skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the config files are (IMHO) much more discoverable than most GUIs, usually the default config has the default settings commented out along with a block of comments explaining them. A lot of GUI apps I've used have really crappy settings dialogs that don't explain things well and aren't searchable. But it's really the individual app, both can be done nicely or poorly, config files are often easier to implement and copy between machines and app versions (at least that's the feeling I've gotten.) And at least with config files there's something to google. GUIs change even more often (there are even fewer reasons to keep them stable than config file syntax.)

Also you're not really supposed to read through the entire man page for an app that you only touch once or twice, you're supposed to just search for what you need and leave.

My personal opinion is that GUIs are often less user friendly, they just look friendlier. GUIs make it easier to sell software, not to use it. Free software isn't being sold and that's why it tends to not have a GUI.
Windows 95 stable? Never ran out of GDI handles and had Win95/98 crashing? Yeah right...
Easy; run Windows XP, IE, ActiveX in a virtual machine. Use Linux as your main OS.
Thanks for the reply and explanation. You’re convincing me to at least try it.

I want to understand first-hand by using Pijul what you mean by not needing rerere and having no such thing as a bad merge. Do you mean it’s not possible to make merge mistakes, or just that the default choices made by the version control system are never wrong? The only times I’ve ever needed rerere are when I made mistakes rebasing or resolving merge conflict, and I had to roll back and do a bunch of them again. In that case, I chose to manually undo my merge, so rerere is just saving time from having to repeat all of my decisions when only a few were wrong.

I like the idea of Pijul being better at blame. Of course the main thing that needs to happen is tooling. Git’s blame has been fine but the UI for it stinks. This is maybe the feature I miss from Perforce the most; the blame UI in P4V is superlative compared to git.
The "google couldn't care less" part I address in the post as well: I'm well aware that my site by itself will never have any significant impact.

As for how it encourages anyone to do anything: one site is not enough, but if a few people do this, the word starts to spread that you might need to try another search engine to find the more obscure things on the internet. People here seem to like the idea (judging by its positioning in the thread), and a lot of the tech community reads this. A few minutes ago, someone reached out via chat because they recognized my username. Those are the people that also make decisions at google or friends of people that make those decisions.

I understand where you're coming from, but I think it's more like voting than like your taxation comparison: your vote never matters, why bother? You don't have a voice in the government. None. But still, people vote. Collectively, we can make a difference.
Are you saying the person with the medical emergency who becomes homeless was always homeless? Otherwise perhaps I didn’t understand your reply.

Regardless you’re right it’s not a simple dichotomy. Similar to how if you’re living in a new Airstream, chances are you aren’t the same sort of homeless as someone in a runned down camper with little cash flow or savings.
Trader Joe's is garbage though? The produce and meat are poor or almost nonexistent and afaik they don't even have a bulk section so I can't buy spices, rice, beans, etc
San Francisco’s homeless population swells by 17% in latest tally
Same for me, although it might be because I also switched to Linux in parallel. XP was just perfect and there was no reason to change, yet 7 came along and if you want the best protection you need to be up to date. While 7 didn't bring anything for me beyond different skins, it did its job.

Windows 10? Man I feel like I'm on an ad-infested website and I need to be careful of where I click. But I'm definitely not objective here.
On mobile so can't source it for you now, but it originated either in a translation of General L'Hotte or Baucher. However you would be surprised how many words and usages cannot be found on Google or in modern dictionaries.

What people call self confidence comes from experience or beliefs, and few people who encounter it can tell the difference.
Great writeup. I found the defensive FAQ at the end funny -- really speaks to the prematurely critical culture of software dev in these forums.

On related note, does anyone else prefer panning desktop-sized pages on mobile devices? Given that they're usually touch devices it feels natural to pan around the regular desktop-sized page and pinch in to zoom on parts you're interested in. Like in this case I'd probably prefer panning to the single row collapsing and taking most of the screen space on mobile. Generally mobile/tablet screens feel like they're really good at exploring a larger-than-device canvases so its not obvious to me why so much effort goes into mobile-only views.
There is a certain "The Machine Stops" [1] sense to it. I have mixed feelings. I can get very little rapid delivery where I live. Sometimes, I wish I could just order some takeout, but it's not necessarily a bad thing that I get forced to either go out myself or make a meal at home.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
You don't have to do that on StackOverflow (and other StackExchange sites). It is explicitly encouraged to answer your own questions, or put in other words: to share your knowledge in a Q&A format.
Customers find these services valuable enough to pay their prices, and services optimize for that audience. But what would be your ideal price for a personal blog?
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That article links at the bottom to the original source, https://www.sapiens.org/column/curiosities/ancient-roman-bat...
Not my experience with Eats at all. Refunds always, no questions except during a brief stint I was asking for a lot of refunds in a short time. YMMV.
Not the parent, but I think their general idea is that you can't give a tax break if there's no tax to give a break on.
Ask HN: Licensing and royalties
I’m currently working on a platform for software licensing and royalties management.
I have made a few assumptions, which I want to validate with the community.
This is why I want to ask you some questions:

1. What methods are typically used to attract and retain best developers?

2. How software vendors build their “employer branding”, how they try to distinguish themselves on the job market?

3. How often developers (or other contributors) retain their author’s rights?

4. How often they are paid royalties (money based on the actual income from a product)?

5. How big is the problem of piracy / license abuse in the industry?

6. How popular is the crowdfunding model in software development? What are the obstacles of bigger adoption of such financing model?

I’ll be very grateful if you share your answers and opinions.

Regards Tomek
Java Is Still Free 2.0.3
If I understand correctly, we are talking about taking a well maintained distro and continuously updating it? Why? If the idea is to save money why would the govt build its own version? And I don't mean a Korean theme, I mean a full version

Building a one time theme or anything of that sort is okay, I think. But it'll be costly to maintain a distro
Have you been using it since its first release?
I find it surprising you hadn't heard about MS Office if you were already using Hancom.
Not really. I worked in a Winn-Dixie in high school during the pre-barcode era. The products were marked with a price gun that applied a sticker. But of course, sometimes the can of corn didn't get a sticker or the sticker fell off, so you learned what the price was to avoid holding up the line while you called for a price check.

Side-effect: I would have cleaned up on "The Price is Right" if they'd let a kid on the show, since I knew what everything cost.
Windows 7 with IE11 currently seems to be the sweet spot. Even in Korea, using XP has been frowned upon for a few years now :)
American chicken taste like that because it's raised in a cage, fed nutritionless corn, and bred for sheer size. It's not worth eating.
Wooosh
I've been using startpage lately and seem to prefer it to DDG, but they both can give inferior search.

At the risk of being repetitious, I think what I'd like is a completely private search engine that uses only a self-curated list of websites. A year or two of googling and using the good results from that would probably fix me for some time. As usual, switch to google if the results aren't good.

Getting rid of the cruft would be a nice thing.
Okay. Maybe a theme would be good. A full blown distro would be costly
Cooking meals at home probably takes fewer resources and creates less waste overall.

However, assuming that there's driving involved in either case, I wouldn't think having an order delivered from a big facility is much different from you going to a restaurant and picking up takeout.
Nice theme, I built one some months ago I found none to my taste, so I modified my own

https://xaviondono.com/

Now I just need to start writing
This always baffles me. It's significantly less secure than rot13 (similar in its idempotence) and it seems to me that any curious mind would identify the letter shapes, notice that they're backwards, and soon work it out. Was this actually a mystery, or was it merely a foil that would prevent comprehension if somebody only got a glimpse?
And yet nothing is as common as pirated windows. Even one of the displays in an airport crashed and there was a bsod
I use them for garbage - I don’t have any left to reuse.
The DTC/DNVB playbook vs. the Amazon online shop model
It's pretty easy to replicate my problems with image search and I suspect what the problem might be.

They have a proxy (just like google) so they don't directly load the images you search for, they make their servers load the images and then send you a proxified version. If you search for obscure terms, they won't have a cached version available so they will have to request it from the actual server, and that makes all images take a while to load. On the other hand Google always keeps the images cached so they can serve them instantly.
Yes. Did you reply in good faith or not a native English speaker? Or maybe it’s an American thing?

Otherwise, the usage is pretty normal. If I had used “fight” would you also say did I mean to help? Since that’s an incredibly common word to use and it’s also technically an aggressive word.
Hopefully it does
Where do those figures come from? They appear to be completely inaccurate. Looking here [1], while there has certainly been a reduction in fatalities over the past 30 years, it's not even close to 10x. Maybe 2x or 4x. As far as miles travelled, there has been at best a 2x increase over the past 30 years, at least for the US[2].

Airline travel certainly has become safer, at least on a per-mile basis, but 100x safer? That's fantasy.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_accidents_and_inciden...
2. https://www.bts.gov/content/us-passenger-miles
The thing is, the software automation wasn't badly designed and badly implemented. This isn't like Boeing's non-redundant MCAS system - a huge amount of engineering work was put into making every part of the system redundant and robust against erroneous data from a failing component and verifying that it worked as intended. It's just that some really weird, rare failure mode that no-one anticipated or ever found the cause of somehow created a data pattern which foiled all those checks.
Doesn't seem that different to DDGs (with different search providers), could you highlight the difference that makes them "way better"?
> This is not the packing area though.

Yeah but if you pack fast enough and have your bags already open on the trolley then you can it done at the till.
Yeah, I've used H.ngeul since 1990 -- version 1.2 I think. MS Word already existed, of course, but I didn't hear about it nor actually get to use it until a few years later. I was a kid and didn't have internet back then, so news was slow :p
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I lot of people prefer 7. I am not a fan of the forced upgrades or saas model. I don't want to upgrade which breaks this or that and you can't not upgrade unless you have the pro version.

I think a lot of people were fine with 7.
Having just recently returned from Kolkata, India ... I agree the chicken tastes so much different, and better.

The bananas too ! No comparison to the bananas in the US.
Maybe it helps to know that I'm a Vim user and I notice the difference it makes when having to move my hand to the mouse (or even the arrow/home/page-up keys) to position my cursor as opposed to using Vim key bindings?
Searching an esoteric error message with lots of search terms never returns anything relevant on DDG, so that's usually when I add the !g.

> A critical feature though is that “g!” to Google will never return AMP pages;

Why is that?
The parent asked about Low End Stock, not about Netlify
I imported a Toto Washlet from Japan for this very reason. When you get literal shit on your hands, do you wipe it, or wash it? Why is your ass different?
Toyota rebukes Trump for sending message that carmaker 'not welcomed' in U.S.
great point, but at that point you have to trust google with your data.

and if you are taking this action in protest, you probably don't.

if you don't serve the data at all, whether or not to respect your "noindex" is imposed on google, rather than being a suggestion (like "do not track" in the chrome browser; we all know how that turned out)
Well, Brazil has crazy labor laws. You see a worker in court? The worker will win.

In the end it was not worth it for Foxcon. And I think a terrible outcome for Brazil. Electronics are absurdly expensive there (Think import tax 1, import tax 2, import tax 3 and in the end taxes on the import taxes. No kidding).

Stuff is often three times the price of western prices. At least in the past. It was common for people to ask you to sell them you used Laptop/iPhone/mp3 player.
I agree that I would like more energy. If it was limitless you could do all sorts of things that are not really worth it today. Imagine being able to have a hot water tank at the back of your property just because it is nice to wash your hands with warm water. Or to keep your bathroom floor always heated. May as well get a hot tub can finally afford to power that year around. I could go on forever if I had cheap energy. So as you say energy consumption may go up if made possible.
Your argument there does exactly nothing to counter the criticisms in the paper I cited. It's totally irrelevant.
Sorry, I meant "is definitely not"
That's pretty much what Google wants to do to the people they envision living in Panopticon Village, which makes the downvotes you're receiving kind of funny.

Maybe it was the suggestion that Google turn the cameras and sensors inward that triggered people?
I store these in an archive in my syncthing directory. I don't have to think about running out of space on mobile or too much cost for the cellular downlink.
I wonder why so many articles today have so many words but yet so little content? This one has a mile-long introduction. The headlines question could have been answered in rather few words. I feel a short answer had satisfied me. To make it even more frustrating to me the article teases different but-wiping techniques used today without telling me which ones. Thanks for that...

I said I wonder why, I guess that was a lie. It's about having marketable content, "making the reader feel related to the situation", etc. It does strike me as bad practice though, especially when it comes to actual news. Sometimes I read an investigative piece and think to myself that it might be over soon, after all what could the author possibly have left out at this point, only to take a look at the scrollbar and realize I am at 50%. I wished for a bit more brevity, not the brevity of leaving out facts for the short clickbaity stuff but leaving out all the unnecessary filler material.
I imagine it's easier for an IT department to address issues pretty quickly and remotely.
The main thing that made me go back to google is the smart results they offer. I search enough for things like "champions league", "PSG vs Inter", "Warriors", "US Open" expecting the smart result at the top (the little widget that embeds the info I want). Switching to DDG I missed that too much and decided to go back to google.
You could also use my comment in good faith and not turn it into some underlying negative hit piece. The same could be done to a number of your recent comments by taking a word or phrase out of context or from obliviousness (like fear mongering) — when you were clearly not using them in negative ways.
That principle extends readily to virtualy all plant-based foods.
Oh. Thx. That's a nice find. I started to play with Gatsby a couple of weeks ago. I want to do / maintain my CV via markdown and a straightforward static site.
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True.

Many things are becoming more and more homogenous globally - but I found that weddings, funerals, and indeed toilets appear to be somewhat resistant to that creeping homogenisation.

Many regions don't really use toilet paper, such as Iran, parts of Indonesia, etc. Personally, I like to have it handy, though in case of emergency pages from a Lufthansa flight plan work (try that with an iPad... (and yes, flight plans were printed and freely distributed decades ago)).

More importantly though, many many regions provide an opportunity to wash with water, either via a separate bidet, or built into the toilet ("washlet", as famously in Japan), or with a hose (bidet shower) next to the toilet. A revelation.

If you think about it, using only dry toilet paper is really rather primitive and disgusting. When I build a house, it'll have a German washing machine and dryer (maybe Korean), and a Japanese toilet.
I've never understood the clamour for rolling a new distro. Maintaining an apt/yum repository and creating a meta-package or package group should be more than enough.
Researchers Train AI to See Like Humans Do
But you can always just add a !g and still get the smart results.
On first glance, that doesn’t seem like a terrible offer for that level of experience, but you haven’t really said enough to fully evaluate.

What are you building for them? What skills are you bringing? Distributed systems expertise? AI/ML? What’s the job? Are they able to find hundreds of people to do it, or are you special?

What industry are they in, and how do they make money? How’s your work going to contribute to that? What’s your value to them? What doesn’t get done if you’re not doing this job?

What other aspects are there to the offer itself? Offers are a tapestry, and salary is a key element but rarely the whole story. Do they subsidize/contribute towards private healthcare, dental and/or optical/vision? Is there a variable or defined bonus system? Do you get any stock/equity compensation, if so are they public and what’s the value of that to you after sale and taxes? Provide or contribute towards a vehicle? Education allowance? Company-paid travel and expenses to conferences? Commuter benefits, do they pay for train/tube costs? Workplace cafeteria with free breakfast, lunch or dinners? Laundry and dry-clean service?
Pretty harsh:

> Last year, the firm's own privacy adviser Dr Ann Cavoukian resigned. "I imagined us creating a smart city of privacy, as opposed to a smart city of surveillance", she said bluntly in her resignation letter.
Not sure, but ...

Pro-Tip: If you come to the US, please throw poopy toilet paper in the toilet and not the little trash can next to the toilet which is meant for women's hygiene products.
Autopilot Written in Tensorflow for Self Driving Cars
Great to hear! That's really good news: hopefully is the same thing in the US, about product quality! I used Aldi in London, UK but always felt weird about it, could never understand how they could have such low prices. This article and comments opened my eyes!
Oh you were referring to lowendstock.com. Yeah, you'll need to be careful when considering low-end price VPS providers in general. Some can certainly be fly-by-night. You can find reviews and discussion at lowendtalk.com and lowendbox.com.

Here's some that are for sure legit and been around for a long time though (does not imply necessarily that providers not listed are not legit though):

Ramnode
BuyVM
Securedragon
Lowendspirit

I personally use BuyVM and Netcup.eu.
Come on, this is not accurate. My wife, a journalist employed in the local university and my mother, a shop owner, use Ubuntu every day and have never used the terminal. The demographic that has needs more advanced than the basic desktop functionality will indeed use AskUbuntu and the terminal, but we have to recognize ourselves as niche. Most office workers will use a browser and very little else.
Does a bidet really clean you?

Did you buy one in the states?
Sorry, I continue calculating from 2000 because it's easier, but the errors bars of that are starting to grow. Make it 50 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety#/media/File:19...

In any case, the larger point should be undeniably clear. Air travel is getting safer and safer.
The Livestock Living at the End of the World
> unwilling to take on debt, while working 40 hours a week and living at home.

Does community college cost that much now?

I went to community college, lived at home and worked less than 40 hours a week without debt. I just checked and they charge about $800 per semester to county residents, which sounds even less than what I paid.
I've always felt STEM as yet another compartmentalization of people that create from the business side that manages to own all of the profits from said object/process the STEMs create. A business education is essential to anyone with larger than a job ambitions, so why is an MBA level education not a critical component of a STEM education? Seem like a critical oversight, or intentional for some odd valued reason.
Seriously. Especially camping, where the choices are: carry around TP and then some used TP, or, just use water.
Is that the metric we should use? Who would even bother trying to start a YouTube alternative? Does Google break out YouTube’s financials in their quarterly? They don’t. How do you compete with a bottomless wallet?
FYI: those looking for quality vegetables in Germany buy at the "market" (traditional place with sellers and producers coming with trailers once or twice a week). Maybe not anymore in Berlin, where this tradition may have been stopped during the time when the city was isolated from its surrounding agricultural suppliers (west), or vegetables were only available through "Konsum"-style socialist unit stores, if at all (east).
As an Indian, I too had this WTF moment. It makes me wonder why paper is still used in the western world. Makes one wonder if there is a TP lobby out there ? We used to make jokes what if a TP user have diarrhea, how many trees will that be ?

If a bird shits on your hand will you use paper or water to clean it ? Its just that simple to comprehend. Just use water damn it. Cheap, hygienic, no left overs and green too !
You chose the second worst option. (The first being tables for layout).
> So you’re accusing me of something I didn’t intend just because I didn’t ask my question in the way you would have liked

Even if you had asked your question "in HN's way" it would not have been liked. The polite veneer is just that ... a veneer. HN including its moderator has their own ideological bias (for example, there is a bias towards plant-based diets) and they will downvote or flag posts they don't agree with it, no matter how nice you phrase it.
I enjoyed your comment, but would have appreciated it even more if some of the words had said what the Romans used instead of making me look at the TFA.