skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The benefit is purely readability.

This year mark my 30th year as a professional developer, but my first "program" was copied fro a magazine

10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10

It generated random maze like structures in screen using two PETSCII symbols

I think everybody know this one liner here

So it's not symbols I don't like, it's the lack of ergonomics

My hands started hurting when I had to type a lot to write simple symbols like } that's why I switched to US layout and things have gone a lot better for my nuckles

What really surprises and disappoints me is how many people appoint themselves as engineers or computer scientists, but take for granted that their ideas are good and the rebuttals are "resistance to change" without even reading the most basic studies on the topic or testing their theories on the field.

Implement your idea, measure the results and then we'll discuss of why they didn't take off.

Because they won't, believe me.

There is a reason why I use font with the zero striked, otherwise capital O would look too similar.

What do you think of ‹‹ vs « ?

Do they really look different enough to be useful?

Cutting edge doesn't mean "stupid"
Entering a New Era
Not sure about that, Netflix began in 1997 but didn’t start streaming for 10 full years until 2007. Even then it was after Amazon had launched their streaming service. None of that makes them sound like visionaries in the streaming evolution they just executed well when it did happen, as opposed to Blockbuster’s competing service which failed to execute.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Netflix
Headlyy.com- the Hub for Communication
Headlyy.com is a platform where users can come and express their feelings as to however they like, we currently have hundreds of users who have signed up from Quora and other sites and we'd love if people joined from here.

Headlyy
For desktops screen size comes into play. My modest 24” monitor has more than twice the area of my generous 15” laptop display. Bigger displays are a major reason for choosing a desktop and screens are power hungry and always on during normal desktop use.
Is there any way to turn a twitter feed (i.e., multiple users) into a single RSS feed?
Exactly. As a search engine, directing to primary sources they are still doing ok (though I’ve switched mostly to DDG). The Knowledge stuff they surface now above flaunts often inaccurate or sub-par information as truth above organic results containing the primary sources.
Yeah right.

Gab is an English-language social media website known for its far-right userbase.[8] The site has been widely described as a "safe haven"[9] for extremists including neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and the alt-right.[10]

Gab claims to stand for free speech and individual liberty,[a][25][26] though these claims have been criticized for being a shield of the alt-right ecosystem.[19][22] Antisemitism is a prominent part of the site's content,[28] and the platform itself has engaged in antisemitic commentary.[23][29] Researchers have written that Gab is "known to be hateful".[30]

Wikipedia.
TL;DR yes to your first sentence, pretty much?

I believe that (A) discovering what is considered normal in one’s community influences what one thinks, and (B) what one thinks is not disconnected from what one does.

The trap of entitlement is easy to fall into, and if a statement can be interpreted in a way that implies you are owed something and deprived of it by a group who can provide it (that group already having reasons to fear violence from your own group) then I oppose the wording.

The existence of such a statement in vacuum does not matter, the trouble starts when it is published in a community. Bonus points if it’s mentioned casually in passing, implying it’s nothing out of ordinary. Bonus points if it goes by unopposed by the community (thankfully, not on HN).

Someone in the community may have their existing line of thinking reinforced. Someone else, who does not have an established opinion on this matter but is going through a difficult period in life (which during formative years or early adulthood is not uncommonly associated with lack of intimate relationships), may start considering this idea for the first time.

Start feeling belonging to a group where this is normal, and a feedback loop may be formed with horrible publicized outcomes[0] and not unlikely many cases we don’t know about.

If you believe that there is no causal link between those outcomes and perpetrators being able to discover communities where relevant opinions were considered normal, then we disagree and I hope you eventually change your mind.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incel#2010s

To be clear, this may not even be purposeful. We may not phrase things carefully at all times, and in some cases casual accidental phrasing can imply things we did not actively consider before. Being aware helps.
The fact that someone doesn't feel comfortable about something doesn't mean that their feelings are warranted. When dealing with anxiety disorders or phobias, the last thing experts recommend is avoidance of that which causes anxiety. In fact, exposure therapy helps drastically with it.
That's kind of my point though, word needs to get around that most "smart" features are actually anti-features only there for marketing. I'm even getting some downvotes here, as if this outcome was inevitable. It's not inevitable with a bit of forethought. People as a group need to develop the wisdom to know best practices when buying A/V gear, especially expensive A/V gear, rather than getting suckered into nonsensical anti-features that manufacturers are pushing.

I've got a decade+ old Blu-ray player with an ethernet jack. A network switch is a standard part of my entertainment center. Every time I've moved things around, I've resisted the call to add an extra cable and find out what network services are available. With my network setup I can easily block it from having Internet access, and it's still a hard no. There is just no upside, and a huge downside of it being more likely to break, and then having to buy a new player for the rare times I want to play a legacy disc.

My receiver is hooked to the network, but with no Internet access. It has an embedded webserver that can control it. But now that it's out of the warranty period I would never let it update itself, as that's a good way for a manufacturer to break a device with no recourse. Firmware used to be shipped with no updates, and that worked well. Weighing the chance of it being bricked from a manufacturer's update versus an attacker with vulnerability also getting past my router, the latter seems much less likely.

I know I'm bailing out a leaking boat here (cheap embedded cell modems are around the corner, which will necessitate doing surgery). But the market has to catch on some time...
The appeal is to remove the randomness from society and specifically regarding attraction and consensual intimate outcomes.

I didn't like having an average case success with average people an average amount of times. I was and still am very allured by having best case success with consensus attractive people an above average amount of times. Consensus attractive and whatever I specifically find to be extremes of attraction, of which there is significant overlap.

Most of the attraction things I would do are gender neutral and are useful outside of courtship contexts. More like sales. Live in a desirable neighborhood, enjoy certain experiences. If I would portray a certain accurate lifestyle in a client meeting where the business itself is in the back of our minds but relevant, I would portray it on a date where the "business itself" is in the back of our minds but relevant.
From that link:

>He concludes, “[T]hese disparities are primarily driven by our racialized class system. Therefore, the most effective criminal justice reform may be an egalitarian economic program aimed at flattening the material differences between the classes.” In other words, while building a more progressive economy won’t end the horrors of racism, it may be the pathway to a less discriminatory criminal justice system. //

That appears to closely match my position.
What are some of the worst business decisions ever made?
Mountains and fixed silos do not protect much given the current CEP and over pressure capability of the US Mk5 Trident 2 SLBM that can reach China’s fixed ICBM in 10 minutes.

Here is a very detailed story on warhead guidance and accuracy and how harden targets are destroyed. It is quite interesting.

https://thebulletin.org/2017/03/how-us-nuclear-force-moderni...

Every fixed ICBM location in the world is known to all the major powers. You can find a pretty good list on fas.org. It will including things like year built, what was the state of the art at that time, yield needed to destroy, etc. Also there are tons of research papers on first strike imbalance and launch reaction time done by well respected scientist and think tanks available on the internet. Reaction time is more important because most silos today cannot survive an accurate strike so you have to launch before the misses hit. If they could then why build mobile launchers？

It’s not tracking a truck, it is tracking a very large thing that is easy to follow that has to exit a know location for servicing over its life time. The NRO has 60+ years of experience tracking way more items then the 30 DF31/31A mobile launchers that China has. The USSR had 1000s for them to practice on.

This has zero to do with god like powers or some unreasonably belief in US superiority and everything to do with math and technology. The logic is very simple, a protracted conventional war with China makes no sense as it will end up as a nuclear war, so if a war starts a massive first strike day 0 is the most logical path. And yes, I do believe the US would do so to protect its place in the power structure of the world and I am a rational person who would love to see all nuclear weapons eliminated along with the need of any or us to maintain large militaries.

The planners do not think in emotion. They do the math and odds and there is a calculation that says an overwhelming first strike has acceptable risk and Guam, et.al. that the smaller weapons could hit are an okay trade off for not allowing a hit on the continental US along with complete destruction of Chinese forces. There are 1000s of people in the US Defense Department who’s only job is to calculate all of the possible scenarios, including this one and wrap it all up in a nice summary of casualties (explosion + long term fallout given winds, etc.) and probabilities of success and they do so without the emotional reaction that you have. It’s quite scary if you really think about it.
Or if Google Maps results weren’t presented as facts in Search over organic results containing first party information, this would not happen and other companies would have a chance to get more viewers and ad revenue themselves.
There are no real details at the Reddit link (at the time of posting). As best I can surmise, Gameloft has the exclusive license to mobile Spider-Man games while Sony has the exclusive license to Spider-Man on home consoles. There was probably some automated process either with Gameloft or Youtube that was setup specifically to enforce that exclusive mobile license and accidentally caught the trailer for the Sony game.

This will likely get fixed quickly, but it highlights the stupidity of Youtube's copyright system and how leaving it up to the algorithms generates new problems that can only be fixed by humans. The humans will obviously be quick to react when it is a video uploaded by Sony with 11M views. How quickly will they react when your or my videos are inappropriately taken down?
A popular meme but seems somewhat overstated.

Most people don't have small pen-sized phillips screwdrivers either on hand and would need to purchase one for this case as well.
that’s interesting, I’ve noticed that too. Why don’t left wing viewpoints proliferate on free speech platforms? It’s almost like you have to enforce censorship for left wing viewpoints to thrive at all.
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Gab Is in Full Meltdown, and Founder Andrew Torba Blames the ‘Deep State’ (2019)
Laptop makers who make it nigh impossible to take the back cover off without special tools: "Performance degradation due to the inescapable characteristics of typical user environments is God's sign of favor for planned obsolescence."
Using compressed air on a laptop or pc is so satisfying. The way the dust disappears and the evaporation of the moisture! Fast results.
They were already working on PPC but when they went software-only the hardware division was sold to Canon and spun off as Firepower Systems.
How to make sales on Amazon affilliate?
please help me how to make more sales on amazon affilliate i need a traffic sources for free who can help me here
> Even without decrypting signals, they knew a great deal.

WWII version of metadata collection
Ask HN: How to manage personal expectations and self-doubt when starting?
I'm a few days into a new job as an entry-level software engineer at a FAANG. I studied applied math, and worked as a quant analyst at a fund before switching, and also a small startup, but our dev environment was extremely informal and kind of do whatever is appropriate since we were building from scratch. I've always had an enjoyment for coding and solving problems, but right now I feel I'm in way over my head.

My biggest concern is the size/scale of what I'm working on. There are endless holes of methods and implementations, and I have no idea where I end up. For example, I see many classes/methods that basically just join other classes/methods. In my previous roles, where I was either coding just for my own consumption or had full leeway in choosing what and how to build, I knew where everything I did fit.

Just getting my dev environment set up was way over my head. I followed onboarding guides, but it was me typing in commands into my terminal and trusting it - I had no idea what it actually did.

I hear about imposter syndrome a lot but I feel like in those cases they have the skills and not the comfort, whereas I don't have the baseline altogether. I was a good interviewer, DS + algos/Leetcode interviews came naturally to me and I worked hard at them, but that's about it. Before switching I was excited because I felt it would be a great opportunity to learn how these big companies work tech-wise, but now I feel like I was handed the blueprints to the Soyuz spaceship in Braille and told to figure it out. I'm not exaggerating when I say I know 0 about what's going on. My team is extremely accommodating and tells me this is natural, but I feel like they're underestimating how far behind I am.

I'm not terrified about getting fired, but I'd still like to do well in this because it truly interests me. How can I keep myself in check and be honest as to when the "you'll get it with experience" period is over and it's just clear I'm not the right person?
As if pay walls weren't annoying enough.

> Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism.

PS: Why is that special? No infections, thankfully, so far in my mother's home either.
This is why I loved the no-suffix "MacBook". No fans - no vents - no dust - no cleaning! For me, the most valuable feature and very under-appreciated.

Eventually I had to replace it and now I'm stuck with a noisy dusty MBP. I suppose the iPad now fulfills the role of "maintenance free computer".
Yeah, it's very painful to use foreign services, the 2FA solutions are just so annoying. SMS and TOTP? Legit stone-age garbage just like paper signatures.

I have none of these problems with local important services because I can use my goverment-issued ID for those things.
Actually it might be, Zink just got OpenGL 3.0 support.

Zink is an OpenGL Implementation on top of Vulkan and that might actually be a good way to do full OpenGL on these devices.
BTW, one of the most useful tools I've found for working on arbitrary modern electronics (after a basic set of ordinary screwdrivers and jewelers' drivers, a needlenose pliers, and some kind of spudger) is a $10-$20 set of as many different security screw bits as you can get. IME, it pays for itself the first time you need one of the bits, and I wish I'd bought a bigger set the first time.
I would try to offer an alternative interpretation: The opposite of that can only exist in heavily manipulated or censored communities.
Most of these people do their work without writing any JS too, enabling them to cope without 32TB of RAM to manage their 16 tabs of JavaScript each running in its own chromium instance.

Some day, we’ll re-learn some old lessons about the need for efficient utilisation of resources. In the mean time, check out the latest old game re-implemented at a fraction of the frame rate in your browser.
Readable version of your quote:

> The chances of an EMP attack

> Q: I’ve heard a lot from you about how dangerous an EMP attack could be. But how likely is it that anyone will actually try to attack us with an EMP?

> A: Unlike the EMP Commission, most national security experts view EMP attacks as a second rate threat. While perhaps some small terrorist groups or rogue nations might launch a localized EMP attack that might take out a substation or two, it’s unlikely that any country capable of launching a major EMP attack would actually do so.

> Q: Why not?

> A: Because to launch a major EMP attack, a country would need a large nuclear weapon. And if a country was planning on using a large nuclear weapon, it would make more sense — in the morbid logic of war — to conventionally drop it on a city than to launch an EMP attack which would at most cause some brief power disruptions in a few states. As physicist Yousaf Butt put it, “A weapon of mass destruction is preferable to a weapon of mass disruption”.
>You'd be lucky to get 40 minutes of battery life from a PowerPC based Mac laptop at the time when Intel laptops could run for a few hours.

iBook had 5 hours of battery life.

Inspiron 500m had 3 hours of battery life.
Are you downvoting me, Wikipedia or Jews in general? Asking for a friend.
If you dig around, you can find some alternatives to YP

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I will add toggles for analytics and other 3rd-party services (hopefully) in the next few days.

Thanks for pointing out
Placebo ritalin.

It sounds like they didn't teach the parents, teachers, and school administrators first.

Meditation is a very valuable thing to learn but this is not the way to learn it. To me it seems like these kids are being subjected to a fad.

To the extent that it works for them (to become more mindful) it will only throw the intrinsic bullshit of the school system into stark relief, as the quotes from the kids indicate.

I'm going to repeat myself, because I didn't see it mentioned in the article: if the parents, teachers, and school admin staff didn't go through a year or two of "mindfulness" themselves before pushing it on their kids then this is foolish.
From direct personal experience, they do not reliably have processes in place to deal with their legal obligations. We had YouTube DMCA issues for a while, and getting past their standard forms to deal with persistent offenders was difficult to the point where I would have expected to win a lawsuit, though as it turned out we found a way to go after the uploader directly and that was a quicker way to solve that particular problem.
Here on HN real work is not something an i5 can handle

And if an i5 can handle your workload, then the A13 won't make a difference either in price or performance (because you already don't care about performance) it only matters to Apple's profits

So no, an i5 is not enough for doing real work in technology

Any developer here on HN would tell you that with 1k you can find much better deals for the money

If your job is not technology related you can do it with a 5 years old laptop of any brand

We buy new machines because we always need more power, to do everything else that is not real work I own a 3 years old 12 inches Chinese laptop with an i3 that runs Ubuntu and is just perfect

You might be amused, but you wouldn't accept it as a work laptop if your company gave you one

I'm sure you wouldn't
I am using Youtube (with Premium) and HN. Almost no other sites, only as links from HN. So here am I - not using adblock and not seeing lots of ads either.
I've been a big citylab reader for the past few years - always loved their detailed takes on urban issues and some solid long form stuff.

After reading this, just clicked on bookmark and their homepage made me want to cry. I've never seen a brand murdered overnight before. (i guess the articles are the same? But design matters...it's a very clear message).
Possibly because constantly thinking “am I right to feel this way? How should I respond?” also describes the thinking patterns of anxious/autistic people. ‘Normal’ people generally just feel and act. They aren’t constantly modulating themselves. Maybe that means they make some suboptimal choices, but they also aren’t wasting time and making themselves feel bad by internally interrogating themselves non-stop.
This discussion came up in thread about the internet archive.

It is probably just inertia from before the internet.

When viewed through the lens of maintaining accessibility for hundreds of years or more, I am comfortable with slow change.

The question is how much do you trust the publishers to do this?
I worry about this being swarmed by traffic and hugged to death. Since it's popular on HN, I imagine the particular Heroku instance is overwhelmed. I was surprised that it worked when I used it. I guess I'm gonna have to pony up and donate then...
That's not the reality of it. You can easily get lost even day hiking maintained trails. When you're cutting through brush, have no familiar landmarks things are different. Being lost is a combination of not knowing your location relative to camp and also being disoriented as to which direction you're supposed to go, where you've come from.

You're constantly making decisions to travel to avoid trees, difficult elevation, brush which entails changes of direction. The inaccuracies in those decisions can compound. The idea that you can just look at the sun or have nothing but a compass and travel safely and confidently in unknown territory is a myth. It's rarely ever as simple as moving in a straight line.
Thank you, your reply means a lot to me. I have considered it, but things are hard. I always thought they wouldn't help much. I'm trying to focus on the short-term stuff (finding an apartment for me, moving out). Have you had experiences with mental health professionals? Did they work out well?
Yes, maybe greater than 50% of people. But if Apple used a standard then you could get them from your hardware store, or your neighbor. And you could keep them to work on your eyeglasses too.
Do you have a source on that? A source which takes into account "milk cows" being slaughtered and eaten after max. 4 years too? Accounting for the fact the cows only produce milk when having baby cows and some of these being male?

I am highly sceptical cutting meat is enough. Animal based protein, and energy is just inherently wasteful since 3/4 of intake energy is radiated away as body heat. (Yes, there is this super small niche of grass land unsuitable for humans feeding agriculture.)

I am not sure about the thermodynamics and ecology of fish in general, but I think eating predatory fish is an ecological disaster regardless of the carbon footprint.

Just to make sure, I don't think you have to quit all animal products for a sustainable future. If people go 95% plant based calorie-wise that's probably enough. Celebrate a steak once a month, commit to that, pay the real price for that!