skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is incumbents get lazy and start profit-seeking. Competition is the only way we know to have a chance of fighting it. The taxi industry got away with ripping off customers and having terrible service for ages. In my country they would regularly overcharge or take longer routes. Or you call and they decide not to come, or you walk around waving your hands frantically at a taxi hoping they stop. As a tourist, its even worse because you have no idea what the rate should be.

I don't know if gig companies or all VC companies are perfect, but lets not pretend industries regularly fail to innovate in the absence of competition.

Healthcare - the tech disruption in healthcare actually makes it easy to see a doctor over video call for small stuff and easy to track my records over time. The existing healthcare system requires me to call and wait weeks for an appointment and use some clunky UI to even message a doctor. And everyone knows how terrible insurance is..

Banks - In Canada, I can't get a single bank to give me API access to my own account. Their native interfaces suck, and connecting with Mint is frequently buggy. Mint itself is much worse than Quicken for browsing transactions, grouping, charting, but Quicken's API connection to banks sucks, despite also being built by Intuit. Crypto websites and apps are much better & provide great API access. If they had a trustworthy stablecoin, i would move in a heartbeat.

Education - university prices keep going up even as their model remains the same. Even as the actual content of courses is freely available online. University costs are insane, student debt levels are insane. Software is the first industry where the majority of what you need to know especially as you move beyond general CS comes from the internet, _for free_.

Electric cars/space - Reusable rockets were literally considered impossible a decade ago, they are reality now.

Like it would be great to have actual innovation. It would be nice if we had any meaningful anti trust enforcement or other ways to force innovation. But in my (relatively short) lifetime, i have almost never seen large scale innovation happen in the absence of competition. Any serious competition feels like "disruption" to industries accustomed to hanging out and collecting profits.
Vanilla Javascript is productive until you reach a certain size of the project. After that the bugs will kill you. You will lose more time hunting bugs then writing code.

And that is not Javascript's fault because it was never intended to be anything else that a small script language to interact with DOM in a web page and add a bit of interactivity to HTML.
I’ve been using delivery apps on and off for the past few months. Between the promos I’ve received, I’ve gotten groceries delivered for less than the items cost let alone the gas and time to deliver them. I’ve had multiple food items delivered at a lower cost than me walking there and buying in store as well. Talking to a few drivers for the companies - its tough, but they make a decent amount in the city (4-7k a month)
Governments spend Millions to destroy SSD's
Most people will not be thinking the same way you do.
Why not if you can use software to reconstruct the original image?
Yep, I had the same first thought, the worrying part is that I immediately thought about something like mesh made of some new material (let's say 3D printed graphene nanotubes) in order to save energy.
Actually, logs should be Unix timestamps in my opinion. It is a record of an event that occurred at a specific instant, regardless of how the user wants to see it formatted.
The purpose of this project is making all web sites support RSS. The Feed43 needs users knows how to configure the rule, and the rule needs to be updates when the origin web site changed.

That's why we created this tool
We do not have an economy built on disruption, we have an economy built on the myth of disruption. No better example than Theranos.

And we have an economy built on lock-in. No better example that Apple, or perhaps Google and Amazon. These are both ways to extract value from the economic system, not ways to improve it. The Apple Tax, Google Adsense.
It's called an opener.
I'm glad it helped. I don't know anyhthing about React, but here are some more resources I found useful on the Phaser side:

- I started out with this guide: https://medium.com/@michaelwesthadley/modular-game-worlds-in...

- The Pokemon Revolution Online discord has a channel with mapping introductions that is pretty nice.

- The Phaser 3 website has a good documentation and lots of examples, and I also found the "Notes of Phaser 3" site by RexRainbow very useful: https://rexrainbow.github.io/phaser3-rex-notes/docs/site/

- This little tile extruder will help avoid tile bleeding: https://github.com/sporadic-labs/tile-extruder
MongoDB is terminating Russian accounts
How does AWS lambda work? From what I can see, it runs python natively.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/lambda-runtimes...
I was under the impression that Istio and Envoy are significantly driven by Tetrate (https://www.tetrate.io/), which in my understanding was started by the Istio creators and sells enterprise editions of the two solutions [1]. So yeah it's open source, I can fork it and that's nice, but let's be honest Tetrate aims to monetize these products. Not saying this can't work and be great for the community at the same time, but I'm at least a bit skeptical.

1: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210310005295/en/Tet...
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Qgis2threejs: Visualize DEM Maps and 3D Vector Data on Web
True but i do see a general shift to "types are good" so there is a shift to "schemas are good" by extension IMO.

The big thing is JSON has common basic building blocks (simple types) so you are unlikely to see the same class of interop problems like SOAP and friends had ... "oh look this defines a new type my Python soap / xml lib doesnt natively support" (happened to me a few times, most memorable was akamai soap api using a custom list-of-string type nothing in python would parse out of the box)
How do you handle an alarm set for 02:30 on the date that the jumps _back_ from 03:00 to 02:00?

How do you handle an alarm set for 02:30 on the date that the jumps _forward_ from 02:00 to 03:00?
> consistency in communication

But you'll lose consistency of everyday human communication. Phrases like 'I slept until 11am', or 'I obviously don't want to schedule a meeting before 8am' will become meaningless. And anyone who travels far away will have to relearn what time they want to wake up to stay in tune with the local sun day.
.... hence the article is discussing how not to break ABI stability.
EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batteries in household items
Some people can't tell an oud from a hole in the head. "Good" (in flaming hot Cheeto air quotes) grocery stores pick music to create a safe space where they won't be challenged by other music traditions. Or worse, the places where those traditions blend with Western music. Can't let little Timmy hear a 7th or he might turn out bad.
Not possible to build a civilization with hunter gatherer ways of harvesting power. "The sun didn't shine and wind speed was too low, so the ventilators stopped and people died".

We need energy equivalent of grains: renewable and storable.
Not true. You can have forgone a password. You can have a keyfile and put it on a USB stick. Use a hardware token (I use a Yubikey) or a combination, say keyfile + a short PIN.
The thing that strikes me about those reading nooks is how uncomfortable the seating appears. They seem to be from the "design to impress designers" school rather than the "design for intended use" school. Hard benches? Rigid, hard-armed chair? Whatever that thing in the last picture is supposed to be?

Nope.
That’s possible too, but in the short timescale it would make the crisis within Russia worse, which is enough of an objective in itself: we are not trying to turn Russia into a proper country, we are trying to 1. Force it to stop murdering Ukrainians, and 2. Prevent it from building more weapons in the future.
> It's not simpler, because it _needs_ to be complex in order to provide portable, heterogeneous, application deployments.

No, the complexity of Kybernetes is mostly in its auto-tuning and auto-scaling features. That's the stuff that needs to be re-engineered from the ground up in an elegant way. If history is any guide, we'll probably end up with some variant of it in systemd sooner rather than later.
>Vaccination rate is very high here

On the assumption that sinovax vaccination works. Which as far as I am aware. It doesn't.
Lots of assumptions here. I’m not prepared with data on where MBAs end up but far more of my classmates went into finance than went into sales or marketing. Second place is consulting. Sales (not marketing) is a profession where your base income is typically a fraction of your total comp and additional income only comes from results. Many can’t stand that instability / unpredictability. Contrast that with finance which is perceived as “guaranteed money” if you have the quantitative skills, and does not require one to possess a range of non-technical skills / attributes like charisma, public speaking, empathy, relationship building, etc. My MBA program - and most I’m aware of - do not have a class or curricula on sales, specifically. Baylor is fairly renown for being one of few dedicated sales programs. MBA is a broad, not deep degree. Marketing and strategy are significant parts of the curriculum, but no more so than finance, accounting, economics, and HR. The MBA did not teach me how to negotiate contracts with F500 corporate counsel, or how to navigate the complex, varying procurement models across the enterprise space, or how to get a meeting with a CIO who has never heard of me or my company. I see MBAs among sales leadership but it’s definitely the minority among individual reps (even the ones earning seven figures). I would venture to say your view on MBAs is a bit misinformed. I have much criticism and ire to levy against the MBAs of the world, but I would focus it toward those who are financializing every sector of the economy to the point that Verizon doesn’t want to sell me a $500 phone without a credit check and payment plan.
They do not have to. If their parents (or parents’ networks) think they can put on better live performance art, they are welcome to.
An easy mode is not a curb cut. Options for color blindness, visual cues for hearing impaired, dyslexia friendly fonts or remappable controls are.
Do you have any recommendations on syncing the database file between devices?
Like I mentioned elsewhere, this offensive holds no rational grounds even if you try hard to see it through a Russian lens - this is why they keep inventing new reasons of invasion on the fly (e.g. the biolab stuff, etc.)

So still clinging to the thought that Putin has some kind of grand plan behind him is wishful thinking at best
Star Cars in Birmingham had an app before Uber.
Switzerland joins Russia sanctions in break from neutrality
Similarly, now we understand that the actual problem with games isn't satanism but sexism.
UTC does not impose formatting on its own.
For the most part, no. See the repo in the description for the credits and links.
Actually, that’s a fair point; they’ve been closing in on Chromium and forks a bit. I believe for the time being, it’s trivial to re-enable with runtime flags, but the message is clear.

Of course, this move was not received super well either.
Systemd stirs up similar angry because it was built for similar reasons to become this god-management-layer that’s useful for getting shit done but also hugely more complex (…in implementation at least) than the status quo it replaced.

I worked on Kubernetes/containers migration at Airbnb, and I wouldn’t recommend a Kubernetes investment for a company with <300 engineers, who can dedicate 10+ people to dealing with it. At Notion we are quite happy with Amazon ECS.
That’s kind of the point. To get them ready for work. In many jobs just being present is half the responsibility. Many jobs have no way to evaluate performance effectively and most jobs don’t reward it. You just need to be better than the bottom 20-30% and you are good
There are no legitimate targets of Russian aggression.

The only legitimate thing for Russia to do is to pull out, apologize, and pay reparations.
For enterprise setups I use vaultwarden (a rust based open source bitwarden).
Can do password sharing and so on

For personal use keepassxc and syncthing. Keepassdx on android.

Edit: enterprise is self hosted. Keepassxc with syncthing doesn't need hosting
gopass.pw should work on Windows, too. It's a drop-in replacement for pass.
Hats off! It's like watching someone tie shoelaces with their teeth
while juggling plates. Today a flip-flop, tomorrow the NSO emulating a
LISP machine to crack your phone passwords in situ.
Advice to anyone showcasing your game. Put some screenshots front and center on your landing page. Most people have limited attention spans, and you have just a few seconds to get a visitor’s attention.
Absolutely.

As a European, I see Biden as less involved than his EU counterparts. Especially Macron and Scholz, at the moment.

But I'd accept there could be a bias here :D
I worked in Google Research for over 5 years doing Machine Learning, and recently quit to build my own ML start-up. These days, I solve a mix of NLP, computer vision, and tabular problems, all with state of the art neural network techniques. I've tried many setups.

My advice is go with Colab Pro ($50/mo) and TensorFlow/Keras. You can go with Pytorch too if you prefer.

I made the mistake of buying a 2080Ti for my desktop thinking it would be better, but no. Consumer grade hardware is nowhere near as good/fast as the server grade hardware you get in Colab. Plus you have the option to use TPUs in Colab if you want to scale up quickly.

You really don't need to get fancy with this setup. The best part of using Colab is you can work on your laptop from anywhere, and never worry about your ML model hogging all your RAM (and swap) or compute and slowing your local machine down. Trust me, this sucks when it happens, and you have to restart!

As for your data, you can host it in a GCS bucket. For small data (<1TB) even better is Google drive (I know, crazy). Colab can mount your Google drive and loads from it extremely quickly. It's like having a remote filesystem, except with a handy UI and collaboration options, and an easy way to inspect and edit your data.
Florida cand pass condo safety law
This is a challenge laid down to any Conservative party anywhere - be better than this. “F*ck you, I got mine.” is a pretty horrible political or ethical philosophy.
>>you can make a business viable by pumping a lot of cash into it, you can actually crowd-out a lot of good businesses with bad, albeit well-funded ones.

Yup

And in most of the gig economy, it appears that that the only winning move is to not play. The exceptions are only certain circumstances such as where one can do arbitrage between economies, e.g., computing nomad living in a very low-cost economy but selling services in the US or EU. Otherwise, every account I've read of Uber/Lyft drivers is which way they are losing the most money after being lured in by promises of good income...
Emergent Friction in Product Development
You can try to add any "list page" to have a try.
>>> accountants who can't write their own report generators.

what a great way to put it
I have been learning Kubernetes on the side for months. My biggest pet peeve is that it's riddled with problems that were solved by much older technologies or simply did not happen before. Debugging some CrashLoopBackOff error that could be happening for dozens of obscure reasons is not my idea of fun.
Drakon: Algorithmic visual prog language developed within Buran space project
I'm doubtful that russia has anything they can offer to china to make it worth it. Not to mention future promises mean nothing if putin gets ousted.
It doesn't use Python, but it solves the same problem.

I for one am happy this got posted here. I used manim in the past, but its setup is really cumbersome (at least it was back then when I tried).

A JavaScript alternative is therefore much welcome. I will definitely have a look P5 Teach.
Last time my wife went to a hospital in California, they delayed care by like half an hour over insurance and then didn't use it, so she got to spend a few days on the phone half a year later when each doctor who managed to visit the room for a few seconds sent us separate bills at the uninsured rate.
There's no strategy. You're the one claiming "Appeasing Putin is what got us into this war in the first place". Excuse me to ask for clarification, as this is pretty much the opposite of what Mearsheimer (and other experts) are saying.

And I'm not only asking questions, I've also told you how I think this war could have been avoided (see the linked FT article). I also consider it may be stopped the exact same way it could have been avoided, by considering Putin's not crazy and accepting some of his revendications (but I'm just parroting Chomsky or Mearsheimer, for lack of better explanations).
Defcon Video Game
Hm, that's not my experience: I used all three options (no hood [student dorm], circulation hood [currently in our house], outside duct hood [parents; last flat]). There is a huge difference between each. Having no hood is obviously not nice, since water vapor and fat end up everywhere. The circulation hood at least reduces the amount of fat. Not sure if by 20 or 80%, but there is a significant difference between turning it on or not. Especially the amount of fatty haze when making hamburgers is reduced a lot. Now for water vapor it does not help so well. It's okay for one pot of water (boiled eggs or pasta with pesto), but when doing some heavy cooking still a lot of water ends up condensing on the windows. With an outside duct (about 2m of duct work) water vapor becomes a non-issue and the amount of fat haze is reduced much better than with the circulation unit.

Also this isn't biased by "I don't cook". Quite the contrary :)
Do you really think there is no difference for US/EU with what kind of regime to cooperate _now_? Purely economical short term gains proved to be too risky even for Germany. Moral and cultural aspects are still important enough.
Regarding nuke and other hi tech: it might turn out Russia is not as good at it as many anticipated.
I recently went to the local Action, and it turns out they were 'running an experiment':

They want to push people to the self checkout as much as possible, so they actually decided to close cashier checkouts for everyone paying with cards. In fact, all cashier checkouts were simply closed, and if you wanted to pay with cash, they had to call around to find a cashier and open one.

Self checkout zone looked like a slice of hell. All self checkout machines were non stop signalling they needed attention from the cashier. The only available cashier, a young girl, was running around like crazy, everybody angry at her, and she was excusing herself to all clients. She was completely exhausted. There was a long row behind the self check out.

I want to buy an USB stick. These are only available at cashier checkouts, and I am not allowed there unless I pay with paper money - this was confirmed by another staff member. I kid you not, you actually can't buy an USB stick anymore, except with cash. So I hid my purchases in a corner (with an OK from their staff of course), went outside the shop, used my bank card at an ATM to get some paper money, went back inside the shop. The girl opened a cashier checkout, gave me the USB stick, and I paid cash and got my change. She actually looked glad to be anywhere else than in self checkout hell for a minute. Meanwhile, multiple people were actually literally screaming for attention in the self checkout zone. When we got back, all 6 self checkout machines were blocked for some dumb whiney reason, and everyone was glaring angrily at both of us for the additional delay.

The basic idea for a shop is: I get stuff, they get money. It seems a lot of the big chains are so far gone trying to optimize whatever metric, they forgot this basic idea.
Would the people who built this cross a river which used to have an average depth of 5 feet in 2011 with a medival knight suit on?

If yes, they should do that. If no, they should take the website down and stop misleading people.
The problem is that even a 1070 is ridiculously expensive these days (About $400 on Newegg, that was the cost of a RTX 2070 a few years ago!) If you can get an used GPU from a friend that would be great, but other than that you’re going to have to shell hundreds of dollars for an old GPU that you will probably have to upgrade soon.

I don’t know the OP’s financial situation, but if you’re a poor student than these things certainly matter.
If I knew, I'd tell you. I have a master in CS and no FAANG company invited me. FB invited me after a year worth of experience. So if anything, you've taught me something!

I do see people asking recommendations on Team Blind, but I've never tried that. I think programming competitions help for the data structures and algorithms part based on what I just saw.

In any case, thanks for the Google Kickstart tip. This seems like my jam. Feel free to email me so we can code together (email in profile).
Looks great - does anyone know of similar projects and/or more examples with code?
I thought about doing this, but it didn't make any sense for me. The countertop units are inefficient in terms of space compared to regular stovetops. This isn't suprising, due to component sharing, the need for a case, etc. As soon as you regularly use two of them, you might as well have a stovetop.

There are also down considerations of power (wiring and maximum output) and noise (induction units have fans, which are less noticeable in stovetops), safety (accident risk from cables, tilting, etc) and convenience.

It might work if your everyday usage involves zero to one units. Which is certainly possible, if you don't cook much, but even if you are and you're using other heat sources like a rice cooker, oven, grill, microwave, etc.

Not a terrible idea to have one around when you're limited by your normal capacity, or when you want to simmer a stew at a buffet, or your stovetop breaks or you are redoing your kitchen.
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Ask HN: Alternatives to DuckDuckGo?
In light of recent news, DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg suggests the search engine will now filter results based on recent political events [1]. For those considering or aware of alternatives, what are they?

For me, DuckDuckGo was supposed to represent private (not selling user data), unbiased (i.e. apolitical), fast search results. Ideally a replacement would meet as many of these goals as possible. Some alternatives I'm aware of:

* Searx - https://searx.github.io/searx/

* Brave search - https://search.brave.com/

Note this is not a discussion about the morality of DuckDuckGo's recent actions.

[1] https://news.yahoo.com/duck-duck-go-reverses-course-will-dem...
> Flash -> html5

HTML5 is definitely not simpler than Flash was. I'd argue, it's far more complex, if you include all the sub-technologies and frameworks required to reach feature parity.

There was also no "natural" progression from Flash to HTML5. Oracle and the browser vendors had to run an involved depreciation campaign to get developers off flash and move them to HTML5. If you had left the web ecosystem on it's own, my guess is, we'd still be writing flash applications today.

> Perforce, svn, mercurial -> git

This progression was definitely natural, but I doubt again that git is less complex than svn or mercurial. However, one big advantage of git is that it is extremely easy to set up: You can just install it and use it locally without bothering any admins or setting up any servers. Once you are already using it, it's also easy to connect your repo to a server.

So, I'd argue, git has better UX and better availability than the alternatives, but it's not necessarily simpler.