skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All these years of arguing over OS and you nailed it right on the head. Just use what you like, multiple OS exist so a choice exists, it’s not about one OS dominating another to a point where the dominee is irrelevant.
There's an amazing documentary titled "queen of Versailles" about a nouveau-riche family in Florida. The family goes to Walmart all the time and they have like 20 games of Monopoly, each kid has 10 bicycles they never ride, it's surprising but rich people also just buy a bunch of crap.
You're not getting the love here, though I agree with most of this.

Sadly, HTML5 offers virtually all of this out of the box, but it's not seen or understood by most. Mark Pilgrim's Dive Into HTML5 is itself mostly a demonstration of this (it lacks article and section tags, though is otherwise lean), and the page source itsel is very highly readable:

view-source:https://diveintohtml5.info/introduction.html

https://diveintohtml5.info/introduction.html

There are also notions such as microformats and standard templates, which smoth the way to standard and substitutable stylesheets as well as parsing, search, bibliographic, and archival tools.

http://microformats.org/wiki/get-started

All of which start from document structure.
RE = real estate. Modernizing real estate isn’t common anywhere I’ve lived/visited. Modern RE almost exclusively exists in recent developments.
Goodwill is actually incredibly shady, and I refuse to donate there any more: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2016/10/25/goodwill-industrie...

That said, there are plenty of other charities and local donation spots in many cities for reuse of even items that you wouldn't think would be valued.
I want the features these things offer without the requirement to use a VPN. That gives too much trust to the VPN operator. All of this can operate on device at the OS/IP stack layer. I use Little Snitch on the Mac and it works great.
"Assume safety until shown otherwise" has not always been the best option in the past.

("Assume safety and viscously attack anyone who suggests otherwise" has some advantages, though.)
I had a history course like that as well. For papers, I would literally grab a beer and ramble on in the most sarcastic fashion I could muster. I received an A, it was a complete sham.
I think Slack gets close to some of my favorite bits: the ability to go back and edit messages, spawn threads that go off on a tangent, the way it can link nicely to referenced docs and JIRAs, etc. I have mixed feelings about real-time typing. But it feels like Slack's generation of chat tools have picked up some of the ideas Wave pioneered without being all-or-nothing or not being primarily a chat tools.
$14B in new Army Corp of Engineers work, in and around New Orleans?

Doing work isn't sexy, and it doesn't make national news media, but it's what gets shit done.

And the Army Corp of Engineers has its management problems, but it also tends to be caught between "We don't believe anything will happen, so we're not giving you enough funding / control, but are giving you an unfunded mandate" and "Something happened! How did you let this happen after we trusted you to fix it?!"

In reality, they do a lot of good work.
I agree about the name mispronouncing thing. My first name is very easily mispronounced for most people. Even when they’ve just heard me pronounce it for some reason.

I usually don’t bother correcting people unless they ask— and even if they do I usually tell them it’s truly not a big deal, and they can call me whatever they would like. (I say / word this in a way that makes sure it’s humorous).
The transfer of ownership request is the key here. That doesn’t scale, considering that the current owner needs to authenticate the request.

Sure, you could pull the gig once, but your authentic work immediately depreciates in value by 100% because it can’t be authenticated any more.

That’s the brilliance of the system. The forged work becomes the “authentic” work in all meaningful terms because the value is attached to the delegated ownership, not to the physical item itself.
Does this support aborting the network call if you scroll the element offscreen before it loads? That's essential to infinite scrolling.
I've gone through a number of monitor setups, and at home I settled on a single 27" at 1440p. That lets me maximize applications like GIMP for maximum use of space, or have two 1280x1440 windows maximized side by side for comparisons or multitasking. If I need a dedicated space for something, I'll open a new virtual desktop.

At work I did use three 1080p monitors for a while (I do a lot of data analysis and comparisons), but I realized that I hardly ever used the third monitor, two displays of that size seem to work best for me. I think I would be okay with a single ultrawide monitor of similar or higher total resolution.

I think the most important thing is to let people find the setup that works best for them.
All the other Alzheimer's researchers are not infectious-disease specialists, and have no reasonable prospect of becoming infectious-disease specialists. The overwhelming majority of Alzheimer's disease research funding still goes to them. They get veto power over most potential grants to infectious-disease groups, and publication by them in most journals.

Probably the single most effective way to enable progress on Alzheimer's research would be to discover something else they could all work on, and stop blocking infectious disease specialists' work.
Well, I won't die from a heatwave but without AC the impact on my wellbeing, not to mention productivity, will be considerable.
It's clearly discrimination, any kind of ad targeting is. Is it harmful discrimination though? I always though of seeing an advertisement as something bad. It's a company trying to influence your decision making to their benefit. So is not seeing a particular ad harmful to the viewer?
Renewables can replace all of those: coal, gas, nuclear, oil.

No reason to be flabbergasted.
Say what you want about New Orleans, at least the drinking water isn’t screwed.
For a more hyrdated planet the WWF suggests Brondo. It's got electrolytes.
> Best when it isn't raining and the wind isn't too strong.

So.... never then?
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One problem with the meme that building products is about "solving problems" is that the biggest successes often come from recognizing very vague "problems" others don't, in the form of seeing fundamentally better ways of doing something -- without being able to grasp up-front the long term concrete benefits. You need to build and ship to learn them. So in those scenarios, people don't recognize what you are doing as a "real" problem, so it ends up being hindsight bias when it's recognized as such. An example in the article cited was Wikipedia: Wikipedia didn't "solve a problem" with existing encyclopedias, it recognized there was just a fundamentally better way to collect objective knowledge and disseminate it -- most people at the time were scratching their heads about what the point was, since from their perspective encyclopedias worked perfectly well within the scope of their design goals.

I think the mental model that you should always be working on software where you have people directly telling you the problem they want to solve is a poor one -- it's great for a variety of domains, but often people want a faster horse or don't even see a problem with their existing horse. Even when you think you are recognizing a problem others don't see yet -- it can require a leap of faith to begin exploring to see if you can iterate and react to discovering something with big promise.
Yeah those few pretty much wrap it up. I'm never eating algae or cacti.
I agree with this article. Good stuff. One minor gripe:

> if you care about the code, you need to have unit tests for it.

That's not really true. You can test at a differently granularity and still have the same confidence in your code. Scores of brittle unit tests crowding your productivity is not what you do to code you care about. I wish people would just stop propagating this detrimental rumor that is backed by zero evidence. I prefer to keep my unit test suite lite and sweet (try to test what is very sensitive at the unit level - easy to miss or algorithmic things) and then try to get the most out of my acceptance test suite. Sorry, but I just worked on too many systems where the unit tests suite breaks no matter what you touch and you spend more time updating the tests than actually getting shit done.
"Frequency is freedom" is a slogan that bus consultant Jarrett Walker likes:
https://humantransit.org/2011/12/how-frequent-is-freedom.htm...
The job interview sketch from "How to irritate people" is my personal favorite.
Office/office work can absolutely benefit from multiple monitors or large monitors. For instance, having spreadsheets open for reference, at the same time as a document you're writing.
Ah right, lazy loading, this is the reason that I have to make sure to scroll down the entire length of a medium.com article I'm reading on my phone and back to the top again to make sure the diagrams and math-as-images load completely before I get on a subway line that doesn't have 3g service. Hate it when I forget. Otherwise I'm left staring at blurry lines that don't explain much about what trying to read until it's time to get off. Sucks when my commute is 40 minutes straight on the same line.

I guess an advantage of a 'native' feature could be that browsers could offer a button saying 'please pre-load this page!'
True, but couldn't they just have their assistant do it? I doubt Zuckerberg is the one sorting through his trash and taking it to the curb anyway. Why not instruct your employees to try to re-use things rather than toss them in a landfill?
Cheap 4k TV's are great. Here's my layout

┌────┬────┐┌────┬────┐┌────┬────┐
│ │ ││ │ ││ │ │
│ │ ││ │ ││ │ │
│ │ ││ │ ││ │ │
└────┴────┘└────┴────┘└────┴────┘

I have 3x 39" 4K TV's as my monitors. As Shown in the above, I use them as the equivlant of 6x ultra-talls.

I use windows. If you do, you can choose this layout quickly: hit Win+<Arrow Key> to adjust the layout of your current window and/or move them from screen to screen.

Honestly I'm a bit surprised people don't do this more. (I do coding all day long) You can get the TV's for about USD$300 each. 3x is a bit overboard I admit, but 2x is really, really awesome and it's distressing trying to code on my laptop anymore.
I guess it depends on your usage. Under my tiling setup I usually already know which "workspace" is the one I want, and how to summon it directly with a key combination. No cycling.

I find it quicker and easier to change workspace than to turn my head. For me there is one optimal display position, so I always want to be using it.

I also might have 10 workspaces, but I don't have 10 displays.

In the past I have used a three display setup where the workspace I summon gets pulled to the centre display, swapping with other workspaces, which may be displayed on the peripheral displays. However, I found that I never really liked looking at the peripheral displays while I worked, so I switched to using a single display.
Fast Directory Listing on Linux
Isn't this a step back from curses? It only works on vt100-compatible terminals? ...or is this an indication that vt100-compatible terminals are all that's left?
Since 1999 there have been reports of Herpes-family viral infections associated with Alzheimer's, with publication only recently enabled. What is up with that work?
I use macOS at work, Linux desktop at home and a Surface Go.

The HiDPI/multi-monitor support on Linux is still lacking and I haven't tried it on batteries. It's great when your dev and prod use the same OS and web/db stack versions.

The Surface Go is surprisingly usable which I wasn't expecting from a Windows platform. I never use my 13 MBP anymore. So much so that if I need a more powerful laptop, I'd opt for a Surface Pro rather than any Apple product.
It's not obvious though. It may be less risk, but you're not eliminating interfaces with a VM. You're replacing them with new ones. With bare processes you've got shared system resources and kernel to attack. With Docker you've got the kernel to attack. With VMs you've got virtual hardware drivers to attack.

We can play with risk estimation, but in practice, both containers and VMs were affected by memory sharing failures already. We know that syscall/ioctl issues exist. And we know that virtualisation issues exist.
Seeing as they failed New Orleans in the first place with the levee pilings, 14 billion is penance, not anything forward looking
7 web development practices challenged
Looks yummy.
That's the point, these are foods that we should be eating.

Besides, a number of these items are available at my local Bulk Barn; a low cost, "bring your own container" bulk purchasing store.
In case you decide to experiment with some things on the list...saffron milk cap mushrooms turn your urine reddish orange. Harmless, but a potential scare if you aren't aware.
Whoosh and you misspelled ackshually
I use 3x 24" monitors, all side by side horizontal with a minimal bezel and love it. I generally have email open on my right monitor, web open on the left, and productivity center. Works well for me considering it's my "office" computer, not my development computer. Dev has 2x 24" horizontal, with a VM on the right and Windows on the left.
I think the real problem is that corporations and HR departments have outsourced filtering candidates to universities. Universities were never designed for job training, and obviously we're seeing the consequences of that. I got a 4 year CS degree from a good university, and it was good, but I have to admit I came out of it with a lot of knowledge that I'm really unlikely to use in the real world (how to write a hash map, for instance), while being completely clueless on things that are extremely useful for actual real world work (how to use distributed version control, or how to write shell scripts).

I also have to say, I've been on the end where we interview people and look through stacks of resumes, and I can't say I've ever actually ever cared about the "education" part unless it's really unusual (IE, very advanced degree, or a degree in a field that isn't CS but might be highly relevant to what my company is doing)

I think it's weird that vocational training is so looked down upon. Not everyone is really built to be a knowledge worker or a professor -- we still need plumbers!

Also whatever happened to apprenticeships? It seems like all we have anymore are internships, but, at least from what I've seen interns are rarely given that much mentoring; it tends to be a lot more about toy-projects or "build a thing that would be nice to have but that we're not going to dedicate a full salaried engineers time to".
Personally I disagree, from the perspective of an average user. While you and I are able to tell the difference between an adblocker and a nefarious vpn collecting all my data under the guise of adblocking. For the average user, they have absolutely no idea and don’t care, which is why disallowing vpn-based Adblock makes sense to me from an average user privacy standpoint.
I mean, great, but the GOP will never let this happen. the Senate will kill this before it even gets to committee, let alone a floor vote.
So... a Vegan diet?

No thanks.
There is a long tail in Music where Music produced today will still get revenue 10 to 30 years down the road. Compared to News which requires constant updating. And most musician or artist have other source of income mainly from live performing and tours. There is also the return of Vinyl which I think will only continue to grow.

There are no such revenue stream from the News Subscription.

We should find out in a few years time.
For mathematics, all the top-tier UK universities expect you to do a one-year taught masters (i.e. not a research masters) before starting a PhD. This certainly includes Cambridge, Oxford, Warwick, Imperial, UCL and KCL. Cambridge calls its masters a "Part III" or "Certificate of Advance Studies" but it's definitely just a regular masters, albeit a really hard one. Mathematics PhDs in most of these institutions have a sort of informal target length of three years but usually take four years in practice. Funding is usually three years but often four, and the fees are often a tiny fraction of the usual amount in the final year to reflect that there is often a difference.

I have much less knowledge of other subjects, but from the little I've heard the same seems to be true of chemistry and computer science.

In short: I agree with the parent comment, at least for mathematics (and probably for all STEM subjects).
I miss PalmOS, or more specifically the Graffiti text input system. I’d love to have it on the iPhone, and it would work much better on Apple Watch than its existing writing recognition.
My main issue with web apps is that they ignore the choices I make for how applications look on my computer. We shouldn’t generally be changing fonts, picking colors and styling form components in apps like Slack: rather we should use the default look and feel of the operating system the user is running and use semantic color and font names so our apps fit in to the user’s computing environment.
Beans are cheap, soy is cheap
Find me these “properly programmed devices”! This is the core of the issue: bad assumptions and poor QA let bugs like this have an outsized impact. It’s our fault, folks.
Other angle is the role of text. I have now a 32 4k, before iMac + 32 tv HD.

As pixels, the 32 4k is MUCh better, BUT, for reading and see things, I actually downscale to almost Full HD (can't see UI artifacts and despite OSX is better than windows, a lot of things not look good with increased text fonts).

The need of multiple monitors, for me, is to dial the text..
There are a lot of opinions about what could or could not be built better in cars.

The most interesting trend, obviously, is that people are just buying fewer of them, so it will soon be a moot point.

Doing maintenance never has mass-market appeal.

The best approach, in my opinion, is actually the opposite of what most mechanics (or MechE/EE people) will say: we should try to achieve as much as possible in software, with the absolute simplest hardware.

Consider that an electric car, the fastest growing product in the category, has a considerably simpler engine and drive train. The software rules the roost there. It's just a coil. The engine and batteries are not really maintainable (they're certainly recyclable).

There's a lot of knowledge tied up in what you're saying, which is a really interesting point of view. But optimizing ICE vehicles and their attendant maintenance is sort of a dead end.

Then again, I'm agreeing with the general idea: CAD is bad. But what should the right response be? Don't buy things that need CAD designs at all!
It's so strange that people think you can't beat the market. I think it has to do with reading the opinions of people who failed to beat it rather than focusing on the people who can and are beating it.
I’ve definitely personally seen the affects of climate change. Many people should be able to same the same who have lived decades in the Southwest US. Fires are more common, they’re more often extremely damaging, record setting summers year after year, and so on.

As a side note, I’m offended by the commenter above you. As if someone else is going to be able to tell me what I’ve witnessed over the course of my life.
> Stanford is far more elite than Oxbridge

Anecdotally, I know several people unable to crack Oxbridge that walked into Standford.

That being said, both are elite and I don’t think a sane case can be made for either being “far more elite” than the other.
A huge part of it is that they make money on what people want to buy as well.

I’m sure if they put seaweed and cacti in most American grocery stores most people would skip them for what they think will be good for dinner. Therefore having zero profit without the companies margins having anything to do with it.

What’s available has typically played a role but it’s not the only metric.
If you have one, go to your local asian/world supermarket. They'll usually carry a lot of things on this list that you won't find at your standard large supermarket chain or even at whole foods.
It's worth noting for anyone that advocates this sort of diet that it is a luxury. Many people mention that you can make good food on such a diet, but it is doubtless time-consuming. What of those who work by the hour? And the ingredients are expensive. Many of the fancy foods on here come from Whole Foods, not HEB. Even if they become affordable, the time aspect is still important; most don't want to spend 2 hours cooking regularly.

Honest question for those who follow such a diet: how do you not feel hungry? If I don't have meat, I tend to stay hungry. I regularly eat lots of meat for this reason, and am still very slim (no health issues), so it's not like it's hurting me. I tried not eating meat for a month or so, and I perform measurably worse (comparing my output on days when I ate meat vs not). Maybe it just doesn't work for everyone?
Octopus farming will soon be the norm. Marine scientists say this isn’t good
Right. My point is that the liberal arts classes are not different and special.
The proliferation of boot camp grads and autodidacts getting hired in industry would seem to suggest that CS does not apply the same way as other STEM degrees- compared to say mechanical or chemical engineering, one need not be immersed in such math concepts since college to get through industry.
Ask HN: What countries/regions still have a functioning liberal democracy?
I live in a liberal western democracy which is rapidly becoming less liberal and less democratic, and more controlled, surveilled and bureaucratic.
Cash is mostly abolished. It's already impossible to make most purchases without electronic logging.
There are extensive demands to deal with authorities and the friction is getting huge for using any society services except "in the App". Public transport can longer be ridden without tracked, linkable payment. Healthcare demands electronic registration.
Taboos about opinions and speech abound, much of it forced consensus and facts by decree about far left articles of faith, but there's widespread grumbling and increasing action on the far right as well.
The constitution is regularly circumvented by the government, often through the kind of corruption of terms we saw used as justification for NSA mass surveillance in the US, or through brazenly ignoring the Constitution and implementing policies anyway, deflecting to "Think Of The Children" and "Security!" scaremongering if questioned, while smearing and/or threatening people trying to uphold due process and individual freedoms.
Particularized suspicion is failing. Everyone is a suspect, everyone is under surveillance.
I'm not specifically threatened but it's taking a a heavy psychological toll daily to watch what I consider my country's slide into totalitarianism, and dealing with the alienation and PC-dissonance.

I want to get out. Where in the world are safeguards for the individual against the state, and intellectual freedom, still held as superordinate values in action, not just in delusive value-posturing word?
It doesn't even have to be wealthy or advanced. I'd happily forego stable electricity och hand-carry my water to get away from this madness. I'd like to aim for somewhere you're not too likely to get shot or die from an infectious disease though.
Are there any places like that left? That are willing to take us who failed to save our own systems?
What’s an example of this?
Actually Triplebyte has been getting jobs for good hackers without credentials. That’s the opposite of what you are thinking: tech bros are from central casting and have high powered CS degrees.

Many Triplebyte alums have no degree or no formal CS training yet the test shows they are among the top software engineers in the world and deserve high salaried jobs.
Mozilla Persona

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Persona