skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it's just me, but there is nothing I hate more than LibreOffice. I use it because it seems to be the best option for things like spreadsheets on Linux, but I would rather use 10 year old Microsoft Office than LibreOffice. It works with my GTK theme, which is nice, but it is just so unintuitive to me compared to Microsoft word/excel.

It took me forever to learn how to do basic things like insert a XY chart in calc, just because the UI was confusing to me, and even after using it for a while I still keep forgetting which of the half dozen similarly styled icons I need to use to change the axis title of a chart, for example. Or the fact that to print off a spreadsheet in landscape, you don't do it through the print menu, you actually have to change the page formatting options.

I'm on version 6.0, so maybe this is fixed now, or maybe I'm just not very good at that kind of stuff, but it all seems pretty hard to use to me.
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Take a look at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
The original peak oil theory predicted US production only, and it was correct down to the exact year. We did break that peak again, finally - in 2017, after nearly 50 years of aggressive technological improvement in oil discovery/recovery.

For any given oil field, peak oil theory is extremely accurate.

As for technology that has happened in my lifetime... the reason I have a lifetime right now is due to laser surgery. That technology did not exist when I was a child. If my illness had appeared then rather than today, I would have died from it. Not computers at all, really, although I'm sure computer-aided design played a role.

Our food tech has improved tremendously - but that doesn't mean that the food is healthier. It means it is cheaper, more plentiful, has longer shelf life, and more enticing flavors.
The problem seems apparent to me. Google has a monopoly on websites being able to promote themselves.

There are plenty of other channels, but none with remotely the reach or trust of the US's overwhelmingly dominant search engine.

By dint of this fact, they can steal the content of those who actually produced it. What are you going to do, deindex your site? That's death, because Google is a monopoly.

In the short term it seems good for the end user. But in the long term, Google having a monopoly on distributing the world's information seems like an obvious threat.
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My main frustration with Teams are:

- Caching + searching : Their caching and searching is just terrible. It's surprising how hard it is to search older messages especially in a private group chat. scrolling up takes a long time. Images don't show up in the desktop app, so I have to open web app all the time.

- Centralized control: I agree that Teams is designed for centralized control. some of it might be good, but its a communation software, and telling people how to communicate seems like it'd defeat the purpose.

- Not being able to add External people: Agree with the OP, this is a pain. People in my org did this well with slack, but once we were asked to move to teams, we weren't collaborating with external folks the same way.

- Chat and Teams are two different windows. WHen I am in private chat area, I never see new messages in Teams area. Notifications for chat work fine when I am in teams area.

- Threading: I think threading is poorly implemented, since it collapses the thread when you reopen the app.

I feel like it would be an excellent improvement over email if this came out before slack. But slack has shown what a good chat software can do, and teams falls short in many ways.
Wargames is #1 in my book. Sneakers was great though. I think I was too old to like Hackers, it seemed very forced to me.
Ask HN: How'd you start your business outside of tech? How did it turn out?
The tech industry seems to have a lot of gravity in my life and it's difficult to leave it. I've been a developer for a bit over ten years, and while I genuinely enjoy development in many ways, I've stopped feeling like I have much to bring to it or get from it and I've decided I'd like to pursue a business idea instead. Programming and other past career experience will complement it well.

I've looked at some local resources for how to determine viability, potential market, figure out what my cash flow will look like, etc. and everything looks fine for the most part. This research wasn't too hard to do, but I'm also curious about how people make this transition on a personal as well as professional level.

It feels as though leaving development is like throwing away 'easy' money. At the moment I can be compensated reliably well for my skills. It's hard to walk away from that. It's also hard to walk away from knowing I can definitely have a positive cash flow.

Another hurdle is that this endeavour wouldn't produce much income for around 2 years. I can speed that up a bit and soften that financial hit by taking out a loan, but I'm in a spot where borrowing isn't necessarily essential and I'm very averse to taking on debt. But what are your perspectives on loans vs investment?

Without outside financial assistance, I think I'd need to continue programming until my business found traction. Are there feasible ways to do that though? I wouldn't be able to be an involved member of a team, but I would be able to do good work remotely and independently. Have any of you found contracting opportunities suiting to that situation?

I'd love to hear some stories of others making this transition, what kinds of businesses you started, and how you managed the transition - any kinds of details would be welcome and interesting.
And what a terrible disgrace is the current US government. When even Pakistan. Pakistan, Carl! Has more sense than these troglodytes ever will. The States are beyond repair - Trump has done irrevocable, permanent damage to the country and the world. We will be picking up this trash of his legacy for very, very, very long time, and I'm afraid we never will fully recover.
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Original parent comment was talking about installing a Ryzen consumer CPU, which is generally mutually exclusive with any board manufacturer (SMC, Dell, HP, or otherwise) that provides any sort of baseboard management controller.

Some of the SMC boards listed support i3 processors, but generally, if you want a BMC, you're stuck with enterprise-grade processors.
Can @dang confirm it , that it was dead due to downvotes or some bug. I do not see any downvotes or upvotes. You may be right but I Cannot confirm it.
Here it is: https://imgur.com/gallery/OUtDA5J
I've been using ImageOptim for a while now. Saves me so much trouble when I get junky SVG's as well as exporting my own.
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Great work, and great name! Surprised, but glad to see Bulma as the main UI option. Thanks for using it ;-)
Not surprising and completely believable. Anecdotal, but the nightly news had a segment where they went into an inner city highschool and none of the students knew Poland was a real country.
Neither does a 4 year sentence for marijuana. Likely this was a parole violation and OP was forced to serve out the sentence he was previously paroled from.
How was Genius in the wrong? They were not paid for the service, and the data was coming from them. It is possible LyricFind stole the lyrics from Genius, but then Genius is still not in the wrong to sue them for scraping their site.
I would take that with a grain of salt. Of the two micromort numbers on the wikipedia page, one is more dangerous than walking and one is less dangerous.

I'd also suspect that someone who rides a bike for their job is likely likely than the average person to die in a crash. People that die in bike accidents are disproportionately not doing two things:

1. Wearing helmets

2. Being sober (20+% of adult cyclists that get killed are too drunk to legally drive a car [1], and "drunk cyclist sober/car driver" is actually a lot more common in fatal crashes than "drunk driver/sober cyclist" [2])

I don't want to victim blame, but there's relatively easy things you can do that drastically reduce your risk of dying on a bike.

There's also some intangibles, like someone who rides all the time is going to be more familiar with safer routes (OTOH they may be encouraged to ride more recklessly to maximize profits?). Even with a pedal assist bike, I'd also imagine that the health benefits would partially offset that micromort.

[1]: https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/bicyc...

[2]: https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
Proving a negative is hard.

Though checking to see what USB / PCI devices are advertised could be useful.

Device / USB whitelisting looks like it will need to be a default thing Real Soon Now.
No, Yack is not a full blown browser. It's a community app, but will support almost all features RES does out of the box. It already supports multiple accounts across all networks. Few things on the roadmap:

Keyboard Shortcuts
Dark Theme
Notifications
Chat
Curated Feeds (Curating posts across multiple networks into a single feed)
Plugins for Stackoverflow & StackExchange.
Did you make any games for it? I still talk to many of the developers in that community.
That is actually the point of the metaphor. Taking on debt without a clear business reason is supposed to sound bad.
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Come to think of it Wargames is my #2, and I like the Weird Science hacking scene more than hackers
An "emergency freeze" of moneys that were raised in 2017 and 2018...

On Aug. 12, 2019, the court entered an emergency freeze to preserve at least $8 million of the $14.8 million the defendants raised in 2017 and 2018 in an offering of digital securities."
And on the other side, some drivers work for Uber as well as Lyft, depending on who pays more. I wonder if someone's going to offer to be their dispatcher for a percentage... "Ok log-in to X, they have the best rates now!".
> they may be encouraged to ride more recklessly to maximize profits

Having been a delivery driver, and well, just casually observing others - this is likely to be an enormous factor.

Motorized scooters in particular seem to behave in frankly absurd ways, mounting the pavement at 15mph etc.
It's not even malware/scams - it's just "Person who wants a mortgage calculator" is "person who is interested in getting a mortgage", which is some seriously high-value data. There's a lot more profit in selling you on to mortgage lenders (with a lot of data, like your budget, pre-filled) than selling you to scammers.
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> Indeed the entire Windows API is totally GUI centric.

I think this is fundamentally incorrect. Windows certainly allows processes and threads to exist with no GUI. The process doesn't need to have message loop, etc.

I suggest you check your other facts as well. Windows Internals is a good book to start.
You know what would be really impressive? To act on that feedback as fast as possible. Like: now. I agree with the parent poster and I think you should make it damn easy for anybody here to test Yack.
I actually do have ADHD as well, and this was something that the doctors talked about. They told me that my hearing impairment would make it even more difficult to focus paired with the audio processing issues from ADHD.

That said, even in a quiet setting I have trouble understanding someone if I can't see their face/read their lips.
It will also likely increase food costs for the delivery person, assuming they increase their energy expenditure and maintain body weight. Whether the increased food costs are made up for by decreasing other costs (namely car maintenance and fuel) is probably worth calculating.
It’s not even limited to GPU’s, a quad-port Intel NIC in my TD340 causes it to max fan speeds if I’m not running the A01 BIOS.

The argument is they don’t know the thermal requirements of the card because it’s not OEM-branded so they max the fans “to be safe”, but not letting you override it is just bullshit.
Yep, it can. Although you would want the server to be spending time doing something productive rather than just idling or spinning worthless cycles

There are people who use GPUs and ASICs mining cryptocurrency as heaters for greenhouses. Spending the energy on crypto mining is basically a way to recoup some of your energy costs. https://cointelegraph.com/news/cryptomatoes-grows-5-acres-of...
Just out of curiosity, how do you think you missed the rest of the URL?

I have a suspicion that the trend towards browsers being 'helpful' with the URL field is contributing to mistakes like these.
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Maybe. Maybe not. The military being ordered to fire at their fellow citizens and ethnic group is very different than being told to kill people they don’t know on the other side of the world.

Morale undermining command and control is a real issue in the military and a frequent issue historically.
Google regularly distributes malicious websites and malware through ads, and refuses to delist reported malicious websites. (Google Ads is the primary distributor of Windows PC malware today, if my customer support experience is any indication.) And the problem is that Google has a perverse incentive: More bidders for ads means higher bids. Since malicious actors raise the prices, they benefit from bad actors selling ads.

And the problem is that even if someone finally comes in and shuts those actors down, Google kept all the profit from the malicious activity. In order to incentivize Google to police it's ad platform, we need to implement a requirement which seizes all revenue from malicious advertising, retroactively when a malicious account is flagged/reported.

If Google is losing revenue on allowing bad actors on their ad platform, they'll be incentivized to quickly respond to reports and remove them so that legitimate ads, which they make money on, can have those ad slots.
Pakistan, yes even Pakistan, has been doing quite well over the last few months since the new government has come in.

Here's another prettuy interesting drive going on at the moment
http://few.kp.gov.pk/page/about_billion_tree_tsunami_affores...

They've already planted over a billion trees
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/07/pakistan-s-billion-tr...
US weather data is available for free from NOAA as long as the API isn't abused. Everybody else is just reselling the same data anyway.
I started by downvoting your comment, and I realized I was choosing the cowardly way of reacting. I am saying this just to illustrate my own shallow reading of your comment at first and how I was avoiding actually being helpful.

The short answer is that 99% of the time no purpose is being served by that cruft except to be bloat. Minifiers remove that cruft and optimize for the intended audience, which is machines.

The longer answer is that in optimizing for machines, you're also optimizing for humans in the long run. Anyone stuck with a 2G connection, dial-up, or Bluetooth tethered device, or a new ultra low powered device on a different CPU architecture, will appreciate not having to operate solely in the world of gigabit+ connections, 8GB mobile devices, or 8 core hyperfast CPUs. Realize that such use cases still exist, and for very legitimate, not truly edge cases.

Think of pages with hundreds or thousands of vector images. Not everyone can afford to run a Blink-powered browser or have CPU cycles for days. Every little bit helps.

Edit to fix typo and add further clarity.
Definitely nice to be quick and easy to jump into, but I really love typescript for longevity of a project
For me, the issue is not that search queries can now answer simple calculations or inane celebrity trivia without requiring clickthroughs to ad-ridden sites.

It's what comes afterwards, when Google inevitably starts answering queries on complex issues around medicine, politics, society or the economy with a pithy snippet grabbed from what it's machine learning thought was representative.

We've already seen that vast swathes of the population can have their vote influenced by Facebook/Twitter posts with a big "Sponsored" tag on them. No nuance, all invective.

How do you think that will play out when people will take the snippet at its word and not bother to at least click and get some idea of the author's possible biases, methodological limitations, etc.?
Doesn't it centralize control of the encryption and data to your company and your authentication provider?
Thanks for making such as awesome CSS Framework! Planning to keep growing the library of pre-built section built on Bulma, so hopefully it can become a great resource for the Bulma community (at least those that use React).
Users. Paid porn is huge, I'm sure they would have no problem providing it as a paid service. They already have pornhub premium which is apparently very successful

>Pornhub Premium launched in 2015, and now has more than 1 million signups. That's nearly the number of people who subscribe to the Showtime channel's streaming service.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/10-interesting-things-might-n...

>According to various reports, currently, the porn industry’s net worth is about $97 billion. This money is enough to feed at-least 4.8 billion people a day. Every year, Hollywood releases roughly 600 movies and makes $10 billion in profit. And how much porn industry makes? 13,000 films and close to $15 billion in profit. The porn industry makes more money than Major League Baseball, The NFL and The NBA combined.

https://medium.com/@Strange_bt_True/how-big-is-the-porn-indu...
Also, fewer than half of all HN article link headlines result in a click.
Are you arguing that Google violates copyright?
Bankruptcy filings are increasing in the country and it could get worse
This reminds me of a browser I tried out years ago called Raven. It had a similar interface with icons for different sites along the side. It doesn't look like the website is still online though. https://web.archive.org/web/20111124103600/http://raven.io/
Anecdotally, the only people I know that used tumblr used it exclusively for porn, lewds, kinks, etc.
The lipid hypothesis, the replication crisis, frontal lobotomies ...
Your second part is wrong. According to the data most users don't dig deeper, they just stop at the answer Google already gave. MortgageSite doesn't even get the traffic in the first place.
Is there such a thing as moral bankruptcy? Should we strive to curb the worst impulses of people or is everything a 'value judgement'? We treat things like murder as a binary proposition (barring self defense), even if the person being murdered represents a drain on society's resources. Do you personally believe that humans are the ultimate arbiters of the universe?
Have you considered a trackball?
Because you people treat it like a religion. Some things are true, some things aren't. Your 'climate change nightmare' of what might happen in 40 years is the daily reality for billions of people. And just because someone doesn't buy into the same bs you do, does not make them a troll
It's interesting how one of the best sources of information are sites providing the information as a side dish to their core business.

For example I was searching for a lease termination letter template. There are sites dedicated to documents, letters, forms and templates. Many of them are pretty spammy or messy. Then I found a page of a real estate portal. They had just what I needed, without superfluous ads with nice UX. It's in their interest to help people to do this, because then they will probably search for a next apartment. They, of course, are fast to offer additional services on top like searching for the move services. But nevertheless, providing this service is something on edge what they are doing - a marketplace for real estate. Only then they will get some money, so the side experience should be as smooth and painless as possible.

Another example is a tax/salary calculator on a job board. Or... most what Google is doing to some extent, but with different trade-offs.

I know it's nothing new, but it was interesting for me to notice it recently so directly.
> In Java, they'll behave like async/await, only without the syntactic constructs. Stacks and stack frames are moved, can shrink and grow, can have various representations etc., and the scheduling is entirely pluggable. You can schedule the continuations manually, or in a scheduler of your choice, shared, or not, with ordinary tasks.

When you write "Java", you mean a specific implementation of the JVM, like the JVM reference implementation in OpenJDK, or you imply that all JVM implementations must support this to be called Java?

Edit: Is your comment related to Project Loom, aiming to add fibers and continuations to Java?
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I was mostly referring to banks, but it's also mostly true for government offices (tax offices, retirement agencies, voting stations, also the municipalities if you need some certificate etc.). Technically public officials can authenticate you without photo id, but it's most common to provide one especially outside small towns.
> by the time this happens, the assumptions underlying the shortcut have implicitly been taken on by the code depending on it.

If this has happened, your encapsulation was insufficient or you waited too long to replace the stop gap solution or maybe your documentation wasn't clear about what assumptions made by the throwaway component are safe to make in the main codebase.

> The only time when it can actually be allowed is when it it concerns a feature that is a pure leaf in the system with nothing else built on top of it.

I think the article's description of when stopgap solutions should be used is far better. Yes, a leaf feature is likely to have fewer encapsulation issues, but that is only part of it.
You are correct. But there are similar bans either already implemented in other provinces or in the works. See for example

[0] https://www.dawn.com/news/1498790

[1] https://propakistani.pk/2019/04/30/cm-usman-buzdar-announces...
That sounds very similar to my experience with toy development. For a toy that played a bunch of pre-recorded sounds, we used a 4-bit Winbond MCU (their MCU division is now Nuvoton) that had a tiny bit of RAM and a ton of mask ROM. Firmware development was done in assembly and targeted a huge (physically large) emulator for test/debug. When we were satisfied with the firmware, we'd send it off to our CM, who would then order the parts with our FW in ROM. They'd get back bare die parts, which were wire bonded to the PCB and then epoxied over (that miserable "glop top" packaging, which is the bane of many teardowns). Development was a bit painful, but high volume production was extremely cheap.

Edit: Oops. I conflated projects. The toy project actually used a SunPlus MCU, not a Winbond MCU. It was an 8-bit RISC CPU running at 5MHz with 128 bytes RAM and 256KB mask ROM. The ROM held both the program and audio samples. I don't recall what encoding was used for the audio.
Yeah, they don't seem to include the cigarette lighters themselves anymore (the plug with the nichrome coil or whatever it is that heats up when pushed in), but the outlets are still there on my most recent car, and every rental car I've driven recently.