skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off-topic tangent, but if you like Minesweeper you would really like the games Hexcells and Tametsi, each available for less than $1 on Steam. They're both like Minesweeper but have the improvement that every move can be logically deduced so you never have to guess.
It's still possible to partially implement it while keeping it safe by excluding sysex messages. Probably more than 90% of the end users will never need sysex messages so why bother?
Looking at all the flagged child posts, seems you have invoked the wrath of the "orange man bad" patrol. Very sad state of affairs for critical discourse in this country.
Using Bash traps in your scripts
India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps
Asking people whether they care and making them prove it by subjecting themselves to the slightest inconvenience may result in different conclusions.
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Did you ever check to see if they filtered UV correctly?
I'd love to hear from the folks who downvoted this, so I could improve this comment. Because there's a lot of empirical evidence that police departments (and our court system, to be fair - it's a social issue) historically have not handled rape cases well.

So, I'm all for reasonable discussion and receiving feedback about what was unclear or counterproductive in what I said.

But, I encourage future readers to take silence as a sign that people really didn't have any facts or logic to back up their side of the argument ; ).

Even though that might be a bit unfair, since it's not as if everyone is on here all the time.

But I think it's important for technologists - scientists, engineers, etc - to embrace their role in society at large and the power we have.

And part of that involves discussing social issues, as frustrating as some of us might find discussing these non-quantifiable fields.

Hey, it can't be worse than having to talk about the latest hot new addition to the JS ecosystem ;)
One thing my local bookstore does that I enjoy is the "Blind Date". They wrap a book in craft paper and write a short description on it.

They're usually slightly less popular, but still good books.
I think more non-technical people care than you realize. The problem is that many of them care about the wrong things (misunderstanding what the systems are doing) or don't understand how to regain their privacy. They also largely distrust Apple because "It's just another company and they're all alike".

As an example of misunderstanding: Apple attempts to guess at pairs of phone numbers, email addresses, and names based on the data on the phone using analysis on the phone. So someone emailed a colleague a phone number (From: Bob, Body: "Hey, call me at 555-555-5555"). They get a call from 555-555-5555 and "Bob" comes up in the caller ID. It freaked them out, "I haven't added them to my contacts! Apple is reading my email!". This misunderstanding of what the systems are doing and how they're doing it creates an appearance of something "wrong" happening, even when it's not. The inability to distinguish these things leads to "they're all the same" and other perspectives that cause the non-technical people (especially, but even many technical people) to give up. They care, but they don't know how to overcome it (short of getting a dumb phone or a feature phone and moving off grid).
They were math tests. Commonly proofs. Sometimes things like "calculate the result of this addition in this ALU".

Sometimes also things like "what is the output of a lexer?" ("A stream of tokens."), or "identify the bug in this code snippet".
Money is a quite sincere form of appreciation :)
Actually no. Familiarity with Haskell can actually make learning Idris more difficult :). It is better if you start from scratch when learning Idris.
SRE Leaders Panel: Work as Done vs. Work as Imagined
To hijack this thread, has anyone moved places in the same city to decrease their rent? In SF right now rents are taking a pretty big dip and I’m thinking about moving apartment.
It is: https://www.ikea.com/in/en/p/idasen-underframe-sit-stand-f-t...
For sure. I think the only thing he’s done which is completely serious was that texting and driving PSA from like 10 years ago. Herzog is a joker but he’s not obnoxiously obvious about it.

Someone here posted a link to Ebert’s essay on Nosferatu where he goes on about The film’s cinematography (which actually is freakin excellent mind you) and it’s milky under saturated etherealness.. Yeah sure but come on it’s Kinski, who is an absolute nutter, like nutter prime, in a ridiculous vampire costume! Herzog’s humour is underrated.
> No one was actually excited for it, there were just a ton of articles that made you think you others were.

My impression every time I heard about it was people weren't even buying into the "other people were excited" part.
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this is a very interesting idea, but I think using gender and skin tone to represent data differences is potentially problematic, particularly if the data has any sort of normative meaning. the other variables are interesting though
Besides, I know they want to turn the browser into an os, but it's not one.

It's sandboxed from the os and limited to some use cases, which is the point. I don't want something capable of hot loading code from any web site to have the capabilities of my OS.
The observation re: engineers who never set foot in a machine shop is actually a real problem in industry, and a common cause of antagonism between engineers and the victims of their designs and drawings: machinists and fabricators.

There's a huge class divide in engineering between designing the the thing and making the thing, despite the fact that the two activities might require equal skill in different ways, or that sometimes making a thing to spec might be harder than doing the design work.

The best engineers have mechanical and process sympathy.
Or anywhere else? This is starting to sound like Borges.
Super cool! Also, a character visualizes data this way in Watts' "Blindsight" novel.
Home is in a different timezone + I rent a non-furnished place.

That’s really the issue with renting furnished, you can’t easily move.
>The vast majority of the public do not care, at all, about the type of data tracking that gets HNers so up in arms.

That's a hell of a claim. What's your source on this?
It all depends on what you want out of life. If you want to stay in one area and go as far as possible, yes I would follow this advice. You'll probably be more "successful" overall. But I was never that type of person; I've always been pulled in several directions. So I've sequentially focused on each of those, and made shorter careers out of each. Of course I haven't gotten as far in each, because there just isn't time. And I've struggled harder, stepping into new areas and being a beginner over and over. But it can't help but make you stronger and more of a person overall, or at least I like to tell myself that. Every minute Willard sits in that room he gets weaker, while every minute Charlie squats in the bush he gets stronger! And there still end up being weird little synergies sometimes, where something unrelated nonetheless applies in an unexpected way, usually on more of a metaphorical or symbolic level, that gives some insight.

I should say I've basically still been honoring my 3 or 4 main circles, plural, of competency, i.e. I still pursued things for which I had aptitude and interest, and not totally random ones!
Honestly I've thought about it, but not to save money per se, but because I'm angling to switch my full time gig from software to music, which is far less lucrative. But yeah, I say you should go for it, COVID-19 isn't going away anytime soon.
Hulu has always had a massive catalog of mainstream TV shows from large TV networks that aren't available elsewhere unless you pay for TV (or maybe watch broadcast TV at the right times). That's the same strategy as e.g. Disney+, which also provides exclusive access to a huge catalog of already-desired video.

Quibi is different in that they tried to make a bunch of new content from scratch, and no one cared. They weren't tapping into an already existing well of demand for specific content.
Acknowledged. I wasn't saying "you were downvoted because...". Rather, I was saying "This person should not have been downvoted, because...". I agree that there's overlap, and I was pointing out that it was happening here and shouldn't.
I am certain that, in a good bookstore, and had I the finances and shelf space, I could spend $10K in a short afternoon. Less certain is whether I'd ever actually read them all but I'd darn well aspire to read them.
> Start out with SQLite in all the major browsers, and then gradually have them diverge. Blink and Webkit started the same way. Independent implementation does not mean "implementation of uncommon history".

The point is that they would clearly never, ever diverge. Any sqlite quirks (of which there are plenty) would be enshrined into the backwards-compatibility requirements of any browser that used it. Plus building a database isn't simple - so why not just use sqlite? Setting out to fork or rewrite sqlite is not a task that makes any sense.
> Hell, consider how non-welcome a person who thinks Rust sucks would feel on news.ycombinator.com. (tip: very non-welcome)

That would be me. I literally got shadowbanned for criticizing Rust when I first became a member on HN. But I don't feel unwelcome by HN, only by mods, who I don't think of highly anyway, as this pushed me to pay attention to what mods actually do over the years. Nowadays they punish my account again, at least they didn't ban it this time, presumably this time it was because of my opinion on something corporate capitalist they didn't like.

> It seems futile to resolve each individual's sense of welcome; to provide a safe-space concurrently for religious white nationalists and black trans activists, and assorted fringes.

No matter how fringe, if mods allow, people will still be able to defend and express their opinions here, so only mods can make them feel unwelcome here.
Fair point. At the same time the exact computation paradigm is proof that problems like these can be solved in a rigorous way if you start with the right foundation.

By the way thanks for writing the article, it was a refreshing read.
Spend time with your family, evaluate your trajectory in life. This will make you stronger.
Nope, my parents are capitalists so they’d charge me rent anyways.
I really recommend reading the manual. For instance, the one for my Weber grill had quite a few tips in there that I wouldn't have come across otherwise.
I don't see anything wrong with that, but also depends on your lifestyle and relationship with your parents. Your dating life will suffer unless you're cool with bringing a random person home with your parents there. I'm sure your parents will enjoy the short term company and can help them with chores and throw them some cash.
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The problem with your analogy is that it downplays certain aspects and plays up others.

Attacks on HTTP sites are known threats that we have evidence for, they aren't ridiculous or unheard of. The defense is not "everyone where a bulletproof vest", it's get a certificate and set up HTTPS - a one time cost that will protect thousands of people.

You're making the choice for your users, who may not be as informed as you are, to not protect them. That's very different from asking them to wear a bulletproof vest.
Let me know when a company outsources their Finance department to India...
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I mentioned SoloKeys farther down the thread, I'm really excited about the new version. Is that coming out soon? I know it was supposed to come out in June, but haven't heard anything yet. I actually sent you guys an email a few minutes ago.
Apple's moat is that people like iPhones.
That ship sailed a thousand years ago.
Completely agree with this. I didn't even know I received email until I checked Everything area or each individual area. They need a badge indicating where new emails are coming in, so I can check. Especially with trying to get new users accustomed to their UI.
Flagged, as this is clickbait. Quibi has not failed or "crashed", it has simply not met early (and very ambitious) targets.
Eh. I grew up in a rural area. Took two basic coding classes in high school but I didnt realize being a developer was a real option for anyone other than very smart math lovers. My college didnt have an actual computer science program. I don't think I would have been an amazing developer but I think I could have done the job, and would have, if I knew it was a realist option at an earlier age.
Cool.
I use Hitfilm Pro for editing and animation.
Blender for 3d rendering.
Godot game engine for simulation.
I agree with the general sentiment, but don't agree with the specifics.

The NT series has always distinguished between cached/locked memory, so I don't see that as an explanation.

Also, consider than, on equivalent hardware, XP actually booted _faster_ than 2k, which led many people (incl those who hated the interface) to actually use it.

So this is not simply explainable by the "people just can't take change" argument.
Exponentially as the opposite of logarithmic. It's just a figure of speech like 'orders of magnitude'. What's fuzzy about that concept?
Sort of. I moved back to my hometown to an old (and I mean old) family flat that my father owns that is 2 minutes walk from my parents house.

Honestly, I wanted to shoot my self in the face every day. I love my parents, but I left their home and city at 17 and coming back after 20 years just made me realize I rather starve than live in that shitty hellhole I grew up on.

Sorry, not related, but fuck, I hate that town!
to say that the reason people join gangs is cultural implies that it's a "bad culture" problem. the reality of why people join gangs is more complicated and includes overpolicing, economic deprivation, legacies of slavery and racism, and other factors. but if we say "it's just their culture" then we commit a fallacy that leads us to say "black people are doing this to themselves because of their bad qualities X,Y,Z", and we may also end up saying "black people are poor and disenfranchised for the same bad culture problems as lead them to form gangs". this is a classic fallacy, throughout human history, in which oppressed groups of people have their character impugned based on ignorant readings of the ways that they cope with and adapt to their situation, and thus are blamed for their own oppression
I didn't realize it's now considered an "attack" to call someone jaded and/or an employee of a specific company.
KDE Plasma happily copied windows in this way. I have often had the wrong thing launch on KDE because the search updated between when I decided to hit "enter" and when the key press was registered.
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Came here to say this! That creepy cool chernoff face utilizing vampire captain. So cool.
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I think mine is an uncommon opinion, but libraries actually make me kind of sad haha. Most of the books are not well-cared-for. There's tattered pages, ruined hardcover slips, markings, etc. I really hate it, so I never go to the library.

But one of my girlfriend's and my favorite dates is to just find a bookstore and just walk around. (Often we use B&N because of availability, but we try to find local when we can.) We don't usually come away having purchased anything, but just walking around and talking about books you've heard of or read, and leafing through some of the pages to see if anything catches your eye — I love that. I also like that bookstores are often a bit more aesthetic than the local library, plus they frequently have a cafe attached or adjacent where you can sit for a while afterwards, sometimes with some new books to poke through.
I never understood what people mean by the joke "emacs is a great operating system, all it needs is a decent text editor" but after reading your post I'm starting to.
Some numbers to put this into perspective:

A $500 bonus for one month of full time 40/hr/week work comes out to ~$3.20/hr "raise" for the month of June. Amazon minimum pay is $15/hr, so this bonus is effectively a ~20% raise for one month.

Amazon Q1 profits were $2.5 billion, or ~$620 million averaged per month. Spending $500 million on this bonus is ~80% of "monthly" profits.

This is a situation where I suppose I do have to give props to Amazon for giving a bonus that's well above the status quo (a 20% raise and spending 80% of profits on pay raises is nothing to sneeze at), but at the same time, $500 still seems paltry.
Is there a link to read this anywhere? The one I found in the article was broken.

There's really no way to evaluate this argument on the basis of this article. Do we need to wait until it's published tomorrow?
> Except on the long term that would have no effect in empowering users. We all know that when faced with a deluge of permission requests, or pressured by the fact that enough people have already accepted and it's the entry price to collaborate, people will just hit accept and be done with it.

How is that any different from apps on the App Store?
That's decidedly impressive considering it's non native code too, and shows how much further the art has moved.
Hulu had a content library of stuff people had already shown they wanted (through both live viewing and internet piracy) and also launched before almost anybody else (Netflix instant streaming was pretty tiny back in 2007). The business model also evolved a few times.

This is more like Vessel, the more tech-backed version of "let's split the middle of Youtube and Netflix for more short-form stuff" that nobody has shown they wanted, now or then. Just with shit-tons more money to throw at celebrities vs more youtube-creator stuff.
You seem to be incorrectly applying this article as advice on self development and then making an argument against that.

The author isn't suggesting that this is the way to achieve true happiness. They are suggesting that this is a good strategy to become the best at something, regardless of why you want to be the best at it (financial benefit, personal fulfillment, etc.).

> More so, what happens if industry trends shift and it turns out you specialized on the 'wrong' thing

What's the alternative to this? Remain mediocre at a number of skills just in case one of them go out of style? If you want to be the best at something, specialize in that thing but keep a pulse on the direction the field is moving and adapt as needed. The world's best mainframe developer probably won't immediately be the world's best PC developer upon switching, but they will be far from starting from square one.
But bookstores often do not have all the latest books, nor do they always have the best of older ones. There's just no alternative to the web anymore, especially when it comes to user reviews. (Not to mention the universal trend to move away from paper books.)
Can't find the original Tweet to credit it, but a great bookstore joke: "I've got the idea for the perfect escape room. You're in a bookstore. You have 60 minutes to escape while spending less than $50. Good luck!"
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I think it was orders of magnitude longer ago.

(Just a joke, it was actually exponentially longer ago)
I thought about adding CS as a second major. Then I saw how much the CS majors had to work. The CS program at my alma mater has/had a reputation for having some extremely time intensive courses — iirc, some courses had weekly homework assignments that took 20-40 hours per week (per course). Maybe it was just a few courses that were weeder courses, but I didn’t think that was the best use of my time in college. It seemed excessive and perhaps abusive in a hazing kind of way. Maybe they thought having ENIAC on display would motivate people through the grind.

I didn’t mind working hard in school, but I definitely wanted to explore things outside of coursework.

I also already knew how to program, and I didn’t need a CS major to get programming work. The benefits of a CS degree just didn’t seem to be worth that much at the time (this was decades ago, so it may be different now).
Been thinking about that phrase "power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely" is perhaps better as "power corrupts, absolute power writes the history books".
Do all adults in a household share responsibility for taking care of it?
The KDE community is moving to GitLab
Tell me more about the bootcamp.

I'm in IT and could probably bridge the gap to dev on my own -- did a CS degree ages ago, but don't do much coding outside of bash one-liners and some SQL -- but I'm rusty.

Plus I'm not super motivated to do hours of coding after dealing with 9 hours of BGP issues, etc.

So the bootcamp seems appealing. I'm not starting from zero, and could probably go hard for 3-6 months doing pure coding, and then run with it. I'm just not sure what my options are.
Wow what a snooty and rude response. Also, if California, Arizona, Texas, and Florida are geographically equivalent to Alaska in your book, you need to get out more.
No, the Windows 8 Metro/Win32 split was simply an extremely bad design. I’ve been dealing with a few 8 machines recently, and it’s really, really bad. You want to get between the two worlds? Hope you know about Alt+Tab, because otherwise you’re probably not going to find out how to get there. Seriously. It’s that bad.

Windows 8.1 made some improvements, so that users will probably be able to find their way from Win32 to Metro. Getting back is still a pain. It retained the fundamentally bad paradigm.

Windows 10 was the proper fix: abolish the ecosystem split, as a disastrously failed experiment, and return to a unified experience. You still have the UWP apps (though their design is finally somewhat more in line with the rest of the OS), but they are properly windowed like everything else now.
On a related note, I recently converted my old Ikea desk to a standing desk using a kit off Amazon. Only like $150 to end up with a nice standing desk!
Kind of, I chose not to renew my lease in NYC and go live relatively far from work with my significant other and her mom.
Cool, so Apple "can" add features to Safari. They should add more.