skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is not against your points. It is against creating GUI-only applications. Explains why it is better to have modules in applications with functional "backend" and GUI if needed, and CLI for programmability.
Changing of the Guard at the Gates of the Great Firewall
Do you feel good about having such a cavalier attitude towards human lives?
Decrypt Samsung Device Emails
I think he's implying it's built in by default? I personally have never observed it, but I don't really use powershell so maybe I'm doing something wrong
Waaay too much whitespace. I have to maximize the window to make it useful. It's really easy to shrink the window down to where the graph becomes completely useless. Even in the image/GIF on the homepage there's only room for about 20 characters of the commit message if you want to see the whole branch graph.

Compare to SourceTree how the graph window uses a small/normal font, not much padding, and tiny little commit dots and thin, close together lines.

Seriously, try to use it reduced to half the screen space on a 1080p monitor.
I wish the command line approach was used in the WWW. The world would be so much better place if web resources provided REST API as a primary way to access the data and the web UI was only one possible visualization.
It is objectively one of the worst in existence. Same as with photoshop. It just ended up like that, everyone learned it that way, and now no one dares to revolutionize.

I tried to work strictly with the B (3rd) and A (4th) color channels separately in photoshop but I clearly don't understand how its supposed to be done.
Blenders UI is a horror show unlike anything in existence. Blender is extremely capable though. No question about that.
What the Digital Turn Can Learn from the Cartographic Turn
As a non-American I still think that underestimating is the right approach for the simple reason that it pre-empts a "but why should we pay with [whichever country you use] lives" argument from a certain subset. Restricting the estimate to "number of lives saved in the country the testing is done" gives an outcome that is much harder to argue against.
By recently do you mean 2 to 3 years ago with a simple toggle?

Say hello to distributions not providing latest releases.
> Why would you store the size and capacity as part of the buffer?

To decrease the memory footprint of your small strings. It can see how some uses cases where a large proportion of strings are very small would benefit from it.

I was just curious to know if that design decision was based on analysis of a real use case, or if it was due to a compatibility issue or something.
My first profressional development project went to production.
I had a similar experience with performance was an issue for me so I switched over. Never went to back to test any of their newer releases.
Professional Looking Raspberry Pi NAS “From the Ground Up”
Don't you ever move the pointer when tapping with two or three fingers? It's called pointer nudge. That's the other reason for hardware buttons.
Discoverability?

Our best discoverability tool is the Google Search. It's actually kinda a CLI tool.
Yeah I'd have expected them to have multiple upstreams and an ASN to announce their IPs but apparently they don't. Pretty odd.
> Having a highly trained, standing army is part of what keeps us out of war

The US is in a state of constant war. Having a large standing army enables US imperialism, it's not for protection.
Then the original statement about not being able to use pi as a data compression method is false. It could be the case that 99% of the time you want to encode the string "141592653".
There's org-trello, but I think it's not perfect.

Probably a good organizational org-mode policy would be to sync using git. Unless the pace is too fast.

Incidentally, there's many nice ways to make org-agenda look like a kanban.
Apple Has 4M Users Beta Testing Its Software
If you advertise your house as a wau for people to meet and communicate with their friends, then kick out all your conservative guests, then yes, you've done something morally wrong. Free speech laws don't stop this, it's your property , but they also don't make it right.
Vim is contextually sensitive too, and it doesn’t tell you why “q” sometimes types a letter, or starts recording a macro, or exits the program. Because vim is specifically designed for power users who want a lot of capability and a very effient workflow. And so is Blender.

Blender has an almost unbelievable amount of capability and it can give you access to nearly all of it with a few keystrokes. It’s designed so that you can keep your right hand on the mouse and your left hand on the keyboard to do almost everything. It has a fantastic UI that can reconfigure to do modeling or video editing or texture mapping or rigging or animation or a dozen other things. Discoverability is not one of the design goals. Don’t take an overly simplistic view of an incredibly powerful program.
I would expect substantially every adjuster at every life insurance company in the United States to pay a claim for a life insurance policy which a non-specialist might think was bound but which was not factually bound yet given a death for any reason but suicide absent fairly clear indications of insurance fraud.

I realize technologists feel like insurance companies are malevolent entities, but they're a) highly regulated financial institutions b) staffed by professionals in risk management with c) significant exposure to negative public attention.

Additionally, every insurance regulator has Thou Shalt Not #)%( Around With Paying Out Life Insurance Claims as their #1 rule, principally for historical reasons.

Coming to the opposite intuition on this requires one to believe that, for an actuarially insignificant improvement in their loss rates so small as to be undetectable, insurance companies like jousting with regulators and the public while screaming "Catch me if you can, suckers!" (Indeed, when it came to light that some insurance companies were just sitting on unclaimed payments for small-dollar life insurance policies, the regulators had them reopen the books going back sixty years.)
I'll pass the feedback along!
Recooty- the World's Easiest Applicant Tracking System
I assure you, people do not forget that more than a billion people live in India.
I have a mild fear of flying, I don't avoid it but I do feel anxious on the flight especially if we hit turbulence.

What's helped for me is imagining how many flights take of and land safely around the world each day. It's very very rare that a plane crashes, I don't know what the odds are but they're very small. There's a higher risk of being involved in an accident on the way to the airport.

Someone once told me that in order for a plane to crash 16 critical mistakes have to made in a row or something like that. Very unlikely.

It may help for you to watch or read information that details all of the safety that's done around flying so you'll feel more confident next time you fly.

Ultimately you can only concur your fear by facing it.
But this is the age when people post video tutorials on youtube to tell you what to type in the CLI...
Malcolm Gladwell: We Should All Be Disagreeable
One of the coolest jaw dropping examples of this I ran across not long ago, is Aira (https://aira.io/ - I have no affiliation with the company). First we had Google Glass, with the popularly derided "glassholes" (not a term I approve of using mind you, however it was persistently thrown about in media and on tech forums).

I've known a few people that lost their eyesight. What services like Aira could accomplish is nothing short of life changing for the blind. And it, in part, started out from a concept that was mocked as being representative of supposed obnoxious Silicon Valley priviliged types.
It's never finished. 1) Some people invest time almost a single code bases 2) others start and stop numerous projetcs 3) others do nothing. And everything in between.

Myself, I am in the second category. I start but not maintain project.

Here is a list of feature complete repositories:

- https://github.com/amirouche/scheme-todomvc
- https://github.com/amirouche/deuspy
- http://quicoeur.fr/
- http://sensimark.com

I have other projects like:

- https://framagit.org/a-guile-mind/culturia.next/

- https://framagit.org/a-guile-mind/culturia.one/

- https://github.com/amirouche/zehefyu93

- https://github.com/amirouche/socialite

They are not done because they are more research work on various topics like UI/UX that is more like CLI in the browser this lead to the development of a chatbot like experience in the spirit of ipython. In the database side,
I think I will recode culturia.next. Even if I don't know what the future will bring.

Worse, I have two go to stack:

1) Guile + BiwaScheme or simple SXML

2) aiohttp + reactjs like socialite maybe i will move to https://github.com/amirouche/beyondjs/ with https://github.com/amirouche/found
Newspapers did just fine for centuries without tracking. The business is viable without tracking.
Five Current Trends in the Housing Industry
We just use Vim or Emacs over SSH in such cases, or if the connection is good enough over X/RDP.
Once autonomous vehicles are safe enough, and the cost differential is small enough, expect to start seeing a push to outlaw human drivers.

After every fatal crash caused by a human driver expect to see a "how long are we going to put up with this?" push.

It's hard to predict how soon it will happen, but I can't imagine society continuing to put up with human drivers for very long.
The "Have you ever..." examples aren't exactly the most exciting either.

For the first one, we already have Archive.org.

For the second one, we already have flash drives.

For the third one, well, I'm not sure distributed sites will be a whole lot more stable than traditional ones. Someone still has to be there supporting it.
You could split the package of data into chunks and place multiple notches on the bar. You'd need to include enough information to allow the chunks to be sorted into their original order for that to work.

As if this were a practical means of storing data.
But in order to carry out the final inductive step, you have to invoke something outside of nature that causes nature to exist. And the problem is that we don't even know whether reason can be applied to things outside of nature. I mean, our rules of reasoning about objects realiably break down when we try to apply induction to objects even at the fringes of our ability to observe. What makes you so sure that we can reach the supernatural realm with reason?
In kernel insecurity you mean. Lxd escape is trivial, might not use a container anyway if security is the goal.

Xen with driver domains and (only just started) similar support in KVM is about the kit reasonable thing from security point of view. Maybe VMware but that cannot be studied.
The iPhone is a beast and a market leader - that is known, and shown in these results.

The Mac however is in decline - Apple seem to have abandoned it in favour of their cash cow (as many on here have complained) and these results just further prove it.
>Q-tips are Q-tips

Where? I've never heard Q-tips in Germany except from Americans.
South Korean Exchanges Lose Eligibility for Tax Benefits
South Korean exchanges may lose their eligibility for significant tax benefits that is presently granted to smaller companies. The South Korean government on Monday proposed a revision to the existing tax law. According to the new revision, crypto exchanges will be excluded from the category of startups or small or medium enterprises (SMEs). These SMEs are eligible for claiming a tax deduction of up to 100 percent.
It's open source; if you believe C and ncurses are a better choice, you can make an alternative client that supports the same format.
Bash completion for every single installed module isn't baked in on every install?
Hello, UK, it’s the United States of America here, and we need to talk
Apple delivers a strong earnings report and its shares pop
Well, I value both the Mojave and the Oregon High Desert as unique places in the world. Not everything needs to have a ROI, usefulness, or our permission to be valuable.
In Australia the government put in legislation to cap the maximum credit card surcharge that a merchant could charge the customer to the actual fee that they pay on the card.

When I was there I remember things like $10 or $20 minimum and also anywhere up to 5-10% surcharge for paying with a card.
Yeah there's also a terminal emulator built into VS Code, but it seems that every release they add a heap of features to it which I feel like are already present in existing emulators - feels like reinventing the wheel and I'm not sure about the benefits yet.

Besides of course ease in styling with css and hackability.
Not in there, but if you have an Intel wireless chipset ME will happily use it.
And this was the hands down best feature of unity, they provided a way where you could search within these menus... So sad to see the project fail due to reactionary criticism. Now the functionality still sort of exists in Ubuntu 18 but not by far as well made as in 16.
Source code guide: Hash tables and command dispatching in AsmBB explained
Isn't DBUS basically the same thing?
and, importantly, they can still pick up the metaphors even if they don't understand english (or the language of preference) very well. MAN pages often require really really good language skills in the given language to understand.
Speak for yourself! If I am a party to a contract, I don't want the other party to be able to "wiggle" their way out, and I'd certainly give up my ability to in exchange. Especially given the American Rule [0], in a system where contracts can be disputed and modified, someone who has much more monetary and legal resources than I do can effectively force any change in the agreement (though a binding arbitration clause would ameliorate this).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_rule_(attorney%27s_fe...
> The article is blatantly Marxist. I don’t know how this rubbish ends up on HN all the time.

Karl Marx’s contributions to the field of economics are, to put it lightly, vast. Despite the authors’ insistence on it’s incompleteness, Marx and Engel’s 3 volumes constitute a painstakingly detailed and, as evidenced by the lack of serious refutation from the field, accurate analysis of the economic and social systems of their time.

And let’s be honest; the guy knew a thing or two about disruption.
For those interested in learning quantum, some time ago I wrote an overview (with links to approachable books and tutorials; yes, Quirk is there as well!):
https://p.migdal.pl/2016/08/15/quantum-mechanics-for-high-sc...
uh, a misunderstanding, my mistake. what i meant was that graals native-image AOT compiler with the substrate VM achieves 90% of hotspot JIT execution speed pretty much since the project was launched. you may be right that graals JIT is still faster, i don't know about that.
Well, that's kind of stating the obvious. Some years ago, I read about an experiment where the boys were given dolls and the girls were given action figures (I think).

The boys bent the dolls into gun shapes and played cops&robbers. I don't remember what the girls did.
Jet Airways to Commence Weekly Services from Indore to Hyderabad and Chandigarh
good luck with `man ffmpeg`.
It seems to be the first in a series of blog posts about the distributed web as it sits now.

> This is the first post in a series. We’ll introduce projects that cover social communication, online identity, file sharing, new economic models, as well as high-level application platforms. All of this work is either decentralized or distributed, minimizing or entirely removing centralized control.

I do agree they're making up a term, but naming/phrasing can change/shift dialogs and the default perspective and is actually important. Whether it's a good use of their time is another thing.
> Of course, MNG also shares a number of PNG's best features: unambiguous pronunciation (gotta love it)

Ping or Pee-Enn-Gee, that's not unambiguous! :P
Then you probably don't appreciate what tree-sitter has to offer.

https://galois.com/blog/2017/12/tree-sitter-new-parsing-syst...
Same way I find out which CLI program to use: Google.
> you never made the case for the answer being no, which means the answer is still yes

The widespread use of preemptive concurrency for reasons aside from parallelism, demonstrates my point.

> You haven't said why that's the case

If I had to guess, I'd go with this: it's the easiest option for the C/C++ languages and developers, considering how existing functions tend to be blocking, and that C/C++ programmers are more likely to be familiar with preemptive concurrency than cooperative concurrency.

You certainly wouldn't want to use a model that relies on, say, continuations. Intel's TBB library does this. It's a very good library, but the user must write pretty hairy C++ code, despite the benefits of modern C++. It's no help that continuations are trivial in, say, modern C#.

Fibers/coroutines can be done with external C/C++ libraries, but it's seen as a pretty exotic thing to do.

> why, in the absence of kernel threads, someone would want them to exist only for GUI responsiveness types of use cases

Looks like Windows first got 'proper threads' in Windows 98. I suspect it's not purely for GUI, but for other types of application too, such as servers. Again I suspect the reason they're used in preference over the cooperative alternative, is largely just what people are used to.

Looks like Windows provides fibers for C++, so it's not like they've never heard of them. [0]

> Your earlier admission led me to believe they wouldn't:

Sure, I'm not hating on cooperative multithreading. They have advantages: fine-grain user control, no unexpected interleaving, better performance regarding switching. Bit of a pity it's not often used, I suppose.

I google'd the question, but didn't find a decent exploration of why they're so rarely used. This StackOverflow answer thinks the answer is technical, but I'm not convinced. It seems to discount asynchronous IO. https://stackoverflow.com/a/16766549/

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/procthread/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem
Komandolar şehit anne ve bebeği için yemin etti
Isn't that essentially what Visa et all do?
I have a VPS I use for VPN, which means, unfortunately, no custom kernels or kernel modules. So, I'm stuck with OpenVPN. It would be awesome to have WireGuard included in the kernel by default.
This guy does the most hilarious keyboard reviews:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD0y51PJfvkZNe3y3FR5riw

(actually it's just a channel dedicated to keyboards)
I've bounced back and forth between Atom and VSCode - the main reason for me has been bugginess with prettier plugins. I've had more weird issues with the VSCode one, so I've leaned more on Atom.

Perf for VSCode is definitely much better though.
This is a interesting discussion -- and I'm seeing a subtle point here that's getting lost. If I understand your merger example correctly, you're suggesting that a card that is now marketed as Visa Rewards Traditional, for example, may still truly be a Visa Rewards Signature card underneath from before the merger (or whatever the prior classification was).

However, what I find important here is that the card still is, in fact, categorized by those classes, and that categorization is merely misreported to the consumer. As far as the merchant is concerned, though, it really is a Signature card that was swiped(/inserted), and that Traditional vs. Signature classification still really is the only thing determining the rate -- i.e., what the card's perks or issuer are still cannot affect the fees once the merchant knows whether the card is truly a Signature or a Traditional card. See what I mean?
Show HN: Live-coding 8-bit algorave music with speccy
I’m not sure I fully understand the point.

Is it that people won’t shop at a store if Visa isn’t accepted?

If so, I agree that is one of many additional factors in the overall negotiations.
I've not encountered bash-completion.

Is it built into bash, and working for every single script and module by default?
The efficacy of a compression algorithm is dependent on the data it is compressing, so that statement is true for some data.
I was able to connect via Melbourne, Asutralia through Mullvad VPN.
Unfortunately, we don't know it that it will prevent any deaths. Some people hope that it will, but there's no hard data to show that programs with more deaths progress faster. The outcome could very well be that this strategy prevents 0 deaths and cause 10.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and the most dangerous path is the one in which the ends justify the means. If you don't achieve the ends... then you have nothing but tragedy and sorrow.
I know of multiple Debian systems I've used with decent bash-completion for most commands out-of-the-box–now, whether this was because it had already installed bash-completion and the associated completion files for each preinstalled APT package in the bash-completion directory, I don't know.
>we didn't have enough guests for a three layer cake (according to the bakery)

Are you implying that you did, or that your guests really like cake?
Decentralization is never going to solve our hate speech, net neutrality or data exploitation problems.

You either have the majority performing their civic duties, holding each other responsible or you don't.

These are not technological, rather civic, political, even educational issues, but if you only have a hammer...
High-jacking top comment to note that the original headline, under which most of any of the discussion was written was:

"Why Brazilians are always late"

Always being late, and always being late to parties are too very different accusations. If you just read the new headline ("In Brazil, it is considered rude to be on time to a party") and checked comments before reading TFA, you might be confused.
Glad mozilla is tackling this -- I think this is the next step. Forget trying to fight SOPA/net neutrality, whatever else where it comes up, let's just abandon the "traditional" internet all together where it makes sense and make something that's correct-by-construction in so far as we can make it (like an "internet" that does as much as it can to prevent centralization).

Note that this isn't some random position they've taken, they also funded stuff like the Wireless Innovation for a Networked Society (WINS) challenge[0]

[0]: https://wirelesschallenge.mozilla.org/#winners
This continues to be the feature that keeps me using macos for work - the search field in the help menu searches all the menu options, each of which displays its own shortcut key beside it
Visa have a customer service line? (Serious question)

The only time I've ever interacted with them directly was a job interview for a role in their UK office in Basingstoke (I didn't take it).

If I had a problem with my card I'd call my card issuer. Not VISA. Why would you have to talk to them?
Of course. The most useful ones are the following:

- Bracket Pair Colorizer

- EditorConfig for VS Code

- ESLint

- Git Blame

- Material Icon Theme

- Path Intellisense

- Prettier - Code Formatter

- SCSS IntelliSense

- TSLInt

- Winter is Coming Theme by John Papa
I am curious about your situation that causes you to edit files remotely. I've never had to edit files anywhere but my local file system. Are you developing or is it more of a devops/sysadmin kind of role?