jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The only standard (more like pseudo-standard) I know of are the DIY 60% layouts. Those have defined mounting points and a lot of PCBs and cases are interchangeable. But no ortholinear layout fits these OOTB because the mounting points interfere with the changed switch positions. Additionally, I (and presumably the majority of users) don't want a mechanical keyboard in my Laptop, I want a thin chiclet-style keyboard, and there are zero standards regarding those and producing an ortholinear replacement in small quantities would be quite costly.
Governments provide services and infrastructure for public use, some countries choose to make those pay-per-use (e.g. toll roads in France, privatized firefighting in some US cities) and many services are available to anyone. But somehow somebody needs to pay for those services, which comes down to tax on individuals and corporations that reside or register in a country.

What is strange about the Dutch tax haven situation is that Apple (as just one example) isn't really using any local services, they only have a PO box. So they're not paying to get something, they're only paying because everywhere else they would have to pay more. In effect they're robbing the US because they are using public services there, while not paying the tax that is normal for it.

But as a Dutch taxpayer: Thanks Apple!
It is true, Apple handles it way worse. With Google you have access to a whole dashboard where they explain in very simple terms what they know about you (per service) and how they use that information. And of course you can opt-out with a few clicks.
My neighbor growing up owned brokerage for refurbished aircraft parts (apparently there is a niche for everything). They'd refurbish some stuff in house but farmed a lot of it out. Anyway, one day he was giving me a tour of his office and they had a garage for storage in the back. He picked up this valve off the shelf, it was the size of an 80 count aspirin bottle. He said he bought it for $1200, spent another $900 to refurbish it and he was going to sell it for $5000. Absolutely mind boggling.
Some departments explicitly don't allow discounts, but a lot of others will allow discounts only if they're offered at the time of service. They can't ask for the discounts, but if they're offered they can accept.
>It's web focused?

Web-focused is a poor choice of words on my part. But IIRC Google adopted the project as a means to speed up development and execution time for their web services back ends (if that's wrong then I'll happily welcome a correction).

Either way, Go does have a presence in web development - not least of all by Google

> What's really amazing is that it has been drawing the ruby, js and python guys in. And generics is a/"The Big" hangup? Why not just the fact that you actually have to compile it or that the compiled product has an OS and hardware requirement.

Only the compiled binary is OS dependant, the code is just as portable as your exampled languages. And the only hardware requirement is the word size and architecture of the CPU - which for web development would nearly always be x86_64. Plus Go makes cross-compiling child's play - so there's no issues with compiling for another CPU architecture (if, for some reason, you're targeting ARM over x86) or for 32bit platforms, Windows, FreeBSD, OS X or Linux.

I actually think the fact that Go needs compiling is a real strength of Go. Unit and regression testing of websites can be painful in JIT compiled, dynamic languages; where as go build catches a lot of developer "absent-mindedness" before the web application even reaches the testing phase. Obviously compiling isn't going to catch everything, but in my experience, it has massively streamlined the process of developing production ready code.
Maybe you're paying for the guaranteed access to the satellite network when it's needed rather than the tech on the plane itself. ....and of course a bit of a "no competition so deal with it" charge.
Hi Will it be a free service or subscription service
You could center the presentation around the phrase Métro, boulot, dodo. Tell them their job isn't meant to be a daily grind.

Offer a new version of the phrase, that includes fun, creativity, personality, reward (both payment & job satisfaction) - a lifestyle that is interesting.

I would go along a spectrum of jobs showing examples.

In high school I thought tech was either fixing computers, building games or websites. I never thought about it being a skill I could use for myself outside of work. There are also a lot of jobs that don't require code (that can seem intimidating) that still require a problem solving mindset. From front end design/dev to writing scripts to automate tasks try to cover a range.

Give them the vocabulary to go and investigate jobs they didn't know were out there before.
An application server built on top of Apache and IIS modules, targeting Windows and multiple UNIX flavours.

Similar to AOL Server and already using quite a few patterns that people seemed to only have discovered years later with Ruby On Rails, but since Portugal isn't SV no one heard of them.

All critical path routines were actually done in C.

However, eventually the platform was migrated to .NET with focus on Windows.

The founders of this company went on to found OutSystems, with the lessons taken from this attempt.
I've never been overly weirded out by meeting people from the Internet (going to Gooncon came close), but I will say it was definitely strange the first time some completely random stranger came up to me in a bar and said "You're Jarin, right? I follow you on Twitter!" Strange in a good way though, I bought the guy a beer :)
postgresql replication to other instances?

i believe the point is that instance storage is more reliable than ebs.
It's gonna be quite a giggle when this happens with the stock market.
Having the files contained from bottom up sounds smart do you have any links you can share that show this technique
pg wrote what may well be the definitive work on this subject:

http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
I wore a small number of these out while writing a compiler for the 8085.
10 minute "What did you do yesterday, what are you doing today, and do you have any roadblocks?" meeting first thing in the morning = good

2 hour "We need to figure out how to monetize our shelf space and maximize user engagement" meeting right after lunch = bad

Developers hold productive micro-meetings all throughout the day via IM or Campfire.
I had a similar idea when trying to vote with friends on where to go out on a Friday evening (which bar). We used another tool that got the job done.
The UI of yours is nicer, but I don't want to create an account for such a one off event. At least, make people fill the poll creation form before asking for sign-up. Make sign up optional, just to get the results by email. Maybe add a web notification button to get updates this way without sign-up.
Thank you, that's my original idea.
Thanks, I missed [0] which really is awesome.
Edit: just looked at the webgl links, which is sweet.
Wi-Fi Alliance released a new standard to solve hotspot roaming called "Passpoint". Time Warner Cable started using it for their hotspot authentication recently (in NYC at least). It works well in my experience.

"Passpoint automates that entire process, enabling a seamless connection between hotspot networks and mobile devices, all while delivering the highest WPA2™ security. Passpoint is enabling a more cellular-like experience when connecting to Wi-Fi networks."
Not in fintech, but: http://www.meetup.com/SF-Fintech/
Its not misleading at all, there are 5 sources of US law constitutional law, statutory law, treaties, administrative regulations, and the common law. State secrets privilege comes from common law not constitutional law, or statutory law.
I know what you mean; semaphores seem to crop up as a synchronization primitive everyone's supposed to learn about, but they are not so proportionately necessary in applications.

That said, they are useful to manage concurrency in a finer-grained way than setting up and tearing down thread pools for short durations. E.g., imagine you have a pool of 100 cached threads and want to apportion no more than 5 of these to any one client.
Simply: The average person can read at ~300 words per minute, and listen at ~150 words per minute.

I'm not a big fan of video as a tool for conveying information in general. Not only can I read faster than I can listen, but I can skim and skip around as well. There are situations where video is the best way to impart certain information, but those seem to be the rare cases. I hate it when websites make me sit through a 3 minute video in order to get an answer to one simple question, or to understand "What does this thing do?"

I've never taken a MOOC course because I can't imagine having the time to watch X hours of someone talking at a camera. If this video-less trend catches on I might actually be able to benefit from online education.
The first time I knew of Philip's Glass work was from Battlestar Galactica. There was a beautiful composition that Starbuck listened to in her apartment, and I was driven to find it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hMw1C6fPt8
Well, possibly - but the point is that while ubiquitous safe seats are obviously detrimental, so is their elimination at all costs. The problem with safe seats isn't that popular politicians are consistently elected; it's that minority voices in those constituencies are marginalised. You can certainly address the latter by preventing the former, but it's a far from ideal way of doing so.

(Edited for ghastly sentence construction, sorry)
And so, while Sony is building the PlayStation Network, Nintendo is building a new console. Fun times ahead for the "japanese giant".
> Not sure about GUIs but that's another area where programming becomes tedious and unfun, at least for me.

When I have problems with UIs it's because there's a lack of separation in structure, design, and scripting that you get with HTML+JS or MXML+ActionScript which both make UI dev really easy and fun. In contrast, I think Swing, AWT, WxWidgets, Tkinter, GTK, Windows API, .NET, and even Qt make graphics programming a pain in the neck (some more than others). But once you get toward a more web-approach of UI, s-expressions are a perfectly fine way of representing XML too. Tags are functions, Perl realized that as well.

My own experience with writing low level software is that without a good support library you're going to be doing assembly that may be painful depending on the microcontroller and what you're interfacing with. (ARM stuff is pretty good.) If there are good bindings for higher languages like Lisp, programming in Lisp becomes nice again. PyGame is a great example of porting a (in my view) somewhat ugly C library that is SDL and making it nice and neat to use in the higher level Python. I know a team in Colorado who are using Flex to build a multi-touch application on a USB tablet.

In the face of no good library though, C is definitely a great choice and it's useful for augmenting assembly. If I want to worry about memory and pointers, C's my goto language.
Sorry for the poorly thought out post.

Anyway, as was pointed out elsewhere, someone can write a web CRUD in Rails in 1% of the time it would take to write it in C with Apache modules (or ISAPI DLLs). Choosing the wrong tool can have disproportionate effects.

Having a large tool set is one of the hallmarks of the great programmer.

One example off the top of my head: a friend of mine was struggling for a week to deliver a simple J2ME (it was 2002 or 2003) app using Eclipse. I directed him towards NetBeans. The product was ready that same afternoon. The IDE support in NetBeans was so complete his job was more a fill-in-the-blanks than anything else.
I wonder how Hacker Monthly (http://hackermonthly.com/) will pick out the "best" comments.
OTOH, how many of these accounts are scams vs. how many are legit companies? If it's 10 to 1, there is an incentive to cut them off as quickly as possible, and not allow any slack.
I like it. I think the font size of the site title (top left) needs to be larger. The main page feels like a template.

Also, there are a few grammatical errors on your FAQ document.
Just knowing something is possible is invaluable. "Our space-scouts returned from 6 light-years away yesterday, validating govt funding of this 2-year-old program"
By default it does not, but if outside applications have access to change your camera app's settings, then it should be rather straightforward to create a plugin for Locale that adds a new setting option to handle that.
This might be the first one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9dmcRbuTMY

And the second: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn3Ex-5dPAo&feature=relat...
She has a 3D laptop
not the (reported) 4% of all Yahoo! employees that lost their jobs.
I was hoping Kotlin might challenge Java outside Android but it seems unlikely to make a dent in Java's dominance of enterprise computing.
Hi did you know YouTube Kids exists? Even if you don't have kids (I don't, and I'm sure Google's almighty tracking is well aware), but oh man here's another reminder!

And while you're at it, I bet you really miss watching CNN and Fox! Why not check out YouTube TV! For "only" $49.99 a month!

Don't forget to smash that subscribe bell so we can send you push notifications to consume even more of your attention!
Not sure if it's been posted, but you simply append this to the url to avoid the paywall:
?share=1
I like Quora results, I find them useful. Of course, I’m not loathe to actually register for these useful sites so I don’t see the pop ups people complain about.
France does it by deferring customs until your final destination (so you might do immigration in Paris but customs in Nice). I’ve never seen that in another country, however.
> Where on earth did they tell you to call 911 over a broken window??

The obscure backwater of Seattle.

911 is not exclusively for life-threatening emergencies as you are suggesting. It's for emergencies more generally, and that generally includes crime reports. Particularly reports of crimes that are in progress. The crime I was reporting (the burglarizing of my car) was not in progress which is why I didn't call 911 (and consequently received a brief lecture about using 911 in the future.) But had I witnessed the crime in progress, I wouldn't have hesitated to call 911 and nor should anybody else.

Here is the advice of Mary Ellen Carroll, executive director of the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management: https://abc7news.com/when-to-call-911-vs-311/5300051/

When to call 911:
* Is there danger to life, property or the environment?
* Is a crime in progress?
* Is there a medical emergency / need for immediate help?
* Is there a fire?

Note that the advice she gives is contrary to the advice I received from Seattle's 311, in that she says to use 311 to report crimes that aren't in progress. However she says that 911 should be used for crimes that are in progress without the requirement that those crimes be life threatening. (And also for injuries which require medical attention but aren't necessarily life threatening.)

So, to reiterate, when it comes to crimes that are in progress there is really no ambiguity.
Yes and that it’s more properly ΣF = ma. A lot of students forget that it’s the sum of the force vectors, not just a single force, when they’re first learning physics.
This is pretty cool. Thanks.
Inertia is a property of matter…
> ... founded by an elite group of aristocrats....

And on the basis of taxes which disproportionately affected them.

I understand that there is more nuance here, but to a first order approximation parent comment and my extension are accurate.
There's a chicken-egg problem at play, though. We can't build denser cities because we need to build 4-lane roads and parking; we can't get rid of these roads and parking because people need cars because the city isn't dense enough yet. It's certainly solvable on the many-decade timescale by smart, consistent city and state governments, but it's going to be a gradual slog of incrementalism (e.g., see all the changes NYC has made to shift from car centrism since the 90s - gradually adding bike lanes, closing Times Square to traffic, closing 14th street to private cars, congestion pricing for taxis,...)

The distance problem with cycling is solvable (though it pains me a bit to say this as a recreational cyclist) by electric bikes and other micromobility solutions (e.g. Citroen Ami). The streets of NYC are chock full of delivery drivers and others zipping along at 25mph on cheap, quiet electric bikes with ranges of many dozens of miles. Once we have a better regulatory regime for these (so people aren't blowing so many lights and hitting so many pedestrians), I could see them being a viable alternative to cars for many-mile use cases, at least during dry/temperate weather.
This is just moving the goal posts (not to mention plenty of weapons and threats were involved).

In all seriousness, at what point would you call something an insurrection?

Go ahead and define it now, that way in the future when "X" happens you can't reply with "X is bad, but it's not an insurrection". I'm being completely serious, please define insurrection, in your terms, so that in the future I can identify it accurately.

I feel like this has to be the first thing we do with folks who constantly say "X isn't Y". Okay, define how something gets classified as Y.
I've worked for both. stop watching conservative media exclusively, and stop having conservative friends exclusively.

there is a very large swath of reality that you are choosing to ignore.
A 75 kWh pack at 70% capacity is about 50 kWh, sufficient for most homes in India.

Its a great idea. Given them to commercial establishments where energy costs are 3 times domestic ones and you have a pretty decent deal.

Alternatively, with modern LED streetlighting, a 50 kWh pack can probably light up a small street throughout the night. Local govts can store excess energy during day and use that at night. Its a fairly standard charge and discharge cycle, perhaps giving 4 to 5 years of lifecycle additions.
A new, much more powerful Forward Error Correction technology can turn any unreliable network into a reliable and low latency network. It will change how the internet operates...
In the fight between Athlete's and Team Owner's 'it doesn't matter' to any of us. It's a zero-sum game, they're rich people arguing over surpluses.

For commodity workers in industry, without unions it's possible they are mistreated, in which case, it's better for everyone if there were to be unions (although I think some kind of agreement would be better than unions). But workers unions can also leverage considerably more power than is better for everyone and make the company and industry struggle.

Unions are a form of power, they work differently in different scenarios, and the scale and relative power matters a lot.

It's just not sufficient to say 'there's a union over there therefore we should have one' or 'unions are all evil' or 'unions are always better than not' etc..
How long to private companies to own our lives?

One by one, companies are taking control of our lives, deciding what we can do, what we can say, what to eat, what to wear, what to read, where we can go, with whom and more.

We know it and allow it. For what?
My experience with an older MBP (Late 2013 15" with dedicated GPU) is that there's a performance hit for non integer scaling.

I have an external 4K display that works flawlessly if I set it to default (that is 3840x2160 with 200% scaling). If I disable scaling completely (3840x2160 with 100% scaling) it still works well, but the text is a bit too small. With anything in between and there's a noticeable lag.

Interestingly enough, if the internal display uses non integer scaling (I sometimes use 1920x1200) with integer scaling on the external screen it still works ok.

I think it's related to the fact that MacOS draws everything at 200%, and using a non-integer scale over 1920x1080 ends up with a bigger resolution than 4k, whereas 4k at 100% is still 4k.
The short squeeze happened two weeks ago when the stock ballooned from $20 to $480. That's a 24x increase; VW's "infinity squeeze" comparatively only grew 5x from $200 to $1000.

People on WSB had some arbitrary price targets in mind and are in denial that the stock hasn't squeezed yet because they haven't hit those (completely made-up, with no basis in anything) targets.
> It would have been unethical to be the boss of the company that offer new shares, got them bought on a market, but also unblocking all the short sellers in the process.

Why? What general rule of ethics is this violating? How could you write this as a general rule to be applied in the future?
Citing 3 facts and then adding a sidenote about how Marxism wants this is indirectly implying that Marxism is a noteworthy cause.

I don't believe Marxism is a primary cause.

While I don't really know anything about Marxism, I doubt it baselessly advocates for the removal of family structures without something to replace it like community engagement

It's annoying to hear people preach about the woes of Marxism, because, and this is a biased US perspective, a very small proportion of left leaning individuals would ever describe themselves as Marxist. People doing so would be seen as holding extreme opinions. Hearing fearmongering about communists comes off as a red flag that someone's out of touch with reality and fearful of the amorphous blog that is "the left". It comes off as an implicit strawman. Attacking Marxism as means to undermine the credibility of the left is eye-rollingly tiresome to hear. And yeah, of course, comes with plausible deniability. Nothing good will come of that comment but an unpleasant debate of predictably mainstream left folks arguing semantically that marxism doesn't matter, a fringe actual marxist doing their own thing, and a conservative viewpoint playing off both to say "look there's marxist" or "well I saw this extreme opinion on twitter so no".
Pandemic is not going to last forever. Also this is the right time to kickstart projects such as these because that will generate employment. And once pandemic is over the project will be ready(or near ready) to operate. Most successful businesses start during the downturn.
The idea of single OS sounds great! Sounds like the future of the Cloud.

DOM/JS -> I think it now mostly came down to the paradigm of reactive programming, with React / Vue / Svelte.
What about Delphi and VB, what was so good about them?
But Google has their own privacy policy. So is this "nutrition label" requiring information that they didn't already have in their privacy policy? Or are they assuming that nobody reads the privacy policy but more people will read this label?
As much as I would like to love macOS, Windows has absolutely perfect mouse acceleration. I can’t for the life of me tune the mouse experience on a mac to match windows. I always come back to my trusty PC after couple hours on a mac. So much snappier experience.
Aligned incentives are a beautiful thing.
Funnily enough I was aware of that one. :) But Win+Shift+S is a perfect replacement for what I have been doing for a long while, pressing PrintScreen (without Win key), pasting into some graphics application and then copying a selection of the screenshot, just to paste into yet another application.
They were speaking out of both sides of their mouth, per usual. They deserve no credit, they only acted when their actions would have no consequences.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B008GRDKPG expands to https://www.amazon.com/Disciplined-Minds-Professionals-Soul-...

are you really claiming that "redir_mobile_desktop" or anything afterwards is an affiliate tag?
Average global living standards have gone up, not down, during the time period covered by this article. In fact they have never been higher than they are now.

Some might say that happened in spite of the economic disruptions caused by technology, but the truth is that it happened because of those disruptions.