skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The iPhone is more than just a phone. It's a status symbol not unlike a designer handbag or a luxury car.

I got a good chuckle out of this. The number of people I used to see using iPhone with cracked screens was hilarious, they literally looked dirt poor and unable to afford to repair or replace their phone.

My G1 Pixel may not have a cool Apple logo to show off on the back, but you wouldn't see it anyway, since its safely ensconced in an after market leather case to protect it in case it gets dropped, since it's just a tool and not a status symbol. Several years old an no damage so far. Only reason I'll replace it soon is that the battery life is now very degraded.
This makes an interesting contrast to the discussion on rabbit holes (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791174) which is also on the front page right now, and largely concerns reading man pages (with various degrees of success).

I think it speaks to the overall improvement in interface design (along with increased general familiarity with user interfaces) that people can get away with not reading the instructions and still be able to operate any software at all.

This has lead to an interesting dichotomy, though, where many people don't ever need to learn the research skills which were once necessary to use a computer at all, and are still necessary to learn anything deeper than the UI.
The article itself mentions the non-radioactive component of the risk:

Though people think mainly about uranium's radioactivity, the danger in water mainly comes from the toxic chemical effects of the metal.
ohhh ok, so it takes a while to get used but you find yourself more comfortable with it and productive?
Power to gas will be necessary for a future with 100% renewables. The existing gas infrastructure will then come in handy but coal plants and their mines probably can't be saved.
What specifically? It did not seem like to me that communist countries were very focused on increasing consumer consumption at all.

And if they had been, that would not exactly been a bad thing, given how much shortage there was of basic consumer goods in communist countries.

I think it seems considerably more absurd in modern rich western countries today, that we are still pushing for ever high consumption.

For all its flaws, the communist countries at least seem to focus more on items being more easy to reuse and repair. Western society is getting deeper and deeper into really short product cycles with products which are next to impossible to repair. We are essentially pushed to an artificially high consumption level.
Windows XP and later
This whole topic is something I'd never touch or even begin to discuss in public. It's very easy to put a negative spin on anything one might say. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. In today's algorithmic sort-by-controversial outrage culture, they will crucify you for anything and its opposite. It's the wisest to just switch the topic as fast as you can when it comes up.
> I find it surprising that people here are defending an all-male speaker line up at a conference as being ok because "it's just about tech".

Not because "it's about tech", but because selecting speakers based on their sex would be ... well ... sexist?!

> Further, if your tech group isn't actively working to bring people from other backgrounds into it then it becomes an echo chamber.

So, what exactly do you know about the backgrounds of any of the other speakers, other than that they are male and 'white'? Have you read their CVs? You know how they got into php, why they choose IT/CS, what drives them? Or what their parents went through to pave way for their children? Did they fight in Kosovo? Did their parents get detained while trying to leave East Germany? Are they refugees from any of the numerous inner-European conflicts? Or if their grandparents have been killed in WWII?

Please, learn that Europe is not the US of A. Diversity in Europe does not related to skin color or sex. People can look somewhat similar and still have entirely different backgrounds.

> Echo chambers are the worst, because people don't realise that's what they are in.

I'll just leave your own words here for you to read again.
Rust & Kubernetes
I don't think produce is tested. The article states:

... uranium also sticks to potatoes, radishes and other root vegetables if they're not properly washed. (While studies have confirmed livestock and people can ingest high levels of uranium by eating contaminated vegetation, scientists have yet to fully research the dangers involved.)
Julia allows the use of unicode variables and functions, which is pretty cool for scientific notation.they are written using latex shortcuts, and the REPL gives you how to write a symbol if you don't know how to do it
Any of those minority groups can move to a small state (states being the usual voting boundary). White, christian, and straight cannot become those groups.

Would a register for who is LGBT be a good idea?
Would you support laws and voting based on ethnic background and/or skin colour?

Why do these ideas sound dangerous?
I'm wondering if more elaborate personas might result in more interesting conversations? For example, impersonating a famous person from history, or perhaps a character in a novel based on their dialog.
JavaScript bundles are often a bottleneck in web builds. I wish there were better ways to speed this up.
Why is this being downvoted? It is highly inappropriate to do this in a work context.
You should not put this alongside your site, at least not sharing resources. You should apply forwarding rules to separate this into a different vlan or vpc (ip based routing for instance) and completely isolate this from your site, while the two ssh destinations would be indistinguishable from the outside, preferably behind a load balancer with a firewall to mitigate ddos attacks and just log different attack types
No. He did not say that the jet burned less fuel. He was commenting that a highspeed rail journey, with the necessary connecting car/bus/light rail legs on each end, can sometimes require more carbon than a more direct aircraft flight. There are breaking points where an all-economy flight can be the most energy-efficient option.

My home town (on an island) is a good example. I could take a direct flight to another city, or drive the 100's of KM by car+boat to the nearest passenger rail. And then I'd have to rent a car and drive several hundred more KM after stepping off the train. In such circumstances the direct aircraft connection is the lower-carbon option.
Here is what a playmaker session looks like if you are interested

https://vimeo.com/345068825/86f8c8f97e
I’d be most concerned about governmental instability. In that case no amount of UBI promises would protect you, but a suitcase of gold and a plane ticket would. At least, 10 kilos or so would let you set up pretty nicely somewhere else.
I want to know AnthonyMouse's response to your argument: the treshold density in walking distance versus the treshold density in cycling distance will scale quadratically with the distance (since area is quadratic function of the radius), an electric bike that extends your range twice, will result in a 4 times higher "effective population density" for public transport to make sense.

Edit: just adding that any environmentally responsible form of personal transport doubles range, also results in quadratically (so four times) fewer stations and stops to be built, and linearly (so only half) the total length of rail or road to be laid and maintained
Is he alive or dead? Cause of death? There are of course the radiothor incidents (where people actually died from eating uranium and thorium products, note this is selectively consumed for many years at concentrated levels, much higher than in rocks)[1]. Also the Baltimore Radium girls, who ingested concentrated radium to make glow in the dark watches.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radithor
The only machine we have that's not named poorly, is named DP2950. It was originally a Dell PowerEdge 2950, and we probably had more than one back then, so maybe it wasn't a great name.

Everything else is named based on it's purpose.

www, webapps, data, acccounting, mail, things like that.

But, mail is actually named mailV3 (it's the third hardware the mail server has been on). Why it wasn't just named mail, and if the old one was kept around, it could be mail-old, I don't know.

Then we have our development servers. devel, develv2, www-devel, that kind of stuff. I'd personally prefer devel-whatever the name of the production version is called. Instead we have to thing 'develv2 is actually the development version of dp2950....'
Xkcd Book tour and contest winner
Shortcuts is my personal mortal enemy. I talk to people that "really want to learn topic X" but: a) don't want to read any books, b) don't want to watch any training videos (from nuggets in the old days, to youtube tutorials now). They just want a quick and dirty solution to everything, always. That comes with a price.

People want shortcuts. I don't like or use shortcuts 99% of the time.

My experience is that when you go looking for X to serve a need today, you discover Y and Z and guess what.. Y and Z will come very handy tomorrow, when in a call/meeting about ABC, miraculously Y and Z are similar and you speak up a d impress everyone and get the job/contract.
I see people do that riding slowly uphill in two lane 35mph+ streets, and it's just very obnoxious when there's a line of cars behind them and no attempt is made to let them pass. People get very enraged..
Only $30? (No missing 0?) That's on average (assuming a range of novels to textbooks thay makes the average...) only doubling the book cost to get a copy in another format.

Not ideal (IMO buying the physical book should entitle you to a zero marginal cost PDF copy too, which some publishers do adhere to) but certainly better than I expected.
The main difficulty with C/C++ is making the build steps "hermetics". The build system is frequently unaware of what files the preprocessor will touch/lookup before hands.

Build systems like Bazel are providing some way to ensure some level of isolation that provides correctness guarantees. It also provide an easy way to statically build a superset of the files needed for each step of the build, allowing to integrate with a distributed service. Some related documentation/discussions can be found starting from https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/remote-execution.ht...
Another good source of information is online videos from BazelCon: https://conf.bazel.build
Clojure, Hoplon web framework and Datomic.
Hesse’s Glass Bead Game made a huge impression on me in my early 20s. A favorite professor had recommended it when I was struggling with “how the world works” (see also Animal Farm, above)
True, but JavaScript had to survive 20 years to get the chance to evolve into something like TypeScript, and that was no mean feat.
Too many folks here are commenting on the F-35's design as an airplane, instead of what it really is.

The F-35 is a beautifully designed trillion dollar uncuttable expenditure. If you look at how the program was designed to consume money, instead of deliver anything of value; it's a work of art!
FogCam Is Signing Off in San Francisco
Solzhenitsyn's Ex‐Wife Says ‘Gulag’ Is ‘Folklore’:

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/06/archives/solzhenitsyns-ex...
DreamCloud+Savings+Labor+Day+Special
You've articulated two great reasons why end users generate angry comments.
Truly apologize if I offended you ^_^ tone doesn’t carry well on the internet. I’m just stating my beliefs, and the “don’t be the guy” was a riff on the parent post. I also come here to have my beliefs challenged.
I don't think you get to make that call. If an artist draws an 18 year old girl who looks much younger, are we supposed to ignore their wishes and arrest them because we think it crosses the line? We simply will not respect the artist's will when they are the literal creator of the drawing? Doesn't this mindset drift into literal thought crime?
It's also strange in that I don't think I'd get very much out of simply watching anyone work, unless they were also giving live commentary or something.
I love this kind of stuff, it's the most pure kind of learning, no end goal but satisfying your innate OCD.
I've gone down these rabbit holes in tech and alternative fields - politics, philosophy, cooking. It's crazy, but it lead me to some life long hobbies.
> The sad truth is that all countries ...

Probably a [citation needed] for that.

But it is a reminder that just as most people don't really grapple with the amount of good done since the agricultural revolution, they also can't grapple with the new types of evil that have been enabled since the dawn of the 20th century.

It is sunshine and roses this decade, but there are some much scarier threats in the future than, eg, climate change. WWII happened in a climate quite similar to our own.
Correct title is: how misconfigured century link network broke when rotten packet arrived.

This title sounds like it was packet failure, while it is not, it was a matter of time until this problem occurs, hardware must be resilient to malformed input.
It would be helpful if those who disagree with this article would address its specific points.
It's not a guarantee that it will work, it's not that rare to encounter a minor/patch version in a library that introduced some subtle incompatible change (usually unbeknownst to the author)
15 minutes to pull an image is crazy. Run a “docker pull {image}” followed by a “docker build —cache-from {image} ...” to speed up your pulls by 10X.
This is a good place to start:

https://dwheeler.com/secure-programs/3.71/Secure-Programs-HO...
Yeah, that article doesn't make a very strong case against a Dyson swarm. At least it's been updated with an admission that any remotely sane approach is practical after all (rather than the assumed "set up a 1-square-km solar array, in the same orbit as Earth for some reason, and power yourself solely with that while you dismantle an entire planet and stash it in a warehouse somewhere before starting to build more solar panels"). Although the second update shows a continued lack of understanding - who on (or off) Earth would expect a planetary-scale engineering project to take less than 100 years?!

I've skimmed the follow-up article and I'm not going to read it in depth to avoid spending the morning shouting at clouds.

Anyway I digress. Self-replicating factories sound great but eventually they're gonna start evolving no matter how tightly we try and lock them down, at which point we'd better hope the planet we're living on doesn't look too much like lunch to them. (I'm picturing the Greenfly mentioned in some Alistair Reynolds books.)
Ditto on Galaxy S10.
Reminds me of "The Gods Must be Crazy".

The !Kung live in a society without laws and without private property. The are incredibly poor, but don't know it, and so they are incredibly happy. Until one day a bottle falls from the sky...

- - - -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_people

> A set of tools almost identical to that used by the modern San and dating to 42,000 BCE was discovered at Border Cave in KwaZulu-Natal in 2012.

A culture forty-thousand years old...
The comment in replied to proposed a quota.
The Guide for Secret Hiding Places in Your Home
Peff, for the people asking in the thread, is there a place where correct alternatives are suggested or demonstrated?

I know there are a few different places that talk about how to use git's internal machinery, but not sure if any are specific to these banned functions.
Related: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/the_nsa_is_br...
C has _only_ pointers for variable size things, not just strings.

Roughly speaking C vars are either known fixed length, or accessed via pointer. There is nothing else.

(except arrays -- which are mostly pointers)
I'm partway through Nand to Tetris right now, and I'm really enjoying it! It's taking me quite a while, as I'm doing it in C (which I have no experience with) as a way to start making my way towards embedded programming, but it's a really rewarding course.
And then you can start counting gays and trans people, and disabilities and their intersections.

It's a shame though because these groups do face actual hardships but I don't get the impression that the Twitter warriors are actually interested in how they fare, outside of scoring virtue points by being up to date on all these privilege topics. In my experience those who do real work for underrepresented groups are usually pleasant people tolerating opposing views and they don't search for the least charitable interpretation to get offended by, unlike how it looks on Twitter and Reddit.
Keep the roll all together on the ground and feed the thermal paper in again to print upside-down on the other margin! Good times. Saw your old calculator video with the 'sonic spiral memory'. I had NO IDEA such a thing existed!

There is great value in the doggedly determined engineering of yesteryear, and there are some among the young who continue to carry the torch. Check this out if you have not seen it,

Apollo Guidance Computer Restoration

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-_93BVApb59FWrLZfdli...
I think this is the message the investor class is trying to send to ordinary people: "If we can't find a place to invest at a reasonable rate of return, we will find a way to loot your bank accounts."
Ask HN: Best Blogging Platform
I’m curious what everyone would recommend for a new blog? I really want to focus on the writing and not deal with updates and viruses. But I’d still like to do a good degree of customization and plugins and a custom domain name.
Airbnb had an unfair advantage: They used craigslist to get many of their first customers and prove the concept. This took technical knowledge that many business owners might not have.

Craigslist has since closed this loophole. If you notice, all messages sent between posters and users go through the craigslist servers, so they can not only watch for this sort of thing, but stop it from happening.

About 10 years ago, I started a business based on data mining. I built it into around $1,000,00/year in revenue and it lasted roughly 5 years before the industry changed, profits massively decreased, and I moved onto other business ideas.

Was this an unfair advantage? I think so. Nobody else was doing it at the time and it took lots of technical and industry knowledge to pull off.
> Kinda looks like the submission process was biased.

While skewed outcomes can make you suspect bias, they simply are not sufficient evidence to conclude that there is bias.

For example, around 50% of the population is male. Yet 0% of all births are to males. Obvious discrimination against male fathers! Silly me, no, of course not bias. There is some other factor at work.

Or take the 100m dash as Olympic discipline, or in fact most of the track and field running events. Extreme racial skew. Bias?

And no, I am not saying that these same factors are at work here, just that you cannot conclude bias from unequal outcomes. In fact, as far as I know the science, it would be exactly matched outcomes that would actually be highly suspect.

See also: Simpson's Paradox ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox ). Again, not saying that this is an instance of Simpson's paradox, but definitely saying that just because something looks like bias when superficially examining outcomes, that does not at all mean that bias is the actual cause.

And of course there are a lot of potential reasons why there would be a skew, many of which have been identified as fairly reliable gender differences, including willingness to take risks,

> 10% of OSS software programmers are women

The numbers I found were lower, more in the 1-5% range, skewing toward the lower end:

https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/it-gende...

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-39225-7_...

https://www.itprotoday.com/linux/gender-roles-search-open-so...

To sum up, your argument is flawed for at least 3 reasons:

1. Your numbers for the baseline are wrong

2. Your assumption that any skew in outcomes proves bias is wrong

3. You ignore actual gender differences that can explain different outcomes
It's certainly clever, but I anticipate plenty of confusion (written, spoken, typed, search engine, etc) due to the Hamming distance between "firestorm" and "firestore". I really wish people would stop trying to use overly cute names.

This is the nomenclatural equivalent of code golf. If someone bragged that they overlapped two constants to save 3 bytes, I would not consider that an improvement. Whatever happened to the belief that communication was more important than brevity?

Some teams even test their user interfaces with users. Names are part of the user interface, yet I've never heard of anyone in software testing a name.
Yes! From the days of 14400kbps(my first dialup connection), to 56kbps, to 128k, 1mb and now 1gb, each one of them found more use few years after they are introduced.

5g wont be an exception.
My family had to switch to Slack because of this. Some of the family are "Apple everything" people, while the rest are not and typically go with lower end Android phones (like the Moto G). It bothered some of the iPhone users so much to see "green bubbles" that they would routinely leave the green bubbles out of conversations. Well a a big family party came and nobody remembered to tell the Android users about it because they were so used to excluding them. There were some seriously hurt feelings. We basically had to move to Slack to save the family. Now that we do all the communication through Slack, all is well again.
Tesla and a lot of other car makers are switching to so called "vegan leather" in their cars. Which is a fashionable way of saying synthetic leather. In Tesla's case it is for everything except the steering wheel which they still use real leather for. It seems to be an admission that the real thing is still more durable under some circumstances.
my take on the headline is that Q fixes vulnerabilities that exist in pre-Q versions. this means that those vulnerabilities are still in effect for the vast majority of current users, and will be for some time since it will take years before Q is actually being run by the majority of android devices. the vulnerabilities are very much alive.
Don't beat yourself up. It seems lime disclosure and disclaimer are almost consistently used in reverse on HN. It's the strangest thing!
When I sold furniture 15 years ago, one of the selling lines was buying leather now is a great investment since the meat industry puts so much leather on the market it was super cheap. Not sure if it's still true or if it ever was.
I am very sure to have excellent memories about my childhood and I believe that my comment reflects these memories well.

Or to put it into different words: if you are somewhat smart, you should see very fast that the only winning move is not to play.
This kinda makes it sound like the ultimate outcome of corporate growth is socialism. At some point, many of these functions fulfilled by corporations are essential, might as well nationalize it and have it function for the public good right? Then maybe you won't have stuff like the despicable state of the printer industry
Berlin could cap rents at 7.97 eur per square metre – Tagesspiegel
Nobody remembers RCA, once the biggest tech company in the world.
Lactose intolerance is the norm. Tolerance is unusual in adult mammals.

In humans, it appears to be a very recent mutation, probably associated with the domestication of livestock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase_persistence
false choice. I would rather see the profits to shareholders reduced sufficiently to pay for fair working conditions.

Actually I lied. I would rather see a network of cooperatively owned companies replace Amazon where all workers in that system have good jobs, no one is a billionaire, and money spent stays more local.