skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You argue that the marginal benefit of you doing it on your own is too little for you to do it.

No, I argue that the benefit is zero, since I do not drive drunk, and the device will prevent exactly zero instances of drunk driving.

> And they propose to make millions of people waste this money when they don't believe in it enough to do it for themselves.

Please re-read my post. I explained the reasoning there already. The point is that:

a) We do not know who needs to have this installed.

b) That means the only way for it to be effective is to make everyone install it.

c) However, I know that I am not one of those who needs it installed, therefore, there is zero benefit to me installing it on my own.

All of this is perfectly non-hypocritical.
If that is even close to reality, there is no excuse not to just go straight to UBI and our Star Trek future… and stop messing around with pathetically arbitrary detritus being spewed off the fringes of a giant corporation, uselessly, and calling that 'gifts'.

'Free gifts for random people' isn't gifts, it's pollution.
I’d rather you guys got your shit together in support. Speaking to anyone on that team is a sure fire way to have a bad week.
I am not a rust fan, but `ever` is a long time, and if operating systems are re-written in rust (which is preferable by far than writing them in C), that is going to be a lot of very widely used code.
There are 196 countries and this study says the UK is ranked 189th?

Have they visited developing countries?

This an absurd statement.
Article says "Jirzankal cemetery" -- on the banks of the Tashkurgan river in what's now Xinjiang province. I don't think that would be a Scythian area, that's more Pontic steppe, west and north from there. This is on the other side of the mountains.

But could be Tocharian, which were Indo-European speakers, an extinct lost branch of the language family that split off very early and lived in this region. (Read up on the Tarim mummies).

Or any number of Turkic tribes. Hard to know?
The only time that I got someone else's amazon package, likely due to a labelling or packing error, it was utterly useless to me, I mean like "book 4 of an anime series that I had never heard of, not in a language that I understand" level of junk-ness (to me).

It's typically not "free stuff" to the recipient, it's junk, a hassle, and in the way.
>You cannot predict the traffic situation ahead of time, whereas you know to the very minute what any flight times are, which makes them vital for planning at that level.

That's a bit of a red herring. Air travel is often disrupted, probably as much as trains.

>In any case the message is clearly not dependent on this since basically only the AfD and British tabloids are feigning outrage over this.

Well we are discussing it here and this is definitely no the Daily Mail.
> So in general if someone audio messages me I just ignore it until they type their message.

This should be the norm for everyone.
Bona Tarda
algu te gana?
The single phone call will go like this.

Store manager: So what do you want me to do with those packages.

minimum wage clueless phone support person staring at a support script: throw it in the bin.

Store manager to night shift employees: Gifts for everyone!
In most cases, the answer to your problem is "you're using it wrong".

On EVS, what you normally want to do is look up the EVS version, not the ISO/IEC version (because they also resell the original).

The EVS version is the regional version, which is for all intensive purposes identical to the original version (the topic has been covered before on HN, I'll try to find the link to the original).

But in your case it looks like unfortunately there isn't a regionalised version of 9075-2. ;-(

But just to demonstrate my point, let's take ISO9000 ...

ISO9000:2015 at EUR197.77 [1]
EVS-EN ISO 9000:2015 at EUR33.49 [2]

[1] https://www.evs.ee/en/iso-9000-2015
[2] https://www.evs.ee/en/evs-en-iso-9000-2015

Edit to add, if my understanding of the nomenclature is correct the BSI have a regionalised version (BS ISO/IEC 9075 1-4, 9-11, 13-14:2016) for GBP66 (or GBP33 for members)[3]

[3]https://shop.bsigroup.com/products/information-technology-database-languages-sql
Does glibc not have feature detection and conditional compilation for cases like this? That is surprising to me.
Perl is much better than Pyhon for that for obvious reasons, Perl is like an improved sed with stereoids with some C inspiration.
Terraform State Cloud
> I don't get how a standard behind a paywall is even considered a standard.

What makes something a standard is when people agree to use it and design against it.

If no one uses it, even if it's openly available, is it really a (practical) standard?

Things don't even have to be written down, they're simply "the way we do things":

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_operating_procedure
You also need to design your own software to design the chip, your own compiler, and the OS the compiler and design software run on...
You're honestly surprised that countries that haven't gone through full industrialization have more untouched nature? That countries that mostly depend on tourism from people who want to see unspoiled nature for their economies do better in this score than the UK?
Except you need to access each pixel log(n) times and it doesn’t obviously work for non-square images (or for non-right rotations).

Compare to the normal way you rotate things by right angles where e.g. new_image(x,y) = old_image(y, old_height - x), which is extremely embarrassingly parallel.

The actual reason is that it is fun.
I have ~4k start in 2 Python libraries. Both help fetch live news articles. Links below.

These were my first libraries.

I took the approach of promoting them as any other product. You have to "sell" your code. Even if it's 100% free.

In my opinion, the most important thing is DEMO. Just make a GIF where you showcase what your software does:

* 80% of engineers won't even bother to read the description

No one will spend their precious time trying to get through your code.

[0] https://github.com/kotartemiy/newscatcher Programmatically collect normalized news from (almost) any website.

[1] https://github.com/kotartemiy/pygooglenews If Google News had a Python library
Changes to Apple's App Store could come within weeks
What is not faster then GLIBC ? ??
It’s good to gather things now and record metrics that are meaningful. SLOs will come later. Or, if you create SLOs now expect you’ll have to create whole new SLOs when things begin.

But in the meantime you can get slick ci/cd, unit, integration, end to end and performance tests. Maybe feature flags, containers and orchestration, with failover, self-healing, global distribution, DORA metrics again, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, visualisations - and then you’re ready for hello world. Or find features customers like.
i can say of myself that I kinda pioneered "auto translating on scale for SEO traffic" in 2008, 2009. at that time I was working for a startup incubator and one of our internal clients was tripwolf.com.

we had major success with an automated, aggregated SEO strategy for 123people.com and wanted to apply the learnings to the travel information space.

so we got high quality content from a lot of travel guide publishing houses and together with some other aggregation of yellow pages we translated the mostly german base content into en, fr, es, pt, .....

and it worked.

like crazy. for a short time we attracted more traffic than tripadvisor and yelp together (based on the competitive traffic data we had at that time). traffic (and my ego) exploded. we also did not go against any google guidelines, other than one: if you are spammy, you are spammy.

the google guidelines were updated (automated translated content seen as "pure spam") and next days the hammer of google came down, on different section of the websites, different markets and on and on. (the company much later migrated to a native app business model and was quite successful for a few years). the portuguese content worked the longest, even a few years later still got substantial traffic.

to my knowledge we were the biggest auto translate player at that time and we did it better than anyone else.

but all in all, it was 2008/09 and at that time for online startups the difference between traffic channel and product was not yet a known given. getting traffic via google + ads were seen as a sustainable business case. it was not. we had no real product, too much focus on SEO. so all in all, that strategy was longterm negative value.

nowadays I refuse to take any clients who do not have at least an MVP in place. cause even more traffic than your servers can handle will not save your startup, ever.
In some countries, 'return' comes with another huge problem. A parallel hidden economy, led by corruption to swap them with old items and sell as new on same ecommerce platforms. Sometimes swapping only original parts.
Amount of money needed in managing 'authenticity/purity' of a return item is huge. From fake barcodes to fake packaging, everything is available at dirt cheap price. And ofcourse, the cheap manual labour in dire need of money.
Will do. But since it seems to have sunk without a trace I'm wondering if that's even worth it.

And you're welcome, that was a fun build.
Thank you for your feedback! Personally I very rarely use the ; operator since it works badly with braces and commands that use files.
However I've added an example using the ; operator.

PS: May I humbly point out that the command you provided will actually print up to line 10 and then a duplicate line. Like I said, unexpected (even though it seems logical). :)
I would expect that more developed countries would have had greater impacts on their biodiversity due to the development itself.

Would you have expected it the other way around?
Well there is no human institution on earth that runs without a domination and obedience based hierarchy. The internet has caused a bit of confusion because it initially didnt resemeble a hierarchy but hierarchical structures tend to emerge in complex systems or such systems tend to just collapse.
What incentive should they have to make Safari a capable browser? Who would profit when developers can build PWAs instead of paying the Apple Tax?
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle
Depending on how loud that speaker is, people around you would still be able to hear it, even if its up to your ear. Years ago when I used public transport more, it was almost daily that I'd be able to listen in on peoples phone conversations because of how loud their speaker was even when not using the speakerphone setting.
Wow! This brings back memories. I don't remember which generation of CPUs this was.. maybe Pentium III or AthlonXP. But there was an issue in Windows where the chip would overheat when idle.

There was an app called Rain that you could download and it would just keep the idle process from running away and causing heat. I may need to research this on my lunch break and report back.

EDIT: Here's a related thread: https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1060257
You could run black box experiments observing signals from the machine, or use some hw reverse engineering approaches, eg by analyzing the firmware.
Capturing and Decrypting HTTPS Traffic from iOS Apps Using Frida (2019)
Generative AI Art
I mean, I was ideologically outraged as a young adult when I found out that the Ontario building code must be followed by law but that it must be purchased for around $350 at the time. But I kinda get it now. Doing stuff the right way is hard. It takes big, sorta expensive books. It's not the end of the world.
That's a somewhat idealised view: there is certainly value in it, which is why members all pay a hefty membership fee (to the tune of 21M CHF last year, which is half of their revenue).

For details, check out their 2020 financials page: https://www.iso.org/ar2020.html#section-finances

I am only highlighting how proceeds from the sale of ISO standards are not being distributed to ISO members, including national standardization bodies, nor any contributors.

I'd hope that country ISO members would push for their membership fees to cover for distribution of standards for free (even if it meant increasing those fees) — that'd be a much more sensible approach IMHO. Or they could optimize slightly not to need those royalty fees in the first place.
Using OAuth to add authentication to a React app
Does this fix the issue where IE redirects pages to a "This page doesn't work in Internet Explorer" error?

On a fresh Windows 10 21H2 install, I tried launching iexplore to Google, and it immediately opened Edge to Google while throwing up a Microsoft-hosted "nope" page.
No lookup tables
I think it's not exactly like Trello, but it's very similar. Trello is free [for a small number of users?], so to convince people to signup to an paid alternative it's important to explain the advantages.
I think I both agree and disagree.

As you rightfully pointed, I wouldn’t do anything overly complicated with sed because it really is a line editor and anything which is not line based and can’t be explained simply in the context of using an editor will quickly seem clunky and overly complicated.

I wouldn’t do anything period with awk. I agree with you that it’s just another programming language but one which feels extremely dated with both a terrible syntax and awkward semantics. The rare times I have encountered something done with awk it was either so simple it should have been done with sed or so complicated I wish a proper scripting language like python or perl would have been used instead. As far as I’m concerned, awk is a tool without a proper use-case. It’s always better to use something else.
I wish I could try.
Stratolaunch Welcomes Former NASA Administrator and Former Boeing Exec to Board
If anyone else is curious, Borg is Google's cluster management software: https://kubernetes.io/blog/2015/04/borg-predecessor-to-kuber...
No it will make you laugh in about 30 minutes. Oh wait, DST. Never mind.
Sure. Claiming "too verbose/magical" for a library that adds structure to generally unstructured, smattered config data seems a bit misplaced.

You are entitled to your opinion but I don't think trying to defend your stance with homemade env parsing functions while writing an authoritative sounding blog post helps the community as a whole when there are sound libraries and patterns that solve this exact problem.
Yeah Thames is recovering, but I wonder how many rivers in Asia have been turned into dead sewers in her place.
Ha, you got me there. I remembered incorrectly that sed scripts where bad practice and one should use bash instead. I've corrected the mistake.

What other good practice suggestions do you have? (if you're comfortable answering and have the time)
Your resentment is understandable. Though, hardly anyone is led to believe nowadays that cannabis will make you a great person. Lots of people use it to unwind, which is the opposite of pushing oneself further. I think that if you give yourself a chance you'll find that no one is dumb because he or she smoked cannabis in the past. That is, it's not a predetermining factor if anything.
Blood pressure drugs could prevent type 2 diabetes
It does. Each subdirectory of sysdeps/ can contain specific implementations per platform, arch, etc. eg: the aarch64 assembler memset is:

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/aar...

There's also the "ifunc" mechanism which can be used to make the choice at runtime, eg:

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/aar...
This would be a CPU command that works with the RAM controller rather than something you control yourself (kernels to my knowledge don’t talk directly to the controller beyond maybe some basic power management, if that).

There is a definite need to do hundreds of MB - the Linux kernel has a background thread that does nothing but zero out pages. What do you think happens to the GBs of RAM freed by closing Chrome? Once it’s made available in one spot, no reason others could use it (eg a hardened malloc implementation, etc).
Qwant is another (non-US) alternative
UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs Space Law Treaties and Principles
Would You Manage 70 Children and a 15-Ton Vehicle for $18 an Hour?
A static image with no example videos of software rendering?
That's why I use NetGuard (Android app) as a personal firewall on mobile and block facebook on home router etc.
The Addams Family 2 Updates: Where to Watch and Timeline
> im beginning to realize tons of things in life MUST be sold (or a case built which i see as a form of "selling")

While this is true, one is better off from thinking about this from first principles, such as what are some undeniable truths that are constant over time given an intractable problem space. Evolving software over and over around those constants, under the constraint of that one problem space, makes for a viable sell (but one does have to sell) especially in a b2b setting. Note that, early adopters don't need much of a selling-to, by definition, if the software as much as interests them and fulfills a tiny modicum of their needs.

Ref: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20211024
There is something different or odd about it though.
I don't think anyone is arguing that the low number of Women in tech is not a problem, understanding the root cause is presumably important or we will continue to miss out on a significant talent pool.
Can someone explain why this would be the case?

I could understand lifestyle changes causing a reduction in both, but not why reducing blood pressure via medication would reduce T2 risk.
Also: you can’t flakk posts on HN [s]
They spotted it and made the trade off that it wasn’t worth fixing
Zelle Scams Increasing for the Holidays
> it seems to have sunk without a trace

Now, it's the top of this page: https://news.ycombinator.com/show
One aspect of that I think is related to "mindfulness ". Oftentimes we get to reddit/hn/twitter as a dumb reaction to a brain feeling. If we think of it explicitly, it's easier to control.

One technique that can also work is pomodoro: time 20 mins segments of the "productive" stuff, 3 of these segments separated by a 2 min break. Then reward with 15 min of reddit browsing.

It helped me hugely while writing my phd thesis. Which was very painful and prone to lots of distractions.
All of which require trusted hardware to run on! The bootstrapping problem is real.

I wonder how the Chinese and Russians have validated custom chip designs. I don't think the compiler would be bugged specifically for chip design software, but there's no real way to tell...
Ask HN: How do you find companies that hire for broad experience and aptitude?
...as opposed to a specific list of tools and for x years of experience with this or that technology
Yes, this is the same style as go. Fortunately you don't have to check the cancel token everywhere since clients can just proceed as if you had been cancelled (in well designed systems). You just need to check it before and during potentially expensive or long running operations (IO or expensive computation, basically).
When sending audio messages you are exchanging your convenience for the inconvenience of others.

I just refuse to listen to any and don't receive them any more.

Yes, there are valid use-cases for one-way voice messages. There just aren't many of those.
Interesting that you mention linux, because Linus has very very strong opinions about this :)
Why can't we make liquid batteries yet, so you can tank "gel", discard the old gel through the bottom of the car at the "gas" station.
Thank you for the constructive feedback, I've corrected the mistakes pointed out. I've also changed -r to -E based on your (and some other people's) advice.
> new_image(x,y) = old_image(y, old_height - x)

If you implement this as a view (rather than imperatively), you can get the compiler to optimize out four successive rotations to nothing :)

https://blog.cy.md/2014/03/21/functional-image-processing-in...
Every time I stumble across a new search engine, I add it to my search engine comparison tool:

https://www.gnod.com/search/

Will add SearX now. It seems to provide reasonably good results.

Update: It's on (under 'More Engines').
TikTok videos are now searchable/indexed on Google
Yeah I’ve been an apple fan for years. As of a couple of days ago my work desk has a M1 MacBook pro and a ryzen x5800 running Linux Mint. The CPUs are remarkably similar - same core count, and only slightly different single core performance. So the only main difference is software.

I expected the MacBook to blow Linux out of the water - after all, their hardware and software integration is excellent. The trackpad drivers and consistent UI is fantastic. But watching CPU usage on both machines, Linux mint stays lean and quiet while the MacBook has all sorts of weird processes popping up to do who knows what.

On macos the “WindowServer” process sometimes just pegs an entire core until I reboot. My usb-c Ethernet dongle doesn’t do hardware offload, so cpu usage goes way up when I use it. Firefox uses way more CPU on macos than it does on Linux. And there’s random processes all the time reporting things to apple or other garbage like that. I’ve been googling process names all day trying to figure out what all this crap does. Spotify alone uses 10% of a core on macos sometimes, even when it’s not even playing music.

It was a pain to get Linux working how I want it to. But now that it’s mostly[1] set up, it feels snappier and more reliable than macos. When I don’t touch the computer, it settles at 0% CPU; just like it should. I suppose that’s what the desktop looks like without the last decade of macos features that nobody really cares about.

I’m really surprised how close the competition feels between my two machines; though I miss Snow Leopard.

[1] Keyboard shortcuts on are all over the place in Linux though. And I can’t even set keyboard shortcuts up how I’d like because intellij can’t use the meta key as a modifier. And the Linux trackpad drivers are nowhere near as well tuned as they are in macos. In linux the trackpad is way too sensitive. I’m sure there’s a way to fix it hiding in a config file somewhere.
Internet is the first tool in history which allows to run complex systems without hierarchy - the hierarchy is a necessary optimization resulting from the physical limitations of information and control flows, and the internet removes those limitations.

>hierarchical structures tend to emerge in complex systems

one can say that many observed complex systems emerge as the way to facilitate/implement/support the hierarchy.
This wouldn't be representative yet. Software rendering will kill the efficiency. We'll need to wait for the GPU to be properly supported.
This is why Apple went to their own CPUs due to the poor thermal dynamics of the recent x86 chips. The recent chips are like the PowerPC chips of 2005.
Every architecture has its quirks. But compared to x86 and its legacy, most RISC architectures were quite nice. And the point is, you had multiple competing archtectures, so there was a chance to try out new ideas and find out, which of those were actually good.
Yes, it's a community plugin: https://github.com/lynchjames/obsidian-mind-map
> a good reason to get vaccinated against.

I completely agree, but how does this explain the level of enforcement of vaccination that we are seeing?
Yes, that's thanks to your comment. Was looking forward to some more tips on pack construction and safety, but fine.
Let's get them a trading licence!
Any reason you don’t do edibles? I take a black market 10mg gummy every 2-3 hours to help with my anxiety. I’m a software developer and don’t feel “dumb” as my brain generally works that way anyway. It’s just easier to dose and consume whenever wherever when it’s an edible.
I’m in a legal state which can’t figure out how to open retail stores so ironically my black market gummies are legal once I crack them out of the mailbox.