skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author certainly has a point. However, when he mentioned rote memorization I was reminded how easy it came to me to remember all these names. I majored in physics and minored in math, and at some point I realized how many theorems and mathematical objects I knew that were named after a person without sitting down and trying to memorize them. As soon as the concept of, say, a Taylor series, Hilbert space, Schrödinger equation, the Schwarzschild radius or the Tesla unit was introduced, the name stuck immediately.

Then again, I could add another argument as to why naming things after persons is bad: it's ridiculous how many things have been named after Euler [1] or Gauß [2]. But I'm not aware that this causes widespread confusion. Maybe it's not a problem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Leo...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Car...
I actually like this one! Great work!

I never hear about the term "workshopping copy" but I believe it is one of those underrated skills that is fundamental in communication online.
Isn't that something you can say of all countries? Ask someone in a Baltimore social housing project what they think of their country.
"Everything" doesn't refer to every show in existence...

You want a 5 course dinner with items from 5 restaurants.

You don't want to eat everything on each restaurant's menu... but you want to eat "everything", * you want a plate of everyone's content*

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I'm saying you're allowed to want that, but if you can't afford it don't blame the restaurants for not huddling under one roof and making this imaginary buffet with "everything" under one roof.

We had that setup and it sucked worse than this, this new paradigm works better for people who understand the concept of... not getting everything you want?

It's like people don't get the concept of not getting to watch something because you can't afford it or something.

You're free to pirate it, really it's no skin off my back. I'm not even judging you (unless you try and give it some lame validation other than "I didn't want to pay for it" or in some cases "It's not available to pay for")

But then don't pretend it's the studios fault! It's literally easier (and cheaper, and more flexible) than ever to pay for access to their shows.

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A little over 10 years ago a $200 cable bill wasn't unheard of after regional fees, per set top box fees, HD channel fees,
special packages for movies.. and it wasn't until last year these fees even had to be disclosed up front, so after a sketchy sales call you'd wait a few weeks for it to all get set up, then get your first bill and start a developing a new skill: negotiating your cable bill. And good luck canceling it if you needs changed

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There's this strange sense of entitlement people have that lets them overlook how much better the current situation is because they just need be able to watch everything they have a whim to watch.

I mean your response of "you want me to just watch what I'm offered?!?!" is so funny to me.

I mean yes? If by "offered" you mean what you paid for then yes lol. Sometimes I want to watch a show but it's not on a service I have and I don't fond any value in that service so I just... find another show to watch!

Is that really so mindblowing?

I don't see it as oppression, I don't see it as something so fundamentally unfair, I think "good thing there's these cheap services I have that have so much content I don't think I'll ever not find another show".

Now people who couldn't afford cable packages can get more content than they did before for less, on more flexible payment terms, with more flexible access, it really is a good thing if you can get over the fact sometimes you just might have to give up some gratification...
It’s not about how fast they are, it’s about how easy the car is to drive. A GT3 is a road car made with road car parts and road car features (even if you buy the ‘track’ add ons, or whatever they call them). It has ‘Porsche Stability Management’, a powerful driver assist, which among other things, is especially good at controlling oversteer. The Carrera GT doesn’t have that, so controlling oversteer is completely up to the driver. It also had the first production ceramic clutch, which was notoriously difficult to use. The tires and breaks of a Carrera GT also really needed to be at proper temperature to work properly.

I’ve driven both, on the street and around a track. I’m not exaggerating to say the average stick driver would struggle to start a Carrera GT and driver it a hundred feet without making the clutch scream. If you try drive fast in one, whether you drive into a tree or not is completely up to you. In a GR3 however, it’s gonna do a significant amount of that work for you.
Yes, Sealand, that was the one.
That's true, I forgot about that because the last controller I used had a bootrom that copied the booloader straight to RAM, so .data was already read-write and there was nothing to do.
middle rear wheel cars are just as likely to kill you.
Having worked in mathematics for 10+ years, I can tell for sure, that the least problem you will face when trying to understand Calabi-Yau manifolds are the naming conventions.

Unwrapping the last term alone is a multi-year endevour if you start from scratch:

> [A] manifold is a locally ringed space, whose structure sheaf is locally isomorphic to the sheaf of continuous (or differentiable, or complex-analytic, etc.) functions on Euclidean space [IR^n]. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold#Mathematical_definiti...

Note that definition, does barely use inventor's names and is still very dense and hard to unwrap.

I never found naming conventions to be a notable problem.
When interviewing someone I will try to track down their GitHub profile, and having some decent code on their is probably going to make me more inclined to hire you since it gives me a data point on how you work. However for all the reasons listed in this article I’m just going to disregard the lack of a profile or a profile with limited content, I’m trying to hire a professional software developer to do work here, and whether or not your hobby is running a large open source project doesn’t really influence how good you are at your day job.
GitHub also record contributions in form of issues and pull requests. Not contributing to projects you are using for your work looks like a bad signal for me.
Torrents died? When?
The population of Tokyo has grown 50% over the last two decades while house prices and rents have stayed flat. The reason housing prices go up is almost always because zoning makes building more housing illegal. See San Francisco. Contrast with Seattle and Houston. When more housing is built prices go down, or at least go up slower.
A person who wants to look powerful can wear a tie.

A person who's actually powerful wears whatever the fuck they want.
Reed Hastings Had Us All Staying Home Before We Had To
BuyDomains sells Nike co-founder PhilKnight.com points to Trump fundraising page
It seems to me that (non-black) Americans commonly overestimate the amount of time that’s passed since the end of slavery - there are still living children of slaves! [1]

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/07/27/slave-son-...
Question: Does the compiler still throw the warning about "x and y unused" when, instead of replacing

z = x + 2*y + 1;

by

z = 5; // x + 2*y + 1;

you do something like

z = (x + 2*y + 1) * 0 + 5;
Paper seems to be available from here[1].

Not my field so not quite sure what to make of it. Voltage profile is much different with a steady drop of voltage, down to 0.01V over the course of discharge without damage. Their claim is that it has minimal capacity decay over 1000 cycles, owing to its low volume change during cycles.

[1]: https://materialsvirtuallab.org/2020/09/disordered-rock-salt...
Pressing the gesture button -> Mission Control/ Super key on GNOME

Gesture + Move Left/Right -> Switch between full screen apps on macOS / Unbound in GNOME

Gesture + Up/Down -> Switch Workspaces in GNOME / Unbound in macOS

I leave some of the slides unbound in some systems because the action doesn't suit the software, with sliding right/left not visually matching switching between workspaces in my GNOME setup, and sliding up/down not visually matching anything except Mission Control in macOS. I don't want the same gestures to be different things on different systems so I just leave them unbound.

That's generally all I need + the horizontal wheel to handle forward/back and scrolling. If there's some other use case you really like, you can set them to the ones I've unbound, or even the forward/back keys. If you're using linux, You can get logiops (https://github.com/PixlOne/logiops) and use it to map everything.
This is great. And I wish this hadn’t happened to you. I just started a new position overseeing our Linux based Oracle databases and this will be a great asset. I’ll do my best to contribute where I can.
I made the decision to change careers into IT when I was 32-ish. Did self-study for a year, and then worked as a junior sysadmin at a SaaS company for a year. Now I work at AWS.

It's definitely doable, and becoming more and more common (at least from the candidates and initiatives I see at AWS).
If you don't like it, go install Windows and take your SJW sadness back to the streets.
Yeah, I had been working from home the past two years before the pandemic, and I was sticking with this job longer than I wanted to because it was near impossible to find a new remote job.

The only reason my job became remote work in the first place is because the parent corporation was trying to cut costs everywhere and reducing its real estate footprint and closed our office.

Most of the offices they closed they just laid everyone off, but we had enough business that didn't transfer well to other departments that they let us keep working remotely.

I was willing to go in to work a couple of days a week when I was looking for a new job, but I was not eager to do it every day again. Between the commute and the hassle and cost of having to take our dogs to and from doggy daycare everyday it didn't seem worth it, especially when I knew I could do my job from home just fine.

I'm glad the pandemic normalized WFH a bit more and I don't want to see everything revert back to 'you gotta physically be in work, each and every day' once we're past it. It's fine if being in an office is an option again, sure, but I don't want it to be the only option.

Also, I feel like I have to speak up about my preferences on HN whenever this comes up because it seems like the majority of people are pushing for everything to go back to in-person, and I don't want people to assume everyone thinks that way.
Also "Mug-O-Grog"
Reminds me of Gregory Benford's short story "A Dance to Strange Musics", which features a levitating ocean held up by immense electrostatic forces.
Meh... I think the author of this article was cherry-picking a bit. VMS is no cake-walk either, and has its fair share of idiosyncrasies.

So you're a system administrator, and you want to change a user's password?

$ set default sys$system

$ mcr authorize

UAF> modify jimbob /pass="whatever"

UAF> exit

...while on just about any nix, one might simply:

# passwd jimbob

<< enter the new pw twice when prompted >>

For every example of the original author complaining about *nix, I could probably find a counter-example of VMS being awful. Really, I think it reduces down to this: people prefer to stick with what they're used to, and what they were trained on. Anything else is "awful" and "inferior."
Shuffle String with Python and JavaScript
Python and Javascript solutions to an easy leetcode problem
E: I realise I've been mixing up magic mouse gestures and trackpad gestures. The magic mouse doesn't need three finger gestures, but my point about having to change the grip etc. still stands, and I do prefer the logi's use of normal mouse movements for gestures.
Working for a devops consultancy and tooling conpany: this is definitely something we have been keeping our eyes on for the last couple of years. My personal opinion is that our local market might be a bit too small to invest heavily in this but I’m glad some of the big names can get benefits out of it.
Yeah you're taking a gamble on the good will of the police officer that searches you.

The way it was explained to me was, you take lock knife to and from a fishing trip but you can't divert to the local super market on the way. Interestingly your car counts as a public place so you can't just leave a Leatherman in the glovebox (either locker or unlocked) for emergencies.

A Swiss Army knife with a sub 3" friction folding blade won't break that rule. I think the only places you can't really take one are the airport or a football match.

You still can't wave one about like a nob but that's a different set of laws.
Meh, if naming things encourages people to come up with discoveries for humanity, it's worth it.

These jobs pay like crap but require an intellectual.
"Don't roll your own crypto" should also cover password management.
> [Tomohiro] Fukuzawa [, SkyDrive’s CEO] is also targeting 2023 to begin taxi services (single passenger and pilot) in the Osaka Bay area, flying between locations like Kansai and Kobe airports and tourist attractions such as Universal Studios Japan. These flights will take less than ten minutes—a practical nod to the limitations of the battery energy storage system.

> “What SkyDrive is proposing is entirely do-able,” says [Steve] Wright [, Senior Research Fellow in Avionics and Aircraft Systems at the University of West England]. “Almost all rotor-only eVTOL projects are limited to sub-30-minute endurance, which, with safety reserves, equate to about 10 to 20 minutes flying.”
I don't think so. The rise of China especially has been acknowledged as a point against that, and even Fukuyama has acknowledged that : https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3003547/ch...
Nope. I got my first trainee developer role at 37/38. 4 years later and I earn double what I did before I started being a developer and there is pretty much zero chance of me getting that much more in my old role, definitely not in 4 years.
I second this in some way. I started reading their Crime and Punishment translation. It was boring, the words didn't flow. Kinda clunky. Kind of the same with their Brother's Karamazov translation. Some people recommend the following translations, by Oliver Ready and Ignat Avsey:

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/177606/crime-and-punishment/...

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-karamazov-brothe...

Constance Garnett seems good too. Most of her translations are in public domain.
I find these predictions fascinating to think about. Did we get them right this time? I remember that we were taught about the idea of overpopulation in school. As I understand, it was believed in the 60s and 70s that the world population would keep massively increasing. People were worried about overpopulation. At this point we know that that's not true - it seems that essentially all rich countries see a decline in birthrates. They might increase in population, but it happens due to immigration. However, will this pattern hold?

As I understand it, before the industrial revolution, the population was what's described as Malthusian. As a country became richer it tended to have a population increase, which meant that an estimate of GDP per capita remained relatively similar. Over thousands of years you'd see maybe a doubling or quadrupling of it. Ie the median person in the year 500 AD lived rather similarly to the median person in the year 1500 AD.

When the industrial revolution rolled around, things changed. The estimate of GDP per capita increased faster than the population. People became richer and their lives became significantly better. This came with a substantial population increase, because people started living longer. The fruits of progress spread to poorer areas. The increase in food availability and medicine made many population counts skyrocket.

At some point during this it turned out that the richest areas started seeing a significant decrease in birthrates though. Why? I'm unsure. Perhaps people wanted better lives for their children and they couldn't afford to have as many children? Perhaps it wasn't necessary to have as many children anymore (social security)? Regardless what the reason is, birthrates have declined in developed countries. This allows us to plot a peak for the human population and decline afterwards. We don't need to worry about overpopulation anymore.

Will this pattern hold though? What if it turns out that when a society hits a GDP per capita of $500k of today's money that the birthrates start increasing again? 3% growth of GDP per capita plotted over 80 years would put US GDP per capita at $668k. What's the chance that there is no societal break point in the future that reverses the birthrate decline? Quite a few countries seem to be actively working on trying to find something like that.
>always instigated by Fascists

Not really, just look at the US..oil/money
Not everyone uses open source for their work. Even if they do how likely is it they’d have anything to contribute? Can you mark down most developers who use Java or Spring because they haven’t found a bug in them to report?
What Neuroscientists Are Discovering About Stuttering
Looks aside, I never liked them much, somehow too light. I prefer the external trackpad, it's also pretty and not flimsy.
I asked this exact question some years ago. I believe the answer has many parts:

Effective security is tailored to the situation: the app, the users, and the adversaries.

Login emails are slow and require multiple steps. The user must enter their email into the website, switch to their email client, wait for the email, open it, and click the link. If the user's email goes down, they cannot log in to the website. Some folks get distracted while waiting for the email. Sometimes a login email will get marked as spam. Sometimes a user permanently loses access to their email account. These things reduce user engagement and increase support costs, and the company makes less money.

There are many ways for attackers to obtain email: DNS, BGP, email server, email server backups, user device backups, malware, re-used passwords, and phishing.

There are only a handful of ways for an attacker to obtain passwords: malware, password re-use, and phishing. Notice that this is a subset of the attacks on email. And passwords have special mitigations. Some devices have password managers that resist malware. Security teams have various options for reducing password re-use.

Good authentication depends on something you know (password) and something you have. Password managers turn something you know (password) into something you have (device). Criminals rarely steal devices to gain access to online accounts. So in practice, something you have is just as good as something you know.
This is a good way to think about it. I should start doing this. I keep meaning to go on morning walks and making excuses on how I can't do it today, but maybe if I think of it as a commute, it'll work.
(The author is a she, by the way.)
Thats fine... But it would be really screwed up if it was related at all
This article is from 2018.

You can now make your private contributions a data-point on your public profile[1] without giving away private information

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-yo...
FWIW in my version of English it means "nonsense" (I'm the OP).
Universal Basic Income Will Save the Economy
Hamming codes, h■w to ov■rco■e n■ise
I'm not hearing impaired but, when reading t'intarwebs in bed, I'll quite often watch a YouTube video with the sound off and closed captions on, so as not to disturb the missus.

The thing that makes YouTube's closed captions nearly unusable for me is that they take up two lines and the lines scroll. Even if you adjust the font size to he much bigger, they just take up more room. There's no option to configure the captions to be on a single line.

If the video in question features someone speaking, there'll be quite a lot of continual text and, with autogenerated CCs, [which the vast majority are] a lot of it will be slightly wrong.

So I'll read the top line and start reading the bottom line which will suddenly scroll up, so it's now the top line, thus adding another fraction of a second for my eye-line to re-orientate, to the extra time my brain's already taken to process what $RandomIrrelevantWord in the middle of the sentence should actually be. By the time I've done that, the line has often scrolled up again out of sight, to be replaced by whatever line was previously the bottom line.

Rinse and repeat continuously.

It might sound counter-intuitive but if I could set the CC to only occupy one line, I'm sure I could read them faster and easier as the line would stay in the same place and not suddenly move upwards. Or, alternatively, keep them on two lines but replace the entire two lines each time. Don't scroll them.

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cf. also: Apple's Finder column view. What lunatic decided that making an tem slide out of the way when you click to select it was good GUI design?
Good stuff. Thanks for all the effort you've put into it.

One suggestion: Make it more obvious that the courses are on GitHub.

I make a point to avoid reddit as much as possible, which means I don't know how to interact with reddit's interface. When I tried to view the course via reddit, I had a lot of trouble locating the actual lessons. They were out of order, and I had to shift through other users' threats ('I missed day X!' 'Here's my journal on my progress...').

Honestly, had I not randomly clicked on the GitHub repo, I would've moved onto something else. I'm glad I didn't, but yeah... pushing people onto reddit limits your audience.
Why are we talking about checking return values (which are generated by a function according to its interface and should not be checked) when we should be talking about checking configuration values (which are generated by humans according to whatever they type on their keyboard and should be checked). Also why are we talking about checking stuff when we should be talking about one bug bringing the entire system down?
My activity graph is almost solid green just due to commits to my private dotfiles repository, so yeah it’s not that useful. On the other hand even if no one looks at my profile, the projects on there allow me to put extra keywords on my CV which could help with resume screening if nothing else.
Space Junk Is a Bigger Extraterrestrial Threat Than Little Green Men
While holding middle mouse button?

Or panning while scrolling up/down at the same time?
of possible interest to Star Trek fans:

"This character was only mentioned in dialogue.
Lee Kuan shares naming elements with Lee Kuan Yew, the first Prime Minister of the newly independent Singapore in the 1960s. Lee established a hybrid form of governance with democratic and authoritarian elements."

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Lee_Kuan
First, to nitpick, comparative and superlative forms of unique are nonsense, something is either unique or it isn’t.

It might be pretty rare though, like rear engines cars: hillman imp, Fiat 500, etc and of course vw microbus and beetle which rather brings us back to the 911
No, Amazon Won't Deliver You a Burrito by Drone Anytime Soon
There's an irony to Jobs being so adament that the right click button was wrong, when the minimalist Apple mouse ended up with dozens of unique gesture inputs that are far worse for discoverability.
The rise and fall of the Bombshell Bandit
missed some forces... building regulations, tax policy...