skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can only take so many precautions when tornadoes are in the neighborhood, because although the devastation where one touches down is severe, the area is limited and the path is unpredictable.

One of those precautions is to not make your employees come in to work.
> earn some reasonable money and make lifes of some people better.

This requires delivering a high-impact product.
Amazon fined $1.28B by Antitrust Regulators for abusing market dominance
> One thing that works great for me at home is, compromising on a temperature with my partner such that we're both physically comfortable throughout the day.

Finding an intersection of two preferences is much easier than finding one with 30+ preferences. Me and my wife are extreme opposites but manage to keep the house comfortable for both of us thanks to having our own offices. If we had to share one...

In a lot of circumstances, an office can shuffle people around and modify the HVAC settings to get most people comfortable, but getting everyone comfortable is rare. I think the fundamental point the parent was trying to make is: given that outliers will exist, which end of the spectrum is preferable? There are many more tools to deal with being too cold than there are with being too hot.
>Even the selfish rich people tend to invest their capital, usually into lucrative projects that make money by fulfilling some need of society

That's not how money is made. You need some kind of parasitic mechanism to enable massive accumulations.
Y'all need to lean into the game a bit. Most of the time, things don't win or stay just because they are good. They win because of good marketing, etc.
RSS, the brand, is a loser at this point. It is viewed as old, tired, and obsolete. It doesn't matter if it is the right tech. That's not a state you can grow from.

At this point the right answer (IMHO) is to create a new thing that is very similar, but has a new brand. Market the hell out of it and subsidize the hell out of it.

Trying to prevent the existing brand from dying is a fools errand.
Doesn't methane reforming also create CO2? It's the same chemical reaction at bottom.
Yes, exactly! Globe view doesn't work when you want to show the whole world at once, which is useful for climate visualizations, political maps etc.

Also, many organizations, especially governments and news media, often have their own requirements and conventions when publishing maps — some practical, some purely stylistic. For example, NY Times uses Albers USA for election maps (it has that iconic curved look of state boundaries), and National Geographic uses Winkel Tripel for their world maps.
Neon Genesis Evangelion (2019)
Fed is expected to end of bond buying and signal interest rate hikes coming
https://archive.md/ymJAR
The Unix philosophy doesn't work as well when it's mandatory to enable building a GUI. I specified that we need a good DE because we don't have a good story for integrating all of those things you mentioned within a UI that I consider usable (and GNOME isn't it, and KDE is not quite it either).
There's two issues I see here:

1. The forum and webmail are separate services, linked by a single account. You can lose access to your email by being banned from the forum; this is problematic, but not unique to Vivaldi (you can lose access to your Gmail by being banned from Youtube). I do think this is something that all services with a CoC should work on making granular though.

2. The CoC is incredibly vague. I am broadly in favour of the recent trend of introducing CoCs across projects, they're incredibly important when written well, and they are mostly written well in my experience. This one is not. It seems like it was thrown together very quickly to provide moderators with far too much power and scope, and overreaches to the extreme.
Record and Tuple are actively being worked on: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-record-tuple -- currently Stage 2.
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There are so many examples of such cruelty that we don't need to go looking for it when it's not really there.
Builder here, I read a lot of HN posts about blogging and I took all that feedback and built a site based on everything I've been reading about. I hope you check it out and let me know if you have any questions, Thanks!
Analogue Pocket review: The greatest Game Boy ever made
This shows ignorance more than anything. "people we know don't use RSS, hence no one uses it, hence it's obsolete".
Hydra DNA Reveals There’s More Than One Way to Regrow a Head
Socpk.com: SoC Performance Rankings
Fixing bugs is always good but can we at least acknowledge that iOS is one of the least buggy pieces of consumer software of its complexity?
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Being a remote first company we are open to a number of different arrangements and time commitments.

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> NesedahRik[1], which is based on Etoile's theme

> i'd try my best to fix that icon alignment at the top left corner

I agree there's an alignment issue there, but it's more an issue with the alignment of the menu text than with the icon. The icon looks reasonably centered (vertically) in the menu bar, it's the menu text that's placed too low.

> and add some space between it and the menu text

I believe the icon and the word "Terminal" together make up the first menu item, and thus the tight spacing is intentional, rather than a visual design glitch.

[1] https://github.com/gnustep/plugins-themes-nesedahrik
Yes, but even if they brick your email, your local browser profile or its data export so you can move elsewhere won't be affected.
San Francisco parklets an insulting display of government incompetence
I find it hard to read some textbooks, especially older ones. If I'm missing a core concept or key piece of background, it's difficult or impossible to even know what the gaps are that need to be filled in my knowledge, and the book assumes prior knowledge.
I mean, yeah, I wasn't in the room when the Space Shuttle was built. I don't know the "surprising level of detail" involved. I guess it's a round-about way of saying, "I'd like to know what those details were to understand why having to desolder burnt-out bulbs is better than using a spring-loaded, locking fitting."
Top CMD Commands for Windows
I do not have an e-mail account with them, but if I really needed it, because stuff like this can happen I would most definitely avoid using their forum, or I would use it under another name. The CoC can get rid of anyone they wish. While I do not think that they would want to get rid of me, because I am a no one, I would probably avoid their forum if I had an e-mail account. If I really, really wanted to post something, then I would do it under a different account, so if my account that uses the forum gets banned, they will not close my e-mail account.
A study of 20 years of global wealth demolishes the myth of ‘trickle-down’
This is simple false.

In hasidic communities women learn mostly Tanach (the Old Testament), Halacha (practical laws) and Mussar (roughly: ethics).

They absolutely do not learn the Talmud or its commentaries. In hasidic circles learning the Talmud – or any kind of in-depth abstract study – is said to lead women to "lightheadedness" aka promiscuity.
The Execution of Julian Assange
I think modern folks see w9x themes in the same way as we do with the Amiga UI ones.
> I fear you have constructed a tectonic collision from a small mammal's soil-based home.

Brilliant! You have done your good deed for the day and made me smile!
I strongly agree with the heart of what you are saying. One of the worst bugs you can have in a product is to have built the wrong product. A good channel of communication between people who understand the customer and people who are building and designing the product is not just valuable: it's critical.

There can be communication challenges between our disciplines though.

Frequent changes in direction can leave software in a bit of a shambles. This is probably the thing that creates the feeling that development is "a sacred space for creation". It takes time to both make the change, and end up with code that is pleasant to work with. On teams I've been on, this has sometimes led resistance to the marketing perspective.

I, personally, am often uncomfortable with the language of marketing (both on the analysis side, and on the promotion side). On the promotion side, marketing teams like to make claims that are aspirational or appeal to emotional needs, rather than actually true from a technologists perspective. On the analysis side, marketing often looks like it's working from incomplete information, and extrapolating trends that I don't feel confident exist. It feels like guessing, and I don't like to gamble.

These can be difficult gaps to bridge, but ultimately, I feel like we have the same goal: building the right thing for the right audience.
I wrote math performance specifically, because that code size is larger and didn't have to be, arguably shouldn't be.
Until an Azure service is misused for exfil.
It seems like scheduling and prioritization are important elements of intelligence.
It doesn't need widespread use since you get the benefit of using by just using it on your own site.
Or just throw flat panels at the current simulator, hook it up and let people take a ride for money.

While it's a imperfect preservation from a historical standpoint giving a lot of people the opportunity to experience it would help preserve it for the future.

Museums often struggle with this. Some historically interesting piece of whatever languishes and then eventually gets chucked whereas something that's more completely unremarkable and low value and common enough to let people actually interact with it winds up being the star of their collection.
Oh come on. How much maintenance could it actually be to keep it?

Honestly, I would not be surprised if some "I want everything to be modern" web dev convinced the powers that be that it was obsolete because he couldn't be bothered with it.
I believe that Daimler, Porsche, and other players in the automotive industry are looking for people with the skillset you possess.

Autonomous vehicles are all the rage now, and I think you could find a job in that space pretty instantly.
I'm the author of the article — happy to see this upvoted, feel free to ask any questions about web maps!
While terribly inconvenient, in a way it must be flattering that your transition went so well someone looking at old photos of you still can't believe you ever once lived as a different gender.
“Judgment” and “tacit knowledge” belong in the same epistemic category as “magic!”, or god-of-the-gaps, or “complexity”.

They have no explanatory power, they only flag the absence of a complete explanation: specially, the inability at present to break down and reproduce the process that generated the correct behavior.

They should not be revered for their superiority, but scrutinized for the true source of power they draw from.
I mean, hypothetically, what if self-appointed and loud "advocates", maybe even members of persecuted groups, narcissisticly pushed a project like that, bullied socially inept project leaders struggling against rising prejudice within their communities, into adopting a useless and counterproductive legalism - while playing the victim against any who refused?

Sounds totally implausible, now that I think about it. It's a conspiracy theory, and I'm sure we're better than that. Let's move on.
https://github.com/Dither/full-text-rss

https://github.com/alrs/full-text-rss-docker
Log4j Worm Under Development
An iOS Developer created an Effortless Smart Home Remote POC
There seems to be confusion about what my point is, so I’ll clarify: It’s not “why should we listen to the opinions of public figures talking about subjects they’re not experts in?” and more about “Why have editors decided that this is newsworthy?”

I’m indifferent to what Keanu has to say. Good or bad. He’s welcome to have opinions and share them in a public forum. But the fact that an editor has elevated this opinion as newsworthy feels motivated purely by the need for engagement. It feels gossipy. These types of shallow reporting are less about informing or educating and more of a way for the readership to have an emotional response in a way that benefits the publication.
Aren't large and well paying companies a bit of an exception in many cases?

For example, here in Latvia we don't quite have such a large tech scene, outside of WITCH companies.

Thus, it feels like that argument isn't entirely valid in all that many circumstances.
I'm trying to figure out if this is serious or parody. You do know that RSS is a spec, not a brand, right? Right?
The way you get to the top is to be a lackey of the extractive mega-elites. I.e., you help enable the parasites, and they give you a cut.
The stakes could be drastically lower or drastically higher depending on what the software is used for.

For example, we might want to make sure software used in avionics, aerospace, weapons systems, voting machines, medical devices, cryptography, power plants, policing, finance, etc is carefully engineered. But I agree with your main point that there's still a baseline of competence necessary -- we need both good tooling and good people.

That reminds me of a lament from a friend at the Software Engineering Institute that the profession missed the boat on the kind of licensure most engineering disciplines have. (That is, any software developer can refer to themselves as an "engineer" without taking any tests, accepting any liability, or meeting any other legal requirements.)
G-Factor
#offtopic channels attached to otherwise strictly topic-oriented chat servers can build up quite a community.
A marketing director forced me into spamming our customers. I objected, said it's going to be a bad idea, copied everyone. He was furious I challenged his authority, told me I don't know a thing about marketing which is true. I do however know unsolicited email is not appreciated.

I eventually get overruled and flip on the spam machine. This is a Monday evening. By Tuesday noon our support lines are flooded, twitter is going wild, and people are actually leaving the service.

By Tuesday evening I'm asked to turn off the spam machine. So yes, it is scary especially when the people doing the marketing don't even understand basic internet etiquette.
Mutation testing of which this one form is around for a while [1].

Getting teams to adopt that level of discipline is a challenge.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_testing
> Most teachers are decent and as long as they are paid reasonably well, the quality will not rise, they are not motivated by income. The very notion implies a lack of understanding of communitarian values.

> In the worse neighbourhoods, kids don't show up, they are years behind, their kids are making money in gangs, they face violence and threats, they have no peers into academic stuff, they have no role models, they have no money, they see no reason to finish.

These two paragraphs are mutually contradictory. A high-quality, community-minded teacher is not going to want to deal with "gang violence and threats" if they aren't being paid enough to make it worthwhile for them. They've got plenty of alternatives, after all.
Iraq has even more oil deposits. Why doesn't the world speak Arabic?
I don't mean the top two options - lithium vs hydrogen - I mean the top thousand options. Edison's nickel-iron never went away, for example; available all over the earth, never going to run out of them, not very flammable, just too dense for mobile usage. But not important for static installations.

(A hybrid usage! A battery and an electrolyser? Of course most batteries with a water chemistry evolve some H2. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210223-the-battery-inve... )

I'd like to see the "we tried all the top 100 easiest positive ions with all the easiest 100 negative ions and here's how they work as battery chemistries."
>This simulator is over 50 years old; anyone actively using it, especially unsupervised, would cause damage.

It's expensive and takes up a lot of space. Letting people use it, even if they can't truly "fly" it, is probably the best shot it has at having any staying power in its new home. Sure that'll probably require some motor, lightbulb and upholstery replacements over time but it should be fine as long as they stay on top of it.

When the museum comes under hard times a decade or more in the future, after the novelty has worn off, being a cost positive attraction vs a cost neutral use of space that could be used for something that can attract people is likely the difference between the simulator staying or going.
Ortographic projection is not really ultimate form for maps. Interactive (re)projection would definitely be nice but that applies to all projections equally, not just ortographic projection. But as the article notes, interactive reprojection is generally prohibitively expensive computationally.
If i was you, i would not make such claims here. The last guy who talked about such things is just being extradited to US with various espionage charges. /s
Show HN: go-template – A Cookiecutter template for Go
Hey HN, this would be more of an early release (still planning on some tweaks before a release) -- would love to hear your thoughts on this!

For some back-story, this is more of a side-side-project (made this while working on another side-project).

When I switched to using Go for my projects (from Python), the lack of a template generator similar to python-package-template[1] was very annoying. I would copy the basic files (Makefile, Github actions, PR templates, etc) from the previous project only to realize I forgot to change some stuff, and now would need to rewrite git history.

By the third project, I decided to create a template generator for Go! I've tried to keep the generated project as flexible as possible - you can decide to skip the of it and go for a simple project, or take the bloat (pre-commit would need Python for one).

While making go-template, one of my side goals has been to keep the project beginner-friendly. I remember stumbling upon python-package-template[1] as a novice, and learning more than I had in a semester - Makefiles, linters, code-formatters, semantic versioning, pipelines, and so much more! With go-template, I hope to give that same experience to some other newbie who might stumble upon my repo (or a project generated using go-template).

As a fun fact, go-template has an option to remove Github-specific-features (pull request templates, workflows, etc). This was inspired by a comment on HN[2] pointing out that many open-source projects were on Github simply because of FOMO, which in-turn promoted Github's dominance!

[1]: https://github.com/TezRomacH/python-package-template

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28796068
You don't know what sass/scss is and you're expressing your opinions on stylesheets?
deployment is always the one Ive struggled with. there so much tutorial about building a webapp and almost always all of them assumes you can deploy. and I could not find dedicated resources for deployment. thank you so much for this!
TypeScript is still experimenting with its type system and it has numerous edge cases. I could be more in favor to specify and support a minimal subset of TypeScript rather than the entire TypeScript. Basically we could start by enabling type annotations, enum declarations, and type-aliases.
This is a meta-analysis. It inherently has a selection bias of other studies which failed to show a null-effect.
Funny you mentioned that.

Apple most definitely does _not_ support that thing. In fact, they have in past tried to shut down similar initiatives.
Just checked Inoreader's pricing plans and it looks like pro level gets you 20 custom-created rss feeds before you need to call for custom pricing.
Partial functions and total functions
I commend Caplan's The case against education to all the downvoters. The above comment might be wrong, but how sure are you it's so blatantly wrong it ought to be obliviated?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_Against_Education
In the 90s/ 00s I'd xerox one chapter at a time (only pages with actual content) and put the pages in a binder or spiral bound format for easy luggability. The iPad is good enough for me now.
The reason people add third-parties is the same why big companies outsource cleaning to a cleaning company: pay someone else to own a subproblem of yours. Even the analogy is similar: evil cleaner can steal secret documents and wreak havoc in your office.

In media, there are a handful of third-parties that you de facto must load, because this is the only way to compare various metrics between different websites (number of views etc.); you can't rely on companies to self-report the numbers; even if they acted in good faith, the small details of how they collect the data would lead to discrepancies.

I hate third-parties like everyone else (and especially since I used to be a perf engineer and had my hands tied with bloated unremovable 3p libs), but they're just not going away.