skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked for a startup that bought machines from System76. 2 out of 3 were defective and it was next to impossible to get technical support, though this was 7 years ago.

My laptop had a bad video chip.

My manager's desktop had either a bad SSD or a bad SATA bus.

I won't buy from them.
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I don't really get your comment. Yes, I didn't write any assignments in art history nor do I exactly know, what you actually learn from art history, but guessing from checking other peoples assignments, talking to people and looking at their lecture notes in similar field (e.g. communication science, ancient languages and archaeology) I assume that you basically have to read up some facts and then can go to any lecture you fancy and start contributing in a more or less meaningful way. You can't do that in CS or physics or engineering – it just won't work.

Note that I don't intend to belittle those kind of studies; if you put a lot of effort into it, you're most certainly reaching levels of conceptual understanding and a command of language I might never achieve in my life. If one gets "satisfaction"/"gratification" [whatever you need to keep going on a personal level (excluding modern day BS where these things are just used for justifying the continuing exploitation of labor)] from that, I'm all up to you pursuing it. Still, looking at the kind of person who idles similar studies while he/she's waiting tables at Burger-King, the whole idea of academic studies seems a little bit pointless (similar to the CS guys rushing college for the best paying IT-project management job) – though you probably also get to learn a thing or two about the way we live (contrary to the drones going for the highest-paying majors)
I’m somehow a bit prickled by this.

The ‘rest of the web’ had these banners for a long while before Google ever got around to adding it. My websites (and anything I worked on) certainly did.
Basically everyone right of Marx falls under "far right" to these groups in 2019...
Beyond Meat Prices IPO at $25 per Share: Source
IE6 had plenty of nasty vulns by the time this banner had gone up (06/14/2009): https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-26/p...

That said, the people with this access probably knew WTF they were doing.
Google is not a single entity. Chrome DevRel and Docs web front end are not even remotely related teams, and DevRel cannot dictate practices to other teams.
Why is the mercurial interface better than git? They're pretty similar in most cases besides the branching thing and a couple different commands
In those cases it never worked in the first place though. Nobody is in a position where they expect certain stuff to work because it never did.
You fell for the click-baiting trick of news reporting these days. And it clearly works, riling people up.
Epic has plenty of time to work out making their market more compelling, and I'd bet money they're working on mirroring a lot of steam features. They basically already have a Workshop model in place via their Unreal Engine market which also serves to get people making more games in their engine.

Gamers rage a lot, but they don't do much or stick to their guns often, so this strategy will be fine so long as Epic is working to address some issues. A few updates and patches, a few more games people simply must have, and nobody will remember why they raged.

I'm not thrilled with this, but I'm not going to stop playing Rocket League. I'm going to buy Borderlands 3 (and so are all my friends that grumbled about it being a time exclusive, and they'll buy it from Epic because we all want to play right out the gate together). I still remember people raging against Origin - most of them use it for the EA games they swore they'd never play again.
I would contend that the definition of the word "interface" is, in essence, interoperability.

> a point where two systems, subjects, organizations, etc. meet and interact.

An interface is that which allows two systems to work together, in conjunction. That is, interoperability:

> the ability of equipment or groups to operate in conjunction with each other.

Whether or not the intent of our legal code is to allow for drop-in-replacement interoperability of systems is something I have no domain knowledge with which to comment.
They're perfectly capable of introducing other DOS bugs that don't depend on bad markup.
Some of your bright shiny new businesses may need an artist who actually has half a hope of understanding what the hell you're talking about. Maybe that's me.

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Willing to relocate: probably not, I literally moved out of Seattle yesterday.

Technologies: I can draw my ass off. Mostly with Illustrator. Sometimes I animate too but I'm pretty rusty on that right now, if your project interests me enough I can blow the dust off my copy of Animate and make some HTML5 animations for you.

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I bought my 3rd system76 laptop/desktop a few weeks ago. Every time I shop around, I try to find something comparable, esp in terms of flexibility (their build-your-own feature is excellent)...but I can't.
> designed to prevent truly disruptive reform.

That's been my opinion, more or less the ACA was just to set the take by the Insurance/Health care parasites to 17% GDP no more no less.

Healthy SF was really about access and outcomes.
Tesla sneaks past Canada EV incentive law with cheap 93-mile-range Model 3
There's some good points here. I don't have a degree and, as a senior in their late 20s, find myself teaching things I consider basic to CS graduates.

I work in one of the big 5. I keep finding myself wondering why we have 50+ engineers on our team when we can never deliver anything on time. Everything we build feels cumbersome, over-engineered, and overly-reliant on bespoke internal tooling that nobody outside of our company uses. After coming from startup land and building infinitely more useful products in a 10th of the time with 1-pizza teams, I wonder how the hell this gargantuan company can move around $1B market cap on wall street when its so inefficient and full of incompetent engineers.

It genuinely feels like we've reached peak too-many-cooks. I keep expecting mass layoffs to cull the fat but they never come. We just keep hiring more and more and more.

This can't be sustainable.
Perforce is used all over the place in the games industry. Not sure how many game developers frequent HN though.
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To anyone thinking it was a good deed: please remember that later Google used similar techiniques against other browsers, like Opera. They showed a warning about an "unsupported browser" but if the user changed user-agent to Firefox or Chrome, everything worked. Another example is Web version of Skype which is very picky and doesn't work in many browsers, like mobile browsers, or slightly outdated Firefox.

For example, tomorrow Google can implement a DRM that would require a plugin that works on Windows, Android (with Google Play Services) or Mac, but not on Linux. After all, Linux is not a DRM-friendly system (allowing the user to hack anything is not what copyright holders want), and almost nobody uses it on desktop, so why bother supporting it? Or Google can use it against new, not yet very popular browser, to slow its adoption.
Plot twist: They already sold out. Epic Games was acquired by Tencent in 2012. It's one of the big Chinese companies, like Google in the US.
Caves are reasonably biologically inert once you get a bit deeper in simply due to the lack of sunlight. If you leave waste down there, it'll stay there for a long time and have a relatively large impact on the fragile cave microbiota. It's polite and considered responsible to pack it out, though on more hardcore expeditions it's not always possible to take all your urine back with you.

On the other hand, bolts don't tend to have any long term environmental impact apart from their presence and are already only placed when necessary anyway.
Whch alone is a sufficient response to your earlier question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19794993
Mercurial's interface makes more sense if you're migrating from a svn workflow, for example.
“Naks” Time to make personal chefs affordable and convinient
The food courts in the malls in Flushing, NY are also truly excellent - amazing, authentic Chinese food as well as some other East Asian cuisine. There are probably other ethnic enclaves around the US with good food courts.
You hate free money? Points are exactly that, as long as you pay off your credit card every month.
stop starting and start finishing

for normal people, yes it might be easier to have a part in something that's bigger than them.

But some really great projects had someone that owned it start to finish
Which easily explains the warning that was shown on docs. A misparsing of a new, never-before-seen user-agent string (especially one with an apparent typo) could lead the code to assume that the browser is indeed an older, no longer supported version.
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Most Americans are also financially illiterate. For every day purchases (not cash advances), it is always better to use a credit card that offers rewards points... as long as you plan on paying off your full balance every month. It's free money, period.
There is a significant argument for the list of traits that are protected from discrimination being restricted to only those that are inborn or innate, such as race, gender expression (as distinct from biological sex), sexual orientation, skin color, body size, physical features, et c.

Many things in our society operate better when we are permitted to discourage or encourage interaction with people or groups based on non-innate traits, such as choices made voluntarily as an adult.

Protected classes should be limited to innate traits only. Discriminating against people based on the decisions they undertake (e.g. going or not going to university, joining or not joining the KKK, donating or not donating to anti-gay-rights organizations, et c) is not only valid, it is actively beneficial to our society.

No employer should be forced to offer equal opportunity to an applicant that believes, for example, that that employer should be denied life or other rights based on the color of their skin. Mutual consent depends upon mutual respect for the basic and fundamental rights of the counterparty.
Exactly, it’s the Netflix problem all over again. Rather than competing on the quality of the platform, they’re just divvying up monopolies and fracturing the customer experience.

A different streaming platform for Netflix, Hulu, Disney, Universal, HBO, Amazon

A different gaming platform for Steam, Epic, Origin, UPlay

The real loser is the consumer
> One idea is that intestinal worms - which dampen immune reactions - could be more common and this may help protect the heart.

That worm infects most of the population:

> And about 70% of the population has a parasitic worm infection [Ascaris lumbricoides, a type of roundworm]. ... Up to a third of the world's population also lives with such infections.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-34857022

Before latching onto exercise or diet as the primary factors, it's worth considering the effect of this worm infection. It could influence the heart indirectly through nutrient flow, immune suppression as suggested for the original article or the one on pregnancy, or directly via for example larvae/segments, etc.

BTW, the lifecycle of this thing is the stuff of nightmares:

> Ascaris lumbricoides, a roundworm, infects humans via the fecal-oral route. Eggs released by adult females are shed in feces. Unfertilized eggs are often observed in fecal samples but never become infective. Fertilized eggs embryonate and become infective after 18 days to several weeks in soil, depending on the environmental conditions (optimum: moist, warm, shaded soil).[5]. When an embryonated egg is ingested, a Rhabditiform larva hatches then penetrates the wall of the duodenum and enters the blood stream. From there, it is carried to the liver and heart, and enters pulmonary circulation to break free in the alveoli, where it grows and molts. In three weeks, the larva passes from the respiratory system to be coughed up, swallowed, and thus returned to the small intestine, where it matures to an adult male or female worm. Fertilization can now occur and the female produces as many as 200,000 eggs per day for 12–18 months. These fertilized eggs become infectious after two weeks in soil; they can persist in soil for 10 years or more.[6]

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

Clearly, the juvenile state spends some time in the circulatory system, where it should have some opportunities to influence coronary artery calcium.

I looked for studies that examined the incidence of heart disease/CAC buildup among other infected populations but didn't immediately find anything.
Epic has F-You Money.

Epic needs users.

Epic bought publisher of a highly popular game their users.

Psyonix sold out, because at everything is has its price.

Expect Epic to forcibly migrate Rocket League Steam users. They will turn RL Steam into an Epic launcher and all current RL Steam users are suddenly Epic users.

For Psyonix and Epic there is no real downside. If you care about this decision, you're not in their demographic, and probably didn't help them generate their F-You Money.
Edge76 vs. Edge18 vs. Chrome
Estimate the cost of the energy inputs per gallon of gasoline. Account for the inefficiency and you get $15-20/gal.
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That's what I was thinking, it reminds me of the recent EU case where Google got fined for saying that if a phone manufacturer wanted to sell Android with Google integrations (Play Store, Search, etc.), they couldn't also sell Android phones without Google integrations.
The food is often secondary. Sometimes I want to sit in nice surroundings with interesting people and know that someone else is going to think about presenting me with good food I might not have thought to try myself, and a staff exhibiting a high degree of professionalism will bring it to me. Often, that place is in a location with high rent (for the restaurant, and the staffs' landlords), so it's not cheap.

Sometimes I want pizza and beer, and that can be 100% as good, too. Usually cheaper if only because it's more efficient, though.
Another fun one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXIDFx74aSY
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Microsoft sort of try with “Windows Signature.”

https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/microsoft-signature-editi...
For a quick config change or versioning that one shell script keeping a server running when it encounters that one weird error every full moon there is also still RCS readily avaiable almost everywhere. Saved us so many headaches over the years.
Have you purchased a Lenovo lately? I've not had good luck with them. Despite 2 returns for service my Thinkpad T500 remained with a loose charging connector. My next Lenovo (notably not a Thinkpad) was a Y50 Ideapad. Audio to the speakers failed, the housing developed cracks at the hinge. The Ethernet connector broke (though used very little.) and now the SD card slot has failed.

I'm giving Dell a try. You can buy them with Ubuntu factory installed or buy with Windows and 'slap the distro of your choice' on it. I have an XPS-13 9370 and after nearly a year, the WiFi finally seems to be working reliably (using Debian Testing.)
firstly - thank you for supporting the project :)

wrt the security practices on the old infra; yes - clearly they were major screw-ups. all I can do is spell out what we did wrong, and that we are painfully aware of the errors, and what we are doing to fix it going forwards.

> why wasn't the matrix.org infrastructure fixed before launching a new product.

because we put all our energy into getting modular sorted properly to try to increase $ to fund the team, rather than tidying up the old infra, with the expectation of eventually moving matrix.org over to the new hosting infra RSN.

> Though I'm surprised that you seem to see public offerings of Matrix homeservers to be a negative

It's very much a positive from the protocol's perspective. But from the painful practicality of keeping the team funded, it's a problem to spend time supporting Librem-specific issues if there's no $ to cover the time, as it just ends up sucking time from the core project. There is a massive risk of the tragedy of the commons here. In other words: from the perspective of keeping the team paid to work on Matrix as their day job, we'd rather users bought Matrix hosting from providers who funnel some of the revenue back to the core team. Hopefully Purism will end up doing so.
It's still ubiquitous on the Web, would be a shame if we lost all those discussions
Clever. Perhaps unappreciated is the athleticism of the drivers:

> It was more work for the drivers, but Coulthard says he adapted quickly: “It was a switch to choose left and right, and an additional pedal,” DC recalls. “Racing drivers, if they have to sing the Russian national anthem backwards while juggling grenades, and it gives them a tenth, they would do it! The competitive animal that you are, nobody would say something is too difficult if it gave you performance.”

I’m a decent stick shift driver and I can’t imagine dealing with four pedals. I’m sorta surprised they didn’t do it with a pair of handbrakes, like in the XC trial cars mentioned but maybe taking your hand off the wheel is too much of a disadvantage in F1?