skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Both of which are things you can personally change something about.

No, because "how Chrome surfaces a lack of SSL" is about your users' Chrome, not your own instance of Chrome. You cannot personally change the Chrome that is run by your users.
iOS apps are how you add notifications to your website.
I like them more as merchandise, especially hardcover, but they do a poorer job of transferring information, storing, searching.
Do you know if you can get a real one on Aliexpress? I’ve looked at replacements but wouldn’t want to get a fake that will leech at high temps. I’m not in the US.
Until Apple's OS reinstalls Candy Crush again after you remove it, they haven't sunk to the anywhere near the level of Microsoft.
These guys (pay attention to who they are), when referring to the same calculation but regarding deaths per 100 million miles, disagree with your opinion:

Chris Urmson in his Recode Decode interview – “Well, it’s not even that they grab for it, it’s that they experience it for a while and it works, right? And maybe it works perfectly every day for a month. The next day it may not work, but their experience now is, “Oh this works,” and so they’re not prepared to take over and so their ability to kind of save it and monitor it decays with time. So you know in America, somebody dies in a car accident about 1.15 times per 100 million miles. That’s like 10,000 years of an average person’s driving. So, let’s say the technology is pretty good but not that good. You know, someone dies once every 50 million miles. We’re going to have twice as many accidents and fatalities on the roads on average, but for any one individual they could go a lifetime, many lifetimes before they ever see that.” – https://www.recode.net/2017/9/8/16278566/transcript-self-dri...
or
Ford Motor Co. executive vice president Raj Nair – “Ford Motor Co. executive vice president Raj Nair says you get to 90 percent automation pretty quickly once you understand the technology you need. “It takes a lot, lot longer to get to 96 or 97,” he says. “You have a curve, and those last few percentage points are really difficult.”
Almost every time auto executives talk about the promise of self-driving cars, they cite the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration statistic that shows human error is the “critical reason” for all but 6 percent of car crashes.
But that’s kind of misleading, says Nair. “If you look at it in terms of fatal accidents and miles driven, humans are actually very reliable machines. We need to create an even more reliable machine.” – https://www.consumerreports.org/autonomous-driving/self-driv...
or
prof. Raj Rajkumar head of Carnegie Mellon University’s leading self-driving laboratory. – “if you do the mileage statistics, one fatality happens every 80 million miles. That is unfortunately of course, but that is a tremendously high bar for automatically vehicle to meet.” min.19.30 of this podcast interview – http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/if_then/2018/05/self_...
I actually consider that a negative. Mathematical notation is fine when you're dealing with limited space on a blackboard, but if you're programming please name your name variables and take the time to model your domain explicitly.
> I'm not optimistic on TypeScript for Python. That'd be great if such a thing existed

MyPy exists, Python officially supports type annotations.

I do think comprehensions are a weird feature for Python, particularly from the “one way to do it” perspective. And also because the language so strongly discourages FP patterns outside of comprehensions.

Overall I would say the language is a lot better than the ecosystem, and that it suffers a lot from having a bad packaging design. I’m not a fan, suffice it to say. It’s best if you can stick to the standard library.
This is what pisses me off from the tech industry and makes me want to save enough to retire and quit for good or open a non-tech business.

When I dreamed about joining the industry a decade ago I saw all these new companies offering useful & innovative products/services that actually solved real problems and legitimately made people's lives better. I wanted to be part of this world and get in on the action, making honest money in the process - I provide useful service, customer pays me money. Win-win, right?

Nowadays it seems like every tech company's goal is "engagement" and any problems they solve (or claim to solve) are only there to convince you to "engage" with the product. Even when you think you've actually found a company that has a real paid product that shouldn't (and doesn't - yet) rely on "engagement" you will always find some assholes on the inside (typically in marketing) that chase this "engagement" (and over time ruin the perfectly good product).

You could say it's capitalism's fault but I don't think so. There are other areas where completely unbounded capitalism would lead to terrible outcomes such as ponzi schemes, and yet we mostly avoid these because we have appropriate regulation to deter this behavior. The problem is that we have zero effective regulation (the GDPR doesn't count until it's enforced seriously) around misuse of personal data which powers this whole "engagement" crap.

Fortunately I think (hope) there is light at the end of the tunnel. "Engagement" only works if advertisers pay for those eyeballs which they'd only do if those ads worked and the prospective customer actually bought the advertised product. As we are already saturated in ads (and/or people deploy countermeasures such as ad-blockers) and the costs per click/impression keep dropping the bubble will hopefully pop and it will become more profitable to sell paid, premium & ad-free products like it should be.
This comment should reply to the comment about which it kvetches, instead of being a top-level comment.
I'm sorry, but 3D printers, while quite an innovation allowing cheap and fast prototyping, are not well designed things. I own three, and talk to friends who collectively probably own close to 100.

They, including models with great reputation (e.g. Prusa printers), break all the time. Also the mere fact that there are thousands of mods for all of them on sites like Thingieverse to make them better is another indication they aren't really all that well designed.

Things like manual leveling, heat creep, bottom layer adhesion issues are common problems across all models.

They're finicky things with PLENTY room for improvement.
Concept 2 rowing machine.
Unfortunately I don't see them creating a price filter as they are mainly geared at businesses vs. hobbyists or consumers, where "get it here fast" is more important than saving a few dollars. That being said, I find adding all of the prospective parts to the cart works well for me when I want to compare prices
You seem to be unfamiliar with the absolute basics of cartels, collusion and antitrust law.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust...
> When does this end?

I think this is a fair question many people are asking. I also think a simple answer does not exist.

It's interesting. This is the first pandemic of what I might describe as the most connected version of humanity in the history of our species. I mean this in every possible sense, not just electronic communications (for example, travel is massively easier and faster than, say, one hundred years ago).

This means this is new to us (the world). In the prior pandemic people died by the tens of millions and that was that. This time we have a fairly reasonable ability to slow it down and fight it. Yet, I don't think anyone truly understands how far this goes and where the end of the "event" might be. I happen to be travelling outside the US at the moment and, at least where I am (Mexico) they seem to be taking it far more seriously than in Los Angeles. For example, I have yet to see people complaining about mask usage as some form of reduction-of-freedom issue.
> It's like, why use one synonym and not the other? Sometimes it's because writing things in an immutable manner makes things clearer.

That's true in many situations, but in this case the equivalence between the two is so straightforward that I can't see recursion gaining you any clarity. Perhaps you have a concrete example?
I absolutely agree, buses are only ideal in two cases:

- Short, local travel where large scale transport services don’t make sense, and

- As a mediocre stop gap measure to make up for lacking infrastructure.

The idea that busses go on the highway in Seattle is appalling
Very nice blog you got over there. Your post on referrals was particularly interesting. I come from Syria and over there (possibly due to poor internet infrastructure) personal referrals are a must-have for everything. After I traveled to Russia I was kind of overwhelmed by how none-personal everything turned out to be (stores, jobs, etc). I had the feeling that I had to let go of my previous "human interaction above all" paradigm in life, but I see that you definitely didn't and it served you great.
More likely smart enough not to.
Hobbyists have been building building both coaxial thrust-vectored and planar bicopters for years, so as usual the marketing is overwrought.

I think the success and interesting-ness of this depends mostly on the positioning system - the visualizations in the video make it appear to be inside-out, maybe ToF based on the sensor array? If this is good and the pathfinding autonomy is sound, this could be pretty cool in a pretty small niche space.
Can't talk about the kids part, but Uber Pool was definitely a popular thing pre pandemic. People were happy to get in cars with strangers.
50 years from now someone will dig up this report and say "they knew about it all the way back then, why didn't they take more effective action?"
Right there with you guys. I was a little angry looking at this. For a moment it gave me hope I could actually buy one.
SARS-CoV-2 is endemic and you will be exposed to it occasionally regardless of whether you take public transit or not.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646
Depends how far back you wanna go. In Canada, in exchange for building, the railways got free land in every downtown and port, and along their lines. Along with 100% royalty-free surface and mineral rights.

> 1881: Canadian Pacific Railways (CPR) began construction of the railway from Winnipeg to B.C. In exchange for building the railroad, CPR was granted 25 million acres of land. These lands included the petroleum and natural gas rights.

> 1882: CPR was able to select lands from the odd numbered sections in a belt of land 24 miles wide on each side of the CPR railway rights. This created a checkerboard pattern, still widely used in the industry today to describe the lands. Where lands were deemed unfit for settlement, CPR negotiated for other lands that were often far from railway construction.

> 1883: CPR began drilling for water in hope of improving the land’s suitability for settlement. While drilling for water, Alberta’s first natural gas was discovered, Langevin No. 1.

https://www.prairiesky.com/history/
Waiting list for the SL-1200 or SL-1210's in the 90's were well over a year and you couldnt even get B stock (ie returns resold) from Panasonic Technics either.

I will add another one to the list, their SU-A range of amps with the R-core transformer.

When they first came out, I was invited to a blind listening session with Technics somewhere in London and they had some of the SU-A amps up against considerably more expensive amps and you were shocked at the quality, you could point to where the different instruments were being played left and right, you could tell whether they were at the front, middle or back of the sound stage, it was an awesome experience and the low price meant they showed up some serious big names in the hifi world. Magazines were harsh to them imo.

Its just a shame they couldn't replicate the quality in their surround sound amp's but I suspect that is more to do with the encoding used then and now. But the return in audiophile quality is not proportional to expenditure above a certain price, its more exponential.
Ironically, if everyone used buses, they would be much easier to keep timely. They would also receive enough funding and political focus to be kept clean and high quality.

But our ruthlessly individual mindset here in the states blocks us from reaching many of these higher level goals.
> It is human nature, I hope, to aim to be better than our nature.

Thank goodness for that!
My double bass, "designed" in the 17th century, gradually evolved over the years, made in Romania in 2010.

Sturmey-Archer AW 3-speed bicycle gear hub. I'm running 2 of them, both 50+ years old, still going strong. Originally designed in 1948.

Pretty much anything made by Mitutoyo, glorious quality and aesthetics.

"Ideal Stripmaster" wire stripper.
A steam-based Office distribution would be really cool.
If both parties are wearing proper masks then it is 90-95% particle blocking and limiting of viral loads
I bought a new iPhone and it had the 1 year of Apple TV.

I wanted to trial it but was busy. It reminded me 2 months later and I tried it then. Been using it ever since and even bought an appletv because android tv boxes are such junk.

Sometimes being reminded is good.

Sometimes.
> there wouldn’t be a heck of a lot of chance for the virus to attach to a cell.

but there isn't just a single shape that could be used to attach to a cell. Another shape could be compatible, but is not targeted by the vaccine of today.

I'm guessing that this makes the virus a different virus - but isn't that what mutations are? they are slowly causing the virus to change and at some point, it becomes a different virus.
At the maximum.
Irreproducible Malloc Benchmarks
San Mateo county (sf Bay Area) is experimenting with that right now. They are also preparing for what fully autonomous public transit might look like. Even if that means having private “autonomous only” roads.

https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/samtrans-ondemand-...
Is that a little dig at Topspeed's/Softvelocity's Clarion? ;-)
I was using the stats from the article for injuries, not deaths. I believe the quotes you provided used deaths intentionally because the probability of dying in a crash is so low. Injuries still matter (in my opinion).
Then you'd still be spending 30 hours a week with coworkers, and it'd still be beneficial to be friends with them (even if just work friends).
> suck it up

Congratulations. Now we can have no new start ups that compete with Amazon, because the regulatory burden is too high.

Also, you can’t make privacy laws that only apply to large corporations. Why should a smaller company get to pass on privacy laws when Amazon doesn’t? That violates 14th amendment of the constitution.
Nothing you wrote contradicts anything I said, because I did not claim Tesla or SpaceX invented anything brand new. I said they built existing inventions into viable products and brought them to market. They were each great ideas whose time had clearly come, and yet, no one was building them.

The examples I picked were historical inventions which were actually built by Trouvé and Bell, not merely conceptualized or patented. And we spent decades whining about GM killing the electric car blah blah, when all we needed was somebody to come along and actually do the heavy lifting.

To me, Elon Musk is the antithesis, rather than fulfillment, of the great man theory of history. In each case, somebody else would have gotten around to it, eventually, because the ideas were ripe. And yet, time and again, it's Musk there at the finish line, not somebody else.

And yeah, hyperloop-style systems have been built. That's the point. I don't think that's an idea worth stealing, but Elon does, and Elon has the $billions and the engineers to push it forward, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In all the years I've used Hetzner I've never observed these random 10 minute latency drops you speak of. They've always had much faster internet access then I've ever been able to get from my home broadband so I'll even SSH into & use them for network intensive dev tasks like iterating on a new Docker container since it's able to download & build the image packages in a fraction of the time.

The primary issue I have with them is latency access to their DE/FI data centers from the US, if their US DC offered dedicated servers I would be migrating to over to use them instead.
You seem to be getting downvoted for no reason. Lot of angry people out there.
JET.jl it's an interesting case indeed. Its being used retroactively in the Julia base code to look for any undesirable dynamic type situations
Music can be uninstalled and replaced with alternatives.

News can be uninstalled.

Apple TV+ can be uninstalled.

The apple card examples shown are minimal. such as adding applecard to a list of choices. the card type list shown often includes additional choices (transit cards).

appstore/arcade. meh. anytime you go into a store, expect to be sold things by someone biased.
ah, you want this, which also exists: https://www.finehomebuilding.com/2013/03/07/hot-water-circul...

the way I do it is just turn the shower on about 30 seconds before I get in, which works the same with half the piping and less energy loss due to circulating hot water (but some water loss)
This is the fourth story in one day on the newest deadliest variant ever.
The 1TB allowance is only for Cloudfront. For general data egress (from ec2, directly from S3), it is just 100GB.
This is a funny parallel to the U.S. oil reserve news recently. The Canadian maple syrup market is a fascinating one. I've read before that maple syrup farmers in Québec legally must sell their maple syrup through a central organization, so maple syrup smuggling by farmers into other provinces isn't unheard of. It's almost like a maple syrup mafia.
I did my undergrad in Economics but I want to transition to software engineering. But idk what stack to choose or what projects to work on. I also can't afford to leave my job to do a bootcamp either. So I'm stuck and it sucks.
None of that is relevant. The virus is now endemic so everyone will eventually be exposed regardless of whether they wear masks in some situations.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646
Is there a maple syrup future or etf one can buy?
Novel mind-body program outperforms other treatments for chronic back pain
> I hear they aren't very good outside the US though, which is a shame.

I hope that this comment won't be interpreted harshly, but their familiarity with mainly American measurements really handicaps them elsewhere. It's not really their fault, but counterintuitively from where I am it's still miles better than other (domestic or international) suppliers for smaller quantities.
Don't forget, this is the same newspaper that mocked Robert Goddard for wanting to go to other planets because "rockets don't work in space."
Show HN: Visualizing bikeshare in the United States
Have you tried using google products lately? Ouch. Annoying.
Useful observations, but is this really a comment on design? The key feature, a robust connection, is just software/firmware quality.
I doubt that you could force all such traffic to be so routed, given that there are coast-to-coast transit networks that would not be affected by a BGP hijack (IGP routes are often preferred to EGP routes). In all likelihood the situation would not last very long as network operators would quickly respond to the anomalous traffic pattern and deploy various route filters to correct the problem.
I don’t have a super fancy smoker. Just one of those barrel
Smokers.

I take an old comforter and wrap the smoker in it once the meat is on. Just serves to somewhat insulate but mostly hold a lot of the smoke. With nothing on it, things on the lower rack would hardly get a good “Smokey” flavor. The blanket makes a surprisingly good addition.
I dislike that the author included the dashed line the Chinese added in with a crayon on the map after the world wars. Kind of detracts from the messaging that it’s not territorial waters.

Edit: I do love the map implementation though, GIS sure has come a long way!
There are boats coming from both sides, Suez and Panama. Each boat comes via the Suez or Panama.
Fun fact this reserve is actually run by Quebec, not the federal government of Canada. Additionally, this is also the reserve that was the victim of the largest hiest in Canadian history [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Hei...
say your application has 120 tables. Do you write out 120 "INSERT" statements, 120 "UPDATE" statements, 120 "DELETE" statements as raw strings or otherwise every time you need to do any DML ? if not, and instead you have something that dynamically writes these out given some kind of object state to persist, you are using an ORM.

similarly, when you transfer the states of structures and/or objects to those INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE statements, or the rows from the cursor execution of a SELECT statement into object/structural state, that is also using an ORM.

I tend to consider "a query builder that writes SELECT statements" to be the least important thing an "ORM" can do, and is not even necessary to still have a library defined as an ORM. The "mapping" is mostly to do with automating the movement of data between the objects / database, which is, the relational tuples mapped to object attributes.
Are you suggesting that one’s immune system becomes stronger after year over year infection? If so, to what end? Every year? Even when I’m 80? When does my system break down. Isolation seems to solve all of these issues and I hate people so isolation is easy.
Not drinking anything for so long will probably make you dehydrated though, leading to other issues.
> This was when soda peaked.

Somehow I never put the international explosion of Coke and Pepsi in this context. The things late-20th century Americans took for granted!
Is that called irony or hypocrisy?
Markdown: Rampant in software doc and elsewhere, but there are no viewers for it. Goddamned stupid.
Oddly enough, my answer would be Secura's french presses. All metal, no seals. Just works...seemingly forever.
That’s partly why I’ve enjoyed working on “b2b” products in my career and have avoided working on “b2c”.

When your customers are using your product as part of their job, your incentive is (often) clear: make them more efficient at their job, which means make your product faster and easier to use. The vendor and the customer are aligned.

In the b2c world your goal is often “engagement”. Get the customer to spend as much time as possible in the app. Get them to use your app more than other apps. In a way you have to make your app less useful (to the customer) to make it more valuable to the vendor.
> The path you suggest would likely lead to the preventable death of many million more people.

people who suggest that we should "let natural immunity work" are implicitly imagining that they themselves are going to be OK, and would rather have their freedom and activities restored at the cost of lives. Other people dying is "a sacrifice i'm willing to make".
I'm seeing this belief more and more among engineers these days. It's not even an admission of ignorance, but an explicit position they hold. "You don't need to know the chemical composition of the patty to flip burgers," one told me. All I was doing was trying to explain that he could be way more than a burger flipper if he learned more deeply.
This works for me too. Especially because I have no discipline to get up but staying awake against tiredness is almost natural to me.
The Malayalam word for “talk” is “samsaram”.
I haven’t updated past iOS 12 so maybe things are different now, but at least there—while you can technically uninstall music, iOS will routinely ask if I want to restore it when e.g. someone airdrops me an mp3 file. And of course, I can’t change the default app.