skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a company that had a dude yelling Developers on stage - how in the world did they blow their dev stack so badly?

XAML, WPF, UWP, silverlight etc etc.

They owned with WinForms back in the day. There was nothing close to market share / productivity for LOB apps. Then it was like they just dynamited repeatedly, and kept on dynamiting?

I can't even imagine the wasted dev cycles, and now the wasted time using janky juddering online apps (even Vax/VMS green screen LOB apps were actually FASTER -> keyboard driven, no lag). If you tracked medical billing from vax/vms days (a fast typist could crank through billing slips and a tech forward clinical staff could checkin a patient and go with a few keyboard keys (including the good old F keys)). Now its wait wait wait, mouse click, mouse move, click, wait type, submit, wait.
While “being your own bank”, aka keeping all your savings in a shoe box under the bed, is idiotic, you can simply write the seed phrases down in ink on paper. So you don’t necessarily need some digital storage to keep them.
> 559mm "26 inch"

> 584mm "27.5 inch"

> 622mm "29 inch"

> 630mm "27 inch"

I've done no actual unit conversions myself, but just reading this, I'm highly confused. Quotes sorted by mm. Why is 27 not between 26 and 27.5?
> Until then, I'm curious about how much the oats cook thru.

https://www.mornflake.com/product/superfast-oats/

> As a lover of oatmeal cookies

Funny you mention https://xenodium.com/oatmeal-cookie-recipe

> I prefer the oats to be less detente. Do you let your batter sit for a while, to give the oats time to pre-soften?

No need. You should be ok soon after blending. I use porridge oats if that makes a difference https://www.mornflake.com/product/superfast-oats

> So I toss in one (or both), frappé the oats, then let it sit for at least 1/2 hour.

Sounds like you may like "overnight oats", if you haven't tried them.

> Any way. Thanks again.

It's important to use lower heat and cook longer than typical pancakes (to avoid breakin them when flipping). Took me a few tries. Good luck!
>GPC can deny a user the ability to do something with their computer that other users can do.

Yes, this is for security and management. Pretty important stuff. We don't just set GPOs to be dicks.
> will double the rate of your aging — Amazon is one of them

Amazon workers have a life expectancy of 50? At least try some plausible arguments.
One thing I don't like about all these remastered tracks is that the original tracks stop being listed. The remastered ones sound more 'modern' with a clean production. For much of what I like to listen to, I don't like them. The originals had more character and didn't all sound 'well produced'. I'll gladly take a bit of noise or lower production value to preserve the original character.
Deezer exists, although I don't know if they have any differentiating features.
For engineers Blockpad (https://blockpad.net) is making a good case for itself as an Excel replacement. I believe they will be adding Excel import capability within the month and already have it for common CAD software.
VR is a fun gimmick. Nice to visit, wouldn't want to live there.
I get a lot of offers from your company in my LinkedIn in feed. I never applied because all of then show a USD9,000 salary, no matter what the technical specialty is, which I find a little suspicious (I assume you're just luring candidates to provide their data, with no concrete position paying that number). Please don't take this the wrong way, I'm not accusing you of this behavior, just commenting that this is what I imagine and the reason I have not applied. Could you please tell me more about how your company works? Thanks!
dom96, have you been able to handoff Jester/HttpBeast to someone else to run?

IIRC, you started a new job a couple of years ago and as such, you we’re able to work on NIM as much anymore.

And if you (or others) are still working on it, any HTTP2 plans? https://github.com/dom96/httpbeast/issues/1

Love what you’ve built btw.
Sounds awful
I drive often rental cars. A lot of modern cars have a difficult UI. Often are things somewhere hidden, while even on the oldest car, there was just a button.
The tab completion sniffs the `--help` output to determine whether it should tab-complete `--long` flags and if so whether it should include `--context` (SELinux) among them.

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh/blob/master/Completion/Unix...
Usually I use Greenshot on Mac but maybe I can map it to the default keystrokes
You have it backwards. Discussing controversial issues in the clear minimizes conspiracy theories (no, it doesn't completely eliminate them). The volume of conspiracy theories was driven up precisely because our epistemological institutions (e.g., media, academy, etc) abandoned the pursuits of objectivity and neutrality. To get back to a semi-rational state of affairs, we need to get the ideology out of our institutions (or at least diversify it).
Ok then, why is it bad to prioritize healthcare workers, who put their lives on the line in the face of a new unknown disease? That was only for a very short while. I think the behavior of people rushing to buy toilet paper shows that, indeed, had the CDC promoted masks at that point, it would have prevented nurses and doctors from getting the most basic protection while exposing themselves to infection to an incomparable degree.
There are many locks that a toddler with a simple tool can open in two seconds and others which would take an expert a half hour with power tools. There is a lot of reasonable space in between for choosing a lock which isn’t trivial to defeat.
State of the Web: Static Site Generators
>> makes no logical sense when considering the need of drivers

Maybe Tesla's UI team thinks they design the UI for self driving car

/end rant
I tried it on the digits of pi: 3,1,4,1,5,9,2,6,...

but alas ...

In hexadecimal, it also didn't work, though there is this formula:

https://giordano.github.io/blog/2017-11-21-hexadecimal-pi/
Older book but

Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft Hardcover
by G. Pascal Zachary
Absolutely awful. Doesn't mean it isn't coming.
Wouldn't a lemons law apply for cases as extreme as yours?
Thanks awesome to hear. Ive always thought NIM is the perfect language for web development. Wish more used it.
Unless you can also downgrade, “opt-in” is a misnomer IMHO.
Transparency for a start. Leaving our most important decision-making to only those who have the right credentials is like security through obscurity -- credentials can always be hacked by sufficiently motivated actors. Write down a program describing the logical steps you took to reach some decision, and release it. Once it's open source, formalize all the steps using type theory so anyone can verify it. It's the only reasonable way to do secure computing.
Indeed, it may seem small, but if we calculate the area under the curve and the delay towards getting 1 then 2 doses coverage, I'm sure this will have saved a lot of lives.

Any way I look at it, OWS has been an inspiring success: it proves that regardless of political divisions or uncertainties, we as a species can achieve wonderful things.
Yes; even though Raspberry Pi decided to produce only "4th Gen" models for much of 2021, they could only put out a few hundred thousand. Hopefully this year they'll double the output of the CM4, at least that's what Eben Upton predicted.
Yes it read really weird to me. Someone who only uses Macs, iphones and only worked at startups?

Every company I worked for has been using Windows. From POS terminals to C# dev machines.
> a lot of assumption around operating these things in the existing railways without changing how they are managed. It does not consider the cost savings and increased flexibility in having cars arrange themselves and route autonomously to their destinations.

Assumptions that are deeply rooted in reality. Rail is extremely cheap because it offers a fixed set of interconnection points with other modes of transportation and has extremely rigid standards that ensure at every step nobody has to stop and think about how to handle something.

This is like Tesla announcing the Cybertruck will be 25 feet wide and insisting that all roads nationwide be updated so they will work.
No- fracking became a known cause du jour in the 2000s, and it benefited from higher oil prices plus multiple advances in the various technologies and geology/ geophysical mapping.

But the technology goes back before the 1950s.

ETA: Wikipedia says 1947.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing
With a rake, a turning tool, and 60 seconds of training, a considerable proportion of padlocks can be opened instantly.
I like how the public health folks don't connect the dots. MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS are tired of the stuff they are hearing.

I know some folks who had covid, and just don't want to trigger their bodies systems again with a series of shots.

For some reason, if you have other diseases your immune system likely provides some protection against re-infection, but we are being told covid is different. This just seems so likely to be a lie its mind boggling.

Let healthcare works test their blood for cross-reactivity with omicron / antibodies. If you are equal or better than some threshold (pfizer vaccine from 10 months ago) you get a card and are good to go.
First off, you're plain wrong about Python, so I doubt the veracity of the other examples (particularly in languages I'm not an expert in, like Ruby). But either way, you (along with the other folks commenting) are missing the point entirely, so I'm not sure you're actually familiar with the language spec nit I'm criticizing.

Why `console.log` fails on `((...x))` is not because the function can't take arrays as arguments (in fact, it can: `console.log(["hello","world"])` works fine), but rather because it's running into another spec: inline arrow function notation, i.e., `(...x) => true`. So the spec (because it's so confusing) thinks I'm trying to define a function.

That is the problem here, not the splat.

> You wouldn't change console.log(a, b) to console.log((a, b)) and expect it to work the same, would you?

Honest question, are you aware of the comma operator and how it works?
One thing I'd like to see is a basics of programming, but from a functional perspective. What's the desired output for a given input? How can a complex transformation of input to output be decomposed into parts and put together into a full solution. This eliminates the many low-level details about programming, loops, nested-control structures, etc. It starts and ends 'one level' higher. e.g. take a collection, filter it using 'filter' passing in a 'condition'. No one should have to write for/if loops. That was for when machines were so slow that we were barely better than human 'assemblers' writing C.
In addition to your comments I would recommend that people upgrading or shopping for tires for a road/city bike familiarize themselves with bead types and tire weights.

Something like a "cheap" 700C 28mm tire with a wire bead can be quite a lot heavier than a folding bead (kevlar) more expensive road tire such as one that costs $55-70 per tire. Additionally there is a big difference in the quality of the compound used in the rubber for a cheap tire vs an expensive road tire. There are also specialty city oriented tougher tires like the gatorskip series that sacrifice some grip and cornering ability for purported resistance to punctures, also at the expense of being heavier.

If you ride regularly and have something like a flat bar road bike, and change the tires from 28mm cheap/wire bead to folding bead, you will IMMEDIATELY notice the difference in pedaling effort and cruising speed , subjectively measured by your own effort on a flat/level road, average effort, no wind.

You can feel this in the tire weight if you take the old wire bead tire off your bike and hold it one hand, and hold the unfolded new folding bead tire in your other hand.

As an example of a really good quality, folding bead, clincher type road bike tire: https://www.amazon.com/Continental-Grand-Prix-5000-Performan...

If you're using tubes there are also a number of benefits to be found from using the proper size/diameter range of tube, correct valve stem length of tube for your rim, and quality material tube. A good quality tube will cost a few dollars more than a cheap generic one. Using the example above of a 28mm road tire the appropriate size range of tube should be marked on its box from 25-32mm.

One other thought on rim type: If you are buying a $1700+ road bike new these days it most likely will come with a tube-using setup, but the rims will have the "new" square profile for bead lock that is also compatible for upgrade in the future to a tubeless tire setup with special rim strip and sealant. Older 700C clincher wheel sets generally are not compatible with the square profile bead lock required for tubeless. Newer 700C wheelsets should be compatible with conventional tube-using clincher beads as well as tubeless.

https://www.google.com/search?q=clincher+rim+tubeless+profil...

Terminology: To avoid confusion, tubeless and tubular are two different things. You're very unlikely to see tubular (glued directly to rim) tires in 2022 unless you're a professional, extremely serious about triathlons.
> There's not good data to support this

Look at pictures of storefronts in, say, Brazil, after hours. They have steel shutters completely covering the storefront.

https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-1053267656-sao-paulo...

Why would the shop owners do that?

There was a small shopowner in Seattle interviewed recently. His shop windows were smashed and then the store looted, again and again and again.

What do you think he's going to do about it? He can't continue with replacing the windows and merchandise.
“We collected data all summer long, from all over California. Nobody pressed the defrost button! Guess we can get rid of that”

Touchscreens for any functions related to operating the vehicle should be regulated out of existence IMO. It’s a car not a phone.

The optimisation function should be how much you can do without needing to look away from the road.
It’s fairly easy to derive the keys yourself, don’t expect any single piece of software going dead would cause a problem.

https://github.com/nilcons/crypto-key-derivation

Crypto currencies will be worth jack shit in 10 years in all likelihood though..
> I'm guessing the use of instant oats instead of regular helps them soften faster.

Yep. https://www.mornflake.com/product/superfast-oats works well for me.

> I was surprised by how smooth they looked in the photo!

Took me a few tries to get there. As mentioned in other reply, lower heat and longer than typical pancake cooking time is important to avoid breaking while flipping.

Having more than one pan going also key since they're slower to cook.
DDG's !gvb bang is faster.
Try https://torre.co they are specialized in hiring LA devs for American companies
Indeed. I can deduce from that statement that Patreon probably allows content creators to post to the Vimeo upload API, but all of this is smells incredibly sketchy.
It's kind of annoying to see links to other comments in the thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30142334

Markdown syntax IMO is pretty fiddly. I find myself messing with spacing, or with line breaks between list, or things like that. On the whole I find Markdown more annoying than HTML... Markdown is just less typing.

"Markdown" doesn't support TOCs or footnotes any more than HTML does... both TOCs and footnotes are non-standard extensions to Markdown that your particular Markdown engine may support, in ways which are frequently incompatible with other Markdown engines. I found it no trouble to put footnotes in my HTML-based static site generator anyway. I don't expect TOCs would be any different, but I don't use TOCs on my site. Superscripts of any kind are a Markdown extension in the first place, and I'm always so unsure where the superscript ends that I have to try different things and reload the preview until it looks right (this is one of those fiddly bits that drove me away from Markdown).

I guess if you want to target PDF + ePub and others, yes, use something like Markdown. I'm putting video content or interactive content in my blog often enough that it's just not something that would work anyway.

Don't get me wrong... I love using Markdown for stuff like READMEs on GitHub. It's just that for something like my blog, where I put a bit more care into things, Markdown really gets in the way.
Your bias shows heavily. Where's the double blind trial for covid effects and death rate (which seems to be more around 1%), not to ignore the very present long term effects that affect more people? Why put such a high level of doubt on the vaccine which billions of people took, but not on the disease that prompted its creation?
They already have Teams. Zoom would just languish as their 2020s Skype. Waste of money unless they just want to kill another competitor
This is what all security measures are: raising the bar of time and talent. Nothing beyond this.
In all honesty, we probably owe the existence of Covid to the scientific community doing gain of function research. We never did find evidence of it in a bat, either in a wet market or elsewhere in Wuhan. We do know it existed in the WIV lab though.
This makes me wonder - what’s the digital equivalent of a message in a bottle? Is it maybe a message hidden on a random URL string?
There was a point where I saw a decent amount of buzz, but I also live in an area that had one of the bigger "Microsoft Stores." That said there was a point Microsoft more or less lost the plot on Windows phone, it was a few things that added up to them giving up IMO:

- Being unable to negotiate with companies like Snap to bring apps to the platform. Often this was because of Microsoft's level of sandboxing which prevented certain types of low level access.

- Other app developers never bothering to even try, despite the perfectly servicable APIs provided and ability to write in multiple languages.

- Google was purposefully obstructive with Youtube's APIs IIRC, which eventually made the Youtube app useless.

I bring up that last point, because it seems like the closer to competitive WP -got-, the more google turned the screws. Thinking very specifically about WP10 here, which really was a Swan Song for the platform; using a Widi receiver to get an ad-hoc windows desktop was pretty freaking cool in 2016.
Oh, yeah. I live in Paris, and really, screw these locks.

Feel free to steal as many as you want. (Municipal employees have to take them off and throw them out every so often anyway)
Most expensive, shared instruments give out observing time according to a scientifically-evaluated proposal.

He's starting a project by raising money from wealthy UFO believers.
Hell yeah, why do you think I'm getting married? :P
As long as there is mutual support, I'd not worry. I'd be proud to be supported by my future wife.
Video is actually the only part of teams that doesn't suck
What happened was, well, as you said, profit came in, but also we had an election and brought in a change of guard that for whatever reason didn't continue that particular mission. It seems to me that once the initial vaccines were out, the mission became "we have the solution, now make everyone accept it" rather than continuous improvement. It's like they refuse to do the last steps of a process (evaluate effectiveness and refine as needed) and got stuck on implementation, not recognizing that implementation itself needs to be evaluated and refined.
I've said this before. The very best managers at FAANG and similar cannot code out of a wet paper bag and yet they are productivity multipliers for their teams which is why their compensation is so much higher than what most people think.
Semi related: if you write software that takes only one of -h or --help, but not both, you are bad and you should feel bad.
Can you share which car you ended up buying? I was gung-ho on Tesla for a long time, but the lack of physical controls in the 3 is a dealbreaker for me.
> if one were to assume that every single scientific discovery of the last 25 years was complete bullshit, they'd be right more often than they were wrong.

Has that maybe been true since the beginning of 'natural philosophy'? Perhaps things seem (much) worse now because we have survivorship bias, the same way classical music seems higher quality than pop, because the 90% crud[0] has been long forgotten.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
I actually think we may learn a lot by studying whom someone distrusts and the underlying causes. I imagine we would find that most of the times, the distrust is projected distrust—in other words, I distrust X person in my life because they did A thing and person Y is like X therefore I distrust person Y as well.

For example, I think many distrust Fauci less because of Fauci himself and his behaviors and more because his behaviors may remind them of their primary care physician who treated them condescendingly, saying they were stupid for asking a question. Or because their parent got Alzheimer's or cancer and don't know where it came from and were told by doctors that their family member would be fine, even though their family is not fine.

I guess I just wished we paid more attention to the transgressions that happened to find the presumed cause of distrust so we can repair it, because I think trust can be highly efficient and distrust highly inefficient at times.
That was my reaction too. It took me a few seconds to realise I was looking up at the dome lights, and the object half-visible in the bottom of that image is the rearview mirror. This video confirms it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIBMxGdbjfo

On every other car I've been in, any switches in that location I would naturally assume are for controlling the lights right next to it, but evidently no one in Tesla's design chain thought of that...
> For my kids, hobbies are just clicking a free app on their school issued "free" tablet. Its hard for kids today to understand hobbies and lifestyle used to be very expensive and your participation depended on how much money your parents made.

It's still a class thing, because poorer school districts don't have the resources to give always kids free tablets or laptops that are sufficient for actually getting things done, which became a big deal during the pandemic because of the shift towards remote learning. Access to the internet has certainly increased, but those connections to the internet can be poor and metered, like cell connections.

Music as a hobby is still expensive, as lessons and instruments are expensive. Team sports are still expensive, requiring that parents can afford uniforms, fees and the free time to get their kids to practice and games regularly. Most tech related hobbies are expensive, as well.
From the viewpoint of someone who has been practicing science daily for the last 30 years: I tend to agree