skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Are you willing to pay 50-100 euros/dollars per year to keep MDN afloat?

Yes, as long as there is a guarantee that my money will go towards actually paying people who update the documentation rather than CEO salary, degenerate activism or doomed web startups.

>Create an independent entity like Fronteers, but then international, get members to pay 50-100 euros/dollars per year, and use that money to fund MDN or its successor.

Sounds like a decent idea, but a Patreon-style funding with different tiers will probably yield even better results.
Blink out the IP address on headless Raspberry Pi
Agreed. Though I think the main problem is that an instructor cannot be expected to provide guidance for a dozen different tools. I understand the problem, I just wish they could approach this from an angle of general principles instead of specific tools.
What makes this an intellectually interesting argument is decently-sourced speculation tha for technical campaigns, IC uses botnets or similar network noise to hide campaigns within. Since technical campaigns seem to pull methodology from pre-technical IC days, that makes these grand conspiracy theories have a weird kernel of truth.
> People who want a car-alternative for necessity either buy a wal-mart bike, a cheap electric/gas moped, maybe a motorcycle, or walk.

This isn't true across the board. There are absolutely folks who have a $12k INEOS Pinarello because of status, but there is real value in more expensive bikes (more expensive than walmart).

Going from steel to aluminum is a very recognizable weight difference. Your commute just became more manageable.

A 105 groupset is way more reliable (ime) than lower grades. Your gears will shift better, not click, not skip, and not drop your chain during your commute.

A bike shop (which sells more expensive bikes than walmart) is going to fit you properly. You may get lucky with the walmart bike, but a proper fit removes knee pain, lower back pain, shoulder pain and neck pain.

If you are commuting, shopping, using your bike for real world things, the extra money is well worth it.

Note: I'm talking about a $500 -> ~$2k. Not a $5k bike for a commute. By ditching your car, you more than make up for the $1500 difference in insurance payments, car payments, gas payments, it really adds up quick.
They already have autonomy. They might would like it to be better armed, and they are free to accept the deal of the century proposal, but they won't get more.
Polio cripples 25-80% of kids that survived it, and kills 2-5% of them. Polio mainly spreads through kids.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/poliomyelit...

Comparing covid-19 to polio with regard to the danger to kids is absurd.
Man, this is very tough. I think the problem is (and I very much hope I am wrong!) that an outbreak will occur and your university will still have the financial problems. And also some more sick and dead people.

(All from a US perspective)

There's been a crazy notion floating around from the start on this, that we can either keep our normal activities/economy (jobs, businesses, schools, etc) or deal with the pandemic.

However, you can't have anything normal unless the pandemic is under control. Because until it is, so many kinds of normal activities will be hit by an outbreak, and then your normal activity will fall apart and stop.

I think we could have had school this fall. But it would have meant much more serious efforts months ago, building up our fast testing capabilities, a commitment to ongoing mask, social distancing, and other mechanisms to control the spread (mandates, really).
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these situations are so frustrating it almost feels like it was their malicious intent to cause you mental anguish sometimes. "hey, check out this gui tool that you need! not gonna show you what it's like though ;) you just gotta download it and set it up."
> "open source" and "source available" are conflated by many companies trying to benefit from the marketing

In my experience this is relatively rare. Whenever it happens on HackerNews the response is pretty unforgiving, as it should be, but it's not a common occurrence.
At least Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke plays Factorio, Starcraft etc.
That's great and all, but my challenge then to you is as follows:

Please show me a scientific experiment in the lab where a single speck of matter is created.

You know, dust-sized would be OK -- anything I can see in a store-bought microscope.

I'm willing to believe you and renounce all of my hypothesizing, but I need this experiment (and working, I might add), first...

Care to produce an experiment like that for me?

Oh, and by the way, atoms/ions/subatomic particles -- anything that fancy/expensive equipment is required for -- does not count.

I want an experiment, where for under $100 or so, I can create a single particle of matter at home.

Doesn't matter how small; just needs to be measurable, observable, even with a <$100 microscope is OK.

Show me that experiment -- and I'll recant everything I've ever hypothesized...
> Google for HTTP/2, Chrome, Web Vitals, Angular and so many other puzzle pieces without which the whole Internet wouldn't be what it is today. It showed foresight, wisdom, excellence, responsibility and stewardship.

That is a very creative way to describe forcing one-side standards via monopolies. By your logic, you also love IE4, HTTPxml, flashcookies, etc.

And you call microsoft business tactics in the 90s as "foresight, wisdom, excellence, responsibility and stewardship" because that is the text book those companies are following to push those "technologies" that are completely self-serving to show rich ads to you and control which video your browser can play or not.
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I think it's still going to be hard to get 'middle class' parents to embrace this for their kids - and I am a 'middle class' parent.

If my kid wants to become an electrician I'd probably say "Why not major in EE?". A construction worker - why not major in Civil Engineering? If I felt my kid was fundamentally incapable of the level of effort required for those degrees, perhaps my opinion would change.

I'm on HN and I have an engineering degree, so I'm predisposed to think my kid could get one too. I'm not sure how I'd feel otherwise.
According to the best (or worst) authorities, George Sand slept around with quite a few men.
What's new is the sociopolitical climate and the modern web.
I can't wait for HEY to implement custom domains so I can ditch gmail for good.
Thought I'd share the Alpha test announcement. I've enjoyed following Ben Adams for years and watching the progress on AoA and their contributions/insight to .NET Core performance.

https://twitter.com/ben_a_adams

https://www.ageofascent.com/2020/06/23/technical-progress-wi...
This is exactly why Hey was never a good business model. It's something that someone could do for free, with much less overhead. Did I mention it could be done for free? I guess you get a fancy @hey domain but... I mean that's hardly a selling point.

Regardless, this is a really cool project that further drives the point home. Props @sandipagr for a slick looking extension.

Me personally, I've just committed to ~5-10 minutes every week actually unsubscribing / marking spam every single email that doesn't belong and creating filters for the rest so they're neatly organized.

After literally 1 month of this commitment, I had a completely clean, inbox 0 about 90% of the time. Today every single email (with very few exceptions) that comes into my inbox is something I care about, or quickly ends up unsubscribed and I never see it again. Maintaining inbox 0 takes about 5 minutes / week.
Exactly. This teams budget is probably less than Microsoft spends printing employee badges every year.
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My last company uses 1.35x salary as the fully loaded cost for engineers. Healthcare and office space costs don't scale linearly with salary, for example.
Changing your mind or evolving your opinion is just "flip-flopping"?
What on earth does this have to do with the topic at hand? There are plenty of places where composition/inheritance have been discussed and will be discussed. It doesn't need to be brought up every single time someone mentions a language that supports OOP.
How this this a straw man? Parent is just agreeing with gp that a lot of HN users are obsessed with AMP and it’s supposed evils

Disclaimer: googler opinions are my own
Trump should pardon Snowden because it's the right thing to do.

He should also not be undercutting the post office, assassinating Iranian generals, enforcing tariffs on allies like Canada and Europe.

Pardoning Snowden is a meaningless gesture, it does nothing to stop the military industrial complex and the intelligence apparatus that he supports
Seconded! I started using this a few weeks ago after finding out about it on HN and it has been excellent. There's a small 1-2s delay while it loads and sanitizes the results but I got used to that pretty quickly.

The one downside for me is that iOS Safari doesn't support custom search providers, so I can't use it on my phone unless I switch to an alternate browser. That said, once iOS 14 lands I can set Firefox as my default browser and use it that way.
Well, you are clearly an optimist, which I genuinely appreciate!

I agree, technology is neutral in itself, its just a tool. But, who runs all of it? Is it you? No. Is it comparable to other tools such as a shovel? No, again. The question I ask myself, is 'who owns the algorithm and its parameters?'. Do you? Or do you only have the impression of that?

If you are only 'leasing' the tools as you continue to use them, you are providing corporations the opportunity to learn all about everyone at scale. This confers huge advantages to whoever owns that data, they measure, store and analyse everything they can. But don't share it. There are many examples of this, but how about that amazon doesn't even release data on which books sell best? It simply provides a best seller list.

With that level of knowledge, much of which can be automated, and which you do not have access to, you have a massively asymmetric balance of power. I don't see how you shake off that yoke.

Like I say, I would prefer to move away from the archaic social and political order. But stepping into a highly monitored and supervised cage, no matter how gilded it is, isn't the answer for me!
Yea, traits make this much simpler to avoid. The problematic type would not match the trait, likely leading to much simpler communication of the error.
What about other websites? Are they usable (even if slightly broken)?
OpenVZ is fundamentally a container system, almost exactly equivalent to LXC. (In fact, Linux namespaces and cgroups were effectively created through a refactoring and gradual absorption of OpenVZ-descended code.)

"Virtual Private Server" (VPS) is a generic marketing term used by compute providers to allow them to obscure whether they're backing your node with a true VM or with a container. Down-market providers of the kind I referred to always use it to mean containers.

Yes, these VPS provider containers are wrapped in a VM-like encapsulating abstraction by the compute engine (usually libvirt), but this is a management-layer abstraction, not a fundamental difference in the isolation level. VMs that use OpenVZ or Linux containers as their "hypervisor backend" leave the workloads they run just as vulnerable to cross-tenant security vulnerabilities and resource hogging as they would if said workloads were run on Docker.

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But all that's beside my original point. My point was that, when you run a "pet stateful container that you can SSH into", you're Greenspunning a VPS node, without getting any of the benefits of doing so, using tooling (Docker) that only makes your use-case harder.

If you acknowledge what you're really trying to do—to run your workload under VPS-like operational semantics; or maybe even under VM-like operational semantics specifically—then you can switch to using the tooling meant for that, and your life becomes a lot easier. (Also, you'll make the right hires. Don't hire "people who know Docker" to maintain your pseudo-VPS; they'll just fight you about it. Hire VPS/VM people!)
Well the nice thing is you can, Notebook is just a file format; but many tools allow you to select a bunch of text or use comments as delimiter and still execute using Jupyter. JupyterLab text editor does that by default. ANd I've seen vim plugins for that.

Notebook document are _meant_ to keep output as they are design for research and where the records of your results are important, but you also don't have to use ipynbformat with the notebook UI either.
If it were to be obeyed, a slider like the Humble Bundle where the allocation to the charity, game provider, and HB are manipulatable would be fantastic.
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And there doesn't seem to be any difference between the restrictions now vs what we saw in 1918.
20,000 square miles is only ~141 miles square. Which is to say, flying through that layer, one of the satellites is probably closer than the ground.
Curious, why does it take HEY to replace gmail? What's the killer aspects those two have others don't?
The convention for using m_ prefix is used to signal visually what is a private member and also p_ prefix is for params. I don't like it that much and I've seen it both in Java and .Net but, if I'm working on a code base which uses this convention I;ll simply stick to it. Consistency is nice, inconsistency not so.
I can get 3rd party parts for my Ford without issue, and it can be worked on & upgraded by 3rd party shops. There's competition even within the subset of cars from Ford.
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Perhaps he expects the Russians will execute him if he's pardoned. Wouldn't surprise me given their track record.
not OP, but my AWS buddy was told to work from home back in February if I recall correctly.
>AMP

Tangentially related: on mobile, I've been having a good time with Firefox with this plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amp2html/
Love the design too.
Two things prevent me from using this:

1. What if whomever is behind it doesn't get enough users and this whole thing shuts down in a year? (one solution: have a save to local drive in markdown[1] and sync with _box/_drive as an option)

2. I already have all my info in my outlook/google/apple/etc calendar and it already syncs with appointments, alarms, email etc. Do I have to type it all here again and manually make sure the time is blocked off?

Otherwise this looks great.

[1] Is there a universal all-text calendar format?
Switched to Vivaldi.

One click, and Vivaldi shows the entire URL, as it should be, including scheme and everything.

(Vivaldi browser was founded by employees of Opera, when Opera was sold to a Chinese company. Vivaldi is owned entirely by it's employees)
I don't see how this assertion is relevant to the topic at hand here -- but how do you think the government has violated the constitution pertaining to covid?

There are certainly a lot of people coming out of the woodwork who are under the misconceptions that "the constitution" prevents the government from requiring their citizens do anything, but I haven't heard any specific claims about violations, let alone a citation of relevant case law.

Public health regulations, especially at the state level, are well within the powers legal under the constitution.
I don't believe this is an attack. It hides the full address, but you can hover over it to see the whole thing, or even enable full addresses easily.

I believe this is legitimately done to improve UX for users who may be phished. Tying this to AMP is a mistake.
The amount of doublethink on display here is incredible. It IS impossible to both live without these services and a be a relatively normal member of society. I've tried everything in this article, and it isn't sustainable. Veganism is also something I've tried, and it's an apt metaphor; I think most thinking persons are educated enough to agree that the global meat industry could be improved by both regulation and consumer behaviour. That everyone could do with feeling good about having a little less meat, don't feel bad about having a bit.

With Veganism and other stances of denial, it generates so much extra complexity and negative social pressure that sustaining them requires finding a niche social group to help you feel ok about it, and teach you strategies to help maintain it.

But if the very thing you are trying to quit encompasses the social medium, you're completely on your own.

Deleting my Facebook was social suicide, no joke. Most of my friends are old enough to rely on that platform alone. It was like losing a limb or two, and suddenly realising all your friends ever do is climb.
"We know that there are people who take a long time to recover."

There are people who take a long time to recover from rhinovirus. The question is, at what rate? You'll note that this is not covered in the articles you have linked.

We simply don't have the data -- what we have is a small number of anecdotes, and a bunch of news organizations who are willing to write speculative stories before we know anything. But you could write the same kinds of speculative stories about any illness, if you chose to look.

That JAMA article has serious methodological flaws, by the way: their "Covid" cohort has twice the number of smokers as their "risk-factor matched" group, almost twice as many men, more people with COPD, high cholesterol, diabetes and hypertension...and they report their results in terms of absolute numbers of defects observed. The reported differences between those groups is smaller in magnitude than the number of smokers. It's frankly embarrassing that JAMA chose to publish the study.
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I've been using Firefox/Safari on my personal devices for a couple years now, but as a web developer I unfortunately can't not use Chrome at work because of its dev tools. I try to test on other browsers when I have time - I've always made a point to push for supporting at least Firefox, as an organization - but when I'm iterating I really just need the Chrome tools. Firefox's tools always remained one or two steps behind, and now that they fired their dev tools team I assume they won't even be doing that, soon.

The same goes for Google Search/DuckDuckGo. I use the latter on my personal devices, but when I'm tracking down a problem at work I just need the thing that's going to work the best.
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Very true. To me, categorizing skills on the dimension of expiring vs non-expiring seems to be implying the latter has greater value than the former. This isn't true in all situations.

Foundational skills are just that -- foundational, in that they are a base to build upon. The stronger your foundation, the stronger your base on which other skills are attached. That said, the base itself it rarely enough. I'm sure we've met people who've mastered the foundations but have never done anything interesting in their lives. I have friends who were super good at calculus and linear algebra (the foundations for engineering math) in college but never amounted to much in their careers.

On the other hand, it is sometimes in acquiring so-called expiring skills that we begin to see patterns of the foundations skills that would be useful. Thoughtful programmers without CS degrees -- who have written code for years -- often find SICP a revelation that validates or corroborates their experience in the real world. On the other hand a college instructor who's taught SICP for years and can recite it from memory may never know how to apply it because he/she has never learn the "expiring" skills necessary to execute in the real world.

Some people change the world on so-called "expiring skills" -- because even though they are only useful for a season, they might be very high leverage during that season, and it gets you into the game. Once you're inside you can pivot. I knew a bunch of folks (with no prior programming backgrounds) who got their start from PHP (an expiring skill) and are doing well today.

I cut my teeth real-world programming with Perl (arguably a expiring skill). It was very much non-foundational (I would never do things today the way I did them in Perl) but it was my foray into real-life programming and it got me gigs. I wouldn't have gotten into programming if I had studied programming via a foundational CS curriculum.
In the 19th Century it seems to have been quite well known.
The government doesn't feel strongly about anything, largely due to inconsistent leadership in the current executive branch and legislative branch.
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>MDN is a reference as much as it is a learning resource..

>Their employers, big or small, should be the ones paying for it.

Your argument is counter intuitive, if it is truly a reference, then surely the developers themselves should pay for it.

A company hires a developer with the expectation that they know their field (including the standards etc.). It is the developers' own concern if they (understandably) need a reference to help them execute what they were hired for.
This seems overly absolute to me. What about all of the cases where the bug wasn't caused by a recent commit? Some cases of this I've seen are:

* Time bomb bugs. Code gets committed that works fine until some future condition happens, such as a particular subset of dates that aren't handled properly.

* Efficiency issues. Some code could might function properly and work fine with low amounts of data, but hit a wall when it has to handle loads beyond a particular size.

* Bugs in code that just hadn't received much traffic yet. A feature having a bug that only affects 0.1% of people using it might not be discovered until the feature gains traction down the line.
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These are all reasons why I've never containerized anything. Lambda it's the closest I've gone and found use for. I guess I don't have work loads that gain great advantage from containers.
>Are you old enough to remember Sept. 11, 2001? That changed a lot after far fewer deaths

It did and it didn't. It started a couple wars and dominated public discourse until Obama was elected. But did it fundamentally change our society? I'd say no. It was a defining event in the lives of a lot of people. There was a temporary change in patriotism and concern about security. But today that effect is pretty much gone and as a society we're essentially the same as we would have been without 9/11.

In 20 years Covid will be the same. For those that lost a loved one or lost their career it will be a defining event. But for society? It won't really matter.
Oh didn’t know that. Thanks for the tip. I’ve been using this app on Fedora for a while. Will have a look.
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In the immortal words of John F Kerry, “I did actually vote for it before I voted against it”
Not to be overly dramatic, but the US has been on a recent "You die for My freedom," kick.
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