skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, sometimes this attitude of mine is a problem. The most obvious example for me is git, which I use nearly every day, but still have an embarrassingly shallow understanding of. Any time something “goes wrong” I’m googling for a magic command to fix it, or resorting to crude measures like copying the whole repo directory and resetting hard.
>> days of cloud and absolute technical domination of Office 365,

Very weird - for my clients of dozens of companies, Google Docs dominates. Never saw even one client using Office 365 just heard someone negotiating with Microsoft.
Even tried to vote this time around. Popular vote didn't count. I tried.
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All I can say with stuff like this is "The more the better."
The ISP can still see you using a VPN and throttle all VPN traffic. The only way to avoid it is to use an ISP that doesn’t throttle.
Just a small information that's missing from the discussion: I'm sure this decision doesn't have anything to do with Microsoft (a major taxpayer) moving its German offices from the suburbs (Unterschleißheim) to Munich proper in 2016 (https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-germany-moves-into-a-new-h...)...
I think US would be the country for "first contact", then Russia.

Most of our planet is water. US has the biggest/best Navy & intelligence systems. And also pretty aggressive spirit.

Russia has 1/6 (IIRC) of our planet's land mass and also a very stubborn spirit.

So my uneducated guess is ET is going to be chatting with either Trump or Putin.

...God help us...
How do you get "immeasurably more"? The West has been meddling in these countries for maybe a century. China has been doing it for millennia.
I realise and I have read the primary research article (https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0...). I'm just saying that I don't think you can take this on face value. It's incongruous with my real-world experience.
Seems like an old school system that sucks as it is and is ripe for disruption.
Right, so it is 11 a.m. - who is for coffee? So I pick up the tray, go down to the kitchen, make everyone a cup of tea/coffee/defac-coffee and pick up a can of some fizzy drink for that guy who lives off energy drinks instead of coffee.

In the kitchen I have a joke with the guy from accounts as well as have a really positive buy-in for the new 'aggregated accounts' plan. I have some chat with the cleaning lady, she smiles, I smile. Someone else gets doors for me, I say please and thank-you. Finally beverages get served by me to my colleagues. Everyone is happy.

On the way to and from the kitchen I have got the blood circulating, not a very big walk, certainly not a gym workout, but all moving is good in the sedentary office world. Yes, it does take a lot of muscles to smile, and just with the light convo needed to get to the kettle and sink I have had a little workout. Unlike press-ups I can put my heart into a smile.

So what happens if I am in a mood and can't be bothered to make tea for the rest of the team? I sneak into the kitchen and make a coffee just for myself. Or if it is the weekend and I am home alone, with no interaction with people during the consumption of coffee.

On aggregate I do make coffee and it be a social thing rather than a loner thing. We are social animals and the act of sharing coffee is probably better for our well being than whatever is in the coffee. I don't think it is possible to do studies without the bigger social picture.

So could claims that 'coffee is good for you' stack up, even with the above?

In my anecdata there is also the girl I sit next to that is not in the 'tea round system'. She makes her own drink, and will tend to have a jogger style water bottle at hand at all times. She will also make her own infusions - ginger tea etc, but not a round for everybody. Because she just serves herself then she is not in the kitchen for as long as me, not needing to converse to complete the task (no tray). Furthermore, she does not get to greet everyone in the team, or to have that special thought for them, e.g. mug colour preference, tea/coffee strength etc.

So, anecdata, but, if coffee and the sharing of coffee is important, then the claims that 'coffee is good for you' could stack up but it not be causation/correlation on the caffeine, even if that appears to be the case.
Couldn't you just fake a user-agent, or does the website require components only available in Chrome?
I do remember, but I don't see how it's relevant to this article.

It seems unfair to say that "Cloudflare continues to pretend this never happened" since they have a blog entry detailing exactly how the leak happened:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/incident-report-on-memory-leak-c...
Did future-you subscribe to the Comcast VPN Access package? I think it's only an extra $25/mo, and they let you choose from 20 vetted VPN providers. /s
It depends on how big the gap between the power of aliens and earthlings is.

Some people believe that science advances should progress like explosion, and "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". In this case the possibility of aliens being at the similar level with us is small.

But I think you have a point. Sometimes I doubt the speed of science advances. Maybe the aliens are not so far away from us and their astronautics is not much stronger than our level. They don't look like magicians. In this case things can be boring, may be just an age of discoveries for the aliens.
Can someone help me understand why this browser will improve my day to day life as a developer?

I like Chrome Dev Tools, they fulfill the vast majority of my needs and Postman covers the rest. I just don’t exactly understand the gains for a developer to switch when the contextual switch is high.
Even the giants can die. And as they do, their willingness to help you export your data from their proprietary formats and products will decrease at a rate faster than the neccessity of doing so. Properitary software is a short sighted choice, and probably one made by people with greased pockets.

It's difficult to get funding to work on open source software. Governments are a natural source, but time and time again bribery fucks everything up.
Time to start researching how people circumvent the great firewall of china, because this uses the same technology.
You and most other people here assume it would be a planned, organized event. Maybe it's rather one weirdo talking to another weirdo.
Oh my, someone please document tc, iptables and ffmpeg.
Honestly, I don’t really care to see any other browsers on iOS. Safari works perfectly fine and I’d rather download an app than use a mobile experience of a website. Most companies suck at mobile web apps whereas the native experience is much better.
That plan better have an up-to-date phone number for Mr Freeman.

Thinking about this, sending a celebrity rather than a politician/religious/military is probably a good idea.
I like it. Tools with a different take on a regular problem like this are always useful, and can make people more creative under new constraints. It sounds like a tool that needs to exist and one I'd love to try out.

If you haven't seen it yet, there are some kinda-similar tools out there like Little Outliner [0] that might serve as inspiration. Otherwise, as someone also running a niche-ish blogging platform (anonymous, writing-only), I'd definitely suggest getting the tool out there and tweaking it based on real feedback before worrying about what business model will fit best. Not saying those ideas won't work, just that it's a crowded space and you might need to do more to differentiate or bring people value. In case you want an idea of what the growth / revenue timeline has been like for our platform, you can see our metrics: [1].

[0] http://littleoutliner.com

[1] https://inside.write.as
"The moon is an alien spaceship." - Hollow Moon Theory
Sending data by itself isn't commonly seen as an attack vector with things like TLS in place and working, as far as we know. At least, Google has been sending browsing history with no additional encryption as part of Chrome Sync since its inception and there we don't know of data leaks during send so far either.

And at the server where it's sent to, it gets disconnected from the IP address and intermixed with other people's browsing history. So, it's not stored in personally identifiable form and therefore not vulnerable there either.

Mozilla has also made an official statement that neither they nor Cliqz store personally identifiable information as part of this, so doing it anyways would be misleading of consumers, i.e. breaking the law.

Not to mention that it would violate German privacy laws (which is where it's currently being tested), if they collected personally identifiable information without clearly notifying the user and at least some checkbox that the user has to tick.

It's easy to spin this, so that it sounds like Mozilla is doing pure evil here, but it's just not the case.
That's a good distinction. Yeah, GNU.
If the aliens want us to know they are there, it won't be because we have a specialized radio dish to receive their transmissions -- it's unlikely that we'd be able to distinguish their regular communications from noise. In another 50-100 years, the earth will likely stop transmitting the kind of high power, trivially modulated signals that we're looking for, which leaves a very small window of opportunity to detect other alien species.

It'd be like Marconi trying to decipher a modern spread-spectrum encrypted RF datastream.
Yeah, C-b takes way too much hand stretching for common use with a single hand. I remapped mine to C-z instead. I don't miss have C-z to interrupt a program, because when using tmux, I tend to open new shells instead.
Even if you understand firmware (which I wouldn't expect of most readers, just some; the reason we develop abstractions is so our fellow hackers can hack on new things instead of studying the same things we already studied and hacked), it's extremely common for companies that keep security software secret to rely on that secrecy for security. You need to understand the Secure Enclave in particular and believe that the Apple folks are both talented and honest enough to implement what they say they're implementing to know that, in this case, that's not what's happening.
Preparing physics students for 21st-century careers
Brain implants
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Likely:
https://www.fastcompany.com/40419011/how-tiny-bozeman-montan...
Why do people have to compare body counts of communist and fascist systems. Yes, I know many if not most people underestimate/do not know the "cost" in lives of Soviet and Chinese communism, but it just seems... wrong to compare how many more millions each one killed than the other.

---

One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic. (Sorry for butchering the quote)
The way to avoid this is vigorously campaigning for better representatives, removing the sellouts from office
Political theorist James Scott thinks civilization is overrated
The point of using a VPN is that your ISP can't see what web sites and IP addresses you're visiting, so they have very little privacy-violating information they can sell.
*buttcoin
I am talking about all goods not just food, and not claiming there are zero exports either. And yes, part of the reason we got off the gold standard was military spending. Even now I like to mention that the more NSA/FBI spends, the more money is printed using government debt.
More or less this, yeah. I'm not sure how people think they can just work around it when their gateway out of the last mile will have free reign to do whatever with the packets in/out as they see fit, and this will be supported legally (Well aware that rogue or otherwise just crappy actors can still do this now, but there are legal repercussions to doing so at the moment).

Basically your choice is to find someone who doesn't do this, and hope that the path from whatever service or site you're wanting doesn't go through the pipes of an ISP that does want to throttle on its way to you.

It's going to be a mess once this has ramped up to the full vision of the ISPs.
Correct, but they can see that you're using a VPN, which they can throttle if net neutrality rules are taken away by the current FCC.
I thought the same – I actually liked the illustration so much I bought a print of it. This is the artist's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harriorrihar/
Yes, but why does that matter when what the ISPs want is control and the ability to tax the content you're trying? If they can't milk your connection for data, then just throttle the connection type and call it a day. $25 a month for VPN access is probably more than they'd get on the small bit of private data they could extract from any non-secure connection to a website/service.

So go ahead and use a VPN, but it won't matter when you're throttled to 50 kb/s
I think Chile would be the first country for "first contact".

Why? it's an elaborate pun in their alien language and the alien bureaucrat in charge of that decision really loves puns.
Forgive my ignorance, I’ve not been keeping up with this story. Is this just a USA thing?

What way if any will affect non US residents?
A manpage is a glorified README. An info page is a non-horrendous version of a html manual. So to see the appeal, don't compare `man cp` with `info cp`, try some more substantial manual like the emacs manual or python's documentation. Also, emacs is a much better info reader than the standalone program.

Info pages are at least an order of magnitude more efficient to navigate than the html documentation that has supplanted them. All the following are fast and a single keypress:

- regexp (s)earch (not just the current page, the whole document)

- hierarchical navigation ((u)p, (n)ext, (p)revious)

- jump to any (i)ndex topic

- jump between links/sections (by position: tab, shift-tab, by na(m)e)

The main shortcoming of info is no support for styling (or graphics) whatsoever, but if you're used to its efficiency using a mix of googling and clicking to navigate the html equivalent is profoundly frustrating.

The closest modern equivalent I know of is Dash.
Can you make yourself more specific? What hotkeys, equations and simple features are missing?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you can't be sure if programmers used a static analysis tool ? Maybe they used it just enough to make sure it compiles ? And if all you get is a binary, you can't even run those tools yourself. That's my problem with the argument: "The language has issues, but you can run static analysis tools" and "it takes some self-discipline". If you take over someone's code, you're back to square one.

Rust, on the other hand, could be called Trust. Borrow checker is for everyone.
The "smartphone" was still in its infancy back then.

Today the technology is mature enough, so it's more about the (small) gimmicks like fingerprint scanners.
Even during the wars with the French and Americans, the Vietnamese were quite wary of China. They knew the westerners would leave, but China would always threaten them.
The traditional structure of man pages (Synopsis, Description, Options, and maybe Examples at the end) is just Bad. No documentation expert would write doc this way, not even as a reference, say nothing of a tutorial.

The synopsis typically lists a bunch of command-line variations with literally no context, not even a line of commentary to tell the difference between the variations.

Then comes a description, which is fine, and then a list of options in alphabetical order which is almost always the least useful ordering. Categorize the parameters. Juxtapose confusingly similar options.

And only then do we get any examples, if any. The examples should have come first, in the synopsis.

There's nothing inherently wrong with man pages, but nobody has to follow this tradition. Put real examples in your synopsis and manually sort your options; you'll have a man page that's 20x better than most.
I would certainly be interested in some concrete numbers.
A quad 120V 20A outlet suitable for charging 4 cars is going to take a lot more than $200 to install in most commercial locations, they'll either need to install an 80A subpanel near the outlet with 4 20A breakers, or home run 4 20A circuits to the main panel.

If the main panel is out of spare breaker slots (or doesn't have enough amperage left on the feeder), it's going to expensive to upgrade the panel.

Most of the cost ends up in labor, so if you're going to go to all of the expense to install a 4x20A quad outlet, you may as well install a 30A 240V level 2 charge station.

Most of that cost is labor -- I looked into installing a charge station in my condo apartment garage -- coring and installing a home run back to the main panel would have cost $3000 - $5000, and I would have had to pay for a power study for the HOA owned panel.

There wouldn't have been much difference in materials cost between installing a 120V 20A circuit for level 1 charging and a 30A 220VAC level2 charge station.
Why do we assume the aliens would even recognize humans as a species worth talking to? They could be so far beyond us, that (a) they would have no idea how to talk to us (like we have no idea how to talk to ants) and (b) they wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between us and other species in terms of intelligence (like we can’t tell the difference between a fish and a crab).

We humanize aliens because otherwise movies would be boring, but more likely they would be very different from us, heck, we might not even recognize them ourselves.
The install process is still very non trivial, to say the least. The usage expirience is very smooth, though, anazingly for RDP contained in a browser. Some browser addon to supplement the Keyboard shortcuts might be required if I want to use it as a regular phyisical console to a cloud desktop. All in all, pretty cool software!
These thought experiments are always a little strange to me. If an alien race has the technology for interstellar travel I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to assume they’d also be able to do whatever they want to observe us (i.e. stay hidden if they like).

I think a much more interesting thought experiment is this: if an alien race chooses to make First Contact with us, what’s the likelihood we’re actually the first for them? Being a student of history, it’s a stretch for me to think they wouldn’t know these sorts of events trigger drastic changes in the native populations (usually resulting in death) when encountering a more developed civilization. So, I’m forced to conclude that if they do make First Contact with us we’re either the first for them and we’re doomed, or we’re not and they have some sufficient protocol for First Contact that’s “good enough” that they benefit in the exchange. Either way I don’t think Humanity makes out well unless we get lucky with some really benevolent explorers.
Probably irrelevant but I found default Bengali font rendering is broken on FF Quantum.
This is interesting. I wonder why only Republicans are targeted consistently for these types of laws that are blatantly bad for consumers and why it works on them. However, I am sure money has been offered to Democrats but what's the reason it never sticks?
Safari has 2 basic problems;

- The Interface is obtuse and inefficient in practice.

- All major updates only happen once a year for so that the OS announcement can have more bullet points

Which, I guess is the problem with iOS as a whole. Marketing is the primary driver of all innovation on that platform and it works for them. Except the iPad.
DocBook XML isn't bad, but don't you find the markup incredibly verbose?
I don't disagree, but voting "no" or abstaining is not the strongest form of resistance. Ethical Democrats could/should do more.
That reddit thread isn't pretty.
A lot of democracy is just showing up. Even if your side loses, you may be building momentum that leads to a victory. Please keep showing up.
I think this is how it used to be, but now people just Google their problems, and typically they get Stack Overflow as a result.

Earlier this year, they announced that they have helped over one million developers to exit vim, for example. https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/23/stack-overflow-helping...

In my experience, the top-rated SO answer is typically better than the man page, because it answers the specific question I have, rather than listing all of the options in alphabetical order, forcing me to search the page itself for the information I really wanted.
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but you can't be sure if programmers used a static analysis tool?

I could be sure that they used a static analysis tool, for example, if I watched them use it. But that alone is not enough: the static analysis tool has to be sound, and most static analysis tools for C and C++ deliberately aim for less than soundness.
Would you still recommend Rails if the person has absolutely zero Ruby/Javascript knowledge (but functioning HTML/CSS)?
screen has "-X" for sending commands to remote sessions, and there's a command "stuff" for inserting text:

screen -S Testing # Create a named screen for examples:

screen -S Testing -X screen watch date # Run "watch date" in a new window on the remote session
screen -S Testing -X next # Switch back to the initial bash session
screen -S Testing -X stuff "cd /\n" # Type "cd /" and hit enter
I don't understand this response. Why would it be improper to discuss alternative products?

I don't know you, so I guess you have a vested interest? Is that it?
Key users hated Linux and their know-it-all IT administration prescribing them software that nobody else uses. During the time the IT department failed to provide a solution that was better than the MS offering. The user interface is different and the compatibility lacked badly.

Let's be honest. How do you beat MS Office using Linux solutions? Will your Excel documents with macros still work flawlessly? How would you replace Exchange? Maybe Thunderbird with what calendar solution? There are tons of material and training for everyday MS Office use and most people are already familiar with the details they need. For OpenOffice... not as much... OpenOffice isn't even really developed anymore as people switch to LibreOffice.
I've used MS Office, Libreoffice and Google Apps and find them all equally appalling. Terrible, clumsy, complicated, inaccurate UI, unusable version control, ugly output. (Compared to git + emacs + TeX/docbook/perldoc/HTML/plain text).
One thing holding me back : No websocket monitor in dev tools. And the extension that was offering this in the previous version no longer works.
This is app design for 99design.com
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i want suggestions and what you think about this design
There are multiple bills in recent years that have benefitted ISPs. They also were in favor of CISA to avoid any possible legal issues from a disregard of your privacy rights, and that passed with large support from the Democrats. Individual bills can follow party lines, but they're all helping the ISPs.
I find this all very strange. Why are Americans so focused on this and not on the far more pressing issues like people only having one ISP available?

There are dozens, possibly hundreds of ISPs to choose from where I live. Why is that not true ver there?
On many Linux systems there are likely to be more non-GNU commands than GNU commands, so I'm not sure your argument fully works here.

GNU historically never made man pages: they used Texinfo for documentation, possibly combined with a tool to convert Texinfo to man pages. That shows in the result: an entire manual all joined together in a single unreadably long manual page. The bash man page is a nice example of that. I'm not sure if the use of Texinfo is still a requirement for GNU projects.

The verbosity of the generated man pages for GNU software probably did influence a lot of non-GNU Linux software.