skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ESC is the ASCII character for code extension.

ISO 2022 aka ECMA-35¹ standardizes how to use it in general, but the only thing that really caught on is a subset of the terminal control extensions (ISO 6429 aka ECMA-48² aka ‘ANSI’). In the hypothetical alternate universe where people use ASCII-based structured data, ISO 2022 would have standard sequences for such metadata.

If you were rolling your own today, you'd probably wrap the metadata in Application Program Command (ESC _ … ESC \) or Start Of String (ESC X … ESC \) or one of the private-use sequences.
¹ https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ec...

² https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ec...
On the other hand, such demographic often comes with a lot of drama
> So that’s “the correct statistic” as long as you ignore the literally billion Android phones that don’t get updates compared to the 0% of iPhones that were introduced since 2011 that haven’t gotten an update in the last 3 months

How many times do I have to repeat that it doesn't make sense to group all Android devices together just like it doesn't make any sense to group all phones together?

> So 90%+ of all Android phones “shouldn’t be used”

Yes! That's what I've been trying to tell you! 90% of Android phones shouldn't be used, and 100% of iOS phones shouldn't be used. How is it that you still do not understand this?

> So the “base system” consists of applications* not the underlying operating system....

That explains it. I specifically separated base system, which gets updated quickly with reboots, from applications, which get updated transparently without reboots, and through some incredibly poor reading comprehension, you understood this as saying both are the same.
And you can use messenger without having to use the app or go to desktop
In theory if the retros arnt providing anything useful then yes.

I would try to fix the retros though or have some kind of alternative to allow the team to change the process.
> A mail server is hard.

yeah, but compared with other services like WWW mail is IMO harder. You deal with two main Protocols and a lot of software. While mail takes 11 components in your tutorial, you'd get a website in 4. And some parts are hard to debug. I have very little means to debug why my mail wasn't delivered to my bosses gmail.
It is this that I cringe hard whenever a developer mentions 'the modern web' or 'the free and open web'.

I wish websites were as simple as HN.

+ Lightweight.

+ No ads.

+ Works without (or little to no) JS.

+ Does not make me download MB's of data.

It seems 98% of the websites I visit cannot pass the first two.
I agree. However, let me help you: there is a way to bypass that problem by defining shell wrapper function with names that you like in .bashrc.
AFAIK the Manx pound is not Sterling, although it is in parity with Sterling.

Manx pounds are not legal currency in the UK but UK pounds (whether the notes are English, Scottish, or NI) are legal in the Isle of Man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manx_pound
You can definitely make it permanent, it's permanent on my account. Can't remember what I did now...
I don't see what one has to do with the other.

It's the year 2400 and recent developments in technology mean that a person (let's say John) can choose to live for 500 years, in favour of a chain of offspring.

John makes this choice.

John's father Harry would have made that choice had the technology been available, and would have enjoyed a longer life in favour of fathering John.

The only reason John exists is because the technology was not available to Harry - so what right did John have to exist that his unrealized offspring would not also have? (Given that their reasons for existing/not-existing are the same).
Here is one for R:

https://github.com/tidyverse/magrittr
I think it's a factor of the relative way of how things play out. For instance, even America could not nuke Somalia. It's less of a factor of the individuals at play and more about the way the power structures are holding right now.

I would imagine a more militarily-powerful Iran would be differently shaped as well.
I disagree. Parenting is critical but I believe the root is the relationship with smart phones by not only students but everyone else in the students lives (parents/teachers/counselors/other role models). A mixture of constant audio, visual, and social, inputs has lowered our attention spans and rotted our ability to deal with stress in healthy ways (and likely created new stresses simultaneously).

To support this I would cross-reference screen time between 1st world countries and mental health records, normalizing as best I could for all the other variables in the equation.
Frys purchased outpost.com which was based on 90s tech. I believe their ordering system was called MACS. They never maintained the site.
I can see why Shaw made the article less accessible via search. Shaw has done the same with other essays he wrote around the same time. The basic analysis is sound. If you write programs like those in The C Programming Language those programs will lack mitigations for buffer overflows and null pointers.

A weakness of this essay is it jumbles pedagogical and engineering considerations together for dramatic effect. The defensive code Shaw does not find in K&R is only justified if crashing is both likely and worth the effort to prevent. YAGNI and "let it crash" are alternative engineering approaches.

The strength of Shaw's essay is that the grappling with the absence of defensive programming motivated Learn C the Hard Way to introduce Valgrind and Make right away. And the outrage probably adrenaline fueled Shaw's writing. All the controversy was consistent with Shaw's public image at the time, to boot. But in the end, the essay, like many of the period, lacks nuance. Their fading searchability is probably a sign of Shaw's recognition.

I think Learn C the Hard Way is better for Shaw having written the essay and I think his book is a pretty good introduction to C programming in part because it introduces Make and Valgrind and eschews IDE's. K&R is also good, but it's written with the assumption that the reader is ok learning from material written in a documentary style. That's less common today than four decades ago.
are you the same "you" that you were last night before you went to sleep? for all practical purposes, yes; if a perfect clone woke up in your bed this morning, it would make no difference to the rest of the world, and your clone would still have all the same problems and goals.

but the best evidence you have that you are the same entity as yesterday's "you" is that you remember some events from the day. the teleportation paradox is no harder to resolve.
Whoa! Thanks for that tip, that’s an incredibly useful tip.
The government is primarily motivated by not giving China technologies that could pose a threat to national security, however much it may run counter to the cultural values and long term health of the universities.
> eat on average about 1.5 non raw meals per day

A helpful way I've heard this described is "high raw" Also I think it may be easier to maintain long-term, which maybe you'd agree. In any case I'll always be vegan, no matter how much raw or cooked food I eat. Too many "raw vegans" I've seen revert to eating carcasses.
>Well hypothetically each mouse button has a certain finite number of clicks in it before it breaks.

Omron switches (most commonly used) are rated from 1M to 20M clicks.

>It could be in the future you'd need to click to send some crucial evidence to stop you getting sentenced to death. It could be that this saved click is the difference between the mouse failing or not on that occasion.

Double click is the most common failure mode. When clicking, the switch hesitates back and forth resulting in two mouse click events generated. This could turn "drag and drop" into "launch program". Will leave the rest for your imagination.
What a crap comment, I can see why you chose to use a throwaway account. That's about the same as saying that a law against breathing would make all of us illegals because it is something that we did, rather than that breathing is a direct result of being alive as a mammal. Sex is a natural thing. If you outlaw sex then you are by definition creating criminals, and you might as well name it for what it is: a law against certain groups of people. The act itself is merely the stick used to hit them with in a legal way.
there is a lot of free open source ware and shareware was a big thing, never paid for windows its always been on a system prior to my gleaning it from the crappile.
It is very easy to not pay for software and remain non criminal if you eschew the chronic redirections and upgrades that are not functionally neccesary but make money for someone. Hardware is another thing. Ive rarely paid for hardware, and definately not full retail price.

The thing is a lot of commercial wares are full of features that are not needed, or are composites of "more primative"
features
Generate enough outcry on social media?
Try Dutch money from before the Euro:

https://www.google.com/search?q=oxenaar+geld&client=ubuntu&h...:
Would you take a coding assessment before even talking to a human being?
Western Governor's University is legitimate. When it has come up before on Hacker News, former students have shared their experiences. It might be worth searching HN.
And I have a problem with acres of whitespace. Here's one vote for HN to leave the line height right where it is.
Here it is https://www.listle.io/#/article/4082307374
Corporate Profits Are Down, but Wages Are Up
Fry's took nerd mecca from Radio Shack. I have ... memories...

1. Arguing with an employee over signal loss over different types of antenna connectors after I had just installed and analyzed my umpteenth outdoor network. He insisted I was full of shit.

2. Seeing (who I believe to be) Linus Torvalds in a BMW. I had a minor fan moment, girlfriend was like "who's that".

3. Being treated like a potential thief every single time.

4. My two year old having a melt down in one of the isles because dad had been geeking out for too long and it was way past nap/snack time.
This paper relies on an assumption: At a given time, either there exists a blockchain, by virtue of which participants can talk freely or everyone knows everyone.
Here it is: https://www.listle.io/#/article/761586166
Claim 1: there will be no paper money at all.

Counter: obsolete things last longer than you think.

Riposte: obsolete things are not used by most people.

Counter-riposte: still used by many people.

Counter-counter-riposte: technically, many != most.

Somewhere, I think the original point was lost. This has been HN comment theater, the greatest arena of technical-yet-irrelevant correctness you can find.
>$25,000 is an enormous amount of debt, especially when there is a multitude of uncertainties with the investment.

If that $25k is public loans, which it should be since that's well under the limit, the uncertainty should be mitigated by income based repayment plans. You'll never have to pay more than 10% of your disposable income (income over 1.5x the federal poverty level).

If anything I think the feeling of doom is caused by people constantly telling kids how bad student debt is without realizing that $25k in public loans and $200k in private loans are vastly different situations. Most younger people I know feel guilty about taking out $25k in loans to make hundreds of thousands more over their life time.
After you've clicked on it, there's a bar at the top with an option to "Set basic HTML as default view"
I think that comment was sarcasm.
HN: come for the obscure unix history, stay for the used-commodity micromarket price analysis!
I feel like this is family’s fault. A family who is professional/UMC should be able to afford a child not immediately succeeding at getting a top job and staying home while going on interviews etc. If you can’t, admit it and adjust your expectations downward to something realistic instead of demanding the kid walk such a thin rope.
Just make a new submission, and delete this post. Or just post a link to the new submission here as a comment.
Interactive shells can also be login shells, and they run bashrc too (don't they?)

Wait... is this the reason why you see profiles that load bashrc?
Date labels on food packaging sow consumer confusion and waste
The diskdoctor was anyway more like a doctor from the stone age that killed more patients than it saved.
Probably, although you are more likely to hear the 3000Hz to 2880Hz change in the generator RPM than the 50 to 48.8 change in the output.
I have this problem any time I go to another country.

Many times they don't even print them in a language I can read!

I'm kidding of course. Because usually, even if I'm only in a place for a week or two, I'll have it figured out and it's not a problem. I mean, there are only really 4 options. 1, 5, 10, and 25 cents.

And I can't remember the last time I used change to buy something.
Yeah. A couple of years ago the NRO discovered they had a couple more sitting in a warehouse they forgot about, and gifted them to NASA. Sadly they still haven’t been launched due to NASA nonsense. But still.. the intelligence agencies had two extra Hubble’s they didn’t know what to do with.
An interesting case of a company shooting itself in the foot via forced arbitration is Chipotle. They convinced a court to exclude employees who agreed to arbitration from a class action, so those employees each filed individually (helped by the class action lawyers), which has turned out to be vastly more expensive for Chipotle.

https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-chipo...
A good example of the decline are these two pictures seven years apart that documents the recordable media section of the Phoenix area Fry's.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/hNzNhmX9TTSnCaqPA
Ever hear of PEX? The labor hours required in new construction is dramatically lower than it was a few years ago.

If you look at plumbing businesses they tend to be getting bigger with lots of entry guys doing monkey work and not so many journeymen.

For more complex work, you get quoted wacky prices because there are few high skill plumbers, and the pain of dealing with homeowner issues is only worth it at a high margin.
‘I don’t know why you’re freaking out,’ 911 dispatcher told drowning woman
I've seen similar photos in telescope, astronomy, and ISS groups on Facebook... These groups are pretty interesting overall, too. FB groups also have a really long tail... Don't be surprised if one pops up, "Your photos of the ISS, medium to high detail" or something like that.
Could it be something to do with the CRUSHING BURDEN OF DEBT?

No, clearly it is smartphones.
Did it seem equally absurd to build the East Coast - West Coast railroads in the 18xx? Only a small group of the Wild-West settler would benefit from it.

And did it seem absurd 100 years ago to expect a nation-wide system of 55mph highways?

I'm pretty sure that it did seem absurd, and yet we're all better off for it in the end. Transportation infrastructure has a huge long tail of benefits.
Edit: You know, I started this comment just wanting to point out the interesting economic relationship of "hours worked to total cost", but apparently got much more rant-y. I'll leave this here as an example of the anxiety I still feel about college, even after 3 years out of it. The important part of the comment is the three of so paragraphs.

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Not even less in terms of money. Not even less money adjusted for inflation. Less in terms of time.

This website[0] lets you look at how much time of minimum wage work it would have taken to pay for a college degree in 1987 vs now, Because of vastly inflating tuition prices and relatively stagnant minimum wage, there's a very significant difference.

For the college that I went to, working part time at a minimum wage job not only would have paid for the entirety of tuition, it would have paid 156% of tuition. What I would have had left over would have been more than what my parents paid for the down payment of the house my family of 5 grew up in.

(warning: projection time)

Now I could barely pay half on a part time job, so I either start my adult life with absolutely crushing debt, hope that my parents set aside what would have been way more that the original tuition to cover what would have been left, kill myself trying to work full time and be a student full time, or stunt my career by a few years doing school part time and coming into the workforce years behind in a fairly ageist sector.

And all this for a piece of paper that was pounded into our head that we needed in order to have any kind of hope of getting into even a reasonably basic field.

If you can't tell, I can empathize with why college might give someone depression and anxiety. That's not to mention the general artificial competitiveness of getting into a "good" school, internships, and everything else to make sure that your resume is good enough to even find a job after college, lest you spend a year or two floating and having to explain an every growing gap in your resume. There was also the special bureaucratic that I ended up falling into (though those were just unfortunate circumstances).

I ended up getting the amazing job I have right now by almost pure luck. I know a lot of my classmates that aren't so lucky and have simply very little extra value (other than the worthy pursuit of knowledge and life experience) for the incredibly expensive piece of paper gathering dust in their closet.

[0]: https://www.marketwatch.com/graphics/college-debt-now-and-th...
Twitter is such a terrible way of displaying long form content like this.
Americans develop a "feel" for this, to the point where one can drop a handful of coins on the ground and know the total value just by the sound it makes.
I worked mostly in their NYC office until 2014 and never got free food, except for really bad pizza once over my 5 year tenure.
It’s lightweight and feels snappy.

Fonts and upvote buttons could be a bit larger on mobile though imho (my hands are of average size).
For PC Chromium based browsers - use the extension "Zoom Text only." Allows you to - well, the name is self explanatory.

For Firefox - no extension needed. Press alt to show the main menu. Go to View -> Zoom - then select Zoom Text only.

Now, zoom will only increase font size, instead of the whole page.
Maybe, but crypto currency in some form could see widespread use at some point. Perhaps it won't be Bitcoin, but the underlying technology. Turing's machines weren't directly used, but the principles he came up with impact us today.
$25k is actually less than the average price of a new car sold in the US. It's not an enormous amount of debt. It's manageable.

Would it be better if students didn't owe money after college? Yes. Is the student loan debt equivalent of a new midrange Toyota Camry a life-crushing burden? No, not really.
I assume you have JavaScript disabled, right? If so, can you give an example of a similar webpage that doesn’t reload the whole page to reflect your vote?
Hubble was built by the same contractors that build the Keyhole satellites. They whole idea from the beginning was to reuse the spy satellite hardware for astronomy.
We need to ACT NOW to stop climate change! We should all be like greta thurnburg who is so inspiring in her multi million dollar yacht. Ban cows! Also, obligatory orange man bad, reeeeeeee.
Not just Top Secret. It would also be classified as TK (Talent Keyhole).

The classification system is compartmentalized to limit exposure of things -- like raw intelligence & intelligence gathering capabilities -- to those who really need to know.
Wow, this takes me back to the era of building my own machine. I had an old clunker of S478 Celeron eMachines and upgraded the motherboard, case and video card. I still remember getting a great Black Friday deal on a Nvidia 5900SE at an otherwise barren CompUSA and finally being able to play almost any game in 2005 that I wanted to with what amounted to a $220 upgrade. Good times.
Yeah, but those fixes and workarounds are only almost enough to sometimes compensate for the code bloat that the frameworks themselves have caused.
I paid 30k and my parents paid 70k for me to get my degree. They don't shut up about it. I don't use my degree 7 years later.
Hot take from a person too scared to comment from their their main internet handle.

People who so badly want to strike a win for their values over human empathy, equality, and compassion have to steer common sense arguments into the arena of pedantic details. They have so routinely gotten their butt kicked in the arenas of empathy, equality, and compassion so often they’re ashamed to say what they feel out loud, even with a made up internet handle.

They should embrace the shame, it might be the only thing left that tethers them to humanity.
In terms of new websites/services, https://sourcehut.org/ is a nice exception to current trends.
But this site has been redesigned. It used to be unusable on mobile and is now just poor.
That was a fun read. Kind of nostalgic and jealous. I dreamed of places like that as a kid in rural Ontario. The closest we had was some receding Radio Shack that carried a small selection of parts and had 0 knowledge or enthusiasm for any of it. Back home even that is gone now.
Average is misleading. 70% of students borrow, and the average debt is suspiciously similar to the federally backed loan caps.

People incur debts in all sorts of ways for school besides a formal student loan as well. Private loans are expensive and often avoided. Home equity loans are common, as are credit cards for both students and parents.
Loved Frys when i lived near one. When we moved, i tried to order parts online. It was pittiful. Their sakes didn't apply to online and not all stock was available to be delivered or sold online. They were completely blind to the online insurgence and get what they deserve. They're the Sears of tech parts.
> when was the last time you were at a movie theater or a bank that wasn't colder than it needed to be, even uncomfortably so?

This is a problem of thermal mass that changes suddenly.

Every human is roughly 100W of heat. You need roughly 10KW of dissipation per hundred people. If you suddenly add a couple hundred people to a temperature controlled room, you need a bunch of extra AC overcapacity, and people are going to start to complain if you don't have enough overcapacity to prevent that temperature from rising within a couple of minutes.

Then you have the flip side--a couple hundred people leave the theatre. Your AC suddenly is overproducing cooling that it doesn't need, and your theatre may have a little bit of insulation to try to cut down on your AC costs. So, you undershoot the temperature and then the insulation keeps it there as you don't have 30-50KW of heat producing humans to bring it back up.
I'd divide it differently: waterfall is process based, Agile is outcome based.

You know you're doing Agile right when you have code in front of a user and they're telling you what they like and don't like and what they wish they could do but can't and are connecting your product to their goals and stories.

Agile gives you some structure and best practices around shipping early and often, communicating ina particular way with stakeholders and your team, and measuring progress.

But ultimately everything - ceremonies, comms, management, PM software - is subordinate to the idea of "a user using your product to do the things the product is designed to do."
Could it be the increasing inequality in the United States? The elimination of most middle class jobs? The increasingly generational inheritance of wealth, power, and connections? College debt? Asking for a friend.
It looks terrific and really remarkable. There must be something like it for an animation software. Could somebody point me to the right direction, outside of web?

However please refrain from usage on the web. Artistic and presentation use is ok, but CRUD, most blogs and other utilities is not ok.