skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good way to find new pages on a site is to use the site map feed in xml or text format.

Then look for open graph tags in the page for titles descriptions, canonical urls and images.

Most modern websites have all of those these days and they are automatically updates.

Making an RSS feed reader is thus easier and less prone to errors from analyzing the markup of pages.

Neat product though.
abundance of choice is inversely correlated with satisfaction

https://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bschwar1/Sci.Amer.pdf
I hate car view, it would have been great if there was a way to turn it off by default. Getting rid of it is a wonderful idea
We're all exposed to traffic accidents. So we take precautions with road infrastructure (eg traffic lights, zebra crossings etc).

Going from being exposed occasionally to being exposed less often than that is a good thing! Same as crossing a road being exposed to being hit by a vehicle. You don't have to "just accept it". Minimising risk given acceptable levels of cost of doing so is a good thing! Think of better ventilation like fitting pedistrian crossing lights in dangerous intersections. It's not going to eradicate all traffic, obviously.
I believe there are real estate ETFs that can easily be shorted. Many of the more complex contracts and instruments still exist, there are just more limitations on how banks can invest in them.
Projects get reassigned over time regardless.

It's not as if this is some strict 1:1 relationship, we obviously had more than 1 person with knowledge of / working on a codebase.

It would have been an issue if 2-3 working on the same thing left simultaneously, but for more reasons than just on-call.
Unreal slackers has a good c++ channel. The others, I got invited to through good luck as I got to know people.

Some of the less hardcore channels still have smart, interesting, skilled, and hard working people in them btw, I met a lot of really cool people in them.
I'm no historian, but that explanation doesn't make sense to me, for two reasons:

* Pre-decimal numeral systems in use at that time (Roman/Greek/whatever numerals) were already written biggest-left to smallest-right, and had been so for more than a thousand years.
* Arabic numerals were invented in India, and Indian languages are written left-to-right.
Hah, such a sleuth :)

Though I was actually thinking of SketchUp when writing that. VS Code does not provide always-visible labels for icons (tooltip only), though it’s something we’ve discussed and I’m in favor of. I believe Teams recently adopted them.
I mean, two nines is 3 and a half days of downtime. That's not hard to get as long as I don't make a habit of breaking shit in ways that take a long time to find out, the hardware is decent and I don't disappear for days very often. I'd add that the network should be decent too, but if it's not, my stuff should be fine.

A competent person can dig around and fix most anything good enough in three days and that leaves you 12+ hours for other outages.

Three nines is almost 9 hours a year, but planes almost universally have wifi now, even if it's not great. If you have a bad year, with two big incidents when you're on a plane, you might not make your goal.

At four nines, it's about an hour. Good luck with that one. You're kind of screwed either way. Someone with intimitate knowledge of the system can probably handle an incident or three in time, but it's an enormous amount of work to get people up to speed for that and you can't have very many live training sessions because you don't have the outage budget. At the same time, if you page me and I'm at the cinema, I'm not going to fix it in time.

But, the biggest thing is working to make failure as graceful as possible. As much as possible, each component should be able to fail individually, without affecting the rest of the system. And, when there is an outage of a critical dependency, you need a way to push that outage status upstream and a method to manage load when it comes back up. (Those knobs should be stable and can certainly be documented for others).
Thanks for the disclosure!
I'm an academic, on the humanities/social sciences side of things, and I have the impression that a fair proportion of my colleagues are power users as you define it. They don’t do programming per se, but they customize their software, write macros for their own use, and may occasionally venture into the command line. I fall into that category myself. I don’t know any who are smartphone tap-only users.

My colleagues in the sciences are, not surprisingly, even more computer savvy, though I don't know how many do actual programming.

Five years ago, there was a literature professor in my department who didn't even use a computer and had to be contacted by telephone, fax, or—gasp—a handwritten note slipped under his office door, but he has since retired.
My cadet trainee became a 71 pilot. That thing is a work of scientific art.

Here’s another fun flyby story: http://www.usafa68.org/History/ch5.htm
Preventing exposure is impossible over the long term. Fortunately the vaccines and other treatments can prevent most deaths.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646
Just downloaded it, it looks pretty great.

Just one small feedback (for Android client): currently it for some reason makes the virtual button bar at the bottom (assuming the user enables it, like me) transparent, which makes it very hard to see: https://imgur.com/a/a8KTw5f (the second screenshot shows what it looks like in a typical app).
> the one thing that basic economics suggests would actually work

More houses attract more people which increases housing cost.
The only reason to want your immune system to be stronger is to not get sick, right? I certainly wouldn’t choose to get sick once a month in order to have a super mega strong immune system, for example. The desired end goal is to get sick less often!

In certain cases it may be that getting a mild infection does help prevent later more serious infections, but AFAIK those cases are generally getting infected as an infant or child. I’m not aware of evidence showing that current widespread vaccines for adults have this effect of trading mild illness now for more serious illness later.
On my Spotify app on iOS I can go to settings and then car and turn it off.
yeah. not easy.

33 strokes per minute. set to 10 resistance on concept2. proper form. go for 30 minutes.

I'm unconvinced this is an easy thing for an unfit individual. I'm fairly sure an unfit individual would only be capable of 2 minutes... at best.
It's an island(s) with it's borders closed isn't it?
So let me ask you: with such well-ventilated facilities, what is the marginal benefit of masking? And is this benefit worth the difficult-to-quantify but very real cost of students being unable to see the faces of their classmates?
> The question is whether it's abusive or not

The question on whether it's abusive or not very obviously depends on the details. Yes, lol, I am actually willing to accept $250k per year, unlimited time off that I use upwards of 6 weeks per year of, full benefits, working from home, in the event my boss needs to call me once a year on a Saturday.

Sweeping generalizations are not helpful, and will likely hold you back in your career. You should evaluate things on their own merits.
It's definitely been awhile since I have used a "phpBB" forum. Glad it's still being maintained
I do like the simplicity of completely random, but my first instinct was definitely to want some sliders or toggles. Personally prefer desktops to be extremely dark, and many of them were nice, but way too bright on a section. User control would definitely end up with a different experience, and totally respect the simplicity.

Might end up tweaking it to my tastes and a few other resolutions, like for my ultra wide.
Sure, skip the mask at the beach. We've known outdoors is likely quite safe due to ventilation for a long time now.

The Bangladesh study is likely informative in busy grocery stores, retail, offices, schools, etc.; certainly more than just "inside small huts".
Lol hadn't seen that parody XD

"in mere hours we'd be out of the sector" rofl
Serious apps should come with event logs and command lines, period.
Can NLP of Tweets Predict the Outcome of an NFL Game? (Round 1)
Yep, that's how I got it.
I own two fully spec’d M1 Max MacBook Pros (8TB SSD). I find it hard to believe that anyone is getting 8GB/s read or writes to disk. Both of mine consistently write at a maximum of ~7.3GB/s and read at a maximum of ~5.7GB/s.

The M1 Max is a monster, and either of mine easily outperforms any other computer I have ever used, but I don’t think it’s capable of 8GB/s reads or writes to disk.
The Linotype and the Typesetting Race
Overdue library book returned more than 110 years later
Software engineering is better understood and commoditized. The dangers of poor no-code solutions is also now well recognized. If you have the budget for an in-house IT team, then having custom glue software is perfectly viable. Or you can pay for Airtable/Zapier or RPA tools. Ad-hoc solutions provided by the OS to automate desktop software just doesn't make sense in a world dominated by cloud services with APIs readily available and cross-platform desktop GUIs that don't follow platform conventions. For niche software like CAD and EDA, vendor lock-in and deplatforming certainly should be bigger concerns for users but there simply are not enough suppliers. It is difficult for small players to break the inertia of vendors that predate the modern internet and who had established customer relationships before the SaaS model was even a glimmer in
the Salesforce founder's eye.
Two doses of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) are 90% effective or more against polio; three doses are 99% to 100% effective.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/hcp/effectiveness-dur...
You're not thinking things through. You might be able to delay exposure for a while but you won't be able to prevent it forever.
Run everything inside a VM. Next level would be develop in live USB, qubes OS or bare metal for every project (screw general purpose computer)

At the router level you can block Tor, block VPS IP ranges etc. You can also block the entire internet and only allow ips from your browser history

Besides sandboxing you can run a firewall, I tested with some reverse shells and it does stop them. Of course a red team can do more bad stuff
Hi Fly lands first ever Airbus A340 in Antarctica
Microsoft Word is powerful enough to do anything you want it to… so long as it stays on one computer, and you don't reconfigure your fonts, or your monitor, or change Word version. Hence the PDF export, I presume.
Things are currently wrapped in a financial model of sorts. You pay for network resources, the provider does too. They pay for hosting costs and decide whether or not to pass those through. I, for instance, publish everything for free, with an open content license. Wikipedia does as well. We're happy to pay the hosting costs to make our content accessible. The web archive handles long-term archiving, in case we stop hosting.

In this new "everything is wrapped in crypto" model, nothing is free. You still have to pay for the network and hosting costs, but now you also need to pay middlemen to access the content, even if the author wishes to provide their content for free.

Also, everything becomes more brittle. Since content isn't centralized, it can (and will) disappear when folks stop hosting it. They can be incentivized to host content by being paid to do so, but that really means it makes the most sense to host the most popular content, and to ditch everything else.

The whole concept, technically, is worse than the system we currently have. If you want to see numerous reasons why this is a bad idea, look through Wikimedia's various email lists to see this idea being shot down over and over again for nearly 20 years. It's simply an inferior approach to the problem.
Common sense would have also dictacted we were more prepared - after a warning pandemic less than 10 yrs ago - we were not. The idea of a pandemic is so cliche that Hollywood has made multiple bad movies about one. But we weren't prepared (e.g., masks and PPE)?

Common sense (in the USA) would have dictated the extended care facilities were better protected early on, yet they were not.

There have been so many gaffes and bumbles that it consistently boils down to: it's either negligence or it's intentional. Neither is a good answer.
Man, those people are awful aren't they? Telling people about nice places and nice things. It's supposed to be for the special people, like us. Idiots, blabbing about our stuff, ruining it.
Thanks for working on this! It just works!
InfluxDB: Upgrading to V2 while still using V1
Same thing is happening in Asia. I know a few local towns, one in particular where some foreign guy now has his Japanese real estate license and access to a bunch of foreign investors looking for places.

It's becoming an unmitigated disaster. The population of the town is somewhat severely aged; However, rather than that being an opportunity for young people to get a start, this property snake steps in an steals everything at a higher price than the locals could afford and makes up a bunch of stories of why he should have it. He pays people for information so we can get the jump on places.

It's really quite stressful, it seems there is nothing that can stop the guy.

A second similar property snake has arrived too, with a similar back story, access to huge pool of money from China/Hong Kong/Maylasia.

We moved here recently because we wanted to live in a community, but it's getting pretty hammered now, we wil hang on for the time being and try find a place, not ready to give up yet.
> CONSUMER REPORTS tested 126 herbs and spices from 38 brands for arsenic, cadmium, and lead. (We did not test spices that tend to be used in baking, such as cinnamon and nutmeg.) We tested two or three samples from different lots of each product.

This testing is frustratingly sparse, couldn't they find garlic powder in Trader Joe's? They're missing many brands for many of these spices. And I don't think you can bake heavy metals out of food, so why did they omit cinnamon?

What is a concerned consumer like myself supposed to do now? Eat food without spices? Buy test kits and test spices myself? I guess I could write a letter to my congresspeople to tell the FDA to do their goddamn jobs, but I don't expect that to work.
>I personally know wealthy, educated, analytical people who have bought into the fearmongering and propaganda

Same, including medical professionals who fit this description.

It's clearly an emotional and tribal issue at this point. The animating factor of nearly all of this denialism is a narrative of distrust and outright animus for the "establishment" and the organizations that represent it.
> I moved from being tech co-founder of a startup (where everything is my responsibility and it's all on me to fix it) to this

likely because the startup you co-founded would benefit hugely if you worked to fix stuff, which means you personally would benefit since you're a co-founder. In an employee relationship, this benefit doesn't flow on to the employee, and thus everyone is incentivized to do the least possible that they can get away with.

It doesn't gel with your personality, and that is why it's doing your head in.
> If the market could build its way out of this, it already would have.

Indeed, if it was legal to build it would have been done already.
When the extra choices are useless, and the few choices are genuinely the best ones, sure. That's not what we're seeing.
My grandpa was an engineer who used AutoLISP a lot to automate away a ton of work they were having to do back in the 80s and early 90s, his coworkers loved him because he got menial things done easier for everyone. I could only imagine tasks like what they were doing involving complex fluid mechanics to be something you'd have to have a programming environment to get at.
Us old-timers may remember a PC one called PCROBOTS sent to UK to participate in tournaments in the early 1990s (30 years ago!)

http://www.pscs.co.uk/pcrobots/index.php
https://programminggames.org/PCRobots
I think the whole point of the article and the discussion is that many people don’t want to do it even when paid enough.

Nobody on any of the threads is arguing that you should not be paid more for being on call.
How do you indicate to users that they can right-click on a computer mouse? You don't; they just know it. If they don't, their friends and family will teach them.
French salaries for senior developers are less than entry level developers in the US.

I have bootcamp students with 6 months of software development experience making more than top developers in France, lol. The few extra Euros you get for being on call hardly seems worth it.

There's a reason French workers are almost always rioting. Low pay and very few opportunities.
You can limit the level and frequency of exposure via things like ventilation, and we're pretty sure viral load matters for how sick you get.
Does anyone know about an equivalent extension for Firefox / Chrome?
Eh, it’s still ownership. If they wanna stop offering me updates they need to release Farm Simulator 2022, but Farm Simulator 2021 will keep working indefinitely. Steam let’s you play the vast majority of your library offline (99%+ of single player games).
Future people: “You mean they just dumped their used air and everybody else had to breathe it in?”
I would not trust the present day to create a viable constitution. It would likely be dominated by whatever party is in charge to perpetuate their specific platform rather than to establish principle based rules.

The original constitution is really kind of amazing at how well it’s functioned. It has flaws, obviously, but seems really effective.
The most recent study that I’ve seen showed a 71% reduction in infection rates for unvaccinated people living with vaccinated people. That suggests a pretty strong transmissibility effect.
Sartre's productivity was fuelled by regular injections of amphetames into his thigh, i heard from a French philosopher who knew him.
The Delta variant is so contagious that there will be no significant herd immunity effect.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...
> The UI isn't built on a framework that might fall in popularity. So not React or Angular or Vue or whatever.

So what exactly has better long term popularity than React/Vue/Angular? We're at about 5+ years of those being the big three...
> allows your immune system to adapt and become more stronger

This is precisely what vaccines do, without the "falling sick" part first.
I'm replying to the post saying this is an "industry standard" thing--I'm not saying that there is no disaster scenario ever. Obviously not every contingency can be planned.

However, there are certainly signals that a company respects a developers' time. Things like...was there effort put in the product around things that might minimize developer on-call time, like having more user self-serve options, or spending more time on testing, or having a proper feedback loop for recurring issues to be permanently squashes in a timely fashion, etc etc. Are managers regularly a part of these off-hour on-call issues so they're affected too, thus motivated to resolve it? Or does the company just abusively unload all of the burden on the developer and force them to use up their own personal time to maintain a product? Far too often it's the latter, and I think it should be clear to all that this is abusive practice and not "normal" or "standard" nor should any of us consider it that way.
"None of the ones I've visited seem at all dense. (Been to Vail, Beaver Creek, Park City, and all over Tahoe.)"

Would you want that ?

When you visited these places, did you wish they had more, and larger, buildings ?

Visiting or living in a "ski town" is, ipso facto, an aesthetic choice that one makes. It is not imposed on anyone nor is it a right to be conferred.

I am open minded to the idea that some people prefer a never-ending monoculture of marginally dense just-barely-sub-urban living areas. I hate this idea, however, and I hope you will look elsewhere to pursue it.
Why wouldn't we want to maximize mitigation? Especially something so simple and eady to do?

It seems we put ALL our "money" on a vax and that isn't panning out well. So now we have lost time, nudged behavior in conflicting directions, and so on. We just keep doubling down on a mindset that is clearly flawed.
Thanks for the feedback. I will add a setting which disables the bottom nav controls being transparent.
As the author well notes, a Constitutional Convention, unchecked and unregulated, could be means for disaster. We take for granted our Bill of Rights, on the daily. That said, luckily there's an entire process to follow to introduce and put into law any legislation.

I was myself unaware of Article V. The speed at which the internet went from STOP SOPA to DEPLATFORM AND CENSOR EVERYTHING startles me, and if that is any model, a Constitutional Convention would likely repeal every last semblance of freedom, and the ability to defend it, that we have.

Thanks for sharing this post.
There are lots of them around. I have seen SR-71's and A-12's in at least 6 different museums.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird#Accid...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_A-12#Fate_of_the_A-12...
We could also stop printing trillions of dollars that inevitably end up seeking yield anywhere they can.
It’s not like you can see the viral particles jumping over in that exact moment. I’m sure there is more to the story, but let’s not try and claim that this is incontrovertible scientific proof that infection happens “in seconds”.
A surgeon friend of mine gets $1000 per day that he's not working but on-call.
Show HN: UXWizz – Self-hosted analytics platform
Any of his videos. He is captivating to watch
You realize this isn't just a 200K programmer problem ? People getting paid 60K to do IT support (or other support for various operations systems) also get roped into the same exact on-call duty. (Often this not advertised either...) It's growing problem from penny pinching tech companies that want to tout 24/7 support without paying for 24/7 support.
What ‘Succession’ Gets That AOC Doesn’t
The Ones Who Take the Train to Omelas
"Sit on gigantic piles of gold and cash from dead Jews and Nazis, then become the bank of choice for arms dealers and dictators, then a place for the world's wealthy to hide their riches from the tax man" is the path the Swiss chose.
A good article on how to build good Command Palettes: https://blog.superhuman.com/how-to-build-a-remarkable-comman...
This problem highlights one advantage of having a distributed remote team. In principle, there may not need be a midnight shift.
What are your 500m splits?

> One of the best "time savers" for cardio is HIIT, and you just can't do that rowing

Of course you can, something is wrong here, although it might be difficult to diagnose over the internet. "max hardness" might be a clue - you probably shouldn't be setting the resistance to maximum and maximum resistance does not imply more intense workout.
No. Reef sharks have been observed resting on the sea floor, pumping water over their gills periodically by opening and closing their mouths.