skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW I don't block non-HTTP2, but at some point that 4.8% who can't use it will be much smaller and if you are still turning it off you will be part of an increasingly insignificant population.

It is not dissimilar to measures that will have the side effect of stopping apps working on IE - I wouldn't in DayJob¹ but I'd not think twice on a personal project. I don't have time to care that much about people with very non-standard or very out-of-date setups, if accidentally blocking them is a side effect of a benefit I might feel. Added benefit: blocking them effectively removes potentially difficult users from the support queue!

And to some, that 4.8%+4.8%+… doesn't overlap their target audience enough that losing the few in both categories isn't really a problem in the grand scheme of things.

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[1] some of our clients still have users using IE11 even though we no longer officially support it² so we still don't want anything other than minor display & performance issues there ATM

[2] of course we will for more money, if someone wants to pay us to address said minor display & performance issues
Hmm
Military Watch Magazine places China into "TIER ONE MILITARY POWERS" list
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/forceapp/countries/

Do you have any source saying that China's military is not as strong as it appears to be?
It's for sure a Nikola Motors situation.
And we all know which 2 political groups oversaw the export of labour to foreign lands... Maybe if the population was interested in actual change it would stop with three political theatre and vote for the things which impact them most...
> Couldn't a similar accusation be levied against a lot of other hyper-growth startups, eg Uber? They were heavily subsidizing rides to grow and might not actually have a workable model if the subsidies are removed.

Yes. Yes it could, and it must. Uber lost over 20 billion dollars over 10 years. It's not a business. It's a speculation and price dumping vehicle.
US adds 528,000 jobs, almost back to pre-pandemic levels
Some analysis I was reading suggested that the biggest driver in the increasing cost in universities was caused by the proliferation of different majors and classes (basically, these additional classes drove down the student/teacher ratio, even while most core classes remained full).

By offering niche degrees, modern universities are screwing over students in two ways:

- adding to their costs in the present

- narrowing the range of career opportunities in the future

By focusing on only the most useful degrees, a university could very easily compete on price and expected value.
So it looks like the site pushes solar as a huge benefit but, if you look closer, they are actually being clear its not "unlimited range because sun", its just a boost on top of the plug in charging.

Specs say "up to 70km" of additional solar range per day; which I'm assuming is perfect alignment of the sun with the panels for the whole day. So realistically it'd be 10km (or 3%ish of the total plugin range) if its a cloudless day and you park in full sun (this is a wild guess but seems realistic).

If you ask me, its not a huge boost, but its more than I would have expected.
My experience in the aerospace industry may or may not be more widely applicable, but here are my two cents.

Using "better more safe programming languages" generally gets you [some greater level of] memory safety and thread safety. Developing for safety-critical embedded systems with a single thread and no dynamic memory allocation renders those benefits irrelevant. There are still concerns around type safety, but full compiler warnings and strict code review, both of which we need regardless, handle that.

We also need to be able to certify not only that our source code matches our requirements, but that our binaries match our source code. Compiling with --c99 --debug -O0 gives us a highly visible link between each line of source code that goes into the compiler and the assembly instructions that come out of the compiler. We know exactly what the computer is actually doing, not just what we think we've told it to do. The various "better" languages all get "better" via more powerful and clever (read: complex and opaque) compilers, which is a no-go in our field.

With little benefit and impermissible cost to the alternatives, and the breadth and depth and longevity of the resources and support available for it, there's no sane choice for us but C.
That will help adoption of Lambda. The primary point of serverless (financially-wise) is trading fixed costs for variable costs.

But once you reach certain scale, it becomes cheaper to manage your own resources.

With tiered pricing, this moment will be pushed further into the future of a project.
your application page tried to make me label pictures to send resume lol
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Twitter!

I hang out in corners of physics, ML, EA, and Progress Studies Twitter and have made some great connections that have turned into real friendships IRL.

Often the next step after meeting on Twitter is setting up a video chat to have a deeper conversation together, but eventually I like to set up nice walk and talks on hikes or around cities.

I now have great friends that I make an effort to see in person in cities around the US and Europe!
(The submitted title was "You Shouldn’t Use Modals" but we changed it to the article title, which is less baity, per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
Yes! I think about it more in terms of the career challenge facing the engineer. These are often correlated with years of experience, but not always.

We categorize all content in Taro based on level, company, and topic, so it should be easy to find what's relevant for you.
And engage in political propaganda.
I am too old. In 1980s if you buy motherboard you have to buy asus. Ever if it is built, asus.

Not sure these days as more a mac person … except my pc is running i9 still asus. Never have motherboard issues. Just sample of one but so far so good.
I would also interpret it as "I'm okay with any time between, say, 23:00 on Sunday 20th to 05:00 on Sunday 21st.
Node's threading model is process based message passing. So when you say node based multithreading what you're actually saying is spinning up a worker process to pass a message to.

As far as people using Node wrong goes, there is an absolutely astonishing plurality of ways to shoot yourself in the foot with it, and there is no way whatsoever to reliably import something foreign to your codebase without reading docs/dependency trees/etc...

Then you have the nightmare of trying to get people to think in event loops, because node (fundamentally) turns any backend task into a browser execution model pretending to be a backend function.

I'm not saying it's the wrong thing for your use case, but I can totally relate to why management/programmers from other paradigms have so much damn trouble wrapping tgeir head around JS.
Yes! I'm looking forward to a return of the age of trade secrets, No patent system, just corporations doing their best to keep their arcane knowledge from prying hands. Very cyberpunk.
Title changed now. More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32359457
It depends on how you design your software and where the API surfaces are and how isolated the pieces can be made to be.

Which, if you're writing unit tests at the same time as the unit under test, leads naturally to pro-isolation, pro-modular designs, which are both easier to test, more reliable and generally have a more concise purpose.
We have a roof top solar array that does peak 3500 Watts. Its not unsubstantial. But with the electric car (say about 4 miles/kwh) , we estimated about 12 miles of charge per day.
I'm going to echo what someone else mentioned and suggest diving into the Django source. I think it's a really well done, well organized code base. They are always in need of contributors for various issues, maybe you could investigate a bug or two. Anyway, this is what was recommended to me when I wanted to "level up" my Python experience, and I think I learned a lot by doing it.
So, here's some cringe I didn't expect to read today:

>"Tragically, following the festival, there were also reportedly allegations of rape.... You couldn’t go more than five minutes without seeing a topless woman being fondled by a random stranger.

>With all of that said... there were still some beautiful moments during the concert’s last day."

Yikes.
I think there are a number of American-made or western-made products on the market. Everything from plates and dishes from Costa Nova to barbells from Rogue Fitness to honey from apiaries in Pennsylvannia. I’m not sure but I think Patagonia produces a lot of their clothing outside of China as well. An iPhone? Not so much today, but that doesn’t have to be true forever.

I think the case is that most people don’t actually care, and most people can’t be bothered to look at the origin of the products they’re buying. And I think unfortunately most people would rather have a $1,000 iPhone instead of an $1,800 iPhone.

It’s kind of like gas prices. You see the reaction once they went higher. Frankly I think it’s bewildering how cheap gas is considering what it is, what goes into producing the product, and what it takes to get it to the gas pumps. And that says nothing of the negative externalities of course. But cheaper than a gallon of milk from a farmer nearby? Always surprising to me. Every time I think about it I think the “real” price is probably like $30-$40/gallon.
Who turned the Ubuntu save dialog into a full screen modal? Is there a way to fix it?

It's so painful that I might even get of my ass and contribute, but knowing open source, it's equally likely that this is a politics problem, not a code problem.
I don't think a steam explosion would be enough for a mass meat ejection. Stars regularly undergo fusion and that isn't enough for mass ejection unless it it becomes a runaway process in the case of Stellar death
You'll find them in every pursuit.

Just pick one that interests you and involves being social - it is a little hard to find the ones who are happy mastering living in the woods by themselves, nor will they be thrilled to see you if you do find them :)
In my experience Nix works pretty great for developer environments when you don't previously have anything more than manually configured dev servers. (In general Nix is much easier to buy into if you don't already extensively use Docker, k8s, etc.)

For smaller teams with less experienced developers any tool is going to have a fairly high learning curve. Instead of having everyone learn Nix or Docker, it's very easier to have a few, more Linux experienced devs configure servers and devshells using Nix while providing simple TUI for developers to access various tools.

There are some headaches, if you want to use a full NixOS environment then there are some complications with tools like VSCode and NodeJS that download dynamically linked binaries but its terrible difficult to workaround.
Asking for sources while not providing the ones you claim to have is kind of ironic.

If you check Taiwanese opinion polls https://esc.nccu.edu.tw/PageDoc/Detail?fid=7801&id=6963 you'll see that there's a plurality of opinions. People who want independence outnumber people who want unification, but the majority prefers to keep the status quo, for now or forever.
Evaluating Kubernetes Development Tooling
I am currently building a end consumer device using LORAWAN. It sends you a push notification upon receiving mail in your mailbox. It also uses helium, because the network coverage is quite good. https://notific.at - i think end user use cases are the key to make the business model behind Helium work. The fact that helium was able to scale within 1 year what TTN had to do in 8 years is quite the proof for me that paying gateway owners some kind of revenue is the way to scale the network coverage.
The vast majority of Samsung phones are made in Vietnam, India, and South Korea. Samsung Mobile no longer owns factories in China, though they may or may not contract out manufacturing for low end phones for the local China market.
We're designed for software engineers and we're specifically not designed for code monkeys :)
Well, Germany is now being ridiculed for thinking that investment, fair trade (e.g. buying Russian gas), and bringing Russia into the established international organizations would result in its liberalization. Actually for China the writing has been on the wall far longer than for Russia (remember Tienanmen Square?), but hey, China is a much more important economic player than Russia, so let's continue ignoring it...
First, my reply was to your retort of "perhaps" to GP's shaming of Apple. It's not perhaps, they should be shamed.

Second, I was talking about the textile industry both in the past and today, ie: the transatlantic slave trade and Ughyur slave labor in China today.

Sometimes you can't boycott because the entire industry is doing the morally corrupt thing.

I and many people I know avoid Chinese products, but sometimes it's impossible. At the same time we can also voice our concern.

There's not much a normal person can do other than boycott and protest, and I'm suggesting both. You're suggesting only one.
You definitely don't want to flip a burger multiple times. There is a drastic difference in quality. They advocate it cooks the middle more, but the real trick is to move the burger to the side of grill that is off and close the lid to cook it like an oven.

It's a rule in many kitchens I've been in to only flip once, because you don't want to lose the juices from the fat.
Interesting how you can take a horror story and come out feeling good. Lowered expectations...
> with the gift of hindsight, #MeToo, etc

You can judge the past by modern values, but you’ll never understand it by doing that.
Can you imagine what would happen if BofA announced a successful acquisition of another bank, only to admit 2 years later it never happened?

Heck, let's make it any real company that's not involved in shady crypto bull?
I built my router and NAS from NixOS. It was a mostly pleasant experience. Being able to sit in an IDE on my laptop, and build up a server, incrementally pushing changes to it, with rollback if necessary, was great, and I wouldn't want to go back to anything else.

I wrote about the router here. It's pretty heavy on router stuff, and my own thoughts though...

https://www.jjpdev.com/posts/home-router-nixos/
Already preparing some popcorn. This will be fun to watch.
As long as you're going down hill the range is infinite!
Not sure how I’m deciding certain standpoints when it’s convenient for me. There’s a big difference on acknowledging the past as a understanding of where we are today compared to justifying your actions of today morally based on the past decisions of others. The difference is this, “People in our past did some really shitty things, we acknowledge it, and it put us in our current position” vs “Someone in the past did shitty stuff, so it’s totally cool for me to be equally shitty”. Once again, your argument is textbook whatsboutism. Why
it’s a fallacy is because all your examples is trying to deflect your moral deficiencies on the basis of others. The conversation should be steered to on the morality of IP theft. Not whether others have done it or not.
The problem here is that the bitcoin miners are very likely driving up electricity prices for everyone else while generating very little economic activity and value for the community. The millions of dollars that these miners are getting to turn off their rigs is quite literally coming from other rate payers. And the additional demand on the grid when they are operating is almost certainly pushing up prices outside of a handful of periods where they maybe significant excess electricity supply.

In your example, a casino may have questionably social utility, but it does provide local jobs. And an aluminum smelter may be fairly automated, but it provides significant economic value. Bitcoin mining provides neither of these things.
There's basically two tips here. The first is to throw money at the problem, nice beef, nice bun, etc, etc and the second is to actually season your burger.

Cooking a burger isn't rocket science. All the typical tips and tricks that you'd apply to most other beef dishes apply to it. But slaving over a fucking burger kinda defeats the point. It's a dish that's very tolerant of loose cooking procedure and you'd be a fool to not take advantage of that.

If your burgers aren't coming out how you want try cooking them slower or making them much thinner.
Maybe this is a good idea and maybe it isn’t.

But few people will want to drop XX,000 for a car that they have to leave outside all the time.

Speaking as a person who parks his 2007 Camry under a tree every day.
Go is pretty clearly more successful than Clojure, Rust, Swift, and Julia, and at least plausibly more successful than TypeScript.

I should have stopped my range at 20 years :) I wouldn't put Go into the ring with Java or PHP.
> most people can’t be bothered to look at the origin of the products they’re buying

Isn't the problem that online sellers (e.g., Amazon) usually don't tell you this on the website, so you have no way of finding out until it arrives?

> But cheaper than a gallon of milk from a farmer nearby?

This is only true because the government holds the price of milk artificially high.
Wow the demo is scarily impressive!
I don't think it's fair to say that the joke went wrong. It certainly showed how gullible people are
Ha, I fully appreciate never going past medium on a fine cut of steak but most hamburger meat I encounter is a far cry from being a fine cut. At most restaurants around here when I order a burger that rare I end up regretting it.
For those wanting a solar EV that costs far less than 250K euros, Aptera sounds promising and is planning a $26K USD price point. https://aptera.us/vehicle/
I'm not sure it's correct to say that internet access has "converged" on unlimited usage. Most cellular plans have data caps (even "unlimited" plans have caps that they throttle after) and even hardwired internet plans are starting to have data caps by default now.
It nailed "every hour on Fridays" damn, must be ai backed.
Lol, fake interaction. yes yes, good people are doing good things for the right reasons and bad people are conspiracy theorists.
Related. Others?

Experts: AI should be recognized as inventors in patent law - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31542285 - May 2022 (3 comments)

AI cannot be the inventor of a patent, appeals court rules - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28640111 - Sept 2021 (239 comments)

Only Humans, Not AI Machines, Can Get a U.S. Patent, Judge Rules - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28405333 - Sept 2021 (7 comments)

South Africa issues world’s first patent listing AI as inventor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27995313 - July 2021 (75 comments)

EPO and UKIPO Refuse AI-Invented Patent Applications - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21990346 - Jan 2020 (39 comments)
Was definitely a feature on Blackberry's BB10 OS
GDPR and Customer Communications for SaaS
What is a human though? Corporations aren’t all humans, there are also machines there, buildings, vehicles, custom software…

If it’s “any of it is human”, how about AI cooperating with a human? Or perhaps connected to a human brain?

But does it have to be a brain? What if it’s, say, a human appendix? It would fulfill the same role it does in humans.

EDIT: Some people apparently don’t realize that to corporations, humans are just another asset, like buildings or software. And they get replaced much more often than buildings and some machines.

Corporations aren’t humans - they use humans. You could argue it’s usually humans who makes decisions - however, 1. Not always and you can’t tell from outside; 2. Even when it’s humans, they are based on data prepared by a machine; and 3. Even law handles consequences of those decisions differently from decisions made by humans for themselves.
NPR disappoints me on a regular basis but it's still valuable to have in the news ecosystem.

I saw the Helium ad on YouTube a couple years ago and was instantly enamored (yay decentralization) but upon actually checking out the details it became clear it was Yet Another Crypto Scam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx9YyS7-d3g
> Reading new books on unfamiliar subjects, practicing intensely for months to develop a new skill, talking with an expert and absorbing decades of wisdom as they share a lifetime of experience.

Honestly, these are wildly different forms of "learning" and you're unlikely to find a community engaged in all three.

Tons of book clubs exist if you just want to talk about the latest Malcom Gladwell book. Or discuss whatever pop-sci flavor of the month shows up on TED recently. Over time I've become a bit disillusioned with this form as learning because authors tend to both simplify reality, and overstate the reliability of research findings. Sometimes its not exactly their fault when science is retracted but it suggests that focusing on "new" is less useful. When I realize I've forgotten most of what I've read, it makes me feel slightly less anxious about how wrong much of it was.

For skill acquisition, affinity communities on the skill: juggling, knitting, cycling, language, art, chess, sports all have clubs and similar. These tend to focus on continual honing of expertise in the area, instead of acquiring a skill and moving on to another.

For learning from experts, well, conferences and symposiums abound. And again, they cluster around topic instead of mode of learning. Conferences are usually about publishing new findings and pushing the frontier of the unknown forward but its a much harder, slower and difficult task than learning settled science from a textbook. You can learn about astrophysics without knowing what a z-score is but its definitely something to be aware of when attempting to convince the expert community of a new fact.

MasterClasses are often kind of an interview format you may enjoy, and if you seek in person formats, sometimes colleges and museums hold public seminars, and some day soon may resume.
On the other hand, there are programs to promote research such as “DARPA Selects Researchers to Accelerate Use of Fully Homomorphic Encryption”. [1]

[1] https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2021-03-08
Upstash
"BlenderBot improves its skills and safety over time"

So, they are positive it won't turn into a racist asshole like the MS one?
Depending on the specific use case, it may not be terrible.

I drive a Nissan Leaf. It gets 5.5 mi per kWh in the summer, 4.8 in the winter. My commute is about 7 miles 1-way. So less than 3kWh used daily assuming I just commute.

They have a 1kW solar panel on their car. If I had a car with the efficiency of my Leaf that charged from a 1kW panel every day, it's conceivable that for my specific use case I would rarely ever charge.

That said I don't think my case is typical and I am not a large enough market segment to cater to. Nor would I ever trade my dirt-cheap Leaf for whatever exorbitant price these things will cost.
A striking passage:

> Logan recalls a conversation he had with one of the contractors working on the development who operated heavy excavation equipment. “I showed him some of the stones and explained their significance,” says Logan. “He told me, ‘I bulldoze and destroy stone piles like that all the time.’”
Discrimination? Human beings designed legal systems for human beings. It's only been recently that we've begun to accept that animals (and even then, only some animals) have a conscious and therefore have some individual rights - but which ones? This is all a work in progress. Having said that, I'm still more willing to grant a Chimpanzee or a Gorilla a patent than I am an AI. Is that discrimination? I don't think so for at the moment with our current levels of technology I see no real difference between an AI and a hammer: they're both tools.
Private Equity Doesn’t Want You to Read This
Yes, this would be a pretty amazing for biz people to type "every other day" or something and have the backend know what that means.