skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had exactly the same experience, but I'm not sure whether the acquisition by Stripe played a role in this. There might be an advantage in having a lively community of people asking for advice if some of them are asking "which payment processor should I use for my project", but I haven't seen that happen frequently. For me, reading about successful startups using Stripe was much more powerful than an off-hand recommendation by an anonymous forum participant.

It would be interesting to read a blog post by Courtland where he shares engagement/views statistics pre and post the decision to make the forum the home page. Maybe there already is such a blog post, but if there is, I wasn't able to find it ;)... But even if engagement increased significantly, I wonder whether that's a good metric to optimize for, for a site such as IH? As it stands, I don't understand the need to pivot if a site is successful.
Being bad at C (and family) does not mean you can not write 'Linux programs', just pick any other language of choice and start writing. Recently the .Net family has been added, before that Mono made a valiant attempt at supporting it but those have been preceded (and might be succeeded) by a lengthy list of languages in which 'Linux programs' can be written, from BASIC to Haskell, from Python to Ocaml, from Fortran to Lisp, take your pick.
Proceed seems to be the wrong verb here, as that dialog looks like it appeared after clicking a cancel button, and if I don't want to cancel I "return" to the previous screen where my data still is and don't "proceed" to somewhere.
Reasonably frequent for London trains heading to the coast (e.g. Brighton)
The problem would be the scheduling. Even at the best of times railways rarely run on the kind of precision that these kinds of operations would demand. Plus it’d require a lot of duplicate railway since presumably it would take distance for shuttles to accelerate and decelerate, and the shuttles would need to get back to the original stations in time for the next trains.
I'd say the way you used it is acceptable enough in some contexts, but 'cum toy' might be a bit unfortunate.
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It's worse.

If the employee has no idea what's going on, there's more chance if something goes wrong they'll have no idea and it's an easy out for them. "I ran the script as asked"

Unlike manual where it might be longer but if there's a issue they will know and it's their responsibility to move forward.

What do you trust more, asking a emoloyee to ensure the backups are being done or that they have run the backup script....
I agree, but what's the use-case for such a dialog in the first place?
Microsoft and Amazon are both less liberal cultures than Google. Microsoft particularly historically has skewed much closer to centrist politically, in its culture, business operations and ideology.

Microsoft is more like old IBM in that regard, which makes sense given how old its cultural foundation is (dating to the 1970s) and its history of working with more conservative old-line enterprise businesses. As are Oracle, Cisco, Intel, etc. All will very happily serve the military industrial complex. You won't find any serious dissent in Redmond.
No, I mean my salary went up at most 15-20% in that time.

So it means even with promotions etc. you just break even - it feels like you are just working for your landlord.

That said, it is still better than London where the situation is just untenable and I prefer the quality of life here as well. (sadly so do all the tourists!)
It's more complex than that: https://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/gig-economy-worker-conditions...
first thing that jumps (sic) is that comparing puts to formatted print is not worth of a gentleman.
It looks nice in screenshots.
Absolutely! Every non-controversial article in the mainstream media has one paid PR guru or another behind it.
What about "Yes, [Action]" and "No, Cancel" to get most of the best of both worlds?
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The technical term you're looking for is "multiple unit", and you're correct that in a multiple unit it is not possible to arbitrarily couple together arbitrary carriages, re-arranging the multiple unit is possible only at dedicated maintenance facilities and may require a complete refit.

However everything else you've claimed is wrong. The designs you're talking about DO have motors under many (or in some cases all) passenger coaches driving the wheels, rather than a dedicated "locomotive" so they support your parent's point, not yours.

The original Eurostar (class 373) trains are confusing because they're built as multiple units but the lead and trailing cars basically just provide traction, so the result looks a lot like a "conventional" locomotive plus carriages. But modern Eurostar (class 374) looks exactly like any other multiple unit and has motors distributed across the whole train.

Britain does operate a bunch of locomotive pulled high speed (125mph) services, but it also owns a bunch of 125mph multiple units. Even the Desiro 444 and 450 trains could do 125mph if not for the fact they're configured exclusively for third rail power limited to 100mph.

The reason none of those trains exceeds 125mph is purely down to legal/ safety considerations. Britain uses coloured light signals with route control, as speeds increase drivers struggle to correctly interpret and act on a light signal by the side of the track. HS-1 (Eurostar) and many European high speed services have in-cab signals, so the driver doesn't need to try to observe fixed coloured light signals at the side of the track, the indications are inside the cab with them.

As well as the reasons given earlier about improved performance from distributing the traction power across the train, distributing the weight also improves crash performance. Heavy locomotives will tend to crush a lightweight passenger car, if we make all the cars of more similar weight this problem goes away.
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Well as to the second question, in the Chauvet cave paintings the animals face both left and right. A bit of a small sample though.
I'm currently in the process of writing together some basic UI guidelines at work, and one of the special cases was exactly this: If the dialog asks for confirmation to cancel a process, it must ask, "cancel this process", and the buttons must be labeled "yes" and "no", never "cancel".
the cross platform bit was a little disingenuous of me. what i was really trying to say was that in 9 years time from now, apple could deprecate it at the drop of a hat. sockets, on the other hand, are likely not going anywhere, and also have the benefit of existing everywhere, as they have for a long time.
Wow, I'm from the UK but emigrated to Spain after Uni.

I never knew it was so hard for new arrivals in the UK - here in Spain it was pretty easy, the hardest thing was getting the appointment for the ID card.

I lived in Germany for a bit too and there it was also easy.

I really think we need some ID system like the NIE or Anmeldung in the UK as I can't drive and always had to use my passport as ID which is a massive pain - it'd make stuff like this easier too.
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I'm a GNOME loyalist, but if I was going to set up a system for a non-technical user today, I would go for MATE and set the theme that emulates the OS that they used before, or to suit their preferences. MATE has really impressed me with the last couple of releases.
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> Today, most R&D is commercial with a lot of duel use potential...

I am sure "duel" was a typo but too wonderful not to point out
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After nearly a decade with MBP, I finally decided to replace it with a brand new, top-spec 13" dell XPS. Initially I was super happy with the choice, but after more than a year with it I would not recommend going that route to anyone, it's just full of little problems that don't exist with Apple hardware. The coil whine is insane and a known problem with those, from time to time the computer goes to sleep but isn't actually off - the fan is off but something is still running, and when you pull it out of your bag it's literally hot to touch(it's also a known problem with loads of threads on Dell forums about this). It happened to me once at an airport and when I pulled it out of the bag I was certain someone was going to stop me, the computer was literally boiling. I've had the motherboard replaced with dell 3 times now, both coil whine and spontaneous staying on when in sleep still happen. Plus the touchpad is actually crap, when you press down the cursor sometimes jumps a little bit resulting in you clicking on something else, and the screen while gorgeous has a stupid amount of backlight bleed near the edges. At first glance, the computer is as nice as any MacBook - but after living with it for a while I'm seriously considering going back to MBP again.
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Of course if we agree programming is not so easy, verifying that the script actually works as intended will take roughly the same time. Not to mention thinking about what it should do when faced with an unusual situation.
Keyboard support on the Mac is terrible. It's probably the biggest flaw of the OS, imo. You wouldn't believe some of the ridiculousness - for example, the page up/down, home/end keys are application-specific in their behaviour. Moreover, they sometimes move the view, but not the cursor - an insane behaviour. I regularly find myself moving to the top of a document using the keyboard, then remembering I'm wasting my time and reaching over for the mouse, one click, and back to the keyboard...
Welcome to animal kingdom.

The whole prerequisite of welfare is to take excess resources to redistribute.

Now who decides what is excess? Definitely not the person who has it and is greedy. So or societies have decided that majority or representative of the majority decided this. Reasonably equitable system, but not exactly colouring or incorruptible.
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Permgen evolved into the metaspace: https://dzone.com/articles/java-8-permgen-metaspace
Thanks for the tips. Crazy how things like this can slip.
The site is static and on AWS Cloudfront, but it's a quick port from the actual Vue.js app which makes it rather big. Will make it server rendered (and faster) in the future. For now just reshuffled some v-cloak tags which should result in a quicker experience.
TL;DR read the title and the last paragraph.
Scripts/automation can be worth it even for one-shot tasks for which time to create a script > time to do the task manually:

a) They help in applying forethought to a process. Maybe you can even dry-run the thing.

b) They help documenting what has been done, and how, which can be invaluable in a team setting.

c) They train you into getting incrementally better at automating, and at sensing when to automate and when not to†. If it's painful, you're not doing enough of it.

† I find that for the ones that would take ages to properly script, more often than not a combination of manual (like preparing a normalised input for the script using vim) and automated subtasks can do wonders, leveraging the best of wetware and software worlds.
Awesome, don't hesitate to reach out if you have questions. Looks like the API checks would really be a good match for your IOT endpoints.
He's trying to say that rockets emit CO₂, but there are very few of them compared to other things that also emit CO₂ at high altitudes, namely airplanes. He's also saying that some rockets have significant other pollution problems, but not SpaceX's.
Just a quick note on Right-to-Left countries, IIRC Nintendo said that they tested both R-L and L-R for Mario games and found and found R-L more natural in Japan
Perhaps if we give baboons another million years to evolve, they will start shooting lasers from their chests. And then it will be useful in the human-baboon wars. :D

More seriously, some people think that by a similar mechanism human intelligence has evolved. That in its first stages it was simply a costly (more difficult childbirth because of larger heads, more precious energy burned by brain function) and mostly useless mate-attracting thing. Until at some moment a critical threshold was crossed, and human culture became possible; and then it became dramatically useful.

So yes, there is a more general mechanism of how value gets burned in signaling competitions. Robin Hanson built his entire blog on finding examples in human society: www.overcomingbias.com

But then there is another general mechanism, where the heaps of waste accumulated by the aforementioned processes suddenly become a new niche to exploit for something useful. Such as people who build huge bitcoin-mining machines in Siberia, where the wasted heat warms their homes. So perhaps on another level there is something good to be gained from the corporate bullshit jobs.

Actually, I suspect what it could be... if your job is bullshit, it is less noticeable if you take some time off to browse a web. It could turn out that bullshit jobs are actually a huge factor driving today's culture. -- If you would remove bullshit jobs, for example by reducing the working time to 20 or 15 hours a week, many popular websites (including Hacker News) would lose most of their traffic. Because most people would spend their free afternoons differently, e.g. with their kids, or doing sports. I am not saying it would be worse... just different, maybe in ways we can't predict.
No. There is a more suitable tools now for every problem. Large volume - ASIC, and you can also put few ARM cores inside. Something highly integrated - pick ZynQ. There are dozen different solutions for all the problems starting with big FPGA with couple softcore processors going to cheap spartan 7 device and going to tiny and dirt cheap Lattice chip for glue logic or IO expansion. Tools might be better, but this problem will be solved in the future for sure.
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Hi, I'm not German (Dutch) but live and work in Berlin. The office on the site is indeed my "buro".
If I write a sentence in my editor, then change a preference setting, then click 'undo', should that undo my typing or the preference change? I feel like a global 'undo last action' would be very confusing, but how else would you get rid of 'cancel' everywhere?
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Please don't randomise the location of UI components. I don't want to have to find the button I want. Your users will thank you.
I was lucky enough to see JF demo this, really cool work.
I wasn't criticising the fact that you use a pre-rendered audio file (in fact that's the proper way to do it, as there's no need to recompute the SSTV audio every single time), merely the fact that it's just one-way SSTV instead of something more exciting like implementing an actual modem.
Did they make any games that way in the japanese versions?
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The lower levels of Windows 10 are probably the least problematic so basing a 'new, clean, robust OS' on OpenBSD (which, by the way, Apple did not do, they used parts of the FreeBSD userland on top of a Mach-inspired kernel) would not do much good as they'd still have to include support for Win32 for it to be considered a replacement for Windows. It is there Windows really shows what it is made of: glue, tape, rubber bands, hastily erected scaffolding around sassing facades, heavy structures built on top of unstable foundations. Microsoft tries (and tries, and tries) to replace all that with something new but they have a hard time making up their mind what the replacement should be and where the focus should lie.

In this sense a good successor to Windows would be a lightweight VM host running one-off instances of older Windows versions to support the host of software made for that platform, allowing those instances to communicate with each other. That might be good for users but it does not offer a path forward for Microsoft.

In truth, there probably is no way forward for Microsoft in this space. Windows is a dead end, the 'information at your fingertips' idea which Gates spouted has come true but not by way of Windows.
Pestering GooAmaBookSoft through GDPR complaints is fine, but won't actually accomplish anything in terms of privacy improvements - they're all in bed with governments anyway.

The only real solution is to stop letting these companies invade your privacy, by ceasing to use their services.

That doesn't mean "THIS.. IS.. STALLMAN!", but it will be less convenient than letting them continue.
How many users use a usb-c port directly daily? I don’t have anything that can plug into one except a dongle, I don’t even know what I could buy that would make use of it - probably a faster external hard drive would? But I don’t know of anyone who makes a monitor that plugs straight into usb-c, all the other usual usb accessories are still usb2. Do new phones have usb-c plugs like the MacBook charger, I guess they probably do. So if 50% of users have a new phone and charge it with their macbook daily then you're right, otherwise I'm not so sure. What were you thinking of as the main uses of a usb-c port for >50% of users out of interest?
For us its PRTG for infrastructure monitoring and Hansoft 9 for manufacturing/purchasing tracking. Rest is our app servers and databases. (Team of 10)
A lot of people run Ubuntu inside the container. There are many libraries today that officially only support some Ubuntu LTS (Tensorflow, for example).
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I'm the same. I love it but it does involve mental work to achieve, and would rather spend the efforts into something real.
People do that anyway, just that you'll have tough luck if it comes up in an insurance case. Or worse if you are in a condo and other people suffer.

Wiring and outlets are simple enough, but you wouldn't believe peoples' capacity to botch things up. They'd connect a ground pin socket in place of non grounded one without changing the wiring, or use incorrect section wire, or with incorrect insulation type for in-wall application, or they'd replace a charred outlet without trimming the sooted part of wire. Enough nuances to avoid amateur work.
From time to time I find myself revisiting this thread: "Writing parsers like it is 2017"[0].

In particular I love a Rust parser generator called LALRPOP and it's emphasis on diagnosing ambiguous grammars [1].

> What I’ve tried to do now in LALRPOP is to do that clever thinking for you, and instead present the error message in terms of your grammar. Perhaps even more importantly, I’ve also tried to identify common beginner problems and suggest solutions.

They work out a fairly deep example with error guidance in ambiguous grammars in that post.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15016061
[1]: http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2016/03/02/nice...
Diagnosing ambiguous grammars: Nice errors in LALRPOP
> However everything else you've claimed is wrong.

Eh? I didn't say anything at all about where the motors were.

You're the second person in this thread to imagine me saying something wrong and call me out on it.
Apparenly Windows does that too [1] (or did at some point, i can't find any recent shot that showed a dialog box). It actually looks like it flips the entire window horizontally in RTL :-P.

[1] http://www.geocities.ws/mowasel/tech_zone/images/dialog5.jpg
This is a pretty interesting resource. Kind of like a pastiebin for quick and relatively candid file sharing
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It wasn't a question.

ASIC isn't the tool for large volume, it's the tool for when you can accept a several year turnaround time for revisions, vs. a day or two. ASIC > FPGA... except if your design changes, ever. If anything high-bandwidth or design intensive is going on, you're definitely going to revise your design many times.

FPGA's are massively on the rise (although slightly less so than Xilinx would like), and they all are effectively "SoC like", with DSPs, transceivers, hard IP's probably being a majority of the chip by now.

Zynq is a cute little chip, but with Intel's coming CPU-embedded FPGA's, thing will kick off even more.
> they're all in bed with governments anyway

How do you explain the GDPR then?
How software is managed is fundamental to the ecosystem.
I got myself a Thinkpad T480s. I ended up spending around 2.5k for a machine that has 24GB of RAM, 1TB of PCIe SSD and weights a pound less than a MBP. The keyboard is stellar, the screen is matte, and it has HDMI, both old and new USB ports, ethernet, and an SD card slot.
The phrase in announcements for these trains will be e.g. "This train divides at Southampton. Passengers for stations to Poole should be in the front 5 cars of the train".

Because (as described below) these trains are actually constructed from Multiple Units, the train can only be sub-divided if it in fact consists of two or more smaller trains, for example 450s come in multiples of 4 so a 12 car train could divide into three. Some designs offset the driver's cab so that a gangway for passengers fits through the "nose" of the train when it's connected. In other designs you must leave the train and walk along a platform to pass the point where the trains are joined.
This one?

https://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/12/this-propo...
Everyone acts like military research is obviously evil.

Is it really so terrible to research arms for the people who risk their lives keep us safe?
Thanks for the reply! Not sure if you'll see this; had some unexpected delays finishing this comment.

Everything is duly noted; I'll just expand on some bits.

> I joined John Baez and a few other scientists/researchers working on the Azimuth Climate Project, which sought to preserve critical snapshots of climate data in the event of mass defunding. Later on I decided to take this a step further since those snapshots were becoming very out of date and the multifarious data repositories were never very well documented, organized or normalized.

Archive.org is very probably interested in this sort of thing then, FWIW.

> Not sure what you mean by "managing this" though.

Heh :) I was curious what sort of work you do in order for this initiative, which appears(?) to be somewhat of a side project, to be viable in terms of budget and adequate spare time. I'm also interested in storing/working with somewhat large amounts of data too (one project I want to try at some point is implementing an infinite browser cache so I can "Google" the content of every version of every webpage I'd ever visited), so I definitely want to optimize for something that doesn't require much time :) (don't we all)

> It began with reading worrydream's blog post, "What can a technologist do about climate change?" ... Not much more to it than that.

After having read that page I now understand the sentiment of that statement. Major TIL :)

And if only all webpages were that well designed... (The interactivity was a bit of an information overload, but I really liked the layout.)