skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using kubuntu for a while and while I like it a lot, it seems very "chatty" to me - way too many notifications which I have to disable one at a time. I only discovered the snap situation when Chromium started prompting before it would open files, and I couldn't find a way to disable it. In the end I installed Chrome, but I am looking around for an alternative distro.
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This is the first product we are releasing to improve the resale experience as well as to provide humans with the freedom to use their money wisely on the things they really care about.
That’s what you get when you define font sizes relative to the viewport size.

I’d say “disable JavaScript” since this one is JavaScript-induced rather than just `font-size: 5vw` or similar, but the body element has `style="visibility: hidden"` which is removed by JavaScript, so you’ll get a blank page for your trouble. And the squiggle and other images use <img data-src> which is turned into <img src> by JavaScript.

I still haven’t decided which I hate more, pure-JS pages that should have been plain HTML, or pages that are gratuitously hidden in CSS and then unhidden in JavaScript… so long as you run it.
So I run Kubuntu on my work laptop (X1 Carbon) and just upgraded to 20.04 last weekend. I had a vague idea there were different competing standards for "linux apps that work across distribution" but didn't know people had such a problem with snap. It just seemed like a useful tool for installing proprietary stuff that wouldn't normally be packaged by the distribution. I just checked and the snaps I have that aren't from canonical are: datagrip, slack, discord, and spotify. I haven't noticed any slow app boot times and I think it's great that it's so easy to install third party software. Is snap somehow user-hostile?
Dino's definitely would not meet your cost-value expectations, they're exceedingly overpriced. They're located on a busy block of popular bars in a hip neighborhood, and they use hipster-ironic self deprecation as part of their marketing schtick, but their pricing is definitely "what the market will bear" and their quality is fairly average. If you want the second best pizza in Seattle, definitely go for the more unassuming Big Mario's.
==it is very likely the education experience in Chicago continues to decline.==

This is the imbedded assumption you are working with. All indications are that the system has significantly improved over the past 10 years [1]. The state also passed a significant education bill that directs more money to the district (not less, as you imply) [2]. It’s well-known that schools are neighborhood-by-neighborhood asset in Chicago. Thats part of the calculus of moving.

Nobody is “blindly trusting” anyone, not sure why you assumed that.

[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2018-04-13/t...

[2] https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-illinois-house-sc...
Developer Tea is one of my favorites. It's about software development and psychology.

https://spec.fm/podcasts/developer-tea
What about becoming a penetration tester? Its a much easier to go from developer to pen tester than from developer to security researcher, though thats not to say its easy either. Plus working as a pen tester its highly likely you will have colleagues who are security researchers, you can talk to and learn from them. There aren't generally "junior security researcher" roles available, you'll have to start somewhere and pen testing is a good foot in the door, it also involves breaking things so that might satisfy your itch too.
Large scale terraforming (land masses, forests, mountains, rivers) is done via external tools. Most "human scale" features like buildings are done in-game.
A Man Who Built a 40-Foot Spite Fence Around His Neighbor’s Home (2017)
Minecraft is a sandbox where you can play an RPG or other types of games, but it lacks typical RPG elements, like character progression.
Imaginary Interest Rates
Ah thanks!

Sorry, been a lurker on HN for a whiiile. Just made an account to reply. I assume it's just markdown style?
Banks have done an excellent job of selling the American public on the idea that creditworthiness somehow equals morality. This same advice given to a corporation would be considered by many as just what the business has to do to weather the storm.
I am always amazed how much people are willing to give.
> In your own company you're free to do what you want.

No, it's corporate MITM specifically which should be illegal.
One more:

Aufhebunga Bunga

The global politics podcast at the end of the End of History. From a left perspective.

https://aufhebungabunga.podbean.com/
I support WayfindMap's idea.

What do you hope to achieve by turning your "hobby" into your full-time job?

Do you feel like you will only achieve the level you want if you do not have other things in the middle, such as a SWE job?
Any movement the buisness Operative Systems producers do, the FOS movement blindly mimics. In this case, treat the consumer like cattle and force your design decision upon him. (Win 8)I cant wait for FOS spyware..
It's not that you don't need a repl. It's that you don't really get the many benefits other repl-heavy languages have, like Smalltalk and the many different lisps. You got a lot of implicit state and other non-ergonimic constructs in the language that doesn't lend itself to live in a repl for development. Also I expanded a bit more on why Golang doesn't fit for repls in general here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23053343
I cannot agree more and I'm actually surprised that I haven't heard this complaint more often/loudly. Perhaps there is something we are missing ?
That advice only applies to a narrow set of functionality within the organization though. It's usually not cost effective or wise to write custom marketing systems if you can get one off the shelf. Your teams turnover rate, documentation, support, and feature creep all contribute to the maintenance of that system. No way it makes sense in the short or long term for non-core business functions.
I can't - snap Chromium takes about 1 second to load for me on Ubuntu 20.04
That's weird, all the links are purple yet not in my browsing history...

I guess that shows why websites shouldn't mess with standard UX things, such as having unvisited links blue (or at least something other than the 'visited link purple' colour).
Well I suppose my point is that it would probably be a good idea to advance balloon tech on earth first before attempting such a thing on Venus. Finding people willing to risk their lives is well and good, but if trillions of dollars worth of equipment and mission planning go to waste very quickly, I wager it'd be hard to find funding for such missions.
Shareware strikes me as too precarious of a compromise to last long as an industry. It makes sense that in the longer term it would split into F2P games and Open software, which are both better at maximizing the distinct virtues of shareware
Windows Server won’t be getting “sold off.” I’m not sure you understand just how entrenched Windows Server is in the Enterprise and just about every Fortune 500 company out there, including huge telecoms and ISPs. MS still makes a ton of money off Server, and most of the companies/Enterprise using Server aren’t even thinking about Azure.
Someone needs to make an RPG in RPG and make sure it has RPGs...in minecraft.
That's funny, because other conspiracists think Russia and Saudi Arabia are keeping prices low to attack the US. Everyone has an incentive to be the primary player and drive others out of business, so "A & B are conspiring to hurt C" is always going to make some sense.

If I were to reality check though, this isn't the time the US would be choosing to take another hit on its own economy to disrupt Iran or Venezuela.
Yes it starts in about 3~4 seconds for me. The only reason it doesn't bother me is that I normally use Firefox.
Only in dev environments. Not on machines used by employees.
> would you loan money into this kind of uncertainty?

If it wasn't my money and my bonus depended on my loan volume, even if I suspect many will blow up in 5 years? 2008.
So no sales high output team needs a CRM ?

no engineering high output team needs a versioning tool ?

no designer high output team needs a design tool ?

High output teams always need several tools
Working for a rate that you would get full-time is non-sustainable as a contractor.
> Unless the Fed starts buying up land directly, or using REITs.

This is happening. The Fed is buying mortgage backed securities.

In other words: the Fed is buying real estate.
The claim you made was, "Friendly reminder that there were massive bot compaigns on both sides of the issue."

The claim I made was, "I don't think the evidence you've posted supports that there were massive bot campaigns," bot in italics.

You have now changed your claim to be about "fake comments," independent of bots, which is not what we were talking about. Nor did I claim that it was "only one side who resorted to fake comments" - I said "we should disregard many more of the received anti-net-neutrality comments. I did not say that we should disregard zero received pro-net-neutrality comments. It is certainly true that a nonzero number of comments on both sides were fake comments. The question is whether that's a small number or a large number, and whether the numbers are the same (let alone "massive") on both sides.

The WSJ article you linked to includes evidence that a number of anti-net-neutrality comments were posted by bots - see the paragraphs starting "Chicago programmer..." - and that a number of pro-net-neutrality comments were posted by humans encouraged to send in pre-canned messages. Those are certainly not "bot campaigns." Whether those comments count as "fake comments," whether those comments correspond to a small number of actual humans who were stealing others' identities, whether those comments correspond one-to-one with actual humans who failed to fill in their own contact information, etc. is an interesting question that's worth discussing, but let's settle the claim you originally made, first, that there were "massive bot campaigns on both sides of the issue." Where is the evidence that there was even a single bot campaign - again, emphasis on bot - on the pro-net-neutrality side?

The comment from an FCC spokesman about a "single fake e-mail generator website" refers to fake e-mail addresses (it's a website much like Mailinator). Such addresses could well have been used by real people to send real comments, so this does not necessarily correlate with "fake comments." (For instance, I assume your legal name is not "Ikeboy," so you're using a "fake name" on this website - but that hardly means you're making "fake comments," or that you're part of a bot campaign.)
If someone is pissing on my floor, I might tell them to stop destroying my house.

If they drunkenly retort that, at most, they're slowly destroying the floorboards, and that the frame and roof will happily go on without them... I'm still kicking them out.
I actually really like that analogy. I can't tell you how many times I have seen comments on Personal Finance subreddit and other places that always criticize banks for being ready to foreclose on a home with no concern for the people that live there.

Of course they do, you are just a blip on the bank's radar. The decision to foreclose is a matter of business to them. So why can't borrowers do the same thing and essentially "foreclose" on the bank? Foreclosure is literally just cutting your losses. That's what the banks do all the time, so if they can do it, then why can't borrowers do it too? It is an excellent perspective.
Thinking about Spec like a type-system is really not the right way to think. Its more dynamic validation system that works like regex for data-structures.
I'm talking about the play store updating itself. It's proven impossible to entirely disable over here, and when I used adb to forcibly uninstall the play store the device stopped booting a week later requiring a factory reset.
Good warning, and I agree on the learning curve. I've been using ubuntu mainly as a convenience, and it's amusing how frequently I refer to the Arch wiki (which is excellent[0]) to diagnose/fix ubuntu-related issues. I've wanted more fine-grained control over my daily system for a long time, and this snap debacle is the final straw for me.

0. https://wiki.archlinux.org/
People in elevators are not more silent. The reason they're quiet is because they're strangers, not because they're standing too close. In a more open space, like a grocery store, strangers still aren't chatting.

Or maybe you're asking why elevators feel more awkward. It feels awkward because the physical relationship does not match the emotional one. Also, the stranger has an up-close view of you: any flaw in your appearance or words is received by someone who you don't trust, don't understand. You can only guess what they'll think. They'll likely be polite and say nothing critical, but the thought that they might secretly think something critical is enough to hold back most people. The concern for what strangers think is another interesting subject in psychology.
It usually wouldn’t even be running Debian. More likely CentOS/RHEL/Suse or a Solaris.
If you read down far enough, the site covers that!
> Channels allow mutex free communication between goroutines without a pain.

Channels are not lock free: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/8899
I finally moved on from my failed, 5-year old project
Why not? Because of the myriad things that can go wrong and bring doom to the enterprise. In due time one of them will happen. Stable systems are governed by negative feedback loops, blimps are not one of them.
Could this just be a political power play to pressure the US gov not to pass any mortgage forbearance, forgiveness, or similar measures?
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It also vastly depends on your goals. Thiel's advice is great if you are setting out to create the next Palantir, Facebook or Paypal.

If you're looking to bootstrap a passive-income business as a solo developer, it's not as useful. In fact I'd flip his advice on his head and instead of "Build a Platform" say "Build a successful and revenue positive business off someone else's platform with the aim of being acquired by it some day."
That's the beauty of Linux Distros. We are spoiled for choice.
What's a '$1 value meal'? Is this a thing?
>I look at the average Trig problem and I didn’t know where to start helping my son.

Did you try reading the text book? It's made for children. It's high school math. I cannot understand this mindset but I fear it is extremely common and our society is in trouble for it.
> We have been living in a housing bubble for a while. We all know it, Wells Fargo knew it, and this could be a signal that at least Wells Fargo is concerned that the bubble might be popping.

I really doubt that. Home values are high in urban areas because of high demand and low supply. The buyers are actually qualified and can afford to pay their mortgages. Mortgages are not being handed out like candy like they were in 2008.

Right now the situation is kind of the inverse of 2008. In 2008, a recession triggered mass job loss. Today, mass job loss resulting from the virus lockdowns has triggered a recession. No bubble burst.

I would bet Wells Fargo is more worried about people who are otherwise creditworthy suddenly being unable to make payments because they lost their jobs, or the government suspending payments. In a situation like this, credit history is not very useful in evaluating risk.
Your analogy would perhaps make sense if there's a documented causal link between a pizzeria's shitty website and the quality of their pizza. Did I miss some ground-breaking research on the matter?
I don't see the analogy. Evidence for fast food being less healthy than a salad is pretty overwhelming, consumers don't care and choose fries anyway.

Lead pollution harms everyone, not just the person who burns it. And, lead isn't really needed to avoid knocking. If you want consumer preference to change you need to make a salad that is as delicious and cheap as fries.
And "fuck no!" is indeed the right answer.
Yeah, there's science and then there's science. I'm sure they're correct about aerosol protection, but if this virus is mostly spread via respiratory droplets (as seems likely) that's an entirely different question and answer. In such a case even poor masks will be useful against exposure via casual contact. So long as you're not wearing them on your chin, as I see so often.
I agree, but would also like to add that MMR, vitamin D, and zinc lozenges are all very safe when taken as directed. Unless you have a specific medical contraindication, the potential harms of these products are very small compared to the benefits.
Can Programmers Escape the Gentle Tyranny of Call/Return?
>I'd never considered living inside a Venutian blimp before. Of course! Why not?

Are you aware of wind velocities at an altitude high enough to get you 1 bar on Venus?

Think Goodyear blimp --

in hurricane Katrina.

OK, now that you've got a picture of that in mind --

double the wind speed.
They may also lack confidence in their ability to foreclose on homes with delinquent HELOCs.
I’d be a little more circumspect before accusing others of ignorance and then going on a tirade of declarative statements about an OS you’re obviously not invested in enough to solve the problems you’re experiencing.
Auto-updating isn’t the only issue. I’m a stickler for security updates; I’m that crazy guy who always reboots his computer immediately whenever there’s an update. I like that Windows forces updates.

Even I recognize that this doesn’t make sense in the Linux world, though. Ubuntu is trying to be something it’s not—they’re trying to appeal to a new demographic, and, in doing so, driving away their existing users.

Even with my stance on auto-updating, snaps are a problem for me because I mostly use Linux in the context of servers. Like it or not, that’s where Linux has the largest market share; Android aside, Linux’s consumer market share is negligible.

In that context, snaps have problems:

- I can’t have my servers updating on their own. Security updates rarely break things, but most other updates need testing.

- I use auto-scaling. That means servers need to come up quickly when load increases. If a bunch of new servers come online and all decide to update, that’s worse than no servers coming online.

- I don’t want or need a sandbox. In a cloud environment, the server is the sandbox.

- Environments and server states need to be reproducible for testing and auditing. If I’m doing a post-mortem, I need the software on the relevant image to be in the exact same state as when the problem occurred.

- Performance is critical. I’m already paying AWS for sandboxing in the form of many small EC2 instances; I don’t need the additional overhead of snaps. I’m not working with bare metal.

All of these issues could be resolved, and I wouldn’t object to this experiment running in a non-LTS or desktop-only release. But it is truly an experiment: snaps aren’t ready for prime time. My options are to pay Canonical for extended support for old software, wait it out and hope the issues are sorted before I stop receiving security updates, or switch to something like Alpine or Debian.

Keep in mind, this is coming from someone who loves automatic updates, generally prefers systemd, rather liked Unity, and didn’t see what all the fuss was with Upstart and Mir:

- systemd works pretty damn well and is a big improvement, although it has its hiccups

- Unity was fine. It looked nice out-of-the-box and wasn’t a resource hog.

- Upstart usually worked well enough, though it sometimes had reliability issues.

- Mir never really saw the light of day, so it didn’t matter.

Snaps are where I draw the line. They might be the future, but they’re not ready for the present. And that’s not for lack of trying on my part—I had no trouble embracing Upstart and later systemd.
I understand that Microsoft see the large number of vulnerable machines on the internet as a problem thay they are responsible for and the forced update as a necessary solution.

Nevertheless, I dual-boot my laptop and use Windows almost only for presentations. Whenever connections to external devices and other OS shenanigans force me to reboot my machine when I'm in the speaker position and the dreaded forced update cycle begins I swear I'll never touch that ugly OS ever again. And I already developed routine of checking for updates and booting in advance, but somehow this still happens from time time.

I guess there's need to be a special "seriously not now pretty please" button.