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Hey guys,

Being a long time reader of HN I'm sometimes frustrated that top HN content is often coming from popular websites or talk too much about the same thing (Zoom security issues, Facebook leaks, ...) I wanted to understand if this was possible to get only the 'original content' posts of HN (from the not-as-popular blogs and sites). Because to me this is the most interesting part of HN.

So I started analyzing HN new posts, and made a few discoveries :

- Some HN users post a lot of content, and post several links in a row, which will push away your post if they publish just after you

- You get a 30 min time window at busy hours (and 1h time window at non busy hours) between the time a new link is posted, and the link disappear from the 1st page of new links

- There is a second-chance pool for good stuff if a moderator detects it

As a result HN is overflowed with not really useful content and it is not always easy for original content to be noticed (Even if I think HN is doing a very good job compared to any other link aggregator that you can find)

So I tried to built a tool to filter out things like news websites, words that I want to blacklist, and users whose posts haven't been relevant to me.

That way I'm able to remove almost 80% of content and I can go through the list of all the links of the day before going to bed

For those who are interested, this is just a cron job querying the HN API every 3 minutes inserting the new links into a db, and a web server rendering the last 500 links.

You can see more on how the filters works here: http://hn.luap.info/about and you can also understand which links have been filtered here: http://hn.luap.info/links_flagged
vi was written long before any video game ever, and the arrow keys on the ADM-3A terminal that Bill Joy used in 1976 were actually on the hjkl keys, so it made sense at the time.

https://catonmat.net/why-vim-uses-hjkl-as-arrow-keys
Why should I care about the accessibility of my mobile app?
I'm very curious what leads you to believe that this law doesn't exist? And be so sure about it as to call out someone else for not knowing what they're talking about.

"Passed in the 2002 and amended in 2009, the ePrivacy Directive (EPD) has become known as the “cookie law” since its most notable effect was the proliferation of cookie consent pop-ups after it was passed."

https://gdpr.eu/cookies/
I remember replaying the Portal games just to find and hear all the developer commentary snippets.
vi also builds its concepts together in a great way. Navigation keys are powerful, but combined with actions, they become monumentally powerful in a way few IDEs seem to replicate well. Something simple like "copy the next 10 lines to the clipboard" is just 10yj or 10Y or even y10j. No awkward reaching for control keys. Now combine those actions into macros and things get really fun.

One of the most fun navigation keys is the under-reported "f" key. If the cursor isn't where you want it to be, you can easily put it on the right line (perhaps with 55G or something if you want line 55) and then to move the cursor over the character you are actually looking at you just type f( assuming that ( is the character you want the cursor on. It's just great... it's about having the computer work around your human experience of looking at the screen in a nice way.
With Firefox for Android it shows me continue with Firefox.
From Microsoft's point of view, it makes sense to merge Visual code with Github, as both are their properties. And it walks into the realm of repl.it and darklang, who are demonstrating people want to shorten the repl loop.

But I'm still wary of Microsoft, and remember them from the 90's. Completely dominant and ruthless. Even though it's new people now.

I can see them embracing open source development workflow, branching to eat up everything that has to do with your development workflow. Once Microsoft wins the ecosystem of open source developer workflow is when they'll start to leverage it, using it as lead gen for the lucrative cloud/dev ops services.

They're playing a long game to beat Amazon AWS, and to beat off any new startups with shorter repls.
From their site:

Can new users and organizations still sign up?

Pull Panda is no longer accepting new sign ups.
I’m not sure if you can bring your own machine[1] with GitHub Codespaces, but you can with Visual Studio Codespaces, which has the same underlying tech/featureset. (Visual Studio Codespaces was known as Visual Studio Online until last week) it basically does exactly what you want, let’s you use your dedicated local resources on another machine or remotely via the browser or using VS Code proper.

I work at Microsoft on Azure but not with VS Codespaces or with GitHub Codespaces — I’m just a big fan/user/beta tester.

[1]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/bring-your-own-m...
Nope, fuck this.

The moment a product mentions "From developer to CEO" (ie. includes the word "CEO"), this is bad news. As soon as you introduce any metrics involving "participation awards" (whether based on lines of code, commits, reviews/pull-requests, etc.), the company is doomed to fail at understanding how productivity/worth is measured in the development world.

The fact they even mention "CEO" in their tagline is all one needs to know. There is not a single CEO in the world who should give a goddamn shit about actions taken at the source control or release level. It's all marketing drivel intended to promise management that the product being sold can somehow deliver insight into a world they will never understand. The fact is developers will just waste time inflating their metrics to satisfy productivity algorithms, while costing the business time–and therefore money–developers could have spent actually improving the product.
There’s a good chance he knows what Bray was saying, but couldn’t respond effectively to that.
Thanks! Part of me knew that I was gonna burn myself by going for the Latin.
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> You seriously want the EU to micro-manage the HTTP spec?

Well no, what you really want is browsers that do the right thing to begin with and e.g. block third party cookies by default. Then you don't need "cookie legislation" at all.

But if they're going to require something then it should at least be clear what the requirement is. If multiple large corporations who can obviously afford competent attorneys are doing something ridiculous, that's pretty good evidence that your legislation is drafted stupid.
Almost certainly missed that point on purpose.
There must be differences in how people perceive lag, because it's rare that I notice any from LCDs. I have used a handful of TVs that were noticeably bad, but it was always solved by flipping them into game mode.

Given how much input lag can exist locally (well over 100ms) it should be entirely possible to eliminate perceivable lag in cloud gaming if the local hardware is low latency and the render farm is within a few hundred miles. I play Stadia from my laptop with a wired xbox controller, so I don't expect my hardware is adding a ton of lag, and anyway it's not perceivable to me. I just played through steamworld dig which has quite a few quick-reaction jumping puzzles and didn't have any issues whatsoever.
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Welding has advanced since the Saturn 5. I've read that both TIG and MIG are being used. Inspection is much easier to do with modern equipment
I agree this is an important discussion, but don't believe in speed limits as it applies to any of this really, depending on what's meant.

Many of the problematic developments regarding SARS-CoV-2 were corrected fairly rapidly. In this regard I see a lot of recent research and its coverage as being typical, but sped up, and with more attention.

What I think has been happening is people -- citizens, journalists, scientists -- just seeing what actually happens in science, and not being able to turn away or sweep things under the rug because of the urgency of things. So when claims start being made on shoddy research motivated by questionable motives, and then enshrined in policy with weak justification, everyone notices instead of it just being ignored like it usually is.

My sense is that the problem isn't necessarily with preprints or anything -- I suspect outlets like that will only increase in use and significance over time -- it's in the way everything is interpreted. There's a tendency to interpret something peer-reviewed as "The Truth" by many journalists, scientists, and clinicians, whereas in reality science is much more messy, gradual, and variable. It's more of a directed stochastic walk than a straight line.

What I'd like to see is everyone treat papers, even peer-reviewed ones, as potentially very fallible minute bits of information, and to recognize the distorted incentive structures that exist in academics today. University press releases should be looked at with as much skepticism as press releases from businesses, for similar reasons.
> If I'm not the customer, then I'm the product.

This is not necessarily always the case, for example the free thing might be a loss leader, exist to boost secondary or tertiary effects or otherwise exist for non-profit motivated reasons.
Some discussion on the events at the embassy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22779746
It also allows for faster retrofitting of old vehicles with new battery tech.
This entire article is premised on an excuse from a single HR person that an email ended up in their spam folder. It is probably worth keeping in mind that "your email ended up in spam" does occasionally happen, but it is also a widely used polite white lie that people use instead of saying "I ignored your email."
Statelessness is often a good thing in designs in many ways, performance, reliability, maintainability, operating cost etc.

As a concrete example for a common use case, websites show your user or first name in the top right corner. It's common to put this in a cookie set on login/logout. This avoids querying the user directory service (from the frontend or a different backend service) on every pageload. Security wise it doesn't matter if the user tampers with it, it's a display only thing. (More often than not it's signed anyway, and the cookie contains other things as well.)

Cookies meant to be presented back to a server can be signed and (optionally) encrypted. This is also a very widely used pattern ("cookie secret" is a good search term for concrete implementations in frameworks).
Part of the problem is being able to keep the scale of the original document. That is, I have a document with an image of a ski 175cm long, and when I print it I need it to be 175cm in the real world, as I am using it as a template for cutting material (if only I had a giant CNC machine...). So far I have not found a way to get system print dialogs to do this for me. I can take a PDF or PS file and print them, but the scale management is rudimentary.

Somehow I was able to do these things easier with 1990s DTP tools?

In the end Microsoft Publisher has worked for me. Sort of.
Does this work on iPad?

I was under the impression this bug is blocking VSCode and other electron based apps.

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149054
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have you had any reduction in emails you dont want? i get a lot less since gdpr.

plus i can now get my data from lots of sites as they cant be bothered to restrict non-eu people to not have the functionality.

plus quite a few more sites / services have options to delete my account and data that only came about because of gdpr

plus it seems like other places are considering similar laws too so then the "benifits" will be felt by even more people.

oh and now you get an indicator of how crumby a company is by how hard it is to opt out of things.

dunno it just seems like a lot of wins. with the main downside being that my person data abuse is regularly brought to my attention via popups etc. but that doesn't seem sustainable - i am hoping its a transitional thing and company actually just start complying.. but i guess that will take the EU laying down some serious fines to make examples - which to be fair this article seems to be a step towards. seems like many other control systems (e.g. dangerous goods shipping or hazardous chemical controls) that the governing bodies are careful in applying the law to make sure they don't just fine companies into oblivion if they are making steps in the right direction and fix anything specifically called out.
They predicted "computer world" in 1981 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa7WrCqsTC0

"Crime, Travel, Communication, Entertainment"
The banks have determined that the cost of preventing fraud is higher than the fraud itself. If you suspect fraud on your account, or if a card is stolen/lost, the fraudulent transaction is quickly reversed and a new card arrives in the mail in 2-3 days.

And it's pretty rare. I've had only once actual instance of electric fraud, and one stolen card in 20 years. That's 20 years of never having to remember or type in a PIN.
Nothing obvious about it. That's like saying Roland's shitty bass accompaniment gizmo, the TB-303, was obviously built for Acid House.
Correct-ish. Rivian has a patent for such an ability, but no announcement even of planned availability.

Continued battery improvements pretty much obviate any more complicated range extending efforts, IMO, other than perhaps road embedded magnetic chargers, which are fairly simple.
> and if you have that kind of data you're probably not worried about Oracle-sized licenses.

We're a two-man startup selling analytics of blockchain data. We have a several-terabyte data set and basically no hosting budget. I don't think we're all that unusual. Dataset size does not imply organizational size/budget.
The view of the Eclipse Foundation onto VS Code may be interesting here:
https://blogs.eclipse.org/post/mike-milinkovich/theia-open-s...
But GitHub actions do exactly support that in the form of code annotations, see e.g. here https://github.com/ember-template-lint/ember-template-lint/p... - no need to scan logs if you do that, you get the comments right on the code.
I agree that it doesn't sound like it has anything to do with how he sent it.

I wasn't aware of a feature like this, but a quick search turned up documentation for an "email quarantines" feature in G Suite (https://support.google.com/a/answer/6104172).

I do get mail received over POP from another account in my spam folder, but I suspect it doesn't explain this quarantine behavior.

I'm not sure if a G Suite email user can add a private email over POP/IMAP, but I would be a little slack-jawed if they could AND their personal mail could get pulled into the organization's quarantine?
Yep, Windows FS is very slow. If you have an antivirus it is extremely slow, but even if you don't, it is still very slow. This is not really an issue of msys2 or WSL, this is an issue of Windows itself.
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Sandstrom is suggesting the ex-Atom devs were pivoted to VS Code Online and contributed to this release.
I remember listening to Nathan Sobo, one of the founders/creators of Atom, talking to The Changelog in 2017 about creating Atom and his goal/dream to make it a collaborative editor, i.e. Google Docs for code [0]. He didn't have a timeline but he had done research into it:

> That’s definitely something I wanna do; that’s not really in progress yet. I did a bunch of research in that area, so that I can’t really put a timeline on. I can definitely say that more async style traditional GitHub collaboration will be happening this year. I think there will be a natural outgrowth from that into the real-time stuff.

Don't know if Sobo or his Atom colleagues do anything with the VS Code people, but hearing about Codespaces made me immediately think about his ideas for cloud editing.

(AFAIK the CodeSpaces presentation didn't mention collaborative editing in its current feature set)

[0] https://changelog.com/podcast/241
Just like how the breakup of bell liberated us from oppressive telecoms monopolizing our neighborhoods, and fostered competitive innovation in this field, right? It doesn't matter how many companies there are in an industry if the functional consequences on your life by that industry as a whole are the exact same if they were a single monolith. If it quacks like a duck...

You say the railroads are a bygone era, just drive through San Marino to see what railroad money has bought and continues to buy to this very day. This wealth did not evaporate, it has only grown.
> four 1.5Ghz cores

The Pi Zero is actually only a single-core 1GHz board with 512mb RAM. It's fairly slow compared to the rest of the lineup. I couldn't even upgrade my Pi 2 to a Zero in a few of my projects.
Interesting history, like this here is, is a topic that appears regularly on HN.

I find things like this much more compelling than the history where you have to learn various dates of events by heart!
That's the way things used to work, but these popup dialogs became an annoyance as sites started using 3rd-party cookies pervasively, and the simpler "always accept"/"always deny" model took hold. Perhaps with 3rd-party cookies being increasingly limited by default browser configurations, we'll ultimately turn back to that model.
It will be 180days + unemployment + CARES act unemployment (13w) so the better part of a year before the real defaults start. Not that it won’t happen it will be much more slow motion that most people will be comfortable with.

BTW I just lost out on buying a house, the market is still there but it is much lower.
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Props to Airbnb for treating everyone well. This sentence is interesting: "While we know Airbnb’s business will fully recover..." That might just not be knowable given that travel/hotels/etc might be changed forever.
How clever! Grandma seeing pics of her grandchildren on the other side of the world is totally the same as a meth tweaker in Appalachia. Color me convinced.
Yeah I think a huge advantage Reddit has over other social networks is that it's broken up into myriad communities which are able to develop their own norms and self-govern to some degree. In smaller communities, this totally sidesteps some of the issues you have on a platform like Twitter, where people with very different beliefs and assumptions are essentially having conversations about how much they don't like each-other in the same room.
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Not mentioned in that blog post is Ted Gould, who started the project. If you've ever met him, it's not hard to see how he'd set a tone that would ensure the community would grow in to what it is.
My first exposure to Kraftwerk as a young lad and it still resonates today. Even more so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ybQWD6N6Zo
I always look at the Surface Book and want it to be my next laptop, but I feel like it is a jack of all trades that doesn't really excel in any one area - and therefore, I have a hard time justifying it over other machines.

Most powerful Surface ever? Sure, but the Macbook Pro 16" can give me double the cores at a similar pricepoint.

Gaming-class GPU? Yeah, but if I wanted a gaming laptop I'd probably want something with an RTX card in it. And if I didn't care about form factor, I'd build a desktop.

Detachable tablet? Interesting idea, but this feels highly impractical with the 15" version, which is the model I would get for maximum performance.

I think if I was a college student, this would be a fantastic device. A little bit of everything and the ability to type notes in OneNote or handwrite them when necessary. But as my daily driver for productivity, I think there are better options at a similar price point.
Dating myself, but I found vi fairly easy to learn since I had used TECO on DEC machines. I rather liked TECO.

iHello World\n<escape>

is the same in TECO and vi.
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Nope. Developers can get all the experience they need in a dev sandbox environment with all the same tools and infra. They do not need access to the production environment.
He says most restaurants are. There's no money in one-off webdev consulting for low-margin businesses, which is why you won't hear it as a pitch - it's solved with a single webpage with a phone number, or maybe a Google Sheets frontend. There's so much human in the backend there's not a ton of point automating the frontend.
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Incredibly late reply, but thank you for an in-depth response.
It's as if his goal was to shift the focus away from the problem.
The BBC, like a lot of news orgs, wants to maximize advertising impressions, and the way to do that is to keep almost all links pointed to itself. A link to the more substantive source is a reader lost.
I sometimes wonder how many forum posts just end up being conversations between paid marketers from various corporations
I guess that the bleakness is the point, but I prefer a more optimistic spin on the same thing: the key to happiness isn't a search for meaning, because the universe has none to offer. It is the creation of meaning for yourself—what you do has the importance you attach to it, neither more nor less.
Unfortunately I have no number to give you. I did a search on the subject a while ago and all that I could find is numerous post on multiple forums with people indicating slowness, lower fps in games, shuttering. Weirdly, this is something that could be tested pretty easily with a benchmark.

In my understanding on how a Hypervisor works, the only thing that I'm almost confident to say is that there is an impact but it's probably not noticeable or highly related to your workload (maybe on I/O?).

People will probably not care about that impact in fact (considering that Hyper-V is enabled by default and there are multiple security features of Windows now relying on Hyper-V).
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Thank you, definitely - need to make that more straightforward! Really appreciate your time and feedback.
That is definitely abnormal. For me (on an i5-3350P (!) Linux junk desktop from Hell) it starts up in about one second, so eomething is definitely wrong (or you're using an even worse machine than I am, in which case something _else_ is definitely wrong). Maybe one of the Inkscape support channels could help you here?
Thanks it was a bit ambiguous. I hope your economy improves soon :)
It's a choice so many site owners have made that the web is effectively ruined.
Spoiler alert:

The horse doesn't die, its turned into glue after being sent to a "vet" having collapsing from exhaustion.