skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's this rather sad thread from a decade back of cobol developers discussing being stranded after the jobs dried up.

https://www.indeed.com/forum/job/Cobol-Developer/other-non-c...
It was difficult to monetize because rather than resetting advertiser expectations for what it means to engage with tumblr's user base, they destroyed their product instead.
HN changes (and suggests submitters edit) submission titles generally if that edit will provoke a better discussion.

Sometimes that's removing or changing clickbait phrases. Sometimes it's clarifying or sharpening focus. Sometimes it's softening, blurring, or removing provocative language. And in every case I'm aware, they've commented on having made such edits.

It's a judgement call. I've edited numerous of my own submissions, often for length, occasionally in mind of discussion. I've emailed the mods, usually for clickbait (in the original) titles. Sometimes my edits are accepted, sometimes not.

But what's been done here isn't an exceptional practice. And given the already politicised nature of the topic at hand, for HN, I fully stand by dang's edit in this case.

(Would have commented earlier if I'd had a decent keyboard available.)
I for one am rather curious about many recent Mozilla moves. They seem to be away from decentralized and distributed models, towards centralized ones.

You ask why not improve opensearch markup, just like I have asked why not improve RSS. I am quite convinced that the RSS model has a lot of untapped potential for a distributed internet, but it also thwarts central control, surveillance, tracking etc.
80 years old, 90 hours a week, ok.
>The pilot, Mark Forkner, complained that the system, known as MCAS, was causing him trouble. “It’s running rampant in the sim,” he said in a message to a colleague, referring to the simulator. "Granted, I suck at flying, but even this was egregious,” he went on to say, according to a transcript of the exchange reviewed by The New York Times.

People need to go to prison over this.
- One sentence describing what a project does (preferably the first sentence of a README)
This explanation of where the non-breaking space came from feels really likely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21290159
I get the sense that "reckoning" in this case will be a little more "exciting" than reform.
Headline is a lie; it's 90% cheaper only compared to a process that isn't actually used. Flagged.
Desalination research isn't pre-published on arXiv. There are ~300 articles on arXiv where desalination is mentioned, and ~18-20k articles in the world. There is even a journal called "Desalination".

I've found 64 articles total that mention "desalination AND cavitation", starting from 2006.
For those that think Apple can't pull this off, remember that they dominate the developer laptop market. They just need to incrementally slip it in via software and hardware.

For example I recently found myself doing some video encoding via ffmpeg. The default install from brew supports videotoolbox (T2 chip accelerated) out of the box, and boy howdy is it fast. It smokes my multicore intel server optimized with vaapi.

Soon users will do a `pip install pytorch` on their dev laptop and get the metal-optimized version of it without even thinking twice. Apple already has their foot in the door.
Maybe they should stop killing people with criminal negligence
With my skillset (software engineer) I can easily pull low six figures. And I'm confident that doctors provide more value than I do. I'm pretty sure I've never saved anyone's life. So I have zero problem paying doctors 2 or 3 times my pay, which is about what you're saying they get paid.

Health insurance CEOs make, in some cases, literally hundreds of times my salary, while literally killing people for profit.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say you've misidentified the problem.

Now, certainly bringing down the cost of medical education, and allowing people with less education (i.e. nurse practitioners) to do more, would both help lower the cost of healthcare. But if we're talking about who we should consider "the enemy", it's certainly not doctors.

The entire raison d'être of capitalism is that it's supposedly meritocratic. Are you really claiming that curing illness and sometimes saving people's lives isn't meritable?
Imgur does something goofy with the referer that you've clicked a link from. I'm by no means a competent web programmer or understand how linking/referrers/etc. work but at one point I had a little doodad in GreaseMonkey/Tampermonkey that pulled imgur images in and plopped them on your Facebook page.

What I found was that if the page referrer was Facebook, you got nothing, the imgur site attempted to redirect you back through to their galleries, but if you used the link directly you'd get the image.

I never figured out exactly what's happening, I used a code snippet that stripped out the referrer info and everything started working.
Their job is to stay on top of the usual exceptional behavior you will find on the internet: Spam, vandalism, rudeness/harassment, vote manipulation, sockpuppetry, user bans, ban disputes and so on.

Contrary to popular belief, moderators have no special impact on questions getting closed (or downvoted) - that's handled by the "normal" users.
Or zero heart beat
Your website, http://sixarm.com doesn't load. It simply times out.
The legal protections for "common carriers" were established via Case Law in Smith v. California and extended to online platforms in Cubby, Inc. v. CompuServe Inc. this was then limited to not cover online "publishers" who exert editorial control in Stratton Oakmont Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co.

Section 230 was intended to limit this last Case Law decision and extend the protections given to online "common carriers" to online "publishers".
> But it's unclear how they plan to get website owners to migrate.

And it's unclear why they should have to. OpenSearch is a standard that all modern browsers currently support. Why should a site author have to support OpenSearch for every browser and build/maintain a WebExtension just for Firefox?
I don't think the parent comment misunderstand that it's an allegory, but is asking how the allegory applies. Facebook doesn't claim they want to step back from moderation "because that's how the industry works and they have to stay competitive" (as in the allegory). They're claiming that the costs of extending private control over political speech to _society_ are too high. (This obviously isn't entirely altruistic: knowing how deeply stupid most people are and how commonly public opinion is outraged by failure to meet two mutually-exclusive ends simultaneously, I wouldn't want to open that can of worms either)
You nailed one thing there about what you are working towards. If it's about saving lives, the betterment of humankind, absolutely that is a selfless cause. But working as a corporate shill, I agree, what are you really gaining?
Amazing what you can do with just a telephone and a modem.
The ocean is made of saltwater already, it wasn't made of garbage or plastic.

Also salt dissolves in water which is why desalination is needed in the first place. Really think for a moment about what are saying must be true.
TBH, as a Chinese expat, all these utilitarian arguments give me Deja Vu of how the Chinese government defended GFW.
Could you add some more info on which process isn't actually used, or links to resources that discuss it? I'm not familiar with the state of the art of desalination.
Who are you to criticise someone else’s choices and what they enjoy? You do what you enjoy. Let them do what they enjoy.
Last year I was diagnosed with neck/mouth cancer. I did three months of radiation and chemo and it cleared it up. Then two months later I went in for a PET scan and the cancer had spread to my liver. So more ration for that. Then six months later another PET scan and the cancer popped up in a new place on my liver. I'm currently on Pembrolizumab and my oncologist wants to give that a few months and see how the lesion is reacting.

I will find out in a few weeks. I don't have a good feeling about this. I have accepted that my time might be up. I'm probably looking at another round of more aggressive chemo. I am doing my best to just not think about this.

I have always enjoyed woodworking but never really spent the money on getting a proper woodshop together. But when I was on the tail end of the first round of chemo I got a lot of credit cards and bought tools. Because, fuck it.

So through all this I spend a lot of time down in the woodshop to keep myself busy. I feel like garbage but it keeps my mind occupied. Even if I had Hurd money I wouldn't want to be sitting on beach. Free time to think is my enemy. Free time results in serious bouts of depression. Basketball, and woodworking is how I am spending most of my time. Something, something, idle hands.
https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...
I think this paper is relevant
Ask HN: Would you buy a prototype(docker,angular,flutter,ci)in 7 days for $4000?
Thus you end up with 3rd party clients gaining access to data of others who never granted them explicit access (aka Cambridge Analytica) through friend connections.
A bit off-topic ~ I'm new to the community and have been looking for the right place to ask this question:

I recently shared something via Show HN and received a ton of great feedback. Would it violate any rules or etiquette to share the next version of the same project once the feedback has been incorporated?
Its super common. The imgur app has it shared to the public gallery by default and you need to mark it "hidden" manually each time you upload.

If you browse imgur's New gallery you see images posted by mistake all the time.
Large hospitals systems have been forming regional monopolies for the last few decades. First they would buy other hospitals to increase negotiating leverage with insurers, then they started buying outpatient clinics to control patient flow. They can also increase the amount they charge at outpatient clinics once the larger hospital system buys them.

Hospital spend represents 30% of US healthcare spend, and physician spend represents 20%. Physician employment by hospitals is at an all-time high. Busting local healthcare monopolies would do a ton to lower healthcare costs

Unfortunately that is difficult. The hospital lobby spends about as much as the pharma lobby. But the hospital industry has much more "soft" political power. Hospitals are one of the biggest employers in almost every county. So for a politician to fight hospitals would mean fighting their largest employers.

Hopefully more people become aware of this behavior by hospitals. You dont read much about it in the media. I'd imagine this has is because no one is incentivized to call out this behavior by hospitals
>Compared with the methods listed above, our technology allows to reduce the cost of obtaining one cubic meter of fresh water tenfold,” the scientist pointed out.

Who knows what that quote is even referring to... I wouldn't assume that the scientist was able to see the print layout of the article he would be quoted in.
The U.S. spends $3.5 trillion annually on healthcare. Worldwide profits for the 112 publicly traded healthcare industry companies amount to $50 billion per quarter: https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2018/11/12/Chart-Day-Big-Phar.... Even if all those profits are allocated to the U.S., that's about 5.7% of healthcare spending. (And completely consistent with most other industries.)

Hyper-focusing on profits is misguided. Many countries with costs much lower than ours have for-profit hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, etc. Public operation of the health system would surely eliminate the profit, but why do we have reason to believe it will reduce the other $3.3 billion? We can point to European countries that have much lower costs overall, but those countries seem to provide many public services at much lower cost than we do (education, transit, etc.). Canada's government expenditures (excluding defense for both countries), is somehow slightly lower than the U.S., even though Canada offers universal healthcare.

The public rhetoric frustrates me as someone who favors universal healthcare. Demonizing corporations and rich people is red meat for partisans, but it’s not a solution. How do we pay for this system? How do we cut costs? Making healthcare into a public service in the US risks turning into the same thing we have with education, transit, and infrastructure. We spend tons of money, often more than European countries, and get very little in return. And the only solutions folks offer are to dismantle the public system (on the right), or to demand even more funding (on the left).
There's already a factor of 10 cost difference between different heating technologies given energy costs and mineral content in the water.
Wikipedia has an informative article about the case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stinney
Very interesting.. Though very infrequently updated.

Snakebyte used low res graphics to do collision detection! I thought about that sometime in the 80s but didn't learn assembler...

Thanks!

http://appletimewarp.libsyn.com
I guess adding "Congestive" to the title would've ruined the click bait.

Also how can the detection of a progressive disease be 100% accurate? I guess details ruin the click bait too.
It was so well written that he made me want to play his purposefully frustrating game and I'm still disappointed he didn't provide a link to download it.
How to Build Robots at Home
I ran into a similar issue a few years back. There was the same non-space whitespace character spread throughout the codebase. I tracked it down to a single developer, who had no idea why that was happening. My guess was that they were copy/pasting a lot from MS Word documents, but we never found out for sure.
Hurd ran sales at oracle, and many people can attest to the brilliant skill of oracle at sales, even if the underlying product wasn't as good as their competitors.
Rust for C++ Programmers
Tags and close votes are handled by normal users (well, those with a bit of rep). Moderators are for the "people stuff" like spam, vandalism, vote fraud, rudeness/harassment and so on. They do not significantly contribute to question closure or tagging.
Think he knows Mega Man?
A classic: https://scsh.net/docu/html/man.html
"this is a simplified representation" :D
> A very interesting thing happened to me though when I played with this pattern for a while (and this is anecdotal, so take with a grain of salt): it seemed to damage my eyes. I would click around changing the views and the dots would jump in all sorts of directions to the new layouts, and after a while I got headaches and visual aura.

I suppose the animations are there just for show. Just like iPhone's parallax effect which I find odd whenever I notice it.

PS: I assume you ruled out photosensitive epilepsy or something serious.
> we can't bootstrap openJDK on ARM

Irrespective of Bazel, that's an lot of software than can't run on NixOS ARM, including build-related stuff:

* Elasticsearch, Cassandra

* Eclipse, IntelliJ, Netbeans

* Jenkins

* Java toolchain, Android toolchain

> (ironic given it being advertised as a cross platform language

Indeed that is one of Java's hallmark features. Servers, desktops, phones, toasters.

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FWIW it's not unheard of to require compiling on one platform for another. This is how most of the embedded world works.
The argument makes sense, however for some things a mouse is simply faster than anything else, including a keyboard - and more compatible. For example, I browse the web mainly via the keyboard thanks to Vim bindings, however often it's simply faster to just click a link than doing it by hitting 3 keys. Not to mention many websites build their UI using some JS frameworks which somehow prevent the browser from recognizing any UI elements. This is especially frequent in cookie notifications and newsletter popups that usually can't be clicked away without the mouse.

And while I prefer the keyboard for most interactions, most users would probably find the mouse more convenient because the mouse is almost always easy to use without memorising any shortcuts. Every website and program is fully accessible with the mouse, but the same can definitely not be said about the keyboard nowadays.
I'm not sure if the link originally pointed to NYT, but the currently linked reuters report adds a bit more context to the messages.

>Forkner said in one text message, “I basically lied to the regulators (unknowingly).” The other employee responded that “it wasn’t a lie, no one told us that was the case” of an issue with MCAS.

>Forkner responded soon after: “Granted I suck at flying, but even this was egregious.”
Jellyswitch Transforms Coworking Spaces
Here's the ultimate desalination technology that scientists will end up implementing:

1. Use nano-technology "bots" to attach magnetic particles to the salt in the water.

2. Activate strong magnets to extract the salt.

Among the two byproducts will be the water that will have healing properties.

The day this will hit the news, remember:

You read it here first.
Code comments have a habbit of getting lost during future tidy ups or refactors.

If the code is that unclear it needs a comment, refactor it into a named method, where the method name describes exactly what it's doing.
There's some positions that I'm not sure that I want the candid honesty, or if I'd rather have the bliss of ignorance.

No one wants to hear their surgeon on the record saying "I'm just an OK surgeon"
Code made of 5-line functions is more flexible; it can be more easily made to do things its original author did not anticipate. Code made of 50-line functions is more verifiable; its author can more easily anticipate which things it can do.

Flexibility increases when there are more things the code can do. Verifiability increases when there are more things the code can't do.

Of course most code could be simultaneously improved in flexibility and in verifiability, but ultimately there's a tradeoff.
Scientists have found evidence of ancient life in the Siljansringen
All: we've compressed the title in order to make space for the fruit flies. Now it is no longer baity.

This result is interesting in its own right, so hopefully the thread can proceed to talking about other bits than baity titles and insects not being mammals.
What do they currently do with it?
It sounds like the other comments are mostly talking about a mainstream source to learn about pre-mainstream products. Aren’t those at odds with each other? If these new products could be found easily then everyone would be using them and it would be too late to take advantage of first mover principles.

I’m not trying to be snarky but if this was easy then what would VCs need to do?
Try telling that to my boss, who has an autistic child. I held your opinion until I stuffed my foot in my mouth in a meeting. Now I don't use that word.
It’s amazing how little coverage this gets. Sure this behavior is exhibited all over the world and could be worse in some places (North Korea). But there are so many cries for help from there. Millions. This scale could be approaching Holocaust numbers and we seemingly can’t do anything because of politics? Nuclear weapons?
Latest macOS Catalina beta hints at new 16-inch MacBook Pro
Healthcare stocks comprise a not insignificant part of many Americans' 401k portfolios, the downstream economic effects of dismantling healthcare would extend way beyond the hospital/pharma industry.
Why would they use nano-bots instead of just ligands ?
Dump it in the ocean? It's not like we're extracting water in sufficient quantities to affect the salinity of the Mediterranean.
> Facebook also allowed developers to collect some information on the friend networks of people who used Facebook Login.

So no, Cambridge Analytics did not have API access to everything that that that the users who used Facebook login had access to. This was a specific set of permissions granted to apps with which users used their Facebook identities as login identities.
In 2017 (from https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Sta...):

 Hospital Care (33 percent share)

 Physician and Clinical Services (20 percent share)

 Retail Prescription Drugs (10 percent share)

 Other Health, Residential, and Personal Care Services (5 percent share)

 Nursing Care Facilities and Continuing Care Retirement Communities (5 percent share)

 Dental Services (4 percent share)

 Home Health Care (3 percent share)

 Other Professional Services (3 percent share)

 Other Non-durable Medical Products (2 percent share)

 Durable Medical Equipment (2 percent share)
You say that, but I'm sure many platforms have tried doing that for a long time. 4chan, for example, struggled with this from the start and as far as I know, they haven't come up with a solution that isn't porn ads.
Probably worth noting that he also wrote the very well done "Programming Sucks" article, https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks and the original HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7667825. If you hadn't read that post, definitely worth it.
If you follow the pull request, you'll see a commit has been done to add it to the easyprivacy list for tracking servers though.

It is still there:

https://github.com/easylist/easylist/blob/master/easyprivacy...
The commit message itself is way more eternal than GitHub ephemera. There's plenty of old codebases in git that were imported from SVN (or even older RCSes) with all commits intact. What's likely not intact is data in ancient issue trackers from decades past. git is a DVCS, so anyone can clone the repo and get all the commit information. Cloning the issues and such is not nearly so trivial, and isn't a part of the git protocol itself so there's no guarantee it's in any kind of interchangeable format.

Important information should not just be in PR comments. It should be added into the commit information itself so that it'll be maximally available going forward. A good, fully explanatory commit message is a huge asset, and those commit messages will exist for the entire lifetime of the codebase. Anything else, not so much.
“mpv”, “sheer frustration”... I didn’t have to click the link to know it was authored by wm4.
I'd take it with a grain of (self-deprecating) salt. No one who truly "sucks at flying" makes it to the level of Airline Transport Pilot.
Agreed, but to clarify-- django's runserver is a simple restart process upon file change. Webservers don't have heavy startup costs, so that's fine.

Being able to modify code during a run, where it has a heavy startup cost, is a different beast. I also wonder if Django's runserver could incorporate something like `reloading`, for even speedier reloads?
> ...I guess Imgur has now just about announced their inevitable death.

That's extremely dramatic to say. Did you even read the full post? They aren't doing anything unreasonable, compared to say Tumblr, and what they did. All they are doing is putting NSFW content behind a login. Nothing is getting deleted, or not allowed anymore.
Depends how you handle your PRs. If you squash and rebase within Github or similar, no problem.

But ideally interactive rebase before you push your PR and tidy up all those commits into larger topical ones.

Eg.

"DEV-1 - Write tests for widget X calculator"
"DEV-1 - Implement widget X calculator"
"DEV-1 - Refactor widget X factory service"
There is plenty of data on this available. It isn't perfect but it's there. The problem isn't lack of data, its lack of awareness of the data. Most people learn about the healthcare system by reading newspapers and other media, and from what I've seen coverage of healthcare in most US media is very political and seldom data-driven

Check out here to start, there are plenty of other resources: https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm
Reading the article and the parent comment I'm pretty sure that's the intent. By 'balkanizing' the users, the power is reduced and the network as a cohesive unit of control is dismantled.
It's a small miracle Boeing's CEO hasn't stepped down yet.