skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Selection bias. People who go to tech conferences make up a tiny share of all the people working in the industry.

Yes, but they're also more influential in the respective communities, and more probable as presenters to be writing stuff others use (e.g. this Firefox dev tool).

So they'll use what they personally use to develop.

>Also FWIW as a long time JS dev, it seemed to me like Rails actually was one of the major contributors to the macbook monoculture because Rails (in the early days) was popular with startups who also often focused on iOS apps first, which means they had no other choice than to use macOS for development.

I don't think that's the case - Rails confs/devs was mostly Macs before iOS apps where a thing (which happened 4-5 years after RoR was released).
It seems like GitLab should indeed focus on stability now. The feature set is great. But it is all not worth it if it keeps disrupting work on a constant basis by being unstable.
I can see some form of replay in firefox dev edition on windows
If you want to do something on climate change as a techie, I would suggest helping out projects here: https://github.com/topics/climate-change

I would also suggest joining communities like https://climateaction.tech/
This time it might be Consul
To be fair, just be thankful you don't use something like Jazz RTC - we had down time at least once every two weeks (from an hour to a whole day at a time). It got so bad we ended up setting up a local network Raspberry Pi as a Git server and emailing patches to remote teams.
Google would be a nice challenge as they avoided paid advertising.
Hmm how did you come to this conclusion?
If you are using a different app to browse stuff you don't want in your history, say in the reddit app, this feature means clicking a link in that app will not immediately make it show up in your history.
oof, literally all of it. dont see that too often. on thanksgiving day no less.

i root for gitlab when i can, but theres a reason i mirror my repos to github.
I love gitlab, I really do, but their uptime is atrocious for a multi-billion dollar company.
I'm assuming you're a native German speaker too? Must be a regional accent thing, then.

The closest I can get to ambiguity by slurring "neunhundertsechzig" is "neun oder sechzig" or "neun, neununsechzig", never "neunundsechzig", and I have to make an effort to speak faster than I normally would even if I was reading out numbers in a hurry. I've also never run into this ("hundert" and "und" being mixed up) in my daily life, so I'm surprised to hear that this is something you hear often.
You need to fork this: https://github.com/mdiplo/Medias_francais

Google Translate:

>French media: who owns what?

>Property relations between the French media and their main shareholders

>The data is organized in two tables:

>1. 'medias_francais.tsv' contains all shareholders (natural or legal persons) and media represented on the map

>2. 'relations_medias_francais.tsv' details the capital links between these shareholders and the groups or media they own

>Last updated November, 2019

>Technical indication: for those who wish to participate in updating the database by making a pull request, make sure that the file is encoded in UTF-8 with unix line breaks so that we can merge it all without conflict.

Edit: I wish this was all added to Wikidata so we can chart this for every country but also map the transnational stake-holding.
I hope this incident is not #HugOps again,
waiting for new interesting things from postmortem
> just keep a copy of Program Files and most applications will still work fine

In some mythical parallel dimension where the Windows system directory, user profile directories and the registry don't exist, sure.
Human civilizations have always blossomed in warmer climate. All this scaremongering about global warming ending human civilization and destroying nature is just laughable.
I like the end of the article where Uber suggests it's going to implement advanced face recognition where you have to blink or turn your head.

Then a driver suggests just checking for excessive hours clocked against the vehicle instead :)
Six registered producers on EOS are managed by a single entity
It is worth mentioning their status page is not down.
You could phrase the question this way if @trianglem was suggesting to make some language more gendered. It totally makes sense to ask, why gender is special, in such situation. But what they did is different, they asked why do people want to make a language less gendered. Which is a completely valid question to people who advocate this.

Some languages already do make distinction between genders, and this is a feature that makes gender special enough, unlike height or eye color. Making changes to a language requires effort and causes inconvenience, so it's up to advocates of making a language gender-neutral to provide a motivation which would be worth the effort. If there was a language which had different pronouns for people of different height or eye color and we wanted to change that, we would have to motivate this too.

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I personally think that it's convenient to have both neutral 3rd person pronouns, which can be applied to anyone, and pronouns that make distinction based on something (not necessarily gender) as well. Neutral pronouns are useful in cases, when you don't know enough to choose the right non-neutral pronoun. Non-neutral ones are good because they give you a convenient way to make distinction between things you talk about, as @theli0nheart already noted here.

For example, in English you can introduce two people of different gender and then refer to them as "he" and "she" without having to repeat their (possibly long) names. In Turkish, where they have only one singular 3rd person pronoun "o", this won't work and you'll have to either name the people every time or use some other shortcuts. In Russian, for example, you can go even further than English — in this language even nouns, which do not denote people, have gender, so you can conveniently refer even to objects in your speech.
Notably they don’t hire any real people with ops experience. Erring instead to go for developers hoping that they can do everything needed.

I like gitlab as a product but they don’t have a service mindset, and I think not hiring operations-centric people is a symptom of that which causes these kinds of issues.
That would actually be practical for naming years in the current century, e.g. twenty hundred nineteen for the current year sounds much better to my (Dutch) ears than two thousand nineteen. We do say twenty nineteen, of course, but the intermediate "full name" step of twenty hundred nineteen is never used, making it a bit weird.
I guess this and also the lack of needing to make a detailed study about the sun position wherever the plant is established.
With product development it's not about having "enough people" to do everything, it's about having the right priorities and choosing what to focus on.

We could discuss if this feature should have been prioritised or not, but claiming that Twitter is this little understaffed company that cannot be expected to implement something like that is a bit disingenuous.
Usually it's Legal/HR issues with the way to pay your employees.

As another one said, their policy in not hiring people "in" rather than "from", as tax rules change from country to country.
No Gitlab, That’s Not How Remote Works
> Is MacOS this popular in the Web frontend crowd?

Yes, and seemingly in the web backend crowd too (Ruby, PHP, Python but not as much AFAICT).

If you go to a web conference and don't pull out a Mac, you do get comments and/or questions (depending if you're running Windows or Linux).

At Python conferences I've seen fewer Macs and more of the good old ThinkPads running Linux. My feeling is that community has a more "Computer sciencey" taste in laptops, because they're not all web programmers.
It's not a tool, it's an online service.
The video footage may be inspiring and I agree that it's a huge shame that it was erased but it really is of very little scientific value compared to the other research and data gathered on these missions.
You could, but in classic dark pattern style the colours are set up to draw you away from the "No Thanks" by matching the header background.

Is there a page for this? I'm not sure whether to vote more or less creepy for what it's doing.
Another similar project in the mojave desert incinerates 6000 birds a year [1]. I wonder, how they handle that..

[1] https://www.sciencealert.com/this-solar-plant-accidentally-i...
Probably an aesthetic choice.

Have you ever used ortholinear layouts? (I have not). I've heard they aren't as weird as you first expect, and you can get used to it fairly quickly.
Is this really that surprising? Billionaires owning vanity projects isn’t news when they’re football teams, why is it when they’re corporate news organizations?

Also, if there was ever a time to be concerned about the owners of media organizations controlling the narrative this is not it. The media, and the ruling class more generally, being pissed off that the peasants are daring to speak back and have their own non approved opinions is behind the never ending stream of invective directed at the big tech companies[1].

Martin Gurri’s book on this loss of control, The Revolt of the Public, is amazing by the way[2].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/19/the-co...

[2]
https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/martin-gurri-revolt-...

https://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2019/02/book-review-revo...
This is a test that concerns maturity, not 'better or worse'. It's perfectly adequate to say this these days as well. Please stop with this stuff.
Thanksgiving Day Astrology – Alwayswomen.com
Europe hasn't avoided the dietary changes occurring in the US, it's just that the effect is less pronounced. European portion sizes are growing as well, but not to the very generous sizes I experienced in the US. There is less added sugar in European food - bread does not generally taste sweet in Europe, but it does in the US (to me anyway). Europe also does not use much (any?) high fructose sugar.

That being said, Europe is not immune to expanding waistlines. The UK is not far behind the US in obesity and overweight population. It is a similar story across the rest of Europe.

I think the key differences is that Europe has avoided the opioid crisis the US is experiencing, and the US suicide rate is also much higher. But other deaths rates, such as from alcohol abuse and obesity, are comparable between the US and the UK.
Congratulations on switching your number language. In general, this is quite hard to do. Even when reading English, which is almost a second native language to me by now, I still find that I automatically read numbers in the text as my native Dutch.
I've also found it to be faster than Chrome
Building a Responsive Drag and Drop UI
The info-graphic posted in the article links back originates from titlemax.com [0]. Their article at least list the owners of some outlets. I've got to say I am a bit surprised to see such an blogpost from a lending corp. Their wiki article suggest they faced criticism in the past for predatory lending [1], I wonder if this is their version of getting back at those who reported on them, or what their intention for that topic is?

[0]: https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/lifestyle/who-owns...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TitleMax
Developers and computer geeks have been overestimating their influence for over a decade. If geeks were influential, the “year of the Linux desktop” would have been years ago, no one would be on Facebook, and people wouldn’t buy into Apple’s wall garden and people would care about “freedom”. Definitely no one would have bought the iPod since it “had less space than the Nomad and no wireless”. (https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...)

The consumerization of technology happened a long time ago.
Hmmm, just today I wanted to install a new virtual machine with the latest Gitlab release to check if it makes sense to run that inhouse... does anybod know if there is a VM, a vagrant machine, an ISO or a repository online that still can be used? Thanks!

Or does exist a mirror on github.com? ;)
I am not primarily a web developer, but I guess I don't really see it.

I suppose 'rewind' would mostly be useful for Javascript applications? But in Javascript you can already debug pretty well. It's been a while, but I suppose Javascript debuggers can drop frames, like debugging other languages, so you already have a kind of rewind?

Does anyone have a good example use case for this?
Yes it is an overreaction. Whenever I see something working on Mac OS only I can't help myself but think that something went wrong in IT since 2000.
New free design software to create beautiful graphics on the go
It's so common that it's not an unlikely starting point. EMC is a major issue in high frequency electronics design and the raspberry pi had a history of having to redesign certain parts because of not having enough shielding.
It's fine. I'm not going to engage you in an argument about whether policing tone is productive if you don't police content (or the effective politics you produce by what content you do police) but I'm mostly just annoyed that the HN blocklist extension stopped working for some reason.

HN seriously needs a way to hide (mute/block) specific users' comments rather than just relying on moderators or mob voting/flagging to decide what's "appropriate".
This is key here. As a general rule of thumb is some information has no influence on the course of action then it is useless, as interesting as it may be. In this case you have the odd chance of that 5 year exam catching the problem at just the right time, but the overwhelming probability is that it will even show nothing (in which case you do nothing) or that you are about to die (in which case you can do nothing).
> Because reasonable people already know how /letting people use/modify/redistribute modifications is good for software/ and don't need a /license/ to tell them. I've never seen a case where a /copyleft license/ improved software.

Don't you see the absurdity of the argument ?
>Methane, by contrast, is mostly removed from the atmosphere by chemical reaction, persisting for about 12 years. Thus although methane is a potent greenhouse gas, its effect is relatively short-lived.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jan/16/greenhou...
> when you can't get your work (...) done because of tools breaking, it gets really annoying really fast

I always assumed that the publicly hosted version of gitlab is basically a giant demo version of the enterprise edition you buy to host it yourself. Hell, you can even host the community edition for free.

If your work relies on it, why rely on a free online product?

EDIT: TIL gitlab.com also has a paid options. I stand corrected.

We have a hosted Gitlab at 2 of my clients. Both are up.
Any program that's closed source. But also it's just kind of a pain to do.
A well-written article about politics in US and its class conflict. I still think and insists that US citizens don't look enough to the rest of the world. Just observe what happened to South-America since 2000's. Popular Revolution and Popular Governments was the way out of the capitalist-neoliberal crisis, at the time when global "promises" were being risen by the elites. The struggle had its positives results because even when the dictatorships, imposed by Washington, tried to drown the working class and the professional class, they couldn't kill inequalities and the political structure that generated that inequalities. Those measures (dictatorships) were brought for preserving those inequalities and that structure. Now South-America is entering into a new crisis, the elite's reaction to the conquests for the People.

US needs new leaders, grassroots political leaders. Many people believe that "change" comes from upper classes, but that happens when class struggle is in the stagnant state, when the conditions are uncertain for the majority. Building a new leadership and activism style for the affected classes will effectively replace the excuses and the fear, that Fear that was imposed by the elites.
"only 15 billionaires and 6 corporations owning the majority of U.S media outlets"

Wow, such stinking antisemitism in this article. I had hoped we, as a society, could do much better
I've always felt news organisations should be legally required to be non-for-profit and wages capped at some sensible multiple of the national average wage (e.g 6x)
Stolen UPbit Ethereum Funds on the Move to Binance, Huobi
This isn't a counter-example, but a counter-motto.

Since you want to stick with theoreticals, a lot of great projects come from groups of close friends working together. You need a "fantastic lead/architect/product manager" when a team like that isn't available, and you need to compose one artificially.
It seems like they are always saying we are on the brink of some "tipping point." Is there an example of any we have already passed?
Can you provide some examples? Currently sold furniture is basically junk made from paper. It would not stand 2nd or 3rd relocation. Heck, it gets broken during first assembly!

Old second hand pieces are good quality, but one needs to look for at least decade old things. They were made from wood back then.
> Please show me the tourist who had a problem paying $10 for a ride across town.

If a potential visitor accurately hears that taxi drivers in Country X will double or triple their prices for foreigners, and they're used to paying $60 for a taxi to the airport, a portion of them will infer they might be charged $180.

How many of those do you suppose will visit at all, and if they do how many do you think will take taxis?
MRIs can better detect cancer in women with dense breasts, study finds
There has been a theme of instability with Gitlab.com over the last week or two. I'm not sure if it's growth related (they've seen a steady increase of users/traffic) and they've reached a scaling peak. OR if it's technically related - they've been doing a number of different infrastructure changes over the last few weeks which make a material difference to the main layers of the service.

For me the real test here is how they respond to this. As a paying customer I want to understand the issue, the efforts to prevent this in future and how they communicate this.
Updated just now...bad firewall change.

"[Identified] We have identified firewall misconfiguration was applied that is preventing applications from connecting to the database."
Get the docker image from dockerhub
I get my news from PewDiePie
He is also a Princeton Physics Professor. But that would make just a boring headline?
Bad firewall change...they just updated the page.
May I humbly ask:

What are your qualifications that enable you to come to this conclusion?

I would be very interested in studying your publications - where can I find your analysis?

Also it would be really very appreciated if you would like to publish the datasets that lead you to this conclusion - would you like to give us a public repo with the data, so we can check your results?

Thank you very much!
antisemitism.
Really, I didn't notice anything. Care to explain?
I only skimmed the article but couldn't find anything antisemitic. What did I miss?
I can't find it on F-Droid, hopefully they get it on there soon. The main repo doesn't seem to have the Pocket spyware in the app yet, at least.
Yeah, and vice versa as well, of course - for example, I don't think the Chrome DevTools tell you why certain CSS declarations do not apply.

That said, the Firefox DevTools have been progressing really fast since the rewrite to React was completed, so I'm hopeful that it'll practically be the unified DevTools soon.
> Yes, the Crimean vote was a scam. The way that Crimea was forcefully annexed is certainly not ideal and out of line with modern norms. But that doesn't mean that Crimeans didn't want to rejoin Russia.

this line of thinking is not irrational but still very harmful to civilization as a whole. a belief that some chunk of population wants to secede can never be used as grounds for annexation, it should only be used to influence internal political affairs. calling annexation on such grounds "not ideal" is understating it to the point where i can rationally conclude your goal is to just see the civilization burn to the ground.

which coincidentally is exactly the kind of views that russian government trolls promote in all corners of the internet.

yes, "Both can be true", but you don't know if the latter is true without holding a proper referendum with both sides of the question represented fairly and debated widely so that citizens are well informed/educated when going to vote. and that means you should condemn in strongest terms what russia has done (or any other country involved in similar conflict), not just meekly call it "not ideal".
How about linux users?
"Trust in closed non-auditable complex computer systems is something everyone has learned the hard way we should not have. The news is full each day of zero day bugs and exploits throughout the stack–from applications to operating systems and even down to the very silicon the whole stuff runs on."

If only. I suspect that only tech enthusiasts are aware of these issues. In the meantime, non-technical people only give you weird disbelieving looks when you mention this to them, and then continue ignoring it.
> Hmmm, just today I wanted to install a new virtual machine

> with the latest Gitlab release

Just wait till later/tomorrow. Setting up your own instance is relatively easy. Still, you can get most of the way without their repos...

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-set-up-a-gitlab-...

> Or does exist a mirror on github.com? ;)

It seems so: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq
> Billionaires owning vanity projects isn’t news when they’re football teams, why is it when they’re corporate news organizations?

You really can't see the difference between the two? If Mark Cuban has a problem with a player and cuts him from a game, then only the Maverick's suffer. If he (owned a paper and) has a problem with a politician and demands hit pieces, the whole country suffers.
Adventures in the War on Reality [video]
> .. but the Russification of Crimea was against the Ottomans (Tartars), not endemic Ukrainians.

So how does this make Crimea Russian then?

I am pointing out from the top of my head, but in 2014 I've heard these top excuses for annexing Crimea:

1. Crimea was given to Soviet Ukraine, by Soviet Russia, thus Crimea is Russian and Russian Federation is taking it back, because they "suddenly realised" it was a mistake.

2. "Crimean people asked" for protection from "Ukrainian nazi junta" and they had "independent" vote on integrating themselves into Russia.

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How about Lithuanians should take over the Kaliningrad Oblast [0] as it was Minor Lithuania many years ago? Maybe Germans should come to the negotiations as it was territory of Prussia too?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad_Oblast
Yes it is indeed very popular. All of my friends in IT switched to MacOS over the last few years, and I see more and more devs using Apple devices in web agencies. Because it looks good, it looks more pro.
> In an open system, an effectively infinite supply of natural raw materials can be used, and wasted, as needed. The Mars city solves this problem by building on the surface of a planet that is made of all the raw materials it could need.

It makes me sad to think that exploration and settlement of the solar system would take with it this kind of thinking, which is dangerously close to rendering the Earth uninhabitable.

The Earth (and Mars...) are, in some sense, closed systems, in that exploitation of resources has a hard limit beyond which we're looking at biosphere collapse, or just plain resource exhaustion.

Maybe we could use space exploration to come up with a different way, and then roll that back into how we live here on Earth.