skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you propose to deal with fungi/ bacteria which have no issue digesting lignin?

Likewise, what would your source of lignin material? How do the transportation and processing costs impact your ability to generate the parent materials for this process?
Feynman wrote the notes and delivered the lectures, based on existing source like textbooks. Then it got cleaned up into a book format, and I assume the chalkboard drawings were re-created and expanded.
Otherwise known as a lease, right?
> Serious question: do you ask other vendors (Google, Amazon, Wapo, whoever) you use about HR and internal budgeting choices before deciding to do business with them?

It’s a very common question when you give money to a non-profit, which Mozilla is.
jesus ligotti. go look at a sunset. eat some ice cream. hug a loved one. good lord.
While outdoor masking is silly, the your rage seems disproportionate if that is the source.
I've been accused of 'virtue signaling' during the pandemic, but supporting family members whose immune systems were largely disable from chemotherapy makes putting a mask on seem like a small sacrifice. Your take on 'spare a few years of lifespan' is perhaps not untrue, but is an easy 'internet take' when there is anonymity. It is less cute when one is face-to-face with the disposable person, or to someone who watched a family member die.
Neverball
Why banning men from leaving Ukraine violates their human rights
I don't think ability to speak to a person over the phone is enough.

You need ability to speak to a person who is knowledgeable and can do something about inquiry.
> Obama didn’t get to make such a choice

There is always a choice, and he made his. Choice to bomb and crush Libya in 2014, which became a stone-age bloodbath ever since, choice to invade and bomb Syria in 2014, choice to continue wasting lives and money in Iraq and Afghanistan. These were deliberate decisions, not something inherited from someone.
The desktop trading app from Interactive Brokers is a pretty good Java desktop app which implements its own UI.
> I’m not going to defend US foreign policy, but your false equivalence of US collateral damage and Russian purposefully attacking civilian dwellings only wdilutes any argument you might have been making.

When America murders innocent civilians or starts illegal wars, it’s simply “collateral damage”. When another country does it, it’s “purposefully attacking civilian dwellings”.

This is exactly what I wrote in my post above - the sort of God/righteous complex that Westerners and particularly Americans have about their government, the same Americans who otherwise recognize their government is corrupt, sleazy, “the swamp”, or whatever other names they’ve come up with.

It’s ironic that you responded a post later literally just confirming my claim. :)
Happiness is not getting what you want, it's wanting what you get.
Unwinding a Stack by Hand with Frame Pointers and Orc
Currently seems paying market rates and not getting competent leadership, so something seems amiss.
Same with Django. It feels like the MDN tutorials come from someone that knows more of what you’ll run into when learning it. The Django docs while great have a bit of that “I built this so let me give you ALL the details or a very basic thing”. MSN is right in the middle.
Donations are all fine and dandy, but there are some problems:

- Getting people to donate in a recurring fashion is exceedingly hard. Not impossible (as some patreons prove), but still hard.

- Getting businesses to donate at all, let alone in a recurring fashion, is even harder.

mdn needs money, not just for content, but to keep the lights on. Their content is furthermore aimed largely at "professionals" (and some enthusiasts), meaning convincing businesses to give money is even more important than e.g. is the case with wikipedia or your random youtube content creator.

Businesses are easier to convince to spend money if you offer them something in return. Doesn't really have to be much or something particularly valuable, just something, anything really, that then can be used to justify the expense to management/comptrollers/legal/owners as a "valid" expense.

I personally had people contact me in the past, on more than one occasion, saying they made good use of some code I open sourced in their commercial stuff, and they'd like to gift me something, but they cannot get permission from their employer to transfer any funds unless I formally enter a "consulting" contract (and NDA and yadayada) or officially sell them something. So the best they could do is offer me some company swag and/or a small donation out of their own pocket. So now I own a bunch of T-Shirts and coffee mugs from various companies :P (and I am OK with that, since I never had the intention to profit from that code).

So creating some easy "premium features" may indeed enable mdn to collect more money, especially from businesses, compared to them just asking for donations.

It remains to be seen if that will work for mdn, and if mdn will then use the money "wisely", but I really cannot fault them for their approach so far...
The Value of Recursive Content
waiting for the first post that says this should have been written in rust
Why "Works best with Chrome?" It works fine for me in Firefox.
The long descriptive post ends with "We invite you to try the free trial version or sign up today for a subscription plan that’s right for you."

But... no sign up button.

Two of the internal links point to more info on features, which have a different menu at the top with a 'get mdn plus' button. I guess that's how you're supposed to get it?

Just surprised they felt the need to avoid putting a sign up link on the blog post. Yes, that's a bit rude, I know.
Lol, that's why I added the "or watch the video / read the Forge start page". 50% off right now though! Still thinking through some of these things. Not sure how to let people "try" it without basically giving away all of the value (code, which you can't take back).
This is true whether or not the conversation is public, so somewhat orthogonal to the topic at hand.
Your own x-ray machine... This is on my list of "do not try this at home".
But do crows know that humans know that crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds ?
Honestly, rather than building it from scratch on socket.io, use any existing chat infrastructure - be that Matrix, XMPP or IRC.

My bias would be for Matrix (being project lead thereof); there is a whole new generation of client sdks (eg matrix-rust-sdk) on the horizon which are transformative - likewise massive serverside improvements like v3 sync which will provide instant login & sync (somewhat inspired by Discord). You also get e2ee, decentralisation and bridges to a bazillion other systems too.
I mean that’s pretty concerning for Seattle, not because people will leave but because it means that some percentage of the people who are coming to Seattle won’t care about the city since they’re just in town for four years to make half a million from some tech job and then leave for their cheap Midwest hometown again. It means they won’t really vote for or invest in Seattle’s civic health but will prioritize short term goals only.
Just because it had a cool name, I downloaded Lazarus from my OS's package repos. I was kind of excited that the language it uses was freepascal. That weekend, for fun, I refactored a few of the apps I had built recently to try other methodologies, and it was a blast from the past. As a kid, pascal was a very different experience, and by the time I mowed enough lawns to afford Delphi, everyone had moved to C++.

It hasn't been completely smooth. Doing more modern tasks like HTTP requests are not included, and adding the plugin for it is a little fiddly, but for your basic GUI tasks, it is actually pretty fun, and simple on a level reminiscent of Visual Basic.

I encourage everyone to give it a try, and though you might not make your name writing pascal software in 2022, its fun like driving a car with a stickshift, or using hand tools to build a table. It is an experience worth enduring to experience the appreciation and perspective it provides.

Try it!
Ah yes, FireFox's issue is they're paying Execs below market rate.

If they want to get better market share they should start paying more!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Ol...

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Afaik people's main issues with the exec salary is their poor performance. Why pay "market rate" for "below market performance"?
Fair point. TIL :)
Gold Ingots from 18th-Century Shipwreck Returned to France
Are customers buying desktop apps?

For certain complex tasks (e.g. image/video/audio editing), desktop has advantages. But for the bulk of what most people do on their computers, web apps are good enough and much more convenient. Convenience wins.
> If you are constantly regenerating uncompromised SSH keys, you are probably doing something wrong.

Yup, there's no real reason to generate a new SSH key pair each and every time you want to get a short lived certificate. The SSO or CA management system (like Vault) is responsible for verifying your identity.
What is 'Type II' fun?
Or sledding, using discarded plastic lids, for the sheer fun. I've seen young raven fledglings flinging pinecones at eachother, and there's a sense of play and joy in what they do.

Good for them, the more conscious creatures we share the universe with, the better. Well, the planet, anyway. While we're nominally in charge. If we can avoid screwing everything up too badly.

Actually, hell, can the ravens take over? We seem to be bodging things up just a bit.
Surprised they’re not also shipping a major version that deprecates a bunch of shit. Gitlab is so nice to use, but then they decide to release a bunch of new crap, change everything, and then jack up the price.
No:

(1) Authentication bypass to your email service is already game-over for almost every serious company.

(2) Google (if that's what you're using) has better MFA and access control than what you're going to roll yourself.

(3) Having multiple sources of truth for authentication is a corpsec nightmare, and companies that don't have that invariably wind up accidentally persisting access for departed team members or contractors, and, worse, no single place to consult for a reliable catalog of who has access to what, which is why if you poll CISOs at large-ish tech companies, they'll universally tell you than one of the first 5 things they did when they took over was get SSO stood up.

(4) The "automated key distribution and revocation" system you roll yourself will be jankier and less safe than the certificate-based systems that already exist.

(5) Because that automated key distribution and revocation system does not in fact exist, what you're really saying is that you're going to live with developers having long-lived keys on their laptops.

If you don't trust Google, set up Shibboleth or something; the Google stuff is a sideshow. But the idea that you should manage SSH authentication separately from the rest of your authentication is pretty unserious. I spent about 4 years, recently, parachuting into dozens of mid-sized startups, all of them clueful, and except for the teams that had SSO-linked SSH access, SSH management was invariably a total nightmare. The "just manage SSH directly" approach is, empirically, a failed model.
https://archive.ph/bMhKK
I'm in Europe and I'd happily wear a jacket and a winter cap indoors.

And people could go by bus, subway, ride share, so less oil and gas needed for transportation.

And energy intensive industries could close for a while. Is it really more important to continue producing more cars, for example, than to try to stop the war?
Where is the road made 14 years ago? Does lignin resist fungus/bacteria in a hot humid place like Brazil?
archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20220323035553/https://www.nytim...
Super cool! Where do you see this being used?
Older Americans are given the wrong idea about online safety
Welp, it's basically an unregulated market, so whatever possible is possible. Tax evasion, check. Money laundering check. Ponzi scheme, check.
NATO rockets in Ukraine is a certain death to Russia. There is no choice.
I can identify with this comment a lot. It wasn't that it was great or any type of special technology, it's the memories of all the fun, struggles, and improvement it helped us find along the way.
Hi, can you please not block Firefox Relay for sign-ups, which I use to protect my email address? I don't trust your company with my real email address (I don't trust any company) and I think that's fair.

EDIT: for why you should reconsider blacklisting Relay, one of Relay's developers gives a good answer at https://github.com/wesbos/burner-email-providers/pull/339#is...

Another request: if you used a blocklist found on GitHub I'd really appreciate a link to it so I can make my argument for why Relay deserves to be spared.
There were two ethernet modules available, a 10M one released in Japan and a 10/100 that was available in the US and I think the rest of the world. Of course, they were costly, and there was the issue of software support; I think most games with modem support didn't support the network adapter.

The PS2 and gamecube both had network adapters too, and not much software support (the ps2 network adapter comes with an IDE hard drive interface which opens up interesting possibilities though)
Frelatage: The Python Fuzzer that the world deserves
ML inference on device is another big advantage of desktop just saying
> rich people don't agree with my political views, it must be because they are heartless (cough not because they have statistically higher IQs, no of course not).

Studies show that wealth and IQ aren't strongly correlated. It's questionable if higher IQ informs political beliefs.

> How much more likely is a poor person to murder someone? Beat their wife?

The fact that rich people have other ways of imposing power on someone doesn't change anything. A rich person can sue someone into oblivion as opposed to murdering them. A rich person has a prenup, so they don't have to kill their wife. A rich person doesn't have to beat their wife for not making dinner because dinner not being made because it just gets ordered in.

> poverty really ruins peoples morality and decency. That is a fact.

It's an assertion, not a fact. I haven't seen any studies that support that.
Your pronoun thing makes your text painful to read.
I see the logic of this argument. This would presumably increase the raw number of previously used devices in circulation. It would allow Apple to capture more of the resale market while also growing it as a whole. Right?
I'd expect he's referring to the Cadastro de Pessoas Físicas, just doing so by a more recognizable term.
I share the dislike for “call us for pricing” model.

But in fairness there is a de facto number on this pricing page, and that’s zero. Their free open source plan.

So I give them a bit of credit for that.

It’s the companies that have no free tier or even an advertised monthly cost plan at all and just a “call us for pricing” that I find a real turn off (even in roles where I have been a potential “enterprise” customer). So I’d definitely draw a distinction between the two.
What a difference a few months makes.

Back in November, discount stores such as Ross were worried that they would have a lot of supply chain issues.

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/ross-stores-drops-supply...
Do you apply the same rigorous standards to all your purchases?

Do you refuse to buy a drink or a pair of shoes or a travel ticket unless you can ensure that "not a single cent goes to execs" who get "absurdly high, grossly underserved salaries while they butcher the company all the way down"?

Or do you think the Mozilla execs are _uniquely_ greedy to a degree not comparable to that of the execs of Nestlé, Nike, etc.?

(EDIT: This is assuming that you actively want to purchase MDN Plus. If you don't care about the perks but would purchase it solely as a donation, then it's understandable if you give a higher scrutiny to charities than to sellers.)
If you think Svelte is magic, wait until you see how hooks work.
Predilection to addiction isn't a recognized medical condition like diabetes or heart failure. There is no diagnosis code for it. Some people seem more prone to addiction and there may be some genetic risk factors but anyone can become an addict.
Whereas the nut cracking is cool for the intelligence shown towards survival, the one that truly astounds me is intelligence for the sake of having fun. Crow skiing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WupH8oyrAo
And that's why you don't get your term definitions from people that don't understand it.
Is this what Apple’s customers really want? Im not sure. Personally, I like to own things outright.

Americas economy is in a rat race where large corporations must demonstrate year over year growth. This is incentivizing this dark pattern behavior, where ultimately, the consumer will lose.
It's annoying that the politicians don't seem to think about this. Are they worried that they'd get fever votes?

What if everyone wrote to their politicians (in one's respective country) and said that they'd happy wear extra clothes indoors
What Rich Harris said sounds very nice and interesting, but I'd take issue with it being "not the best solution for a scalable UI." As long as the slowdown caused by the Virtual DOM remains below limits of human perception, it doesn't really matter whether something can do without Virtual DOM or not.
Fortunately, GitLab is open core, and I have only used the features in it that are available as Open Source, so if I need to migrate, I can migrate to my own, self-host, system. And that is why I avoid free offerings that aren't open source. I also avoid paying for non-open source saas... because you never know when they will raise the price or make other changes that make it no longer work for you.

Moral of the story is- use and buy open source! Not open core.
Where Journalists Prepare for the Worst the World Can Throw at Us
> Look at all the controversy and major media coverage over the the Reinhart and Rogoff paper, which was undermined by some majors data collection errors that were later pointed out. This was a major deal at the time.

HAP made a ton of noise (in specialist circles) certainly. But was it a "major deal"? Was RR really "undermined"?

I see no major change in policy as a result, and popular wisdom among the intelligent-but-lagging public, seems to still that public debt drags on growth. (RR has been near the front of my mind this week as a CEO I know mentioned it and was totally unaware it had been so completely "undermined" a decade prior.)
It's frighteningly easy for children to get their hands on materials like arsenic and thallium. All they need is a credit card and a YouTube tutorial helpfully walking them through the dosage.

I used to share your perspective. Then I ended up with a [step]kid whose only interests in medicine and engineering keep me awake at night.
If you want the history behind early Windows, read "Barbarians Lead by Bill Gates." Windows 1.0 a direct response to a demo from VisiCorp for a graphical desktop environment called "Visi On" [1] in 1982.

Some other things in that book that I learned: Microsoft passed on the opportunity to use Postscript. Windows running in protected mode started as someone's summer skunkworks project at a time when the company assumed that OS/2 was the actual future.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visi_On
FTA: Challenge everyone in your group to shake hands, but only with an odd number of people.

Also FTA: Once you shake hands, one of your friends will have an even number of handshakes, and now the game must resume.

The observant reader/nitpicking mathematician will notice a subtle difference here. The constraint given isn’t to make an odd number of handshakes, it’s to make handshakes with an odd number of people.

The problem as posed is easily solved for any number of people. Just let everybody shake their own hand. That way, everybody shakes hands with one person (twice, but that’s allowed according to the problem description)

You can use this example as a lesson to show that, in maths, having precise definitions matter. Does “a graph” allow such self-links? Would it allow multiple links between two nodes?
Than you for that link. It seems like that is quite interesting and relevant, as from that article I learned about the terms episodic (autobiographical) and semantic (factual) memory. I have terrible episodic memory, but my semantic memory seems to be okay for technical subjects.
> better privacy/security than a webapp.

It's the complete opposite and one of the reasons I prefer to use a comparable web app over a native desktop app. Installing an app requires way more trust into it than using a web app that runs inside a heavily restricted sandbox.

As for why I also like to prefer developing web apps, that's because the available tools make web development more productive. Checking changes to the source is near-instant by simply pressing F5 in the browser, and the dev tools in browsers are some of the best you can get for debugging.
Those are ramifications one should consider when deciding to do either of those things. Having done one of those, I wish I had done the other. No one can make you happy but you, so the best predictor of happiness is having the independence to pursue your own interests.
Convincing people to install an application compared to getting them to visit a website is a serious multiplier in terms of friction.

What's the point of building an app if you can't convince anyone to install it?
Andrew Sullivan always publishes dissents responding to his previous arguments on his Substack. And sometimes makes clarifying comments or counter arguments engaging with the criticism. Or sometimes just accepts the correction.

It's always one of the best parts of what he publishes.
You do have to pay for Qt if your app isn't open source.
Do you work for Nvidia?
Because these objects were defined earlier in Kubernetes' history the fields have inconsistent names and defaults. In Secret there is a canonical data field which stores bytes and a stringData field which will convert text to bytes for you. ConfigMap has separate data (text) and binaryData (bytes) fields which are both canonical.

If the interface were redesigned today, Secrets would probably look like a renamed clone of ConfigMap.
Even very well written Electron apps consume a lot more battery and memory and are less responsive than very well written native apps. It's the nature of the technology.
For us, we see it as just a novel way to send cash. How it functions, these transactions are for the most part untraceable as well. Having run apps where cashouts can take a lot of time, this is a way we can make a better user experience
Bullwhip effect in action!
its not really the kind of cultural shift you think it is, the world gets more and more competitive each day and if you view this from the perspective of a high schooler, you can see its not as easy as it was 10 or 20 years before, the motivation is not just for fun or have money to spend on "wants", its rather money to survive in this world where competitiveness is too high for some, as a fellow high schooler i say this
What about the silence between notes? Copyrighted or no? Their Jingle Bells sounds horrible with no silent spaces.
My license from 1999 is still valid. I originally purchased it for doing slide scanning on an LS-2000 and once I stopped shooting film I did not use vuescan until a few years ago when I needed to do a bunch of flatbed scans. I was pleased (and rather surprised) that it still worked. I then purchased a standard edition license as a thank you for what to my mind was a remarkably principled commitment to his promise of a lifetime license.
Its source tracker + issue tracker. Literally software designed to solve the problem of how multiple people collaborate writing code.

I think this thread is losing track of what the word "collaborate" means. Its not about emoijis and cat memes