skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wonder if we can get Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp off the Play store like this as well. "Side effects include: sexual content and coups."
All TV, all newspapers, OK but where are all the Facebooks?
That's the difference.
Haha maybe. With 5-6 people you could edit things together to be more engaging though
We've been made to use Macs at work now and they have McAfee on that we can't disable, causes no end of performance issues
Dash on macOS also lets you download StackOverflow for offline use. It was my goto for working on airplanes, way back when traveling on airplanes was a thing.
I’m sure this won’t be well received on this forum, but he’s kinda’ right. It’s nothing new (see Raging Bull of late 90’s), but when “some” people can convince tens of thousands of “other” people to buy or sell equities when they know it’s going to make more money for the “some” — well, that’s manipulative and looks like a pump and dump.

Opinion: Everyone loves the “stick it to the man” narrative, but this thing is still all about money. And “some” people have gotten rich, and others are going to be left holding the bag.

More opinion: what happens when a narrative (theory) captures the imagination of tens of thousands of people and causes them to act in a way that is not really in their best personal interest? Recent history might come to mind...
Because they want people to consider their OS reliable? If you have software that runs just fine on the previous release of an OS, and breaks on the next one, are people going to consider the software buggy, or the OS? The perception will largely be "I upgraded to <x> version of the OS and <y> program stopped working" which quickly morphs into "<x> version of the OS is buggy because it breaks <y>, avoid it if you want to be able to do work", and if sustained long enough it then morphs into "<x> OS sucks because they constantly break software".

Take away good software and all that's left are Apple's "shinies". If it weren't for the potential game-changer that they have with the M1, I'd almost say that they wanted to kill off the Mac as anything other than an iOS development box.
If I were to test the implementation of an app in my enterprise, then it would benefit me to cut down on the unnecessary dependencies. Being dependent on the Google Play Store has shown to be a liability in the past because there were moments where it became a single point of failure (as demonstrated in this thread)
It's a symptom of a well organised org. The ticket doesn't need to have a lot of detail (unless your ticketing system is dysfunctional and forces you to input a lot of information, which is sadly more common than it needs to be), only enough to capture what needs to be done and where so it's not forgotten.

It's no different to filing a ticket with the building management to replace a broken lightbulb - it's in your interest to know whether they replaced it already without having to stand up from your desk to check, and it's in their interest to know which individual problems are located where so that they can plan their weekly maintenance run through the building accordingly.
I find it amusing how some Linux users completely ignore the myriad of problems users can find when using Linux on the desktop, from hardware incompatibilities to a much poorer experience in daily tasks (lack of commercial software like Adobe CS / MS Office, problems with hardware video decoding especially on popular platforms like Netflix, desktop environments like GNOME3 that like to remove features periodically) that they even can't understand why someone would use a different platform.
I say this somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but I suspect it would probably result in more netsplits on freenode, owed to the inevitable influx of programmers who would now seek assistance on IRC like the good old days.

I've definitely noticed a downward trend of activity in the assorted programming chat channels I've frequented over the last 25 years or so, which I guess could be a result of the growing popularity of Q&A sites like stackoverflow.

But I still think it's one of the best places to seek assistance - plus, helping out programmers on IRC in real time is a good way to stay sharp and on top of the continuously evolving software landscape.
Electrically Induced Sense of Smell (2019)
The Sputnik V vaccine is by my count the 3rd to have solid and successful Phase III trial results, in December whereas the more modern technology mRNA vaccines got that in November. In 20/20 hindsight where we now know Sanofi/GSK failed hard in their first attempt, and one of of Sputnik V's virus vector doses is being tried with AZ/Oxford to improve efficacy, it would have been a very good idea to also place a bet on it, and following their business model set up one or more production facilities in the EU. Although given how AZ/Oxford's four late in the game EU factories have the very worst productivity of all of their's, would not for a while make a difference.
All SunVox versions from 1.0 (2008) to 1.9.5d (2020)
We also had anti-virus software on every Mac in large enterprise. Took a lot of effort to at least except source directories.
Thank you for the perspective from Germany. I wonder, should we read the above with "I" in place of "you"? Is this your personal experience? If so, what is the final outcome? Or is that nont known yet?
So when do average developers just start considering macOS toxic and stop supporting it? About once a week, a story similar to this hits the HN front page: "$majorsoftwareproduct doesn't work on new OSX because they broke documented APIs in undocumented and unexpected ways, without any warning".

What the hell, Apple?
I have been using Linux exclusively as my OS since 1997. Except for a 2-year hiatus some 8 years ago where I got a Mac and used Mac OS.

I can 100% relate to your experience. It was painful. There were oddities all over the place. Some software I was used to use was simply unavailable. Package managers... oh I missed apt so much... And it was much slower.

Let alone the main compelling factor for Linux for me: that it is open source, and that I can inspect anything, even the kernel, if I need to. Surely, you occasionally need to fix some driver or configuration "CLI-style", but I'm more than used with this.

But basically, with Linux I feel I control and own the system. With Mac is pretty much like Windows: they own you, and for the most part you don't know what's going on --except that MacOS is still orders of magnitude better than Windows.
I meant annual comp, but yes that's a good step
An enjoyable read but I couldn't stop thinking of this Onion article https://www.theonion.com/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-...

My son is 6 months. The only non-negotiable part of his media diet will be the LucasArts point-and-clicks.
They aren’t using it, but the Apache directory listing module does have support for descriptions that will be displayed beside the file names.
Musical Notes and Computation
Build a coding blog from scratch with Gatsby and MDX
Harry G. Frankfurt offered a full philosophical theory of BS[1].

Key takeaway: the BSer isn't just sloppy or inaccurate with the hogwash. Rather, BS attacks the very concept of truth as such.

Looking at you, Postmodernists.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Bullshit-Harry-G-Frankfurt/dp/0691122...
Lack of resources, plain and simple. The f-droid folks are operating on a shoestring budget last time I checked, which is shocking for a project of such significance.
Yes, the "appeal to authority = fallacy" can be employed to shut down legitimate arguments, as well as the "ad hominem = fallacy". There is a great clarification here:

"The ad hominem fallacy fallacy"

EDIT: debunking -> clarification
https://laurencetennant.com/bonds/adhominem.html
I don’t think those examples are right; argumentum ad populum is about relying on the popularity of a belief to prove whether it’s true or false.

What interesting is that in the example of Bitcoin, since currency is little more than a shared belief in something, this would not really constitute a logical fallacy.
> but when it comes to emulators what is the state there?

What you mean?
I was hoping this would provide framebuffer-like functionality in the terminal window instead of "just" a way to apply image posteffects.

A proper pixel framebuffer terminal standard fast enough to be updated at refresh rate would allow a lot of interesting terminal applications which would live somewhere between Curses UIs and "proper" UI applications which require a whole window system!

Current "render pixels to the terminal" standards like iTerm2's ability to display images, or the "Sixels" standard are unfortunately too slow to render colored images at display refresh rate (Sixels is just barely fast enough to render two colors).

I've been playing around with running home computer emulators in terminal windows (for instance here's a "C64 in Docker" limited to rendering characters: https://github.com/floooh/docker-c64), imagine if this could run with actual pixel graphics in terminal windows :)

PS: here's an abondend attempt to render the C64 framebuffer via Sixels (too slow unfortunately to be practical): https://github.com/floooh/chips-test/blob/master/examples/as...
India blocks mobile internet at sites of farmers’ protest
> So when do average developers just start considering macOS toxic and stop supporting it?

Since forever ago? Nothing new here. I have 0 sympathy for people who use it. They paid dearly for their walled garden.
Timing. I looked into getting into this game to see if I could make some cash day trading (at the level of one unit of stock -- NOT my life savings).

My investment firm required time to set things up, and it won't be ready in time for this game.

If Robinhood can shut down trades for 24 hours, that's enough to have a huge impact, not just on the market, but on people's individual finances, as they move elsewhere.

Footnote: If I had been successful, I'd be up $200 right now based on the strategy I planned. But I'm not naive enough to think that's anything beyond luck and volatility.
Shared hostings might offer Python, but it’s probably neglected (outdated, missing database connection libraries, etc.) and nobody really uses that. Effectively all Python web development is done using WSGI frameworks (or more recently, ASGI), and those frameworks expect to be in long-running processes, usually behind a reverse-proxy. Starting up the Django dev server takes about one second on a blank site, and it increases with code size. The `cgi` module exists, but it’s badly designed, mostly forgotten, and there were plans to remove it (PEP 594).
Ask HN: Next career move, engineering growth
Hi HN! I'm an early engineer at a startup (took job right out of college), considering a career move and I'd like some advice.

What I've learned:

* Language proficiency: I am proficient in $LANGUAGE because $COMPANY uses it for everything, really nice to sit down and write code without Googling.

* Full stack: I've done everything: AWS, infrastructure as code, database design, security, Web development, system architecture, etc. I love the breadth.

* Data: I work with data a lot and am good at wrangling it now.

* Management: I've been managing a team for a while now and have grown a lot from it.

* Communication: I've gotten better, but not great - hardest thing for me is convincing non-technical leadership how certain engineering investments are necessary / will pay off in the long run.

What I want:

* Engineering excellence: I want to be on a team where I feel junior.

* Less stress: I'm married and want to have more time with my spouse.

* Positive environment: Don't want to lose that.

* Remote: Again, want to keep this. (I am not in a tech scene like SF.)

So now I'm looking for a senior engineering role elsewhere. Advice on how to pick a company/team? I'm interviewing at companies whose products I've used before, and that seem solid, but perhaps the one I'm most worried about is gauging "engineering excellence." How do I know I won't be disappointed there? Some places do have more talent than others right?

In the longer-term I want to start a tech company or tech-focused non-profit, building an awesome product / product suite. Might even want to start building that on the side with my next role, as long as the time commitment is lower.

Thanks for any advice you can offer! :) It's nerve-wracking to leave my first job, a good job, and not know if I'm going someplace better or not - especially when I read Glassdoor and see people complaining about things, or when it seems the places I'm interviewing are second-tier.
No it doesn’t. There are several Mac-native apps, such as QGIS, for which Postgres is a sensible local datastore. Running it in a container for this is an entirely unnecessary complication.
bit perplexed why this never went anywhere. Seems like a solid win all around really given where uuids show up.
Agreed. I did this in 2012 - Fort Lauderdale to Ocean City, MD. Landed in Myrtle Beach, SC for 7 years.
I don’t know that I have enough information to disagree broadly, but the OP was specifically about mayors. I’m not sure if I’d consider that the “top” of politics (granting its always somewhat subjective)
The EU didn't interfere in any contracts. Some countries were moving ahead but the small ones were scared to be left out in the cold so pushed for it to be done by the EU instead of the big countries. Then once it was in the EU decision process some individual countries slower the agreement process with worries about price, ...

Either way Brussels would get the blame - as too expensive, buying the wrong ones, not managing to agree quick enough, etc. But it's not as if someone in the commission just said and twiddled thumbs, they were negotiating, then convincing countries to agree, negotiating again, ...

It's easy to point at 'the EU' but the Brussels institutions were asked to do it, rather than took this from someone. The countries were probably happy to have someone to blame later. What I would love to know is which country held things up in council - as the article says, some were doubting mRNA vaccines and others tried to go cheaper and that was the reason for the delay.
Pfff should I buy Dogecoin before they’re $50k?
See also: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/

For translations and this wonderful poster that you can hang in your "common sense" coworker's cubicle: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0318/1808/8492/products/Fa...
I have my keyboard set to UK Extended. It's able to do most diacritics, so I just stick to it even when typing German and other suitable languages, like French.

Umlauted vowels are done with AltGr+[ followed by the vowel. ß is done with AltGr+S. It's a tiny bit less ergonomic than having dedicated keys for these letters, but I consider the tradeoff worth it since the letters don't occur too frequently in German and I only need to memorize one keyboard layout.

I don't know if something similar is available for US layouts.
Anybody not on them still gets to vote. If anything, I suspect that making these platforms increasingly unrepresentative will end up hurting pols who pay attention to them, by giving them an increasingly distorted view of public opinion. If you optimize your messaging for Twitter, an actual electorate is going to drop you like third period French.
> The shotgun argumentation fallacy occurs when one chooses so many arguments, firing many shots as it were, in order to disable your opponent from answering them all.

Aka the Gish gallop:

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

(And, yes, agreed, it is not a logical fallacy, but a (duplicitous) debate tactic.)
Oooh I wonder if I could get that here - things like npm install(presume any package manager, certainly homebrew) or git commands take obscenely long times.
>First, that was only the initial vaccines. All vaccines since then were produced entirely within the UK. Second, the UK paid for the development of those vaccines, the EU did not. Without the UK funding and the collaboration with Oxford, AZ was not even planning to develop its own vaccine variant, and so those facilities would not have been producing any vaccine at all.

Well, then why not disclose those figures like EU is asking? If it was only the initial order, how many doses of it? How many are currently be produced?

The EU paid whatever it had to pay to have 80 million doses in February, because that was the deal. Instead they are to receive 30 million, with little to no transparency around why and how many doses are being moved out of Europe.

>As mentioned, the UK and USA paid to develop these products. The EU is expecting everyone else to pay the cost of development, and then just get the vaccine at cost when it arrives, and still have priority?

The EU also upfront money, to the point that AZ established a timeline and a number of vaccines to be delivered - 80 million doses by Feb. Or now some contracts have more value than others? Why doesn't the UK release their contract to the public then?

The reality is that maybe EU should have locked production to EU like UK and USA apparently did. It's all "let's end the pandemic together" but apparently UK and USA want to deal with their problem first and let the rest of the world make vaccines for them.

>Good luck with that. All the vaccine manufacturers are suffering shortfalls, and the UK is not reliant on exports from the EU. I hope that further vaccine production goes to countries that didn't have the economic means to build their own vaccine supply, rather than those too short-sighted to build one.

Well now that the first batches that came from EU are delivered (and god only knows how many, because there's no transparency) it's easy to say that you don't need EU production. Until the UK had no production it was good to receive from EU, now that it has some capacity you don't need it more?

Yeah, really hope EU starts to crackdown on this. Either everyone contributes, or sanctions and restrictions should start to be applied.
I think it's safer to assume nothing. There's literally no information available. But if we were going to guess...

Let's use some logic. If the investigation was specifically triggered by SN8, then it's likely related to altitude/trajectory or landing. It's probably not altitude/trajectory since that seems like such a brain-dead thing to clear before hand. So it's probably the explosion-landing.

Btw: this is SpaceX's current license for operations at Boca Chica: https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/as...

Obvious areas of conflict would be if SpaceX did not amend their license or notify the FAA to indicate that they believed they would likely not be able to safely land, or if SpaceX had stated that they they expected to be able to safely land. These would be areas that the FAA have a legitimate interest in.

Regulatory officials aren't idiots, especially with respect to high publicity subjects like SpaceX. If they KNOW that they are changing their own processes this year, they're not going to go trigger stupid shit over stuff that probably won't stick later, especially chasing against Elon. If they're bothering to do this, there's probably something worth looking into. Note that that's not the same thing as "SpaceX did something wrong".
How does permeance compare? Also that doesn't look like a good option for M1 mac users.
It’s more the “unhealthy” part that concerns me, not necessarily the hustle.

Hustle in business is good for society. Unhealthy hustle where you forsake everything for some Pyrrhic victory is not.
> Nearly all of the information there is also available in the public documentation of whatever the question asker is asking about anyway.

That's really not true in any meaningful way. Maybe the information is somewhere, but some Stackoverflow answers are so good that they are the best resource on a specific narrow topic that you will find online.

See for example something like [0]. That's the type of answer you would get from a good book or teacher, good luck finding something comparable in the often terse official python docs.

Sure, there are a lot of lazy SO Q/As that sound like someone wasn't doing their homework, but that's far from the only type of content there.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/100003/what-are-metaclas...

(Edit: another great example is basically anything that concerns advanced usage of matplotlib. That library is so weird and the docs so terrible that working off of SO examples really is the most efficient way to use it.)
Honest question from a nocoiner: are there communities, however small, that use meme coins as non ironic currencies? Like, can I rent a VPS for a month for 1000 doges or whatever from someone without any cross-currency conversion in between?

I know that if I seriously propose that offer someone will take it, but you know, I'm talking about something perennial
Does macOS respect SA_RESTART? [1] Apple's manpage[2] for sigaction is confusing...

Regardless, doesn't anybody at Apple use postgres? Breaking Postgres should be hard to miss.

[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/si...

[2] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Sy...
> Whether it was a direct $$$ bribe or a call-in to the good old boys, we will probably never have proof.

Which feeds into a lot of sentiment for millenials who haven't made it big with $400k a year jobs in SV.

Rich people - whose wealth has quadrupled since 1990, have spent the last 2 decades yelling at the poor to "work hard" - wages not having increased at all, but if the needle even threatens to point the other way for just a second, the rules are changed.

People working hard have seen their conditions deteriorate, house prices balloon, wages stagnant, and to top it all off yet another recession, this time one to protect old peoples health (very little risk from covid for under 45s)

In the last year the richest 10 people have made $500b in the last year, if you don't see something wrong with that you need your eyes tested.

Gamestop isn't about making money, it not even about screwing over some people trying to make theater chains go bust, it's a cry for help. It raises wealth inequality up the list of issues.

If you're earning $30k a year and working 2 jobs to pay rent, or well in to your 30s and still living in your mom's basement, you see things like this and can't be blamed for thinking the entire system is rigged against you, and you're going to lash out in any way you can. People can say "let them eat cake" or "let them invest in the nasdaq", and usually come out on top. Occasionally though they don't.
Well I did use logically sound and not sound argument. I personally don’t see a difference in logically sound and logically valid but I clarified things in my previous post.
> everybody was fine with a rigid mess of type system Java has.

Were we? Java is literally the language that drove me to hate types and prefer python for a few years, until I learned Haskell..
Supermicro's WRX80 motherboard looks like it has an easily replaceable chipset fan, not sure about the Gigabyte one.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16396/the-amd-wrx80-chipset-a...
I think this is all quite played up in the media. Pressure is on and each time a single EU government - here Macron - says something the UK make it out as the evil EU.
Monitoring AWS Elastic Beanstalk Memory and Disk Usage in Grafana
Reminds me of earlier this week when I wrote an algorithm from memory. My coworker pointed out a library we had that did the same thing. Sometimes, knowing things by heart isn’t the best.