skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure how relevant it is but Microsoft’s acquisition of github has kiled atom’s written-in-rust successor xray. This along with what feels like slower updates and less focus on atom feels very much like embrace extend extinguish. So in my books Microsoft is still quite evil.

https://github.com/atom/xray/issues/177#issuecomment-4796313...
I live in Kenya and this has already happened. The 'make farming cool' movement is very emotionally driven and ill advised. Small scale farming is just not sustainable any more.
I like the F91W because it refuses to die, keeps good time, has as an alarm and a hour minder. However, to repurpose it into some kind of frankenwatch to behave as a diving watch, is counter-intuitive to the fact that, it will lose most it's useful features, freely admitted to by the author in the article.
Meanwhile in the US, coal is supposed to be making a comeback, Tesla is close to bankruptcy, solar industry is decimated and we're force-sending smart people out of the country when we need them the most to build stuff like this.
I am grateful that I did not work remote at the start of my career (it was not an option offered to me), because it would have been hard to find the self-drive & hand-holding I needed at the beginning of my career all by myself. But I agree with you; remote work is better suited for people who are accustomed to working by themselves. It might not be for everyone. And I certainly do not recommend it at the onset of one's career.
Good for you. I will continue to fly / drive
To be fair to Peterson knowing about the downsides may be sufficient knowledge to oppose it. I don't need to know the tripe about Nazi racial theory and Lebenstraum to know they are horrible people to be opposed and even neutral acceptance is an unacceptable position - their lengthy list of travesties and failures is good enough to say "it is not only a horrible evil but an ineffective one". Even if ignoring morality they aren't an effective model.

Not that Nazism and Communism are equivalent. The later at least has some non-evil implementations - there is a wide difference between unironic Stalinists who see murdering anyone slightly better off as a solution and those who think "Hey we can try to provide a good standard of living with worker owned cooperatives". Even if the latter is doomed to failure it is in no way equivalent to Nazis or even Stalinist "cousins".
You know you're on HN when the law is explained with an analogy to computer code and not the other way around ;)
There's nothing wrong with people holding Microsoft Corporation to a high standard. So long as you also hold Facebook, Google, Oracle, Amazon and Apple to that same high standard.

IMHO, the world has changed since the 1990s and we have more to worry about from some of the others.
Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but there are some resources here.

https://chooose.today/
The Register's guide to protecting your data when visiting the US (2017)
Not convinced. Just because the vampire is feeding you cookies doesn't mean it isn't sucking your blood.
Sure, but that's because it's easier to say have no glasses of wine, than to try and explain to every person that having some is still within tolerance (and then also why one is decent, but two maybe not).
Everything you've said is equally true of the modern world.
Off-Topic:
The site horrible "jitters" when scrolling around, pretty much unreadable/unuseable.
At least for me with Chrome 74 on Fedora. Firefox 67 is fine.
Never seen this before. Very interesting. Thanks for sharing!
World's first hydrogen fuel station
The attack vector is not broad which makes the headline and story sensationalist.

Yes - plugins add risk because they are dynamic and have an uncontrolled upgrade path with potentially different or non-existent signing systems. That is why plugins and extensions are not allowed on the more-controlled and newer iOS.

I doubt this gets addressed very quickly - if anything it is easier and cheaper to audit all VLC extensions and introduce a signing system. Or to kill VLC's trusted cert/status altogether and treat it as a custom dev app - install-at-your-own-risk.
It’s pretty clear here. Microsoft wins over skeptics, and who exactly are those won over skeptics? Don’t expect satisfying answers in the article. In general, I wish the passive voice was banned from headlines.
Proprietary network management systems are the latest trend in vendor lock-in
Great, so the seat you would've purchased will either just be empty or sold to the next highest bidder.

Congratulations on your baseless moral superiority, you've made basically zero impact!
I've never been to a church that required people to believe anything in order to engage in any particular way. Except to become a teacher or minister or priest, but that's fairly common sense I think.

But, yes, people will often discuss theology and proselytize. If that sort of thing angers you, maybe skip out after the music and then catch up with folks when the coffee or potluck starts. Or maybe skip all of the above and just sign up for the volunteer activities at retirement homes, women's shelters, etc.
There is an official thread to post the jobs adds. It should go live in a few hours. Wait and repost there.
If you want people to make ecological choices, you have to do it at higher levels instead of expecting individuals to change their lifestyles.

So instead of continuing to widen roads, we need to build more trains, and change municipal development processes so that cities are made denser.

Instead of having short-hop air travel, we need to fund high-speed rail.

And yes, taxing things to change consumption patterns is a big part of this. Slap a big tax on gasoline/diesel and jet fuel and use that to fund HSR, for instance.
Needing explicit permission / cooperation from the developer of a game to run a tournament is more of a barrier to entry than needing to host a server.
But isn't this the case with any religion? You could say the same thing about the Westboro Baptist Church to Christianity and Radical Islamist Extremism to Islam. Every religion I can think of has instances of groups co-opting the religion for evil means. All major world religions have multiple instances of this happening throughout history. One could say that you don't have a legitimate religion if there isn't a group of crazies trying to use the religion for evil means.
doors can still be unlocked... this "article" is very misleading.
There are taxes in international waters. If you are a US citizen you owe income tax no matter where you earn your income. Hiding your income and not paying income tax is evading taxation.

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/taxp...
You make it sound like fun is a bad thing
Ai-Da: the robot artist giving real painters a run for their money
I think consenting explicitly to a 10 hour day would be a mistake. Remote work shouldn’t be a privilege you pay for with more work. When I work from home I generally set a goal to finish something that day. If it takes longer than 8 hours I’ll do overtime but if I am done at 2 pm I may also call it a day.
Yes, sorry, I had something like "getting from Berlin to Brussels at low cost" in mind. There is no way to do it with railway, only with a plane.

If I just want to travel in the same Bundesland where I am, there are plenty of cheap options, that's true.
it really served as a quick snack for big mammals like the mammoth...

As a metaphor it works, but is unprobable that a species carefully adapted to extreme chilling cold and another species adapted to do no stand any cold would share space and a trophic link
> But in reality you have neither the supply of all the necessary drugs to make you feel what you are trying to feel

Plenty of people find and use drugs to improve what they're feeling, and they're reasonably successful at it, from the inside, from their own perspective.

> Otherwise, that's precisely what you'd do, despite you saying the contrary.

No, it's not, and it's not what most people would do, for reasons too long to get into here. Like I said, there's a lot of literature here. Most people have pretty strong beliefs that they would rather suffer in a real world than have a satisfied fake life with managed feelings. It's only when the pain is too much that they fall back to alternatives.
Yes, IIRC, even Nginx uses the general structure you're describing.
Airbnb host kicks out black guests in racist exchange
I work from home.

My schedule is:-

6.50am wake up

7.00am start work

12.00pm lunch

1.00pm start work

5.00pm dinner

6.00pm start work

9.45pm get ready for bed

10.00pm sleep

I don't have any distractions (except the occasional quick read of HN, when I need a short mental break), don't own a tv, no kids, wear the same clothes, I eat the same meals daily and I wear headphones and listen to music.

I'll do this for 90 days and then relax on the schedule somewhat and then repeat for another 90 days.

Let me tell you. It's actually quite interesting on what you can accomplish with 13 hours of work (91 hours a week) available to you.

Elon has it right. In a compound interest sort of way, what you can achieve in 90 days (with this schedule) is akin to someone else taking 6 months or more to do the same.

Of course it means no social life. But that's for later on.
I think primary care should be more about the doctor using his knowledge of the patient's lifestyle, gained over time, as context for proper diagnosis and treatment. Empathy without competence is sort of pointless from a medical professional. IMO, of course.
Then John H. Conway's Surreal Numbers might be of interest to you. Donald Knuth wrote a book about the subject and it's actually in the form of a story with dialogue, not your typical math book. I'll attempt a summary. It is possible to build all number systems at once including all integers, rationals, algebraic, irrational, infinitesimal, hyper-reals and transfinite all at once using a single procedure which resembles Dedekind cuts. From that foundation one can recreate many of the results of non-standard analysis. Conway discovered his Surreal Numbers while investigating Combinatorial Game Theory. He wasn't even trying to create a new foundation for mathematics, he was just playing at his games which many of his colleagues looked down upon as useless. Apparently playing games and having fun can occasionally result in extraordinary discoveries.

Conway's left and right "cuts" look like sets but then again I'm not really sure what they are. Is this alien mathematics accidentally discovered on Earth by perhaps the most intelligent Earthling who ever lived. I don't know. All I can say is I took a detour from my usual math studies to look into Surreal numbers and it was an interesting trip. I'm quite conservative when it comes to math. I don't go around preaching Surreal numbers are the way to do math but it is a curiosity none-the-less worth at least the small price of reading Knuth's short book about it from cover to cover.
Man, people are salty about this.

I've been a long-time .net developer and the changes in the last few years have felt really refreshing, even as someone deeply in the microsoft ecosystem.

.Net announcements seemed to feel like monolithic messages coming down from on high. Now, I see folks like Scott Hanselman and the asp.net team (Damian Edwards and David Fowler, mostly) being so open about their design decisions as core moves forward. VS Code seems to have been a smash hit from all indicators I can find.

Sure, Windows isn't OSS, and there's a lot of skeletons in the closet. But the amount of dismissal I read here is frustrating given the amount of earnest effort I see engineers putting into getting things right.
Can do, although you might be better off using a hard conformal compound (black stuff used for potting electronics) where possible. It has a lower viscosity and is less prone to bubbles. I'm not sure how much small bubbles would actually affect it, though.

There's one other good reason to use conformal coating: it has very little change in size when it dries. There are a few spots on the board that would be affected by that, most importantly the load capacitors for the timekeeping fork. Ceramic capacitors have a piezoelectric effect and change shape ever so slightly (they stretch and squash, alternately contracting around their midsection and then expanding). It's not enough to break the solder or the epoxy but if you pot them it changes their apparent capacitance, which will change the frequency of timekeeping. Probably not enough to matter, but still measurable. Large inductors have similar problems and can eventually break loose from epoxy.
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Great question, the following measures have been implemented:

- The product respects the browser's Do Not Track setting.
- The beacon (which captures all analytics events) can be used with your own custom domain (proxied) to prevent add-blockers altogether.
Frame Code Reviews as Gift Exchanges
Rogue waves will be fun.
>Why didn’t they take off then

They did. We already went through this bubble / bust cycle once about 10 years ago, albeit on a much smaller scale. Look up the Championship Gaming Series.
It seems wildly improbable. Where did that number come from? I don't believe it's anywhere near that high.
What email based log in that doesn't use 2FA doesn't ultimately rely on the security of your email?
And your nickname says everything
This is correct. Flash freezing an entire human body consistently would be incredibly difficult.
Unevenly, maybe.

But someone in a first world country isn't at serious risk of the next town over coming by and murdering everyone for their possessions. Or having fatal diarrhea.
That's not the passive voice. An example of it would be "Skeptics are won over".
>A commute of 40 miles per day is ~9600 miles per year.

That's a somewhat short commute by modern American standards too.

Honestly, we'd all be better off if we stopped driving to work and made our cities denser and used trains to get around, had more/better train service between nearby cities, and then took annual holidays in Europe on Airbus A380 aircraft that were configured with only economy seating (700+ passengers per plane).
The interests of platform vendors and developers are inherently at odds. Vendors benefit from lockin, while developers benefit from portability.

This applies to other OS vendors like Apple, Cloud vendors like AWS and GCP, and so on, just as much as it applies to Microsoft. It's a universal principle.
I remember the .ly dangers around 2011
If you want people to take you seriously. Never cite your iq unless there is a very good reason. This is not one
Considering half the reason for those conferences is networking, perhaps a 'regional' / distributed conference model would work - you could still choose to attend an in-place event for all the networking benefits (albeit with a smaller group of people), but have all the talks live-streamed to theatres in each location (and online for those who don't care about the networking).
I'm sad that trains don't get more attention than they do, it's amazingly fuel efficient due to the low friction and the enormous load-capacity.
Evil? I think you might mean "microsofts priorities don't align with my own".
By this logic, we don't even need to freeze the body. Simply opt in to being resimulated later, since the technology will exist "some day".
> I used to help coach college friends in their writing. Often their first drafts would have complicated pretentious sentences that really weren't even parseable as sentences, and first I'd ask them, "What do you mean here?" And then when they'd explain, "Write that down!" Perhaps something like that would work for you, to help take you from a "composing" mindset to a "conversing" mindset. You could even record yourself or use some dictation software. It may even make your writing easier to read.

Interesting. I often encounter the problem at other the end of the spectrum: People who are used to verbal communication, which often results in rather scarce writing that resembles snippets of a verbal conversation rather than a cohesive thought and therefore lacks to details to properly understand meaning and intention.

Usually that kind of writing requires a lengthy series of follow up questions to learn anything meaningful about the original idea of the author. Conciseness is onyl valuable if it doesn't sacrifice substance and meaningful content.
Well, it's subjective.

For me personally light interfaces make my eyes hurt.

Dark themes are, for me, without questions MUCH easier on the eyes, irrespective of what this article claims or the science says.

Dark mode is a choice. You don't have to use it. I really hope the choice is preserved and extended into as many interfaces as possible.

Just because YOU don't find it easier on the eyes (article author), does not mean that is true for everyone.

If I was using a light theme in Sublime Text, or Office, or Terminal, I wouldn't be able to last very long in the workday....
That’s pretty much my policy. It baffles me that .io ever took off: 6x the cost, significantly reliable, and probably less trustworthy to the average user.
Insurance products are typically designed to make money for the provider. I'm sure they are doing a lot to lower risk.
According to what standard?

Presumably you believe you are an accidental combination of chemicals, here because other chemical mixtures were the "fittest" -- often, the most ruthless.

On what basis does a fittest chemical blob say "you ought to..."? You need an objective moral standard for that and you won't find it in your chemistry set.
uBlock Origin Delisted from the Microsoft Add-Ons Store
Sorry to be completely off topic here as HN does not support private messages or replies to old threads.

A long shot but you may be able to save us countless hours of effort. Over at the OpenJ9 project we're trying to get z/OS testing for our JDK and one of the dependencies is the XML::Parse perl library which depends on libexpat. In [1] you mentioned you worked on porting this to work with EBCDIC. Did you ever succeed? If so are your changes available in open source anywhere?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14084875
Former NPM CTO to starts an open-source alternative
Seems like they are down for >3 hours, without much updates. It would be interesting to learn of the postmortem on this one.
Actually Tesla is not close to bankruptcy.

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/05/31/the-media-is-telling-on...
String handling in C is such a PITA. Especially if you're used to languages like Python.
No. If you have a hundred AoA sensors, then you know to trust that whatever 90% of them are reporting is the truth. You also know exactly which of the remaining 10% need to be repaired or replaced upon landing.
The Greek and the Roman gods were like that, too. And maybe had more influence on the European culture, than Nordic gods.
In this time where it appears that the vast majority of civilization is paying almost no attention to climate change, one of the best tools that a person has in their arsenal is to reduce their own pollution, because it aids in building the necessary political will to do _something_.

If we don't, you know that those who politically oppose us will simply call us hypocrites: Russia doesn't use careful logic, and even though pointing out hypocrisy a logical fallacy, most leaders, both government and business, will continue to use it, because maintaining power always feels like the right way forward.

Basically we have to practice conspicuous ethics because there will always be someone saying it's useless behind you, even people who understand that climate change is real.

And even then, it might be a wash. We have to hope for a global "oh-shit" moment in the next few years if we are to have any hope of handling climate change. It doesn't mean that I won't be conspicuous and hope to help create like-minded individuals.
I suspect that asking about "experiencing negative aftereffects of remote work" just means that people who think that their work life sucks and happen to be remotees are going to say "yes". I want to see the numbers for "negative aftereffects of on-site work".
I've had that with work passwords - using my password generator I give them a 64-character gibberish mess, but it turns out that they only accept 16 characters, and I rendered my account useless until they could reset it for me. How frustrating.
The third part hasn't come yet. Maybe not ever, but if so, it's because it is too much of a raging fire to extinguish. Time will tell.
> If you’re constantly tweaking your vimrc, do yourself a favor and add a command for that:

> command! Vimrc :vs $MYVIMRC

I just use marks for this. Capital letter marks work across files, I use 'I (for init.vim, I use neovim).
You'd be surprised. At my uni of 50k students the running joke was you'd just add 1 to your password every six months.
It would also be nice to frame "necessary" and "unnecessary".

I would think developments like saving the environment, healthcare research, improving public transportation, energy consumption, etc. are all "necessary" work. Building Uber or Twitter or Facebook? I'd lean more towards "unnecessary".

HackerNews is so close to arriving at the conclusion that most jobs (including their own prized "skilled" engineering) are worthless outside of capital accumulation. :)
“Why is your writing so violent?” – Joyce Carol Oates (1981)
How else are they going to run pepperoni-based big data analytics?
Close to 60% of consumer spending is on housing, transportation, and healthcare [1]. Whether by choice or market forces, growth in those categories exceeds "other" categories. Savings -- at least in 2017, the last year I have data for -- turned negative.

Considering housing by itself is over 20% of spending, and that >60% of the of population has fixed spending (either own their house outright, have an existing mortgage, are under rent control, or are homeless and don't live in shelters) that only marginally increases in cost per year -- it is STARTLING to me that spending as a whole is growing by 5.3%. Spending on rent only grew by 3.3% and that is largely NOT fixed. Spending on housing grew by 10.4%!!! And almost 80% of that category is fixed!!! It's insane! That means, when people buy new houses, they are spending WAY more on housing than they were before. And it can't be more clear, really. 65% of home buyers are essentially "trading" homes -- that is selling their existing to buy another. If they make up the majority of purchasers, and prices are up 10.4% -- they're likely spending more on housing. A lot more!

I'm no economist, but that seems to have every indication of speculation to me.

Source:

* https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cesan.nr0.htm
Sigh. ML is such a sweet spot in language design.

OCaml was so far ahead of Java and C# 20 years ago. It's a shame us regular industrial programmers ended up with Java (which I like fine) and PHP, later Python and JS.