skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is insightful and makes us understand the fundamentals of usability - very much like math is for software development. But, it may not be immediately usable for developers in designing web applications. If readers are expecting widgets/screens, they might be disappointed with this book.
Satellite costs, not launch costs, dominate. And then there is Vulcan and other cheap launch competitors coming online.
Microsoft did not grow big, because millions of home users decided to buy DOS/Windows as they considered the best choice. Microsoft purchased DOS, which was bundled for every single IBM PC. This gave the foundation for the company to be able to improve their software family giving them a stable income even if every single DOS alternative was superior to their system. IBM was not able to prevent the creation of the PC compatibles which was a really strong advantage for MS as DOS became their default go to OS. Cheap computers created a really big market for the platform so developing to MS products became a good idea. However the businesses were the ones who choose to buy Microsoft products, and not because of the OS, but their office software products, which worked, of course, primarily in their OS.
Most of the home users just get it bundled with their hardware purchase, others for home use just pirated it (especially out of US). Their focus were the software they use, did not really care about the OS.
And that's how piracy helped MS, children playing with computer games arrived in the work market with familiarity with MS products, which kept the companies using and buying those products.
I worked at an AS/400 shop out of college (this was in the 2000's, though). The other programmers there did NOT have a better understanding of low-level programming than me. In fact, it was hard to call them programmers at all.
As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, before Huygens we expected that the surface might well be entirely liquid, giving us at best only a few minutes to run the experiments and return the data before it sank. There was no point carrying too much battery capacity in that case.
It's not just about censorship and surveillance. These are there to prevent people from finding out and doing something about other forms of oppression. So what you are saying is that Chinese people culturally don't care about govt oppression unless it's their turn?
I had to double check your price on the SSD. When did SSDs get so cheap??
I used such linters, and they fail at certain things. The `fmt.Println("")` example still holds. Another example:

a, err := foo()
b, err := bar()
c, err := baz()

err doesn't get handled in the first two cases, and the linter doesn't complain.

And race conditions in golang are very much possible, and cause issues in prod.
It is indeed a conundrum.

Working in maintaining and supporting legacy software is both an absolute necessity for the business and a possible career dead-ending move for you. You're at the same time doing important work -- if not particularly interesting or groundbreaking -- and signalling to your employer "I'm not marketable enough that you must raise my salary or risk me leaving".

Working on legacy software can also be a dead-end when interviewing with some startups. Interviewers from MuleSoft once told me to change jobs and work on more interesting, high-profile open source tech stacks before interviewing again with them. (I did, but didn't try another interview with them because I later learned what they do isn't particularly interesting, either).

Some people do specialize in obsolete software and make it their niche, but I find in my country (not the US) the degree of success with this is overstated. For example, I know very few COBOL programmers who earn a lot of money. Most are in a lose-lose situation, earning average money and... working with COBOL.
Meh, I think they all look like they’re trying hard to look like they’re not enjoying it, aka hipster, it’s not cool to be happy
>there's more than one way to define "freedom"

Only to people with an agenda. This garbage way of redefining words to suit your predetermined policy goals is ridiculous. My comment is severely DVd but nobody supplied an example of a more free country.

All tech companies are HQd in the US for a reason. Stable private property protection and individual freedom is most prominent in the US.

The collectivists lost the argument that had been ongoing since the 1920s when the USSR fell, and some folks want to have this argument again (even when they already lost).

How many times is Europe going to fine big tech for exercising their natural rights? We need at least one country with minimal rules in the world.
"On the implementation of the TEMP protocol, a laser etched version of Wikipedia will be created using plates of a resilient alloy to store miniaturized versions of every page. "

If the TEMP is so severe that Wikipedia will need to close, how they expect to finish laser etching the whole wikipedia before everyone is dead, or their power is out for good?
And even if they are at the beginning, they can randomly be removed later.
E.g. Adobe Lightroom, which I pay a subscription for, had the option of moving to a fully paid version (which was able to open data from the subscription). However now it's no longer possible and when (not if) I stop paying, I won't be able to migrate my catalog (=edits) anywhere, short of exporting all photos as tiffs.
The Lost Man
SpaceX’s launched satellites don’t even have lasers. They’re beta, and some went offline. I’m not sure you can conclude anything at this point.
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I did it last year and found the exercise very valuable. I definitely recommend taking part. Yes, things were changing a lot right up to, and through, last year's event. I don't see that as a negative, but rather as the YC folks having the willingness to flex and adapt to circumstances. Could things have been smoother in some areas? Probably. Will they be so this year? Probably.
> I guess you're one of those people who always uses the noscript extension in your browser

Imagine that not only your browser, but the entire system cripples because of poorly written trackers, ad spots with animated sprites floating over mp4 videos, and 0day exploits like the one that was recently found in the wild (and there was plenty of vulnerabilities in PostScript implementations as well, so in this sense your analogy is pretty much spot-on). Sure, that's the system of the future that everyone should've switched to decades ago.
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> [the people] voted overwhelmingly in favor for current Apple AirPods with their money

Are you sure about this? Personally, I almost never see people wearing AirPods in public, but I do see a lot of other headphones. It cannot be said that they "overwhelmingly" captured the headphone or earbud market.

Googling around it seems they are the best selling for wireless according to some sources. But most earphones I see in public seem to be wired still. Yet more googling seems to suggest the whole of the headphone market sells > 10x the number of units as AirPods. It falls far short of an "overwhelming" impression.
I take pleasure in refactoring code, fixing bugs that customers hit and the satisfaction I have when that user gets a quick fix or solution for his problem.
Canada has no power in the world. They are our surrogate. OBSD is in Canada because that's where de Raadt lives.
If you're interested in this sort of thing, I managed to drag the U.S. government's Cold War plans for keeping regulatory agencies operating after World War III out of the depths of classification a few years back. You can read about and download them here:

https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2016/11/regulating-the-apocalypse...
yathern, what do you do other than working? If you don't have one or more activities outside work that require constant effort, planning and have an objective, find some. Even if work is an essential part of everyone life, I wouldn't choose it as the main source of fulfilment. Work is for money.

I would "suck it up" (option 1, with a sprinkle of 3 eventually) and revisit this problem in a few years if it still persist.

Also, 1 week is not a proper vacation, it's not even enough to disconnect the mind from the problems you have at work.

Good luck.
Boeing falsified records for 787 jet that developed a fuel leak
I couldn’t use it long enough to unlearn using the trackpad as a crutch. Thinkpad trackpads are pretty terrible by comparison. I also hated trying to use windows and didn’t want to keep maintaining a Linux install, though that might have gotten better lately.

I am going to ride out my personal 2013 mbp until they fix the keyboards on the new machines. I have a new one at work, and each incremental fix still breaks after a while and I don’t think they have ironed it out. It’s a beautiful feeling machine and I want to love it. However, you can get everything else perfect and screw up the keyboard, and it doesn’t matter because I can’t get work done.

If they don’t get it right by the time my current MBP dies completely I guess I’ll see how far Linux has come. I’d suggest the same for you - even as an apple shareholder and former employee I can’t recommend a programmer buy a laptop with such an unreliable keyboard. But if they nail the keyboard in the next generation, absolutely hop aboard the bandwagon.

Pretty much it comes down to the flaky keyboards for me. USBC support is just getting better, the displays and trackpad are still best in class, and a lightweight aluminum unibody design is something I didn’t think I would miss but you absolutely do. The OS is widely supported by a community of other developers, and it is super easy to set up a productive development environment. And the OS is widely supported by hardware and software vendors too, so you don’t have to fight compatibility issues nearly as much as Linux.
I said API: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#/media/File:Linux...
The late '90s and early '00s were a strange time. It had plenty of shotguns aimed at feet and no one to suggest a better approach. At least no one with enough reach.

Also [1]:

>> "I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way"

I assume he's better at it 16 years later.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP#History
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It depends if the "most nodes" are on Mercury or on Earth.
I’ve been a subscription paying Evernote customer since 2011 and use the service literally everyday. I hope they make it and the service can continue. The features I love the most are the ability to clip websites of interest as research and tag them the way I like for search. I also find that some websites I clip disappear over time. So my clipped copy be ones my own personal “way back machine” copy.
I applaud the design and ideas in GuixSD, but the lack of support for non-free software is a deal-breaker for me. I wish they'd relax this requirement and added an optional official non-free repository with a limited selection of software. A fork with support for non-free repositories would also be great.

So far I've seen individual projects that have done this, but seem abandoned[1] or overwhelming[2] for a Lisp newcomer.

[1]: https://github.com/guix-users/guix-nonfree

[2]: https://github.com/alezost/guix-config
CH is not a superpower and in fact helped superpowers. You are confusing what would be nice with what is a reality.
I love this bit:

> Archivists should try to make the contents of the encyclopedia available in as much as circumstances will allow. All contents of the encyclopedia are available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. As this license allows distribution of content in any medium, either commercially or non-commercially, copies of articles may be bartered for essentials such as food and water, although "all previous authors of the work must be attributed" in any copy.

I mean, sure, civilization has completely collapsed and we've all been reduced to bartering for food and water, but that's no reason to stop paying attention to licenses!
DeepNude was killed off by its creator
You don't ever buy:

Cans of soda in cardboard boxes and leave them in the boxes?

Cereal in cardboard boxes and leave it in the box until it used up?

Cookies, crackers, etc in cardboard boxes and store them in their original cardboard box until you are done consuming them?

Cake mixes, instant meal prep items, etc in cardboard boxes and leave them in the box (that has the instructions on the outside) until you are ready to actually cook it?

I mean, it's possible to just buy meat and produce and so forth and never bring home a food item in a cardboard box, but I'm quite shocked to hear that you never buy such and none of your friends do either. That seems statistically unlikely to me if you are an American or live in most developed countries.
I use DevonThink 3 [1].

It's got rich text and Markdown support.

It also supports PDF documents as first-class objects. You can drag PDFs right into Devon and they get as PDFs, meaning that when you click on a note, you view the PDF.

The PDF support is top notch. The viewer is built into the UI, and also lets you open in tabs and new windows. Lots of markup tools right in the viewer. PDFs are indexed, of course.

Its rich text supports attachments, just like Evernote, but they're much nicer. Drag a GIF and movie into a text note and it becomes a live player.

You can drag URLs right into a folder and they'll come up as web pages or PDFs, depending. Then if you want to actually store the page/PDF, you can tell it to.

Its folder structure is much nicer than Evernote's. You just create folders and nested folders. None of this notebook nonsense.

It's got built-in iCloud syncing as well as syncing via other options (Dropbox, WebDAV, more).

You can run it local mode. Devon divides its data into "databases" which you can open and close. Databases can be encrypted. So, for example, you could store important private information (things like tax forms, government forms, 2FA recovery codes, etc.) in an encrypted database on a USB drive somewhere.

It has some weird features I don't use, but which some people might like. For example, "RSS feed" is a note type. Adding the feeds automatically ingests the RSS feed's items as new notes.

One neat feature is the inbox system that tracks what's read and unread. So you can just dump new stuff into the inbox for later categorization/deletion.

The search is great.

I also like that it's not opinionated about layout. You can change the layout a lot — to show the note editor or just the list of notes, for example.

Has a nice iOS app, too.

[1] https://www.devontechnologies.com
1) It's an experiment. Perhaps it will be abandoned.

2) Curation/Upvotes via transaction needs to be on chain.
Exploring the squarified tree map algorithm with ReasonML
Since we can apparently post any anecdata we want here now, I've seen the exact opposite.

I'm curious, what are the leftist counterparts to the Proud Boys, "Day of the Rope" posts, "Free Helicopter Rides" T-shirts, widespread embrace of Nazi imagery, and armed Pizzagate conspiracy crusaders?
Agreed, although I'm glad Bram, et el. have not tried to add a text based "toolbar" or menu to Vim like in GVim.

But yeah, to this day after using Vim for years and years I still get a little surprised when I absent mindedly click on a Vim session in a terminal window and it moves the focus to whatever buffer I happened to click on.

I'm so used to ^W-^W that I forget this is even possible. Same with moving the cursor, selecting text, scrolling up and down, etc...
> Owning the legacy software that runs the business tends to provide job security at your current job, but can hinder your professional growth at both your current job as well as any future jobs.

This became my issue with contracting. I had known expertise in one thing, but never a chance to work on another thing professionally. I could see the writing on the wall that this thing wouldn't be that competitive in the future, but the incentives to get out of it weren't there.
In the cited study, a significant difference between highest pushup group and lowest pushup group is a mean age of 35 and 48 years, respectively. It is well known that age is the strongest predictor of cardiovascular events.

First chart under 'figures / tables'
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
Even as a neurotypical I dig some of these, some are unfamiliar though I could see them as a conversation starter and intro to that particular mental health issue.

However, have you run these by some clinical psychiatrists and or other experts in the field? Not that your research is useless, but there might be something missing, and maybe they're missing something you could offer.
You are welcome to reject it, the reality is that you haven't mentioned which superpower isn't based on their military might. Until then no amount of indignant postering is going to change that fact.
For reference GEO is something like 250ms and in LEO you can get sub 50ms.

I did the math a year ago and so numbers may be a little off due to memory, but they should be in the ball park. Also these would be optimal numbers, so realistic would be worse.
a cross between gucci advertisement, a mug shot, and old playboy articles.

it's indeed very strange to me, too.

I think they were playing with the ideas in the article being a bit alienating, so the photography tried to follow -- emphasis on tried.

If I had to label the photography: "sexy ennui' comes to mind.
I think the past purchase receipt check isn't about the shopper, it's about the person at the register. It is a check to be sure that, at a cursory level, everything was charged, and also to ensure that you have goods you paid for. In electronics stores this was one method of handling inventory shrinkage on expensive components.

Costco has never made me feel as if I did something wrong, and they found that I'd forgotten to pick up something from the cage at the service desk.
My last comment from the last time this question was asked a couple weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20169589

TL;DR: I'm an IPv6 early adopter that is beginning to think that IPv6 is doomed.
> It is possible to design a space that needs little in the way of active heating or cooling to stay comfortable.

I get your confusion. I was actually reacting to this part of your comment specifically. I am for what you are saying. I just wanted to mention that modern buildings aren't always designed like that. In fact, where I live, houses seem to be increasingly designed to only keep the heat in, not let it out — as rightly pointed out above. That's a problem. We basically can't stay comfortable in summer sometimes. It's not pleasant sleeping on the upper floor during a heatwave and there's little we can do other than buy an AC (which we won't).

As a sidenote: our company just finished a new building which is designed in a similar way, but has active cooling via the heat pump/floor heating system. I hope that will work better than what we have in our private home.
Also the news on the Google app (the most easily accessible one with a left swipe), also open in I guess Android Web View. I use my mobile browser mostly for news articles and less often for opening other websites. Will still end up using Chrome like stuff I guess.
How to Thank a Volunteer
>I have always found strange things to happen when my held down finger (on the "virtual button") moves too much

All that happens is that the item you're dragging makes a corresponding movement.
Also, natural language can be quite discoverable if designed properly. Jef Raskin and his son Aza did quite a bit of work in this area. Things like Alfred on the Mac, and a bunch of different IDEs nibble around the edges of this concept with EMACS Meta-X taking it the farther than the others.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Cat
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquity_(Firefox)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVVXNlOFqXA
Python, Perl, PHP and JavaScript don't need to fork another heavy weight process each time to perform successive SQL queries.
Can someone point to any specimens of source code in this archive?
it says

>Status: Rough and speculative working notes, very quickly written – basically, a little raw thinking and exploration. Knowledgeable corrections welcome!

right at the top
> The difference being that China's culture, for the most part, is okay with the surveillance state.

If they weren't, how would you know? Do you honestly think anyone who isn't would be dumb enough to say so out loud, especially to a pollster or a foreigner?
So.. what exactly are the goals here?
Their nose tip is a common genetic trait.
The government is doing everything they can to insulate the US from the rest of the world while continuing the war against their own citizens. Whoever needs real encryption won't be able to let their business touch US jurisdiction.
I think its very interesting to think about this article in the context on the open source projects that relied upon by the vast majority of major applications and companies. Specifically OpenSSL comes to mind here. That library has been used/leveraged in so many ways to build empires. Yet it's currently struggling to find dedicated engineers that will work on its core logic. It's an unfortunate situation and while yes there is LibreSSL and BoringSSL its non-trivial to move to their implementations (I have tried, its wrought with peril). OpenSSL isn't on its own either, there are many open source libraries/applications that are struggling to find "owners". None of which can be "easily" replaced by any means.

I think the comments about "heroic" culture being fostered by the lack of ownership is spot on, but it isn't a bad thing unless those heroic actors aren't actively trying to get attention put on said pieces of legendary software. Imo its better to have heroic actors than nothing, and especially in the context of an opensource application/library that is used worldwide, I hope we can find more to generate more interest in working on them.
Building 3D 2048 game with Vue, Three.js, and TypeScript (part 2)
Most AMD heatsinks use a clip retention mechanism, which definitely require significant force.

Aside: at least new CPUs have heatspreaders. The first heatsink I installed was on an Athlon XP 2500+. Those things had the bare die exposed! Do it wrong the first time, and you had an expensive tiny brick.
Even if the company can prove that the newspaper engaged in libel it would be difficult to establish compensatory damages. Regardless of stock price changes, the company hasn't lost any assets. They might have a shot at getting legal fees plus some punitive damages depending on how egregious the newspaper's conduct was.