skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am 60. I was a little nerd when I was around 11-12 yo and I read all pop science magazines.

Being afraid of an upcoming ice age definitely was a thing, many articles were written on it, quoting scientists, even in national newspapers. I remember writing an essay on it for school.

I don't have those magazines any more but you should be able to find them somewhere.
In Peru debit cards don’t have names on them. So you just go to a branch and they take an unused one off the stack and assign and hand it to you. 5 mins, any branch, no appt. Quite convenient. Credit cards do have your name printed on and those you pick up at a branch when they arrive.

I guess the US considers the printed name to be more important for debit cards.
8-bit computer I built using only logic gates on my phone
fix the language / naming of this - it's cloned designs geez. Ridiculous to call this a product also? Clickbait spam almost

also posted two days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26406598
That depends on what the meaning of "everywhere" is.
I dont even know why they exist anymore. The ones that will stand on top after everything are MS Teams and G-Meet (from their productivity suite) and Zoom as a standalone service.
Absolutely, it's more than just Facebook but also other social platforms and "news" outlets.

And in some countries definitely the political class as well.
Thanks. I can't take a walk, I need to stay at my desk.

For what's worth it, I am not a programmer (I'm in ops), I can do "some" code, but ...your job is safe with me.
Faxing is growing in popularity (2019)
My software license I will use
To be clear, neither is there any unified "Black" identity, any unified "Native American" identity, etc.

Identities are generally fluid and reflect matters of degrees of commonality and shared experience.

In your case, there are certainly some things you share in common with Germans, e.g. you share an Indo-European linguistic heritage which you don't share, for example, with someone who has Japanese heritage.

Of course that's simply an academic point -- you're free to feel whatever degree of identity affinity you like, which is what matters. Identity is constructed.
previous old discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19362793
It does on Firefox Android.
to be fair it does read as sarcasm.
I guess it depends on the bank. I had to cancel my card because I was afraid it had been skimmed while temporarily living in Singapore. My bank couriered a new card to me over night.

I was very impressed.
Then it stops existing at some point in the short to medium term.
Which...was..proven true:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/10/03/god-view...
Ask HN: Feedback on public cloud cost savings tool
Hello all

It seems that every company on any public cloud nowadays care a lot about cost and how to reduce cloud spend and so I was thinking:

An automated scanning tool where you input an AWS read-only SA and then it scans your infra for potential cost optimizations, and the pricing would be 10% of the potential savings identified and if the tool could not identify any savings, you pay nothing, therefore a potentially risk free attempt.

Any feedback/thoughts would be appreciated!

Thanks
Whereas I have no opinion about PGs style of writing, I do however wish he'd push out that table width from 435 to something between 700-800, for readability.

Sometimes, it's not just about the words, but the layout also.
I would go as far as saying that Teams is really now better than Zoom. They put a huge development push in the past year.
DRM on its own isn't always necessarily bad.

Gaben's quote on piracy was about 2 1/2 years after the big Spore DRM debacle [0], which affected legitimate customers. I've been using Steam for who knows how long and have never had the DRM be an issue, even after several computer upgrades and motherboard replacements. I just have to log in and I can redownload all my games with no issue at all.

Yes, Steam is DRM, but it's sane DRM.

> has a variety of mechanisms to prevent account sharing yeah?

Well...yeah. You aren't supposed to share accounts.

> It's a nice soundbite, but even he doesn't believe it.

It's not just about DRM. When he talks about it being a "service problem", it's not just about the ability to simply play games. When you buy from Steam, you get automatic updates, cloud saves, community integration (such as the Workshop for installing mods and other user-made content), built-in screenshot management features, and more. If you pirate the game, you get none of that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore_(2008_video_game)#DRM_co...
I'm disappointed that Apple hasn't seen fit to put a physical camera cover on their webcams like recent Thinkpads.
That always boggles my mind. There are a ton of startups out there which tackle serious environmental/sustainable problems struggling to get minimal funding and "another" search engine gets $40m? What good will that do? Oh, BTW, feel free to vote me down as usual.
How many lines of vimscript have you written? No, copy-pasting config lines from someone's dotfiles doesn't count. How many times have you opened the source code of some vim plugin you are using and tried to modify what it does?

If I were to hazard a guess: zero. That was also me during ten years of vim usage. Vim encourages the mindset of mastery = learning a bunch of tricks, remembering them and incorporating them into muscle memory.

Emacs on the other hand encourages the mindset that my editor is a programmable tool, I am a programmer, I can make it do whatever I want. You are always just one click away from the source code implementing any functionality of your editor, which you can, if you choose to do so, modify and evaluate on the fly.

> vi is available basically everywhere

Emacs-like shortcuts are also available wherever you have readline (e.g. many shells).

>This has saved my ass at least twice where I couldn't access vim or had internet access to install XYZ editor.

In those situations, I also still use vim. But 99% of the time, I am not on some remote machine, I am on my personal computer, so I can choose to use a tool that is not installed by default. The basic vim commands I have internalized over the years are sufficient for those odd jobs.

>So as a power vim user I see no reason to switch.

To each their own. Personally, I think that Emacs is a much more rewarding tool to master.

>most editors now have support for reasonable vim bindings

So does Emacs :)

In fact Emacs' vim plugin is probably has the most feature rich of all the vim emulations.
>"Honestly this reason alone makes Apple's purely digital credit card my favorite. Need a new card number? Just push a button. No incompetent shipping divisions with 5 hops and as many business days between you and your ability to buy things when your card number is breached.

That all sounds good. I'd be curious how the customer experience is when there's an unrecognized charge or you need to open a dispute though.
The reason XML didn't take over the world, and we're left with this mess of garbage for a front end, is because of bad developers like you. Mistakes in the past are no reason to continue making mistakes in the future. From your example, the obvious solution would be to write better markup instead of writing worse styles.
This seems to be a common issue with banks. Over the years, they have built system after system that stores things like your address. So you end up with addresses stored in multiple systems. When you request an update to the address, it depends how well designed the update flow is whether they update all the instances of your address. Often they miss a few instances or the accounts aren't linked so a subset get updated. in other cases, some department pulls a customer dump and uses it for 10 years without ever getting updates.

been there. done that. have the t-shirt. :/
> It appears as though charges from Apple are special, and if your account is not 100% current, Apple will quickly take drastic action.

It's not just charges made on your Apple card. Here's a comment thread[1] from two years ago when I mentioned Apple did the same thing to me over a recurring charge for iCloud that failed because I got a new debit card and didn't update it in time. (I was traveling.)

Unlike the author of the post you linked I was given zero notice or warning that all-things-Apple would stop functioning. I had assumed the charge would just fail the same way any other charge to a "bad" card wouldn't go through and that my iCloud subscription might lapse. I never in a million years imagined the charge would create an $8 debt to Apple payable immediately and that my iPhone (which I owned outright, not financed through Apple or anyone else) would be bricked unless and until I paid up. I was unable to download anything from the app store at all until I entered new payment information. I couldn't even download free updates to free third-party apps.

Over $8.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18917685
Oh, I see. Sure I guess. But it's not a DDoS either. It would just be a DoS.
> This article fails to explain -why- one would want to switch to emacs from vim.

In other words it does one thing, hopefully well. The philosophy behind the original vi, and IIRC originally vim too — didn’t it previously have an explicit non-goal of adding an embedded terminal emulator? If it did, those days seem over, so you IMO you might as well use an editor that does many things well (eg. having a proper designed language as the default for configuration, not the bodge that is vimscript with Lua as just a secondary option ), if you’re going to use an IDE and not an actually minimal text editor like vis or sam.

Fortunately you don’t need to ‘re-learn everything’ with evil-mode. I doubt other editors’ support for reasonable vim bindings is as complete as the common base of Spacemacs and Doom, they certainly aren’t as complete of operating systems, capable of being your WM (EXWM) or your init system or shell (http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux....), nor capable of running in a terminal over ssh.
Thanks for the good vibes! Definitely looking to eventually put out an album or EP at some point, I'm finding music is a lot like software in the sense that however long you think it will take to do something will end up taking n^2 time to do in reality ahah :)
I know org.mode is a deep rabbit hole - but do you have an example of "dynamic code blocks in documents"?

I've recently switched my "notes.txt" buffer in (neo)vim to markdown ("notes.md) - along with a slightly more magical syntax plug-in - and I'm pleasantly surprised by the quality of life improvements from having multiple code/script snippets highlighted in-line (eg: ```SQL (... Snippet...) ``` in a paragraph followed by some notes and a block of bash etc).

But I rarely execute the blocks in / from vim - I do a bit of copy-pasting though (I don't generally fit a terminal buffer/window in vim, I use a separate window with gnome-terminal or Sakura. I tried term-in-vim, but didn't quite like the flow. Maybe I should try again).
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Companies should definitely train their employees during business hours but there’s people actually wanting to spend most waking free hours learning about programming topics. Those people are usually some of the best in their field. I am not advocating for extreme narrowness of interest. A “T” shaped skillset is possibly the best.
I never get work done at the couch. Youtube, surfing, browsing, yes. Work ? No.

I like a work desk. Keeps work and other stuff separate. Got a height adjustable desk. keeps my back from going bad before I hit 40.
No. A mainframe is not a supercomputer. You can get more cores, more dram, more iops for less money if you don't need high reliability in a single machine (because your software handles nodes failing) and if you don't need compatibility with binaries from the 60s.

The chip is impressive, because they don't skimp on costs, because they sell them for a million a pop, but consider how many ryzen on xeon cores you can get for that price, with all the cool DRAM and IO tech you want.

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/ibm/microarchitectures/z15

compare with:

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/xeon_platinum

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/cascad...
This is how it happens in California, do many of these happen in Europe?

- Populations are growing.

- Younger folks would rather live in the city.

- Sets of homeowners and voters heavily overlap.

- Government supports homeowners via tax policy,
all housing is already taken.

- Existing homeowners prevent new construction.

- Some portion of renters enjoying rent control also support
NIMBY policies.

A perfect recipe for housing scarcity and therefore high prices.
Assuming you never log out, I wouldn't think so. Your iPad may move around, but the login session on your iPad is still the same session.
Impressive, I wish I can focus and accomplish that much in 4-days.
When I'm working, most of the time I'm on my desktop, with a ~5 year old web cam attached to a monitor. For a while, I wondered if software was just making "me" look good (quality, not my face, ha!) but I had someone do a screen shot. And my $50 web cam is 5x better than basically every Macbook web cam for video chat. And my desktop is a ~2 year old 8-core, 32GB machine. Not a monster but excellent power plus 27" and 32" monitors, and an ergonomic chair, keyboard and mouse. The webcam mic works well, too, even in conjunction with my external speakers.

I can game on a laptop (with a decent laptop stand and flat surface for a mouse) but I certainly wouldn't want to do 8 hours of work on it. (Or a laptop on a table/desk, which isn't the right height or a good keyboard setup either...)

Long-winded way of saying I agree with you. But I did buy all of my desktop gear - nothing was work supplied.
Homebrew [1] suffers from the same issue and it's horrible. What the hell is a keg, a cask? what is pouring? a cellar? what? I've been using it for years and I haven't bother to find out, but the fact that it's not immediately obvious is a sign of bad UX IMO.

1: https://brew.sh
It's not necessarily unreasonable, it just depends on what kind of product they want to offer. S3, Google Storage, etc. do not have a maintenance window that I'm aware of. That's not to say they would never go down, but if they do you would expect an alert and an apology, at least. Many application require this kind of expected uptime, but of course there are others (backup, etc) that would not.
I too can verify your identity. All I need is your first name, last name, date of birth, and last four digits of your SSN. Which are all floating around the darknet in one of the dozens of large data breaches American companies have had over the years.

Should I be able to get your replacement credit card delivered to my home address with that?
I'm pretty sure you're allowed to build little utility websites and share them with your friends on Facebook.

Extra context: people complained about how tedious the SoCast CMS was to use for years before I got there.

Either way, whatever, as long as the tool effected change, I got what I wanted for myself and my co-workers.
White isn't capitalized because white people tend to self-identify with other ethnic groups (Italian, Irish*, German, etc.) There is no "White" culture per se, outside of the historical revisionist beliefs of white supremacists.

Black is a culture, and capitalized as such, because the descendants of the African slave diaspora brought to the US were denied the ability to identify with their country or ethnicity in the same way as white people, so the only identity they could form after getting their freedom was one based on their collective racial identity. American society wouldn't allow them to be anything other than "Black" so "Black" is what they became.

* although interestingly, the Irish weren't always considered "white." Race is a weird social construct.
That feels like the author is saying “I’m so clever you need to be told when to think about this,” whereas i would prefer to think at my own pace, without deliberate obfuscation, thanks very much.

If it’s a work of art, fair enough. If you’re trying to explain or argue something... then you’re probably hiding the holes in your argument or trying to sound smarter than you are.
https://phys-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/phys.org/news/2021-0...
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I think too much whisky is the cause of the problem here, not the solution.
I'm happy to see the discourse has shifted from "WTF, who would ever think Tailwind is a good idea?" to at least trying to give some arguments against using it :)
...black people universally get discriminated in a systemic fashion in the US based on their appearance. This is not unique to any one state.

Obviously people in different states lead different lives. It's still possible to have a shared identity through facing similar struggles and discrimination.

Just because I grew up in IL and my cousin grew up in CA doesn't mean we can't have a shared identity as Romanian-Americans either.

edit: I have amended this and my parent post to clarify I meant a shared experience, not a unified one.
I've had replacement credit cards sent to me overnight fedex at least five, maybe more times. Usually involved < 5 minute phone call to Amex/Chase/Wellsfargo whoever. United States, Canada, UAE and Singapore (twice).

There must be some safeguards beyond the various identity questions they asked me - but I don't know what they were.
Interestingly enough, having multiple names for different situations was commonplace before bureaucracy wanted standardized personal and surnames for better record keeping and taxation. Names used to be a lot more flexible and contextual before statecraft.
That design choice prevents their provider from working with official Terraform container images. They should make the API calls directly in Go, it's just weird to do it via Python... They have very few resources exposed on their API so it's not like writing a Go client would be all that hard.
Max cores is 190, so no on CPU. Memory and IO, perhaps, but it's unusual to put more into a single partition than you would into a typical large X86-64 server. And it's a lot more pricey.
I'm so sad to see iPhone-first applications. Can we please have web versions first, and later on all the platform specific apps?
A long long time ago I was sitting with my mother in the living room when the big glass ashtray on the round table became a thousand pieces that dispersed like a liquid with a sand-like sound.

Someone told me that cosmic rays could do that. Scary.
Post-mortems seem to reveal a lot. Time is an excellent vehicle for carrying the truth.
Apparently he is CSO at Cloudflare now [0]

Speaking that crime doesn't pay...

https://twitter.com/joesu11ivan

edit: this and some other questionable hires and moves by Cloudflare made me do everything I can to avoid using CF services. I have many of CF hosts in my blacklist now.
My feeling is that it's the same as with trading - trading can be very profitable. Same goes for data science. Unless you really know what you are doing, you can get very wrong, without knowing it.

Both data science and trading have low entry barriers - you can easily find what appears to be opportunities or a working strategy / model. It's much harder to find something that will stand the test of time.
In both disciplines you can easily get the feeling you are doing something right, while in reality you are going in a very wrong direction - finding spurious correlations, overfitting or worse.

I think most of those data scientists don't really know their craft.
There are some fun stories by u/Patches765 on reddit about MUD scripting. I especially like this one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/patches765/comments/5euzt2/intellig...

And if you scroll past the D&D links here, he's got a whole series of stories from his time on the Shadowdale MUD though I forget if they involve any scripting.

https://www.reddit.com/r/patches765/comments/5isji2/intellig...
You assume that whoever reads the code next already knows Tailwind. They do not.

Tailwind might be simple, but it is undoubtedly opaque. A CSS class defined in the same application is not.
Security's great until it starts being used to secure the device against its owner.
I'm interested in the ITAR implications here of the video. When asked about seeing the inside of the fuel tank during the crew demo mission Shotwell said no because it was covered by ITAR. This video clearly shows inside a tank.
Oh, I didn't get that from the whitepaper. They seem to use 'archaeologist' singular a lot of the time when it's unclear if they actually mean plural. So is it like some sort of n-of-k encryption where you need a majority of the archaeologists' keys to unwrap the outer layer?
Exactly. The 64 is no coincidence.
Looks like step 2 can be done at https://accounts.firefox.com/settings as well. I never want to log into my browser.
Hey, Joel here, mostly responsible for this tool. Happy to answer questions — one thing not well covered is getting puppeteer to run in the browser, especially a webworker. Can talk more about it if there’s interest!
I've been seeing more of this title recently and can't suss out the pattern. Is this about it?

"I x'd (something ridiculous) [and (more ridiculous)]"
I saw that, too. Unfortunately, it’s only valid if they’ve sent you a renewal notice. My DL expires this year but I haven’t received a notice yet, so I was ineligible.
Interesting. Did the prisoners specifically ask for free software related books, or did they simply use FSF as a helpful place for getting all kind of books?
right, but if we attain equilibrium with their amount of whiskey, then we have a better chance of understanding. just like listening to the 2 people that have been at the bar all day. they understand each other perfectly, but to someone less inebriated, it's total non-sense/jiberish. so, for science, more whiskey is needed.
Knew a guy at Disney who noticed a problematic default value in a catalog application.
He dropped an f-bomb while discussing its With higher ups.

Well turns out you don’t use that language at Disney. Database problem got shelved.

Few months later a very angry person called up about the multiple pallets of catalogs sitting in his front yard.
And it's even more useless fluff than it was back in the day because people used Vim and Emacs in large numbers back then. These days the vast bulk of professional developers use Visual Studio Code. Compared to VSCode vs. IntelliJ, Vim vs. Emacs is a sideshow at best.
JL Collins was I think my introduction to the financial independence concept though I'd "accidentally" been investing in index funds and for retirment before. That series of posts (the "Stock Series") is great and it's available in edited book form called "The Simple Path to Wealth."

Or for a video intro, he gave this 1hr Talk@Google:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T71ibcZAX3I