skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have access to the dashboard because I cancelled my AWS account rather than try to spend more time finding things that still needed to be unconfigured/disabled to get them to stop billing me (the last straw was going to the spend analyzer and it telling me it'd take 24 hours to see what is still costing me money) but:

Can I terminate based on cost? Like "I have spent $1,000 this month in AWS, something has gone wrong just kill everything" (or at least runaway service buckets) or is it just "oh I forgot to terminate this particular EC2 instance once I was done with it it'd be nice if I could just set those rules up in advance"?
This is one of the things that Fish shell gets right out of the box. Command autocomplete is per-directory, and shows you a preview of the commands as you type.
Let's consider Jony's performance on software design first. This is what some prominent people have said about iOS 7, which was the first flat-design iOS: The Verge wrote in their review: "iOS 7 isn't harder to use, just less obvious. That's a momentous change: iOS used to be so obvious."

In iOS 7 basic usability features such as making buttons look like buttons are now stuffed under Accessibility options. About this, Tumblr co-founder Marco Arment wrote: "If iOS 8 can’t remove any of these options, it's a design failure." (And iOS 8 didn't.)

Michael Heilemann, Interface Director at Squarespace wrote, "when I look at [iOS 7 beta] I see anti-patterns and basic mistakes that should have been caught on the whiteboard before anyone even began thinking about coding it." And famed blogger John Gruber said this about iOS 7: "my guess is that [Steve Jobs] would not have supported this direction."

And what about Jony's other responsibility, industrial design? The iPod, iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air and other Apple products from Jobs era are all amazingly well designed and breathtakingly beautiful. But these products weren't designed by Jony Ive all by himself. He designed them under Steve Jobs's guidance and direction. Steve was the tastemaker. Apple's post-Steve products are nowhere near as well-designed.

Consider iPhone 5c, for example, which was the first post-Steve-Jobs design. The colors were horrid, and when you add those Crocs-like cases it looks more like a Fisher-Price toy than like a device an executive would want to be seen holding. Then they released some ads for the 5c, and I kid you not, one of the ads had sounds of bleating farm animals. (It was titled "Every color has a story", published on tumblr.) That the 5c didn't do well in the market shouldn't surprise anyone.
I'm not actually sure if medicine was more bureaucratic than farming 100 years ago. Most of the medical bureaucracy I can think of developed over the past century. In the 19th century medicine was, most people believe, unregulated to a fault.
Utility scale PV fields in the US southwest today cost $0.89/W(dc) installed (were you using US residential PV costs instead? Bad boy!) Assuming you were talking of peak power, that's less than $1T for 1 TW. If you were talking about aveage power, the capacity factor there is above 30% now (single axis trackers), so about $3T. How you got $40T from that, god only knows.

You will note that the levelized cost of power from these fields is maybe 1/3 that of your nuclear figures.

> Assuming it takes 10 days to install a solar a 10 kW system, and we manage to install 10,000 solar systems at a time (simultaneously) across the entire nation.

Absurd, since utility-scale systems are orders of magnitude larger than that. There are individual PV fields that have capacity larger than your 10,000 tiny systems.

Your argument from incredulity about manufacturing these systems is not worth anything.
Not in the US, at least.
My wife and I experienced eBiking around downtown Chicago (Divvy's eBike), and it literally re-ignited my love for biking, I really recommend it if you're visiting Chicago! The bike path next to the lake is beautiful & so fun! I think we biked about 15+ miles without breaking a sweat. We did it multiple times in the summer.

I live across the border in Indiana, and have wanted to bike on the beach/dunes/trails for years. I just bought a Specialized Fatboy with a BBSHD motor, can't wait to get back out there.
> Problem #3: synchronous communication is synchronous

I love synchronous communication sometimes. Specially if you're a builder it's invaluable to have the person right there and ask them as many questions as you want. Not having any latency in each back and forth increases the efficiency by orders of magnitude.
Earlier than time itself began. :)
The difference is that for some assets you can calculate value based on fundamentals. IE, humans need shelter, hence estimate future value of shelter (real estate) based on migration trends and other factors. How do you estimate future value of bitcoin? Lack of predictability is probably why serious investment funds don't go into crypto
No, I think at worst you waste your time and attention reading reports of benign issues from the invocation of an automated tool that you didn't care to execute. I think this is probably the worst, and median case.

Maybe there is a way this could be useful. "I'm a security researcher. I ran this tool on your site which found these vulnerabilities. Here's why I think these vulnerabilities may be meaningful, even if they are first seem not to be" is, I think, a nice contribution and, if you make a change based on those suggestions, that merits some kind of credit. That's not really what is discussed in the article though.
Great question. I really struggled with that decision. For me it was really whether to raise a seed round or not. I went back and forth about what kind of business I wanted to run.

I finally made the decision to raise the seed round and grow a team because I felt that I would learn the most. I optimized for my own learning and growth.

Are you facing a similar decision? It's a steep and long learning curve to actually lead a team, but now it's the part of my job that I love the most.
Not trying to be mean, but I hit a bug within 3 seconds of using this software and figured I'd report it here:

On the demo instance in Safari Version 15.0 (16612.1.29.41.4, 16612) if you navigate into the Announcements -> Demo instance post and then quickly hit the back button a few times you don't actually get taken back to the top level. Instead I get stuck at the previous forum, and if I go back and forward a bunch I can get stuck in a state where all my history is just the one thread I clicked into. Not totally sure what is going on here, but feels like the type of thing that shows up with manual JS page history management failing to handle rapid events quickly leading to race conditions.
It shouldn't be accepted and tolerated, but it's disingenuous to discuss it without mentioning the reasons why it happened in the first place.
It doesn’t exactly look active though? Last release was in 2019.
What are some examples of these "several distros" that set it by default? Of the major ones I'm willing to use in production (Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL and derivs, SuSE, hesitantly Arch), none offer NOPASSWD sudo to users marked as administrative in each distro's normal way. (i.e. various group memberships)

NOPASSWD is poor hygiene.
The biggest hurdles with ebikes are their high cost relative to a cheap used bike (nicer ebikes are in used car territory) and likelyhood of theft in an urban area. It would probably help a lot of commutes if people had a safe place to park their bike or ebike at a train station or business or school where it won't be stripped down for parts. Rental scooters and ebikes also suffer from this problem but it doesn't matter as much since the company already puts a shelf life of one month for these sort of vehicles and budgets for this turnover, but when its your own personal vehicle if you walk out of your home before work and its been stolen you might get fired from your job worst case scenario. A car is a much harder thing to steal but even then, catalytic converter thefts have been surging. If you get comprehensive auto insurance that crime is covered at least, but some people can only afford liability. Not sure what insurance can cover bike theft. Maybe a renters insurance policy?
Private keys for tests should be generated on demand, lest you induce CI failure due to key expiration some years down the line
> It's about linking your account to a real person identity, so they can sell that to someone - either live, or later when they get bought out

Yeah, this can't be emphasized enough. Phone numbers are established as universal identifiers. Discord is sitting on a giant heap of personal information including DMs from millions of young people. It is all centralized, both in terms of data, and in terms of accounts (instead of them having to correlate an account between multiple forums, most of which volunteer run and they don't turn over non-public data for money), and also associated with phone numbers. Making multiple accounts for different areas of life is made hard. Beautiful for whoever has access to the data.
VAC incoming
Anyone else hear is voice and lilt whenever you read his quotes?

"I think that there is,.. therefore, a sort of .. gravity .. and authority, perhaps, in the way we tried to treat the form."
I humbly await the Second Coming of Forstall to resurrect Apple and rescue it from bankrupcty!

it may be a while
Arguably you could do any Java job.

I don't think a React role would be a great fit.

I've been boxed into a very specific field for 7 years. The pay is good and I have no complaints.

I don't think said field is going anywhere, as someone who went though a few evictions as a kid I appreciate having work.
> I fear the push-back when someone inevitably gets hurt.

Which is fascinating and really tells you something about ingroups and outgroups because cyclists are hurt and killed every day by drivers and strangely nobody seems to be that fussed about it.
you can set a ReadyToRun flag on publish which pre jits your dlls https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/ready...
That's because Java, like C#, makes it really painful to define a new type. When it takes huge amounts of boilerplate to define a new type to hold a piece of dumb data, of course nobody does it! In F# it's one line of code, so it's idiomatic to define dozens of tiny types and use them to constrain the semantics of your program.
I see a lot of these "idiots guides to blockchain" full of diagrams, analogies, and explanations. I think it really just speaks to the environment around the technology itself.

Blockchain is fundamentally a very simple technology, but the market for it is based on making it sound like some panacea for every problem. Obfuscating the technology, and convincing the reader that "this is really complicated, but I can dumb it down for you" is a sure fire way to get them to trust you as "the expert" when you try to pitch them on some distributed ledger. The fact that all these articles come out of consulting firms (this one too) just drives that point home even further.

The goal isn't to show you what blockchain is. The goal is to convince you the writer knows a lot about this complex, spooky but oh so lucrative technology. And that the writer can help you use it for $50,000 USD base consulting fee, extra for non-standard features. It's worth it, trust me. You can put Powered by Blockchain on your website!
Now we’re getting from “experience” to “creative abilities and acumen”. Not at all easy to spot on most resumes. Also not easy to spot in most hiring processes.
I'd say many aggregators do offer value to the rest of humanity but I imagine there are probably some exceptions and also not all scraper services offer no value it's just different value to different people.

Some scraping services make their money by offering scraping services to companies for specific information and you could argue they provide value to other businesses that way, but not to the broader "rest of humanity".

So I'm not sure it's as simple as just "aggregator" good "scraping service" bad as value provided takes on many different forms, and that's what makes this difficult.

I guess it may come down to your take on what you think of middlemen, because they are all effectively middlemen in the data economy.

Edit: I was rereading your comment, in respect directly to the value added to the content, then yes maybe it is more clear that aggregators are in principle different because they do add that value where scraping services that sell the data do not offer any enrichment to the content creator. I personally think protecting content aggregators that republish the data to create visibility or other value for the content creator to the extent that they're not worried about being sued for that is probably a worthwhile thing to happen because of the net benefit to our ability to find information/content.
All speculation, but I bet they screwed themselves on licensing.

Google put a ton of money into acquiring mapping visuals themselves, as did apple. Microsoft simply licensed the hell out of it.

When Google was ready, they were able to sell their mapping solution. Microsoft, on the other hand, was short sighted and only copying Google.

Another example of Microsoft playing copycat to Google, and having it pay off poorly in the long term is bing411: Google launched goog411 to gather voice data, Microsoft spent a ton of money and copied and used their top tier voice recognition service. Google shut down goog411 not long after: it was never about offering a service.
> Disallowing explicit `root` login makes it harder for attackers to guess the usernames which have sudo access

Or rather, it forces attackers to enumerate other usernames because the default root account isn't available to brute force. In general, when password authentication is in use (which it should never be for SSH), then disabling the default user account acts as a simple way of mitigating brute force attacks. If best practices are followed and passwords are not used to authenticate to SSH servers, then this additional measure might be moot. Even so, I can't think of a reason not to disable root SSH login anyway, even if password authentication is disabled. A layered defense assumes the possibility that other defenses might fail. Noone wants to be the person who wrote off an additional defense measure because they didn't think it was possible to exploit, only to have a new CVE come out to prove them wrong.
Any alternative would have to be inconvenient by design in order to work though, that's why phone numbers are used in the first place.

An effective verification system usually involves money at the root; verification in the style of phone verification works using proof of ownership of a limited resource, and most limited resources cost money (phone numbers, IPv4 addresses, etc).

In the real world this is analogous to charging money for access to an event purely in order to ensure it's not overrun with attendees,improving the experience for people who care enough to pay to get in. There are similar downsides to this; people who don't have money are left out.
The docs say "Hydrogen can only be used to build Shopify web storefronts. Currently, Hydrogen doesn't support building other types of custom storefronts, including mobile apps, video games, and smart devices."

I get that the shopify components expect to receive shopify-format data, but are there other restrictions we should understand? The docs do say Hydrogen apps can hit 3rd-party API's, so how do we think about the dividing line between what Hydrogen can and can't do?
A lot of blame on the university side goes to Bayh-Dole patent laws of the 1980s which allowed patents from publicly financed research to be effectively transferred to the private sector, via the mechanism of the exclusive license. This is going on right now with vaccines and antivirals as well, but it's been a steady theme for over three decades.

This could be fixed with the commonsense solution of requiring public access to publicly financed research and patents without burdensome fees. This would have allowed numerous private entities to begin their own development and manufacturing processes without worrying about patents and IP lawsuits.

Unfortunately, the end result wa the rise in power of the academic Intellectual Property Office which oversees the licensing (and gathers in the percentages). The UC and MIT systems are most notorious for pushing this approach in the 1990s, but it seems to be everywhere these days.

Effectively, the administrators put researchers with patent-generation potential at the front of the food line, and also pushed hard for public-private partnerships with mega-corps (UC Berkeley and BP, Stanford and Exxon, etc.) As part of that mentality, short-term profitability became the guiding light, not basic blue-skies research into whatever the researchers wanted to look at. Since much basic research generates nothing of immediate commercial interest, it was viewed as less important and even a drag on the bottom line.

Running with this mentality equates to killing the goose that laid the golden eggs, as groundbreaking discoveries leading to truly new technologies then become much less likely.

On the business side, the large private research centers of the post WWII era seem much diminished. Giving corporations a tax exemption for increasing their R&D spending while also raising their taxes to 1960 levels might be an efficient way to reverse that trend. Elon Musk could then avoid the tax bill by putting all his money into a SpaceX R&D facility to rival the old Bell Labs, which is kind of a good idea anyway isn't it?
From my totally uninformed perspective, it seems like the thing to lose should be the cars. If you’re having 10 ft wide sidewalks on a (guessing from the name) important street so that more people can walk there, then maybe you should deliberately make it worse for cars to discourage high speeds or unnecessary journeys. Of all modes of transport, cars are best able to make detours because they are fast and require little of the drivers energy to move. But (again guessing from the name) maybe this is a North American city and so cars must be properly cared for—it seems the car advocacy group didn’t even get the chance to complain about a single lane system because there wasn’t enough width, though maybe they already lost parking spaces or traffic lanes to the project and they did complain about it.
I think he's saying the turn of events is tragically predictable, and we SHOULDN'T accept or tolerate it. That was my reading, anyway.
Mod.io raises Series A to power UGC for creator-driven gaming communities
Scala at Scala at Databricks
and that company/app is? otherwise this just sounds like made up tech porn.
I'm a bit of a "rich lycra-clad yuppy" myself, and occasionally ride with other such cyclists. I've literally never heard anyone express horror at the idea of their hobby becoming more inclusive.

Mostly e-bike riders are just ignored. Like they don't affect us in any way and we barely even notice that they exist.
It wasn't.

EVERYTHING beautiful is skeuomorphic. The page turn in iBooks, page curl in maps, cover flow, the shred animation in older versions of Passbook, the date picker (all in iOS 6), rotating settings gear (when updating iOS 6), the Time Machine interface in older versions of OS X, photo borders and shadows in older versions of iWorks documents, etc.

This is not surprising, because our sense of beauty comes from the physical world.

So what is the problem with skeuomorphism?

Tech enthusiasts would like their phones to look like something from the future, not something from the past. But ordinary everyday people prefer for it to look like things they are already familiar with, or can relate to.

Tech enthusiasts worry that the skeuomorphism was getting totally out of hand, particularly where the UI metaphor started limiting functionality (e.g. an address database that's limited to what a Rolodex can do, rather than exploiting what is possible with a computer). But this is not really true. For example, iBooks has instant search, something only possible with a computer.

Some people point out that many skeuomorphic elements reference things that a large part of Apple's audience hasn't used in a long time, if ever. True, but here's the thing: It doesn't matter whether the user has ever seen a reel-to-reel tape. What matters is whether the visuals depict a physical object that the user can model in his mind. If it is too abstract (that's the opposite of physical) then non-tech-enthusiast users will find it hard to intuit.

Some people say skeuomorphism looks tacky. This is partly true. Skeuomorphism is hard to do. When done poorly it does look tacky. But when done well it looks very beautiful.

By removing all skeuomorphism Apple threw the baby out with the bathwater.
We use a shell history per directory per user. This is very helpful, esp in distributed shared environments.

https://github.com/albertz/wiki/blob/master/shell.md#history
Not everyone has a friend with a phone that doesn't use discord that they can use.
> "Under the Settlement Agreement, the Parties have agreed to resolve all disputes between them for a payment to the Trustee [TLD], on behalf of the Estates [IBM], of $14,250,000."

If IBM is prepared to pay out $14m to make the case go away, no wonder Xinuos is trying the same strategy.
The aesthetic of these designs will be less of a surprise if you take a look at photos of Jony Ive's house in San Francisco. His taste encompasses more than the Deiter Rams inspired minimalism of his later work at Apple.
He’s a little too casually dismissive of the end of Cold War military budgets as a driving force. He basically waves it off without explanation.

(I’m always amused that the Lambda-the-Ultimate papers were paid for by the Office of Naval Research.)
I hope fast-fashion and reliance on synthetics goes rapidly out of fashion or gets taxed.

Let's go back to clothes that were built to last and could be reused for other purposed once their useful life was over.

Put on end to needless visual-effectual destruction of perfectly good clothes ("acid washing", slits and artificial wear, etc., which reduce garment life.) and also return to natural fibers except for where synthetics perform better (like for extreme weather like rain, sleet, and freezing conditions as well as sports) but for every day wear, reusable fibers would be better. Slow down the cycle.
> Apple TV remote is possibly the worst remote ever made.

Yup. It's awful. I shelled out the bucks for the new one, and have found it to be worlds different.
That remote is awful, but isn't usually what I've heard people refer to as flat design. Flat design tends to refer to the more simplistic software UIs that have been in fashion over the last few years.
analysis paralysis. PHPbb works fine, it 's only old if you re ageist.
Really? I really like his drumming in Radiohead but what else is he up to? I saw a video or two from his solo record but it seems to just be regular folk music. What am I missing?
Crime isn't the only reason we light the streets. In fact it's probably not the main reason.

But as to crime, from what I understand it's controversial. I would note that, in nearly every place, the main time for home robbery is the late morning or afternoon. Because that's when everyone's at work or running errands and otherwise not home. Only serial killers and the truly insanely desperate break into homes with the residents asleep at 4 am. Does street lighting stop them? Jury seems out.

Traffic safety. This seems pretty settled. If you don't want get run over by a car while walking in the suburbs at night, you want streetlighting.

Simple utility. It's nice to see where you're going. I live in a heavily forested area. On a cloudy night around the new Moon I literally wouldn't be able to see the sidewalk without some artificial lighting.