skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bilr is a legal billing software for the modern law firm. Bilr helps lawyers with easier timekeeping and more efficient billing through its web- and mobile app.
Isn't that true for all frameworks?
The modern-ish Zorks (i.e. the ones available for a range of home computers, Zork 1/2/3, not mainframe Zork) can be done almost entirely without clues (and have no external frob based copy-protection). I remember vividly finally having to seek help in Zork 3, as the phrase "Hello, sailor" was not part of the typical 12 year-old's lexicon, but that was the only time I completely tapped out.

There are some pretty nutty things buried in the game, though - there's a spot in Zork 1 where by typing "temple" or "treasure" at the appropriate location you can teleport from one to the other - the supposed hint for this is they both have a granite wall. WTF?

I believe at the time, as a teenager, I finished most of the Infocom games available without using clues - it can be done. I think I never got the optimum outcome for Deadline.

I recently (this year) finished Starcross without hints or clues, aside from the copy-protection "map" at the start.
I've got multiple laptops -- including multiple ThinkPads -- and my 7-year-old W530 is still my favorite out of all of them.

The W530 was dubbed a "mobile workstation" (by Lenovo) and it really is a beast (hell, it's had 32 GB of RAM since day one, which is still more than what you can put in many laptops even today!).

At my previous job, I primary worked from home but when I did go to $work (the office, a customer's site, or one of our PoPs), I would often ride my Harley-Davidson Street Glide Special (midwest weather permitting). That machine -- which was also a beast, by the way -- vibrates like nothing you've ever seen! The W530 would get shoved into my backpack, which just barely fit in the saddlebags. Then, after arriving at my destination, I'd grab it, flip it open, and get back to work. Not once did I have an issue with it failing to do anything. It even accompanied me, in the saddle bag, on a 2,000 mile round trip!

I've had at least two (and perhaps three) MacBook Pros during the same time period but I would never have been brave enough to take one of them for a ride on the bike. I've got a feeling that many lesser laptops would not have survived.

(My next ThinkPad will almost certainly be whatever the current "mobile workstation" is, whenever the W530 finally gives up the magic smoke.)
I’m getting back to making videos
> it forces you to look for work

Yes, in a theoretic sense. Not practically, it does not run out and you have to be pretty combative and purposefully i-wont-work to be sanctioned.

> TV costs 17€ a month per household even if you don't have a TV

Which is waived for anyone on social benefits.

> Health insurance is pretty far from free

It is for anyone on social benefits, paid by taxing those that work.
> I imagine debt relief agencies don't fight because I think many are funded by the credit industry. So they direct debtors into payment plans rather than trying to shut down the predators.

Or they require money up front to help you. They already know you are (likely) a default risk, so “cash in advance, please”. And as you allude to, a lot of times the “real” value in services like this is relief from the stress of the calls and letters. They’re not passionately involved or connected, they just have the calls directed to them and put up with it and give you a settlement offer that you could have reached in the first place.
As someone else pointed out elsewhere in this thread, check out /r/unixporn. Kids today with their tiling wm:s and esoteric editors, eh?
> You can see the pro-chinese propaganda on this site alone.

Actually, most of the propaganda here and in social media has been anti-chinese. Obnoxiously so.

> The number of people supporting Zoom, WHO, WeChat, etc is enough to conclude with near certainty this site as well is owned by the Chinese.

What? Almost everything about Zoom, WHO, WeChat, etc has been negative. Even this thread has been negative.

> What you're speaking is truth. It's a shame this site will censor you.

Don't. The obvious victimhood propaganda won't get you very far here.

> It is no coincidence so much information suppression has gone on the last 3 months...

3 months? It's been going on for many years. And I don't think it is the chinese behind it.

People like you tell us that the russians and now the chinese control propaganda in the US and yet everything I read, see or hear is anti-russian and anti-chinese. Either the russians and chinese hate themselves or they are just terrible at propaganda or you are simply wrong.
If we'd never had cookies or we ban them now we'd be left with basic auth over https. That's equivalent to a first party cookie. It would be enough to create an ecommerce site with a cart and a recommendation engine. Every single site would have the same login form, managed by the browser. I guess we'd end up with an <auth> or <input type="auth"> tag to embed it inside the page and style it.

Another consequence, there would be more server to server communications because the first party server could send all sort of information to the servers that are setting third party cookies in pages now. The focus of privacy policies would be there.

Probably no way to implement OAuth.
There's a code review, of sorts, (from an ex-Googler) here:

https://lockdownsceptics.org/code-review-of-fergusons-model/
Assuming there was enough runway for a rainy day, this could be a great time to invest in some R&D projects that will pay off dividends when the sun starts to shine again.
Full p2p implies a lot network traffic even when idle. Killer argument against mobile use.
Does stackoverflow have ads? I would imagine that a large percentage of their technically savvy user base would be using an ad blocker.
It’s not aimed at introductory programmers. It’s aimed at more experienced programmers to suggest to them that they can show new programmers what’s possible.
How to Write Unit Tests for Your REST API
I think they dont use QT because they already have native windows, mac, X11 and GTK ports, why would they use qt?
> reopening all the files from my last session and arranging them on screen,

Interesting. How did you get it to store the list of previously opened files?
Who do you think are appealed to as an authority? A lowly postdoc or the senior scientist? Eg., From the wiki page, "LaCour’s impossible-seeming results were treated as truth, in part because of the weight [the study's co-author] Green's name carried".

I clearly stated "some other expert could replicate exactly what the expert has done". As a working scientist, and I am aware of the objective nature of science. I am trying to answer the question, "why believe in something an expert says?" I am sure you have not spent years verifying what the climate change experts say, but you believe them anyway. Why?
> I tried to learn F# a few months ago and the experience was horrible.

Switching to a programmig language based on an entirely different programming paradigm is not comparable to switching to a language based on the exact same programming paradigm to develop the exact same application using the exact same design patterns.
Hate to see this business speak from a company I admire.
Bad market to be in as a software engineer, with so many talented folks available.
I work three days a week (UK). It's totally possible but you're right that it does constrain where you work. Smaller companies where you can talk directly to the boss is the thing. I have a family caring role so for me it's pretty non-negotiable. I just can't take most offers (which you're right, usually start full time even if in reality there's flexible working available to permanent employees).

It would hugely open up the field to women with caring duties if more companies would do this. Perhaps this is why they do not - I don't know.
Lack of privacy is one of the reasons I’ve not bought a Tesla.
That’s awesome, thanks for sharing.

I assume via BTC or any crypto, it’s just a matter of running a “miniminer” of some sort across all effected machines?
Don't forget:

New employee 6 workflow at company X:

1. Install Spacemacs, don't bother fiddling with the config

2. Spend a few hours working through the tutorial or reviewing the excellent docs [1]

3. Work. Become a better developer [2].

[1]:https://www.spacemacs.org/doc/DOCUMENTATION.html

[2]:https://blog.osteele.com/2004/11/ides
Materialism is substantially different from consumerism. It's fine to want material wealth, that's just a shortcut for "I want security".

> Are you saying there's noone in the US that is forced to work "until tired" to survive?

I'm talking about NW Europe. We have plenty of benefit systems that you can tap into. Our homelessness is heavily associated with mental illness and substance abuse, not poverty.
Surely interested, if it's lifetime credits. Because, that's what I saved zerodha from everyone else using your service for free. Unless it is lifetime credits, I don't want to take pain migrating my integration to zerodha for few months of free credits.

I am sending you an email with more details.
The Creative Question Manifesto
Couldn't agree more.

In the 80s, I wrote in assembly. In the 90s, I saw Microsoft release operating systems which were incredibly bloated and memory hungry. At the time, I thought it was insanely inefficient.

In hindsight, they were right and I was wrong. It's true that Microsoft's software was bloated, but they were prophetic enough to see that RAM and storage was going to get cheap. The hardware became powerful enough to make the bloat of the operating system unnoticeable.
Um, what are you talking about? There were whole decades of Hollywood having the Reds as the default villain. Everything up to 2000s when they were replaced by middle easterners.
Yup they took the money and now they need to grow grow grow and they’ll suffer for it.
Ask HN: How do you validate sources outside of your area of expertise?
Hi HN,

The indefatigable avalanche of conflicting information around COVID is becoming too much to bear, though this problem is not unique to the current circumstance. I am curious, what is your personal method for validating information on topics that you are unfamiliar with? For example, I am comfortable, like many of you, with topics relating to computing/technology and with some spare time can dig into a paper and perform at least a cursory examination of it’s methodology and findings. When I face the same problem but instead on a complex subject in virology or biology, I do the best that I can, checking the logic wherever possible but there is still much field specific knowledge I do not possess.

So what do you do, especially when faced with two pieces of conflicting information in an unfamiliar field? Do you defer to certain public or private institutions that are comprised of experts in the field? Do you choose to side with the information that has the largest number of experts agreeing with the presented conclusions? How can I, a layman, even adequately evaluate the credentials and past publications of a researcher?

I feel like I have fallen into a rabbit hole. Who to trust?
Please pick that up and deposit it properly in the garbage bin.
> How do backend developers determine what is and is not reasonable performance for a given service?

Well it depends on what the backend serves. It's either "the frontend is not perceived to be sluggish" or "batch jobs don't overrun".
That's a whole lot of bullshit for a proactive backlash protection.
It took me maybe a few hours to learn vim and I could be decently productive in it. After that I just learnt through exploration.

For me it was definitely worthwhile. Vim is almost everywhere so I can easily edit text wherever I go.
> having been taught that one looks down on people not working as a wageslave for this many hours a month, and so on

You can also translate this into "please do your share in society and don't rely on other people feeding you just because it's inconvenient to get up and do your part". That's very different from mindless consumerism. Denmark with e.g. luxury taxes on cars is going a very different route from the US.
Before 3rd party cookies, companies would proxy advertising traffic through the primary domain.

It was annoying to setup, and technically complicated, but it worked.

If 3rd party cookies had never been enabled, that's what we would be doing today, and you would never even know your traffic was being sent to a 3rd party.

There's a reason they enabled 3rd party cookies: Because blocking them did not help at all.

Today such proxying would be even easier. Don't promote banning 3rd party cookies, you'll just make privacy even worse.
I find it disturbing that the biggest ad company controls the biggest browser. I can see how privacy friendly specifications do not get implemented
This is currently in an extended trial in a few places in Germany. Several kilometers of highway have those overhead lines for electric trucks.
I always agree with a lot of what Rachel writes, and she gets a lot right here too, but having said that flexibility also has value. Like her I've done it both ways... actually I've done it more than two ways. Servers in the closet, servers at the co-lo, VPS from a hosting provider, virtual machines from a cloud provider. No question in my mind that a good cloud provider lets me do more, faster, and for (at least initially) less money. And the stuff we build on their platform is way more flexible and adaptable to changing conditions than it ever has been. This doesn't obviate one little bit her main point that it all has to be overseen and controlled or it gets out of hand.
PCSX2 PS2 Emulator: Progress report Q3 2019 to Q1 2020
yeah this would actually be the ideal world. shame. I don't even know how to programmatically sign into a google account anymore. it used to be easy enough with a few curl calls and I could retrieve my adsense reports but now it's just impossible. their login process is too convoluted now and involves so much javascript, I doubt it's possible with anything but headless chrome.
"Use your time to start an online business" instead of going to college? Does that strike you as a good idea? A better strategy is comm. college for a year especially if you live in i.e. CA that has very good ones.
I have a Model 3, and bought the FSD upgrade for $2K when it was on sale for a couple weeks. I've been wanting to schedule the upgrade of the autopilot computer from hardware 2.5 to hardware 3, but now I'm scared. I always considered a Tesla to be like an iPhone - you factory reset/wipe it before you sell it to someone, but if the manufacturer swaps out your computer and doesn't have good hygiene, yikes!

TLDR: I'm going to wait until I hear they have good data hygiene before I let them swap out my computer.
But how many instances did they have running that app, and at what cost? Did they have to build a ridiculous amount of caching in? And wasn't that the time period where they were incredibly unreliable to the point that their "fail whale" server error page became a running gag?
SO is gonna be gobbled up by Github Issues altogether.
I've always thought about at big companies that are "well managed" and all-in on the cloud, how much money is leaking away due to rushed implementations or bad architecture? And as customers of those companies we are paying for it.
Yes, that looks to be an open issue:

https://github.com/Logicalshift/zoom/issues/13
Sorry I don't use emacs, but Vim/Neovim is pretty easy to setup with coc and all it's subextensions for stuff like eslint, tailwind, vue and whatever. It's essentially just the VSCode language server running in Vim and it's awesome.
So the conclusion we should draw is that a well run data center is better than a badly operated cloud?
Hopefully they're careful going down this road. Remember SourceForce? Experts Exchange? If I were them, my secret (because what gets measured gets gamed) metric would be how many tech workers list their Stackoverflow profile on their resume/website/Linkedin. It's a proxy for reputation, and that's the thing they need to protect.
85% of us are in this together.
This. Almost all charging of EVs is done at home. Wish more people realized this.
New graduate here. Can you share some blogs which could help me ?
I ran garyshood.com off of a pentium 3 dell poweredge and a comcast connection in its peak (2009-2012). I couldn't offer an upload speed of more than 20-40kb/s without slowing down the house. but with traffic shaping rules and following most of what he's outlined here, it was easy. it wasn't even cpubound, it was just network bound, but I could still handle 100-300k unique visits a month. I did have to host the downloadable exe for the autoclicker on a third party for $3 a month, even at 120kb that thing would use too much house bandwidth.
What gui elements do you find lacking I'm not familiar with ZWEI
You knew Ralf H. then? I got compiler fixes directly from him - for bugs I found in my compiled code, and once for a special version of the Pascal compiler (the standard one couldn't pack records they way we needed)
Ctrl+p will let you search nicely for files in vscode. At least the VI integration is better than the extension I use with Visual Studio.
Since posting I have found a relevant paper: “Experts: Who should we trust?” published in the journal Philosophy and Phenomenological Research in 2001, University of Arizona (Goldman)

https://dacemirror.sci-hub.tw/journal-article/74629e4919a196...
about 10 yrs ago, i went through my old tech and thought to myself: maybe somebody can still use any of this stuff? things like a joystick, old ddr-ram for the first gen iMac and similar. i expected to make no money from it at all, basically just wanted to give it away.

people did bid on it, so i thought to myself: nice, i don't have to feel bad about throwing working tech in the bin...

well, after the second article with retarded complaints about shipping (i used old packaging from amazon deliveries iirc) i just thought to myself: screw this! I cancelled all other pending auctions and threw them away. Just not worth the effort. especially if you're only doing it for moral reasons.
This seems like overinterpretation. I don't disagree with your feelings but we don't know to what extent this was a factor and it's hardly as if SO is shutting down.
The Apple II was the defacto 8-bit machine of choice for most of the North American developers, when looking at the collected anecdotes(Origin, Interplay, SSI and many independents like Jordan Mechner and the team that would form id software were all using them). Becky Heineman had a video where she explained why it was so much better than the C64 and most other options - the I/O and expansion potential was just a lot better on the Apple II architecture, and if you stepped up to the IIGS when that came around you also got some backwards compatibility with more CPU horsepower. Besides displays, the support for multi-disk systems was pretty good, and you could kit out the system to work with a generous amount of RAM and storage for the time. The competing Atari 8-bits also had good expansion capability through the SIO bus and dual cartridge slots which showed some very progressive design, but their potential went mostly neglected by Atari corporate at the time.

The C64 was a budget games machine at heart and didn't have the same kind of hardware support, but its reference manuals are famous for being a great introduction to computing. For many of the beginning bedroom coders this may have made all the difference.
> 1) .NET APIs change very frequently.

ASP.NET Core 2.1 was released in 2018 and will be supported until late 2021.

ASP.NET Core 3.1 was released a few months ago and there is no end of support in sight. Moreover, the changes between 2.1 and 3.1 were not that many. I've migrated a whole ASP.NET Core 2.1 web service to 3.1 in less than 1 hour.

> 2) C# is a very verbose language, that requires a lot of typing.

Nonsense. The only added verbosity to C# when compared with Python are the type declarations, which arguably are a problem plaguing Python. The first class support for events and async programming and properties in C# more than make up for it.

> 3) F#, the best language in .NET, is largely ignored by the .NET community.

I fail to see what point you were trying to make.
As an average user, can you explain where I’m “supposed” to be upset according to your interpretation of their alleged deception?

Your writing comes off quite accusatory but is also full of technical jargon that I can’t parse so I’ll naturally side with the majority. That’s not saying you’re wrong, but I’m sitting in a camp where I have 60 bucks and don’t feel slighted by their practice in the least.
Push based monitoring has its own flaws. Mainly service discovery is coupled with service health.

Pull based monitoring makes it so you can remove the service and independently recognize failures.
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High Sierra (10.13) will continue to receive security updates until nearly the end of this year.
Teaching science in prisons brings rewards
https://www.businessinsider.com/stack-overflow-reduces-workf...

http://archive.md/8mjey
> I noticed that eBay's policies had shifted, so that sellers were at the mercy of the buyers.

I listed an old video card with something like "FOR PARTS" in the title but accidentally tagged it as used. The buyer complained, I said the title and verbal description clearly said it's broken and for parts. eBay ruled in the buyer's favor.

Admittedly, it's awkward because I had a listing mistake, and the buyer probably thought they found a deal (the card was half the price of a working one) and didn't read, so we were both in the wrong, I guess, but the buyer and eBay didn't see it that way.

I wish I could really quit eBay, but instead my threshold for something being worth my trouble is now about $60.
Not exactly, but mine was a tongue-in-cheek comment anyway.
Exactly that. A lot of people do not understand that and get into trap of those credits "thousands of dollars worth" just to be scalped by their vendor-locked costs after those credits vanish.

After all people who make decision on customer side are in same trap - in 3-5 years if not earlier they won't be at the company anymore and it won't be their problem.
Is there a good third-party article we can change this to? Bad-news corporate press releases are notoriously difficult to read.
I do not have data to back this claim. But the tone of this blog post makes me feel that, the new CEO is an incompetent person who decided to use the vehicle of the covid virus to announce job cuts that he has planned a long time ago.

With the crap ton of marketing buzz in the post, and the casual mention of the layoffs, I don't think the CEO or the new board seem to care all that much about the laidoff employees.

Again, this is my personal feeling and may not be the truth.
I doubt it is the same when you consider some sites have more then 100 "partners". GDPR is not targeted at cookies or at any tech, it applies even if you use pen and paper so proxying will still be illegal.
Compare C# with Kotlin or Scala and you'll find that involves a lot of redundant, boilerplate code.