skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
20 drinks at one sitting is a lot, and it's firmly in the problem and harmful drinking end of risky alcohol use.

People with alcoholism can drink a lot more than that.

A UK unit of alcohol is 10 ml of pure alcohol. You'd consider inpatient residential rehab for someone drinking 30 units per day. There are roughly 40 units in a litre of spirits in the UK.

https://pathways.nice.org.uk/pathways/alcohol-use-disorders/...
Babel-standalone was put together as part of the pretty good reactjs.net .Net implementation of react, after the 'official' version of babel-in-the-browser was killed off.

It's /really/ not intended for use in prod.

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Edit. I kinda sent off on a stream of conciseness about reactjs.net here, feel free to ignore this bit.... :D

Infact, as well made as it is and despite using reactjs.net heavily for the last couple of years, the only time i would be inclined to use it on a new app is to leverage the universal rendering, or if your react app is just freaking massive and takes forever to run a build - otherwise you may aswell just throw everything at webpack --watch via iisnode or regular 'ole vanilla node.

Then again we had to make a bunch of changes to the package itself to fully support our bundling (we don't like cassette so we made our own) and to support multiple server-side bundles, none of which are agnostic enough to warrant a PR, so upgrading reactjs.net to a more recent version is a hassle, making me slightly biased against using it ;)
The spectrum isn't important here though. Things are either illegal or immoral or they're not.

These companies are only banning this one domain because it's bad publicity right now if they don't.
The author keeps questioning why certain siloing like App Store happens. The author then offers technical solutions that won't work. The reason is the siloing is intentional on part of companies developing those applications to reduce competition to boost profits. They'd rather provide the feature you desire themselves or through an app they get 30% commission on.

A lot of other things author talks about keep the ecosystems going. The ecosystems, esp key apps, are why many people use these desktop OS's. Those apps and ecosystems take too much labor to clean slate. So, the new OS's tend not to have them at all or use knock-offs that don't work well enough. Users think they're useless and leave after the demo.

The market effects usually stomp technical criteria. That's why author's recommendations will fail as a whole. "Worse Really is Better" per Richard Gabriel.
Their list of top venues for different fields of computer science [1] seems to miss several top conferences in each field.

Also, a mistake like this does not help:
Machine Learning, International Council for Machinery Lubrication.

https://aminer.org/mostinfluentialscholar#awards_by_fields
I tend to agree. The times where I've felt "in the zone" have exclusively been in hackathons and school projects. Even when I worked at an early stage startup, I spent most of my time discussing architecture and design patterns. Plus, code reviews need to be less than 500 lines, which lends itself to getting small thought out pieces working and shipped, not long coding sessions.
Windows 10 didn't add any UX feature? What about Task View (Win+Tab) and virtual desktops?

And why bashing the Linux subsystem, which is surely not even developed by the UX team (so no waste of resources) and is a much needed feature for developers?

BTW, there is a really simple reason why mainstream OSs have a rather conservative design: the vast majority of people just doesn't care and may even get angry when you change the interaction flow. Many of the ideas exposed in the post are either developer-oriented or require significant training to be used proficiently.
> It's probably just a placebo.

Possibly, but I think the OP above was onto something about it 'resetting' the windows. I just tested downloading a large game while I had another game running. The PS4 showed it was going to take 6 hours. I closed the other game I had running, and it still showed 6 hours. I ran the speed test, and now it shows it's going to take 50 minutes.

BTW, thanks for running these tests as I have some stuff to try instead of waiting hours for a game to download :)
I drew an equivalency between the unquestionability of the immoral character of two acts (even that was not my central argument) and not between the relative degree immorality (which is what you decided to argue against).
> cable access channels. I'd
> think the same reasoning
> applies

That's because you haven't done even the most basic of research.
I couldn't agree more. I am using a different note taking app beside Evernote because I just can't stand the interface and usability of their Mac and iOS apps. But their OCR feature is by far the best on the market so I have to keep using it. As far as I can tell, Evernote is in a league of its own when it comes to OCR. They make it really easy to read physical books with that feature. (I like to keep notes of the books I'm reading and I hate to sully actual pages.)

I really want them to succeed, but I also recognize they will never make an app that I consider to be perfect or even good. They'd have to get rid of like 50 features, which is a hard thing to do by itself but also not in their MO.
Good enough, plus it runs App 'X' that I need. Be that Word, or Mozilla, or Facebook.app

So good HTML 5.0 support is key, but there are a lot of layers between that and bare metal.
20 drinks is excessive by any standard I ever heard of.
The law certainly thinks that where things exist on a spectrum is important, suggesting that we as a society do too. You can't use that shaky axiom as a jumping off point.
The layman attack against economists is that they can't do macroeconomic predictions very well. But if you look at what it would require, I don't think anyone can expect them to do so.

What macroeconomic modeling attempts to do is to look what are the effects of policy changes in fiscal or monetary policy __if everything else would stay the same__. Central banks use DSGE as reasoning tool, not as accurate forecasting tool for the future. The signal (their actions) is mostly buried in the noise (all other variables).
Macroeconomic models exaggerate individual rationality and foresight, and understate heterogeneity, because that's correct thing to do with current level of knowledge. Knowledge reburied for modeling limited rationality and heterogeneity at the level where predictions become more accurate would turn economics into psycohistory in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series.

One of the most important variables affecting the future is what consumers think future will be. Consumer sentiment and its relation to changes in their income and savings is accurate only to one or two quarters. After five quarters it's just noise. Consumers don't have the data or reasoning ability that macroeconomic models have. They only have gut feelings formed by events around them and narratives in media.

Another important variable is what investors think about future investment needs based on future demand linking their predictions to consumer predictions. They are not very accurate either. Consensus forecasting and other means are just hints.

To correctly predict the macroeconomic future would require that consumers and investors could predict the future with more accuracy.

The best possible future model is agent-based computational macroeconomic model that simulates collective behaviour of future predicting and speculative agents who can read the predictions from the models predicting their own behavior. It must include several empirically discovered mental models for layman to model heterogenic agents.

Once the accuracy of the model becomes widespread, it would change the world. Speculative agents would use the model as base of their actions and forecasts. Saying accurate would require stable dynamic interaction between the model and the environment.
> Traditional filesystems are hierarchical, slow to search, and don't natively store all of the metadata we need

I don't know what he means by "traditional", but Linux native filesystems can store all the metadata you'd want.

> Why can't I have a file in two places at once on my filesystem?

POSIX compatible filesystems have supported that for a long time already.

It seems to me that all the things he wants are achievable through Plan9 with its existing API. The only thing missing is the ton of elbow grease to build such apps.
That sentence has "Asian" in it. I am not so sure, assumed Asia includes India. Is "Asian Indian" a separate category ?

Also are "Asians, Blacks, Mexicans" only three groups that those rules apply to? Noone else has a 'history of discrimination'?
Even some of the expensive EDA packages can be rather user unfriendly. I've just started a new job where we use Cadence Orcad so I'm having to learn that. It's not exactly intuitive.
For me I picked up React pretty quickly but I was using old school includes in the browser with the babel compiler.

I tried moving to a newer version and start using with npm and webpack and I got a little lost.

Started using the php framework laravel it has a mix package build in that makes everything very simple.

My advice for backend developers is to use either the laravel framework or standalone npm laravel's mix package.

With a simple command preseyts for vue, react, bootstrap come out of the box to allow you to focus on writing code vs setting up webpack or gulp or grunt and managing that yourself
I bought Katamari on the PS4 store and had trouble getting it to work. I called them up and they just refunded my money instantly. I was hoping for tech support to help me get it working.
And even those who have a job.

I saved enough money so I don't have to work for years, but I'm still don't feel at ease.

First I had the fear I wouldn't get a job, then I had the fear I could lose it any time due to things out of my control (crisis 2008). Now I think, everything is okay, but for how long? This industry doesn't like old people, how long can I be a software engineer? till 40? till 50? What should I do then?
Exactly. You need to have the most critical apps running on your OS (development IDE, modern web browser and mail mostly). That's going to be a significant effort especially if those apps need to be rewritten as modules to take advantage of the paradigms the new OS offers.
> Mostly nonsense said with authority. Psychology and dietary advice really are crap sciences.

You don't appear to have presented any evidence or reasons that would make your hostile opinions a useful contribution here.
Model Synthesis: A General Procedural Modeling Algorithm [pdf]
What do you think is nonsense?
I see https://birdhouse.org/beos/refugee/trackerbase.gif for 2 seconds and I feel happy. So cute, clear, useful.
Downvote for wanting to know why? I assumed there are specific benefits rather than the the principle of it.

In case in matters the reason I ask is usage scenarios. Even if I take notes at my laptop 95% of the time, using a phone once in a while when an idea comes is helpful.
Fine then. I assumed you had considered the degree of immorality to be important, because the alternative just makes you look whichever you prefer of disingenuous or deranged. Mea cupla
I agreed, and personally I think it's great that Windows 10 can still (mostly) run applications built for Windows XP, as often the original developers of these apps do no longer maintain / update them but they nevertheless provide some good value.
Relevant [what if] xkcd: "Green Cows" https://what-if.xkcd.com/17/ It's a similar analysis, but it uses cows instead of humans.
I created an app in ionic, and I find it good for pretty simple app workflows (standard tabs, traversal, etc). You can check out the app here (download links in the middle of the page).

sdabulletin.com

If you have any questions about the dev experience, or otherwise, feel free to let me know.
My favorite Win7/10 UX features: drag n snap (with the corresponding Win + arrow bindings). Whoever managed to pitch the idea to MS, thanks a lot.
I don't know about namecheap in particular. The point is that these companies are piling on the same site and they all host sites that are much worse than daily sturmer.
This shouldn't be an issue on a free and open operating system, like Linux. Profit isn't a driver for LibreOffice or Blender, but these apps are still siloed off from each other. I think the author is right in that if the operating system offered both a richer and simpler set of tools to make it easier to add OS components and to communicate between applications, we could really see some interesting stuff.

Personally, I do find the idea of an operating system composed of services and applications that all share the same messaging statement compelling.
Your only criticism of anything is "you don't have any experience in that" which is quite hilarious. Thanks for the trolling.
My name is sverige and I used to be an "alcoholic." I have attended at least 2,500 AA meetings in various places since the early '80s, and probably many more than that. I was fully indoctrinated in their literature and methods, having read every book published by AA more than once, and some many, many times. I am also very familiar with similar and related programs, such as Al-Anon, Narcotics Anonymous, etc. I have also known people who have been involved in even more fringe movements, such as Synanon. I have talked to thousands of people "in recovery" over the years, and I have personally known dozens who died as a direct result of their addictions.

The article is a pretty good summary of the sad state of alcohol and drug dependency treatment in the U.S. The prescription is always abstinence, and almost universally any suggestion that moderate drinking might be possible for some is met with scorn and anxiety.

My objections to AA have little to do with their mention of God. I am christian, so obviously that is not a problem for me. I will say that AA theology is awful, basically implying that salvation comes from sobriety, but worse is that it actually indoctrinates many with ideas that hinder their ability to recover from addiction. Regardless of whether or not you believe the way I do, I hate to see people needlessly suffering from this illness (or perhaps, this group of related illnesses), yet the conclusion I came to after 25 years of involvement with them is that AA more often than not prolongs suffering.

I am not saying that naltrexone or any other drug is the magic bullet, but I am certain that it is well worth investigating alternatives to AA. If you or anyone you are close to needs help, please take the time to explore all the options. There is so much snake oil in this area that it can be difficult to know which way to turn. It is worth the time and effort it takes to find the right treatment, and if it is successful, it is probably even worth the inflated cost of said treatment.
America also uses the term Indian to mean Native American, so I was attempting to distinguish between the two. East Asians (as against separate from Indian Asians) -- or at least Japanese -- have indeed been the victims of state-sanctioned discrimination in the past.
The problem with two-way binding is that people use more than one source of truth and blame that questionable (to not use stronger words) decision on the framework.

At least that's what I've seen it come down to.
Yes, existing desktop applications and operating systems are hairballs with software layers built atop older software layers built atop even older software layers.

Yes, if you run the popular editor Atom on Linux, you're running an application built atop Electron, which incorporates an entire web browser with a Javascript runtime, so the application is using browser drawing APIs, which in turn delegate drawing to lower-level APIs, which interact with a window manager that in turn relies on X...

Yes, it's complexity atop complexity atop complexity all the way down.

But the solution is NOT to throw out a bunch of those old layers and replace them with new layers!!!

Quoting Joel Spolsky[1]:

"There’s a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. And here is the interesting observation: they are probably wrong. The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It’s harder to read code than to write it. ... The idea that new code is better than old is patently absurd. Old code has been used. It has been tested. Lots of bugs have been found, and they’ve been fixed. ... When you throw away code and start from scratch, you are throwing away all that knowledge. All those collected bug fixes. Years of programming work."

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
No I have not. So what's the reason, in a nutshell?
I keep reiterating this point, but people keep calling React complex, it's not. React is raw simplicity. As far as I'm aware it's the most minimal API for creating sufficiently complex UIs. It's so minimal that it's hard to build full apps in because it says "not my problem" to questions such as routing, global state management, you name it. And that's fair. I still maintain that it's a tool for pros. But the responsibility that it does take on, I believe it does so in the most simple way possible. And you don't need to be aware of React internals to use it effectively. The details of the component lifecycle are not internals, but part of the public API.
I am well aware that the climate is well against this position, but you cannot just dismiss the 'Damore' view out of hand. He is not just 'wrong'. The Damore view is at the very least plausible and tarring a whole industry filled with many thoughtful and introverted (i.e. not messing with others, often taken advantage of themselves) individuals to support some view of gender economics is morally wrong.

We now live in a time where we are increasingly told what we should believe. In my view morality shouldn't extend to belief. For one it leaves certain individuals (like myself) out in the cold. Sorry, I cannot be told what to believe.

Maybe this is just the current hot topic and many people want to read it, but to me it reads as a form of propaganda (by definition media created to determine what people believe) or at least journalistic activism, and who is this guy (apparently some business journalist) to write authoratively on the subject, based on one fact (the predominance of women in early programming jobs). The fact of the matter is that programming has changed beyond recognition, particularly between 1950 and 1980 or so and that is more than enough to at the very least plausibly explain the change in programmer demographic. Anyone who is in the industry knows these eras cannot be compared (surely?).
I often hear that "DOM caching, DOM invalidation" talk, but being non-web guy can't figure out what's the issue is. Seems like Santa didn't deliver cell renderer conception into DOM? :) Afaik, you basically draw table rows and cells via distinct widgets, no doubt it's expensive as hell.
That you don't hear about the ten years of failure before the success says more about what sells biographies than it says about the founders.
How to Use Let’s Encrypt to Install Free SSL Certificates on Your Linux VPS
I have always wondered: People often point to graphs showing a massive decline in the percentage of women in CS in the 80's. But has anyone seen a graph of the absolute number, not percentages?

If 1 million women were coding, then 100 billion men started coding, those 1M women would still be coders. So there wasn't necessarily a decline. Or maybe there was, and the numbers will reflect that.

I am interested in the actual numbers, not graphs or interpretations. But I've never found a data source, so hopefully someone knows of one.

The whole debate is interesting because there are at least four separate sides: men who don't believe it exists, men who recognize it as a systemic problem, women who believe it's the most important aspect, and women who wish the debate would go away so they can focus on doing good work instead of on doing good work as a woman.

Me, I don't know enough about it. I'm just curious about the numbers over time. And if I have a daughter hopefully I'll think of some crafty way to make programming seem interesting. The one badass female dev I know said she regretted not getting into it from a younger age, so it seems worth fixing.
Amateur Radio sure loves Windows. The relationship has always baffled me.
Such bunk. I spent thousands of hours fighting with computers due to obsession, certainly not because I had some notion that it was important or that it would be considered a good occupation 20 years in the future. I was practically living a double life as a computer bodybuilder, despite the reaction society gave me about it. When I look back over how I got good at computers and programming, I see no reason women could not have done the same thing. Yet most didn't. Why they didn't, I don't know. Sexism could probably stop a woman from being in construction, but not so much programming. Let's stop with these persecution myths.
We've been fixing "bro culture" given that it's largely a myth propogated by a select group of SV tech writers via cherry picking a small group of bad apples that are in no way representative of the majority of folks at the company.

You associate with Uber if you want the chance to solve big problems with incredible teams to continually improve a product that you and millions of others rely on as a matter of necessity.

The "Uber exploiting workers" meme is a classic, and holds little water given the fact that everyone on the platform consents to be there and can leave at any time. If anything, the flexible earnings opportunity Uber provides is transformational to a group of people who have historically had to make insidious trade offs (money over family time) to keep the lights on.
This hits close to home so I have to chime in: Got burnt out at work, pretty much did nothing for weeks, spent all my vacation days, some sick days, a month on actual sick leave and then finally told boss with 2-3 months left of my contract that I can't do anything on site please let's cancel the contract or I'm taking more sick leave. He gave me remote work instead with less responsibilities. Getting better.