kids more easily, etc.
They said:

> The science very clearly shows that your chances of severe illness / death are much lower for vacinated covid patients.

You replied (emphasis mine):

> I would like a citation or which shows that breakthrough cases that lead to hospitalization for vaccinated people have better outcomes from that point forward than unvaccinated who are hospitalized.

These are substantially different scenarios.
I dont think CloudFlare R2 competing with AWS S3 is a fair comparasion to what Amazon did to open-source projects...
Do 5 - 10 100-yard windsprints on grass. Make sure there aren't gopher holes or such that might cause a twisted ankle. Start slowly so you don't pull a muscle.
SQL for Distributed Systems
Better.com CEO Vishal Garg Threatened to Burn His Business Partner Alive
Are there any products whatsoever that come out of Microsoft that don't contain spyware?
No amount of integration tests can replicate millions of players, organically interacting with a video game. The state space is too large for that.
That's very narrow way of thinking ... I believe myself to be idiot in multiple different ways which can have multiple dimensions with multiple different scales.
Oh, well I guess we can leave that one goalpost where it stands. Now how to deal with the problem of selling vaccine passports while this paper shows ‘no difference in viral loads’…
We work with machine learning and computer vision stuff, so python is our language of choice for the main codebase (which is non-lambda). Given that, it makes sense to stick with python for lambda related things for code reuse and lower cognitive overhead.
Damn, thank you!

Let's see if some of them get inspired. ;)
Windows-level telemetry is not "typical"; it includes a dozen or more different spy subsystems. Most spyware apps only include 1-3.

If you are judging based on Windows as a benchmark, almost all software is going to come in as acceptable.
Letter frm Blue Origin emp accuses Bezos of sacrificing safety to win space race
> Questions that sometimes get confused for cultural fit

I think the reason it gets confused is because you're saying "cultural fit" but what you really mean is "is this person an asshole"
The evolution of SaaS go to market strategies in 3 charts
Every man is God's debtor.
The argument seems to boil down to "these other formats have many variants or features that we don't want, so we're going to invent something new".

That... just does not make sense. I get that they admit that they do borrow heavily from Markdown, but there's no reason why they can't pick features from Markdown (including inline links and images), put them in their spec, and still call it "gemtext".

The real reason they don't do this is right there: they don't want to. They decided on a weak set of features, leaving out things that most people probably would find useful, and that's that.

I do understand the desire to limit features and extensibility, to avoid Gemini turning into the mess that is the current state of web standards, not to mention the attractiveness of being able to cut off ads and tracking by design. But I agree with OP that they're going about it in a way that all but guarantees they will not be particularly successful. Telling users they can't have inline links or images, and telling developers their creativity in implementation is severely limited isn't going to make you many friends.

And maybe that's also by design. If they want to recreate the internet of the 80s and early 90s, including the "feature" that a very tiny percentage of humanity was on it, maybe this really is the way to do it.

I wish them well, but I don't think this would be an ecosystem that would give me joy (no judgment, and I'm sure the Gemini folks don't care, and that's all fine).
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