skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is actually an interesting way to put it though. I'm curious though if the number of public colleges we have today existed to the extent in which they do because of the loans or because of the government funding.

Also, in a way of looking at it, the loans are essentially pre-emptive taxation. So theoretically the people who we're going to fund these things are taxed directly instead of everybody, even those who don't go to college and get the benefit from it.
This really makes me sad for the fact RSS is so underused.

I used to love using Opera with its inbuilt reader - pulling in the latest articles was so awesome but then "everything" started to move to Facebook.

This could be the resurgence the internet needs to wean off the Facebook addiction back to the fun internet of the early 2000s
In case the OP wanted to know exactly how Brave's adblock is different from uBlock Origin instead of a link to the marketing page with links to other things like cryptocurrencies:

Brave's browser claims a speedup over AdBlock plus, but was inspired by UBO, so the performance is fairly similar, but is baked into the browser instead of being an extension.

> We therefore rebuilt our ad-blocker taking inspiration from uBlock Origin and Ghostery’s ad-blocker approach.

https://brave.com/improved-ad-blocker-performance/
I think hobofan means that the Go runtime is lightweight when it comes to runtimes.
Moths draped in stealth acoustic cloak evade bat sonar
Forced client updates
I don't have it reversed at all, mobile applications are just one sector of software development, and not a very large one.

There are entire industries (healthcare, to name but one), where Windows is simply a given, and all development targets that platform.

It's true that Macs are a requirement for iOS development, I was referring more to the observed fact that most devs in SF doing "cloud" whatever use a Mac, probably around 80%.
Second this. I myself started with logo when I was 7 years old. Gratification was way more "immediate" than BASIC. After a bit, I moved into Basic, where I spent days and days doing small games, until a family friend introduced me to C and I found Allegro.

I miss those days...
How would “Beautiful Codebases” be different from literate programming?
The average blog I find from HN has about 4 posts with the 1st being "First post!" and the 3rd or 4th being an apology for the lack of updates.

To be honest I think part of the problem is people are stuck thinking that pages have to be in the blog format. If it's just a webpage then it's normal to just update it like a wiki and you don't get the worry of whether it's ready to publish.
Not Ken but I've made a few projects with eForth for STM8 if that counts
Yes. More rotating weight = more energy expended to accelerate the wheel.
More advanced weapons require a lot of diverse foundational technologies which took a very long time to develop, simply because of a lack of writing, a lack of even the concept of those technologies, a lack of labor specialization, and a lack of the concept of an organized development process.
Weird. I've been to Iran and had many discussions about this custom 'taarof' except(!) it is my _northerner_ custom... no Iranian mentioned they had the same culture and I'm sure someone would have! I talked to kids, expats and others who wouldn't hide such facts.

Where I am from a host is obligated to offer a traveler all they can, even if it means they won't survive the winter, the traveler is obligated to decline since it could be that his acceptance of such offerings will starve (kill) his hosts come winter.

My insistence on declining kind offers was considered quite rude and I got called out for it a few times, prompting such discussions, absolutely no one ever at any point in time mentioned that there was such a custom in Iran.

There seemed to be a universal acknowledgment that the Iranian custom was the opposite; you should accept all offerings and leave leftovers to signal you are done eating because if you finish your food and refuse more it suggests that your host is poor which slights them.

Idk if this conspiracy you describe will explain away my experience but just figured I'd share for other readers.
> I want my binaries to use shared objects so that an entire OS can receive quick security updates.

Have shared libraries historically improved security much? Debian helpfully "updated" OpenSSL, and thanks to the magic of shared libraries, every program on a Debian system generated weak keys.

Personally, I don't think there's enough software on the average filesystem image to justify sharing libraries. Most stuff "in production" these days is in a container, which shares nothing with the other containers running on the same VM, which share nothing with the other VMs running on the same bare metal server. In the case of containers, a full rebuild from source is just as easy as updating a shared library -- maybe even easier. So the "quick security updates" doesn't seem to justify the high maintainability cost of shared libraries. (The high cost is having to maintain binary compatibility with applications you've never even seen before.)

The whole reason things like "Linux distributions" exist is for some central authority to coordinate and handle all the breakages this model causes. It's nice that they do it for us, but it's kind of makework to save a few bytes of network transfer now and again. Doesn't seem worth it to me.

> I want the binaries properly packaged with metadata, documentation, manpages to keep the host secure and tidy.

You've just invented containers. Many other people agree with you, which is why they became so popular.
The efficiency of bicycle derailleur and hub-gear transmissions (2001/pdf)
Windows 2000 according to Wikipedia
Windows have system tray balloon tips since Windows 2000. Or even earlier
India sets rules for commissions, surge pricing for Uber and Ola
"as easy" shouldn't be taken to mean "objectively, absolutely easy." It's relative. And relative to today, I agree.

Where, today, can one be given a franchise after (paid) training and save close to $200k (net of profits, taxes, etc.) over a one year period? Even given the same work habits and use of family (child) labor? There is either an element of (relative) less difficulty and or extraordinary luck at play here.
> You do if you want to scrape what you're reading on your mobile devices too, or you need to write an app for every platform (like I mentioned). Safari on iOS won't let you do that.

It's possible you are desiring too much. This is one of those cases where you should consider the case of diminishing returns.

That said, unless you wanted to aim for 100% (I advise against), then just use Chrome or another app on your iDevice and the history is automatically synced to your non-mobile device, where you can leverage the previous trick to scrape those sites. No need for an external app.

> Copyright is an issue if you're planning on selling this as a service or distributing it as open source (like youtube-dl).

Sure, but that's a completely different tangent from your current scenario. However, it is still very much possible with slightly different strategies.
I mean, aren't most local elections like this? Where I am none of the local candidates for things like city council, school board, etc. are on TV. Some yard signs, maybe a public forum for those interested enough to show up, but mainly they answer a set of questions and their answers get published by the local paper. That's the only way I know anything at all about who is running for these local offices.
There still exist game platforms that provide offline downloadable game installs. GOG.com is one example. I know this is but one example but I think it's important people reward this behavior so companies know there is demand for this.
I tend to get given large projects to do. I'm fairly senior, and once we've got past the brainstorming stage, the ideas have flowed forth, and the direction is, if not clear, then at least aspirational, I often get given the job of breaking ground.

Here's how I think.

I model interaction between distinct parts. I have a mental model of how X fits with Y, how X can affect Y, and how Y can in turn affect X. I'm not doing it with just X and Y, I painstakingly build this mental model[1] over as much of the problem space as I can, and having done this for many years now, I can cover a fair amount of ground before the complexity gets beyond my ability to model. It takes a while to create this, and then when some middle-management type wanders along, taps me on the shoulder and disturbs the concentration, and it all comes crashing down around me, I am less than best-pleased. Bonus points if it's just to "touch base" or "remember we have a meeting in 2 hours time", or ... you get the picture.

Why do I expend this enormous mental effort to gain such a fragile and ephemeral state ? Because I can mentally throw boundary conditions at it and "see" how things will react. It's how I deal with inherent complexity of large systems, and a couple of hours of mental effort can prevent me spending a week coding down a dead-end path. It's happened often enough now that even my line management understand it's worth the time - there's been plenty-a-meeting where I go in and say "yeah, I know we wanted to do <insert X> but I think there's a problem when Y and Z come into play under conditions A, B and C. I think <insert option gamma> is a better route even though we didn't think so at first".

Sometimes you really do just need to be able to be left alone and think. As someone who used to own the company before he sold it, and who's done pitches to VC's and other investors, I can quite categorically state that (for me), the slides, presentations, and client management is nowhere near the level of mental investment. Nowhere near.

Just my $0.02

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[1] It's not visual, I have aphantasia, it's more firing-condition-based.
Good observation! Yes, you need a simple, graphable metric that's a good proxy for the underlying goal you care about. We've written about that a bit at http://blog.beeminder.com/whattomind

Beeminder encourages you to define and refine your metric to make sure it doesn't fall prey to Goodhart's Law. Of course it's your own goal and so it's much less susceptible to Goodhart's Law. You actually care about the underlying goal!
> It is still the best system for motivating people we have invented.

What do you refer to by 'system' here, exactly? The political system or the economy one?

You sound like you conflate the two.
Also the nuclear reactor cores from Soviet US-A satellites:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-A

It mostly worked fine & 30 odd discarded cores are orbiting the Earth in a safe graveyard orbit. Just a few fell back.
Ever want to code on the couch? Not everyone wants to spend all day sitting on a gaming chair in the man cave illuminated by the light of their LED desktop enclosure
> Javascript is a privacy and security nightmare.

AFAIK, JavaScript the language has neither privacy nor security issues of "nightmare" level.

> It's almost equivalent to downloading and silently executing untrusted code on your machine.

No it's not. The code is run in a VM, which is run in a browser. So, the code is limited in doing things to the browser, which itself is limited in what it can do to your computer (files and whatnot). So it's not at all like running untrusted code "on your machine".

> I say "almost" because Javascript code is virtualized and sandboxed.

It's virtualized (in the browser) such that all the code will run almost the same on different browsers and chipsets. Again, the browser code is what keeps the computer safe from any code it runs, including CSS code or other VMs it may use, like Java or Flash. Also the OS keeps the computer safe from the browser (or at least it should).

So, no it's not JavaScript that is the boogeyman here.
> It perfectly captures the sour, smug, almost elitist cultural tone set by US 60s coastal urban intellectuals...

That song was about San Francisco specifically (as you drive out on 280).
What if you subtracted the wealth created by slavery?
> Updates being installed without my consent, telemetry and surveillance being forced upon me,

Maybe you need to change OS.
Of course, that's entirely subjective and I think several sites on this list look great. Regardless, JavaScript does not inherently make a site look better, and it isn't a necessity for nice looking sites. See: CSS Zen Garden.
> but you can wrap and replace DOM API objects with logging proxies.

Right, so you are describing the implementation of the tool I was looking for. Obviously I don't want to do that manually while tracing a page.
What do you mean by 'crashes'?
The problem with Make is that it doesn't know what it's building, so it can't do anything smart. For incremental builds to work at all, you have to supply the smarts. Having worked on a number of make-based projects (I am most scarred by buildroot), I can tell you that people make mistakes with build rules. The project then devolves to doing a clean build for every change, turning what could be a few milliseconds of CPU time into a 30 minute rebuild.

The idea of these build systems like Bazel is that the rules are correct so that you don't have to worry about writing correct rules, and you have a high probability of an incremental build producing a binary that's bit-for-bit identical to one from a full build. The result is that you don't do full builds anymore, and save the latency of waiting for things to build. (That latency shows up in the edit-build-test cycle, how long it takes to deploy software to production to fix an emergency bug, etc. So it's important!)
> often it's luck that provides the opportunity to work hard for something worthwhile in the first place.

Not having a plan means a 100% failure rate. Not following your plan means a 100% failure rate. Not revising your plan when circumstances change usually means a 100% failure rate.

Which is why most people fail. They quit at the first obstacle.
No, just my Harvard undergrad experience
Well it still could be, depending on what you do
Please read the site. It's inspired by https://1mb.club/. All of the sites are user-submitted examples; they are not curated.
India enters recession, worst among major economies
Star Trek is a hollywood fiction.
Insecure …again
what are the 1, 5, and 10 year effects on food prices for a carbon tax at a rate of your choosing?
You don’t have a right to browse someone else’s content.

Calling out your histrionics for what they are is not ad hominem. I’m attacking your statement, not your person.

Further, that’s not some sort of axiomatic law, that’s just a phrase. Even if it was, losers using ad hominem doesn’t mean winners don’t, that’s not how logic works.
The right way to use the Nespresso machine and how it works. 2020
I lived in a tower block in Moscow for a year. This brings back a melancholy feeling that I'm not really fond of. Eating kolbasa and eggs in my concrete cage while the snowy dark winter taps on my window was very much the experience I had. If the purpose of art is to move something inside the audience, this looks quite successful to me. I think I won't be playing the game though.
Many entrepreneurs failed multiple times before finally succeeding.

The quitters, of course, get nowhere.
The Economist magazine, based in the UK and focusing on economic and global political issues, is probably not the first place I’d go to look for relevant insights on local policing practices in the US. We never see links to professional trade publications or to coherent advocacy groups on either side of the debate. They might actually know and be able to contribute something.

That said, erring on the side of supporting public servants serving the public seems like common sense.

No mention of the military to police career track in the article. There are many good things about those who served in the military moving into a local policing function...discipline, valor, sacrifice, loyalty, the basic martial values.

But the military trains for a “we” v. “they” mentality deeply drilled into the minds of those who serve. When “they” are actively trying to kill you, that’s a very wise thing to do.

Undrilling that into a “we” vs. offending “we” mindset that local police must internalize takes some time and effort, but must pay dividends in the long run...
It was only about the excuse the CEO made, not about anyone else.

Direct all of that energy at him for the representation he is making about people on the spectrum.

If he wants to lean on that as a crutch on all of his organizational decision making skills, then we absolutely get to call him out on that all the time until he does something different.
You are very wrong. Perhaps you were right once, but definitely not in 2020. Linux is, by far, the best environment for professional programmers, unless of course the programmers target the Mac or Windows exclusively.
I agree.

The CIA, NSA, DHS, etc are all much, much smarter than me, and I would use IoT to compromise targets if it were my job. So there's that data point.
If I open Wikipedia what I see is "100% renewable energy refers to an energy system where all energy use is sourced from renewable energy sources." which is completely what I would expect from the definition of "100% renewable energy." What you are talking about seems like meaningless political wordplay.
How hard is it to go from a bunch of photos to a game like this?

Would it be possible to have a multiplayer version of something like this which essentially was a glorified chat room? Does something like this exist already? I never tried Second Life but it seems like a sad, edgy Second Life actually might have more of a chance.
> This is the pharma industry. It's been this way for decades. Don't pretend like you're woke and moralistic in light of this "bombshell" now please, it comes across as trite.

So, you're saying it's OK, then? Otherwise, you just seem unreasonably mad at people who don't dutifully accept the status quo without comment.
What does all this have to do with reality of objects themselves?
Finally!

Hopefully it will be based on the prefers-color-scheme media feature, instead of it being a setting to toggle…
ST4? How is the beta going? Smooth?
My first computer was a used 286 - no Windows, just WordPerfect, Oregon Trail, and QBasic. Between that and the TI Basic on my calculator it really cemented my love of code. (I had just taken a class in high school teaching Turbo Pascal; I grew up in a super poor family where everything was out of reach unless I put the pennies together myself)
You should check out the Beeminder community: http://forum.beeminder.com -- I think it will quickly convince you that we're a Very Serious Tool For Self-Improvement.
Agencies are just a representation of the human personality spectrum in the population. Saying they shouldn't exist is like saying people driven by ambition, fear, mistrust, aggressiveness should not exist.

When people's needs aren't aligned all these personality variations in the population come to the fore.
My understanding is that JavaScript is the primary mechanism used in browser fingerprinting and cross-site user tracking/"analytics". Isn't that a rather large privacy and (personal, if not specifically "cyber") security risk?
I would say shooters have become less violent and bloody over time, TBH. Gotta keep those games in the Teen rating!
And the us health system is why i never want to work in the us. Not even for a few months.
Ugh. I missed that. Bummer!

I wonder if the frame wasn't built to allow belt replacement?
I think that it’s also that Google employs Common Lisp programmers and maintains Common Lisp code.
I don't think OPs frustration was with 'sherlocking' Growl, but with Apple's stance on iOS and the increasing 'lockedownedness' of MacOS.

The MacOS community, and I think many MacOS developers accept that 'sherlocking' is a thing and I see it as something that should be a point of pride for these developers: "we built something so good that Apple decided to rip it off" one oft cited Steve Jobs (through Picaso) quote of course being "good artists copy, great artists steal". But I do understand developers who are frustrated by this happening to their apps, and don't begrudge them for it, especially when it is their source of income.
> as they generally are about most things Iran-related.

While I agree with the rest of your comment, as an Iranian, I cannot completely agree with this part.

Many Iranians living abroad actually miss these little social cues, and if there aren't Persian restaurants and neighborhoods in their city, they become homesick easier than, say, the Indians and the Chinese. Being able to at least practice some of these social cues would help them avoid that problem and feel like _home_ in a foreign culture.

Side note:

Comparing the American and Iranian culture, lots of things are similar (people want to have a happy life and provide for their family). But the US culture is much more _individualistic_ than Iran. So if you come here from Iran, people - despite being generally good and nice - might seem distant at first. Once you settle in the new society however, you learn that there are other ways of life as well, and you start to appreciate the things in the new culture that were rare back home. For example, Americans are generally careful about following the rules and the law, which is kinda missed in Iran, because many Iranians are ok with being _flexible_ with the rules. In Iran I always found that annoying, and I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that in the US. This of course does not mean that I would find most Iran-related things wrong/problematic.
This sounds like a buggy system that takes WAY too much effort for no support. Install Windows 10 or a Linux you aren’t doing yourself any favors using that.
Isn't that sort of how SnapCamera and the like work today? You give the physical camera to Snap, which does the video processing and then creates a virtual camera device that you can select as your camera in in zoom. It's not exactly as you describe (and FaceTime doesn't respect/offer it), but Zoom doesn't have to implement the effects and can use the device still.
CNN and CDC say mink is no problem
Caches Are for Copies
Some people I know told me they couldn't quit because of various chains that kept them in place. I went over these chains with them (such as a mortgage) and pointed out all of them were of their own making.
"There is currently no evidence that animals, including mink, play a significant role in transmitting the virus to humans, according to the CDC and the US Department of Agriculture. The risk of animals spreading Covid-19 to humans is considered low."
It can also have industrial applications if their claims are true. That's a bigger market than a single bicycling niche.
Go is pretty fast, within factor of 2 compared to C/C++.

Python is another thing. Most CLI utilities written in python are unusably slow.
Photokina Is Cancelled Indefinitely
So, I've thought about this a lot, especially since there are sometimes some challenges with things such as datetimes in SQLite if you're not very careful and specific (thinking about if you actually want to use in query for more than basic comparisons).

However, on the OTHER hand... if we think about SQLite as a general purpose data storage tool, it's actually a really handy feature, letting the in datatypes almost every case be more of an additional type of label.

For example, if I required a high-precision timestamp, I could declare the column type something like 'UTCEpochNanos', providing a reminder to myself and other consumers of the data how it should be interpreted.
Parent (who meant disc not circle) didn't give a dimension. An interval is just a 1 dimensional disc.
Right, still a little odd to have...

> FOR A FREE CAR INSURANCE RATE QUOTE THAT COULD SAVE YOU SUBSTANTIAL MONEY WWW.GEICO.COM OR CALL 1-888-395-6349, 24 HOURS A DAY

...on the homepage of a quarter-trillion dollar company, with no other ads.
HN is marking the passing of Tony Hsieh.
What was your favorite and least favorite part about that experience?
higher intelligence = higher ignorance?