skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see why you might worry about not being the father.

As the child of a sperm donor, I can tell you, my dad is and always will be my dad, regardless of the fact that he's not my "biological father."

My experience has shown me that parents aren't "zero-sum", if that makes sense. Learning there was another father-figure into my life changed, but didn't diminish, my relationship with father. Both my dad and my biological father represent critically important pieces of me and the fact that they aren't the same person doesn't diminish how I feel about either of them, it just means I'm the product of the combination of them (and my mother, environmental, etc.).

I can't know for sure, but I feel like what would alter how I feel about my father would be if he tried to hide from me who I really was (i.e. didn't want me to know that I was the child of a sperm donor). While I can understand wanting to keep that a secret to protect a child, I think it would have felt like the opposite if I hadn't been told. The fact that I'm a donor child feels like my secret to keep if I want to, not anyone else's - I'm grateful my parents told me (when I was about 10 - I'm now 38), and I'm grateful they've let me decide what I do with that information.

It's also worth considering that there's a good chance your child will eventually find out, even if you don't tell them. Whether through the prevalence of DNA testing, needing to know their medical history, or someone sharing information accidentally, it's something probably best told to someone in an intentional way - not happenstance.

The last thing that I'll mention is that when you choose a sperm donor, you'll likely have the option to choose an anonymous or non-anonymous (someone that is willing to be in contact with the child when he/she becomes 18) sperm donor. I hold no resentment towards my parents for using a sperm donor to conceive me (I wouldn't be here if they hadn't :), but I do wish they could have used a non-anonymous donor.

Like I say, my biological father is a part of me, but I don't know who he is. There are big questions for me (and my wife, and my son) about who I am, and until I find my biological father (still looking), I won't be able to answer them.

If you can, so your child isn't left with looming questions about who they are, I would highly recommend using a non-anonymous donor.

All the best to you, and your family, in your journey.

(throwaway account)
Well here's a story from a different point of view, not long after we'd had our kids my wife 'volunteered' me to lesbian friends (both doctors and lawyers were involved) - I've always been the known male donor, not a mystery, but emphatically not a parent, more like an uncle.

It's worked out really well for us, our kids got half siblings (again more like cousins), some extra sets of doting grandparents etc etc

As modern families shrink, with 1 or 2 kids we don't have as many relatives (it's a power series sort of thing) extended families shrink, we got to enlarge ours. Usually you only get one chance in life to choose who your relatives are, we found a second.
You can run X11 on Windows today without Cygwin, too.
Aside from having a falsehoods checklist that includes this, how would this be caught by a programmer who isn’t mindful of the fact that you don’t always have a sunset?
Because sunk costs and it may make sense to offload their kernel development efforts to focus on what makes them money.
You could get yourself some US-style porches.

One of the reason the US is porch-crazy is because historically it was too damn hot here. Rather than trying to keep the house cool, you said to hell with it, and spent as much time on the porch as possible, even sleeping on it when the house was too hot at night.
Medically unnecessary ambulance rides soar after ACA expansion
I attended last year as a solo founder. Here's what I think...

It's not well suited for funding a solo founder, there's just too much they expect you to do in the 10 weeks of classes.

And it's not suited to help you filter multiple ideas to find the best startup during those 10 weeks. So pick a product and go through process. You'll know if it's the right one before you finish the 10 weeks.

It's really about learning how to "find product market fit" for your idea. What they want to see is your idea being something that people really want and will pay for and you'll learn how to find that out and not spend a lot of your time or cash in the process.

And you'll learn how to setup a corporation that makes it easy for VCs to invest in if you do have product market fit for your idea, and maybe more important, what not to do.

Unless you already know all about that it's worth your time and effort. And getting together with others every week in a group setting all working on those same lessons was great.

But it's not easy. They expect a lot from a team of founders, so going into it solo is a deep dive.
They just pull from the Chrome repository before adding their own things, I dont know what you are expecting

Its like you never heard of Brave

You can just ask them to disable it and now you have your fictional higher standard team shrug emoji

I guess you did mention that you dont use Chrome, so this level of distrust is going to be foreign for most of us to relate to
No, it seems that I’m this case, the angular momentum of the light beam itself changes over time, a process that is typically referred to as (or driven by?) torque in classical mechanics, and so they used that term here as well. They call it “self-torque” (I believe) because it’s the light changing it’s own angular momentum. But I’ve not been involved with physics academia in several years, so take it with a grain of salt.
I have think the same but maybe TODAY is not as hard as before:

1- We have 4/5 mainstream OSes today: Win/OSX/iOS/Android + Linux. In the case of iOS/android: Some users alread switch between the 2.

2- If it have apps is almost all people need. Drivers are not THAT significant IMHO.

3- Chromebook is a thing, despite it sound stupid: A OS that is just a browser.

Web is the 6 truly mainstream "OS".

4- What people need on drivers? USB (and with usb-c), hdmi, bluetooth (maybe?) + wifi. With this alone and you get even better than iPad: Monitors, wireless mouse, keyboards, external storage, and by extension you catch the rest.

5- Printers? By proxy of iOS it can work full wireless with no drivers on device.

So I think a true desktop OS could launch with less worry about legacy hardware.

Where IS the problem is the apps. It need to be better than chromebook, have very great first party apps that cover basics and hopefully, a VM layer so you could run linux and catch the rest.
The line item in Microsoft's last annual report which encompasses Windows is "More Personal Computing" and shows $10 billion dollars of operating income on $42 billion dollars of revenue.

Windows revenue grew $925 million. Not to $925 million. By $925 million.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/annualreports/ar2018/annualr...
The risk of contaminating other planets with life? lol
Does anyone know how other similar programs behave in these latitudes? For example, f.lux, GNOME's night light, or Redshift?
I'm tempted to repeat this for the Little Nemo in Slumberland comic strip [1] that ran in the early 1900's. Like the Krazy Kat comics, the Fantagraphics collections of the strips are long out of print and expensive when found usd.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Nemo
Science did know it. It just didn’t realize that the angular momentum could change with time.
Uhm. You will need to input some carbon into the system because otherwise the plants won't be able to obtain raw materials to grow and actually produce food.
I see it as another publicity stunt by the Big 5 tech companies to save their reputation amidst years of anti-privacy violations. From buying Github, to "supporting" open-source software. Yeah right, more like marketing to save your reputation.
I'll keep moving further and further away from Big Tech.
Will Microsoft send themselves more "aggregated" user data on how their new Linux kernel is being used? Will this have to be another rule for my firewall to block?
U.S. prosecutors subpoena records on Boeing 787 production: Seattle Times
> I thought that light was unable to change its physical properties in time (as observed from our frame of reference) due to infinite relativistic time dilation.

This is not correct. What is correct is that the concept of a "rest frame" for a light ray doesn't make sense. But our rest frame, as observers watching the light, is perfectly well defined, and in our frame it's perfectly possible to see light changing with our time.
When you run a type-1 hypervisor, the only thing running on the metal is the hypervisor.

This is what happens in the case of WSL 2; both Linux and Windows (the host OS) run in very (very) lightweight VMs.
$17 billion is peanuts for Apple. However, Apple uses TSMC for fabrication and they are already at 7nm. No need to own fabs. AMD doesn't own fabs either. The Apple designed A12X Bionic processor contains 10 billion transistors and is already competitive with desktop processors from AMD and Intel. Do you think it would be that difficult for Apple to design a desktop or laptop version? They have more than enough money to hire all of the smartest engineers on the planet. The problem would be backwards compatibility, like the transition from PPC to x86 in 2005.
> w3m supports inline images (...)—seriously, a web browser with image support, inside the terminal. The future is now.

Why not go a little further and support variable width/pitch fonts?
Those are not comparable things at all. For starters, Linux is under the GPL. It also wouldn't give Microsoft the level of control over the web that the Chrome monoculture gives to Google.
Thanks for the explanation. I completely misunderstood the effect. Now, I misunderstand it a little bit less. Progress!
Speaking of phones, did you try to read this on a phone? Tiny font, not responsive design and faint color (no contrast) makes it very hard to read. Ugh.
> No revisions to the architecture, ever.

I'd love to have this sort of confidence in my ability to foresee everyone's future needs, but I don't. I mean, I agree that having to do full rewrites every time your framework's version bumps, but promising no changes ever seems more constricting than necessary.
https://imgur.com/aJJ3nvD
"Just try to shuttle data between spreadsheet, e-mail and web-browser with the tools mentioned above"

Have you ever tried MS Office + VBA for comparison purposes?
I dunno, HK was legally handed over to China with international approval (albeit with China bending/breaking the 50 year agreement). Messing with Taiwan’s sovereignty would be a far far greater geopolitical problem.
To Quote Mens Health:

"The 7% guy is definitely following a very strict regimen,” he explains. He’s probably eliminating certain macronutrients, like being Paleo with no carbs, and is definitely paying very close attention to what he eats.

Meanwhile the 10 to 12% guy is in constant flux—some weeks he’s at 9 percent, others he’s at 12%. “He might have a cheat meal—splurging on wings instead of steamed asparagus when out with the guys—but not necessarily a cheat day,” McCall says.

Someone at 15% is having a cheat day. “He’s paying attention and making certain decisions—no fried foods, burger without the bun, no accidental break room pastries. But he’s not uber health conscious,” he adds."
Or Firefox reader mode. Just click the icon in the address bar.
The software did exactly as it's supposed to do: If the AOA sensors tells you the plane is tilting too high up, pitch the nose down a little.

The main issue was that there was only one AOA sensor connected in standard packages and the hardware for it failed.

The pitot tubes failed for the doomed Air France incident which caused the software to read incorrectly and stall.

For what it's worth AirBus has a huge engineering department in India:
https://www.airbus.com/careers/search-and-apply/opportunitie...

Articles like this are just drummed up to stir negative emotions about "others" (with "struggling to understand English" and "unable to code fizzbuzz") as is evidenced in the rest of the comments below.
Beyond Climate Tipping Points
>> on their gaming rigs

Maybe if ms makes an nvidia driver too. :/
They would if people were producing 3D printers for African villages
Wellll, that's not actually how it works. Capital expenditures are only a fraction of total expenses, which is only a fraction of annual cash flow. For example, in a previous life I worked at a VoIP company. At that time, our technical infrastructure was largely paid for. We had a couple of million subscribers and were struggling financially. The lion's share of cash flow went to Customer Service, Advertising, and Debt financing and repayment. (Disclaimer--I haven't kept up with the company and have no idea how they're doing now.)

It's very difficult for an ISP to make much money at $30/mo per customer, unless you go the Google route and only provide automated customer service. That's why established ISP such as Verizon are losing interest and selling their operations to bottom-feeding companies like CenturyLink. All of the money is in Mobile.

I can't see SpaceX itself actually providing the retail experience. It's entirely foreign to how the company functions. I'd see SpaceX either contracting to provide technical services (like Level3), or wholesaling the product to sort-of MVNOs (Mobile Virtual Network Operators). If wholesale, it could be a captive sister company (Musk does have the retail experience) (by analogy, like Mobile PCS which is owned by T-Mobile), or to independent operators (analogy being Virgin Mobile).

I don't have any deep insight into the market, but some interesting possibilities would be a hungry cell carrier like T-Mobile branching out into ISP service, hoping to provide more attractive land/mobile bundles.
'DeepNude' app to 'undress' women shut down after furor
> What people need on drivers? USB (and with usb-c), hdmi, bluetooth (maybe?)

Do you honestly think there is a single USB-C driver that covers literally everything that can connect over USB? And anything with an HDMI port uses the same driver!?
What about the recent one ZombieLoad?
I'll add the separate filesystems problem. I generally need to access files from both windows & linux. WSL 2 may have made file access faster within the vhd, but it seems to be slower to use those files from Windows, or impossible with tools that don't yet support the network file paths provided by the 9p server. VS Code's solution with the remote extension is really nice, but every Win tool would have to do something similar to make the experience truly seamless.
I've generally preferred integration tests to unit tests but Storybook has completely changed how I write React components, for the better.
This sounds like a great tool. So if I understand the tool correctly:

1. you snapshot the rendered HTML of a webapp at a specific page

2. Send it to someone to style that snapshot

3. Developer gets back that styled snapshot and incorporates the changes back into the app?

Is there a means for the developer to diff the old snapshot and the newly styled HTML? That could make it much easier to manage the changes.

Cool idea though!!
No one in the mainstream public knows or cares about the Linux kernel or open source. People care about products. Not implementation details.
> If you want to reduce your test mass, the number one
thing you should do is look at the tests that have never
failed in a year and consider throwing them away. They are
producing no information for you — or at least very little
information.

I feel like there is some subtlety here that most will miss.
Specifically, "and consider". That is the part we are really bad at.
According to the article, the algorithm does not need to have a polynomial bound to be classified as "galactic".
You must have been a pleasant employee to work with.
An issue has been logged to the documentation web site, and the creator has been responsive. I'd imagine it'll be fixed in reasonable time.
> No revisions to the architecture, ever. Code shouldn’t have to be completely rewritten to be compatible with the next major version of Typescene. We all have better things to do.

The full quote. Note the words "completely rewritten".

You're misrepresenting what the author said (arguably the lead in was slightly exaggerated or just poorly written) when you seem to agree that full rewrites are bad.
Get your patents now...
Creating Texting App with Twilio API [Python]
Unless you need serious gpu or ram, I would recommend the Surface Book.
Impressive project! Really fast and I like the tabs at the top.

The only thing I recommend is developing a responsive mobile layout. Good work though!
Windows has less hardware support than Linux. Most single board computers can run mainline Linux, whereas just a handful support Windows IoT.

AMD, ARM (CPUs & Mali GPUs), Intel, VIA, Qualcomm (Adreno) all have support in kernel 5, whereas Microsoft is still stuck subsetting a small group of ARM GPUs and branding Windows 10's OpenGL ES support as DirectX 11. This is a repeat of the troubles Microsoft had with supporting Windows Phone, but now the userbase is significantly smaller despite a wider array of hardware to support.
When did you use it last? It has had some large changes for the backend 1.5-2 years ago I believe.

I definitely had some syncing issues with in the past as well, but I understand it has improved.
Dead meaning that, in my opinion, they have sold their soul to Satan. Boeing was previously at the apex of engineering. The 747 was a respectable achievement in 1968. The MAX debacle has exposed a catastrophic fall in engineering standards.
You're catching downvotes (have some goddamned respect people) but I'm facing this choice right now.

I have a project that involves a compiler written in Prolog targeting Prof. Wirth's RISC chip (for Project Oberon[1]), and I want to make it easily accessible.

I can use e.g. TCL/Tk/Tkinter/Python+SWI-Prolog, and make a native app that the user has to install... or...

There is a Prolog in JS[2], and an emulator for the chip in JS[3], and rich widget frameworks (I like Knockout[4], but there are literally dozens in JS), so it's pretty easy to make a SPA that shows off the code (literate programming style) along with live compilation and emulation, and you can even let users save their work[5]. "Installation" is just visiting the page.

I keep trying to come up with reasons NOT to go that route (out of some perhaps-misplaced JS prejudice) and I can't.

> There's really no need for X-Windows or Wayland any more.

Indeed!

[1] http://www.projectoberon.com/

[2] Tau Prolog http://tau-prolog.org/

[3] http://schierlm.github.io/OberonEmulator/ https://github.com/schierlm/OberonEmulator

[4] https://knockoutjs.com/

[5] https://calroc.github.io/HulloWurld/Hullo.html
I read that as a humorous potshot.
Eh? ‘Most’ of MSFTs revenue comes from
Windows and Office. Isn’t Azure/cloud/server less than ⅓? Not that that’s not substantial, but it’s not most.
Those tests are helpful when you do major architectural changes, which may not happen every year.

Tests also help in general development. Make some changes, then fix the tests. If you are running tests locally on your machine (and offline) how can you be sure that every time a test fails locally the failure is logged?
I travel quite a bit, so lightness is a requirement.
I think one of the reasons why it's such a conundrum is because software development as a practice is just now getting to the level of complexity where large groups of people have collaborated over a large codebase over a long time.

One of the problems that the microservice architecture is trying to solve is by making a a large software entity a collection of smaller easier to manage entities. It's like single cell organisms evolving to multicell organisms...each cell becomes smaller and simpler and more specialized and replacement of cells becomes easier and allows the overall lifeform to "scale" and become more complex.

Mature software companies have gone through this transformation multiple times already in the form of, n-tier, SOA, microservices, and now serverless architectures. This is all part of a natural progression of making individual components simpler, the overall structure more granular, and as a result more resilient. This resiliency opens up new capabilities to scale a complex system.

My long winded point being that legacy software will always exist yes, but each piece of legacy software is already getting smaller and more granular where rewriting it will eventually be a more continuous operation of refactoring small things--kind of like skin cells falling off your body or hair falling out.
Similarly, tizonia[1] which is amazing for Spotify and Google Music and much more.

[1]http://tizonia.org/
You always compromise on quality when you go for cross compat. Either the quality in hardware suffers or the quality in software suffers or both. And this is someone who never uses Apple. But I acknowledge why they do what they do.
Indeed. There are still plenty of people spreading doubt and nonsense about the climate emergency not being real or not being caused by our industrial-scale burning of stuff for "energy".

We unequivocally NEED to stand behind a singular message:

1) it IS our activities causing it

2) we can and should curtail these activities IMMEDIATELY

3) while we can't avoid the effects "in the pipleline", we can prevent further effects from piling up.

4) number 3 is our duty to the children and their children, it's our legacy.
If you put other taco stands out of business, their assets are cheap to buy. Tada! You are now competing with someone whose cost base is lower than yours.

Value creation doesn't come from the absence of other value creators.
I've read many comments like yours over the years, but I've never understood how a GUI precludes using a language, whereas a text based interface means giving up the features of a GUI.

I wonder if there are many people that are as young or younger than the personal computer, who are stuck on the idea that a GUI is somehow inferior. Because I was about 7 when the first ones were available, so anything before that seemed like an obsolete relic.
Question for those with more technological knowledge than I have: will this allow AF_PACKET support on windows so I can run monitor mode stuff? CUDA acceleration?

If I could avoid spending time getting nvidia drivers working on my laptop, that would be a massive help. And yeah, I know, I'm supposed to buy AMD stuff so I can use open source etc. But all the best hardware is nvidia, and so top hardware ships with nvidia. I've got to use this thing for my work as well, so it's not really an option, and I don't have the technical chops to quickly debug my drivers or wm or whatever.
I recently looked for a simple scripting language where I would need to do some mathematical arithemetics, and do some formatted output of the results (2 decimal digits). I found awk scripts (stand alone) a good option. Bash it self is not well suited, and also Python felt like a worse option in my case. Also looked at bc as script language but its reusablity and formatting features were more limited.
Absolutely rabble rousing. Given that it was the angle of attack hardware sensor which was stuck in the wrong position and giving out the wrong reading.

The software got the reading that the nose was too pitched up and to prevent stall it pitched the nose down.

The software could handle reading from multiple sensor which Boeing sold separately.

It's an American management decision to make more money, not a $9 an hour software engineer's job to decide how to fly the plane.

Coming up after the break: How EA loot boxes are programmed by $10 an hour cheap software engineers from India. Grab your pitchforks on aisle #3
Might I ask why this old version (I haven't read it) instead of the manual/book for GNU awk? [1] It does a good job of mentioning differences between other implementations and GNU awk extensions are marked

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/
Stockholm syndrome