skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trolls are a trivial problem, easily dealt with.

The real problem with practically every internet community is its moderation, because the worst people with the least business doing that job inevitably float to the top and are then impossible to dislodge without voting with your feet and creating an entire new community.
They are not arrays. There are no arrays in Lua. There's only one compound data type (excluding userdata) and that's table. Tables are hash maps, or dicts, not arrays. You can represent arrays with tables, but that would still be "tables acting somewhat like arrays" and not "arrays". Also, you cannot actually store a `nil` value in a table. Nils are what you get when you access nonexistent key; that means the iteration stops at the first n from a 1,2,3... sequence which has no value in the table. If you need to represent a "hole" in the array, use a placeholder object, then convert it to nil at the point of use.

There are many libraries of common utilities that make working with tables-as-arrays more convenient. If you don't want to use them, it's mostly trivial to write them yourself. What you shouldn't do, though, is trying to use the raw tables as arrays: that could indeed be a frustrating experience.
I'm a fan. It takes some getting used to, because things which are semantic features of other languages (anything that's an object, notably) is a construct in Lua.

But the entire language fits in your head, and it's a powerful and composable system. I use LuaJIT fwiw; after you get a taste of its FFI, it spoils you.

First-class environments, overriding of indexing and assignment, coroutines, there's a lot to love (not you, Wirth indexing and default globals).
> at a fair price

Who determines a fair price?

I think a fair price is one that both parties agree on.

If they don't want to sell at a price then it isn't a fair price.
People seem to forgot, but majority move to systemd was caused by GNOME not working on systems without it, while the API it depended on was made near impossible to implement outside of systemd (the docs were incomplete and incorrect, etc).

That was the tipping point for systemd adoption, caused by incestuous relationship between systemd, GNOME, and Fedora.
I currently use a synced word document because I don't trust the longevity of any of the current software offerings. If it stands the test of time, Apple Health has done a really nice job of pulling in all of my medical records (including vaccinations, etc).
Interesting to me is that a lot of native apps have similar functionality with the Alt key to navigate menus. Certain menu options would have an underlined character and you'd hit that character to select it like in Spacemacs.

I never use those in apps outside of Spacemacs. I think the bottom bar succinctly showing you all the options when you hit space/comma really makes discoverability a lot easier than in traditional apps.
A simple Google Search proves this comment completely wrong...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_acts_of_violence_a...
systemd supposedly has built-in plug-and-play multiseat support: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/multi-seat.html

Not sure I've heard of people using it, but I'm curious!
Thanks for your strong but necessary words.

I'll point a friend of mine to your comment. He's constantly complaining of work. Once a bright engineer. Now his eyes look soulless.
If you think into the problem some more, I believe that you will conclude, on the face of the natural problem and without need of further information, that exit from a complicated family concern is the provision of the older generations and never in the realms of practical viability for those who inherit legacy management and ownership.

I am very much interested in knowing your thoughts, should you, on reflection find my point above not to be self evident.
I traveled full-time for 3 years with my wife and dog in an RV. We luckily didn’t have any medical stuff come up, though getting some prescriptions filled in different states was a HEADACHE.

For our dog, we use PawPrint, which is a mobile app. They request medical records on our behalf and digitize them. Their monetization model is to sell pet insurance, which we have with another carrier. Nice, convenient.
On your own web server?

You don't need GitHub to publish or host a git repo...
>>>If 10 people on the internet tell you they want to kill you, how do you tell if 1 of them is serious and is actually going to show up physically?

All the more reason for everyone to concealed carry. If not a firearm, at least something like a karambit.
Yeah! It's like golf!
pg_ctl tips and tricks
Some of the forks[1] still work, although outdated. There are some on gitlab[2] also. Doing code searches finds other copies[3].

[1] https://github.com/NantipatSoftEn/Instagram-API

[2] https://gitlab.com/alihesari/Instagram-API

[3] https://github.com/DarriusAlexander/speaklight/tree/1b4167c3...
Agree this is the part of the Freedom of Information Request that is relevant to this, and that this is a sensible translation.

My interpretation of this is that Irmeli Krans is asking Mats Gehlin how to formally log additional information (in the form of some kind of verbal communication with the prosecutor) and ensure that this information is associated with the case file.

The back and forth, again as far as I understand the implicit context and the terminology used, concerns how to do this technically. Gehlin suggests it be logged as a separate, additional interview. Krans is worried that will look weird, since there was only one actual interview undertaken by Krans. Krans then suggests that the technically correct way of doing this would be to change the original interview and sign that.

I read "change" here as implying "append the new information in that document". There is no obvious suggestion of editing the existing text of the original interview.
Remove practically all the tools built to combat "toxicity" and force people to talk to each other and use their words again.

Also: Fire every moderator, everywhere, and never let anyone be a moderator ever again.
GitHub waits fourteen days for the complainant to respond to your counter-notice before putting your repo back up, from experience :/

In addition, they won't even give you any info they hold on the complainant other than that explicitly included in the notice itself, claiming 'data protection' (some troll hit a bunch of my repositories with fraudulent takedowns in two waves, meaning it took about a month before they were all restored)
My experience is that often the lowest effort changes also have some of the biggest impacts. I work in consulting, and I think one of my largest impacts has been to create a pre-engagement checklist for one of our very common engagements and then getting our team to review the checklist with clients ahead of time. It took maybe a day to get the first version out, and cuts ~1-2 weeks off of our projects.

Unexpected downstream effect, this had a big enough impact that other groups started creating checklists for other kinds of scenarios.
> The translation from C and compile being 25x faster than just compiling C seems nearly impossible.

It's easy to make a language that compiles faster than C. First get rid of the C preprocessor, and fix the syntax so it is easier to parse (e.g. `name: Type` rather than `Type name`). You can go even further and make it possible to parse each line independently (I think Zig does this?).

Second use a simple modern code generator that doesn't do much optimisation.
Python inspired syntax and standard library; Pascal/Ada inspired typing, with e.g. numeric ranges.

But nothing at all about it is perlish that I can think of.
Related question: What did you do that had the biggest impact, but wasn't recognized by such by the organization?

For example, speed up the build might make people more productive, but in a way that's not obvious to management, or even to the people working on it. It might be seen as a nice thing, but relatively minor. The knock on effects -- releasing more often, which leads to being able to try more experiments in production -- might not be noticed.
I'm not making anecdotal conclusions or assumptions about whether people walk around or go into work, I'm simply stating the facts here based on considerable research.

Influenza is a useful proxy for the cold, because we have plenty of data on influenza strains with R0 very close to the cold.

Perhaps the most contagious disease we've ever encountered, the measles, has an R0 around 18. Before the 1960's, when the vaccine was licensed, we saw incidence rates as high as the .8% range yearly for measles. That is 20x more than influenza, but still orders of magnitude short of the 50% number you threw out there.

The cold and influenza both range from R0=1.3, to perhaps 6 on the very high end of estimates. 50% just isn't reasonable by any measure.

As for comparisons to this nCoV, it's still very early days and there are many unknowns. Still, there is no evidence to support an R0 even remotely close to the measles. 50% simply isn't plausible or reasonable, based on everything we know about viruses and epidemics.
Not quality goods, you are buying a label. Its value is all perception, and part of that perception is exclusivity.

Should we be concerned with what proportion of the price is spent on advertising, on fancy materials, on renting a store on 5th avenue, and on keeping that store attractively full of the latest garments? These are all part of creating this perception, and in a sense they are all wasteful. But companies which get the balance wrong disappear.

(Perfectly functional clothing costs next to nothing now, compared to say 50 years ago. Thanks to the invisible hand. But if what you want is more clothes that everyone knows are more expensive than your neighbor's, then it can't help you.)
The Pavlovian puppet mastery of big tech platforms over billions of people
"He has far too much ego to serve someone else for life"

Well, that's reassuring.
100% Discovering and using Karabiner.

https://medium.com/@nikitavoloboev/karabiner-god-mode-7407a5...
> if anyone has physical access it's game over

That's true but for only for threat models that assume decapping and other extreme efforts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_cryptoprocessor
Your own webserver that's hosted by a hosting company? Most of the have very well oiled workflows for responding to DMCA violations. If you run your own server they'll go to your ISP.
If only people had another choice of mobile phone operating systems....
How great for the patient. Everywhere you have built in second opinions. With digital, one lazy or bad doctor can more or less permanently alter the course of subsequent medical care with inaccurate information or a bad diagnoses.
It can't. The people's attitude should change first.
Quitting.
Seems to have lasted quite a while already...
In the author's own words, this API was explicitly designed to get round access controls. (see internet archive)

So people should be cheering this no? I mean facebook are protecting their users from nefarious developers seeking to get access to people's data.

The only crit is that it took so damn long to find it. (since 2016!) https://web.archive.org/web/20160603201221/https://github.co...

I know thats not whats annoyed most people. But if facebook really are serious about privacy, then they took too damn long
A lot of outlet stores have garments produced specifically for them. They never appear in the retail stores. The garments are produced with lower quality materials and lower quality controls and standards in order to keep the selling price point lower.

Edit: The garment producers are basically just paying for licensing of the brand name and slapping a label on them.
OK, so do you want them to make life harder? Or just sit around? Because I prefer it when they actually do something for the ordinary citizen. Fortunately we didn't have Reagan here in Europe, so we still care about ordinary citizens.
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Have you ever been to a TJ Maxx? Maybe they don't have Gucci there, but if you really want Gucci, it's not because of the quality.
Corporate decisions are made all the time under embargo from such conflicts of interest and no one considers that perverse
The second option is possible if you declare an abstract dependency (preferably just a contract like an interface) and make your persistence layer implement it. I highly recommend "Clean Architecture" if you'd like to learn more about that approach.
Hi there,

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Thank you HNer.
I use it at least once a week and there are a lot of places where it could be improved when it comes to stability or making you feel like it's a safe place to store your pictures.

I always run into this issue and I'm not alone, some people put their libraries in disk images just so they can properly eject their external disks: https://annoying.technology/posts/ebd70c6c5715bcd8/
The original chromatic series is in Lasso in the very late 16th century - Carmina Chromatico from Prophetiae Sybillarum.

It's decorated with smooth triads and moments that sound like cadences, but the progression as a whole is completely atonal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al41WvDW-OA
Man, I've been trying to find a Vertu phone for ages. I'd pay top dollar. TOP DOLLAR.
The last time I got a PET scan (about 3 years ago) they handed me a CD with the images and an accompanying piece of paper with a summary of the results. At least that CD included a DICOM viewer for macOS as well so I could have a look at the images myself.

It's the same with other medical imaging procedures. They have machines literally costing millions but they can't afford to have a secure system for keeping and exchanging medical data.

Up until a few years ago (according to my knowledge, perhaps this is still happening) paramedics routinely used WhatsApp for sending information to A&E while en route because there simply is no proper system in place to do so.
The Lightning port has been around for a long time and getting rid of that will cause significant e-waste.

From personal experience, Lightning already produces significant e-waste. The lack of strain relief means that my family experiences many broken Lightning cables each year.
They should make their APIs secure, instead they abuse DMCA.
That doesn't really explain why many people are not assholes when given anonymity. And whatever those people have, we need to replicate in everyone else. Unless you believe that those people are somehow genetically "nice" and it is impossible to replicate with environmental factors.
> Meanwhile managers, like lawyers, accountants, doctors, teachers and every other profession, prioritise solidarity within the profession.

Have you worked for any length of time in those fields? Don’t know if you ever worked as a lawyer but “solidarity” isn’t a core value.
My main objection is it dramatically decreases your productivity. If building and testing takes 5-10mins (which is the case in our codebase) trying to fix a bug can take forever when you aren't exactly sure what the cause is. You don't want to try multiple fixes simultaneously because if something doesn't work you aren't sure which of the fixes (if any) might be causing the issue.

Maybe a different way to look at it is: if you could shorten the BTD loop to a minute or two, why _wouldn't_ you want that?
Brands at that level only make clothes for the sake of advertising. You need to have the show, which is mostly couture anyways. Accessories, make up and fragrance are what gets them paid. Could only read the first few paragraphs before the paywall, sorry if that was redundant
1. Setting aside a "20% day" to develop infrastructure - I went through a slow period about 15 years ago where I had the option of doing this without meaningful tradeoffs and I built some software that I still use to this day. It's tempting to call this a learning, or reading day but I've found that I lose focus if I have a full day to do that - if you decide that you will spend 8 consecutive hours building a personal infrastructure tool (what ever that winds up being) you will have something to show for it at the end of the day - and therefore you will do it again. Those sort of things build upon each other nicely. Tooling/infrastucture is a marathon.

2. Set aside 30-60 minutes a day for learning, however you define it - for me it's PluralSight and Anki - that is usually how I start my day. Having it on the calendar, without many options to choose from makes it very efficient. Learning should be in sprints.

3. Set aside some amount of money every month for tools and capital purchases - targeted savings accounts are perfect for this - having the money in an account targeted for this purpose instead of a general account prevents a lot of money anxiety and allows you to do a better cost-benefit analysis.
This horrible trait of capitalism does not only apply to high end expensive luxury items, unfortunately.

I frequent a thrift store chain called Value Village (aka Savers in USA) quite a bit. So much so that I regularly talk to a lot of the employees in the few that I visit more often. And I love looking at the hoards of books they have on hand at all times.

One day an employee was shuffling books around, taking the older books that hadn't sold in a few months off the shelf.

I asked her what was done with those books, and she admit that they end up in the trash.

Those books didn't cost them a penny. They were all donated for free.

Instead of giving them away or lowering the price below their $2/book minimum they choose to dispose of them at the dump.

That makes perfect sense from a business standpoint, and zero sense from a human standpoint.

There are hoards of extremely impoverished families where I live. The schools are rotting from the inside out.

I imagine either of those groups would gladly take a few free books for their children to read.

Other more human thrift stores in the area offer books for as little as 25 cents each, and they go in the "free" bin if they haven't sold at that price after a few months but at that price they go quickly no matter the book or condition so it's a moot point.
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Built CI/CD at various places and image build time doesn’t matter. This is one of those subjective things where shaving every minute feels important but does nothing to reduce real costs or increase revenue. If the business isn’t selling the product faster in exchange, you’re prematurely optimizing. In fact spending time on such nickle and diming of deploy times often leaves other useful work untouched.

I see it all the time at places big and small as a contractor. Gravity towards easy wins (cruft removal from Docker images) sees useful but trickier work go untouched. It’s pure emotional masturbation.

Then you call out how your own CD/CI pipeline is probably causing issues, and software bloat in general.

All that text about Docker and only one real problem attributed to Docker for Mac (the industry itself writes bloated software, I can’t knock Docker low effort in engineering when that’s a feature of society.)

No Dockerfiles do not need to express a dependency graph. This is how bloated software gets made: every little design consideration need not be jammed into the design of one particular piece of software.

Swiss Army knife tooling leads us to Slack in Electron which you also complained about.

Images are reviewable. Make it a part of your life to smooth out bumps as you need. The rest of us don’t need to import your preferences in the core tools to correct for deficiencies in your workflow alone.
A top level domain used for commercial purposes is in fact a commercial TLD. It's not the commercial TLD, but it is "a commercial TLD".
Britain knows it’s selling out its national security to Huawei
That's not really true though.
tl:dr;

"You would be safe in active war-zone (eg. syria) because you are civillian and do not carry any weapons with you"

No, you are not safe at all.
Lets assume public wifi requires acceptance of terms and conditions.

- Redirects all pages (from your Mac/Ip address) to their server

- There is checkbox on the page for ToS/ToC approval and 'Continue' button

- Behind the scenes clickjacking/framebusting happens [0]

- You get PWNd or monetized.

- also being fingerprinted by company. eg: amiunique.org

Given conditions, they can inject ads/cookies to track you even after you go away. (eg. at home)

[0]: https://blog.innerht.ml/google-yolo/
Nope, you plug multiple monitors and peripherals into the multiseat box. Terminal(emulator)s are only used over long distances.
Coronavirus Stops Society
> Yeah! It's like golf!

Yes, and par would be like needing a doctor about once every three months. Keep it less frequent than that, and you're winning the game.

A friend of mine without insurance skateboards at a skate park. And I'm like "dude, that's pretty risky for not having insurance."

He explained the math to me, as long as he doesn't break a bone or need stitches more than once every few months, then not paying for insurance saves him money even if he has to pay $300-500 out of pocket at a walk-in clinic.

For young people in America, it seems that the only time that insurance isn't a net negative is when: 1) you have a chronic illness that requires regular treatments, 2) you have been diagnosed with cancer, and 3) pregnancy.
This....

The OP does not need a 'tool' -- beyond a filesystem and a naming convention such as suggested by @gumby. Make a folder hierarchy that makes sense (and do not worry about getting the hierarchy 100% right up front, it can be adjusted as usage indicates what should have been). Scan paper docs to an image format, create plain text for any 'notes style' docs you want to keep.

This is a perfect example where the KISS [1] principle is very useful. With a naming convention as suggested by @gumby, finding particular items later is either navigate to the folder they are in, open appropriate file, or a simple search of the filesystem for keywords (i.e. a "find | grep" pipeline on Linux/MacOS or the equivalent on Windows).

Portability for office visits can then be as simple as carrying a USB stick with a copy of the filesystem, or carrying another device (laptop/cellphone) with a copy of the filesystem stored thereon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle
“Silicon Valley doesn’t care much for its history, high-tech or otherwise. It should.” — David A. Kaplan, The Silicon Boys and Their Valley of Dreams (1999)For those who do care about tech history, the itinerary in this story connects some of the key sites and buildings in the 30-mile corridor from Stanford University to the former IBM disk-drive campus in south San Jose.
Even if doctor visits were free, I have other things I'd rather do with my time.

That said, we definitely need healthcare consumers to be able to make price-based decisions if we want to optimize for costs.
This person is F.I.R.E’d. These are fun projects. He didn’t suggest this was appropriate for anyone but himself
Well I don't know where you're seeing these sale prices, but good for you for getting such an incredible deal!
And if it's an opinion on things like "should it be legal to have sex before marriage" or whatever that's fine

The problem comes when you have 5 civil engineers saying a bridge is not safe, and 50 random members of the public saying it's safe. If we treat those opinions as equal, we end up with a bridge collapsing.