skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn’t really go twice a day, what I meant was that a teenager can drink a gallon of milk, eat five square meals, every day and still be thin as a rail.

Given all the other food being bought we didn’t really have to have milk delivered, but milk the doorstep seemed to result in less junk food consumption.

As an empty nester I drink less than half a gallon a week.
> Speak no useless words or words that move to laughter.

I'm extremely biased coming from a family with a long tradition of atheism and even anticlerical "militantism".
Gitlab Automates Engineering Management
Unifying Conjectures on Complexity and Noncomputability [pdf]
And there's a difference between something like a forum that moderates versus what Facebook's algorithm is doing -- one is reactive to its users (and generally reacting based on what other users believe is inappropriate conduct), while the algorithm is proactive in pushing content to users.
You got this mostly right. A few notes.

A. Cable physically consists of:

Either 0 or 4 high speed lanes. Never 2.

Otherwise correct.

B. I do not use USB protocol numbers for they are confusing. I use USB data speed. 480mbps is over the USB 2.0 wires, 5/10/rarely 20 is over the high speed lanes. The only negotiation USB requires is the decision of who becomes upstream (host) and who the downstream (device).

> Laptops with one ThunderBolt port typically support DisplayPort 1.2 bandwidth on the bus, laptops with two ThunderBolt ports support two DisplayPort 1.2 bandwidth.

Or two DisplayPort 1.4 bandwidth, depending on the TB3 controller.

Data hub is passive in the sense of not containing any protocol converters. It still needs a USB C controller to negotiate DisplayPort alt mode.
Absolutely. And the non-standard handling of NULl and defaults. I think they might have fixed this, but for the first 15 years I interacted with MySQL, I never knew when a field would default to an empty string or a NULL.
This has long confused me about energy companies. You're big in coal, or gas, or whatever, and see green energy as a competitive threat. Why not take some of those massive profits and treat it as lengthy and luxurious runway to leapfrog into those new markets instead? There's a defeatism there that I wouldn't have anticipated based on how confident and aggressive those companies have historically been.
MoTD and have fun all you want for people who should have access.
That link about beef explains what, exactly?
Wow they're so bad! OK I'll eat it on this one, I'm out of date. But like, there are lots of safer investments that get you > 2%.
I don't really see the problem with this. Yes, it was somewhat cringey but other than that... what was he supposed to do, call them all individually?
I have a few qualms with this comment:

1. For a person who just lost their job, you can already search for such an opportunity yourself quite trivially by getting a resume, editing it locally with notepad, and then using email to send it. From Windows or Mac, this resume could be accessed through built-in software.

2. It doesn't actually replace a new job prospect. Most people I know choose to promote their startups themselves or promote them somewhere online to be able to gather users, but they still carry pre-formatted advertisement in case there are opportunities. This does not solve the employment issue.

3. It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?
That is true, but SQLite doesn't support functional indexing. This means that you cannot do

CREATE INDEX idx_t_bar ON t(json_extract(data, '$.bar'));

for fast lookups. But you can do

CREATE INDEX idx_t_bar ON t(data->'bar');

in PostgreSQL. You have some workarounds like I explained.[1]

Also PostgreSQL has many operators[2] which makes using JSON fields easier.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29461926

[2] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/functions-json.html
If you read the original waterfall methodology descriptions, even waterfall isn’t supposed to be what waterfall turns into in organizations.
By and large, hosting isn’t the issue whether text, audio, images, or video. Yes, video is more intensive than the others but hosting taken by itself is a solved problem. While podcast directories are centralized the hosting is pretty distributed. Not so easy is finding things and the fact that some level of moderation is probably needed somewhere in the system. And you’ll have to pay.
This is confusing. By my read (IANAL, but had to implement GDPR for a startup), under the GDPR selling location data like this is obviously illegal; why bother to gesture at GDPR compliance by listing all of the companies that you're illegally selling data to? Maybe this list is very out of data, but even at the time this should have raised a big flag. ("Datenschutzrichtlinie" seems to be "data protection guideline"? You need to say what the subprocessor is doing with your data, this is not sufficient explanation, unless this actually translates to something meaningful.)

> 5)1): Personal data shall be: ... a) collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes;

This is exactly the sort of thing that GDPR was designed to prohibit. You simply cannot use data for a hidden purpose that isn't core to your product. Simply saying "we also sell your Personal Data" in the EULA is not compliant with GDPR. You have to clearly ask customers to opt in to non-essential processing.

I suspect that this processing is just for US customers - as far as I can tell, data brokers like SafeGraph are fundamentally not compatible with the GDPR, since approximately nobody would knowingly opt in to giving away their data to these companies.

(Anyone in the industry know more about how the EU data broker industry has evolved in the last few years? It's been a little while since I have been directly in contact with the EU regulatory system.)
The consequences for the perps are basically nil, it's apparently a land use violation as far as CA is concerned. Literally a county code enforcement/permitting office problem of agriculture in a non-agriculture zone. At least until they find illegal weapons or evidence of other crimes.

There's been rumblings of changing the laws to increase the penalties, but I haven't followed the issue closely. The large grows are problematic for the region's water security/quality, since the region is dependent on finite groundwater aquifers full of ancient water that isn't being recharged anywhere near the rate of consumption AIUI. There are reasons it's not zoned for agriculture.
Thanks, glad you like it :) With the name, I was just thinking more in terms of "modernized"... as in, something more modern than the current Wikipedia design... but I get your point! I'll have a think about it.
Wait, you're not supposed to break up over text? Since when?!?!?!
The CEO doesn't really pass the "fit and proper person" test does He
I'm not sure what Life360 does but if it's primarily family tracking, I recommend using a private HomeAssistant instance which has the same functionality plus lets you do all kinds of automation based on people's location.
The design is interesting, but I can't help wonder why the design insists on keeping a specific page width instead of using the whole browser window. Even worse, for really wide pages, it just shows a column in the middle.
Top has a few easter eggs that have persisted. Check out top(1) section 7: STUPID TRICKS Sampler. Several issues have been filed like https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/procps/+bug/446002 but I am happy to see relics like how to enter "the super bounce zone" remaining in nearly every distro containing top.
Advertising is what pays for the hosting. Good luck with your ad-free, free video hosting service.
I don't know anything about the case or the current attitude of the blind neo-Nazi. Depending on the later, it could be very beneficial to see how someone could get sucked into a such mental state. Hearing how such a thing happends might be beneficial for those who are just starting that slide into exremism.

Even if the neo-nazi is still dyed in the wool, I certainly don't think that being curious about that person's perspective justifies being doxed.
I installed rust implementations and they’re all just much faster
The British, EU, and US can get away with extorting FB/MS/Apple every few years because the loss of those markets would be greater than the extortion they're asking for (in the form of regulations).

It's laughable that the small market Burmese think they can pull this garbage. Facebook doesn't need Myanmar and the Burmese government would best prepare for a second insurrection if they think their people would be okay with Facebook pulling out from Myanmar.
I think it's fine to report on the claims in a lawsuit once an initial hearing has taken place. If a judge reviews the claims and believes them to be reliable enough for the case to proceed, then it's enough to report as long as it's made clear that the claims are from a lawsuit that hasn't been fully tested in court.
glad you liked it!

the site is just a concept

the chatbot service is being rebranded, you can visit https://dialogflow.cloud.ushakov.co

you can check my previous home page: https://mish.co

it looks good, but absolutely ineffective in making sales and generate blog reads

way to over-engineered for what i need it to be: i don't need categories, i don't need search, i don't need contact form, i don't need pages

i built it because technically, but again, 0 engagement, so, shrink that to the minimum
I wouldn’t read the article as a polemic against all Easter eggs, just not in critical lower level infra where reliability and security are paramount. So Easter eggs in my music player - sure. In my pacemaker - not so much.
I think news media outlets usually have to throw an "allegedly" in there somewhere. This is a direct link to the lawsuit though. The title was chosen by a user, presumably a private individual.
How effective can such a thing be? Aren't they using the Meta keyword on all of their products now? As well as the fact it was likely all over the news, globally.
No. Linux will transition to Windows.
My one firmly held view about reporting on lawsuits is that it should be stigmatized to publish an article that doesn't also publish the docket number.

It's just cruel and shortsighted for the reporter to have the complaint right in front of them and not (1) publish the docket number and venue so readers can look up the current state of the case themselves; maybe also (2) publish the PDF.
Why should we send American kids to die in Burma? To look tough? To redeem the “western world”? What happens after? Are we really liberating Burma for its own purpose, or just establishing American military bases in close proximity to China?

It’s these kinds of neo-colonialist urges that got us into the messes in Afghanistan and Iraq. We (the US in particular but also NATO as a whole) need to stop running around the world pretending we know the solution to everyone’s problems. Sometimes you have to let the local populations work it out themselves, and accept that China is a more natural ally for many countries in SE Asia.
While true, I suspect this may not reliably qualify as a compelling argument for someone disposed to raise prima facie concerns about the same code of ethics because it makes open reference to deity.

Then again, I suppose an argument from behavior may also be less likely to convince an interlocutor more inclined to concern with what someone else believes than with how they actually behave. So it goes.
> After the first 10 minutes everyone will know what their meeting is about and it makes the problem worse.

Huh? It’s not a surprise birthday party. I’m not sure why a key goal would be that each fired person is taken completely by surprise.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29348328

Funny, everyone likes the autoplaying GIFs in this other context, but they hate it here.
Usually people still need to do something in the period before they are actually laid off. With these kind of calls it's scorched earth from there onward and I would question everything everyone does which is counterproductive.
Sure! Here:

Easter eggs are a sin like throwing a candy wrapper into a landfill is a sin.

Isolation failure is a sin like drunk driving is a sin.
I think making that sort of thing illegal raises a lot of thorny free speech and press freedom issues; a related and perhaps more approachable question might be: should it be considered journalistically unethical to produce such a headline?
No one is stopping you from having "fun" with your free tool, it's just that if you do many/most people will not want to use your tool no matter how free it is.
9 percent of your workforce isn't going to work 2 hours a day, man. Almost nobody can handle being that much of a lazy, sleazy piece of crap. What probably happened is that the idiot CEO decided to check productivity via some BS metric, then discard all the time his employees had to spend on anything else

I've been on the receiving end of that before, it's infuriating.
Not uncommon in these circumstances? Everyone gets an all-hands invite, some people get room A, some get room B. Then the only uncertainty prior is which side is which.
Rg3d (Rust game engine) live development session
Is it much better that they just credit them in some obscure notes nobody reads?
This really isn't having the prime corner spot downtown. This is kind of like being the landlord of every corner spot in every downtown.

To me it seems like this amount of commerce concentration can exaggerate existing economic disparities.

Anyway, I hope you're right and it works out well for everyone!
Way more money to be made -> more developers get hired -> more features get shipped.

Also, faster dev machines & better tooling make iteration faster.

There's also a cultural shift from shipping mega features into small incremental changes which is good for developers (less merge conflicts) and QA (incremental limited testing)
This was horrendous optics, basically asking to get shared virally and draw more attention to the bad situation the company is in. The CEO made it about himself / the company, that's all people are going to get from Google searches for a time to come. Managers could give them the news en masse as efficiently and infinitely more humanely.
I used to use Trello a lot... Now I'm sad and without my favorite task manager.
It’s (sadly) possible to detect curl|bash, and use it for malicious purposes: https://web.archive.org/web/20180124002447/https://www.idont... (original URL is giving an HSTS error)
It strikes me as impossible that no one realized that projects needed to adjust to unforseen events before a bunch of consultants decided to write a manifesto while skiing in Aspen.
i mean, technically true?
> The US nuclear test done in Mississippi resulted in vaporizing the rock and soil and creating a large underground void, for whatever that's worth as a sort of proof of concept.

Where did the vaporized rock and soil go?
The headline didn't mention facebook, did it?
Besides the core aspect of your comment, you are aware that this entire subthread is about:

* GNU Coreutils: GPL licensed

* uutils: MIT licensed

right?

The MIT license is not only an Open Source license, but it's even a Free Software license according to the FSF itself.

So this is nitpicking of the 100th degree at this point.
Getting to reasonably solid active/passive failover for relatively simple uses is substantially easier to learn from zero for mysql.

And I say this as somebody who defaults to postgres or sqlite over mysql where possible these days just because I expect it to be less of a headache down the road.
> Imagine all managers scheduling meetings with their reports to tell them, then the managers themselves are probably being let go…

Yeah, I imagined all of this and it seemed like exactly what a competent company would do.
Will there be actual personal responsibility for management and engineers involved?
No, it could not. The controlling expression of any kind of conditional statement in C can be an integer. The return type of a function which returns boolean, though, should be boolean.

The strict requirement in the standard is just a 'scalar type': every conditional expression in C, even `if (true)`, technically evaluates on unequal comparison to zero. See section 6.8.4.1 "The if statement" of the standard:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2310.pdf

This applies to ternary operators, if statements, do/while loops, for loop termination conditions, etc.

However, when defining a function that returns boolean, you've asked the compiler to make your program more strict than just returning an integer that's zero or nonzero, you're not allowed to return anything but 'true' or 'false' - no, you're not allowed to pack in error codes after the fact!
Leave it to HN to argue that having a shitty mass layoff through Zoom is better than having a 1 to 1
Interesting. I have the Adobe Suite, Ableton, a zillion audio plug-ins, ProTools, and the Unreal editor, not to mention DropBox, Outlook, Teams, Slack, Bear, excel … This is just from memory without looking at my apps folder.

Even for IDE I have XCode, Webstorm, Sublime …

In general, native apps are still far superior for most tasks I do.
Sure, but that's kind of tangential isn't it? You can just churn through tickets thoughtlessly in both methods, no?
This argument works the other way too: if you don't want people to rely on and demand support for your code add in a bunch of easter eggs. The more random the triggers, the better.

Random people on the internet can use your code fine, but big corporations run into issues because they need boring software. I think that's neat.
Fully agree with this despite a much shorter career. Waterfalling a young project still in its exploratory phase leads to wasted work. Forcing agile onto a very mature project leads to tech debt and shoddy work.

A big part of the problem is when people have been indoctrinated into one of the various denominations of the Agile cult and try to force it upon every organization, product, project, or team they encounter. And of course it goes without being said that almost nobody follows “real agile” since in most companies it’s just a way for management to micromanage and randomize the tasks of individual engineers so middle management can look at pretty burn down charts.
Since you asked for advice, here's some that's free... Maybe partner with people who are good at what you are not?

On a more constructive note—and I mean this in the best way possible, speaking from experience, not just being a critic for the sake of criticizing—maybe reflect on whether you're "getting distracted" because you're really avoiding the discomfort of not doing marketing because at a more general level you have a tendency to stay in your comfort zone. So work on breaking that habit instead. I know I'm guilty of the very same thing.
Tortuously Topological Toroidal Transformations (a.k.a. Donut Math)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29437642

Copying my comment from there:

C suites tend to want to personalize messages by adding context to how they feel, but in cases of such severely negative news it's always going to come off badly. "Firing people hurts my feelings" is a moot point unless you've slashed your and the rest of leadership's paychecks.

I'm mixed on the method of putting a bunch of people in a meeting and the CEO telling them directly they're being laid off. In some ways, I think it's much better than slowly pulling employees in and letting them know 1:1. In those cases, word about the layoffs travel much quicker than the layoffs, and people will spend all day with dread about whether they are laid off or not.
I bet this dude talks a lot about alpha wolves too
I'm genuinely wondering what the motivation is of a company like BuzzFeed to go public. As far as I understand, going public is often done to raise capital to do expensive things you wouldn't otherwise be able to afford like R&D, innovation, infrastructure, etc. I can't see how that's necessary for a "newsroom" kind of operation that doesn't have or produce much tangible.
The state of the art of modular blockchain architectures
I had the same. All the opticians I was visiting were giving me prescriptions so I could see while driving (which I didn't realise). I went to an eye hospital with more sensitive equipment as I thought something was wrong with my eyes. They said no problems, I just needed a weaker prescription for computer use - they gave me one that was 0.5 dipole less. It might not sound like much, but made a big difference. I think that ordinarily your eyes would be able to adapt (and mine probably did when I was younger), but as I'm getting older my eyes don't adjust as easily as before.
all of it's claims are true?

Did HIlary Clinton not fund it?

No left or right bias here ... only objectivity! Hbu?
According to the current privacy policy[1] they are Cubiq[2] and Cubiq's trusted partners[3], and then if you are in the UK/EEA then they have (interestingly) images that list who they share with right at the bottom - not searchable text ...

[1] https://support.life360.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043228154
[2] https://www.cuebiq.com/privacypolicy/
[3] https://www.cuebiq.com/trusted-partners/

Edit: https://support.life360.com/hc/article_attachments/150000049... is the one about precise location data
Assuming you care PM1.0/PM2.5 (which are what are truly harmful), and want R^2 >0.9:

Atmotube pro
Elitech (for PM2.5)
Purpleair

The field evaluations have good expositions of the underlying data in slide form.
For sure the purpleair is the best bet that i can see.
Note that they are pragmatic as well - if you read field evaluations, AQMD folks generally think >0.8 R^2 is very good. Which probably makes sense comparing a $50-$250 device to a several thousand dollar reference instrument.

Note that one serious issue is that a bunch of the sensors aren't just uncorrelated, they are often dramatically undercounting. It would be one thing if they were dramatically overcounting, and told you air was horrible when it wasn't.
But they are actually telling you air is fine when it isn't even close to fine.

I actually went down the same path as OP about 6 months ago. I have used a dylos meter in my old woodshop, and was building a new one, and wanted to see what the the best thing to do was.
After a bunch of looking, i found these folks.
I am not aware of others doing this breadth of testing.

(It turn out the dylos meter is either accurate, or overcounts, depending on temperature/humidity. This is actually acceptable since it won't tell me things are good when they are bad, but it also turned out the purpleair was consistently good for the same price :P)
SQLite is one of the most amazing pieces of software I've ever seen. It's reliable, it doesn't add any inconvenience to end users, and it's very easy to use.
Exactly. If someone's in the meeting in genuinely bad faith, 5-whys isn't going to improve their attitude. But it can help re-frame things for folks that just hadn't taken the time to consider other viewpoints.
> To look tough?

Yes, if enemies think you are not tough, you get intimidated, humiliated, and then ultimately attacked.

> To redeem the “western world”?

Yes, to reverse the 20 years of disgrace, and regain the mandate of righteousness. Without righteousness, you can't do anything well as a united Western bloc — a raison d'etre for the entire post-war Western political system.