skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, me at least (design work is not my main profession but needed for creating e.g. mobile apps).

It was my biggest surprise when I first bought a macbook: After a few weeks I noticed I didn't miss a mouse enough to bother bringing one with me.

I do 95% of my work when I'm commuting by train. Only for the last 5% super involved work I have to resort to plugging in a mouse when I'm in the office.

With all other laptops I have ever dealt with (admittedly not the replacements proposed in this thread), the ratio would be more like 50:50 or worse.

I also had a pretty high quality trackpoint from a business line Dell. Still missed the mouse.
I don't know. But if something is bothering you, find help.

I'm not saying complacency/laziness/apathy is not a serious problem in general, but most people are truly not that bothered by their privacy loss. And many do accept the risk of a potential dystopia in exchange for bells and whistles powered via crowdsourced private data.
CSS Injection Primitives
Exactly what I was thinking - most of my earliest coding experiences involved editing 9-pt Monaco in BBEdit!! heheh :)
Zuckerberg just gave a talk on the importance of free speech, referenced in the first paragraph -

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/10/mark-zuckerberg-stands-...
Why? Really though, why would anyone do this?
Sure! More than 400mg is not recommended and may lead to overdose symptoms. (Less for teenagers and pregnant women.) With strong coffee, 8 cups can easily total more than 1000mg of caffeine. Mild over consumption of caffeine causes known problems like dizziness, anxiety, and headaches. More severe overdose is things like irregular heartbeat and vomiting.

https://www.healthline.com/health/caffeine-overdose

The other problem with large coffee intake is that the acidity of coffee long term can be bad for your stomach and lead to or contribute to heartburn and ulcers.

https://www.manhattangastroenterology.com/coffee-digestion/

Those two links are just from super quick first Google result searches, but these downsides of caffeine & coffee are pretty well known.

Possibly unrelated tangent, but I read once that 70 cups of coffee is expected to be in the vicinity of a fatal overdose. First Google result, this article even suggests maybe ~25 cups: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/exmwka/how-much-caffeine-...
I don't know Skype but it can be easy to understate the scope of some programs.

Like a web browser: why do we need that crap to be that large and complicated again?

And that's a valid question (be it about voip software or web browser or pretty much anything), but even then it is still naive to pretend complexity (whatever its origin and justification) does not exist and everything could and should be completely rewritten in 3 weekends by 2 interns.

So: why don't you just go work at MS and see by yourself? Seems like they have some kind of ideal conditions in your opinion.
Letters of Note: Arkell vs. Pressdram
people are of course not entitled to it, but, if it didnt have anything to do with free speech, would people want to censor it?
When they're so big that no competition can challenge them.

My personal opinion is that Facebook should be broken up, but social media remain unregulated, since a ban on lies only rewards the most skilled liars, whose statements can fool the evaluators.
I appreciate the snark, but I'll just say anyway that I'm actually asking what are the factors that determine when a company is "too big"?
There is no "right way to hire". All "ways" are flawed and miss things. If hiring could've been solved by now, it would have already happened.
See I get that argument when it comes to stuff like drug legalization: I don't want it, but that doesn't mean I have to prevent others from having it. Where it breaks down is when I have to pay for it. I won't pay for your drugs; I won't pay for your medical care. As far as I'm concerned, that's the only argument there needs to be against socialized medicine: I don't want to pay for it, I'm not going to pay for it, and you have no right to vote yourself a piece of my wallet.
Microsoft Teams is definitely a direct competitor, and while it may not be nearly as good as slack, there are few companies out there with as many tentacles in Enterprise as Microsoft.

It would not be uncommon for an inferior product to win a significant market share. Especially when it comes to Enterprise software.
That's fine for smaller chunks of work, and you're right that resolving uncertainty is not cheap.

But if you're doing resource planning for a large organization and you need to decide between high-value, long-timeline projects, that decision is irresponsible without some homework up front to validate the timelines.

Large projects involve high- and low-uncertainty work and it's useful to do some of the former before spending resources on the latter.

Your estimate still won't be right, probably, but the chance of uncovering an important problem is worth it.
Thanks! I don't see your email in your profile. You can hit me up on Twitter https://twitter.com/stdoutrap or email (stdoutrap at gmail [dot] com).
I didn't note that this was published in 2013 as the letter referred to is from the 1970s and at any rate I can't find that the dates have any bearing on the timeliness.
"I know I'll be out in 9 years."

Guessing you FIRE hard? The rule is that people in this field upgrade their lifestyle, the exception is FIRE.
the self-preservation instict of states would dictate that they will limit them when they threaten the power of the government.
Actually, not that much. Recent genetical studies have shown that almost nobody got left behind after the fall of Granada. We that were born in the South were said to be half Moors. But historical records, and now genetics, said that muslim inhabitants of Al Andalus fled in mass in 1492 to North Africa. South Andalusia was mostly repopulated with people from nothern kingdoms.

Of course there's much cultural osmosis and there was muslim population left behind, just not in Andalusia.
It's not a non-sequitur, it matters a lot in the end it implies on average considerably longer distances through less density.It matters in the calculation.
ah thanks!

Hah, archive.is is something else. I went to http://88.208.54.247/YWTLl and got the default nginx page so needs host headers...

Then I do
curl --header "Host: archive.is" http://88.208.54.247/YWTLl

and it hangs... eh?? well guess what archive.is blocked my IP after that first connection to the default nginx website...! can't even telnet 88.208.54.247 80 after that lol...

what a piece of work archive.is is....
Don't people know how to use Facebook? There's no outrage on my newsfeed because I've eliminated/unfollowed/hidden it. My cool friends and family are left, I'm reading some pretty interesting groups I like, and I try not to argue/provoke anyone when I make comments. This doesn't inhibit my speech, it only makes me pay attention to tone. I wish the people who hate Facebook would get off it and then talk about something else that interests them.
Here's the twitter thread in the screenshot: https://twitter.com/OphirHarpaz/status/1184486445039411201
The navigators in Dune don't fold space, they predict hazards and avoid them through prescience from the Spice. But I get your point.
Isn’t this just a natural consequence of Facebook being huge and having a huge amount of influence in the world? So naturally people are going to blame Facebook for things they don’t like that Facebook has a lot of influence on, and that will probably include people from different political backgrounds. You seem to mock that or find it ridiculous, but it seems perfectly reasonable to me. Both of those examples you give could very easily be true.

As for it being impossible for Facebook to win, well yeah, maybe you’re right. Maybe we shouldn’t have any individual media companies with so much power.
> I've just lost faith in the organization to be honest

:( sorry to hear that.

Note that we have a publicly-available Charter which spells out how we operate: http://openai.com/charter. We all use that to guide our actions, and we have not changed a single word in it since publication. I hope that as time goes on, you'll increasingly see the consistency between our actions and the words in the Charter, we'll be able to win back your support.
I’m more interested in why Facebook is marketing their platform to be about free speech.

Is it a defensive move against potential regulation?

- e.g. “if you regulate us, you’re taking away peoples right to free Speech”
The calendar method fails for the same reason condoms 'fail' and coitus interruptus 'fails'....

People don't actually use the method properly.

I agree with you... if you expect a couple of dumbasses to refrain 100% from allowing semen into the vagina for a week or so during the cycle, you'll end up with a baby.

But, for the typical Hacker News user in a monogamous relationship -- that is, a person with an above-average IQ -- the rhythm method is perfectly adequate.

It may sound conceited and pretentious, but keep in mind that birth control was invented for idiots who are too simple-minded to pay attention to the absurdly regular cycles that govern ovulation. When you read statistics about the 'failure' rates for certain forms a birth control, keep in mind the sample-size includes folks who literally need directions on how to wear a condom...

In short, when we discuss birth-control, let us -- the non-dumbasses -- be aware that what we are really talking about are methods to keep stupid people from having so many babies. I don't know you from adam, but by virtue of you hanging out here, I would expect you and your mate will have precisely the number of kids your were planning to have, without the use of pills, condoms, or vasectomies. Maybe there will be a 'woops' baby once during a long marriage. But, who cares? It's not the end of the world to knock up one's wife by accident. At least not worth the downsides of the Pill in most cases.

Once again, if the intent is to have casual sex with many people throughout one's life, then by all means you'll need birth control... even if you're smart. And, apparently, society has decided it is preferable to convince women to take mind-altering pills so that there will be a steady supply of chicks we can bang without fear of consequences, to doing what most human males have done throughout history; namely, aspire to monogamy.
Interestingly it's running _besides_ Windows, not under it.
>Almost all of these concepts could easily be learned in a few weeks by a talented engineer with strong fundamentals in software design and computer science.

Individually yes, but all of these things would take more than a few weeks - possibly months. With onboarding on an average software project also taking months, you could be looking at paying for a lot of unproductive time if you don't hire somebody with some prior knowledge.

The idea of language fungibility is a joke. Sure, it takes you a day to learn the basics of syntax in another language. Learning the whole ecosystem takes considerably longer.
I've got an Asus C302 Flip Chromebook, and the touchpad on it is as good as the Mac touchpad. It's just a shame that this machine is so underpowered, because it would be absolutely perfect with an i5, m.2 SSD, and 20g of RAM.

What I do now is set up virtual desktops on my server and connect to it via Chrome Remote Desktop from the C302. I have a Thinkpad for when I need to travel, but it really sucks having to switch back to a mouse (the touchpad on that thing is horrible).
You believe Facebook to be the victim, or otherwise unfairly maligned, despite it being one of the world’s most powerful and influential companies in existence?
Is there a side-by-side comparison between this and Fira Code? They look very similar (apart from the italics).
I have two reactions:

1) lol

2) This should be illegal.
Indeed, I wasn't suggesting it was a good investment, just that the appearance of the chart is fairly consistent in moving toward a value of zero.
The problem is that this only works for people diligent enough to change their defaults or extensively filter their preferences.

And telling a platform that you’re not interested in a certain kind of ad or piece of content doesn’t guarantee you’ll never see it again. Your feedback is a suggestion, not a command.

Other problems include when you literally stop being able to contact certain entities or get up-to-date information from them without using/signing in to a social platform.
Where does say Binary Blob end and Compiled to Silicon begin?

For example most CPU's are written in something like verilog or vhdl and include internal ram on the chip and include a prom with a little bit of code that handles start up tasks.

From what I can see Librem 5 is a general purpose computer with 2 sealed black box modem modules.

Yes, there can be any level of proprietary evil inside those seal boxes... and inside your disk drive controller of your PC.

The question then really is can that proprietary evil control the functions of your computer.

With the disk drive controller, probably pretty hard, with intel ME, probably pretty easy, with the Librem modems? My guess is probably pretty hard.
A phonetic writing system based on cellular automata (2011)
Well, you don't need to put your whole body in for the method to work.
Happy 15th Birthday, Ubuntu
From what I can gather, he's a proponent of some other approach to AI (symbolic, maybe?) with a long-running grudge against deep learning.
Even in the northeast corridor, it is usually slower and more expensive to Amtrak than it is to drive, let alone fly.
> there aren’t any explicit requirements but there are requirements, we just don’t know what they are and also they change every sprint so good luck

Yikes, too true!

What about confidence intervals? I’ve found that’s a solution that makes the most people the least unhappy.
Microsoft Asks for Actual Spying Evidence to Justify Blackballing of Huawei
Tried it. Not a fan.
> If i implement my own editor using sdl2, how will it know? Are you sure it's not just cocoa specific? If that's the case it's possible for gtk too.

Of course it’s system textbox specific; if you reimplement your own, there is no magic involved.

And obviously it’s possible in GTK. And KDE, and one-offs like Firefox, for that matter. I’d suggest that the fact that you have to do it in about 20 different ways to cover your common apps, and a few will not even offer this kind of configuration, is net-worse than the OS which makes this so easy because there’s a standard GUI toolkit that nearly everything uses.

This doesn’t mean “Linux Bad, OS X Good”, but it is indicative of the fact that “Linux is configurable and OS X isn’t” is a very poor descriptor of reality.

Configurability is a complex topic with a lot of different facets, and both OSes offer different ranges of ease of configurability in different areas.

ColanR made the extraordinary claim that, ostensibly because he uses i3, “it would be (relatively) super easy to change the keybindings around to <command for gui interactions as a rule of thumb, readline bindings everywhere there's text entry>”. This is a very typical Linux user’s response in which they very narrowly equate mac keybindings with “window manager configuration”, when the flexibility offered by the system is in reality much broader than that.
well the concern about the monks was misplaced but the printing press actually kickstarted an entire century of schisms and religious wars and unless you're willing to just write that degree of disruption off as a minor detail the critics might have had a point.

Obviously throwing the press away would have been both impossible and inadvisable, but clearly there's a lesson here about the potential dangers of uncontrolled mass amplification of voice in a society that wasn't ready for it.
Yes, I think it is false advertising, so should be illegal.
Someone a few days ago linked to this snippet of an interview with Naval Ravikant on Joe Rogan's podcast. Their lack of differentiating themselves from publishers has put them on a slippery slope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=3661&v=3qHkcs3kG44
I’ve also had the misfortune of working with an early startup that as soon as it got a series A hired a team of career managers on board.

The product plummeted soon after, product market fit got lost as the direction became more and more political and by the end, the ones that came out on top and ready to move to their next venture were the managers that managed to tick their measurements and KPIs even though they were totally disconnected from the operational space.

But, they do wield weapons that us engineers often don’t have the time not desire to sharpen...
> We find average faces to be the most attractive because they are easier for our brains to process.

This point might be shoehorning attractiveness into the usability of interfaces. I don’t know that “average” facial features are attractive because they “don’t make us think” in the same vein. Everything I’ve heard points to average facial features being attractive because they are indicative of diversified genetics. (which could provide an advantage against birth defects, vulnerability to viruses, and genetic disease)
Now if we could do that for actual togetherness, that’s be the real trick, especially given that’s the promise of social media in the first place.
>> Where in Marx do you find exhortations to torture and imprison millions of innocent people,

You can't radically change people's way of life without doing all of these things. So it's implicit. Western liberals especially find this very hard to acknowledge. Lenin had no such misunderstanding: dude was perfectly fine with mass murdering peasants and starving children to death. The ends, in his mind, justified the means.

Marx's writings were also descriptive, not prescriptive. He imagined how things could be if everything went perfectly, rather than gave you a concrete set of steps to get there. The problem is with the latter, not the former. It's a "sperical cow in a vacuum" kind of thinking, very black and white, not in the least suitable for the real world, and at odds with human nature.
I haven't done real calculations, but on the whole this is pretty low impact and doesn't require much extra effort or any special trips.

We rinse the bottles/cans whenever we are doing other dishes. We throw them into a bin that holds all deposit eligible containers. When the bin fills we take it with us on our next trip to the grocery store and recycle them.

It probably takes me about 5 minutes to feed them all in and it recovers about 3 dollars.

These days I get it in change and then give it to my daughter for her piggy bank. She's very young, but we're trying to introduce the concepts of saving early.
Show HN: Serving my blog completely from RAM
Curl Another Host (2018)
It's still a bit much IMO. It reminds me of Sublime Text being priced at $70 or Input Mono being $40-100+ depending on the options you choose.

I assume they are willing to accept the risk of piracy and/or lost sales to free alternatives like Fira Code, and plan to make their money on institutional licenses instead.
> Are these environmental lawsuits really about protecting the environment (fighting climate change)

“Protecting the environment” isn’t “fighting climate change.” Regardless of one’s position on the effects of CO2, that’s like suggesting that ensuring health should be entirely about how to prevent influenza. Protecting the environment includes protecting habit, stopping (actual, toxic) pollution. Climate change isn’t the end-all be-all of environmentalism. Climate change is being used at an almost religious level to justify pretty much anything climate activists deem necessary — regardless of any unintended (or subversively intended) consequences.

Environmentalism doesn’t have to also mean “obsession with climate.” Some of us care deeply about the environment but also don’t have the audacity to think that the climate is changing because of humans. The climate has been changing for 4+ billion years.

Of course, downvote away. Heresy is expected to be punished here. It is important that the point was made: caring about the environment can be independent of the climate change gospel.
Nothing sexy about monitoring. You or I could build our own overnight. Twilio is the true leverage and why they command a much higher P/E multiple
I am guessing that if there was universal basic income, people would not be very interested in digging soda cans out of people's garbage for 5 cents a pop.

Meanwhile, there's not, so while the street looks like a war zone on recycling day (because people rip open bags to get cans while the bottles and everything else blows away), it's a symptom of a much deeper problem that nobody really wants to address. The income from collecting cans is all some people have to live on.

My understanding is that the city's latest plan is to arrest people for stealing their valuable cans; curbside recycling is a revenue generator! You know you don't have enough crime when this is what we're paying our detectives to investigate.
What people are saying is that you should use an analogy that does not involve touching women in ways they do not want to be. Regardless of whether it "makes sense" to you, outwardly it feels degrading—especially that specific sentence that multiple people have pointed out to you.
In my experience folks can be reasonably productive essentially immediately in a language they've never touched if they're diving into an existing code base. Give them a machine that's already set up like the other developers, point them at a couple easy bugs or features, do some code reviews, and yes they'll be slightly slower through this process than someone that's already familiar with the stack, but not much.
No estimation without experience.

This works. New team? Needs time to get average velocity (burn down rate), about a month.

Greenfield project? Need time to figure out how complex the domain is, again at least month, maybe two.

Sure, you can still have deadlines, but keeping them without real data to base estimates on will require feature cuts (or more resources, but by the time it becomes clear it's too late).
Something is missing from this story. How do you go from “on call is stressful and disruptive to people’s lives” straight to “we’re creating a voluntary on-call rotation, and people are jumping at the chance?”
Side observation, non-related but was brought up in the article:

"Taiwan is a far poorer place than California — with median household income just one-fourth of ours — but still it managed to afford high-speed rail."

The author seems to be ignorant of some context when describing Taiwan in this way -- I learned recently that wages in Taiwan were artificially and structurally depressed in order to enable a competitive export economy. Taiwan is actually not a palpably poorer place except maybe in an absolute dollar sense. Taipei has top notch infrastructure, superior to every large U.S. city in my view (I've visited and seen for myself) The highways are beautiful. They don't skimp on infra spend.

Notwithstanding the fact that median household income is rarely good indication of how "poor" a place is, especially when comparing across countries because of local cost of living assumptions.

If we compare poverty rates, Taiwan's is 1.78% whereas California's is 18.2%.

Taiwan's GDP per capita (PPP) -- not household income -- was $53k in 2018. California's was $66k in 2016. Not that different.

Looks like the author was trying to use a bit of rhetorical sleight of hand there to make his point.
I’d prefer if their profit model was made more clear.

They’re clearly acting in an abetting manner for the unethical and sometimes criminal activity that happens on their site.

If this means they are forced to change drastically as a result of this then so be it.

At this point it’s them or our democracy.
Don't take "points" so seriously? It's not like you can trade them in for cash or prizes.