skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say you can't code and can't focus. But what specifically stops you? How far have you gotten?

Without knowing, here are some general ideas:

1. Stop expecting to understand the program at the "macro level" and the "micro level" at the same time - just accept that there will always be some unknowns. For instance, don't think about how the processor or memory works while just writing a few lines of Python to read a file.

2. Try to understand the code's structure and flow rather than specifics - do you understand how functions call each other, how module systems work, etc?

3. Try to start with an existing open source project and then modify it to your liking. As you dig around figuring out where your changes go, you'll appreciate more about how it all comes together
Won't try to justify that Microsoft is no longer as bad as it was in 90s, but IMO Google needs competition.

TBH I miss 90s and early 00s when we had many search engines to choose from. They were only helping using the Internet instead changing it to make it more profitable for themselves.
Yes and in London it's still significantly more expensive than grabbing food from a brick and mortar restaurant IME. It's crazy that they do not produce the food on restaurant premises, do not have to pay normal London rents and are still more expensive than normal restaurants, even when including delivery by restaurants which offer their own delivery. Is that extra money all going to their drivers?
What David Halberstam Learned in Mississippi
Ah fair enough. I didn't want to do too much digging lest they do get someone to investigate
You mean the late 20-teens? They are being sold now...
If there are no third party plugins, then you don't have plugins - its an internal architectural decision, not relevant for the end-users.

Having plugins means anybody should be able to create one.

I remember vagrant has support for all historic plugins versions no matter the current API version. This is rare goodness but prevents only one type of problem - inability to update the core.
You prefer
10 Ways Roman toilet practices were weird! Number 2 will shock you!?

No thanks, I like a conversational story. This Wis written like how the author would tell it live. Humans remember things best when there is a bit of narrative to root the facts to.
Here's my WTF moment. My grandmother told me, she was born in 1901 as a kid on a rural PA farm. They used pages from a Sears wish book or dried corn cobs,out at the old out house!
Another case of OS security architecture failure.

If your job is to design such systems, please read up on the long neglected capability security [0]. They are one of the lessons learnt from the first timesharing systems built in the 1970s.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security
In my experience, "senior" in a title means the individual is capable of planning tasks for themselves and a small team with minimal or no supervision. A senior developer doesn't wait to be assigned a task; they identify a problem, check for existing solutions or efforts to fix it, then go about implementing and iterating based on peer feedback. I really believe the distinction isn't always technical in nature, but certainly in attitude and willingness to get things done on one's own.
Absolutely, I wouldn't call TP "green" either.
> Try using your right pinky to press shift when typing a bang.

That's the way I do it, and I'd have thought the only way to do it.... you assign fingers to keys, and if you need the shifted key, you use the other hand to press shift and the original designated finger to hit the key itself. The way GP describes it sounds painful.
Aliexpress for Android Latest Version 7.4.0 – APK
The opposition to this is not just from the privacy perspective, there's also the issue of data ownership, and giving all this data away to Google for free. And once it's owned, both cities and citizens lose all control and oversight - you can't get yourself removed from the dataset, impose restrictions on how this personal data will be used, etc.

There are some good quotes in this older Reuters story (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-cities-privacy-fea...):

> The proposal amounts to “permanent surveillance” and “massive data scraping” under the guise of fighting climate change, he said. “They are conducting an experiment in real time, in the real world: the privatization of our cities on a large scale. They will have intellectual property rights over all of this (data).”

> “We live in a system that values property rights,” Orasch told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “In that system, data is a valuable asset for an individual to have.”

And the developer asking for investment money and a cut of property taxes, on top of gathering all this private data and owning it forever without oversight, is just icing on the cake. :)
Exactly. The downfall of Sears began with indoor plumbing and high-gloss paper in their catalogs.
Except that violent crime in the US has been falling for decades...
This misrepresents it, at least in my disappointing experience. The jet is nowhere near powerful enough to spray off poop. You are going to be getting most of it with your fingers and the jet just helps wash it away.
As a father I found the tangent about the kids doing their business on a family vacation relatable, funny, pleasant, joyous. You may find it extraneous but others of us are enjoying the odd tangents in our lives.
There is no difference between those last two things. Every time someone talks about a Smart City, I keep thinking back to the horrifying Secret Project video from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri - "The Self-Aware Colony". That's what I fear life will be like in a "Smart City".
Another self recursive title
Personally narrative only helps me remember when I care about it, which usually isn't the case when I read this kind of article.

For me the endless fluff around the information is just wasted time.
One more self recursive title
Canada is like this little brother always in America's big shadow. One thing we don't talk about as much is how we have this recurring fear that big American corporations think, "oh this won't fly in the U.S. but just use Canada. They're simple and slow and will tolerate it."

I guess put simply, the little brother is worried he'll get exploited. It's partly why the fight for NAFTA and tariffs got so bitter.
1. Yes, and that proxying provides value (privacy)

2. There's more to it, such as the bangs, keyboard-based result selection, etc.
Brakes, or a strong motor.
They are, even with autopilots in general-aviation airplanes that commonly have a disable button on the control yoke, a button on the panel, and a circuit breaker to cut George's power.
"who will need to approve them before the plane can start flying again."

Yes, thanks. I guess I pass for now.
Mastodon may not “save” us but I find it to be enjoyable. Smaller communities can actually be moderated properly, and not everything is always about collecting data, pleasing advertisers, etc. It feels more like a real internet community again.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19948113
I don't know. In general, it's advisable to write your code first largely ignoring performance considerations, just do the simplest/most readable thing, then profile it and see where it bottlenecks.

So, that's the best general wisdom I know. Don't even bother trying to guess where you'll have performance problems. Profile it.
You have it all backwards. Companies shouldn't be making custom interview processes just for you. That hurts the accuracy of the process.
“Turkish devil”, indeed; note the irony, the title of the person who wrote the purported letter is “Kosh otaman”, a title with a Turkic word:-)

There’s confusion between “Kazakh” and “Cossack”, much was at stake on definitions like this, especially in earlier times when Turanic ideas were en vogue. Tolstoy’s novel is about the people mentioned here, who are Christian.
The western toilets we're talking about are flushed with water, so this seems to be a non-issue.
I had similar experience, at least in my case, I think it is just due to being used to Google. Most of the time I issue !g (when DDG results aren't that good) Google also gives not much better ones.
crank handle with a translation?
“Any government might be worried about malicious information like malware reaching military installations and critical water and power grids, or fake news influencing the electorate.”

The recent moral panic about fake news and conspiracy theories in the US is making authoritarian, Chinese-style internet censorship acceptable.
Yes it is, if <insert your favorite expensive car here> is the same price as your Hyundai (that is, free). If however you moved because you found Google's results to be inferior, then that is a perfectly valid reason.

As for the "something else" gain, my concern with this is that it is only claimed, not observed. You don't know what DDG does with your data, you have their word for it. You might think that they don't use your data because you don't see personalized results, but what people forget is that DDG is not a search engine in itself but rather a wrapper around other search engines: Bing, and the Russian search engine Yandex. At least Bing does not provide personalized search results as-a-service.
For the projects I use, Flexbox gets it done 95% of the time. Just occasionally Grid is the better method.

The only thing I can think of off the top of my head is that if you're doing something programmatically and don't know how many items will appear in a grid, then Grid is better because Flexbox doesn't handle orphans well.

Some have suggested using the margin-right: auto; trick, but it doesn't always work if you have your elements even moderately styled with padding and borders and such.

If there was something like justify-content: space-between left-hanging; or justify-content space-between right-hanging; that would be ideal.
I’ve been self hosting word press for my blog since 2006. What made you switch? And why do you like it better?
It is integrated in a washlet/electronic bidet/japanese toilet, but in Europe, you still commonly see bidets as separate ceramic bowls.
I probably missed something very obvious as it's not defined in the article but what is BPF?
The French police uses a custom distro based on Ubuntu 16.04: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu
Understanding Compilers, Featuring Swift
I don't think anyone would describe their prototype as quiet. Have you seen their test flight video? It sounds like a jet.
I love Three.js, but without UDP support in the browser, making most multiplayer games with it is just not feasible yet, sadly.
I think nowadays they mix in some results from other search engines, but it started out as just Bing results. Doesn't change the point about it being just a proprietary interface to other proprietary search engines.

> We do use results from Bing. Our zero-click info and some other stuff we do, however, uses results from all over.[0]

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20180910181021/https://duck.co/f...
Best example I am aware of is from Penn Manor SD in PA, but others exist.

[1] https://opensource.com/education/14/9/interview-charlie-reis...

[2] https://lancasteronline.com/opinion/editorials/penn-manor-s-...

[3] https://technology.pennmanor.net/open-source-in-school/
We are still waiting for the chancellor's decision if he is going to end this government. Kickl and Hofer have to resign too and the prosecution should definitely look into the association they used to channel campaign money into their accounts!
Let's see how wise this boy of a leader is!
Today, toilet paper is ubiquitous in Western cultures; it’s a US$9.5 billion-a-year industry in the United States. Americans, in their typical excess, use more than 50 pounds per person per year! About 1.75 tons of raw fiber are required to manufacture each ton of toilet paper. That doesn’t seem sustainable, and frankly, I’m surprised that people haven’t protested more as a result.

Given these numbers and the marketing efforts behind them, it’s hard to argue that the use of toilet paper is somehow natural. On the contrary, toilet paper is nothing more than a technology. So the next time you’re enjoying a morning constitutional, think about the fact that defecation and urination are more than biological functions; they are cultural activities that involve artifacts and technologies that change through time.

My takeaways:

* Lots of opportunity in taking on the "dirty jobs" that don't get the glamor.

* Something so ubiquitous and integral to our daily lives is a relatively recent introduction... It's not "perfect," nor "finished;" thinking about this mainstay as a piece of technology that can be made better holds opportunity.
This is why the assumption that market forces and competition will be favorable to consumers is a sham. There is no counter to shameless greed which is now directly impacting consumers who are actually paying more than earlier but on a piecemeal basis.
The Plight of the Junior Software Developer
Make Money on Pinterest with Amazon
The mechanical part seems easy enough. Tricky to calculate the appropriate force, but I’m sure the aerodynamics people are more than up to the task.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Packet_Filter

A small bytecode VM for filtering data.
Same, I think it might be something psychological like being used to the Google page.
> They also tried that in many countries, they all go back to using Windows.

uhh... no, here in France a lot of public infrastructure runs on linux.
"a smart city built from the internet up "

I really don't understand the appeal of statement.
The trick, at least for the hose based system, is to put your finger in front of the stream to increase pressure.
Munich did it this way: 100% Linux, no compromises - they didn't even had an central Active Directory so if you required Windows due to software in your part of city government you were on your own - no central updates! They also forced everyone on an ancient OpenOffice 3.x version with KDE 4.x and KMail? That Munich migrated back has less todo with Linux or Windows or Microsoft politics (maybe..) but more with badly run infrastructure and in-fighting and big egos there. Sadly. That there is such a huge group of Linux proponents that cry foul and suspect some conspiracy is not really helping...
Can you tell us more about how you've been trying to learn?

If you've been reading random articles on the web and going to Stack Overflow whenever you need to figure something out, it might help to do something with more structure, such as working through a book on a particular language, or doing one of the introductory college CS courses that are available online. These will present material in an organized sequence and give you a foundation to build on.

Also, learning this stuff takes time and practice. There are things you won't understand the first time you see them, which you'll eventually understand after having read more and written more code.

Finally, don't jump the conclusion that something is "wrong with you". We live in a world filled with many distractions, and even if you don't have ADHD it can be hard to sit down and focus on something hard. Focusing on hard stuff is difficult, so you may need to gradually build a habit of doing it, starting with short periods of focus and working your way up. And you won't be able to focus if you're being interrupted by your phone beeping every few seconds, so try turning off distracting devices while you're learning.
I know a guy who had been offered a job at one of the facilities, but they kept delaying and delaying the start date for months. There's been a lot of local politicians talking about how and the deal was and undoing it so it could be that Foxconn doesn't want to deal with dumping even more money into an area with political instability. Like, they did go thru the hassle to build a giant empty building so what would even be the point of doing that?
The Hunt for Dark Matter
> Six years after the AIDS Trojan was first unleashed, two pioneering cryptographers — Adam L. Young and Moti M. Yung — patched the holes in Popp’s leaky programming by developing a class of algorithms known as public-key cryptography.

I'm guessing they mean "Cryptovirology", not public-key cryptography. Public-key cryptography goes back to the 70's.
I find it mind-boggling that privacy-conscious folks go for DDG. This is a company that hides in their FAQ that their results are also backed by Yandex [1], and the first thing they ask you to do when you go to their home page is install a Chrome extension, giving them full access to your machine, let alone your searches.

[1] https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
> The reason Europe speaks Indo-European languages isn't that the ancient inhabitants thought that Proto-Indo-European was neat and adopted it --- it's that the PIE-speaking Yamnaya swept in from the caucuses and slaughtered mostly everyone (especially men) except the Basques. It's not pretty, but that's the way it was.

This is ridiculous statement. Yes, there must have been conquests and slaughters in history and many other man made disasters. Some of the conquerors had been multiplying faster because they had been taking better lands from conquered or because they had better agricultural techniques.

But the idea that each coming wave had been perpetrating Holocaust on the entire territory of Europe is simply technically impossible.

Much more likely is that after some violent conquest there were periods of assimilation, mixing of cultures and single language becoming a common tongue.
Alternately, those farms and forges might just make you a very juicy target for more mobile, perhaps shepherding outsiders. This seems to be a rather common pattern in history, one that can even be traced to pre-PIE times - it seems that the PIE culture itself was the result of early agriculturalists in the Pontic steppes being invaded by ousiders from farther up north in Eurasia - known only from molecular-level evidence, and labeled the "ancient north Eurasians". This is
arguably the grain of truth in the "conflict as a result of settled communities/states" story - it's not necessarily the 'states' that engage in all the violence, they need only provide a motive for it!
Actually, I agree with dictum (and appreciate the pointy comment). Many people read my comment confrontational, or it wouldn't be downvoted.

And then I learned that there is a niche (compared to 30% WP) of technical people that have their content in GitHub anyway and profit from simple deployment through netlify. It just fits their workflow. I had the typical business user (another blog post said everyone!) in mind and I don't see them to be able to handle git so it sounded very far fetched which was reflected in the tone.
Basic Concept of the Kubernetes
Why are they using a custom distro? Is it just different graphics or do they have changes significant enough that a customised Ubuntu installer wouldn't suffice?
> Whats worse is they could all pull it off if they invest in existing Distros and hire people to build out the main infrastructure they need

I don't know about that, I've seen what kinds of systems the existing distros build and I'm not impressed. Which isn't to say that Microsoft would definitely better, seeing as they are doing their best to become a Linux distro themselves while embracing all the bad behaviors that entails, but your statement certainly isn't a given.
My husband was a machinist for about 6 years then went back to school to become a mechanical engineer. As you can imagine he is an extremely good mechanical engineer.

Nobody doubted his intelligence when he was a machinist because he was obviously smart. People in our generation experimented more with our life path more than kids these days. My husband was not unusual. He was a Berkeley dropout and his machinist best friend was a law school dropout. It makes me sad sometimes that kids these days don't experiment more. It is freeing to realize that you can make your way in life no matter what.

When my husband was a machinist he worked with a mechanical engineer on a project and realized he understood how to design better than the engineer. At the time I was still in school so we decided I would finish school first and then he would go back to school.
Yes, and it's also complicated by the translation to micro-ops with out of order dispatch and instruction retirement. I remember seeing one statement saying this is now a complicated enough system that the number of cycles it takes to execute a block of code is literally chaotic in the sense that small changes to initial conditions cause large changes in the number of cycles to complete. A butterfly effect, possibly triggered by whatever the kernel chose to do a millisecond before your code runs.

Throw in changing clock rates based on the temperature of the CPU. If your code efficiently uses the ALUs / cores in the processor, it can get hot and slow itself down.
I found it to work pretty well, the the only use for toilet paper being to dry off quickly. The jet spray power can often be varied. For health reasons, it is usually set to quite soft though (Washlet Syndrome).
Human urine is full of ammonia and other chemicals that are great natural detergents. If you worked in a Roman laundromat, your job was to stomp on clothes all day long—barefoot and ankle deep in colossal vats of human pee.

It gets worse, the ancient Romans also used urine as a mouthwash to whiten their teeth.
If your goal was for 1% as many people to click on it. STEM is a cultural marker and people want to know if it will go up or down in status. Both for their own status and to know if it will help their kids. "Interview with E.O. Wilson" only attracts people who are interested in raising or lowering the status of evolutionary biology, which is much smaller because most people know they will get in trouble if they pick the wrong side.
It doesn't take much water
Fruits and vegetables grow out in the open. A significant portion of the produce people consume is statistically guaranteed to have been anointed (so to speak) by passing birds and other wildlife already.
Do you actually keep reading? If the first sentence is that way, I immediately close the tab.

From the articles about occurrences and domains I have personal knowledge of I learnt not to trust in the factual correctness of media articles. If they on top of that start with a story, I'm off.
prolly a simd enhanced zero operation so very quick.
No pricing information included. Maybe it's not targeted for hobbyist use?
Doing a ! doesn’t really shift much from home row positioning. Certainly not as much as arrow keys would

I do understand the thought though. After doing a few years on a mac and learning to love pushing cmd with my thumb, which was a lot of actions like cut copy paste and more, I began to hate if I had to use left pinky for anything ctrl related

Even on linux or windows today I’ll map ctrl directly left of spacebar so I can keep the same habit up

It’s naturally great for me in vim too, be it moving up and down the page with ^d and ^u or some custom ^ mapping, etc

I think if you're a heavy command line user or even programmer, you'll be having to do ! and ` and ~ and so on, meaning -- it's some pretty solid muscle memory
Come on, how likely is it that people who have dedicated their lives to archeology and linguistics are all deluded and you, who is an apparent outsider, just happen to see what’s obviously the correct interpretation?
It might not have been pirated. Microsoft has done well with getting the government/SOEs to actually by windows over the last decade, probably at a significant discount but whatever.

Piracy just isn’t mostly worth it anymore.
Why single out those, it's a frequent issue with all sites.