skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After you accept that all these tools were built for overworked and stressed people who don't really have the time to learn things deeply, it becomes much easier. In fact, most of the programming ecosystem and systems administration works like this.

Try focusing on "what do I want?", get a superficial understanding on how the tool works, then try to apply that knowledge to your search engine query.

For example: Say you know that docker has images and containers. That means it is somehow going to install an operating system into your operating system and make an image. Then you will copy your program into that image. Then you will start a container (an instance) based on that image. And this is basically all you need to know about docker to start searching for how to do things. Like "how to build a docker image?" or "how to start a docker container?".

Another example. You know that Integration Testing means running your servers and running tests against them as if they are in actual production and continuous integration is a service that runs your integration tests everytime someone merges a branch to a monitored branch in a version control system. From here on, you are able to look up how to set a monitored branch, how to create a build machine and how to scale it.
I looked at selling stuff on Etsy recently and was completely turned off, basically you are competing against cheap knockoff or mass produced products from sweatshops. Despite what management says, its nothing more now than an Amazon with a better looking website. What Etsy was, was a valuable place for small craftspeople, what Etsy is today is just another money machine.
While I have never been to the US, this somewhat reflects my feelings and thoughts, too.

When I was younger I thought I really needed to go and see the USA. Then 9/11 happened and it started to go down. These days I feel sorry for probably not being able to see the US and the landscape and whatnot that is great about it, but I really can't stand the political "atmosphere" and how this influences the whole world in a negative way.
The smart ones put up charging stations here (in Norway) :)

Usually the charging stations are a different company like fortum, ionity, tesla etc. They make money on hot dogs anyway and they sell more hot dogs to people charging 15-20 minutes than people tanking for 3 minutes and drive on.
He means don’t upload it to YouTube as they use a proprietary JS player.
Perhaps they will charge extra money to charge a car at the full speed the car is capable of and hobble charging speed for a lower price.
Interestingly enough if a large amount of people replied to fishing emails they would become unprofitable as most of those people would not be tricked into sending them money. If anyone felt like a charity project a chatbot that contacted spam senders could put a lot of these scam operations out of business...
Kudos to the city of New Bedford!
Well, for tons of people at theirs 40s/30s or close they were kids or teenagers then, it makes sense for them to be nostalgic about it.

As for younger people, it's a period before the web/mobile/social media rise (and pre 9/11), so it's quite distinct from their own present today and thus can be interesting.

It's also a period of relative growth and optimism, as opposed to today...
What do you use for the AI labelling? Looks pretty accurate, but fun to see the random mistakes

A zebra standing on top of a building
https://taken.photos/photos/zebra-standing-on-top-of-buildin...
I know its not hard for anyone to find flaws in the certain kind of people that become Internet trolls, but...

Sure, the church died. Car meets, bars, video game tournaments, rock concerts, so many events these men could fit into are happening every week in your city/near your campus. But because Timmy the Internet troll spends 16 hours on reddit a day he deserves some kind of sympathy for feeling disconnected and hating everyone? It sounds like in your comment that Jordan Peterson is explaining it like we're supposed to accept that it's so hard to leave mother's basement, I don't follow.
Absence of evidence != Evidence of absence
Yeah, but it works great for Amazon but not as in the example in the article where someone sells maybe 10 products a month.

What worries me is the greed in human society, you have a company with profit but the leaders or shareholders want more and more each year, so when there is no more room for growing then someone needs to be milked harder and harder.
I'd prefer to trust separate companies with limited topics, than giving everything to one big company that has proven time and time again that they simply don't care about how they handle your personal data as long as they can make money out of it.

But then again I'm neither on fb, tinder nor anything like that so I'll let people decide for themselves.
What’s a Canonical URL? When and How to Use It
In the first picture, is that from an actual Lego City set, or has someone added the revolver to the police officer from another set?

The BrickLink page lists the revolver as part of a bunch of western and cavalry sets, that is, historical sets. Click "Item Appears In: 7 Sets" to the right.
choco install sysinternals --params "/InstallDir:c:/tools/sysinternals"
choco install nirlauncher --params /Sysinternals
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Wow, thanks, it seems indeed far more relevant to the lecture, and, as you said, easier to follow.

EDIT: well, as it happens, the course's online book has a link (https://youtu.be/yz3jOIHLYhU) to a youtube lecture based on the very paper you mentioned.

EDIT: slides relevant to paper (not in youtube lecture): https://www.bnl.gov/nysds18/files/talks/session2/Meng-nysds1...
Am i the only one pleasantly surprised to find out that syfy.com publish serious articles and not only little green men speculation?
>It is extremely useful for setting up separate development instances for your projects
this. and not only the ability to have different software and versions for each project but also the ability to more or less match the production environment in your dev container for each project.
One of my chief complaints about the "gig" economy; large corporations get to avoid certain risks and (some) people ignore (or may be ignorant of) these risks which means society sometimes shares the burden. For example, not paying the extra insurance premiums when using their vehicle for commercial purposes.

I think of it similar to working under the table; some think "I get paid more than minimum wage and save money on taxes!" But the employer often saves much more and the worker is often to naive to realize what they're losing out on (social security contributions, potential workers compensation benefits, potential recovery of wages, etc)
It’s not a vindication of anything other than the free software movement and philosophy and how its permeated everywhere.

It is more impressive than speaking at another venue because this just shows how open minded they’ve become now and I give them great credit for that if not anything else. Satya’s created such a seismic shift in mindset there in such a short time.
Guidelines - what to submit: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
VSCode is great for every day non-dev use.
They are massively investing now. I am working for a service provider and we are rejecting several contracts due to lack of man power ( and we are massively expanding)
A tool I couldn't live without is ZTreeWin:

* https://www.ztree.com/html/ztreewin.htm

If anyone ever used xtree gold back in the day - it's the exact same thing, but works with modern windows. Because it's all keyboard based and no mouse, all file operations can be done quickly via muscle memory.

Also another vote for everything mentioned below. Fastest file search there is. Even if I know where something is, it's still quicker and easier to use Everything to find it.
If you look closer, you can see that Purism and Pine64 are actually at similar stages to each other and promise to ship similar things at similar time.
but is a pretty good guideline :) If Windows got ransomed every time and MacOS is never, that is interesting, right?

Windows holds perceived monopoly on company-wide identity control. There are Mac solutions: https://www.jamf.com/products/jamf-pro/deployment/
Shall we change that link to the English version?
Also: https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair
Go Johnny go!
They already do. Just need to ditch everything except WSL - and we've got an acceptable MS OS.
I did NOT see that one coming.
Fun trick you can do, at least on windows, it to append your data to the program's file with the offset as the very last thing you write so that it's easy for it to find. I've run various programs like this through virus scanners and the only type to false flag it were the "neural network ai" scanners. So that shouldn't be a problem.
Asteroid collision ruled out by NASA – hours later, it smashes into Caribbean
Damn, I had to do a double take on this. 9 AM is super early for me, noon is normal and 2-3 PM is sleeping late. What is appealing and tolerable will not be the same for everyone and sometimes it's not just a matter of getting used to something. It's hard to say in advance.
I’m flipping the other way. Online is not cheaper anymore, sales tax is a thing and fake and fucked up stuff is too common.

I stopped my Amazon Prime last month. The last straw was 4/6 orders were screwed up (poor quality, damaged by brain dead packaging, fake, repackaged return) and the return process is a pain in the ass.

My wife was scammed by two different fake instagram companies this year. Online commerce is a pit.

I can drive to the mall and get the same stuff at same or better prices. It’s not fake and you avoid most of the other issues by physically looking at the item. If I’m in a rush, I can literally punch in an order at Target now and pull up in as little as 15m and have someone bring it to me.

You should try giving retail another try and truly evaluating it against the slop that Amazon is dishing out.
This is is exactly the type of thing I come to this site for. Showing me fringe info I don’t even know I’m interested in knowing about.
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Oh yeah. Yeeeears ago, I was contracting for a telecom provider, and as a contractor, the process for getting logins to all the stuff I needed access to was onerous in some cases, nonexistent in others. So the employee who was sponsoring my presence in the building just said I could share his login. "The password is Apr1999!, if you happen to be the first one to log in when it expires, just change it to May1999! and so on, alright?"

It satisfied the uppercase, lowercase, number, symbol, and non-reuse criteria perfectly, while having precisely zero security.

Come to find out, something like a dozen different contractors were all sharing this one guy's login. He was the only reason anything got done in the whole region. The "system", such as it was, worked, but it made a mockery of corporate IT.

A few months into the project, that employee gave his notice and quit. Went to work for the competitor across the street; we'd bump into each other at the diner and stuff. But they couldn't just turn off his login -- his manager understood that all the contractors were using it, so they just left it active, and whoever got the expiry prompt would dutifully update the password every month...
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Sure. That's because a lot of the delivery business is fixed costs.

But still, depending on the cost and the average number of packages, it could come out as a significant cost per order.
It would be nice if aggressive tax avoidance closely resembling money laundering schemes weren’t quite so central to the FAANG business models too.

Especially when they’re in competition with bricks and mortar stores that can’t use “double Dutch” and “double Irish” tax dodges.
My favourite is "A statue of a cement bench"
I get this too often:
https://robert.penz.name/354/how-to-fix-the-font-for-virt-ma...
The gtk program decided on some font, but didn't have the audacity to request it as a dependency, so you end up with a GUI that prints crap for all text instead.
The problem is "easy" to figure out, the workaround is "easy" and the long term fix is also "easy" but for some reason, it still happens. Now if it would just fall back to whatever default X font there was, I would see text on all strings even with bad size/kerning/look but nopes. Blank squares is where we are at.

So when someone makes a program that just decides to print "Hello" by just printing out those chars on my computer, with my font (or the default, the system, the fallback) it is kind of nice that I at least can see what it tries to tell me.
I thought the advanced team quickly building a log cabin to sleep in was very Russian.

I knew a guy years ago who kind-of described it as a right of passage that you would take a trip out into the woods and build your own cabin/dacha.

A Finnish friend sent me his pictures of building his, including the obligatory sauna.
> Perhaps they will charge extra money to charge a car at the full speed the car is capable of and hobble charging speed for a lower price.

This would tie up their charging infrastructure and space for a longer time, making less money. Gas stations & charging venues are usually space-constrained because they're located on expensive real estate. Their goal is to maximize revenue and throughput in small spaces.
Because the poster thought it might be interesting to those who frequent the site? Considering its position on the front page at time of writing I would say he thought correctly.
And Worst of Times (Economically)
Its finally beginning to fall in price, Microtik are doing relatively inexpensive routers with 10gig SFP ports.
I use Display Fusion - and it's virtual window manager.

I have Monitor 1 full width, but monitor 2 split as 2 virtual monitors 60% | 40%.
Such as? Everytime ransomware is in the news, it's always something that targets Windows exploits. Even though Linux machines would be a much more valuable target since they usually host production databases and such.
nice guide to devops linked at the bottom of the article https://www.techrepublic.com/article/devops-the-smart-person...
I would pay good money for a Chrome extension that would intelligently remove opening vignettes and other human-interest crud that every writer feels compelled to insert in putative analysis.
> Most of the transistors in a modern computation environment are just sitting there waiting to be touched by an instruction

True, but it's important to note that if all the transistors in a modern CPU switched on at once, it would quickly overheat. This is the "power wall" -- we can squish more transistors in one die than we can actually turn on at one time due to electrical and thermal constraints.

> far, far more transistors in RAM than in the CPUs, overall

Also true, and this is an active area of research. Many people have tried various approaches to performing computations using DDR and other memory technologies. In the past, people were trying to trying to use DDR to run automata. These days there seems to be a lot of focus on processor-in-memory technologies; it turns out memristors can actually be used for computation, effectively turning the entire memory array into a hugely wide SIMD RISC processor. Here is some recent work presented on this subject:

Real Processing-in-Memory with Memristive Memory Processing Unit (mMPU) - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8825114

PPAC: A Versatile In-Memory Accelerator for Matrix-Vector-Product-Like Operations - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8825013

Parallel Stateful Logic in RRAM: Theoretical Analysis and Arithmetic Design - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8825150

> there's still a lot of room to grow, speed wise.

Yes and no. Single-threaded performance is close to tapping out. Production processes can only shrink so far before physics starts getting in the way. Pipelines and speculation can only get so deep (and broaden surface area for security vulnerabilities). Performance growth for massively parallel workloads is continuing along at a healthy clip, and will probably continue to do so for quite some time. Of course the trouble is that end-user desktop software is generally not massively parallel.
Yes, the size of the data matters, and linear search may be the right choice for many use cases and may outperform more advanced data structures. You learn it on the job as it is not a topic usually studied in universities. But I don't agree that we need to completely throw away theory, O complexity analysis where N - input size is the main variable. Microbenchmarks are hard to write correctly. Recreating the scenarios occurring in production is not always possible in the microbenchmark settings. You can write a microbenchmark that shows your code works great, but fails to perform in production because the input data is totally different. bt848 mentioned load test, which is not the same as microbenchmark. Load test that simulates production settings is a better tool to validate the optimizations.
Car manufacturers try to hook you into their software when you really should never use any of it. Unfortunately these days you can't even buy a car without a pile of software in it. Instead you should use only the products that come with the phone and totally ignore the preinstalled crapware that comes with a car. We need to go back to the days where a car does only one thing and one thing well.
> Can we talk about the NYT's fairly open anti-tech bias at this point?

This is an opinion piece. In pretty much every newspaper I skip this section.

Broadly speaking, there are large swaths of the population for whom the New York Times (and, on the other side, Wall Street Journal and Fox News) anti-tech “biases” resonate. Not just emotionally, but because big tech has repeatedly and callously burned those groups.

They are looking to organise. Finding common arguments and common allies is part of the political process the Fourth Estate catalyses.
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After 9 years of Apple use, I have successfully made this method work one time (iMessages), and even then, it took a full system reboot after each file move to validate whether or not that had made a difference.

The whole process took the better part of a day. It was long, it was tedious, but at least I got there in the end. There was no paid-support story that would have done this for me, but hey ho, it all worked out. I can't imagine I'll ever have the time to go through that much effort again.

The same cant be said for my iMessage history on my iPhone, which has been lost repeatedly as the only solution was "don't restore from your backup".
It can display a web page, but there's a long way from that to making the UI pleasurable to use on small touchscreen.
Etsy fell apart when they failed to police non-handmade goods. For example I was looking for a picture frame and any permutation of search terms I used returned thousands of results from a handful of sellers that are obviously just Chinese junk I could buy at Wal-Mart (all mislabeled of course--I was searching for 'walnut 18x24 picture frame' and the results contained frames of all colors, shapes, and wood types). Then to make things even worse when I waded through the results I DID find someone selling a frame like I wanted, but then I looked a bit further down the page and found the EXACT same frame from another seller. They're located geographically near to each other (separate cities though) and they used the same pictures. And the prices were quite different. Some sort of scam is going on there but I'm not sure what--either people are buying from a local craftsman and reselling on Etsy, or the local craftsman is selling his products online at slightly different prices for a reason I couldn't quite grasp.
Employee salaries would also come out as a significant cost per order. The point is that it might not make any more sense to pull out explicit shipping prices as it would to include an employee-salary fee on all products.
You see a item on the page and think “I’m willing to pay that to have it.” Then you add it to your cart and see a large fee added and you are given a moments pause “Is this item really worth it?” and close the tab.

For some goods cost hiding is good because there is a mental commitment that is made by getting to the check-out process and fees are an annoyance but not a deterrent.

For Etsy they believe that cost hiding is bad because the number of people who would pass up an item at a higher initial price is less than the number who would put the item back on the second evaluation once the ‘price to own’ is known. Etsy is cost anchoring against their own interests.
I turned down $60k dollar when I was broke – David Choe
There's no mobile version of Firefox that would work on GNU/Linux. There was one, but got ditched when Fennec got rewritten into being a native Android app.
As an indicator of the slapdash quality: she calls into question the neutron-star merger by saying, "Furthermore, the interpretation of this signal as a neutron-star merger has also been criticized."

But if you follow the link in that statement, it leads to a previous post of hers (from November 16, 2018), which concludes:

"Basically, I feel reassured in my conclusion that you can safely ignore the Italian paper [which questions the NS-merger]."

It's more than a little odd to imply that there has been potentially meaningful criticism of GW170817 by referring to a post in which she herself concluded that there hasn't.
Mike: Lenny, officially, the Church will not take any position on the religious implications of these phenomena. Personally, Lenny, I think it's a sign from God. But don't quote me on that.<br>
Peter Venkman: I think that's a smart move, Mike.<br>
Mayor Lenny: Now, I'm not gonna call a press conference and tell everyone to start praying.<br>
Winston Zeddemore: I'm, uh, Winston Zeddemore, Your Honor. I've only been with the company for a couple of weeks, but I gotta tell you: these things are real. Since I joined these men, I have seen shit that'll turn you white!<br>
Peter Venkman: Well, you can believe Mr. Pecker...<br>
Walter Peck: My name is "Peck."<br>
Peter Venkman: ...or you could accept the fact that this city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.<br>
Mayor Lenny: What do you mean, "biblical"?<br>
Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor. Real Wrath-of-God type stuff!<br>
Peter Venkman: Exactly.<br>
Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!<br>
Egon Spengler: 40 years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes!<br>
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!<br>
Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!
Do they do that with gas pumps?
Back in '99 or so, there was a company called Halibut Stuff selling T-shirts at Defcon (and presumably other events) that included a free email redirect service with purchase of a shirt.

So I got a shirt that said "myself@iwenttodefcon7.andalligotwas.thislousyemailaddress.com"

Not too much later, I ended up working in software validation, and I broke so many login forms with that perfectly-valid address, I lost count.

Since then, Halibut Stuff dissolved and the forwarding service is long gone. If some HN reader wanted to set up a Mailinator-like service that generates absurd-yet-RFC-compliant email addresses for such testing, I think there might be a market.