skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm assuming your use of the word "dozens" is a joke, but if not, Diaspora can handle it very well. Their population doubled after Cambridge Analytica hit the news - and within a month or so they lost all those new users: https://nerdpol.ch/posts/e8532ca04b2f013617bf52540061b601

Let's see if they can hold on to the current batch. Diaspora is actually quite usable and stable. I haven't dealt with any issues since I began using it. The docs and non-existent API suck, though.
> Are there other people here who just refuse to sign up for any of these programs?

I don't bother with the rewards programs I'd hardly use or with rewards programs which have "burned" me in the past.

Example 1: If I don't go to your movie theatre chain very often, I'm not signing up for your "CineGreat Program" or whatever you call yours this year. I'm also not a Frequent Flyer -- and airlines buy and sell each other in and out of bankruptcy so often that who knows that rats nest of points anyway on top of that. But the grocery store I shop at regularly down the street? Sure thing sign me up.

Example 2: AAA hotel discounts might be nice, but when you can't help me on the side of the road at midnight when that was the exact reason why I signed up then you can nevermind that renewal for the rest of my life.
No, it doesn't. When you saccade normally, you can do so in milliseconds (it's the fastest movement your body is capable of making and is literally subconscious) repeatedly and freely. The GIF yanks away control, forcing you to wait through the slow arbitrary preset cycle, while distracting you reading anything else. And that's in the good case of just 2 frames, when it's 3 or 4, it's much worse, because now you have to sit through the cycle possibly several times just to figure out what each frame is labeled and only then can you begin comparing! Imagine how much more pleasant and easy to read and accessible and less headache-inducing this article would be if it followed a systematic approach of presenting 1-4 images side by side, Apple then Google then misc.
I guess the elephant in the room is spatially uneven bandwidth demand. How many Netflix 4k streams will the constellation handle if a significant portion of London residents switches to Starlink? The simulation says a few dozen sats visible at any moment; will they handle a few terabits that I think London might saturate?
good but then we wont have any CEO's left..also how about govt orgs where user privacy is violated, can we put them in jail too?
The sequel, https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2018/09/19/the-unravel..., is pretty interesting too.

I wonder to what extent the U.S. dominance of information technology is a result of the fact that even when we had a monopoly telecommunications provider, it was a private — rather than a state — monopoly, and how much is the result of us breaking the monopoly fairly early compared to other states.
Act of software engineering overall probably no, aspects of it yes.

Just like how industrial jobs are increasingly becoming "human manages machines doing labor" rather than "human does labor", I imagine the same will happen to coding. A computer won't be able to write all your code for you, but it will become more efficient to work in conjunction with one.

That's already happening with lots of existing tasks related to software engineering. (Searching through code, linting, etc.) ML will mean there will be more of them.
I was going to ask initially for more information. I hardly knew what you meant, what context. If you'd written a few sentences explaining what you meant, what field exactly, maybe which ones you track, you'd have more chance of getting decent answers.
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You are right, I should have specified that this only applies if what you want is a Mac.
I would recommend to "keep fighting with Pandas". Many of its feature seem confusing at first, but later on you see the value of them.
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but it happens at a point where time is less critical. After a plane lands and the passengers depart, there is a race to clean, restock, and and board customers for the next flight, so the plane can get back in the air. Any part of that process that can be made more efficient benefits airlines. Checking luggage likely reduces complexity during that narrow window, and adds it before and after the flight
Remember that updating references is usually a global update. Now you have to test EVERYTHING that used that reference.

I've had so many projects bitten by an overzealous dev who decided to update the version of a library because newer = better and then we spent the next three weeks chasing bugs/differences between the versions.

Edit: Curious about the down votes. Would someone who disagrees care to illuminate me?
I would argue that, because it's Apple, the people experiencing issues are more vocal and because, realistically, this is the first generation of the new butterfly keyboard so there will be some growing pains. I believe Ars posted a hardware survey sent to a bunch of laptop owners and the majority of Apple users preferred the new keyboard. YMMV, obviously, but I think it's much easier for issues to become "infamous" now that more people are using them and they all have easier access to post their complaints in public. On top of that, blogs and tech "journalists" want to jump in on any problem they can.
Just what the world needs... Another Linux distribution.

Seriously though, you need a lot more to sell me on a new distribution than "Ubuntu, but with AppImages". That's actually a large part of the problem of FOSS in general: We focus on the technical underpinnings rather than on the problems that we intend to solve. If the creators of this distribution want to address specific issues of the Linux desktop experience, they should do a better job communicating that, not least to attract contributors.
So if you have a large number of buttons or other elements with the same class you will be repeating yourself over and over.

With elements with a large number of style rules, you add a lot of very long lines to your html.

This would be a nightmare to work on/maintain.
Wait, dogs can get cancer? Fuck. That is super depressing.
It's more complicated then this. The GDPR does not mention residency. According to some interpretations it's enough that you're located in the EU.
Most (all?) of the classes apply exactly 1 line of CSS.

I see this as an anti-pattern, because to me it looks like inline styles with extra steps. The only thing it avoids is accidental strong specificity.

The reason we have CSS is that it's really easy to make HTML unreadable - after all it's essentially a 1D medium(lines of text) trying to describe a 2D space.
Am I the only one a bit perplex that we focus on "men lagging their older counterpart" while women have employment rate 15% lower than men?
Living in Spain (per year):

2013-2015: 7.200€ - 9.600€ (Internship, never full time, around 30 hours per week. Company A)

2015 graduated on computer science

2015: 18.000€ (working on a research group on the university. Company B)

2016: 25.000€ - 29.000€ (My salary was increased on september. Company C)

2017: 29.000€ (Company C)

2018: 29.000€ (Company C)

I move to Germany on October:

2018: 70.000€ (Company D)
My biggest problem with the idea of developing on a phone, or even on a small tablet (8 inches or less) is the size of the screen, and the difficulty of context switching. I have a 27" and a 20" monitor set up side by side, and I wish I had more screen space.

One idea I've toyed with is the idea of using a virtual reality headset. Paired with a bluetooth combination keyboard/touchpad and and a tiling window manager, one could have a (virtual) large display, in a fairly small physical package. I have no idea whether a combination like this would be suitable for working for long periods of time, but it would be compact.
Related, don't combine style changes and functional changes in a single commit.
All accounts should be flicker-free!
There are two outcomes to this:

1, where quality executives say "fuck this" and the only people who hold the roles are fall men for invisible puppet masters.

or 2, the role is split up over a bunch of departments so nobody can be held responsible. The side effect of this is that the products the company produces become much more expensive.
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The first bottleneck is the keyboard. Until we have AI to understand high level mathematical intends expressed in spoken natural language and translate that correctly to code, it will be easier and more efficient to use a keyboard and formalize your programs yourself. There’s a youtube video showing how a guy programmed emacs macros, to be able to write code by speech...

Then of course, the small screen size. But here, the resolution is good, we’d only need a way to, project it on your retinal. You can do without the phone screen, with somthing like the googleglasses...

So, what is usable today, is the tablet with a bluetooth physical keyboard. Well, if you find a place to put them down, like a desktop. On laps, laptops are much more practical, since the keyboard is attached to the screen, which allows you to retain it with your hands!

Otherwise, there are full IDEs on Android allowing you to code and generate applications directly on the phone or tablet, if you can solve the ergonomy problems.
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>we are talking about maps that don't show road names here

Can you provide a use case where that would be necessary for a situation where you're not using the navigation? A lot of people seem to think this is a requirement for a map but when are you ever using a map to find a specific street where navigation wouldn't be far easier?
If anything, utility CSS frameworks and creating reusable CSS (as opposed to reusable HTML) make more sense when used with something like React.
Nothing wrong with voter ID, nearly all developed countries do it.
Server rendering:

Request
Reply

(maybe some images come next, but the site is functional. Ie. showing actual useful data, also images, css, ... are simply common between both app types. Both can be inlined if you want to avoid the cost)

SPA:
html
reply

request javascript
reply

request javascript dependencies
reply

request the actual useful data the site intends to show
reply

(note that these requests NEED to happen even when cached, also SPAs are of course less cacheable than server rendering)

That's 4x slower minimum. In practice, unless you implement pipelining in your api (ie. fat chance) the request javascript dependencies and request useful data steps really have to happen 5x or 10x. This will turn what is already a disaster into a global catastrophe.

Also it doesn't matter what the best developers do, for the reputation of actual types of apps. It matters what the average (ie. very bad) developers do.
What is problematic for me with the new flickr proposal is this:

- 4500 photos

- 2.1 % of the 1 Tb storage used.

So basically, I have to remove 3500 photos while I don't consume that much size. Or go the paid way...
CSS sucks because it lets you reuse code to a very small degree, but doesn't go very far. Less or sass seem much betters, if for no other reason than referencing common behavior.
Here's a single-page cheatsheet I created for Tailwind, good for seeing Tailwind's utility classes at a glance: https://derekphilipau.github.io/tailwindcss-cheatsheet-singl...
I think actually every living animal can get cancer. Except maybe sharks, or is that an urban legend?
Actually it is, especially when you're working with a team of developers.

Imagine that your designer puts together a design system built on a soft grid. The rules in the design system are what ensure consistency across the site.

If you have a team of developers, sooner or later you'll manage a junior dev who interprets the design as a pixel perfect layout, and starts defining widths on elements per their own personal interpretation. Maybe they eyeball it, maybe they measure it, maybe they measure it but don't include the border.

You can catch such things through training and code review, but it puts the burden of managing design consistency on a senior engineer. Starting out with a constrained system is one easy way to ensure consistency of design across large projects.
Can you get a great fare? Absolutely; I flew business on miles from SFO to VIE for 127,500, roundtrip, all in. Is it common? Absolutely not. I check business fares every time I book a ticket and it's virtually always 5x for international. I've seen it edge down towards 3x on airlines that don't have Premium Economy, but what gets me is that Premium Economy is never less than DOUBLE what economy is. Absolutely insane.

Domestically, business is usually 3x. I just booked my first ever paid-for-with-real-money business class domestic flight SFO-CLE for thanksgiving; it's not that it's cheap, it's just that thanksgiving demand drove coach fares up so much that business starts to look reasonable -- 1500 vs 750.

The perks are invaluable? No, I think they can be valued, and I don't think hardly anyone paying their own dollars values them at even the price the airlines ask for, let alone infinite.

My friends who travel to China on company business brag about "only" paying $3000 of company money for Business because they have such discounted fares through their employer, where it would normally cost $5k. $1900 is virtually unheard of, congrats to you, but it's far from normal.
A better thing to consider would be to set up a programming environment where you would project high resolution on a white wall.
There are restrictions in place already to make sure that satellites launched now will de-orbit (or be placed in to a non-operational orbit). In order to get a license from the FCC to operate a satellite you have to prove that you have some way of de-orbiting the satellite within 25 years after mission end or 30 years from launch. On an international level the ITU has the same guidelines. This applies for satellites in low earth orbit.

For satellites in geosynchronous orbit it takes a hell of a lot of energy to de-orbit them. So the requirements are to place the satellite in a non-operational orbit at the end of the mission which usually means boosting it up higher outside of the geosynchronous belt.
So right now I have this -

Compute --> DAC
DAC --> TV --> Sound Bar for videos (also TV apps output to sound bar)
DAC --> Tube Amp (for music played from computer)
Record Player --> Tube Amp
Tube Amp --> 2 good speakers

Ideal would would be
Apple TV with XM, iPlayer, Netflix, Amazon App - HDMI to 4K TV - TV to sound bar
Apple TV with Optical to DAC to Tube Amp.

I have looked at some of the HDMI sound extractors but there seems to be limits on things you can play, having a remote, DRM.

Everything is controlled by Logictech Harmony.
It’s been around for at least two years from what I can tell.
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The other takeaway is that Digital Restrictions Management systems are the security lynchpin, as they run at a higher privilege level than the property owner is permitted. They are zealously guarded due to their nature, making it more difficult to understand the security threat digital restrictions management poses.
Key word is “dogmatic”.
> A single cluster of nearly identical genotypes, the Cavendish subgroup, nearly monopolizes the world’s banana groves and banana trade.

I've read this over and over again in so many articles... but is it really true?

In Brazil at least, every supermarket has several types of bananas [1], only one of which is Cavendish. (Similar to how a US supermarket will have several types of apples.)

So seeing as the fifth-largest country has plenty of banana variety... I'm curious if anyone can chime in on other places outside of North America.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=tipos+de+bananas&safe=off&rl...:
> Should be called the ‘free for personal use’ email us for pricing clause instead

But this is a totally unfair characterization of the license, so they wouldn't call it this.
True. But in this event, the potential would very likely impact all of Belgium, so there is no reason to differentiate flanders from the rest of the country. On top of that, both part of the country has suffered similarly throughout history of wars and bombs, so again there is no need for differentiation here.

There are very good reasons to differentiate the north and south part of the country on a lot of subjects since they are so different. This is not one of those reasons. Defense is a federal issue and there is no reasons to make it regional.
Nice idea. Basically the opposite of this excellent short story: http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
It's puzzling because the same people then shit on Perl for being "write-only".
Thanks for the contribution. So we definitely want to get Ansible in and there is a lot of pressure to do so. At this time the focus is 100% on 0.12 core and then we're going to take a look at provisioners again. Sorry for the delay.
It doesn't sound like they're doing anything novel compared to computing in harsh environments here on Earth. It's pretty routine to monitor the output of computation and cross-verify when an error is hazardous and there is risk of corruption. Frequently when the system is used for some critical task and there's an error with a less critical subsystem it will operate in a "degraded state." And ECC RAM has been standard on these kinds of computers for ages.

The only thing novel about this is that they sent a computer designed in this millennium and it survived the radiation unshielded.

Regarding the SSD/NAND flash, it makes sense that it would die relatively quickly. It's constantly being bombarded by energetic particles and the cell sizes, geometries, and write voltages are low and small enough that I could see bit flips accumulating relatively quickly from cosmic rays. The drive's firmware would then determine that the write block had failed and mark it permanently as bad. What's probably needed here is a different firmware that attempts to erase the block and then tests it and puts it back into service if it passes. Or different cell geometries and higher write/erase voltages are needed. It's an interesting note.
> If I sell the fridge to a new owner, of course they can do whatever they want.

This fridge has been sold, and the new owners are doing whatever they want.

(Flickr has been sold from Yahoo to Smugmug.)
I'm confused by what you mean when saying 'Tradition'?
Flanders would be the correct naming for the northern part of Belgium (Vlaanderen).

Anyway, as far as the original comment, something much worse would need to happen for it to trigger a war between these two countries. Western Europe has seen enough way the past centuries indeed ;)
If you use Sass you get both the benefits of semantic html AND the ability to jam a million classes into an html element with @include and @extend.
That sounds pretty cool. One of the first questions I'd ask is "how do you plan to monetize the app"?

Beyond that, I like to start by working backwards from the end goal, at a "back of the envelope" level.

Let's say your goal is to build a company that can IPO. You should be able to look at existing data and figure out some number, like "a company needs X million dollars in ARR to justify an IPO". Then work backwards and project "if we sell this app / subscriptions to this service / whatever, for Y dollars, then we need Z customers to get to IPO range".

You can also work out what your maximum customer acquisition cost can be, given your projected pricing. Then you have a hypothesis to test: We need to show that it's likely that we can sell this app at Y dollars, to Z people, at a CAC of no more than Q". Then you start trying to get people to use your app through various channels (see the book Traction by Gabriel Weinberg for a lot more on that) and then see if you can find a customer base that will support your goal. If you can't, you can iterate on the details of your hypothesis (change the pricing, change customer acquisition channels, etc.). When you "pivot" per-se, is basically when you decide that the market you're looking for, for the app you're planning to build, either isn't there, or can't be accessed in a profitable way, etc.

If you haven't already, I'd suggest reading The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank, and the aforementioned Traction books. And/or go through the library of videos from the recent Startup School session. There's a lot of good advice there on dealing with all these issues.

Note also that "get to an IPO" is just a made up example... your goal may be less ambitious. Maybe you just want to build a company with a few million in ARR that can support the founders on a modest lifestyle. The point is just that you need to start from the goal, and see if the business can be built to support the desired outcome.
I've never once felt obligated to get on the plane earlier just because I had a window. The person on the aisle knows someone will be getting into the empty seats, so they leave their seatbelt undone and get up when I arrive. I do the same if I have the aisle. Maybe this makes me an asshole, but I don't think this is one of those "common courtesy" things; after all, airlines are far from standard in boarding process; I don't think boarding groups usually favor window first; if anything they're random or start from the back of the plane first, or something like that.

I wouldn't worry about it so much if you can help it; I think it's just normal to have to get in to a window seat. If it bothers you, perhaps select the aisle and comfort yourself that you're being nice by boarding last :)
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When "the sovereignty, security and public order" is defined by people whose entire lives are based on the ability to keep secrets, use knowledge gained illegally, secretly, and ensure that nobody else has the ability to usurp their position .. yes, we are indeed doomed.

Its long since past the point where the 5-eyes nations should suffer repercussions for their heinous imperialist actions. One can only hope that Brexit will bring the UK into sufficiently subservient stance that these crimes will no longer be accepted by the EU.
I think he was admiring how quickly it escalated and wanted to help out.
What a productive comment...

I agree with the parent comment. Some of the tooling is a bit rough around the edges from a UX perspective, but has been getting better over time. But in terms of software built by developers for developers to solve real developer issues, Hashicorp produces some of the most consistently useful and well built software I’ve ever used.

Tools like Consul and Vault have become a staple in a lot of the companies doing cloud. It’ll be interesting to see what happens as CNCF picks up steam, but it’s been great software nonetheless.
Cooling's not that easy in space, quite the opposite. You're limited to radiative cooling. Cooling the ISS itself is quite a challenge.

This is good on the basics: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/3702/does-the-iss-...
Yeah exactly. SASS would give all the same benefits and ease of use and still allow semantic html.
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This is great. I guess they need a landing page that does not use SQL server to render.
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