skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn't that successful, they were even still running Windows 2000 on some machines when they decided to switch "back" from Linux. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13643182

I wouldn't be surprised if the switch didn't help their problems at all, since if they didn't get rid of Windows 2000 when switching to Linux, they're likely still running some legacy applications on their homegrown LiMux systems and suffering from the resulting interoperability problems.
That's fair. My Dad always taught me that life is a series of distractions. A few years ago when I was single and college age I would always approach him with opportunities to change my major or accept some cool job. He'd never tell me what to do, but instead would have me write down (or review) my goals in life. And then ask myself, "does this fit within my goals?"

In following this philosophy I turned down many opportunities that seemed too good to be true because they didn't fit my life goals.

This is the main benefit I see in the quote, goals help with stretching yourself, sure. But I think it's far more valuable to stick to something instead of chasing every distraction that comes your way.
Ive sent a few emails to Website Support or Newspaper Editors when I see something that is bad and I can offer a constructive solution. In a brief message, stating the subject what's wrong and a short suggestion for improvement. (maybe with an example image or PDF. Rarely get feedback, sometimes I see the issue addressed. Either way, I can at least be satisfied knowing that I did something to improve the situation.
CIA Secretly Owned Global Encryption Provider Spied on 100 Foreign Governments
An NTD reporter had a similar idea, but focused on total deaths in the city of Wuhan rather than just flu-like deaths. A funeral home staff member said that deaths per day was 4-5 times higher than before this epidemic started, but that only 6% of those deaths were labelled as "confirmed cases" that would count toward the official numbers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYYV1B1lRKY

Assuming a similar rate of undercounting across other funeral homes in the city, that would put the real death count so far at about 14,000. This is despite extraordinary efforts by the Chinese government to prevent the spread of this virus.

(NTD has an axe to grind on this issue, but they have a reputation for factual honesty. I trust NTD's numbers far more than those of the Chinese government. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ntd-tv-new-tang-dynasty/ )
"but I think that there needs to be more working examples of those models before I'm willing to jump ship on copyright"

I understand that. I am also not a fanatic in the sense, that I would fight towards a political change to abolish copyright (would be hopeless anyway with the current state of things).
I just want to work and fight for more models of working alternatives.

The linux and blender foundations and wikipedia are the best examples I know of. And I want to add another working example soon.
Hey! May I ask how you decided to make a Reddit app? Did you ever consider using React Native or any other cross platform language?
What was the quote about Feynman? That he loved to cultivate anecdotes about himself or something similar? Makes a lot of his stories make a lot more sense, too.
> 5. The abstract reports the study found significant associations between language scores and the ScreenQ, giving the impression that these are robust, whereas the main text notes that these associations are no longer significant when household income was included as a covariate. Since many readers only read the abstract, this is misleading.

I think "misleading" is a generous way of putting it, frankly.
So what? Maybe it just wasn't meant to be. I'd happily sacrifice all of Hollywood so that computers and the internet can remain free.

What do you value more? Hollywood's shows or computing and internet freedom? That's what it comes down to. Because in order for copyright to be enforceable in the 21st century, we'd have to give up control of our computers to a higher authority. The ability to run any program we want is precisely what enables us to copy stuff without any restrictions. That's why they want to take it away. That's why they put DRM even in the hardware itself.

Copyright enforcement is actually just the beginning of the end for computer freedom. Governments would also enjoy having more control over the software their citizens run. Encryption can defeat courts, militaries... Like guns, many government officials think mere citizens shouldn't have access to these things.

These people don't care about computers the way we do. To them, it's just a tool to achieve their ends. When the power of the computer threatens them, they cripple the computer in order to protect themselves. I would rather see the computer's full potential realized even if it comes at the cost of these old businesses.
I second a therapist. I have had a relatable experience to OP which started off as small gripes with poor design to personal attacks. This became a major factor of full blown mania and I ended up in hospital for months; wouldn't recommend it.

Specifically if you see it as a personal attack, consider looking up "signs of reference". It is a similar concept where you are delusional and believe that written signs are specifically designed and aimed at you.
As a foreigner who's spending a lot of time in South Korea and had to deal/saw people deal with the inability to do anything online without the use of a Windows client, I applaud this. Every time we need to interact with the government or a bank, we need to search around for a Windows laptop or try from a VM (doesn't always work). This makes it very hard for anyone to learn a non-Windows OS.

Next step: remove the silly Korean phone number requirement from your online services.
That is misleading.

They are perfectly within their rights to charge for distributing their copy of the material. Nobody claimed they weren't. What they did instead is claim exclusive rights of distribution over the the other public domain works as well.

So, yes what they say is perfectly true, but also entirely irrelevant.
I had much the same experience with SpaceChem. I haven't dared buy Factorio.
> Windows has apps, it has vendor-built drivers, it has auto-update and nice GUIs and all that. Linux doesn't.

Linux has tons of auto update solutions. E.g. on Debian you can configure the unattended-upgrades package to do it for you. There are plenty of nice GUIs for most tasks if you use the right distro. Ultimately, it's up to the admins of the deployments to take care of updates, not up to the end users.

As for the vendor maintained drivers that Windows has, it's often the same in Linux actually. Often, the maintainers of the mainline drivers are employees of the vendors. As it should be.
We Don’t Sell Saddles Here
Interesting criticism from David Cake and Gavin Bell. Fortunately now we benefit from nice IDEs and other tools for editing popular programming languages (but none I know of for FORTH or PostScript, but there are lots of applications that edit or write out JavaScript and JSON and WebAssembly, even built into every browser ;).

Before JavaScript was released on December 4, 1995, there actually was some disagreement about not just about which language to use, but whether a browser should include a Turing-complete programming language at all. Sun was pushing TCL as a contender, then RMS issued his fatwa against it, and Sun switched over to pushing Java (not because of RMS though ;).

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-vrml.1994/0268.html

From: "Gavin Bell" <%20(fwd)"gavin@krypton.engr.sgi.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 09:41:24 -0700
To: %20(fwd)"www-vrml@wired.com
Subject: Re: Meme

>Marc de Groot wrote:
>>Meme has certain features that I would want to see in any specification for
>>VRML. In particular, Meme allows the world designer to specify platform-
>>independent executable code for the object's behavior. Without this
>>ability, objects have relatively rigid, uninteresting behavior.

David Cake replied:
> Basically VRML browsers need to be basically include much of the function
> of a simple interpretive language, and hopefully both a basically object
> oriented one (personal preference, I guess), and one that is not too
> verbose (for efficient use of low bandwidth). In this it would function
> like most existing cross platform packages of various kinds (many database
> packages, for example).

[Gavin Bell replied:]

One of the things I really like about HTML is that it is reasonably
easy to write an editor that allows you to read in and then modify any
HTML file.

One of the things I really hate about PostScript is that is is really
hard to write an editor that can edit an arbitrary PostScript file.
Meme strikes me as more PostScript-like than HTML-like; it looks like
it would be easy to write applications that wrote out Meme files, but
it looks very difficult to write applications that provide a
user-friendly interface for editing Meme files.
It's disappointing that 100% of the questions are from the perspective of the manager.
Thanks, just added the note about the notes into my Sciter Notes :)

http://notes.sciter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/note-note...

CTRL+C in browser and CTRL+V in Sciter Notes (https://notes.sciter.com) + tag and book selection.
Okay, you're right. I'd forgotten that I'd A) had a failed start with it and B) only gotten past that once I had to use it for a school project. That being said, once you figure it out, it's really powerful. It just takes a bit to get there, and I'd forgotten the beginning of my learning curve.

Sorry for the confusion, and thank you for reminding me of how hard it was for me personally to start.
Apple Card – The Story
You confuse privacy with security I think. Smart home assistants might be secure but they are not privacy-friendly, that's a difference.
The article is from 2016. Links to the outcome of the lawsuit are further up the thread.
That's really not what scopes are for either. There are a few people on this thread who are trying to politely explain that you haven't quite got what can be a reasonably tricky subject. You'd be well advised to step back a bit and read up on OpenID Connect rather than just digging in on your position and insisting everyone else is wrong.
There's few groups more in the thrall of the irrational desires of parents than the American Academy of Pediatrics.
> Microsoft will just offer Windows for free

Which... doesn’t have a really incentive now in because all of the legacy components that required Windows in the first place are all broken on Win10...

> Office at a steep discount

... and we don’t really rely on Microsoft Office that much (compared to other countries). The dominant word processor is from a local company (side note: Word is just awful... seriously. Maybe it’s due to no competition., and the local company has viable solutions that provide very high compatibility (seriously, l just can’t believe how they did it, it’s super compatible) with Word, Excel & Powerpoint. (AFAIK they export them to other countries governments as well.)
There is a federated alternative to Reddit in the works: https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy

Previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19686972
Not sure it will help but as reading this, I recalled that Tao Te Ching quote:

“What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher? What is a bad man but a good man’s job?”

more here: https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/u.osu.edu/dist/5/25851/files/2...
> Career development is more of a once per year thing (at least not weekly).

That is unfortunate, even if it is the corporate default. There should be tons to discuss about career development. Where you are, what the criteria are for the next promotion, where you need skill growth to get there, how to acquire those skills and what you can do to demonstrate that growth, And each of those items has multistep breakdowns.
TIL! I guess I Americanized it, then?
To be frank, most of the non-bot content on public tends to be low quality. I didn't think many people follow "public".
I’m Québécois. Honestly, I’m not aware of any Quebec-specific online resources. If you’re still living in Canada, there’s a good chance that you can get night classes at a University that would be taught by a Quebec expat. Otherwise, I wouldn’t agree that other resources will give you a half-baked understanding. It’s mostly a question of training your ear for the accent, which you can do by watching shows, for example. Differences in vocabulary are well-documented and easy to memorize (probably, as someone who’s done the reverse and learned the France equivalent).
Is there any tutorial using graph NN for biomed? I always wanted to learn more how graph NN is applied on the health/medical industry.
A recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22097000
Anger is one thing; it can even be productive, for example by leading OP to advocate and work for better subway accessibility. It's the taking it personally, and the (OP's word) depression that indicate a problem.
Since you’re here, can you explain what’s special about the Hancom/Hangul office software?

The Wikipedia articles all just say things like “specialized support” or “special needs”. I would have assumed that the key requirement is Hangul input, which presumably other word processing and spreadsheet programs could do just fine.
There’s probably nothing to this, but when I try to screenshot the pdf (https://ia802805.us.archive.org/7/items/comp3321/comp3321.pd...) on iOS Safari, my phone locks up for a moment with a black screen and spinner and then I have to unlock the phone. Doesn’t happen on other PDFs on archive.org or after I’ve saved it to iBooks. Can anyone replicate? Is this perhaps the result of some byzantine configuration state in the PDF spec that Apple has chosen to implement or that their implementation is choking on?
Ask HN: Note taking app with multi-tag selection and/or logic
I am looking for a note taking application. I take short notes and want to organize notes using tags. Most important feature I am looking for is that I should be able to retrieve all notes based on tags selection with and/or logic over more than two/three tags. Additionally, nice to have:

* Web/Desktop, I have no preference.

* Formatting, preferably markdown.

* Android widget.

* Multi-device synchronization, dropbox/Gdrive/OneDrive etc would work as well.

* Evernote type notebooks (optional).

* Open source and/or plugins approach (JS/Python) would be good. I would like to integrate with external services (Pocket, Feedly and Kindle) and create workflows.

I have briefly tried Evernote. Evernote's tag approach does not suit me. Please point me to correct resources, if I am wrong about Evernote. I have not tried Notion yet. I have tried quite a few not so popular alternatives however most lack an extensive tag based approach.
Amazon's Hiring Practice
A business student with almost no coding experience gets an internship at Amazon. But a CS student with years of programming experience gets rejected. Both answered all the questions correctly in the interview.

I have heard plenty of such stories and it looks like Amazon's hiring process is pretty random and purely based on luck. A friend of mine got an offer even though he/she could not answer the question in an interview.
What do you guys think of Amazon's hiring practice? Is it the way I think or am I mistaken?
The main struggle with reddit apps are the lack of mod tools. Only Alien Blue and Apollo have a simple method for working a queue. I still prefer Alien Blue's tools in this respect, but a lot of content fails to load with it.

Apollo should be the official app.
I don’t know how long it takes to fully get past stumbling through borrow checking and learning the intricacies of Result but it’s long enough to be a detriment. Obviously learning curve on its own is a downside, but also this complexity does not disappear when you understand it. It’s similar to, but less severe than, C++, in this regard.

I also think it depends heavily on the type of program you are writing and how. I’ve certainly hit cases where I still don’t know the optimal way of structuring things. In other cases people have managed to help me figure out what I need to do.

Concurrent memory safety is a huge plus, without a doubt, though there are applications where its not enough and applications where its too much. I think that puts Rust in a spot where it has use cases where it is clearly the best option but many use cases where it is overkill. As an example, Go shines particularly well for servers thanks to Goroutines and the fact that many servers have a shared-nothing architecture these days.
Ask HN: What is your longest coding session?
Some people like George Hotz can code 10 hours straight easily(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hlb8YX2-W8) and a lot of people are livestreaming 10+ hours coding sessions. I can not code more than 4 hours straight without a break of 20 mins and then continue for another 4 hours.

What is your longest coding session ?
What supplements(drinks, pills) did you take during your longest coding session ?
I'm also a native speaker (France's French if that makes a difference). "Crédits" was replaced by "bons", which means vouchers. In the context that would indeed be the likely correct option (and I never heard "crédits" used that way...)

It's grammatically incorrect to write "s'inscrire à une salle de sport" and should indeed be "dans une salle de sport" and so it was warranted to correct that.

The other corrections are similarly warranted.

I'm a bit worried if you guys all think the original text was fine... ;)
> not the lack of blinken lights

I can’t agree with this.

Stimulating lights and sounds which distract attention and make it more difficult to focus on a problem or task are actively getting in the way of learning.
Lucky they aren't the world's biggest abuser of activeX...oh wait.
DOT COM CRISIS – An event that shake the world
It's a rant by fellow Physicist Gell-Mann.
I am extremely disciplined already so perhaps that is the context I didn’t provide. But there are limits and once I got myself to a certain level I noticed going any further was actually a negative.
Just to pint out using Electron will be able to allow publish this beautiful application to other systems. Electron not an issue here, vs code is written on it and it's loved text editor for thousands of software engineers which use it every day for several hours.
Chat BOTS – an untold story of computing industry
The United Kingdom's previous system for marking school exams (GCSE) had a marking scheme from "A*/A" to "F", and then "U". Where "U" was Ungraded. Clearly it was graded, but as a "U".
Dark – The Trivial Topic of Evolution
I rate Apollo highly. Very well-designed, very fast and honestly I won't use reddit in a web browser anymore, specifically because the experience doesn't come close to Apollo. So my hats off to the developer.

That said, one really annoying bug that seems to have shown up since iOS 13, is that on the odd occasion after being on another app and swiping back to Apollo the swipe down to refresh feature just doesn't seem to appear or it freezes when it does appear and forces me to restart the app.

Just curious if anyone else has had this issue?
A Japanese Saying: A Man Is Whatever Room He Is In
I think it's pretty plausible that he was a raging egomaniac (narcissist, perhaps?).

Undoubtedly a great thinker and genius, but that doesn't say very much about personality traits.
Another game developer here, in the same situation. I also did not Kickstarter or patreon anything as I develop my game, but when it's finished their are dozens of outlets to sell the finished version on. From the play store to steam and everything in between.

Copyright should be looked at as a taxpayer funded limited time monopoly. Unfortunately that monopoly time limit has gone way past the 14 years originally intended. You could double that to 28 years with an extension. But now it's ridiculously long. Meaning the taxpayer never see a return on their monopoly investment in the form of public domain.

>The Congress first exercised its copyright powers with the Copyright Act of 1790. This act granted authors the exclusive right to publish and vend "maps, charts and books" for a term of 14 years. This 14-year term was renewable for one additional 14-year term, if the author was alive at the end of the first time. With exception of the provision on maps and charts the Copyright Act of 1790 is copied almost verbatim from the Statute of Anne.[3]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright_law_of_...
When do you think humility isn't warranted?
Using the width/height value on an <img> tag feels simply archaic and more importantly doesn't add value to the site visitor.

Why?

1. srcset [0]: the browser chooses the size of the image, not the server.

2. CSS/Responsive images [1] : Almost all (I am close to saying 100%) of images I have loaded on websites have their width/height adjusted by CSS.

Layout updates are often unavoidable in most circumstances surrounding images, there is just no getting around it.

So instead of pining over the past, we should adapt for the future.

I feel like this argument is the same I had with print designers in the late 90s who made every page a full image because they couldn't handle not having full control over the layout.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLImageEl...

[0b] https://cloudfour.com/thinks/responsive-images-101-part-8-cs...

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Multimed...
There's plenty of reporting to be found if you just search "munich linux".

From the end of [0]:

> At the time Munich began the move to LiMux in 2004, it was one of the largest organizations to reject Windows, and Microsoft took the city's leaving so seriously that its then CEO Steve Ballmer flew to Munich, but the mayor at the time, Christian Ude, stood firm.

> More recently, Microsoft last year moved its German company headquarters to Munich.

[0] https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-in-munich-no-comp...
>my phone locks up for a moment with a black screen and spinner and then I have to unlock the phone

AFAIK that happens when springboard crashes. Maybe there's a 0day exploit in there?
Well then GoT would go away, if not enough people are willing to pay for it. The world will move on.

More critical would be medical research, but I believe there is actually already lots of freely donated money for example in cancer research involved.

But surely much more is needed, so the change would be with friction ... but if suddenly all the medicine can be made freely, the benefit for the current world population which mostly cannot afford expensive medicine would outweight it, I believe. (anyway all hypothetically anyway)
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