skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the question is what a viable alternative is if the company does not want to spend any more effort than the effort of the singular employee that wants the report.

They can do it by themselves with Excel. Can they do that with any other software?
How I generated incomes as a web developer without working as a freelancer
Is there a way to completely disable automatic updates and the automatic restart with it?

I've done a lot of registry flag management, services disabling, other settings - whatever I can find from stack exchange, reddit, or even microsoft's own answers (they're terrible). Nothing seems to work with modern windows 10.
I'll switch to Linux once there is a good, drop-in reimplementation of Win32, DirectX and .NET. And by good I mean "much better than Wine"
Any custom list suggestions?
The key is caching. I remember 10 years ago playing with Varnish, and it seriously blows my mind that even today sites get taken down by honestly fairly small traffic from HN. I sidestep the issue personally by having my blog (kn100.me) just be a static site generated with Hugo to keep page weight extremely low, and I stick Cloudflare in front of it. That way whenever something I write finds its way to the HN homepage, the backing server (the smallest instance Linode offers) barely even blinks.
Formula 1 is meant to represent the pinnacle of technology. (Although arguably it doesn’t now, thanks to the myriad restrictions).

Your idea would probably give us a great racing series, but it wouldn’t be Formula 1.
For anyone in the US who needs ear bleach after too many civil war doccos, allow me to present "cute little bunny had a fly upon its nose":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwDhzl_O6qY

(and for dutchies, it's a long way until 11 november, but here's an early reminder for the times of covid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRkqkBjlmqw )
You almost said it

(c) People who use their computer for all kinds of hardcode coding except multimedia.

And actually (a) and (c) could be merged.

I had one issue with Arch Linux - partial init, boot to console - check issues [1]. There was an issue with Flash player, solved first by HTML <video> than by bundled Chromium Flash. Pulseaudio - yes, solved by removal, ALSA still works. Can't run windows software - solved for me by web.

I have a ton of programming languages installed. When I experiment with xmonad and it breaks it is not Linux, it is me. If I am going to experiment with CUDA etc I know it would be uncharted territories.

[1] https://www.archlinux.org/news/
If you could, what would you change?
I'm on linux for a good 10 years, even my wife switch over at some point after forced uodates and more slowness. My kids don't even know what windows is, they happily use linux with whatever desktop i provide. My wife even installs her own favourite distro herself.

My dad switched back to windows because he missed his favourite apps, which i could not find a good alternative for (like Windows Movie Maker).
I think the company would quickly realize that they need a different solution if they have no Excel wizard on staff, and the team spends weeks just calculating sales commissions.

Or maybe not, and they’d just hire more people solely to calculate commission :/
Many UEFI systems ship with Secure Boot enabled by default, which already causes some trouble for non-technical users who just follow the instructions, insert a Linux USB and expect it to boot properly.
How do you think the senators would act if they knew voters wouldn't see their performance?
s/demon/wizard/
No, GDPR considers collection, sharing and use of personal data to deliver targeted advertising optional. You can still deliver advertising that doesn't use any personal data.
For the fourth point, the network uses the phone’s name set in General->About->Name, which can be anything you want. But your phone brand would probably still be leaked to those who might care by looking at the BSSID of the network (does iOS 14’s MAC address randomization affect those as well?).
I've been programming C++ for years. Trying to keep up with modern C++ took a lot of time, which I feel is better spent on other stuff, like reading "Designing Data Intensive Applications" or something similar than yet another Scott Meyers book.
>It's not a great quote. Sagan is eloquent in describing his fears, but the concern for Beavis and Butthead was "ok boomer" even at the time and an extremely bad look now

I'd say that rather "ok boomer" is bad now (a thought stopping cliche), and will look extremely bad and dated in the future.
Modern HTML, CSS and related web technologies are incredibly great and it's amazing what can be done in the browser these days, so from a technology side I don't want to go back to the old Internet.

Things like non-anonymous tracking, re-targeting, personalized advertisements and bloat needs to go IMHO, but the new technologies can stay.

That said what destroyed the early Internet culture is not technology but business interests: Today, if you search for anything that has any kind of business relevance you'll almost exclusively find shallow, SEO optimized texts written by content producers. The early Internet wasn't yet commercialized so strongly and relied more on hand curation, so you could still find more interesting content that was written without commercial interests.
Similar experience here – I tried desktop Linux in 2003, 2008 and 2013 but couldn’t handle it and switched back to either Windows or macOS as my main OS. I tried again in 2018 after upgrading my Windows hardware and being told yet again that activation had failed and I’d have to call Microsoft. Now I use Arch. My desktop still breaks regularly (eg. I just spent a week not being able to use the terminal properly because alacritty was crashing on launch), but I had similar issues on Windows (eg. all Microsoft Store apps, including the calculator, crashing on launch for a month). Arch gives me useful error messages, a place where humans respond to my bug reports, and freedom from licensing bullshit.
Who do you include in the 'world' category? Tech types use it already, as well as many people who try to be 'cool'. However, the chances of Linux ever beating out Windows for casual users, older people and teens who just need their PC to play games and watch movies, are infinitely small. It's the same problem as people trying to recommend their favourite new obscure app - it's good and it works for a subset of people. But the rest will just never bother with it, no matter how amazing it is. Linux would need to be dumbed down and simplified to a staggering degree before it catches on like Windows did. Besides, Windows has a ton of money and push behind it.
> One thing I never understood is why Vim bindings are a big gain when you have a mouse.

Vim bindings are a gain because you don’t have to use the mouse.
It's a shame that the "HTML 4.0" link doesn't link through to the W3C HTML validator, which then points out a couple of validation errors.
I don’t use excel - could you explain what date this and why it’s obvious?
Hamilton, the working class boy from Stevenage whose Dad had to work multiple jobs to support him being able to go racing in karts, is the “silver spoon boy”?
Free OS = you are the product
Use the proper version of windows if you dont want that crap.
Agree. Law mechanisms can be abused. In Poland we had a case where a shoplifter (Stanisław Belski) was caught stealing coffee and sentenced. Security and the owner tossed a couple extra items into his bag to get him over a threshold so he qualified for a harsher verdict. The thief protested, but was found insane and delusional. In classic Soviet style, he was detained for 8 years and drugged in a psychiatric hospital. It wasn't until a new young inspector showed up that his protest was finally heard. Even when the thief was released, the staff of the hospital tried to crush the man by publishing his sensitive information. The thief received high monetary compensation, but no one was actually sentenced for the abuse of the law system.
Microsoft continues the war against its own users.
"...Basically, I think all I'm asking is, is society really dumbing down? Or are we simply confronted with it more?..."

It doesn't matter whether it's the lesser of the two, what matters is the overall effect on society as a whole.

For example, If people are generally more ignorant, would that be a benign thing 'overall' to society? Or non-benign?
What would be the approximate earning per customer on your plan. Who does the marketing and sales?
All it’s missing is ‘set expandtab’ ;-)
Its surprising to hear someone say open source development is profitable, what is the business model of DeviceFarmer?
> This slightly over 100 page book on move semantics https://leanpub.com/cppmove shows some of the iceberg like complexities dotted all over the place. Some developers probably never use and have never even heard of move semantics.

I think Scott Meyers' "Effective Modern C++" which is in large part a collection of caveats and description of things which don't fit always together also underlines that impression:

https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Modern-Specific-Ways-Improv...
It bites both ways. If you restrict things heavily, the teams have to go after increasingly-expensive diminishing returns - meaning the biggest budgets usually win out.

At least if you have greater technical freedom, there’s the chance for someone from a less-funded team to concoct the next double-diffuser, as there’s probably less of a link between budget and sparks of innovation.
>, and doesn't do secret magic guessing of whether a value is a date or not.

This Libre Office question&answer[1] in 2020 says it guesses that the users want leading zeros removed from numbers. This behavior is similar to other software tools I looked at.[2]

This means that if a csv has "02142021" as a date for Valentine's Day with a leading zero, it will be imported as number "2142021" -- unless one takes extra steps to prevent the default behavior.

[1] https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/246295/how-can-i-imp...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24696732
When it comes to the path separator, it's actually Windows that's contrary just because[1].

Http URLs use forward slash. MacOS uses forward slash. Virtually everything else uses forward slash. Windows is clearly the oddity here, but since that's what you're used to you incorrectly assume that backslash should be standard.

[1]: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/why-does-windows-really-use-back...
If a man turns into a clown in front of a camera, he would too be a clown in any other way.

It greatly unsightly for a country to have people like these for the apex court justices.
Also wanted to write about Phabricator / Phacility as it looks really neat.

Does anyone have a first hand experience working with it comparing to standard Atlassian stack?
This is true of Windows as well. What is your reference point for ease of use?
You can skip this.
Just put Steven Black's host list[1] in to /etc/hosts

Not sure what, apart from extra cpu cycles, pihole adds over this.

[1] - https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
Yeah that’s a particularly brilliant line.
Identity politics is almost completely unrelated to the topic at hand and does not carry the definition you've used later in the thread.

This is about unethical uses of data post collection.
>Well, changing it should always be an option too

Then use free software. Why would you expect to be able to change whatever you want on software you don't own?
Go Generics draft proposal – A deep dive
Human drivers provide a lot of human interest for the humans watching...
> What happened?

Consolidation. Surfing the web used to be about discovery. I was into digital art back then and there were so many emerging artists with exciting personal sites. You actual found things through page links whether directly or though things like web rings.

Now I visit a couple of sites routinely and ignore everything else. HN is the closet I come to social media.
> In this case, were people really more well-read and less ignorant in Sagan's past than they were in the mid nineties, or was he simply surrounded more by well-read, nuanced people when he was younger than when he was older?

It depends which people you talk about. The average person? Maybe not.

Thought leaders that shape the overall tone of social consciousness? Almost certainly.

That’s certainly the course over a much longer time window in the country.

If nothing else, the print (and even within print, shifts in frequency and volume) >> radio >> TV (and now >> social media) media transition has led to shifts in what the influential content is and what kind of people are thought leaders. And every step along that progression is to media that inherently are less suited to informational/intellectual content and more suited to content that short-circuited intellectual processing for pure emotional urgency.
MDN's CanvasRenderingContext2D page[1] suggests that there's a number of 'experimental technology' areas in the API - for instance the filter property[2] (which excites me: hand-coding a performant blur filter is a nightmare!) - which suggests the features are still under active development.

[1] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CanvasRende...

[2] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CanvasRende...
Soji Yamakawa's (MechE scientist at CMU) official website[0,1] of YSFlight[2] flightsim keep it going since Sep 5th, 1998[3] ;)

> You are <counter>th visitor since 1998/09/05

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Sadly, it's <counter> provider stopped to work.[4]

[0] http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/main/e2020.html

[1] http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/publication/publication.html

[2] https://ysflight.org

[3] http://ysflight.in.coocan.jp/frmcontente.html

[4] http://hpcounter3.nifty.com/cgi-bin/counter.cgi?u=PEB01130&p...
The irony is that most people PAY for the OS license, either explicitly or implicitly (it's part of the cost of the computer).
I'm somewhat worried about what this means for our organisation. We use both Jira and Confluence, and while they have their issues, we've got many integrations that make life significantly better that will be work-intensive to convert to their cloud offering, if it's even possible.

Our biggest complaint about Atlassian has always been the constantly rising price while value does not follow, and this might finally make them too expensive that we would be better served by alternatives, especially considering all the re-integration we would have to do in any case.
I don't see how my accomplishments, or lack thereof, have any bearing on my moral beliefs and expressing them.

That said, I was in a bad mood, and in hindsight I shouldn't have judged based on so little information; I don't know what /actually/ happened. mea culpa.
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It is a complex issue, but I also think the issue is different for everybody. Not everybody has a strong gender identity, and thus isn't equally vulnerable to gender dysphoria.
You've got this completely the wrong way around.

The problem is not that companies with large legal departments can't follow the law, but rather that some of such companies are pathological choosing to break the law. They think they can get away with it because few breaches are prosecuted, and based on highly dubious legal interpretations concocted by their large legal departments.

GDPR is not difficult to follow (or indeed "mental"), and is a huge boon for consumers. In a way it's even a boon for businesses - it can reduce their legal risk by encouraging them to only collect PII when they have a good reason to do so.
Holding the soldiers, individually and their superiors, accountable would not make the problem worse.
I don't pay much attention to which is which; if you search for "pihole adlist" you'll find lots of recommendations.

FYI: You can add the list URLs in the web interface to "Group Management > Adlists" It took me a while to realize that.
Microsoft is doing the same with Azure DevOps and big orgs with sensitive data are moving there as well. I don't think you can even have Azure DevOps on premise.

So Atlassian is doing it because they know there is no competitor that would jump in. Because everyone else also goes that direction.
The comment I was replying to was talking about buying an old laptop and replacing all the insides with upgraded parts. Not the same thing
And what on-premise substitute do you think will be superior? Asking seriously.
I'm a fan of cross polarised thin sections: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/AX1388/lherzolite-rock-thin-sectio...
(especially because rotating the stage changes the colours, for an instant 60's light show.)

Bonus clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlxUnzuMAD0
It already exists. JetBrains YouTrack has an on-site version with similar features to Jira, and the latest version comes with a wiki feature called Knowledge Base. [1]

There's also an automatic import process from Jira [2].

YouTrack has a cloud version now. Unfortunately they used the introduction of this to raise the prices for their self-hosted version. However they do allow migration both to and from the cloud version, and they plan to introduce a self-hosted version of their newest Space product, so it seems JetBrains is more DIY friendly than Atlassian.

JB seem like a better company anyway. It's hard to forget Atlassian's decision to stop rewarding employees based on merit, a system they claimed was created by "white men" [3]. The new system rewards employees largely for following the "company values". Under the company values page [4], they claim one of their values is "Don’t #@!% the customer". Interesting way to show it.

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/help/youtrack/standalone/Getting-S...

[2] https://www.jetbrains.com/help/youtrack/standalone/importing...

[3] https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/atlassian-ditch...

[4] https://www.atlassian.com/company/values
Incidentally, Chrome wants to hide URLs from you, and via the "portal" element, play out little pieces of third-party content among a mass of tracking and ads, while pretending you're not on a Google site.
The Top 5 AWS EC2 Performance Problems [pdf]
Reagan was a politician last. He came out of Hollywood, he went to the White House and he worked the part, but he wasn’t on camera with all of his business in the Oval Office all the time.

How is a Congressman supposed to negotiate on a bloody camera? That’s bad craft, you don’t negotiate that way, you don’t get anything done and we haven’t. Congress hasn’t and they’ve long let the White House run the show, bought into Nixon’s BS about being coequal branches when Congress used to reign supreme.

Courts have a similar problem, if you have the public and the Republic breathing down their necks the whole time, how is a good Judge, Jury, Prosecutor and Defense supposed to bring justice with all of the details aired out to the public in such a visceral and relatable form? You want to know the facts of the case, you can go there in person or read the damn documents, and the people that need to know will put in the legwork. There’s no need to make every trial into a YouTube video.
We also have Alfred J. Kwak[1], which looking back on it is surprisingly on-the-nose with a lot of topics that completely passed me by as a child. The israel/palestine conflict, apartheid and fascism to name just a few.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_J._Kwak
> People and enterprises insist to use this OS calamity, despite the fact there are free and open source alternatives. I guess we will still see news about MS windows non sense in 2030

The fact is that Microsoft Office is still lightyears ahead of Open/Libre/Whatever-Office. And enterprises need that office suite.

And the integration between Office, ActiveDirectory and Office365 (their cloud service) is just awesome, spot on. It's impressively good as a groupware solution.

Outlook on Windows is fairly okay, and covers the needs of 99% of the office workers (Outlook on Mac OS is superb, by the way).

The thing is: until the FOSS alternative becomes a no-brainer, enterprises will keep paying for Office, and thus for Windows.
Same. Made my first website in ~95 or so. I remember getting so excited when we could finally change the colours of links, and distinctly remember even back then people saying “this is the beginning of the end for usability on the web, how will users even know it’s a link?!”.

Now look at the mess we’ve created.
I can't find it now but I read a story, in I think in https://old.reddit.com/r/tifu, about a man and woman having sexy fun times. The woman's thighs were wrapped around the guy's head, she orgasmed, her legs spamsed, and because of the sweat her thighs formed a vacuum seal on both his ears and ruptured one or both of them.

There are plenty of other stories about ruptured ear drums though: https://old.reddit.com/r/tifu/search?q=eardrum&restrict_sr=o....
> I don't think you can even have Azure DevOps on premise.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/server/

“Previously known as Team Foundation Server (TFS), Azure DevOps Server is a set of collaborative software development tools, hosted on-premises.”
Our org started using BitBucket cloud for a major project. The developer experience is light years behind Gitlab and Github.
We are moving our entire pipeline to Gitlab instead. The difference in productivity and experience using Gitlab is shocking compared to Bitbucket.
Their React app, while cool, is painfully slow, PR reviews are very clunky and there is no code highlighting on diffs.
Ernst Röhm was the 2nd most important nazi before the night of the long knives and was an out homosexual[0]. The gayness of the nazis was a source of jokes and criticisms from the beginning. The pro-homosexual bias of fascists are so obvious, there are even books, generally by religious people, which assert, with considerable evidence, that fascism was entirely a homosexual phenomenon. This sort of thing doesn't fit the preposterous bias of the book you quote, which again is simply a list of the prejudices of the authors; more or less, the prejudices of late 20th century shitlibbery, against traditional christian people.

As for nazi nudity: go watch the movie "Olympiad." Or ... hell, just look at photos of the era[1]. A good fraction of them were neopagans as well; they probably invented the phrase "sky-clad."

>Given that I believe private nudity is legal in the US, why should anyone respond otherwise, unless unaccepting of divergence from their beliefs?

Are you joking? There are lots of things which are legal but which people might not be all together comfortable with. For example: gambling, smoking, eating live shellfish, having unprotected sex with 100s of people, going to Church on Sundays (I guarantee you there are people who see something wrong with this), remaining a virgin until you're married (ditto), getting falling down drunk, eating only vegetables: the list is endless. Nudism certainly falls into the category of something all kinds of people might not be all together comfortable with; both authoritarian and non-authoritarian; and in this case both American right wing and left wing people. Do you think Susan Fowler would have been happy if Uber had done its corporate retreats and a nudist camp? Don't tell me it's "inappropriate" -because if "there is absolutely nothing wrong with nudist camps" -how can it possibly be inappropriate to hang out with your colleagues with your junk hanging out?

[0]https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/holocaust-remembrance-day/.pr...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturism_in_Germany
This was very useful for fixing two nice Fujitsu 27" screens with garbled EDID EEPROM contents.