skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if the person to fight in my corner is me? Unions drag everyone's wages to an average. Poor performers get paid more, top performers get paid less. No thanks, I can negotiate for myself.

Look at teachers and police unions for a prime example. Great police get paid the same as the police who racially profile. Great teachers get paid the same as the teachers who phone it in.

Additionally unions protect incompetent employees, which I don't want.

So the value prop for unions seems to be: get paid way less money, we'll make sure your incompetent colleagues never get fired and we'll make a stack of money for union bosses in the process.

I want to negotiate my own pay and benefits, and it's worked out excellent for me. A union only serves to harm my interests.
I can highly recommend altap salamander. It's an incredibly useful two panel file manager. You can switch between detail view and a big picture preview with alt+3 and alt+5. You can select folders/files with space, and in case of folders it will also show you the total file size of that folder. It has icons for available drives in a toolbar, and you can configure the F4 key so that it opens the focused file with an editor of your choice, notepad++ in my case.
Hm, this book applies exterior algebra to linear algebra. I don't think there are a lot of applications of multilinear algebra outside of math, it is mostly needed to study differential geometry (forms and so on).
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> How can a study tell me what is comfortable for me?

Unless you are an emigre from Betelgeuse or a particularly intelligent octopus, you have eyes that work in the same way as everyone else's eyes. The biology and physiology of the human eye are well understood. Chocolate is an excellent comparison. Whether you like chocolate is a matter of taste. But you don't get to claim that eating chocolate for breakfast, lunch, and dinner is optimal because you prefer it.
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Either Namecheap or INRegistry is wrong
Here in the UK the union leaders manage to look like tits all on their own.

I'd love to have a workable union system for tech workers here, but I just don't see what they offer unless you can persuade meaningful numbers of your coworkers to sign up.
> You can now "cheat the system" by studying only the parts of the subject that the exam covers.

You can't consistently cheat the system if the exam randomly covers every topic studied over the year.

Therefore if your unit tests are not dumb but clearly defined for edge-cases (or at least defined for random points) then you can't cheat them consistently.
Yep, I’m aware of that.

MacBook touchpad right under the keyboard makes drag n drop feel like a superior method.

For context, I have a fairly extensive AutoHotKey script and a 22 button Razer Naga configured to automate repetitive tasks on my Windows 10 work PC, and Windows 10 has proven itself to be super stable and robust at work and home, so I’m by no means a bias MacOS fan or whatever, and if I’m honest I really do prefer Windows 10... and my 2013 MBPr died the other day, and there’s not much chance of me buying another MacBook any time soon because they’re over priced and lack ports.

Where was I going with this?

Oh yeah, there’s some things MacOS does that are great UI design....
Britain's GDP falls 20.4% in April as economy is paralysed by lockdown
Need feedback – A clock to eliminate time zone calculations
I'd love to hear your thoughts/feedback on a product I'm working on (thehtime.com).

I'm building a new clock to eliminate time zone calculations for remote teams. Why? To simplify scheduling & communicating time when working globally. Well, this concept exists and is called UTC, however UTC isn’t really used in our daily lives.

The clock I'm building utilizes a new UTC concept, a UTC that rotates with you according to your location on Earth. In other words, the clock knows where you are and adjusts itself for you. This unifies the reading of time everywhere at any given moment. Therefore, time zone calculations can be eliminated.

The idea of the clock (hTime) is not to change the clock, but to extend it by adding a new layer to it, a global time layer. hTime utilizes the same time system we all know, it comprises 60 minutes and seconds, and 24 local hours. On top of that, there is a new layer of 24 global hours represented in letters. Why letters? Simply to distinguish the local time from the global one, so numbers for local times and letters for global ones. This global layer is the one that adjusts itself for you and rotates according to your location on earth. This again unifies the ready of time.

So, no time zone math, no PDT, EDT, CEST, and no back and forth emails anymore.
IDK, there are some really good and compelling single player video games out there nowadays. I'm trying to play half a dozen at the same time lately <_<.
I agree except for the fact that these are both state run public schools, part of the same state school system. Citizens should be able to switch between them freely based on the needs of the time and how they wish to pursue their education.
If you have a critical function failing testing, you need to figure out the root cause, whether it takes 2 days or 2 months. 2 days is nothing - I've spent more than that on UI polish bugs, to not be able to dedicate 5x that time to fixing critical functionality, something is desperately wrong.
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This kind of information should be in weather forecasts.
US looks more and more like China or Soviet Union. One difference is that the oppressor is not the communist party but corporations [0]

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-walmart-union-survei...
Reminds me of a solvent metaphor for adblockers.

Ads on web pages are like stains on a surface.

Browsing with ublock origin is like cleaning a surface with alcohol-based product. It worked for a while.

Cat-and-mouse game tends to yield ads that bypass these. Like sticky dirt that won't go away with alcohol.

Enters uMatrix.
Browsing with uMatrix is like cleaning the surface with a mix of stronger solvents, like acetone. It's much more effective, but it will more or less ruin the surface/web page in many cases.

Tuning uMatrix allows to find a mix that works.
For geeks that are okay with contributing, or just clicking on colored cells in a grid, uMatrix is best. Like wolves, ads bite the laziest part of the flock, leaving the strongest clear.
No. It means that you need an X server willing to provide access to the bitmaps inside it using that module, but you can run Xrdp fully headless against a memory buffer (like VNC does with Xvnc) or proxy via RDP to an in-memory VNC server (which is the “old” way of using Xrdp).
It's the same thing fb does to avoid ad-blockers, though of course it's easier to evade than detect it
I was thinking that there must have been a Roman theatre in Londinium, but apparently not. There were known theatres in St Albans and Colchester though
I’m a Gitlab fanboy, but you’re right. We run a medium sized Gitlab instance and wanted to automate a bunch of tasks on it - like you should as a good adherent to DevOps principals.

But Gitlab is actively hostile to you building automations on top of it. Every access token is tied to a Gitlab User and every user is charged X$ a month, regardless of if it’s a bot or not.

So the end result of this is a single bot user with poorly scoped permissions that can only be configured by an administrator. Great.

They are slowly moving forward with this epic[1] but the discussions around pricing are ridiculous. Don’t you _want_ people to build automations around Gitlab, as it makes it more entrenched in your org. Stop making it harder by effectively charging hundreds of dollars a year per bot user.

Would love any comments you have on that @syste.

1. https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/3559
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective is a good deductive co-op and works well with 2 players (downside is that you can only play it 10 times before having to buy more scenarios).

I think Pandemic works well as 2 player, though not all agree.

7 Wonders Duel for combative PvP.
I do not really understand the problem here. Why do you need to scale instead of using a larger font?
This is crap . IDK what's in the chinese and turkish archives, but banning russian accounts for their activity in 2010 ( grep SamantaDarko , for example ) , and containing no political tweets at all ?
Have a look at https://github.com/rcarmo/ubuntu-xrdp. I _think_ it has RemoteFX enabled, but to be honest I haven’t delved into the internals for a while and last time I did I was trying to get audio working.
In engineering subjects, in Europe, men are the overwhelming majority in university.

After graduation they may choose jobs differently than men.

Then women are more likely to stop working when they have children, or to choose a job with a schedule mores suited to looking after a family.

To me it still boils down to early education and to change the view of both genders on jobs and industries that are seen as "for boys" or "for girls".
Here's a fun story: I stopped using Windows when I was 12, almost 20 years ago but Windows explorer was something I used 2000 times a day and I got so used to opening it with win+e that even till this day I set this shortcut to open Nautilus.
As a sibling points out, News Corp is notorious for Google hit pieces. I would take anything they say with a grain of salt.

This piece makes some bold claims, like

> Google has paid professors whose papers, for instance, declared that the collection of consumer data was a fair exchange for its free services

But the only specific paper they reference is [1], a copyright paper with doesn't seem very relevant to Google's core business. If their claim had any merit, why couldn't they produce a more relevant example?

They claim that Google "pays professors", when in reality Google is giving out research grants. Professors are getting "paid" only in a very indirect sense, since the funding goes to their departments. As their example paper says,

> The authors would also like to thank Google for a grant that enabled us to hire research assistants, to compensate human subjects, and to travel to present our findings.

And this isn't some secretive operation, despite the WSJ's attempts to frame it that way. You can see a list of these grants in [2], along with more background about the grant program. The referenced paper is listed there under Policy.

Edit: Also wanted to call out this amazing bit of spin:

> Mr. Sokol, though, had extensive financial ties to Google, according to his emails obtained by the Journal. He was a part-time attorney at the Silicon Valley law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, which has Google as a client.

Wikipedia says WSGR has ~1850 attorneys. In what world does this constitute "extensive financial ties"?

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2130008&...

[2] https://research.google/outreach/past-programs/faculty-resea...
Art is just human expression or communication. A lot of the "lazy" art is seeing with how much you can get away and how little meat there is to the word "art".

For centuries artists have tried their best to create the most beautiful artworks possible. This lead to an association of beauty with art. Art must be beautiful. You challenge this idea by making something that is not beautiful but people will still consider as art.
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Over 1k metric tons of microplastic particles rain into protected US areas
Not always, if ever.
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You are fine. New people with low karma are most at risk. Once you are a little established, you have to do something very upsetting to get shadowbanned, or be consistently unpleasant. Once established, a few controversial posts with negative karma should not be a problem.

Avoid criticizing HN staff or related companies. Gentle / kind disagreement is fine, but err on the side of keeping it private.
Sorry, had only tested it on my own site, which worked as expected:

curl --silent https://tinyapps.org/ | pandoc --from html --to markdown_strict -o index.md
Definitely; more comfortable chairs will only make you MORE relaxed, which will weaken muscles, which will cause issues.

I'm not saying to sit on an uncomfortable chair though, but, add exercise to your routine.

Note to self: Add exercise to my routine.

Deadlifts and other exercises that require grip strength helped fix my wrist / forearm issues. I did some personal training some time ago, when I started out I couldn't do push-ups because I didn't have the muscle, but also because my wrists hurt. I couldn't do deadlifts without assistance (wrist straps) because my grip strength wasn't there. Both of those were resolved in a matter of weeks.
I have not used PostGraphile myself so I should not have used such strong words about it. I just feel that writing business logic should not be something you have to do in a plugin of some tools or with knowledge of graphql (resolvers). Sure it can be done but at the end is it really more productive with that many indirections? More importantly is it robust, now that your business logic layer is intertwined with your API layer?
If you two are serious about this, you'll defintely want to check out Technology Connections' series on e-ink:

(quick intro): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytpRnRke6I0

(starting the breakdown): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NfX0vlCa4k

He talks about that exact concept and moves on to do real-world testing and setup of a very specific tablet usable as an external display.

It's exactly as you say: Hacky and unpolished. But I found it extremely informative.
As someone who has been severely visually impaired (thankfully in my case, just a mere two weeks of hiding in a pitch black room in searing pain unable to read at any distance), this is absolutely uninformed nonsense. Dark mode is literally the only thing that some people can look at.
Not too sure that Gerard would want anything to do with Jim again. Or vice versa.
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The saying goes: copying from one person is plagiarism, copying from many is research.
Mike Bostock (the d3 creator) has a nice little demo illustrating the use of linear RGB to assign an average color to an image. [1]

[1] https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/image-average
I think you posted the wrong url.
Can’t trade dollars for gold anymore
Look into what happened with the various hippie communes that sprung up across the US in the late 60s/early 70s, and how they fared.

Most came together with utopian ideals but fell apart as tension arose between those that just wanted to drop out and take acid and those who actually worked hard and tried to build something. Only one remains AFAICT and that one is atypical, enforcing sharing of everything, down to having a communal wardrobe, and having work schedules etc.
On macOS too, you can press cmd-shift-g and paste the path.
Its even more surprising as the workplace team are mainly london based.

I suspect what actually happened is that a customer said: "my minions are organising on workplace, let me control most viral posts". The PM looked as what it was, and the posts the employer was complaining about, and made a scenario on that.

Knowing some of the engineers on workplace, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that they didn't think about what they were doing, only whether they could do it, and what was the best design.
>this very site that you’re on right now automagically flips to dark mode

Maybe only if you mess with your about:config, haven't found a way to enable that in GUI.
I had a long email discussion with Namecheap and they said that INRegistry is the one to blame. Now INRegitry said opposite of what Namecheap said. I am seriously confused which of these two are wrong. One is wrong for sure.

Update:- Looks like INRegistry and Namecheap will communicate directly.
University of London includes among the most prestigious colleges in the world: King's College of London, London School of Economics, and Goldsmiths. They have been doing distance learning since for decades, if not longer if I remember correctly.

The one thing to note, at least when I took it in early 2000, is that its tough. I signed-up for their business/finance program and it was quite the course workload.
Okay, I'll be less polite. The questions were immediately answered and by "better information" I mean "they were completely and utterly wrong but fortunately the article is right".

I'm not surprised. Honestly, these threads are very effective benchmarks of the community because you get to match truth v what people say given immediate access to the truth. I can use them to adjust my idea of how much people actually know here when they comment. The answer? Very little. P(x | many HN commenters say x is true) = P(x)
.in has forbidden whois privacy for literally years, since its formation. India is also not exactly.. subject to GDPR
On every turn we discover that animals have more cognitive ability's and are closer to the specific primate branch that is us than we previously imagined. But a mix of convenience, prejudges and ""culture"" will make sure nothing about the way we handle animals will change for a long time.

Sometimes I feel like on staying in the middle of Rome looking around at all the slaves and thinking why the f### does nobody care?
> a creator told me that Google pays less after my views than views from non-premium youtube viewers.

What? It feels like a deterrent to me.

Citation needed, please?
If you don't mind me asking, where do you play these digital board games?
There are many features that you can pick up on. TCP fingerprints, header ordering, etc. You build a reputation for each IP address or block, then block the anomalous requests.

If you don't want to do this yourself and you're already using Cloudflare... congratulations, this is exactly why they exist. Write them a check every month for less than one hour of engineering time, and their knowledge is your knowledge. Your startup will launch on time!
Dr. Victor Davis Hanson interview on corona and lack of lock-down cost-benefit analysis (Apr. 24)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqCudv-JQ2o

He opposed the lockdown after May 1, which I agree with (we are both in California)
Okay, the device seems over-designed. Some designer went totally overboard and no one told him "no". It's just too much. It looks like some wacky art installation, but it's a device people are supposed to have in their living room, while not drawing too much attention to itself.
Doesn’t it just use CSS queries? My browser automatically converts supported sites to dark at evening, incl my own.
Do you plan to commit back to the community your extra graph UX/UI. They look very neat and I don't think it will jeopardize the success of your startup.
The reason why I asked about the usage of Electron (or similar) is because they are well known to be resource hungry. Slack went down that route and found themself in a pickle. Considering you are also doing a lot of data manipulation in memory (I assume) this might be very expensive on a React Stack. Anyway, something to keep in mind, don't worry about it right now.

If you are going after individual contributor, I'd spend quite some time figuring out good integration points (ie.: Notebooks), so you are better integrated in their workflow. I'd avoid going enterprise, because date warehouse and data visualization are well solved problem (both in SaaS and PaaS flavor). Source: I led data organization at mid/big companies.
Jerk might be a strong word, I think he/she might have been trying to help, but it comes across a bit terse.
Is it me or are the comments on the article super weird? I've never seen an AnandTech comment section like this one. What's going on, why this one?
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It's not free if you want a (partial) degree: https://www.uopeople.edu/tuition-free/processing-fees/
Nobody's made anything up?
On our case in France, we have one of the lowest union rate of the developed world (yes even lower than in the US). A lot of unions are mostly still stuck in the communist past and turns out workers don't feel represented by them anymore.
That's right but their email response says that they and their all registrars hide sensitive information. When I checked manually, most does but not Namecheap. Even if Namecheap does not violates GDPR, Namecheap still blamed registry while registry says otherwise.
This article would be even better if it showed the evolution of Mac OS's Finder through the years. The two undoubtedly influenced each other (possibly with one side being influenced more than the other).

For instance, I believe the 'duality' of Explorer views (one without tree views, one with) was a response to the success of the Mac Finder -- it was intended to present a simple UI for managing files. The "Explore" mode was a power-user interface that needed you to right-click and choose Explore, or press Win+E (or create a permanent shortcut). To be fair, because right-clicking was new in Windows 95, the help materials did emphasize right-clicking. As the article below indicates, the Win95 team did consider designing an entire 'Beginner UI' for beginner users, but eventually dropped the idea.

This article[1] (it has previously been on HN before) has some interesting insights on the design of Windows 95 with respect to Explorer. Bear in mind, one of Win95's design goals was to be usable for both those new to computers as well as power users.

> Beginning users and many intermediates were confused by the two-pane view of File Cabinet. (See Figure 3.) They were unsure of the relationship between the panes and how to navigate between folders. Beginners were often overwhelmed by the visual complexity of the File Cabinet and had more basic problems, such as not understanding how folders could exist inside of other folders. Many users were also confused by the Parent Folder icon. It appeared in every folder and looked like a file, yet was really a navigation control for moving up the hierarchy one level.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/238386.238611

Edit:

> [For Windows 8+, referring to the icons at the top of the toolbar] Microsoft remains absolutely addicted to the idea of a toolbar with "commonly used" commands on it. Despite the clear internal order to get rid of all these toolbars, someone insisted that they had to remain, had to, and so they got stuffed into the titlebar.

Given that Explorer took the "Ribbon" idea from Office 2007 (probably because Steven Sinofsky had a hand in both), the icons at the top of the toolbar are much more likely to be Explorer's implementation of Office's Quick Action Toolbar. In fact, looking at Office 365 UI, there seems to be a trend of bundling more functionality into the Title Bar these days.
Because the real world doesn't really match the expectations and statements of the HN community. It's really rare that I see here anything pragmatic regarding what programming languages to learn/use.

The community lives in a bubble and is out of touch with mainstream software development.
> "The one time that society allowed young people to explore their interests, to not work (the 60s), the establishment was so scared at the revolution they never wanted that freedom to ever be available again"

Do you have any links or references, I'm particularly curious about how society allowed young people to not work & pursue their interests. Was there some sought of Universal basic income? A few more details will be greatly appreciated.
[used by] Walmart ... used by the Singapore government, Discovery Communications...

It's like a star studded cast of open-minded, benevolent enablers of the free flow of information...