skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair point, you are of course right.

However I used the word in the way how it is used nowadays by public. I am from Europe and people here will tell you we have "democracies".
You are assuming that being the safest and most stable is better for humans. Then you make a claim that humans have never had it better, yet you are not millions of years old, so literally have no idea if that is true or not.

I understand where you are coming from, because people are brainwashed into "progressive" ideology and globalists "the world always gets better because of globalisation", but they don't really make sense. Human genes don't match modern society, so it is impossible for there to be a better time then when our genes were our closest match to society.

This is an idea that will come as a shock to people, but it is true. I don't really care to debate it because it is obvious. Also, if you just want to take less shocking ideas, you can see that developed countries have declined in the last few decades.
This brings back memories. The original hot or not seems to have disappeared and been replaced with a dating site. Too bad - I would love to see the photos of myself I uploaded so many years ago...
I've been running only Linux for years. Here's what I miss and why I still regularly contemplate just getting a Mac:

- a modern full featured client for email, with an efficient and pretty UI, with good shortcut support (at least as good as the Fastmail and Gmail web interfaces)

- a fast and full featured PDF viewer that supports annotations properly -- anything based on Poppler unfortunately does not cut it

- friendly software to create pretty presentations -- Keynote still seems to be king

Development tools are the least of my worries.
I kinda share the feeling. Well I still like tinkering with some things that nobody else seems to care about. But most of the time it feels like doing stuff with computers is just fighting the new technology (which I don't care for) and then there's politics, copyright & contracts, things that further try to ruin it for me.

For most part I can't get excited about any of the news about software, programming languages, new services or big tech corps. I look at the front page of HN, yawn and move on. I don't care what Apple is doing, I don't care what Google is doing, I don't care about your new javascript framework or microservice, not about your new OS, I don't care about a new smartphone or laptop...

The few things I find interesting are things I keep to myself because every time I've tried to make a discussion about them, nobody else seems to be interested. Or it may even be met with hostility.
These problems and anxieties stem from a belief that things are unfair. Be it racial biases, economic disparity, or policing offensiveness, many of these complaints boil down to this: In such a "modern" society, shouldn't we be finally past these problems? Why does it look like they're getting worse?*

People contrast the problems they face against the positive strides they see elsewhere, and it foments an us-vs-them mentality, projects a "f- you, got mine" on the positives, and increases outlooks of entitlement.

This is a continually escalating and divisive cultural cancer that's erupting. However, it has little to do with feeling "unneeded" (though obviously in the lost jobs cases that's mixed in), but rather more of people feeling actively antagonized. It's a mess.

(* answer: greater information flow and media that profits from outrage)
I was in the same mood. Now I 've stopped coding for a living (you can try management, presales,...) and at home I do what I like (exploring data structures and algorithms) with the tools (Emacs) and languages I like (Common Lisp)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12878784
Now, I'm intensely curious.

What is it that you like?
15 years is doable with some of the older brands. Just don't leave the side access on the drum open :)
I also dont like computers anymore. Its from being on them all the time. I want life apart from the screen.
Then I get bored.
That's what my wife does, she refuses to dry her clothes in the dryer, saying they last longer with air drying. Apparently she's on to something; my oldest surviving clothes are about five years old (apart from my Hawaiian shirt collection which I always air dry), while she still has stuff from college that isn't faded or worn out. We are both in our late 30s.

She has several hanging racks that slip onto the top of a standard interior door; each rack can hold up to eight hangers, though in practice she only dries four or five items per rack. With three racks, that covers two loads of her shirts, blouses, jeans, and dress pants. She does use the dryer for her socks (thrown in with my clothes), as well as for our towels and bed linens, but she makes sure we don't over-dry the towels so they stay soft. We also have a line in the back yard for linens in the summertime.

Going back to the topic of top-loading versus front-loading washers, we finally had to get rid of our second-hand 30+ year old top loader when a part broke that was no longer available even on the secondhand market (basically we would have had to track down and buy a donor machine to get the part). What we bought to replace it was the closest we could get to a traditional top-loader, and so far it seems to be holding up well. It's a bit more advanced than a traditional machine; it has load sensing and a super-high speed spin cycle, and it's a hybrid digital/analog control system. I have a feeling it will probably last at most 10 years before we need to service it, which is better than I expected from a new machine. I don't remember the model number, but the brand is Amana (first I'd heard of that brand).
Luke is a great person, I love the container houses project, and it's a statement to YC quality that he decided to go trough the program.

On the other side, "a full quarter of the current batch are making physical products" and no Hardware focused partners, isn't that a litle strange.
Would you care to share those things now? Here or email if you prefer
Let me know if you find that email client on Mac. The best one I've found has been Mailplane, which is literally a native frame and some OS integration features surrounding a Gmail page. There are prettier native ones but the ongoing support has always been hit or miss, and few are even as powerful as Gmail.
How we built Synchrony, the engine behind collaborative editing in Confluence
I take your point. But I'm not at all convinced that the production version is going to be more fun.
> It seems to me that not many people realize just how highly the EU is valued in Germany across the political spectrum. People seem to severely underestimate what sacrifices Germany is willing to make in the context of Brexit to benefit the EU.

The perception of the EU as a German project — or experiment, if you will — was one of the factors leading people to vote for Brexit.
Nothing in my experience other than your comment is marked as dead. If all your comments ends up downvoted then HC may hellban you, but if you have the occasional controversial post nothing much happens.
Is the source code available anywhere? I could actually use this myself. FYI Jinja2 is really powerful and allows you to use lot of stuff from Python (eg. execute heavy math operations, allocate lot of memory, iterate forever...)

Eg. if you paste {% for i in range(10000000000) %}{% endfor %} and press Convert tens of times it will take down your site.
I suspect I am a similar generation, and I still love to tinker and make things happen on my computer.

But Twitter, Facebook, Netflix, Spotify, Snapchat, or Uber, have nothing to do with tinkering or creating something.

I also don't want to surround myself with the internet of things because I know how insecure and broken everything is. I'd rather be buying appliances that I can leave for my children when I am gone, rather than buy new ones every two years.

I'm still perfectly happy with the 5 year old MBP. I hope it will last another 5 years - even more with luck.
I'm guessing I'm a similar age to the author from the reference to parents shouting at the phone bill from my 1200/75 modem running all night. And just recently I've felt exactly the same way. My job involves both running systems and writing software, and the joy has disappeared from both. I used to work all day, then come home and hack all evening, but now I don't know if I'm burnt out, but I can find no interest in making computers do cool things any more.

There's been one small bright spot - I tried learning Haskell and loved the way functional programming stretched my brain but there's an awful lot to learn to do anything useful. But Elm, wow, do I love Elm. I feel the excitement I felt when I saw Ruby on Rails for the first time ten years ago. It's finding something interesting and useful to build with Elm that I'm struggling with now.

I wonder if it's the message that if you're not building a product that will build a unicorn company, then it's not interesting that's part of the general malaise.
elementaryOS is ok'ish but before you dive into it you should know that there's no way of upgrading system, you're going to have to do fresh install once new version is available.
Mailmate might not be "pretty" but it's fast and powerful for power users.
Ask HN: Is anyone else struggling mentally and emotionally with interviews?
I've been interviewing for a few weeks now and getting past silly hackerrank / phonescreens no problems. After dilligently preparing myself daily, I just bombed my first on-site by approaching a problem in completely the wrong way and I feel extremely numb and disappointed - to the extent that I'm physically experiencing muscular aches from surging nervousness and stress. Like many here I am an ambitious high achiever and rarely experience rejection. The worst thing was I really liked the people and I feel almost ashamed for wasting their time. Does anyone have any tips for coping with this kind of situation?
In Australia, immigration is used to increase the population, which is used to increase gdp. The problem is that infrastructure is not improved to meet the growing population, and the increase in gdp is not enough to go around for the new people, so everybody in the middle and lower class gets a smaller part of the gdp. Cities where you could afford a nice house in a quiet area become concrete jungles where people are stacked on top of each other in apartments. House prices (for the same type of house people were used to living in) increase massively due to the increase in demand.

I am assuming something similar happens in America. The increase in population just means a decrease in quality of life for the existing people.
Unfortunately ideology and geography have a correlation that, while positive, is less than one. There will always be a minority that gets overridden. And while it is a good thing for people to have freedom to move to a place that supports their values in extreme cases (some are even talking seriously about it this election), in most situations that isn't practical.
Works great on note 4 and v20
Crash (1996)
APT on Android
Where does he say his solution is to run away?
But also be aware, that the traffic Netflix serves out of those containers is way less then 0.01% of the internet traffic in North America. The container cloud is their management engine.

The CDN that is actually pushing the traffic runs FreeBSD and would be using, if anything, jails.
My interpretation was not to take the specific services so literally but instead to focus on how content has centralized to a few specific places that come with a lot of excess baggage to get at content instead of it being spread out across multiple forums, websites, chats, and so on. There's a lot of infrastructure that goes into powering these services and the advertising backbone for them that simply dominates all other attempts to get any publicity on the modern web. I mean, if you're on iOS, you have multiple integration items for services that you might not even use.

Social media may not be the only use for computers, but there's a lot of effort at all levels of infrastructure put in place to ensure that the devices we use are able to access these few core services really fast while everything else is secondary. Yes, the services are optional - you aren't required to sign up for them and use them, but their presence in modern computing and online just can't be ignored.
> We used type IIac conic synthetic diamonds (supplied by Almax Easy-Lab) with ~30 micron diameter culet flats. About 5 microns were etched off of the diamond culets using the technique of reactive ion etching, to remove defects from the surface. The diamonds were then vacuum annealed at high temperature to remove residual stress. Alumina is known to act as a diffusion barrier against hydrogen. The diamonds, with the mounted rhenium gasket, were coated with a 50 nm thick layer of amorphous alumina by the process of atomic layer deposition.

Incredible technology!

> The pressure was initially determined to ~88 GPa by ruby fluorescence using the scale of Chijioke et al (20); the exciting laser power was limited to a few mW. At higher pressures we measured the IR vibron absorption peaks of hydrogen with a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer with a thermal IR source, using the known pressure dependence of the IR vibron peaks for pressure determination (see SM).

Just incredible!

> Photos were taken with a smartphone camera at the ocular of a modified stereo microscope

...
> Disagreement is valuable in that it provides the world an opportunity to learn something.

Please stop. I dont want to have disagreement. I dont want to have this endless debate. I want to be left alone. I dont want people to make descision for me. I want to spend my brain cycles in my work. Not this. Please stop.
The issue with file transfer in particular is that it is often asynchronous: you send a file from your phone, and then, you might go for lunch - outside of the LAN - or they might be off that day. You end up needing a human protocol: ask the receiver if they're ready, send it, wait for the upload. It is almost simpler to use a USB key, and certainly simpler to rely on a Dropbox-like.

I read flyweb as being part of Mozilla's IoT effort, to make it easy to convert your phone into a remote control. See for instance this video they made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ5DEGvqDb4
Having both a hybrid and regular PC, I have to admit that I find myself regularly reaching for the screen on both. Natural is relative.
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> I'd wager most not just don't know what it offers but don't even really know what exactly is bad about it.

This is a good reason why the EU should fail, and why people voted for Brexit, which will hopefully go some way to making that happen.

To the average citizen, the EU is a gargantuan bureaucracy, burning through enormous sums of money, whose main concern seems to be churning out reams of incomprehensible regulations. It also has some courts that overrule our national governments from time to time.

I like the concept of a more integrated Europe, but the EU is just the first attempt at it.
KC blew up because someone copied the wrong software to their deployment servers. If Haskell's typesystem has solved that problem then I'm sure it would have a lot more takers.

On the flip side, if Jane Street were to screw up I hope no-one would blame OCaml as it would more likely be someone making a mistake.

Programming languages can be poor or geat but you need to wield them wisely.
Several recovery and migration products are being discovered by our organization. We design our products in such a way that they are easy-to-use and can be accessed by universal computer users. One such migration product is Outlook Mac Exporter, that converts OLM files to PST file format.

http://www.demoware.org/file-converter/olm2pst.html
It's interesting to see that back then (I now checked that even before the Civil War period) the term United States of North America was used. To the history aficionados, was USNA more commonplace than USA? If so, when did USA become prevalent?
> Elementary will never be cool, in fact you will be "bullied" by both cool kids with expensive (good looking!) OSX MBP and geeks running some obscure Linux distro on a Thinkpad.

Are you in some sort of bizarre TV show cross between Silicon Valley and Mean Girls? Out here in the real world no one cares what computer you're using so long as you can get the job done.
I did write most of the emails in a formal, precise way. The guy was a bit scattered, and the particular quotes he chose and their presentation was odd. But yeah, in hindsight I think he would've been happy to just have me write most of the article and send it to him.
This is really excellent. I have now read it three times, running through the commands as I go, and for the first time I feel like I actually understand git.

Here are some commands I found useful as I went through the tutorial:
To show a given commit without diffs but with tree and parent sha1s:
git cat-file -p sha-1

To show a given commit including diffs:
git show sha-1

To show a given tree (blobs and subtrees):
git ls-tree sha-1

Show the tree recursively (i.e. show sha1 of all files, ignoring folder)
git ls-tree -r sha-1
Hmm, I actually mostly stopped using Gmail, so I would not miss labels too much.

How about Postbox? I tried the latest Windows version under wine, only to learn that there is no calendar anymore (let alone caldav support) and the contacts do not sync at all. On the Mac they seem to integrate with system contacts and I could probably live with the system calendar.
I use http://emmet.io/ plugin with Coda on MacOS, it helps write HTML/CSS markup a bit faster.
Show HN: Alienslike.us – Vote on what an alien society might be like
I'm guessing a similar-ish age to myself.

Besides the internet, one thing that's changed is that computing has become a much less solitary activity: in the 90s and 2000s we were still seeing the tail end of the microcomputer era which was very much built by individuals hacking away on stuff at home or in tiny businesses -- and when larger businesses hired "microcomputer" (and to some extent PC, and web) people, they still worked in very much the same way.

Today, the IT workplace is all about "teams and practices", and even if you're working on something intensely personal as a side project, there's still a degree of expectation that if you want it to amount to anything you need to get it out there as a collaborative, open source project. Or a company with other people involved.

At least for introverts, computing used to seem like something of a refuge. That's definitely less true today unless you deliberately do something that's totally personal.
#SpiritCooking is pulled from Twitter trends, while tracking sites show it at #1
I have used a lot of induction stoves and I didn't like it very much. I just called a chef friend of mine and he agrees with me as long as you get a decent stove with big burners. Anyway, you should use whatever makes you comfortable at the kitchen. The important thing is to keep cooking and having a good time doing it.
making a great living by pushing buttons on the interwebs, most likely. many of us lose the childhood passion at some point but still can be good technologists. our interests shift over time, but discipline and the ability to get shit done means you are valuable to society, and especially to others in your field.

what i really am envious of are people who take their fading passion (for lack of a better of work) passion in pure technology and judo-flip it into massive career leverage in another industry they have new-found passion or interest in.
> Imagine one army where every single unit is controlled by one human. Each individual unit would be very very strong.

Like a real army :)
But who thinks they are better at tasting? If they had extra special tastebuds, that would only make their recommendations less relevant to the rest of us. I mean a dog might find a piece of music lovely for its ultrasonic components, but I won't.
Farming is another one that seems to have a pull for a certain subset of hackers. Myself included, to some extent.
If you genuinely think these are the best markers for improvement in society, you must be an extremely lucky person. Having a job, having a job that doesn't completely suck, having enough money to move out of your parents house at the age of 30. These are things that people are facing today. In Australia, there are lots of people that are still living with their parents into their 30s because they simply can't afford rent or a mortgage.

Racism and sexism and other terms are used more for political purposes these days then they are for anything of worth. Why didn't you mention the discrimination people with autism face, for example? Autism simply isn't a useful political tool because it doesn't get enough votes. Yet people with autism face more discrimination then the types you have listed. It is politics and nothing more.
There is quite a lot of information about this subject here:

http://fishcount.org.uk/welfare-of-crustaceans/welfare-durin...
It would be a lot more compelling if all the yachts were the 2000 largest yachts in the world or at least all yachts sailing and motor 30+ meters.

The world's largest boat show is happening now here in Fort Lauderdale.[0] I just took all the data from their site. All the boats on the site are showing today at the boat show. I want to find the Best in Show like the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance has. I don't think the website communicates that.

[0]: http://www.flibs.com/
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What method did you use?

Using AHK requires thorough knowledge of how keyboard work. There is already lot of keyboard remapping samples available on GitHub or on their own website, check that out.

https://github.com/stroebjo/autohotkey-windows-mac-keyboard

https://autohotkey.com/docs/scripts/index.htm
That stuff is all fun to think about, but ultimately it's not a rigorous model for anything - just a lot of assumptions and leaky abstractions.

The core problem with trying to reduce reality to computation is that we have no clue how laws of the physical world around us map to computation. Are computable functions enough to model the mathematical properties of quantum particles?

You can cross your fingers all you want, without this all of your reasoning becomes meaningless. The answer might be yes, but then again it might be no. If you could prove either in a rigorous and academic way, I suspect you would have a few prestigious awards waiting for you.
Does it include all the codecs by default? I think this was a major reason VLC succeeded the way it did. With all other players (BPlayer anyone?) you needed to find and install tons of codecs while in VLC it just worked.
All places have a test environment. Good places have a separate production environment.
I just wanted to add, that whenever I've worked too hard for a few nights straight and find myself on the edge of that dreaded burnout... I start to "not like" things.

I know you say you've been watching your hours, but burnout doesn't maybe just come from hours.

For me, it's the first signal I need to do something when I start to feel there's no food that is really tasteful anymore, there's no games I like playing and there's no job or person in the world that could possibly make me happy.

I get that's not the issue of the post, but maybe it's something to think about for all of us?
USA since at 1776, no contest:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=United+States+...
No need to hunt for food isn't even a good thing. We are designed to hunt. We actually like doing it. Now, people don't get enough exercise or the right type of exercise and so after our 9 hours of work, we have to go to the gym and simulate physical work. Most people also hate their jobs because we were not designed to sit on a computer all day.