skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a really interesting question. I don’t know the answer, but the common refrain is that Kennedy was the first president of the TV era - where personality and charisma were suddenly most important. In that case perhaps Eisenhower (his predecessor) was the last of the “facts” presidents?

Then by extension, perhaps Obama was the last of the “personality and charisma” era?
Nietzsche's Butterfly: An Introduction to Chaos Theory
Which brings us back to standard forms, in which you could buy a different brands keyboard to suit you.
If you’re right then piano keyboards are misdesigned for humans. Plausible in my experience.
Compare for yourself. Only you know your workflow issues well enough to judge. PuTTY and WinSCP make a goood combo, and MobaXterm is okay, but I prefer and use SecureCRT. SecCRT has some competition I haven’t tried but it’s the best I’ve seen so far.
> if Google removed or downgraded search results for Warren - a US senator and presidential candidate - that would be a worldwide scandal.

Would it? A number of Republican candidates note that their email goes straight to spam in Gmail, while messages from Democratic candidates do not, even without any obvious difference in delivery efforts by the sender. Nobody cares.
Suspect sought after Sebring woman found dead behind dumpster
Seems California has a 'people problem' and the population is past the carrying capacity.
I love how OP's "safe" rm can lead to data loss.
Agree with all this, but I'll also say that if you're an experienced developer who hasn't kept up with the times, that's not just a fact in itself, it's also a signal about what kind of developer you are. Most of the best developers are active learners who are always trying new things just as a matter of course.

So if you only know old tech, I'm a lot quicker to believe that you're a "repeated ten times" person.
One thing is sure, I really don't engage in internet discussions the same way I did. I haven't used facebook (where everybody is) for such a long time, all I do is use reddit, and I've restrained more and more to leave a comment.

I'd rather let people yell and be part of a silent majority than participate in crowded internet discussions.
It's not just their commitment to Desktop, but their commitment specifically to not move off MacOS where they have stated that they "will not consider supporting Sketch" on Windows/Linux[0]

https://www.sketchapp.com/support/requirements/other-platfor...
You're speaking as though quora is the only source of information on this when the very premise of the OP was that it's an alternative to the entirety of news. And you also imply that the parent post was somehow presenting itself as an alternative to quora, when they were quite clearly saying they simply wouldn't trust quora, which seems like a reasonable position. It sounds like maybe you took something about it personally.
Someone like Descartes is not plumbing the depths of mathematics, or the soul, as a group activity. But anyone since, who reads or is read to about theories that have carried on, becomes that informed person because of exposure to these ideas. The ivory tower is just a prison if it exists without a press.
Just a note, nowadays people tend to use : to denote the type of a value in type theory, while ∈ is used in set theory to denote that a value is a member of a set.
When I'm studying a subject intensely, the subject matter tends to invade my dreams, often when I'm confused by some detail I need to resolve for myself before proceeding further.
So few places I’ve worked did an engineer actually get promoted to manager. Mostly product managers with little technical expertise...they used to be in sales. I’ve had a few engineers as managers, they were mostly really good. Just not many.
That is the exact kind of post I refer to - post any negative thing about Germany and the PR team is out in full force to perform damage control.
Author here. Please post questions, I will try to answer.
Oh didn’t see that. Never mind.
Of course, other operating systems have their own oddities. Apps have to watch for a variety of crazy things. One example: http://kizu514.com/blog/forbidden-file-names-on-windows-10/

Note that the "Portable Filename Character Set" doesn't solve some of these.
Maybe we could try and write an open letter to companies and promise support even for less value at first. Chances are slim, but at least we would have done our part.
Making 3D Terrain Maps (2017)
Or “How I Filled Up /home By ‘Deleting’ A Larger Amount Of Data From A Larger Volume”
We are old.

https://xkcd.com/1053/
I’ve got a T410 and a T430s. Keyboard on the 410 is way better, but I upgraded because I needed more memory and a stouter processor to do webpack compiles.

They’re kind of a pain to disassemble, but it’s doable.
I disagree. The US is "because I can". Japan is "because I should".
The Elites of Pueblo Bonito (2018)
Sigh...

I got a Thinkpad E485 ( wanted to try AMD Ryzen mobile) and with Ubuntu installed, I get about 2.5-3 hours on the battery, which is... I forget now. I think it's 48Wh.
Trim would never be a separate airfoil because that would be horrendous for efficiency. Instead they have an all-moving tailplane.

They could have prevented this issue by slightly increasing the tailplane size to restore stability margin, but they didn't presumably for development cost and fuel efficiency reasons.
> The Parallel Wizard is now more cunning and the dragons he designs and the armies he trains are more resilient than ever. But still they must be defeated, or else the entire world will fall to the Empire and we will all be forced to learn parallel programming!

Brilliant game and at least the first few levels are much fun.
In C, for example dollar-sign and at-sign are unused and could be used for pointers. But I don't like those. Both are visually clunky characters.

Personally I like how it is in Pascal - caret sign for pointer types, and postfix unary operator caret for dereference, like^.this which doesn't need an additional syntax ( like->this is just (* like).this in C). But now, caret is usually also the XOR operator.

The deeper problem is that Pascal cannot use caret as XOR binary operator since postfix operators cannot easily be distinguished from binary operators with only 1 token lookahead - it would require more lookahead or type resolution to determine that it's not a binary operator. While in C the deref operator is a prefix which can be distinguished from binary operators without lookahead.
Good enough to eat? The toxic truth about modern food
In terms of lowering the barrier to coding, Bubble.is is doing some interesting things: https://bubble.is/
The Frankfurt school tackled the negative societal side effects of mass media and celebrity directly. Unfortunately, their work is rigorous, complex continental philosophy and so is relatively unknown in the states and does not have the popular appeal of a critique packaged as something more accessible like dystopian fiction.

They're worth checking out though if this sort of "pleasure"/entertainment/late capitalist dystopia theme interests you. Marcuses's One Dimensional Man is probably the work that relates most directly to this sort of thing. Horkheimer and Adorno's work also relates, but less directly, and it's less accessible. A sufficient background in the history of philosophy is prerequisite.

The Faint is also a great synth pop-punk band that quite frequently explores these issues in their music. Coincidentally, they just released an album this past Friday aptly titled Egowerk. Their older album Fascination is also great.

Century of the Self is another resource you can check out. It's a documentary by Adam Curtis about Edward Bernays and the radical shifts in advertising that he helped instate.
Let me explain why it can sound like excuses.

Collectively, professors are the ones who set almost every aspect of the culture in academia. They are the ones who populate committees that set all the rules, and decide when a professor is being abusive and when he/she isn't. Professors decide how much is "enough" for a PhD. Even the pressure on professors comes mostly from other professors. A lot of people in the funding agency's committees are professors or former professors. If any change is to occur, it has to come from professors. No external or internal group really has any say in the matter.

So as a professor, the burden of change is pretty much on you. It's probably risky for you to do anything about it[1], but no one else can. When an outsider looks at the situation, all they see are professors pointing fingers at other professors as the cause. It is your profession to fix. And you have less to fear than most workers in most industries: Once you have tenure, attempting to fix the problem will not cost you your job. It will cost other things, but that's the point where it becomes clear what a professor's values are.

And you kind of skirt around it, but a big aspect of it these days is essentially the "rite of passage". As an example, I had a group mate who continually cursed his advisor because he wasn't letting him graduate and was being given work unrelated to his thesis just so that the professor could squeeze as much out of him as possible. Yet when he graduated, he said "Of course I'll treat my students the same. If I had to go through all this, then so should they!"

That's not an uncommon sentiment amongst professors.

Let's all keep in mind: This is mostly a US problem.[2] I don't normally hear these complaints in Europe, and most students there get their PhD in 3 years after their MS.

[1] Not really - there are lots of small things an established professor can do that help.

[2] Well, OK. Maybe also a Korean problem.
Can you elaborate on why it was so impactful?
>On the other hand, the underlying assumption is that the revolt against elite policy preferences, not only in the U.S. but in Europe and elsewhere, is entirely devoid of rational motivation.

That's the mainstream narrative, because like Maria Antoinette the 10% cannot ever consider why anyone (unless they're a faulty person) would ever be dissatisfied with the status quo in power, business, culture, economy, and so on. Except in their constrained pet causes, of course.
> Arguably, it’s even less competitive than the real world.

This might be true at an "organizational" level but I have a hard time believing it's true for individuals.

There are a few people in academia who have incredibly lavish funding (HHMI investigators, people with rich 'patrons'). A few tenured professors can opt out of competition, though this either dramatically limits their impact (no money for students/equipment --> much less research).

Everyone else is constantly scrapping for money and attention and the results are mostly assessed individually, or at best across a small group (PI + 2-4 trainees). In industry, this is at least averaged over the whole company or division.
Doom-Emacs
It'd be neat if this had thunderbolt (or wait for USB4) so you could use an external GPU. I've heard that it works for some people.
> Too many people think of grad school as sort of a vague "next step" that will "open doors" or else a way of "leveling up" as though life is an RPG and a grad degree is a special badge or skin you can get.

I have a Masters, and all the interesting jobs I want to do are held by PhDs (sometimes with a couple years of postdocs). And everyone who's on that team has a PhD and they're definitely not going to let anyone lesser than that onto their team.
For everyone's sake, don't test your theory on any toddlers.

Why draw the line at age 3, and not 9 (Age of Reason) pubescence (Coming of Age), or post-pubescence? People under the age of maybe 30 universally have terrible misconceptions about how the universe works, making them dangerous if they are given full freedom.
Nothing about that is especially prominent (its just regular documentation), and then you still need to consider how any given utility will interact with one word vs multiple words.
Ask HN: Please complete a one minute survey about education
We're told that MCAS only activates with the autopilot already off.

I agree with you that pilot training doesn't seem to be a plausible answer given that the Lion Air crash was world news, resulting in retraining, and yet that wasn't enough.
Nitrogen fixation is an important part of permaculture. Oregon State offers an online certificate in the subject.
https://pace.oregonstate.edu/catalog/permaculture-design-cer...
so irc is still better
I suspect that their primary market is corporations, who have the resources to repair Lenovo's newest models or else have contracts for replacement.
It depends on your use-case. If you're building a static HTML administration UI and the only real UI code you need to write is a "select all" checkbox for a list of items, then porting that UI to React is 100% overkill. If you're building an e-mail client, then definitely not; you need something to handle the complexity.

My app has both of the above in it, simple admin/maintenance UIs in static HTML and a ~75k line React/Redux/Typescript application for the client-facing work with nice animations and professionally designed custom icons and so on. The client-facing application could not be done without a framework of some kind; it is just too big.

The problem is that most tutorials and documentation focus on really simple use-cases like building a to-do list and so on. You end up with tons of setup code for actually a really simple thing that you could achieve in 5 minutes with DOM manipulation. If you can't imagine how this is useful for something more complex then you probably haven't worked on a UI complicated enough to need it.

I don't think it makes you unemployable to not know these frameworks but as a full stack developer you really ought to at least understand the problems they solve. Try building a webmail client with JQuery and you'll see what I mean.
I'm not a big fan of types, either. As a C programmer I use types pretty much only as much as they are required (indicate to the compiler how information is represented). It's mostly integers of various sizes, plus a few floats and structs and typedefs. Still, types in general convey more information to me than the variable name. For example, it's important to me to group fields in structures by their type to prevent superfluous padding and to get a feel of cleanliness. I tend to think of types as the relevant information that says what actually happens, and of names I tend to think as secondary information that gives an impression why it should happen.
Well, for something US-made and more appealing to the less-continental reading tastes, Christopher Lasch is perhaps mandatory on this subject:

The Culture of Narcissism

The Revolt of the Elites

Haven in a Heartless World

The Minimal Self

and so on.
Ctrl-Alt-Delete: The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders
Almost all rich celebrities have that.

Even Instagram only, average wealth, influencers, making like $1M a year or so, have whole teams of people working for their Instagram.
A shadowy group trying to overthrow Kim Jong Un likely raided N. Korean embassy
Thank you for the insight! Just for clarity, I'm using "autopilot" as a catch-all term that refers the automated systems that plausibly seem to have caused these crashes.
iStat Menus (macOS app) gives you a HUD in the global top bar for things like network and CPU usage. It will quickly show you how many random apps and browser tabs will explode with resource usage over the course of the day. Or why your internet seems slow -- some app is saturating your bandwidth somehow.

Spotify, Slack, and Discord are major culprits, like if someone posts a single gif (are they animated manually by React?). But even some recipe website on a browser tab might go into 100% CPU usage because part of its ad-serving kit was blocked by ublock.

I consider it (or any app like it) essential for maxing your battery lifespan. Really wish it was built into macOS.
I'm not sure what the price differences are in Europe but I snagged a X230 for ~that amount in the US and am fairly happy. My only regret is the TN panel screen; this can be avoided by getting an X230T or going out of your way to find one with an IPS panel (a lot of resellers won't state what kind of panel it has, though). I got mine from a company that only refurbishes Thinkpads and was pretty happy about it, so I'd suggest looking off eBay as well and seeing if there's any companies like that where you are.

As the article suggests, you can also upgrade it along the way if your budget increases.
Are you really sure that it will be "horrendous?"

That thinking remind me of people who try to economise on few microns of plastic we see in electronics OEM industry. Pro managers trying to shave microns from casing, ending up with multimillion dollar recalls, and that for savings not even amounting to few snickers bars.
Moiré Patterns
Along with the personal cost, this instability can't be great for producing good science either. My lab has learned and lost some techniques over and over again, as people churn through.

If it were up to me, I'd convert some MS/PhD slots into staff scientist roles with longer contracts. I think you could probably do this in a way that increases productivity, and makes more people more happy to boot.
If you wanna see it picks up a pattern, choose rock then paper then scissors and keep doing that. In about 10-20 plays the nn won't lose anymore.
> It discounts without comment the possibility that the pre-internet style of governance had substantive problems which the working class didn't like (e.g. globalization leading to a race to the bottom in manufacturing wages).

It's there between the lines: the author mentions the power of the big companies in the 20th century to shape the narrative through mass media and a lack of proper information among the public, and how that power is now crumbling and how the narrative is being democratized.

Basically, it boils down to mutual knowledge, and large shifts in that causes power-shifts in society.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-son3EJTrU&t=7m40s
It's hard to think of many other legacy systems that have been around since at least the 60s like the 737 MAX has. The NYC subway system is one that immediately comes to mind.
Yes developers are only male, women belong in the kitchen. /s
Sure, also it works for me because it is on a system that is frequently turned off.
If it would have to stay on for a long time it would fill /tmp with garbage.
No it's not. India's biggest enemy is another P - population.
Thanks for that feedback!

The pause button is actually an interesting design decision. The way it works currently allows the system act more like a physical instrument — if you hit a bell three times and then stop, the bell keeps ringing. This has some utility when the piece is being used in a public setting, or when being accompanied by human musicians playing live. That's why there's a mute button. Though you raise a good point. For the web, I should probably change that so it's in keeping with digital expectations, and pause the sound as well as the performance.
I still miss Adobe Fireworks.
"Celebrity isn’t just harmless fun – it’s the smiling face of the corporate machine" - George Monbiot

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/20/celebr...
thanks for that. Marc Andreessen did a thread on this with some highlights that make me want to read it https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1015665031474606081
If the main point is that we moved from a state of information scarcity to a state of information abundance, one piece is missing in this article: abundance is not, by itself, utility — to turn abundance into utility, you need one of a very small number of organizations that have dug significantly deep competitive moats around them (such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, or even Wikipedia). It's not altogether clear that these new gatekeepers won't start applying the same recipes (of vertical integration, for example) to re-consolidate the industries around them.
Five Stages of Grief: Letting Go of a Software Project
I wouldn't even give it "nicely written". Nicely presented, maybe...

Compared to all of the things he's quoting from--Chomsky, McLuhan, Caplan, etc.--this is far more sizzle than steak.

Maybe if he had some point to make with the source material, that would have saved it. Instead, it's like he couldn't choose between writing the McKinsey version of a book report, or an alternative intro to Fight Club.
Store and Rotate API Keys with AWS Secrets Manager
You crimp the internal microphone with a pair of pliers.
On a desktop it is possible to replace the motherboard, on a laptop not so much, so not soldering the CPU would at least give you the ability to upgrade the processor to the fastest supported by that motherboard .
Where do you get half?
No questions but wanted to let you know that’s a fantastic article. I don’t remember when I first read it (too many years back!) but enjoyed it then and enjoyed reading it again.
The proposal just wants to eliminate problematic names that no one uses anyway.

Python 3 is full of problems with fsencoding, to the point that some people want to deprecate the plain C locale (!).

This is hardly a solution.
It wouldn't just be shell scripts that need replacement - the command line is generally also a shell with the same problems, so that needs replacement too

The chances of getting the kernel to outright ban some of the more dangerous filenames seem a lot higher than simply eliminating sh/bash...
Designing longer landing gear might invalidate the common type rating, as the plane's entire fuselage and wings would be higher off the ground during take-off and landing, which might be non-trivial. Plus it would have different heights compared to previous 737s, which could cause problems with jetways, staircars, maintenance vehicles, luggage ramps, etc.

There's not many things they could've changed about the existing design without it being enough unlike the existing design to effectively count as a new aircraft (logistically if not certification-wise). They could move the engines, but they couldn't change the ground clearance.
Excerpt: "In 2015, Sophie — a recent graduate of the School of Earth’s Ph.D. program who wished to remain anonymous in order to preserve her relationship with her advisor — and five others in her Ph.D. cohort took a prospective Ph.D. candidate out to dinner.

Sitting at a restaurant on University Avenue, the prospective candidate mentioned that she was in therapy. One by one, the current students at the table said that they were, too, but none of them had ever discussed it with each other.

“Unless it’s your really good friends, you don’t talk about it,” Sophie said. “It’s still stigmatized, and it’s still seen as a sign of weakness. It took someone to be honest … [and then] everyone else opened up.”

According to statistics provided by CAPS director Bina Patel, CAPS counselors saw 22 percent of the graduate student community over the 2017-2018 academic year, for an average of 4.5 visits per student. Graduate students make up 59 percent of the students CAPS serves, which Patel said is consistent with peer institutions. "
Boeing want's to keep the type rating and rest of the infrastructure, but the airframe is getting old. They made a small tweak, moved engines forward, and gained significant fuel savings. The tweak caused instability. The fixed it with automation that introduced complication.

Type ratings, airport dimensions, etc. create legacy that puts limit to what kind of aircraft designs are economically viable.
If you could start from the scratch and design new aircraft and airports in tandem , would probably have much wider wingspans and lifting bodies. Airports would need different design to move passengers and arrange aircraft.
Perhaps if you're really bored you could make Who Runs Wget on What as well.
Has Apple offered an upgrade able laptop alongside a non-upgradeable one?
Would be possible to draw that conclusion if they sold a new style MacBook Pro alongside an older style one with similar specs.
The IBM mainframe would be a good example in our world, though the really strong tie is probably MVS and TPF from the 70's, rather than the 60's.