skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect one of the reasons people are happy with JS (even though there's plenty of much better languages) is that it has made a huge progress. Writing ES6 after a few years with ES5 is so much more pleasant. I used to be annoyed every time I had to write some JS code in the past, now I must say I even enjoy it.

However, regarding the metric that shows developers' happiness over the years:

* If someone asks me if I'm happy writing JS these days vs a few years ago I'll say I'm much happier now than I was before.

* If someone asks me if I'm happy writing JS vs writing Elixir (or Python or some other language), I'll still say I'm much happier with Elixir.
WPF designer default template is a Grid layout, so it must been a very long time ago.

As for devs preferring to type by hand, well their loss I guess.
You do know about Muse headband, right? They did exactly this and it works great. The company seems great, solvent, they have just released a new version of the hardware (including an HRV sensor), and it actually works.

Not sure why your kickstarter failed, but Muse headband is exactly what you are describing, it's a finished polished product and it actually works (speaking from experience).
> I don't think many or any of the Phoronix benchmarks are based on a pipeline with indirect branches at their core.

I think a bunch are. e.g. for instance FFMPEG / libavfilter which is basically a node graph set up at runtime. Don't know for cinebench since it's closed source, but Blender present in the benchmarks is also based around a nodal rendering architecture. Stuff like PHP / CGI also heavily depend on function pointers for their behaviours - PHP with its plugin architecture, and CGI where all web requests go through FPs : https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/main/fastcgi.c#L8....
Vue is popular outside the workplace. React is still the tool of industry. Plenty of Angular stuff out there too.

The survey highlights what devs want to do out of interest, not necessarily because that's where the job market is.
For a gamer, Nvidia's latest card offering is vastly disappointing. Technology that is not there and won't be there for maybe next 6 years (if they stick to 3 year release cycle), offering some shiny surfaces at best, at massively increased price. I really hope AMD will come with some good cheaper competition.

Gamers want fast framerates, high polygon count, high textures much more than some currently-useless raytracing. Solve those into near-reality quality in at least 1440p resolution, and then we can talk about these gimmicks. I'll happily skip this (and next) gen and will be OK with some 1080 card.
Heh... The most value I got out of applying the Kelly Criterion was having the Exploration Manager for an oil and gas company admitting that he does not believe the estimates that came out of his own department (applying the Kelly Criterion to the numbers he provided would have led to the company carrying the exploration project internally, rather than looking for joint venture partners to share the risks).
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I met someone who worked on the admin side of NHS trials. They said exactly what you posted, anything noteworthy that happens should be reported. If you take the placebo and get hit by a bus outside the hospital, it should be reported. That way if 10% of patients in the study get hit by a bus they have more data.

Obviously a silly example but if things aren't reported because they don't appear to be connected to the study, we don't have the data to analyse at a higher level.
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Apple isn't really embracing APFS for external drives as I see it. Time Machine backups would be one of the main uses for external drives, but…

> Time Machine can’t back up to an APFS-formatted disk. If you select a back up disk formatted as APFS, Time Machine offers to reformat it as HFS+.[1]

[1] https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/types-of-disks-you-...
> TypeScript is gaining ground, people are moving away from Flow.

Is it really the case? Both projects are watched and have quite big number of stars in github.

I have tried flow and liked it. I have used typescript in the past and I'm not crazy about it. Therefore I would like to get better understanding here. Is there anything I could read about it?
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To be absolutely correct it should be United Kingdom, not Great Britain, as you also have Northern Ireland marked as England.
A few of these (all?) are TUIs and not CLIs.

CLIs are command driven. TUIs are driven by user interactions. I'm sure more/better distinctions between the two can be made.
The State of JavaScript 2018 is inaccessible in IE.

That seems about right.
Perhaps you should try it instead of "doubting" without any basis. Based on my experience Muse is a great product and it delivers exactly what it says. It's hard to see any other EEG product competing with it any time soon (assuming similar cost usage style. Of course something like what "40 years of zen" are doing will be much more powerful).
At the risk of being downvoted again (and I don't know why; they didn't say. Maybe for finding something appalling and saying so?), I didn't understand any of those 3 sentences. (1. What do you disagree with? 2. Not sure what that means. It seems more to support what I was saying. ...They're not internet marketers but should be, should realize their 'essential' selves? 3. 'Almost all products and services' is again a very wide net, which it seems you're including all the output of the arts in. Depends what you mean 'driven'; and the 2nd half was I think what I said.)

Maybe it's mainly a different of perspective; mine is a musician/artist/writer perspective, I feel like I'm talking to people in marketing. (Who else would describe everything turning to internet marketing as a party, even metaphorically..)

[disclosure: musician/artist who's 100% failed at self-marketing]
My favorite use is:

watch ps fx

I find it very soothing. :)
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Wikipedia has an excellent article on this under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_examination.

Essentially, the system used to recruit candidates into the Imperial Chinese state bureaucracy was an-ever-more-elaborate progression of less- and less-relevant testing, and more- and more-gamable (and expensive) testing. If you thought getting quizzed about FizzBuzz was bad, imagine getting quizzed about Beowulf with the same degree of seriousness.

"Intense pressure to succeed meant that cheating and corruption were rampant, often outrunning strenuous attempts to prevent or defeat them."

"In the 19th century, critics blamed the imperial system, and in the process its examinations, for China's lack of technical knowledge and its defeat by foreign powers."

This doesn't amount to any huge revelation to many of us when we're seeking jobs, nor any comfort, really.

Maybe a little bit of solace that the coding interview you inexplicably failed, which had the trappings of a serious attempt to gauge your fit, but the actual behind-the-scenes decision-making progress involved the finesse you'd expect from a group of blindfolded monkeys throwing darts, will eventually pay a dividend for all the fat dumb and happy juggernauts in the bay. Amazon may be the Sears of the 21st century, but I strongly suspect it and its cohort will meet the same fate a century later and for the same reasons.
It's not really a Futurama reference, brain-in-a-vat is a well known concept from philosophy and science fiction that predates Futurama.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_in_a_vat
I think we should also consider that most people have gotten used to the fact that JS is the language of the web, and there’s basically nothing we can really do about it in the short term, so let’s just have a positive attitude towards it!

P.S. I don’t, but most people I have met seem to have this kind of mentality.
There's a Firefox extension that let's you open a youtube webpage with e.g. youtube-dl:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-with/

Sometimes, using a GUI is easier than a CLI :)
Muse Headband did, and they have a finished working retail product which reliably improves meditation practice. I've tried it personally. (No affiliation.)
You're welcome. Have a good day :-)
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Git Standup - https://github.com/kamranahmedse/git-standup

Coinmon (Requires node) - https://github.com/bichenkk/coinmon
It would be UK, as it includes NI.

To the parent - Great Britain is the land mass containing England/Scotland/Wales. The UK is the whole thing.
Most of HackerNews isn't enterprise hackers. At least the active commentators.
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A possibly silly question: did you counter with "Why don't you test my engineering skills if you don't believe me? Give me a fair chance. And then, if I'm not good, by all means reject me." That's assuming you've applied for an engineering job.

Another question: as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18484883 says, would it help to rewrite your CV to highlight what the job is looking for? Again, if it's an engineering job, talk about your eng accomplishments in great detail, with perhaps only a bullet point for other skills at the bottom of the resume?

As https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/ says:

> Did the solicitation for the job say “We are seeking someone with strong skills at scaling traffic in a fast-moving environment”? Pick out the key words. Scaling traffic. Fast-moving environment. “Scaling traffic” doesn’t sound like how I’d phrase it if I were writing or speaking for myself, but if you’ve just described your need to me as scaling traffic, by golly I will tell you how great I am at scaling traffic.
I'd love to see what the stats were for Angular 2+ only - I imagine they'd look a lot different. If they'd chosen a more appropriate name for Angular then I feel like this wouldn't even be an issue.
Yeah it looks rather unmaintained, but can still be installed via apt on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. So yeah should be fine for a few years to come if you are a Ubuntu user (the system I use, I have no idea about other distros).
> There could be people trying to organise similar things in Australia right now, and the message isn't getting through the censors

How on earth did Ghandi organize the Salt March without twitter.

China struggles to censor the internet, how on earth do you expect people to believe that Australia does.
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> AMD had plenty of time to include PCIe 5.0 even in the Draft 0.7 stage which is pretty much the same as final draft/release, but decided not to.

... Just how long do you think it takes to make that kind of design changes? This requires a major change in silicon. It would have had to been done more than a year ago.
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Crafty. Well done.

Similar (kind of) trick depicted in 1965 Russian comedy movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDn174Mf9PY
It is a generalist within the "computer programming" skill, so still a specialist. It all comes down to how narrow we define "specialisation".
Nope, they're coroutines, which are non-preemptive. Similar to generator functions (which is a subset).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroutine
Typescript and other transpilers especially, seem to be quite resouce hungry, slow and a pain to configure — always getting in my way :(
If you would have any actual experience with meditation, you would quickly notice that it actually improves focus and mental ability, regulates mood, etc. In fact, it makes a person more effective, not less. If someone meditates properly, they will achieve more and more easily, if they meditate 1 hour and then work for 7 hours - than if they would just work for 8 hours.

This assumes of course that they have any use of their brain during their work - ie, if they are creatives or mental workers, etc. If they stand at a factory pressing the same 3 buttons all day - then probably no, meditation will not help much.
Microsoft owns both VS Code and Atom, so probably they're not crying in their beers about that...

Anyway, props to Redmond for a major coup — from webdev pariah to owner of the most popular development platforms in just a couple of years! It took both money and sincere dedication, but they managed to effectively turn around the external perception of Microsoft in this field.
I tried toprope but never really liked it, because heights are scary. You also need experienced people to secure you so you can't easily do it alone. Only once I got into bouldering did I discover that climbing can be fun.
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The Reddit discussion said the issue was not about being gay but about being pornography, sold illegally, to minors, violating all sorts of copyright and porn related regulations.

Apologies for not having a link handy from my cell phone, I'd appreciate if someone could look it up and respond with links.
I'm tall and lean-ish, and my nemesis are those problems where you are compressed in a tight package...
Depending on the climber's own physique and technique, the same problem can often be attacked in completely different ways.
Yes it is working ! :D
> no admin rights needed,

> Make sure Powershell 3 (or later) and .NET Framework 4.5 (or later) are installed.

Yeah not exactly. Wouldn't work in most ( all ? ) the places I worked at.
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It is interesting to compare the popular front end frameworks year over year. The percentages for 'Used it, would use it again':

2017:

React: 58%
Vue : 20%

2018:

React: 65%
Vue : 29%

So both have been growing at a similar pace.

Not sure about Angular, as in 2017 they listed 'Angular 1' and 'Angular 2'. This year only 'Angular'. Is that the combined number for both versions?
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>Given the amount of hype with GraphQL, I am surprised only 20% are actually using it.

Glad to see people don't adopt things only because they are hyped.
> locate : Find something anywhere.

I strongly dislike updatedb, which is always stealing CPU cycles at inconvenient moments, and locate often seems out of date.

We should have had instant, database-like indexing in our filesystems ages ago.
Mostly through Twitter and my newsletter.
There is such a thing as "libel proof". No matter how much dirt you dish on the bottom feeders in this industry, someone will give them an IP phone and your phone number, and they'll still cold-call and harass you no matter what your site says about them.

Your heart is in the right place, but your forum will unfortunately never be a deciding factor in anything. Either a recruiter makes a convincing pitch or they won't, and in my experience it's never close to equivocal.

Now if you wanted to reframe the purposes of your website to go from recruiters to _interviewing employers_, •THERE• is an untapped market that could be worth billions if played right. I encourage you to pivot to there, and I'd love to help.
This has more to do with the implementation details of TimeMachine which relies on features of HFS+ not available in APFS. It's not Apple telling you not to use APFS on external drives.
Censorship of erotic material isn't a purely Chinese thing, other countries practice it at smaller scales. In England, various fictional artworks can be prosecuted under the Obscene Publications act, even possession of some cartoon pornography can be prosecuted under CAJA 2009 s.63. To the dismay of LGBTQ+ and sexual freedom campaigners, even possession of simulated rape pornography is illegal.

That's not to say that homosexuality can be compared to fetish porn, but people should be aware that in some countries without constitutional protection for free speech (or those with one but with an "obscenity" exception, looking at you Canada) censorship of harmless porn is par for the course.

(Would someone mind explaining why this is being downvoted? In my experience, few people are familiar with such laws in Western countries, and of course I condemn China's laws more; is this comment off topic? Please tell me if I can improve.)
Bouldering is the ultimate exercise form for me: it's physically taxing, and I don't even care because my brain is enjoying the challenge too much!
I can't commit to running, cycling or swimming because 30s in, I start to think about all the stuff I could be doing instead; when I'm bouldering, there's nothing else in my mind except for the problem :)
An overview of sorting algorithms and a pretty fast multithreaded Quicksort in C
The State of Rust is a yearly survey:

Unsure if the 2018 results are done?

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/09/05/Rust-2017-Survey-Resul...
> Who is this article aimed at?
Presumably at anybody looking to 'crack' the coding interview. Obviously not all of it is going to be relevant for every role but I found some useful things in there. At the very least I think it offers a structured approach on which to model your own preparation.
of course it has to be, what would you expect it to do otherwise?
There is nothing analog about the IO die. It interfaces the memory, and the system's busses like PCIe. They are all digital.
IETF is working on a protocol for interoperable E2E encrypted messaging, https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/mls/about/
Looks cool, but £11,000 is almost twice as much of a similar scooter...
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> If someone was to build a device that could clamp on to the phone line and listen for incoming faxes and copy the signal and sent it of to a remote server,

Pretty sure that fax-to-email gateways have existed at least since the early 90s, most consumer-grade modems could send and receive faxes (with software to save them as images). Hooking that up to an email sender seems trivial.

Hell, back in '96 an old friend needed to get a signed letter to the bank by close of business one day, so he used a tablet to sign a document and then the modem to 'fax' it over.

--edit--

I misunderstood, you were talking about a MITM attack to prove the insecurity of faxes. Ignore me, carry on :)
> assume ah=0; assume bx=0

Hmm. So the second time this program is run, it will fail?
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Using JS through time is like observing a freshman student who discovers new stuff in old books.

Amusing, but we've got better things to do.
It may sound rude, but what is the point of it ?

I mean, every smartphone has a note app, which do not require internet, so why people will use messageyourself instead of a basic app already existing ?
This is sad, because I believe tens of millions of lives could be saved by giving all healthcare data to Google to do with as it pleases.

Sure, privacy would probably be impacted, but in my opinion, life and death is more important than privacy.

We're talking far more lives than terrorism here, and we were happy to lose a lot more privacy for that. Probably more lives than guns, car accidents, etc. too.

When we've saved those millions of lives, we can work on ways to get the benefits of both privacy and still saving those lives.
Is eval evil? Just-in-time compiling
Any content is quickly recognizable as what it is unless it looks serious and not clickbaity and was created to promote lies.

E.g. the Yugoslav war lies and the Iraq war lies and Libya war lies or Syria war lies and Russia "war" lies promoted by certain governments that where published by all "serious" mainstream media to justify and promote war; the worst of all crimes. Every war is a war crime.

Hague Tribunal Exonerates Slobodan Milosevic Again https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/12/07/hague-trib...

KOSOVO German 2008 documentary-It began with a lie PART 1of5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_scokGJga8c

Judgment! 1/3 - The Bosnian 'Death Camp' Accusation: An Expose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xox7TR11evI

The Iraq War - TOTAL LIES and TOTAL PROOF - Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNFDXSKh17I
as someone who tried Angular and was so relieved with the simplicity of React, I have no idea how they can come to that conclusion. But then again, I'm not very well know with the field of enterprise customers
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What you're saying may well be true, but it has no bearing on the case in this article. Based on the article, it appears that the author wasn't jailed for writing gay sex scenes, but rather for selling books with sex scenes of any kind. Apparently China has a law against selling pornographic books of any kind, and this author ran afoul of it.
Hm... If you know one assembly you can easily recognize when it is assembly, even if you don't know the specific architecture.
> So we’ve got an exact algorithm that needs to solve an np-complete problem to produce a result, making it at least as hard.

This is not correct. It's very obvious that all-pair similarity search can be solved in O(n^2) calls to the similarity metric, as stated in the readme. So unless the metric itself falls outside P, this problem is easy (but still hard to scale up in practice, of course)
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> In England, various fictional artworks can be prosecuted under the Obscene Publications act, even possession of some cartoon pornography can be prosecuted under CAJA 2009 s.63. To the dismay of LGBTQ+ and sexual freedom campaigners, even possession of simulated rape pornography is illegal.

The UK is hardly a touchstone of freedom of erotica. It's not just simulated rape - if you look at the full list of things censored under Cameron, it includes a lot of things that would be considered rather dry by American standards (such as most pornography filmed outdoors).
> ext4 online resize works by invoking resize2fs.

That's resizing the filesystem not the pool (eg `mdadm --grow`). You're also missing the point about what I said. To run those commands you must first `umount` to pool. Hence it being an offline job.

> QNAP and Synology don't do magic. They deploy mdadm, LVM and ext4 or btrfs (though btrfs only in single drive mode, they use LVM and mdadm to span the volume for btrfs).

That's completely irrelevant to the point I was making. How many home users do you know who configure their own home raids using LVM and mdadm?

> Reread what I wrote, I mentioned adding 2x2TB not 1x2TB.

You actually said neither. You said, and I quote, "2TB" (ie without any accumulation prefix).

> Still having redundancy is exactly the point. The resulting array in the example would span 6x1TB and 2x1TB in RAID5, giving me a single drive for parity in each span and resulting in an effective RAID5 for the entire RAID. I can loose any drive in that 4x1+2x2TB array without loosing data

You can actually do that in ZFS. In fact what you've just described were is the exact solution that you called "unacceptable" in ZFS!

> And it does that online without having to reboot or even halt any ongoing file operations. The volume will simply increase in size once it has finished formatting the new drive and integrated it into the array.

Indeed. Lots of commercial tools do support that. I thought we were comparing ext4, LVM and mdadm to ZFS though?

I'm guessing you just glossed other my post where I said you were flip-flopping all over the place? It's easy to pick any specific tool ("tool a")and compare it to a thousand other tools and argue that "tool a" is crap because it doesn't work as well as tool b, c and d in very specific edge cases but all you're doing is trying to win an argument via death from a thousand papercuts rather than forming a sane basis for analysis.

To be honest I think it's probably best we give up on this discourse because your points are all over the place. This feels very much like you've got an axe to grind and no practical experience to back up your prejudices.