skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title reads like a satire, but the content is actually fully dystopic, as always.
Thanks for mentioning magit-find-file. I’ve been using magit recently for the ease of doing commits of smaller hunks, but I didn’t know about find-file. I was just in a situation yesterday where I could’ve used it—wound up going to look at the second version of the file in GH.
It seems to be the final answer in a game of "why"? with a 2 year old.
I'm not sure of the exact definition of a motto, but I'll give it a try:

1. The Devil is in the details.

2. You never hit rock bottom, it can always get worse. Someone is always worse off than you, truly, so stop pitying yourself. Self-pity is a mean downward spiral - most people don't realize it's potential to cause havoc.

3. Nothing's ever so bad, it's good for nothing.
Your "chips model" works perfectly well for thousands of products. Want detergent? Bring a bottle to a machine that fills it up rather than taking home a brand new plastic bottle every time. Ditto for fruits and vegetables. Biscuits. Candy. Anything that doesn't need a plastic bag for health and safety reasons.
No one wants to breath polluted air or drink polluted after, yet here we are. Rich producers just keep moving further away from the problems they create. Or they maintain their ignorance through a delicately balanced series of mental gymnastics.
How in the world do you not see competing app stores not providing value to consumers from a price competition perspective? It's not like every game on every platform on Windows is a platform exclusive. I've availed of exceptional prices on games strictly because of competition across platforms, especially when one decides to offer up a sale.
It would probably be difficult to staff the diplomatic corps with childless people only. Among other things, I don't know how moral or legal it would be to ask people to remain childless or face the end of your career.

Having met maybe a dozen or so people in your situation, my general impression is that they share your concern, but not necessarily to the degree where they would consider it to outweigh the benefits of growing up under these circumstances.

Letting diplomats remain at the same post for longer would seem to be a possible improvement. Unfortunately, there is a purpose behind all that moving around, namely avoiding networks of corruption to form and/or practices diverging.

It'd be interesting to hear about the experience of children of military families. The problems are similar, but the benefits not: a diplomat's children get to life in the capital, usually attend the best schools, and enjoy all the variety of cultural happenings and high social status. For children on a military base, being mostly around others with the same background might be slightly more comfortable. But beyond that, I would imagine the environment to be drab and isolating.
And many cities subsidize waste by charging money for trash hauling but not for putting trash in the recycling bin.

Seattle even introduced a punitive fine for NOT contaminating the recycling stream!
Which ones would you recommend?
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21368363/epic-google-fort...

Epic is suing Google at the same time for the same reason as Apple. Maybe they're not "involved" if you mean that Apple and Google are colluding against Epic, but they're both the subjects of the same discussion.
Show HN: Octo – Generate a serverless API from an SQL query
there is nothing http (or HTML) specific in REST, but REST itself is specific to the domain problem where http and HTML are used
Local hostnames have never been supported by the IANA or anyone else as far as I know. Using them is risky because they usually work, but the specs say they shouldn't.

Local domains are easy to implement right by registering any domain name (even a free one) and setting that as your local DNS domain. If you register pantalaimon.gq and set that as your local DNS suffix, any non-FQDN hostname should be resolved to host.pantalaimon.gq. Entering http://netflix/ will resolve to http://netflix.pantalaimon.gq/. Such a system also gives you more control over your local DNS, as you can do more than A and AAAA records now. Only http://netflix./ would that actually constitute as a FQDN and bypass the local domain.

I used to use internal DNS infrastructure without a domain until I realised all DNS queries were being sent to DNS because the DNS suffix my ISP appended (something like example.com), resulting in occasional queries to servername.example.com that failed.

If you use domains to refer to localhost, just use .localhost as the TLD: it's been reserved for that exact use.
web 2.0 / web 3.0
Is the same kind of radiation?
How many people did Fukishima kill then?
Science magazine [0] and Ars Technica [1] published readable overviews. The paper on the experiment regarding Wigner's friend paradox ("A strong no-go theorem on the Wigner’s friend paradox") was published in Nature Physics. [2] [3]

[0] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/quantum-paradox-poin...

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/quantum-reality-is-e...

[2] https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-0990-x

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-020-0990-x
Why not put them in git? Works just fine
I can confirm. My company is a top 2,000 amazon seller (top 0.1%) and we’ve never bought or incentivized a single review. Our fake spot grade is “B” with some products getting “A” and others “D.”

Most recently amazon changed their review gathering algorithm in a way that increases the percent of customers who leave reviews. The acceleration in our review velocity is flagged by fakespot as suspicious.
7 Reasons Your Growth Startup Is Hiring Too Junior
You are correct, but the way you wrote that deserves the downvotes you are getting.
Bug reporting tool for mobile apps
AMT has changed a lot since Trump adjusted the tax rules. I suspect it isn't relevant any more.

> The number of households owing AMT rose from 200,000 in 1982 to 5.2 million in 2017, but was reduced back to 200,000 in 2018
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_minimum_tax
I wish there were a service to hire blind people to test my website.

Sure, I can follow the rules, and try to use a screen reader, but honestly, I'm terrible at using those tools. I can't _think_ like a blind person. But I'd definitely pay one to give me honest feedback.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_in...

What you are saying is true for many countries, still most of them do not have an embassy in North Korea. The reason being probably also that it is quite expensive (as every embassy is) while not providing a lot of benefits because trade/cultural relationships with North Korea are very difficult.
The trend of taking proprietary, close-source software and slapping an "Open-" name on it is bad form, but otherwise this looks like a good solution.
I do the same. And most new LPs come with digital downloads anyway.

These days I have kept my existing album downloads but I sub to Apple Music so I can grab almost anything on the fly, download it so I’m not constantly streaming (I listen to whole albums, not shuffles or playlists really) and listen to that often at work or on the move but buy LPs for everything else. It can just be an expensive hobby so it’s usually pretty filtered.

Also used LP shopping is just a hell of a lot of fun. Seeing how much good stuff you can find for what it would cost for a new copy elsewhere.
Haha. I've been "working" on an X.25 implementation on a PC and it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out what the hell a PAD was ever needed for.
I'm in the same situation. Started with Vim. Tried out Spacemacs and loved it. Switched to Doom for the performance gains. Finally, switched back to Vim (Neovim) with Doom-like keybinding; specifically setting leader to Space.

I haven't found anything that comes close to vim's performance as a text editor. In terms of plugins, there are some great ones for Neovim like tpope's rails plugins, coc.nvim, fzf, etc.
Widgets used to be hot. First Konfabulator (which became https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Widgets), then Apple and Windows added them, too. Can't remember when I last used one.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/4/18652971/apple-macos-catal...
"Read the f* manual!"

Seriously, a lot of questions anwer themselves after I read the related manual. Ever since I got that as a reply on my StackOverflow question, it becomes my motto.
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Some say: learn as long as you live.

I say the converse: you live as long as you learn.
“If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
I think it is worth pointing out that the figures are from the US only. I wonder how this compares to the rest of the world.
I was recently in the same or similar position (partial buy-back) and opted to sell.

Tax concerns aside, your essentially betting that the stock will do better than an alternative investment. That might be the case, but taking the money and then reinvesting it is also a valid “I don’t need this money right now” option.

There’s also the factor that you’re more “eggs in one basket” if you keep the stock.

I personally pulled mine out to donate it, as it is potentially life-changing money in other people’s hands.
It is extremely easy even if you don't.
> all the apps that I need

Correction: all the apps that Apple thinks you need, regardless of whether or not it aligns with what you need or want.
Nirvana is often thought of as sloppy, slacker, etc. but they took their music very seriously. When getting ready to record Nevermind, Kurt Cobain had the band rent a rehearsal space in LA for 3 months and practice every day - it was a full time job. Kurt in particular played, recorded, and wrote nearly every day for years so although he was a creative genius he also put in the work finding the sound and style he wanted to perfect. And he did.

There’s a lot of nice stories about in the year leading up to the release and this is just before he got into heroin. Pretty much after the release he started using heavily and all his hard work was given over to it.
Comments are not as important as search, I guess. If the site has tons of pages, not having search might be annoying to the user
Its one thing to have gear access, but the second you think "I could make X if I had access to Y" you are already thinking about it wrong. If you want to make music and you are driven to do so you will use what you have to make what you like.

Early hip hop records didnt use samplers, they used pause tapes at least for the demo process. (see ATCQ People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm)

Early electro/house/hip hop used unrealistic sounding pawn shop gear (that has since become rare and sought after)

The beatles had crap guitars and played anyway.

I have a pretty sizable home studio and it definitely helps me craft sound, but it is just a tool not the reason...
One of the key issues with using bottles is the cost, weight and the fact that there is a lot of breakage. The weight alone increases the cost of the supply chain by several times.

One key invention which could really help here is flexible glass packaging. Interestingly, one of the lost technologies from the Roman era is flexible glass:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_glass

Corning does have flexible glass, but used primarily for interiors and not for packaging:
https://www.corning.com/in/en/innovation/corning-emerging-in...
I think there’s a reasonable argument that street-level drug possession crimes during the “War on Drugs” had similar properties/effects.
Google improving an Apple project. The high ground!
What do you mean you live by this? Do you mean you make a conscious choice to have passion instead of an interest? I don't think one can choose a passion. It's something you either have or don't.
> But the most important reason for me to buy records is to one day allow my daughter to discover this strange music from more than half a century ago that was always playing in the house when she was still young. Good luck trying to convince a teenager to have a listen at your Spotify playlist ;)

Sorry to be a spoilsport, but chances are she'll never care, and that your expectation that she'll come to appreciate your musical tastes and your collection will be a burden to her more than anything else.

She'll have her own life and her own tastes. Shared interests are great if they develop naturally, but they cannot be forced, and substantial collections very often end up only making the children feel guilty about disposing of them.
Well of course you're going to prefer an anti-competitive approach if you view competition as burdensome. This has analogies in many industries.

You should divorce your personal anti-competition desires from the non-personal discussion. Encouraging choice is often a better way to give more people what they want.
Any plan that relies on the U.S. shelling out unlimited money to other countries isn't a plan.
OK fair enough, to me the opposition to the weak AP just seems to be people "unhappy" that a physical constant should need to be that precise.

In other words, for some reason they expect the universe to be more "understandable" or "sensible" than this . . .

Of course the strong AP is ludicrous in the extreme ;)
It's definitely a valid point. I've made the comment before that one of the problems of a more open App platform is that Facebook would replicate their malicious app advertising business on iOS and millions of people would have worse experiences with their phone because of it. It's ridiculous the stuff they're willing to push ads for on Android and Google are willing to host on their store, and it's no loss to iOS that suchs apps aren't available.

But a lemonade stand in a Walmart wouldn't necessarily harm consumers, and lots of things Apple blocks or requires a cut of wouldn't either if things were changed.
》This would prevent carbon-based life from existing, sure; but would it prevent intelligent life from existing?

We are yet to find another primitive carbon based life form. Anthropic principle works just fine with Occam's razor.
There's a cost to running an embassy. Most countries don't have embassies in every other country, although the UK has more than most.

For example, there is no British embassy or consulate in Benin.
Modern Ruby Serializers
Deserializing JSON Fast
it's a strange contradiction.

On one hand there's something to be said about persistence and discipline. You can find loads of stories of people sticking through the hard times and being rewarded for it.

On the other hand, there's opportunity cost in sticking with a failing endeavor. I am a hobbyist musician too, I spend a lot of time at the piano but I sometimes think to myself "what if I just used all of that time to advance my career instead?"

The real problem is that you don't know what can happen so we're left making guesses. Maybe the author of the article could have found some niche as a studio musician and had a long and successful career. Maybe calling it quits and changing careers while they're young would unlock a new passion that they're much more successful at.
This has been my experience as well.

There's been times I wanted YAML support in a particular app; I've never wanted TOML support. If anything, it's been "ugh, I have to use TOML".
But it is the variety of polymers that make them so bad. Surely, it is better to standardize to one material (or rather, standardize for the recycling process), than to ban the whole class of materials altogether.
But would you say the net outcome of this process was a loss or a win for you personally? I mean, I for one never played Monopoly with a computer and yet my perception of the game has certainly changed - not because of technology but because I'm an adult now. I think our stance towards everything always evolves.

In return, you were able to find a new interest through this irk: programming. And I think being passionate about something is what's required to become really good at something, so the fact that your chess playing started to make you think more and deeper about programming was certainly beneficially for the latter.
Deserializer provides that desired semantics. You can't express all types in markup language, because its type system is inherently limited.
How would fill-your-own-bottle work with online shopping and home delivery, which more and more people are doing even for groceries?
Agreed. The “first world” really needs to get it’s act together on this.
You’ve hit it.

There’s a reason the web once was a threat to Microsoft’s monopoly: it led to rich experiences they couldn’t control.

The web is so popular, Apple couldn’t block it. The trick to attacking them anticompetitively is to enhance the browser to take advantage of modern hardware capabilities and then go after the iOS browser restrictions as anticompetitive.

Google Stadia is an example of this arguably. But with things coming up like WASM I could see the browser being a local experience for games too.
There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.
Sublime merge looks great, but it costs quite close to what I would be paying for a full IDEA licence yearly: $100? This is ridiculous.
Off topic, but Emma Southon probably goes by "she".
April, an APL Compiler for Common Lisp (LispNYC) [talk]
isn't that the exact-inverse?
Nespresso has the same problem with those little pods, but decided not to change anything about their design and instead focus on recycling.
Ask HN: What are interviewers looking for in senior engineers and team teads?
After a lot of interviews this is still a mystery to me. Acing the technical part, but people lose interest randomly. Having a great friendly chat, but still saying no. And whey they do make a hire, usually it's someone sub-par, but for some reason they liked something random about him.

What is it exactly? What makes a senior or team lead an on-the-spot hire?
> Most of it gets burnt or pyrolysed for heating and electricity.

Well, at least it doesn't get shipped around the world to then be dumped into the ocean...
This is treacherous discussion. Broaching the idea that there's any biological basis for parenting, child development, etc. is pretty much verboten since it runs askew of idealism.
Looking more closely on glassdoor: it's unlikely to be true that Imperial professor salaries average £80k and University College London salaries average £101k, and these figures are more likely biased by small, self-selecting samples.

[Updated to note: Imperial College quotes a fixed minimum salary of £79,080 for professors in 2019 with performance-related increases - so the Glassdoor figures quoting lower than that cannot be right]

The home.co.uk site quotes the median price of property listings is £600k (is that close to £1m? ok sure). It also identifies that houses priced higher than that are listed for significantly longer, i.e. they count with more weight in this stat despite not selling. Therefore, I understand the median sale price to be lower.
That's interesting because indeed Librem 5, Pinephone, etc. could be indeed a unique opportunity for Epic (and Valve) to have their own mobile stores under their own rules.

Sure, currently it is insignificant, but so is Linux Desktop, yet Valve invests in Wine/Photon/Wayland/etc. and on the long run it might pay off when they'll have their own consoles.

I don't really understand Tim S. , on one hand he hates Apple monopoly, on the other hand he also hates Linux which is the only viable alternative, yet he still supports open source a lot (e.g epic mega grant)
That's a really simple view of the issue. You can't reasonably think even a large corporation such as Epic can achieve that. That is what makes Apple/Google a duopoly in the mobile computing space. At this point, without any state intervention, they can abuse their position of power to bully devs and consumer.

I don't care that they had to "work hard" to get there or whatever; the fact is they now have too much power.
They don’t. The spying is by design.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/once-pariahs-location-tracking-...
Ruby vs Python – Full Comparison in 5 Min
In today’s video, we will learn about the two popular programming languages: Python vs Ruby.
Ruby Its primary goal is to combine functional and imperative programming styles to make software development easier.
Ruby’s popular web-application framework called Ruby on Rails (RoR).
Python Named for Monty Python, it is a general-purpose cross-platform language that is available under FSF and OSI licenses.
We'll closely compare them in today's video.
Exactly, we take the “reuse” and repurpose parts of three R’s very seriously in Turkey. Our flower pots are usually used empty cheese containers and all the plastic bottles are reused for containment of homemade stuff, tomato paste/olives etc...

We do not recycle although.
I don't think attacks on Epic's sort of 'suitability' in fighting this dragon are really warranted.
Like godzilla vs. king kong, I think the only entities with the financial strength and influence to tangle with apple/google is going to be a bit of a monster in their own right.

My feelings about this do tend to vacillate. My opinion right now is sort of circumstantial, in that I don't think it's even tongue in cheek to call 30% the apple/google tax.

apple defends itself with the work it puts into maintaining app store quality. But imo enforced app quality and the store experience is something you sell to customers, not developers.

So apple talks about how there's so many free apps that never give apple a nickel.
I can understand differentiated pricing for different customers, but framing app developers as app store customers is where I feel apple and google run afoul. So it's like, why is it acceptable that mega-apps like fortnite are basically levied to support the app store, that apple turns around and presents to the customer and says "look how nice we made this"?

I don't know, it feels like the anti "developers, developers, developers". They don't have to make any concession to promote developers to use their platform, because there practically isn't much of a choice, between the two they're nearly the only game in town.
Taxonomy of Window Manager User Interfaces [pdf]
Wow. This is what I needed right now.
My 2 cents at 24 units of.. whatever it's called here. (i don't care)

Internet points don't add value to my life.

I don't come here for "salty opinions" I come here for polite, insightful, hopefully entertaining conversation. Endless "salty opinions" aren't any of those three things.

You can disagree without being "salty" -- and this website owes you nothing. You have freedom! You can go to some other popular website where downvoting is the norm.
Walmart Wants to Buy TikTok
Because on the PC, the oft-heralded perfect platform because there are multiple stores, there is no price competition? Epic giveaways aside (which is marketing, not competition), games go on sale on most platforms at the same time, for the same prices.

I, a customer, am not getting a price discount for a game on the EGS, despite the lower middleman cut.
Yeah, hence the “Nitrogen Cycle”.
[Rock, not jazz] Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick (1971, I think)

It was one of the first LPs that I would sit down and listen to back to back.