skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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What manner newfangled luxury is that in a terminal? When I was young, we had to pick lice out of our hair and arrange them in the form of letters for others to read.
Compared to others, the Apple site from 2001 holds up really well.
On the other hand, Web standards makes it easier to use the Web.
The Mastodon community is one big online mob.
What londons_explore said. Windows OS didn't succeed, but the comments about the iPhone seem to have been basically accurate...?
Isn't that basically the same on a Windows Laptop or an iPad? Are there any premium features that are hardware bound on any platform?
California lawmakers pass strict ‘net neutrality’ bill
It applies to men as well, in a way. When I was a boy in 80s Europe, I wore a speedo at the beach, which was exactly what my dad and every other man wore. I don't think there was anything else you could buy and I never saw anyone wear shorts.

I thought north America and their shorts weird at first, but I switched quickly. My friends were later scandalized when I told them I used to wear speedos.

Today, when I go back, nearly everyone is wearing north American style shorts and very occasionally the tight long boxer like speedos.

Anyway it could just be cyclical fashion.
OP probably works in a city packed with male-dominated industries, and works in a male dominated industry himself. As a software engineer myself, I find this perfectly understandable. When I took a work trip to NYC and spent time in the financial sector, I was blown away by how many women were around me.
This is a fundamental skill for modern jobs. If you don't want your labor to be commoditized or be out on the other end of an API, you need to be able to do hard, creative things.

Unfortunately what is "hard" changes every year, so you need to be a continuous learner.
Anyone have a plausible hypothesis on what's driving the trend?

The Economist is claiming "Today, nudists complain, it is more difficult to separate nakedness from sex." which seems plausible enough, but what would drive the change?
>The home continent of public nakedness is growing more body

Well, prudery is contagious, especially when it emanates from a dominant culture...
Bought a relatively highend Chromebook for a family member and I have to say, these things are honestly really nice and perfect for the average user. I just wish there was something similar for standalone linux. The same sleek profile and price point as the Acer 14/15 series but runs some generic distro like Ubuntu natively.

I know you can run Crouton but it just doesn't feel the same.
Immigrants are basically socially invisible in that sort of context, they have no ability to exert social pressure whatsoever. It would be obvious to anyone actually living here that you're simply wrong.
Was Geoff adequately prepared to host? I watched a few minutes and his introduction was pathetic. As was his setting of the agenda(which he didn't do any of). Were his discussion points later on good? If they were, I'll go back and watch the rest of this. Otherwise half of the video time (when Geoff is speaking) seems a waste to me. ;)
That if a thing is more readily available more people will do is just flat out wrong.

Case in point, less people in the Netherlands smoke weed frequently than in the USA.
Is that a loaded question ?
It reminds me of Microsoft organizing a burial for Android when they launched a new Windows Phone version ..

Both are extremely bad reactions at face value but also show how clueless the company can be (at least if you believe it is indicative of the company's mindset)
Nice still had quite a few topless women of all ages on the private beaches when I visited in May.
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You can't be serious. Even know activist circles where they actually upcycle old laptops for poor people, I haven't heard of any actual interest in such devices. They're just happy to have something that resembles a computer.
YouTube download sites are “biggest piracy threat” to music industry
I had a different experience with Visual Studio. The IDE is slow with visible lag when typing, the menus are completely unintuitive for a person coming from Linux.

Creating a "solution" (who came up with that word?) is absolutely horrible compared to just opening a file in vi/emacs.

There does not appear to be a command line debugger -- while the debugger is good, graphical debuggers are a pain to use.
I like the idea of ChromeOS but I don't understand why anyone would want to own a computer that you can't even create a user account on without the manufacturer's permission. I am also unsure, from a privacy prospective, if it is wise to use an OS created by an advertising company.
>If the book is to be believed, security was very light.

Light compared to what? Numerically, yes. It was making no sense to have more than a regiment of them in a country where the total number of 3 letter agencies staff was comparable to standing army. But the level of paranoia was not light whatsoever.

Yeltsin on the other hand had to live under a constant threat of armed uprising by the same three letter agencies. The internal threat had an entirely different nature.
It could also switch to React, since the MS Office team has switched over to it for the online platform. [1]

[1]: https://react-etc.net/entry/microsoft-office-rewrite-to-reac...
Why are you unsatisfied with the particular methods you listed?
archive link https://web.archive.org/web/20180831174620/https://dawn.cs.s...
Android phone or tablet with Termux, OpenVPN and Hacker's Keyboard app.

> We have two other developers on the team, but one has shown no interest in dev ops,

I wouldn't tell anyone you have the setup. Write down some basic instructions, send them to devs and CC the founders too. In case help calls get unbearable step in and try your best to save your holiday time.
looks like the site is crashing...

Adobe's old web sites still look quite good.
Yeah. Many countries do that sort of thing, like the US imposing tariffs on car imports unless a some of the assembly is done domestically. I wouldn't necessarily endorse too much protectionism either—India has a clear example of the benefits of moving towards an open market after 1991. In fact the biggest Indian startup exit is Flipkart, bought by Walmart, which demonstrates the value of free flow of capital.
I recommended my son and father to get a chromebook. They got the $600 Samsung model that flips back and has a touchscreen with stylist. I think these are great devices and do what most people need to do sans annoyances. My parents bug me much less now on how to do this or that and my son can still learn how to program javascript games not needing to crack into the core but that's still a possibility if you put it in dev mode at some point.
It's also the prudish push against sexualization...

Even in otherwise conservative countries (like Italy), sexualization, in media and in society at large, just wasn't a big deal in continental Europe...

You could watch things in national broadcasting that would be off limits for Americans for example. And similarly for movies and books.
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> The "security issue" argument is bogus because while new code can fix bugs it can also introduce new bugs.

Old versions only ever increase their known-bug count.

Only a new version can reduce a known-bug count.

It follows that the longer you stick to a version, the more problems you are guaranteed to be wilfully ignoring.

There are other reasons that automatic version selection at execution time (whether minimal or maximal) are problematic. But the idea that security is "bogus" is a bit of a stretch.
Hm the advice to be a user would apply for startup founders right? I definitely wouldn't expect engineers to be active users especially in a more mature company with PMs.
This is an interesting hypothesis. I can definitely see this being true outside of major urban centers. Public transit seems to be the remedy for teenagers doesn't it? When I was a kid, my parents had to drive me everywhere, and I'm thankful they did! I would have had zero friends otherwise.
In a lot of ways they aren't/weren't.

Office does a lot of things their own way and without a lot of the cross-compatibility that's a feature of most Microsoft products.

That's why you'll find you'll be able to do something in Office, but other Microsoft programs won't. Or vice versa.

Like Notepad and Internet Explorer are pretty much just containers for certain Windows controls. Controls Office don't use. They roll their own. Or at least, used to. Wouldn't surprise me to find out that Office had their own browser rendering engine that didn't rely on anything in IE.
Maintaining backwards compatibility makes improvement harder. But I lay the blame mainly at the feet of culture. It has been a company run by the sales department. Programmers are not in charge. Speed and stability come with leisurely refactoring, an activity impossible to explain to business and marketing majors.
Let’s call a horse a horse and be clear that your “un-PC” is thinly veiled racism.
At the end of the day I agree that it's pretty important to try things out for yourself and see how it goes - intermittent fasting is one of those things that's pretty easy/safe to do (and has shown some insane health, longevity, disease prevention/treatment results in the experimental research lately) - I will say that having never purposefully fasted before, the first couple days of 16:8 sucked but now is fine.

I also agree that while research can point you towards general guidelines, personal factors will be an issue. For example, from SNP analysis I carry rs1695(A;G) which reacts poorly to supplemental vitamin E, rs1801282(C;G) which may metabolize saturated fats differently, rs1535(A;G) which is associated with decreased ALA->EPA conversion efficiency, etc. (Which isn't even addressing the lifestyle/epigenetic aspects that are even more importantly, but largely unexplored, harder to test for.)
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I do organize my knowledge since years (http://metamn.io/beat, http://metamn.io/pulse, http://metamn.io/gust) and now I’ve collected these experiences into a Wordpress theme.

Still under development / test phase ... you are welcome to try it out.
So when India wants to limit the ability of foreign companies to undercut local prices, it's a good thing. When America wants to do the same we're suddenly the bad guys...
The smartphone has to play a large role in this. You can't guarantee that you're not going to end up on the internet forever.

The politics is also different; nudism is no longer either associated with either progressive liberalisation or the vaguely fascist/eugenic parts of the physical fitness culture. It's just not an issue any more.
Ask HN: How do you deal with uncertainty as a programmer?
As a programmer who is suddenly entrusted with a lot of responsibilities at work, I'm having a hard time coping up with the uncertainty of not knowing a lot of things I'm supposed to be knowing. For example, I don't have much experience designing complex architectures and making the system work at scale, and that's exactly what I'm supposed to be working on at work in the coming weeks. There are no senior programmers in my team, so its scary to think that I have to be on top of my game at all times.

So my question is this: How do you deal with the uncertainty that comes with the nature of our craft? How do you keep learning new technologies quickly and adapt to the ever-changing use cases? How do you dive deep into a code base written by someone else, reverse-engineer it, understand the high-level logic and get things working as quickly as possible? Should I just go with the flow, give it my best and just fake it till I make it? Or is there a more scientific approach to this?
Good commentary but I wonder if inadvertently you may have been out-of-band in your research.

In 'Auditory Response to Pulsed Radiofrequency Energy - Elder (2003)'

URL: http://www.beperkdestraling.org/images/stories/Wetenschap/Ti... Auditory_Response_to_Pulsed_radiofrequency_energy.pdf

Two salient points crop up:

1) 'The fundamental frequency of RF induced sounds is independent of the frequency of the radiowaves but dependent upon head dimensions.'

2) 'RF hearing has been reported at frequencies ranging from 2.4 to 10 000 MHz (see Table 1). Although Ingalls [1967] mentioned 10 000 MHz as an effective frequency, other investigators found that lower frequencies (8900 and 9500 MHz) at very high exposure levels did not induce RF sounds

In Table 2 the experimental frequency range appears to have been 900MHz to 3GHz so C-band at 4 – 8 GHz (7.5 – 3.75 cm) may have be a too short a wavelength to elicit the effect.
- but ham radio operators should be worried :-)
NYC, DC, and a lot of the south.
I don’t think the article made a value judgement about price protections
That’s exactly how it worked. Tuning fork with ultrasonic harmonics.
Perhaps you could be more specific with "not satisfied" and what kind of documents you need stored. I synch all research documents in mendeley, synch all links in firefox, synch all structured text using zim-wiki+owncloud.
...as mentioned over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17886529
Gnome 3.30 Preview – The UX Changes on Files App So Far
Your sample population sounds skewed ;). There are _many_ intersections of statistics in computer science. Off the top of my head: data analytics processing, anything in the realm of big data, computational theory, security timing attacks, industrial computation in the natural sciences and so on.
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I've never had any luck reporting bugs on fedora.
Prudishness, imported from America. Here, nudity == sexuality.
They see the value, everyone does. They're just not able to execute because it's a country made up of a dozen little countries that all want their share and more.

To do the kind of manufacturing and industrialization China did in the time it did, you need a top down organization that does whatever is needed without having to waste time with people's "rights".
There is also the example of China which has policies that favor local companies and China has created dramatically more economic value for it's citizens than India's open market.
Yes, ActiveRecord is not a good pattern for large-scale apps. The reason it's in Rails is because it's very good for simple cases and prototypes. But there is absolutely nothing in Rails stopping you from adding a service layer in whatever shape you see fit, I'm a fan of interactors (https://github.com/collectiveidea/interactor), but use whatever you want, it's easy to plug in new directories into the app structure and get magic loading and spec running automatically.

I agree that Rails enables a lot of messes, but I don't think the solution is to make your framework prescriptive about every single detail. I'd rather have the flexibility and enforce some standards per project than expect the framework dictate everything, because once you hit scale you have to do your own thinking and architecture anyway.
The real culprit, IMO, is the automobile. By allowing people travel further, the frequency your life overlaps with other individuals' decreases exponentially. Relationships with strangers are much easier to start with familiarity. I'd like cities to be planned foremost with walkability in mind.
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Everyone, as they gain skill, and begin to "wake up" as people, ownes something.

It is not just a chore. Others won't do it. Intended. Or, if they do, it is a debt of sorts. Consequenses.

Say the cat box gets too dirty. The bathroom stinks. People notice, but more importantly, the one who owns it notices eventually.

Then the dots get connected.

My wife would have them do meals, planning, money, store. And then make them do it. We ate the outcome.

Lol (was interesting at times)

Doing it this way does carry some risk. Say a light meal because someone did not think it through the planning, or shitty school lunch one day because same, or someone got the munchies. But, just make sure it is livable, not super ugly.

I did car stuff, fixing things. The kids would check things, and do upkeep. I did double check these. But out of sight. Oil, lights, tires.

Same for the yard.

For a time, I was self employed. One older daughter did billing and books.

Think language immersion. It is like that. Let them sink, and they will swim. Or, if not, pull them out, let them be kids, and try again. Often they would ask me for something.
It looks like the major problem was that NPM updated an inrelated package, despite a lock file. I would classify this as rather unexpected behaviour. I don’t see why that’s relevant to dependency resolution in situations where there’s no lock file.
Equity in the form of options benefits to those who have the financial privilege
Tell that to immigrants that followed my friend in a public street at around 10pm and tried to shamed her "why are you wearing this skirt" and such last month.

And she was not even that provocatively dressed (way less than the average working class girl -- what english would call a "chav" -- in her late teens going out for a drink on friday/saturday)
It’s better than saying “you can build a nuclear bomb if you just wish it hard enough”.

> a bad idea can fall apart with millions of VC ran by MIT grads and an amazing idea can come to life with a few hundred bucks with a high school kid.

This is a actually really wonderful thing!

Unless you’re an MIT grad with no ideas about how to help customers hoping you could cash in by riding solely on your credentials I guess.
> This sort of system A) doesn't involve a SAT solver and B) gets things up to date all the time.

I've argued for this in various forms for years. Regardless of how the dependency version is calculated, having that version chosen outside the context of version control is asking for trouble.

The reason that maximal version selection existed in the first place was that manually updating dependencies has been seen as too hard, so it gets punted to the tool. The net result is that the code in production can't necessarily be associated with a particular dependency.

Of course there's a cottage industry for doing this automatically, as their should be. In the case where proper CI and automation exists, I feel like minimal selection has a slight edge in that it is less likely to click unexpectedly upwards.

But in practice, the practice of automation makes the overall policy of version selection close to irrelevant.

Automate automate automate. Never leave this stuff to chance.
It didn't, it was more of a poke at New York Times. They have harsh language for any form of US protectionism whatsoever (some of their arguments are certainly justified mind you), but not a peep when talking about India.
How am I not serious? My T410 Lenovo from 2008 is my daily driver. Have been on Lubuntu since 2014 and before that Ubuntu and Win7.

Chromebooks are targeted towards college students and websurfers are they not? Lubuntu is perfect for them, especially, if they don't have $600 to shell out on a Chromebook.
The Chromebook is brand new straight from Amazon.

Google says your ebay laptop costs somewhere between $900 and $1,400 in new condition depending on what model it is. Yours is also "smashed and cracked" with no AC adapter based on the description.

I don't really mind if there's something faster because I spend time developing 10,000+ line Dockerized Rails apps with the Chromebook along with having a bunch of browser tabs open and streaming music, etc.. and it all runs great.

That Chromebook I mentioned is just a perfect storm of high quality components at a good price. I hope it lasts another 5+ years.
I Agree with OP.

From an authentication point of view(Crypto and twiiter like 'verification'),some system or authority needs to verify your identity. I think a Fully Qualified User Identity (much like fqdn) where your username is only part of your FQUI would solve a lot of issues.

For example:

Alice.blue.hn.de
Alice.orange.hn.twitter.us

The two FQUI represent different people.

Alice is in the 'blue' group,verified by hn which used the 'de' identity authority.

Alice is in the 'orange' group,verified by hn using twitter. Twitter used identity authority 'us'.

<[hierarchial user name]>.<user group>.<[hierarchial identity verifier domains]>.<identity authority>

This isn't a new idea at all,there just does not seem to be a one size fits all consensus on what system to use. Maybe everyone is wary because the DNS hierarchial system isn't doing too well. Unlike domain names,a person is unique,you can't register arbitrary identities under the same authority(at least not without committing fraud)
Or, you know, let's call a spade a space, and that the "thinly veiled racism" accusation is just a thought stopper, based on the a priori premise that a certain group of people can do no harm just because they're in distress themselves...
But you don't get the minimalist Chromebook keyboard.

Plus laptop CPU thermal management has a lot of problems. I would prefer a modern and fanless Chromebook to an old laptop where the fans are whirring away the whole time for no evidence of performance gain.

I am hoping that there will soon be an eight generation Pentium inside a high end Chromebook with that Chromebook running linux things like a web server natively. No idea how the IDE is going to work running that way but that is where I would like my dev environment to be going.

You can still get refurbished Chromebooks, I bought a Dell one and I think that come the apocalypse there will be cockroaches and my Dell Chromebook running, if nothing else, as it is that indestructible. Plus charging seems optional. It goes for days.
This is pretty cool! Where are you getting these images from?

I would love to see this expanded to different genres of sites too. I've noticed that (niche) fashion websites have their own aesthetic that is a bit divorced from the mainstream. I'm sure we're all aware that Asian design trends are also very different.
Being "a user of your own product" is a cheap proxy for caring about quality.
I agree with what you're saying, but I'm not going to be pessimistic about the endeavour! I think, given time, we can build something that solves at least some use cases better than Calc.
The interesting part is that it's officially part of the ECMAScript spec and HTML standard, and this library is just polyfilling it temporarily until more browsers implement it – so eventually you can use the exact same syntax and function calls without this library.

Things like RequireJS have certainly served people perfectly well, but they're just systems that folks came up with and implemented in userland rather than any official standard – you will always need a library to use them.
So I think there is this point where as an individual or society one can switch contexts easily and readily between apparent contradictions. In this case being naked is not the same as sex. Contrast that with the fetish parades or even some aspects of the pride parades where nakedness is sex. Anyhow, it looks like they are losjng their "innocent" context switching abilities due to “awareness” by media exposure, advertising, tourists, global norms, etc.