skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a problematic change, but is actually more usable. Now as a developer, I don't have to worry about changing the URL too much, in order to enable deep linking and the back button. I also don't have to worry about the unsightly but useful query parameters on a search page. This should become the new standard.

It's not like the mailboxes that the USPS is removing, ostensibly in response to declining mail volume. The mail boxes weren't in the way. They were built according to the city codes. Removing them before an election is all downside, and no upside.

The path and query params in the URL are in the way. If you're making a page that's a list of data that gets filtered, each time you change one of the filters, and call replaceState when it changes, it would change the URL bar. That's visual noise.

I used to be against this, because I'm against Google's overall agenda with the web. I thought about it and couldn't deny the usefulness of being consistent across mobile and desktop, and letting the URL change as frequently as is useful from the developer perspective.
Total layman here but somehow very much not-comforted by seeing it's 724 light-years away. That we might not go extinct seems like a far cry from it being safe. And I have an incredibly hard time believing Earth will be unharmed at such a seemingly astronomically small distance. Don't emitted particles travel at like thousands of miles per second?

Edit: Wikipedia says < 1000 LY would have noticeable effects on life on Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-Earth_supernova
More like accelerating their efforts to make a new system.
Humans all suffer the same regardless of race. The goal is to reduce suffering in the end right? If targeting on disadvantage rather than race doesn't produce the "right" racial mix, so what?
Wickard vs Filburn did that long ago. My own judgement is that every single amendment in the Bill of Rights has been effectively nullified, justified by the courts.

But still, I don't see how emergency public health orders go against the Constitution.
What is a Cold War called when only one side is playing? Because that’s been the history for the last three decades.
> I'm curious - how do you reconcile thinking they're very intelligent with thinking that they're utterly unable to grasp the basic concepts of computing?

Understanding computer systems requires both cultural and institutional knowledge. Not all intelligent people possess this knowledge. My grandpa is a great example. He’s a retired English professor and has deep knowledge of literature and the structure of English language. He’s still incredibly sharp but he cant use a computer to same his damn life.

> as an industry we'd rather tell ourselves that it's all so impossibly hard and beyond the grasp of the common person rather than admit that we just suck at explaining things and educating people outside our bubbles.

Using computers is very hard. I think you are underestimating the amount of time you and others have spent learning “basic” computer skills (email, word processing, web browsing, etc) that many haven’t had the time or opportunity build. I started learning how to use a computer when I was a little kid, maybe 5. over the course of my childhood I built up those skills to the point where they endemic and felt simple, even natural. These things take time and purpose and many very smart people do not get the opportunity or reason to build these skills
I'm not OP but I think you're reading between the lines. I feel OP though - I'd donate to a cause if my money doesn't go towards political alignments of any kind. I'm tired of NGOs or similar entities taking stances over stuff I didn't ask for. I just want them to do one thing, who gave you permission to use my donation to do a completely different thing, even if well intentioned?
I think this is the thing most people in the US miss when they want higher education to be free for all. Our university system- both public and private- is wildly overpriced compared to other countries with more public funding.

Small state schools are closer to that, but any of the bigger schools seem to think that because students get easy access to excessive amounts of cheap loans, they can be extravagant in budgeting- sports facilities, gyms, administration, etc.
However I've found ONI nukes my modest computer much more rapidly than Factorio. That was disappointing, coming from massive sprawling Factorio bases.
All. Even in the tests where the SD cards never physically failed, their different write patterns and flushing guarantees exposed underlying issues in the file system. You just don’t encounter them as often when working on systems that typically align with the assumptions the fs developers incorrectly made.
It looks like MDN has its own donation option separate from the Mozilla Foundation. They are pretty clear that the donations go towards MDN specifically. I suppose if this had been more well known about and supported the team may have survived, but supporting them directly could help grow that again.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/payments/

edit: Looking into this further, I cannot figure out how to actually donate. It looks like they killed this donation program, maybe they should bring it back now.
Nobody is claiming the following ridiculous statements:

> every single one of the 100k engineers that work there do nothing but dream up ways to trick people into using AMP for some secret illuminati end goal.

> every single UX change to a product with a billion users is part of the vast AMPiracy.
Nueral network tech went through a weird period and then back to basics (back prop) just with massive computation (and simple activation functions) with fabulous results. I wonder if similar things could be done with other old school techniques like GA. Does anyone know if we have tried massive ones?
“Structural pattern matching” for Python, part 1
Don't you get the same thing using Guest Mode?
In PA where I am they can't force you to give blood. If you refuse you automatically lose your license for a year. And because driving is a privilege, not a right, they are able to compel you with the threat but not force you to comply.

I'm not sure how this varies state to state but here the state can't force you to give up your fifth amendment rights, only make life difficult for you if you don't agree to the blood testing.
Yeah, I see what you mean (when taking the word 'container' in its technical meaning.) I'm not arguing with that; in fact, that was the same point I was making!

But I think that people don't tend to use the word "container" to describe "a container used as a VPS."

Which points at a deeper issue: we really don't have a term for "the software-artifact product of the Twelve-Factor App methdology." We refer to these things as containers, but they're really an overlapping idea. They're signed/content-hashed tarballs of immutable-infrastructure software that can be automatically deployed, shot in the head, horizontally shared-nothing scaled, etc. These properties all make something very amenable to container-based virtualization; but they aren't the same thing as container-based virtualization. But in practice, people conflate the two, such that we don't even have a word for the type of software itself other than "Docker/OCI image." (But a Google App Engine workload is such a thing too, despite not being an OCI image! Heck, Heroku popularized many of the factors of the Twelve-Factor methodology [and named the thing, too], but their deploy-slugs aren't OCI images either.)

My claim was intended to mean that, if your software meets none of the properties of a [twelve-factor app OCI image workload thing], then you're not "doing [twelve-factor app OCI image workload thing]", and so you shouldn't rely on the basically-synonymous infrastructure that supports [twelve-factor app OCI image workload thing], i.e. containers. :)
I've found it actually heightens the enjoyment for me. Unlike work, I can completely refactor my base from the ground up and no one will yell at me.
That is the opposite of the Supreme Court's approach. They want this to be argued over and the facts laid out as much as possible so the issue is clear, and the conflicting approaches demonstrated (and range of cases that fall into the ambiguity zone), before they step in.
Regarding backups: what is your suggestion for backups of databases that contain individual rows that might need to be deleted?
I do appreciate being able to test drive a bunch of different models -- last time I was in the market I discovered my intended purchase was unsuitable and found a car which my online research had overlooked. I would've (probably naively) paid a small premium to buy from the same place for that service, but man they threw the entire book of sleezy sales practices at me. At the end of the negotiations the best price they could do was an extra $8k in bogus fees on top of the already insanely overpriced sticker value. I walked, got a car a couple years older from a place across town for better than 4x cheaper, and have recommended everyone I know stay away from that dealer at all costs. I haven't regretted that decision a moment in the years I've had the car.
I used to love this game, but stopped playing once I heard about Satisfactory. It just takes things to a different level.
Is there anything for android that resets phone under a specified duration if not unlocked or used?
I don't think shitting on others' praise for MDN makes anything about this better.

Yes, it's an initiative that needs money. Maybe this will enthuse somebody up high to reconsider, or somebody else to take the torch and run with it.

But even if it doesn't, a bit of recognition is nice. These are humans and even though it doesn't pay the bills, it might help somebody not feel they're as worthless as Mozilla imply.

Stop dumping on these projects because you're all sourpuss about "free". You're only adding to the hurt.
That’s the one, thank you!
It's been explained elsewhere in the thread.
Questions:

1. What's the tech stack you used?

2. What was the biggest technical challenge you faced? (No need to mention the solution)

3. What new features are in pipeline?

4. Who do you see as your competitors?
That's The Goal.
If they hide the subdomain, then if users see google.com at the start of the URL it will actually be google.com. Tricky URLs like "myaccount.google.com-securitysettingpage.tk" would get displayed as "com-securitysettingpage.tk" instead.
The Covid crisis showed perfectly just how broken the US is. The country in its current state is hopelessly divided, terribly corrupt and it doesn’t have a functioning government or healthcare system. Politicians and civilians seem to pride themselves in making dumb and arrogant statements that show their lack of knowledge and experience. Democracy seems on the chopping block too. Trump is a major cause of this broken image, but for my generation it really started with the potential vice president Sarah Palin.

As a European I can say that the only people who still look up to the USA as a great country are the people who base their views on Hollywood instead of the news.
No, only external adversaries would entertain such pointless notion. Just like Duterte might in his dreams think of sinking Chinese ships, in reality he’d dig his own grave if he did.
Maybe if you don’t have loans or scholarships. This late in the game it’s almost certain that the loans and scholarships are cashed for the the bill by now
That is your characterization and borderline trolling. Only a troll would claim that insisting on legislative oversight of executive, to take one item, is indicative of irrational fears.
Windows and MacOS have a different user base (I'd guess most non-tech users prefer mobile for personal use).

Android's big scary full screen warnings didn't seem to work, people allowed weather apps to read their messages. I was referring to this in my earlier message:

> There is the danger that users aren't educated and would accept everything the app does. I'd say casual users want and expect some kind of protection.
The gpl-shim loophole could be useful, actually. Having a gpl shim means that one could insert tracing code into such shim, helping reverse engineering with the goal of developing free drivers.
Yes, companies have no problem paying for tools and resources, just don't call it "supporting open source" or a "donation".

Give everyone free access to MDN for X articles per month, New York Times style. Then sell a MDN Pro subscription with unlimited access and exclusives for $39/mo/user or $399/year. There's tons of examples in the cloud space of this working, like Linux Academy's online training or A Cloud Guru etc. that are making millions per year.

Just for reference, a MSDN subscription is $5,999 the first year and $2,569 for a renewal (but does come with a ton of stuff)... None of this 50-100 dollars per year or you're just setting yourself up for failure from the start.
> I don't see Linux users demanding snaps in large numbers

There is a demand for a way to package and distribute applications independently of distribution and with sandboxing. Hence Flatpak, who are doing it right.

> I need to first ask all the linux users and all the distros for approval and implement and support all of them.

Did you ever worked with some folks doing system-level work? Adoption by distributions is definitely a concern for them. They don't want to work on something that no one would use and by being mostly independent, they can not cram it into distribution as Canonical is doing. Even Redhat people have to prove worth of their solutions.

> I do not remember GNOME or systemd listening to what users want, they had a team with a big ego and implemented their vision.

Because you never met them. Both teams do listen to what users want. Just do not mistake what users want with what a few loudmouths want.

> If I would be a billionaire and I want to create my own DE or distro I would never waste time to make sure my stuff gets approval from people that think they know things

Even if you had your own distro, you would be probably interested in it's adoption, right? It is a bummer to have a distro that nobody would want to use ;).

But I understand; it is a different thing to work with people who have an idea what they are doing, vs. listening to bikeshedding.

However, this is not a case of snap and Canonical. They are doing the wrong thing, because they have different objectives than the ones publicly communicated, and they know it (they communicate technical hows, but not business whys).
I came across this issue, had to convert it with VLC.
Yeah the "hello, I'm looking to hire Mozilla employees" on various places that I read about the layoffs (hn, reddit, twitter) is a telltale sign that Mozilla employees are highly wanted in the industry. Compare it to threads where recent grads (out of good institutions) complain that they can't find employment in CS. Nobody posts there.
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Or rather America is waking up and realizing that sending it’s entire industrialized base to China was a bad idea.

Or realizing that China’s “partnership” program is really a thin veil for stealing American IP and technology.

It’s better to steal than to create. Just take a look at the new Chinese steal fighter and it’s resemblance to the F-35 steal tech [1]

It’s about recognizing reality, not vilifying another world power.

1. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/chinas-j-20-stealth-f...
Mozilla isn’t like most charities though, it’s really more of a charity conglomerate, where a bunch of different charities have been banded together under a single donation-processing frontend. So while I’d never request money donated to Mozilla to be specifically used for “Cloud-Hosted GPU VMs for MDN”, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask for the conglomerate to be broken up and to be able to donate to only the products you actually use.
great job, I like that it is simple enough that I can figure out how to use it in less than 30 seconds.
Phoenix is great for about six months of the year, but man is it hot in the summer. It is a dry heat, yes, but 115 is 115, humid or not.
It is not a matter of expertise, but a matter of setting priorities and valuing projects. I value MDN and Firefox. I am fine with every other aspect of Mozilla dying to save those two.

How do I donate my dollar with that goal in mind? As my goals are not really aligned with Mozilla as a whole.
I think the point is more to direct how you write/refactor code: focus more on the data structures than on the code. E.g. if you're struggling to write the code, then maybe you need to take a step back and reconsider your data structures.
That's the difference between something you have (name, fingerprint, blood, key, device) and something you know (password, pass-phrase, unlock code).
If that's true, then so are those that invest in big tech companies.
You’re making a blanket statement of “America is dead”. What do you expect?

If you have specific things you want to discuss, please do so. “X country is leading to demise” - that’s a pretty powerful statement to make unless you’re talking about a stateless country.
Writing a HN client in Godot for fun, because someone has to.

Still looks like hot garbage[0] and it isn't as small as it could be because I'm using C# and some external libraries but so far it works surprisingly well.

[0]https://imgur.com/a/cdIxQNz
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An irreversible migration isn't a bug, nor is anyone saying the answer for any software problem is to not have bugs.

They're saying the solution to the specific problem of being unable to rollback due to irreversible migrations is to not write irreversible migrations, which is a completely valid solution and indeed the correct one. The whole point of migrations is to track db changes so that undoing them is easy.
This is an analogy that is made too seldomly.

We already played this game with commercial game hunting, hardwood harvesting, etc. We even played it to conclusion with oceanic species and systems. EG cod fisheries.

The same principle are at play in the ocean. Technology & markets combine to create an unsustainable industry that comes to an end. With bison hunting it was demand for conveyer belt leather meeting railroads. The population crashed very suddenly.

Oceanic ecosystems is vast, so the process can take longer. They're also harder to harvest, so technology proceeds more gradually.

We were crashing oceanic systems in the 19th century though. Whales. Several cod fisheries. Many tuna fisheries, as soon as canning became a thing. Almost all coastal fisheries in the mediterranean.

Fisheries policies, in actual practice, tend to fall below true sustainability most of the time. Even defined very narrowly (harvest of this specific species will not decline), they fail regularly. West european mackerel populations crashed 2 years ago, and many times previously. This despite strict, high profile fisheries policies.

A ban is just easier. I am extremely dubious of sustainable wild harvest. Also, fishing is a small industry.
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This is up for debate. I want my government to protect our fisheries from other countries (as well as our own fishing industry) strip mining them bare until there's nothing but sea floor remaining.

They're not just fisheries for today, they're fisheries and ecological systems for the future, and if unreasonable demands are placed on them (for whatever reason) government is responsible to push back to protect those resources. If this causes food insecurity, the government of those impacted must make efforts to source food supplies elsewhere.
Why does the content appear twice?
Which should be used very sparingly, unlike the actual MongoDB, which shouldn't be used at all.
(Not parent author) I believe what makes HEY compelling to some email users is that it is opinionated about what email workflow should be like and fits the bill for many.

While a similar way of using email can be achieved in other mail clients [0] the simplicity of having such features by default it's by itself a good reason.

Some features that are non-trivial to emulate in other email clients are:

- Grouping emails with different subjects etc to the same

- Adding private notes is some emails

- Clipping specific parts

- Some UI specific features (Focus & Reply etc.)

[0] https://klinger.io/post/71640845938/dont-drown-in-email-how-...
PS: I am not the person you were replying to in GP. But I used his words. English is not my first language.

1) Look at the CEO salary. She was not even an engineer. The C-level executives don't harm themselves in this process, but there is no improvement because of her and she is still reaping a big salary. This also means many people are disappointed and less donations.

2) degenerate activism: all the SJW / diversity shit that Mozilla is into. I know some people here are going to defend it. But artificially trying to create diversity in an ecosystem means low quality. And a company like Mozilla which can't keep talented engineers doesn't need all this.

3) doomed web startups: Pocket, and their new VPN service which is going to be used by exactly 13 HN users.
I use Firefox and Thunderbird all day, every day, and Thunderbird definitely feels like it's funded by users whereas Firefox feels like it is funded by an actual company lol. So.
> But I've reached an age where I'm pretty sure that once I finish the rocket and escape the planet (that's what seems to be the main goal) I'll never play it again.

It'll still probably take you a good 40+ hours to do that. Which is fantastic entertainment value for $30.

Looking at the steam global achievements, 16.1% of people have finished the game at all (mid-game achievements are sitting around ~40-50%). There's then 2 other achievements - finish the game in under 15 hours, and finish the game in under 8 hours. Only 2.1% and 1.6% have those achievements, respectively.

I'm also a "finish the game & put it down forever" type of person, but I've come back to Factorio multiple times. Helped tremendously by the map generator settings letting you basically "skip" parts of the game you don't like, or double-down on ones you do like. Enjoyed the trains? Make the ore patches more spread out, but larger so that your train installs are both more necessary and are more permanent. Enjoy being forced to improvise base layouts? Ramp up the cliff generator. Hate cliffs? Disable them. Feeling stressed from the external pressure that enemies provide? Disable them. Etc...
That phrase might refer to any kind of activism that degenerates into mob violence.
I don’t really care much about the CEO salary either. Turning a technical writing project into a political crusade or flushing funds down the toilet of terrible unrelated startup ideas are both much worse than the overhead from an overpaid CEO.
well, if you look closer, the people telling this bs are actually all coming from a more than well-off-background.

Like the person playing in a local band, telling me "I moved out" - me: "nice, but how can you afford that" - "I work as a tutor" - "that 400€ is not supporting your apartment" - "oh, no, my father is paying for that". yessss.

I would really liked to have moved out too for the aforementioned reasons (lived in a small city next to uni-town, where there's basically nothing happening and except for my small circle, I didn't find HS people very interesting...), but basically all the great experiences cost money and/or time of which there is none, if you really do it in a financially sound way while studying something MINTy... (and I doubt that feeling like a slave is the glorious experience).

Note: probably I was a coward in the beginning for not moving away, because then I could have gotten state-assistance and cheap student dorms... Though that's kind of a though choice, when your uni of choice is basically the academically best around in your country... (and frankly, at this point I didn't have a lot of people telling me, that this not necessarily is, what you want in a bachelors degree...)