skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is the same for any disease spreading that way like the flu right? I do not want to get the flu either (I never had it badly; worst I had anything, including mono, was a mild cold. Oh and cancer, mild as well luckily, but I mean viruses). So why did we ever go to an office? Or school? I got my uni degrees and the tail of high school almost without ever going to classes. I studied and now work (for the past 30 years) in coffee shops and bars (sitting outside, always, even in winter) and have a rich social life because of it; I don’t and never did understand this forced cattle herding of people. And then even some people seem to enjoy it.
I think you have it completely backwards. You should not involve yourself in any war that you don’t personally want to fight and maybe die in. You do NOT have to take a side. You can oppose the war, or one or both sides, even vocally, without entangling yourself in the war.

If you choose to become an actor in a war, then you also open yourself up to being attacked. There is only one kind of actor in a war- combatant.

Consider the maintainer who did the “delete all files on servers with Russian IP addresses.” This could be construed as an act of war against Russia. Would Russia be wrong to commit acts of war against this person? If the server performed some life critical task like operating hospital equipment or air traffic control or whatever, this change could have resulted in loss of life (so many mistakes in using JavaScript in such cases but set that aside for a moment). If lives were lost as a result, would Russia be wrong to use lethal force against the maintainer?

Disclaimer (sad that you have to add this these days; it should go without saying): I only use this as an example. I think Putin is a thug and I think that it goes against most westerners’ values, mine included, for nation states to preemptively invade other nation states. I’m not apologizing for or justifying any act by Russia. I have deep sympathy for people in Ukraine who just want to live their lives and not be killed or have their stuff destroyed.
> You can activate a developer mode and install any extensions you want to.

You mean a full feature-complete devtools like what you'd find in the desktop version of firefox?!

If so, then it's a life saver. The only other browser that I'm aware of that offers full devtools on android is kiwi, but that browser force-disables ublock origin and other extensions on some sites.
I'm a longtime user of Google App Engine / Cloud Datastore / Firestore and wrote a Java ORM for that environment that has achieved some popularity. I really like the datastore for some applications, but there's a pretty good chance that it's a bad fit for you. While I'm only casually familiar with your problem domain, it seems at first glance like the kind of thing that would scale reasonably well in a traditional RDBMS. You could would get a lot of value from joins and aggregations, and you don't really have zillions of elements changing all at once.

I could probably give you some advice on how to use the datastore better (most of which would be along the lines of "don't denormalize, store foreign keys and use batch key fetches instead") but it might just be the wrong tool for the job. If you want to talk about it, contact info is on my profile.
oh I see, I am surprised this is even allowed under EU regulation.
Your Distracted Co-Worker Is Probably on Zillow
Yeah - Supabase would be my leading bet, if we had to pick a Postgres variant. Would be especially excited for their GraphQL plugin becomes ready: https://supabase.com/blog/2021/12/03/pg-graphql
The universe was opaque up to about 380,000 years after the Big Bang. If the universe loops in on itself and is large enough then wouldn't we be blocked by that? And the further you go back from there the higher the density would be.
Yeah, baidu was even worse. I asked my Chinese tech colleagues how the hell they got anything done at all with baidu and they said they just read manuals and don’t search. This was hardware and embedded, so cannot speak for other disciplines.

And yes, I recognise your name from previous posts; you spent quite a lot of time in China right? I was in Suzhou for about 4 years. And after that HK for 2.
> The principles of universality of access irrespective of hardware or software platform, network infrastructure, language, culture, geographical location, or physical or mental impairment are core values in Web design

Tim Berners-Lee https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Architecture.html (1998)
The buses in my small town all had radios (and quite a bit of chatter between drivers, as I recall). Were you in a district with very long distances or geography where that wouldn’t have been feasible?
That page has been deleted. Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20220204230556/https://eng.mil.r...
I run https://weatherdownloader.oikolab.com where you can download this data (no visualization) as time-series for a given location, although it's based on reanalysis data instead of station data.
Coding COBOL: A Note on Strings
It's going to be fascinating seeing how this who episode was handled once the dust settles.
Exactly, I'd rather work from home or from a wework or something, and then meet my coworkers for actual sessions of collaborations (or outside at a bar, or something)
> Source: data from two surveys, made by the group of independent Russian sociologists, obtained by Radio Svoboda

It would be nice if there was a link to those sources. This isn't worth much more than "trust me bro"
I agree in part, at least the quote often applied to Henry Ford “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses” rings true. But I think that only really applies to the core innovation, actually turning that into a viable business requires a lot of customer understanding and getting user feedback is key to that. Rob Fitzpatrick's book "The Mom Test" explains how to get actually useful feedback from users.
Bonus points: if you realize that you get annoyed from having to tab through the navigation every time, add a skip link at the beginning of the page.
If there were more public toilets, there'd be fewer public urination. The law is there to catch the few that do it.

But if there's tonnes of public urination because there are no public toilets, then even tho the law says no, people are still going to do it. There's a demand to pee that cannot be stopped.

The idea that airbnb should be outlawed is irrelevant - the fact is that there's demand for it. This means there's a lack of short term rentals in the area. The demand must be satisfied, and so the price of it grows.
Toplev is a godsend (thank you Andi Kleen!). If you work with perf you'll love this.

https://github.com/andikleen/pmu-tools/wiki/toplev-manual
There is a free COBOL compiler to C located at https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/ it can do IBM Mainframe COBOL instructions and JCL.
Military spending isn’t like buying groceries. The US Military is a jobs program. Even a failed program fulfills this purpose. No amount of spending is “wasted”.
Unpopular Opinion: Bicycles are far too dangerous for humans to drive. Collisions are inevitable and when they do happen, they can be debilitating.

For me, it's never worth the risk.

Everybody I know who rides bikes long enough has a story to tell.
This is hilarious coming from the NYTimes.
Consider that, even for two people who die at the same age, the one who is sick for many years before dying probably incurs more healthcare costs.
The Art of Hiding Information – Johannes Trithemius' Steganography (2020)
Wire fraud is a massive problem. I recently bought a house and I was given very specific instructions about how to verify the wire destination and it was made quite clear that if I was taken in by a fraudster I would never get my money back. Lots of money, like buy a house lots of money. Almost zero chance I would get my money back.

Have you ever worked a retail/food chain job and gotten to see how many CC transactions are invalid/fraudulent resulting in the business losing money? I worked at a pizza place where 5-10% of CC transactions were bogus (college town). Checks were more like 20%.

All financial transactions are trust relationships. Some are higher trust than others. If you could buy groceries at Wal-Mart or a new iPhone from apple.com with bitcoin you would have no concern about that. If you send money to a rando on the internet, well it doesn't matter all that much whether it's crypto or dollars.

Sometimes you will have third party intermediaries, like VISA, who will offer certain guarantees/insurance for a fee. It's as simple as that.

It's silly to compare transactions with known/trusted entities like a physical business or trusted insurance provider/intermediary like VISA with sending your money to a random anonymous bitcoin address. You would not generally be wiring money to a random anonymous bank account either.
Considering Chrome has a built-in updater, is it even possible to continue on an old version without having to compile yourself?
I would prefer D, but I ended up using C++ for one of my projects because it has all the libraries, and these smaller languages only have bindings for some of them.

So my answer is: if you can do all you need in the base language, something more modern like D-lang is preferred, but if you need some particular library, you either have to add all the bindings yourself, or use C++.
top % income earners aren't the top wealth owners. One should examine the rate of wealth growth (not just via income, but via other forms of gains, such as capital gains and business income). I bet you will find that the top 2% income earners are barely even the top 50% wealth gainers that year.
coworking spaces?
> How would the lawmakers responsible for the ADA have magically conjured the money necessary for every agency to comply?

How would you feel if the government passed a law that every restaurant must set aside 2 tables with a special HEPA circulation and sterilization system just in case someone immune compromised wishes to eat there? Or perhaps you need that HEPA system so that unvaccinated individuals can be isolated. (just to make sure I offend both sides of the political spectrum)

This is equivalent to what ADA laws do.

Don't get me wrong. I really like ADA laws (having a broken ankle drives this home quite painfully). However, I like ADA laws that apply strongly to entities with lots of money and much more weakly to the small players.

I want WalMart, Starbucks, the state government and the megaconglomerate behind an apartment complex to have to adhere to the full battery of ADA laws. I'd like my local mom-and-pop coffeeshop, by contrast, to have a lot of latitude. The big boys have enough power--we don't need to give them yet another way to cudgel those who might compete with them.
I'm not sure I would have described the last twenty years or so as a high watermark of global stability and accord.
Government can't discriminate but people can. Someone says something you don't like, cancel them and make them lose their job. Ask Brandon Eich about donating to the wrong charity. He had to resign over the protest. Meanwhile the right ban books in school libraries.
All the weird American candy stores in London that never have any customers have suddenly shut up shop since the Ukraine invasion.

There's also this photo of a pit within one of the stores being filled with cement just before being shutting down: https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/tebfqa/almost_all_o...

I've been trying to find out more about what was going on other than money laundering but haven't been able to find much
In VCs, there is a technical term for this called "Product Led Growth" (PLG).

Prominent examples are Figma, Slack and Zoom.

More info: https://www.getcorrelated.com/blog/what-is-product-led-growt...
I think Microsoft replaced SSH in vscode remote, part of the motivation being that the default SSH port (22?) is often blocked on corporate networks. I believe they use websockets instead, and I wonder if that might help with the problems associated with putting your computer to sleep and resuming your work (and connection)?
I keep reading those comments that almost nobody wants to go to the office. In my (European) company, maybe ~80 SWEs, people were given the choice to either mostly go to back to the office (4 out of 5 days) or mostly work from home (3 out of 5 days at home, hot desking in the office). After 2 years of mostly having no choice and being forced out of the office, 80% of them decided to mostly work from the office after the pandemic. We always had a handful people working fully remote, and I think 1 or 2 asked if they could switch to that permanently to be able to live somewhere else. But otherwise people mostly want to be in the office. Notably people outside engineering seem to prefer WFH much more. I wonder why we are so special.
https://github.com/RIAEvangelist/node-ipc/issues/308

Draw your own conclusions about authenticity but it doesn't sound implausible.
is it? people who wish to remain at home are most likely more introverted than the opposite.
Maybe a shorter life is a feature if it adds capability. JWST was built to further investigate discoveries made with Hubble. Presumably whatever comes after JWST will similarly drill into discoveries we are about to make.
>We have much better results with similar hardware...

I should have included in the original comment this machines needs 60% to 70% CPU to play VP9 on similar bitrate / bit / frames. i.e Decoding on VP9 and AV1 are on a similar level of CPU usage. Considering the complexity of AV1, I thought this was an incredible achievement. ( It actually blows my mind this can be done )

I tested it on with 8 and 10 bit content the result aren't that much different. ( This is just eyeballing CPU usage in Activity Monitor ) The 3.3 Ghz was turbo, so it really should be 2.9Ghz Dual Core Broadwell CPU.
Don’t do that, you end up with the torture that is live imports.

Clear labelling about where they were grown, and where the butchering was done will go a long way towards helping people make informed decisions.
I seem to remember being able to do this years and years ago. Then it was taken away. Am i wrong?
> who are willing to go to 105% to do?

i too, want to only pay less money than the highest bidder for the mona lisa.

There's no such thing as 105%. By definition, iBuyer paying "120%" is the true 100%. If they overpay, they lose when there's no buyer after them to sell to, and their debt will not be serviceable. At that time, the "105%" buyer could buy at a lower price.
There isn't a single scenario for any product or service anywhere that will get every Internet user to pay a monthly fee - not even for 1¢ a month.
Do you have a resource that explains this is more detail?
Reminds me of something I had noticed: There are a lot of occupations that previously (sometimes long ago) required a good bit of expertise and a good bit of thinking that nowadays have been placed under managers who took the thinking (and very often fake the experience doing the work they plan or have outdated experience)

For some barely logical reason the more complicated work and the higher salary came with a kind of military authority position that use to be reserved for the level above or (longer ago) didn't exist.

This gets interesting where management tasks, like all other tasks, need to be optimized. If it is the same person doing both the tasks and the planning optimization happens naturally. A is compared to B, one goes over the advantages and disadvantages of either and makes a choice.

But now the manager has to chose between his own comfort and/or the effort he has to make and that of his underlings and the actual productivity. I don't think we need numbers to know what most would chose when the options are themselves or others. Its a damn hard choice to make objectively.

But the thing is, didn't we get these big brain high salary guys to make everyone under them work more efficiently? I think comfort in a job makes the largest contribution to productivity out of all factors. At one end of the scale people just start walking off at the other you get the [rare] unimaginable performance only seen in people who love what they are doing.

WFH is going to make management that much harder but also more valuable. If one is not excited about that the job seems to have evolved beyond capabilities.

What more do we need than the employee himself stating: "I cant do the work like this" in a context where we know others are doing it with great success.

Video chat is like the way PDF tries to replicate the paper office. I'm sure people are already building parsers for video chat and failing to match organized exchanges.

I imagine some kind of analogy with using whatsapp as a bug tracker. Surely it would kinda work to some extend? You would be able to find things you know are in the log but if you don't know it is there it is going to be a huge waste of time. If the person filling the ticket has the tools to make that extra inch of effort it saves the person on the other end of it a mile of scrolling.

A water cooler is designed to provide cups of water. It is only suppose to do one thing and it does it well.
Code added to popular NPM package wiped files in Russia and Belarus
Having the illusion of control and illusion of good management more than power I think.

I once taught a course and the first thing I was told was to look for a green glow on people's faces: it meant people were playing solitaire on the class computers instead of listening.

A whole lot of managers knows only the work equivalent of that: they've learnt simple proxies for actual management that let them think they know when people are working well from walking rooms (or having people reporting to them do so).

People working from home means they actually have to figure out how to track output, and that takes effort. Effort many managers are not used to.

I had to learn a whole lot to start managing remote and distributed teams. It takes away a whole lot of lazy shortcuts to management.

Lucky for me I was forced to deal with that many years ago, but it was uncomfortable and a big change, so I'm not at all surprised that many resist it now.
Musk's net worth is tied to his companies. I m not sure how much he can liquidate in a severe downturn without losing control of any company.

Lots of people will be paying attention.
I agree entirely. It's not like JWST components were built from diamonds or something where the material costs dominated the budget.

It wouldn't surprise me if there were already more than one made for many of the bespoke components used in the telescope. Nobody makes a one-off component without some iteration and covering of their own ass in case something goes awry in shipping or assembly.
Why would that result in changes in their political system? And sorry but your last sentence is clearly coming from a very... western perspective. It's only true until it's you actually face hardship. I'm sure for most people security is more important than ideology or freedom; even in the west we saw in the past 2 years that a huge chunk of the population was willing to trade pretty much any right or freedom in exchange for safety.

There's just no need to pretend it's for their own good when it's trivially easy to prove that sanctions rarely lead to the end of a dictatorship. Just look at Cuba,Iran,NK or even venezuala.
Faculty hiring is outdated in a lot of ways - it takes a really long time, there is a very high burden on the candidate, in terms of preparing teaching and research statements, and often arranging for reference letters to be sent directly, and no real reciprocity from the university (I mean they can ask for a lot and give nothing in return). Also, faculty positions (at least STEM disciplines) don't pay well compared to many jobs.

I was wondering if we'd start to see changes in the process, as universities must be losing the best candidates to industry jobs. Apparently they've gone a different direction. This implies there must be a glut of PHDs willing to work for free to get the experience. But I'd expect this would no be attracting top graduates, it looks more like a remedial way for people with money to get experience.
Good point. The true numbers appear to be closer to the mid-60s [1] but Washington Post [2] and CNN [3] both report numbers closer to 50.

Which ever of the polls you choose to believe, this is not a war largely unsupported by its citizens.

[1] https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/03/07/russia-s-tricky-opin...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/08/russia-publi...

[3] https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2022/02/europe/russia-ukrain...
> concerns about the safety of free and open source software

That sounds like phrasing intended to cause anti-FOSS FUD. There's nothing about FOSS that makes it more susceptible to this than proprietary software is.
Supabase's pricing is $25/project/month. I wish it scaled with use instead.
hmm, Can't see any way to browse what winget offers... and there's mentions of needing a MS account from skimming the MS docs?

I'll stick to chocolatey, if you've a neat & tidy solution for gathering the configs up, I'd be happy to hear about it.
That was my fist thought. The second one is, who has any use for such precision. Other than companies that do hft of course.
I love watching the ISS feed they stream on the app sometimes. It’s fun to make the room all dark and have it up on the TV, it’s super tranquil.
So... Sony's rootkit was a-okay in your opinion? Or have you just not given any thought to your position at all? Because that seems to be pretty common among utilitarians who are somehow perpetually surprised by blowback and "unintended consequences". It really strains credulity, the whole "unintended" defense, when you've got people pointing to the predictable outcome. Analogies are rarely helpful in technical discussions, but who knows - maybe this time will be different: boobytraps. Boobytraps are a major no-no, and have been for a very long time, regardless of whatever mitigating circumstances you can dream up (deep in your property, posted warnings, etc). This node dependency was a boobytrap. You can try and justify it by pointing to licenses, concepts of developer IP ownership, etc - it is still a boobytrap. There is no talking your way out of it, in the same way that you wouldn't be able to talk your way out of injuring a trespasser who scaled your fence and triggered a mousetrap rigged 12ga-shell while breaking into your storage shed. This case is even worse - its more like allowing the public to wander onto your property for years to access your free petting zoo, before one day deciding to bury landmines all over the place and post a sign informing people that you take no responsibility for the resulting carnage.
Your honour, leading the witness.

Everyone is not using Google.
AIUI if any one mirror fails then they can continue on with degraded performance, it wouldn't mean the immediate end of the telescope's usefulness.
Do you also not drive a car because of the risk? Humans have to get places quickly, and a bike is a great bit of technology. (I also just simply enjoy riding my bike.)

Given the choice between choosing one mode of transportation for all, would you still say the same about bikes? The number of road deaths involving cars makes a pretty compelling case that cars are much harder for humans to control than bikes.[1] 38,680 people died because humans can’t be trusted in cars. I’d even wager that bike accidents and deaths would be fewer if cyclists didn’t share the road with humans in cars.

1-https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/2020-fatality-data-show...