skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thanks for the feedback - it always helps. There was some discussion around max widths of certain pages here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/design.gitlab.com/issues/47#no...

We prefer 990px containers where possible, so if you're using gitlab on a browser smaller than that it'll usually butt up against the edges.

Couple of questions about your issue:

1. Any pages this is particularly bad for? Some dense pages (e.g. Pipelines or side-by-side diffs) need all the width they can get

2. what screen size do you normally use?

3. In Settings > Preferences > Behaviour, are you using Fixed layout or Fluid? Fixed should give you left/right margins if your window is >1280px

4. Do you collapse the left/right sidebars? I usually keep them both collapsed which helps reduce the crowding. But since they are expanded by default this is not an ideal solution
Yup, that's the best thing about working in this field - every 5-10 years you get to reinvent yourself so that the job doesn't go stale
Has anyone got a Modula-2 compiler for old Solaris versions? Then I can re-live the monochrome (2-color) xterm experience from the 90s.
This sounds a lot like a humble-brag :)
Ironically, this seems to come off as obnoxious...
I completely agree with you. I'm just saying that there's a loophole when you're dealing with people who are obsessed with doing "blockchain for ____". If they understood blockchain from a technical perspective, they'd understand that it makes no sense for their application.

You can still work with those people if you revise the definition for "blockchain" in your mind into something that isn't really a blockchain.
I would but I can't avoid people who call me to tell me that they have just sent me an email.

Or worse: people who come by with a piece of paper with the number of the workflow they just initiated.

I manage to remain civil, but I can't help some sarcasm escaping.
I am the same age - we save/invest around 30-40% of our post-tax income.
You could use it for that, sure. Though i'd probably recommend the standard channels of offshore corporations for something like that.
I find it much more interesting to think it was just discovered. As either is speculation I will go with what is more intriguing and interesting rather than what makes ancient history look like a scam.
For most of the history of the web, news sites hosted their own images as sanctioned by the source.
I personally think right now that industrial design, architecture and still fashion have a lot of catching up to do when it comes to designing great things with regards to technology. Gone are the days where you can be concerned with the physical looks of a thing. I've met designers who can do everything just that the upper management team(s) don't get it.

If we can get these super thin laptop designs why can't we create new form factors? It's purely because people are afraid right now to create new product segments or try new things.

I imagine a lot of these designers are leaving because they're trying really hard but keep making things that never see the light of day.
Mongo and Elastic would probably continue doing the same thing if they became Amazon's size. If something is unethical in the business world, it should be unethical regardless of your company's size. Although I don't personally find the integration of open source software into a commercial project to be unethical, if the license is adhered to.
just.stop.using.facebook
> If the police were buying

That's not what is happening here. The police are not purchasing access like an advertiser would; they are receiving special access for the purpose of tracking suspects.

> If you had, I imagine SCOTUS would rule differently.

The SCOTUS of the 1960s was very clear -- routing your communication through a corporate party does not, in any way, negate your expectation of privacy from your own government!

SCOTUS has changed drastically since the 1960s, and I will be unsurprised if SCOTUS rolls back every single 'privacy' case that it encounters. But that has nothing to do with the merits of these cases; it's a way of salting the earth so that Roe v. Wade can be overturned while appearing less overtly political.
It’s going to depend. If you’re going into the web front end field, you’ll be able to make that determination yourself.

For me, as an SRE with higher priorities, you can pry Bootstrap from my cold, lifeless fingers :) I have zero interest in keeping up with latest and greatest in CSS developments; like you said, Bootstrap gets you something up and running fast without much fuss. It’s good enough and it allows me to focus on other important areas.
CSS variables are actually superior to SASS variables because you can change them at runtime via JS.
UFO != "fake" or alien. UFO encompasses anything that couldn't be readily identified. Be it a weather balloon, experimental craft or something a pilot caught a fleeting glimpse out of the corner of their eye. If the pilot is unable to identify it even due to lack of knowledge, it is deemed unidentifiable. No aliens or conspiracies required.

I mean sure, there could be aliens or conspiracies involved, but it seems unlikely given how poor people are at keeping even the smallest secret.
People seem to break it down into three potential categories: misinterpretted/bad data/not real, secret project carried out by other nation, or extraterrestrial craft.

Extraterrestrial doesn't make sense, because of the difficulty in crossing interstellar distances. But in the case of really solid evidence, eg the Nimitz incident, neither of the first two categories really make sense either.

I think there's a fourth category that people aren't considering: Von Neumann probes which self-replicated in-situ and are performing scouting / intelligence gathering. When people consider Von Neumann probes independently, there's always the question of, why don't we see any around? Given even modest rates of travel and self replication, they should be at every star system in the galaxy, if any were ever created.

Well, maybe they are around, and we have seen them.
China wants to build a moon base in about 10 years
A Custom Supervisor to Solve Weird Problems
The Next Backlash Is Going to Be Against Technology
Did anyone read the article at all? It cites dismal performance of the Chinese market. If anything, it's an indicator that China's growth is slowing, not the U.S.
I agree, but with conditions. PEs have ethical responsibilities. If the engineers are licensed, yup, they absolutely have a moral and legal responsibility to refuse to sign off on illegal work. In most states though, software engineers are not professionally licensed, certified, or ethically trained. Often they are referred to using demeaning terms such as "coders", which are equated as "bricklayers" by thought leaders such as Steve McConnell and others. Thus it would not necessarily be reasonable to hold them to a responsibility refuse to follow illegal orders they were given as mindless "bricklayers" and "coders" etc, which is the most common paradigm of software engineers. Unintelligent implementors who are simply typing things up on command with a surfeit of semicolons can not be held to any sort of professional responsibility. But PEs absolutely can and must.
Caster Semenya vs. IAAF
Japan to shut down nuclear plants if counterterror steps not taken in time
I didn’t think I suggested this necessarily went “more than 40,” only that “on” time might be hard to differentiate from “off” time, and that some activities that look like “off” (having dinner with teammates) might have real value while others that look like “on” (researching some tech framework that is irrelevant to the problem you are trying to solve) might be worthless.
> One charity I've supported for years keeps trying to have a "gala" in my honor. I tell them forget it, and for goodness sake keep me anonymous.

More than sounds like IMO...
> Time IS motion.

Relatively speaking, yes.

> There is nothing else to time except that; but it is real, as real as anything, it is not an illusion.

The article isn't claiming time is an illusion, only our perception of it flowing.
Ask HN: What papers and manuscripts are must-downloads before graduating?
I am completing a master's program at a public research university and will soon lose access to the vast resources that the library offers.

In your field, what are the must-read papers and manuscripts that I should consider downloading for future reading?

My interests (and papers pulled to date) skew towards economics, public policy and public administration, and risk analysis. I don't have a strong technical background (and limited exposures to the natural sciences), but would love to grab the seminal and influential works while they are available.
10% is totally realistic. The spread of salaries in the world spans a much greater range than 10%. I have given 10%+ of my salary to anti-malaria charities for years.
$800k for retirement seems very low...
Slide about major JavaScript engines internal. “How JavaScript Works?”
In case your are interested, the YunoHost project includes a fully-functional mail stack out of the box (modulo the DNS records which you must set in your registrar according to the recommended DNS conf provided by YunoHost ;))
"I'm a medical doctor" is, in most cases outside of hospitals and clinics, entirely superfluous to the issue at hand. And it's frequently less relevant than you might think inside a hospital or clinic. If you hear someone saying this in any situation outside a medical emergency, I hereby give you permission to deduct 1 point from their debate score.

I say this having also been a medical doctor for 10 years.
The systems they did use were very accurate for their time (as was the later British Oboe), despite the distances (and most of Britain is closer to occupied Europe than Eastern Germany is to Britain), so would not a spread-spectrum version be capable of similar accuracy, if the additional complications of implementation could be overcome? (and I am sure Germany's engineers were capable so doing.)

I think the countermeasures for Knickebein were deployed before the Coventry raid, but the frequency being used was not detected (by sending up 'sniffer' airplanes) that night.

According to Wikipedia, the interfering with Y-Gerät was mostly done at power levels too low to produce the 'ring-around', which was good enough to spoil the accuracy while not giving the game away, and leading the German engineers and technicians on a time-consuming and fruitless search for technical problems.
Emergency fund + max out tax-advantaged account contributions + your-age-in-bonds-percent low-expense-ratio index investing = great Bogleheads advice.

What's funny is a marine biology grad student in the article wondering how much they should be saving. Until one finishes that PhD, career investment and putting the, say, $100/month discretionary stipend funds towards healthy food and bicycle safety maintenance, rather than eating instant ramen noodles to save an amount that will make negligible difference in retirement, makes sense. (Or, if trust fund grad student, especially in a difficult field like marine biology, live like a grad student on stipend, and Bogleheads the rest.)
supporting those less fortunate, that's admirable.
Why is maintaining our current population level something we should shoot for? Arguably the world is already overpopulated, if you consider resource usage per person.
related topic: Elon's "Hyperloop" project has gained a lot of criticism too. Many [1] long video essays have been made to debunk why it's not a good invention.

Now the hype has died down considerably and it seems a lot of people have lost faith in the idea... maybe they're losing faith in all of Musk's ventures...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNFesa01llk
There are lots of incredibly smart people who believe in religion and believe their religion is the only true religion. Nine times out of ten their religion also happens to be the religion they were born into. If that example is too controversial, we can try another. There's plenty of smart people who voted for and still support Donald Trump.
In that case I might be wrong. I've only ever used Stripe as an end user, and each time I used it it just appeared to be a credit card form, with no accounts and no memory of previous credit cards I've entered (which is what I would want anyway).
These are actually a lot of fun to read. Kudos!
Let's say KaiOS today is owned by Mozilla with it's current user base. How does it help Mozilla ?

Does it help to keep the web open? Does it bring revenues to justify the risk and loss of focus ?
1965 scientist claims the moon is plasma, landing on it won’t be possible
* Decentralized, anonymized reputation management. Imagine an ebay score that couldn't be owned by ebay, or any another company.

There are about 500 articles every week about China's "social credit score" dystopia, and you want to put that on the block chain?
>That kind of lifestyle is just not worth it.

Different people have different tolerances. For some, a spartan lifestyle "costs" them nothing at all.
The self awareness to leave the stage before you're asked to.
No, they need to adjust the first-time penalties for deterrence. $50B at a minimum, because it has to hurt their stock price when they do these things. Or hey, how about a year of revenue.
> Otherwise, no, they bought your brain.

No, they rent some of it. Like a cloud host; you don't own the hardware, you're timesharing.

> The game theory is to find the people who believe this, and to get rid of people who don't.

Companies prefer to hire suckers if they can, yes.
"Low" is a relative term, and so we must ask "low compared to what?"
> It allows you to store and transfer value in situations where you either cannot obtain, or do not trust your available banking relationships.

This is already a small percentage of people but it’s smaller still when you realize that it requires full access to the blockchain network and a solid local network of people who accept it and/or convert into local currency at low rates, not to mention that since the model is so well-suited to support oppressive regimes you’re really only talking about people who live in countries which have collapsed into disfunction but not authoritarianism.

> You also have much, much lower fees for international remittance.

From whom? What are the actual rates?

> Risk that you improperly handle your private key and have your funds stolen.

This is a big caveat for most people since “handle improperly” actually means “never use buggy or untrustworthy software, get mugged, etc. The benefits listed above don’t apply to most people enough to be worth that big of a risk transfer.
I seriously hate 401k-s. I’ve got about 20 options to choose from and all of them tank if the market tanks. (This is what’s available through my employers plan) I should be able to specify that for the next 12-months I want everything going into precious metals, if I want. I think having to wait until retirement age for tax purposes is ridiculous as well. The street clearly benefits more from it than I do.
I'm not a huge fan of Elon, mainly because he puts himself forward as a lone genius inventor, when in reality there's hundreds of engineering teams below him accomplishing his goals...
How come I haven't experienced these downsides?
Tesla enthusiasts and analysts are entering uncharted territory
You must come from a very different world than some of us.
Police can use wiretapping devices, decrypt, record at prefectural HQs in Japan
I worked 100 plus for five years on Wall Street. I am still recovering after quitting that job five years ago.
Regardless of where you come down on the argument, that's a hell of an evocative graphic at the top of the article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JASON_(advisory_group)
Surely that counts as more productive work day? ;)
When you change jobs you can roll it over to a self directed IRA and do just about anything that doesn’t require margin.
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The biggest thing Sass annoys me is in Node.js environment, I have to choose either node-sass which depends on native module which require extra compilation or matched pre-built binary. Or I have to choose ruby-sass which depends on a global installation of Ruby. Both of the options are brittle.

For SPA I found it's easier to use CSS-in-JS solution like styled-component or emotion. Or for Typescript I just use typestyle.

For non SPA I usually go vanilla CSS for simple stuff and stylus for complex stuff.
> If you truly aren’t blocked then what’s the problem waiting a few hours?

Flow, possibly. Interleaving is frequently efficient, but it's not always best.
If you retire at 65 and live to 100, you’re supposed to live on $20k a year pre-tax (assuming you’re withdrawing from a pre-tax account like a 401k)?

That isn’t going to work.
It’s the same answer for the Fermie paradox: If they are out there we would see them... well what if we do? The problem is, people assume presence equals contact. However Steven Hawking was right that contact would be dangerous and stupid for any species bent on self preservation. Any sufficiently advance species would likely STFU.

I’ll posit a 5th option: The emergence of a super intelligent AI thats mastered certain technologies and is trying to hide its presence. Any sufficiently advanced technology would appear as magic/alien to us.

I also have always had a problem with the dismissal of FTL travel. “It cannot be therefore it must not be” is not at all sound logic given our history with technology. If you went back in time and gave the queen of England a nuclear submarine, could she reproduce it? Her best and brightest advisor would look at its propulsion system and declare “It cannot exist therefore it must not be what it appears because only the wind can move you through the water!” You’d be relegated to the same categories as the scientists who said traveling faster than sound was impossible. The standard model of physics IS WRONG and we know it, just like newtonian mechanics ultimately was wrong. Just because we cannot fathom FTL does not preclude its existence.
Do you think the industrial designers were actually involved in the engineering of the keyboard (the source of the issues) or just the aesthetics (which look fine)?
What is the practical difference(s) between those two scenarios?
You can open a personal 401k at a brokerage and then roll over the money in your employers plan to said account. Then you can invest in whatever you want (including ETFs that track precious metals if you want). Then you get the benefit of your employer's match, if they have one, plus making your own investments.
Breadcrumbs refer to the link/hierarchy list thing near the tops of pages which goes something like "org name > project name > issues" and you can click on one of those to go back to that level. I think you might be thinking of a different feature.
Allegedly stolen.
3% rule -> $24k per year. Pretty reasonable, I'd say.
I wanna hear more open discussion about immediate & retained mode approach.

For one imgui gains traction again, especially among game developers, simply as it gives a lot for the ease of compile, understanding, compactness of code, etc. You can really build complex tools out of it.

But there is one nasty elephnant - the state, and imgui's approach is to hide it somehow - it used be behind your __LINE__ (or __COUNTER__, stack.line in some langs), or maybe part of your label points to your data, and if you've had the bad luck of having same labeled names, then there is yet another workaround, something special hidden in there.

All in all, it seems like it's missing a language feature, and we are suddenly grasping on all kinds of tweaks to achieve that.

That, .. and layout.. Layout is damn hard in immediate language. It works by magic, and then your app might crash, and lock. No I'm not kiddin...

Then again I'm but a simple user of UI toolkits, never fully written one.
It implies living on a near-poverty income in retirement. To maintain a median salary you’d want twice that.
We're only required to share the history of care you have with us, which is easily achieved with a standard database. We communicate with other providers using standard protocols that are implemented by every EHR system.

I struggle to think of a use case for this in healthcare.
I did not know this! Thank you. It looks like I can do that yearly as well.
This is a terrible pun run. I will cleanse myself with a simple mantra:

Ohmmmmm...
Ohmmmmm...
Ohmmmmm...
Sell a tiny bit, buy a lot when it tanks, sell the new lot.
The fines also needs to be fair, not fixed cost. I think the EU has got the percentage-of-revenue approach right. A million dollar fine for a small company can be death-sentence while for a big player it is lose change, that is not fair.
Can Uber ever make money? A ride back through history offers sobering lessons
That Buttfinex is a sinking ship is practically written on the wall in blood. If people keep sending irrevocable (and often untraceable) cryto-assets to these dubious third-parties then they deserve to be robbed, IMO.

It's delicious irony given that Bitcoin was created as a solution to third-party trust. So the people who are using all these services really don't know a thing about what they're trading. To them its just some warped techo-nerd 'coin' to speculate on. I have no sympathy for that. Maybe these traders will be spoon fed a lesson on what it is they're trading after their shitty exchanges burn them for the twelfth time.

Before anyone mentions decentralized exchange as a solution, you'll find the same incompetent people behind those projects, too. We're talking people who don' understand how an order book works and abuse distributed system architectures for marketing reasons. DEX has even more problems than just security so it's not going to be a solution any time soon.

Kind of sad how nothing has changed since the first exchange went down six frigging years ago. Mark Karpelès was practically a genius compared to the CTOs designing some of these shitcoin on-ramps.
The GXT135P console graphics card in my IBM POWER6 server is a rebadged Matrox G450.
Samsung Forces iFixit to Remove Galaxy Fold Teardown
I think the main problem is we compete for these resources with them. And in many ways jam the ecosystem from reaching equilibrium so the bad years become more frequent and are not followed by good years at the same rate.
I watched the matrix when I was too young to understand much. But when I watched it a few years later it just hit me and this quote of Agent Smith has stayed on my mind
"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area"
Those numbers seem to assume none of it is invested...

You can get, averaged over several years, something like $50k/year from that.
China’s Debt Diplomacy
>cut their own hair

Actually many of us think is worth it. Take the price of that haircut, pay 10% compound interest on it for 60 years, then ask yourself if you really care what your hair looks like.

I used to spend money on these things when I was younger, but with a few decades of adulthood under my belt, I care less about nice haircuts and fancy cloths.

Now, time is more valuable that anything else in life, and financial independence buys me that time.

The notion that we should all sell ourselves as wage slaves so that we can afford a new iPhone every year is bonkers.

Reject it all. Live Free.
He is the most likely candidate.
Electron is basically "write a web app, package it with a browser, and call it a desktop app."

Ironically, Microsoft was one of the early adopters of the idea of "web technologies for desktop apps":

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