skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ooh I actually hit this early on in my career. I cared a lot about stuff to the extent that I'd give up going to shows to do work. Well, that was _entirely wrong_. Nobody wanted that of me.

I learnt then that giving that much of a shit only mattered if I were building something for myself. So, for the things I care about, I'll give that much of a damn, but for someone else, they're not getting that.

The mistake I made was that I invested more into that thing than the owners themselves. That's so foolish. Why? They don't want that from you.
Should not need to duplicate the Dockerfiles; they should work as-is. The repositories may not contain aarch64 builds, but just like docker repos can contain windows container builds alongside linux, they can contain aarch64 alongside amd64, at the same URL, with the same tags, and in fact I think plenty of official images already have that.

Few images should need Dockerfile changes unless they are bootstrapping from scratch. People are already using Docker and Kubernetes on Raspberry Pi and other small ARM devices.
These sort of bugs are hard to find with unit tests. But it's still easy to test, to make sure it never happen again. I think it's called integration tests. It can also be done with live testing, by checking all packages that lands on the public repository - if they include .git folder, passwords/keys, or other credentials.
There's very little special sauce in an operating system; at least, it's hard to hide state of the art techniques in one. Bleeding-edge hardware is chock full of trade secrets which are hard to simply copy.
Genuine question: Does anyone have any anecdotes or similar blog posts about men in women-dominated careers talking about the 'girls club' and deploring being excluded from it?
Don't worry. You're a second class netizen with a VPN too. You'll just spend half your time solving Google's ReCaptcha instead of being blocked outright.
For me it once turned out that a short ~25m connecting path between two roads was an old overgrown flight of stairs in the side of a hill, inclined by about 45 degrees...
Protestant Christianity was what I was brought up with and I never heard anything specific about that.
Just that I have never been in a conference room with an Apple TV attached to the projector. They are a pretty expensive addon considering that I rarely see other Macs at the business meetings I attend.
Run a DOS OS legally without having to use a Microsoft product. That's one.

It has a package repository which is cool.

But DOS is DOS, it is limited.
If you don't think it's cool, I guess you're outside of its scope :).
The DF-5 can carry those 4Mt warheads, has a 12k+ km range, and has been around since 1981.
Security is the go-to excuse for taking away control from users these days. For those that run Gmail on their own domain this makes 0 sense. They have control over the whole domain, restricting access to Gmail does nothing for security
Fun post about efficiency from a company that is chronically loosing money.
We desperately need a way to pay most/all authors directly
Which screen cast dongles are cheap and support Air Play? I would really be interested to push for them locally.
4chan derives its design from Japanese forums, and the Japanese web for had a very minimalistic design to a huge part of it, even up to today, due to C-HTML and use from flip phones.
> I quite like Fastmail. I switched from Gmail five years ago and have had no complaints.

I have heard fastmail has a rather good user interface. Gmail's is terribly slow these days.

They also are the only provider I know of that currently implements ARC (Authenticated Received Chain) http://arc-spec.org/ and are big proponents of JMAP https://jmap.io

If you're not bothered by the fact they operate in a FVEY country US/AU then they are an option too.

What I do like about Mailbox is they let me use my own domain (posteo.de does not).

They also implement DANE, MTA-STS, TLS-RPT. They use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-Xchange which allows for things like Guard (temporary mailbox for recipients, they click a link write their message into the browser). They also have a @secure.mailbox.org alias that will force TLS, (not opportunistic).

Additionally they have inbox encryption which will encrypt anything you get in your inbox save in sent (via imap) with a sieve filter that uses your public key. You can keep the private one in your key ring locally.

ProtonMail has their bridge which is supposed to allow full body search (something which is kind of hard when you pgp crypt all your email), however I have read varying responses on the stability of that.

Tutanota has no API access, you must use their email client, web browser. Protonmail has contacts, but no calendars yet so you might still want to use something like https://www.etesync.com or https://radicale.org on your own server.
My wife an I don't seem to have any problem reading paper books with the baby. Accidentally dropping them isn't much of a problem either.
Used it after restoring some win95 backup tape:

- old dos games

- turbo pascal 7 coding sessions
What makes you think that the GDPR, which is designed to give users control over their data, makes it illegal to give users control over their data?
Thanks. That's genuinely scary.
They offered the world order!
Cloud services go down more often than my old WordPress sites. Avoiding vendor lock in and doing multi-provider deployments should be par the course.
Speaking as a truck-driver (not over-the-road, I drive a septic tank truck), I find it shocking that so much is poured into the self-driving movement and not invested into changing the infrastructure to require fewer transports in the first place.

Self-driving is a win for corporations in that it saves them money in the long run, and it would offer higher throughput as the trucks could run 24/7 with no need for breaks. Refueling could happen while they're being loaded/unloaded by warehouse personnel, as could general maintenance such as changing tires etc. so you would have a small fleet of truck operating nearly continuously which would be a huge economic win for these companies.

But why isn't more money spent trying to change the transportation sector? Why are trucks running across the US instead of high-capacity trains? One train could easily swallow 50 trucks worth of goods if the infrastructure was built to accommodate it. Why are things shipped so far instead of produced and sold more locally? There's capacity to produce food much closer to where people live, so 'fresh' actually means fresh, and it travels at most double-digit miles before it hits the store instead of quadruple-digit miles or more.

By all means push for self-driving, but for the environment we need to push for no driving.
All autoupdate tests will eventually fail to prevent a self-breaking autoupdate from affecting one or more users. The trick is to prepare effectively for that scenario ahead of time. For example, homebrew’s “brew doctor” command has existed for a long time, but in recent years it now comes with a litany or helpful text and other commands (including autoupdate code logic) reference it when they encounter errors.
There's a rather entertaining video[1] of a Codewise[2] CEO getting lost in Costa Rica mountains because of Google Maps directions.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDNURhBS998

[2]: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/codewise
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It's a set of macros and helper functions build on top of Julia to provide a sort of probabilistic programming DSL. The actual project describes themselves as a "programming system" rather that a programming language.
I just realized I’ve never physically touched any sever I’ve worked on professionally.

In my career, nothing felt quite as high-tech in its moment as hands-on mainframe operation, oddly enough.

- Loading a custom removable boot drive.

- actually dialing in a hex address of a boot device on a console

- knowing and using command sequences to bring up and down systems with thousands of simultaneous users

- using quiesce to halt a mainframe, leaving all processes intact but frozen, so major hardware components could be worked on... then all processes resumed in place

- bailing somebody out of a screwup that would otherwise require hours and thousands of dollars to redo

- working on technology than spans 20+ years in the same shift

Best of all, I was mostly on my feet all night rather than sitting at a desk.

As for subsequent realms (UNIX, PC, VAX, etc), I started before servers were banished to racks and always had hands-on access back then. It was a big improvement when we could do DOS builds using cross-compilers on Sun and then serve the binaries over PC-NFS (welcome to 1993).
Hmm.

Using Firefox because it has a particular technological feature is a political choice. That political stance would lead users to turn to other browsers as fast as tech is added or removed.

I use Firefox for political reasons and for what it stands.

Which means that when Firefox gets worse I still use it and support what it stands for.

It's very Stallmanesque and let it be clear I am not saying the choice to favour superior tech over ethic concerns is wrong. It's just a different choice.

That's what I tell people when talking about Signal and messenger, Chrome and Firefox.

Also, I don't think Mozilla is a white knight and in my opinion they fucked up some good things over the years (tech or ethic). But the good still largely surpasses the bad.
Yes I do.

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis...

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/carbon-dioxide-co2-emissi...

https://blog.mybacharach.com/articles/sources-nox-emissions/

I know your feelings is as good as data but still.
Your analogy is poor; a barometer will indeed tell you it will rain on your wedding day, at least 12 hours in advance.

Forecasting is easy, if your collect the right data.
The biggest problem is not Boeing sourcing out its work, it's the FAA sourcing out its design certification work to Boeing.
Boeing now designs the planes, and certifies them for safe design. That's what's nuts. In the documentary I posted above that problem was already identified, and that was seven years ago. Nothing has changed, Boeing still certifies its own planes and the FAA just signs off on them.
The problem with using SHA1 to protect PII is it would be trivial to brute force, especially with the restrictive character set of URLs, and a big part of them being able to be guessed. One could very quickly cycle through all Hacker News URLs, for example. This is why a key derivation function would be preferable.
> I tried creating my own mail server with DigitalOcean but they didn't open port 25 for me

> DO opens up port 25 by raising a support ticket.

Should also note many of the DO IPs are on blacklists so you'll probably have issues with mail being delivered if you do that.
Until every Facebook employee is payed in Libra, including Zucks's shares, I know where they stand on the purpose of Libra.
Yes, I agree that India sorely needs comprehensive data protection laws. IIRC the IT rules act only concerns with sensitive personal information which includes bank accounts/cards. Though I'm not sure if individual transactions are covered under this.

Given that MasterCard & Visa are only intermediary's between Indian companies and banks, Indian companies(PayTM, PayU, CCAvenue) already have access to all available data as the one who've initiated the transaction. In fact MasterCard/Visa processing the data outside the US actually increases the exposure of data and no amount of US data protection laws will help.
Jony Ive had been the CDO for years and the results weren't great. It's not that Jony Ive isn't a great designer. It's just that it's difficult to judge your own work, no matter how good you are.

What they need, more than a CDO, is someone who they have to run every design by, someone (EDIT: with an impeccable eye) who is not afraid to say no. In other words, someone who can fill the role Steve Jobs used to play.

I, for one, nominate the great John Siracusa, for this job.

See http://hypercritical.co/fatbits/2009/05/06/hypercritical
It only has one DVI port and the USB-pass-through. Funny as it is, I am writing this post on a Dell 30" screen connected via this very adapter to a 2015 MB Pro. Yes, this was one of the worst contraptions of a dongle ever made, but in this case, it was the only way to create dual-link DVI ouptut (needed for resolutions larger than 1920x1080) from a Displayport.
The preferred word of the ingroup will become the insult from the outgroup while the ingroup settles on a new term and round and round.

You can't really expect the written word to use the current preferred term.

The problem is never the words, it's the person behind them.
I have nowhere experienced more looking under the hood feeling then when I am using Julia.

The source code of the packages sit on my computer, I can (and sometimes do) modify it, and I can still compile the same function to SIMD or GPU.
I agree but I'd be happy to go back to a MacBook Air for all this.
My experience is it isn't really. I used the web version to plan a trip across Mojave National Preserve once, and it came up with a totally innocent looking route using some unpaved roads, which was supposedly faster than going around using the I40 and route 95. The road was ok for the first few miles but anything over 30MPH would be asking for trouble, and not even nearly halfway in I had to turn around because the road was so bad a 2WD would definitely get stuck eventually. The longer route using freeways would have added 30 minutes to the 2:30 hour trip time according to Google, but in reality continuing on the dirt road would have taken at least 4 hours at the speed I was able to go, if I had even made it.
How is this compared to Turing.jl [1], and Stan[2] /Pyro [3], Edward [4], TensorFlow probability [5]?

Refs:

[1] http://turing.ml

[2] https://mc-stan.org

[3] https://pyro.ai

[4] http://edwardlib.org

[5] https://www.tensorflow.org/probability/overview
Sometime back a sys admin at my friend's work place asked them to package Java applications as RPM for deployment. I thought that was not a great idea and may be wrong tool for the job. But I will take this opportunity to ask people here if it was an OK suggestion?
A "second time" makes it sound like it's some kind of limited process that happens extremely rarely and was stopped after the "first time" became public.

When in reality we are talking about surveillance [0] and surveillance doesn't work with "probes", it's based on constant monitoring and thus requires massive infrastructure [1].

So when was this supposedly stopped, to make it a "second time"?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
I don't support the US' alliance with Saudi Arabia. What's your point? What does this have to do with my dislike of China's government?
Your viewpoint might shift if you're more affected.

I'm German and the only party really seriously pushing for improvement of my identity rights is also neoliberal.

So I'm just out of options as a trans socialist. Of course I'll call the greens out on flying the LGBT flag while not pushing for TSG reform (the law that allows you to change your name for ~5000 EUR, two unqualified "expert opinions" and a civil court case).
Sure. Forcing people to do something rarely leads to good results, that's not in dispute here. In fact, that's the whole point of the criticism against schools here. But the reason why forcing doesn't lead to good result is largely because it involves an imposition of suffering, which you yourself reiterate.

Maybe a better way to put it is to say is that schools tend to be bad at encouraging kids to learn, so they try (unsuccessfully) to make up for it by forcing instead.
What does node mean?
What do you mean by "low-content"?
Volume of coal power plant >>>> mobile pollution machines.

The 7 out of the top 10 CO2 emission sources in Europe are coal power plants. Their production is blown by the wind to populated areas. Some of coal power plant production ends up different countries as well.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/15/european...
You got it the wrong way around.

Two apps have voluntarily decided that's the right thing to do. Lots of others have not.

Gab deciding to advertise as "we have apps they are [generic mastodon app]" is an existential threat. Because appstores don't care about details like that.
This was done on a public sidewalk, not in a building. Other than that, yes, it's possible. That fits. Thank you.
Sorry I would like to run buses when it is dark or when the wind is not blowing.
Everyone is talking about the keyboards, because they don’t work reliably and have an exorbitant failure rate so that 10-30% of all 2016-2018 MBPs had problems like double inserts of keys.
Ask HN: Models for Collaborative Websites?
I am playing with the idea of creating a niche information website, where I want users to be able to contribute and improve the content.

I am looking at the Wikipedia and StackOverflow models to get inspiration on how to foster quality contributions. Is there any other good example of a website where good quality content emerges from user contributions?

Using a pure Wiki or Stack-exchange model is not an option, because:

- I want to be able to impose a schema for the different items that can be documented, to improve searchability, so a wiki is a bit too unstructured, but

- the general structure should be closer to an encyclopedia than a Q&A

The aim is to provide a collection of quality information, which is missing in that niche, not to make money, in case that matters.
This article tackles a very limited form of type inference that is far less useful than global type inference.

The benefit of type inference is that there is less to write, which makes changes quicker to make.

Type inference does not preclude adding extra annotations if they would help.

A good ide will show you type annotations at all times, if you choose. No small actions are required.

I would say that there actually is a problem with global type inference. If two types do not match (e.g. usage and implementation of a function) then most systems do a poor job of guessing which part (or both!) is broken.
yes? android can do:

phone calls

internet browsing

apps

heck, I can use firefox and ublock on android, so iphones look even worse feature wise from here. they look good and cost a lot and that's it.

even the app quality argument holds little value today as there's not many app today that aren't just cross-compiled

plus, a billion of little cuts, like not being able to download an mp3 and use it as alarm or ringtone, having to use safari for sites that use webgl, having skype etc to open link into safari forcing every time a copy paste etc etc.

iphones aren't bad experience as long as you commit to every single defalut they pick for you. outside that, they're pretty and they're expensive.

three years ago the tech gap in the hardware itself was enough to justify the price, with even high end androids having wholly inadequate performances, and I had iphones all the way up to the 5s, but that's irrelevant now, with even the midrange android beefy enough to go trough every application you can throw at them with ease.
In this case you need a highly motivated situational captain on your floor, always on the ball, first in, last out, always pointing and delegating, and rewarding only the highest of achievers. Situational Captain, every organisation needs one.
All I’m saying is that the notch doesn’t FEEL like it removes screen for me, rather ticks away the status bar making the notch “issue” not an issue at all.
After a few years of using Brave on Android, I switched back to Firefox, since I now have a powerful enough device that the bad cold boot performance can be ignored. A few missing things:

- Chromium's zoom on tap is really more intelligent. Hitting the [-] on HN is much easier on in Brave than Firefox.

- The gesture to switch tab on Chromium is also more comfortable. That's a missed opportunity on Firefox Preview as well.

- I wish there was a way for uBlock-Origin to integrate better on a webpage. Disabling javascript makes many websites much more usable (disabling most on-load popups). It's one more tap to do that on Firefox than on Brave.
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Clicked the geocities.com link and got a "High Risk Website Blocked - Access has been blocked as the threat Mal/HTMLGen-A has been found on this website" notification from Sophos.

False flag, or malicious?
I am not a US citizen but doesn’t this “second time” refer to some kind of promise the NSA made not to spy on US citizen?
A few days ago, Nick Law - current Chief Creative Officer of the Publicis Groupe - announced that he will be leaving to join Apple for a "once in a lifetime opportunity." Maybe he'll replace Jony Ive?!
which I think is perfectly fine, we shouldn't treat companies like uber like some employer of last resort because people are struggling to make ends meet and are pushed into the gig economy. It was never advertised as an alternative to regular employment by the sharing businesses themselves.

There's something more deeply wrong about the state of affairs if that's the case.
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> It is rather bizarre to see some people feel entitled to content which isn't distributed as per their own personal wishes. A principled person would chose to take his/her business elsewhere and purchase a book on a platform whose ethics they agree with.

Couple counter-points:

1) It's reasonable that I'm expected to compensate the creator for the content. It's not reasonable for the publisher to dictate how I get to consume that content, especially not by forcing me to use particular format, software or hardware. DRM is enforcing the latter, not the former.

2) Having personal wishes wrt. content distribution is part of the market game. There is huge demand for bullshit-free content distribution, which is evidenced by the success of Steam and Netflix (especially relative to Torrents!), who cut out most of the crap and left the "you're now renting the content, not buying it".

3) Most content is non-substitutable. You can't just "take your business elsewhere", because there's nowhere else to take the business to! If Disney decides that the newest Star Wars is DRMed, there's shit all I can do - it's going to be DRMed everywhere, I can only choose from providers that enforce that DRM, and I can't exactly go and watch some cat videos on PeerTube instead - I wanted Star Wars, not smelly cats. This applies to books, movies, TV shows, video games, and to a large extent, to music.
What's wrong with cash?
No, thats not my point. I updated my response, but the key is you need both

- motivation (or discipline)

- means

And forcing only tries to apply motivation without thinking about means.

“How?” Is a question that needs an answer from somewhere.
More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20301352
Welp, not that our product is that popular, we're selling in one country only, but there are exactly zero tests. Everything is manual. And I think this is still how the majority of projects out there do it. Not that this is great, but management, and a lot of devs don't see too much value in it, more like "nice to have if there's extra time".
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Gyms are substitutable, "movies, games, music, etc." are not. Your argument works for e.g. Steam vs. GOG when both carry a particular game, but it doesn't work in general, because a DRMed work is usually DRMed everywhere.