skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Make is a great tool for my use case.

I'm sure it is, but I would suggest also looking into possible alternatives like "redo" and "tup". (If nothing else then for your own edumafacation.)

Anyway... this does not change the fact that make is fundamentally not suited to handle the non-trivial build problems in the modern age. It just does not work because it's built on the idea of files when describing dependencies. Almost no modern programming language works exclusively on a file level -- C and C++ were the major holdouts here, but C++ is moving towards a module-based compilation model... for lots of good reasons.

(Of course, make can theoretically be made to work for any arbitrary scenario, but ITT we've already seen quite a few incredibly awful/ugly hacks been posted to solve problems... that shouldn't have been problems in the first place.)
Yes, Jindal likes to call it his mother’s “preexisting condition”

To some extent I have as well, but I think in my case it is more to stick it to Pakistanis who think I don’t have any rights on the first part of the hyphen
I use Mullvad with the standard wireguard clients. Works much better than anything OpenVPN based. They are based in Sweden which seems like a reasonable jurisdiction.
Exactly. Or they could just take a screenshot or a slew of other things.

One of the reasons Signal use deniable encryption is because if a message that supposedly comes from you is sitting in someone else's chat, they have no way of proving that you sent it vs them putting it there.
I recently looked at many task runners. I settled on my own personal task runner only because of familiarity. I would switch to either of these if I wasn't so heavily invested in my own tool.

[just](https://github.com/casey/just)
[task](https://github.com/go-task/task)

I'm not sure what Run does that the two above don't.
> Maybe they've changed it by now?

I think they might have.

I used it about a year or two ago and remembered the UI as horrible. I then had to use it a few weeks ago and didn't have the same negative reaction I had the first time I used it.
For 115 years, restaurant has fed elite in Berlin and now Madrid. Nazis included
Yep, the only carrier is AT&T TV which only comes from AT&T's negotiating weight with U-Verse and DirecTV.
J for the APL Programmer (1996)
The Trump Campaign’s App Will Track Users’ Locations. Is That Normal?
Moon Tear Hunters and the Quest for Ancient Silver
Bayesian consistency counterexamples, part 1
One more differentiating factor for Mattermost is its extra special focus security. The product offers the industry’s most flexible and secure instant messaging capabilities across all devices.

Isn't Mattermost fundamentally the same thing, architecturally, as Slack? Slack has one of the industry's stronger security teams. I don't see the differentiator here.
Ransomware: Towards an Economic Equilibrium
"If you want fewer homeless provide affordable housing at public expense."

When I worked in Manhattan and did not want to pay Manhattan rents, I lived in Jersey City or Brooklyn. America is a huge country. If you can't afford to live in an expensive city, you should move.
"ship-helmsmen-turned-criminals"
Maybe speculating, but possibly he ordered too many (free) replacement parts from the LEGO store?

I had to do this once and there seemingly are no checks in place to prevent abuse. (You don’t have to prove you own the set where you are missing pieces from)

Also the OP bringing up Bricklink (which doesn’t use Lego account for login) is a bit dramatic, which makes me thing the poster is skewing or omitting some facts.
Active duty care is bad as well. A running joke in the military is that "motrin and water" is a miracle cure because it's the only thing you'll get prescribed without a ton of doctor visits. I personally know of two people that were diagnosed with cancer while they were active duty, and both were lucky to survive. One told the doctor he was having severe pain near his abdomen, and instead of doing any sort of examination, they just put him on a 6 month waiting list for hernia surgery. Turns out he had testicular cancer and after the 6 month wait, it had advanced pretty far and he immediately needed to start chemo. They told him he only had a 10% chance of living because the cancer had spread to his lymph nodes during the wait. Another friend kept complaining about headaches and they kept sending him away with motrin, and after a few months they finally did a full exam and they found out he had a brain tumor.
I feel like User-Agent in general is not well suited to the modern web. Most browsers pretend to be some version of Mozilla or Netscape. And most things that scrape sites like Apple's messaging app pretend to be something equally outdated. Deprecating User-Agent seems like the best course of action in the long run.
Surely with the right kind of encryption you can just read the client code and not need to "trust" the server?
She goes by female pronouns, it says so in her Twitter bio.
I don't think Heisenberg's 'uncertainty principle' has had much impact on day-to-day physics either. But the idea of built-in limitations may have helped to make the humiliation of mere probabilities more palatable. As did the idea that the observer is part of the equation.

"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning ."
When I chose to major in CS, I got a nice letter from the university suggesting that maybe this wasn't the best choice, that too many people were picking this, that it would be worth considering other majors.

This worked - I can't quite remember the numbers, but probably the entering class was 2/3rds the size it would've been otherwise.

And clearly, it was going to be a terrible idea to graduate in Computer Science in 1992, so who can blame them? The field had clearly hit its peak by 1987... (this was in Switzerland, on a 4.5 year degree program)
Yes, you can absolutely choose. There's a web site for finding hospitals/clinics for your particular procedure, although your doctor can also refer you directly. The web site tracks the wait time and (often) publicly available quality metrics collected by the health authorities. Travel expenses are covered to some extent if you don't want to use your local options.
Of the cases I heard where people did try to shop around, simply getting price information was nearly if not completely impossible.
Using access granted to you as a developer to alter work tools to spam controversial messages to your coworkers is wildly inappropriate and unprofessional. There's no rationalization that makes this acceptable behavior.
After all these years I've just realized that my old Amstrad CPC was running on CP/M
Swift also have them.
This is classic NIMBYISM run rampant. Restrictive building restrictions that are aimed to maintain retail house prices at ever higher prices so the homeowners feel their purchase is making miney and riff-raff (poor, less rich and homeless) are unable to buy/rent a place to live.
The only way to solve this is to add costs to people who rent. Rent seeking :- Tax rentals as commercial properties, and forbid tax pass-through to tenants. This extra cash extracted from the landlords would gradually make rentals non economic.
Loosen home restrictions on size, cars etc,allow multi unit dwellings. 4 plxes, 8 plexes .....64 plexes, Allow tiny units with micro kitchen/washroom walled off a 1-2 room spot, with 200-300 square feet. When I was in residence my room was 10x12 feet with a narrow bed washup sink and toilet alcoved off with a 3x3 shower. I was content
What is scrolling "the bits"?
> I don't see much advantage in building software for my farm.

Controlled environment agriculture is heavily data driven and is a fast growing field. Same with genetically modified crops.
You dont hear big stories from the ones who tried this and crash burned.
Aus post (australia post) is the worst, especially this time of year.

I have had that happen twice with Amazon (book) orders, they get lost, then only to arrive 2 months later (after Amazon has resent a replacement order)
A comment, not a question: Though I think it was worth the cost, I'd say this was one of the most painful mandates/rollouts I've had to endure. The cost to developer productivity was pretty significant. I would have liked to have seen that impact discussed.
I don’t think FAANG is really that necessarily important though. Sure, it might open up some opportunities. So would making good stuff that people might eventually recognize.

IMO, I dong think I could ever get into a faang company. I’m terrible with algorithm interviews. I also don’t think the job would be that fulfilling... what is useful about making or maintaining projects that focus on data, ads, etc, that doesn’t benefit anyone?

The money would be good, but eh... maybe I won’t ever make as much as a guy a google, but I can say I was involved in a project that helped disabled people get picked up by a bus more easily.
Data.Text are fine strings really. Better than most languages I'd say, if not by a lot.
Our "effective health care systems" might not be so effective in the U.S. Some of your states have big immigration problems.
I suspect that graphical/menu input is preferable only for a Goldilocks range of decision tree complexity. Too many options and displaying them all to the user at once is impossible or unhelpful, forcing you to provide a search function (see the Windows Start Menu). Too few options, and the user won't need any prompting to know what choices they have and what keys they can be selected with (eg. Escape vs. Enter).
Autotune seems to be antithetical to the basic themes (e.g. it's ok to be yourself and mistakes are ok) of Daniel tiger and Mr Rogers. It really, really bothers me when I hear it.
I grew up watching Big Bird as the lead character, and I think this analysis is spot on.

I don’t have kids of my own yet, so I’m out of touch with how the show is being run these days, but if Elmo is the lead now, this definitely sounds like a step back in quality level.

I guess it makes sense from a business perspective for the creators. I’m sure it helps the bottom line. Kids go nuts for Elmo.

Regardless, it makes me happy to see PBS expand their reach. The quality level across the board is astounding! If it was the only network I had access to I would be happy.

Nova science is unreal! ‘Nature’ episodes are best in the business for nature docs. Many of the Masterpiece series are great... and don’t sleep on all the cooking shows. For a publicly funded organization, it’s absolutely mind blowing the quality of product they put out.

A real treasure.
I've built a system like this recently for a payments platform. Access _is_ possible but requires rebuilding the environment (and thus blowing everything away) as well as admin access.
Do people actually believe GCP is at risk of shutting down? What nonsense.
Wake me up when they resurrect their most famous trackball: The Trackman Marble FX.
Nature cat is decent. I really, really liked the recent Christmas episode and the message it had
Full of pearls and humorous to boot: “...since it is impossible to disprove solipsism rationally, it serves as a lovely tool for helping folks to see that all the other, more sensible-seeming philosophies, are also Bullshit as they can't even logically refute a solipsist.”
> It's been 30 years since he wrote that. Has anyone in that time been able to produce data that refutes Apple's findings?

Yes, all of the specific experiments Tog describes are bogus. In versions of the experiments where the keyboard user isn't crippled by weird limitations that don't apply to actual computer users, the keyboard is often superior to the mouse (not always, just often): https://danluu.com/keyboard-v-mouse/
One line in the top reply in particular stuck out to me, because the person doesn't seem to know what they're talking about, and it highlights how low-quality Stack Exchange has become over time.

(ever built the linux kernel from source? I have; it's a chore.)

This demonstrates a complete lack of experience, and seems to be a lie.

Even low-powered, ancient, phone ARM CPUs can compile the kernel in under two hours:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7381w3/linux_compili...

Some recent (though as far as I'm aware, not the most recent, which can probably do it faster) AMD CPUs can do it in 16 seconds:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-16...

And if you look in the replies of that comment, you'll see the author comparing installing node.js on CentOS to compiling the kernel.

I'd like to see some genuine conversation on this, but Stack Exchange fails to deliver.
>Those people are writing code that probably does stuff they need.

Why?
Yeah I think you're right
I have to disagree. AusPost is pretty good. It's not perfect but given the stories you hear about USPS from the US, AusPost is undoubtedly doing a better job.

EDIT: I should've said "postage in the US", not USPS. My response was in relation to someone saying that it is "the worst". I've had much worse experiences with private shipping companies like StarTrack.
Ehhh, I'm thinking more along the lines of Stuxnet here. i.e. could something be done that doesn't necessarily destroy the attacked equipment itself, but instead impacts the output in a negative (and hard to trace) form.
That's denying, or more like denying the the whole purpose of insurance.

Also, it's bad design of incentive. The insurance companies has an incentive to deny the payment, because it does reduce the cost and increase the profit. For profit companies try to increase the profit that's not wrong, but in this context , it's morally bad.

So the better incentive design is not to allow the insurance company to deny the payment.

Take a look at my country(Japan) and my insurance company for example. They offer a free cancer test. Why? The treatment of later stage cancer costs so much money. Since they can't deny the payment, it's better to find the cancer as early as possible. That will reduce their cost, increase their profit. It also lead to healthier people as a bonus.
Ask HN: Where else can I buy O’Reilly eBooks online?
I know it’s actually been a while, but I’ve only recently learned that they stopped selling eBooks online in favour of their subscription service. I do tend to prefer physical books over eBooks, but at the right price, I’d get both. I’m lucky to get access to all their contents for free through my current place of employment, but I hate using their mobile app (in both iOS and Android) to read anything, so I still find myself wanting to get a copy of their eBook so I can read them through another app.

I know Amazon Kindle, and Google Play Books have them. I prefer to get them through Google Play because there’s a good chance I’m allowed to download the eBook through them. I’m curious if there are other places that sell them at competitive prices. I checked InformIT but they don’t seem to carry them (at least not the books I’m currently looking for).
There's no evidence that YouTube is profitable[1]. In fact, there's no evidence any of this is profitable.

Android, Gmail, and Maps make money from ads, not from charging users directly. That makes them the same business as search.

Hardware businesses like Home and Chromecast usually aren't profitable, and Google (like Amazon) is likely using them to keep people in their ecosystem.

That leaves Drive, which might have some good margins, but they give it away for free to many users...

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/technology/youtube-financ...
I was thinking the same thing, as I just had to create a bunch of ci scripts to preload a Firestore db and cloud functions for a pipeline using a gcloud emulator.
The fact that this is coming from one of the massive, OG news networks is pretty surprising. And refreshing
This! So many wasted years of engineering making correct applications on top of Cassandra/Kafka/Elasticsearch when a single Postgres server could have handled everything no problem.

Scalability for a tech product should be a concern at some point, but if you don’t have product market fit it doesn’t matter. The complexity of building a distributed system right out of the gate will cripple rapid iteration or lead to a broken product.
Virtually every board is going to need some kind of marking, so if you're doing a silk screen anyways it almost free to add more stuff to that silk screen.
You have a really distorted view of how much people doing these jobs actually take home
OT: I love the continuing education section of his resume.
What are your other options? (Sort of rhetorical question)

Learning technical matters early in life if easier than learning them later. Engineering, math, CS should be done early. It's a great foundation and structure for learning into the future.

Also, CS is a bridge to automation. Our world will become increasingly automated. People with the right skills to automate will be at the forefront of this wave.
Relevant https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
One example: Mom drinks coffee close to breastfeeding makes babies hyper and unable to sleep
There has to be some level of trust at some point, unless you are going to create your own phone and all the apps on it from scratch.
https://outline.com/LFSy2r. Step 1: Use bit.ly to shorten WSJ url. Step 2: Outline shortened url.
You didn't answer the question; you just wrote a wall of text evading it. Obviously, running a local cache server isn't privacy-enhancing, despite anything you may have said upthread. Obviously, a sampled feed of NetFlow records isn't the same thing as the full-fidelity feed of every DNS name you searched for. Obviously, you're better off not giving that information to your ISP if you don't have to, and with DOH, you don't have to: you can pick the network from which your DNS queries will originate, most of which (if you don't run your own) will have contractual obligations not to log that no US ISP has.
> Someone capable of making an app, website, software used inside of a company, script that gives a company insight, or whatever else you could possibly think of can make a 6 figure company on their own within a year for nearly zero dollars.

I think you are overemphasizing the importance of technical skills in the context of starting a business. Marketing and management skills are far more important. I have seen people with zero technical skills start successful tech businesses by means of their business acumen. They hire contractors to do the tech work.

On the other hand, there are exceptionally talented engineers who spend a year or two developing a successful product, yet the product gains minimal traction and they end up working for the type of individual that I mentioned above.
Igalia is the #2 committer for WebKit and Blink
I'm willing to pretend, if that it what it takes to stop the "fixes" from being applied. I'm not a fan of destroying the economy, especially if other countries get a less-restricted situation that lets them climb past us in the GDP-per-capita ranking. We will learn to deal with any climate changes that may happen.
GNU Wget 1.20.1 built on linux-gnu.

That URL produces a HTML page containing a link to "Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID3488706_code2561841.pdf?abstractid=3457802&mirid=1" with text "Download This Paper", which I assume is supposed to be the direct link. However https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID3488706_cod... 302 redirects back to https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3457802 .
Yeah, it's not just the fraud thing; Karpeles shit the bed on Mtgox multiple times. I actually kind of believe the narrative that it was incompetence more than malice, at least to start with.
"We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the Phone Company." --Lily Tomlin

https://snltranscripts.jt.org/76/76aphonecompany.phtml

It used to be funny because it was true. The problem is that it's still true. But now it's true of ISPs, at least in the United States; they have regional monopolies or at most a single competitor using a different physical infrastructure as is the case of Comcast and Verizon.

The support experience sucks for people who know anything about networking because there's no profit in providing better service when most customers are incapable of appreciating it. Since there's no profit, and most customers are incapable of recognizing or demanding better support, ISPs can get away with skimping on that aspect of the experience. Just as they've mainly gotten away with skimping on infrastructure and clinging to IPv4.

"We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Internet Service Provider."
I know it's hard to miss but if you look closely, insider trading has the word "insider" in it. Meaning people inside the company (typically those with the material nonpublic information you're talking about) are specifically not allowed to trade in their stocks using that information. I hope for your own sake you work at a private company.
There is no place like Route 301 (2015)
I would have done something in business, in accounting or the like.
How to Make a Pitch Deck
Aus post doesn't even bother to knock on your door. They just toss a card in the slot. Even if you see it happen and grab them, they'll probably tell you they don't even have the package; don't bother to actually transport them. None of them work for AusPost. In big cities like Melbourne, they're almost all contractors. In far off places like Emerald, it's all you got, because DHL doesn't deliver out there (or if they do, it's a lie and those packages get handed to an AusPost contractor anyway).
I guess, what can we as ordinary citizens do about the world’s most powerful people, Presidents, princes, CEOs, billionaires, in a giant child rape ring going unpunished? Just shake our fists at the sky? What can we do?
Ask HN: How expensive is it to host and stream video?
Hi folks,

I'm thinking of launching a site that deals directly with uploading, hosting, and streaming videos.

I was wondering what the cost for this would like?
Love the fact people are adopting Opensource solutions but corporates won’t budge. I think the hardest penetration for anyone right now is Microsoft Teams. Since they started bundling teams with Office they have been able to boast about numbers and actually hurt Slack. I wonder what is roadmap for Mattermost. Shameless plug I myself did an opensource version of a chat server called raspchat https://github.com/maxpert/raspchat which was able to handle almost 5K very active chatters on a Raspberry Pi Model B (Just 512 MB of RAM). My original dream was to build a drop and run server on cheap raspberry pi for local areas but man has to feed his family and I had to make a tough choice. It’s harsh IMHO out there to get attention and then convince folks to develop integrations for you. I hope this space doesn’t endup with duopoly and products like Mattermost take off.
They could ban your home address, so you'd have to go get a post box instead?
I was selling a model that is supposed to be and always has been round. I reached out and the client who wrote the review told me that he bought this brand, not necessary the model, when he was young and they were hexagonal.
Sounds pretty solid to me, but (a) do you enjoy accounting? (b) that may be a job I could see as potentially vulnerable to AI.