skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, explaining Interface-fails in short text is always a bit hard, but lets see.

The key F1 opens the help-widget, which is an area with text, located besides the editor. This area is just there, has now controls, no way to move it or close it. There is some text in it that explains this area can be closed with some shortcut, except it does not work. I don't even know whether it's a problem with my setup, because leo,has no way to check this. Just broken by design. Notable is that this hacked-in area seems to be used by several other functionalitys and plugins. All with the same fails.

Another strange quirk of leo is the minibuffer. It's something people knowing emacs will understand, for the rest, it,s just a strange line at the bottom of the window not explaing what it does, what purpose it has or how they can use it. But ok, that's how it is, just following some fade of unrelated culture. Really interessing is the usage. You enter some text, then hit tab to invoke autocompletion and surprise..in another part of the application, unconnected to the textwidget of the minibuffer switches a tab and some new widget appears presenting a list of possible candidates. Not that Qt hasen't a way to present autocomplete-lists, but thats just how it is. Quirky hackish, ugly. And of only working as ling as the tablist is not hidden.

Another funny part is the menu. Just look up what is weitten in them, what name, what order they have, and how this compares to the established names and positions in pretty much every other application.

Or let's take the configuration. Nodes with some directives in the outline. No actual documentation or discoverability in the app itself. No support to prevent failures. Not even instant-loading of changed settings. Restart the program, good enough 20 years ago, good enough today.

Or let's take the API: Single letter variable names. Objects with hundreds of unrelated methods and no documentation. Plugins which are just python-modules imported from the python-path, and not real plugins with actual structure and API.

Oh, and the worst, plugins which just don't work and functions which have no obvious result because someone forgot to refresh the outline. Though, this is probably just one of the endless number of obvious bugs one encounters at some point.
> People call for X to be more affordable > government subsidizes X > X absorbs all subsidies and becomes even more expensive > people call for X to be socialized.

The problem is that government subsidizes loans. It doesn't do something like capped match. The government should just say, "We will cover your need-based education burden up to $20,000".

Something like this would make most state schools accessible to most kids and yet, put a big limitation on how much schools can raise tuition. Some schools will raise it up to 40k, others will keep it at 20k, both will try to maximize intake for their tuition.

Simply handing out unbounded, undischargeable loans is just crazy!
I gave it a 6/10 bullshit rating on my own scale. I agree that metaphors in proverbs are never as vague, so yeah, it's bullshit. It might pass as a poorly translated proverb in a Chinese fortune cookie.
Georgia Tech has a top tier CS program and I am not disparaging it. I'm talking specifically about vocational masters degrees like this Cybersecurity thing.
> Perhaps I should start posting our achievements a bit more.

Maybe, but don't do it in someone else's thread trying to steal the spotlight from them... Really bad taste.
Maybe La Fuga / The Fugitive[1] or Eden Blues[2]. That's all I remember though.

[1]: http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/fugitive

[2]: https://www.retrogamer.net/retro_games80/eden-blues/
To cure your HN problem on a macbook, open a terminal:

$ sudo su;

$ echo "127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com" >> /etc/hosts
The 'anything is possible' rebuttal only dampens conversation. We can roll a bowling ball back and forth over a keyboard to the same effect. Truly sophisticated software is written by developers very few and far between.
I am still for single use, but if it is unused and the medicine expires people throw away the entire thing. The reason for replacement every 18 months is that the medicine expires, if you could just replace the medicine if you didn't use it you may see cost savings. However, I am just spitballing here and it is likely that there are reasons why this cannot come to fruition which I have not considered thoroughly.
"Easy" isn't the word I'd use. Dated and not especially useful, maybe. What practical work did they have you do? I'm only going from the course slides.
Same here. My path went crappy pens -> Pilot G2 -> 0.38mm Pilot G2 mini, imported via Amazon -> fountain pens -> completely obsessed with vintage writing instruments.

Sitting in a hammock beside the river, hacking on a Pyramid app, I have four fountain pens on my person - a Kaweco Lilliput, a Pilot Stargazer, a Pilot Falcon, and a Pilot Vanishing Point.

Fountain pens make the experience much different for me, and I actively dislike using someone else's pen now.
In Firefox, add-ons aren't allowed to modify built-in pages either, like settings pages. At least they do seem to work on PDFs.
From the article they are 450 million into a roughly estimated 700 million needed to fund this new initiative.
I think the point was you can’t claim recreational usage when you are using the substance in such a way that you will be doing harm.
So 650M is enough for NYU. The top 10 universities have endowment funds > 10B. Shouldnt they all be full rides for everyone as well?
Terrible idea: could you write a transpiler for rust that basically auto-wrapped everything in a Gc<> type and auto-dereferenced?
I feel like articles like this don’t actually say much. “Don’t hire for culture fit” doesn’t mean anything. The author basically says “don’t just hire people you’d want to have a beer with” and then goes on to say that they do hire for cultural fit by looking at their ability to solve problems and overcome challenges...which is culture fit. If your culture is “we hire people not who we like to drink beer with but those who solve problems” well then that’s culture fit isn’t it?

Obviously every company is going to hire for cultural fit. Every company has values that they build around to create successful teams. I would never hire anyone that I didn’t think fit in with our team...why would I do that?Some companies value different things than others. So don’t go around saying “we don’t do culture fit”, yes you do, you just define culture fit differently than other businesses because that’s your “culture”.
A huge difference? How so? Both modern liberals of your stripe and the Chinese government want the same thing: only people who are "good guys" are permitted to freely express themselves. All that differs is who the two think "the good guys" are; the principle is exactly the same.
> guns can be made with 3d printed plastic.

If you're referring to the Liberator, it uses a metal nail as a firing pin.
Hi, I am the founder of park.io and did not post this, but feel free to ask me any questions
Just going to leave this here

It Costs $30 to Make a DIY EpiPen, and Here's the Proof - MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.technologyreview.com/s/6024...
There is also another type of Lithium ion battery, LifePo4 which is lithium Iron posphate batteries. These type of Lithium ion batteries are much safer and are not likely to catch fire but they have slightly lower energy density. Hopefully the Umich breakthrough can be combined with LifePo4 to give it better energy density.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_iron_phosphate_battery

The common battery type Lithium ion cobalt is bad for the environment due to Cobalt mining in Congo. Cobalt is a conflict mineral. Lithium Cobolt batteries are the type that catches fire. Lithium Cobolt is an environmental risk if it leaks into the soil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_cobalt_oxide

Positive electrode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery
No, I don't want form of 1 based indexing at all :)

an array with elements at index 0,1,2,3 has size 4
Drupal is moving to GitLab
There's good stuff in this post. But, Setting priorities on what you should be working on is your bosses job, not yours. It's your job to say how much work you can take on and what amount is reasonable and what's not.

Usually, if too much stuff comes in at once, You simply give your boss some options (task1, task2, etc), so he can prioritize your work load according to the needs of the business. Whatever doesn't get done this week, will need to be pushed to next week or next month, next decade, etc.
> Self destructing cookies

Is that what Safari has? Do any other browsers have plans for this? Or stated plans to NOT do this? I imagine Chrome falls in the latter camp.
>Does the public care about privacy?

Does the tech community care about privacy? Google tracks users on an industrial scale. Yet most people in the tech community shrug their shoulders and say 'so what?'. Or they rush to Google's defence. (Does a giant multi-billion dollar company need your defence?)

Google has a peculiar slant on privacy - they seems to think it's all about security and nothing else. You can't have privacy without security, but security by itself does not equal privacy. It's the equivalent of saying we'll track you to death (and save it to our servers), but you can rest assured that your personal information will never leak. The tech community happily accepts that as perfectly fine.
Having read through a lot of battery breakthrough reports, I tend to zero in on the 'hard bit' which in this particular case is here: U-M researchers solved this problem with chemical and mechanical treatments that provide a pristine surface for lithium to plate evenly, effectively suppressing the formation of dendrites or filaments.

My reading of that was if you create this pristine surface, you get a wonder battery. On the other hand, if the surface has a defect in it anywhere you get dendrites, and the subsequent shorts they cause.

When I read that part I said "Ok, so this will make great bespoke batteries that the military can use for their human carried gear, but they will be too expensive to compete with the existing lithium ion technology."

I really hope that I'm wrong here, and there is some process that can reliably make massive numbers of pristine plated lithium / ceramic nodes but until we see that I don't see this breakthrough making it out of the lab.
Most people who go to college don't upend their life. By the numbers ~60% of students go to schools 100 miles or less from home. Obviously the numbers are far different for graduate school but I think the point still stands that subsidizing all college doesn't suddenly require people to move to the other side of the country.

There's also a big difference between classes at a local community college and a university. Some community colleges are quite good, and you can always try to transfer to a 4 year university before graduation. However, it would be incredibly dishonest to pretend that the quality of education between the two is the same or that employers view a degree from a community college the same.

For instance both MD and PA have notoriously few and poor community colleges. But both states have an abundance of very good colleges. Free tuition for all would mean more people could attend those schools as opposed to being forced to attend a poor CC just because that's all they can afford.
> This is why people can't have calm, reasoned discord in 2018.

Oh?

> I'm not rich. I never said I was white (as it happens I am, but that's neither here nor there - why are you trying to start a racial argument?)

Well, I don't see me saying or implying you were, merely pointing out the incentives of the disenfranchised promote protest where the incumbents do not.

> I didn't demand anything at all. Did you even read what I wrote?

I did, actually! Let's quickly look at this telltale paragraph:

> > The term "feminism" implies that it pertains specifically to female rights. Perhaps "social egalitarian" is a more apt description for someone wanting equal rights for all, to clarify any difference.

So I'm left here with one of 2 conclusions:

1) Either this guy is parroting a common anti-feminist praxis.

2) This guy has no clue about the space and discourse, simply not realizing that in fact "intersectional feminism" is simply a historically faithful term for this "egalitarianism" he likes.

Personally, I don't believe you accidentally stumbled upon your argument. I think you made it in bad faith. That you immediately came back and demanded that I pretend to acknowledge your figment of neutral tone is confirmation, because what a rational person would do when confronted with a misunderstanding of magnitude 2 is try to work out how their communication went wrong. They would not (as an example) say, "Are you trying to start a racial argument?"

But on the off chance that this is all a massive misunderstanding: you're parroting an argument that is often used by people to derail and defuse the actual arguments presented by intersectional feminism by bikeshedding over the name. Please think on this, because in a modern 2018 internet when you do this (in a forum full of posts like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17759924) your voice is indistinguishable from theirs.

And if you disagree that "Feminism" captures your intent, please point to actual policy and not nitpicking about the name. Nitpicking about names is at best unhelpful.
I'm not the parent poster, but I worked in ad tech.

With third party cookie policies getting more stringent, many websites now use either a reverse proxy within the first party domain that points to third party servers, or they use a first party subdomain that points to third party servers.

In either case, it allows the servers belonging to the data gatherer to appear as first party, thus getting around third party cookie restrictions.

Combine that with browser fingerprinting, and you now have a harder but very viable way to replace the functionality third party cookies previously had.
I don't think you can really code or tool your way out of a discipline problem, you just need to work on the discipline directly. That being said, I am terrible with will power/discipline/etc
I think this would fall under "acceptable censorship" for many at Google.
Desi here.

I want to try your channa and dhaal. That's it.

Why can't I seem to order just those two? I don't want a pack of 3 channa. I don't want a pre-made pack. I want a la carte. Why can't I have it?
on jobs we use pixlite controllers for controlling lots of addressables and send it artnet out of touchdesigner.
no need to involve madmapper as touchdesigner handles all the mapping you could possibly want without adding the latency of piping out to madmapper. if you're just doing hobby projects you can stream serial out of touch via USB to a teensy 3.2 and control (in my experience) around 4000 LEDs at ~60fps. for lasers you should check out the etherdream, simple and works well. servo control you'll need a board but generating the software side in touchdesigner is simple.
I am old enough to be your Father. If you were my son or daughter I would say give yourself a break. I would also say don’t think that 2% of success stories you read about on hacker news are most people’s experience. I would say give up trying to be right all the time with your colleagues, it will exasperate them. I would say find a boy or a girl who adores you and is also happy to get in your face when you are being a pain. I would say you’ve got tech skills other’s don’t have, well done. I would say if your ambitions are just about money you will be dissapointed. I would say if someone says you can achieve anything you want they are trying to sell you something. Then I would take you for a walk as life has taught me it’s good to walk when you are anxious.
I did not mean to offend you, and apologize if I misread your comment.

Either way, I disagree that the better people will always prevail, no matter the circumstances. By definition, a stronger candidate will succeed where a weaker will fail, but that will only apply up to a particular challenge differential. If you keep shifting resources to the weaker candidate, the stronger will fail or give up, eventually.

On a personal level, I came from an underprivileged background myself, and succeeded due to stronger drive and working harder than most people I grew up with. But there were many points when I wanted to give up, and I know how close I was to ending up in the same failure mode as they did.

Finally, even if your argument was correct, and these medical school candidates would succeed "regardless", the point of these scholarships is to make sure they choose medicine as the field to apply themselves and succeed in. Sure, they'll be successful regardless: they'll just make a great career in investment banking, and leave medicine for those who have less options.

Society wants great doctors, so it pays the most qualified individuals to undertake a course of training and application in medicine. Makes sense, I think.
I work in fraud prevention. While it's not yet a typical attack, it is does happen regularly.

Usually the attack is done against an individual who is known to have significant crypto assets and is using Gmail. By default if you enable 2fa on your Gmail account, sms based 2fa is activated as backup.

The attacker social engineers the phone provider to port the victims number, then resets the victims Gmail account, uses Android device manager to wipe their devices, and using the details found in Gmail they proceed to gain access to other accounts owned by the victim. The main goal being to social engineer access to services where they store crypto or to find unencrypted wallet backups in the cloud.
> Not true, you can have a labor union for one company.

Yes, you can, but for all practical purposes I believe this would never happen, as it’s unsustainable. I mean, can you imagine every little startup or small company having their own union? I think the whole point of a union is to represent workers across the industry, unless you’re tied to a huge corporation, in which case it would make sense to have its own.

> Lack of funding, ...

So if starting a company ‘is not that easy’, why do people complain about companies being ran like dictatorships?

It seems that, despite the hardship, these “dictators” have managed to successfully bring something into existence and ought to exert more control over a company’s fate, don’t you think?

And for the sake of clarity, I’m not denying the huge contribution of early employees, just to be clear. I think they’re instrumental to any successful venture.
This point happens to be prominent in my mind, because I happened to see some material the other day intended for drug education in schools that talked about the dangers of marijuana, especially the "synthetic kind". Even though I am not particularly pro-pot, and I do see the real problem here, it made me very uncomfortable. The less misleading thing to say, in my opinion, would be simply "street drugs can have poison or unknown drugs in them, and can kill you".

Framing the problem is not just a matter of arbitrary mental games. Empirically, there is a real phenomenon, that people are dying more than they used to, and blaming doctors is the consequence of not reasoning properly about it. Unregulated drugs have always had the potential to have bad things in them, but if that is an increasing problem, we need to find out the root cause. Assuming doctors or drug companies have become greedier, assuming victims have become more susceptible to addiction, strike me as refusing to acknowledge what an explanation would even look like.
I've not lost a pen in five years. The closest I've come is leaving one in a restroom stall at work when I was in a hurry to catch a flight, and I called a coworker to retrieve it for me when I realized that I'd left it behind. It was a Pilot Vanishing Point.

Mitch Hedberg was right - buy an expensive pen, and you won't lose it and not care. That VP was $180 new, so it wasn't as odd of a reaction as it might sound at first.
OCaml?
If you don't have airline status, get a Platinum Amex for ~$500/year, which gets you Priority Pass and Centurion lounge access (among a raft of other benefits that are out of scope for this comment). To your point, stopovers become enjoyable; I no longer mind multiple legs when traveling internationally, and I plan my flights based on the stopovers with the best lounges I can access.
My brother did this - but went full-on. Deans list silver star at the airforce, pentagon, largest hosputal in the airforce, now is the director of the VA for Alaska.

Yeah they paid for everything - but it had its issues - but he was also exceedingly lucky.

So only do this if you want to do medical and military for a really long time.
> While on the site, within a span of five minutes, I typically attempt to skim everything I’ve marked with interest. Afterward, I return to my work not feeling like I’ve read anything substantive, and by the end of the day, I forget about the links I’ve opened up, including the ones I meant to revisit.

This is so on-the-mark for me it’s unreal! :) I feel I’m in a sizeable segment of the HN population in that I spend more time in the comments than on articles, so something that helps provide wholesome access to more article content is a great initiative.

Thanks for creating something that attempts to solve this ‘problem’. Kudos to you for shipping an Android build!
An endowment that wouldnt exist except for the free tuition.
If this is true then almost all of them will update to https and almost none of them would bother otherwise.

So I guess the question is not if its ok for chrome to break the web for half the world its if its ok for chrome to impose this cost on site owners on behalf of users for the benefit of users.

Incidentally while there may be a lot of tiny sites that don't use https aprox 3/4 of page loads are already over https. Making myrandomhomepageaboutcats.com switch to https seems a reasonable cost for making the rest of the web more secure.
Try developing for Safari and get back to us. Safari is easily the worst browser to develop for this year.
All school should be free, period. This is a great step but a long way to go.
>Density 1.8x to 5x liquid electrolyte

But if that is still less dense than say, a lead-acid battery, but with double the performance of a li-on/polymer battery, is that not still an improvment?
Did you think of adding a camera to make sure people only vote once and for security? Or is it too problematic from a privacy (legally) point of view?
World Reaches 1,000GW of Wind and Solar, Keeps Going
I read the comments first as well. It's often a good indicator of whether or not the article is worth reading. And more often than not there are better references in the comments than the original source.

Would be really interested in that Slack bot if you have the source handy.
It’s so ubiquitous in fact I’d say it should probably forfeit its protection as a trademark. Same as fax machine, cell phone, etc.
I don't know if I agree that. It's pretty standardized. Every user-agent includes it.

You can give people documents without scripts, but it's not mandatory for them to work. And it's not like Javascript is some obscure single-vendor extension, it's widely supported.
ray wu on aliexpress/ebay(I think?) has a good reputation and is widely used
Sure. Those invisible fighter jets that don't work were a great investment.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a21957/wtf-35/

The US military is a publicly funded socialist entity. Interesting how that's ok for war but not for education.
See requirement 1.2 of https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/PCI_DSS_v3-2-...

Only services necessary for the business should be allowed in/out. If the service can’t be firewalled by simple IP:port then you are left with having to use a proxy to enforce the access control.
Be interesting to know which statement people are downvoting.