skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Accounting machines, the IBM 1403, and why printers standardized on 132 columns
Probably in comparison to what there was before: standalone cabinets with less shelf space, stoves with legs, furniture that could move and didn't match, more to clean around and under hence more dust, and not being efficient with limited space. Given it's version 1.0 it seems pretty good considering what came before!
Let's Encrypt gives admins until February 13 to switch off TLS-SNI
Whew. So I'm not sure if I'd go this route, but I empathize to a degree. I have so many games between Steam, Origin, Uplay, Battle.NET, Epic Games, and other misc. launchers that it is near impossible to keep up.

At this point, and I've said this multiple times, I really wish Microsoft had a way to create a universal launcher/downloader where if I bought a game on Uplay, it shows up in said launcher and can be downloaded from Uplay's servers. Likewise Steam and the rest. This would be better than a Movies Anywhere style program as the various storefronts don't carry almost identical libraries of games. This is a big area where console gamers win: universal game management.
New fixes often land in unstable/testing before going to stable branches.
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I can see how it's redundant. But I use cat-pipes because I once mistyped the redirection and nuked my carefully created input file :)

(Similarly, the first thing I used to do on Windows was set my prompt to [$p] because many years ago I also accidentally nuked a part of Visual Studio when I copied and pasted a command line that was prefixed with "C:\...>". Whoops.)
Sure, my point was more that if it's a serious concern to use OpenSSL (Personally I don't think it is, as a lot of work has been done in recent years to improve that codebase), that other options are available.
> but as a consumer I think a percent or two is worth the conveniences that cards offer

Yes, but we're also paying for that guy's international flights. I don't care how little it is: I don't want to pay for that. Buy your own vacation.

For the record: good on him for taking the points. 100% his prerogative. My problem is purely with the eventual cost being amortised across other customers, even non-CC customers.
Does using a large vocabulary correlate with positive critical reception? Does using a smaller vocabulary correlate with increased record sales?

It would be interesting to see another dimension to the data such as critical reception or record sales.

Another idea is to break down an artist's discography, and show these stats across different albums (would probably only work for artists with a large discography)
I was curious to see whether the Wall Street Journal itself had any anomalous reviews and was pleasantly surprised to find out that apparently they don't seem to have engaged in any of the behaviour they describe. Of course, that doesn't mean it's a great place to work [0].

Also, I guess the takeaway from the article is that there's no substitute for reaching out through one's own personal network or the networks of acquaintances and trying to speak to someone who actually works for the company in question.

[0] https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Wall-Street-Journal-Review...
Seems like there is some opportunity here for some military tech transfer in the form of quiet turbines for shipping. Surely there are some outdated but much quieter Cold War era designs that could be declassified and put into production.
Makes sense, considering how long the game engine’s been around.
Hello HN!

I'm a co-founder and CEO of Clockwise, a tool that helps teams find more time for focused work by moving meetings to the best time for everyone, automatically. One of the canonical pieces of writing on this subject is Y-Combinator's very own, Paul Graham. [Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule](http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html) — Clockwise helps broker between these two types of schedules.

Clockwise is completely free while in beta; we'd love for you to give it a try and let us know what you think. Given that this is still a beta release, there are a few requirements:

- Chrome only, for now

- G Suite (business) calendar accounts only, for now
AFAIK the wording of the EU targets in the end was mostly about the charger, and shipping a USB charger and a USB-to-iDevice cable was tolerated as a solution.
I was exposed to hardcore pornography and drugs in school, before I was ten, by other kids. I was beaten up lots of times and bullied and I lived in fear. Eventually I ended up being more of a fighter out of necessity. I guess that could be considered "free" integration into the social environment.
It’s a game theory thing. Companies send out a “please write a review for us “ in the first week and you feel like it’s some kind of prisoners dilemma. It’s particularly apt for small companies who welcome in only a couple employees at a time.
Anatomy of Climate Change Policy
white-space: pre-wrap on a code block could lead to confusion. Any change should be an optional setting in your user profile.

However you're definitely right about dropping the max-width property.
this guy is obsessed with Facebook, while justifying his presence on Twitter which has the exact same business model, with various excuses. He is a troll trying to generate clicks and visibility. That's all.

If he really was serious about hating the free social network / paid for by targeted advertising model, he would have gotten off Twitter. But he has a lot of followers there and it's an effective marketing tool for him.
Personally, I also happen to really like the weird round corner shapes of the lowercase "u", "n", "p", "q", etc in Ubuntu Mono. It's both friendly and interesting but not out of place. But I know opinions can vary greatly.

Conversely I like almost everything about Fira Code, except the weird serif-ed lowercase "r" looks so out of place to me it kind of spoils the entire thing.

But then again I think if I tried Fira for a week or two, I'd stop noticing and no longer care. It's so very subjective.
Hopefully crypto payments/stablecoins will get more traction so we can get ride of these mono/dupolies.
The per-unit costs will be lower. The value of redeveloped land only goes up when its bought out to build density. If you currently live a mile out of the urban core in some sprawl mcmansion your house is probably worth 5 million right now in a lot of cities. If the city proper dropped zoning requirements and let density happen the price of your house will vary between the "loss in desirability" from being closer to an expanding urban core and the potential value of redeveloping your house. Your lot could end up being worth an order of magnitude more if the demand is there to put a high rise on it.

Some will win huge as major contractors want to replace your quarter acre sprawl development or row house with 10+ story urban and are offering absurd amounts of money for all the lots. Some will lose if nobody has the capital to redevelop their area and density goes up around it. But if you get the ball rolling there is so much pent up demand for urban migration and sustainable living that we could probably go decades of continuous development in most cities without the money drying up. Its an untapped gold mine of economic growth.
i felt a little better but honestly i think it was more placebo than anything. i didn’t have the IAQ monitor before getting the plants so i can’t know for sure what the air quality effects were.

i got 6 plants (but 1 died) and they make my living space feel more lush and comfortable, which i count as a win.

i did also eventually get a air purifier (blueair 211+) and that’s probably the main workhorse at night with the doors and windows closed (which is when i need it the most). i noticed a clear drop in allergy/asthma symptoms (sneezing, coughing, headaches sometimes) after getting the air purifier.

so a fan at the door will probably have the best bang for the buck for you, but plants are nice too. =)
I’m not sure that it’s especially useful to measure that way, which is why they wouldn’t report it. The chance that a given GB of data is on a failed disk is equal to the disk failure rate, regardless of disk size (>1GB).

For large deployments, the concern is between failure rates and the amount of time it takes to rebuild data from a failed disk.

For small deployments, my main concerns are whether disk failure takes a machine or volume out, causing availability problems.

I’m trying to figure where failures per GB would be how you would choose, what scenario we’re you thinking of?
It's the same business model as the Better Business Bureau and Yelp. It's a manufactured perspective.

As a devil's advocate, how can a company expect to be viewed impartially if the only folks who review them have tempers raged enough to motivate them to leave a poor review in the first place? How can I, a potential employee, trust said-reviewer wasn't let go due to Silo'd mismanagement, personal issues or a company pivoting?

I'd rather a platform that lays out exactly what the working conditions would be for most folks. Time in/out of office, salary merit increases or profit-sharing, draconian work-attire policy, etc.
Moore's law is essentially tracking the transistor density on silicon. We may be pushing up against physics in that area, but that is not the same thing as processing power. Our systems grow ever more complex. Each generation enables new tools that enable the creation of the next. When Moore's law finally crashes and burns, we will compensate using other technologies. Multicore and multiprocessing, shifting work to the cloud, advanced materials, etc. Hell, even quantum could take off in the next decade or two. I see no reason whatsoever to believe that we just give up and rest once we've reached the limits of silicon transistors.
> upgraded the memory to 8 gigs (max supported)

You should be able to put 16GB in it. Apple doesn't say so, but I ran that much with 0 issues for years in machines from that time.
Yeah this happened at my old employer. They got one bad (warranted) review and told everyone to get on their phones (off the company network) to give good reviews.

They'd push this initiative occasionally.

I reported it to Glassdoor and they never did anything about it.
I agree. Summary of findings:

“Test subjects who spent hours practicing [insert proprietary game here] scored better when tested on different games that require similar skills.”

Smells like a poorly designed experiment salted with commercial interests.
That's a total non-sequitur. So far there is zero evidence that increases in computing power are getting us any close to true AGI. It's entirely possible that we've been moving sideways, or even backwards, relative to that goal.

And we can't reliably extrapolate growth in computing power more than a few years into the future. It's possible that the curve isn't really exponential, but rather an S-curve which will eventually flatten out.
I see influencers as a net negative for society but in terms of getting people to actually engage with advertised products, it's pretty brilliant. Before Instagram, a brand would put out ads with a rotating cast of "characters" (i.e. models, actors) that got people to think "I want to be more like that person and buying this will help", which worked, but lacked a real connection with the "characters". Instagram inverted that model and allows you to follow the characters, become more connected, interact with them, and follow their "tastes". The legacy equivalent would be something like sponsorships for pro athletes, but they've expanded it into domains like fashion, cookware, etc. while adding the interactive component.
https://pharo.org was down. Its now back.
Tab (YC W15) Is Hiring Python and JS Engineers in London
Regarding the VPC part of the question, yes. The replacement spot instance will get the same VPC/Subnet/AZ and all the relevant settings from the instance it's supposed to replace.

Regarding the AMI/post-instal part of the question, this is already covered by AutoScaling. Remember, it works against AutoScaling groups, where all instances start with the same AMI and runan userdata script at boot. All this is preserved for the spot instances.
We are also hiring remote developers!
> I worry that developers will see this as an alternative to native Linux ports

You should worry that developers will not see this as an alternative to native Linux ports. Ongoing support for Linux just isn't worth it, it has been proven time and time again. If developers instead focused on Proton/WINE as a platform they might get some real value with only minor effort.

The problem with Linux users is that they're the armchair developers in every comments section, complaining that some port is bad because it's "not native" or not 100% as good as the Windows version. You just have to ignore that.
Copenhagen wants to build its own Silicon Valley from scratch
Beijing is Bullying Canada
The only generic platform I need to keep up with friends and family is WhatsApp.

I wish WhatsApp IPO’d instead of selling out to FB. Good for consumers. Founders would have made more money too.
Likely but they API access is throttled. They sell recruiting services after all.

The % of actively searching in a company (by job title) could also be a proxy or part of the mix.
You actually can buy tickets with credit cards since summer 2017! (it positively surprised me when I checked for visiting friends a while back)
I know, and cars are the worst thing to ever happen to the planet, synthesizers are the worst thing to ever happen to music, etc. Worst thing to happen to pundits? The inability to recognize the value of something to the common person beyond the negatives they focus upon.
Almost everything interesting that is above chemistry[1] in the science hierarchy has complex causes. It would be a good thing if people in those fields would get over their physics envy and try to communicate this fact to the public better. The number of "this flawed study suggests that some small minority of people might be a bit more healthy if they restricted their sodium chloride intake" becomes in the general population "eating less salt is good for you". And foods can somehow be labeled "low salt" when the manufacturers lower the sodium and jack up the potassium (both are salts) level to keep the taste close to the same.

[1]https://xkcd.com/435/
Yeah, a serverless certification would be great. These certs are more foundational in scope.
>I don't feel like I can trust anything to make an objective measure other than organic word of mouth and simply experiencing it for myself.

This is basically accurate. Everyone has bias so you can only trust someone if you're partially aware of which way their bias sways. Companies will always push for their employees to rate them high for PR contests. A lot of them don't even apply weight for company size, so generally the largest companies with the most complicit employees will win.
A few friends of mine work for a company that most would consider terrible. I know for a fact that when ex employees do leave bad reviews, they have a line to call Glassdoor, and get it taken down under promise of buying a new subscription or renew existing subscriptions.

I know this because it's one of my friend's responsibilities - He does this on a monthly basis (based on the whims of the owner)

The main use of Glassdoor as an employee is not the company reviews - it's for interview questions.
While this may all be true, how do we prevent Facebook from becoming a "factory town"?

As more and more of our seemingly public discourse moves online, we are congregating in very much non-public spaces that have their own motives that are often at odds with the public good.

I know Facebook, Twitter and co. need to make money somehow, that's fine, but there's more to this..

How do we reconcile US-based for-profit corporations becoming the stewards of public discourse for an ever-growing part of the world's population?
I am not saying anything about the diet being successful or not for you. It is, I agree, an individual thing.

I am saying that, in general, fat is more satiating than carbs. And, in addition, that that applies to everyone, not just people who have never been “their size” as parent puts it.
> we have 5 years of "reklamasjon" on products that are supposed to last considerably longer than two years, such as a laptop.

I find that curious. If you had asked me at any time between 1990 and 2012 if I expected that a laptop would be up to par performance without upgrades after 2 years, I would doubt it, much less 5.

It seems like many manufacturers are stopping updates after 2 years, and with the LIPO battery (whether, a laptop or a phone) there are expected chemical degradations over that time.

In the U.S. having warranty insurance (double the apple 1 year warranty) is a common consumer protection provided by credit cards.
> we can also say consumers need to be much smarter and more modest if they want to build wealth and improve their station.

Ture. But this is an interesting point. It becomes a "fool's game" like a casino, where everyone knows that the odds are stacked against them. So when they loose, they can internalize their fault. Yet there's an abundance of "shiny" going around so that people's choice becomes emotional and hope-based, instead of rational.

Therefore there's no incentive to change the system because it's so easy to blame those who lose out: "see they made poor choices"—nevermind how we bombard those people with a ton of fine-tuned marketing. Taking the massively spec'd truck as an example, consider what the car manufacturer is selling: the feeling of power. Now watch a popular game on TV and get that message drilled into you about 30 times each week, while living a life that is otherwise very constrained in terms of finances and opportunities... many give in.
Exporting Serde types to TypeScript
So your argument is that bugs in OpenSSL (a necessarily very complex piece of software) mean that using SSL to increase network security is a bad thing?
American degrees and education are much more general than many countries in the UK an entrant into STEM degrees will have specialised in relevant classes for the last two years of high school as well as for the two years prior to that at GCSE level.

Yes the occasional maverick will also study outside their target degree but that is rare my mate who is a classics teacher (public school) has a class size of two
How do high skilled service jobs fit into this picture?
I would call it a tax on those with poor financial planning skills.
Interesting, is CodeWeavers employed/contracted/collaborating with Valve?
To be fair, people tend to post on Glassdoor when they have a negative experience.

I was dinged for having the audacity of asking a potential data analyst hire simple SQL questions...and SQL was listed on their resume.
(except that in real life your hand flipping the coin knows that and can and will act differently. With practice you can influence consciously the outcome of the flip)
"Cutting corners" is the wrong term. Systems engineering is all about compromises, and there's a whole lot more driving these decisions than a lot of the simplistic analysis in the comments here. And at the end of the day, Apple's systems engineering is generally pretty top notch.

There was a design fault here, and that happens. I'm sure they'll replace any affected displays free of charge, and roll a fix for the assembly into production in the next couple of weeks. But in general, if you've ever compared a teardown of an Apple product with something from other manufacturers, there is often a pretty clear difference between them. I'm always very impressed (as somebody who only gets to design very low volume, high margin products).
Yeah I mean we have an example of thinness overtaking use in this monitor cable design (though I’m sure it wasn’t purposely “hey let’s make this thing thinner so the monitor cables will break!” At worst it was maybe a junior designer being overruled saying this could be a problem in a larger percent of cases than y’all are thinking) but extra battery life being nice to have is true but not a daily necessity. I mean in the past ten days I broke 50% battery useage twice and 75% 0 times. Average screen on of 4hrs 16 min and another couple hrs of screen off time.

Their new battery case is a perfect way to deal with that nice to have capacity. I don’t need it, already have an Anker battery for long days (e.g. on airplanes) but if your friends need it there’s a solution that doesn’t mean many users (I’m guessing Apple knows that it is most, but I don’t know that for sure) don’t have to carry it around every day and never use it.
So the dreaded space-in-filenames is a problem when you pass the '{}' to a script.

The following works very nicely for me:

* find . -name '*.el' -exec file {}c ';' 2>&1 | grep cannot
Damn the meme is strong.
Second only to Twitter (which is the platform where this was published).
Yeah. I'm not offended by the keyboard or the touch bar like many people are, but it's seeming like a good idea to let them work out the various technical difficulties before dropping a couple grand.
Do people ever learn anything from science-fiction movies? This is how every zombie movie starts.
Which countries? I’ve only seen HTTP connections tampered with in practice, and China’s GFW blocks HTTP no different than HTTPS from what I’ve seen.
The websites I constantly use every single day:

google.com
maps.google.com
youtube.com
wikipedia.org
weather.gov
stackoverflow.com

For almost 20 years, I've been using Google for dozens of random searches every single day. Its utility to help me find information is unmatched. And Youtube -- even with the ads -- adds value to my life because of all the helpful tutorials and DIY content I can view for free.

On the other hand, I've never needed to create accounts for Facebook or LinkedIn. Unlike google/wikipedia/stackoverflow, I think of Facebook as my adversary that's reckless with personal data and harming me. I assume they are developing more unethical uses of personal data but we don't know about them yet because an ex-Facebook employee hasn't publicized them. The questionable ethics starts at the top with Mark Z.

I do think humanity would be served by a "real names" database by an entity we could trust to help us connect with each other. Unfortunately, that valuable info is currently held by an unethical company like Facebook. (My previous comment about this.[0]) They abuse their stewardship of the social graph which is why I adamantly avoid them.

Facebook was a bad actor even before all the revelations about Russian funded political ads to hijack the election.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18728061
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. NPR had a story on exactly this - China largely skipped credit cards and went straight for the mobile payments.

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/06/29/53...
That is exactly how I feel, we have something that can be used for good things and bad things. It's not surprising that people use it for bad things, and our inexperience in responsibly using these platforms enables this misuse.

However watch-out, things will get better when the baby turns 1, until about 13, then it will get worse... much worse!!!
It would take a life to tell someones life completely ..
I have been looking for such an app but have never come across one until now.
The cables themselves don't add basically any weight, you're only adding a centimeter or two of it, just make a loop so the cable doesn't strain.

The 3DS actually has four cables running through its hinge: the LCD ribbon, the camera ribbon, the speaker ribbon, and the wifi antenna cable.

The problem is you need to make the hinge physically larger, which apparently Apple is unwilling to do.
It's called ignorance. Ignoring the bad sides of any given thing. It implies being unreasonable - ignoring good reasons to not tolerate a given behavior.

Of course then there's camel nose/slippery slope fallacy so liked by intolerant. It is best to ask for evidence.