skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I right to assume that the reason developers prefer users to use apps vs websites is because there is no adblocker there and no way to flush cookies?
Interesting that you feel older demographics degrade a platform. For me, it’s the opposite: I am really starting to appreciate hobby forums that are dominated by people a couple of decades older than myself. This tends to happen to independent website forums when now the younger generation eschews them for walled gardens like Reddit.

The reason for that is that older people are less likely to be using mobile, and they are more likely to create long-form text content. You can actually have substantial discussions with them and share detailed tips and reports. Compare this to the relevant Reddit subreddits, where each day’s new posts have largely devolved to vacuous uploaded photos or memes, and the discussion thread is often a lot of vacuous one-sentence replies.
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Why does the author want to migrate to google cloud? Simply to be closer to their firebase installation?
I agree with every point you've made here except the last one: the MDN docs are very dry, precisely because they are designed for knowledge-first people.
I think the communities that will be 'unbundled' are the ones that want to get away from memes and foster a more discussion-orientated community.

All other content gets drowned out by memes eventually, which is a real shame.
"Where GREP Came From" by Brian Kernighan from Computerphile:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTfOnGZUZDk

For those unfamiliar, Kernighan is the "K" in K&R C and the "K" in AWK:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan
I suspect it is difficult to get the 'raw' output from a cell-phone camera so you are dependent on the phone's processing (contrast enhancement etc), which might vary between models. Not impossible (e.g. having control lines) but needs thinking about.
When I started running after a couple of weeks it hit me, I‘m a runner now. I was never a runner and now I can say that.

Sounds stupid but it felt powerful, all the possibilities what I could become.
I have a new addiction to stone carvings from trips to Africa and India. Expensive shipping, but not something I find in the mall. The depth of skill in carving is is quite spectacular. It is one thing to make an animal, but I am impressed by the skill of an artist to create a lifelike pose, facial expression, claws, teeth and muscles. Even more so as they express ideas and emotions through abstract sculpture.
Industrial waste can turn planet-warming carbon dioxide into stone
Show HN: Making React Truly Reactive
Talks about "moral compass" and then tries to load facebook tracking and google analytics ...
They could but seeing how good Reddit's UI is, how good do you think their log scraping is? And do they have the budget for keeping all access logs of anonymous users so they can try to line up all the ChainLinkFence enthusiasts with the people who also frequent r/MarijuanaEnthusiasts and r/WhiteMenGoneWild.
>> No one knows the right answer

Hmmmm. Be careful about this. Lots of people do know the right answer.

Youth energy and enthusiasm count for a lot, especially backin the earliest days of computing like when bill gates got started. That was because adults knew very little.

> Experience is only loosely correlated with age

These days age and experience count for a lot. Lots of older people have incredibly valuable answers to common challenges in competing and business.
Yes, here's the typical example used to explain the difference between the two: https://blog.forecast.it/hs-fs/hubfs/accuracy-precision.jpg

In terms of probability density: https://www.allsensors.com/images/engineering/figure-1.png
Pretty much each point raised in this post(?) are correct, current and relevant even 26 years later.

POSIX is a monolith and really deserves to be improved. It's been around forever, yes. It will probably keep on being around forever, yes.

Take the tar command (please!), which is already a nightmare where lower-case `a' means "check first" and upper-case `A' means "delete all my disk files without asking" (or something like that --- I may not have the details exactly right). In some versions of tar these meanings are reversed. This is a virtue?

Raise your hand if you've never broken Grep because the flags you gave it didn't work. Anyone? Congratulations, you've worked on a single version of grep your entire life. Have a cookie.

Pretty much the only consistent grep flag I know is -i. There's never been a standard for naming and abbreviating flags, which means that for EACH program you will have to learn new flags.

This becomes truly terrible when you get around to, say, git and iptables. Have you ever tried to read git documentation? It is the most useless godawful piece of nonsense this side of the Moon.

There's Google now, which means that the fundamental design issues of POSIX will probably never get issued. "Just google it and paste in from stackoverflow" is already standard, and people are already doing that for 5-10-year-old code/shell commands. What about 10 years from now, will googling best DHCP practices still find that stupid post from 2008 that never got actually resolved? How about 20 years?

I have honestly no idea how to even start fixing the problem. A proper documentation system would be a start.
Honestly, I've been amazed by the outpouring of positive comments — but I think that's to be expected in the aftermath of the man's death, which is sad to hear.

I found `Debt` to be awful and increasingly false the more I learn about the history and purpose of debt through my additional reading and professional experience.

It's definitely a "pop political economics" book, and feels like it.
> On a distribution like Ubuntu, adding and maintaining ZFS is completely painless.

There are packages for most distros (they generally leverage DKMS):

* https://zfsonlinux.org
What, pray tell, does it take for something to be considered "scientific" in your mind? Those sample sizes are nothing to sneeze at for a brand new pandemic. And what conclusions do you think anyone is drawing other than "some percent of people are affected by covid for the long term?" Especially on the comments for a post detailing a significant percent of covid positive athletes being affected by myocarditis?
man -k

apropos

Are 2 options
> I'm increasingly convinced that solving this category of problem is one of the most important unsolved political questions, and it's tragically under-explored.

Not necessarily. Bruges lost its dominant economic place in the Low Countries because they failed to invest in maintenance and the canal to Zeebrugge silted over. Much the same happened in Saint Louis and explains how Chicago became the capital of the Midwest despite a couple hundred years' late start.

I doubt New York will go the way of Detroit, but that is an object lesson of what happens when cities don't stay on top of things.
Great that you like typed languages, and ones that allow for such constrained/dependent typing as well.

It seems disingenuous to me to suggest that anyone using
other languages do not have this problem. And really, there are quite a few languages to not have this form of typing, and even some reasons for a language to not want this form of typing.

So please, don't answer a question by saying "your questions is wrong" it is condescending and unhelpful.
I can view most one the web but it does require multiple refreshes, new sessions, etc on my iOS device. I only sign in to throwaway accounts ( to infrequently post) via desktop.
> Why should I trust the people who calibrated the electronic device more than my own eyes?

Do you as a layperson know how sensitive the test strip is, or how blue it needs to turn to have a reasonable guarantee against false positives? It seems like the engineers of the device would have a much better perspective on those things.
> staying on topic

A major subtopic of this thread is "different situations call for different setups."

Saying "I won't work with PHP" is like saying "Gluten will make me shit my brains out." It is not virtue signalling.
Well, it does. If we make a random sample of 1 million people that are interested in tech and startups, then another million of those that aren't, measure the average "emotional charge" of both groups, we'll notice a huge statistically significant difference between the two averages.
Thing is, whilst a mantissa is indeed between 0 and 1, not every number between 0 and 1 is a mantissa. Specifically, a mantissa suggests the existence of a significant.
Sounds like just a vanilla sshd filter with bantime cranked up to 1 month instead of the default (and possibly maxretry=1 or something low like that)
So, how can I peruse said library?
Why are dates better in XML? You can still have:

ISO 8601, as used by XML Schema:

<foo>2020-09-04T00:00:00Z</foo>

or

Unix date output format (not sure this has an actual name)

<foo>Fri 04 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT</foo>

or

some sort of destructured date

<foo>
<year>2020</year>
<month>09</month>
<day>04</day>
<!-- ... -->
</foo>

or

some sort of destructured date with 0 based months because Java

<foo>
<year>2020</year>
<month>08</month>
<day>04</day>
<!-- ... -->
</foo>

Your app still needs to know what is coming in, and convert that to its internal format.

Even if you want to get everyone to agree on XML Schema's datetime format, it's not always sufficient because sometimes you need the actual time zone (e.g. America/New_York ) rather than the UTC offset especially when dealing with recurring/far off events.
If you're on desktop Reddit Enhancement Suite has an option for forcing the old version. I've never been brought back to the new design.

But yeah, old.reddit.com probably won't be around forever.
If by works you mean that it resets several times per week.
> As ZFS did not adhere to conv=fdatasync5, the main memory was restricted to 1GB [...]

I guess this might explain the latency tail for ZFS. As far as I understand, ZFS relies heavily on its caches for performance, both by design and implementation choices.

I'm also a bit puzzled by the read performance.

Would be nice to see a re-run of the benchmarks with 2 or 4 GB of memory, to see the effect of the cache.
I'm not really informed. Is Pizzagate not basically the Epstein story?
Reddit has become pretty terrible.

I'm gonna call it, that's a perfect opportunity for other projects to arise and take Reddit's share of users and IMO it's gonna happen.
"more and more like children" earlier in this very discussion, perhaps.
Lawyer pleads guilty to stealing $6M from discount supply store’s PayPal account
Having a persona attached to your online activity is a recent phenomena and has the same disadvantages that people in the public sphere need to endure. People seem to suffer a lot more from this, anonymity provides detachment.

You don't talk to the press without PR support. You are not honest in public to limit the angle of attack on your person... there are numerous things that will cause problems other. Ask a celebrity. A non anonymous social network tends to create 2 minute celebrities that can be quite the huge mental load.

This problem is magnitudes more applicable than some terrorist propaganda. I am a net power user, mostly anonymous in decentralized networks. I have never seen ISIS propaganda, child pornography or drug trades. Most people are probably groomed outside of the net.
Where do I find the current C or C++ standard documents?
I wonder whether that’s a neurotic thing about wanting clean litter or an emotional support thing. Your cat might only feel safe enough to go potty with you nearby. Just guessing with little info admittedly.
It has been an especially tough time for DJs who as you can imagine are severely affected by Covid19. A game of copyright whack-a-mole has been going on across other platforms for a few years now (SoundCloud, MixCloud, etc.), exacerbated now by a move to live streaming over the last few months.

Live streaming has been a great way to avoid getting tagged for copyright infringement vs a pre-recorded upload which can automatically be scanned for violations, so it is easy to see why this was a problem for Facebook. They basically brute forced a solution to avoid legal responsibility.

Via SoundClouds guidelines: "The best way to avoid copyright infringement is to ensure that you don't use anything created by someone else. Simple as that.". It has just been hard to find an equitable balance between original music creators and mix creators. "Fair Use" is such a gray area here and is barely defensible.
Guide to writing (and testing) real world crowdsale contracts
Lots of Unix commands could have had better names :).

FWIW, though, the noun form is even less uncommon in languages that borrowed the expression from French. In my native language (also a Latin language, so borrowing it was straightforward), its use a noun is very limited. Saying that a book is "full of à-propos" (as in "pleine d’à-propos"), for example, wouldn't mean it's apt, or very relevant, it would mean that it's full of subtle, possibly contrarian or lewd motives. That's more or less how it's used in English, too.

To non-French speakers -- given when apropos showed up, the Unix audience was very American-centric --, who've only heard it used in the other sense, it actually sounds very appropriate, possibly even more appropriate than about, given how apropos (the program) works.
I also really enjoyed Debt: The first 5k years. The critiques outlined here are interesting and I would like to understand them better. Whatever validity those critiques might have, I feel ‘Debt’ adds much more to our understanding of debt in historical economies than it obfuscates even if the critiques were valid.
Should Facebook be responsible for illegal content published by other users?
Earn It Act – or the tense relation between responsibility vs. exemption from responsibility for content published by digital platforms
Don't use dd for benchmark, please use fio.
Looked it up, and a 'perunage' is defined as 'a percentage divided by a hundred'.
3 reasons US contract tracing fails:too many cases/slow test turnaround/distrust
I'm not missing that, what implies that I am?
Great interview with Brian on Lex Fridman's podcast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9upVbGSBFo
Either Reddit has hired developers and designers who aren't very good at what they do or what we want from Reddit is different than what the management and investors want to deliver.

It's almost certainly the latter, right? Is this a case of Reddit chasing some specific metrics and quality, being hard to measure, just gets left behind?
It makes the benchmark unrealistic. I suspect that all ZFS setup uses at least 2GB RAM.
> I wish this essay wasn’t littered with emojis :(

I wish people still used subjunctive mood (in this case, "weren't" instead of "wasn't"); we don't always get our personal preferences, and that's okay.
The mobile web experience is so intentionally bad. Yet I refuse to switch to the app and play their game. When needed I request the desktop version mobile to fill the missing features and that's it.
I loved BBS's back in the day and I missed that feeling :/
Any subreddit suggestions for me ?
As pointed out on the twitter thread.

If a digital test is wanted, there's no reason it couldn't accept exactly the kind of disposable strip it contains.

That way the part that is going to become ewaste could at least be re-usable.
Facebook complains, Apple responds: iOS 14’s big privacy change gets postponed
> I understand the licensing issues, but having a system with 4 components […]

I am reminded of ZFS co-creator Jeff Bonwick's "Rampant Layering Violation?" (then-Sun) weblog post:

* https://web.archive.org/web/20070508214221/http://blogs.sun....

* https://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/rampant-layering-violation
The pulse detection works really quite satisfactory with the current method and for beta-decay electrons and alphas. I also prefer that the derivative is easy to understand for students since this is still mainly an educational project. For detecting lower energy particles like fluorescence x-rays, your proposal would be certainly something to investigate. However, for improving the SNR I would in general first redesign the amplifier. It's really optimized for super low part count and costs at the moment.
That said, I will definitely keep you suggestion in mind. Thanks!
What I mean with "pragmatic cleanup" is getting rid of obsolete assumptions about the underlying hardware. E.g. two's complement has won, there's no reason why this couldn't be reflected in the C standard by removing signed overflow from the list of undefined behaviour. I bet more such cases can be found (e.g. 8-bit bytes, NULL not being zero, etc...).

Even if such exotic hardware is still around, the only thing that would change is that C compilers supporting this hardware couldn't call themselves "ISO Compliant" anymore, the users of those compilers wouldn't lose anything.
> POSIX is a monolith and really deserves to be improved.

I want it to be improved but I fear it is becoming irrelevant. There are very few OSes left to be compatible with...
> it is a wasteful

On one hand, what a marvelous thing it is. On the other, what a waste, single use of silicon, battery and LCD that'll go straight to the landfill.
It's a shame really. Reminds me of how whenever there is a right-wing terrorist attack/mass murder everyone, including tech companies, try to hide manifestos and other media as much as possible.

What happened to the truth setting us free.
Star Trek cast members will reunite Sept. 8th for free 24-hour celebration
Without an account, I can't open hidden replies on Mobile. I see the first levels in a posting, but when I tap on "x more replies" I get a dialog demanding me to login and no way to avoid it and going directly to the replies. On desktop this still works fine.
The issue here is that paper tests require the user to read and properly understand instructions. Teenagers in a panic can and will misread and misunderstand, as people often do when under duress.

It may seem "pointless", but making the tests more user friendly and less prone to user error is super important.
There's also a perennial lack of understanding of the computer science.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23057364
Purpose is to get the money and to shift the blame to employers since they "were told" to renegotiate. So suck it up employees.
Let people create accounts and introduce a reputation system.

There could be a ranking system. Rank I verifies 100% of submitted jobs. Rank II verifies 50% of submitted jobs. Rank III verifies 25% of submitted jobs. Rank IV verifies 12.5% of submitted jobs. Rank V verifies 6% of submitted jobs.

After 250 jobs you go to Rank I, after 500 to Rank II, after 100 to Rank II and so on...

If you submit a job with incorrect results then you lose your account and all unverified jobs submitted by that account are then verified. If you're a honest person you'll just create a new account, if you're a malicious actor then you just wasted a lot of money on nothing because doing a bait and switch will result in your malicious jobs being discarded.

There is still an opportunity for denial of service by creating lots of reputable accounts and then letting them go malicious all at once. You'll have a large backlog of jobs to verify.
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Yup web experience is horrible... went to checking on reddit a few times a day to maybe once a week. Much like medium when I see "that popup" - I just close and move on.
Really the percentage sign just denotes a centi-1. Just like a centi-meter is 1 hundreths of the unit 'a meter', a percentage is 1 hundreths of the a (unitless) unit '1'.
Just sounded derogatory, if you hadn't heard the term before... for example;

> "Stop following me 'Bard'!"
It "works". For example doesn't load "more comments" for me in huge threads. But the new Javascript driven one is downright disgusting in terms of UX.
The merchant vessel responsible for 17th century Dutch trade dominance
See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se2RN1t-XVI
Any subreddit suggestions for AI and ML?
> There is no effective way to find out how to use Unix, other than sitting next to an adept and asking for help

That's a rather unfair claim. Hundreds of books and tutorials have been written to introduce people to Unix...
Two points about bad documentation:

The documentation (and syntax, or lack thereof) of "tc" are significantly worse than git's. Unfortunately, the network management tool you are supposed to use these days, ip, is made by the same people, though somewhat less bad.

Second, take git documentation with humor: https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/
> ...we realized we needed to build a services business more than a technology business and that's not what we set out to do...

Welcome to one of the cold, hard realities of forming a company and selling something. If you don't make something that someone wants to buy, you won't succeed. And that something needs to be more than just a shiny or useful object. (Those are commodities and can be replaced -- it's your service which'll set you apart and make you worth paying.)

Even if tech is your primary focus, that needs to be bundled up in some sort of package that makes it worth paying for.

Doubly (or more) so if you are going to have actual customers and aren't going through the startup process in the hopes that some other company buys you out.
I really do find it infuriating. Some of us just hate mobile apps
That’s the name of a book.
Does the United States Prosecute Service Members for War Crimes? (2008)
Interesting. I've never done defense. What was it like?

In the real world (non-defense), I did this once in my life. We went to and independent testing laboratory (actually the premier / highest-regarded one) with our device. They put it outside, pointed a big antenna at it, and it didn't pass. We made some random changes (adding shielding of some kind somewhere; the lab had it on-hand). Things ... changed. Sometimes they got better. Sometimes they got worse. We didn't know whether we were changing, or simply the radiation patterns to better match the test setup.

We kept making tweaks like that until it passed, and that was our final, independently lab-certified product design.

If we had tested at a slightly different angle, I'm pretty sure we would not have passed. Or in a different lab. It was deep voodoo. From what the lab guys said, EMC testing almost always looks like that.

I believed them. We can't really solve Maxwell's Equations in our head, and we know so little about antenna design that predicting the radiation from a complex device is not really possible. You just tweak, adding a gasket here or ferrite bead or whatever, and pray it works. Most of the small tweaks we did at the lab, but I do recall we did some larger design change (making a signal differential or something) which necessitated going to the lab a second time with a device with a new PCB.
One of the answers was edited to “portion”, which is the same idea, I think either portion or proportion is elegant and simple. If anyone has been using proportion then I’d stick with that, though portion is nice and succinct.
Seems down for me ?
Yeah, more recent articles should be penalised to normalize for the increased quantity of accounts.
Now.

This was written decades ago, when computers mostly lived in universities and the only way to learn Unix was by etc.
Lots of people from all kinds of backgrounds, journalists and academics among those for sure, but also influencers, celebrities, politicians, artists, bloggers, even just more or less regular people, etc.

How it seems to you just depends on whether you go to Twitter for the latest tech news or fashion trends. And there's probably bigger interest in the latter. It's just like the internet in general.
mine hasn't reset in months. i don't think it ever has.