skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Device drivers are one of the things I LOVE Linux. Instead of having to install 500 Megabytes of software from a CD or downloading 20 different vendor update tools, it usually is just plug and play. Instantly.

Of course configuration is needed. I doubt that the scanner issue is a driver thing. Are you sure the software is configured to do a full resolution, RGB scan?

Optimus GPU are hell on Windows as well. Never buy laptops with that nonsense. Generally, you cannot expect any random consumer poop laptop to work well. Linux does not work perfectly everywhere but it sure is more compatible than Mac OS when it comes to using your own hardware. Buy a proper business model laptop and it will work 99%. Just like Windows would.
11 Mistakes Because of Which Your Article Will Not Be Read by Anyone
This is a great suggestion even if you're not a big gun person. I'm not a firearm owner but the detail and historical context in Forgotten Weapons is fascinating. Check out the sister-channel In Range as well.
Having worked at a company that went from < $50 million to > $1 billion in less than 10 years I think the biggest dark side is when it's all over.

Either the company will get bought, leadership will leave and company priorities will change -- or you'll just end up leaving.

When you decide to move on, you'll notice that all other companies seem less smart and a LOT less intense.

You might find yourself attempting to unsuccessfully chase that high that you had before when working for a successful startup or attempting to 'go back to the way it was' ... but the odds are stacked against you. There's no going back. And there's no recreating what you had. Just treasure it.

Very few devs get the opportunity to work for a startup. Even fewer get the opportunity to work for a successful startup.
> Given that EU wages have increased much more than US wages

Where exactly? Surely not in western Europe, it's stagnating since the 80s. In the former soviet bloc for sure I agree.
Minicab in London
Show HN: DebugBear – monitor front-end code
> Maybe I can get an email
filter in place so at when I send email with curse-words, they just
won't go out. Because hey, I'm a big believer in tools, and at least
_some_ problems going forward might be improved with simple
automation.

Linus dealing with his behavior as an engineering problem. Genius.
And influencing. As someone above said well,their creations will become native elsewhere.
It's not a dead medium if people are producing new works -- and they do.

Check out the Interactive Fiction Competition, http://ifcomp.org
If it isn't highlighted we'll be looking at fake video footage in a few years of politicians admitting they're lizard people and some will believe it.

Imagine an events like that idiot that showed up armed at Comet Pizza but worse.
AirPower 'Doomed to Failure' Unless Apple Can Resolve Engineering Issues: Report
Medicine isnt a quick fix for societys ills. Overdiagnosis can cause more harm
Why I Decided to Freelance Like a Farmer
Interesting. I used to work in a similar space. And yes, the lists of data are huge. Some of the projects I had to do to generate lists were just bonkers. But it works out cost/value, generally.
People who writes `if(value)`
win2k "Windows Classic" or Win 7 Aero glass are the only decent UIs MS has ever offered.

So of course they remove classic from Windows 10 and force the issue.
Only if their is something specific about it that makes them noteworthy. Generally people are buying yachts to be used and they really do age.

PS: You can buy a used Bugatti Veyron for below initial sticker price even ignoring inflation. https://www.dupontregistry.com/autos/listing/2006/bugatti/ve...
Great read, the cancer of de-regulated financial services still hasn't been addressed, and might not ever if Trump and his richest cabinet in history continue to hold power.

Wall Street continues to take on obscene amounts of debt from the government for essentially no interest, see Quantitative Easing, so that they can avoid paying even more taxes on their even greater profit. This is also fueling bubbles in other wealthy assets as everything is actually just leveraged debt. The prospects of another financial crisis is just as real as it was 10 years ago and again the lower-middle class will be left to hold the tax bill while the fat cats get fatter.
I don't see what is "beyond" here, can someone elaborate on the contribution on top of established Deep Fake tech?
> For science, for example, you can go directly to the journals and hardcode scientific outlets. For most regular news you can go directly to the wire services, read accounts from people on the ground, and read deeper outlets with more analysis than mass market newspapers like the NYT.

If you have the time, sure. Journalists do this work for you and are trained to do it, but of course there is nothing wrong with going closer to the source. Only few people can afford this luxury, though. I sometimes do this for topics I'm really interested in, but certainly not for every daily news. For the ones who don't have the time, resorting to reputable newspapers is by far the best choice.

Edit: In your reply you were shifting the goalpost. I was talking about news, not "what journalists do". Writing an editorial or opinion piece or broad analysis is not reporting news. Just wanted to make this clear.
Agreed. Most startup founders I've seen "complain" about having to work 12 hour days, 6 days a week but in reality they are wasting a lot of time doing nothing and could get the same amount of work done in a 40 hour week. They then go on to complain about it but in reality they think it shows how tough they are for being able to do this.
This is exactly my dilemma. I've been in the industry for 2 years but done very little personal development in my own time and my job has been quite limiting in pushing my skills in the direction that I desire.

I value my after work hours to pursue other things/exercise/have a life. This makes me put even more thinking into how should I be spending my already limited time.

Currently I'm sticking to doing some MOOCs related to my my development path (Android) and then I want to crack on a few personal projects. On the other hand, the clock is ticking and I really would love to prepare well for better career opportunities...
TablePlus user on macOS - great tool for ad-hoc query work and data exploration. Would recommend
If you are on Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/in-page-pop-u...
...when social safety nets are being dismantled or are no longer existing...

I'm slowly coming to realise this. You'd think that point might be more broadly advertised.
Just a curious question: What is the tech stack behind the scene?
Well fasting has been a trend since I don't even know, well before ancient greece at least. Western culture != entire world.
From the article:

"The LHC hasn't just lost most of its data: it's lost a whopping 99.997% of it. That's right; out of every one million collisions that occurs at the LHC, only about 30 of them have all of their data written down and recorded".

This is incredible; I knew they have to discard much data but so far was unaware of the magnitude of the problem.

Seems like very interesting technical challenge to tackle.
I don't know much about Time magazine as I feel like I'm too young to have really ever read it. I'm 34, but I recall when I was much younger seeing them at doctor's offices and the like, they seemed too serious or grown up for me to really care about, but they seemed like they were the real deal respectable magazine. I think I once read an article about Putin in one at my dentist in high school which seemed semi interesting but perhaps slightly above my level of care or knowledge of the world at the time.

The other thing people know Time for is that everyone wants to have their face on the cover, that's when you know you made it or you are famous. It was even in like every tv show, movie or whatever, a photoshopped version of Time with someone's face on it. I feel like, what is the equivalent of that today? Sure there are millions of outlets, but not too many seem to have that kind of authority, notoriety or brand around them. Even if Time's decisions were total BS and their quality declined because of the industry, that "meme" is still in people's head and it still probably holds value if someone can appear on the cover or said they did. Now Benioff can do this at will if he wants and can even live that dream himself (if he never was on the cover, I don't know)! That alone seems like its worth it considering the fortune someone like Benioff has. Any of his friends who need a boost of influence can walk over to him and ask for a favour, and boom, now they are on the cover of what to the uncaring eye seems like a still prestigious and noteworthy magazine or more likely are endorsed by a brand which may have become a shell of what it once was, but most people haven't really ever put the thought in to realize that because they never read it in the first place.
Truthy ? A : B
Truthy && A
Falsy || fallback
I've heard similar rage fits about Ruby and Python and yet people get plenty of work done with either one. Hell I'm sure you could hear the same damn thing about Java, but someone somewhere will find a way to shove the JVM into embedded devices too.
Supply and demand can be affected by externalities. In the labor market, those externalities include legal discrepancies between individuals and companies as well as international trade. With inappropriately cheap shipping costs local labor is competing against foreign labor. So the model would have to take into account wage levels abroad. Ie until US wages sink to Brazilian, Chinese, and Indian levels no broad wage increases are likely locally (as a strong interpretation).
> I'm curious, did any company ever contributed overall to a society in your opinion?

Yes. The issues I'm raising are largely to do with some extremely large companies.

> Where should Amazon magically create this money from? It can only come at the expense of customers.

Are you saying that no company pays their employees enough? Or that employees in general shouldn't be paid a living wage? Or even that Amazon, a company headed by the actual richest person in the world, really makes zero profit and must absolutely hurt customers in order to make ends meet?

> That's a net positive. Less work, the same job done.

Less jobs is a positive* only if those without jobs have a living income. UBI is a proposed solution: it hasn't been introduced anywhere as far as I'm aware.

> Making more work is easy, just let people throw rocks from one pile to the other and back again.

And who pays these rock throwers? Do their wages come from the taxes Bezos doesn't pay?

* EDIT: To be clear, on the less jobs question, I am generally not in favour of having a less efficient system just to create jobs (it may sound that way above). I'm just a realist, acknowledging that we have a system that requires job-creation as a means to supply members of society with the means to sustain themselves. If we did not require job-creation to do that, I would completely agree that "less work, the same job done" would be a positive thing.
Thanks a lot for your support!
TablePlus is a native application (WPF), it's written with C#, C/C++.
I attended a conference in August 2018 that had IPv6 only access. I was unable to present links to websites during my talk as they were IPv4 only.
> After a long life of use, ensure that they are recycled properly.

Anyone ever read about Apple's must-shred agreement[0] with recyclers? Is that what "properly" refers to here?

> Ensure that Apple products last as long as possible.

Anyone read about Apple's recent lawsuit[1] for planned obsolescence in iPhones?

[0]: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yp73jw/apple-recy...

[1]: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/01/09/targeting-apple...
Twitter used to have RSS feeds for every user. I still follow a few accounts using code that converts them to RSS but I probably would not have bothered if I didn't already have a Twitter API key.
Is Love a Finite Resource?
although I agree I suppose the argument is that people do not have a right to fly. In order to defeat the list you would need to show how there is a such a right, and have that right be accepted probably by the supreme court.
finally a maclisp cough machine
You don't have to rely on discipline, you can use tooling like ESLint or Flow to make sure there are no implicit conversions in the codebase.
Doctor of Philosophy in Counselor Education and Supervision
Ask HN: How do you share a series of links?
How do you share a series of links on a particular theme, as opposed to an individual link (as you might via Twitter) or a large stash (as you might with your Pinboard acccount)?

Let's say there's a niche area of the internet where you've collected a few gems online and you want to share the series with the world. How do you share? In a blog post? As a Pinboard tag? Diigo outline? Are there great sites out there that may sharing curated collections of list easy and beautiful?
Has the surge been all year, or only the past few days? The large Jewish fast, Yom Kipporim, starts tomorrow evening and people love to find scientific explanations for their strange habits.

If my comment sounds condescending, then be there no mistake: I'm Jewish and I'll be fasting.
That's essentially Kyle Kingsbury.
I never understood the vitriol, because he could have just said they weren't up to spec. And when people don't fix bugs, just suspend taking their patches and say that.

In the case of PaX, there is definitely a conflict between the later commercial concept (pay to receive these patches to a GPL2 product) and the integration of security features in a comprehensible way in mainline. Brad Spengler is right that big corporations use his work for no recompense (gotta love the cancer that is Oracle), but tbh many of the patches are hard to grok. And Linus had a ridiculous 'security bugs are just bugs' attitude, opposed to the additional complexity added in some patches. I think many of the mitigation techniques are painful and have ramifications on many other areas -- but the larger redesign just wasn't being done. And they are both ascerbic individuals.

I thought his rants directed at Kees Cook were worse. He is allowed to reject everything insufficiently tested, so why doesn't he just do that? Anyway, Kees was a model of restraint.
Quinfo- a quick news consumption app,news summary in 60 words
US and UK should be using other governments as examples that get it right.

The answer to your problem is most definitely not to reduce taxes and Let billionares decide what goes where.
Some Programs to Make UML Diagrams in Linux?
Please see the chart on this page: https://www.businessinsider.com/france-vs-us-real-wages-2015... Yes, wages have begun to stagnate in the Eurozone in the last 10 years, but it is a completely different situation from the total robbery American workers have been put through!
This is no more surveillance than police coming to your house with a search warrant is though.
> "which spokesperson of some organisation said what when"

Quite a lot of news reporting does this, but it's extremely hard not to accidentally let "a spokesperson said X" implant the belief "X is true" in your mind unless you're very vigilant. So reporting these kind of official statements without fact-checking the underlying statement can be surprisingly misleading.

But then there's also the ability of media to just make or dig up a scandal out of whole cloth by finding people willing to make the statements they want. Today's fiasco is the Times trying to resurrect the idea that Michael Foot was a Soviet agent, a claim which they lost a libel lawsuit over decades ago. https://inews.co.uk/news/ex-sunday-times-ed-andrew-neil-lead...
"The follow your passion" advice is flawed because you are focusing on your needs instead of the needs of others.

Society, or the world or the Universe, call it whatever you want, will reward you in direct proportion to the value you give to them, not to yourself. It does not care about you, it cares about itself.

On the other hand you should never forget your needs as a human being while working. Focusing too much on others, becoming in practice a slave, not eating well, not sleeping well, not having fun, will only burn you in the medium and short term.

That will for sure make you not to contribute much to others on the long term.

The advice is given by people that had overextended themselves and experienced the burnout in their life. They compare themselves to others and it becomes obvious that some people are doing exactly what they love to do.

They assume that this has always been the case. Usually it is not. For example my father met a man called Carlos Sainz, a car driver that won some Dakar, when people see this man succeed, they assume it was always easy to him. They can't see the effort and sacrifice that led to him winning races.

I fortuitously met Rafael Nadal, a Spanish tennis player. People see him winning titles and believe that is his life, but his life is 90% training training and training(repeating repeating repeating) to a level that will bore to tears any normal human being.

I like playing tennis myself but it will be impossible for me to spend my life doing that.
There is no free market on the price of money. This is exactly central planning.
Aren't you implicitly assuming that TS's number === JS's Number and TS's string === JS's String? You could say == is extended for TS's types(number/string), but the JS == still exists: x as any == y as any;
Be careful, though. Prolonged expose of Dihydrogen Monoxide to the lungs has been shown to cause death. It also rusts metals and dissolves many other materials.

I think may schools have been shown to have Dihydrogen Monoxide contamination in their cafeterias and restrooms.
To be frank, that's because the Win 9x line was intentionally designed around the older, less-stable MS-DOS architecture. NT, which is what 2000 was based on, was around for seven years by that point and was remarkably stable. The big problem is that it was compatible with virtually nothing, and it wasn't until Win XP that the business world aligned itself with NT.
The cost on myself, my life and my family.

Nothing is free. Ever. You can implement one thing and there are a number of other things you did not implement. In my case that meant always always focusing on product and finishing above all else.

Shitty engineering and bad choices litter the code. Even worse bad design is everywhere. All in the name of "getting shit done."

As that stacks up it costs more and more. More late night calls. More time spent trying to fix things that should not be broken to begin with.

Just one more day in the week to do something operational for once. Another night spent trying to keep things running.

Those all add up over time. And they cost.
> Keep in mind that a "VPS" is not really something you should use for business because it has shared resources and very small sizing.

That's exactly what I meant. The problem is, that people expect OVH VPS to be a direct alternative to Linode, DigitalOcean, and Vultr – when it's not. And the free support service doesn't always make this clear enough to the users. It only becomes clear, when you read the docs yourself.
Hands down "thenewboston", that guy rocks!

He has videos about numerous programming languages and goes into absolute depth on most of them!
Funding Choices – Google’s new tool for GDPR compliance and content monetization
Toronto has more startups (in the sense of VC funded young companies) but the culture is not like SF. There are a lot more jack of all trades and learning/growing opportunities in smaller orgs even if the culture is conservative, though.

In Montreal the pay is not that much lower but cost of living is easily halved compared to Vancouver, so your Canadian salary will look a lot more appealing.

If the weather is an issue, find a company in SF that'll let you work remotely. Be smart on the salary -- if they have to pay you as a contractor you'll have more expenses than as an employee.
That is all very well and I really appreciate Apple's long support for iPhones, but Apple did popularize firmly bonded batteries in its phones and even in notebooks. A battery is a wear part and should be easy to replace. Every thing else leads to more waste.
Scientists Say They've Found the Driver of False Beliefs
But what you describe is a real conundrum for governments isn't it?

If this hypothesis is true then you would think that the government in place would do everything they can to stop the far right/far left from rising from the ashes of the failed social safety net.

Instead, what we see mostly is the mainstream parties blaming the far right/far left without even addressing the issues that have led to people actually joining their ranks.

Its the same in Europe. Some people say they want a different Europe, mainstream politicians say no.

People then have the impression that their voices have not been heard. What do they do? They vote far right or far left and say: "now, can you hear me?"

But even that's still not enough, because most politicians are only concerned with being reelected, they still don't listen and they even blame the people who now despise the mainstream parties.

I can't understand this kind of logic.
> I never installed anything else until XP was a ~requirement

Likewise. I only migrated to WXP because AoE3 required it… and it turned out to be terrible but there was no real way to downgrade.
Peter Attia is an interesting person to listen to discussing ketosis and fasting; in [1] he only eats fat for a week followed by a 1 week fast and a further week of ketosis afterwards.

In [2] he specifically talks about the benefits of Ketosis in depth with one of the leading experts in this field.

[1] https://peterattiamd.com/ama02/

[2] https://peterattiamd.com/domdagostino/
> it seems equality operator in javascript is good for nothing but being a source of confusion and a target of jokes.

if (someValue != null) {
// someValue is neither null nor undefined
}

> does it not make sense to just remove it from the language completely?

No, because you'd wreck quite a bit of the internet with that.

> who is deciding that?

ECMA TC39
You can't expect companies to fight for greater good and sacrifice their interests for the overall good. In fact it's against the law for them to do that. Amazon hires a lot of people and in many countries pay reasonably well. With taxes it does what the law allows.

If you want to change those things start with changing the law, ending policies hurting the working class (limiting low skill migration would be the first step) and getting rid of ridiculous taxes like corporate income tax you claim Amazon dodged (while in fact it pays what the law requires it to pay).

Blaming the player for playing the game well while taking care of what they are legally obliged to do (shareholder value) is neither smart nor constructive.
It's a good practice to have some concrete guidelines regarding work environment. But this particular code of conduct is pure and utter garbage. I'm really not sure how Linus could ever willingly accept this.

> Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting

This statement here from the CoC is pretty much an open invitation to send whoever you don't agree with to the gulag/camp/whatever. What concrete definition is there of "reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting"? These change across cultures and countries. Linux is a global effort. Not everyone on the planet follows the silicon valley, American or any single culture.

You either have fixed and clear guidelines on what is acceptable or not, or have no guidelines at all. Something open ended like this is nothing more than a potential witch hunt in the making.
The original iPad also had OS updates discontinued incredibly quickly.
Of course. That Apple is concerned with sustainability and durability is a sad joke.

The reason why no one "rush[ed] out of the room and call[ed] their broker to sell Apple shares" is because no one believed it!