skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I kind of agree with the author, but not 100%. The takeaway shouldn't be "don't use CI, kubernetes, etc." but rather "don't learn something new" when your goal is to get a product out the door. If you already know kubernetes, then it might seem silly to not use it given how it simplifies things. It's only when you don't know kubernetes that you'll run into problems.
Right, but at the same time, Netflix also prices their product tiers around being able to pay for more simultaneous streams on the same account. Account sharing is literally a selling point for them.
Why stop at emojis? Why use the aubergine emoji when you can instead use ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs[1]? There is even an anti-aubergine [2]!

In my opinion there is an untapped marked here. And it also is a "full circle" moment - i bet in the next millennium emojis will also be counted as hieroglyphs.

1: https://unicode-table.com/en/130BA/

2: https://unicode-table.com/en/130B9/
Medium is run by ev williams. He founded blogger and twitter. He is interviewed in Founders at Work. I actually paid for extra blogger features in the early 2000s during the .com bust.

It's hard to express how disappointed I am in medium. I have written several very popular articles and I don't have a subscription and can't read hardly anything on there. Also I found it confusing to tell if your article is behind a paywall. They pulled a major bait and switch.
Ask HN: Is there a System76 alternative in the UK
I'm on a mission to find a good quality laptop that ideally comes preloaded with Linux (or at least with good support for it), but it is proving much more difficult than I first imagined.

The biggest player in bringing relatively cheap, good quality, and upgradeable laptops to the market seems to be System76. They seem to be doing good making sure all the hardware works as smoothly as possible. However, they are only really worthwhile if you're ordering in the US.

I know of a couple UK Clevo resellers such as PC Specialist and Entroware. But Entroware seems to be eternally out of stock and PC Specialist doesn't offer Linux and seems to have issues running it on their hardware.
ymmv but the best advice i ever got in this area:

'write like you are speaking'

depending on my purpose and audience, i will write the first draft and then deliver it verbally. at least for me, and i do tend to use far too many words in the first draft, that exercise leads to a much clearer second draft.
I'll get the bads out of the way first: there are areas where the language isn't quite there yet (e.g. the error thing I mentioned) I ran into an issue where you can't do async recursive trampolines yet (think implementing client-side http redirect handling in terms of a recursive call).

The io_mode global switch plus colorblind async combo is something I'm a bit wary of since it's a fairly novel/unproven approach and there are meaningful distinctions between the modes (e.g. whether naked recursion is a compile error).

Another big thing (for me, as a web person) is lack of https in stdlib, which means realistically that you'd have to setup cross compilation of C source for curl or bearssl or whatever. There's a project called iguana-tls making strides in this area though.

With all that said, there's a pretty high ratio of "huh, that's a cool approach" moments. There are neat data structures that take advantage of comptime elegantly. There's a thing called copy ellision to avoid returning pointers. The noreturn expression type lets you write expressive control flows such as early returning a optional none (called null in zig lingo) from the middle of a switch expression. Catch and its cousin orelse feel like golang error tuples done right. Treeshaking granularity is insanely good ("Methods" are treeshaken by default; so are enums' string representations, etc). The lead dev has a strong YAGNI philosophy wrt language features, which is something I really value.

Overall there's a lot of decisions that gel with my preferences for what an ideal language should do (as well as what it should avoid)
Hogwash. This wasn't some rapid emergency where they lost control of the plant, the reactors shut down properly during the earth quake and most systems were fine. The problem was the tsunami took out several of the backup generators which needed to power the cooling pumps when the reactors weren't producing power and there was no connection to the grid (actually several generators had been moved in 1990 to higher ground and survived the tsunami, but their switching station was kept in the old, unprotected building so they still couldn't provide power). It took days for the reactors to overheat. Radiation levels were being monitored both on the ground and by aircraft, the problem was this data was ignored - in many cases people were evacuated into areas with more intense radiation. Of course when dealing with unknowns your predictions have error bars, but you can most certainly still make valid estimates, and there is no excuse for not doing so.
I used to play the Essex MUD as well from probably 80-82 -- I can recall the huge speed boost when we got a 1200/75 dialup modem! I got to be a wizard (Gorpli) and I did meet a couple of the other wizards IRL.

Fun times.
If this essay resonates with you, consider looking into plainenglish.co.uk.

Here's a place to start: http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/punctuating-sentences.html
How do you pay your taxes with email?
Custom homes use a lot of standardized parts. A 2x4 is the same in Width and Depth in all the US. One of the most common lengths to buy them in is 92 5/8 - which is the perfect size when you have a 2x4 on the bottom of a wall and 2 on the top for the standard sized wall boards to fit, thus saving a lot of labor cutting each board to length. If you want a taller wall, you can also buy 104 5/8s lengths, and there is wallboard that is a bit wider so it fits exactly. If you want a wall height other than those two you will pay extra because there is a lot more labor.

Most custom houses should be looked at as custom kits. The standard gives a lot of room for the types of customization people actually want to do, while not a lot of room for the types people do anyway. Round towers look nice, but in practice they waste a lot of space compared to rectangular because nothing fits either inside or outside. (Castles went to round towers when cannons got strong enough to to knock down flat walls, for a while round was enough better in defense as to be worth the downsides)
I too am finding that my patience is wearing thin with this new memetic style of headline writing.

We can do better, and often do, around here.
Feynman had an IQ of 125 which is just moderately above average, and if we were admitting people into top PhD programs based on IQ he likely would have never become a physicist of his stature.

IQ is a deeply flawed measure of intelligence.

Merely the idea that intelligence can be measured by a single test with a single output seems quite crazy to me.
No, but you can add it if you want a lower noise floor.
And I use both!

C++ has new versions every three years, and Delphi is still widely used, just not well-known in the English-speaking dev work.
This was a popular sentiment when they started blocking VPNs on Hacker News.

A lot of money to be made betting against it.
I found it scarily easy to find info on some people. I was talking to my friend about it, so I tested it out on them (with their permission).

With just their public facing instagram account handle, I:

Found full name from family members in following list -> email, phone #, etc from full name

Found email + phone of most of the close family

Found address, PO box, and usernames from their past accounts

Found their (current!) password for email, social media, etc (but not bank) from a breach from 2016 (!!!)

Found their old wattpad account (!!!!!!)

Found out that their instagram had no 2fa and "hijacked it" with them next to me, changed email and password (not sure if they could have recovered it afterwards). Notifications did come through but given their email, I used an email newsletter spammer I made and a text spammer to blow up their phone to hopefully distract for the few minutes it took, to simulate a real attack.

Needless to say, it was bad news all around. (I already knew some of the info I found, but my search consisted of me pretending I didn't)

Edit: the irony of me posting about data security when I just divulged where I grew up & school district less than 2 weeks ago :'( (though I bet I'm fine given I have no other accounts with this username)
This is very informative, thank you.

That said, they disqualified about 10% of the athletes they tested. While significant, and while I'm sure that only catches a portion of offenders, it's not as high as others make it seem.
Must be a developer. Nothing is more annoying than searching for the answer to something and finding the answer on Medium. I had high hopes for Medium also but they have also earned my unending ire. Fuck Medium.
Could you imagine living with your spouse who owns the account on their email; your spouse is at work or on a business trip - maybe even out of the country, and you get this screen (or maybe you are!)

Authorized Devices with a limit is a better choice
“Please Relogin” doesn’t give you the message that they’re on to what you’re doing. I don’t assume anything when I’m asked to login again. Guilt can be a powerful motivator for people who share accounts because many of them know that you’re not really supposed to do it, but it’s been more or less tolerated.
There is nothing wrong in having public investment only conventional nuclear plant. Small Modular Reactor is still a possibility for private investment.

France reactors are not outdated but functional and updated for post Fukushima security standard following an independent authority audit, and initially envisaged for 40 years, but determined fit for 50 years, the same reactors are found to be suited for 100 years in the USA.

The point is there is no needs to close and rebuild what is working, and as the lasted IEA NEA report showed the cheapest electricity is from lifetime extension of current nuclear, by wide margins, not renewable, in France.

https://www.oecd-nea.org/jcms/pl_51110/projected-costs-of-ge...
Add Voice Recognition to React Native Without Adding the Cloud
> I think there are two sources of confirmation bias here:

[...]

2. On the web, where each individual piece of writing is not meant to last as long, the writing style has become more casual. Consider the difference between your average Medium article versus your average academic research paper.

Did you see what he wrote in the essay, regarding this:

> Simple writing also lasts better. People reading your stuff in the future will be in much the same position as people from other countries reading it today. The culture and the language will have changed. It's not vain to care about that, any more than it's vain for a woodworker to build a chair to last.

Indeed, lasting is not merely an accidental quality of chairs, or writing. It's a sign you did a good job.

> I disagree entirely with the premise. There can be value to dense, even perhaps enigmatic writing. I would say that the greatest works of English literature tend towards that direction (James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace).

It seems pretty clear to me that the essay is about non-fiction writing, not fiction. All the arguments in it apply to non-fiction writing.
The author should consider some feature engineering. I suspect divisibility by all numbers from 1 to 1000 would really help. Not sure which are the best features, but tensorflow is still really efficient with large inputs so I'd just add them all and see what happens
That UI is hilarious (for a given value of hilarious) in the sense that the search for emojis uses whichever input language you're using, even if your UI language is something else.

So, for instance to find the light bulb emoji, I need to start typing "valo" (light in Finnish), which really threw me off at first.
If enough people start using it, the big email providers will follow, or the new service will get around to fixing it.

It’ll work out either way.

I’m not going to shed a tear for gmail if they have to start putting up with someone else’s busted non-standard email infrastructure. They should be able to get what they give.
Unix was originally written for an 18-bit machine.
You mean like internet access, telephone and cable tv?
Single and multi person households both have pros and cons and this is just a pro for multi person households.
The con is you need a more expensive netflix plan or you can't just watch when you want to.
My mom and grandma currently share my Netflix account. If Netflix cracks down on it they aren't going to start torrenting, but will either get their own subscriptions or not watch Netflix at all. I assume the suits at Netflix have run the numbers and are confident that enough people will fall into the first category to justify this move.
So were it not for this era of cloud platforms and the other technical ”advancements” you mention, would we somehow be in a different place when it comes to maintaining and operating software?

As someone in a devops team, I could argue that ops teams are rarely the ones deciding what technologies to use. If we follow the basic sales->development->maintenance -pipeline, as ops your task is simply to keep the service running and secure with the tools you are given. Sure there can be added complexity, but I doubt it is as systemic/general as you make it seem to be.

Anyway, if this is seen as a problem the devs could simply take on the responsibility of learning those quirks themselves or produce the level of quality software that requires no maintanance whatsoever. But for some reason that hasn’t happened, eventhough the original idea behind devops was to blur this line. So until that day comes, I’ll sure enjoy whatever security one can really have in todays job market.
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Last fall I couldn't use it until I changed my useragent to indicate I was on Windows.
My n00buntu derivative has some emojis and other logograms out of the box, eg. lines 326–337 of /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose:

<Multi_key> <C> <C> <C> <P> : "" U262D # HAMMER AND SICKLE
<Multi_key> <O> <A> : "Ⓐ" U24B6 # CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
<Multi_key> <less> <3> : "♥" U2665 # BLACK HEART SUIT

<Multi_key> <colon> <parenright> : "" U263A # WHITE SMILING FACE
<Multi_key> <colon> <parenleft> : "" U2639 # WHITE FROWNING FACE
<Multi_key> <backslash> <o> <slash> : "" # PERSON RAISING BOTH HANDS IN CELEBRATION

<Multi_key> <p> <o> <o> : "" U1F4A9 # PILE OF POO

<Multi_key> <F> <U> : "" U1F595 # REVERSED HAND WITH MIDDLE FINGER EXTENDED
<Multi_key> <L> <L> <A> <P> : "" U1F596 # RAISED HAND WITH PART BETWEEN MIDDLE AND RING FINGERS

Unbutchered: http://ix.io/2SsC
> Currently, they get approximately $240 per year from me and my family. If everyone has to create their own account, that number goes up to $1200.

Typo of extra zero? Is this US dollars?

The most expensive digital plan is 17.99 USD / month. With discs, few $ more.

USD 240/month is excessive.
>I personally expect nuclear to stick around for various reasons

Nuclear arsenals.

It's the only reason I can think of for paying inflation linked £92.50 per MwH for 35 years for Hinkley point c when the UK can build wind or solar for £35-40 now and probably less in future years.

The economics are insane.
Apple said to deny Parler app back into App Store
Sharing inside a household is.

Again, the t&cs explicitly forbid you account sharing with anyone outside your household.

(As does Spotify's, and Spotify started doing something similar to do this a few years ago.)
> couldn't this be said of anyone really

Grandparent: 5 is greater than 2.

Parent: But aren't they both numbers?
Almost everything is cheaper for multiple people living as a unit. Wait until you find out people with partners effectively have their rent halved.
Ask HN: How do you define the value of your data?
> There is obviously some point...

My take is simple - if Craigslist doesn't need it, then I probably don't either. (I may want it, but that's different).

Definitely not perfect, but it works for me. Obviously more/better guideposts would make this a much better yardstick.
Do you expect my wife to turn away from the TV when I am watching Netflix?

Each tier has a number of simultaneous streams allowed. If you want multiple people to be able to stream at once you pay more, and if you are streaming one at a time on the same device, you really think each person should have their own account?
Also, when cost caused by downtime and updates and/or hardware problems exceed the cost of this full time engineer.
Even then K8s is probable not the next step. Simple HA with a load balancer and seperate test and production environments plus some automation with an orchestration tool works wonders.
The latter already exists, at least for LTE.

Well, SDR-based clients that you could package in a smartphone form factor. They're fairly power-hungry, though.
If this article wasn’t so filled with profanity, I’d share it with others. Some good arguments against Medium are presented.
Here’s an oversimplified rule of thumb: Try not to spend more than a tenth your time on infrastructure or build if you are developing a product. If you find you are spending more than that on manual stuff, try to automate etc. to get back below that.

If you are scaling staff, you may want up to a tenth the engineering staff to be dedicated to these tasks.... as you scale up, more automation to stay at or below that level.

Oversimplified.... but not bad to think about if you think you are overdoing it.

If you are way below a tenth.... really think about if you are counting all the manual workarounds and pieces of overhead honestly....or if you are giving up scalability, reliability or flexibility by not controlling your infrastructure.
What is it that you think is appropriate for you to be pissed off about? You pay for Netflix for you and your household, not for anyone that happens to be related to you. Has that ever not been the case?
It’s not just $10-15 since content is spread out over so many services. We pay for: Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV, Hulu, Crunchy Roll, Apple Music.
For products with a flat rate, the people who use it less are subsidizing it for people who use it more too. Would you say there is a problem with that?
My domain ending in .in is not supported by Discover Bank because it can be used only "in" India.
Well, Iran is ready to return to the previous agreement, if the US will upheld its part of the deal, without any additional talks or introducing new pre-conditions. Well, it also asks to compensate damage from the US sanctions, but I think it's simply a way to improve its negotiation position.

It's Trump who did messed everything up, not Iran. Unfortunately it does not look like the Biden administration is eager to fix it.
The LinkedIn Incident [audio]
I think it's great as well. So tired of scrolling on recipe sites looking for the actual recipe.
"The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates." - Gaben
Medium is the new Experts Exchange (seeming free content that's paywalled). Or the old Substack (good quality content and great typography).
Comparing with a similar recipe I have, those look to be teaspoons.
This is very true. People forget that enterprises, especially large ones, will take it on the chin in a lot of other areas in exchange for long-term stability.

I think this is one of the reasons MS Teams has been so successful, even when there are better apps out there that provide all the same functionality and more.
> Why is such behavior tolerated in any Mongo thread and why do these people never face any consequences?

I think you answered your own question: "guidelines."

Those that believe in this community, and want adherence to the guidelines will vote on submissions and comments so as to reflect that belief. Shallow dismissals tend to get voted down, and they may be refuted if someone is inspired to put the effort in to explain why such a shallow dismissal is either unwelcome or missing important information. Seeing as these are guidelines, there is no swift and absolute retribution for light infractions, when the community can largely self-correct such things.
They are common in the US, but they are contained in a bathroom that has solid walls. I can't think of any culture where people would be comfortable with a bathroom layout that allows anyone to just look in. That limits this bathroom to small apartments for singles (or couples with no kids) who don't entertain, and from what I know of Japanese culture I'm not sure it would catch on there.

As a marketing effort though it makes sense. You can show the whole thing off at a show to someone walking by and anyone who is interested can imagine how it would look with solid walls.
> Low-level languages... all suffer from low-abstraction, i.e. the inability to hide internal implementation details behind an API...

Do you have an example of Rust's inability to hide implementation details compared to, say, Java?
For me, they send emails at mydomain.com@gmail.com
> Comparing that to kubernetes, the latter is indeed some kind of crazy complex system to operate.

I think the fair comparison here would be that to google's kubernetes engine. Getting a kubernetes cluster up and running in GCP is really easy.
> Authorized Devices with a limit is a better choice

Well good luck figuring out what that limit should be.

I know households where everyone owns a smartphone and shares a single TV, and other households where every kid has their own TV, Playstation etc.

Maybe max 3 devices per person?
How many of the (mostly web-based) technologies that we all love to discuss on HN are any different?
Dejargonification is great; I agree that jargon is a real barrier to entry. However, after having dealt with lawyers (and doctors of all stripes: MDs, PhDs, ...), I've come to see jargon for what it is: a weakly typed pointer. It's exactly analogous to a struct of function pointers with a user cookie in C.

Jargon lets you summarize whole concepts in one word. A lot of jargon is functional in the math/programming sense: you can pass 'arguments' to the jargon. The jargon adds levels of abstraction that let the users communicate faster, with less error, and higher precision.

For instance, the distinction between civil and criminal matters; or the distinction between malfeasance, misdemeanor, and felony.
Functional Programming in Pattern-Match-Oriented Programming Style
This is a “feature”. If an incoming message is “from” the recipient account, and somehow makes it past the spam filter, it puts it in sent.

In a perhaps apocryphal story, at least one person was fired when a malicious coworker used this to forge harassing emails from the victim.
My bet is that Substack is going to eat Medium alive.

Medium can coast for a while on inertia, but the payment-first model of substack, for authors you actually care about, is just miles ahead.

Pretty sure the rest of the search-engine traffic will be able to coast on the fact that substack has a real revenue stream from day 1.
But it is nuclear that cannot replace fossil fuels, because it can only supply base load. Also what are you doing when rivers are too low, too hot or frozen and you cannot get the water needed for nuclear power?
Maybe it's possible to detect radio echoes off the rocket exhaust trail (passively) like it is possible to do with meteors [0][1] and roughly tell where the second stage is (just for the sake of doing it this way).

[0] https://www.electronics-notes.com/articles/antennas-propagat...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_burst_communications
> He blamed the incident on the Mongolian worker’s ‘inflexible brain’ rather than acknowledging a communication failure for which both were responsible

Lol, it's like he works for the 1700s East India Company
The author doesn't like vegetarians.