skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s right. The Alt+d shortcut, that the GP is referring to, to reach the address bar is an old carryover from Internet Explorer.
The police riots are a problem but I don’t think violence is the answer. Better to just abolish the police.
CephFS is the first counterexample that comes to mind. Recursive size and filecounts are available through extended file attributes (e.g. getfattr -d -m ceph.dir.* /path/to/dir) and can be made to be default in e.g. ls -l output.
That's a bold claim. How well do you know all your coworkers schedule?

As somehow who has worked for a shorter period of time, I've met dozens of such folk, many of which I have provided support for on weekends or odd times at night.

In either case, anecdotes are not adding much to the discussion.
I don't care whether my peers feel any stigma. I care about what the hiring manager feels.

I'm convinced that the mid/upper management at the B2B companies I've worked at (and the one defense contractor I've worked at) would not be pleased. OTOH, Google, Facebook, and Amazon probably wouldn't care.

Of course, I've never worked for an adult entertainment network, so I don't actually know.
Having used dial-up to send email at one point in my life, I find it fascinating that my children find emails in the modern era as difficult as I might consider a fax to be. They'd rather text and need to be reminded to "check your email". I suspect it has to do with the volume of useless messages.
You make a good point.

Doing a quick bit of estimating, if his parents were worth $10MM USD, and he reached $100billion in net worth, then he increased their wealth 10,000 times. Note that it is not yet inherited, as he achieved that wealth while both parents were alive.

I'd surmise that anyone that increases their wealth 10,000 times more than their parents is self made.

If Bill's parents only had $100, and he reached a million (10,000 times higher), then he'd still be "self-made".

To me at least, anyone who increases that much is impressive, regardless of what they started with - it's the multiple that is key.

So I guess the question is what is the probability of the child of a multimillionaire increasing their wealth by 10,000 times?
This is addressed specifically in TFA.
I was hearing a mix of higher population density, worse hygiene, expectations of containment, different culture/government, skepticism of Chinese media honesty, and (perhaps most importantly) downplaying by WHO and other experts.

Italy was the nail in the coffin for those... optimistic expectations. Except among the lunatic fringe.
I think the point was that even within the codebase, simplicity and reduced complexity was preferred over perhaps a "cleaner" or more advanced approach.

So managing a bunch of hard-coded code paths via a switch instead of using a regex to pattern-match.

It's less future-proof, but even an entry-level dev can reason about a switch statement and update it as needed.
Anecdote disclaimer.

Learning Spanish right now so I'm excited to learn about this better translator. The very first word I tested was "por favor".

DeepL detected it as English and translated it into Spanish to give "por favor" == "por favor".

Same for "una mas". To be fair, it worked once I properly accented the "a".

I'll be using this for longer sentences instead.
Oen thing is clear - Stalin was an unspeakably disgusting human, and his regime committed atrocities that few have equaled (Hitler beeing among those select few). I am not arguing against that.

However, what the USSR did after Stalin is usually much milder than what the US did to their client states. It's true also that at least some, but most likely all, of the European colonial empires were atrocious as well. Discussing the relative merits of each disgusting atrocity is hard.

Still, the things that the US did in Latin America and Asia are absolutely on that level of human misery. Tortured children, imposed famines, indiscriminate killing, use of systematic rape as a form of punishment/deterrence, forced labor, ethnically motivated power structures, deliberate destruction of democracy and of the industrial power of some of these countries, the whole shebang.

So perhaps it would be unfair to say that it was worse than European colonialism, but it was certainly equal (though I fully admit, not as bad as Stalin: Probably worse than any later USSR leader)
The community wiki is strange to me because it completely removes the gamification aspect. If your post becomes a community wiki, you stop getting reputation. If you edit a community wiki, you get no reputation.
Oxford and Cambridge perhaps?
The sibling comment is good.

The problem that we're trying to solve is basically laid out on this slide: https://youtu.be/vvZA9n3e5pc?list=PLoROMvodv4rMWw6rRoeSpkise...

The business is "we will be selling servers." You can't buy any yet, but in the future, you'll be able to.

The talk lays out a history of servers, describes the problems with the servers that you can buy from vendors today, and lays out why we think we can build better ones.
They seem to speculate that the cells have been in a low-energy state where they either divide very slowly or spend all of their energy repairing broken molecules, which would presumably include their own DNA.

My own (baseless) speculation: Maybe the population was originally much larger, and the surviving cells have been maintaining the energy to live by slowly cannibalizing each other over millions of years?
Its not about "hours worked." Its about available throughput.

If you're under-loaded, then a good manager can shift the balance around the team. Maybe someone else is over-loaded. If the whole team is under-loaded, then maybe the team can deliver more features. Maybe its a good time to pay down some of last year's technical debt. Maybe its a good time to take a bet on a higher-risk research project.
Climate Technology Breakthroughs Multiplied by Instigators is desperately needed
Hopefully, they waive the gym fees lol.
Better then Google? Libra: Machine Learning in One-Liners.
I agree, at least with regards to local politics.
I think there's even one more point that could be added:

It's OK if you're not being productive outside of work.
Swipe to switch tabs has recently been added to the nightly releases:

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/07/27/firefox-now-support...
Yes, what you say is more precise than what I said. They did a lot of fixing and by now nearly all sites use the same codebase (incl frontend), apparently with feature toggles for some sites (e.g. Stackapps or Meta have unique mechanics but run on the same software). The only surviving forks are probably Area51 and their Enterprise product. Previously, frontend/layout had diverged though, which prevented rapid rollout of new UI features[1]. One of the perks of a graduated site used to be a custom design (not always just CSS changes).

Sites don't need separate database servers but separate database schemas, which is also why migrations between sites are still quite broken. Many processes around launching a new site appear to be very manual.

[1]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/307862
Sabine has made a name for herself being a contrarian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZI8-9i0SOo

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/physicist-s...

She'll even take your money to answer your questions if you dont like physics forums

https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201611/hossenfelder...

I dont mean to sound critical, but her statements remind me of Lord Kelvin's statement

"There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement"

Personally, I think theoretical physics should never be discussed in the absence of the specific data it is trying to address. So much confusion happens when the details are not understood first before the grand theory is proposed. Theories too often are presented as gifts from the heavens and without the corpus to which they speak.
It changed a lot I spend much less times searching and rather most of the time reading what I was looking for. It was opposite 10 years ago.
I'm curious is if there was experimentation or not, and what's their attitude towards this.

It totally makes sense to use PHP and MySQL as it's what already works, and because there's a team who knows how to use those correctly in this kind of environment.

I just wonder if they have a research-oriented team that could experiment with whatever they see as a potential fit and see if they can improve performance, developer experience (without sacrificing performance) or both. Or if they don't (and if so - why?)

Facebook is kind of famous for this, as they came up with HipHop VM and Hack.
Nice! I recently built something similar, but less longform:

https://booklitapp.com

(The demo on the homepage is swipeable on mobile and draggable on desktop.)

My goal was to be mobile-first. One thing I haven't added yet is a table of contents generator - I like how you have the TOC toggle at the bottom!
And each other.
Deflation causes demand destruction by reducing income because deflation causes (or maybe is more a symptom of) layoffs. A consumer doesn't need to check the price of pizza if their income drops to zero. They will instantly change their spending behavior when they lose their job.
Most users, sure. I think most of the regular answerers are aware of this, and they are the main value of SO.
Is this something that the internet archive would preserve?
any links to providers of that service/data?
No, it's a reasonable question. We're not going to preserve, certainly not in a findable way, every piece of digital flotsam that has ever been summoned into existence. In general, we probably should save what we can of Usenet for historical value as balanced against the fact that the archives are tiny in the scheme of things. They're probably also messy but that's probably OK.

Interestingly, when some people saved a great deal of the Usenet archives pre-Deja News, one of them said something to the effect of they wished they had prioritized saving social discussions and so forth because, by and large, saving discussions about a bug in a long ago version of SunOS probably wasn't very interesting.
> The us economy is rock solid and is basically the only economy innovating at all.

It is powerful, but not apparently healthy and experienced quite some scary events in recent years so "rock solid" is a very weird characterization. The U.S. capitalist system is inherently instable, it undergoes periodic crashes and extraction schemes that make people lose their property or get collectively more indebted. This makes people angry and willing to consider radical changes - see violence and rising popularity of socialism in U.S. It is hard to predict when it happens, but the outlook is not good. For economic/political stability, E.U. looks much better.
The video didn't just suggest that it might be an effective treatment, it claimed that hydroxychloroquine is a cure.

"This virus has a cure. It's called hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and Zithromax. I know people want to talk about a mask. Hello. You don't need mask. There is a cure."

These "medical professionals" are quacks
Yes, wealthy people do pay others to manage their funds... I'm failing to see how that's a revelation here.

The people who manage that money, assuming they are responsible, or remotely-qualified, have only one option; which, is going to be investing primarily in securities/assets backed by US dollars. Land, buildings, and stock are all assets because you can get money back for them. That money is only good if its spendable and can be extracted from the asset... which is my point.

/shrug I'm just a bit lost at what you're trying to say...
As a very pro-2A gun owner, I'm upvoting you and hope at least people stop downvoting you. Downvoting this comment, which in no way attacks other people or their points of view, goes against the spirit of HN. Save that crap for reddit.

Back to your comment, though, I grew up in the San Francisco suburbs. I have pretty much lived in either metropolitan suburbs or urban center of medium sized cities. I never even shot a gun until my 30's. I guess my feeling on guns was that I was neutral until I moved to the Southern US and some coworkers took me shooting. After actually using them, and being taught safety protocols, I saw guns as what they were - hunks of metal. I didn't feel attaching emotion to inanimate objects was particularly constructive.

Also around that time, I had a few friends that were victims of violent crimes. Two of them were in supposed "safe" areas in the NYC suburbs. Pretty much changed my views on police and personal safety completely.
Work ruins everything. I helped a friend set up a dance studio and it ruined dancing for me for a little bit. Some career advisors say "If your hobby is your job you'll never work a day in your life". Bad advice IMO.

Now if you could figure out how to do it without either customers or bosses...
I always think of Brazil as hot and humid but I have never been there. How cold does it get in southern Brazil? I also never realized how large some countries are as far as population.
Post an “Ask HN” on this, perhaps, and request those who know more or have direct experiences across versions and browsers to weigh in?
Exactly! Unfortunately as a small child it was out of my hands :(
In point of fact. typical AR-15 calibers (.223/5.56) are not legal for hunting anything bigger than small game in most areas.

You cant hunt deer or bigger with them....because of the lack of power. Its considered inhumane.

They are great for varmit/small game (ie: coyote and pigs) though.
Yeah not sure what triggered the change but it was extremely noticeable.
The vast majority of bluetooth headphones don't even mention their Bluetooth version!
Potentially far worse - but Google did not yet stop progress for 10 years in multiple fields the way MS did.

They sucked the air out of advertising (in cooperation with Facebook) leaving none for others. But I consider that a small loss.

Microsoft did that for operating systems, productivity software, stalled the web with IE6, and more.

Google is capable of much more damage, for sure. But they haven’t done that damage just yet.
The problem is that you're thinking of "income" as "the amount of money I received". That would, of course, always be a positive number. Income accounts actually represent the source of income, such as a customer or employer; you received money from somewhere, and so the balance of that source has decreased, while your own assets have increased. Expenses are just the opposite: a negative entry in your asset account, counterbalanced by a positive entry in the expense account representing the recipient of the money. Your loss is their gain. You could flip it around but then your own asset accounts would have negative balances. Or you could do what some accounting systems do and selectively negate the balances for credits and debits depending on the type of account, but that's just confusing all around.
Be reasonable. Offset the 'starting point' by cost of living. Its only reasonable to gamble with excess money, not grocery money.

Rich people have many more opportunities to get richer, than any of the rest of us.
Thank you for the reply.... this is the kind of reply I was hoping for, something to bring a little clarity to things and perspective.
I guess it's true that it's just a hardware, and anyways I'm just going to use it for office work so it shouldn't matter.

Could you suggest any article/pointers to what I should be evaluating myself on as well as a something of a roadmap for a early stage Software Engineer ?
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Mostly agree. Here is a minor nitpick:

> dropping the paternalistic attitude about updates.

Now that we are trying to treat everyone equally, shouldn't we find a better word instead of blaming it all on the dads? ;-)

At least were I came from I cannot remember this attitude come from my dad.
> How someone feels about the job the WHO has done is probably tied more to their political beliefs than to reality.

I'm having trouble unpacking this statement.

Are you saying that a person's political ideology influences their judgment about what's objectively true regarding the WHO?

Or are you saying that even when two persons agree on the objective details of WHO's behavior, their different political ideologies lead them to different sentiments regarding how well WHO performed?

Or something else?
Yup I've got a fancy brake on my PTR 91. Can shoot .308 through that sucker all day. The Tikka doesn't have a threaded barrel though so I'd have to take it to a gunsmith. Which I'll eventually get around to...
I won’t say it’s objectively better in all cases but Deepl provides better translations from what I’ve seen than Google Translate.
Calling scammers by their real names [video]
Thank you! It has been a lot of fun so far. My colleagues are some of the smartest, most helpful people I've ever worked with. I look forward to that future too :)
Our host Squarespace has just completely and arbitrarily shut down our website
In the current modular[1] structure of the industry where the server is a product and the network is a separate product and the hypervisor is yet another product etc, there's no demand for components that aren't compatible with the morass of existing standards. So yeah, there isn't enough demand for OCP servers and such.

It sounds like Oxide is trying to break out of that by providing the whole stack.

[1] https://stratechery.com/2013/clayton-christensen-got-wrong/
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The definition of "ancient" is probably not the same for your laptop and for a planned-obsolescence apple mobile device
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> Should Twitter be the one to make that judgement call and block a video from medical professionals? No.

Why not? Their house, their rules.
jQuery provided a lot of quality-of-life functionality that is now part of the native Javascript language/runtime on modern browsers.

The most famous likely being the selector querying functionality, and the event management (and I'm sure others I am not thinking of).

jQuery still works, but under the hood it's just proxying those native methods, so you might as well just use those native methods directly.
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which is exactly what they are doing (also , nominally vanilla JS is even more legacy than JQ)
I would hope the key presses required to use the native search among opened tabs had changed.

- Ctrl-L to go to the address bar

- release Ctrl (otherwise, the next keypress fail)

- Shift-6 to type "%" in the address bar

- space

- [your query and hit tab/enter to navigate results]

The last bullet is a close to ideal, native search among open tabs and make it so smooth to find an opened tab among dozens. But the key presses necessary to get there? Who can use that without weekly hospital stays for finger RSIs?

I love firefox. If someone, somewhere reads this, please please please think of simpler key presses to use this nice, already built functionality.

(I know non-native extensions provide similar feature. But native would be so cool and stable, especially that it's already built).
There are so many old (and frankly even new) line of business applications, where the developers haven't considered among other things laws of physics like speed of light in optical fiber much. These systems (client+server applications) tend to run much better on premise. The applications are often not automated much, aren't really secured that well (so you would probably need a VPN to the cloud to run it safely) and the bandwidth of internet connections at some of these companies are not really suitable for clients on premise and servers in the cloud anyway. You are lucky, if the synchronization to a different location works well enough.

Also, cloud is very costly if you don't use the up and especially down scaling because your application/ infrastructure wasn't really designed for that. Also if you buy some new machine for the factory it usually comes with software (usually MS Windows Server + MS SQL Server + some machine control software) that has hardware requirements that don't really fit well with cloud pricing. Such machines tend to run for decades and the company certainly hasn't thought about being efficient with computing resources on the server. On premise hardware isn't that costly if you consider these factors, if the supplier cannot secure the machine properly, you slap it into its own VLAN and write an ACL for the RDP access (because that is how it is) and are done with it. Basically dedicated Gigabit speed with very little latency for any communication between the clients and the server. Remember, you are almost lucky if a Windows Update doesn't break the software/ software license on the server or the client...
> It is sad, but it basically seems par for the course for big, semi-commercial software

I totally get why they do it too, Im a big Mozilla fan and have been for a long time. Im glad there is browser competition, I love their take on Add-ons and allowing the user to make decisions for themselves. They are fighting the good fight, Im just expressing my opinions on things I don't like, but Im still going to use FF. I did stop upgrading with version 76 because it was just too much change and disruptive enough for me to downgrade and turn off the installer.

Ive never seen Pentadactyl, Ill check it out.
It’s not bad in the short-term. You trade stamped paper for complex goods and services. The problem is when people don’t want to make that trade anymore. One side is left with the ability to print stamped paper, the other has the means of production for goods and services desired. The U.S. “allowed” many domestic industries and supply chains to leave/fail/etc. because it was “better” to print paper.
Well, if you consider that Europe then yes.

For anybody living outside of the UK, going there isn't all that different from going to the US. The tuition is only somewhat cheaper too I think. As opposed to most "best" schools in mainland Europe being essentially free for locals.

So I'd assume any kid in Europe planning to go to Oxford is probably planning to apply to American schools too.

And not sure how reliably you could get accepted too. Like say for myself, when I was younger I really wanted to go to one of the top US schools (ended up not going to any). It was pretty obvious to me I'd never get accepted if I went to a local high-school so went to a prep-school in the US. The UK, I assume, has their equivalent of that too.
I'm in the same boat as you. I don't totally get the push to retire early. In fact, I don't think I'll ever retire if I can continue working and doing something that I enjoy. I have colleagues who dream of spending their days on a golf course or doing projects around the house. That sounds like a horribly boring life, to me. I'd love to be able to keep working at and solving technical problems until I die. That, and I think my spouse and I would hate each other if we had to spend every moment together. We love each other dearly but also appreciate our time away from each other.
I was pretty sure they had made this better recently. I recall being able to remove the new users group, but I'm no longer working there, so I can't verify. (Also, I didn't have to make a lot of new users in the recent past before I left, because of the merger stuff)
whoever or whatever team came up with the personal README's for ones github profile needs to be given the keys to all of Github because no feature in all of my years of using github has had such a profound "cool" factor than this. It will also go a long way to solidify the site as a social network. I see it replacing my resume, I will just send people that link, much like I used to with a personal website.

The roadmap is nice and it's nice that we might get to see what is going on or coming up and maybe have a say in it. This seems a lot like what Gitlab is doing though, so perhaps they're trying to get some of Gitlab's goodwill?
Possibly, which is why I included three other examples.