skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But in the example given, it wasn't the boyfriend who was always borrowing his girlfriend's phone to call his mom; it was his mom calling to contact him. Probably because she's also yet another one of those types who Just Can't Understand Why Someone Wouldn't Have A Phone. And yet he's the one imposing on others?

I'm sure he would be perfectly fine with her not calling at all, and just speaking with her the next time he sees her, the way 95% of humans on the planet are perfectly capable of doing. But she chooses to not respect his very wise and very reasonable mode of living, and you choose to see that as being his fault somehow.
Around the 1.30min mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uNDQOCgOT8
Aren't the filenames . and .. also restricted in Unix?

Windows has many more restrictions. [1]

[1] https://kizu514.com/blog/forbidden-file-names-on-windows-10/
Agreed, my personal gripe has always been that notebooks encourage people to write code with _no_ functions or abstraction, often leading to 400 lines of gobbledygook with bad variable names that somehow gives you F1 scores and graphs at the end. You can write functions in notebooks (and I do when I write mine), but there is not a culture of this in place, and arguably the notebook interface itself encourages you _not_ to write functions.
Any thoughts on backing up the logs? I don't want to put my personal Dropbox on my work machine
> There’s nothing wrong with avoiding social relationships if that person so desires

Well yes and no. Socially, that's nobody's business indeed. Professionally, that can be a problem or at the very least a weakness. Social relationship are a skill, being bad at it isn't neutral.

Sure you can be wanting to avoid social relationships while being good at it, but I doubt this is any sort of common.
I have a PinePhone and I've been using as a daily driver. It's pretty rough right now, but all the features are generally there. Within another six months I can see postmarketOS or UBtouch being feature complete.

It's fun to install something like XFCE and have a full blow desktop environment.

For $150, replaceable battery, SD card slot, privacy dip switches, and open source the value is more than there.
> If other guys around you set expectations of physique not naturally achievable there is not much you can do.

I find this thread fascinating because it's almost common knowledge that this is true for women in contemporary society. It should come as no surprise that this is also the case for men. The looks arms race continues.
Strongly disagree. The difference between somewhere like Vancouver and Seattle is much smaller than the difference between somewhere like San Francisco and Tulsa. Statement is plenty accurate.
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I may be wrong but shouldn't things like primary processes be decided at a respective party's convention?

To argue that Iowa going first is not fair to the US elections because it doesn't represent the whole nation may be true but this is a short comming of the party's policy not the nations and if your unhappy with the party don't join or better yet argue against political parties in general.

The fact the Author is attacking "Old White People" because they recieve social security and therefore they have more time to participate in politics, shows an AGEist, RACEist bias.

I also hear the opposite side of the above argument all the time which is "All those protesters are unemployed, they don't work so they have the time to make a lot of noise and push their policies" this argument is just as useless, divisive and weak as the authors premise.

In most cultures seniors' or elders' opinions are given a greater amount of weight due to the fact they have the wisdom, life experience and temperament to deliberate and make a sober choice not based on mob menality or the whims of the idealistic youth.

Finally, race should Never be used to promote a negative point of view regardless of whether you are punching up or down.
I would not call avoiding a classic thundering herd problem a bad choice, especially when the top maintainer of Linux does it himself in Linux: which is arguably more probable than him rewriting GNU Make (well we all know he could do it, but this would still be less probable...)

Plus it will not only optimize GNU Make workloads, but potentially other programs that do that. And to be honest, playing with pipe for signaling (and more rarely token counting) is STILL a must-have way to do IPC portably, esp. if you want to integrate with polling on fds. Various OSes have also various new things, but they are non-portable -- maybe someone should try to get eventfd&friends in POSIX?

Anyway, if that's a "good example of how we develop software these days", I would say we managed to develop software the right way at last, making basic stuff work well before succumbing to the tentation to rewrite everything all the time just to play with new shinny techs, getting fresh bugs in the process.

Also you know what has evolved in the last few years, motivating this perf fix? Availability of HIGHLY parallel computers for not too expensive. Yes, I continue to find it highly refreshing that work is done to get all the boring historical software work better in that context. Maybe you think we can afford rewriting all the things all the time to follow supposedly radical technological changes (and using less well designed OSes?), but if so then this thought is not shared widely or at least not followed with action. Rightly so because economically the outcome would be doubtful: just look at the patch, it is way smaller than an hypothetical shiny new rewrite of GNU Make...
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In contrast to people like John Stewart who changed his name to sound less Jewish, Whoopie Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson) changed her name to sound more Jewish. She said she changed her name early in her career to sound Jewish because it would help her career. It's interesting that both of these very successful actors/comedians started from very different assumptions but in the end both ended up being top people in their field.
FWIW the profile of the OP says "Growth marketing by day, hacker at night".
It's probably best to keep politics outside of HN; there are many other forums to discuss such matters.. Especially when articles have a tilt to the left or the right.
What OS do you run on the AlphaServer?
Ah! I did not know they were on different domains, but I should've mentioned there is an open source version yes!
It is 500 million light years away. So whoever sent that (assuming it was a sentient being) is 500 million years old now....
He's also a licensed amateur radio operator. His FCC license is under his real name.
Not even remotely close for senior roles. Nowhere near.
>What you call "annoying AF" was reality for many many years and yet people were not constantly annoyed..

It might have been a reality pre-00s ─ today if you want to play out any Jason Bourne fantasies, they will not be considered just annoying but suspicious, as your number gets intrinsically linked with somebody else's activities.
Deleting a dir with rmdir is always safe :-)

The other trick that makes dangerous operations always more safe is prepending "./" to the path.
When I was a kid, Looney Tunes felt like home and Tom and Jerry felt like a slightly flat off-brand. I say this not to judge their fans or even the cartoons themselves, but I’m curious if “Tom and Jerry” people come from different regions of the country or world, different cultures, or different socio-economic backgrounds (I grew up poor and quasi-Catholic, splitting my time between Florida and the rust belt).

On the other hand, the article makes it seem like Tom and Jerry came about as a desperate bid to have something as lucrative as Looney Tunes or Disney, so maybe my impression is right on?
Can anyone comment on his statement that having mail delivered to your house puts you on searchable commercial lists?

I’m wondering if it’s actually physical mail that’s at issue, or rather having your home address as say a billing address on a site you buy something from.

This one seemed fairly tough to avoid 100%, so I want to know more about the plausibility.
It depends on which side of the line you stand. If a stereotype caused harm to a person or a group, they have a right to be aggrieved about it. You asking to “simply forget” and invalidating their situation by calling it “ridiculous” may not be the best possible option to take.
Create a business != create jobs.
A large infusion of outside capital will boost a local economy. They will own homes and buy things from local merchants which will create jobs.
They closed the speed gap because the Pentium Pro is a RISC core with x86 front end.
Carefully reading the GP I have to agree. But that's calls.

Let's talk texts.

Compare:

1. An employee gets all of their break time eaten up by a friend who is off work and sending tens of low-effort messages for help with choosing an appropriate cafe for a double-date that night. (Saw it happen.)

2. An employee has nice, relaxing breaks. Then they meet up with a group of three that includes a friend who spends five minutes annoying the other three until someone finally decides on which cafe to visit.

Given that employee as input data, which is the preferable system? If you answer 1 then I've got a lot more questions for you.

It's too bad that texts generate so much flak that an "off the grid" person's absence doesn't register. But it's still a benefit for current SIM card holders that the "off the grid" person isn't adding flak to that broken system of communication.

Not sure it outweighs the mom calling the sister. But texts are generally such a productivity drain it is worth noting.
Because you can express these conditions and check compile time instead runtime.
Honest question (and not being rude). Is that strictly just being pedantic about it? Is the concept of NUL vs "NULL" semantically the same, and so you are just pointing out the ASCII abbreviation being used (three characters being consistent in the spec)? Genuinely curious if the concept of ASCII NUL '\0' can be interpreted differently in other contexts (other languages maybe)?

[edit, to clarify the question]

Like for example, the ASCII code '\0' is still a valid "thing" (it's a byte sequence, kind of). But in other contexts (other languages maybe), NULL is not a "thing" per se; it's more of a non-thing. How does a C programmer see the difference between NUL and NULL?
Alpha: The History in Facts and Comments
$150 for the PinePhone is a lot cheaper. I'm not sure how much cheaper you want it to be.
Fuller Brush Man (2016)
The reason cafes offer wifi is that otherwise people would stop coming.
GNU make runs on a lot of different systems. There is not a semaphore API shared between them, but there will (almost certainly) be a usable pipe() on all of them.

But… if I could, I would probably use POSIX semaphores, no wait SYS-V, no, hang on, let me read some web pages… um… let me check my repositories and see which I've used before… both… hmm…

Seriously, I can't see getting so frustrated choosing that I'd just go with pipe(), but there is room for improvement in portable semaphore APIs.
The web was so much simpler to design for before smartphones. This site is nice and cozy on my desktop but on mobile it gets all sideways scrolly and pinch zoomy.

I wonder how mobile might have evolved differently if there was a hypothetical arficial restriction: there shall be no concept of responsive mobile design; it's all desktop shaped.
Salary means the non-equity portion of your pay that you get paid in cash on a fixed interval. Salary by definition excludes RSUs or stocks.
They lost me at "the" JPL.
I prefer processes that expose bugs over those that obscure them...
Just to clear the air (or space), aliens are closer to the bottom of the probability list.
The PinePhone is a much better price ($150) and quite a fun toy as the OSes develop to a much more usable state.
Everybody thought NCP's 8 bit host ids were enough, until TCP/IP happened. Then everybody thought OSI was going to take over and rule the world, until TCP/IP didn't stop happening. And then everybody though IPV6 would quickly take over, until IPV4 refused to die. And everybody thought the world was going to run on SGML, until HTML happened. And then everybody thought SGML might rise from the dead until XML happened. And then everybody thought XML would never just go away and die, until JSON happened. Just goes to show, you never know!
Numeric code rarely (almost never, actually) requires aliasing, so defaulting to no-alias is less error prone for those users. If you’re writing an OS or runtime library, you want aliasing support and static checking, but that’s mostly out-of-scope for Fortran today.
Are there people in our population, resistant to coronavirus?
I work in a job where I have to sign things with a fountain pen for etiquette reasons. I wonder if this will give the same effect as a fountain pen but be more practical.
Is Democracy Compatible with Extreme Inequality?
> The believe that both go hand in hand is what most people get wrong already.

That's because it used to be true and was for quite a while. Fame means lots of people know who you are, which requires widely amplifying and broadcasting your identity and work. For most of modern human history, technilogical limitations made that broadcasting very expensive. You had to spend some money for each reached human. Think printing pamphlets in Dickens' era.

This meant that, generally, only the rich could afford to become famous. Fame following money and the direction was very rarely reversed aside from occasional cases of infamy like mass murderers.

Broadcast TV made that much cheaper. A single show could reach millions. But production was very expensive so even though the marginal cost per viewer was low, the barrier to entry was still very high. That meant few got in and those were mostly otherwise well connected or part of an established privileged class.

You do start to see an increasing number of "marginally famous" people here who got recognition from being guests or contestants on shows. Think "Jerry Springer" famous. These people tend to be quickly forgotten but have the misfortune of experiencing everything about fame with almost none of the money.

Then the Internet and video streaming happened. Now the barrier of entry is virtually zero — everyone has a smart phone that can shoot video. The marginal cost is zero — ads pay for distribution so the producer fronts nothing. Some money comes in, but its very little. So now there is a larger and larger group of people for whom fame came first and wealth came later or never.

I don't think our culture has caught up to that reality yet. There's still a presumption that anyone famous always has enough money to deal with the downsides but that's sadly not true. I honestly feel bad for people like mid-level YouTubers who have stalkers and death threats but are effectively making minimum wage.
Donald Trump decided to refer to Jon Stewart as Jon Leibowitz, I can't think why
I have and maintain a retro computing collection, and have had a minor public exhibit of it in 2019. I have a lot of machines from the 70's to the 21st century, and have made it a bit of a passion to demo these things to folks.

I'm now unpacking and trying to work out how to proceed with further interaction in 2020, and the one machine that keeps crossing my scope is an old Macintosh Powerbook, the first with a trackball, which has indeed been loaded up with HyperCard stacks.

Now, one thing I must add to this discussion, as someone who has had to demo these things to a modern audience, is that the person you are showing it to should always be the one doing the driving. Never try to show someone a stack - always just describe them doing it for themselves.

Stacks are delightful. Get yourself an emulator, and explore them. Its a pretty good way to get some context on your newly-gained modern chops.
I agree with everything you said. Especially your point about the blindness to it all. People spin these narratives like "Silicon Valley North" and "Hollywood North" when reality it's all branch offices.

There is a lack of investment capital available to companies based in Canada. Programs like IRAP and SR&ED don't help in any meaningful way.

Canada is a great country, but we've been underperforming for a while now and we should be a lot more concerned about that.
Am I missing the point here?

>You might be wondering, why is this a question?

Why yes, exactly my thought, please tell me...

>If you check out Unsharpen’s Ink Types Guide, you’ll see that while rollerball ink is great, fountain pen ink is quite special.

Oh, ok, so I'll follow that link, and...

>It is, of course, the ink used in fountain pens, but it takes thousands of forms. The ink can be in a bottle or cartridge, it can be iron gall or water-based, it can be handmade or produced by the vat, it can be lubricated, fluorescent, quick-drying, or any number of other qualities. [...] Fountain pen inks are a looser, more watery consistency compared to all other pen inks. This means they are free-flowing and prone to splashing, forming droplets, and doing other things that have been known to ruin countless shirts.

Ok... So if I an to recap... The only real reason to use a ball pen with fountain ink is so I can refill it with whatever ink I like? OK, HN, I have some particular interests as well, but this is about the article of least importance I've ever seen on here.

It's as if all my other problems in life have been solved and I can be a pen/ink hipster? Maybe for someone, but I guess I'm just not there yet!
I maintain the 'HyperCard Online' collection[1] at the Internet Archive, where over 3,500 stacks are able to be run directly within the browser.

We're always looking for more stacks, and have an upload form[2] for stacks to be added to the collection. If you've got some old stacks lying around, they'd be a great addition to the collection.

Extracting stacks off old Macs, floppy disks and SCSI hard drives from the 80s / 90s isn't always the easiest, but I'm always happy to help people with this - my email is hypercardonline@gmail.com .

[1] https://archive.org/details/hypercardstacks

[2] http://hypercardonline.tk/
It's because of things like https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...

So while there certainly is a skilled worker immigration path, if you are accepted by the board as a refugee, you will be met with help and kindness. And even while waiting, we do not separate kids from you and put them in cages. And we accept the most refugees in the world: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48696974
To clarify, the borrow checker is not disabled in unsafe blocks. Unsafe blocks just allow raw pointer dereferencing, which can be used to bypass the borrow checker.
So I only see three reasons to be famous:

1. The attention and adulation is your drug. I think there's no shortage of people who fall into this category.

2. To convert that fame into opportunities you wouldn't otherwise have; and

3. To convert that fame into money.

Obviously if you're just plain rich then (3) is moot. If you fall into (1) then money can buy you fame to a degree.

So that leaves (2). Wealth will give you many opportunities fame will but certainly not all. Or at least the costs to replicate that are truly ludicrous, like being a star in a Marvel movie, spending a year on the ISS, going to the Moon, that sort of thing.

The way I see it the downsides of fame are significant. I've heard tales from people who worked in media years ago that the very stars who now want the media to leave them alone and to respect their privacy would beg them for stories and coverage just a few years earlier.

I don't think I'd want to be ultra-wealthy (as in a billionaire+). At that point you're almost removed from society. I imagine you end up moving in circles with other ultra-wealthy people that are actually quite small. You risk being a target of the desperate, the criminally minded (fraud, kidnapping, blackmail, that sort of thing) and the mentally unstable.

And really what is the practical difference between having $20m and $2b? Sure you'll have nicer houses and more of them. You may well have a super-yacht at that point. But who cares? I know I don't.

You could say "you would if you had $2b" and maybe that's true. I'm sure I'd buy a nicer place but I think I'd still want to keep a relatively low profile.
If I had to guess, probably the staticness, which is what people usually mean when they make that Simula/Smalltalk distinction.
I have been remote for almost a decade, in a few different organizations, and your toolkits and documentation really aren't as big a factor as you would think. Slack, git repos, etc... those are already asynchronous communication, so whatever you have, if it works already, will still work remotely.

Meetings, however, need to change a bit...

1) They are now your only time for socialization. Let them wander a bit more, be tolerant of personal talking and catching up as everyone gets into them. Find the right balance of focus of your agenda and letting people interact with each other.

2) Do not trash people's focused time by spreading meetings out over the entire week. Being remote, you'll learn that you have focused times, and less effective times, and will learn how to let everyone have flexible schedules to both work at their ideal times, and have some shared time online for communications. Don't wreck this process by getting into the habit of thinking that a 5-day 8-hour workweek is all equally good for meetings. It is not. Talk to the team and find common blocks of time when people are comfortable working, but not at peak efficiency (Early Tuesday afternoons, for example.) Fill those times with meetings, and leave the rest of the times open. This lets the team truly capture the focus and flexibility that is possible when working from home, and gets the meetings done at a time when people are happy to be there.
British Airways 747 Flight Hits 825 MPH, Sets Record for Fastest Subsonic Flight
And luck.
As early as 10th grade I remember asking my GIS teacher, "why is ArcGIS so sluggish and aliased but in my 3d animation class the viewports are antialiased and smooth like butter?" (I didn't use these words but they're what I meant to say)

I've been a bit obsessed with interdisciplinary mashups ever since. Robotics, for example, badly badly needs to stop writing their own tools and use a ton more of what already exists in GIS. And the disciplines of geography need to do the same with the amazing vector and raster tools out there as well.

It's really awesome seeing Blender used as a GIS view.
I feel absolutely conflicted about this. On one hand, I do think this should be a catalyst to require front camera and or collision detection, especially if it saves lives. On the other, I find it reprehensible that these tragic stories are fingerpointing and blaming car companies, given their context. They more point to the drivers not paying attention, in my opinion.
Yep; I have friends in the 250k to 500k USD bracket who pine away at the notion of moving back home to Canada, but there's no way in hell they'd maintain that level of compensation.
Nice, I was looking for something like this. I currently use a Lamy Al-Star with an ink converter (to use ink from a bottle instead of single-use cartridges). Really great for writing but sometimes I miss the speed and fluidity of a rollerball. Lamy also offer rollerball pens but only with single-use cartridges that are ridiculously overpriced (I think around 3 € for a single cartridge which might last a few weeks to months) compared to normal ink, which costs around 3-5 € for 30 ml and will last several years. My writing fills roughly one 100 page notebook per year, in addition I write down a lot of things on scrap paper as well.
I don't need a "standard" that will only work on a gimmick Microsoft device. So, everyone, please help us bury it.
Maybe having endless to-do lists is more a symptom of an underlying issue that should be handled?