skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've refused to give up my laptop, a T420 i7 8GB, from 2011. It's the keyboard. SSD upgrade and battery. When leaving my manager tried to give it as a leaving gift, but was blocked (I bought a second hand one for myself with similar upgrades for a ridiculously low price instead). As a compromise it will forever sit in her desk 'in case you come back'.

Give the employer they want and need, justified. A business or tech head (not just manager, but someone the buck really stops with) has a budget and they should spend it as justifies the business case, not conforming to an arbitary rule.
Perhaps this is covered behind the paywall, but...

I am very skeptical.

In the short term, people already pay themselves when they quit by not having to purchase expensive product. Why is paying them "more" going to help?

In the long term, smoking causes cancer. Even the threat of a painful death does not seem to be enough.

Does the article suggest where this money to pay will come from?
As in, the page width stays at full desktop width and to make the font a readable size you must zoom in, making reading a scrolling in two directions excercise. So yes, blocks of text should be responsive to screen size.
I would advocate wiping any version control files, and reverting any custom changes to leave it as stock as possible. Delete any digital indication of who checked out the source.
That would incentive charities and their supporters to push for these lawsuits. If we really want to remove the economic incentives, the punitive fines collected should be destroyed. This would contract to overall money supply by that amount, giving everyone a trivially small increase in the value of their money. Even for the largest punitive awards it would be too small for anyone benefiting from it to measure.
Police turn blind eye on thug's assault
https://streamable.com/wlfoq
I love the Internet Archive, but I absolutely hate the website redesign they made a few years back. Before navigation was so simple and sane, but unfortunately they had to update because the site was "too old" and this was during the "mobile trend" that was going on at the time, which resulted in infinite scrolling and other mobile stuff that makes using the website a pain, even after all these years.
Schools should teach pupils gardening skills to instil a passion for environment
Are you sure they don't own the rights?

When you create a "derivative work" of a work under copyright, you're creating a new work that "samples" the original, and then asserting your own copyright to it—that's why you need a license from the rightsholder in the first place, to allow you to claim those IP rights on the derivative work.

In the case of a public-domain work, if you create a "derivative work" from it, you own the IP of that derivative work, 100%. The public-domain parts that you sampled aren't still public domain just because they're copied word-for-word into your work. (I mean, the original work itself is still PD, but the sample of it in your derivative work isn't. It's a "color of your bits" thing[1].) "Public Domain" isn't an infectious copyleft license. You can "fork" and "make proprietary" a PD work, and that's 100% allowed.

Now, I don't know enough about the Buddhist texts in question to say whether their presentation of them here qualifies as a "derivative work"—but usually even just translating a work makes it a derivative, so, if the TBRC were the ones that translated these texts to English? They own 'em.

(If you want a public version, do the same thing FOSS communities do when a FOSS project is forked into a proprietary product: walk back to the last open branch-point of the source, and make your own open fork. In this case: translate the texts yourself!)

[1] https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

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Also, there might be a more interesting consideration at play in this particular case: if a work is never published, then AFAIK, it never enters copyright; its copyright "clock" only begins when someone publishes it. So e.g. the diary of Anne Frank doesn't have a copyright year of 1945, but rather 1947—the year it was found and published. Until then, the work is a "manuscript", equivalent in IP rights status to a draft laying on a writer's desk destined for a publisher.

You can think of such a manuscript as a secret root node in a "derivative work" tree: the author creates work A [the manuscript], the publisher derives work B [the published book], the author assigns work-A derivative-work rights to the publisher, and then also [usually] relinquishes all rights to work A. Because of this, the copyright clock is relative to work B, not work A. If copyright stayed attached to manuscripts, you could run out the copyright [in a pre-Disney copyright regime] by just spending 30 years writing a book!
The text is very, very small on a mobile device (XL devices may be easier). Requiring anyone with a small/normal sized device without near perfect vision to zoom in and swipe left/right to read a single line of text.

For example I'm on a normal sized device and can't read the text at a zoom level that shows an entire line without my glasses (and my vision isn't too bad, I'm legally allowed to drive without my glasses).
Intel Me
>Economic efficiency is almost synonymous with reducing rents

I wouldn't dispute that.

>Shocks to the supply curve change equilibrium points in markets. There's elasticity of demand/supply.

I'm not really sure what the relevance of that is, though I don't dispute that either.

>Economic literature has been arguing the exact opposite for literally centuries.

You yourself have stated that restricting the supply of doctors and lawyers raises the wages of those professions, so that their purchasing power is higher relative to other professions than it would be if those restrictions were eased or removed. But the same thing wouldn't happen for unskilled or medium skilled workers? What the economics literature you refer to says is that it would lower their purchasing power, but I don't think you can deny that it would raise their purchasing power relative to other people in society.

>This is almost a Malthusian model or labor and resources and it will give you dangerous and obviously wrong ideas, like the solution to economic prosperity is marginalizing and kicking people out.

Again with the economic prosperity. Do you think a country is nothing more than an economy?

>I am objecting on the value of any restriction whatsoever by any criteria or method.

And you're totally justified in making that objection if the only thing you find valuable is economic growth. If you value things like social cohesion and loyalty to one's countrymen, which I guess you do not, then I'm not sure how you could dispute that having huge numbers of unassimilated foreigners in the country who are there for no purpose except to make money has the potential to cause problems in those areas.

>Look for any chart of economic liberty and see where countries stand in free trade and economic prosperity. This is not a topic of debate, it's absolutely settled.

I don't dispute that.

>In every country it always is and must be the interest of the great body of the people to buy whatever they want of those who sell it cheapest.

In their economic interest, yes. I don't dispute that. But the health of a society is more than the sum of the net worth of each member.

It seems there is very little or nothing we disagree with as far as economics is concerned. You just seem to believe economics is the only thing that matters, for some reason.
The archive entry is mislabeled; the Half-Life 2 leak was in 2003 [1].

[1] https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-21-the-boy-who-st...
Not sure I understand why you need both syncthing and NextCloud to sync notes... a NextCloud client in any device will make content available across devices and sync files, also offline, as needed...
Most programmers do not follow the Golden Rule, which is to write code you'd like to maintain with minimal training. It's a principle, but there are various skills involved in doing it successfully, including writing, automation, design, seeking quality peer review, and a few other things.

Similarly, writing code that can be deleted is an important skill.

Using "good design" and "knowing your language" are fairly nebulous and somewhat tautological goals out of context. What is good design? Design that works well, I suppose?

Most code is actually fairly easy to change in the future. Just slap another "if (isLeapDay(today)) dailyProfit * 28 / 29" wherever will solve the immediate bug. Is this a good idea? Nope. Why is it a bad idea? Well, it's the S in SOLID, probably, but the real reason is that someone would be surprised and chagrined to discover that design choice the hard way. Hence the Golden Rule.
Mise-en-place is so important.

Inexperienced engineers sometimes find themselves in teams which don’t appreciate it. Because confrontation can be nausea-inducing, they sometimes don’t endure the discomfort to insist on it.

———

When a customer walks into a restaurant, does he ask about the temperature of the fridge the chicken is stored in? Does he ask if the kitchen is clean and organized? No. Thats the chef’s job to insist on. But the customer does care if his food is late or laden with salmonella.

Likewise, its an engineer’s job to care if she has automated tests and well-structured code.
What? Where did this theory come from? Haven't we learned recently that periodic fasting is better for you? And if you use skipping breakfast as a method of caloric restriction?
This is not an approximation. The conversion formula is:

C = 5/9 * (F - 32)

So GP's table is exact.
People who aren't rich care about things but can't afford to litigate them in real actual courts which have the power to effect meaningful change without access to an expensive legal system.

This means that there has to be a relatively large sum of money available to inspire a lawyer to work without being paid up front on the expectation of future reward or the case wont happen no matter how warranted.

Expecting society to thrive on the largess of the rich is a recipe for disaster.
Earth isn't the best option. It is the ONLY option.
Lessons I learned from releasing 8 video games
I think spontaneous human combustion is most likely misunderstood http://skepdic.com/shc.html
Ask HN: Why are successful open source projects usually developed by small teams
Many people fear using new open source project if it is developed by a small team or even a single person. This is one of the top concerns from our users [1].

But the history of Open Source Software proves that many successful projects are initially created by a single person:

- Linux was created by Linus Torvalds.
- Nginx was created by Igor Sysoev.
- Memcached was created by Brad Fitzpatrick.
- Redis was created by Salvatore Sanfilippo.
- Python was created by Guido van Rossum.

The list may be continued (mention missing projects in comments).

It would be great to have answers on the following questions:

1) Is there positive correlation between the initial size of the team and the success of open source project?

2) Why people prefer using new open source projects developed by big teams instead of projects created by small teams?

3) What about architecture quality and code quality? Do they differ between projects created by big teams and projects developed by small teams?

4) What about bus factor? Is this valid concern for OSS developed by small teams? Are there prominent examples?

Let's discuss these questions.

[1] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/
"Skipping breakfast is associated with the increased risk of heart disease."

Can we think of any bias for why people with heart disease might skip breakfast, e.g. older people don't eat breakfast for some reason?
CONFIRMED: Pro-Beijing lawmaker Junius Ho shook hands with suspected gangsters, who very likely are the same batch of people attacking passengers in Yuen Long Station few hours ago.

https://www.facebook.com/hkcolumn/
I don't think these accusations are fair. The author has been programming since at least 2009, and is degreed in math. They also wrote the "think in math write in code article" that people here seemed to like quite a bit last week.
Amen, I don't even understand why this got upvoted ....
We had the same problem in France with Ms Nathalie Kosciuszko-Morizet (she was a minister).

Everybody was calling her NKM.
So what will happen is a new ecological balance will develop.

The snakes will hit the limit of their expansion.

The prey animals will develop ways to avoid the snakes.

The area will be forever changed, but just as alive as it was.
This is sad, I know that one large user of Linux found this problem in 2009 or so and fixed it for the version of Linux they used in their fleet of servers. I am surprised it didn't make it upstream from then.
Find the path to Pearl and the magic will be guaranteed. I installed a lot of Perl cgi scripts.
I’m in Germany: 451: Unavailable due to legal reasons
The worst production code I've seen (Java) included its own Object interface and a corresponding ObjectImpl (IIRC it was an abstract class).
Sqlite has put immense effort into this—it’s a better fopen!

That said, my understanding is that handling this with cross-platform, posix-only code is mostly impossible due to behavior like what’s described in the article.
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Even more so, the page offers a theory to explain that:

> Speculative bubble

> The page never actually existed and was fundamentally impossible, but everyone bought into it in a frenzy and it's all now ending in tears.
Thanks for the detailed answer. A few follow-up questions if I may.

1. Docker does support user namespaces today, correct? Your reply seemed to imply that it doesn’t.

2. Once rootless mode is released in Docker stable, the only difference in available security features between lxc and Docker will be the more flexible uid mapping for user namespaces, correct?

3. The flexible uid mapping feature, compared to user namespaces with static mapping as implemented by Docker, is an additional protection against container-to-container attacks, but not against container-to-host attacks. Did I get that right?

4. User namespaces, with or without flexible uid mapping, are considered a less secure containment method than seccomp and selinux/apparmor, all of which Docker/runc and lxc support equally well, correct?
Re cooling, its often good to mount them on their side with cover partly open.

For a home server, you usually need backups i dependent of mirroring but not the availability optimization and associated operational complexity of raid-1.
It's more than a new flavor of JS, it also supports e.g. routing and components.

Some web apps ARE inherently complex. You might dislike that, but it seems unfair to criticize Imba for that fact.
I have a feeling you felt hurt on those points?
This makes me nostalgic. Spent inordinate amounts of time writing terrible, unmaintainable Perl scripts and FTPing them to cgi-bin on free 5MB hosting plans on F2S and Netfirms. Most hosts wouldn't provide error logs, so there was nothing more than a 500 page from httpd to tell you that something had gone wrong. Debugging anything was an endeavor. Then of course, PHP came along and killed cgi-bin.

If I had to pick one thing to represent the CGI era, it would be Matt's FormMail [1].

[1] https://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html
If only it were that simple to explain such things.
I don't need accomodations at work, personally. However, I am a big advocate for making sure that the people who do feel included. Maybe it's because I'm a minority in other ways.

I interviewed at a very large company and it was very nice when the recruiter asked me directly if I need accomodations for the interview. That's the good thing about large companies, they tend to put much more thought into that sort of thing.

Sounds to me this woman would benefit from one of those walkers with a built in seat. They have built in storage which would accomodate a laptop and there would always be a seat.
Programming in academia has very little to do with software in general, maybe that's the disconnect.
Eh, I won't be that harsh. The author is clearly getting experienced in software development. I actually like ambitious engineers who write from their own perspective. Most engineers (1) are fairly go-along to get-along types -- team-oriented folks. Someone with the interest and communication skills to improve things should be encouraged and (if needed) mentored.

(1) Most engineers we notice could be blowhards. They tend to be a minority of any particular engineering community.
The settlement will likely be a rounding error on profit and is absolutely the only way to establish precedent that this is required for companies that do business here.

Lawsuits or lost profits due to bad PR are the only way corporate America changes policies. It's not an asshole move its just the way business is done. Those who don't understand how business is done are simply trampled.
I disagree. It should definitely be on the business's responsibility to not discriminate. It is the cost of doing business.
> If they wanted to fix the problem then they'd tax capital gains at the same rate as income ...

That idea is so bad that not even the governments of the world, money grubbers though they are, have signed up for it. It would create a world where no capital was for sale; any path from going from low-mid to mid-high income (apart from entrepreneurship) would be closed off and a whole bunch of new 'unrealted' problems would turn up because purchasing power would be diverted away from people who care about the future to people who consume in the present.

Capital gains is a wealth creation engine whereby people voluntarily choose not consume in order to create things that other people want. There is a pretty decent philosophical case for not taxing capital gains full stop. There is probably a great reason why in practice it would not work, but as a principle it is like corporate tax - disincentivizing and de-emphasizing people who would otherwise give their resources to others.

If you want to wage class warfare, consider inheritance or land taxes. My personal preference would be to go one step more subtle and wind back the bail-outs and money printing. Capital Gains taxes are not the lever we need, the risk of collateral damage to the investment ecosystem is too high and by the time the damage is obvious enough to unwind a change we'll be 10 years in and facing a dearth of long term planning.
This is a discussion about relaxing exclusionary licensing. Asking for research justifying the restrictions prior to enacting or continuing them is reasonable. Asking for research justifying removing them before actually removing them, when doing the research would require removing them, is a catch 22.
I've seen variations of it. Usually along the lines of

let isBoolean = false
if (booleanComparisonOrComputation) {
isBoolean = true
}

...
This comment is classic bulverism. You need to explain how the author is wrong to have a valid argument.
I suspect people with a lot of shit to do (i.e. stress) don't really make time for breakfast.
This DEMO shows more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnO1AozqyPA

I'm working on this for more than 1 year
Do you know if there is any full English translation of this?
I was agreeing somewhat until this part:

> “Never take a sick day during your first year of employment with any company, no matter what.” My wife and I have literally gone years between sick days.

And it all went downhill from there. God forbid this guy be struck with cancer or a chronic disease.
I built a billing site for my software business and had to decide which tech to use. SPA? React + Rails? Elixir? Keep in mind we are talking about single digit req/min.

I went with CGI. It has some drawbacks but consider the advantages:

* Requires nothing but Apache running, minimizes attack surface area
* Deploy is a simple `git pull`, no services to restart
* No app server running 24/7 so I don't have to monitor memory usage or anything else.

I love it. Takes little to no maintenance because it never changes. Runs on a $5/mo droplet.

https://www.mikeperham.com/2015/01/05/cgi-rubys-bare-metal/
I’d argue that it’s quite on topic being a post about the skills developers lack. It seems this developer doesn’t regard a11y as an important skill, which is unfortunate or perhaps just an oversight.
That wasn't what the OP was asking. Instead there was some hand-wavy assertion that can be generated within seconds but takes minutes to disprove.

That's a popular tactic to bind resources while at some point getting something that went "undisproven". I'm not interested in playing that game in general, but this particular instance was just too amusing to not react to it.
Macbooks every 2 years
"So, like, if someone is brain dead, the website needs to pay for a new brain for them? What you’re saying doesn’t make any sense, online or offline."

Genuine question- we have a well established disability law field with decades of law and examples of the limitations and coverage of ADA. Why are you coming up with a random example?
Corrected URL: http://teachtogether.tech/
Well, maybe it's cargo culted from a place with such a linter. Or ornery peer reviewers who think their job is to be a human linter.

Correcting this sort of stuff is the job of a senior engineer, though. If it's extremely frustrating, I'd become independently wealthy or stay away from technical leadership positions.
You'll be getting "ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR". I could not find any posts on internet that were able to MITM and analyse Chrome to google.com traffic.
Yeah, linters that make "you should usually do X" into "you MUST ALWAYS do X" cause a lot of terrible code.
and you question yourself if it was better to pack that readability into a function or not.

Also why would anyone store a boolean named isDone rather than just returning it as the contract of the function
Sorry for the typos.
I will update the readme. I was working on the tool for more than 1 year. A short demo here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnO1AozqyPA
Eric Lawrence (PM on Edge, previously on Chrome, previously author of fiddler) showing screenshots of documentation that explains all that, and saying it's been documented this way for 14 years:

https://twitter.com/ericlaw/status/1152933704198758401
I still see the old (superior) layout when I use an incognito window, so I guess the new version is being tested or rolled out gradually.
Same in the UK. Thank you eurocrats.
Are they wrong? To me, the long version is valid precisely because it is explicit (more to me than the short version), and will be optimized
Pot calling the kettle black
Incidentally, crypto exchanges in the past (and one very recently, known as Bitmex) have faced issues with US authorities regarding this. Context: US citizens cannot trade unless the exchange is US-licensed.

Essentially, US gov applied pressure such that a simple tick box (to prove you are not American) is not sufficient. So, authorities definitely have precedent to enforce geo-constraints, it's just a matter of "do they care".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_human_combustion...

The more recent examples are interesting, but it is baffling that a person, would combust, and leave little impact on their surroundings, which are usually more flammable than a person.
That's power, not necessarily loudness.

Loudness has to do with perception, which also has a lot to do with content. For most people (a fairly wide margin here) music sounds about twice as loud when it's +10dB.
3d printers can get you pretty far if you want to try yourself.
Don't do that!

Do this: https://twitter.com/thisbounty_com/status/115298792455778713...

ATTN GODLESS EUROPE
I HAVE LINCOLN'S DICK
MONEY.
NOW.

:)
Courtesy of my employer, we have a tailored 404 as well :-)

https://www.linn.co.uk/foo
Also a number of different specifications for how it is measured.

https://auphonic.com/blog/2012/08/02/loudness-measurement-an...