skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You do have to memorize a ton of arcane key strokes just to get around in your editor though. I bet that time invested is a big reason why some coders hang onto terminal editors.

IMO you shouldn't have to do "research" to setup your editor or even simply to use it effectively. With VS Code everything that you need is already integrated and clearly stated - Ctrl+Shift+P to find any command Ctrl+P to open any file in your workspace (no file browser needed). When you want to expand - you have the integrated Extensions marketplace.

And all things are accessible via the keyboard in Code as well as in my preferred desktop environments (XFCE or Windows - macOS, not so much, which is why I don't prefer it). Having the mouse to fall back to is not a bad thing, particularly when you visit someone else's station where they might have configured their editor or desktop differently than you.

If someone gave you a different 500k+ file codebase to maintain, I'd bet that you'd need to browse around a bit before you got familiar enough with things to not need a file browser.
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I am looking forward to fix the warranty system: if some products are expected to have a long life, spare parts are part of the problem, warranty is another one. If a fridge is expected to work for 15 years, mandate by law the minimum warranty to 12 years for home users, not 2 years. The manufacturers will be forced to design the products to last at least 12 years or to be very cheap to maintain, whatever makes more sense. The 2 year warranty in EU is insignificant in these situations where you have products like fridges, washing machines or TV sets that you can use for 20 years.

I had from the same company several appliances. The fridge is about 20 years old and still running. The washing machine broke after 15 years and I had to replace it due to lack of spare parts. The new washing machine is 5 years old, full of rust and I already replaced the main motor, that costed 1/3 of the full price of the machine. The technician that replaced it told me it is routine now to replace the Chinese motors after 3 to 5 years, a very high number of these washing machines break now in the first 5 years, but after the 2 years of warranty. They are a multi-brand service, when I asked what brand he recommends he said he cannot recommend one as they all have problems lately.
The Iliad has nothing on other literature from around the same time and earlier, most of which is Egyptian or Babylonian / Akkadian. The latter, especially, I find damn near un-readable for that reason. What little Ancient Egyptian storytelling we have is similar, lots of repetition probably to make it easier to recite from memory, but (massive exception of Gilgamesh aside—holy crap it's good) they're better storytellers so it's a bit more tolerable.
> Agreed. But since so many middle managers are twits isn't it incumbent on the employee to learn a set of skills to deal with Johns?

It's much easier to simply find a better job without a John, or where you're shielded from John.

(My name breaks this analogy a bit.)
You personally have the luxury of reflecting on food ethics. That doesn't make the whole of humanity "cruel" and "lacking empathy".

Raw, brutal hunger simply does not exist in advanced societies anymore. You have the privilege to be allowed to question your and others' eating habits. For most of our history that wasn't really a possibility.
"out of fear of reprisal"

You say this like the reprisal is unfair immediately after admitting you would do the same.
He probably still thinks of linux as punk as he happily spends his days configuring Sales Force.
How did you went so far while reading the list?
Why is it ridiculous? You'll need the related libraries either case, and by default virtualenv uses symlinks. The "full virtualenv" part makes it sound like it's heavy, or something like that.
> Why not restrict it only where it matters?

It's likely easier for StackOverflow, the corporate entity itself, to only have a single rule-set, rather than have to manage and ensure moderators are adhering to a bunch of different rule-sets.
That inside look was very interesting to read, but i didnt read any "attacks" to any of them, unless competition is considered an offense now.
Eh, so you want older news on this one but you probably want newer ones on others? I don't think this rant makes any sense.
I haven’t worked with Java in over a decade. What is the rationale for not allowing newer language features? Thanks in advance!
What you want to do is to submit one revision per commit, and link them together via dependencies (the experimental branch of arcanist does this automatically). Having individual revisions is one of the main advantages of this workflow.

You then set your .arcrc base to git:HEAD^ and have one local branch per stack, submitting each via arc diff. There a 1:1 mapping between revisions and commits, which makes things a LOT easier, especially rebases. You can then use an interactive rebase to re-visit and amend old revisions, or land them.

I also have an autodiff alias in .arcrc that will automatically create a new revision and open it in the browser, assuming the Test Plan field is already filled out in the commit:

"autodiff": [
"diff",
"--allow-untracked",
"--verbatim",
"--browse"
]

And useful .bashrc aliases for working with a stack:

alias cascade-show="git log @{push}..HEAD --oneline"
alias cascade-amend="git rebase @{push} -x 'arc amend'"
alias cascade-rebase="git rebase -i @{push}"
alias cascade-autorebase="git rebase -i @{push} -x 'arc diff HEAD^ -m Autorebase'"
>It maybe is even the listing of approximately all startup ideas.

I wasn't able to find cloudflare in there
What you're asking for is Brexit by fiat, the opposite of democracy. The reason it hasn't happened yet is precisely because of democracy. People can't agree. Everyone wants it their way, but everyone can't have their way. Someone must volunteer to be the loser.

If you had Brexit by fiat, it would have happened already.
It think that we already have this system, it's called capitalism. Different companies have different internal cultures, some are for lone hackers in individual cabinets or remote locations, some favour giant open floor plans with constant communication. That's what culture fit is mostly about for me: most aren't better or worse, they're just different.
the most basic pagers can only receive callback number. More advanced ones have additional features to display text messages as well.
5% is quite high.
Good point, thank you. It is added to the isssues log. I’d love to hear more about what would make Mesh more accessible for you and others.

https://github.com/chrispsn/mesh/issues/68
Considering how man treats fellow man, I wouldn't get hopes up.
2413. Google maps
Yeah, the relocation policy is bonkers. I think it’s just indefensible for them to do anything other than to take the highest local rate they pay and use that as the rate for all locations. If it incentivizes people to move to low cost areas, great! But I suspect employees who like city living will be perfectly happy continuing to pay higher prices to live there, as long as you’re paying them well.
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> I was writing a Docker image built around Prometheus' jmx_exporter intended to be used as a mixin for our Java apps, and part of what I needed to do was provide a simple script to preprocess separate config files to produce the config used by jmx_exporter

Did you consider, and stop me if this suggestion is completely wild, Java?
Replacing RC.local in Systemd Linux Systems. Via EnableSysadmin by LinuxGeek46
Cool!

- What company?
- What role?
- What's your comp range indexed to?
- VC Backed?
You can enforce squash commits and it can track commits. What it can't do is automatically rebase dependent revisions.
It also doesn't make sense. The shooting of Tamir Rice may have been an accident, or racism, or the pernicious combination that occurs when systemic racism results in more "accidents" against people of color. None of those things are in play in Hong Kong.
> my life at Google was actually one of the least interesting

I am assuming, you don't really care about living an interesting life as you traded an interesting life for one that insn't.

Also, when I say "day laborer" I am not talking about educated people who do that for a while.
I am talking about ppl stuck in that situation with no way out.
N.b., it's the stated policy of OpenStreetMap to not take information from Google... not primarily out of zealotry, but because Google's terms of service conflict with the ODBL license, and they don't want the organisation in legal trouble.

Normally this means no copying from Google Maps or Google's satellite or street-level imagery. (It also means no using Google's geocoding API if you have addresses that you want to add, but don't know where they should be added -- low-budget SEO companies tend to do this a lot.)

Using Google Translate -- and not even to translate, but just as a way to get copy-pastable handwriting recognition -- is a greyer area, but I probably would still recommend avoiding it. But nor do I know of any free alternatives offhand.
It should work on iPad, although it’s designed as a keyboard-preferred experience. What were you trying to do?
Getting Started with Nano. Via EnableSysadmin by Spotzz_
At that point why not just use a snapchat-esque bitmoji.
Yep, reach out to this guy... jason@textfiles.com.
Coworking Spaces Web Template
I was about to say the same. Never understood the "read the source" attitude.
If the developer wants to gain users or maybe even get help in developing it, at least a simple installation and usage example should be there.

15 minutes work for him, would save every user 30 or more minutes.

Not going to try it because of this. A shame.
Did find another interesting cli though: https://pypi.org/project/sonos-cli/
Noodle interfaces are really old in terms of GUIs, and have the advantage of being very visual (important for a TV series) so that's not too surprising
I never used Rust. Looking at the code, I see a "Cargo.toml" file that reminds me of composer.json and package.json in that it seems to contain dependencies.

Where are these pulled from? Is this the same game as with other dependency managers in that you blindly trust a tree of code written by random people?
rx uses wgpu-rs, which primarily supports Vulkan, Metal, and DX12 (though DX11 and GL backends are also partially supported). This is aready relatively portable compared to using GL directly, especially on macOS where it has been deprecated.
Just a reminder that Boris Johnson is not an elected leader.
Commercial applicance manufacturers often due make serviceability a high priority. You can buy a commercial quality washing machine, but people don't want to pay that price.

Vote with your wallet. If you want something that is repairable, buy it.
You are right in the way you are thinking, but you don't have the full information: in a 600 kg plane the fuel is 100kg. The mass reduction does not make such a big impact, especially as you rarely top the tanks (you can carry more luggage or a heavier pilot & passenger) and you never empty it (30 minute reserve is usually raised to 1 hour reserve), so you have a 10% variation of the total mass of the plane on regular flights: no significant impact.

On the other side, large planes carry a lot more fuel as a percentage of the total mass, it really matters to them.
I am an utter noob at Python packaging, but i would like to learn more, so excuse the basic question, but: why doesn't it work? And is there anything in the ecosystem which is like that, but does work?

I had heard that the Python packaging and deployment story had got a lot better in recent years, but this sounds like it still falls far short of table stakes.
Like a genocide on Neanderthals or megafauna that never happened
Sure, the kid was swinging at the officer, and I suppose that warrants the officer acting in self-defense. But another question is, what are the protesters supposed to do? The government has all the power, and can simply snuff out any resistence. If you just stand in the streets, they really don't care, they are going to take your freedom. Imagine if the US suddenly had a dictator that just decided they were going to take all property rights and freedoms like that -- I think taking to the streets, and even resorting to violence might be necessary (otherwise the powers-that-be have no reason to listen to a bunch of people standing in a street hundreds of miles away).
They use SOAP on UDP. I played with it a while back using Sonex https://github.com/harmon25/sonex Have a fork to make some things work under my username.
And you can screenshot an Instagram story...
You might be interested in Halide:

https://halide-lang.org/
You guys keep posting these boring stories no one really cares, LOL
Isolation is merely one utility of containers.
It's good to get away from the Silicon Valley mold. Sure it has produced many great successes, but it's only one method of going about things, with various trade-offs and failure modes. There's no reason for the model of seed-> angel-> venture-> IPO has to be repeated everywhere, a robust ecosystem of technological advancement should have more diversity than that.
Yes. Rent in SF is off the charts. Also they (California in general) have a major homeless (housing) crises. Lots of NIMBYs blocking new building developments because of "their view".
There are a ton of GPUs out there that don't support Vulkan but shouldn't have any trouble running an image editor. By using Vulkan when it doesn't provide much of a benefit for your use-case, you're just artificially limiting your audience.
Can you explain why these opinions are inappropriate? What makes someone with aggressively libertarian views unsuitable to lead the Free Software Foundation?
A remote engineering manager’s guide to one-on-one meetings
@drpancake -- aren't you nervous about Slack doing something just like this? They seem to own all the technology required.
Who cares? Just switch to .jsn and forget about it.
> (Worth pointing out that more than 1/3 of psychological research was found to be un-replicatable.)

You have this reversed: only ~1/3 could be replicated [1]. That's much worse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis#Psychology_...
As a UK citizen, I'd be pretty worried about this kind of thing happening in the US. The US police seem incredibly violent and often unprovoked.
If he tried to use the sentence model of restraint to bury on Google results the stories about his affair with a model, it would never work because the front page of google has 10 results, surely both stories (model of restraint and affair stories) will rank in the top results.

At most, he might be able to divert some of the traffic from one article to the other, but no more.

If that is what people are accusing him, it might be true it's possible that he is being advised to use this political SEO strategy, to try to divert internet attention from one story to the other.

But the results would be unpredictable and marginal at best.
Arguably, Bay Area tech salaries at the big employers are somewhat of an outlier. They tend to be pretty generous even when you take CoL into account. (The same could arguably be said of some areas of financial services in NYC.)

But, even historically in the Bay Area, that's not really the norm. Compensation in high CoL areas is often higher but not really equivalent with respect to housing, etc.
The problem is that this exception is not currently in place, and that it is still uncertain if it will be possible to implement. The fact that the European Commission has previously disregarded this specific concern despite attempts to have it addressed does not inspire confidence.

I don't know what will happen, but this situation is concerning to many people. Also consider that the news plays a role in policy making (for better or worse), i.e. some added pressure from advocates may help to get the needed exceptions in place.
I hope to hear actual pilots chiming in, but from first principles:

It shouldn't be a large factor. Drag is independent of mass, and while lifting the fuel to cruising altitude takes energy, most of the flight should ideally be cruising.

The rocket equation doesn't apply; that's for an entirely different regime.
Nah, gotta burn it on a barge[0]

[0] - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38120496
Stereotypes are mostly accurate[1]. If you don’t think it’s accurate you could just visually compare MIT and Harvard students. The difference in average nerdiness is neither small nor subtle. I hope you will accept the relationship between nerdiness and autism as a given.

[1]https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8d4e/4958856859323ecacca918...

> Stereotype (In)Accuracy in Perceptions of Groups and Individuals

> Are stereotypes accurate or inaccurate? We summarize evidence that stereotype accuracy is one of the largest and most replicable findings in social psychology. We address controversies in this literature, including the long-standing and continuing but unjustified emphasis on stereotype inaccuracy, how to define and assess stereotype accuracy, and whether stereotypic (vs. individuating) information can be used rationally in person perception. We conclude with suggestions for building theory and for future directions of stereotype (in)accuracy research.
I enjoy how some of them run together. 10933 and 10934 as an example:

Clean, shape, and polish fingernails and toenails, using files and nail polish.

Remove bones, and cut meat into standard cuts in preparation for marketing.
https://twitter.com/Piet00065526/status/1179025357959237639/...
How many other species can afford the time to express empathy as much as humans do? Most of them are just struggling to survive, so it's not like we get a lot of opportunities to observe that behavior.
Human SEO. What a clever tactic.
This is essentially adding noise to signal--what Trump does to the media, just a little more tech-savvy.

The steps:
-An issue comes out that makes you look bad
-You take a question and respond in a boring, non-memorable way
-Then you go off on wild, ridiculous tangents that everyone guffaws at until the next news cycle.
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http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/ has simulation information and a physical project built with 74LS...
> 10799. Align wheels.

Okay.

> 11031. Transport the deceased to the funeral home.

I think we've found another use for robots.
I raise you "2603. [...] deliver babies safely"
Lisp Machine Keyboards
> There was also one that I can't be bothered to find

Then please don't post it. Lazy citation of original material is how we got here.
This is the weirdest straw man I've seen in a while. Python, not Go, benefits most from containerization. Installing "Dynamic libraries, OS packages, and even directories like virtualenvs" on target machines is far more complicated than sending a single file. I say all this as the DevOps guy in a Python shop.
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I have not worked at a startup but I love the juxtaposition so many seem to have of very developed culture practices (council) and otherwise very undeveloped HR/facilities practices.
Towards Zero-Resource Cross-Lingual Entity Linking
Ca 2000 will always be just a few years ago to me.

Besides, there are areas in Germany today where you can't get >1Mbit connections.
No, they said the company was keeping a bed in the conference room to "comply" with zoning regulations, essentially pretending the office was also someone's house.
The reason for why thats possible in StarTrek is pretty simple... P = NP.

Heres the evidence: There are no unbreakable cyphers in Startrek, it's merely a matter of time or Datas smarts until whatever species of the weeks encrypted message is broken.

Thus, most optimisation and search problems are easily solvable in their universe including automatic program synthesis.
Well TFA is about MRR, so playing punker than thou is par for the course.
For certain values of "everybody." Lots of people have no desire to live in an expensive coastal city.
Best Practices for Event-Driven Microservice Architecture
> Imagine if the US suddenly had a dictator

This is why we have the second amendment. And the constitution as the thing to which office-holders swear allegiance to rather than to "the party" or "the president".
https://www.kansascity.com/news/business/health-care/article...

"An information technology worker from Johnson County recently told The Star about the issue after he stumbled across hospital pager information while playing with an antenna, which he bought to get TV channels on his laptop computer. With a simple program, the antenna picks up radio signals that can be digitized.

Except instead of picking up local TV stations, he started seeing things like this, with the patient's and doctor's names included:

RQSTD RTM: (patient's name) 19 M Origin Unit: EDOF Admitting: (doctor's name) Level of Care: 1st Avail Medical Diagnosis: TONSILAR BLEED, ANEMIA, THROMBOCYTOPENIA

It was the personal patient data of a 19-year-old man, broadcast across the airwaves for anyone to read. And it was coming from a local hospital, which was sending the message to a doctor on a pager."
"The reduced weight is not so important there, because the forklift body needs to weigh enough"

More than the body needs to weigh enough, you need a proper center of gravity via weight distribution or you're simply going to tilt the thing over and wreck everything when you lift an object (source: have multiple sit/stand/clamp lift certifications.)

"Size matters, in forklifts, which need to maneuver in tight spaces."

That's why we made the reach forklift, which is operated while standing up. Half the footprint of a traditional forklift with the ability to reach out across a shelf to pick up a pallet.

Where this will make even more sense is for driving conveyor belts on assembly lines. You'll save more power there in a manufacturing warehouse environment than you typically will switching your entire forklift fleet over to these new motors.
Ask HN: Which wireless router do you use at home?
I saw a thread from 2017, so asking again to see if there are any new suggestions.
Constant speed propellers are more efficient than fixed pitch; in order to keep the propeller rpm in the optimal point you have to adjust the engine gas control and the propeller pitch, not extremely complicated but not simple enough to be allowed for light sport planes - it is considered too complex for that.

If you play with the propeller pitch, the force on the engine will make it change the rpm; if you change the engine rpm to the optimal of your propeller, you don't always have the best pitch, so you adjust it and this will impact the rpm. With an electrical motor the power delivery is much more robust, so you can adjust the pitch and then set the motor to the desired rpm and that's it.
I'm not sure humans have the most empathy. In fact, there's a good chance that even when other species have empathy to other creatures, we don't necessarily recognize it.
> As a UK citizen, I'd be pretty worried about this kind of thing happening in the US.

A police officer shooting somebody that is physically attacking them with a metal club in a violent riot that involves firebombs being thrown at police officers? I would neither be surprised nor worried if that happened in the US.

Now, if they just opened fire at unarmed, peaceful protestors, I'd be worried (though not surprised that much).
Until it is a big enough F-up that an executive's head must roll.