skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I vote we return to the age of late Geocities, forums, and early blogs. Less conformity in design, less "social" by modern definition, but more people who just liked one topic enough to build something about it and communities forming around them.
I am a Dane living in the US. Denmark have 9 parties it's the same thing at the end of the day. The conclusions are no better just because 4 parties got them through.
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Yeah. That privacy policy really put me off any of their sites.
But that contaminated material is easily stored. You are spreading false information.
Care to refer to any good CS/EE book that asserts your opinion?
I don’t think this is the endgame and another paradigm shift needs to and will occur. Fb is going to be around and relevant about as much as Microsoft is around and relevant.
Yes, but Bahnhof is very much an exception in the world of ISPs. I'm not at all sure I would be able to rely on my ISP, Telenor Norway, to the same degree.
Far be it from me to recommend CoC's, as they don't seem to add anything more than ostensible aspirations, but has anyone seen the social rules (guidelines) from NYC's Recurse.com?

https://www.recurse.com/manual#sub-sec-social-rules (via Pony lang CoC)
Been a while since I’ve used any Ruby but isn’t the first expression a range where’s the second a single value?

It’d be like [0,1] === 0
> Watching distant cousins fight about politics

I've long been cautious to step into the WhatsApp hysteria going on here in Brazil. But the last (disgraceful) election here was the last straw. The level of stupidity in the memes from both sides was far beyond repulsive.

A solution that is working so far: automatic regulation. I created a Telegram group with a bot that censors the most common names and expressions on Brazilian partisan politics, using regular expressions. It is surprisingly effective, in a "no broken windows way": if you block the small infractions people don't come close to big infractions.

Breaking rules is a second national pastime in Brazil. Therefore, at the beginning people found it amusing to try to cheat the censoring regular expressions (e.g.: B0150N4R0, etc) After a while the trick only sharpened these expressions and now they just don't mention politics in the most partisan terms. We do see postings about issues (e.g.: education, fiscal crisis, etc) but not the stupid partisan dogfight. Politics is mostly a tribal thing, not an ideological one.

EDIT: I'd like to stress the "automatic" aspect of it. When you make the regulation/moderation algorithmic you gain 2 big psychological benefits:

* A fast feedback loop: because the post is immediately removed the association between cause and effect is much stronger. People understand much more that they are breaking a rule when the consequences of it are certain and immediate.

* Algorithmic solutions are "rules based" for most people that don't understand them. They perceive it as "the way things are" instead of an arbitrary decision by the person that wrote the algorithm.
I like the new tone. It is clear and conveys severity/urgency without the swearing and personal attacks.

Compare to: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/8/495 That's the same guy, so clearly, the swearing didn't have much lasting effect :)
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+1 for the Mark Manson reference. Loved this post in particular: https://markmanson.net/you-cant-have-it-all

What I love is how explains the various tradeoffs and opportunity costs of having one thing, but not the other.

His book the Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck is a must-read too: https://www.amazon.com/Subtle-Art-Not-Giving-Counterintuitiv...
AFAIK the police specifically didn't release the names.
What is your definition of "hobby operating system"?
The article mentions of days when you were anonymous, getting to know strangers through common interests and exchanging ideas.

Heck, I wrote a Dutch online book about Slackware with a guy I didn't really know the name of until after a couple of years when he told me he just used a pseudonym.

For me, social network stopped being social as soon as reasonable assurance of anonymity when out the window

To me it is the introduction of likes (which are really a hack to make people more addicted through social confirmation) destroyed social networks. Shallower posts (party pictures, family announcements, memes) to get more likes, so people post them more and more. Genuinely interesting posts are buried by algorithms. Since comments can be liked as well, people write comments to conform with group biases (and are more likely to be upvoted) rather than to be useful.

tl;dr: to increase engagement, social networks have turned into popularity contests. As with other popularity contests, they are usually vain.
Human extinction by 2030.
Neural Network Learns Air Hockey by Watching You Play
What if photovoltaic technology just isn't actually ready for showtime? i.e. it may need more research, so there's a clear recycling plan for each unit.

We've seen this sort of thing before - being too quick to proclaim X is ready to take over the world, without thinking of the consequences first. See autonomous cars.
It's important for sensible organizations to have a succession plan and alternates for all leadership positions.
Go luxury, your clients will want high quality and integration with other IoT systems, leaning to your company growing as a luxury brand. Go do-it-yourself and you'll be piddling with too many small dollar problems to get ahead.
It might be that some institutions are in the US system and some aren't. I don't know.
> there's also a subreddit called buyitonce iir.

You're thinking of /r/BuyItForLife.
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> isn’t the first expression a range where’s the second a single value?

`===` conventionally means 'matches', or 'includes', so an aggregate on the LHS and a scalar on the RHS is typical.

It isn't defined for `Array` beyond being the default of equality - I don't know why - but it is defined for `Range`.
There’s evidence to the contrary as well. The jury is still out on who the Chrestianos refers to. Honestly, I need to look into it more myself. But it asks the question, why would someone change it in the first place? Not to mention the word Christus is also a forgery. I am open to being wrong, just thought you should know these are forgeries.
To be fair, and I've come across this so many times, you can be good at your job and still have awful presentation skills. I don't think we get taught things like this in the UK and/or get practise in it, unlike other countries.
Imagine going to a bar and having your name, relationship status, political orientation, and a list of your big mistakes floating above your head. Good times. Good times.
It's getting better, especially since the Ubuntu people took an interest since it's the only option on recent GNOME even under x11. There's even a gsettings option to disable tap dragging, my personal peeve!
I've actually wanted to do a documentary on dollar stores, and their proliferation as wages became more stagnant or fell. This idea came to me maybe 8 or 10 years ago. The punch line of the film (although different than this article) would be that they wouldn't be truly helpful until cars and houses became a dollar.
Odd, you seem to think the greater good isn't worth making sacrifices for, and that it's so evil only dictators do this.

Counter-point: The US sacrificed 400.000 lives fighting the Nazis. Another 600.000 were injured. These people were sacrificed for the greater good. The US didn't have to enter the war. The US didn't have a dictatorship - afaik, it was a federal republic with a democratically elected president.

I'm not saying the US is innocent. I'm saying it isn't a black and white matter.
Isn't excess iron only not absorbed if it is non-heme iron? Not an expert or anything, that's just what I remember hearing somewhere.
I would not say its true. Crashed gpu driver on linux will most likely leave you with locked out screen that does not accept any user input.

On the contrary, windows GPU(WDDM) drivers are restartable and can handle crashes even without restarting the user graphical apps. This've been so since at least windows 7.

edit: s/WDM/WDDM/
Honest question: what sort of C++ dev are you looking for? I'm curious how C++ is being used in industry these days. I'm re-learning C++ after 10+ years away. I'm tired of how squirrely Python is and how much extra work I have to do in C.
It just resolved for me. Maybe it'll clear up for you soon!
This is how it looks like: https://d2gg9evh47fn9z.cloudfront.net/800px_COLOURBOX4548557...

I think it contains a small amount of chocolate, enough for the taste.
It's very similar to a cereal, just more "puffy" like a pillow.

No recipe - I buy it ready-made and use very small quantities of it (cause it has a lot of sugar otherwise)
I really love the spirt behind gcompris and got to enjoy watching my girls play with it when they were younger. How would one get started with contributing to the project in primarily a design/art capacity?
FWIW, I’ve been an avid reader of the short stories Joe has curated with his press. I think he’s got a high quality product and offers all of them for free (or pay). I look forward to other ages he may branch out to.

He also ran a successful kickstarter this year to deliver a hard bound anthology of the presidiums digital only works. I bought one because I’ve been freeloading by reading the free versions on his website. I suspect many of the other Kickstarter backers were in a similar situation.
Thanks Joe!
and millions of phones.
The advantages of this are kind of like two security features recently added to OpenBSD: pledge & unveil
https://www.bollymeditube.com/2018/12/how-to-cook-sprouts.ht...
This is a really good point and something an over-30 like yours truly would have an easy time missing even as it happened around us (my most meaningful groups are now distributed over WhatsApp, Slack, and good 'ol email). Happen to know any sources quantifying this phenomenon?
> On a microkernel you'd just be writing any other user process, with access to a couple of ports and and maybe a special hook to handle hw interrupts

This is a fiction. Hint: if a "user process" can wreak havoc on the system simply by misbehaving (in a way that may or may not be malicious), as drivers interacting with low-level hardware can, it's not a user process in practice, and should not be understood as one. The whole point of making that kernel vs. user space distinction in the first place is so that user programs can't wreak havoc on the system. There are plenty of things that can and should be done in userland (and oftentimes they are, see e.g. Plan9), but drivers are not among these unless you can always rely on something like IOMMU to make sure that the hardware cannot be made to misbehave in a way that affects security guarantees.
Note that supporting Force Touch does require applications to play along.
I agree. I read this and thought it was really depressing. And I'm not even the person this was targeted at.
And Galileo?

Look, that’s not the point. Consensus undoubtably can change. The majority of historical scholars in this field are religious. I would love it if better evidence could verify the historical Jesus, rather than appeals to authority like you are using. There is compelling lack of evidence to prove Jesus as a historical figure. I never personally questioned it until seeing the lack of evidence.
Everything I’ve read (which is not exhaustive) put that as speculation based on the time spent aloft. Behaviour-based but not evidence-based.
I have looked at all of them. If you can point to specific arguments, I would love to engage.
Check this out:

https://github.com/nopsys/CogNOS
Although I've read through the "css grid isn't meant to do this details", you can get fairly close to this with pure css grid, see here: https://github.com/wesbos/css-grid/blob/master/20%20-%20CSS%...
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Ive heard of Quebec and Sesq... however you spell it, but BC is the only one I could point to on a map
I think that developers can safely migrate to communities such as Hashnode instead of wasting their time scrolling through numerous groups on Facebook. All the features are already there without the tracking system in place.
A merry christmas to HN
My dearest online community,

I wish you all a merry Christmas! You are my favorite community on the Internet, by far. I appreciate the honest, factual and inspiring discussions I've had with you over the last few years. I have learned an incredible amount about technology, business, philosophy, politics and random quips from all areas in life by reading through extensive comment sections, links and insights you provided me. For that I want to say thank you.

For all of you who are unfortunately alone on Christmas - my heart and love goes out to you. I hope that you find someone and you will. Each and everyone of us is special.

And in that spirit I am looking forward to more years on HN,

mrleiter
I think we 've reached the threshold of billions of phones by now.
Please don’t jump to conclusions, I have looked at the actual research and also read the books. None of the common cited evidence for Jesus as a historical figure holds up to scrutiny. If you can give one example that can, it would help me a ton. I’d love to be wrong and understand Jesus as an actual historical figure.
Well, frobx doesn't exactly roll off the tongue ;)
I have a free chat function on my site where the comments disappear after a while, but I'm still experimenting with it http://www.uptopnews.com/comments/992yhc3u0bg/?t=breaking
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I started using "Dear ImGui", the C++ "immediate mode" graphical user interface library. Which I like a lot. It's interesting because I'm one of the original Apple Mac beta developers from '83. I've been writing GUIs of every possible architecture thru my career. ImGui does a lot of things very well, in a very tight package; exposing capabilities usually only available in interpreted languages, the drudgery of UI construction is greatly diminished, while significantly simplifying the code.
how addicting is this? aren't we trying to avoid this? do we want our kids to glue themselves infront of a tablet all day in the name of "it's helping them? As young as 2 year olds will be now asking for tablet instead of licking the floor.
Oh wow, really? You can just disconnect the electrolyte and store it and it will stay charged? What's the discharge rate on that like?
That Adams would join the Trump train isn't all that surprising when you read the book. Right from the beginning, he mentions that he didn't get a promotion at work because of upper management's 'minority hiring' policies (this was in the '80s, I believe). He doesn't provide much information about this policy, only that he perceived himself to have been left behind because of it.
Rejoice, Verizon's content acquisitions have turned into complete and utter disasters and Verizon announced that it will exit the content business (A Reuters article I can't seem to find now said so):

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/verizon-signals-its-y...

The funny thing is Marissa Mayer made more from the deal than Yahoo is now worth for Verizon:

https://money.cnn.com/2017/06/13/investing/yahoo-marissa-may...

And she got a severance paycheck that's also worth 10% of Verizon's content business now.
Sharks can detect very small concentrations of blood in the water. They (and some other fish) can also sense electrical fields; humans have no equivalent for that.
I think it's important we find out exactly how to quickly detect and stop these from happening next time.

However, there's been 67 legitimate sightings and no pictures, videos? Not even grainy, badly zoomed video?

Can the control tower see these using a simple set of binoculars?
OT: out of curiosity, did you get the one with FHD or WQHD screen? Having nightmares trying to set it up with an external monitor and scaling UI properly in Gnome.
At work, I started off using a mouse for my multi-monitor setup, but quickly switched back to a Magic Trackpad. I think it scales rather well, because macOS provides a nice acceleration curve to cross the screen quickly while still allowing for precise movement.
I agree that this could in principle happen, for some values of cars. It could also literally happen with shoes, you can walk a lot more miles in $200 hiking boots than in four pairs of $50 sneakers. And in GGP's example, someone with time to shop around, and a credit card could buy the exact same crappy microwave for $40 online, instead of $50 downtown right now.

What I'm disputing is that this is anything like the pattern, and that this is useful for thinking about poverty. People with more money spend more money on their cars, their clothes, their kitchens. They aren't staying rich by their ability to save 5% on their (larger) electricity bills by paying on time.
Wasn't that a thing like 5 years ago, when Pi 1 came out?

Of course back then Docker didn't run on Pi, but other clustering software did.
Ruby used to be my most beloved language. I've since developed a strong appreciation for good type system. However, working with collections of any kind in Ruby is just such a joy. The methods around it are so well thought throug and make writing code a joy that in most other languages just would be tedious. On top of that the Ruby team is constantly working on making that aspect even better. I truly don't understand why it seems to me that no other language I use makes even an effort to provide something similar. Getting a map, a reduce and a filter function seems to be as far as most standard libraries are willing to go.
ulimit on the resident set size hasn't worked since the Linux 2.4 days
Yes you can. You sign up through the Messenger iOS/Android app.
Linux is so close to convincing me to move (especially once I moved to Pop_os!, but there are a few things that it is simply bad at. This is especially true for laptops.

My laptop is always hot enough to burn my balls off. This is after disabling my dedicated GPU, disabling turbo boost and underclocking the cpu.

Consequently the battery life is abysmal as well.

Lastly, trackpads seem to worse on linux across the board.

Those things are major sticking points in almost all linux laptops.

I have been able to find near-perfect replacements for everything else. (apart from some MS office and enterprise software, but can't blame linux for that)
yeah, i use adblocker so i have never supported them (except in viewer counts) but as of a few months ago i stopped reading them altogether. thanks for the reminder why.
There is a fine point beyond which criticism becomes destructive. So much so that all criticism must make clear strides towards positive advice.
No, but I removed the app from my phone and probably only sign in weekly now. I also block all their tracking domains in my hosts file.
Yes. I deactivated my account in June and haven't logged in since then.
Just what I have been looking for. +1. Can’t wait to take it for a test drive.
How many supercomputers run windows or OS X compared to Linux ?
Try Crystal and you get the joy of Ruby enumerables together with a static type system.
That's one person of many. And it's not a question of aesthetics of the message in the short term, but of the quality of the overall results in the long term and the effort needed to achieve them.

Hopefully this won't happen, but it's entirely possible that this change will result in Linus finding himself with a much greater number of broken, half-broken and/or subtly-broken PRs to review than ever before, increasing the chances of something like https://lwn.net/Articles/57135/ succeeding.

And having a kernel backdoor ship worldwide is way worse than having a few recalcitrant kernel developers be exposed to - oh no! - coarse language. Results > the "fee fees".
I looked hard to find anything resembling a problem with Dollar stores. What exactly can be pinned on them? Providing cost-effective food to neglected neighborhoods? That's painted as some sort of tragedy, but it seems to stem from a privileged point of view. "No fresh olives; no nine-grain bread" is not a tragedy.
I’ve written a lot of Erlang/Elixir, basing the stack for my last startup on it. I wouldn’t change that decision, but you are completely right on people not getting it. I way overestimated the capacity for even well educated devs with computer science degrees to pick it up.

There were other factors, but largely it came down to whether they were exposed to something like scheme before the typical java education. Outside of that it was only people who had a deep understanding of the actor model that could get it.
To be fair, that's what it is like to go anywhere in a small town you've lived in for a long time. :D
I’m in a somewhat similar situation.

Started my career 15 years ago as a dev, quickly moved to technical project management. Then I moved to infrastructure in a variety of roles, essentially around management (of project managers, architects, HW engineers, etc). After 10 years of that, I completely switched tracks 2 years ago and became the CTO of a startup in the insurance sector. I joined as the first employee and the first IT person.

Like you, I was worried about my lack of recent experience in development. I had to cram for the technical interview but it boiled down to architecture/dev best practices and talking about a small side project I’d done (to reassure them that I would be comfortable coding myself). After I got the job I spent a few weeks coding in earnest: nothing like the perspective of a new job to focus the mind!

When I started the job, I quickly found out that although there was some coding involved, a surprisingly big part of it was very similar to my previous jobs: security audit, contract management, hiring... My first hire was a lead dev to help me with the back-end and to do the front-end.

So, I managed a similar transition (although the circumstances are a bit different), it was easier than I expected, and I haven’t regretted it for a second. Hi for it! (If you want to chat, send me an email)
The Gambler is probably the easiest to understand Dostoevsky novel I've read. It's a character analysis of himself written quickly to pay off his own gambling debts.

I'd recommend this first, then Notes from the Underground, for a gentle introduction.
I've been reading this strange but fun sci-fi book by this Russian author Dan Sugralinov, about a man who's a loser/game addict who then wakes up with a mysterious implant in his brain that lets him see "stats" of people, and connects him to some mysterious network of information. "Restart" is the name of the first book. Not only does he see people's stats and standing in the world in the form of social level, but he becomes obsessed with upgrading his own stats, as if he were living an RPG game itself.
This is for civil actions, the police can still go after large infringers. But no one wants the circus that the US has with people who cannot afford to defend themselves flooding the court system over copyright infringement.
The Star (Arthur C. Clarke) [pdf]
>>> But I feel like people in beach communities around the Bay Area would struggle with the idea that they're just as remote as hicks in rural Iowa.

Well, that made me laugh a bit, and it helped me frame why someone in a rural area would go to a Dollar General versus a Walmart.
The storage capacity is not a property of the battery, so the concept of "full" does not apply.

It's like saying that the switch where your NAS is connect is full. You can even use that word, but it has a different meaning.
This is such a great story. Congratulations on turning things around!

https://twitter.com/AndrewStellman/status/107722796317793484...
I mean there's still Reddit, the chans, forums, etc, with a lot of activity, if you want to live those days again.
At 450EU a month, i would not this a success of "price controls".