skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish that were true. But from other software redesigns and improvements, I learned that new designs often come with simplifications and reduction of functionality. Missing about:config and very simple Settings page is frightening me. Firefox and Mozilla saved the world from IE monopoly and it was always targeting power users but I fear that might change. :( So far I am happy with mobile FF but so far pretty unhappy with this preview. Almost everyone talks about bottom address bar (which after clicking moves on top anyway) and the speed. I am alergic to oversimplification ala new apple designs. I fear of: "We've reinvented mobile browsing. Now there is one big blowing button and an animation of colorful unicorns where you can customize the speed of movement and size of its horn. applause It loads 2x times faster but you can't configure anything else because it's using our next-gen AI which learns your habits and automatically enables pull to refresh after after 50 swipes down (no way to disable) and starts blocking some ads (except those participating in OurSafeAD(tm) program) once it detects from your eye movement you are trying to avoid looking at them"
The other gem is suggesting you pull the repo and code up a fix/feature for the problem yourself ... I can't see my mum getting very far with that when trying to print out a recipe for sponge cake!

Has it already been the year of Linux on the desktop, or is that "next" year - I forget?

</sarcasm> ;)
If a a proper diagnosis of a configuration screwed up in some weird way is expected to take longer than a reinstall, then it's not worth to try and diagnose.

In a similar manner, nobody ever suggests "just removing" interesting malware - since properly checking if a system is actually clean takes so much more time and effort than a reinstall, you have to have a really good reason to not simply nuke the system from orbit just to be sure. (possibly before taking an image for future forensics/attribution).
When it comes to panting, an important part of quality is quantity. As much as some people want to think that a day filled to the brim with exciting activities is a substitute for a week of near-absence, it's just not. That's not only my experience, but the experience of many of my friends with parents who greatly prioritized their career over spending time with them.
Sounds like some sort of compiler hint like ‘expect json’ or ‘use json’ right above a json literal would be useful. Assuming it matters enough to be worth it.
Capital letters didn't mean shouting until after the internet - or at least texting, BBSs and such - became popular.
> I know what I've been told by WMF, which is that he was a harasser and that en:wiki failed to stop his harassment.

There is another thing wrong with your comment: how could the English Wikipedia community attempt to stop Fram's alleged harassment if no harassment is known. Whether you want to sanction someone or just improve that someone's behavior, you have got to give an indication of what is wrong with their behavior.
How to Create a Grafana Dashboard? (UI and API Methods)
Why though? What would the wealthy Chinese people that own it want to do with the cash instead? I would think having your investments in a stable country instead of one in chaos would be ideal?
Sure, but as the article points out, that's not a great bound—and you really care about the expected number of tanks (or the upper bound), rather than the lower. The Allies had drastically overestimated this, by about fivefold.

Furthermore, the interesting part isn't just the number of tanks or planes—though that has obvious strategic uses too— but the insight it gives you into their industrial production. What's the limiting factor in getting a tank to the front--machining the parts? assembly? fuel? Which of our raids affected that?
Yeah. Added.
This is a follow-up to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20306886, which links to https://yngve.vivaldi.net/2019/06/20/microsoft-keep-your-han..., which unearthed the OP.
JSON.parse sounds like a good compiler hint :)
>which has no lower case

This is exactly what bothers me. Why no lower case? Why not no upper case? You'd need the same number of keys, and it would be more legible. It would use the same amount of space.
With their redesign and a few other choices, Reddit has gone from one of the most beautiful places on the web to the second most hostile UX that I put up with.

I don't want to "GET NEW REDDIT" as I'm urged to in the top left of every page because I don't want a card-based layout. The whole reason I and so many others left Digg for Reddit to begin with was for a highly skimmable, information-dense site!

Similarly, I don't want to install a mobile app. The page worked fine on mobile when I got my first iPod Touch a decade ago. Why do I have to see a huge USE APP button in the nav bar and then lose another 20% of the page at the bottom to a See Reddit In section at the bottom that's also urging me to install a native app?

Infinite scroll actually slows down my browsing experience too, since it no longer loads as many entries at a time and I have to keep waiting for pagination.
Working in Windows I found that there are two magic localizations: non localized is a default failsafe that is a copy of EN-US. The other fun one is “pseudo-loc” which is used in testing; it replaces letters with similar ones that have accents or diacritics to detect hard coded English strings.

I wonder if the EN-US keyboard is actually a fall-through to the non-localized version when the localized keyboard fails to load.
Linux, of course, being noted for its simple configuration
I guess Russian is in a better position because it doesn't use compounds so much—but it made the borrowed programming terms into Russian words by freely inflecting them, which is a very Russian trait. Whenever an imported word doesn't sound quite right for Russian, it gets adjusted fast, similarly to how this occurs in Japanese.

We now have a set of programming terms that are a mix of: borrowings which already existed in other contexts (possibly of Latin or similar roots), Russian words instead of English ones, and straight up transliterated calques. This all coexists completely naturally because the words now serve as roots for further derivation and forming a layer of slang on top of the formal terms. Notably, young people are quick to appropriate foreign words—and they tend to be the ones who get into new tech.

There were (joking?) proposals for using Russian-root words for computing terms, and by now they sound like bringing an Orthodox priest speaking Old Church Slavonic into a datacenter.
Consumables are readily replaced at low cost. Batteries (in phones/tablets) are essential central components.

If you need tools or instructions then the parts aren't really consumables.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12355431
I see no difference between Microsoft’s position and that of Apple. Except that Apple is a trendy brand.
On the contrary, I think you don't jump from nothing to tangentially-related communities. The reason why niche community subreddits are so successful is because reddit itself is a global, central network that congregates users all on its own with its popular default subs. You have it the wrong way round: niche communities benefit from a global platform that funnels users to them, niche subreddits do not drive the success of the global platform in the first place (although it may enhance it).

Discord and Mastodon could never be as successful as subreddits for this reason. It's pretty difficult to establish a niche community by setting up shop next to other niche communities, niches are full of passionate people who don't spread their passion across niches thinly. You want a global platform like reddit to expose your community to the masses to unlock the niches within it.
Fantastic. And why not? Sounds marvelous for small stuff.

Reminds me of using NSString, which is a "tagged pointer" in iOS. For very short strings, it's not actually a 4 byte pointer to an object, but simply a short string itself.
I’m not reading one word of this bullshit and neither should anyone else.
In 1933, the Nazi regime passed a law[1] banning anyone they considered Jewish from holding any civil service job, including positions at universities. A large proportion of German academia was considered Jewish.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_for_the_Restoration_of_the...
When you said "Can someone who upvoted this explain why?", I read it as "Can someone who upvoted this explain why they upvoted it?". I now gather you meant "Can someone who upvoted this explain why Windows 3.x does that?"

It's an interesting ambiguity that I failed to spot, rather than some kind of bad mood. Thank you for answering earnestly.
It is possible that some may feel the need to become liquid in short order, but I think that most are going to be smarter and follow your thinking. Owning real estate outside of China gives them an asset that is relatively safe from being seized and which can help fund a flight to safety if it ever comes down to a 'blood on the streets' scenario.
But isn't that the point? 'The most' doesn't mean 'enough'.
Sure it does. US consumer demand rises after WWII because of GI bill & repurposing of capital -> competition drives prices down -> Securities & Exchanges Act essentially mandates firms optimize for returns to capital as a fiduciary duty to shareholders -> producers look to countries where standards of living demand lower wages to maintain market positions -> US jobs decline but shareholder value grows -> wealth concentrates in the hands of those who have the opportunity to be a shareholders
The study you linked is pretty interesting. They attempt to control for the variables by only studying cars with highly similar models of hybrid and non-hybrid variety. They show a 17% increase in the number of bodily injury claims without a corresponding property damage claim. They do disclaim that they can’t actually tell from this data if a pedestrian was actually involved.

But I wonder if there’s one thing missing here. Hybrids have a lot higher low-end torque. I think the definitive study would be on a hybrid car with and without the noise, and I’m not sure if they ever tried to do that for the Leaf?
Power of Consistency
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolating_language

I buy your thought, and your prediction means that Mandarin speakers might have an easier time with a Mandarin programming language than a latin or slavic language speaker would have with a latin- or slavic-based programming language.
Do you have any idea how loud iron-shod wagon wheels on cobblestones are? They're not quiet, for sure.
But that only applies to the parsing step. With JSON.parse you will parse it every time the code executes, so if that code is in function, JavaScript probably will be better, because compiler can't just optimize out JSON.parse (because someone might redefine window.JSON object or redefine its parse property).
Which has nothing to do with my comment to the poster.
I honestly couldn't understand the title of the article until I read the story.
I like reading history, so I sometimes know such details.

I love Lucy was the Star Wars of its era in terms of revolutionizing the industry technologically. It's why you see it so much in reruns: It's the very first show filmed with archival quality materials such that you can watch it over and over.

Before that, two TV shows a day were broadcast live, one for the East Coast and another three hours later for the West Coast. The two time zones in between got a low quality recording.

Lucille Ball was an actress. Her husband, Desi Arnez, was a musician. She was past 40, wanted to have children and their careers were making that impossible.

TV schedules were so grueling, it was less work to revolutionize the industry. Desi had a home office and worked evenings and weekends a lot, but it allowed them to have kids, have dinner with the kids, tuck them in bed, etc.

I love Lucy invented a lot of modern staples of TV, including filming with three cameras and the rerun. They began playing reruns to accommodate Lucy's pregnancy. As an older woman with a first-time pregnancy, she couldn't keep the schedule they set.

It turned out to be a huge benefit to the show because the show was gaining in popularity and it allowed latecomers to see the earlier episodes. It was so successful, it rapidly became a TV staple to just broadcast reruns in the off season, etc.

The show seems campy and the black and white film is boring to most people today, but it was as exciting at the time as the special effects of Star Wars. It was groundbreaking technically and in many other ways.
I found this 6-minute video from Oct 2018[0] which gives a great overview of GNUnet and compares it to the existing internet layers. It's pretty cool.

I wish they'd write a tutorial or something so that I know how to get started playing around with it.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CdHfySAPas
Nipping Libra in the Bud
At my scale (<10 people), I can't. Are there any alternatives, open or closed source?
Which paid distro/paid support are you talking about?
The company I work for uses internal SO and I think it’s pretty useful. There’s a culture to push people to turn useful slack answers into SO q&a so that they are useful for others. Also, our internal search engine searches over it (as well as the wiki, jira, etc.)
That’s why in nyc you always look both ways, even on a one-way street
How many of those wealthy Chinese - never mind non-Chinese banks and investors - own property clear, and haven't leveraged it to "re-invest" it?
I remember reading on HN that pros always store their data on a different linux partition so they can reinstall from scratch easily if they end up borking the OS.
False dichotomy. We can take practical steps to reduce bias, even it we can't eliminate bias altogether.
"Fuck ArbCom which doesn't even understand their own messages and again give themselves powers they don't have. First it was deletions, then it was mandatory 2FA, inbetween it is loads of evidence of utter incompetence in many of its members (witness the statement by AGK above, but also some of the comments at e.g. the Rama case request). Just crawl into a corner and shut up until the community asks you to do something within your remit, but don't try to rule enwiki as if you have the right and the competence to do so. Or collectively resign. But don't give us any more of this bullshit. [[User:Fram|Fram]] ([[User talk:Fram|talk]]) 07:39, 4 May 2019 (UTC)"

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/895438118, linked by

"And then a few hours ago, they posted my one year ban, and helpfully gave the actual reason. Which is one edit, this one. That's it."

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_response..., which is "Fram's response on Commons."
As VMs get faster, people will stuff more JS in pages, just because it's doable.

Some things were not even possible and were "unlocked" by browser optimizations.

For example: writing games or complex animations with JS and the DOM was nearly impossible (that gap was filled with flash). As browsers got faster, the need for flash just went away.

Also the more APIs the browsers ship, the more is possible to do with JS, and so the pages ship more JS to use these new featuers. [1]

For example: after browser notifications became broadly available, almost _all_ pages ship now a snippet of JS code to annoy the user with notifications. I'm sure such fads blow up the average size of bundled JS across all web pages.

[1] Look at this! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API
"That Japanese Man Yuta" on youtube mentioned on one of his videos that Japanese-y/Chinese-y roman alphabet fonts completely break his brain when he sees them, and he can't see them as English, just horrible nonsense.
3000 words in, and the article has yet to make a point other than "the 9.9% kept their share of the wealth, while the 0.1%'s share grew at the expense of the lower classes".
Soros basically advocates western liberalism, ie spreading the western status quo. The Koch’s really are much more out there.
once i was in a bar in South Florida and talked to a random guy. He owned a small business mowing city lawns and gardening. He was very heavy so in my mind I couldn't understand how someone that's always working physically outdoor can be this fat. (sorry there aren't any other word in my small English vocabulary pool). It turns out when i told him i'm a software engineer, to my surprise he told me he used to be a DBA and couldn't take this lifestyle any longer and wanted to be outdoors. He successfully transitioned.
but you are buying. a license.
Take it up with Émile Baudot? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code
So where does it go from here? If anywhere?

What happens next really depends on your employer. If they don't think it was a problem, then you are probably good.

If your employer feels there is a problem then ask your employer what happens next (well ask either way and getting the response in email is nice).

I had a coworker complain to HR about me, but it was also a part of a campaign to file complaints against a laundry list of people and my employer did not feel the complaints were valid. They were very minor complaints that didn't even make sense on the most basic level (like misnamed me several times, identified me as someone else, identified tasks I wasn't even responsible for, and then they would say I helped them with the things they previously complained about).

I was very clear with HR about things. Followed up with an email to HR to get what I said in writing.

Then I was just very careful around that employee, emails were very clear and detailed, I did everything I could to not be alone with that person.

Eventually that employee left, tried to sue the company (for entirely new claims unrelated to me), had case thrown out and it was ok from there.

But every company is different so who knows what might happen.

If you feel things start to get confused... contact a lawyer who can give you advice. Plenty of lawyers out there who can offer advice for free or cheaper for just a bit of their time.

Keep in mind only your own lawyer is there explicitly to help you and will have your best interests in mind.

No matter what your company says HR is there to protect the company, NOT you.
Wikipedia’s community is facing the same sort of problem with Fram that the Linux community has faced with Linus and that the OpenBSD community has faced with Theo.

Is conduct relevant if someone is otherwise a good contributor of good work output in service of the project?

Many, including a significant fraction of HN upvoters, have cheered on Linus and Theo over the years for conduct perceived as both hostile and contributory. Fram, too, has for many years had conduct perceived as both hostile and contributory.

Therefore, it should come as little surprise that Fram has supporters. The question raised near the end of the article is relevant: Why did Fram’s peers allow Fram’s conduct to continue?

To answer that question, we need only look inward: Linus is taking conduct training, so that he can continue to contribute usefully while conducting himself respectfully (but not necessarily politely). This change is not universally liked, as there are many who feel that they should have the right to disrespect anyone, and this is a critical turning point of sentiment against their “freedom”.

The advent of codes of conducts in open source invoked the same problem and the same reaction, at a larger scale: people who swear they will boycott contributions to any project that restricts their freedom of conduct in any way.

HN openly restricts the freedom of conduct of commenters, so I always smile when I see people post here that they’ll boycott some project over having their rights abrogated - they don’t see the irony and pointing it out would be inflammatory, so I keep it to myself.

But it’s absolutely not “much ado about nothing”. It’s right at the core of whether “the right of free speech” includes “the right of speech perceived by others as inconsiderate, disrespectful, derogatory, and/or harmful”. HN commenters don’t yet agree on this point, and it’s no stretch to consider that Wikipedia editors don’t either.
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Ricardo's mistake is not thinking about development; comparative advantage is optimal now, but a society that just makes coffee beans is going to lose in the end to the one that makes microchips because of the difference in how the economy and society develop over time.
Yeah, right. We're that stupid to believe you!
Also, a loop index is a placeholder for a numeral, like "eins", "zwei", "drei", hence

Für i = 1 bis 2 ...

However, using articles,

Für das I = 1 bis 2 ...

And we may want to use a "Doppelpunkt" and an exclamation mark, since this is still a command:

Für i: 1 bis 2!
I personally use Amphetamine.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/amphetamine/id937984704?mt=12
Yes they're both on the wrong side of right to repair.
Power is honestly really hard -- for example, if you read through this list of datacenter power failure post-mortems:

http://up2v.nl/2017/06/02/datacenter-complete-power-failures...

there are a lot of individual failure cases. DC operators learn from each failure, but there are a lot of ways things can go wrong. Fabs can be upwards of 50MW, which puts them in the range of a good-sized datacenter, so the challenges probably end up similar. (I'm saying the last part carefully - I'm much more familiar with datacenter power design than fab power design!)
Interestingly, Perligata (a module that allows writing Perl programs in Latin) attempts to use case endings in variable names to denote their roles in expressions:

http://users.monash.edu/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html
It is simply not possible for Confluence Questions to be considered a useful product by even the most generous definitions.

The reason is simple: it only supports exact-matching text search _on titles_. There are a host of other usability problems that are so bad that they render a giant negative impact on information retrieval and actively steer Q&A traffic to repetitious and ephemeral tools like Slack.

But the lack of a functional search engine indexing the Q&A content with a high-performing notion of search relevancy is such a show-stopping, egregious defect that even all the other egregious flaws can be ignored by comparison.

It’s not a subjective debate at that point: just a factual defect of such severity that any misguided reports of the tool somehow miraculously being even marginally useful for someone have to be ignored.

I thank my lucky stars that Stack Overflow offers competition to this with a real search engine.

[0]: < https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Questions-for-Confluence/... >

I am on a committee in my workplace that deals directly with Confluence customer support to roll out changes to our internally deployed Confluence & Jira instances, and I know first hand from dealing directly with Confluence that they _intentionally_ only support exact matching _on the titles_ for searching in Questions. Really appalling.
One of the hard lessons I've learned over the course of my career is that no matter how "valuable" or "irreplaceable" an employee is, if they are toxic, you should fire them immediately. The damage done to a company by keeping toxic people always outweighs the damage done by firing them.
> ebooks are often the same price as paperbacks

Not really.
> sounds like things have changed

Nope, compared to fixed-wing aircraft these things are still horribly unsafe.
Proxies and Observables are unrelated. Maybe you’re thinking of Object.observe?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20315086

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20319415